Weekend Humor

Little Melissa comes home from 1st grade and tells her father that they learned about the history of Valentine's Day. She asks, ''Since Valentine's Day is for a Christian saint and we're Jewish, will God get mad at me for giving someone a valentine?"

Melissa's father thinks a bit, then says: "No, I don't think God would get mad. Whom do you want to give a Valentine to?" he asks. ''Osama Bin Laden,'' she says. ''WHAT? Why Osama Bin Laden?'' her father asks in shock.

She says, ''Well, I thought that if a little American Jewish girl could have enough love to give Osama a Valentine, he might start to think that maybe we're not all bad and maybe start loving people a little bit. And, if other kids saw what I did and sent Valentines to Osama, he'd love everyone a lot. And then, he'd start going all over the place to tell everyone how much he loved them and how he didn't hate anyone anymore or want to commit terrorist acts."

Her father's heart swells and he looks at his daughter with new found pride. ''Melissa, that's the most wonderful thing I have ever heard.'' She says, ''I know, and once that gets him out in the open, the Marines could shoot the bastard!''