| The bully of the schoolyard is fully in charge, and he’s having everything all his own way. He’s powerful and ruthless. He lets his pirate-ways grow and grow at a great rate while he beats up on the smaller kids, taking away their security and their dignity. He steals their lunch money, and he makes plans to frighten them into doing his will whenever he wants. He threatens their families. He demands that everyone go along with him in his plans to show his strength in any way he might see fit. He tries to see to it that he and his | 
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special friends, other big boys with plenty of cash, can borrow money from the little kids. He makes it his business to spend only when he can spend borrowed money, while saving his own and his friends’ ways and means secured. He uses the lives of others for his and his friends’ ambitious plans. He turns an aggressive eye towards kids in other schoolyards, in other communities, as well. His pugnaciousness is boundless. He has a preemptive personality which is very attractive to other domineering braggers and swaggerers generally. Grandma and her angel friends have been observing this enormous schoolyard situation from our good vantage point for quite a while now, and we all want to know, “When will somebody stand up and call the bully’s bluff and bring up the principle?” Yes that’s right, the principle. The bully’s school principal doesn’t have any proper influence or authority because, alas, the bully bought him off.
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