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Good response!

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Hmm, I thought it was just an honorific.

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The word filter automatically sends all comments containing certain words to moderation. It is not context-dependent, so if you know a word is on the list, as you seem to have realized by now, the way to stay out of the moderation queue is not to use said words. That would save me work, too!

More here, in the rules, item #5.

— Dok Zoom, Yr Friendly Neighborhood Comments Moderator

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""serious questions about the role of political influence in DirectTV programming decisions"

Gee, has anyone told them about FOX News?

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a plaque upon both their houses...

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Fair enough. I see how it is. HAL. Wintermute. Roy Batty. No one listens. No one cares.

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Squirrel!

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Campaign contributions given or orchestrated by lobbyists are nothing short of legalized bribery.

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A nice engraved plaque, made from the last tree of its kind, studded with blood diamonds, and with a portrait of Trump and Putin in flagrante delicto laser etched on a gold plate affixed with glue made from the bones of orphaned puppies.

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Or just respond “new phone, who dis?”

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And some extra plaque on their teeth.

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The propaganda machine went into overdrive with Fox Noise in 1996 reaching millions of gullible empty heads.

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The Batista influenced Cuban wants to sound American.

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This was a triumph. I'm making a note here, "Big success!"

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I'm a new man. I snarl and bark. I romp with joy in the wonkish dark.

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The American free market system has been the greatest engine for growth and prosperity that the world has ever seen

Except in the failed state of Texas, which Cancun Cruz had to flee for the capitalist paradise of Mexico.

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