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Why should the legislature be exempt from the pain they are inflicting on the rest of the citizenry?
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I'm a grandmother and a mother. I'm tired of my rights being ripped to shreds. Example and case and point. While on vacation I went into the women's bathroom in a very populated tourist area. While in my stall I hear a MAN come into my bathroom. It was a transgender freak who was apparently watching a mentally challen...
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Discrimination an act or instance of discriminating, or of making a distinction. Kind of hard to make that statement when it is impossible to make a distinction without it. Perhaps what you mean is, not agreeing with your particular discrimination can't be tolerated.
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I have read this article twice, I'm still looking for the 'racially inflammatory' part. Maybe some truths that hurt some feelings; so do we pretend the truth is irrelevant? If we would try to fix the fire instead of the smoke...
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So do those that disagree with you.
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Cutting the budget doesn't mean pass the liability on to local government. It means to cut the budget.As is to be expected, the Republican majority continues to give oil companies the breaks they want, yet they are willing to continue cutting the education of our future. Our Children and Grandchildren deserve better tr...
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Wait, where is this? 82nd in Multnomah or Clackamas county somewhere? Tell me where it is, otherwise it don't exist.
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Never thought I'd see the day. Kathleen has some points that are spot on.
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...and remember in November when you vote. NO INCUMBENTS! but alas you will see the same people doing the same stuff after the election it never ends.
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Funny how all the legislative "fixes" require sacrifices and hardships for everyone else.. except them. We will never see a story on legislators proposing THEY are rolling back their salaries, benefits and compensation packages to the days when oil was at the current prices it is today. That's the only real...
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Having lived in Germany 10 yrs, I'm a big fan of the German education and healthcare systems. But I would like to remind all the fans of this "free" higher education system, that it is not free to the taxpayers, and it is so competitive the competition of Gymnasium (the route to the free University system) starts at 10...
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We will probably find out if you are correct. The measure is designed so that the legislature can still tax liquor if it passes, so the taxes will probably increase rather than decrease. This is designed to let the grocers make money like they do in so many other states instead of having a state -run monopoly. The...
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Katthie Wasserman, Mayor Berkowitz both are enrolled in PERS
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All these dire impacts on students, oldsters, disabled veterans, etc. -yet not one peep about revising the disastrous SB21, ending the $680Million in Credits to Oil companies, etc. Mega funding of the LNG Pipe Dream, KABATA, etc. continue, while Alaskans get squeezed. Alaskans need to rid the state of the death hold ...
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21st century technology. Early 20th century voting procedures. I am very happy to live in a state that has mail in ballots and look forward to a secure voting APP in the future.
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With the smarts, experience and talent we have today a sales tax could be written to address pretty much all the issues. Sunset clauses, limits, financial conditions, you name it. Only thing that cannot be practically addressed is the entitlement syndrome. That we have to man up for.
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All of those states you mention have either a sales tax, or income tax, or both, so Grandma and Grandpa, will have to pony up, if they move. The free ride is over.
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Vote them out. We know their names
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It's actually a little worse than that now ...... "A transgender woman says she was raped in a unisex bathroom at the Stonewall Inn — and police are searching for the suspect who they say regularly frequents the landmark gay bar." http://nypost.com/2016/03/28/transgender-woman-says-she-was-raped-in-stonewall-inn-bat...
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Andrew Hacker, the subject of the editorial, feels algebra should not be taught at all. Do you agree?
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I like the way you think, the only thing these "churches" and their members worship more than their god it the dollar bill.
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I think she has a "vested" interest: I believe she is a retired Long Island, NY public sector employee.
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It appears that "civil comment" has failed again, Boozer.
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The legislature has a long and shameful history of rewarding themselves with highly padded salaries, perdiem, excessive staff and let's not forget their PERS benefits and the Anchorage LIO palace. All of this for what is supposed to be a 90 day session in which they never complete their work, but regularly go into spec...
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So you're saying algebra should no longer be taught?
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In the real world, I go online, plug in my age, height, weight and gender and the algorithm on the website (no doubt designed by someone who was a whiz at algebra) provides me with my BMI. My use of algebra = zero. When I took 9th grade algebra, I also learned how to work a slide rule. I would guess that I could ho...
