REVERSE PRODUCTIVITY CURVE -- Monday, February 9, 2009

            Hello again on a Monday… Nice temps over the weekend…

 

            Like the mushrooms in certain parts of the forest – government just grows – no stimulus needed. That’s detailed today on the program JUST A MINUTE at 11:30 AM and 5:15 PM – on 94.5 in the upstate SC area and parts of NC, TN and GA… if you’d like to get the news on the air. It was released last week but so much news is passing nowadays with news of new ways NOT to pay your taxes and then say you’re sorry… it’s hard to get time and space for the ‘new’ news.

 

            In any case things continue to progress or regress as the case may be. Mrs. Palin visited the lower 48 for some appearances after she had turned some of the newshounds down on the grounds she was too busy with Alaska Business… They griped and complained. Relations don’t seem to be improving in that quarter. I’m wondering just what kind of media advice she’s getting. And probably there are a lot of things I don’t know. All the same the old adage holds – in general – it’s not really helpful for your cause to get into an argument with people who buy ink by the tank care load.  But then… there’s only one Sarah. – Just don’t use up all your ammunition on a newsperson with a pop gun.

 

            The Media wars are awfully tiring – especially since we’ve been engaged on this same battleground for more than two years. Nonetheless… we conservatives are down and very nearly out without any legislative weapons to fight with – and deserters like Senators Snow and Specter who jump ship every time we hit a wave. President Reagan had similar problem. On the MX missile system’s first House vote he lost 50 “Republican” votes to Tip O’Neil – if his Rino or Rabbit Republicans had stuck with him that battle would have been lot shorter and less ulcerating. But history repeats itself.

 

            There is still a bright outlook. The Apostle Paul was killed, Christ was crucified, Jews were scattered all over the Middle East when Rome was at the height of its power and dominion. And look how the tables have turned these days. We (Christian Bible believers) still have much to be thankful for… Primarily in the knowledge that God IS still on the throne and HE IS in charge no matter how things may look. So… I’m going to relax… it’s in HIS hands.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

 

            Jack Buttram

 

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REVERSE PRODUCTIVITY CURVE

Just A Minute – When Americans ask for a smaller government – they don’t mean a less efficient one. Investor’s Business Daily printed a recent graph showing the dismal truth:

Since the end of World War II, Government shows … consistent job growth: Since 1947, local, state and federal governments have added nearly 17 million jobs, with 22.5 million people on payrolls funded by your tax dollars. Government job growth has more than kept up with population: Today, there are about 13.5 Americans per government employee – in 1947 there were fewer workers but also fewer people. One bureaucrat served 26 taxpayers: Now one worker serves only 13.5 people – despite technology productivity is cut in half. Government grows on its own -- no stimulus needed – it just grows. 

My Dad was a Postal Clerk in the days when there were two mail deliveries every day in every town: Also you could put a penny post card in your front porch mailbox in the morning – it’d be delivered cross town in the afternoon. First class stamps were three cents.

Shall we pray for improvements like that?

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SO IS IT SPEND, SPEND, SPEND...? -- Just A Minute for Friday 2/6/09

            Hello again – another week racked up…

 

            And “racked” seems to be the correct word. The weather’s been cold; the rhetoric has been hot; and the progress has been spotty.

 

            Just a little over two weeks ago was Inauguration – and news anchors were speculating how long the “honeymoon” would last. Apparently soap bubbles have had longer lives. Not to mention the difficulties President Obama has encountered with his Cabinet appointments. Former Senate leader Tom Daschle was supposed to be the cabinet’s crown jewel. Within the past two days it’s become apparent if he didn’t walk the plank he would have been pushed. A rather inglorious ending to a Cabinet career that never got started.

 

            And have you ever heard such a chorus of whining excuses for not paying taxes… beginning with the Secretary of the Treasury. Now it appears President Obama is taking off the velvet glove which heretofore concealed the IRON FIST.  So last night he goes down to Williamsburg to a Democrat House Members party while the Senate under Harry Reid’s leadership planned to stay up all night in order to please the new White House Taskmaster – and as I was writing this they were still in session.

