HERE'S WHERE SCROOGE LIVES -- Just A Minute Radio for Monday 2/8/10

            Good Day –

 

            Glad you’ve survived all the chancy forecasts.  Some come true, some don’t. Just remember they’re doin’ the best they can… Forecasting freezing rain is one of the most tricky tasks in meteorology.

 

            Getting a satisfactory education in big cities is also a challenge.  It takes extra effort sometimes… and we certainly don’t need folks putting roadblocks in the way.

 

            What’s most distressing to me is we often have people – good hard working blue collar people, who know the value of a dollar and how much work it takes to accumulate some of those greenbacks … and they put up with situations that affect their own children, grandchildren or neighbor kids adversely.

 

            The case we deal with on today’s JUST A MINUTE is a really discouraging one.  People who should know better, who have pledged themselves to try and fairly represent, support and help their constituents – sometimes participate in making it harder for young people – students – to do what they’re supposed to be working on in their young years.  The kids are getting the short end of the stick and often don’t know about it and sometimes their parents aren’t involved… or don’t express care… or I don’t know what all.

 

            Right now what I’m talking about is the situation in the Nation’s Capital city… the one that *should* be setting a good example --- and *should* have the resources because the largest class of public employees… people paid by the U.S. Government are their neighbors.  

 

            Well… I don’t want to get wound up about it right now… and I do think there is a case to be made that Washington DC schools *ought* to be at least the district that’s trying hardest… and frankly from all I can tell Washington DC public schools is leading the ‘race to the bottom’ because the education unions have a strangle hold on them like nobody’s business… the only case I know that’s worse is New York City… and the reason… failure to achieve must be laid squarely at the door of education union leadership.  I urge you – yes, you… and me to look into it and do something about it. It’s a tragedy that in some ways is bigger and more tragic than the recent happenings in Haiti.

 

            Enough for today … I’ll be back again… and harping on this issue because on it hangs the future of our freedom and our Nation.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

 

            Jack

 

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HERE’S WHERE SCROOGE LIVES

Just A Minute – Congress cuts successful DC minority student aid.   That’s the headline describing a vanishing program in the Nation’s capital. It’s heartbreaking – and in my view, criminal.

Even the President’s own supporters are angry.  “We marched for you… stood outside in the cold for you… and now you do this?”  Last month, Congress tried to find a way to cut pork out of a thousand page bill.  So they cut a program helping about 1400 mostly black and Hispanic students called the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program.  Instead, they opted to cave in to teachers union leaders who don’t like it.  Since the teacher’s unions are huge contributors to the Democrat Party,  Congress took the coward’s way out and will now send these mostly minority black and Hispanic kids back into the worst run school district in the Nation.  What weasels!

Most members of Congress who have school age children choose to send them to expensive private schools – but in this case, they are responding to pressure from political contributors – education union leaders. 

          In my book it’s Congress to whom we need to give a failing grade.

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THAT 'POPULISM' -- WHAT IS IT? -- Just a Minute Radio for Friday 02-05-10

Hello again… So far the Groundhog’s been right…

 

            Every now and then I get a hankering just to read the dictionary.  The plot’s a little confusing … but the stories are generally short…  Corney huh?  Sorry about that… not as addicted as some punsters.

 

            But words are the symbols we *think* with – and when a word gets mashed around a lot – and batted back and forth – Well … it’s hard to know who’s winning.  Populism is one of those words.

 

            I don’t mind having new symbols introduced to the discussion… but every now and then we need to stop and add up the score… or at least see who’s on first.

 

            William Jennings Bryan was a popular populist – he ran for President three times, losing each race. He made a historic speech on which he said mankind must not be crucified on a “Cross of Gold.”  By which he meant those who controlled the gold supply and could thus dictate the value of gold coins and all those ramifications – their power should not be limitless.  Perhaps there he was advocating ‘limited government’ – certainly limited spending.

 

            The “Massachusetts upset” is viewed – particularly as a ‘populist rebellion’ – often it seems those out of power are the “populists” wanting to be heard. Well… is that such a bad thing?  We do have a first amendment to our U.S. Constitution… often abused I believe – but important nevertheless, that Congress shall make no laws impinging upon that freedom; Still and all -- there are limitations such as the “right” to cry FIRE in a crowded theatre.  Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.

