TAKE A SECOND LOOK AT HERMAN CAIN - Just A Minute Radio for Friday 110930

We’ve arrived at the conclusion of another week.

 

Things are moving now. I’ve heard several reporters and moderators say “It’s too late to enter now.” Speaking of the current election cycle. We’re too far along in it. Well…

 

I recall traveling to Phoenix to help out the Goldwater for President campaign… which kicked off it’s campaign at a 4^th of July Parade Flagstaff, Arizona when the temperature was in the 100’s … I had to buy a straw cowboy hat to keep from being burnt to a crisp on that hot summer day.

 

That was early July… the voting that year was I think on the 4^th of November… I’m too lazy to look it up… and my sieve-like memory can’t pin it down. It had to be a Tuesday. (J)

 

Some of us from the Milliken companies had been ‘loaned’ to the campaign effort – but even at that, I probably sat around most of the rest of July after the Convention in the SF Cow Palace concluded and Goldwater had given his speech with the famous phrase in it – that still gets quoted today.  Then several weeks went by before I relocated in Washington – coming home only on every other weekend if we weren’t traveling. He didn’t campaign on Sundays PTL.

 

So why now does it take two years to get ready and run etc. ?  Well… there’s a LOT more money to be raised… and a LOT more people to be hired and supervised… and in those days of 1964 we were just barely getting TV right and it was still black and white.

 

An index is – The campaign budget was about 13 million including charter of a 727 – which was brand new then… and another plane sometimes to carry the extra press people.

 

Thirteen million nowadays probably won’t run a campaign an entire week… and we’ve got 13+ months to go?  That’s why we have so many problems with it all IMO…Well… I don’t run those things (and didn’t then either) but we sure spent a lot less money – which was worth more!

 

No need to dig up all the old days… but sometimes it’s instructive to remember.  And I remember… I’m supposed to take all the meds I do twice a day and go to bed. Otherwise I keep nodding off during the day. (J)

 

So…Enjoy reading about “Bro. Cain.”  Almost all the news media have ‘woken’ up to the fact he *CAN* be a serious candidate… especially since he got more votes last week than Perry or Romney *combined*!  Well… it happens. It’ll probably take quite a few months to untangle this bird’s nest after all.  Maybe we just *think* we’re moving faster these days… it’s like being caught in a tornado… or something.  See you next week.  Get up early enough to get to Sunday School… It’ll do you good!

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Barbara and Jack

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TAKE A SECOND LOOK AT HERMAN CAIN

          Just a Minute: Can Herman Cain win? He tells Dan Henninger of the Wall St. Journal he thinks he can get at least a third of the black vote – plus -- after the Florida straw poll, his campaign coffers are growing heavier.

                    Consistently described as a candidate‘who can’t win’ he got more votes in the Orlando straw poll than Romney and Perry combined, and though he’s never held elected office his plain-spoken, easy to understand delivery has captured national recognition.

          Cain is a chauffeur’s son and says his father “gave him a sense of pride” – and both Coke-cola and Pillsbury entrusted him with ‘rescue’ tasks in the food world – leading in 1996 to heading up the National Restaurant Association till 1999. 

          To increase expertise in foreign policy, he’s traveled to Europe visiting with both our military and diplomats demonstrating a quick grasp of leadership there, causing Henninger to comment, “He’s at least twice identified the causes of a large failing enterprise, designed goals, achieved them, and by all accounts inspired the people he was supposed to lead.” Henninger concludes: “Herman Cain is a credible candidate… he deserves a serious look.”                    <> I’m Jack Buttram.

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SENATOR JIM DeMINT SPEAKS AT BJU CHAPEL - for Just A Minute Radio - Thursday 110929

We have a particularly pertinent message to include in today’s JUST A MINUTE.

 

Occasionally we have an elected official come and speak to educational institutions. Today’s program includes an excerpt from one such talk by United States Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina.

 

Mr. DeMint has garnered a significant amount of attention to his service in the Senate as he has paid particular attention to the rights of the people to assemble as well as to petition the government for redress of grievances. Such kind of oppression is going on in the USA today as the leader who was elected in 2008 and inaugurated into office in 2009 has embarked on a course which threatens to do great damage to our ‘ship of state.’