 

            So… well nobody ever held the Presidency out to be a “cushy” job… but I think that’s about the first time AF ONE made such a short trip. I guess President Obama wanted to ‘break it in.’ I think there are going to be a lot of other things broken. Record debt levels for one thing… and perhaps the Bank of the United States of which there really isn’t one. Unfortunately one can hear the printing presses warming up… and get ready folks for a flood of paper money to pay for it all. Remember the pictures of German citizens carrying bales of paper money to buy a loaf of bread. The dark clouds are out there – but Congress has blinders on already.

 

            Well… have a good weekend. Enjoy your family. And we’ll pray for those jobs to come back soon;

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack Buttram

 

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SO IS IT ‘SPEND, SPEND, SPEND …

Just A Minute – The President and Senate Republicans agree their fight ought not to be about politics. The President says bluntly: “I won.” In the Washington Post op-ed page he wrote:

“This plan is more than a prescription for short-term spending--it's a strategy for America's long-term growth and opportunity in areas such as renewable energy, health care and education.”

James Taranto, Opinion Journal Editor of The Wall Street Journal, wrote: “If we are really in an emergency, and ‘science’ tells us we need to spend money now in order to deal with it, why not just do that and deal with the long-term agenda in the long term? Is it irresponsible to question a new president who seems to be cynically using a crisis in order to grab new power…?” 

He says it’s irresponsible not to! So the tax cheats take over -- the President repeats --“I won.” And … get used to it, folks – this is just what happens when you lose … This is the first flock of chickens comin’ home to roost. Pray we’re still around in four years. 

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...AND ALL ON BOARD DID SHRINK! -- Just a Minute for 02-04-09 Wednesday

            G’day folks –

 

            It’s reckoning time up on the District Line – and some are finding in the words of the High School Football cheer: ”When you’re up, you’re up – when you’re down, you’re down. When you’re up against Obama – you may be upside down.” At least that’s the way Tommy Daschle must feel after the thrashing around that happened at the White House yesterday afternoon.

 

            Just before noon… the ex-Senate Majority leader was still aiming for the top slot at the Food and Drug Administration – which does a lot of regulating. In addition he was going to get a coveted office right in the West Wing of the WH because of his Washington experience. And by 1PM he had offered his resignation and the President had accepted. I guess he heard the door slam on his way out. It was one of the shortest cabinet careers on record… in fact never even began.

 

            The Obama White House has not had an auspicious beginning. The new Cabinet Organization Chart has begun to look like a Wanted for Tax Evasion Poster in the local Post Office. It appears Mr. Obama decided it was time to cut his losses and Mr. Daschle was the point at which the buck stopped – or the blade fell – which ever picture conveys the meaning.

 

            Meanwhile the *urgent urgent* Rebuilding Bill… keeps getting sidetracked – at least in the news media. It seems new Obama appointees have a difficult time with their “vetting” record when it comes to paying their taxes. Mr. Daschle is but the latest example – the Secretary of the Treasury, of all things, has walked into his office trailing a string of unpaid tax bills on which the collection time has run out.

 

            Not an auspicious beginning. The New York Times says Mr. Obama should hit the rewind button and try to get back to Inauguration Day.

 

            But the Good Fairies of Washington have no rewind button on events of this nature… and the beat goes on. Stay tuned.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack Buttram

 

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… AND ALL ON BOARD DID SHRINK

MizP: Jist A Minit – Mr. Jack do you thank Mr. Obama really wants Miz Pelosi ta' write bailout bill?

Jack: I don’t understand…

Homer: They don’t cawl hit tha-ut now MizPearl  -- hit’s the Reconstitution Bill

BB: Ah don’t thank tha-ut’s right neither.

MizP: Well Ah don’t ca-uh … Ah jist don’t know whut’s a-goin’ on. Han’t ennybody paid taxes.

Homer: ‘Parently not… Ah wonder if’n tha-ut’s how my job ‘pointment never got done?

