EVENTUALLY YOU'LL GET TO THE END OF MY ROPE -- for JUST A MINUTE Radio for Thursday 110811

Whoop de doo… we’re over the hump and it’s all downhill from here…

 

Well… like I’ve said before it’s a LONG way ‘till payday.!  Payday ain’t gonna git here till November 6^th 2912… and I ain’t a-gonna count up them days… that’s a chore… ask your computer.

 

 

OK… I asked my computer and it tells me that’s 455 days away. If you think that’s inaccurate… then ask *YOUR* computer. Let’s have no squabbling on the floor. There’s going to be enough questions floatin’ around to keep everyone busy.

 

It’s past midnight in the JUST A MINUTE commentary room.  So I’ve got to pack up before I make a really bad error. Let’s just call a truce until we find something important or of GREAT interest before we waste our marbles.

 

Thank you very much for coming by.  We have company. Things to DO tomorrow call. (actually it’s already today.)  Thanks for droppin’ in.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

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EVENTUALLY YOU’LL GET TO THE END OF MY ROPE

            Just a Minute:  The New York Times super-liberal columnist, Maureen Dowd, quoted an unidentified Democratic senator in a July 25^th  Op-ed piece: ( Quote)  “[This] senator complained about the President: ‘We are watching him turn into Jimmy Carter right before our eyes.’ ”

          Even liberal media recognize these stumbles affecting the Barack Obama Administration. And now comes, Scott Walker, Governor of a very blue state – Minnesota – who turns back a recall election, wins four out of six seats outright in the legislature retaining his party’s majority – and the two Democrats remaining presently, face further legal actions which could result in their ultimate recall.

          It’s not too far off the mark to say the Obama Administration shows signs of crumbling around the edges reflected in the wild swings of securities instruments markets and persistent inability to find improvements in job creation and unemployment numbers.

          Economists, both professors and trend setters, are deeply affected by the recognition confidence -- once eroded – needs time and will to rebuild. It’s done with plans enacted not just talked about.

          <> I’m Jack Buttram.  (END)

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WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO WITH THE 'WIZARD OF OZ?" - for JUST A MINUTE Radio - Wednesday 110810

Some days – just getting’ out of bed is a chore…

 

But today’s not one of ‘em!’  We’re gonna be bright and happy no matter how high the creeks do rise. And they will rise.

 

We are just entering the zone where the pitcher throws the ball high and inside… it’s called a ‘swept back’ pitch… just to keep the batter from getting too comfortable in the batter’s box. Sometimes it has disastrous results and there’s possible injuries… or a free for all… and that’s neither pleasant nor sportsmanlike.

 

But for some sports fans… well… a little blood on the uniform… EXCEPT – that can’t be that closely controlled – and when one side starts down that road who knows how or when it can be controlled. The Chinook crash in Afghanistan, takes all the sunshine out of the day. Our condolences go out to all who are touched by this tragedy. Sherman said it correctly. War IS Hell! And Hell is a necessity. It’s in the Bible… look it up.

 

Today the battle on the home front is taking on a bloody tone also – perhaps not in a physical way… but the boredom, the sameness, the amount of money wastefully spent etc. etc. etc. when those resources could be harnessed in more productive and less destructive ways.  That’s another tragic by-product of wanting to have YOUR way. It’s not easy to take – but take this away… it’s not permanent!  (And if explanation of that is desired, drop me a line. I’ll do my best)

 

But onward. We do what we can and have to do, God willing. And we know it can be done and it can ultimately be profitable when motives are in line with the Lord’s will. Keep praying – keep looking up. God is here… and HE is not silent.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

Jack Buttram

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WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO WITH THE ‘WIZARD OF OZ?’

BB: Jist A Minute: Ain’t no other cure Mr. Jack – Ah heered whut you said yestiddy an I agrees.

Jack: About ripping back the curtain and seeing the “Wizard of Oz?”

BB: At’s perzakly hit Mr. Jack an Ah see “Th Wizard done demanded his Treasury-man stay on.

Homer: You mean they’s really a-gonner keep Geithner as Master of Deception.

