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Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn’t the least bit funny.

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A corporation’s responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
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Corporations Pension Plans Responsibility
Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.
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Country Glee Years
The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
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People Spend Wanted Years
You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
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Action Table Winning
I’d say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that’s the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.
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Country People School
For me, I’ve always believed that there was a God. I’ve always believed that God created the heavens and earth – so, for me it’s not a huge leap from there to intelligent design.
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Design Heaven Intelligent
And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
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Much Progress Since
No one will do it for you.
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Action Just One Yourself
I am scared of running out of money.
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Money Running Scared
Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don’t pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.
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Government Needs Pay
I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
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Sacrifice Thank You Thanksgiving
If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don’t know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
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Eye Hair Knows
After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he’s been through is the reason why.
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Black Man Men White
I think it’s criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they’re paid.
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Families Military Taken Thinking
If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
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Trying Upset Winning
We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
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Faults Media People

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn’t the least bit funny.

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Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn’t the least bit funny.

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