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Really? A second revolution? The people who swear by the Constitution are going to declare war on it?
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So who gets to be the genital checker? You? So because you had a bad experience with one transgender person compared to the likely dozens of times you had no problem whatsoever using the bathroom with trans people, they now have no place in this world? Get over yourself, theres room enough here for everyone, even the p...
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It's easy to use a word that can be used correctly to describe the strife and suffering inflicted on humanity by "intolerant authority." This goes back all the way to Babylon and beyond and has been a continuing battle thru history right up to today, just as Sue correctly described the intolerance exhibited recently by...
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Got it, straight, white, males get all the benefits none of the responsibilities, the rest of us can pee in the bushes and fight over your table scraps.
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So you're saying that algebra should no longer be taught?
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Likewise, you refuse to accept any opinion but yours.
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The last century the average stock market return was 9.6% so if you only take 4% and you inflation proof the fund then it is impossible to exhaust the fund.
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Deforestation is a main cause of climate change and the Tongass is our last remaining coastal rainforest. Its in the public's best interest to let it stand. This forest is the most cost effective way to combat our changing climate! And we have an obligation to pass it on to the next generation - fully functioning -...
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I don't believe your story... So there was a 17 year old male in the restroom, AND then another man came in? Are you sure you were in the right restroom?
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SB 210 as it is currently written removes the mandatory exemption for the first $150,000 of property assessment for seniors, disabled veterans, and others. Pete Kelley and Anna MacKinnon are unconscionably proposing to change a statewide policy which encourages seniors and disabled veterans to live in Alaska, while cr...
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Rip off the people and pass the savings on to the oil and gas industry.
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Perhaps the greatest player I've ever seen, he made everyone on the team a better player. Still love to hear him broadcasting today!
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One more time: Civil Comments--how do we block a poster????
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Regarding 'freedom', I ask readers to consider: if everyone rated EVERY comment as both 'good' and 'civil', regardless of how inane and offensive, then no one gets censored unless the 'administrators' do it THEMSELVES. Why should WE be gagging other people for them? I don't want to censor anyone. They can say any s...
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There is a reason that the Division of Forestry is in the Department of Agriculture, trees grow back.
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Why is the CEO of AK Municipal League, Kathy Wasserman, enrolled in the PERS retirement plan? This is a nonprofit organization, not a govt org. Then she lobbies for more $$?
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You seem to be too dismissive of other people's intelligence, and even tend to think the average person is stupid. How educated are you?
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So you don't accept opposing views? Hmmm, go figure!
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I like the fact that just cuts in spending and savings have such a low index. I think of the bottom three it is also the one that hurts the private economy the least, and shrinks the huge government we've built up, so that it is the most sustainable.
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So are legislators and their staffs. And legislators are going nothing to end their practice of claiming thousands of dollars in year in per diem above actual lodging and meal expenses.
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Serial killers and pedophiles also have 'deeply held convictions' but that doesnt override the laws of the land, fanatics. The same position was fervently defended by slavery's advocates. History is full of these anachronisms. 'Granny Nevermore' is a fake
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The people following Sanders are all the ones expecting a handout.. Free school, free health care, free insurance.. THESE folks are the reason Alaska is turning into a welfare state. NO ONE WANTS TO WORK. Sanders is so old, he's older than Reagan when he took office. These people think he's going to make women mak...
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Civil Comments is a joke!
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Mayor Berkowitz: Anchorage's PERS is a cost center and should bear the costs of the retirement program. Why should the State pay for Anchorage's employee costs? ASD: TRS and PERS are cost centers for the ASD and you should also bear the total cost of hiring employees. Do not push those costs off to the state. You hire...
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These cuts will save money, but cost us in our future workforce and our elderly mentors. Think of the future Alaska!
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Rep Seaton of Homer actually introduced HB338 last week which gave the local govts the option of doing away with the senior property tax exemption. The fiscal note shows that these seniors' wealth is transferred to the K12 education system. How's socialism working for you now, Alaska?
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Having actually just read his 2012 essay on the subject rather than the dumb-downed synopsis here on the R-G, while he answers or rebuts many of the questions found here in your responses, as well as those of Dejain, and Eggen he is definitely against it being mandatory. He makes several arguments in his essay also...
