PYONGYANG MAKES NEIGHBORS NERVOUS -- Just A Minute Radio for Tuesday 111227

Holidays --- and another one just around the corner of the weekend.

Plus Congress trying to decide how to unlock the horns of deadblock without getting mud all over themselves and looking silly. It’s a difficult job – especially when trying to look impressive and making the moves that show the Nation you know what you’re doing. It’s hard when you don’t!

Well… that’s a sentence you’ll probably want to save until after New Year’s Day when you can chew over it like a dog with a bone.

These Freshmen House members are beginning to grasp the fatigue and difficulties that looked so easily resolved when observed through a glass’n’glistening TV screen.

Everybody’s got to get broken-in somehow. But it looks like some of the truth that has been being batted around the Capital Dome and getting rather fractured is beginning to have some import – real Importance for a change. If the GOP drops the ball on this election and we’re all faced with the prospect of four more years of trillion dollar deficits and 26 Presidential games of golf a year it’s gonna be a hot time in the old town [make that Chicago] tonight! I don’t think it’ll ignite another fire as bad as the one that just about wiped Chicago off the map – but it’s gonna be hot. And we’re just about to enter the furnace.

The primary election battle in the hinterlands will temper the activity of the last two years because we have a ‘PRESIDENTIAL’ election to navigate. Look back to the long Bush-Gore Shad-counting ballot in Florida that just about jerked a knot in our tail.

That should give some weight (gravitas) to the contest. But since we have already seen Barney Foof take to the sidelines – there will be more I’m sure.

Some years ago in my home town of Roanoke, Virginia when the ‘fireworks’ laws were not as well monitored as they are now, someone for a joke tossed a cherry bomb in the middle of a huge fireworks display across the street from a Junior High School building. *Fortunately* it was not on a day when school was in session or there would have been far more casualties than there were. But there were enough of the scared and wounded that Roanoke has never been the same since.

I’m fairly convinced we’re in the middle of such a powder-keg setting across America for this coming year. I’m not so concerned about physical violence as I am about moral violence. When you start down a steep and slippery slope if there’s enough incline and slickness there will be serious injuries before the contest is over – possibly of the nature like that Congresswoman Giffords experienced in Arizona – but more likely to the structure of our freedoms and moral tone in America. We can go so far that there will be no coming back.

For that and the morality of our nation we’d better give ourselves to serious prayer. May God bless us all.

Cordially, IN HIM

Jack Buttram

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PYONGYANG MAKES NEIGHBORS NERVOUS

Just a Minute: “They’re trying to do things they’re not very good at…” according to Mr. Jeffrey Lewis of the ‘James Martin Center for Non-Proliferation Studies’ in D.C. He says North Korea is the kind of country who would build nuclear arms which don’t work.

Problem is North Korea’s recent missile efforts have been sullied by misfires and operational difficulties – it’s that kind of country, North Korea experts say. The problem is exacerbated by North Korean leadership which kicked out the IAEA inspectors in early 2009 – and since then have invited foreign scientists, including Americans, to visit a secret enrichment operation in 2010

Apparently North Korea has developed a taste for highly enriched uranium rather than the plutonium-based bombs they have already stored. They seem to be using the lower grade explosives to throw watch-dogs off the track. It’s a trick also possibly being used by Iran.

So rather than add North Korea to our ‘worry’ list – we’d be better off adding them to our prayer list. <> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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