MizP: Hit looks zackly tha-ut Homer… Whut kinder Halloween prank is tha-ut?

BB: Ah cain’t unnerstan – why’nt they git sumpin reel done – this here’s a farce march.

Homer: Whut do you mean a ‘farce march?’

Jack: ‘Farce’, carries the meaning ‘fake’ – not real – just pretendin’! – Homer.

BB: Yeah… They’s nothin’ they’s really doin… ‘cept…

MizP: ‘Cept usin’ up time – so’s we gits ta th’ next ‘lection ‘with-out solvin’ th’ problems.

Jack: I think you’re on to something Billy-bob. The Obama Administration is just ---

MizP: Is jist a throwin’ out smoke bombs – cornfusin’ people… like in I-owe-way!

Jack: You think Mr. Obama is deliberately trying to throw folks…

BB: …Throw folks off’n his trail.   Ah shore do!. A natchul man kainr be

            tha-ut stupid. How many times kin you say th’ same dumb thangs?

Homer: An git away wif hit?  Ah, reckon he’s done got that trophy sewed up.

BB: If’n we had a few riots here like they’s a-doin’ in London… they’d know…

MizP: Oh don’t evun say tha-ut Mr. Beelie…. We don’t won’t London an Paris ta come

            to Fai-uhPlay…

BB: But if’n th’ gummite sees things a- reely goin’ ba-ud mebby we’d git reezults!

MizP: Yeah… but mebby peepul’d git hurt … Don’t won’t tha-ut.

Jack: Miz Pearlie’s right Mr. Bill.  The first amendment to th Constitution

            speaks of the right of the people peaceably to assemble...

            So hold that thought Billy-Bob --  we’ll  be back next Wednesday.

            <> I’m Jack Buttram   (END)

 

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ERIC, DON'T CALL MY BLUFF!" -- For JUST A MINUTE RADIO on Tuesday 110809

It’s early in the week yet – much to be observed, discussed and par-boiled before the weekend – and *maybe* a recess?

 

Now we see why Congress originally intended to be in session for a few months each year so they did not have to endure Washington during the summer and of course they had not been so *generous* with themselves in pay and perks – nor had they been able to travel home each weekend as they do now.

 

So we have the ‘never ending session’ punctuated by holidays and recesses and excuses – plus just not getting the work done: Example try to find last year’s budget… or the one before. But lassitude has been built into the system since day one.

 

In any case we are – IMO – going to keep dealing on this issue as long as there is time for something shorter-term that pushes back the deadline even further – until we get to the end of the session.  I admit to being occasionally wrong about scheduling – and Congress and its operating schedule is *entirely* in the hands of each of the legislative bodies… so the basic rule is ‘nothing is likely to happen until it absolutely *has* to – and my best/worst guess is nothing much is going to happen for the next 12 to 14 months – and even that ‘short’ a time is treading heavily on the carpet of high expectations.

 

There can be extra ordinary happenings of course – like 9/11 was. But we can pray and hope for the best.  Deaths and other serious things step forward to derail the schedule. I admit when he was making a mess of activities before his first election, I had thought Bill Clinton was the most vulnerable candidate the Democrats could offer. Boy was I wrong! I even could not see him getting a second term… by the way HOW did he do it?  I’m not good at figuring out that kind of stuff.  But the Lord takes care of us and HE is always in control. That is a given and a bedrock – and while you may not agree with it – in the end the Lord’s WILL will prevail.

 

Well… no I’m not going out on the limbs any further and making predictions – not because I’m unwilling or think I might be wrong… it’s just because I cannot see the end from the beginning as our Lord does. He IS in control… and we ARE in HIS hands!

 

God be with you… relax and trust in HIM all ye people!

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack & Barbara Buttram

 

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“ERIC – DON’T CALL MY BLUFF!”

            Just a Minute: Late on Wednesday afternoon, July 13^th at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. after months of negotiations, Virginia Congressman Eric Cantor asked the President a question. He says -- thinking about the distance between the White House and the Republicans on the size of budget cuts -- the Democrats were still insisting on raising taxes; Cantor asked if the President would drop his stand that the debt ceiling should be raised without dollar-for-dollar cuts?

