THE McCAIN-RIDGE CAVALRY RIDES TO CUSTER HILL -- Just A Minute Radio for Tuesday 110719

We have a bunch of 'hot' days coming along – with 'heat events' promised by the WX bureau folks…

 

By the count of the NWS there have now been two tropical named storms come through the starting gates for the hurricane season of 2011… The next one – they say is named "Cindy." Just so you'll know when she comes a-knockin' or a blowin' or whatever.

 

Everyone agrees it's been a most unusual season thus far. The heat wave that has been moving across the Midwest the last few days has been pushing the tropical storms out in the Atlantic. Obviously one of those examples of it being "An ill wind that blows no one good!"  So, aside from the waves rocking the occasional freighter, tanker or off-track cruise ship – I think we may thank the Lord for those two not being able to come ashore because of the hot weather.

 

Now let's see what else we can do with summer.  –  I thought these are supposed to be the 'winding down' of the 'dog days' that appear when the Romans referred to the dog days as diēs caniculārēs and associated the hot weather with the star Sirius. They considered Sirius to be the "Dog Star" because it is the brightest star in the constellation Canis Major (Large Dog). The Almanac says the Dog Days began this year on the 3^rd of July and should end on the 11^th of August – which is still a long hot time away!

 

I'm trying to come up with a way to satisfy the grey squirrels that populate our back yard… eat more than their share of the sunflower seed I put out… and sort of scare off the bird population from the bird feeder. A couple of weeks ago the wind – racing through some tulip poplars that stand around the house – and that the insurance company required me to trim back so they would not damage the home – well the wind broke off some fairly large limbs – even after trimming… and one of them smashed the bird feeder to smithereens.

 

I've never quite known the measurements for smithereens… but I guess it's small enough. If you have a convenient measurement send it along please. And if you have a workable idea about keeping the squirrels clear of the bird feeders's I'd be glad to have it.  E-mail is n4zhk@arrl.net and I'll send back a picture once I get the miracle squirrel feeder built. (J)

 

Well… I don't want to get overheated with all the excitement. Have a great day!

 

Cordially, IN HIM

Jack

 

IF A WEEK STARTS OFF LIKE THIS - WHAT WILL FRIDAY BRING? -- Just A Minute Radio for Monday 110718

Well… we had a few nice days back there “buckos”… But a return to ‘Dog Day Hot’ is in the offing -- says the Doppler weather man.

 

I will say I’m getting a nice crop of dandelions in the front yard… – which is opposite to what I wanted. (L)

 

However, there are more important things to be “Blue” about than dandelions. One of them is the “Big Time Yard Sale” we planned for May… and here we are more’n half way through July and it’s too hot to work up to and past noon.  But we’re a-gittin’ there … which on a hot day takes a lot of optimism.

 

Beyond that I seem to be losing the fight with the squirrels.  They are *persistent* and inventive – and if I didn’t know better, “ABLE TO LEAP TALL BUILDINGS AT A SINGLE BOUND.”  No… that’s the old billing ‘Superman’ used to have.

 

Today – since it’s Monday… and that’s a good blue day – I’m moaning about us not being able to make a dent in discouraging the people that are bound and determined to saddle us with a backbreaking budget and we don’t seem to be able to do much about it. I surely hope the wind changes from the east after November of 2012… maybe it won’t be too late… Like John Paul Jones said: “Don’t give up the ship!” I always liked that story so often re-told in elementary school. 

 

Ladies and Gentlemen… we will persevere right through till fall.  Things will get better – but it will seem interminable. Let’s stick with it… that’s one good thing to do with the high humidity that comes in summer… Remind yourself to stick with it right to the end!

 

Cordially, IN HIM –

 

Jack Buttram

 

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IF A WEEK *STARTS OFF LIKE THIS* WHAT WILL FRIDAY BRING?

          Just a Minute: The Supreme Court’s in recess – but questions still exist asked by 49 members of Congress concerning conflicting answers in e-mails authored by Justice Elanor Kagen being examined for the high court.

            The lawmakers believe so far evidence reveals Kagan must recuse herself from involvement with the health care bill while she was serving as his Solicitor General.       Recently released Justice Department documents reveal her active participation with Obama colleagues formulating the case -- wrote the 49 congressmen.