 

Presently the policies of Mr. Barack Obama are threatening to bankrupt our Nation. He seems to be virtually and almost totally ignorant of what happens when you borrow $0.43 out of every $1.00 spent in America today. Our nation and its economy simply cannot bring in enough in the manner of legal tender (otherwise identified as – MONEY) to pay for all the bills and salaries to pay for the things we need (Such as uniforms for our Army and other servicemen and women.).

 

This irresponsible behavior is threatening to bring down the economic structure we call our “Economy.”  A ‘balanced’ economy is required. That is one has to bring in to the coffers of government, as much or more, is being spent. If these rules are NOT followed, tragedy, bankruptcy follows… which in turn is followed by depressions of the monetary supply, the failures of banks and all kinds of financial structure – and generally throws our Nation… not to mention the World into fiscal turmoil.

 

Our currency loses it’s value… we have to carry paper currency to the store in wheelbarrows in order to bring home a loaf of bread. It has happened before to nations like Germany, France and smaller countries like Greece and others. This is the collapse that follows of the banking and currency system when it is abused by ignorance and a leadership which is determined to follow its own policies no matter how little sense they make.

 

So… we shall have to take this up another day… But for now our personal best wishes.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

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SENATOR JIM DeMINT SPEAKS AT BJU CHAPEL

          Just a Minute: South Carolina’s Junior Senator Jim DeMint spoke to Wednesday’s Chapel Service at Bob Jones University, to about four thousand students and faculty in the Founder’s Amphitorium on the campus. He gave a very clear testimony as to how he came to know and trust Christ and how it encourages him as he serves in the Senate.

          Here are a few of the words from his talk: (quote) “I am very appreciative of what you do here, of learning and sinking your roots down deep in God’s word – and how that applies to the world as a whole. So that you can go out and be that salt and light – you will make a difference. And I just want you not to be discouraged. Believe me sometimes I am discouraged.

          “But as I travel all around and see the way things are going. … I see that God’s at work everywhere. He’s using His people to shape them in the way He wants them shaped. … God’s in charge. He has a purpose for your life and you’re completely forgiven.”

          Mr. DeMint thanked the University for inviting him and closed in prayer. 

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HOW ARE WE TO UNTANGLE THIS MESS? -- For Just A Minute Radio on Wednesday 110928

Welcome to the midweek program at Playfair and Earl ‘n’ Lester’s Bait Shop and Sushi Bar where the fishin’s always good and the company even better.

 

The very hot days of summer ‘we think’ are ended… but I don’t notice that we’ve had our “Indian Summer” yet… no official dates – but looking at the Old Farmer’s Almanac I don’t see days specifically marked out for that celebration.

 

But the times they are a-changing. One party is working as hard as it can up to now to change Presidents next year; the other is dragging it’s feet, slowing things down where 2008 the motto was Change, change, change… this year the same party has abandoned that line and is putting on the brakes as hard as the pedal will stand without bending to ‘stay the course.’ We’ve heard *all* that before. Depending how old you are… you may have heard it several times.

 

Down South… the seasons often change slowly… Summer to Fall, Fall to Winter and on through to Spring… I think this is going to be one of the draggiest election seasons I’ve experienced. I’ve never seen an Administration transform itself so slowly – and put on the brakes while hanging out the sign “GONE CAMPAIGNING” so early in the election cycle.  I started to write we ought to complain we didn’t get our money’s worth; but before 2012 is past we will think we had twice as much as we bargained for – maybe a lot more. I know it’s kind of rubbing salt in the wound… and I don’t mean to be mean… but I could sure wish we had a time machine to speed things up – I just don’t recall it being this tedious this early in the last year of the Carter Administration. But then my memory admittedly is selective.

 

Got to wrap this up.  I plan on being here tomorrow. I sincerely hope you are also.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack Buttram

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HOW ARE WE TO UNTANGLE THIS MESS?

BB: Jist a Minit: Mr. Jack – How are we s’posed ta untangle this mess?

Jack: About?

MizP: Ya knows Mr. Jack – Mr. Romany is th frunt runner an Miz Bakeman is last runner…

Homer: Hit’s a mess when you adds in Mr. Cain… now-- ahead of everbody.

BB: An on toppa tha-ut you spells his name wrong.

Jack: Well… I wasn’t writing for the New York Times.  

MizP: Still and all it’s – C-a-i-n,  not C-a-n-e.

Jack: Thank you Miss Pearl… reminds me of my 3^rd grade teacher.

Homer: Uh oh… you done hit a tender spot Mr. Bill.

