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I didn't write it though!\"<br><br>I wonder if he realizes that all the people who managed to graduate from grade school don't think he's clever.<br><br>I'm at the point now where if I see an elected official within my state misbehaving, I'm quite willing to make sure they get replaced by someone better able to care about and represent their people.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:30:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "windswept", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12835418, "depth": 1, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12857879": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh yes, GOP, the party of TAX CUTS.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_21:18:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12857490, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12853273": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "yes i get some people don't do funerals<br>and thats their choice<br>but when my Dad died 3 months ago my ex was right there<br>even though we had broke 13 years ago<br>and he was an azz hole when we were together<br>it's about being there for someone you cared about", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_18:44:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "danadevin74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12849205, "depth": 1, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12852764": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LMAO @ You, Spirit!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_18:42:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12849075, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12835418": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Gary Frago, California Councilman, Sent Racist Anti-Obama Jokes To Staff<br><br><br>Yet another local official has gotten in hot water for sending around racist emails about the president. This time it's Gary Frago of Atwater, California.<br><br>In the past several months Atwater City Councilman Gary Frago has sent at least a half-dozen e-mails to city staff and other prominent community members containing racist jokes aimed at President Barack Obama, his wife and black people in general. <br><br>In all, the Sun-Star obtained seven e-mails that Frago sent from October 2008 to February 2009 from an anonymous source.<br><br>Some compared Obama to O.J. Simpson while others suggested that \"nigger rigs\" should now be called \"presidential solutions.\"<br><br><br>\"I don't see where there's a story, I'm not the only one that does it,\" Fargo said in his defense, after the Merced Sun Star published the offensive emails. \"I didn't originate them, they came to me and I just passed them on.\"<br><br>Previous disastrous interactions between racially-insensitive public officials and modern technology include the \"historical keepsake photo\" sent around by a Tennessee state government staffer, the picture of watermelons on the White House lawn distributed by a California mayor, and the Michelle Obama gorilla joke posted on Facebook by a GOP activist and ex-official.<br><br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/17/gary-frago-california-cou_n_238040.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/17/gary-f...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_17:16:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856867": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well the real irony is if McNair had not bought that Navigator or at least PAID for it, he might be alive.<br><br>See Kashmi, on her waitress salary, was having to pay TWO car notes...so she decided to sell her old vehicle.<br><br>And THAT's how she met Adrian, trying to sell her car to him...and then says to him, she was interested in buying a gun...even though he wasn't gonna buy the car he told her, he DID have a gun for sale for $200.00<br><br>The transaction for the gun transpired 2 days b4 she shot him.<br><br>Far less, than a car payment on a NAVI...McNair was just not slick enough for his own good.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:32:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12835081, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12849075": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's all that TESTERONE!<br><br>Michelle to Barack when he enters the Lincoln bedroom:  <br>\"Come on over here daddy president, Iet me show you how to make some<br>HOR-MONES.\"<br><br>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;tip toes over to the naughty corner&gt;&gt;&gt;", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_18:16:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12848776, "depth": 2, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12849205": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<b>Janet Jackson, Jermaine Dupri Split</b><br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/17/janet-jackson-jermaine-du_n_237832.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/17/janet-...</a><br><br><b>usmagazine.com:</b><br><br><b>On July 7, Michael Jackson's family \u00adgathered to celebrate him at his much-watched memorial service.</b><br><br><b>Noticeably absent?</b><br><br><b>Janet \u00adJackson's longtime music-exec boyfriend, Jermaine Dupri. (A pal says Dupri skipped the memorial because he \"doesn't attend funerals.\")</b><br><br><br><br>Here we go, Mythe! <br><br>I knew something was up when Jermaine wasn't by Janet's side @ Michael's funeral.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_18:21:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12841527": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm tired of getting pimped.  I need that public option playa!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_17:37:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "pimpinjon", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856376": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Barack & Friends: Obama Sings!<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaFJtv-3Y0A\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaFJtv-3Y0A</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:10:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12857409": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LMBAO!!!  See, now, you got to be a married  politician and slapping boots with anyone other than your spouse to get the tax exemption.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:58:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12857230, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12855881": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Maddow's been doing segments of C-Street since last week.  Hit the MSNBC site and go to archives.  It gets creepier by the day.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_19:48:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12855760, "depth": 1, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856910": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Walter Cronkite Memorial Open Thread Is Up", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:34:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12859064": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Umm,  I've never heard of Carter Brown, will check out the novels, now.<br>Thanks for the tip.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_22:18:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12858533, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12855897": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hey guys I'm trying to go on this other blog I frequent, and I got this error message<br><br><strong>Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '&lt;' in /home/jcole1/public_html/bal/wp-content/plugins/live-comment-preview.php on line 187</strong><br><br>Does anyone know what his means?  Is it a problem with my computer, or the website?<br><br>Here's the link to the website: <a href=\"http://www.balloon-juice.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.balloon-juice.com</a>.  Has anyone gone on this website today, and if so, are you receiving an error message too?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_19:49:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "lamh", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12849242": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "HAHAHAHA YOU WRONG FO' DAT!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_18:23:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "HopeOverFear", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12849075, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12855392": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "it's true, but we haven't done a front page on it. I'm still gathering info.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_19:25:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12855207, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12832359": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Don't let it do that. Let it kill <i>them</i> inside.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_16:35:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "Plantsmantx", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12831442, "depth": 1, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856936": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "thanks", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:35:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "lamh", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12856557, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856423": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "He was in NJ campaigning for Corizine...it was supposed to be at Rutgers but they had to move it to a bigger site.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:13:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12855268, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12857455": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I missed it, what happened?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_21:00:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12855956, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12855409": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Really? Wow, I've never heard of a white woman named Leisha. Ya learn something new everyday at JJP! :-) <br><br>I did the same thing when I found out that Letitia Baldridge (Jackie O's social secretary) was an older white woman. LOL!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_19:26:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12854648, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12855417": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That would be <strong>Lawrence O'Donnell</strong>, who is not related to Kelly O'Donnell in any way, on Hardball today. And yes, I think someone did mention it earlier today.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_19:26:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "LisaM5432", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12855207, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856957": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Walter Cronkite was never one to suck up the lime light.  <br><br>If MSM can devote days of memorial tributes to Tim Russert....<br><br>I wonder if CBS will give him a fitting send off.   I hope so, because Mr. Cronkite deserves a national TV memorial service.<br><br>Our family  grew up listening to Walter Cronkite on the radio and then TV.<br><br>A true jounalist to the end.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:37:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12856696, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856962": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Been trying all afternoon. Can't get in.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:37:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12855897, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12857475": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's a brothel for elected officials who want to keep their hypocrisy under wraps.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_21:01:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12856755, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12857476": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "For those of you who have not gone into Cronkite Watch, I have an important question!<br><br>Has anybody seen my baby? Has he been Americanized? Sodomized?<br><br><br>A young Somali man captured by the US during the rescue of an American sea captain from pirates has been indicted in New York on multiple piracy charges. <br><br>Abde Wale Abdul Kadhir Muse faces 10 counts including piracy, holding a hostage for ransom and armed hijacking. <br><br><br>Let me know how he's doing if anyone has heard anything more about him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_21:01:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12848776": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"But this is probably the first time I think he looks sexy. He looks all manly and stuff when he's yelling at folk.\" Indeed! If I were Michelle I'd...nevermind, ahem.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_18:06:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "HopeOverFear", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12832680, "depth": 1, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12854807": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Is Twitter, My Space and Facebook helpful or do they contribute to social disorder?<br><a href=\"http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/07/social-media-unlocking-the-awesome-potential-of-behavioral-disorders/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/07/social-med...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_19:01:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12857097": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "of course, I screwed that up....thanks for the correction.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:44:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12855417, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12857997": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "EVENING OPEN THREAD IS UP!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_21:23:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12857490": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "In the name of God, and on the taxpayer's dime.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_21:01:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12856736, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12855956": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL @ Lawrence O'Donnell.......call him out! call that racist micky fick Pat Buchanan OUT.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_19:52:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12850841": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "*dead*", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_18:37:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12830785, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856477": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh see now...I read the second one \"Hillary's Nasty Pastorate\"...and now I'll be sleeping with the lights on for weeks..I am truly afraid.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:14:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12856120, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856481": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I had wondered the SAME thing Justice!<br><br>Ms. Jackson, don't play...this will be the third man she has left.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:14:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12849205, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12880547": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "found the link with President Obama and Corzine at the rally where he set it off.<br><br>The rebroadcast - The president speaks at the PNC Bank Arts Center in support of Gov. Jon Corzine<br><a href=\"http://www.app.com/article/99999999/NEWS/399990161?template=mogulus\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.app.com/article/99999999/NEWS/399990...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-18_12:10:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12858533": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Don't know about Dan Brown, but I know about Carter Brown.  Good, grade B, semi-porn novels.  Porn with a plot, as I call them.  A pleasure I indulge in on a rainy day (and no, it's not a guilty pleasure.  Just a pleasure...)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_21:49:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "sagittarius", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12855781, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12857002": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "THANKS!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:39:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12856910, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12848814": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>\"I don't see where there's a story, I'm not the only one that does it,\"</i><br><br>Most people stop using that as an excuse by the time they hit grade 6.  Idiot.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_18:07:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12835418, "depth": 1, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12832432": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Bwaaaaaaaaaaaahahahaha!!!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_16:37:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12830785, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12855985": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Am I understanding this right...that this \"residence\" is exempt from property taxes because its considered a religious sanctuary or something to that effect?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_19:54:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12855881, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12855475": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I hope this isn't true. I like them as a couple. He really had her back during the Super Bowl Nipplegate drama. I was hoping he would open up a can of whoop ass on that Timberlake punk!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_19:29:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12849205, "depth": 1, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12857016": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "THIS IS HILARIOUS!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:39:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12848574, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12857529": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That girl was nutzo, if she didn't get the gun from him, she would have gotten it from somewhere else.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_21:03:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12835081, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12857026": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Who was worst person of the world?  Pat Buchanan per chance.  Oh, I'm sorry - Uncle Pat.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:40:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "IWordsmith", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12857540": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I heard someone on the news today that residents of DC now drive by their visitors and describe it as the \"house of prayer.\"   <br><br>I guess that what those people do within those walls do need a hell of alot of praying!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_21:03:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12855760, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12841169": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The good thing is the seller violated Federal Law regarding not only the ownership but the selling as well. Feds made it clear the Tenn law did not over rule Federal law.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_17:36:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12835081, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12831442": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "In the words of Dave Chappelle, \"This racism is killing me inside\".<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/17/gary-frago-california-cou_n_238040.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/17/gary-f...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_16:10:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "tna1130", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856019": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I did read in the local paper here that indeed they broke up a couple of weeks before MJ died....I really liked them as a couple too. :(", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_19:55:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12855475, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12857952": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "MSNBC: <b><a href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31928335/ns/health-health_care/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Surgeon general post is a big job for a big lady. Do you have to be thin to be fit for the role of nation's Top Doc?</a></b>.  <br><blockquote>Critics seem to believe it\u2019s ironic that the nation\u2019s top doctor would be overweight, and it\u2019s led the most nattering of nags to conclude that she should not be picked for prom queen, er, I mean, surgeon general. <br><br>You would think the entire population of the blogosphere had suddenly reverted to the seventh grade.<br><br>\u201cI refuse to let fat be socially acceptable \u2026  The President should have known better and picked a doctor who could kick start the debate on fat not perpetuate it,\u201d commented one reader on a national news site. </blockquote><hr><br>Let the nattering, er, prom queen contest begin...