 

            So there’s no question … it’s an *important* matter – but it must be dealt with thoughtfully… and especially for Christians – prayerfully.  As you hear what I can cram into 60 seconds trying to imitate my betters in the bigger newspapers and more widespread audience masters – give it some thought.  Thinking never hurt the Republic – especially done by people who have character – and as for my preference – Character shaped by our Creator  -- the Lord Jesus.  Think on these things if you will – and let the Lord guide your thoughts.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack Buttram

 

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THAT ‘POPULISM’ -- WHAT IS IT?

Just A Minute – I’ve heard “populist” used in such pejorative ways recently – particularly amongst the anti-tea-party crowd, I decided to look into it and try to discern its real meaning.

Maybe it’s a ‘cabin-fever’ sort of frustration that overtakes the hyper-political folks who don’t believe the political process is moving along at a satisfactory pace – so they must needs stir the pot.  Both Plato and Aristotle had reservations about leaving things to the people, add to that David Brooks of the New York Times who calls it an “addiction” -- a worthwhile idea he had not discovered.  

Or, George Will, a generally conservative columnist at the Washington Post seems to mark ‘populism’ down as a politician’s trick adopted when concealing the true objective… he likened it to Fred Astaire putting on brogans and coveralls.  Brooks says it nearly always fails – and points to William Jennings Bryan who ran three times unsuccessfully for President.

We could possibly blow away the clouds if we agreed with Tom Frank of the Wall Street Journal – maybe it’s something the constituents really want  – we could call it democracy.

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NO MATTER WHAT YOU CALL IT -- IT'S COLD -- Just A Minute Radio for Wed. 02-03-10

            Brrrr… Cold enough for me. How about you?

 

            Today the crowd at Earl ‘n’ Lester’s Bait Shop and Sushi Bar  on the ‘Caroliner Line’ are warming themselves by the pot bellied stove waiting for the Super Bowl – much to Miz Pearlie’s dismay.  She thinks it’s disrespectful to talk about sports in the presence of ladies…especially those rough sports like NFL and Rugby… maybe even LaCrosse, even though there are some ladies teams there…

 

            It’s also the day *after* Groundhogs day and Candlemas…both of which come on the same day… and today’s program carries the key to why it’s bad news if the groundhog sees his shadow – which had always been a mystery to me.  Now I know… and can explain it to others… Always something valuable to garrulous old folks. (J)

 

            Reading through what passes for news these day as Congress (and particularly the Democrat Leadership) seems to have been thrown into a tizzy over the MA Senate race that was such an upset.  One would have thought the Hoover Dam had been moved to Chappaquiddick and developed a crack that is about to inundate the Cape.  It’s only politics folks… and sometimes there are surprises… on all sides of the aisle. Just like the game between the Saints and whoever else.

 

            Well, I’m not much up to manufacturing the news today… so I’ll just retire to the sidelines and let those who have more words (and space) to waste.  You’ll just have to untangle it yourself. I’m not feelin’ up to it.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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BIG-NOSED BARBARIANS THEY ARE - Just A Minute Radio for 02-01-10

            Good Mornin’ Breakfast Clubbers…  How was your weekend?

 

            Oh… slept late I see… didn’t go to church… It was closed you say… (A likely story.)  Oh… big storm… ice… slick steps and roads and all the rest.  But you (and I) managed to clean out the super market shelves… Isn’t that amazing…

 

            Now I have a grandson who married into a family up in Minnesota… Eden Prairie.  We’ve been to St. Paul to attend the grandson’s wedding. But it was summer… Nothing like winter!  Well… those sturdy Norwegians… and the Swedes and the Polish… they all have a taste for snow I guess (J) meanwhile we get very giddy and close the schools and everything even on the forecast of snow.

 

            Actually, from all I can tell the mountains not over 100 miles from my back door grow some of those trees … they apparently made it down here somehow… I guess those big walkers in the Lord of the Ring movies weren’t so imaginary after all. Anyway we do need a touch of winter to make us appreciate the Spring and Summer.

 

            We were down in Florida when the last cold spell set in up this way.  On the TV I saw a poor guy – it was the second time in three or four years when a cold snap hit his tropical fish farm.  This time it wiped him out and about a mil & and a half bucks worth of fish.  But what could he do? No place to take them it didn’t have to freeze, it just stayed below 45 about 4 days in a row… and that’s enough to send all the tropicals to fish heaven.  I felt sorry for him.  But I guess our Peach farmers in this area are in just as much risk.

