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Respect is something to be earned. I think we should start showing respect to President Obama when he starts showing respect to the American people — the people he works for.
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It seems that Glenn Beck thinks rich, selfish white people need a civil rights movement.
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What Leonard Pitts failed to mention in his Aug. 30 column was how appalled the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would be today. He died to give the black community opportunity, and too many African-Americans have paid him back with sky- high out-of-wedlock birthrates and an attitude that "working for the man" is selling out. Glenn Beck isn't the enemy; a self-defeating attitude is.
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An Air Force sergeant with HIV attended 21 "swinger parties" from January 2009 to July of this year, parties that "typically involve promiscuous sex, sometimes with multiple partners." Really? In Wichita? Where the heck have I been?
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I can name four people who were killed because they were wearing a seat belt and got trapped in the vehicle and the vehicle caught fire. The seat-belt law needs to be repealed. Of course, it depends on how badly the state of Kansas wants to get some of its money back from the federal government that took it in the first place.
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I just received my $25 bill from the city for my home alarm system. This is so unfair. I have never had a false alarm. Why should I have to pay for other people who are careless? It is like being penalized because I can afford an alarm system.
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Many employers won't hire you if you're too old or too young, or have tattoos or piercings, are of the wrong political party, wrong race, wrong religion, wear clothes that are too stylish or not stylish enough, or smoke when you are off the clock. But the good news is: If you are older and have a job already, you can play on the Internet during working hours.
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Mothers, sisters, wives, girlfriends: Please tell your men that wearing sagging pants and showing us their choice of underwear is stupid, ugly and vulgar. Thank you.
