SCARE CROWS COLLAPSE -- NOW COME MUDBALLS - FOR Just A Minute Radio - Monday 110815

Welcome to a new week of JUST A MINUTE. It *may* be educational… (J) or not…

 

It was an interesting and in some ways exciting weekend – also quite hot… and busy around our house. [No matter how hard I try to write these short little things and send them out ahead of time… the digital gramlins… (different from WWII gremlins – their copyright expired I guess) hang around simply to plague us when we’re terribly busy.]

 

And the folks at the Ames Iowa Straw Poll indeed *were* terribly busy this weekend.

 

It’s hard to believe – but it’s one of the things those gramlins create. Poor Mr. Pawlenty …he got a very good press for all his difficulties even up to the last… but just never got traction. Rather like a ’35 Ford trying to climb a freshly scraped red-clay hill in Georgia just 12 hours after a rain storm. It’s hard to get traction! And you may slide in the ditch!

 

I would have thought living in MN… otherwise known as Minnesota where it snows a LOT during the winter… traction would be a familiar problem. And I suppose it was – but Mr. Pawlenty just couldn’t seem to get any.  So we have a ‘straw poll’ with very uncertain results.  Mr. Perry’s last minute addition to the field didn’t help much – and there are others waiting in the wings… or behind the bushes or something.  Here we have a real need of a knight in shining armor to come riding to our beleaguered need – a leader to lead us out of the wilderness… because we certainly don’t have a current occupant of the leader’s oval office who does much more than love to ride in AF one and have the world at his disposal and make what he has been told are silky smooth speeches. (Although I’m beginning to think someone has swiped his blender.)

 

We need a dogsled driver that can get the job done in the foulest of winters. Well… let’s pray. And the Lord will provide us one… or lead us to the *right* one that may be right here under a nearby sunbonnet.  It’s not like picking out a book by its cover.  Besides they’re now putting so many books into digital very few of us know just how to run a campaign in these digital days.  We need the one the Lord will choose for us… somewhat like David was chosen after he had learned how to lead sheep.

 

Perhaps that’s what we need at the Bait Shop and Sushi Bar on the Carolina line someone who the Lord empowers to see our need and depend upon the Holy Spirit to develop the leader and lead us to him – or her. Let’s pray to that end this very day!

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

 

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SCARE CROWS COLLAPSE – NOW COME MUD BALLS

            Just a Minute:  Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty pulls out; Texas Gov. Rick Perry horns in.  So with 449 days to go before the ballots are counted November 6^th 2012 we have excessive time and opportunity to lose the next election and set ourselves up for an additional four years of Mr. Obama modeling Jimmy Carter.

          Michele Bachmann’s forty eight hundred twenty three votes beat Dr. Ron Paul by just 152. Pawlenty’s twenty three hundred caused him to drop out and Santorum with sixteen hundred or so lays claim to third place followed by Herman Cain with fourteen and a half hundred – then the newly declared Rick Perry with about 700 write-ins --  to Romney’s about 600 – then Gingrich with just 385 and Huntsman with 69.

          Copy all that? It’s posted on my JUST A MINUTE RADIO.BLOGSPOT.COM or you can get totals on the Internet if you really want to go to the trouble. Nothing is official because we won’t really vote until precincts, selecting delegates who will then select the GOP nominee in convention. The straw poll is mainly “straws in the wind.” George W. Bush, known as Bush’43 in 1999, won with over 7,400. We have still a long way to go. <> I’m Jack Buttram.  (END)

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