GRAND OLD PARTY BNEGINS IT'S OFFICIAL RUN UP -- Just a Minute Radio for120831

To use an old FDR era punch line: “The cat has been let out of the cellophane bag!”.  That sort of describes what happened at the GOP ‘reducto’ version of the National Convention.

 

There really wasn’t anything to be decided. By the time everyone got to – or looked in on – the GOP National convention the only thing to be decided was how many days would be occupied by the massive and expensive gathering in Tampa.  Everybody knew Mitt Romney would be the nominee and Paul Ryan the nominee for VP… Nothing much else was accomplished except an 82 year old ‘former’ movie star did a rambling and a bit distorted stretch of comedy that some saw as a short ‘derailment’ of what the meeting was all about.

 

However the children had a great time watching 100,000 balloons float down from the arena’s heights – and hearing some acts that pass in certain circles as music (although *I*  can’t really understand why --- but then I don’t even come close to the age group they are trying to attract! I know I don’t have the $$$ they need to make these huge campaigns totter around the country.)  And there’s a huge amount of money and effort that goes into the “entertainment” – but at the end of the day it really doesn’t decide much. Plus even Mr. Eastwood’s ‘comedy’ was a somewhat off-color around the edges.  But then my viewpoint is that of an old curmudgeon. I guess I would be a poor substitute for the grouchiness of dear old “Andy”.

 

Actually the London “Telegraph” – although a surviving newspaper – really survives because it dabbles in the electronic world-wide media that really doesn’t touch the people I think it’s aiming at – but is a bit like a billboard poster stuck on a wooden fence. It’s still there but is not really up to the minute news that’s required in this 21^st Century World but it kind of quaint.

 

Well, enough of the critical view. It’s time to read a good book or something that challenges and informs the brain and heart though it’s sold as entertainment.  So you’ve heard enough from me this week. I’ll look for you next week and hope you have a good and healthy and loving weekend. Here’s a lovely thought that comes into my mind at this moment. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? Ps 27:1

 

Cordially In HIM,

 

Jack & Barbara

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GRAND OLD PARTY BEGINS ITS OFFICIAL RUN UP

 

    

                        Just a Minute: “Once more into the breach dear friends, once more…” The battle cry of Henry the Fifth that echoed across the fields of Agincourt – at least according to Wm. Shakespeare – echoed across the rain-soaked landscapes of Tampa, Florida as the Republican Party closed out its National Convention at precisely 11:30 last evening after releasing 100,000 balloons and 500 pounds of confetti. The ceremony, prayer and banging gavel climaxed the GOP’s nominating convention and set free the official race between the two major political parties in the US.

 

            Now November 6^th will reveal the winners and losers of the Congressional and Governmental contests – and say, without firing a shot, which party’s candidates will be installed as legislators and government officers in the month of January 2013. Since January 20^th falls on a Sunday the actual ceremony and celebration of the President and Vice President taking office will occur on January twenty first.

           

            The speeches were all made, the music all played on the Thursday of convention week, so next week in Charlotte, it becomes the Democrats’ turn. Look us up Monday.  <> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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PAUL RYAN IS A GOOD SALESMAN -- Just A Minute Radio for Thursday 120830

Things seem to be moving faster and faster – or I’m just getting slower and slower.

 

In any case I can’t seem to get what needs doin’ in the time I can find to do it. But I’ll keep trying and see where we get.

 

Paul Ryan’s speech (the introductory one to the Nation it seems from all the promotion) was on last evening and very enjoyable.

 

I had not realized that he set out on this project – not to become the Vice President, no – to see what could be done to ‘right’ the terrible wrongs that were being created at the beginning of Mr. Obama’s term as President.  A Major gathering of government talent was appointed, the President thought it good that they had been appointed (Mr. Ryan was among them because he was ranking member  I think of the House Budget Committee.) and they set about their business of building or re-building the budget mess inherited from the previous administration. The President thanked them for their work – sent them on their way  -- and never spoke to them as a group since then. No advice, nothing.

 

Well… that was just the precursor to things going from bad to worse – and the pattern hasn’t changed in the 3.5 years + of the (hopefully) President’s final (DV) term.