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It appears Christgau has been reading some far left wing lunatic polls talk about "minimal education". LOL
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Of such ignorant (legislature) proposals are born Trumps.....
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As a former cops and crime reporter for the old Anchorage Daily News, I will never forget what I heard so many times from young Natives accused of crimes and jailed. “If the cops said I did it, I must have.” Innocent until proven guilty is a concept that is hard to understand if you’re from another culture. In other wo...
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Please quote the part of my post that was wrong. You cannot, of course, because nothing in my post said anything about city limits. By the way, there is no such thing as "EXTREMELY ILLEGAL." Either something is illegal, or it is not.
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KK It would be very interesting to know how many state, local and school district employees have retired out of state. Carol Comeau is one for starters. Take the retirement and run.
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As a trend only that may be true, but I don't think that's an accurate generalization; especially when highly educated people, and the poorly educated people's votes carry the same weight. Trump has a significant majority of votes (GOP, independents, and cross-overs), which doesn't mean this majority is poorly educate...
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You are right. Staff has grown immensely since 2005. And Legislative Salary Padding continues. Legislators exploit an obscure section of IRS code and choose to get "reimbursed" for lodging and food at the federal per diem rate-regardless of expenses- rather than at the state per diem rate used by the governor and ...
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KK, just wondering how many of your posts have been removed since this new "Civil Comment" travesty has been in place?
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Referendum To Limit Property Taxes
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Daniel, Alaskans own the oil. Thus, the money we get for government and our PFD aren't free, any more than the paycheck you get in exchange for the work you do is free money. I don't know why so many people have such a difficult time grasping this fact. The oil companies have profited--and profited handsomely--off Al...
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My daughter has been applying for a job position as cop at City of Fairbanks. She is Hispanic and Native American. She is in her last year at school at UAF in criminal justice. She says she was recently turned down from working there and told she could not reapply. No explanation was given. Any thoughts on this one?
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Given the turmoil in politics today, perhaps this is the best they can come up with. I believe that in the long run, it will be a blessing for our children. Why go to college here in Alaska, when there will be no jobs here? Sending our kids to the lower 48 is like giving them freedom! Alaska is so far behind the educat...
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These religious folk have an insane obsession with bathrooms.
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Drew and the Fair Anchorage group are doing a great job. If these "exemptions" were so appropriate and right for Anchorage, it would have been kept in to begin with. The people and our leaders have already made their decision. Let it go!
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You are correct "muckamuck"...here in Texas we do have a "sales tax", but we do not have an income tax. Our state has a "rainy day fund" in the billions and people are moving to Texas to the tune of over a thousand a day. With that kind of population growth I can't see Texas instituting an income tax any time soon. "Gr...
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I am not saying that at all. What I am saying is that once was wrong, is now all of a sudden right. Women now are allowed to attack, and are even encouraged, to attack men. That should not be. Especially if men are not allowed to attack back. I am not saying either should be allowed to attack. I am also saying...
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The biggest problem with Portland is that too many people have waaaaay too much time on their hands if the are actively protesting this. Don't people have jobs? It's my day off. I think I'll head to the Saffron Colonial...........
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I just want to say thank you to Pete Kelly for representing the Republican voters, keep slashing the state budget until you've gotten another 20%. Then we can start talking about taxes, a sales tax that is!
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Im supporting a flat income tax where these legislators will get hit in their pockets instead of putting the burden on the seniors backs!!!!!!
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Better yet, fewer criminals and more personal responsibility.
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I have 60 years in Alaska and have lived in villages, attended Native Potlucks, and have been married to an Athabascan woman from Nenana for 23 years. How many Potlucks and Native funerals have you attended, Mr. Cooper? Please don't measure Native culture by the survival techniques adopted by Natives trying to migra...
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I hope these anti-LGBT ninnies do propose initiatives against law abiding community members. And I look forward to our Superior Court and Supreme Court striking down the mindless initiatives.
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That's how it works in the private sector, state workers are no better. We've laid off 65% of our work force in the last 2 months and it's going to get worse. Get used to it and get ready for it, it will be bad.
