A few great morning listens
A handful of great radio with North Country relevance on Morning Edition this morning…
Nationwide, state budget shortfalls are causing cuts in home health care. New York has been dealing with this issue for a couple budget cycles, and it’ll come up again in 2011. NPR reports the result in some places is young people in nursing homes.
With lots of people busy getting venison in the chest freezer for the winter, it’s not just men and boys hunting in the woods. Girls – even cheerleaders – are hunters, too.
Both of these stories are terrific, sound-rich pieces, public radio’s greatest strength. Listen to ’em, don’t cheat yourself out of great audio journalism.
One more… Military chaplains fear a clash between faith and service if Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is repealed.
Whatcha think? Whaddya say?
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“Girls – even cheerleaders – are hunters, too.”
So why is this news?
With regard to “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” I’m inclined to agree with the second highest attorney at the Pentagon in that this is a Civil Rights issue and not a moral one. As he mentioned in the interview broadcast this morning, Chaplin’s uncomfortable with the issue can decline providing spiritual guidance to gays and suggest they see another Chaplin.
RE: Gays and chaplains. A few years ago an evangelical organization commissioned a survey of their congregants to see how their moral conduct compared with the population at large. According to the survey results their church members were no more honest, no more faithful to their spouses, essentially no different from their non-religious counterparts except in one area, they were significantly more prejudiced. So I’m not at all surprised that Chaplains are opposed to repealing DADT.
Military Chaplains? I can’t comment about them for myself because when I was in the Navy, it was the first time in my life I could avoid seeing or talking to a priest. It was the first time I skipped going to church every week.
Ah, the freedom of very cheap wine, women and song, plus $2 per carton cigarettes the Navy did offer. The Navy also provided me with a Phd in swearing. Those were the days.
Gays? They were in the military then and are in the military now. Sen. McCain must know that, having certainly and knowingly served with some gays, and should stop acting clueless.
Poor, dear chaplains should better confine themselves to helping those with post traumatic stress and stop worrying about the troops sex lives, be those lives be straight or gay.