 

            Anyway… I’m glad you made it. I’d love to hear from you how you managed.  We did OK… really enjoyed the gas logs for a while.  Especially the part about not having to cut and carry in the wood… or carry out the ashes – although there’s something rather enjoyable about that too… We did it for seven years up in NC except we really didn’t have *that* much cold weather.

 

            Well… keep buttoned up… I haven’t heard from the groundhog yet. (J)

 

            Cordially, In HIM

 

            Jack

 

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BIG-NOSED BARBARIANS THEY ARE

Just A Minute – The ideograph depicting China, is a square with a stake,  right down the middle – thus the “Middle Kingdom” was not pleased when Marco Polo showed them his map that did NOT put China at the center of the world.  From then on those of us without Chinese blood are surreptitiously known as “Barbarians” or ‘big-noses’. 

So when our Lady Hillary, a bit sternly told the current Beijing Mandarins they needed a change of attitude, there was a speedy and stinging backlash – all the result Google the Internet giant resisting – this breach of Sino-American politeness. Chinese authorities want Google to excise the three ‘T’s… Tiananmen, Taiwan, and Tibet.  Holders of G-mail, addresses are suddenly pariahs.

The two giants will likely arrive at a save-face answer – but inside some Chinese tea-houses there are soft chuckles about the Barbarians standing up to the Communists. Things will probably quiet down – but not go away.  That soft jingle is the tinkle of commerce.

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I LEFT THE SCRIPT RIGHT HERE -- Just A Minute Radio for Friday 01-29-10

            Great day in the Mawnin’ – IT’S FRIDAY ALREADY…   

 

            We’re very close to the end of Janus wery… the two faced Greek representation of looking backward and forward at the same time.  Now why does that bring the STATE OF THE UNION address to mind?  I’m sure I’ve got the reason right here in “the stack” somewhere.

 

            Anyway… we’re off to an early start on the mid-term election cycle… Or is it the 2012 cycle?  Or maybe just a motor-cycle… everybody getting on theirs and riding off in all different directions.  Well as the months go by we’ll probably get a hint one way or another… or perhaps it’ll be just like last year… both the red AND green lights go on while the yellow is flashing.

 

            Trying to figure that out all the time makes my brain cells get tired.  It’s hard work when you’ve only got two and they are sometimes not talking to one another.  However… as I pass another milestone… I’m glad I’ve got those two – even though they are sometimes in disagreement … and you know, I suspect,what the Bible says about a double-minded man…”unstable in all his ways… driven with the wind and tossed.” Well… I reckon it’s not too far to home port anyway… we’ll just try to ‘stay the course.’  I think I heard Ronald Reagan say that a couple of times.

 

            For some time I’ve been advocating a bill that would eliminate January from the Calendar and see if we couldn’t substitute another May or June… Of course that might throw the bees off schedule.  – Since we moved back from North Carolina, I left my two beehives in the care of a friend – a fellow church member at Adaville Baptist Church in Spindale.  Last time I saw him he said they were doing OK.  Beekeeping is an interesting hobby… and I enjoyed the years I kept a couple of hives.  Just this week I got a beautiful new catalog of beekeeping tools and paraphernalia.  The company is headquartered up in Kentucky – but apparently they sell supplies all over the U.S. And I’m glad  the bees haven’t taken a holiday because of all the hot air due to ‘global (political hot air) warming.’

 

            Life goes on – even if politics strikes a discordant note from time to time.  We need to think of ourselves more as all in the same ship.  That’s the way I think the folks in Boston thought about the time of the first tea-party there in the harbor.  Something to consider.  Perhaps if we smiled and unclenched our fists from time to time we might find an outstretched hand. Let’s think about it at least.

 

            We’re making some changes in the way we handle requests for scripts and/or audio downloads.  It may involve some slight changes in how we’re able to make these available to you.  Please be patient with me… remember only two half way working brain cells… I loaned a couple to a fellow talk show host… I only have 60 seconds… he has three hours… his brain cells get a lot more wear. (J )

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

 

            Jack and Barbara

 

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Just A Minute – Wednesday night, Mr. Obama made his first for-real run at a State of the Union speech.  Observers wrote it off as a trip to “Hopenhagen.”

