Daddy doesn't always know best

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http://www.sptimes.com/2005/05/01/Perspective/Daddy_doesn_t_always_.shtml

Daddy doesn't always know best
By JULIE HAUSERMAN, St. Petersburg Times
Published May 1, 2005

When I was growing up, there were secrets in our house. If I asked questions, I heard the same thing that a lot of kids hear: It's none of your concern.

"If there's something you need to know," my dad said, "I will tell you."

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In Florida and Washington, our government is practicing the Father Knows Best theory of public information. Vice President Dick Cheney meets in secret with oil companies to hash out our country's energy future, then tells us we don't need to know what went on in there. Now we're at war in an oil country, and he's still fighting to keep the public out of the public's business.

When I was a reporter for the Times' Capitol bureau during Gov. Jeb Bush's first term, I made a public records request for the governor's e-mails. In the pile, I found an interesting document. It outlined a shadow system of picking judges - outside the public Judicial Nominating Commissions. The Bush administration wanted "ideologically compatible judges," and they wanted this process tightly controlled by the governor's office. I called the governor's office for comment.

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1. The "Father Knows Best" philosophy seemingly has had flaws in both

'first and second estates' in recent days..Patriarchy has never been universally popular or successful..I remember way back someone who uttered the words.."I am the state"..He had it all briefly and then lost it all..

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2. lost of shadows