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Bush not to blame
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ing our troops indefinitely.
Unlike the Bush administra-
tion, I’m not confused. Not
morally. Not intellectually. Not
at all.
Alan L. Light
Retired printer
They perfected suicide bomb
technology — al-Qaeda copied
their effective method of deploy-
ingexplosive-laden suicide boats
(attack on USS Cole).
They operate a sophisticated
worldwide network and have a
shipping fleet. They are respon-
sible for more suicide terrorist
bombings than any other group
in the world.
Mano Ratwatte
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Editor’s note While it is
believed the organization that
conducted the 1993 bombing
has links to Osama bln Laden, It
is not proven.
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that accompany the addiction have
been ignored at best
The same is true on campus.
In fact, it is much worse: Culture s
desire for sex, mixed with the
hormones of more than 20,000
students between the ages of 18
and 25, have made this university a
summit of sexual promiscuity and
pornography.
Of course the standard on cam-
pus is that if something (such as
cent less likely to use alcohol.
What an incredible opportunity
for an adult, especially a college
student who is going through a
significant learning experience, to
make a difference in a child’s life.
"Bigs" have the opportunity to
teach their “littles’: as they are
known, more than just how to
cross the road safely: They can
educate the children about the
real problems to expect as teen-
agers and eventually — hopefully
— when they reach college.
And the things that children can
teach adults must not be under-
rated, either. Stressed-out college
students can expect to learn a lot
from someone unashamed to let
loose, run around and play with
abandon.
College students who partici-
pate in the program are part of
a great learning experience: not
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There are undoubtedly many on
campus addicted to sex, pornog-
raphy or both who feel ashamed.
Rather than stopping at shame, my
advice is that you seek help, either
in a local church, collegiate minis-
people would have to drive a short- try or other resource.
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The Bush administration says
critics of its policies are suffer-
ing from moral or intellectual
confusion. But I’m not con-
fused at all.
I know President Bush
couldn't find Iraq on a map,
didn't know a Sunni from a
Shiite, didn’t know the history
and culture of Iraq and failed
to listen to or seek advice from
those who did,
1 know Bush was itching for
a fight with Saddam Hussein
long before 9/11.1 know he
misled us all about the reasons
for the war, ignored dissenting
opinions, prematurely removed
the weapons inspectors, exag-
gerated the threat and created,
without evidence and despite
his denials, a nonexistent link
between Saddam and 9/11.
I know, to gain political
advantage, Bush deliberately
morphs the war in Iraq into
the war on terror when they
are separate, distinct and unre-
lated. 1 know he used extreme
and excessive violence to force
democracy upon Iraqis who
may not care, understand or
live to see it and the world has
lost faith in our judgment and
In response to the completely
unpatriotic opinions written of
The Daily on Sept. 11, you owe it
to our forces in Iraq and around
the world that we have not had
another terrorist attack on our
soil since that day — knowing
full well that the “insurgents’
number-one target is America.
You also owe it to former
President Clinton that when
Osama Bin Laden bombed the
Trade Towers in 1993, and his
spineless resolve was to sit back
and do nothing, that 9/11 even
themselves in battle. Their main happened in the first place,
source of funding was the U.S.
Today, the world’s deadliest
terrorist rebels are the Liberation
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values because of what he did. ing in Sri Lanka. Tamil Tiger
I know Bush uses scare tac-
tics to win elections and he’s
doing it again. And 1 know we
went to war for the wrong rea-
sons in the wrong country, and to display their loyalty to their
it’s wrong to stay there sacrific- leader and never surrender.
1 was OK with you ®
because you did your ■
job — you reported ’
the news.
But slowly and sure-
ly, I can only surmise
you started to get the
impression that someone
Thereare of course a few ground put you in that seat in
rules 1 have to lay out.
1. You can’t cry when I beat the
cry on the air as you attend your
proselytizing perch, otherwise
known as “My Two Cents’: where
you give all your viewers a sober-
ing opinion on the news events of
the day.
4. No surprise guests.
5. No weapons.
OK, Mr. Ogle, this may sound
random, but it’s really an old
bone I’ve been meaning to
pick.
Your curly-headed blond
mug has been showing
up on my television i
screen since the days j
much, so all you saw were all these
fires and homicides. So you looked
into those cameras and thought,
“Man, it really must be hell on the
streets out there. These people
need something. A voice of reason
— me."
Well, this voice of morality has
become your favorite slice of stage
business. And this cage match
will obviously convince you
that there’s harder news out
there, and you just have
to find it, report it and
proceed to quieting that
nagging voice in your
gf® head that tells you
you’re better than
everyone else.
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Bl his brothers are anchors in
mk the local television news
MB market, and at the end of
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Kelly Ogle gives rtis iwo
|| Cents.’ It’s like a localized
■ “No Spin Zone" except he
doesn’t invite guests to
as serious and prevalent as sexual
promiscuity.
An intense addiction to pornog-
raphy is likely the foundation for
such behavior on campus. Studies
show that on an average college
campus, nearly 40 percent of stu-
dents regularly use the Internet to
find pornographic images or vid-
eos. Students, though, neglect the
effects that this statistic entails.
By indulging in such images
and videos, guys on campus tell
women that they are less than
human. They are property, a sport,
and their value depends on noth-
ing more than the attractiveness of
their body.
This is why guy's refer to sex as
"scoring." It has become a game
— a contest. Who can have the
most sex, with the most girts, and
who can brag about it enough
to encourage the same behavior
amongst his friends?