In September, he’d tried to pull the rabbit out of that hat to win the prize of the 2016 Winter Olympics for Chicago.  He picked up the Nobel Prize after a two week Presidential record.  At a UN Climate conference, he unwisely showed up at the end where he got a ‘clenched fist’ for his outstretched hand.  Der Speigle – German left-wing paper – labeled him a prisoner of the “Stockholm Syndrome” – captive of his own beliefs.

He made no headway with Putin on Czech and Polish missile defense sites.  Hugo Chavez still sniffs for Sulfur at the UN; the Hondurans are less than thrilled with his attempt to stuff an illegal President down their throats.  He lectures Supreme Court Justices on political spending plus military policy.

And just think, we’ve got three more State of the Union addresses to sit through.  Popcorn anybody?

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HIT DON'T MAKE SENSE TO ME - Just A Minute Radio for Wednesday 01-27-10

            Good Wednesday to you.

 

            It is, after all, the week in which the full “Wolf” moon shows it’s face… Saturday is the day… but according to the Weather Bureau’s forecasts… we *may* have some ‘falling’ weather in which the ‘Wolf’ can make some real tracks.  Be not lulled into putting away your winter clothes just because of the spring-like weather we’ve had for the last week or so.  The best part of all that was the kick start on replenishing the ground water, so low for the past several years… and is not (according to the experts) fully replenished yet.  Having enough, good water, in times like these is most likely to be a continuing issue that our globe has to support.  I think that’s a far more imminent problem than ‘global warming’ – but I’m not about to suggest Al Gore write another book.

 

            When I was in high school – back in the ‘40’s – we told we cut more trees than we were growing.  By mid 50’s the ratio was reversed.  Why? It became more profitable to grow trees than cut timber.  It’s called a ‘free market’ solution. It could be stifled by letting the government (which does so few things well) set the price of lumber.  Let the market work, thank you. 

 

            There are other examples: Most of us growing up in the South of a certain age, say 65 and above, remember there were thousands of red-clay gullies through parts of South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and … you get the idea.  Where did they go – why did they disappear?  Doubtless the CCC boys/men who came to my grandfather’s farm with their large motorized plows able to quickly carve water retaining terraces and taught farmers how to keep their land from washing down the creek -- *especially* the topsoil that was most productive.  But why did they jump in behind that program and make it work?  Not because FDR and Henry Wallace and other exponents of conservation paid subsidies … but because it was in the farmer’s best and most profitable interest to operate that way rather than plowing up and down the hills creating gullies.

 

            We love and admire limited government – and find, if we let regulation get out of hand, much damage.  Can Presidents make BIG errors?  “You bet cha!” to both of these *if* we have a concerned and diligent citizenry and aren’t greedy we can come back but it depends upon the moral character of the Nation.

 

            Here’s an example which fits today.  Our second President, John Adams, was so attacked by the media of his day stirring up opposition to his policies when our nation was much younger, weaker and less mature – he got Congress to pass the Aliens and Sedition Acts. Here’s a brief definition taken from an online encyclopedia:

 

 The Alien Deportation Act allowed for the arrest and deportation of any non-American during wartime. The Sedition Act made it a crime to do "any false, scandalous and malicious writing." This resulted in the jailing of 25 newspaper editors, most of them Democratic-Republicans. This was during the presidency of John Adams, a Federalist. The response to these acts was marked. Kentucky and Virginia passed resolutions opposing these acts. (Yes – we did have the first ten amendments to the Constitution.)

 

            America survived these very dangerous periods – fostered by some of our most revered founding fathers – who were under tremendous pressure like today they made a big mistakes.  Similar laws were passed and subsequently dropped in the early stages of WWI and during WWII.  We rounded up and imprisoned relatives of German and Japanese Americans. The present senator from Hawaii, Daniel Inoue’s relatives were subject to such mistreatment.

 

            But I shine the light on John Adams again… for he said in 1772: “The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty." God is the only true source of wisdom and truth.  Let us place our trust only in HIM!

 

            Cordially,

 

            Jack

 

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HIT DON’T MAKE SENSE TO ME

MizP: Just a Minit – Ah thank hit’s kinda cool heah.