BB: Well, Ah wasn’t no great shakes at spellin’ mysef… an Mrs. Raglan come down on me

               Hard about hit in 4^th grade… so Ah’m jist heppin spare Mr. Jack bein’ embarrassed.

Jack: Thanks Billy-bob. I can always use some help. I shouldda checked it.

MizP: Right Mr. Jack – you don’t want th’ wrong feller ta git ‘lected.

Jack: Right you are Miz P… But it is a bit hard being corrected in public.

MizP: Oh… I’se sorry… I din’t thank ‘bout  tha-ut.

Jack: An easy mistake Miz Pearl.  I’d like to tell a story with a good ending.

BB: We kin always use a good ending.

MizP: Is this a miracle story?

Jack: Well yes – in a way.

Homer: You used to direk a radio program called Miracles din’t you.

Jack: Good memory Homer…

Homer: Oh well… I wasn’t old enough to listen but…

MizP: But go ahed wif yo story Mr. Jack.

Jack: OK… well this is about a family we know up in New Hampshire.

BB: Where th leaves is awready turning..

Jack: Right Mr. Bill… This story has happened before but we know both the folks

               involved Billie … in fact some of our boys went to school with them

               hese are grown men, I think in their ‘50’s – and one was having kidney failure.

MizP: Thas serous.

Jack: Right – he was already on dialysis – but a good friend of his offered to donate

               a healthy kidney so he wouldn’t need more treatment.  

 MizP: My ..  at’s generous.

Jack: Very Miz Pearlie… and they’re both doing very well.

BB: Hit’s a man willin’ ta lay down his life fer a friend. .

Jack: It is indeed. I’m glad to know people like that. But our time is gone for today.

               Join us again next week at Playfair… I’m Jack Buttram.

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WE HAVE TO MAKE *SERIOUS* CHOICES NOW -- for Just A Minute Radio Tuesday 110927

Seems like the more things change, the more they stay the same.

 

No matter how we may oppose or inveigh against socially bad language – some folks just seem to gravitate to it. Exhibit “A” Congresswoman Maxine Waters, 73 year old legislator representing the Democrat occupant of that seat in California’s 35^th District. A spiffy dresser from the part of Los Angeles that was the center of the ‘Watts Riots’ of 1965. 

 

She has now become the ‘chief agitator’ by a long shot of the Democrats in the House. Seems like if she can’t find an argument to join in she invents one.

 

I checked her ‘official website’ over the weekend and found half a dozen votes on which she should have voted – she simply skipped them.

 

One of the big problems we have with legislators in either party who have stayed up there too long they feel the seat just ‘belongs to them’ – they forget they are *representatives* of the people for the district or state they *represent*.  That’s why we call it a ‘REPRESENTATIVE’ government.  It belongs to ALL the people. Not just the ones who have been elected. 

 

It appears that’s the most common error of elected officials. They forget they are *entrusted* with certain *limited* powers over the people whom they REPRESENT!  That’s called ‘the consent of the governed.’ So from time to time it is proper to give them the ‘opportunity’ to return to the area from whence they came and experience life among the ‘represented’.  In the current case, I don’t think the election of 2012 can come soon enough to give us the relief for which we are asking. Let’s get about changing that. The first and most important step is PRAYER! Both for wisdom and success!

 

Well… after midnight again. See you tomorrow DV.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

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WE HAVE TO MAKE SERIOUS CHOICES NOW

          Just a Minute: Yesterday, I figuratively tried to take New York Representative Democrat Maxine Waters to the woodshed because of her offensive language sending all ‘Tea Party Folks’ straight to  [more polite term] ‘Hades.’ But before evening, she was back on the tube with her patented outrage indiscriminately targeting anyone near her line of fire.

          In media terms she’s ‘radio active.’ So, big-time media turns a blind eye rather than be called ‘racist.’ Recognizing that, she bludgeons critics, no matter whom. Her stated motto: “I don’t have time to be polite.”

          A reasonable and courteous response should be: “Abandon politics then; it’s not your bag.”  And follow that with a clarifying question: “Would you rather elect a ‘common-sense’ Cain; or a ‘can’t be bothered with politeness’ Waters? We may dispose of the race issue.

          If we’re going to “form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility… and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity” (All from the preamble of our Constitution) -- we need to back up and take a running start.     