Studies can be found that docu-
ment how pom viewers are much
more likely to be abusive physi-
cally or sexually for the rest of their
lives. Addicts often look to rape
and molestation as an end to their
1 read a column this summer
in which a student suggested that
pom should be made legal in
Oklahoma as a solution to global
warming. His argument was that
front of those cameras to
talk about the bad guys
and all the fires for a rea-
son. You didn’t get a really
good view of the world
because you work inside so
suicide brigades, known as Black
Tigers, are Hindus and devout
Christians. They wear cyanide
capsules around their necks
solution for local news program-
mers: It’s hard to fill air time.
But Mr. Ron and 1 think Kelly
Ogle isn’t trying hard enough.
Thirty seconds of expressing smug
jealousy of a woman anchor isn’t
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shouldn' t for the rest of the public.
Ogle, we are taking this where it
belongs — to the cage.
So with the invitation extended I
will await my response, and hope-
fully the match will happen so all
can see it — somewhere in a big
dirt field, after a youth soccer team
fashions a dust cloud for us to work
with. 1 want this match raw and
Oklahoman, so dirt is essential.
The readers and Mr. Ogle himself
are probably wondering what's on
the line here. Not much. But it's a
such a huge issue that the best way
to fix it is to legalize something that I
will make the number of rapists
and child molesters in the state sky-
rocket. Seems illogical at best.
Sadly, these truths are increas-
ingly prevalent on campus. Our
culture's view of sex forces students
into a condom-dispensing mental-
ity. The seemingly most serious
issue on campus last semester was
a push to make condoms available
to students in the dorms by install-
ing dispensers. In other words, the
university should help us generate
more carnality.
Of course 1 am not advocating
that sex in itself is wrong. Humans
desire it for a reason. However, sex
was never intended to be a contest.
It was never intended for college
students to embrace as much of it
as possible before they graduate.
Yet this is the norm, and people
don’t seem to grasp the reality until
it is too late. The aftermath is an
array of single mothers, abortions,
college drop outs — the list goes
on. Not because of the absence
of condoms in the dorms, but
because of a false view of what sex
addiction. Yet students continue to is supposed to be.
m) is commonly practiced, then it go to great lengths P^11,
must be acceptable.
The argument that an action
cannot possibly be wrong because
so many others embrace it has
shown up in opinion columns on
more than one occasion. Students
continue to live by others moral
standards (or lack thereof) and
blind themselves to negative conse-
quences that come from something
of Europe.
But it still seems there is just
too much silliness here at home.
It seems that with the 600 to 700
words I have been allotted here
— very small in the scope of daily
media output — 1 should be fight-
ing the good fight while I’m still
here. It’s been months, it seems,
er distance to buy videos, and the
decrease in pollution would help
the global warming cause.
What a great point. The heat is
1 find it absurd that so-called
domestic experts espouse opin-
ions on terrorism as if they are
the absolute final authority on
who are terrorists.
For the longest time Western
nations did not care that these
groups raised money and weap-
ons here.
One of the most ignorant
myths of finality here is this
notion that all terrorist groups
are fanatical Arab Muslims
fighting for Allah: That displays
ignorance about global terrorism
and history.
One of the oldest terror-
ist groups in the world is the
Irish Republican Army: white,
Catholic and Irish. They
unleashed terror but did not kill
Lindsay Hodges, opinion editor
dailyopinion@ou.edu
phone: 325-7630, fax: 325-6051
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STAFF COLUMN
Porn problem persists
T t is no secret that we live in a
I society that is sex-centered.
X Nearly every form of enter-
tainment today revolves around
sex, and our society is increasingly
hostile to even
the slightest
opposition to
the reality.
Our cul-
ture has in
turn openly
embraced por-
nography, as
it has become
a billion-dol-
lar industry'
in the past
decade — and
the permanently damaging effects
My Two Cents: A challenge for Kelly Ogle
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it is and not worth your time.
Here’s an example of a “My Two
Cents" segment.
Last week Ogle targeted Katie
Courie s national evening news
debut He expresses his skepti- ,----,
cism about the woman anchor. He going to pass as news f(^ne^
questions whether, in the event of a
national crisis, viewers will turn to
Couric for calm reassurance. Kelly
wanted Diane Sawyer. 1 especially
dig his jab at Courie s wardrobe.
Here's a slice:
"And did you notice she was
dressed very conservatively by her
morning show standards, especial-
ly in black and white with almost
no jewelry... She has earned her
stripes. But fifteen years of perky
morning show banter have faded
them a bit To me, the real test will
come during the next world crisis." lot too: your two cents and my two
Thanks, Kelly.
Segments like “My Two Cents”
are nothing new, and they aren't
a particularly local phenomenon
vlu-ct news anchors from
every state must make up for the
lost drama and sheer volume of
news feeds that the national news
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to leave the
country not
just for study,
but because
the Feds will
be looking for
ern Ireland and, hopefully, the rest the guys who
passed out
such a beatin.'
Without fur-
ther ado ...
Kelly Ogle
of local News
9 anchor fame, 1 chaUenge you and
a partner of your choosing (prefer
ably one of your brothers) to a steel of my youth. At first
since I've written a real news story, cage match.
It seems even longer than that
since I’ve done something or (as
you will read here in the next few
paragraphs) fought someone to
achieve a greater good.
So thanks to an employee at
Borders with a nametag that obvi-
ously isn’t his real name, 1 found a
fight that may just be worth fight-
ing in this final week.
but it Idnd of is. But the challenger
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(aforementioned coffee guy) and
I plant this person to the canvas,
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