"I DUNNO -- I WAS JUST TRYIN' TA DRAIN TH' SWAMP!" -- Just A Minute Radio for Tuesday 110823

Grass is a bit greener – the weeds a bit fewer – but I still need to repair the driveway!

 

Always something isn’t it. No matter just what you do there’s always something else that needs doing… at least that seems to be the way around here.

 

I suppose that’s a plague for President’s also. I read parts of Ronald Reagan’s diaries – and what I admired most was he was really faithful in jotting down things that happened that day.  Apparently he wrote before going to bed. I can imagine some evenings he was ready to sleep, but duty called. It’s quite a feat. Try as I might, I’ve got steno books and yellow pads and other things that show beginnings… not much to show in the cause of ends.  But I’m thinking… I’m thinking… Just running out of time.

 

Isn’t the Libya thing a wonder. I hesitate to say or write much about it. When I think back to 9/11… well it’s not a pleasant thought. And I’ve heard a few folks who lose buddies… fellow workers and others close to them. I can imagine just a bit of the heartache they feel…especially for the families.

 

The heart agony of the families who lost loved ones in the Pan Am flight that was blown out of the sky in Scotland. That was terrible.  Folks lived in that plane long enough to know they weren’t going to make it. The same was true for those who died in the plane that went down on 9/11 in Pennsylvania. Another terrible thing to comprehend. To know you’re going to crash… but also to know you’re going to save some other lives.

 

Altogether it was a dastardly deed. Cowardly. The chickens in that case are just now nearing the end of their flight. There are other rounds yet to be executed… and I use that word deliberately.

 

Well… I suppose there will be a lot of time to contemplate that as yet. I find myself slipping off into a rather morose mood if I do not bring myself back by reading scripture or praying for the Lord to fill my heart with His love. The love He expressed for all of mankind in the sacrifice of himself… when He was not to be blamed. Oh dear Lord… thank you and thank you again.

 

The night hours slip by fast – and I really need to close up things for this evening. Hope you had a good day and will have one tomorrow when you read this. God bless you and be with you.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Barbara and Jack Buttram

 

 

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“I DUNNO – I WAS JUST TRYIN’ TA DRAIN TH’ SWAMP!”

          Just a Minute: Here’s a dream I recently dreamed:

          I sorted my way by the ‘snake bit pit’ of Martha’s Favorite Golf Course -- I beheld a lanky golfer who’d sliced his shot into the rough. It was hidden’ ‘monxt th’ undergrowth.  There was thrashin’ an huffin’ mixed with muffled monolog:

          “It’s here somewhere. I said I’d find it – and I will.”

          He asked me and if I’d seen his golf ball marked with a big “O”? I shook my head. So he d’cided to follow th’ unplayable rule and drop a ball over his left shoulder takin’ the one-stroke penalty… I watched.

          Once he was done I took an August 1985, Gainesville Sun news clip outta my bag – the headline read -- “Reagan lauds Congress in fight with deficit,” and the story: (Quote) “Sometimes it’s difficult to remember, you didn’t send us to Washington to feed the alligators, you sent us to drain the swamp. We didn’t come to raise your taxes, but to lower them.” the President said. (unquote)

          He folded the clipping handed it back -- said it must have been intended for Nancy Pelosi. Then I awoke!       

                    <>I’m Jack Buttram.          (END)

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DON'T GET HIT BY THE BUS -- Just A Minute Radio for Monday 110822

Great to have you drop in at the beginning of the week.

 

We even had a couple of fairly significant rainfalls over the weekend – for which we are grateful. Still the grass in front hasn’t quite waked up yet. But it’s lost its brownish hue.

 

Things are progressing on toward the end of Summer… although I remember some hot days walking to school in September. Even listening to the World Series in the late summer… mostly it was hot. But Al Gore – and now even Mitch Romney say they think summers are hotter… I reckon some day we’ll be fit to find out. Although I never hear anything but howls about the cyclic nature of trying to measure the weather.

