PERSISTENCE = 'LASTINGNESS" or DIUTERNITY -- for Just A Minute Radio on Thursday 120105

Wow! – Winter has finally decided to pull down that Brrrr Cold Arctic Blanket of Air from the Northern Climbs and lay it on us.

We’re about to go through what is usually the coldest part of winter for our region. But the lovely icy queen can often come early or stay late. There’s not much we can do about it except wrap up well – and use gloves and scarves when needed!

There is no pulling back now – we’re definitely in the ‘caucus’ race where *everybody* gets (or doesn’t get) prizes. But in Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll made things a little more cheery than they seem to be in bold black and white alone.

The Ice Queen has left her calling card with me in the form of a cough and cold that came with the New Year. Which seems determined to stay a while. But there’s no use in complaining – just recall these cool days and nights when Summer returns.

We do have the wheels turning now for the primary season which has done its deal with Iowa – next Tuesday is New Hampshire and the 21’st the circus comes to town in the Upstate – as well as the lowlands of the Palmetto State. In a way it’s a fun ride… in another it’s rather much more politics than *I* personally care to put up with for such a long period as we are doing. But until the population rises up and objects vociferously…. We’re stuck.

For the ten years or so that our family lived up in northern Virginia we had a campaign *EVERY YEAR*. The Legislature set it up that way in order to set the Governor’s Race on the odd schedule – and the Va. Gov. only gets ONE term. So the Old Dominion gets inundated with politics and dunked under once *every* year.

I just would like for all the participants (or all the GOP voters) in the ‘snowball’ fight to realize OUR object for the good of the states and the commonwealths we are *most* anxious to win back the Presidency in hopes of keeping the Ship of State right side up. It is difficult to imagine the amount of debt we have draped about our necks and the necks of our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren! This is a crime which the children do NOT deserve. Our generation and all those responsible for it should be ashamed. I remember thinking of the amount of debt which had been accumulated during the second world war. As a school kid I felt it was part of the punishment on *my* America I did NOT bring on myself. Still I appreciated the fact we won that war… but then came along the Korean and VietNam etc. We’ve gotten more or less acclimated to it – It’s a crime! WE SHOULD NOT HAVE LEFT THIS MESS TO CLEAN UP. Now it’s going to be even harder to get rid of and there seems to be a curtain of invisibility about that load… that surely rubs the wrong way.

Well… time to give up and go to bed.

Have a great day today… we’ll look forward to being together again soon!

Cordially, IN HIM

Jack Buttram

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“JUST A MINUTE”

PERSISTENCE = ‘LASTINGNESS’ or DIUTERNITY

Just a Minute: Today I searched for a word to depict Sen. Santorum’s epic effort in Iowa. I never found one fully expressing the force of will it must have taken for him to go against the grain and achieve his goal of reaching each county and delivering his message. Despite the obstacles we see an admirable victory achieved.

So now we’ll observe the continuation and see just how it all comes out. We gain unexpected knowledge through this political exercise.

Also, we see the liability, growing and developing like a poisonous vine, a determination between individuals to ‘set the record straight’ -- even though the result may cripple one another to the point of missing the immediate goal and losing such control that will avoid the reefs that will sink or greatly damage the ship. It’s a delicate and precise task determining success or failure for all aboard.

The captain and the crew, despite their differences in perspective and party, must put aside emotional reactions and take timely action to save the ship of State – or all will be irretrievably lost. <> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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