          At that point – Cantor says – the President turned to me and said: “Eric, don’t call my bluff. – I’m going to take this to the American people.” Then he got up and left.  

            Cantor believes the President figured he could climb over the heads of the people and win on his powers of persuasion.  On July 25^th he made his move in TV prime time with a speech. Peggy Noonan observes: “Boy, it did not work!”

           Noonan was President Reagan’s top speech writer. She knows speeches -- says they aren’t magic. (Quote) “[A speech is] only as good as the ideas it advances. Reagan had good ideas. Obama does not.”

          So now we see behind the curtain – it’s ‘Wizard of Oz Time’. <> I’m Jack Buttram.  (END)

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THE WALLS DIDN'T FALL DOWN - Just A Minute Radio for Monday 110808

Wonderfully HOT August!  Well what else did you expect.

 

In looking at a weather map which records in red the hot weather over the past 60 days or so… I see we here in upstate South Carolina are in the moderate   draught zone – but that’s not as bad as the majority of TEXAS which is severe draught depiction over almost all of it’s large area.

 

And if there was a depiction of the rhetoric expressed thus far into the 2012 election prospect we would be in a major flood zone – with the water still rising and looks like sandbagging isn’t going to staunch the flow. I’ve watched elections rather closely since my early teens – the first election I really got to vote in was when Eisenhower was elected for his first term – and a LOT of votes have gone over the dam since then.  This coming year and some months, isn’t election… it’s boiling down to a brawl.

 

Tomorrow I’ll try to round up what that remark “… Don’t call my bluff!”  said by the President meant when he walked out of the Boehner, McConnell, Pelosi meeting back in July.  Bits and pieces begin to make sense… so be sure to be around tomorrow if you can… we’re unraveling the Rosetta stone of Obama political talk.  I’ve been piecing together all the accounts I can lay my hands on… so we’ll see what makes sense.

 

Meantime… we do have a long and tiring way to go before that election.  So… see if you can relax in this August heat.

 

By the way… this month does generally average out to the hottest of the year. So be sure and stay hydrated… but that doesn’t mean standing outside in a thunderstorm without umbrella or raincoat. Oh yes… I almost forgot… late in the day yesterday I found out Timothy Geithner has agreed to stay on in the Obama Administration at least until the election is past. I’m sure the Republic as a whole is breathing a sigh of relief… we don’t have to go through another confirmation hearing for the Treasury Secretary and then have to do it all over again when we get a new President right away. (J)… See there are always little rays of sunshine.

 

Stick with us… in WWII the ‘dog faces’ (otherwise known as the infantry) used to have a gallows humor saying that went: “It goes along like this for a while – and then it gets worse.” So buckle your seat belts tightly fellers and girls… from here on out is gonna be a rough ride… but the RE-ward’ll be great!  Don’t miss it.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

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THE WALLS DIDN’T FALL DOWN…

            Just a Minute: Thirty thousand Texans cheered Gov. Rick Perry’s call for prayer in Houston on Saturday and according to the AP – no walls fell down. This was in spite of a major push by Americans United for Separation of Church and State who flew their chief in from DC and who ended up saying he thought the views expressed by those rallying are shared by a lot of people in the country.

            Perry was the main speaker and even main stream media accounts reported him keeping the focus on God and not himself. Of criticism the Governor said: “He’s a wise God and he’s wise enough to not be affiliated with any political party.”

          Gov. Sam Brownback of Kansas read from Second Chronicles and the Book of Matthew. Gov. Rick Scott of Florida sent a pre-recorded message. National Christian leaders like James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, and Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention lent their support.

          Perry hasn’t announced or renounced candidacy – others wait in the wings. Since we’re more than a year away from the 2012 election, we say: “stay tuned.” <> I’m Jack Buttram.  (END)

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THE CAT CAN BE SKINNED *IN SILENCE*... for Just a Minute Radio on Friday 110805

Time’s a wastin’ … IT’S FRIDAAAAAY!!!! YEAAAAAA!!!

 

Sorry – got a bit carried away there… we had forgotten the end of the week cheer!