BB: You mean some beaurocrat dropped th’ bawl…?

MizP: Mebby they was all a puzzlin’ over how ta' ketch up on th’ back taxes.

BB: Whut ‘bout tha-ut lady?

Homer: The one tha-ut din’t pay her nannies payroll taxes and awl.

Jack: I think you’ve got it all mixed up.

BB: Ah know sumbody’s got a whole lot mixed up. Ah been readin’ how thousands of peepul with purpul

               tickets ta' th’ ‘naugural din’t never git in.

Homer: Some of ‘em finally got ta' watch th vice Pres dint get sworn in when they got inta a eatin’ place that

               had th’ TV on…

MizP: Hmmph… if’n Ah had paid fer a ticket ta' Washinton.. and a hotel an all and still din’t get to th’

               ceremony…. I’da shore been angry.

Jack: I guess lots were… but what about the folks like Tom Daschle who’s been practicing being head of

               the FDA since last summer?

Homer: An now he’s out – don’t have no job a-tall…

BB: Don’t worry – he’ll pick up sumpin’.

Homer: Yeah… I reckon if’n you kin pick up five million or so without a job…

MizP: Tha-ut makes the folks over at th’ Bait Shop and Sushi Bar mad…Well .. ah wants you to know Ah

               paid my taxes on time… Got my ree-fund b’fore February first.

Jack: Good for you Miz Pearl.  Sorry about your job Homer.

Homer: Looks like thanks ain’t got off ta' such a good start anyway.

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CELEBRATE GROUNDHOG DAY BY...? -- Just a Minute for 02-02-09

Howdy… Here we are again – Glad you could drop by –

 

I think I emptied out my Groundhog Day note file Friday… but it’s come around again… and we’re getting the bulletins from Puxatawny and the handlers at Gobbler Knob…-- so you’re sure to get Puxs Phil’s 2009 prediction right here at 94.5 in Greenville… if you’re within range.

 

But if not…never fear… just click on the link and you can hear the program for today on your computer.

                       

Once we’re through January I’m prone to believe we have the worst part of Winter behind us… but the heaviest snowfall in recent memory around here occurred in March… so don’t let down your guard, yet. Nonetheless… there are faint stirrings in the plant world – and in the words of Stephen Vincent Benet’ … “The little new year – the weaking one – can lie outdoors in the noonday sun – blowing the fluff from a turkey wing – at skies already haunted with Spring.”  So… let us take heart.

 

It would be nice if the political world could stop the continual sniping and just ‘smell the flowers’ for a season. But everyone’s already buying powder and ball for the next round in two or four years. I think we really ought to have something more productive and rewarding to do – like reading poetry or writing sonnets. How about starting off with Psalm Eight. Look it up if it’s not in your memory. You’ll enjoy.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

 

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CELEBRATE GROUNDHOG DAY BY …

Just A Minute – In what activity does one engage on Groundhog Day? Right now in the national capital even though the inauguration is two weeks old tomorrow – hatred of “W” while exalting “O” seems to be the winter sport.

Bush hatred and Obama euphoria – laid out on the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal’s Online Edition, reveal more about those engaging in those emotions than their targets. Why? They are flip sides of the same coin; both are extreme expressions of passion trumping reason – neither can stand the other. 

If you disport yourself hating George W.; or go ballistically euphoric over Obama – it’s likely you regard those whose feelings do not match yours, as contemptible -- they fail to reach the boundaries of intellectual discussion. In other words you’re another Al Gore or Ron Paul. Often this conflict coexists in a single individual. And, strangely enough, reaches epidemic proportions among members of the intellectual and political class.

Declare yourself free of it on Groundhog Day!