I begin to get nauseated when I think about how he has tried to initiate all the 5 TRILLION in additional debt – and stuff like that… and done nothing that even a mentally handicapped President would have tried to do. But maybe he did with secret executive orders – what do we know.

 

I just know we’re in terribly bad shape financially and every other way when it comes to government. I just breathe a prayer that we will be able to recover governmental equilibrium and come out of this somehow.

 

The only solution I can think of is committing it fully to the Lord and trusting HIM to bring us out of this spin.

 

So… being of that mind this late at night when typing and praying… I bid you adieu.

 

Good night  sleep tight.

 

Cordially, IN HIM,

 

Jack & Barbara (she decided to come back home (J)

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©120830HiLitesofPaulRyan.doc

“JUST A MINUTE”

PAUL RYAN IS A GOOD SALESMAN

 

    

                        Just a Minute: Republican Paul Ryan of Wisconsin had a sales job to do in his own party before convinced his fellow Republicans. Before he won the opportunity to join the Romney team and convince America there is a way out of the fiscal forest, he had to make a sale among members of his own party that it can be done. Last night he hammered away convincing the previously un-convinced that Mitt and Paul could make a good team to convince American voters.

 

            Initially he got together a version of his “Roadmap for America’s” future as early as the summer of 2008.  He was only able to convince eight GOP House members to sign on for his ambitious “wish list”.  Some were not only taken aback but openly hostile to the idea for it included such ‘sacred cows’ as: rewrite the tax code, kill employer based health care, rewrite Medicare and Social Security. But nowadays you’re hard pressed to find any Republicans who’ll admit to being skeptical. They’re believers on the road to reclaiming the White House. 

 

            Before last night he was told it can’t be done, but he got signed up to do it! <> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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STAGE IS SET FOR A BLOWOUT -- Just A Minute Radio Wednesday 120829

Great to have you with us today.

 

Seems like there’s more excitement down South than is easily managed. The GOP National Nominating Convention has actually been in session in Tampa (but cut short by a day) by hurricane “Isis” that’s decided to sit over New Orleans and dump 50 inches of water plus a very strong storm surge on that city that suffered so much during Katrina’s visit seven years ago.

 

Personally,  we are still trying to get our son Kim out of a coma occasioned by a pedestrian/auto accident that happened on July 4^th – and complications have arisen due to restrictions on hospital availability and other treatment conflicts so it’s like juggling more ‘balls in the air’ than a non juggler can readily handle. So we’d greatly appreciate your continued prayers in that regard.

 

Mrs. Romney did an excellent job – for which she is not professionally trained as a speaker – last evening. I think I’m correct in saying Mr. Paul Ryan is in the on-deck circle for tonight and Mr. Romney himself on Thursday – which will conclude the GOP’s turn.  I would also guess this means from now on the conventions will go with a three night convention rather than the more usual 4 night stand. Probably something the networks can handle more readily. (They used to go for at least a week – but expenses being what they are?)

 

I’ve only been personally involved in a San Francisco Convention in 1964 – all the rest since that landmark one have been from afar. I guess one was enough. (J)

But it’s something that ‘convention’ says must be done – someway – Maybe we’ll come up with something like automatic “Smartphone polling” that will eliminate conventions or whatever altogether.  I think Russia, Libya or Egypt have done that already.  Would you really prefer it?  [Just kidding.] I think all this excitement has probably affected my judgment somehow. (L) Anyway it’ll be the Democrat’s turn in Charlotte next week – I know you must be looking forward to four days of that. (J). I better sign off before I dig the hole deeper.

 

Cordially, In Him ,

 

Jack

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STAGE  IS SET FOR A BLOWOUT

MizP: Jist a Minute: Thanks fer settin’ up the TV.

 

Homer: Hit was a real blowout, Mr. Jack.

Jack: Maybe it’s getting to be a blowout Homer.  

BB: You thank so Mr. Jack? I ain’t never seed…

MizP: Me neither Mr. Beelie.

Jack: Mine was just a regular TV.

MizP: Oh we know tha-ut – but th’ eemotions.

Jack: They were setting the stage I think.

MizP: Does tha-ut mean you thank he’ll win?

Jack: Oh way too early to drive that nail.

Homer: Well, th’ stage in and th’ back drop!

MizP: Oh Yeah – at wuz most impressive.

BB: Tha-ut an th’ way hit moved.