Homer: Cuz we’s a-tryin’ ta' freeze thangs…

BB: Whut is we tryin’ ta' freeze – hit ain’t summer time y’know.

Homer:  We’s tryin ta' guess whut Mr. Bamer’s goner say t’nite in th Union State message a comin’ up.

BB:  ER… who’s a-gonna win th’ futbawl game.  

MizP: There you go a-tawkin’ sports. We ladies don’t keer fer tha-ut.

BB: Miz Michelle Balcome from Minnesota got yelled at by Senater Speculater. 

MizP: The one frum Pecilvannie?

BB:  Oh he treated ruff but said he was a-treatin’ her like a lady.

MizP: If he’d a-treated me like tha-ut… I’da give him a whack wif m’ hanbag.

Jack:  Whats this all about ?

BB: Seems th’ two of ‘em – Mr. Specter and Miz Balcome

MizP: Wuz doin’ a radio program t’gether -- an Mr. Spectator. …

Homer: He’s switched parties ya know now a-bein’ a Demicrat.

MizP: An she’s th’ firs woman ta' reperzent Minnesota in th’ Congers…

BB: She’s a Christian lady an bin a-havin’ a hard time of hit…

MizP: That-ut ole Keith Olberham – he an Speculator a gangin’ up on Minnesoter’s firs woman                Congersperson … Ah tell you … hit ain’t ‘Merican.

Homer: Hit ain’t bein’ nice neither.

Jack: What about th’ freezing … ?

MizP: We heeah th’ Prezidint‘s freezin’ spendin’…

Homer: After he done run th’ bill waaaaay up yonder.

BB: An he don’t even start that piddlin bit ‘till nex year …

MizP: A-sailin’ under false pretences – thas whut hit is, Mr. Jack.

BB: Say one thang an do another.

Jack: But he hasn’t given the speech yet.

Homer: You know how leaky Warshington is…          

MizP: Nothing ain’t secret in Warshin’ton… ‘cept the meetin’s behin closed doors.

Jack: I guess we’ve all had enough of that.

BB: Masterchussetts done tole ‘em so.

Homer: They jist don’t git hit.

Jack: And we’ve got to get out… b‘cause time’s up – See you here Next Wednesday

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HOW TO CALM DOWN, WHEN YOU REALLY NEED TO -- Just A Minute Radio for Monday 01-25-10

            Good Monday to you faithful friends…

 

            Here we are kicking off another mid-January speculation match trying to figure out what’s going on.  I don’t really think anyone was preparing for what turned the apple cart over last Tuesday.  It’s a series of events that just threw the playbook out the window.  And for the last few days people have been running around Capitol Hill like Chicken Little. 

 

Last Monday was the day Congress returned after its extended Christmas/NewYear’s break. It seems like an awful long time ago when Senator Harry from Searchlight decided everyone got a Christmas present in the Senate by voting on shutting down the filibuster of the Republicans and proceeding to the hanging.  But the scene has shifted considerably since then. I don’t recall a time exactly like this when such a sea change has taken place over a vote… and that not in the Senate – this was a vote by the Massachusetts voters that no one really expected.  Now we have the waiting game to see what comes of it.

 

Next comes the Supreme Court with its ruling last week that turned over another applecart – that of campaign funding.  So…we’re on an entirely new playing field there… where the goalposts AND the sidelines have been moved, not to mention the new rules the Umpires. Linemen etc… are to enforce.  Nobody knows exactly how that is going to play out. But it’s being examined from all angles.

 

            If you throw in the ‘underwear’ bomber trying to bring down a plane on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit – and the hurricane of charges, counter charges and overflowing stupidity -- mix in the continuing case of closing Guantanamo and/or doing something smart with the detainees, ice it all up with an election this fall that portends a lot – but nobody is ready to predict with any degree of certainty what -- it’s going to be a roller coaster year.

 

            Add all that to the volatile mix and the drubbing the stock market took last week on the possibility Fed Chairman Bernake may be turned out – almost totally unexpected – and you have a complete, marbleized upside down cake that no one knows just who is baking it, or who – besides the American tax payer – is paying for it?