 

Well… the WX guys take enough guff from pilots and people who don’t enjoy walking in the rain without umbrellas or rubber shoes… I’m not sure I’d be pleased with that kind of job. But then nobody’s offered me one. (J)

 

I do remember some days in winter…when flying was NOT the thing I definitely wanted to do – but there was the job to be done. Thankfully I had the good sense to call off flying in T-storms down in the Florida area north of Orlando which they call Thunderstorm ally in the summer time.  And I’ve heard some pretty dicey – icy stories about flying up north in winter. (I also experienced it a few times.) But I tell you the guys and gals who take on the job of getting you from here to there on time and with your baggage… well they are usually the kind of folks I like.

 

But every day can’t be sunny and smooth… it’s just not the nature of … well nature.

 

There’s stormy weather awaiting out there in the political scene.  But Mr. Obama with AF One … and a top notch group of airmen (and women) their job is to get them there on time and back on time… even if they have to fly high and around and back… they are a class act.

 

OK… not much else to say today.  There was a war between the Libyan regulars and irregulars trying to get started before I wrote this script… maybe it’s blossomed by now.  Just tune in as often as you can to stay with the scene.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

 

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DON’T GET HIT BY THE BUS

          Just a Minute: At this stage in the political season – it’s hard to know which way to look when crossing the street. When I was trying to tie the program together, the ‘war’ in Libya was filling up the airwaves but not getting to a conclusion.

          So remembering my Dad’s instruction to his rookies was – “Keep your eye on the ball.” That’s about the most useful advice to follow in trying to handicap politicians in this stage of what’s happening politically nationally, internationally and locally.

          We’re so far removed from the target – November 6^th 2012 –it’s hard to even tell where it is much less try to hit the bull’s eye. So we’ll probably do just about as well by checking on the President’s golf game, though for sure the Secret Service won’t release  the score.

          Down on the farm about the only thing going on – besides chores and tending the garden – was eatin’ Sunday dinners or going to a Methodist camp meeting.

          And Yeah … I know … the school year has already started but you can still get a good running start on it … and not much is likely to happen ‘till after Labor Day anyway.  Pay attention to the teachers. It’ll pay off in the end.

                    <>I’m Jack Buttram.          (END)

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PICKIN' OUT THE CULLS -- Just a Minute Radio for Friday 110819

Well, today’s JUST A MINUTE PROGRAM gives you a very brief overview – 60 seconds if you want to time it – of the Republican field of presidential primary candidates. There probably are one or two others I did not put in because they poll less than one percent of the voters… at least that was the ‘gate’ at the Straw Poll last week in Iowa.

 

There have been several very interesting round-ups covering all the candidates. I’ve not been that comprehensive because this isn’t, strictly speaking, a news show – it’s more in the nature of a commentary. The Iowa Republican caucus began around 1979 or 80… as a way to give some candidates exposure to the electorate – especially if the candidates were not Midwesterners and liable to be overlooked, especially if they were not national candidates. My information is it has pretty much increased since then. The straw poll was an early edition – most often used date is 1979 – although I think something along those lines was in existence in the early to mid 50’s.  My interest in primaries was peaked when Harry Truman captured the Democrat primary and the election in 1948 when he ran against popular NY Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Truman, the successor to the very popular FDR, had not had a smooth term and was widely predicted to lose to the popular governor of the Empire State.  Life Magazine ran a full front page picture of him on the campaign trail – in a boat as I remember. The press was all convinced Dewey would win.

 

Truman… from the ‘show me state of Missouri, was tenacious and resolved to take a train tour of the nation, make speeches and meet people. Roosevelt had used radio for his ‘Fireside chats’ as WWII ground on – to maintain the resolve of the people in America who had been attacked by the Germans, Japanese and Italians. Russia had been on the other side during the first world war… but things had changed and Joseph Stalin allied with Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai Shek as victory in Europe came closer  

 

Dewey was widely expected to win – so much so that Gallup and one or two other pollsters quit sampling several weeks before the actual election – and the Chicago Daily Tribune ran what has become the most famous headline in newspaper history – ‘DEWEY WINS’ – it’s a bold headline across the Trib’s first page which they ran early to get copies out on the remote rural RFD routes.  My how the apologies flew – even as a sub teen I took note. [My dad was a Republican and had voted for Dewey.  I think my mother did too…but in earlier votes of other elections (At that time in the South (Va.) the only essential elections were in the Democratic Primaries. It had been that way since the end of the War Between the States.)