            The DOJ has not cooperated in providing full information. Senator Tom Coburn asked in her sworn testimony if there was “any time you were asked in your present position [as Solicitor General] to express an opinion on the merits of the health care bill?” Her answer: “There was not.”

          Possibly that was so – but it is clear Kagan encouraged her top deputy, to participate the defense saying, “You should do it.”-- But not to say anything about that question without directly coordinating with her (Kagan).

            Seems like a pretty shaky case to me. <>I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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WHEN I WRITE ABOUT 'HOT' -- IT TURNS COOL! -- For Just A Minute Radio -- Friday 110715

Well… talk or write about ‘hot and sticky’ and it turns out to be a mostly overcast and cooler day. (J) 

 

I think that’s what’s also in the forecast for today – Friday. But the *real* weather people tell us it’ll get warm again next week and we still have more ‘dog days’ to endure. Seems like the same thing can be said about the coming election and all the stuff that attends it.  This has all the earmarks of one of the slowest and most convoluted election cycles in my life…

 

Well… maybe we can concentrate on something more pleasant.

 

My wife and I cut and ate a big chunk of one of those little ‘pint-sized’ seedless variety watermelons. It wasn’t as cool as I could have preferred it… but still tasty and cooling!  Be thankful for the blessings we have!

 

We have learned of several friends and folks we know who are undergoing stressful times with illnesses and indeed are not too far – from what the doctors tell them – of “going home” – for that’s what the friends and relatives we know who have put their trust in the Lord are looking forward to.  It *is* a real blessing to be able to think about the approaching end-of-this-life in that light. At our ages we have never experienced quite so many friends and families that we know who are facing that separation which is ‘temporary’ for those in the Lord’s hand – but is also a matter of real separation at least for a time. 

 

Sometimes when I attend a funeral – or observe one via TV or some other way, I really wonder how people go through death and separation without a Saviour. And often when we’ve been in the company of those who do not profess salvation or belief in the afterlife, I think they must think we are irreverent because we quite often to not appear to be in deep mourning as do some who do not have hope in the Lord.

 

When I say ‘hope’ – I use it in the scriptural sense that conveys perhaps a time of being separated – but is cushioned and indeed relieved by *knowing* from the scriptures which are God’s words and instructions to us to NOT be afraid – but to be confident of walking through the ‘valley of the shadow’ with confidence and faith that HE *will* do everything HE has promised in HIS WORD. 

 

Anyway – it is a surety based on HIS assurances that cannot fail – and is such a joy and assurance that Christians want to share the good news with all who will listen.

 

Ah well… back up on the podium again… thanks for listening… and REJOICE… for this is the day the Lord hath made – we will rejoice and be exceeding glad.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Barbara and Jack

 

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WHEN I WRITE ABOUT “HOT” – IT TURNS COOL!

          Just a Minute:  The President has been dangling a suspension of Social Security checks before Grandma and Grandpa, since a couple of columnists have written recently about how boring he has become. I guess this is his way of regaining national attention.

          Since one good threat deserves another, Minnesota’s Gov. Mark Dayton, has threatened to withdraw licenses for “adult beverages” in his state – according to the Associated Press.

          One of the major beer brands has 39 “brand label registrations” with the state and they all expired last month.  Employees who process that paperwork for renewals were laid off when the state shut down their office the first of July.  State alcohol enforcement officials, however, were not shut down.  They’re still on the job and have told officials in Chicago with the beet companies they need to pull their products off the shelves right away.

 

          Hmmm… let’s see – They shut down the office that approves licenses but not the office that enforces licenses?  Sounds like a good way to reduce government to me.

          Stay cool everybody… I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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OK WOULD BE 'MILERS' -- JUST *COOL* IT! - for JUST A MINUTE Radio -- Thursday 110714

So… how’s it been going at your place during this hot spell?  Another heat wave is expected in this series.

 

There comes a time when rehashing what they’ve already re-hashed on TV, cable and in the major papers -- 16 dozen theories of “What does Mitch McConnell think he’s doing?” to another gross and a half dozen quotes from Minnesota, Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina of what’s going to happen next? 