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110926Maxine'sProfaneIre.mp3 -- REP. MAXINE WATERS EXHIBITS UNCONTROLLED TEMPER -- for JUST A MINUTE Radio on Monday

Well – good morning breakfast lovers – and all you other folks hiding in the shadows of the onrushing Fall season.

 

Today, taking a cue from the soon falling leaves and brilliant (we hope) fall foliage… we are setting about to look deeply into the expectations of Autumn and profit from the years gone by. 

 

As a former elementary school student, I think the most winsome thing about fall is the falling leaves and the beautiful landscapes they create over the foliaged plain. Also I recall the smell of burning leaves because that’s what we did with them sometimes. The sometimes were when my Dad was on the road – which was fairly often then because he belonged to the RWY POSTAL SYSTEM – a prominent part of the USPS… back in the days when to mail a letter first class cost three cents… unless you wanted AIR MAIL (no air mail stamps are sold these days) and back in those days the postman walked up on the porch and put the mail in your box TWICE in a single day!

 

Hows’s that value for $0.03 in U.S. money – backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Treasury?  Well, three cents stamps have gone the way of a nickel Pepsi in a bottle or $0.17.9 price for a gallon of leaded gasoline. No sense moaning over things that have changed.  Neither do we have street cars, or Stanley-Steamers.. or Model A Ford’s for that matter. (Even Model T’s were no longer produced when I was in elementary school.

 

So… what else is new? Well, I do recall hearing ‘cuss’ words from the PWA workers digging ditches in our city streets.  But both Dad and Mom said I would get my mouth washed out with soap if they heard any of that from me. Speaking of Soap… Does anyone remember Lifebouy, or Octagon Laundry Soap – or for the modern washing machine “Rinso-White?”

 

OK…enough nostalgia. My small contribution today is simply that I wish Mrs. Maxine Waters would have the courtesy to control her anger.  She cursed on CBS and a host of other outlets last week. I’m for freespeech and all that. I’m not for profanity coming in from satellite or cable. Surely the FCC  -- wise enough to know profanity when they hear it or see it – can fine members of Congress who deliberately sully up the public’s air with their verbal garbage. If they can’t – let’s see what WE THE PEOPLE can do about it after the next election. BTW her 35^th district in LA may be gerrymandered out of existence this year. (I HOPE!)

 

I’m now informed by several broadcasters we ARE already in the next election cycle. I disagree but I don’t think it’s worth a dimes worth of worry. We’re 13.? Months from electing a new President, Congress and 1/3 of the Senate. 

 

Let us follow up on getting a cleaner air act entered and enforced after Congress passes it. We can if we WILL!

 

Cordially IN HIM,

 

Jack

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REP. MAXINE WATERS EXHIBITS UNCONTROLLED TEMPER

          Just a Minute: Rep. Maxine Waters, of Los Angles, is a bad example of a member of Congress. She does harm to the very group to which she belongs. Her intemperate outbursts reach every home in America totally besmirching everything for which we stand.

          The 73 year old California Congresswoman has been in Congress since in 1990. She now faces continuing ethics questions. She and Charles Rangel of New York are both under investigation by the House Ethics Committee. Her husband – a former pro-football player and Clinton’s Ambassador to the Bahamas -- was a board member of a California Bank which got 12 million in bailout money.

          Her temper and scathing public language is legendary. She’s quoted as saying: “I don’t have time to be polite.” Most recently she’s seen on TV berating ‘Tea Party’ members telling them they can (quote) “Go straight to – (bleep) --.”

          Sadly, she a fly in the ointment of the good work done by businessman Herman Cane, who won the Florida Straw Poll – and South Carolina Representatives Tim Scott and James Clyburn.

          <> I’m Jack Buttram.

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GOP CANDIDATESDEMONSTRATE ABILITY TO AGREE -- FOR JUST A MINUTE RADIO on Friday 110923

Thursday night is about the first time I’ve watched a long TV ‘debate’ and enjoyed it.

 

I think the real reason is there weren’t any competing ideologies involved in the set up. Google and Fox News put it together and used their own talent as the interlocutors – Baier, Kelly and Wallace -- who did an excellent and professional job in handling the responses of the candidates.

 

There’s no need for me to go into what differentiates the candidates – you’re perfectly able to do that on your own. The thing to keep before the electorate – especially the Conservative/Moderate center – is, we need a government that will be strong and resolute in helping us recover from the pit we let the Obama-ites dig for the nation. There will be a long difficult climb out of the hole – and lots of conflicting advice. But in the hands of strong leadership committed to constitutionality and a moral government (and the grace of God) it can be done.