   Whut didja thank of Sou. Calina governer?     

Jack: One of the best and on-target short

   speeches given, I thought.

MizP: Perzaklly – and purty too.

BB: Indeed… she is a looker.

MizP: At’s a rude crude thang ta say.

BB: Ah’m sorry MizP… I polly-gize. Hit jist

   popped.

MizP: Well you jist pop hit back fer me.

BB: Yes’m  Ah do.. Ah will.

Homer: But Ah thought this is th firs time Ahs

   Ah’s reelized I read yestiddy how charmin’

   An motherly Miz Romany is.

BB: An hit’s th firs time Ah realized how

    weighty Gov. Christy is.

Homer: Man…he tells hit like hit is.

Jack: Good for him. He’s got things

   Crackin’’ up on the Jersey shore.

BB: He shore does… got that state 

   turned around and goin’ th rite way.  

Jack: Well, for three years anyway.

   Considering how many problems he

   had with the teachers and all.

MizP: Ah thank hit was mosly the techers

   Union won’t it.

BB: Ah thank you hit hit on th head Miz

   Pearly – they hols th whip han.

Jack: I think you’ve probably got it rite

   Miz Pearlie  - -But speaking of right

   We’ve got to get right out of here be –

MizP:Be cuz our time’s up – rite?

Jack:: Right Miz Pearl – so until

  Next week –<> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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WHAT WAS THE VIEW FROM THE MOON? -- Just a Minute Radio for Tuesday 120828

Lots of fuzzballs… stories in the making… floating around.

 

But with the Hurricane off the coast of Florida and all the buzz songs in the air – we’re having trouble sorting the news from the noise.

 

Still and all it is an exciting time to be at the GOP Convention… even if they did decide to scrub the first day due to the Hurricane’s uncertainty.  Seems like things on that order always happen. Here we’ve been being good ‘little people’ coming all the way down to Florida to get a glimpse of ‘history in the making’ and what do we get? Another day of yammering around and hoping something newsworthy will come out of it.

 

[It seldom does – or if it does it comes by accident rather than planning.]  This displaced keyboard is simmering my sauce. I take 60 some years to teach my right hand little pinky where the backspace key is… and then the keyboard mfg. moves it a half a key away and messes up my 40 years of learning how to hunt- and- peck at a reasonable speed. With my little flat top grey Corona (or something like that) I was pretty good at cranking out copy on the run… now comes this extra half key space… and fouls me up again. But it gives us something to count on – and rid ourselves of idleness otherwise.

 

I don’t know if I’ll ever have it mastered again. But I guess it’s *my bad* since I never put aside the time to learn touch-typing.  Nowadays I’m not too bad about it if I have the right size keyboard… but I spent good money for this keyboard… and it contributes to my slowness not my speed.

 

Well, the witching hour is here and I’m off to never, never land where the typos play and the carbon copies have flown away.  I think I’ll hit the hay. Look, look I shudda bin a poet…  Na…I dropped too many mistakes – made the speech-totype people nervous.

 

G’nite… Don’t forget to say your prayers!

 

Cordially, In HIM

 

Barbara and Jack

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Please pray for Kim to get better and the healing to commence – BIG TIME!

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WHAT WAS THE VIEW FROM THE MOON?

            Just a Minute: Astronaut Neil Armstrong died Saturday, age 82, the first man to walk on the moon. During the Oral History project at the NASA Space Center he described some aspects of the 1969 Apollo II Mission to the moon.       “I certainly was aware of the fact this was the culmination of the work of three to four hundred thousand people over a decade …and that the nation’s hopes and outward appearance largely rested on how those hopes came out.  … It seemed to me the most important thing we could do was to focus on our job and … and try to allow nothing to distract us from doing the very best we could.”

            Astronaut Armstrong added: “You could stand across the street from the Manned Spacecraft Center; you could not tell when quitting time was because people didn’t leave at quitting time… They just worked and worked until the job was done… they just did it. … Whenever you have those ingredients you’re going to win.”  That was July 20^th 1969.

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NEW OWNER OF BJU RADIO STATION -- Just a Minute Radio for Monday 120827

This is a surprise package. I guess I had an idea something like this might be coming down the pike – but it caught me flatfooted.

