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Damning Dad: Father's Day Pledge is appalling
The Shinbone: The Frontier of the Free Press ^ | June 15, 2016 | Daniel Clark

Posted on 06/15/2016 5:26:29 PM PDT by Daniel Clark

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1 posted on 06/15/2016 5:26:30 PM PDT by Daniel Clark
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They can go to hell, I don’t need a pledge so as not to commit unjustified violence and I resent the implication.


2 posted on 06/15/2016 5:29:38 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Islam mandates warfare against unbelievers and is absolutely incompatible with Western society.)
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Would that EVERY father would take a pledge to arm themselves and pledge to protect his family and himself, from the perpetrators of violence toward them.


3 posted on 06/15/2016 5:30:15 PM PDT by Right-wing Librarian (~~)
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I was about to send Alice to the Moon, but I can't, I signed that damn pledge . . .

4 posted on 06/15/2016 5:33:57 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: I want the USA back

I don’t need a pledge either - my wife made it for me.

“No children - your dad has never hit me or anything like that. And if he ever did, we would all be out of here.”


5 posted on 06/15/2016 5:34:16 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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See, liberals need a pledge like this. They think that words, or a pledge, can replace what is learned from a functional family unit, and a marriage based on mutual respect.

But in the end, their “pledge” is just so many words to them, like the Constitution is just so many words to them.

They love things like this because it somehow makes them think they are moving the needle towards their utopia, when all they are doing is mouthing platitudes.


6 posted on 06/15/2016 5:38:05 PM PDT by rlmorel (Embrace your Curmudgeonliness.)
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To: Daniel Clark

Many years ago I found out the key to a happy marriage is NEVER let her set up “the rules” to where you can’t win.

That seems to be women’s first inclination.


7 posted on 06/15/2016 5:38:57 PM PDT by papertyger
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Please don't break my heart. My dear dad died in 2008. He didn't have the happiest life - starting out when his dad lost all their money in the Depression and he ended up living in a tenement in Brooklyn, sleeping in summer on the rooftops to avoid the intense heat. He then was drafted and served in the artillery in the Japan theater of war, setting the sites of the big guns. The worst moment of his life was when those guns fire upon our own troops and he had to wait while his commanders tried to figure out the blame. He was 20 years old. He and his fellow soliders were exonerated but he never forgot that hour of his life.

He married and while I think he loved his children his marriage was far from perfect. Like Americans of that generation, he did what was right to preserve the union, preserve the family, and put himself last. I miss him everyday of my life and hope - if I'm damned lucky - to meet him in paradise. And if I don't, it will not be his fault.

Happy Father’s Day, daddy.

8 posted on 06/15/2016 5:40:36 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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If a man says he identifies as a woman, then referring to him with masculine pronouns would be an example of "gender violence," would it not?

No, it means that immediate and frequent psychiatric help is needed for the poor, deluded him/her/it.

This father is going to hang out with one of his adult kids all day long; loving him, laughing with him, shooting with him, having a meal together and just being a normal Dad-American on Father's Day.

9 posted on 06/15/2016 5:41:53 PM PDT by PROCON (Americans First or Terrorists First - Choose November 8, 2016)
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If a transgendered man assaults a woman on a day he considers himself to be a woman, has he committed gender aggression? Why is that different from a man assaulting a woman when he thinks he is a man?


10 posted on 06/15/2016 5:46:15 PM PDT by DugwayDuke ("A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest")
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It takes monumental morons to attack all real married fathers, 90% of whom despise violence more genuinely than simple sperm donors cranking out little bastards by the busload.

These holier than thou drug-addled a******s can just ESAD!

11 posted on 06/15/2016 5:47:30 PM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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How about the following pledge?

"My dear wife, I will do my best to love you as Christ loved the church."

(Too old fashioned?)

12 posted on 06/15/2016 5:50:33 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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Since women sometimes abuse and even kill their children, can we expect the flip side on mother’s day? I jest, of course.


13 posted on 06/15/2016 5:55:14 PM PDT by The Continental Op
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To: Daniel Clark

I do not need to take a pledge for something that I have been doing my whole life. I am not going to be made to feel guilty of others violence.

Although I am guilty of using the term “ladies”. I am still not sure why this a derogatory term, my ex would give me crap about it all the time and she was a lady.


14 posted on 06/15/2016 5:58:22 PM PDT by dgbrown
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“That’s no lady - that’s my wife!”

I was just watching some old Western T.V. show. The guy was making a big deal of how his wife was not just a woman - “But a lady - a REAL lady like from back East!”


15 posted on 06/15/2016 6:02:38 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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I love the term ‘lady’. I also love the term ‘gentleman’. They denote men and women with class and dignity and courtesy. I wish there were more people in the world that terms accurately described.


16 posted on 06/15/2016 6:05:12 PM PDT by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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“If they really sought to end such a thing, it might occur to them to simply avoid creating it and save themselves a lot of trouble.”

Excellent


17 posted on 06/15/2016 6:05:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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2 years ago? Way too long ago to care.


18 posted on 06/15/2016 6:28:37 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: Daniel Clark

“White privilege” = having white skin and refusing to commit apologize and commit suicide.
“Gender violence” = having a penis that isn’t strapped on or sewn on, and refusing to apologize and self-castrate.


19 posted on 06/15/2016 7:04:46 PM PDT by mumblypeg (Make America Sane Again.)
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To: miss marmelstein

How touching. I lost my dad in 2006. In my family, he was the stable one. My mother was not kind and was an abuser. My dad was the kind and nurturing parent. With that, this article is upsetting to me.


20 posted on 06/15/2016 7:04:56 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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