 

All my uncles, aunts and cousins (those who were old enough to vote) voted in the Democrat primary… the other general election was just ‘pro-forma’.  The overwhelming vote in most elections was in the Democrat primary… but there were pockets of ‘contrarians’ in most of the southern states. Upstate SC was one… as was portions of NW Alabama and Georgia, E. Tenn… and parts of Florida. Those were farming areas which often grew something different than cotton… and were not likely to have owned slaves… or more accurately, their parents or other relatives were not likely to have had big enough farms to warrant ‘field hands.’

 

History is interesting to unravel – and see how we got here. I was pointing out to one of my grandsons, who doesn’t like classrooms … but enjoys history much more than I did. I was encouraging him to follow his ‘passions’ on that. Anyway to learn more in the way of history IS important… it generally means we don’t have to make the same mistakes others have made – if we pay attention. My Dad opposed Truman and voted for Wendell Wilkie as I recall.

 

I hope you can enjoy today’s program… and perhaps it will whet your appetite for yet more information. I’ve touted David McCullough’s accurate and prize winning historical books. The one about President Truman I think (even as a Republican) it’s very good.

 

Have a nice weekend.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Barbara and Jack Buttram

 

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PICKIN’ OUT THE CULLS    

          Just a Minute: Helping my Dad run a small apple orchard taught me something about pickin’ out the culls – discarding, or makin’ cider out imperfect apples. Today we’ll give you Just a minute’s worth.

          Michele Bachmann – bear in mind since the 1800’s no one has been elected president out of the lower house. – always a first time though… Obama is our first black president. Also straw vote winner usually does not win the Iowa caucus.

          Herman Cain – race is probably over. He said needed be in top 3 – he was 5^th.

          Chris Christie – People close to him say he won’t.  

          Jon Huntsman – He can continue to spend his own money – that’s it.

          Paul Ryan – despite recent stories – probably not.

          Sarah Palin -- 95% name recognition; 12% support – Gallup says not this time.

          Ron Paul – Won’t happen – 3^rd party got us Bill Clinton.

          Rick Perry – Press antagonism – big obstacle.

          Mitt Romney – Most experience – presently most likely.

            My qualification for this job?  I’m quite often wrong.  See you next week.

          <>I’m Jack Buttram.          (END)

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RIOTS SPREAD IN CHINA -- TAIWAN DENIED NEW JETS - Just A Minute Radio for Thursday 110818

You can’t tell the players without a program… especially when there is a new game in town.

 

Here we are on a Thursday morning – and suddenly out of the blue comes a controversy over Jets for Taiwan again.

 

Back about 25 years ago – when Jimmy Carter was still President – the Congress passed the Taiwan Relations Act… which mandates the U.S. must defend Taiwan against China if threatened. It’s still on the books… and although Taiwan has never been obstreperous about enforcing it – especially in recent years – it’s part of our Treaty obligations.

 

So when riots start flaring up in Northeastern China – the city of Dalian – and Taiwan has asked the US to sell it a dozen or so new model jets to enable its defenses against its nearest neighbor – Mainland China – it appears that the DOD is going to turn down the request… at least that’s what DEFENSE NEWS is reporting.

 

The world of diplomacy – the striped pants set as they used to be called – is a funny world.  People don’t always mean what they say – and like Bre’r Rabbit… what they say doesn’t always mean what they say they mean. Such is the case with the treaty between the US and the PRC – especially under the current circumstances

 

Right now China is the biggest holder of US debt. But what can they do with it? If they cause a default… doesn’t that hurt the defaulter as much or more than the defaultee?  And what about the value of the ‘paper’ China is holding? Will they decide to sail that new single aircraft carrier right up the Hudson and shell the new construction at the site of the former World Trade Towers? 

 

When the financial world is in the chaotic state it’s in… who knows what will happen or perhaps has already happened – as in the case of the paper being held by the U.S.D. O.T. Se when you’ve got money surging out of the hose of repaying loans or air in the hose that’s supposed to be handling the other side of the transaction – then hardly anyone *knows* what’s going to happen… it is guessed at.

 

Well – enough of that idle financial channel.  We all better buckle down and do the best we can.

 

So… stick with us – we guarantee ACTION (sometime)!