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_21:21:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "morphusBfly", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12855207, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12857433": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "oh he'll get his week long wall to wall memorializing, and he's probably more deserving of that treatment than most who get it. it's sad to lose a real journalist like him, in a country that already has <em>far</em> too few.<br> <br>i won't hold my breath waiting for certain folks to feign indignation over how the news has come to a standstill on this one though...", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:59:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "moja31", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12856957, "depth": 3, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12857053": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "C Street = Coochie Street", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:41:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12856793, "depth": 3, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12852446": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hmmmm...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_18:41:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12849558, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12855248": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Spirit - that is EXACTLY what I heard.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_19:19:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12830785, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12857058": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I posted this link once before, but I want to make sure everyone sees this.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/watch2.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/watc...</a><br><br>This is what is going on in America's healthcare industry.  This is why movies like Sicko scare them.  This is why they're fighting fang and claw to stop the Public Option, and kill it in the cradle.  This is why they're fighting against reform as if their way of life depends on it - because it does.<br><br>Make no mistake - this is us, the American public, versus corporate greed.  We need to be louder and stronger-willed than those who profit while others suffer.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:41:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "windswept", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12843238": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Fiscal Conservative my Ass.  He can't accept can the stimulus money for his constituents, but he sure likes to travel in style on their dime.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25073.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sanford traveled well on taxpayers' dime</a><br><blockquote>Aside from the damage done to his standing as a social conservative, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford\u2019s recent admission of an extramarital affair may end up tarnishing another of his political credentials \u2014 his carefully honed reputation as a tightfisted steward of taxpayer money...<br><br>The records detail more than $468,000 worth of state-funded travel for Sanford and show that he routinely billed taxpayers for high-end airline seats, racking up more than $44,000 on business- and first-class tickets. He often stayed in pricey hotels that far exceeded the rates he imposed on other state employees. </blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_17:40:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "lamh", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12855992": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://mirroronamerica.blogspot.com/2009/07/president-obamas-speech-to-naacp.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://mirroronamerica.blogspot.com/2009/07/pre...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_19:54:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12855268, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856557": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That's an error on their website, not your computer.  Someone must be updating stuff, and added a &lt; symbol in the wrong place in the code.<br><br>Check back about once an hour; a website like that wouldn't be down for too long.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:17:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "windswept", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12855897, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856573": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "yep", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:18:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12855985, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856580": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Democracy Now- Howard Dean (2\\5) on Real Healthcare Reform<br><br><br><br>Howard Dean on His Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform<br><br>\"The House Ways and Means Committee approved legislation early this morning to overhaul the nations healthcare system and expand insurance coverage. By a 23-to-18 vote, the committee backed key elements of President Obamas blueprint for healthcare, including the creation of a new government health plan and requirements for employers to offer health insurance to workers or contribute to its cost. To help fund the changes to the healthcare system, the House committee also agreed to impose a surtax on families with incomes of more than $350,000 a year. Meanwhile, the conservative American Medical Association has just come out in support of the House bill, saying the status quo is unacceptable. Today we spend the hour with Howard Dean, physician, six-term Vermont governor, Democratic presidential candidate in 2004, and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Deans solution embraces President Obamas healthcare plan but argues that the reform bill is not worth passing unless the American people have the choice of signing up for a public option\u2014a real public option.\" <br><br>This is part 2. Part 1 is part news and about Sotomayer's hearing.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pIsV3y5gmg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pIsV3y5gmg</a><br><br>Here is part 3.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hDsGXmPkCs\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hDsGXmPkCs</a> <br><br>And parts 4.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQFygmCcV_A\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQFygmCcV_A</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:18:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856584": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Correct.  It is considered a \"church\" with all benefits thereof.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:18:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "windswept", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12855985, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12835081": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Federal agents have arrested a convicted murderer for allegedly providing the gun later used to kill ex-NFL quarterback Steve McNair.<br><br><b><a href=\"http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4336409\" rel=\"nofollow\">Report: Man who provided gun (to the Steve McNair shooter) arrested</a></b><br><blockquote>Adrian J. Gilliam Jr. was arrested by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.<br><br>A criminal complaint unsealed Friday in Nashville says that Gilliam -- who was convicted of murder and attempted armed robbery in 1993 in Florida -- admitted he sold the gun to the woman who later shot McNair.<br><br>McNair was shot to death on July 4 at his condo by his 20-year-old mistress Sahel Kazemi, who then turned the gun on herself.<br><br>The complaint, signed by ATF agent Mickey French, charges Gilliam with illegally possessing a firearm, which he is barred from doing as a felon.<br><br>Detectives traced the gun to its 2002 sale at a pawn shop, according to the complaint. Gilliam eventually bought it from an individual for $100 about a year ago. According to court documents, Gilliam admitted to detectives he sold the gun to Kazemi for $100.</blockquote><hr>Didn't see that coming.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_17:13:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "morphusBfly", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12857626": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If you recall going back to the primary, Hillary went on the attack about Obama's church...well...I said at the time, Hillary's choice of religious practicing had to be questioned also.   There wasn't any traction at that at the time.....guess, Hillary might want to rethink who she prays with going forward.    Especially since I truly believe she plans to go for the presidency one last time.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_21:06:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12856120, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12858140": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "thanks for the info...I truly appreciate, I will have to read this.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_21:29:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12857952, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856620": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "sorry. I misunderstood you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:19:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12855268, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856623": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "BREAKING NEWS!<br><br>Walter Cronkite dies at 92", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:20:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12857651": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I've worked in the insurance industry for years, life & health, annuities, credit - all in regulatory compliance - and I can assure you that insurers are out to screw you....screw you royally. Insurance is a big ass hustle. The goal for every insurance company is the same - to take your premiums and not pay shit.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_21:07:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12857058, "depth": 1, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856628": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ahhh....Walter Cronkite died.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:20:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856120": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Here you go<br>The Family World System <br><a href=\"http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050530/anderson\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050530/anderson</a><br>Hillary's Nasty Pastorate <br><a href=\"http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080331/ehrenreich\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080331/ehrenreich</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:00:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12855760, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12855104": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "that C street sounds just like a sex Den<br>everybody gonna be surprised when they find out<br>who all been getting it on at C Street", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_19:13:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "danadevin74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12835282, "depth": 1, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12854600": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Another view of Goldman Sachs<br><a href=\"http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/07/max-keiser-takes-offense-to-goldman-sachs-story/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/07/max-keiser...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_18:53:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856651": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Walter Cronkite dead at 92!<br><br>Watch the ELVISiscation of Cronkite begin.<br><br>Better hope they don't release the MJ toxicology results before they bury him.  MJ may not knock Cronkite off the top headlines though. He's an institution", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:21:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12857168": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I doubt if you find out tonight.  MSM has gone into full Cronkite mode. Was the POTUS supposed to talk about health care tonight?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:48:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12857026, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12841784": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Goldman Sachs in Talks to Acquire Treasury Department<br><a href=\"http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/07/goldman-sachs-in-talks-to-acquire-treasury-department/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/07/goldman-sa...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_17:38:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12854610": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You're so right about that, Dana!<br><br>My brother & his wife were separated for years but when there was a death in the family....both were right there!<br><br><br>(<i>and he was an azz hole when we were together</i>)<br><br>Tell me about it!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_18:53:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12853273, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12857183": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They really named him the worst person in the world?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:49:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12857026, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856161": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "GOP Rep Tiahrt (KS) Asks Whether Obama's Mother Would Have Had An Abortion<br>By Nicole Belle Friday Jul 17, 2009 3:00pm -<br><br>Yet another gem from the \"Party of Family Values\": <br><br>Arguing to restrict the public funding of abortions within the District of Columbia, Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kans.) suggested on Thursday afternoon that if such \"financial incentives\" were available some 47 years ago, President Barack Obama himself may never have been born.<br>\"If you think of it in human terms, there is a financial incentive that will be put in place, paid for by tax dollars, that will encourage women who are -- single parents, living below the poverty level, to have the opportunity for a free abortion,\" said Tiahrt. \"If you take that scenario and apply it to many of the great minds we have today, who would we have been deprived of? Our president grew up in a similar circumstance.\"<br>\"If that financial incentive was in place, is it possible that his mother may have taken advantage of it?\" Tiahrt asked. \"Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice, if those circumstances were in place, is it possible that we would be denied his great mind? The opportunity to have tax-funded abortions, a financial incentive, is something that I think most of us want to oppose in America and it's certainly deserves a clean up or down vote.\"<br>So is Tiahrt suggesting that only black babies get aborted? Has Tiahrt been spending time with Bill Bennett? It's a little horrifying to me that more than 45 years after MLK's March on Washington, the GOP still feels no shame in expressing their abject racism so openly. It is a small comfort that Tiahrt was booed by his colleagues.<br><br>Tiahrt is running for Sam Brownback's Senate seat in 2010, and given the tenor of his comments, I'd say he's attempting to reach out to the same base. <br>However, such sickening allusions--can you imagine the GOP uproar if a Congressman had suggested that Barbara Bush might have wanted to consider an abortion?--should not go unchallenged. The Kansas Democratic Party has put together a petition demanding an apology from Tiahrt: Take it back, Todd. <br><br>VIDEO<br><br><a href=\"http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/gop-rep-tiahrt-ks-asks-whether-obamas\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/gop-rep-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:02:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856684": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What's funny is their extraordinarily restrained response.  I read it over twice, and I can't help but laugh.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:22:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "windswept", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12848574, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12855664": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You mean he didn't accuse the dog of writing and sending the emails.  See, now I might have bought his story if he would have said the dog did it.<br><br>GAWD, please mainline these mofos with MEGA doses of medication.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_19:38:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12848814, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12854648": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Actually, as far as southern belle names go....that's one...even Sonya.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_18:55:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12849558, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12852601": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Aww. I liked them as a couple. They were together for, like, 10 years! They really did beat the odds, cause I was sure they weren't gonna last 6 months! LOL<br><br>Another couple I think might actually make it is Mariah and Nick Cannon. They are both so goofy it just might last forever!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_18:41:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "itgurl_29", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12849205, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12855164": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's TESTOSTERONE.  LOL!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_19:15:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12849242, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856696": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "thanks.<br><br>RIP", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:23:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12856623, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856709": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah Justice!  You know they had to go ahead and confirm it because everybody could see.  If a close relative dies and you've got somebody they WILL be present. Yeah right, \"he doesn't attend funerals\". NEXT!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:24:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12849205, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12830785": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "GIVE ME MY HEALTHCARE, PUBLIC OPTION-STYLE, BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_15:53:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 12, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12855191": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"I don't see where there's a story, I'm not the only one that does it,\" Fargo said in his defense, after the Merced Sun Star published the offensive emails. \"I didn't originate them, they came to me and I just passed them on.\"<br><br>idiot", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_19:16:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12835418, "depth": 1, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12857230": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I pray everyday, why can't my residence be tax exempt?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:51:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12856584, "depth": 4, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856720": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thank you for this LAMH...it was beautiful..I felt just like I was there, as I too experienced many of these same emotions as I listened to the speech.<br><br>Goodness and hope.<br><br>thanks", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:24:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12849047, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12848531": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Williams_case\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Williams_case</a><br><br>Above is the wikipedia entry for Megan Williams case. I think it has scant information on the disposition of the case. I'm trying to subscribe to her MySpace blog. I'll try to give an update if I discover anything newsworthy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_17:57:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "wasteacher", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12849558": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Leisha??", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_18:34:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12835282, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12849047": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Okay, this is just a great feel good article.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.politickerny.com/4541/obamas-speech-seen-bridges-bar-hilton\" rel=\"nofollow\">Obama's Speech, as Seen From The Bridges Bar at the HiltonBy Jason Horowitz </a><br><blockquote>Not all the attendees of the NAACP's national conference, held at the Hilton Hotel in midtown this week, got into the third floor ballroom to hear President Barack Obama's highly anticipated speech last night. <br><br>By the northeast entrance of the Hilton's lobby, across from a sign directing participants of the Korea Global Healthcare Conference to the hotel's second floor, a crowd gathered in front of a flat screen television sponsored by AT&T and promoting NAACP <a href=\"http://Webcast.