 

Finally we got what passes for a decision this week… the Dreaded August 2^nd came and went… and the ghosts of several problems still remain. The main one is “are the spending cuts supposedly contained in this piece of legislation for real? Or are they simply propaganda which really amounts to nothing practical because of technicalities in the way Treasury keeps books?”

 

Frankly, I don’t know. I don’t know exactly whom to believe. Rush seems sufficiently bent out of shape – along with some other radio hosts – to make me wonder. And frankly the shenanigans often pulled when ‘negotiating’ in the floors of the houses of Congress are legion. One cannot be sure that pain in between the shoulder blades is not another stiletto blade slipped in when you weren’t looking… and now the bag or box or voting booth is empty.

 

It’s rather like trying to out Murtha, Murtha… (May he RIP.) who was so slick and charming and the master of the earmark so indelible one could hardly see it peeping out from between the pages. There was a pretty good (as in skillful) gang of crooks operating in the legislature back when the ‘royal’ family of schemers in Louisiana were in charge of the politics in that state – they felt it was their own dominion and why on earth should anyone who did not belong to the order of the Long Family want to intrude.  Well…. No need to disturb old graves just now.

 

The more potent and present group operating in the upstate of New York would be Spitzer & Schumer Inc. with a few others thrown in around the edges.  It’s even spilled over into South Carolina where that former governor of sterling (or at least silver plating) maneuvering sat out a term he should have abandoned after he abandoned his wife and family.  Now he’s been out making TV interviews testing the waters to see if he might not come back to political life in the Palmetto State since he’s been out of office long enough for South Carolinians to forget.  Goodness… how short does he think memories can get!

 

Well… sorry – I got off on a rabbit trail there.  I guess I just don’t like to have liars and cheats in the government.  Unreasonable isn’t it!

 

Anyway… today’s JUST A MINUTE spotlights an abbreviated  snapshot of President Calvin Coolidge – who assumed the Presidency when Warren Harding died suddenly.  He was often characterized as “Silent Cal” and Alice Roosevelt Longworth (Teddy Roosevelt’s opinionated queen of Washington Society in the 20’s and following who made a career of dealing in gossip) was critical. She said Silent Cal must have been weaned on a pickle.  That was one of the gentler things she said apparently. Thanks be to the Lord I wasn’t around yet. (J).

 

So… We’ll let it go for now.  Be with us today at 11:30 AM and 5:15 PM for the two airings of JUST A MINUTE.  Double pleasure. (J)

 

Cordially, IN HIM

Jack

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THE CAT CAN BE SKINNED IN SILENCE…

            Just a Minute: Much of what hear after the temporary fix signed by the President, is centered on the question whether budget cuts are really budget cuts – or are we just being bamboozled by Mr. Geithner’s language?

          Eighty-eight years ago this week, Vice President Calvin Coolidge took office when President Warren Harding died suddenly. That Administration was facing a tough recession from 1919-1921. And Coolidge was surrounded by critics like Teddy Roosevelt’s daughter -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who said Coolidge had been "weaned on a pickle."

          “Silent Cal” cut taxes, balanced budgets and slashed government spending, reducing federal debt by over a third in a decade. The economy grew slightly more than 7% between ‘24 and ‘29, -- as did Coolidge’s popularity. His name was used in popular music on that new invention radio.

          Ronald Reagan, read “Silent Cal’s” biography while recovering from being shot.   Coolidge himself said in a 1921 University of Pennsylvania speech:  [There] "is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character." Possibly President Obama could benefit from an autographed copy -- sent by America’s middle class.

          <>I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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HARDEST PLAY TO MAKE -- GET A HIT! -- for Just A Minute Radio for Thursday 110804

Hey… we’re on the downhill side of the week now – but still hot.

 

Well… today’s JUST A MINUTE deals with getting the Congress to come back and fix the FAA so people can get back to work on rebuilding the control  towers and all can be safe. They all ran out of town when the President *forgot* that there was something left to do that needed to be done.