 

I’m no great detective, but I did know that Bob Jones University had been looking for some time for a way to sell their radio station in Greenville.

Since I was first employed as an announcer in the fall of 1949 when the original 1 KW AM station went on the air in September – the opening days of the school year. I jumped at the chance to work for the station. [So I was such a poor announcer I got fired twice the first year…but eventually convinced them I *could* read and got hired on as an engineer (J).]

 

It’s a long story and I’m already beyond deadline time.  So I’ll tell you about it sometime when we have time to chat. But the WMUU Facility will (or perhaps has) become the property of Salem Radio Network.  They go by SRN news… and are currently the news broadcasters on WMUU-FM.

 

It’s a lot of detail to go into and I don’t know much about it – really! – so don’t let me waste your time. But we’ll all probably know a good deal more before too long when we get more details. Both the University and SRN indicate it will not be making radical changes and it will still harbor good music and Gospel programs. Beyond that… SRN will be telling you more – and more than I know.

 

All the best… (typing at night so … ) Good night – and Good luck. [I borrowed that from Edward R. Murrow.}

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack Buttram

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“JUST A MINUTE”

NEW OWNER OF BJU RADIO STATION

 

    

                        Just a Minute: Friday afternoon BJU-Radio listeners found they would soon be listening to Salem Radio Network the new owner of WMUU-FM in Greenville. At 5:05 PM Friday afternoon a special program hosted by Station Manager Paul Wright announced the change to listeners alerted to be tuned in for a “special” program on August 24^th.

            The news was a surprise to most of the staff and audience of the 100 kilowatt FM station known as – WMUU which originally stood for “World’s Most Unusual University. It had begun its radio life September 15^th 1949 on the University campus eventually adding FM to the original one kilowatt AM station and then adding a mountain-top transmitter upping its antenna height giving coverage in states adjacent to South Carolina.

            The University Chancellor Dr. Bob Jones III, CEO of the Gospel Fellowship Association the station’s current owner; Participated with Stuart Epperson, CEO of Salem Radio Network – also a BJU graduate. They indicated the station will continue to be a strong Gospel and good music facility in upper South Carolina.

                      <> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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SCHOOL VOUCHER SUCCESS IN SPOTLIGHT -- Just a Minute Radio for Friday 120824

Don’t let the week get you down. We’re about to get out of August and into September and lots of things change. The color of leaves is just beginning.

 

But there are more life changing things – getting ready for the November 6^th election is just one but an *important* one. That one will make you teeth chatter (maybe) for at least four years – except when you go to college.

 

When you go to college it looks like a Mt. Everest in front of you, especially when you come up against something like math or history – or Chinese (history or language) – and so you set to work first a spoonful at a time getting larger and larger… and first thing you know you’re in the middle of 9 week exams… and it’s Thanksgiving and Christmas looking down you chimney – And … how’re you doing… better than you thought? Worse than you thought?…well, at least it’s progress.

 

And then it’s Winter…over…and spring busting out all over…and you sit through the first year’s exams in hotting up weather… and the next thing you know you’re pushing for the finals… and Bingo! You’re out (one way or another) Where did all the time go and … and … time to say good by to all the friends or… Heeeelllllooo to the lovely young ladies… and Next thing you know – it’s wedding bells… or not…. Well…we have to stop this movie somewhere… it goes FAST!... The only thing that’s faster is growing up children and grandchildren….and GREAT Grandchildren… and then what…?

 

That’s the question you needed to be asking when you were in the first class… but you forgot…. Better try to remember… try to remember ahead of time.

 

Well …that was a hurried trip. Be sure and take your Bible along…it’s easy to neglect but rewarding to study and pay attention.

 

Sorry… I got off on the IMPORTANT track..  You’ll want to get on it yourself.

 

Cordially, IN HIM,

 

Jack & Barbara!

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                   SCHOOL-VOUCHER SUCCESS IN SPOTLIGHT

            Just a Minute: School vouchers have been around longer than most of us suspect. In Vermont and Main they date back to the 1800’s and overseas in the Netherlands more than 70% of pupils attend privately run but publicly funded schools.          Nobel Prize winner economist Milton Friedman argued for the modern concept of vouchers in the 1950s.  His view was competition would improve schools as well as cost efficiency. Perhaps Mr. Obama would reconsider his views on vouchers when he learns in New York schools African American kids winning a voucher lottery to attend private schools were 24% more likely to attend college. That’s the result of tracking enrollment from kindergarten in 1997 to college enrollment in 2011. The only difference was the ‘luck of the draw’.

