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Yeah, I'm sure the Romney campaign are currently in a state of mostly trying to convince themselves they can replicate their late surges from ad blitzes in primary states. They can't, for three main reasons. First, their primary ad blitzes were overwhelmingly negative, and they worked because votes didn't really know Mitt's opponents - Newt was the only one who'd previously been nationally known, and even he'd spent a long time out of the spotlight; the President, on the other hand, is someone about whom people have already made up their minds. Second, Mitt had orders of magnitude more money than his opponents and was able to completely dominate the airwaves; Barack has lots of campaign money too and is able to come much closer to matching expenditures. Third, viewer fatigue - I'm a political junkie in NY and even I am sick of the political ads (fuck you very much, Linda McMahon); I'd hate to think what it's like in, say, Ohio - I suspect by now it's almost impossible to produce an ad that any significant number of people are going to pay attention to in swing states.

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i really have nothing except this: <a href="http://www.theonion.com/art..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.theonion.com/articles/killing-wheelcha...">http://www.theonion.com/art...

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also: time to watch 'once upon a time in mexico'!!

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I was hoping that last one would at least somehow involve Edith Piaf...

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Isn't that more of a banmallet word? I thought that one sent you into eternal limbo rather than straight to hell...

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Yeah, but people who aren't you have to either have the words look different, or fire up charmap (unless they have freaky memories for unicode codepoints, or a handy cribsheet to cut'n'paste from)

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I like my feet clean and articulated.

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I meant the watermelon smashing smuck but that gold-selling 'tard should get it as well.

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What about Doctor Keith Ablow? He can be used to quickly find others for the firing squad, by judging how they respond to a few of his pronouncements.

If they laugh, they die.

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Ann Coulter's poor little penis. Obviously.

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Isn't it ironic that these wingnuts are also the ones who say things like "I DON'T EVEN RECOGNIZE MY COUNTRY ANYMORE"

And they don't mind the idea of a little fascisty housecleaning based on allegiance to a specific political party. Wonder what country they are thinking of.

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Electric Theater, Chicago, summer of '68. Terrible sound, couldn't understand a word. And get this: they had bubbles of colored liquid between transparencies on an overhead projector—far <i>out, </i>man!

Opening act was Iron Butterfly...who knew a drum solo could go on for 15 minutes?

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A very small of users are special and can type forbidden words. The rest of us mortals can use obvious typos, numbers in place of letters, or if we want to look like we're fancy like Chet, unicode characters from the Cyrillic range (which has letters that render the same as a, c, e, i, o and y, but which IntentDebased is not smart enough to spot). That's a lot of hassle for a little word, though ;)

The other known banhammer word is rеtard.

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Something to do with spam referring to search engine optimization?

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Whoever came up with the advertising phrase 'New and improved!'. Roger Ailes Reality TV producers Gallagher (the comedian)

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Craig?

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