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Isn't it biology class where we learn that (here comes the algebra!) y ounces of alcohol consumed by a =\< 185 lb. person in a 3 hour period will cause them to be considered legally impaired? Or do we only need to know the term "Mr Novak was snockered!"
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I am pretty sure Healthier was being sarcastic ...
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Beavs and Ducks both still playing. Beavs in NCAA Final Four. Ducks in WNIT Final Four. Beavs beat Baylor in Texas, Ducks beat UTEP in Texas, last night.
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While cuts have to happen, there are several sleights of hand here. Stopping the scholarships means spending down a fund. That's not so much "saving money" as it is spending savings. The option on making the senior exemption optional makes the taxable base for a local government rise as soon as the bill becomes law. ...
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"I agree Kyle, what a bummer." This comment got banned! ARE YOU SERIOUS ADN!
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And there is response #17 (psst, he thinks my name is Dean Smith, a fellow we went to school with at SEHS).
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"the victim was shot by the person he was in an altercation with"....unless he was having a altercation with himself.......
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The APS is a MERIT based scholarship. Students have to take extra classes in high school and need to keep a high gpa and aggressive class load in college. These are motivated and hardworking Alaskans. The scholarship also keeps the money in the state because you have to go to a school in Alaska in order to be able to u...
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So, an additional descriptive was added. A woman claims to have been raped. A Soho woman claims to have been raped. An immigrant woman, a mute woman, a student.....
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The city council was fooled by the city manager by claiming Capstone was for student housing. Later, after the council approved the albatross, the city manager clarified that student housing is "market driven". The city's ultimate goal is the pack the downtown with dense sardine-style housing projects, to satisfy t...
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I agree ItsMe, we have some harsh realities to face, and I also think we need to plan for the future accordingly.
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Lets shut it down for a year, weed the garden. The free market isn't free when the fix is in and information is suppressed. Soon they will beg us for the right to work the slope by whatever rules Alaska set. They need us more than we need them. We can cut state bureaucracy's deadwood easily enough and survive, we need...
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I know I read an article recently about this. How those supposedly fat filled food sources were also untraditional sources of necessary vitamins that normally are in fruits and vegetables that the Native peoples wouldn't have had access to during most of the year. I just went to try and find it but now I can't. Figures...
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But you'll gladly accept the state tax revenue...wouldn't that would put the county in violation of federal law?
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http://www.adn.com/article/alaskas-contradiction-lots-guns-few-homicides
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The issue I grasp is this. Andrew Hacker, the subject of this editorial wants schools to stop teaching algebra. You and a few others on this site seem to agree with this view. I and others here believe algebra is a worthwhile subject to learn. And Boozer, I also grasp the fact that your purpose here is not to ad...
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The easiest way to save that 1.6 billion that she mentions is get the state government out of the health-care business.
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"This is also part of what is behind abortion." Gay people, fewer gay men than gay women, get abortions. The good news is, whereas hetero women get pregnant with what's-his-brother's-name and can have 8 children by 8 daddys, if gay people put enough thought and effort into it, they too can produce children. The fact th...
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The city is ANTI-car, period. They would rather create a hindrance to traffic, in an attempt to force people to ride transit, etc. The Hub housing project will accommodate over 500 residence (I believe it is 514), yet it only has 100 onsite parking spaces. There is an "overflow" parking lot, but its a quarter mile e...
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Boozer, I've noticed that you have a pattern of adding "but somebody else is worse," spiced with colorful insults, in comments to every piece I've seen that looks at Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump, like him or not, is a colorful character, unprecedented in US politics, who gets an extraordinary amount of press coverage. Somebody...
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Perhaps we should remove constitutional considerations for religious freedom as well since that too is simply a life choice? What dost thou sayest thine bible thumpery?
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Anything that helps a parent with their children is a Good Thing and this long simmering pot is finally off the stove! Good news!
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Ms Christgau: Get ready, the ad hominem have started and will continue. Your appraisal of both Mr. Trump and Mr. Cruz reflect the persona they both present to us all each day. Trump and his supporters remind me of the fourth grade playground. In our school we had a very aggressive bully who seldom missed an opportu...
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