            Cost in public schools was $5,000 compared with $2,400 in private schools. A voucher winning African-American mother at a focus group session in 1999 said of her 8 year old in third grade: “It’s miraculous the way she has changed.”  Education unions stand out as the biggest obstacles to change. <> I’m Jack Buttram (END)

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IS JOE BIDEN THE NEXT LATE NITE TV STAR? -- Just a Minute Radio for Thursday 120823

Having some ‘falling apart’ issues with the computer or its operator it seems. But all will come right shortly I’m sure. The Lord never fails. (J)

 

We’re getting into the thick of things now. Be careful not to wear things that are sensitive to spattered mud.  It will fly thick and fast from now ‘till November I suspect. Why am I so morose about these things you ask?

 

Well my first ‘wet behind the years campaign was the summer of 1964 in San Francisco when Sen. Barry Goldwater ran in reluctant opposition to Lyndon Baines Johnson. I say reluctantly because Mr. Goldwater had planned to run against Jack Kennedy, which he thought would be a real challenge and I guess a lot of fun. I’m guessing he thought JFK could be bested. But it would have been a tussle and by no means would Goldwater have walked over him in the contest. But sadly enough that did not happen.

 

So I got enough “losing” in that contest to last me all the rest of my years – and though we have won some and lost some more… I have never harbored the idea any more that running for office is easy. It may be – but it’s not my game. I’m glad we have the system… it has its faults and I suppose its advantages – and I’m glad we have people who have the temperament for it. But it’s not my game I say again. I’d rather go fishing… and I don’t even like to go fishing. (L)

 

What does that make me? Do you know what curmudgeon describes?  I’m not too sure either – but from being around politics… I guess it’ll do for an adjective. 

 

Some people love the fray… and blessings be on them (when they are honest) – the difficulties come when men and women come without ethics and the Lord to guide them… I know… I know that kind of sentiment draws catcalls from the peanut gallery – so I think I’ll duck out – not because I’m afraid. Somebody has to do it… I just think you have to be ‘called’ to do it…and I’ve not heard the call…. But I’ll do my best to support the men and women whom God has called.

 

I hadn’t intended to get off in this ditch so early tonight – (when I write) but I’ve counted up the scars and bruises and I think you’d better be in good shape and close to the Lord before you head into that arena.  --- I’m closin’ up shop for tonight. Have a great day tomorrow.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack Buttram

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                   IS JOE BIDEN THE NEXT LATE NITE TV STAR?

            Just a Minute: There seems to be a major conflict going on for late night TV audience ratings; and Vice President Joe Biden is taking the lead. The regulars appear to be losing audience as they look and book news and entertainment features. Meantime Joe Biden is trying out comedy lines like – “The number one problem facing the middle class happens to be … a three letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs.”

            Or he asks wheel chair-bound Missouri State Senator Chuck Graham to “Stand up and let ‘em see you.” Finally, speaking to a largely black audience he said, “Yeah, They gonna put Y’all back in chains!” – adding a pseudo Southern accent at no extra charge.

            Joseph Epstein, NYT satire writer, says he’s already beginning to miss the comedy relief no other politician supplies -- which is normally in short supply. And if the President were to listen to those who say take Joe Biden off the ticket he would spike the unemployment numbers among joke writers of late night comedy – it might even hold back economic recovery. <> I’m Jack Buttram (END)

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CAN'T STAND THE HEAT? -- LEAVE THE KITCHEN! -- Just a Minute Radio for Wednesday 120822

The “Visitors” go first and the Home team last – at least in Baseball. So we’re winding down to the last about 2.5 months in this *terribly* long campaign that seems as if it has gone on forever!

 

So here we are with many things on our hands… children getting back in school… New teachers, books that cost $$$... new people to meet things to do – but it’s like opening up a new book or heading out on a new adventure.

 

EXCEPT – if you flunked that last half year of trigonometry or the first one of algebra and realize that neither math nor music was something you were cut out for – Now what am I going to do? Four years and 18 semester hours of a foreign language later… and a low score on the permanent record exam – Oh well you didn’t want to go to graduate school anyway.

