WHERE'S THE GOOD NEWS GONE TO? : for Just A Minute Radio -- Friday 120302

Another astonishing week – believe it or not.

Crazy ‘little’ things get in the way – like putting the wrong date on a file – so you can never find it in the secret vault of the computer where the Gremlins have locked it away and hidden the combination that you had so carefully created. Well… it’s over until now and perhaps you’ll be able to make the best of it.

Isn’t this a sort of crazy “Winter” – some people out west have so much snow and ice it has caved in roofs… then along comes a spate of tornadoes that shouldn’t be here at all this time of year… and there are people dead and shopping malls torn up. [From what business forecasters are putting into magazines in ten years or so there will be far fewer malls and they will cater to the high end purchasers that you have to drive across town to get to.

That’s kind of discouraging for bicycle riders… but then I don’t see too many bicycle riders going to the malls anyway.

Well… one thing for sure… CHANGE! I look back on my three score years plus ten… and there are a lot of things I remember well… they’re just not there anymore… or if they are they’re generally drastically changed. Exhibit A… radio.

I used to come home from school… walking, not riding my bike or the bus… just walking. (NO wonder I’m so trim and healthy – well that’s not *exactly* true.)

Anyway I remember Dad who installed a heater in the ’35 Ford he had bought new. No heater… no radio…. the air conditioning was turning a handle just below the windshield and it pushed out the windshield … and the air came rushing in… to cool things off… except in the summers… which I remember as being both hotter and the winters being colder. See… things just aren’t the same. No more street cars… no REAL train whistles or bells… only the occasional Diesel horn…-- no red cabooses… (Is that the way to spell the plural of caboose?

OK… I don’t know how I got off in these tangled briar patches…but it’s late and I’m off to bed. I hope you have a great weekend including a worshipful Sunday…and fellowship with your family and friends… remember we’re all going away. (J)

Cordially, IN HIM

Jack & Barbara (have a great Sunday!)

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WHERE’S THE GOOD NEWS GONE TO?

Just a Minute: In Washington I worked for Senator Strom Thurmond who went to World War Two as a Colonel but after becoming Governor, and Senator retired as Major General and Chairman of the Senate Armed services committee.

I had to get as close as possible to try and write about what was going on so I could prepare materials he used for speeches, congressional hearings and floor debates. I was in over my head and I had to depend on many other sources for information the Senator could use.

This government now is much bigger. Last week Defense Secretary Panetta said it takes about $850 thousand dollars to keep one serviceman in Afghanistan. And that with a ‘reluctant and apologetic’ Commander in Chief.

Folks we’re way under water – I’m really thankful we have the Lord to look out for us for that’s the only way America is going to survive – if that’s what God wants.

I don’t know how to say it with more urgency – but I wanted to make it clear we need to be praying.

<> I’m Jack Buttram.

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