 

The answer is ‘Nobody knows!’  Even the people that are prognosticating by the bushel.  [You’ve got to write about *something* in the heat while the dog days are on us. Generally from July 3^rd to August 10^th or 11^th… thought to be the hottest and most sultry days of summer.]  Sort of a time of languidity – although I find that’s not a word… ‘languidness’ is the word I find in the dictionary.  I like languidity better… so I’m including it in *my* dictionary. [You can check it out.]

 

Anyway… JUST A MINUTE today tries to get across the idea of a Jack Buttram invented word… and we’ll just skip politics and Mr. Obama’s omissions today. (J)

 

Have a great Day!

  Cordially…

 

Jack

 

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OK WOULD-BE MILERS – JUST COOL IT!

          Just a Minute: These last few days you’re learning how a steam bath feels in the middle of the day. The weather service will alert you to possibly dangerous “heat events” warning to skip heavy exercising in the middle of the day.

          Gretchen Reynolds, health writer, warns: “Use your head when exercising in the heat.” Researchers in London found healthy young men can run further in a hot lab if they wear an ice-cold neck collar. But what happens to the rest of the body?

          Athletic training literature showed volunteers can run in higher temps to exhaustion, but ‘core’ temps are often significantly higher.

          An elevated body temp can be dangerous and lead to a heat stroke or worse. If the core temperature reaches something like 104 degrees – the person’s ability to continue often abruptly ends.  Possibly this is due to cooled blood in the carotid arteries telling the brain to quit. Is it wise to push things this far?

           

          Health experts say concentrate on ‘staying healthy’ – acclimate to higher temps over a week or so – but you can ‘over-exert.’ Particularly If you use a ‘frozen wrapped-up banana around your neck – you may get an ice-cream headache.

          I think I’ll take just a little rest now… <> I’m Jack Buttram.

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AIR WE MEKIN' PRGRESS, ER JIST TREADIN' WATER? -- for Just A Minute Radio for Wednesday 110713

Boys that ‘heat-index’ is rite up there against the ceilin’ – and we can tell it!  All day long!

 

And things don’t seem to be coolin’ off over under the Capitol Dome. Each side keeps being polite on the outside – but seem to be distrustful… or looking over their shoulders all the time they are in each other’s presence. Pretty hard to reach a compromise when the arrows fly thick and fast.

 

What becomes apparent is seeds planted last year *before* the elections in November… have sprouted and grown into full-fledged weeds now.  The Freshmen congress people – and the more experienced folks also – are still smarting under the skin about the callous way the several thousand page “Obama-Care” bill was presented…. Or more accurately ‘dumped’ in the laps of the Congress people and they were told to start chewin’ and swallerin’ – and that bitter fruit has come to maturity this summer.

 

The price was set last year and the bill is coming due this year. Meantime a second round of ‘you bash me and I’ll bash you back’ is being played out in the House of Representatives this year. The Freshmen and women didn’t like it – and so they’re doing no favors, indeed paying back in kind. It takes a couple of years – sort of like training a spirited horse who is the rider and who is the horse – to get over that kind of treatment. Some of the older and wiser heads in the Senate don’t want to continue in that vein and make things worse. 

 

What’s complicating things is the President has never been through this kind of cycle – when his team is/was in the driver’s seat – and he tends to be either disengaged, or not fully realizing how the game is played steps up to the plate swinging hard and strikes out. Well… that’s as close a sports analogy as I can come to describing the ‘tangle’ that’s on Capitol Hill at present.

 

What is difficult for both sides to make apparent to their troops is: handing back the ‘come-uppance’ which the Obama-Care campaign earned with their ‘we’ve got the votes’ attitude last year – is like a dark and growing cloud overhanging *this year’s* legislative weather. If you engage in excesses – you may as well expect to have some ‘payback coming’ and I think this is the point where the ball bounces back. The Democrats were heavy-handed in the last Congress… now the payback comes.  What the freshmen don’t realize is they can well be digging their own foxhole and baiting the battle that’s going to be played out now between 2011 and 2012.  It’s not a beautiful landscape – and to mix metaphors – there’s an inexperienced driver at the wheel.

