MORE HONORED IN THE BREACH -- Just A Minute Radio for Thursday 120503

Good Morning Breakfast Clubbers! – That used to be Philco’s call to breakfast. Apparently it sold a lot of radios.

Nowadays hardly anyone remembers the “Breakfast Club with Don McNiel” – which originated in Chicago with many listeners and I think it was put on the air out there because having a coast to coast network – by the old “BLUE” network as I recall, was probably more economical and worked – because in those days telephone signals done along copper wires had to be ‘boosted’ and re-worked with equalizers to sound pretty good.

Well, it’s all over now. Chicago according to the poet in Chicago who wrote “The Fog Comes In On Cat’s Feet” – remember who? Carl Sandburg, who called Chicago the butcher of the world because so many ‘packing houses’ were packed into the stock yards areas…. I never saw any of it… just pictures. Carl Sandburg’s last home was up in the Blue Ridge town of Flat Rock…maybe East Flat Rock… I’m not sure. Anyway – you can visit there… his typewriter in his studio is still a place tourists visit.

I better get on with business.

Is Spring and joyousness coming to your house? – or has this super mild winter just whetted your appetite for Florida? Lots of cities I see by the news reports – have a lot of left over salt and sand which they usually use in the winter for deicing bridges and roads. My guess is – because I’m rather suspicious of the “Global Warming” science crowd – is we’ll have our share again before too many years go by – but we’ll see.

Anyway… it has been a flowery Spring not just in Charleston by the sea – but also up this way. I’m always kinda sad to see the Azaleas go sad so quickly – but there are new breeds (right words?) of flowers – and some that bloomed only once a year now put forth two and three times they say. My wife thinks she’s ready to see a couple of purchases do that this year. But we’re not ahead of the game nor spreading the mulch yet.

BUT WE DID have the garage & yard sale last Saturday from which my wife says she’s not sure she’ll recover. But I think she will;…I kid her saying “She’s a ‘tough old bird.’ And she is a real trooper.

Well… be with us tomorrow if you can we’ll enjoy having you around the home place.

Oh we had a change of electronic equipment in the middle of the week… caused a bit of a glitch with the Bait shop and Sushi Bar crowd… but things will settle back in… we think. ((J)’

Cordially, IN HIM

Jack & Barbara

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MORE HONORED IN THE BREACH

Just a Minute: Today is appointed as a national day of prayer for the United States. Unfortunately, as Shakespeare said: “Tis more honored in the breach than in the observance.”

President Obama took his victory lap yesterday. I’m sure there’s a minority of are clergy who issue a call to prayer for our nation; but I doubt it is highly observed. President Carter was unnaturally famous for his use of this word mostly thought of as “A general sense of depression or unease.” I don’t have a certified ‘malaise’ meter either – but I’m not impressed as we come out of winter into Spring that we are registering a very high number.

What is evident, even with the ersatz puffing by the Administration is not all dread – but it’s not all joy either. Too many people out of work too long. Too many houses in foreclosure. Gas prices that go up like a rocket and come down like a feather. It’s not a fourth of July spirit that’s pressing forward. Maybe we can do better talking about it more tomorrow. <I’m Jack Buttram.> (END)

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