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RUSH SUGGESTS *TWO* PLANS -- Just a Minute for Friday 01-30-09

Howdy again at the end of the last week in January…

Don’t forget – wear your beaver hat Monday… it’s ground-hog day. If the Li’l earthy rodent sees his shadow… six *more* weeks of winter are reportedly in store. Feb. 2^nd is also Candlemas day… blessings on candles still needed for the still short winter days. The celebration of Groundhog Day began with Pennsylvania's earliest settlers. They brought with them the legend of Candlemas Day, which states, "For as the sun shines on Candlemas Day, so far will the snow swirl in May..." Punxsutawney, PA held its first Groundhog Day about 1887 – Legend has it Punxsutawney Phil was named after King Phillip. Prior to being called Phil, he was just called Br'er Groundhog.

Well so much for looking to next week – what about the Porkulus plan – as Rush calls it. He put his full article on the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal yesterday. We have a boiled down version (3 hours concentrated into sixty seconds) – I hope you get to hear it. The link is posted below if you’re not within radio range near the upstate of South Carolina.

We’re always open to hearing from you via e-mail, USPS mail (I hate to call it snail-mail) or carrier pigeon… (although they’re rare these days). We’d like to have more folks in our radio family – the folks over at Playfair particularly will be happy if you write.

Let us hear what you think of Rush’s plan… if you want to know more… I guess you can get a copy of Thursday’s WSJ and look at the page opposite the editorials. I think he’s pretty proud of his plan.

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Just A Minute – Rush Limbaugh’s PORCULOUS plan was on the Wall St. Journal’s op-ed page yesterday. Boiled down to JUST A MINUTE -- divide election response roughly 54 – 46 and see which works best. Under Obama-Limbaugh PORCULOUS: $486 billion goes to infrastructure and pork defined by the Prez: $414 Billion – goes to tax cuts defined by Rush … watch the results.

“This is bipartisanship! It would satisfy the American people's wishes, as polls currently note; and it would also serve as a measurable test as to which approach best stimulates job growth.” He says, and continues, “I say, cut the U.S. corporate tax rate -- at 35%, among the highest of all industrialized nations -- in half. Suspend the capital gains tax for a year to incentivize new investment, after which it would be reimposed at 10%.”

Rush’s conclusion: “There's no reason to tell the American people their future is bleak. There's no reason, as the administration is doing, to depress their hopes. There's no reason to insist that recovery can't happen quickly… it can!”

OK How ‘bout it Mr. President?

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JUST A SHADE SHY OF 'BATTY' - Just a Minute for 01-28-09

Howdy on a Wednesday –

 

Here we are in the middle of the week already… and it’s only the second week for the new folks in town… and there seems to be a tone of edginess in the air. Plus – there’s the sound of a mighty double-dose steamroller warming up ready to flatten whatever gets in its way. But of course the driver wants to ‘do it gently’ so nobody hears the crushing sounds or gets alarmed.

 

The problem is he’s already alarmed half a dozen radio hosts with big and continuing daily audiences – and doesn’t seem to be giving himself the opportunity to ‘learn the ropes.’ That could be the result of the looooooong primary campaign. All the major papers have written about the “well-oiled” campaign that learned from their errors and smoothed things out as they went. The problem is Washington is not the primary campaign trail. It’s a hot-kennel jammed full of trained attack animals always primed for a BIG story… and feeling a little remorse (a very little I’d say) for their abandonment of their self-held supposed ‘objectivity.’

 

Anyone who has lived and worked on either side of the divide of the ‘real hard news world’ knows it gives no quarter. It’s no good whining about how biased the news operatives are – those are the facts of life. You might as well rail at the rivers for always flowing to the ocean. Until you learn to make water run uphill it’s always going to be that way.  What it takes to survive is learning how to paddle upstream faster than the current – or how to ‘make a portage’ to go around the rocky, rugged rapids in your path. Well – give that metaphor a rest for a while – and watch developments. But I must observe, I’ve never seen a shorter honeymoon between a CEO and his media.

 

Meanwhile the comic operetta, originating on the shores of Lake Michigan and echoing through the sacred halls of Lincoln’s Springfield, are just getting tuned up. It’s like a second ring of a three ringed circus. Distracting and sometimes sopping up a major part of the daily news feed just when the new people have come to town and were expecting to have a period of relative calm. Problem is they have set off a few fireworks of their own that once ignited kick off their own spectacle that could last a while.

