OPENING THE PACKAGE - TO SEE WHAT'S IN IT - JUST A MINUTE RADIO for Monday 110328

Howdy Doodie…. It’s Monday again… and a very wet weekend we had after all. 

 

Now the grass decides to grow… and suddenly the Spring that has come and given us 80 degree days… has a struggle to get into the 40’s – and all that early enthusiasm for gardening has suddenly required a jacket and gloves and earmuffs if you’re out trying for some idea about gardening.

 

We did a *little* of that on Friday – but the prospect of *COLD* weather calmed down the gardening fever… and now the wetness of the soil has set things back a bit… but so far (knock, knock, knock) we’re hoping to escape a Spring freeze that would hurt the peach and apple crop and go through all that. But there’s not much we can do about it anyway.  It used to be that the old orchardists would try to set out smudge pots – and even mount air fans on polls …. Kerosene flamers that never did seem to me to do much but spread air pollution around. But just trying to hold off the frost seemed to help.

 

The only actual frost ‘preventer’ as far as my limited vision took me, was sprinkler systems which did seem to save some fruit and berry crops.  But then – what do I know… it was my Dad who had the degree in Agriculture from Auburn … I just had the hoe-ache and back-ache and spray the tree-ache etc. (I complain a lot but it doesn’t do any good. – That’s why I was never attracted to the farm.) 

 

But now we know President Obama is attracted to oil drilling – in Brazil.  Seems like he’s been talking up getting more oil imported to the USA… when we’ve got resources right here at home that would be cheaper – and speaking of cheaper… Have you ever seen a comparison of what it costs (and likely will cost) to produce electricity with wind mills?  Take a look at it sometimes.  Compare what you would pay for the number of kilowatts you presently use if it was produced by solar or wind (which are both undependable as far as continuous output is measured.) We’re the Saudi Arabia of the world when it comes to coal they say… some of it cleaner than other… some of it more difficult to get out of the ground than others – but ALL of it cheaper than solar or wind driven.

 

The one that really attracts my penurious mind is natural gas.  In the first place it is often a by-product of drilling for oil or mining coal. (Well … coal tends to produce methane – so do garbage dumps.) Do you know the local BMW plant harvests about two thirds of its energy requirements from decaying garbage captured and piped into the BMW mfg. facilities.  And we’ve got scads of that… yet the President has issued only ONE drilling permit since they started re-production from drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.  And by his dilly-dallying either seven or several of the big drilling platforms have moved out of the Gulf and headed for more productive locations where they can drill with less bother from the incompetents.

 

Well… I’m not a geologist or a gold miner… But it’s going to be interesting (and hard to live with) some of the propaganda that’s thrown around with the idea it’s energy policy. All these slowed down policies and the speeded up ones (or at least inflated by time – like medical costs) are scratching at the pocketbooks. We’ve got a long way to go folks.

 

But I’m talking like some of the wildcatters or railroad boomers… We (each one of us) has a far more trustworthy and dependable source of heavenly energy – which is by FAR the best in the Universe – and it doesn’t get any better than that.  I’m not selling you pie-in-the sky by and by… it is real *resource* right now…  in the person of the Holy Spirit who is the creator and source of ALL power – spiritual and otherwise. THAT’S where you want to put your trust – if you don’t believe me… read the Bible.  Much, Much better and pays *real* dividends – not that stuff that ‘moth and rust doth corrupt and thieves break through and steal.’

 

It’s not something that I’m selling… it’s something God is providing free and clear to all who will TRUST in HIM.  If you want to know more … contact me – for free.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

Jack and Barbara

 

OPENING THE PACKAGE TO SEE WHAT’S IN IT

            Just a Minute: Figuring out the “why” of America being in Libya – calls up a mental picture of a correspondent describing Tsunami wreckage in Japan – she said there was a large boat – a yacht – miles inland next to a yellow sofa.

          The reports from Libya are equally surrealistic. Peggy Noonan writes “no one, really, sees President Obama as the kind of leader you’d follow over the top … People didn’t hire him to start battles but to end them… Did he not know this?”  I’d guess more than two thirds of the people who voted for him didn’t. The ladies I saw dancing about Soldier’s Field in Chicago on election night were ecstatic that he was going to make their car payments and food bills – nobody talked about going to war in Afghanistan. 

          Noonan says the BP oil spill made him look ‘snake bit’ and asks “What is he thinking?” – Which seems to be on everybody’s mind.  I’m just sorry nobody brought it up *before* November 2008.

          Inquiring minds want to know – will tonight’s speech be: “Too Little – Too Late.”

<> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

 

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