Last week, I discussed this problem on our talk radio program with someone who is trying to do something about it: Rep. Sue Myrick of North Carolina.

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To me selling is really the telling of a story with the intent to persuade someone to do something.

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So the question is, how can he now stand by idly and just say -- one of his former White House aides is running this thing that says that Mitt Romney may have had something to do with someone's death?

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Denning pointed out you could be seen as socially inept of you tried to use the wrong context: if you were out on a date with someone new and gave orders on when they should do something, or set a price that you paid your date at the end of the night.

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People do not want every single moment of their journey filled with someone saying something... the sadness is that the unnecessary announcements dilute the value of the important ones.

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The prosecutor said it was more likely the killing "may have had something to do with a fascination with guns and killing and a desire to see what it was like to shoot someone, something which he had not managed to achieve in Afghanistan".

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