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If you show up and boast about how you would shoot people in the head, your addresses and other things get entered into the spam filter. It's my blog, that's how it goes down here.

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Seriously, you should consider notifying the Secret Service if any of those threats are directed at the president. I've sicced them on a couple of readers. Disagreement is bracing, death threats are WAY over the top.

By mediajackal (not verified) on 03 Sep 2009 #permalink