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

 

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RIOTS SPREAD IN CHINA – TAIWAN IS DENIED NEW JETS

          Just a Minute: Dalian, in Northeastern China, has exotic sightseeing and beautiful beaches and is called the “Northern Hong Kong.” But tourists find themselves in street riots – twitter nets turned off and crowds demanding a toxic chemical plant be moved to a safer location.

          Meantime, Vice President Joe Biden, lands in Beijing – far removed from street riots and travels to an athletic facility to kick off a four day low-key diplomatic visit.

          However, a US publication -- DEFENSE NEWS -- reports Washington has already officially turned down Taiwan’s requests for new fighter jets to maintain defenses mandated by America’s defense treaty with Taiwan. Now it’s a touchy situation with America’s newly minted Ambassador to China, Gary Locke, arriving just last week in the middle of it all. The US is legally bound to defend Taiwan in the event of an attack by China. Right now both China and the US need to avoid stepping on one another’s toes.

          So how does the White House handle it? 

          The President departs Washington to relax at New England’s Martha’s Vineyard. How reassuring.

            <> I’m Jack Buttram.  (END)

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NEWSWRITERS RECOVER FROM COLOR BLINDNESS - For Just A Minute Radio on Wednesday 110817

Welcome to the top of the week… downhill both ways from here – backward or forward.

 

Weather’s been much better for us except we could really use quite a bit of ‘soaking’ rain – but then at this time of summer, who couldn’t.

 

I remember dry spells in the summer as a little kid when farmers had the cotton in and hoed… and ‘sodied’ (or sody’ed) – and the Muskie-dines were for the most part not ripe yet – as well as the black walnuts, that I used to crack using a vise. They were *still* hard to get out…and probably still not fully mature. They came in a big, thick green husk… and that husk was a powerful dye if you liked brown.  I’m not sure I ever saw anything I remember made out of that… but it would surely stain your fingers lasting several days before it began to wear off.

 

A more unpleasant memory was eating too many black walnuts… and getting an upset stomach because of it.

 

But this year (2011) I don’t think I remember peaches being any better to eat – especially the freestone ones. Now I have to admit we had a LOT of hail damaged peaches… but just cut out the little damaged places… wash off the fuzz and spray… and biting into a fully ripened (not too over-ripe) peach is just excellent – and around here in the time between now and mid September… I think that’s the peak of the season – and how delicious.

 

Well.. I came here to commend a little commentary that derives from comments being made because of the riots and damage done in Great Britain… as well as other parts of Europe. Ms. Peggy Noonan – who currently writes mostly for the Wall St. Journal in a usual Saturday column – sees the current strife in Europe as a ‘preview’ of what can easily transfer to the USA. I don’t know the data for that… but it’s quite likely to happen I suppose and unpleasant to think about.

 

The most obvious cause – IMO – is the lack of diligence and breakdown of family life that is certainly a big part of America these days – and while I have no first hand evidence, I’m reasonably sure it is the primary cause of the rioting in France, England and the other major European lands.

 

I agree with Dr. Thomas Sowell – who writes from Washington I believe and also serves on several intellectual boards. He makes a compelling case that the prevailing social standard – recognized in the reporting about the riots, pillage, thievery and citizen intimidation – is that this under 20 generation simply has never been taught to realize they are not here to be freeloaders. They have responsibilities which should have been communicated by their parents – (and to whom do we look when parents are either not home – or not in their right minds when they are home?)

 

There is a vast sea of older souls here in America – and I suspect in other nations as well – who feel these are the results of the breakdown in marriage and the American (or European  and other) families who believe the current disrespectful attitude from the youngest set has to be marked down to parents forgetting about being parents – or all that goes with that attitude of “It’s not my problem!” – And so many of us think these riots and burnings and stealings that are making such big news on the Continent and in the British Isles are the result of ‘letting the standards of training and family living drift down to such a low degree. What are we, in America, going to do about it – to keep such crime and disharmony from coming here? Well… it’s not pleasant to think about – but we’ll have to do it – or *somebody* will have to do it or be taken over by the Savages. (L)… Not a pleasant prospect.

 

My personal view is it has come about because the Lord is trying to show us – to warn us – that this is the price which must be paid.  The bill that will come due if we do not follow the instruction from God in His Word.