 

Now here you are at 80 and ½ years into life and still haven’t got a clear idea of what you’re really aiming for – and the guy comes on the radio and says – “Remember boys and girls – to aim at nothing is to hit it!” And only now does the full import of what that means settles around your imaginary shoulders and you wonder if there’s more room on the island where R.L. Stevenson is settled in the Pacific

 

Nah… never give in – never give up… never, never, never that’s what Winston Churchill said in one of the shortest speeches recorded in English Lit.  That’s why you can remember it.

 

So – pull up your suspenders  -- re-tie the shoe laces… and give it another try  you know that’s kind of a hollow sound to that at your age… but…well we keep trying. (J)

 

Nice to have you with us today…. Keep trying … keep smiling it makes things easier PLUS….”Cast thy Burden upon the Lord and HE shall sustain thee.” Ps. 55: 22 It doesn’t get any better than that!  HE is the Creator and sustainer of the Universe and through HIS word you know HIM – and HE sustains YOU!

What else can you ask for?

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

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                                                                                               “JUST A MINUTE”

                                 CAN’T STAND THE HEAT – LEAVE THE KITCHEN!

 

BB: Jist a Minute: Whut’s goin’ on with the ‘lecshun Mr. Jack?

 

Jack: Things are heating up.

 

MizP: Like it’s git out’n th’ ktchen time.

Jack: Somethin’ like that Miz Pearl.

Homer: Ennythang special?

Jack: The GOP platform committee is meeting.

BB: So they’s sayin’ what ourt to be said?

Jack: At least proposing – attempting to.

MizP: Whut woud you be imposing?

Homer: Ah thank you mite mean *proposin’*.

MizP: Yeah – at’s whut Ah mint.

Jack: I ‘spose the other side will be listning.

BB: At th keyhole Mr.Jack?

Jack: I don’t think they have to resort to that.

MizP: Naw – hit’s awl over th internet.

BB: You’re rite there – mudbawls galore!

Homer: I read yestiddy Mr. Bama

   cawled him a felon.

MizP: You’re kiddin’ – aint-cha?

BB: Ah thank they said if’n he dis such and so

   he’d be committin’ a felony.

Homer: Ain’t tha-ut the same thang?

Jack: Well. there are some legal tech…

MizP: Fol de rol, I say – les git on wif hit …

BB: Ah b’leve – tha-ut Mr. Obama

   will do or say enny thang ta hole on.

Homer: Ah’m ‘fraid your rite Beelie…Obama

   is showin’ he’ll do whatever hit cawls for.

MizP: Hit seems purty ‘parent ta me tha-ut

   they’s not much honor ‘mong thieves.

BB: Ah s’pose you’s rite there Miz Pearlie.

MizP: But Ah still got one thang ta say.

Jack: And what is that Miz Pearlie?

MizP: Jist cause others is actin’ out don’t

   mean we have to also.

Homer: Thas a ‘portent point Miz Pearl an

   Ah’m glad you said hit – we don’t have

   ta git down in th’ gutter jist cause they do.

Jack: An excellent point to end today’s

  progam on Mr. Homer thank you so much.

  And until next time . <> I’m Jack Buttram.

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SOMETIME YOU NEED TO TAKE A SECOND LOOK -- Just a Minute Radio for Tuesday 120821

Today we’re taking a second look at what’s going on with the claims the President is making and what is actually happening.

 

It will be difficult and we need all the watchdogs (and cats) we can muster to see where “what’s being said is matched with what’s being done.” Case in point is on the alleged taking from Medicare to pay for Obama care.

 

In situations like this it’s very easy to make one transaction *look* like another when really it isn’t. Another spoof is to break up the movements of $$$ to the point it takes a Philadelphia lawyer to figure out what’s really going on.  Those are the kinds of things that require a bloodhound’s nose and eagles’s eyes.

 

When government technicians go on a secretive ‘rampage’ it’s like a carny shell game and hard to tell which shell is hiding the pea.

 

Only the Lord is able to get us through this next period of deception and slight of hand or eye. We’ll have to depend deeply upon the Holy Spirit to guide us to our discovering evidence. The other side knows we’re looking out for them and this will be the most difficult part of wresting the controls back into the hands where control belongs – not from just where it *seems* to belong.

