WHERE WERE OUR MORALISTS THEN?

          I was 12 years old when I saw my first naked female.  I had just joined the Boy Scouts and was in uniform since Scouts got in free at the LaPorte (Indiana) County Fair.  Among the various carnival acts was a “girlie” tent show.

           “Come inside.  See this lovely lady entirely naked,” the carnival barker shouted.

          So, I, along with a couple of eager fellow scouts,  bought a ticket and watched a woman who looked older than my grandmother take off her clothes.

          It was a big disappointment.  First, I felt guilty.   I was in a Scout uniform and had recently pledged to live an honorable and moral life.  Second, I had spent my entire week’s allowance on a disappointing experience.  Twenty-five cents in those days was a small fortune.

          My question today is “Where were the state legislators who were supposed to protect my morals? "

          We are fortunate today because our Missouri legislators are hard at work passing laws that will regulate the morality of everyone. 

          Now that they have outlawed nudity in the strip clubs, perhaps they can concentrate on improving our schools, roads, and other services to the citizenry.

                                               

                                               

PAST LIFE REGRESSIONS

          This morning’s CBS show Sunday Morning had a segment featuring past life regressions.  This reminded me of some of my own experiences in delving into my past.

          While attending a spiritual expo in Columbus, Ohio, many years ago, a friend who was a psychic, talked me into sitting for a “regression” session.  According to her, I had been a sailor who sailed with Columbus.  I wasn’t on the Nina, Pinta, or the Santa Maria, but was on a fourth ship, named Angelita.  Apparently the Angelita sank and all hands were lost.

          Several years later my “regression” was confirmed by another psychic in upper New York State.  However, she declared that I was actually the captain of the Angelita and that it was my stupid decision to sail my ship too close to the edge and that’s why everyone was lost.

          There is further confirmation that there is such a thing as past life regression.  I used to work for a boss who had definitely been Attila the Hun in his past life.  And, I used to tell my wife that I thought she had once been a member of the Spanish Inquisition.  Wives do ask a lot of questions.

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WHAT WAS THE COPY EDITOR THINKING?

 

  

  

            Kathleen Parker expressed herself well in her column in The Star today.  She explained why she felt sadness rather than joy over the demise of Bin Laden.  Although she did say that it was certainly understandable why he was terminated, she was not inclined to do much celebrating.  Not once did she use the word murder.

            So why was CELEBRATING BIN LADEN’S MURDER displayed on her column?  Does the headline writer equate the killing of a terrorist leader with murder?  If so, that copy editor insults every service man and woman who ever fired a shot at an enemy.  Someone on The Star should explain that in a war (and we are in a war), the object is to kill the enemy.  We don’t call it murder.

MURDER? IS THAT WHAT IT WAS?

          During the early stages of World War II in the South Pacific, there was a huge billboard on a hill overlooking the entrance to a U.S. Navy harbor.  All ships entering the Solomon Islands area sailed past this billboard.  It’s message was simple.  Kill the Yellow Bastards.  Under it was the signature of Admiral Bull Halsey.

          The message did not say “murder.”  It simply said “kill.”  That is what enemies do in a war.  They kill one another. MURDER?  IS THAT WHAT IT WAS?

          In a national press conference I heard Senator Joe Leiberman, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Home Security,  tell people to be on alert because we can expect retaliation for the murder of Osama bin Laden.  MURDER?  Does Senator Leiberman not understand that we are in a war against terrorism and that the object is to kill the enemy?

          A dictionary definition of “murder” is to “kill a human being unlawfully and with premeditated malice.”  The killing of Bin Laden was not murder unless you also consider what our armed forces are trained to do during a war as murder.