 

God bless you and your family – and keep you safe. And let us be praying often for one another and our country!  Amen.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack Buttram

 

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NEWSWRITERS RECOVER FROM COLOR BLINDNESS’

BB: Jist A Minute: Ah heers summa them ‘porters done got over their illness.

Jack: What illness, Billy-bob?

BB: Mayor Michael Nutter of Philadelphia – done ordered a police crackdown of th mobs tha-ut

               has been a plaguing tha-ut city of brotherly shove. He’s a outspoken black man, speakin’

               out about th violence committed in his city.

MizP: Whut did he say?

BB: He said: “Pull up your pants an buy a belt ‘cause nobody  wants ta see your unnerwear…” or

               The rest of you fer that matter..’ Scuse me Miss Pearlie fer bein’ graphic.

MizP: Oh thass alrite… -- I done heered hit was vulgar.

Homer: Miz Pearl – summa them other fellers in Chicago, an Denver – said th same kinder thang

               Mayor Nutter said. He tole ‘em not ta go walkin’ inter sumbody’s office wif shoes untied,        

               pants haf down an arms kivvered with tatooes – an then wonder why somebody don’t hire you.

BB: Hit’s purty simple, th Philadelphia mayor said. Hit’s cause they think you’re haf crazy.

MizP: Mebby mo-wah than haf.

Jack: See the prevailing social standard – according to Columnist Dr. Thomas Sowell – is disparities                between

               races can only be because they are treated differently – not because there are differences in behavior.

MizP: We-ul… thas jist not th’ case. Ah’m glad to hear Mayor Nutter in Philly speak up.

Homer: Yeah – mebbe hit’ll strike home..

Jack: That would be very nice if it happened.

MizP: Problem is hit ain’t po-litically correk ta say tha-ut … Mr. Orberdoffer?

               done bin fired frum one network.

Jack: Well… now we’re out of my field into money matters… and I think we’re also out of time.

MizP: Kin Ah do th’ sign off –

Jack; Of course Miz Pearl.

MizP: We’ll see you next week. <> I’m Jack Buttram   (END)

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IT AIN'T HORSHOES - AND IT AIN'T A CROQUET EITHER - Just a Minute Radio for Tuesday 110816

Whew! We had a cool (er) day yesterday. ‘Twas downright pleasant ‘round here. In fact in air conditioning… I needed a long-sleeved shirt – it was more than imagination that fall is in the air.

 

Well, actually the large K-12 Christian school at our church has been doing faculty & staff ‘in-service’ training for some time now. And you can just feel the intellectual gears starting to turn.  (How come I never noticed that happening to me?)

 

Anyway – there are lessons to be learned – and this past weekend is a good example.

 

You just can’t go out there and stand on a stump and convince people ‘you know best.’  Actually that’s the line that was swallowed – hook line and sinker – just a little more than four years ago. To pick up on one of President Obama’s lines from that era – time for change – I sort of feel that way myself… and I hoping and praying – we’re in the beginning of causing it to happen.

 

What’s difficult is in seeing just how and when it’s going to happen. [Here comes an ‘old codger’s’ tale.] I was in the middle of my 16^th year when President Harry S. Truman ran for President against Gov. Thomas Dewey of New York – a dapper Republican. I was not as deeply interested in politics as I guess is the case now. I did not see how Mr. Truman, who was an erstwhile ‘haberdasher’ in Missouri, who had by one fluke after another been selected as the running mate to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.  Even though he was a Democrat Senator running with a Democrat President, when FDR was suddenly stricken and died in his summer retreat in Warm Springs, Georgia, Vice President Truman hardly knew where the front door of the White House was.

 

So…when he became President and later had to run for re-election – well you should read David McCullough’s book on Mr. Truman for a fascinating story. The most famous newspaper headline in my time was the one printed by the Chicago Tribune -- On the morning after the ‘48 presidential election, the Chicago  Tribune's headline read "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN."  The Republicans, polls, newspapers, political writers, and a bunch of Democrats had expected it. But it was the largest political upset in U.S. history, When President Truman surprised everyone by winning the 1948 election. He traveled 32,000 miles by train and made 355 speeches from the rear platform over six weeks.  