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Webcast.com</a> (\"Text, Call or Tweet Your Friends\"). <br><br>They watched attentively as the panning camera focused on the back of the Rev. Al Sharpton's graying, anvil-headed hair as he ate dinner. The crowd demonstrated considerably more animation a few minutes later, when the screen showed Beyonc\u00e9 Knowles singing \"Halo,\" though their excitement ended abruptly when the camera again showed the guests in the ballroom quietly eating, as it turned out Knowles' performance was stock footage from February's NAACP Image Awards. Then they watched an NAACP official at the podium asking all the trustees to meet him outside in the hall.<br><br>\"It must mean he's ready to come in,\" said one member of the crowd. <br><br>As the camera lingered on police commissioner Ray Kelly chatting at table 44, Wildon Richardson, a self-employed man of 50 who held a copy of the Amsterdam News (\"Hero Shot in Cross Fire\") and wore a pin of Michael Jackson (in red military jacket with epaulettes) on his right shoulder and one of Michael Jackson (in \"Smooth Criminal\" gangster hat and jacket)  on his left shoulder, started talking with an older man wearing a FUBU baseball cap.  <br><br>\"Christopher Columbus discovered America? How can you discover a place that is already inhabited?\" said Richardson. <br><br>\"You know about Halifax, Nova Scotia,\" said the man in the FUBU cap. \"They got a black culture seminar up there man that will blow your mind.\"<br><br>All of a sudden, young women started squealing and running past the Hilton's Bridges Bar on the hotel's 54th Street side to a side entrance. <br><br>\"Is it the president?\" one woman asked one of the Bridges Bar's waiters.<br><br>\"That wasn't the president. That was Puff Daddy,\" the waiter, a middle-aged Asian man, said, as the girls and some more mature women screamed, \"Puff Daddy just passed me by!\" and \"P-Diddy, that's P-Diddy!\" <br><br>On the large screen television fixed to the wall of Bridges Bar, people watched the entertainer, dressed in a tuxedo, as he made the rounds inside the ballroom two floors above them, shaking hands with Newark Mayor Cory Booker and posing for cell phone pictures.<br><br>At 6:45, the patrons of the Bridges Bar, wearing their green NAACP conference credentials and sipping cocktails, watched the television as Prince walked onto the stage. <br><br>\"Oh, no!\" screamed one woman holding an appletini. \"Prince is in the house!\" <br><br>Prince, who paid tribute to \"the true God Jahova,\" actually wasn't in the house either. His performance was stock footage too.<br><br>After the Prince clip, the live feed to the ballroom came back on the screen, and showed two men bringing out the presidential podium. The patrons of Bridges applauded. David Myrick, a community activist from New York, and his party ordered another round of white russians and brandy and settled in. <br><br>A few minutes later, the president was introduced. He came out in a red tie, white shirt and dark suit. Bridges erupted with applause. Several women ran up and took pictures of the screen with their phones. Imanda Wilson, a 49-year-old from Marion, Illinois, stood up and waved at the screen.<br><br>\"It's just good to be among friends,\" Obama said. <br><br>\"Yeah!\" the patrons of Bridges Bar hollered back.<br><br>The Bridges viewers listened intently as Obama delivered a passionate speech. They sat hushed when he spoke about slavery and lynchings, made \"mmmm-hmmms\" when he spoke about the \"long day of doing someone else's laundry, the long days of looking after someone else's children\" and were jubilant when he said the long civil rights journey had \"led me to be here tonight as the 44th president of the United States of America.\"<br><br>Some passages had special resonance for certain of the Bridges audience. When Obama said, \"Make no mistake: the pain of discrimination is still felt in America,\" and added that that was true for \"Muslim Americans viewed with suspicion simply because they kneel down to pray to their God,\" Al Mulla, a 55-year-old woman wearing a hijab and visiting New York from Kuwait City, put down her glass of water and clapped. <br><br>When he began a long portion of his speech calling for more emphasis on education and demanding greater responsibility on the parts of black children and parents when it came to studying to get ahead, saying, \"You know what I'm talking about,\" Wilson shouted back, \"Yes we do!\" <br><br>When Obama leaned down into the podium's microphone, as he often does to punctuate his key points, and thundered, \"No one has written your destiny for you.  Your destiny is in your hands -- you cannot forget that.  That's what we have to teach all of our children.  No excuse,\" Richardson, the Michael Jackson fan who was now watching from a table in the bar, yelled, \"No excuses! No excuses!\" <br><br>And when Obama said, \"We need to go back to the time, back to the day when we parents saw somebody, saw some kid fooling around and -- it wasn't your child, but they'll whup you anyway,\" Richardson laughed and said, \"I remember that.\"<br><br>The president concluded by saying, \"One hundred years from now, on the 200th anniversary of the NAACP, let it be said that this generation did its part; that we too ran the race; that full of faith that our dark past has taught us, full of the hope that the present has brought us, we faced, in our lives and all across this nation, the rising sun of a new day begun. Thank you, God bless you. God bless the United States of America.\"<br><br>With that, everyone in the Bridges Bar jumped out of their seats to applaud. <br><br>\"God Bless you, God Bless the United States of America,\" yelled Richardson.<br><br>Wilson, the woman from Illinois, tearfully hugged Bill Grunewald, a 51-year-old white lawyer from  Medford, Wisconsin, who had watched the speech at the next table. Then she hugged his wife. Then his daughters. <br><br>A few minutes later, everyone in the bar crammed up against Bridges' wall-length window to see the presidential motorcade drive past on 54th Street in an attempt to get a glimpse of the president. They did. Obama waved at them through the tinted glass of his stretched Cadillac and, euphorically, they all waved back. </blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_18:15:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "lamh", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856731": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Today's Conversation:<br>The Black Community. What Black Community? <br><a href=\"http://bit.ly/rNxS\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://bit.ly/rNxS</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:25:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856736": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "YEPPER.  Thesse mofos are getting their jollies off in the name of God.  Shhhhhh.... it's a SECRET!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:25:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12855985, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12857251": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Okay, I'm going to start trying to keep up with my blog, so check it out: <a href=\"http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com/</a><br><br>Who else has a separate blog here? I'll add you to my blogroll", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:51:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12855207": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "hey, I have been side lined for the past day and a half (probably some don't mind that lol) .....Anyway, I just heard Larry Summers on Hardball say that remarks have been made about Regina Benjamin (surgeon gen. nominee) being overweight.   Did you all cover this?   I couldn't believe my ears.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_19:17:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12832680": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Everyone else who has an investment in this is mad, glad to see he is expressing that frustration we all have. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, if this does not get fixed now, it is going to be several generations before we have this chance. People are ready now, and we got the numbers behind making this happen. If you haven't called your senators and congresswomen/men yet, please do so NOW.<br><br>Although...I will say...*chuckle*... I waiting for Angry Black Man to show up somewhere in the media. They have been waiting to use that term for the longest time.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Ok, I'm gonna say something once, and we shall never talk about this again: I never saw what people meant when they said Obama looks cute. But this is probably the first time I think he looks sexy. He looks all manly and stuff when he's yelling at folk.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_16:42:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856237": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I can't wait to get on this thread.  WTF!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:04:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12855392, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12848559": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow, they were on the case with this one.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_17:58:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "OneChele", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12835081, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12880306": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "thanks for trying to help me.  I appreciate it.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-18_11:56:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12856620, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856755": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's a brothel for elected officials!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:26:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12855760, "depth": 1, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12880309": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "thanks.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-18_11:56:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12856423, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12851639": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wasn't that ignorance on it's face?  ...\"well I'm not the only one\"<br><br><b>Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa&gt;&gt;lap</b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_18:39:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12848814, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12855225": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"He looks all manly and stuff when he's yelling at folk.\"<br><br>and there you have it.  lolol", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_19:18:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12832680, "depth": 1, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12848574": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The Gorilla Glue Company Responds to Zell Miller's Recent Comments. We Do Not Advocate Attempting to Glue the Leader of the Free World to His Chair.<br><br><b><a href=\"http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/\" rel=\"nofollow\">THe Gorilla Glue Company Responds to Zell Miller</a></b><br><blockquote>The press release of the week, from the Gorilla Glue company, subject of a Zell Miller comment that raised some eyebrows this week:<br><br>    News Facts<br>    * In response to Zell Miller's recent comments, The Gorilla Glue Company sends letter to President Obama.<br>    * The response was sent today from the desk of Peter Ragland, President, The Gorilla Glue Company.<br>    * The Gorilla Glue Company does not advocate the gluing of President Obama to his chair with their product.<br>    * The quality adhesive products produced by the company are for the toughest building and repair jobs.<br>    * Gorilla brand products are created with strength and toughness as the goal.<br>    * The Gorilla Glue Company is a family owned business located in Cincinnati, Ohio.<br>    * Gorilla Glue represents just the type of growing small business that President Obama mentions as the job creators in our country.<br>    * Gorilla Glue continues to: create new jobs, boast of no lay-offs, provide healthcare for all full-time employees and proudly make all products in the USA.<br><br>    Quotes<br>    Attributed to Peter Ragland, President, The Gorilla Glue Company:<br><br>    * Zell Miller's recent comments have thrust our product and company into the limelight.<br>    * While our products are known for being strong and tough we certainly would not advocate attempting to glue the Leader of the free world to his chair.</blockquote><hr><br><a href=\"http://www.gorillaglue.com/Portals/0/pdfs/media_releases/LettertoPresidentObama.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gorilla Glue President Peter Ragland letter to PBO (PDF)</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_17:58:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "morphusBfly", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12861430": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And it looks like the GOP is down with O.P.P.<br><br>Family values my arse.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-18_00:23:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "AxelFoley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12857879, "depth": 6, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12855760": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I wanna know more about this C street complex for the good Christian congressmen...I think I saw a horror movie about something eerily similar to this a long time ago.<br><br>The Political Enclave That Dare Not Speak Its Name<br>The Sanford and Ensign Scandals Open a Door On Previously Secretive 'C Street' Spiritual Haven<br><br>No sign explains the prim and proper red brick house on C Street SE. <br>Nothing hints at its secrets. <br>It blends into the streetscape, tucked behind the Library of Congress, a few steps from the Cannon House Office Building, a few more steps to the Capitol. This is just the way its residents want it to be. Almost invisible. <br>Full Story: <a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/25/AR2009062504480.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_19:43:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 16, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12835282": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\\Chip Pickering's Wife Claims He Had Affair<br><br>JACKSON, Miss. \u2014 The estranged wife of former U.S. Rep. Chip Pickering claims in a lawsuit that the Mississippi Republican had an affair that ruined their marriage and derailed his political career.<br><br>Leisha Pickering said in the lawsuit filed this week that her husband and the woman dated in college, reconnected and began having an affair while he was in Congress and living in a building where several Christian lawmakers reside on C Street near the U.S. Capitol. Chip Pickering is the third Republican with ties to the building at 133 C Street SE to find his personal life making headlines in recent weeks, after Nevada U.S. Sen. John Ensign and South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.<br><br>Leisha Pickering is seeking unspecified damages in the alienation of affection lawsuit she filed this week against Elizabeth Creekmore Byrd of Jackson. The Pickerings filed for divorce in June 2008, but it is not complete.<br><br>Chip Pickering, 45, was elected to Congress in 1996, retired in January and is now a lobbyist in Washington for Cellular South, the company Creekmore Byrd's family owns. The lawsuit does not say when the affair started.<br><br>He said in a statement Thursday that his marriage is irreparably damaged.<br><br>\"I still believe it is in the best interest of our five boys if our differences are resolved privately and before the appropriate court and not in the media,\" Pickering said.<br><br>He cast himself as a defender of decency, particularly on television and the Internet, and was among House members urging then-President George W. Bush to declare 2008 \"the National Year of the Bible.\"<br><br>Another lawmaker who lived at the C Street house, Ensign, a member of the Christian ministry Promise Keepers, stepped down from the Senate Republican leadership in June after admitting he had an affair for much of last year with a woman on his campaign staff.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/17/chip-pickerings-wife-clai_n_237429.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/17/chip-p...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_17:15:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12858836": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://blog.greenafrodiva.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">blog.greenafrodiva.com</a>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_22:04:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "friskee1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12857251, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12849109": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It is good to know the Gorilla Glue Co has some sense.  I applaud them.  They don't want to be included in Zell Miller's racism!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_18:18:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "jelana", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12848574, "depth": 1, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856793": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yepper...that C stands for CONJUGAL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:28:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12855104, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12857309": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks, I just can't imagine the tripe the detractors will lower themselves to.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:53:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12855392, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12854240": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Were they together for 10 years? Wow. I didn't know that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_18:45:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12852601, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12855265": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "David Arquette Apologizes For Latina Women Remark<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/17/david-arquette-apologizes_n_238025.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/17/david-...</a><br><br><br>See this is the kind of stuff that pisses me off. WHITE PEOPLE TAKE NOTE OF THIS. David Arquette was on Fox and said a pretty stupid joke about Latinas- perpetuating a stereotype etc. Now he issues a an apology. He went for the laugh and got it and now all he says is that he didn't MEAN to offend anyone. No harm, no foul. <br><br>THIS PISSES ME OFF. Racism is NOT DEPENDENT on the person's INTENTION to be racist when sharing a racist joke, promoting a stereotype, or using a racist term.<br><br>In other words, no matter what your intention is: if you do or say something racist then you are a RACIST. This is not say that you are a member of the Kl Klux Klan. This is not say that you intend to hurt other people or intend to treat them as lower than you. However, when you do and say what you and say the cumulative effect is a subordinate social position of people of color. When you do that you AFFIRM racism. You perpetuate it. You promote it.<br><br>An apology like \"my bad, didn't mean it\" is NOT ENOUGH. You HAVE TO SAY \"DAMN I SAID SOMETHING RACIST AND IT WAS WRONG, AND I AIN'T NEVER GONNA SAY IT AGAIN BECAUSE I AM TRYING TO NOT BE RACIST.\" When you pick on people (say jokes, promote stereotypes) and you KNOW it's wrong that means you value the laugh over the people. THOSE are your values, not valuing diversity or valuing people.  <br><br>So before that California Gary Frago comes up with his apology saying \"my bad... some of my best friend's are black,\" let me say NOT ENOUGH, YOU RACIST.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_19:19:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12856803": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "mmmm hmmmm I was thinkin the SAME thang!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_20:29:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12849558, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12855268": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "does anyone have a link to the entire speech?  Or at least can you tell me where he made the speech?  Been working and haven't been keeping up as much as I normally do these last few days.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_19:19:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12855781": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "C-Street sounds like a cross between a Dan Brown novel and the movie \"unfaithful.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_19:44:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12855104, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12848630": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great post by Booman Tribune on Affirmative Action & the Ivy League.  It's too long to blockquote, so here's the link.  READ IT, it 's pretty good.  It may even warrant a post of it's own.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2009/7/17/1041/61855\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Word on Princeton and Affirmative Action</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_18:00:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "lamh", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "25913937", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": -9189823969000084625}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "afternoon_open_thread_010", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 119, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 25913937, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
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	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL = function(total, num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comment", {num:num, total:total});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comments", {num:num, total:total});
		}
	};

