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I don’t much care if people think I’m a mean, nasty person, so once again, I’ve pulled out the mean stick. Again.

This is why people don’t take liberals seriously. Oooh. Don’t spank your kids, it’s all mean, and stuff. Oh, and this is so reasonable these folks won’t even allow comments or debate — because, you know, they’re right. I’m a liberal, as you know, but reading this site makes me want to join the NRA. That’s mostly because it continues the errant perception that Liberals are Morons. Most of us aren’t. But monkeys, and there goes that word again, monkeys like this are just killing us.

Because of people like this, we’re at war in Iraq, lack proper healthcare and are seeing our jobs vaporize to India and elsewhere.

Anyone who has actually parented children know this: you cannot negotiate with a two-year-old. It’s not going to happen. Ever. Hell, there are some adults I know that you can’t negotiate with, so why do we think it’s okay to sit little little Johnny down and say: "Johnny, it was very, very bad to flush your baby sister in the toilet. I think you should think about it and maybe write a 5,000-word essay about it."

Johnny’s response: "(toddler giggle) Cookie!" Afterwhich, he immediately flushes your Rolex down the loo.

As someone who knows from abuse — my father beat the crap out of me when I was a  kid — I hate spanking kids because of it. I also know it needs to happen once in a while — but that doesn’t make me any less glad that my kids are old enough now to benefit from other forms of punishment, such as time outs, extra chores, loss of TV and so on and spanking might finally be something in the past.

But it’s clear these folks can’t be talked to, yet they want to run my life and tell me how to raise my children. Ironic when we on the left complain so much about wanting "hands off" when it comes to abortion, medical marijuana, and other issues. In my opinion, the authoritarian left is worse than the authoritarian right, because at least the right makes no pretense about being fascist, where these psuedo Maoists want to impose their ideas of peace and love (such as they are) on everyone else.

So once again, I am forced to support spanking this monkey. Unless, of course, they enjoy it.