 

Of course when I get into one of these crucial places – well, I begin to think at my age, I’m not going to be around that much longer to enjoy or be bothered by deficient government.  Although I also think of my children, grandchildren and now greatgrandchildren – they’re already here!  How did this happen so fast. I just got out of college last year. (OH no… that’s not accurate!)

 

Well… I’m happy and glad to know the future is in the Lord’s hands and HE knows what is best because HE made it… and by HIM it all holds together.

 

There will be that point at which we (all those who have come to a saving knowledge of the Saviour) will ‘know as we are known.’  And all the things we didn’t understand will become clear to us and we can see the reason for them. That will be wonderful!

 

Some folks think I’m just engaged in pipe-dreams… no… not that. I’m relying on what I personally have read in the Bible.  And I thank teachers who know the languages in which the original manuscripts were written. Plus the background of the miracles that establish the authenticity of the Bible and its characters and what they did and taught. So… I know I may not be correct about *everything* and there are points – generally lesser unimportant ones, not essentials – where we may disagree. BUT when we all get to the place where Jesus, the Father and the Holy Spirit explain it all – and make it clear to us… God will wipe away every tear and all hurts and we’ll be with HIM forevermore.

 

I hope you don’t mind me mentioning this – because it is not only what I *believe* but it is also what I have thus far proven by experience. So… I have much to be thankful for.

 

Well… it’s almost midnight as I write this… so I need to get it in place for airing tomorrow. Also I take my place as a traffic warden on Fridays to help supervise the incoming and outgoing traffic at a Christian school (K4-12) which is where kids grow up and have the opportunity to get educated in the Bible and the knowledge of the Lord.  How blessed am I!

 

Thanks for reading this far… and for joining in the good feelings and rejoicing about this very day.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

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GOP CANDIDATES DEMONSTRATE ABILITY TO AGREE

          Just a Minute: The Google-Fox sponsored debate in Orlando, Florida last evening was refreshing and essentially stayed on track. Each of the nine participants had good opportunity to handle questions and all were included, including a newbie -- the former Governor of New Mexico.

          Except for a few sharp elbows between Gov. Perry and Gov. Romney which seemed to be couched in humor to some degree, the evening went along smoothly. There was no jarring note from leftish newsies trying to demonstrate their superiority. The two main contenders stood beside one another with exchanges not bitter nor boiling.

          Mrs. Bachmann was the sole feminine candidate but was treated respectfully and all elicited cheers and applause from the well -behaved Florida crowd. I found it informative, the format was varied with questions winnowed via TV from a world-wide audience -- I’d say the whole program came off as good, informative entertainment that should do the Republicans proud. There’ll be lots of speculation as to ‘who won.’ But I think they all did.

          <> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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HOW TO BE A MAN - OR WOMAN - OF THE PEOPLE? -- Just A Minute Radio for Thursday 110922

Here’s something to look for tonight when the debate goes on.

 

There was a front page Wall St. Journal story yesterday about the ways in which the GOP candidates are dressing this season.  The gist of it is tending toward the casual is the mode. So on today’s program I took note of some of the remarks made there and in other sources where notice has been taken.

 

The interesting thing to me is the “campaign casual” style has been adopted by all of the men, to some degree… but the hold out for the moment – possibly because she is the only female in the debate line-up at present – is Michele Bachmann.

 

What rather angers me somewhat is -- as I was looking up some research materials on the Internet -- the salacious and offensive ‘junk’ that is scattered around on places like U-tube etc. that *I* characterize as mean, vicious and entirely uncalled for. I know I’m paddling against the tide in even mentioning this – and I don’t care to further spread the poison. But it is regrettable that our nation is apparently sinking into a cesspool of vulgarity and cheap blue ‘humor.’

 

I’m aware of how difficult it is to clamp down on this stuff which *is* immoral and threatening to the lives of children and weak-minded adults, without treading on the pillar of free speech which is generally protected in America. However even in the midst of this rain of deliberate sewage there is a notation which should be considered and obeyed. It is – in my opinion – best illustrated by the axiom that it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded theater.

 

What is different in this case? It’s pretty simple, and fits well into some of the statements by Supreme Court Justices and others that although it is true pornography etc. are difficult to describe with rigid certainty – but I’m with the judicial school that says, “I know it when I see it.”  And when it comes to ‘hate speech’ being outlawed on school grounds or in the presence of children – I think something very similar ought to be applied to the Internet as well as to all the publically assessable communications channels of our Nation.