 

Well… that’s about enough for today.  We’ll see this played out in the present conflicts … and I expect in the days to come. All the blood hasn’t been shed yet.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

 

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AIR WE MEKING PROGRESS,ER JIST TREADIN’ WATER?

MizP: Just a Minute: Mr. Jack – no bones about hit… Ah’m cornfused.

Jack: Confused about what Miz Pearlie?

MizP: Ah jist cain’t keep up wif all this jimmer-jammin ‘bout the cornclusion.

BB: She’s rite Mr. Jack. You listen to th radio er th’ TV an hits hard ta foller.

Homer: Whut in th’ worl are they a-doin’ Mr. Jack. How are we ‘sposed ta know?

MizP: An whut gits my goat is this here’s s’posed ta be a gummite of, by & fer…

BB: The peepul… you’s perzackly rite Miz. Pearl.

Homer: Ah ‘grees wif them one hunnert percent Mr. Jack. Whut’s a goin’ on?

Jack: There’s an old saying that you shouldn’t be around when laws and….

MizP: And sausage is a-bein’ made. Ah’s heered that a-fore – but Ah’m agittin

               upset ‘bout hit…  You can’t tell front frum back…

BB: Can’t tell if’n they’s playing baseball or ice – hockey… How’r we gonna know?

Jack: You’re all correct folks… but you have to calm down a little bit first.  

MizP: OK…. I’ze cammed down… now speak up.

Jack: OK… Miz Pearlie – it’s a difficult time because

BB: Ah know you can’t tell th’ players wi’fout a program  but…

Homer: Ah don’t thank th’players knows hardly enny thang… er if they do ….

MizP: If they do they show ain’t ‘splainin’ hit ta usn’s out here in th’ country.

Jack: From what I can follow each side has it’s problems… they’re trying to..

MizP: Tryin’ ta play tiddledee winks wif croquet balls.

Jack: You know we only have one minute.

MizP: OK… we gits th’ idea… better siddown fellers.

Jack: Look the main thing is to take it easy – listen carefully, especially to Boehner and Cantor …

BB: And then ---Don’t jump to conclusions?

Jack: Exactly right Billy-bob.  Take your time and listen to it all.

MizP: Jist don’t b’leve it awl…

Homer: An we need ta pray….

MizP: Need ta pray an trus in th Lawd… He’s in control.

Jack: Correct Miz Pearlie… The Lord WILL be glorified as things work out.

MizP: We sho needs ta be ‘r’minded of Mr. Jack – bout ever 5 minits  

Homer: More like ever 15 seconds --.

MizP: How long you thank this’ll go on Mr. Jack?

Jack: I guess we’ll still be working with this mid August and beyond……

               But right now… we have to say – We’ll be back  next Wednesday

               <> I’m Jack Buttram .  (END)

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THE PRESIDENT HAS MISSED HIS CALLING -- for JUST A MINUTE Radion Tuesday 110712

We are certainly in the heat of summer. When I looked at the digital thermometer at 8PM the other evening… it was still 82 F… that’s still hot by my lites.

 

So… I was looking to cool off. And I just don’t find Mr. Obama’s attempts at joking or humor to be very… well… cooling.  In fact they tend in the other direction. So I assumed perhaps he’s feeling the heat himself from the way the 2012 election is shaping up. And being a relatively young and vigorous fellow perhaps he’s looking for another career – like say Bob Hope… combining comedy with Golf.

 

Why do I say that?  Well just yesterday he was making jokes in the WH press briefing room… part of what he said is on today’s JAM (Just A Minute) and perhaps you’ve caught it yourself.  You remember when Bush 43 said something about his mother urging him to ‘eat his broccoli?’  Well… Mr. Obama stepped into the vegetable garden yesterday when he admonished the Republicans and all who don’t fully agree with him that it’s time to “eat your peas.”