	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION = function(num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comment", {num:num});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comments", {num:num});
		}
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s comment'
				: '%(num)s comments'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_LIKES = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s like'
				: '%(num)s likes'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_POINTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s point'
				: '%(num)s points'
			), {num:num});
	};
};
// Dsq.FmtStrings





Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN = '3a1994e3330279e78957da82fb64f754';
Dsq.COMMENTS_RE = /(<li.*?id="?dsq-comment-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/li>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_RE = /(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-header-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/div>)\s*(<div.*?class="?dsq-comment-body"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_BODY_RE = /\s*(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-message-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
// HACK: Safari ends with "-->" while other browsers end with "--&gt;" as expected.
Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE = /&lt;!--\[(.*?)\]--(?:>|&gt;)/gim;



var FragmentPacket = function(reader, writer, writer_url, is_child, receiveCallback) {
	var that = this;
	this.reader = reader;
	this.writer = writer;
	this.writer_url = writer_url;

	this.is_child = is_child || false;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

	this.READY		= 0x1;
	this.WRITING	= 0x2;
	this.FIN		= 0x4;
	this.ACK		= 0x8;

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;
	var listener = function() {
		that.recv();
	};
	return window.setInterval(listener, 10);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

FragmentPacket.prototype.recv = function() {
	var hash;
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

		var hashIndex = this.reader.location.href.indexOf('#');
		if (hashIndex == -1) {
			return;
		}
		hash = this.reader.location.href.substring(hashIndex+1);
	}
	var flags = parseInt(hash.substring(0, 4), 10);
	var seqno = parseInt(hash.substring(4, 24), 10);
	var data  = hash.substring(24);

	if (this._lastHash !== hash) {
		this._lastHash = hash;
		this.log('recv: ' + hash);

		this.log(' flags: ' + flags);
		this.log(' seqno: ' + seqno + ' len: ' + hash.substring(4, 24).length + ' (' + hash.substring(4, 24) + ')');
		this.log(' data: ' + data + ' len: ' + data.length);