 

So don’t put too much credence in predictions – even mine. (J) We have a LOT of lessons awaiting us in the coming 15 months. Stick with us.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

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IT AIN’T HORSHOES – AND IT AIN’T CROQUET EITHER

            Just a Minute:  Everybody agrees Ms. Bachmann pulled a coup in the Iowa straw poll – but no Oscars or blue ribbons yet. 

          Problem #1 Ron Paul… nobody thinks he CAN win… but he came within 152 votes of Meeting Mrs. Bachmann’s high hurdle. Predictions are: Mr. Paul will be a major GOP migraine. I see it likely.

          Gov. Perry isn’t universally liked. He’s already demonstrated “Texas Swagger” making Charleston kick-off poor style. The resulting speculation is Perry and Bachmann will beat each other into Texas dirt -- leaving the largely untouched but unelectable Romney – who’ll likely get the nomination but lose the election to a labor-backed President rolling out a ‘media mop-up’ on Romney using buckets of money -- Air Force One, and leaving Mr. & Mrs. America slogging through a worsening fiscal swamp while economic bombs fall all around.

          Not a pretty prospect – but gaining traction. Sorry to be the bearer of bad prospects. What can be done? As always my first choice is prayer! God still works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform. <> I’m Jack Buttram.  (END)

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SCARE CROWS COLLAPSE -- NOW COME MUDBALLS - FOR Just A Minute Radio - Monday 110815

Welcome to a new week of JUST A MINUTE. It *may* be educational… (J) or not…

 

It was an interesting and in some ways exciting weekend – also quite hot… and busy around our house. [No matter how hard I try to write these short little things and send them out ahead of time… the digital gramlins… (different from WWII gremlins – their copyright expired I guess) hang around simply to plague us when we’re terribly busy.]

 

And the folks at the Ames Iowa Straw Poll indeed *were* terribly busy this weekend.

 

It’s hard to believe – but it’s one of the things those gramlins create. Poor Mr. Pawlenty …he got a very good press for all his difficulties even up to the last… but just never got traction. Rather like a ’35 Ford trying to climb a freshly scraped red-clay hill in Georgia just 12 hours after a rain storm. It’s hard to get traction! And you may slide in the ditch!

 

I would have thought living in MN… otherwise known as Minnesota where it snows a LOT during the winter… traction would be a familiar problem. And I suppose it was – but Mr. Pawlenty just couldn’t seem to get any.  So we have a ‘straw poll’ with very uncertain results.  Mr. Perry’s last minute addition to the field didn’t help much – and there are others waiting in the wings… or behind the bushes or something.  Here we have a real need of a knight in shining armor to come riding to our beleaguered need – a leader to lead us out of the wilderness… because we certainly don’t have a current occupant of the leader’s oval office who does much more than love to ride in AF one and have the world at his disposal and make what he has been told are silky smooth speeches. (Although I’m beginning to think someone has swiped his blender.)

 

We need a dogsled driver that can get the job done in the foulest of winters. Well… let’s pray. And the Lord will provide us one… or lead us to the *right* one that may be right here under a nearby sunbonnet.  It’s not like picking out a book by its cover.  Besides they’re now putting so many books into digital very few of us know just how to run a campaign in these digital days.  We need the one the Lord will choose for us… somewhat like David was chosen after he had learned how to lead sheep.

 

Perhaps that’s what we need at the Bait Shop and Sushi Bar on the Carolina line someone who the Lord empowers to see our need and depend upon the Holy Spirit to develop the leader and lead us to him – or her. Let’s pray to that end this very day!

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

 

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SCARE CROWS COLLAPSE – NOW COME MUD BALLS

            Just a Minute:  Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty pulls out; Texas Gov. Rick Perry horns in.  So with 449 days to go before the ballots are counted November 6^th 2012 we have excessive time and opportunity to lose the next election and set ourselves up for an additional four years of Mr. Obama modeling Jimmy Carter.

          Michele Bachmann’s forty eight hundred twenty three votes beat Dr. Ron Paul by just 152. Pawlenty’s twenty three hundred caused him to drop out and Santorum with sixteen hundred or so lays claim to third place followed by Herman Cain with fourteen and a half hundred – then the newly declared Rick Perry with about 700 write-ins --  to Romney’s about 600 – then Gingrich with just 385 and Huntsman with 69.