 

I’m not quite sure *why* I feel so strongly about this, but I am convinced that if we do not do the work diligently, we will be overcome with those whose motives are not pure.

 

America is free – but we are going to have to be doubly diligent to see that she remains free, so sharpen your eyes and ask the Lord to bring you through. That is how this battle is going to be won – and it’s not even quite in the beginning stages yet – that means we must not go to sleep or become drowsy when it comes to deception. Just ask the Lord to help us all.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Barbara and Jack

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“JUST A MINUTE”

SOME TIME YOU NEED TO TAKE A SECOND LOOK

          Just a Minute: As a youngseter I was an avid movie fan. Mostly Cowboy pics like “My Friend Flicka.” But yesterday my wife and daughter saw ­“2016” because of its high recommendation. The film is written and narrated by Dineshe D’Souza – who often writes for National Review. It’s a highly regarded revelation of what America is liable to face if in 77 days it re-elects President Obama for four more years.

          “If you are his brother has he been your keeper?” the filmmaker asks. “Go ask him,” his half brother George replies. The 30-year-old half-brother George handsome and affable on screen, is the youngest of seven children that Barack Obama, Sr. had fathered with four wives. D’Dsouza referred to him as “the black sheep”  of the Obama family and adds, “He lives in rubble on a few dollars a day while his powerful multi-millionairebrother doesn’t lift a finger to help him.” 

          It’s a film that will give any viewer a new and more revealing look into the man who is asking America to trust him with another four years of occupying the President’s chair. <> I’m Jack Buttram (END)

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INCORRECT CONCLUSIONS -- AGAIN -- FOR Just a Minute radio Monday 120820

Things get terribly convoluted when the activity picks up around here.  And in what Peggy Noonan calls “The golden age of mudlslinging” the wheels in some instances come off the rails.

 

Both sides seem to get caught up in the process of traveling and meeting and,  etc., etc.’ etc.’ until the breaking point is approached.  However since Mr. Romney has been on this schedule for a tad longer than Mr. Ryan has, his ability to speak longer and in more coherent and well timed sentences is apparent. It’s not that Mr. Romney has gone ‘up the spout’  as has Joe Biden – but he does have a higher stutter-stammer quotient than the ‘cool man’ from Janesville – who cruises along as if it were a calm day at lake Placid.

 

Anyway—we’re just about to enter the ‘convention’ series (August 27^th I think) of what’s happening, and there will be some shifting among the standings as we pull into that phase. However I don’t know what’s going to keep the Democrats awake during the second week of TV coverage – But it’s going to be the FIRST time a major political party has appointed Charlotte (Queen city of the South they say) as it’s convention city. The first four nights will be in a major auditorium and the last one – where the presumably nominated Obama will speak – is in the largest outdoor stadium in the city. (If it rains… I dunno?)

 

You will be covered up with info on these conventions with their coverage. I think I’ll lay low except for the minutiae – nobody wants to waste their money on that. Perhaps that will be a rich ground for the less obvious stories. We’ll see.

 

Well, no use staying awake about it. Have a good rest or nap or whatever you’re planning. (J) See you soon.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack & Barbara

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“JUST A MINUTE”

INCORRECT CONCLUSIONS -- AGAIN

        Just a Minute: About a month ago, I quoted Samuel Adams, saying: ”[Never]… have the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws secured the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt” Now it turns out Paul Ryan – the Romney pick for Vice President -- but then a newbie member of the House of Representatives --  was pleading along with only 12 other Congressmen – to reduce the risks to taxpayers assumed by Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae.

          President Obama is forever complaining about the “mess that got us into this fix.” – blaming it on Romney & Ryan. But according to a weekend editorial in the WALL ST JOURNAL, Romney was never in the Congress and Ryan’s voice was ignored by an indifferent Congress who never gave attention to the rising Senator Obama – later President – from Illinois.

          Now, somewhat late, what the JOURNAL calls “the Toxic Twins” are being reigned-in a bit even though under the Senator/(slash) President’s nose he participated in the excesses of Fanny and Freddy that helped bring on the housing collapse that plagues us today.

        You have some of the mess on your hands, Mr. President. <> I’m Jack Buttram.      (END)

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