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

		if (flags & this.WRITING) {
			this._accumMsg += data;
			this.sendFlag(this.ACK, seqno);
			if (flags & this.FIN) {
				this.log('recv finished: ' + decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));
				this.receiveCallback(decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));

				this._accumMsg = '';

				this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
			}
		}
	}

	return {
		flags: flags,
		seqno: seqno,
		data: data
	};
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendRawPacket = function(packet) {
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {
		this.writer.name = packet;
	} else {

		this.writer.location.href = this.writer_url + '#' + packet;
	}

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendFlag = function(flag, seqno) {
	this.sendRawPacket(this._zerofill(flag, 4) + this._zerofill(seqno, 20));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {
	this._send(0, encodeURIComponent(msg));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._send = function(packetNum, msg) {
	var that = this;
	var recvBuf = this.recv();

	if (packetNum === 0) {

		if (!(recvBuf.flags & this.READY)) {
			this.log('client is not ready, waiting...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		}
	} else {

		if (!( (recvBuf.flags & this.ACK) && (recvBuf.seqno === this._lastSeqno) )) {
			this.log('waiting for ack from client...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		} else {
			this.log('received ack: ' + this._lastSeqno + ' ' + recvBuf.seqno);
		}
	}

	var flags = this.WRITING;
	var num_packets = Math.ceil(msg.length / this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	this.log('num_packets: ' + num_packets);

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

		this.log('message successfully sent!');
		this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
		return true;
	}

	this._lastSeqno++;

	if (packetNum == num_packets-1) {
		flags |= this.FIN;
	}

	var data = msg.substring(packetNum * this.MAX_DATA_LEN, (packetNum+1) * this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	var packet = this._zerofill(flags, 4) + this._zerofill(this._lastSeqno, 20) + data;

	this.log('sending raw packet: ' + packet);
	this.sendRawPacket(packet);

	return this._send(packetNum + 1, msg);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._zerofill = function(num, width) {
	var retval = num.toString();
	var retval_len = retval.length;
	for (var i = 0; i < width - retval_len; i++) {
		retval = '0' + retval;
	}
	return retval;
};

var PostMessagePacket = function(receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId) {
	var that = this;
	this.receiver = receiver;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;
	this.id = id;


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;

	var listener = function(e) {

		if (!that.id) {
			that.id = e.data;
			return;
		}


		var id = e.data.split(';')[0];
		if (id !== that.id) {
			return;
		}
		var data = e.data.substring(e.data.indexOf(';') + 1);

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

	if (typeof window.attachEvent == 'function') {
		window.attachEvent('onmessage', listener);
	} else if (typeof window.addEventListener == 'function') {
		window.addEventListener('message', listener, false);
	} else {
		throw new Error('No method found to create event listener for PostMessagePacket.');
	}
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



	var needs_reget = false;
	try {
		if (typeof this.receiver.id == 'undefined' || typeof this.receiver.postMessage == 'undefined') {
			needs_reget = true;
		}
	} catch(e) {


	}
	if (needs_reget && typeof this.receiverId != 'undefined') {
		this.receiver = document.getElementById(this.receiverId).contentWindow;
	}

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

		packet = this.id;
	} else {
		packet = this.id + ';' + msg;
	}
	this.receiver.postMessage(packet, '*');
};

PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = null;
PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id = function() {
	var id = (new Date()).getTime();
	if (id == PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id) {
		id++;
	}
	PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = id;
	return id.toString();
};

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

	this.objectToJSON = function(obj) {
		var json = '';
		var results = [];

		if (obj === undefined || obj === null) {
			return 'null';
		}

		switch (obj.constructor) {
			case Object:
				for (var property in obj) {
					if (obj.hasOwnProperty(property)) {
						results.push(this.objectToJSON(property) + ': ' + this.objectToJSON(obj[property]));
					}
				}
				json = '{' + results.join(', ') + '}';
				break;
			case Array:
				for (var i = 0; i < obj.length; i++) {
					results.push(this.objectToJSON(obj[i]));
				}
				json = '[' + results.join(', ') + ']';
				break;
			case Number:
			case Boolean:
				json = obj.toString();
				break;
			case String:

				var specialChars = {'\b': '\\b', '\t': '\\t', '\n': '\\n', '\f': '\\f', '\r': '\\r', '\\': '\\\\'};

				json = obj.replace(/[\x00-\x1f\\]/g, function(match) {
					var ch = specialChars[match];
					return ch ? ch : '\\u00' + match.charCodeAt().toPaddedString(2, 16);
				});

				json = '"' + json.replace(/"/g, '\\"') + '"';
				break;
			default:

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

	this.createHandler = function(send_func, registered_funcs) {
		var that = this;
		var handler = function(message) {

			try {
				var rpc = eval('(' + message + ')');
			} catch(e) {
				alert('bad JSON: ' + message);
				return;
			}
			if (rpc.method) {

				if (!registered_funcs[rpc.method]) {
					return;
				}

				var retval = registered_funcs[rpc.method].apply(null, rpc.params);
				if (rpc.id) {
					var response = {
						result: retval,
						error: null,	// TODO
						id: rpc.id
					};
					send_func(that.objectToJSON(response));
				}
			} else if(rpc.result) {

				if (!that.ids[rpc.id]) {
					return;
				}

				that.ids[rpc.id](rpc.result);
				delete that.ids[rpc.id];
			}
		};
		return handler;
	};

	this.execute = function(send_func, method, params, response_callback) {
		response_callback = response_callback || null;
		var id = (response_callback) ? (new Date()).getTime() : null;

		var request = {
			method: method,
			params: params,
			id: id
		};

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

		if (id) {
			this.ids[id] = response_callback;
		}
	};
};
JsonRpc = new JsonRpc();

var ParentMessenger = function(childUrl, receiverUrl, container, receiveCallback) {


	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari') >= 0 && parseInt(navigator.userAgent.substring(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Version/') + 8), 10) == 3) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	} else if (window.opera) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}



	if (!receiverUrl &&
		navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Gecko') >= 0 &&
		parseFloat(navigator.userAgent.slice(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 3, navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 6)) < 1.9) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}


	if (/msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent)) {


		if (document.domain == window.location.hostname) {
			receiverUrl = '';
		}
	}

	var that = this;
	this.childUrl = childUrl;
	this.receiverUrl = receiverUrl;
	this.container = container || document.body;

	this.packetHandler = null;


	this._ready = false;
	this._error = false;


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

		that.receiver = document.createElement('iframe');
		that.receiver.src = receiverUrl;
		that.receiver.id = 'receiver_' + (new Date()).getTime();
		that.receiver.name = that.receiver.id;

		that.receiver.frameBorder = '0';
		that.receiver.frameSpacing = '0';
		that.receiver.style.borderStyle = 'none';

		var receiver_onload = function() {
			var receiver = document.getElementById(that.receiver.id).contentWindow;

			try {
				receiver.document.body.innerHTML = '';
			} catch(e) {

				that._error = true;
			}
			receiver.document.body.style.padding = '0px';
			receiver.document.body.style.margin = '0px';

			var child = receiver.document.createElement('iframe');
			child.id = 'child';
			child.name = 'child';
			child.src = that.childUrl;

			child.frameBorder = '0';
			child.frameSpacing = '0';
			child.style.borderStyle = 'none';
			child.style.width = '100%';
			child.style.height = '100%';
			receiver.document.body.appendChild(child);

			that.child = receiver.document.getElementById('child').contentWindow;
			that.receiver = receiver;

			that.packetHandler = new FragmentPacket(that.receiver, that.child, that.childUrl, false, receiveCallback);

			that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();

			that.packetHandler.sendFlag(that.packetHandler.READY, 0);

			that._ready = true;
		};

		that.receiver.onreadystatechange = function() {
			if (this.readyState == 'complete') {
				receiver_onload();
			}
		};

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







		if (Dsq.Utils.ie) {
			if (that.container.clientWidth === 0) {

				var _waitForWidth = function() {
					if (that.container.clientWidth > 0) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					} else {
						window.setTimeout(_waitForWidth, 100);
					}
				};
				_waitForWidth();

				that._once = false;
				that.receiver.onresize = function() {
					if (!that._once) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					}
					that._once = true;
				};
			}
		}

		that.container.appendChild(that.receiver);
	};


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

			that.packetHandler.send();
			that._ready = true;
		};

		var id = PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id();
		var receiverId = 'child_' + id;


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

		that.container.innerHTML += '<iframe ' +
			'src="' + childUrl + '" ' +
			'id="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'name="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'onload="ParentMessenger._receiver_onload_' + receiverId +'();" ' +
			'></iframe>';

		that.receiver = document.getElementById(receiverId).contentWindow;
		that.packetHandler = new PostMessagePacket(that.receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId);
		that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();
	};

	if (typeof window.postMessage == 'function') {
		_createReceiverForPostMessage();
	} else {
		_createReceiverForFragmentPacket();
	}

};

ParentMessenger.prototype.sendMessage = function(message) {
	var that = this;
	if (!this._ready) {

		window.setTimeout(function() { that.sendMessage(message); }, 10);
		return;
	}
	this.packetHandler.send(message);
	return true;
};

Dsq.NewFrames = function(url) {
	this.url = url;
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype.init = function(onFailure) {
	var that = this;

	try {
		this.messenger = new ParentMessenger(this.url, Dsq.jsonData.integration.receiver_url, this.container, this.receive_callback);
	} catch(e) {
		if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
			onFailure();
		}
	}

	if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
		var iId = window.setInterval(function() {
			if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				return;
			}
			if (that.messenger._ready) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
			} else if (that.messenger._error) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				onFailure();
			}
		}, 10);
	}
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype._execute = function(method, args, callback) {
	var that = this;
	if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
		return false;
	}
	JsonRpc.execute(
		function(msg) { that.messenger.sendMessage(msg); },
		method,
		args || [],
		callback);
	return true;
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame = function(container, parent_post_id) {
	var that = this;
	this.container = container;
	this.parent_post_id = parent_post_id;

