Re: Shotguns in Alaska


"Janet Wilder" <kelliepoodle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Carl A. wrote:
"Lon VanOstran" <lcvanostran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Owen McKenzie wrote:



I haven't read a lot of sites on this, but below is one of the most
level headed I've seen.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2008/09/a_typical_middle-class_struggl.html?hpid=opinionsbox1


It also describes well those here who have attacked the family over
it.

"All this said, I still feel terrible for the Palins and their
daughter (and the poor guy she intends to marry). The slimiest
elements of the Internet culture will be after them. But Americans,
I believe and trust, are more decent than this vileness."

So true.

Lon


Their posts on RORT would indicate differently. People like cj, GB,
Jenny, or Paulie seem to relish vileness.

I don't relish vileness, but I do question the parenting skills of a
religious family, supposedly dedicated to their children, failing to
supervise their teenage daughter and even worse, failing to instill
morality. Things like this don't happen in homes where parents pay
attention to their children. Even working mothers.

Hi Janet,
I have to disagree with you on this one, First off, I don't know how
religious Ms.Palin is, I haven't heard any thing that would lead me to
believe that she is any more religious that the average person. Plus we
don't know how well she does or does not supervise her children. Morality
is something that cannot be forced down the throat of anyone, I think it is
like installing software in a computer, Sometimes even with your best
efforts the software gets a glitch and doesn't install properly.
Because it didn't happen in your home doesn't mean it doesn't happen with
parents that pay attention to their children, I think it means that you were
lucky.



I'm not a Christian but both my daughters were virgins when they graduated
high school. You can bet your bottom dollar that no girl of mine would
have thought of dropping her drawers in high school. BTW, I was a single
parent - they came from a "broken home" and a working mother holding down
a full-time job.

Even if your daughters were virgins when they graduated, I'd be willing to
bet that they at least thought of "dropping their drawers" before
graduation, It's human nature, and at that age hormones rule.
I was once a teenage boy and I remember the object was to get teenage girls
to not think about what they were doing but to be consumed by the passion.
Even *good* girls would occasionally have lapses in judgment. ;c)
Didn't you ever go watch the submarine races when you were young?

I'm truly sorry for the trouble that this family is going through and even
sorrier for the young girl whose privacy is being horribly invaded. I
would be even sorrier if this woman, who can't control her own children,
were in the position to control the country.

Wow, I think you're being kind of tough on her, I think we can try to teach
our children to do the right thing, but sooner or later they will do what
they want. I don't believe that anyone can control another human being
except maybe through fear.

You all might look at it politically, but I'm looking at from another POV.

Please save the "but Obama" crap for another poster. I am, most
definitely, NOT a supporter of his.

Janet, who would have voted for McCain in 2000 before he morphed. --
Janet Wilder
Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
Good Friends. Good Life

I am not a Obama supporter either but in all fairness to him he did say on
TV tonight that this was not an issue that he wanted anyone on his side to
pursue. Good for him.

Jack Cassidy


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