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Editorials:

Talking back to Ext. 333

11/6/2009

"Good grief. Sunday's front-page headers were about death, death and how Al-Qaeda is planning more of it. Can I get anything more pleasant to go with my morning coffee?"

We were dismayed by some of the responses to the Aug. 21 hazing incident in a Beloit High School football locker room, when a senior football player applied a muscle relaxant to the body of a freshman teammate,

injuring him.

Columns:

Self demonstrates 'the walk'

11/7/2009

Editor's note: This column was shortened for Salina Journal publication. The full version can be found at our Web site, salina.com. Go to the "news" drop-down and then to "opinions & viewpoints."

A kingdom that isn't part of this world

11/7/2009

Throughout Israel, newborn babes cried out for mothers who callously abandoned their own offspring on the rocky shores of the sea. Brutal soldiers slaughtered whole villages over suspicions of harboring zealots. Idolatrous statues lined the streets and sat in the homes of those who had abandoned the God of their fathers. When the sun set, moral decencies were set aside by many, thinking their perversions were hidden by the darkness. Idolatrous worship, corrupt politics, blatant immorality and burdensome taxes permeated the country -- and the response from Jesus? Not a word.

Did these atrocities exist? Absolutely. Even his disciples' expressed bewilderment at the master's political inaction,

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Recent calls include...

"Isn't it amazing that we all bring our horses to town but only the people with money get to put their horses at the front of the parade. Let's think about this."

"The police department won't hire smokers. Why doesn't the hospital adopt that policy?"

"It's interesting that every time I call the Journal 333 line my comments never get printed."

"Keep raising the mill levy and Salina will be known as the city on the move -- moving all the old folks right out of town because they won't be able to afford their taxes. It'd be the all American city with no old people."

"Yes, Salina needs a new expo center like my grandpa needs a new topless bar. Money is spent in better places, I think."

"Actually, we could finance a new expo center if we started charging 10 cents per call for every idiot who called the 333 line."