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

		Dsq.Debug.log('Dsq.ReplyFrame.sendFunc');
		that.messenger.sendMessage(msg);
	};


	var postComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		Dsq.jsonData.posts[response.message.id] = response.message.post_meta;
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key]) {
			Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key] = response.message.user_meta;
		}


		var reply_position = (typeof(disqus_insert_wrt_sort) == 'undefined' 
			? (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reply_position ? -1 : null) 
			: (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? null : -1));
		
		if (response.message.post_meta.approved) {
			Dsq.Post.insert(response.message.post_meta.parent_post_id || reply_position, response.message.id, response.message.post_meta.message);
		}

		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var postComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(response.message, 'Error');
		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onFailure(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var editComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);
		
		message.innerHTML = response.message;
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
	
	var editComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('Sorry, there was an error editing this comment.', 'Edit Error');
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	var getUserByEmail_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var msg = response.message;
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(parent_post_id);

		if (msg.username) {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'login', {
				'username': msg.username,
				'display_name': msg.display_name,
				'avatar_url': msg.avatar_url,
				'verified': msg.verified,
				'email': fields.email.value
			});
		} else {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'register');
		}
	};

	var validateAuth_onSuccess = function(response, auth_choice) {
		Dsq.Templates.postComment(parent_post_id, null, true, auth_choice);
	};

	var validateAuth_onFailure = function(response, auth_choice) {
		var pid = parent_post_id ? '-' + parent_post_id : '';
		var msg = response.message;

		if (auth_choice == 'register') {
			var fields = ['email', 'username', 'password'];

			for (var i = 0; i < fields.length; i++) {
				var field = fields[i];
				var errorDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-' + field + '-errors' + pid);

				if (msg[field]) {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = msg[field];
				} else {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = '';
				}
			}
		} else if (auth_choice == 'login') {
			Dsq.$('dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid).innerHTML = '<p>We couldn\'t log you in. Please verify your login.</p>';
		}
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.receive_callback = JsonRpc.createHandler(sendFunc, {
		'postComment.onSuccess': postComment_onSuccess,
		'postComment.onFailure': postComment_onFailure,
		'editComment.onSuccess': editComment_onSuccess,
		'editComment.onFailure': editComment_onFailure,		
		'getUserByEmail.onSuccess': getUserByEmail_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onSuccess': validateAuth_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onFailure': validateAuth_onFailure,
		'reload': function() { window.location.reload(); }
	});

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=jackandjillpolitics' +
		'&t=afternoon_open_thread_010' +
		'&ff=' + Dsq.Thread.ff +
		'&default_text=' + disqus_default_text +
		'&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
	if (this.parent_post_id) {
		this.url += '&parent_post=' + this.parent_post_id;
	}
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype = new Dsq.NewFrames(Dsq.ReplyFrame.url);

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.post = function(author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe) {
	this._execute('postComment', [author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.edit = function(post_id, message) {
	this._execute('editComment', [post_id, message]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.setState = function(parent_post_id, depth) {
	this._execute('setState', [parent_post_id, depth]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.getUserByEmail = function(email) {
	this._execute('getUserByEmail', [email]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.validateAuth = function(auth_choice, email, username, password) {
	this._execute('validateAuth', [auth_choice, email, username, password]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.authenticateFacebook = function(session, forum_url) {
	this._execute('authenticateFacebook', [session, forum_url]);
};

	Dsq.Facebook = function() {
	var that = this;

	var handleSessionData = function(session) {

		var forum_url = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;




		if (typeof disqus_facebook_forum != 'undefined') {
			forum_url = disqus_facebook_forum;
		}
		Dsq.frames.reply_0.authenticateFacebook(session, forum_url);
	};

	var onLogin = function() {
		FB.Connect.getSignedPublicSessionData(handleSessionData);
	};

	this.login = function() {
		FB.Connect.requireSession(onLogin, true);
	};
};
Dsq.Facebook = new Dsq.Facebook();


	






Dsq.Themes = {};

Dsq.Themes.narcissus = new function() {
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-form-area';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-textarea-wrapper';



	
	this.header = function() {
		var comments_count, total_posts, num_posts;
		var html = '';
		var missing_perm_tmpl;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.missing_perm) {
			missing_perm_tmpl = Dsq.Templates.missingPermissions();
			if (missing_perm_tmpl) {
				html += '<div class="dsq-missing-permissions">' + missing_perm_tmpl + '</div>';
			}
		}

		total_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.total_posts;
		num_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_posts;

		if (total_posts) {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL(total_posts, num_posts);
		} else {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION(num_posts);
		}

		html += ' \
		<div id="dsq-comments-title"> \
			<h3>' + comments_count + '</h3> \
		</div> \
		';

		html += ' \
		<div class="dsq-options"> \
			<span class="dsq-item-sort">'
				+ Dsq.Strings.SORT_BY + ' \
				<select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);"> \
					<option value="hot" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 4 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.POPULAR_NOW + '</option> \
					<option value="best" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 3 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.BEST_RATING + '</option> \
					<option value="newest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.NEWEST_FIRST + '</option> \
					<option value="oldest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 1 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.OLDEST_FIRST + '</option> \
				</select> \
				&nbsp; \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<span id="dsq-subscribe">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.subscribed
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.UNSUBSCRIBE + '</a>'
						: '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL + '</a>')
				+ '</span> \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-rss" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png" alt="" /> \
				<a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/afternoon_open_thread_010/latest.rss">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS + '</a> \
			</span> \
		</div> \
		';

		
		

		return html;

	};
	
	this.footer = function() {
		var html = '';

		html += Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
		
			html += Dsq.Templates.realtime();
			html += Dsq.Templates.showThreadSettings();
			html += Dsq.Templates.postBox();

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		


		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) {
 			html += ' \
				<div class="dsq-global-moderator-extras">'
					+ '<strong>shortname:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url
					+ '<strong>thread id:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.id
					+ '<strong>thread slug:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.slug
				+ '</div> \
			';
		}

		return html;
	};
	
	this.realtime = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			html += '<div id="dsq-realtime-options" class="dsq-options">'
					 + Dsq.Strings.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS + ' <strong id="dsq-realtime-status" style="text-transform: lowercase">' + Dsq.Strings.ENABLED + '</strong>. \
					 <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-toggle" style="text-transform: capitalize"></a> \
					</div>';
		}

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
			html += ' \
				<div style="display: none" id="dsq-realtime-alert" class="dsq-realtime-alert"><span id="dsq-realtime-queued"></span> <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-show"></a></div> \
			';
		}
		
		return html;
	};

	this.showThreadSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '<div id="dsq-thread-settings" class="dsq-thread-settings">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATOR_OPTIONS;
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showSettings(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.SETTINGS + '</a>';
		if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled && Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.reportMissingReactions(); return false;">'
						+ Dsq.Strings.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS
						+ '</a>';
		}
		html +='</div>';

		return html;
	};

	this.postBox = function(post_id, use_fallback_iframe) {


		var html;
		var display_sharing_options = Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated;

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post) {
			return '';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.hasOwnProperty(Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain)) {
				display_sharing_options = false;
			}
		}
		
		if (post_id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];				
		}
		
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		var _requestUserInfo = function() {
			var html;



			var user_has_email = false;

			html = '<div class="dsq-request-user-info"> <!-- // If authenticated --> \
				<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT + '?ctkn=' + Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN + '" class="dsq-request-user-logout">' + Dsq.Strings.LOGOUT + '</a> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td rowspan="2">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '')
								+ '<img src="' + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR + '" width="48" height="48" class="dsq-request-user-avatar">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-name">'
								+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
									 ? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '">' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '</span>'
									 : (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_verified
											? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span>'
											: '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span>'))
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '') 
								+ Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username 
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
							+  (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && user_has_email ? ' <small>(<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.remoteAccountSettings(); return false;">change settings</a>)</small>' : '')
							+  (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <small>(<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/info/" target="_blank">change name</a> or <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/avatar/" target="_blank">picture</a>)</small>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-stats"> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count == 1 ? 'comment' : 'comments') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count == 1 ? 'like' : 'likes') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.points + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.points == 1 ? 'point' : 'points') + '</span> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		var _loginOptions = function() {
			var html;
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-authenticate"> \
				<p class="dsq-autheneticate-copy">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
					? Dsq.Strings.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A + ' <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. ' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.LOGIN_BELOW + '.'
					: Dsq.Strings.REQUIRED + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT + '.')
				+ '</p> \
				<ul class="dsq-login-buttons">'
					+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-disqus.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Facebook.login(); return false;"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-facebook.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-twitter.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL(); return false" ><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-openid.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_yahoo ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Yahoo.startYahooConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-yahoo.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
				+ '</ul> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {



				return '<div id="dsq-form-area" style="display:none"><div id="dsq-textarea-wrapper"></div></div>' + _loginOptions();
			} else {
				return '';
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<div id="' + (post_id 
			? 'dsq-reply-post-' + post_id
			: 'dsq-new-post')
		 	+ '" class="dsq-post-area"> \
			<div class="dsq-dc-logo"> \
				<a href="http://disqus.com/comments" target="_blank"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/disqus-logo.png"></a> \
			</div>'
			+ (post_id 
				? '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.REPLYING_TO + ' ' + userData.display_name + '</h3>'
				: '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT + '</h3>')
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated 
				? _requestUserInfo()
				: _loginOptions() )
			+ '<div id="dsq-form-area' + pid + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-textarea"> \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper" id="dsq-textarea-wrapper' + pid + '"></div> \
			</div>'
			+ (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated
			? ' \
			<div class="dsq-post-fields"> \
				<form action="." method="GET" onsubmit="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, false); return false;"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-name' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_name ? disqus_def_name : (Dsq.jsonData.session.name ? Dsq.jsonData.session.name : Dsq.Strings.NAME + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-website' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (Dsq.jsonData.session.url ? Dsq.jsonData.session.url : Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')" class="dsq-placeholder') + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" /></div></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-email' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_email ? disqus_def_email : (Dsq.jsonData.session.email ? Dsq.jsonData.session.email : Dsq.Strings.EMAIL + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"> \
							<div class="dsq-subscribe"> \
								<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.chooseSubscribe(' + post_id + '); return false" class="dsq-subscribe-menu"><span id="dsq-subscribe-select' + pid + '">' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post ? Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL : Dsq.Strings.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS) + '</span> <small>&#9660;</small></a> \
								<ul class="dsq-panel" id="dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid + '"> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(2, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">Subscribe to all comments by email</a></li> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(0, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">Do not subscribe to comments</a></li> \
								</ul> \
								<input id="dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid + '" type="hidden" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post + '" /> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
				</form> \
			</div>'
			: '')
			+ '<div class="dsq-post-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-sharing-options" ' + (!display_sharing_options ? 'style="display:none;"' : '') + '> \
					<button class="dsq-button-small" onfocus="document.getElementById(\'dsq-post-button' + pid + '\').focus();"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.SHARING_OPTIONS + ' <small>&#9660;</small></span></button> \
					<div class="dsq-panel"> '
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '"'
								  + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Twitter</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook
								&& (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.enabled === true ||
										(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'facebook'))
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Facebook</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Yahoo!</label> \
								</div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Tumblr</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Wordpress</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Movable Type</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
								  <label for="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' TypePad</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ '<div><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections/" target="_blank" class="dsq-configure-options">' + Dsq.Strings.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS + '</a></div>'
					+ '</div> \
				</div>'
				+ '<button class="dsq-button" id="dsq-post-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, false)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.POST_AS + ' '
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					? Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					: Dsq.Strings.GUEST)
				+ '</span></button>'
				+ (post_id
					? '<button class="dsq-button" id="dsq-cancel-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.CANCEL + '</span></button>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
			+ '</div>' // end dsq-form-area
		+ '</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};




