I'VE COME CLOSE BEFORE -- BUT THIS IS IT - For JUST A MINUTE Radio on Friday 110606

Of course – it’s FRIDAAAAAAYYYYEAY!

 

And with all the troubles floating around inside the Beltway --  you’d think there’s lot’s of news.  Well… as a crusty old newsman from Baltimore said – because his newspaper considered “news” to be plural, when he was questioned by his higher-up editor: “Are there any news?”… He would wire back… “Nope… not a single new.”

 

That’s about the condition we’ve come to and you notice it when you see the regular news anchors being substituted for on Friday’s TV newscasts – especially evenings… There is just often a major scarcity and ‘not a single new’ to be found.

 

Of course there’s the regular cloud hanging overhead about running out of money – and this is the largest debt ever incurred in the history of the world etc. etc.

 

But I imaging there is a ‘real new or two’ hangin’ around if you look hard enough.

 

So I’m being unorthodox myself and going to take the very cure I prescribe for myself in today’s program.  Lord willing I’ll be with you again on Monday.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

 

“JUST A MINUTE”

I’VE COME CLOSE BEFORE BUT THIS IS IT.

            Just a Minute: Heading for my office weekdays – I’m looking for a story that would interest you for at least 60 seconds. Today I encountered utter defeat.

          The lead for hard pressed news writers for the last four days has been a New York Congressman who can’t recognize his own drawers. I’m not going to use his name and give him either greater joy at being in the news or embarrassment in being so stupid.

          So we’ll move on to Mitt Romney declaring his candidacy yesterday and the rest of the news people assigned to squeeze a story out of the Granite state’s former Massachusetts neighbor scratching around for an angle. The best they could come up with was another former Governor – this one from Alaska – who just “happened” to drop into New Hampshire on the same day Mitt was making his aim known.

          So – what do you make of that? All I can come up with is: “It’s a long, long trail a-winding to November 2012 and if you don’t mind – I’ll take a nap.

          <> I’m Jack Buttram         

Jebco Editorial Service

wmuu.com

n4zhk@arrl.net

                                                                                           

 

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