WE GO BACK TO SOME EARLY DAYS ON THE NILE -- For JUST A MINUTE RADIO - on Wednesday 110202

            Once more Hello… it’s the middle of the week – and I managed once more to make my work day stretch till after midnight… must be the rain…

 

            We’re having light rain here in South Carolina… and from all the TV reports I’ve seen it’s really messy in the upper parts of the Nation… and on over into PA and NY and the rest of New England.  Cancellations of flights running extremely high from the TV reports from St. Louis, Kansas City… even Denver and Eastward… DFW (Dallas-Ft. Worth) they were shut down early on Tuesday evening… and that’s very unusual for them.

 

            Well… everyone says its “La Nen~ya” … not “El Nen~yo”… so maybe it’s the rain Gremlins they’ve angered who work in collaboration with the snow, sleet and freezing-rain ‘baddies’ – they are all despised by the piloting families.

 

            Very stormy weather of another kind seems to have found permanent residence in the Middle East… especially in the Suez valley.  It was just about 30 years ago when Anwar Sadat – Prime Minister of Egypt, was gunned down at an outdoor celebration – and that created an opening in (Ancient) Egypt’s government which was immediately filled by Hosni Mubarak.  He has never lifted the emergency laws that were put in place at the time of Sadat’s celebration of his successful trip and peace treaty signing witnessed by President Jimmy Carter up at Camp David in the Maryland mountains. Ever since then Egypt has been under an essentially military one-man rule. (Otherwise known as a dictatorship.)

 

            Of course that has for several thousand years been a region of all kinds of governmental turmoil.  There just seems to be no human ability to control it. It will have to be settled by the Lord – and since HE made it originally – It is very much within HIS power to fashion a peace that lasts for as long as HE wishes. It certainly is beyond man’s purview to figure it out. I guess that’s one reason I’ve always felt alternately sorry for – and amused at – the diplomatic methods of mankind. It is a totally ‘cobbled together’ deal… and when men (and women) attempt to run it in their own ‘human’ way – not taking any account of the Creator – well it’s not only funny… it’s tragic.

 

            The folks at the Bait Shop and Sushi Bar enjoyed your company today… Come back again next week.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack and Barbara

 

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

WE GO BACK TO SOME EARLY DAYS ON THE NILE

BB: JUST A MINUTE: – Mr Jack, how do you pronounce E-G-Y-P-T?

JACK: That’s easy Billy-bob – I’ll defer to Homer.

Homer: Ah is this a trick question?

BB: No – I jist want ta hear hit… I read the papers an hit don’t look rite.

Homer: E-G-Y-P-T is EE-gippt.

BB: Oh Really – I heered that feller frum Lake WoBeGone call hit Eguy-pt …

Jack: He’s put the soft “g” -- sounds like a “J” -- with a hard “G” back in the throat.

Homer: The hard “g” Mr. Bill sounds like GLUE.   

BB: Like Glue?

MizP:  At’s perzackly rite… hit ain’t E-Glupt… hit’s E-Jupt.

BB: Ah guess I never made th’ c’nec shun.

Homer: At’s easy to do if’n you was a shootin’ spit balls.

Jack: You’ve been listening to the news about Egypt.

MizP: You ‘member th’ story ‘bout baby Moses ina basket a-floatin’ in th’ bullrushes?

BB: I reckon I din’t pay a’tension.

Homer: Ah reckon tha’s bin th’ problem wif a lot of our schoolin Mr. Bill…

MizP: Egypt’s the place th’ Fay-re-oh’s daughter done plucked him out -- an raised him

BB: So that’s where he got plucked out’n th’ river

MizP: And was saved frum bein killed by orders of King Phar-re-oh…

BB: So they’s BIG protestin’ now an they’s a gittin ready to e-leck a new king.

Jack: Ah -- not exactly. Mister Mubarack was put in place about 30 years ago -- Minister Sadat was killed.

MizP: Whut does hit mean Mr. Jack?

Jack: With everything that’s going on in the world today – some take it to mean we’re nearing the end.

BB: The end of whut?

Jack: Might be ‘the end of the age.’

MizP: That’d be when Jesus is a-comin’ back… .

Jack: Could be Miz Pearl… we don’t have time to explain it all today… but it’s sure best to be ready.

               Maybe we canl talk about it more later. – I’m Jack Buttram.  (end) 

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