 

OK here we are – looks like we’ve had the wool pulled over our eyes again. According to some stories the base-line calculations which were supposed to create the $1.2 Trillion in savings etc… over whatever period of time… are rather ephemeral.  That is the baseline on which they were calculated come up short of the goal… and that’s likely to be the case all the way through 2012… Grrrr… That’s not the pig we thought we were buying….but it was in the polk…so we should have been forewarned.

 

I would have thought our team caught it – and perhaps they did and we just weren’t listening. So… we’re going to have a chance to do it all over again apparently.  Things are – from all I can tell… just worse.  But I’m willing to be *shown* otherwise. Right now I’m just thinking we’ve been horn-swaggled.  

 

OH well… fool me once shame on you – fool me twice shame on me. I’m none too happy about it… and I want our number crunchers etc. be on the lookout for these slick artists to quit it.

 

So right now I’ll let it ride… but let’s be double sure next time folks that we don’t have a huge horse-fly in the soup.

 

OK… enough for now folks.  It’s OK to unroll your NEWSWEEK and read. Just keep it as a reminder of how quickly things can go wrong. See you tomorrow.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

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HARDEST PLAY TO MAKE – GET A HIT

            Just a Minute:  I ran across a challenging quote yesterday –"The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely." – Ted Williams, Boston Red Sox, Champion hitter.

          I played catcher on my high school team. They were hard put for players. I was never really good at the game.  I thought of that the other afternoon when the President signed the debt ceiling extension bill. We pay a lot of people a lot of money to run our government for us – but they’re not very good at it.

          It’s been just about a year ago when NEWSWEEK, a Washington Post owned magazine changed hands for one dollar. Turns out they were not very good at it – at least that’s what they say at TIME.

          Now we’re headed for the next battle, the President’s calling for Congress to come back to DC and fix it so the FAA can run the skies again and airplanes can be safe. Looks like we’re still not very good at it.  Folks – we’d better get better at it… We need prayer – and more prayer. <>I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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WHERE DID THE 'PARASITE' COME FROM? - Just A Minute Radio for Wednesday 110803

Whew!  Finally! We got ‘em to shut up about the bi-partisan debt ceiling and no new taxes….

 

But it turns out some folks don’t think it’s such a great deal after all… and I tend to agree with ‘em.  Thing is we were all so happy to see the subject changed….

 

Except that we have the whole of the remainder of this year and most of the next before we can attempt to lay this whole mess to rest. And we think we are tired now…

 

Well… The old saying… “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”  Seems more true now than ever.

 

Reading the highly developed stories from behind-the-scenes gets one to seeing there’s a lot more going on that meets the eye… or the ear for that matter.

I think I got quite a different fix on what’s going on in the Boehner camp between Mr. Cantor and those in the Republican caucus he’s in second-command for.

 

He has a lot of experience in the office of the previous congressman from the 7^th district of Virginia and obviously ‘knows the ropes’ of what works in the House and what doesn’t. Various parts of the main stream media seemed to try and drive a bit of a wedge between Boehner and Cantor… unsuccessfully it seems. They obviously have different styles but are close enough in ideology apparently to not let egos get in the way of the cause.

 

And there’s a long, LONG trail a-winding until we get to the end of this year… and another till we get through the nomination contest of next year… and THEN the campaign… Makes me tired even thinking about it. But it IS ESSENTIAL that the Republicans think about it and get with the program.

 

Reading another couple of ‘think pieces’ in large newspapers gives me information that keeps me from being too much in my former error zone of ‘finding the evidence I’m looking for.’  What’s needed to be a *good* crystal ball gazer is a clear vision of what’s really happening instead of what I think I want to happen. I’ve found my tendency to fall off the cycle comes at that point.  If I *want* something to come about … I’m unknowingly inclined to weight it more heavily than it should be.  That swings me over to the incorrect side as far as results go.

 

But enough of this inside talk.  We are going to have such a LONG way to go to get through the election process of 2012… I can’t help but dread it. Suppose the major leagues played all year round… or football went from midsummer to midsummer… (well maybe it already does.)…

 

Take it easy with the politics – there’s always more where that came from!

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack Emerson

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WHERE DID THE “PARASITE” COME FROM?

Homer: Jist A Minute: Mr. Jack – didja heer whut Mr. Putin called th’ tea party folks?