 

I don’t know how that suits your appetite… I happen to like peas… black eyed peas… English peas… butterbeans – or lima beans – I know they aren’t peas… but when grandma picked ‘em fresh out of the garden and blanched them in a pot of hot water on top of the old cast iron cook stove… put a big slab of slightly salted butter on ‘em as they were dished up at dinner time… they were Goooood! (As Andy used to say before he became a liberal democrat.) Anyway I got an idea Mr. “O” – being the perspicacious fellow he is – is casting about for something that will keep him in the spotlight and from having to work too hard writing (or making up) more biographies – since he’s already come up with a couple of versions… it might be difficult.

 

So – I think he’s been trying out various ideas – sort of surreptitiously so you wouldn’t notice (and you wouldn’t from what he’s used so far) of what it might be like to work just on Saturday evenings… like if he could gin up a regular slot on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.”  He’d probably have a bit of a problem with the age group they are aiming at… but tolerant and wide-minded liberals ought to be able to take in a sort of ‘over-the-hill’ teen ager – cool guy—and golfer. 

 

Oh… so you don’t think I’m hitting the correct note, eh?  Well… I’ll give it some more thought.  Drop me a note and tell me what you ‘really’ think.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

Jack

 

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THE PRESIDENT HAS MISSED HIS CALLING

          Just a Minute: Now we have two of the most comedic lines ever televised – and even more are yet in the oven. First, when the President was asked yet again, in a current campaign ad, “Where are the ‘shovel-ready’ jobs?” His chuckling reply was: “Well, I guess they weren’t quite so ‘shovel-ready.’” – And the audience howled.

          Oh, WOW – what a knee slapper! I’m sure the guys out in the muddy ditches were just bent over laughing.  And in yesterday’s matinee news conference when he suggested how “little juice” he thought a correspondent questioner might have with the Republicans; he got a big guffaw from the assembled Washington news gang.  Once more he just about bent the needle on the laugh meter.

          Oh, we’ve obviously missed the true capabilities of the Haa-vaad, via Chicago “Obama-lad” who got his early training in Hawaii – or Malaysia – we’re not sure which. In any case we need to reevaluate his talents. Obviously he’s not succeeding in selling “Obama Care” -- for which he volunteered.

          Maybe this is a dry-run try-out for a permanent slot on “Saturday Night Live?” 

<> I’m Jack Buttram.

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THINGS HAPPEN ON THE WEEKEND -- for Just A Minute Radio - Monday 110711

Here we head into a very ‘bushy’ week in D.C.

 

I don’t mean George W. or George H.W. are coming back to 1600 Pennsylvania for a return engagement. I mean it’s going to be a week when you can’t see the forest for the trees… or the underbrush as the case may be.

 

The big fight going on – which will run right up to Labor Day and beyond, believe me… is doing what has to be done to save the ‘full faith and credit of the United States.’  I don’t profess to know what will happen if they let the nation default on its loans as has happened before.

 

Remember we had a couple of shut-downs in 1954, complicated by the political scene to the point nobody really knows what happens when the government fails in its financial operations. Let’s hope we don’t have to find out the hard way.  In any case, my take is on it is it’s really “uncharted waters”. No one has really been through one of these to the finish. And by the way – what IS the finish?  Who owns the store then?

 

So… right now the President, and Speaker John Bohner, are playing a delicate game of chicken to see who will blink first. Bohner has more experience in blinking matches than does Mr. Obama – but the power of the Presidency and the things he might do – or attempt to do, could well throw the country and it’s financial structure into the ditch. 

 

None of us were around when Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson hammered out the early stages of fiscal institutions… that’s why we have the Quasi – governmental Federal Reserve Bank… which seems to have a sort of ‘enchanted’ existence the rest of us are supposed to leave alone. Well… it could be like touching high tension wires. You may have some disastrous results no matter which side of the line you err on.

 

It’s getting late here… We can’t hash this out right now. I’ll leave it to the ‘braniacs” – they’re the ones who got us in to this mess.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

 

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THINGS HAPPEN ON THE WEEKEND

          Just a Minute: Mostly we just try to comment, not report, on news events – with Biblical viewpoint. But occasionally regular news crowds in un-invited – like the “strong” earthquake in northeast Japan. Sunday news reports gave it about a 7 on the Richter scale with very little damage and equally small tsunamis.

