A GOOD MEASURE IS ACCOMPLISHMENT -- Just A Minute Radio for Friday 111007

It’s interesting for me to find the President reading off some mental script than none one on this side of the line can find.

For instance I certainly must have been asleep when the information came across about the wonderful things he has done with some four trillion dollars plus he has added to the nation’s debt. Fascinating figures, -- they’re just hard to rustle up on short notice.

More difficult it seems than AG Holder can dredge up from his memory the year old memory of being warned the visitations to the solar energy plant that had been touted in person by the President visiting the plant and having TV pictures taken – and having it held up as an example of all of the ‘green jobs’ it was earmarked to provide. But then when the AG was asked in a hearing about it he “thought the first time he heard about it was in recent weeks in a general way.”

And despite the effusive remarks the President made about the solarheat builders – he has trouble remembering them now.

Oh well… it’s easy to lose track of a billion here or a billion there… eventually, as Senator Dirksen was want to remark – “It adds up to big money.” Still it would be nice to be remembered. Oh it’s possibly due to the atmosphere in the White House which seems to have a great erasing capability when Democrat Presidents occupy it. All the financial memory of Whitewater before Mr. Clinton became President was erased. The same thing happened – a real memory lapse rather like a black hole – when Mr. Clinton was questioned about Ms. Lewinsky. Memories just fly away sometimes I guess. We might as well get used to it between now and November of 2012.

Perhaps we could get a yet to be invented 21^st century MemoVac that could restore all those of the Clinton era but not on such a selective basis. One never knows just what scientists will come up with. Oh I know of a few of them that hang around to speculate upon the early days of the Earth. If they need a few more billion years for whales who once walked the earth as giant creatures *BEFORE* they decided to evolve back to the oceans where things were more hospitable to them – I can understand that. What’s a billion here or a billion there? I can adjust especially if I’ve heard the stories like the Three Bears – or the Big Bad Wolf – or even Jack and the Beanstalk – *then* I now have a memory trained to remember that stuff – it just *seemed* like a fairy tale before.

Well… it’s late… I’ve got things to do tomorrow… and so must sign out of this shift. All the best.

Cordially, IN HIM

Jack

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A GOOD MEASURE IS ACCOMPLISHMENT

Just a Minute: Several important things are happening -- scores aren’t posted yet.

Steve Jobs cashed in this week. At age 56 people say he’s another Thomas Edison. I’d put him in a class with the Wright brothers, and Alexander Graham Bell. These are not necessarily icons of history, but they’ve made a difference in many lives.

Sarah Palin, had a chance at higher office, decided not to run – this time – so has Chris Christie, Governor of New Jersey. Write these down in your journal and look back on them in 10 years. I’ve really come to admire David McCullough, a native of Pittsburg, not noted for literature but steel. He’s written at eight or nine major BIG biographies and won two Pulitzers. He shares credit for his success with his wife.

Why have I drifted off politics for biographies? Other things are interesting too, so if I awake some mother or child’s library interest possibly that’s the best I’m fit for at the moment. My mother read Bible stories to me before I could read. You never know where you may plant seeds that grow up into success – especially in God’s eyes.

<> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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