IS IT AN UNLIKLEY SCENARIO

Some days I question my grammar and spelling more than others... But having made some adjustments in my dictionary and concentrating on getting things right since I started working of the print media and editors began to go bald around me – I am now more confident than I used to be.

Do I have a foundation for that? I think the foundation was the chair on which I sat, was at the wrong place in front of the computer screen and a new keyboard was making the stretch of the right hand pinky to reach the backspace key painful. Therefore I became a sort of odd-ball corpus “something or other” typo prone “K” St. neophyte who could never correct his copy enough to get cured.

But having adjusted the chair and taken a big slug of what I think was horse liniment (Is ‘Sloan’s Liniment’ for people or horses at Churchill Downs – I forgot?) In any case I’m not cured but I feel better. So as we travel pitty-pat around the round place we see if we can improve the place and pace a bit – at least I’m more cheerful, and we know The Lord loves a Cheerful giver – what about a Cheerful loser? It’s a futile question anyway since I’ve never wagered on the four hoofed beasts in any case. I just admire them for the numbers of times in which they seem to fool the bookies.

So we’re still more than a hundred days from the election. If my little hand calculator doesn’t fail me I find today to be the 198^th day of 2012 and Nov. 6^th to be the 311^th of 2012… that means we are close to 113 days away from election day (or nights). Or if you if you prefer --16 weeks and a fraction.

Don’t stay up nights trying to smooth out the fractions to whole numbers…it won’t work.

See you tomorrow…I trust.

Cordially, In HIM

Jack

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“JUST A MINUTE”

IS IT AN UNLIKELY SCENERIO?

Just a Minute: How come Mitt Romney, nominating Condoleezza Rice as his running mate for Vice President, raises eyebrows or stimulates snickers? I see it neither as hilarious or somehow beyond the pale. (No pun intended.)

In her weekend column Peggy Noonan seems to view Miss Rice an “off the wall” candidate -- one who absolutely fails the test; or who is simply too far off the ‘beaten path’ for V.P. candidates; neither of which – in my opinion -- is worthy of consideration.

The former Secretary of State has comported herself equal to, or far beyond, the capabilities of many men who have held the office. And I don’t consider myself sufficiently educated or experienced in managing foreign and diplomatic affairs to grade Miss Rice’s performance in the number two office. But I daresay she would make a far more compelling and competent candidate than the current occupant who is never quite able to figure out if the microphone is ‘live’ or dead or how to deliver a speech without sounding like a cheetah just out of his cage. .

<> I’m Jack Buttram.

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Monday, July 16, 2012