          What we find more upsetting is President Obama’s Chief of Staff, William Daley, who confirms we’re holding back ‘some military aid to Pakistan.  However he indicated the impression given by the New York Times story that it was 800 million was off by 500 million.

          The White House isn’t the most cooperative news source around when they’re wanting to play diplomatic chess with foreign governments and Pakistan is still smarting from not being ‘asked’ if the Navy Seals could come in and ‘capture’ Bin Laden – the unhappiness seems to be mutual.

          Well, that’s the kind of tight-rope-walking which makes getting solid information from The White House sometimes like nailing Jello to the wall.

            It’s a game played every day in DC. <> I’m Jack Buttram

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CIRCLING THE WAGONS IN ILLINOIS - JUST A MINUTE -Radio for Friday 110708

Once more we’re needing to set the record straight.

 

When Ms. Kagen was announced as the appointee to the high court, of course everyone had to search her records etc. etc. – but Ms Kagen was not particularly enthralled with having every comma examined – I know I wouldn’t be. Especially since she did not know that every word was going to be parsed and turned over and over.  And you think back and somebody turned the lights down low in Illinois. A not infrequent occasion.

 

So after the meetings with the Senators on the Judiciary Committee and doing a lot of careful hair splitting, of course she was appointed.

 

But there’s the problem of her having been Solicitor General – the person who argues the U.S. case before the court. And I suppose a lot of communication that goes on between the Justices themselves and their clerks and looking up precedents etc. etc.

 

I’m not expert in the law and certainly not at that level – but you have nine men and women who are!... and that’s what takes a lot of time. Eventually Justice Kagan’s opinions concerning some of the cases she had argued before the Court came to light … legal lights… and I suppose some saw some wiggle room there… that is making a decision along some line initially that was not *exactly* followed subsequently.  Those back and forth proceedings only show up when there is a divided opinion… and even then each Justice is allowed to agree or dissent. And when you get to gun ownership – which is what this case is all about – well things become even more touchy.

 

So the National Rifle Association – which is the largest gun owners association in the USA I’m pretty sure – has a new President – a man I happened to know from my service in the Senate – his name is David Keene.  And he’s been associated with conservative causes back to my day… which is reaching back there. Knowing him to be a writer and conservative person – I was a bit surprised when I saw he was now in this post – and apparently he’s been working to see what can be done about this hurdle of gun registration and ownership – and Illinois is not an easy state to tackle.  Big city – yes.  Lots of hunters and other gun owners… You Betcha!  So – this hammering out an agreement is going to be fun to watch.  The NRA publication says they’ve counted a reversal of the Illinois Atty. General a BIG victory – and have given the AG an implied hurdle… that come the 29^th of July, they are expecting to see the wheels of progress grind – and they expect it to grind in the direction of gun ownership. I think it’s going to be an interesting month on that score.  The Court takes its summer recess. So I don’t think we’ll hear much about this until Fall begins… then we’ll see how much explaining will need to be done on the advisability of changing the procedure of gun ownership in Illinois.

 

My guess is it’s going to be something gun owners will hear a lot about… and both the GOP and the Dems have lots of hunters/fishers in their corners. So it’s not going to be an easy road.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Barbara & Jack

 

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CIRCLING THE WAGONS IN ILLINOIS

            Just a Minute: Your attention has been focused on Orlando – but there are more important fish to fry such as discrepancies which seem to occur between the e-mails Solicitor General Elanor Kagan provided about “Obama care” – and the sworn statement she later gave when being examined for the High Court.

          Now, attention is being focused on the struggle between the Illinois Democrat Governor Pat Quinn, who is being asked by a letter signed by 49 House members requesting his committee to investigate discrepancies that don’t match the sworn testimony given concerning ‘Obama care’ before Ms. Kagan’s appointment.

          The NRA has a new president, David Keene -- anxious to have the entire record carefully examined. Chicago has resisted Illinois law exposing all gun owners in the Windy City to have their names published and thus become targets for gangsters and thieves. So public attention is now directed to what Mrs. Elanor Kagan wrote as Solicitor General, before she was sworn in as Associate Justice. State Senate passed the Illinois law, 42-1, overturning a ruling by the Illinois Attorney General.    <> I’m Jack Buttram.        

