Well… the game draws on ‘apace.’ We have an intermission and then a weekend and then a ‘SUPER TUESDAY’.
Within this next week or so there will be a continual re-chewing and accusing and from all I can tell no repentances – well maybe I’d better hope there will be… but the protestations of the candidates left standing is: There will be none. (L) So what will ensue? Hard to tell. I keep telling myself I’m no ‘prognosticator.’ Nobody pays me money to stick out my neck. (And I’m not at all sure it would be profitable considering the “Buttram Luck.”
What does that mean? You ask… Well you get a hint when you consider the Buttram family slogan has always seemed to work out along the lines of “Buy High – Sell Low” – not exactly a wall hanging from either the Rockefeller or the Buffet mansions – Bill Gates might have something similar set up in his garage where he and his buddies invented Microsoft.
My rambling thoughts – when it comes to political times like this – are to ‘forget it’. Stick to your knitting. Do your job and forget trying to see around the corner …. Leave that to the Gallups the Rasmussens and the Drudge report – Even the Pew Foundation earns a better score than we do. But … I’m not complaining – just totally giving up on gambling. (J) Even punchboards and pinball machines never paid off enough to attract me to them as a smart way to make money. The better idea was to learn how to plant a garden… tend an orchard … or pay attention to the farm. With all of those you may have a bad year but normally things come back. I guess I’m thinking the hard times come when you have three or four hard years in a row. That’s where I think we are now. So…what’s the solution?
Here is a solid gold promise from the creator of the Universe and All things. It resides in the book of Psalms…. It’ is the 55th one and while the whole Psalm has great value… I find verse 22 to be the most encompassing one easiest to remember – and it covers everything well.
Psalm 55:22 -- Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
What promise from *anyone* can be more encompassing, more trustworthy, more valuable to you or me in time of need.
Thanks for reading… God bless us… everyone.
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack Buttram
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“JUST A MINUTE”
CAN WE STAND THE ‘GREATEST FUTUROLOGIST’?
Just a Minute: Editorialists at the National Review asked Newt Gingrich to abandon his ‘fly in the ointment’ role in the Republican Primary last week and take up his role of the ‘Greatest Futurologist’ in the world. At least that seems the objective of Columnist R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. writing last week in a blog.
Tyrrell aimed squarely at “Newt” urging him to drop out since he’s only come in first in one contest so far compared to four racked up by Santorum. He’s generally down there with Ron Paul. Conversely, Sunday I heard Mr. Gingrich twice within ten minutes accuse Mr. Romney as the candidate of ‘no ideas’ while simultaneously wrapping himself in the toga of every idea in the bazaar. Thus far no one has tagged Newt with the label of being “too humble” – apparently it ‘lies below his pay grade.
Since this is ‘President’s Day’ one observes possibly Newt would have not only admitted cutting down the cherry tree – but presented his father with a slice of the pie he’d baked with the salvaged wood.
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