I s'pose I am naive and have never had my boat in an area where I
worried about crime. Even the idea of having to lock my boat seems
weird but I will improve security.

are you the ones who used to smoke pot back in the 60's? my how times
have changed.

bob wrote:

are you the ones who used to smoke pot back in the 60's? my how times
have changed.

That's the problem... That we did it then has become an excuse for "we
can't tell you not to do it." It doesn't matter what we did then....we
did a whole bunch of things we were lucky to survive and/or stay out of
jail for doing. But somehow, we seem to have conveniently forgotten that
although we did all those things, society didn't condone 'em then. So
it's become "hypocrasy" to refuse to condone 'em now.

The REAL hypocracy is in pretending to have grown up into responsible
adults, yet refusing to define right and wrong, then accepting behavior
from kids we KNOW to be wrong, and THEN protecting 'em from the
consequences of their actions.

--
Peggie
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Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://www.seaworthy.com/store/custo...0&cat=6&page=1
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327

no offense peggie but your generation has really screwed up the kids
today. the statistics i read make me sick to my stomach. nothing
personal but my god, what the baby boomers have done to this society
..........

bob wrote:

no offense peggie but your generation has really screwed up the kids
today. the statistics i read make me sick to my stomach. nothing
personal but my god, what the baby boomers have done to this society

I hate to give away my age, but it wasn't MY generation...the Boomers
came after me. And I agree: my god, what the baby boomers have done to
this society! THEY were the ones who chose to let daycare warehouse
their kids instead of raising 'em themselves...their kids have made the
same choice...and now we have a third generation of "warehoused" kids
coming up who've had no real "raising," and who are so desperate for any
real attention--postive OR negative--from adults that they'll even shoot
their schoolmates and teachers to get it.

I can do 20 minutes without barely even pausing for breath on what I
believe to be the underlying causes and who is to blame...but this isn't
the place, so I'll tiptoe quietly out now...

--
Peggie
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Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://www.seaworthy.com/store/custo...0&cat=6&page=1
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327

I am not interested in ruining some kids life just cuz he thinks my
boat is a good place to have a joint with his girlfriend. You need to
have a sense of proportion about things. They have been careful not to
destroy anything and they havent taken anything. So, it seems to me as
if they might be ok kids but simply have poor judgement. Pressing
charges would cause far more damage to society than good as long as I
can get them to stay off my boat.

wrote in message
ups.com...
I am not interested in ruining some kids life just cuz he thinks my
boat is a good place to have a joint with his girlfriend.

Instead, you'll let him go on to ruin his own life in a bigger way.
Depriving him of the opportunity to learn that actions such as
breaking into your boat have consequences and getting the intervention
he needs is doing him no favor.

--

Roger Long
(Former drug counselor and drug program director)

Peggie Hall wrote:

I hate to give away my age, but it wasn't MY generation...the Boomers
came after me. And I agree: my god, what the baby boomers have done to
this society! THEY were the ones who chose to let daycare warehouse
their kids instead of raising 'em themselves...their kids have made the
same choice...and now we have a third generation of "warehoused" kids
coming up who've had no real "raising," and who are so desperate for any
real attention--postive OR negative--from adults that they'll even shoot
their schoolmates and teachers to get it.

"it's not MY fault, it's someone else..."
how fscking lame
nice cop out Peggie. moral high ground you do not have. if it takes an
entire village to raise a child, what part did you play or are you
playing in the creation/maintenance of that village?

prodigal1 wrote:

Peggie Hall wrote:

I hate to give away my age, but it wasn't MY generation...the Boomers
came after me. And I agree: my god, what the baby boomers have done to
this society! THEY were the ones who chose to let daycare warehouse
their kids instead of raising 'em themselves...their kids have made
the same choice...and now we have a third generation of "warehoused"
kids coming up who've had no real "raising," and who are so desperate
for any real attention--postive OR negative--from adults that they'll
even shoot their schoolmates and teachers to get it.


"it's not MY fault, it's someone else..."

That's NOT what I said OR even implied...and you know it's not.

nice cop out Peggie. moral high ground you do not have. if it takes an
entire village to raise a child, what part did you play or are you
playing in the creation/maintenance of that village?

I chose not to have children, because I could not stay home to raise
them. I think my part in "the village" is obvious from my previous
comments: if parents can't be bothered to teach their children that
actions have consequences, the "village" has to do it. If the "village"
won't assume any responsibility either, the "village" has no choice but
to accept being victimized...which is apparently what "dbohara" has
decided to do.

--
Peggie
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Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://www.seaworthy.com/store/custo...0&cat=6&page=1
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327

Yeah..seems like its always somebody else's fault.