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THE VOUCHER EXPRESS IS A LONG TIME COMING- for Just A Minute Radio - Tuesday 110707

Hi Folks…

 

Got a little ahead of myself this week.  When we have a holiday during the week – gets my head all bumfuzzled – but now that I’ve got it written… well – we’ll just keep on with it no matter that we will overrun our late night time tonight.  I’ll just put it in the cooler for 24 hours – maybe it’ll improve the flavor. (J)

 

The matter of school vouchers has been kickin’ around for quite a while.

 

We’ve had to run the flag up the pole and down again to see who’s really interested. Back in the ‘60’s the accusation was that it was ‘white schools’ just trying to give the slip to integration. Well… time proved that wrong.

 

For me it’s an incontestable fact that animals tend to ‘pack up’ – gather – whatever you want to call it, with like animals.  You’ll see two horses standing in the pasture together.  Sheep are similar in wanting to herd. I’m not an expert in animal husbandry … but it is observatble.

 

Three or four of us sit down to have a burger or Coke together… or breakfast… some guys will talk about the food, others will talk about fishing and still others about the Bible verses we read that morning at the prayer meeting.

 

Birds flock etc. and I think you could go through the whole animal kingdom and find similarities or differences. So people tend to group in their own kind. That’s why Christians like to have their children in schools taught by Christian teachers and with whom Christian parents can confer as well as enjoy the fellowship.

 

We noted in a county where we lived in North Carolina there was a Charter School.  Enrollment was limited… it’s still a public school and following the generally approved school goals…which may vary and are overall approved by the NC educational authorities. What griped me was the teacher’s union lobbied the legislature to ‘cap’ the enrollment and allow only one Charter school per county. (NC has 100 I think.) Other states that have started out that way have abandoned it. In most cases there’s no need. The school won’t get any bigger than it needs to be.

 

Well… there’s a lot more to be said… but I’m not the guy who has to say it; almost all of my children now have children of their own…and we’re pushing three generations now. I just get a bit ill when everybody seems to think they know more about someone else’s business than they obviously know about their own.

 

OK .. it’s “Git Down Of’n the SoapBox time.” So I will… but watch.  Thirteen states have adopted some kind of optional or Charter School kind of program for parents who don’t want to expose their kids to secular sex education and other stuff the “progressive’s” want to shower us with.  Let’s just try to get along…..OK?

 

Cordially IN HIM

Jack

“JUST A MINUTE”

THE VOUCHER EXPRESS IS LONG TIME COMING

            Just a Minute: Some years ago I saw an outline of the educational voucher program on tracks correcting the ‘progressive’ educational hold on public education.

          When I completed high school and looked into prospects for my higher education I saw problems and conflicts. Private education on the university level was well beyond my grasp – but I was able to enroll in a privately funded university within our family’s financial abilities, for which I’m very thankful. I also saw mistakenly aimed education which I wanted to avoid – and later, as a father, I did not want it for my children.

          The option of voucher-choice education at earlier school levels, at an affordable cost, now allows children to avoid being instructed by government goals -- but trained within the family’s preferences. This was a principled train on an excellent track and for more than 40 years families have been able to guide their children’s training. Thirteen states now include this option in their programs with both improved costs and results.  For this I praise the Lord!

                    <> I’m Jack Buttram.        

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THE TRIAL IS *FINALLY* OVER - for Just A Minute Radio - Wed. 110706

Hope all is well at your house. We had our first rain that was light but at least sort of soaking yesterday.

 

The flowers and grass seem to do better with rain than with watering.  Must be they discern it’s from the hand of God rather than through my hose.

 

This Trial of the young lady – who has already been sitting in Jail for about three years – is a sad and difficult story.

 

You can tell it’s difficult when the News Fox Contributor with the handlebar moustache, who normally has his opinion first out of the box, was somewhat diminished at the verdict – even his hosting partner – the former night court judge “J” – was somewhat flabbergasted at his change of mind.

 

What sort of takes me aback is the attention and all given to this case. Whoever said it amongst the commenting crowd was right in my view when they pointed out that TV watchers of crime or “reality” *shows* are used to watching just that…. A SHOW … that has a happy or justifying ending.  That is it comes to a conclusion that someone was right and someone was wrong.

