Good evening friends and fellow judges of the Great Quadrennial National Beauty Pageant, whose season is now upon us.

Now that the preliminary rounds are over and we roll inexorably on to The Marking of the Ballots, it seems that many are concerned about the appearance of shills showing up at our virtual doorstep attempting to work the judges like a horde of deranged, door-knocking religious fanatics seeking converts.

But seriously folks, let's have a talk about shills.

This is a direct result of HillBillary's get tough on crime policies and crack down on 'predators' and 'bringing them to heel'. This note was left by a child at the school at which Philando Castilo worked:

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