Jack: The word I read was ‘parasite.’

BB: Did they spell hit rite? Din’t mean the city did they?

MizP: It won’t like Paris in France was  hit?

Homer: Ah don’t know whut he ment but ‘twern’t nice no way.

BB: Mebbe theys tryin’ ta pick a fite with usn’s – or th’ French’es.

MizP: Could be he’s a tryin’ ta stir up trubble.

BB: Er hit could be he haint seen his name in th’ paper recent.

Homer: I reckon… but I ain’t never heered a sumbody pikin a fite wif parasite.

MizP: Don’t make a lotta sense to me neither.

BB: Since we’s bin a argufyin’ ‘bout th’ debt ceilin’ an all – he feels left out.

MizP: Oh ‘ah thank that’d be silly – we got real thangs ta thank ‘bout.

Homer: Tha’s prolly rite Miz Pearlie… I reckon th’ Frenchies feel lef out too.

BB: Yeah … well ah feels sorry for ‘em … they ain’t got no war a-goin on.

MizP: Ah shore wish we din’t.

Homer: Well… we air payin bills in Libya ain’t we..

BB: We shore are… ain’t nobody in Warshinon members how ta put on th brakes. .

Homer: Tha-ut shore does seem sumpin easy ta fergit.

Jack: The more difficult thing is how to push on the progress control.

MizP: I reckon you mean th’ ‘celerater.

Jack: Right you are Miz Pearl. We get so entangled with managing the economy…

MizP: We want’s ta corn troll inflation… so we puts on the brakes…

Homer: An Mr. Bernakey thanks we kin ‘fine tune’ th’ eeconomy.

BB: Yeah… we got her fine tuned OK… ever thang’s shut down.

MizP: Wonder how long that’s a gonna be?

Homer: Well we ain’t gonna git shut of hit till we kin git Warshinton shut up ‘bout

               puttin’ on mower taxes… at’s whut keeps a hittin’ the brakes.

BB: Er they fegit keepin’ thangs workin’ like th planes flyin.

Homer: Or ree-pairin’ th’ bridges an stuff like tha-ut.

MizP: They cawls hit infant structure… wonder why?

BB: Ah thank thas’ infra-structure Miz Pearl… like infra read…

MizP: Like gittin’ a sun burn?

Homer: Hit takes a lotta ‘splainin’ Miz Pearl.

Jack: And our time’s run out for today, Homer… have a good week everybody… 

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WHO INVENTED THIS GAME ANYWAY? -- for Just A Minute Radio, Tuesday 110802

Howdy everybody….

 

How come everyone’s pupils tend to be shaped like TV screens?  Been watching FOX or Antiques Road Show or Jeopardy.  Ah HA… I thought so…

20 hours of trying to ‘catch the news’ and not enough sleep.

 

That’s why you’ve put on extra pounds and a nervous tic.  You have to take these things in moderation friend. If you watch Congress too much your wife or husband may accuse you of Filibuster… And that’s a hard rap to beat. You’ll be wanting to cite this and that and quote who knows how man congressmen and Senators.

 

Oh yes… the Congresswoman ‘Gabby’ who was shot at a moment of heat in Tucson – she has managed to come and cast the “winning” vote. We wish her well… but also that she’ll live her life purposefully… and to look at some of the others filling the TV screen from time to time… well it looks like purpose has been forgotten or perhaps thrown over the side completely.  We are glad to see she’s up and around with so much support.

 

Well… I’m not going back over all the discussions. I feel like I’ve heard every jot and tittle already… and don’t want to go through it again.

 

I do think we owe one another civility – and patience and an understanding of what we’re concerned about even if we don’t fully understand just what *they* are disturbed about.

 

So… It’s time to sharpen my pencils and go… can’t keep up with all the changes anyway… and besides that they’re coming back after their August recess and go through it all again… only with different numbers. It’s like a jigsaw marathon. I’m just asking the Lord to let us go through all this and come out better. Not necessarily financially better… but better as a nation and as a family and as a friend.

 

May the Lord bless you all. 

 

Cordially, IN HIM

Jack

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WHO INVENTED THIS GAME ANYWAY?

