[lbo-talk] authentically working class

[John Thornton]

You can't completely control kids but you can give them the information 
they need to help them make better choices.
The likes of Palin would deny the public the right to do this on the 
grounds that her fundy beliefs are better suited to the task.
Her family is not exactly evidence that her position is sound.
However the right-wing mindset is that if upstanding xtians like Palin 
have kids that use drugs and are impregnated while an unmarried teen 
this is evidence that our culture is fucked up and needs the fundy 
family values prescription all the more.
If a fundy family doesn't have pregnant teens and drug users that too is 
proof that their values work best.
Either way revealed truth trumps any and all evidence to the contrary.

John Thornton

sawicky at verizon.net wrote:
> You will find out if you haven't yet, you can't control kids.
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> They either come out well or not.  It's the luck of the draw.
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> I'm pretty lucky, but I could be luckier.
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> The rub of course is that the matriarch of this typically flawed family is
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> so determined to impose her ideology and implied farkakta
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Doug Henwood
>> Sent: 09/10/08 10:32 am
>> To: lbo-talk
>> Subject: [lbo-talk] authentically working class
>>
>> <http://gawker.com/5047794/teen-daughter-pregnant-son-on-drugs-whats-next 
>>  >
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>> PALINS.
>> Teen Daughter Pregnant. Son On Drugs. What's Next?
>>
>> The National Enquirer's scoop today raises the undermining question:  
>> Did American Army hero Track Palin only join the military to escape a  
>> life of drugs and crime back home in Alaska? Track, the athletically- 
>> named son of VP nominee Sarah Palin who was portrayed as a symbol of  
>> patriotism onstage at the Republican Convention, gets the full  
>> investigative treatment from the Enquirer — which always saves the  
>> best stuff for the print version. Which we now have in hand! The young  
>> man has partied with some very talkative people. So: while Track was  
>> watching his mom enthrall the nation, was he really daydreaming of  
>> mainlining sweet, sweet Oxycontin and playing "master" criminal back  
>> home? We quote:
>>
>> Track is portrayed as the biggest bad boy in Wasilla. A serious drug  
>> problem, vandalism, theft, and partying are his main pastimes,  
>> allegedly. Which really wouldn't be much of a problem if the  
>> Republican party wasn't holding him up as, you know, a role model. If  
>> true, this would make the Palins a caricature: the country family with  
>> a pregnant teen, son on OxyContin, and a mom desperately trying to  
>> present a respectable face to the world. And failing. The best quotes  
>> from the Enquirer's story:
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>> * "Before joining the Army last September, Track partied all the time.  
>> I saw him do so many keg stands, and all he ever talked about was  
>> getting stoned."
>> * "Track was a master at playing people and paying them to get drugs,  
>> alcohol, steal car rims, Xbox games, you name it."
>> * "All the girls loved Track, but he was more into drugs and himself.  
>> He used his local celebrity status with the other guys to get them to  
>> steal things he wanted."
>> * "I've partied with Track for years. I've seen him snort cocaine,  
>> snort and smoke OxyContin, drink booze and smoke weed. OxyContin was  
>> definitely his drug of choice."
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>> Track was a full-on OxyContin addict in 2006 and 2007, the Enquirer  
>> says, and was mainlining the drug. Which is very bad.
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>> "I've smoked weed with Track many times. He was one of two kids in  
>> school that had a fake ID."
>> And his sister was a party animal, too.
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