 

Well, at least it’s a change from the hash and re-hash of the campaign trail. Let’s pray we all survive, especially while the boys who are *supposed* to be market experts continue to give every evidence of trying to ‘learn the ropes’ – while rewarding themselves on the job. Maybe an Ivy League business school could commence a course in the MBA curriculum why NOT introducing a new Jet into the start-up equation of a new venture is smart. Call it “Soothing Shareholders.”

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

 

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JUST A SHADE SHY OF “BATTY”

MizP: Just a Minit – Did yawl haeah Dr. Krauthammer’s diagnosis?

Jack: About the Illinois Governor?

Homer: He’s an MD -- an he said he thanks th’ boyish Govner is, just a shade shy of “batty.”

Jack: That means he’s standing right on the edge of insane.

MizP: So what kin they do about hit?

BB: Th’ boys at the Bait Shop ‘n’ Sushi Bar figger hits time ta' quit a-beatin’ th’ mulberry bush slap     

               th’ cuffs on ‘im.

MizP: Well he shore stirred up a bunch of crazies on Miz WAwas’ TV show…

Homer: You tawkin’ ‘bout THE VIEW?

MizP: Rite -- tha-ut Miz BeHar is fer behind Gov. Blago-jo-vitch.

Homer: She’s batty too?

MizP: She keeps a eggin’ him on… a tryin’ ta' git him ta' go a Richard Nixon emmetation

               an holler out “Ah a-um *NOT* a crook!”

Jack: Oh -- that’s about the worst thing she could get him to say.

MizP: Ah know tha-ut Mr. Jack – an I thank he come ta' his senses enough to stop short of

               plungin’ ove-uh th’ edge.

BB: So whats gonna happen now, Mr. Jack.

Jack: Hmm… he’s accomplished one thing – putting himself right in the center of the spotlite.

Homer: Well – maybe that’ll slow him down some.

Jack: We’ll see. What else MizPearl?

MizP: Homer don’t have his job yet … an they’s still one cab-net post open.

BB: Hit’s th’ one Gov. Richardson took’n his name off of.

Homer: Oh… don’t run me thru that wringer again.

MizP: But Homer – we want’s you to make good.

Homer: Hit’s like whut Prezidint Lincoln said about th’ man who was bein’ tarred & feathered

               And run out of town on a rail.

Jack: What was that Homer?

Homer: He said if it t’weren’t fer th’ honor of th’ thang – he’d just as soon not!

Jack: Oh oh… we’ gotta go… I’m Jack Buttram

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SHOE NOW ON OTHER FOOT - Just a Minute for Monday Jan 26, 2009

            Hello again… T’is Monday f’sure…

 

            And we begin the second week of President Obama’s first 100 days. Kind of an artificial landmark by most lights… but the media is determined to use it. So… here we go. It’s a somewhat rocky beginning. The State Department is off to a slightly delayed commencement – but Treasury begins the day still stuck at the starting gate… although that will probably be remedied before the day’s over.

 

            What does all this mean?  I happen to think the mainstreamers are a bit embarrassed by their very obviously one sided and open preference for Mr. Obama through a *very* long campaign. Now that it’s over there’s a sort of bounce-back in coverage rather akin to having discovered the cute little kid’s hand is in the “Not At All Un-Biased” cookie jar after all. But let’s leave that behind … there are more serious things at hand.

 

            One thing the President and his Cabinet worry about is a replay of the campaign ad of who will answer the 3AM call from Moscow? Anything bad affecting national security which happens any time soon will be laid at Mr. Obama’s doorstep -- although that could be quite incorrect – nevermind… in the game of great expectations that’s the way the big-ball bounces. And having all ready signed the order for closing of the terrorists warren for those significantly suspected of being involved in attacking America, it’s something happening on the new President’s watch as he takes the helm of the ship of state.

 

            One would expect caution – but it appears caution is in short supply because of the overwhelming need to meet the critically high expectations which have mushroomed. I was listening to BBC people talking with their European counterparts… and they all are wearing double thick lenses of a very rosy tint. I don’t wish them ill… but perhaps a sip of caution or an expression of modest concern would be in order.