            Just a Minute:  The ‘morning after’ opinion from the Wall St. Journal is: “If a good political compromise is one that has something for everyone to hate, then last night's bipartisan debt-ceiling deal is a triumph.” Probably there was no clear winner – just a contest that’ll continue through Thanksgiving and longer.

          But the Tea Party forces fared best in the evaluation of Paul Krugman, the New York Times lead op-ed writer the who said: “A deal to raise the federal debt ceiling is in the works. If it goes through, many commentators will declare disaster was avoided. But they will be wrong.”     Krugman is followed by Ross Douthat, batting clean-up -- who conveys: “the anti-tax lobby gets to count this deal as a flat-out win…”   

          So while we can’t mark the score as a home run – our side didn’t strike out either. The best advice is attributed (likely in error) to Oliver Cromwell in his struggle against the king – that we should be certain to keep our trust in God, -- but keep our powder dry. <>I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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WHEN THE TUMULT AND THE SHOUTING DIES... - for JUST A MINUTE on Monday 110801

Possibly this could be the beginning of the ending…

 

OTOH…. (You long time webcasters know that means “On The Other Hand”) – saves a few keystrokes….

 

[The beginning of the ending for me means definitely no twittering!]  Oh Why?  One may ask…

 

Well, the fact seems to be I can’t communicate anything within a limit of 140 characters… or whatever the ‘Twitterheads’ think is appropriate. Our American – USA communication even now is too truncated… we’re hampered by increasingly short attention spans… In fact I feel one coming on right now….

 

Ulup… see…I hadda quit. Plum fergot where I was or what I was gonna say…

 

OH yeah… I ‘member now.

 

It’s just that some of us of an elderly nature and span… well… we get behind a keyboard… or a Mike.. [my wife says I’m always trying to fill up ‘dead air’ – a left over from my adlibbing radio days.] 

 

So you see what I’ve been driven to.  Writing scripts. Next thing you know they’ll be wanting me to wear make-up for the candid camera. (L) Nope…nope…. That’s why I like radio.

 

When I got out in the ‘real world’ after being occupied in radio from 1949 until around 1963…when we moved away and I took a job where my typing had to be printed… and I had to spell and punctuate correctly… well… it was a *real* change. In radio we don’t care how it’s typed… or whatever… just as long as it’s pronounced correctly.  Well.. I dunno… in *today’s* radio… I don’t think that counts for much either. And apparently nothing can be put on the air without a music background… except me. (L)

 

Anyway – We’re here at the beginning of a new month… and a new leaf… and some cooler weather…

 

I’m not sure I could master one of those ‘tablets’ – I can hardly make do with my wife’s ‘notebook’ and I hate a touch pad…I’m always draggin a finger across it and messing up the page. I’m stickin’ with my PC – desktop for now… I don’t want to be carrying anything biggern’ a cell phone. 

 

Well… enough griping for a Monday.  Glad you were here with us.  Just let’s DO remember to pray for our representatives in Washington – that they will look to the Lord for guidance… and do HIS will!

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

 

“JUST A MINUTE”

WHEN THE TUMULT AND THE SHOUTING DIES…

            Just a Minute: Ohio’s Speaker Boehner probably has “inside” problems. When you’re the leader quite often there are others who want to move up. That could be the case with another Buckeye Rep. Jim Jordan – who heads the Republican Study Committee, a large caucus of House conservatives. Mr. Boehner wasn’t pleased about reports of two RSC staffers lining up GOP opposition to his bill.

          The media have playing up supposed tensions between, Virginia’s Eric Cantor -- Majority Leader -- and Boehner. However The Columbus Dispatch reports the Speaker and other GOP members are planning to dice up Jordan’s district (along with that of Democrat Dennis Kucinich) and resolve Ohio’s loss of two electoral seats.

          The Speaker says both Jordan and Cantor are his allies and they’re all friends – but sometimes they do disagree on strategy. Reporters are always looking for a backstage fight. They report two committee staffers trying to round up opposition to Boehner’s bill. You know – we, at home, can exert our influence by our prayers for harmony and the Lord’s will. <>I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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