SO YOU NEVER THOUGHT IT COULD HAPPEN, EH? - for JUST A MINUTE Radio -- Monday 110425

Once more at the beginning of a week…

 

And with all the troubles I had getting here… [oh quit gripin’ about that… nobody’s listenin’]  Yeah… guess you’re right.  Allus the problems show up when you need ‘em least. Here I am trying to ward off the problems of turning over a new leaf.  Oh there I go again… sounds like whoever’s in charge of what’s going on in N. Africa complainin’ again about this and that…

 

Well… with all the gold they say old Momar has stashed away in the Desert… he can probably hold out a long time… but the question remains… Do you want to spend all the carefully hoarded gold on perpetuating your strangle hold on just a part of Libya… or do you want to spend it in style like King Farouk of Egypt did so famously back 40 years ago.  Hmmmm…

 

OTOH… Mr. Aristides… the priest that took over Haiti and then lived in Switzerland etc.etc… Yeah but he’s probably in danger of being on the wrong end of a gun most any day now…

 

You can tell these little countries ringing the waters of the Mediterranean – they’re having trouble keeping their books straight.  Actually more difficult is remembering which story it was they told last week. The old rigmarole about “supply and demand” is wearing pretty thin. It’s looking more and more like we’re finally figuring out in America that the Arab Oil Cartel has figured out just how much lying about the oil supply the market will bear. And when the rest of the world begins to pick up on the fact the Saudi’s are awash in oil… so why is this shortage continuing to be the excuse for higher prices in the US… Somebody’s got to catch on to the game that’s being played on the US one of these days. 

 

Right now it’s beyond my comprehension index…. Everybody’s saying it’s S&D – Supply and demand.   But all the producers are saying there’s more oil than the market can absorb… we just need to figure out who’s not telling the truth here… slap that market back in line by drilling a few dozen more wells… and quit buying overseas… THEN the truth will come out in the wash. I think USA has let itself get painted into a demand corner… and the Arabs are just wondering how long they can inflate the price and not have to do as much work shipping it… but make as much or more money… till the dummox American’s catch on.

 

Hmmm… better go sleep on that one for a while.  But there’s something rotting over there… and we’ve been swallowing the bait, hook line and deadbeat.

 

That’s about all I know to say about it Holmes. 

 

Good Thinking Dr. Watson… it’s elementary you know. (J)

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack Buttram

 

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SO YOU NEVER THOUGHT IT COULD HAPPEN, EH?

            Just a Minute: You want to read a really scary newspaper story – check out Saturday’s weekend Wall Street issue about the “Really Smart Phone.” Not as threatening perhaps as the dystopian literature of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”.

          Oh – dystopian? Yeah, I hadda look it up. Think – ‘dysfunctional’ as in families – Right? You get the idea.

          The Wall St. Journal weekend story does a round up on the DROID phone -- and perhaps even some earlier – it checks out where you and (your phone) are… and transmits that to data banks. Presently it’s used – anonymously the makers insist – to predict traffic congestion, how many people will buy dinner tonight, and supposedly how happy or un-happy people are.  Authors like Orwell, Ray Bradbury, and Huxley – have used this literary form.

          What I find striking is the blithe re-assurance that such information is not being stockpiled – perhaps to be used against those whom the elite find disagreeable. Don’t chuckle – it’s been used before by a little German man with a little moustache who thought he should remold the world.

            <> I’m Jack Buttram (END)         

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