 

            Meantime… I find Toles major cartoonist at the Washington Post – along with the paper’s columnist named, Froomkin, have both fallen suddenly silent at the end of last week… Somebody moved their target labeled GWB… and they have forgotten how to skewer any other – or so it seems.

 

            Have a GREAT week!

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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SHOE NOW ON OTHER FOOT

Just A Minute – In the middle of the 19^th century Great Britain, militarily forced trade into the seaports of China and occasioned what has become known as the ‘Opium Wars.’ Millions of Chinese died or endured wrecked lives by ‘recreational’ addiction to the poppy.

Now, it appears tables are turned, and western nations including the U.K. and the USA, wrestle with the debilitating effects of a huge population of ‘recreational’ drug addicts. The history and situation can’t be summarized in JUST A MINUTE. It’s barely sufficient to say the problems swamp national borders and threatens international health and financial markets to a degree hard to imagine.

I was asked if I could make this crisis a subject of a JUST A MINUTE– but one look simply overwhelms me. The only glimmer of light I see is -- the first opium conflict allowed western missionaries access to China – possibly the Lord can use this disastrous Tsunami of drugs to bring the healing of Christ’s Gospel to these nations.   

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ONE ENDS AND A NEW PRESIDENT BEGINS - Just a Minute for Friday 01-23-09

            Paul Harvey’s voice can be heard above the snowbanks in the Midwest – IT’S FRIDAY!

 

            And I think just about everyone is ready for a bit of relaxation. GWB is makin’ coffee, fishin’ and readin’ th’ paper – all before 8AM.  I take a more type “B” or “C” or maybe even a “z” ( see the small “z” approach to life. I like what the Scripture depicts in the 3^rd and 4^th chapters of Hebrews about those who believe in God and are committed to serving HIM shall enter a rest – similar to that when God rested on the seventh day of creation. But some do NOT enter… because their work is not mixed with belief and trust in God.

 

            So… it’s good at this time when we seem to be concerned with newness… and new beginnings to see what is true from the Holy Book… and what is restful…(Heb 4:3 “For we which have believed do enter into rest as He said…”) Read it… study the word… meditate on it – and you’ll come to the place where God will instruct you in His will – and you’ll know Him and the works He ordained from before the foundation of the world. – What certainty… in a world that’s just about totally ‘uncertain.’

 

            Some folks have given me the thumbs up to the Wednesday program – so far no critical comments… which is more than I can say for *any* of the politicians in view. That is a world hummin’ with mosquitoes or gnats or always ‘something.’ Isn’t it interesting that among the plagues that came upon the Egyptians when God got Pharaoh in the place where he was willing to let the Israelites go – there were gnats and flies and frogs… irritants that make things really uncomfortable.

 

            I’ve been reading “The Reagan Diaries” – it’s something on my to-do list for a long time… and it’s a very encouraging enterprise. “The Gipper’s” influence lives on. Praise the Lord.

 

            Well… better get this posted. Thanks for coming by… See you Monday?

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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ONE PRESIDENT ENDS A NEW ONE BEGINS

Just A Minute – The new President starts out on a rocky road. The very first thing – the official oath – needs repeating in private. Out of 44, he’s number three who’s taken the oath more than once.

Just to hold my perspective I’m reading, “The Reagan Diaries” the only daily personal Presidential account covering any U.S. Presidency. I recommend it for those, like me, who can use a fresh sense of history.

Here’s a CNN Obama quote I aired last June 30th:

(quote) ”At certain times over the past…months, I have found…my patriotism challenged – at times as a result of my own carelessness…[I vow never to challenge the patriotism of others in the campaign…so] “I will not stand idly by when…others question mine.”

Finally, Doug Brinkley, Editor of the Reagan Diaries writes: “[Reagan realized he] did not ‘become’ president, but was given ‘temporary custody’ of an office that ultimately belongs to the people.”  To the new President’s politically and socially immature supporters whose actions threaten to stain his inaugural and his presidency – that’s wise counsel.

