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Show Toe a Examiner ' The news page written by and for ) . ' ' O on Tho Net '.!!: H WeberDavis teens , Lakesldo Review X i e V ftont t,'M.l4 m 1 , 77fr47$1 ' 5 Tlmrsdiy. DuCtmtor2S.19Q7 SPEAKING OUT: Breaking through the Santa Claus myth By LWICU3 are) lit What makes guys turn into sissies? xXinvolving the are turning girls. Look around you -- guys are dyeing their hair, going to tanning beds, and even changing their pants every single day. This is a depressing trend to me. Guys aren't guys anymore; they're a bunch of sissies. When I was a little kid, all the little boys made sure they proved to everyone how tough and manly they were and pushed the little girls into the mud. These were the good old days, when a normal person could walk into a junior high or high school and get physically assaulted and robbed by a bunch of guys that were very easily discernible as boys. They wore clothes that didn't match, had hairstyles that obviously took no longer than 4 seconds to style, and had dear fingernails. In those days if a boy hair, an was sporting bleachcd-blond- e obviously fake tan and an enormous amount of jewelry, he would be pantsed and forced to eat playground sand every day at recess. This is going to sound shocking to some of you, but I know males who possess more than two pairs of shoes. Boys ve make-believ- uSrabon by LARKY St CPUENS Homeless for the holidays Its true. By SARAH THOMPSON TX. correspondent The holiday is us. Tree stands have long been set up, and gifts have been bought and given. Santa has asked our little brothers and sisters in the mall if they behaved like good boys and girls. Who cares if they have been bouncing off the walls and being a nuisance to society? They still got something for Christmas. They dont need this fat man in red to tell them otherwise. color-coordinat- year-roun- The one thought that hasnt kids passed through the sugar-fille- d brains, and maybe not through teens minds either, is that there are people - not just children - that didnt get anything for Christmas. Some might have enjoyed a meal provided by a shelter, but other than that they got the joy of seeing a white Christmas. Literally thousands are in the cold with nowhere to go while the devil (a.k.a. your little brother) opens his thirteenth Mighty Morphin Power ' HIGH SCHOOL HANGOUTS Drop by High School Hangouts, a new forum area on StandardNET. You might run into a teacher or parent, but panic, its primarily for students. Each high school in the area has its own hangout. Go to the forums and chat page at http:www.standaid.net. world as we know a. universal morals anJ Santa Claus is deceiving humans everywhere in an operation we at Mhrslcr Siblings Inc. like to call the Knngle Conspiracy." The conspiracy consists of several lies tol J to children at very young ages. Children are rewarded at Christmastime by gifts for believing them. But not every child is subjected to such sweet deception. We, Whislcr Siblings Inc never got to hear the story of Santa Claus, or believe in him Oh those poor children," many of you are gasping in horror. But to us, being denied the opportunity by our parents to become acquainted with Santa gave us a unique outlook on the Christmas season, for which we are grateful now that we are teenagers. Its not that I never told (you) about Santa. I just told (you) he was make-belielike Rudolph the Reindeer and Frosty the Showman. Children need its part of developing their imagination. But they have to be able to differentiate between make-belieand reality, says Mary Whisler, our mother. According to our personal belief system, our family adheres to the historical biblical Christian belief that Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, and its His birthday." We were taught that Santa is a myth, like Zeus or the bogey man. Its a fabricated myth thats wrapped in a package of good, therefore it's OK, says Dennis Whisler, our father, I realized there were more people who believed the fabricated myth of Santa Claus than the reality, the actualness of Jesus Christ, a historical figure. Jesus is the essence of Christmas, not Santa. Who would you rather believe in? . Some guy who sneaks into your house and, out of the goodness of his heart because youve been extra nice to your cat since Thanksgiving, leaves you all the stuff you asked for? Or some other guy, who out of love and compassion, dies in a master plan of salvation in order to redeem the world of its sins? Were leaning toward the figure. You