          Copy all that? It’s posted on my JUST A MINUTE RADIO.BLOGSPOT.COM or you can get totals on the Internet if you really want to go to the trouble. Nothing is official because we won’t really vote until precincts, selecting delegates who will then select the GOP nominee in convention. The straw poll is mainly “straws in the wind.” George W. Bush, known as Bush’43 in 1999, won with over 7,400. We have still a long way to go. <> I’m Jack Buttram.  (END)

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GOP HOPEFULS IN IOWA'S 8-WAY DEBATE -- for Just A Minute Radio on Friday 110812

Oh, boy how wonderful to have you checked in.

 

Just today I had correspondence via-e-mail with some Christian Friends in Wales where they are in the middle of their summer camping season – or more accurately will be coming to the end of it at the close of August.

 

It’s such a joy to know there are effective Christian witnesses working with camps and other church groups to shepherd young people into the protective fold of God – and especially to get instruction and help with understanding and committing these young folks into following God’s way for Godly living. May their tribe increase!  They specifically ask that we recruit others who will pray for spiritual successes in this current world which needs the ministry of the Lord so urgently. I’m blessed just by being able to pray with them. And I know you will be too.  (The U.K. at the moment seems to be under a crisis – perhaps ordered up by demonic forces. Resulting in destruction and damages to the innercities like London and Birmingham and others. – Pray for believers safety and ministry at this time please!)

 

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It’s been another very hot week with temps in the high 90’s on the Fahrenheit scale – the heat index (which is a combination of temperature and humidity moisture content) that adds another 5 or 6 numbers on the scale…makes it seem even worse. What’s nice is to get a nice cooling shower about mid-afternoon… which cools things down appreciably but does make it feel a bit like a steam bath. (J)

 

The other source of heat here in the US is the primary race that officially begins this week in Ames Iowa. It’s merely a ‘straw’ poll – but it’s a big one at the Iowa State fair grounds.  Hundreds – or more accurately – thousands of people come. Saturday is the big day… and whoever wins the Iowa Straw Poll has (it is rumored) a leg-up toward winning the race to get the nomination.

 

I won’t go through all the steps and whatever else must happen.  We are nearly 15  months away from the actual election… but one would think it was next week to watch the TV news. Election day for the current President and Congress is November 6^th 2012.  The primary votes must be held in the various states yet… and even prior to that must come local elections to the organizational meetings at the County level… then the State level and *then* the national level… which I believe will come in July or August of next year… THEN the actual election.  The Republican Party convention will be held just up the road in Charlotte, NC … which is the largest metropolitan area in the two Carolinas. 

 

Well… no need to go into all that. I’ve said it before and will repeat. I wish we had a *much* shorter electoral process… but in this case I guess we really need the time to get organized so we can elect *someone* -- *anyone* (no – that’s not true) to be the next President. But this one has put us virtually under the jail of debt that will be dogging the steps of our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.  So unless the Lord returns soon – our children and our children’s children will be living under this terrible load of debt irresponsible government leaders and politicians have set up to “help us.”  Oh LORD – please help and protect us from such a fate.

 

Well… It’s between 1 and 2 AM because I stayed up so late to watch the debates from Iowa. It was interesting and I think we CAN make it out of this crisis as the Lord wills – or if HE chooses to return to earth and rule.  But I need to turn in now.

 

Thanks for sharing with me this concern and for your prayers.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Barbara & Jack Buttram

 

“JUST A MINUTE”

GOP HOPEFULS IN IOWA’S 8-WAY DEBATE

            Just a Minute:  Eight would-be primary challengers in the GOP presidential primary selecting a nominee against President Obama, squared off at the Iowa State Fairgrounds on Thursday night in a debate carried by FOX NEWS.

          There was no clear winner but the top two in Iowa were Gov. Mitt Romney, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and then take your pick between Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Jon Huntsman, Jr., Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul.

          In the category of “also running” add Rick Perry – Gov. of Texas who is apparently intending to cast his hat into the ring officially on Saturday when he makes an appearance in South Carolina and then journeys to Iowa where the Ames Iowa straw poll is being held that day. Others in the increasingly crowded field include former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who is scheduled just to drop by Iowa but has been shy about her presidential intentions; plus former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who has been flirting with a second White House run.  And there are others…

          So… they’re mostly off and running. <> I’m Jack Buttram.  (END)

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