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Date:      Wed, 23 Jul 1997 08:37:46 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Bill Pechter <pechter@lakewood.com>
To:        softweyr@xmission.com (Wes Peters)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FTC regulating use of registrations
Message-ID:  <199707231237.IAA04426@i4got.lakewood.com>
In-Reply-To: <199707230816.CAA08949@obie.softweyr.ml.org> from Wes Peters at "Jul 23, 97 02:16:48 am"

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> You're close.  The real problem is the damned Clintons, er, liberals
> think they can raise our children "better" than we can, and want to
> control this (and all other) aspects of our lives.  I'm truly sick and
> tired of this "It takes a village to raise a child" crap - it takes a
> Mommie and Daddy who care about, and CARE FOR the child.  If the child
> is downloading pornography or talking to strangers on the net, the child
> needs to get his or her shell set to 'nologin', amongst other corrective
> behavior.
> 
> 
> Wes Peters                                                       Softweyr LLC
> http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr                       softweyr@xmission.com

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Hey Wes, give us Liberals a break.  I must be from the old school.
Shell set to nologin hell.  What about a hand applied to the rear end.
It isn't a Liberal versus conservative thing.  It's an "I'm too busy
with my pretentious lifestyle to parent" thing.

There's actually something to this "It takes a village" stuff.  When I was 
a kid if any neighbors caught me doing anything that I shouldn't do
they would have called my folks and my folks would've nailed me.

Now they just turn the other way or whine to the child welfare authorities.

My mother was a teacher for 30 years in both nice, wealthy suburbs and
Bedford Stuyvesant and Brownsville New York (pretty tough inner city
areas).

When she called the parents of a kid in NY -- both parents, who couldn't 
afford to miss work showed up.  In the suburbs, the mother of one kid
asked to have the parent teacher conference moved from Wednesday, because
"It's my tennis day."

Gimme a break!

soapbox mode=off

We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming already in progress.

Bill
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