	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-append-post-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		html = ' \
		<table> \
			<tr> \
				<td id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-avatar" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
					<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
					? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
					: '')
				+ '</a> \
				</td> \
				<td class="dsq-comment-header-meta"> \
		';

		
		return html;
	};
	
	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var html;
		var parent_display_name = '';
		
		if(_meta.parent_post_id) {

			var _parent_meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[_meta.parent_post_id];

			if (_parent_meta) {
				var parentUserData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_parent_meta.user_key];
				parent_display_name = parentUserData.display_name;
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/moderator.png" class="dsq-moderator-star" title="Moderator" /> \
		<span class="dsq-comment-header-time"><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')" title="Permalink">' + (_meta.is_realtime ? Dsq.Strings.JUST_NOW : _meta.date) + '</a></span> '
		+ (_meta.parent_post_id && parent_display_name
			? '<a href="#comment-' + _meta.parent_post_id + '" title="Jump to comment">in reply to ' + parent_display_name + '</a>'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		<td id="dsq-like-pts-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-comment-header-likes">'
		+ (_meta.points
			? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		</tr> \
		</table> \
		';
		return html;
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		var html = '';
		return html;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed || !_meta.approved) { return ''; }
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
					? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.moderateOptions(' + post_id+ '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</a>'
					: '')
				+ '<a href="#" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG + '</a> \
			</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right">'
				+ (_meta.votable 
					? '<span id="dsq-like-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-like">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1)" >Like</button>'
						: 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;')
					+ '</span>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<button class="dsq-button-small dsq-post-edit" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + ')" >' + Dsq.Strings.EDIT + '</button>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<span class="dsq-comment-footer-reply" id="dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"> \
						<button class="dsq-button-small">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button> \
						<button class="dsq-comment-footer-reply-tab">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button><span></span> \
					</span>'
					: '')
			+ '</div> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};



	
	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		var item = '<li class="dsq-comment dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-header"> \
			<table> \
			<tr> \
			<td class="dsq-header-avatar"> \
			';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'" class="dsq-avatar">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {

			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar92.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== ''
				? '</a>'
				: '')
			+ '</td>'
			+ '<td><cite class="dsq-comment-cite">' + reaction.author_name + '</cite> <span class="dsq-comment-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</span></td>'
			+ '<td class="dsq-comment-header-likes"></td>'
			+ '</tr></table></div>' // end dsq-comment-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header" \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-reaction-header-left">'
							+ '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png" />'
							+ ' From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
							+ 'via ' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? '<a href="http://backtype.com/">BackType</a>' : '<a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">UberVU</a>')
						+ '</td>'
						+ '<td class="dsq-reaction-header-right">';
			
			if(reaction.retweets) {
				var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
				if (num_retweets > 0) {
					if (num_retweets == 1) {
						item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
					} else {
						item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');
						item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
						var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 3) ? 3 : num_retweets;
						item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);
						if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
							item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
								+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
						}
					}
				}
			}	
			item += '</td></tr> \
			</table> \
			</div>' // end dsq-reaction-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-body"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left"> \
				</div>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator 
					? ' \
					<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right"> \
						<button class="dsq-button-small dsq-hide-reaction" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + ')">Hide</button> \
					</div>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 id="dsq-reactions-title" class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-container"> \
			<table> \
				<tbody> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-tl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-tr"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-body"> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
								<div class="dsq-popup-title"> \
									<button class="dsq-button-small" style="float:right" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)">Close</button>' 
									+ content['header'] 
								+ '</div>'
								+ content['body']
							+ '</div> \
							<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
						</td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-bl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-br"></td> \
					</tr> \
				</tbody> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
	};



	
	this.chooseSubscribe = function(post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		menu.style.display = menu.style.display == 'block' ? 'none' : 'block';
		
	};
	
	this.setSubscribe = function(value, el, post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var input = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid);
		var select = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-select' + pid);
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		select.innerHTML = el.innerHTML;
		input.value = value;
		this.chooseSubscribe(post_id);
	};
	
	this.getFormFields = function(post_id) {

		var fields = {};
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var name = Dsq.$('dsq-field-name' + pid);
		var email = Dsq.$('dsq-field-email' + pid);
		var website = Dsq.$('dsq-field-website' + pid);
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid);
		var password = Dsq.$('dsq-field-password' + pid);

		fields = {
			'name': name,
			'email': email,
			'website': website,
			'username': username,
			'password': password
		}
		
		return fields;
	}
	
	this.validateFields = function(post_id) {
		
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) { return true; }
		
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		
		var nameField = fields.name;
		var websiteField = fields.website;
		var emailField = fields.email;
		
		websiteField.value = (websiteField.value == Dsq.Templates.placeholder['website']) ? '' : websiteField.value;
		
		var v = [{

			validator: Dsq.Validators.name,
			value: nameField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.email,
			value: emailField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.url,
			value: websiteField.value
		}];
		
		return Dsq.Validators.validate(v, function(e) { Dsq.Popup.popModal(e, 'Oops...') } );
	};
	
	this.checkExistingUser = function(post_id) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);		
		Dsq.Popup.loading(post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		}
	};

	this.validateAuth = function(el_clicked, post_id, auth_choice) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		var email = fields.email ? fields.email.value : '';
		var username = fields.username ? fields.username.value : '';
		var password = fields.password ? fields.password.value : '';
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		}
	};

	this.lightboxUpdateEmail = function(post_id, new_email) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		fields.email.value = new_email;
	};

	this.lightboxAuthenticate = function(post_id, auth_choice, auth_data) {
		var title, body;
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		if(typeof(auth_data) == 'undefined') {
			var auth_data = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		}

		d = auth_data;

		switch(auth_choice) {
			case 'register':
				var suggestedUsername = d.name.value.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/g,'').toLowerCase();
			
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Register a <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';

				body = ' \
				<ul class="dsq-lightbox-register-reasons"> \
				<li>Verify your comments</li> \
				<li>Edit and delete comments</li> \
				<li>Manage comments and replies</li> \
				</ul> \
				';

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Email</td> \
							<td><input type="text" value="' + d.email.value + '" onchange="Dsq.Templates.lightboxUpdateEmail(' + post_id + ', this.value)" /><div id="dsq-email-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + suggestedUsername + '"/><div id="dsq-username-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /><div id="dsq-password-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'login\'); return false">Login instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Register and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			case 'login':
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Login to your <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';
				body = '';
				
				if(d.avatar_url) {
					body += '<div class="dsq-lightbox-recognized"><table><tr>';
					body += '<td><img src="' + d.avatar_url + '" alt="" /></td>';
					body += '<td><span class="dsq-badge ' + (d.verified ? 'dsq-badge-verified' : 'dsq-badge-registered') + '">' + (d.verified ? 'Verified' : 'Registered') + '</span></td>';
					body += '<td>Hey <strong>' + d.display_name + '</strong>, is that you? Login below to claim this comment.';
					body += '</tr></table></div>';
				}

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username or Email</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (d.avatar_url ? d.username : '') + '" /></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password <a href="http://disqus.com/forgot" target="_blank">(cannot log in?)</a></td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'register\'); return false">Register instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Login and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
		Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid).focus();
	};
	
	this.buttonsToRestore = [];
	this.setLoadingButton = function(btn, post_id) {
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		if (btn) {

			var loadingBtn = document.createElement('button');
			loadingBtn.id = btn.id + '-loading';
			loadingBtn.innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-lite.gif" alt="" /> Just a moment...';
			loadingBtn.className = btn.className + ' dsq-post-loading';
			btn.parentNode.appendChild(loadingBtn);
			btn.style.display = 'none';
			var cancelBtn = Dsq.$('dsq-cancel-button' + pid);
			if(cancelBtn) { cancelBtn.style.display = 'none'; this.buttonsToRestore.push(cancelBtn); }
			this.buttonsToRestore.push(btn);
		} else {

			var buttons = this.buttonsToRestore;
			for(var i = 0; i < buttons.length; i++) {
				buttons[i].style.display = 'inline';
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$(buttons[i].id + '-loading'));
			}
		}
		
	};

	this.postComment = function(post_id, el_clicked, force, auth_choice) {
		var append_id = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);

		if (Dsq.Templates.validateFields(post_id)) {

			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && !force &&
				((!Dsq.Utils.readCookie('skipped_auth') && !disqus_skip_auth && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled) || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post)) {
				Dsq.Templates.checkExistingUser(post_id);
				return false;
			}
			var params = [];
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
				params.push(fields.name.value,
					fields.email.value,
					fields.website.value);

				if (auth_choice == 'login' || auth_choice == 'register') {
					params.push({
						auth_choice: auth_choice,
						username: fields.username.value,
						password: fields.password.value,
						email: fields.email.value
					});
				} else {
					params.push(null);
				}

				params.push(null /* sharing options */, Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + append_id).value);
			} else {
				var service_checked = function(name) {
					var el = Dsq.$('dsq-sharing-' + name + append_id);
					return (el !== null && el.checked === true) ? '1' : '0';
				};
				params.push(null, null, null, null, {
					tw: service_checked('twitter'),
					fb: service_checked('facebook'),
					tr: service_checked('tumblr'),
					wp: service_checked('wordpress'),
					mt: service_checked('movabletype'),
					tp: service_checked('typepad'),
					yh: service_checked('yahoo')
				});
			}

			var frame = Dsq.frames['reply_' + (post_id ? post_id : 0)];
			frame.post.apply(frame, params);

			if (el_clicked) {
				Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
			}
			
			if (force) {
				Dsq.Utils.createCookie('skipped_auth', true);	
			}
			
		} else {
			return false;
		}
	};

	this.editComment = function(el_clicked, post_id) {
		var edited_message = Dsq.$('dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id).value;