may think our unbelief in the Great Claus made us natural targets for persecution during our elementary years. Hardly. Instead, we taunted our classmates for believing in the fat man. We would tell the other kids that Santa wasnt real until they cried. And sometimes, we would convince other kids that Santa wasnt real and wed gang up on those s. We never had a doubt he wasnt real. Wed justify our position by saying Well, yeah, if hes real how come you never get everything you want? and then when they said, I dont know, wed just laugh at them. This caused many sobs from those kids and caused serious questioning into the validity of anything their parents told them. Red-Nose- d They have shoes to match their outfits, they have shoes that they have purchased especially for certain occasions. Ive overheard guys actually referring to their clothes as outfits. Outfits, for crying out loud! What next? Is anything sacred? Picture the way a girl presents herself for a moment She has a hairstyle that takes several hours to prepare each morning and isnt a natural color. Ive seen this in guys, and it scares me. ; What else? Earrings, outfits, a ton of d necklaces and rings, tan, painted fingernails. 1 Get my point? : The real gag here is the fact that these sexually ambiguous people think that they are a rebel, an individual. - The fact is, they are riding a trend and down they know it. The next time deep youre in school, check it out. Id ask you to count all the obvious infractions of the gender code around you, but the normal human mind cant handle the sheer numbers involved. Lets just say the individuals outnumber the faceless masses by roughly 54 bazillion. 1 Ive probably come across as being some macho guy that grunts a lot mid bumps chests with other guys. But if youve seen me in real life, the word macho" is probably the last thing that See TRENDS6 . serious conspiracy A Z By MATTI HOWARD UUOnMPOnM dont Of ftfiOA tMcOfR E6S N06 BY CHRISTIAN MAUN Ranger under a fire retardant artificial tree. Homeless for the holidays is a problem that hits close to home. And the holidays seem to be the only time we think about the homeless. Thats where the question comes in. Why do we give most at the holidays? Ogden has a high population of homeless people that visit the Ogden Rescue Mission every year. According to Rev. Howard Langston, director of the mission, it isnt just old drunken men. The average age of our visitors is 26. The rate of women and children that are homeless is up 37 percent, he said. Though these just may be numbers to you, the Rescue Mission is seeing its fair share of holiday needs. October, November and December is definitely our best quarter. We get the most donations and giving in those months than throughout the year, Langston said. It can get very difficult in the dead months as far as volunteers and donations go. The dead months are after Fathers Day, around June, until October. The Ogden Rescue Mission doesnt receive one penny from the federal government, which means everything comes from donations and the thrift stores the mission has set up. Homeless people arent out of a job and house only on Nov. 27 and Dec. 25. They are homeless 365 days of the year. Too bad the donation rate is dead most of that time. How many people forget the story of the Good Samaritan and walk on the other side of the street? Many people will volunteer to boast that they helped the less fortunate every way they could. Even though that one hour was needed, there are thousands more to go with it. The guilt of not making a difference the whole year, then making up for it by donating a dozen donuts to the shelter, isnt cutting it anymore. Maybe people get so wrapped up in Toys R Us trips that they cant find the time to volunteer. Or maybe families arent stable enough to give money donations. Whatever the reason for not giving your time, there are ten more reasons why you should. But wait See HOMELESS6 e, , ' ; non-San- ta Santa-believer- See SANTA6 THEY SAID IT He said, Pam, I got an idea for you. I said, Really? Before my teeth fail out and my breasts sag? . ; ; ; star of Quentin Pam Grier, the Tarantino's new movie Jackie Brown, about how Tarantino asked her to be in his film, according to the Dec. 19 Entertainment Weekly. Its been over 20 years since Grier had a starring role. Now the 1970s blaxploi-tatio- n flick queen is back in Jackie Brown, cast. Tarantino, a this time leading an big fan of blaxploitation films, wrote the Jackie Brown" senpt adaptation with Grier all-st- ar in mind. J f t |