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ALONG PARALLEL LINES - Just a Minute for Wednesday 01-21-09

            Hello there… it’s the middle of the week –

           

            And you know that means it’s time to visit Playfair – the little town on the Carolina line that houses Earl’n’Lester’s Bait Shop and Sushi Bar where the elite meet to eat, and fish and swap stories. Yesterday they weren’t gathered around the pot-bellied stove… No sir… it was the black and white, soon to be digitized, TV set to be upgraded to the 21^st Century.  They were getting the latest scoop on the Presidential Inauguration.

 

            By most accounts it was a ‘tolerably good speech’ – but the grading curve on speeches at The Bait Shop and Sushi Bar is rather erratic and wanders around a good bit. Still it got a good reception at least before the networks got finished dissecting it. That’s not a favorite pastime at the Bait Shop… telling stories about “the one that got away…” is.

 

            So as some of the commentators said – close to half the electorate did NOT vote for Mr. Obama… but with all the excitement about installation of the first African-American President – there seems to be a high level of expectancy (*very* high in some circles) that may take a while to sort out. Also there’s the matter of the economy. Iraq isn’t just going to disappear, neither is Afghanistan or a dozen other international issues like immigration, free trade or a huge variety of economic and social items.

 

            President Bush finished with grace. Those on the Mall who engaged in scattered booing and other rude acts have only themselves to deal with, most will simply ignore or disregard their behavior. President Obama was right when he noted America is still a ‘young’ nation – seems like it’s sometimes ‘young’ in the most juvenile sense.

 

            But it’s over. The tumult and shouting has died. The parade won’t come again for four years – meantime we seem to be building a mountain of debt we shall be forever digging out of – but, having lived through the post WWII days, I can recall when we thought those debts were forever going to be our shackles – and apparently America’s spirit never faltered but we went through tremendous economic growth.

 

            My concern is more for the things that are invisible… the eternal vs. the temporal. But I’ll save my sermonette for another more graceful time. Glad to have you with us today. Come back often.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack Buttram

 

http://www.jebcovoice.net/audio/jama01-21-09.mp3

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

ALONG PARALLEL LINES

Homer: Just a Minit – Well Mr. Jack – Hit’s done done.

Jack: You mean the new President?

Homer: I shore do.

BB: Yep – we’s got us a new ‘un Mr. J… whattaya thank?

Jack: I saw the ceremony and heard the speech.

MizP: So what’s th’ verdict Mr. Jack?

Jack: It’s really not my call.

MizP: Oh c’mon… quit dodgin’ round th’ blackberry bush… what did  you thank of hit?

Jack: It was an excellent speech – not a word with which I would disagree. In fact

               I checked with the fellows at Earl ’n’ Lester’s Bait Shop and Sushi Bar…

Homer: And…

Jack: And they unanimously agreed it was good -- they’d go along with it.

BB: Well that’s good. I din’t come by there this mornin’ – hit was too cold…

Homer: Coun’t shovel out’n th’ snow huh/  He heh…

MizP: Oh Homer… you an your jokes.

Homer: Did you like hit Miz Pearl?

MizP: Ah did… he was very statesmen like … an hit was showt too.

BB: Yeah… at’s impawtent when hit comes ta' standin’ out’n th’ cold a-listenin’ –

Jack: Did you stand out in the cold.

BB: If’n you was outside you was standin’ in th’ cole.

MizP: Did you think he disagreed with Prezidint Bush, Mr. Jack

Jack: I thought an outstanding line in his speech was about getting the ‘other side’ to

               meet us half-way.

Homer: Whut part was that Mr. Jack?

Jack: There were several good points he made but my favorite was when he spoke to the

               Muslim world – he said…”To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West--…  your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. … we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.”

Homer: Yeah… Ah thot that part was good too…

BB: So, I guess we’s all agreed – God bless the New President --       

Jack: And the United States -- <> I’m Jack Buttram

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