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Agreed. I've struggled horribly with Disqus-based sites too, and LiveFyre's a fucking joke.

The system that's annoyed me least was DKos' comment system, which I'm pretty sure was written in-house by ct. ID is the next least worst in my experience.

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No way, it should have been sooo smoooth!

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that just made me think about 'no I'LL shoot the cook, my car's parked out back anyway'.

come to think, 'once upon a time in mexico' may be way better for my blood pressure and liver than tonight is likely to be.

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this is EXACTLY what mr fuflans said during the romney faceplant that was last week's informed debate on this topic.

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Charlotte, Emily and Anne would like to have a chat with you.

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Given they were all dead by the end of 1855, I don't think that much affects my point ;) Especially as their father made up that spelling for reasons unknown, but plausibly to seem more important by referencing Greek mythology.

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Not that, MittBorg gets censored.

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Finally, the identity of Woodrow Wilson's attempted murderer is revealed!

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Yes, I always find calling people uneducated is a foolproof way of making friends with them.

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<blockquote>They only care about <strike>incidents like this</strike> anything at all if they get political/economic gain from it.</blockquote>

FIFY.

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Isn't odd how many things have been screeched at as being "In The Tank For Obama"?

If Mitt's such a great fucking candidate, why would it matter so much? Work the refs, much?

Its almost as if they are sooo close to admitting that yes, their candidate <i>does</i> suck ass, that anything, even a mildly disparaging comment, can disrupt the tenuous notion that he doesn't.

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Although there's a difference between the sports (e.g. athletics) where there's a concerted effort by the governing bodies to catch and exclude the cheats, vs those (baseball, cycling) where the governing bodies stick their heads in the sand, aware that there's a problem and that it's so bad that it will seriously discredit their sport when the public finds out about it, and hoping to avoid the latter from happening, vs those (football, professional wrestling) where the governing bodies see body types that are impossible to achieve naturally as a welcome part of the spectacle.

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Like explosive diarrhea has ever stopped them before.

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Somebody ought to wax them.

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<blockquote>no one accused Dubya of a "cover-up."</blockquote>

Apparently you'll be surprised to hear news of the <a href="http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/alyssa\/2012\/10\/22\/1053811\/september-mor\/" target="_blank">latest movie</a> starring Martin Sheen and Buddy Harrelson.

So make that "nobody in their right minds ..."

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Yeah, if they're Borroughsian, they're probably better left unsaid. People might be eating.

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