 

I’m outraged at the kind of ‘junk’ allowed on U-tube and other channels under the banner of ‘protected’ speech. We need some moral and sensible judges, lawyers and deans of legal instruction to put their heads together and do something that is sensible and Constitutional but which protects the innocents and maintains a reasonable, enforceable standard for a moral society.

 

That ought to buy me a soap box about 18 feet high.(J)

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack  

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HOW DO YOU BECOME A MAN – OR WOMAN – OF THE PEOPLE?

          Just a Minute: When you watch the candidates ‘debating’ tonight in Florida – take note of their style of dress… which off the platform is being characterized as “campaign casual.”

          In researching I found Jon Huntsman – just about last in the polling – wore a denim shirt and hunting jacket on July 4^th when visiting New Hampshire because it brought him good luck.

          According to the Wall St. Journal they are working in shirtsleeves and jeans and ‘tossing off neckties.’ If you roll up your sleeves, it must be above the elbow – not in the middle of the forearm. Campaign etiquette apparently sanctions the “three ‘F’s” – at a fair, on a factory floor, or the scene of a flood. That’s OK.  Huntsman and Romney have taken notice from Esquire’s cover story that advised “stop dressing well.” Ron Paul ditched his dress shirt in summer for a prison-striped polo shirt.

          The one exception is Michele Bachmann who generally appears in skirt-suits often paired with a stiff-collared white blouse. Some insist she’s wearing it because she ‘means business.’

          <> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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ARE WE HEADED UP OR DOWN? -- For JUST A MINUTE Radio for Wednesday 110921

This has been a wonderful and cool (I fear it may turn hot again) week near the end of Summer.

 

Actually the first day of Fall is later this week. I always check the OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC to see just when the sun crosses the equator at the autumnal equinox. And it will Friday of this week on the 23^rd – but you’ll have to rise early to breath Autumn’s first breath at 5:05AM.  Could be we’ll have a sprinkle of rain or so by then… We could sure use it.

 

Meantime, the political scene has turned into sort of a dull roar. And the next elevated noise level may be on Thursday evening when the GOP primary contestants square off again. The divisions are becoming more evident. I won’t review them all – I’ll leave that to you. I’ll just toss in a couple of observations I don’t fully understand.

 

Rick Santorum, who lost his primary race about six years ago to veteran Senator “Snarlin” Arlen Specter has just not gained traction at least in the polls I’ve seen. (I don’t keep up with them all…too many.) He’s been sort of dragging along in last place and it’s hard to explain. He’s probably the youngest looking of the male candidates. He speaks well and has a good presentation – he just doesn’t get much of a chance because the questions come his way with a big dollop of infrequency. It isn’t that he’s giving answers off the mark or that are not interesting. But he does complain about such anemic coverage of what he does get a chance to say – and that’s not very flattering. Maybe someone can explain it to me. From all I can tell, having been one of Pennsylvania’s senators six years ago seems he’s just being left to bump along the bottom of the fish pond.

 

Also I make an observation some of the ‘opposition press’ (and I know they aren’t divided officially along those lines… but it does seem there are correspondents who make no bones about exhibiting their biases) really are awful in flouting their viewpoints. Maybe it’s just I am getting older and came from a different age – but I can’t recall seeing coverage of Michelle Bachman for instance, that is so grindingly bitter. You have to go back a ways in the early days of electioneering in Colonial America to run into emotions and language that is… well I might as well express it… so WICKED! 

 

I know we have freedom of the press in the USA. But some of these guys (and gals too I suppose) look like they haven’t been fed often enough and have been let out of their cages to take bites out of GOP hides.  Excuse me… I just turn the page or flip off the receiver.  These masters of bad manners and language would be right at home in the age of the Medieval Spanish Inquisition.  They’re a bane to listen to and woeful for the digestion.

 

Well… see you tomorrow.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

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ARE WE HEADED UP OR DOWN?

Homer: Jist a Minit: Whut air you a lookin’ s’glum about Mr. Jack?

Jack: Just thinking about the sorry state the world is in, Homer.

MizP: Ya know Mr. Jack tha’ut th’ world ain’t *your* responsibility.

Jack: You’re right about that Miz Pearlie.