 

            All of that just to point out there is one person who knows; knows that He knows… and knows we, who are His people and the sheep of His pasture, are confident of His ability to make it all fit together perfectly in order that His will be accomplished.  That is the confidence believing Christians have in the Word of God – the Bible – and those who want to live by it.  Otherwise it’s a piece of cake. (J)

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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HOW TO CALM DOWN WHEN YOU REALLY NEED TO

            Just A Minute – The Washington Post‘s Michael Gerson, tries to imagine the President managing his Tuesday night anger enough to wiggle out of the present dilemma.

          Gerson says the Tuesday vote, translated into national results, would have been a ‘blowout’ of Republican victories.  So what’s a President to do thwarted like this?

          Gerson sees three options, before the State of the Union speech: He can ignore the anger, embrace it, or try to blunt it.  Here are samples:

          Steny Hoyer, Pelosi’s Number two, says try to ram the Senate bill through as is… -- “Better than nothing…” he says.  Snorts of disbelief from Barney Frank.  Tuesday’s exit polls showed 52 percent don’t like it.

            Running backwards to embrace what he just denounced looks foolish.  He’s not a good populist.  Does making fun of Brown’s pickup truck strike you as smart?

          How about throwing Pelosi and Reid under the bus?  It’s already crowded there but Gerson says unless he blunts some anger, he abandons the idea of governing. 

          I agree… right now it looks like he’s stuck with trying to herd cats.

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HOW'S THAT AGAIN MADAM SPEAKER? - Just a Minute Radio for 01-22-10

            Howdy on Friday – AGAIN!

 

            I’m glad it’s here… it’s been a *very heavy* news week with the earthquake in Haiti – aftershocks – and the aftershocks from the Voterquake in the Bay State that pried a Senate seat out of the Democrat Party’s hands for  the first time in more than 50 years. Teddy’s brother was President and his other brother in DC was Attorney General when the third Kennedy brother went to the Senate.  Yeah…. I’m for tradition and all that – but I’m also for reality.  Realizing we are *all* in the same boat.  Sinners… and only as we are ‘saved by Grace’ as the Bible accurately says – do we have any claim to righteousness – and that is totally in response to the salvation offered by Christ.

 

            Sorry if that strikes someone as intolerant… it isn’t but, in America you’re entitled to have your opinion.  I’m just amazed, quite frankly, at the slippery, sliding, bell-curve scale we use to measure people by. It’s atrocious.  Former Senator Edwards … is he any worse than someone who crashes a car with a young girl into a tidal stream and leaves her there.  I’m not the judge.  You’re not the judge.  God is the judge and HE judges righteously.  Therefore it behooves us to attend to the words He has left us, obey them, and when we fail – as we all will on our own, that’s our nature, -- beg forgiveness in the way in which God provides.

 

            I’m not writing a theological textbook here, and I certainly allow for differences in how we understand what God says through the Scriptures – but there are certain things that demand repentance, confession, forsaking and restitution – far too much for me or for most of us to fully comprehend in a lifetime of trying.  But it’s not unattainable!  Salvation is freely offered and available to all who will believe.  All the same, as King David can tell you – in the Bible – there are some things irreversible.  That’s reality – that’s the truth.

 

            It wasn’t my intent to go there today – but in doing the research for today’s program I ran across so much crazy, inconsistent, downright wrong thinking and expression… well it just came out.  Write me about it if you like. I’ll do my best to answer every letter.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

HOW’S THAT AGAIN MADAM SPEAKER?

Just A Minute – Speaker Nancy Pelosi, regaining her equilibrium after the Massachusetts voters fired a strong shot across the Democrat leadership’s bow on Tuesday.  Now she says she lacks the votes to ram the Senate's version of health-care reform, through the House.           

She did not address the idea of ‘swallowing’ the Senate’s version at all.  It contains several ‘poison-pills’ for conservatives and “blue dog” Democrats while rendering a devastating blow to President Obama’s lynchpin issue. 

          Pelosi, whose Democrat seat in San Francisco is apparently not under threat, spoke to reporters after House Democrats held another closed-door session during which several members reportedly ranted in frustration with the Senate's version.

Her apparent acquiescence, practically means hope is on the ropes for an  immediate White House-effort to ram the Senate version through the lower chamber.  She said rather, (quote) it’s time to ‘pause and reflect.’  That’s a far cry from her earlier assurance votes would swing in her favor.  "I don't see the votes for it at this time," She said…

My comment… Praise the Lord for His answer.

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