 

Life doesn’t come in such neatly wrapped packages. Right now we still don’t *know* who killed the little two and a half year old and “disposed of” the body. But I would remind you that God does know – and HE will render perfect justice! 

 

There were a lot of quirks and mix-ups in this trial. They had to truck the jury in from another County… which is not particularly unusual but for all the trouble of picking and swearing the jury etc. etc… it drug on and on. As I didn’t even see the beginning and was too busy taking care of other things to spend the time in font of the TV catching up with the ‘latest.’ 

 

Frankly, the media (Including FOX and their friends) were too much taken in about the whole thing. Not that it was not a heinous crime;(or possibly an accident in which a caretaker panicked) and not that the perpetrator should have been caught and ‘brought to justice’ to quote our 43’rd President. But things do not work out so neatly in the real world. And this was the real world. Bill O’Reilly may *think* he has a handle on how the matter should have been handled… but that’s exactly the reason why he’s a TV talking head and NOT a Judge or prosecutor.

 

Even though tennis is played on a ‘court’ it’s not the same as a trial. And there are *reasons* -- they don’t always work out perfectly, and even the judges turn out to make mistakes as do the prosecutors, witnesses, lab people etc. etc…. It’s not a precise and never failing system – Why? Because human’s are not precise and never-failing… only God is.  And God knows… You need not fear, God is righteous and you may rest totally assured God will bring total Justice to bear – and the little girl is in Heaven.

 

So with that – I’ve probably written enough to get myself in hot water… so time to put it to bed.

 

Glad to have YOU with us today.

 

God bless you – Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

 

                                                             “JUST A MINUTE”

THE TRIAL IS *FINALLY* OVER!

MizP: Just a Minute: Mr. Jack did you watch the trial till hit was ovah?

Jack: Ah No…Miz Pearl I didn’t. I’m not a lawyer… have worked on trials but I

               just saw snippits and didn’t watch yesterday at all.  

Homer: Hit was an awful sad thang ta happen.

BB: An Ah don’t reckon ennyone of us has ennythang ta corn tribute. .

MizP: But Ah recken jist about awl of us has a ‘pinion ‘bout hit.

Jack: I think you have to count me out Miz Pearl.

MizP: You don’t have no ‘pinion?

Jack: I don’t have any first hand knowledge and…

MizP: Well we don’t neither. Hit’s in Floreedi!

BB: Yeah… Ah thank hit’s kinda like when they was a-havin’ them baseball hearins…

Homer: You mean about who hit homers… an who wuz on steroids…

Jack: Yes that’s it… It’s a game… Of course this wasn’t a game but it wasn’t my busi

MizP: Hit wuzn’t my bizness either… but ah felt so sorry fer th folks...

BB: Oh yeah… But you know… at’s why the got courts… an hit’s not a tennis match.

MizP: They do play tennis on courts.

Homer: Now Miz Pearlie… Ah know you woun’t make fun ‘er this..

MizP: Of cost not Homer… Ah feels sorry fowah th’ little girl.

BB: You mean th’ one tha-ut was caught telling ‘lies ta’ th police?

MizP: Oh coss not Mr. Beeelie…. Ah’m sorry fer alla them. Wisht they was somebody

               who could tell ‘em about  Jesus.

Homer: That would be reel nice Miz Pearl.  I wisht hit too… Hit’s a shame…

BB: Well one thang – we know’s th’ little girl is in Heaven. Thass th’ best.  

Homer: You’s rite Mr. Bill… but you know lotsa folks gits really holy when they thanks

               hit mite hep ‘em git out’n jail er sumpin.

Jack: I’ve visited a lot of guys in the jails and you’re right Homer.

MizP: Meks me thank of a li’l pome…

Jack: How’s that Miz Pearlie…

MizP: Ah ‘bleve hit was Sir Walter Scott wrot hit.

BB: Don’t put awl ye aigs in one basket?

MizP: No…”Oh whut a tangled web we weave, When firs we practice to deceive.”

               Sir Walter Scott…

Jack: You’re right about that Miz Pearl. See you next Wednesday –

<> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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