 BB: What’s brought on this Malaise?.

MizP: Thass a good word Mr. Bieelie – where’dja gitit.

BB: I was thinkin’ about President Carter an th’ paddlin rabbit.

Homer: Th one wuz a swimmin’ toward him when he’s canoin’?  

MizP: Ah had ‘bout fergot ‘bout tha-ut dangrous bunny rabbit.

Jack: Hmml… lookin’ through the paper, Greece is about to go broke – again.

MizP: Gonna be ‘nother bail-out?

Jack: They haven’t cut down one government job in two years  –

               but the private companies…

BB: They bin losing jobs right along. Don’t seem rite.

Jack: And there’s still fighting in Libya.

MizP: In Mr. Gadaffi’s home town…

BB: Thas’ rite…

Jack: Misrata is the place. Used to be an industry city.

Homer: Th folks as stayed put up signs fer th’ Gaddafi folks not ta come back.

Jack: Hard feelings all ‘round.

 MizP: A knows what ta do.  

BB: What’s that, Miz Pearlie.

MizP: Jist sit yosef down -- ‘member who’a *really* in control.

BB: Hit’s sorta new ta me – but I bin memberizn’ some scripchure.

MizP: Share hit wif us Beeelie.

BB: Hit’s in Dutirominy.

Homer: Whut verse Billy-bob?

BB: In Chapter 33 an verse 27 of Dutirominy – hit says – “The eternal God is thy

               refuge, and underneath are the everlastin’ arms.”

MizP: Tha’s good.

BB: Aw shucks… Mr. Carter brot hit ta mind

Jack: Thanks Billy-bob -- good to be reminded the Lord is in control of it all.

                till next week then…<>I’m Jack Buttram.

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AL GORE STILL FIDLIN' WITH *HIGH SCHOOL PHYSICS* - for Just A Minute Radio on Tuesday 110820

Hi Folks… wading through the swamp again.

 

Seems like when I get on these late night shifts things tend to go wrong… but I think we’ll carry through OK.

 

Today’s program deals with AL GORE and his claim to fame since he’s been VP and a ‘would be’ President.  In fact most of his really avid followers consider him the real CEO in absentia since the Supreme Court did not agree with his team’s judgment on chad counting back a few years ago… like eleven.  They are still comparing and counting paper chads and hanging chads, and those the bonefish on the keys ate like the dog ate my homework… and trying to figure out how they can perhaps come in some kind of Constitutional Crisis and claim a Presidency that was sneakily stolen from them.

 

But since that’s been a rather fruitless cause… well then perhaps they can convince Mr. O that he’s on the verge of having the Presidency ripped out from under him… and they ought to do something about it. It’s kinda ridiculous but not much more ridiculous than inventing the Internet… or writing a Love Story Novel.

 

Well… I don’t want to go further down that road… it’s sort of a bad-humored nightmare. We don’t want to joke around too much or they’ll take us seriously.

 

It’s a pity that most of the collegiality has gone out of service in Washington now and it’s all pert’ near *dead* serious… and the dead part is what is dangerous.

 

OK… Most everything is put away… I’ll put myself away and Lord willing commune with you tomorrow. God bless you and all the family.

 

Cordially, IN HIM,

 

Jack

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“JUST A MINUTE”

AL GORE STILL ‘FIDDLIN’ WITH HIGH SCHOOL PHYSICS

          Just a Minute: Former VP Al Gore criticizes a Nobel Laureate of the American Physical Society as among those who engage in “high school physics.”  So he brings his critics to the level of anyone else who might have “invented the internet.”

           Mr. Gore, meet Ivar Giaever, a 1973 physics Nobel Laureate who last week resigned from the Society because they continue to insist the evidence of man-made global warming is ‘incontrovertible.’ Mr. Giaever is a former APS fellow who held a rare honor held by only one eighth of one percent of the members.

          Bur the former Vice President regards himself as the victim of bad ‘chad counting’ when he ran against President Bush. The warming ‘evidence’ shows ‘average’ temperature has shifted approximately eighth tenths of a degree Celsius over the last 150 years.

          There is a larger group of honorees who maintain an open mind about warming or what possibly should be done about it. But sophomoric ‘climate change advocates’ along with Mr. Gore, are bent on dismissing anyone who disagrees with their judgment.

          Would you trust the honored and certified academics – or Al Gore’s climate clan of Internet Inventors?. <> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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