Don’t bother telling me some teenager is “just a kid”

Posted on June 22, 2012 by KG

18 and 19 year-olds once climbed into tiny, primitive airplanes fitted with these, and flew them in combat. Very young men were also naval officers and they skippered the great tea and wool clippers halfway round the world. We too often excuse rotten behaviour on the basis of a person’s youth.

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18 Responses to Don’t bother telling me some teenager is “just a kid”

  1. The Gantt Guy says:
    June 22, 2012 at 18:17

    But, but but when the Red Queen was a mere slip of a thing, in her ’30s and a partner in an activist “law firm”, she was so young and naive and girlish she facilitated, aided and abetted her “boyfriend” in defrauding the Australian Workers’ Union of several hundred ths and dollars.

    She was young, innocent, naive. Just a girl, really. In her ’30s.

  2. KG says:
    June 22, 2012 at 18:31

    Riiiiiight…… they must be growing up veeeerrry slowly theses days…..
    But not too slowly, apparently, to be a partner in one of Australia’s highest-profile law firms. :shock:

  3. KG says:
    June 22, 2012 at 18:33

    Bolt’s latest post on the subject is devastating. That McClelland should say what he did is remarkable.

    • The Gantt Guy says:
      June 22, 2012 at 18:37

      Yup. Methinks Robert McLelland is about to serve up an ice-cold helping of Revenge. And bloody good in him!

      • KG says:
        June 22, 2012 at 19:17

        They sure as hell can’t attack his credentials. :mrgreen:

        • The Gantt Guy says:
          June 22, 2012 at 20:17

          Agreed. What more could the ALP love than a hack union lawyer who followed daddy into the ALP and the Parliament?

  4. KG says:
    June 22, 2012 at 19:24

    A brilliant cartoon, on the subject of executive privilege:
    http://www.americanthinker.com/cartoons/

  5. KG says:
    June 22, 2012 at 19:28

    And a very timely article..scary, for people such as moi…
    One Man, One Vote, One Catastrophe
    http://takimag.com/article/one_man_one_vote_one_catastrophe_hannes_wessels#axzz1yVq4vkow

  6. Darin says:
    June 22, 2012 at 22:21

    Yep,back then “kids” were sailing ships,flying planes and fighting wars….already adults on their way to become history makers.

    Now we have this-
    http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/bullied-ny-bus-monitor-hopes-parents-video-16618916

    It’s a sad comment that we even need bus monitors let alone that we are raising lazy,stupid ,souless fithly mouthed afterbirths and calling them adults just because they survived to 18 :rant

    And then we have this total BS from a “Parenting expert”-

    “”I think to go after these kids in a punitive way, it just doesn’t help,” she said. Nelson knows that the vast majority of parents will scoff both at that notion — and at her belief that the young bullies are merely acting out due to their own “need for a sense of significance and belonging.”

    More if you can stomach it here-
    http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-dont-punish-kids-in-bullying-video-20120621,0,7205124.story

    I say horsecrap! Bend them over and let the belt fly and afterwards those kids should spend the summer over at the lady’s house cleaning,painting and cutting the grass :rant

  7. KG says:
    June 23, 2012 at 00:22

    “I say horsecrap! Bend them over and let the belt fly and afterwards those kids should spend the summer over at the lady’s house cleaning,painting and cutting the grass”
    Sigh….time was, Darin..

  8. Katie says:
    June 23, 2012 at 01:42

    Not only did they climb into those planes, they sail on the ships manning the guns. The stormed the beaches of Normandy to liberate Europe. They stormed the beaches of Islands in the Pacific, islands that no one knew their names until the battles fought there.

    And we are losing them, those who fought for liberty and freedom, too fast now.

  9. Brian Smaller says:
    June 23, 2012 at 14:41

    My father who is still alive, won the Military Medal in Italy at the age of 19. he had already been fighting for two years.

    • KG says:
      June 23, 2012 at 14:45

      And people now say “our kids are growing up too fast”, Brian. :roll:
      The problem as I see it is that lot of them aren’t growing up, just growing older.
      What Regiment was your Dad in?

  10. Moist von Lipwig says:
    June 24, 2012 at 09:32

    Some teens have still got it.

    • KG says:
      June 24, 2012 at 09:46

      :mrgreen: I read that, and it made me smile, vonL. Especially the police officer’s comments. :grin:

      • Darin says:
        June 24, 2012 at 10:38

        Oh hell ya!Get that boy a membership at the local range so he can improve his aim ;-) :smile:

  11. Moist von Lipwig says:
    June 24, 2012 at 10:01

    Saw that too..
    “but this young man did exactly what he should have done,”

    Can you imagine the panty-wetters who are supposed to protect us in this country
    saying something similar?