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].edit(post_id, edited_message);
	};

	this.toggleEdit = function(post_id) {
		var body = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-body-' + post_id);
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);

		if (!Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id]) {


			message.style.display = 'none';
			if (Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {

				var edit_area = document.createElement('div');
				edit_area.id = 'dsq-edit-' + post_id;
				edit_area.className = 'dsq-edit dsq-textarea';
				edit_area.innerHTML = ' \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper"> \
					<textarea class="dsq-edit-textarea" id="dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id + '">' + message.innerHTML + '</textarea> \
				</div> \
				<div class="dsq-save-edit"> \
					<button onclick="Dsq.Templates.editComment(this, ' + post_id + ')" class="dsq-button-small">Save Edit</button> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id + '" style="display: none"></div> \
				';

				body.appendChild(edit_area);

				if (!Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id), post_id);
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].init();
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
		} else {

			message.style.display = 'block';
			Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id] = !Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id];
	};
	
	this.edit = function(el, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(post_id, button) {
		
		if(!this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

			if (Dsq.$('dsq-reply-post-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id);
				var container = Dsq.$('dsq-textarea-wrapper-' + post_id);
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] && container) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(container, post_id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].init(function() {

						Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id, true);
						Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id).innerHTML = '';

						var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
						Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id), post_id, {theme: theme});

					});
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-append-post';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply-active';
			
		} else {

			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = '';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply';
		}
		
		this.stateReplyToggled[post_id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[post_id];

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie && this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

		}

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: post_id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]
		});
	};
	
	this.moderateOptions = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		if(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) { return false; }

		var html;
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-moderate-options"> \
		<table>'
		+ (_meta.email ? '<tr><td>Email</td><td>' + _meta.email + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ (_meta.ip ? '<tr><td>IP address</td><td>' + _meta.ip + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ '<tr> \
			<td>Actions</td> \
			<td><ul>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
				? '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
				: '')
			+ '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Delete Comment</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li> \
			</ul></td> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		html += '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
		
		return Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Moderate Options', post_id);
	};
	
	this.placeholder = {
		'class': 'dsq-placeholder',
		'name': Dsq.Strings.NAME,
		'email': Dsq.Strings.EMAIL,
		'website': Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')'
	};
	
	this.handlePlaceholder = function(evt, el, key) {
		var placeholder = Dsq.Templates.placeholder[key];
		var className = Dsq.Templates.placeholder['class'];
		
		switch(evt.type) {
			case 'focus':
				if(el.value == placeholder) {
					el.value = '';
					el.className = '';
				}
				break;

			case 'blur':
				if(el.value == '') {
					el.value = placeholder;
					el.className = className;
				}
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
	};
	
	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked) {

		var extra_params = '';

		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked);
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'afternoon_open_thread_010'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};
	
	
	this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {


		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
			}
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/vote.js'
				+ '?post_id='    + id
				+ '&vote='        + vote);
		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login('To rate, please log in');
		}
	};

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {

		Dsq.$('dsq-like-pts-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.';

		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;';
		}
	};




	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {
		var approved = response.message.post_meta.approved;

		if (parent_post_id) {
			Dsq.Post.toggleReply(parent_post_id);
		}

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
		
		if (approved) {
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		} else {			
			var unapproved_msg = 'Thanks for posting!\
	 Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.\
			';
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(unapproved_msg, 'Comment awaiting approval', post_id);
		}

		var sharing_results = response.message.sharing_results;
		var sharing_errors = '';
		for (var service in sharing_results) {
			if (sharing_results.hasOwnProperty(service) === true) {
				if (sharing_results[service].error === true) {
					sharing_errors += service + ', ';
				}
			}
		}

		if (sharing_results.facebook && sharing_results.facebook.callback) {
			FB.ensureInit(function() {
				FB.Connect.streamPublish('', sharing_results.facebook.attachment);
			});
		}

		if (sharing_errors !== '') {
			var message = 'Your comment was posted, but there were errors sharing with the following connections: ';
			message += sharing_errors.replace(/,\s$/, '');
			message += '<p><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections" target="_blank">Configure your connections here</a></p>'
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sharing options');
		}

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.postComment_onFailure = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
};




// TODO: It might be faster to use string methods to find all <li (...) </li> blocks and pass to Dsq.PostHandler manually.
Dsq.CommentsHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_post = Dsq.Templates.prependPost(post_id);
	var append_post = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(post_id);

	content = content.replace(Dsq.POST_RE, Dsq.PostHandler);
	Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter++;
	head = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContainer(post_id, head);
	return prepend_post + head + content + tail + append_post;
};

Dsq.PostHandler = function(str, h_head, post_id, h_content, h_tail, b_head, b_content, b_tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_header = Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader(post_id);
	var append_header = Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader(post_id);
	var prepend_body = Dsq.Templates.preBody(post_id);
	var append_body = Dsq.Templates.postBody(post_id);
	var append_footer = Dsq.Templates.postFooter(post_id);

	b_content = b_content.replace(Dsq.POST_BODY_RE, Dsq.PostBodyHandler);
	return h_head + prepend_header + h_content + append_header + h_tail + b_head + prepend_body + b_content + append_body + b_tail + append_footer;
};

Dsq.PostBodyHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	content = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContent(post_id, content);
	return head + content + tail;
};

Dsq.MediaPostHandler = function(str, args, offset, s) {
	args = args.split(' ');
	if(args[0] == 'seesmic') {
		return '<br />' + Dsq.Templates.mediaSeesmic(args[1], args[2]);
	}
	return '';
};


/**
 * Shorcuts
 */
Dsq.$ = function(element) { return document.getElementById(element); };
Dsq.$b = document.body || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];


/**
 * Dsq.Debug: Logging functions.
 */

Dsq.Debug = new function() {this.log=function(s){};this.profile=function(f){if(typeof f == 'function')return f();else return eval(f);};};


/**
 * Dsq.Urls: URL paths
 */
Dsq.Urls = new function() {
	this.LOGIN = '/profile/login/';
	this.LOGOUT = '/logout/';
	this.REPLY = 'http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/afternoon_open_thread_010/reply.html';
	this.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE = '/AnonymousUser/';
	this.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR = 'http://media.disqus.com/images/noavatar92.png';
};
// Dsq.Urls

/**
 * Dsq.Validators: Validation for form fields
 */
Dsq.Validators = new function() {
	this.VALID_EMAIL_RE = /^[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*\@(([a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*)+\.[a-z]{2,}|([0-9]+\.){3}[0-9]+)$/i;
	this.name = function(name) {
		var error = false;

		if(typeof Dsq.Templates.placeholder !== 'undefined' &&
		   name == Dsq.Templates.placeholder.name) {
			error = true;
		}
		if(name.length <= 1) {
			error = true;
		}

		if(error) {
			return "Please enter a name to comment.";
		} else {
			return true;
		}
	};
	this.email = function(addr) {
		if(Dsq.Validators.VALID_EMAIL_RE.test(addr)) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please enter a valid email to comment.";
		}
	};
	this.url = function(addr) {
		if(!addr || addr.indexOf('.') != -1) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please check your website URL (this field is optional).";
		}
	};

	this.validate = function(bulk_validation, failure_callback) {
		failure_callback = failure_callback || function(e){ alert(e); };

		for(var i = 0; i < bulk_validation.length; i++) {
			v = bulk_validation[i];
			ret = v.validator(v.value);
			if(ret !== true) {
				failure_callback(ret);
				return false;
			}
		}
		return true;
	};
};

/**
 * Dsq.Utils: Generic utility functions.
 */
Dsq.Utils = new function() {
	this.ie = /msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent);
	this.ie7 = (document.all && !window.opera && window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true : false;
	this.ie6 = (!window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true: false;
	this.webkit = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('AppleWebKit/') >= 0;
	this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = {};
	this._styleSheet = null;

	this.gebiFromElement = function(el, id, tag) {
		// This only method only helps IE.
		if(!this.ie) {
			return Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var cacheKey = el.id + '-' + tag;
			tag = tag || 'div';
			if(typeof this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] != 'undefined') {
				collection = this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey];
			} else {
				collection = el.getElementsByTagName(tag);
				this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] = collection;
			}

			for(var i = 0; i < collection.length; i++) {
				if(collection[i].id == id) {
					return collection[i];
				}
			}
			return null;
		}
	};

	this.execOnReady = function(func) {
		var node = document.createElement('document:ready');
		try {
			node.doScroll('left');
			func();
			node = null;
		} catch(err) {
			setTimeout(function() { Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(func); }, 10);
		}
	};


	// Courtesy of http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html
	this.createCookie = function(name,value,days) {
		if (days) {
			var date = new Date();
			date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
			var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
		}
		else var expires = "";
		document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
	};

	this.readCookie = function(name) {
		var nameEQ = name + "=";
		var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
		for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
			var c = ca[i];
			while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
			if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.eraseCookie = function(name) {
		Dsq.Utils.createCookie(name,"",-1);
	};

	this.deleteNode = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			this.deleteChildren(node);
			if(typeof node.outerHTML != 'undefined') { node.outerHTML = ''; }
			else if(node.parentNode) { node.parentNode.removeChild(node); }
			delete node;
		}
	};

	this.deleteChildren = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			for(var x = node.childNodes.length-1; x >= 0; x--) {
				var childNode = node.childNodes[x];
				if(childNode.hasChildNodes()) { this.deleteChildren(childNode); }
				if(typeof childNode.outerHTML != 'undefined') { childNode.outerHTML = ''; }
				else node.removeChild(childNode);
				delete childNode;
			}
		}
	};

	this.findPos = function(obj) {
		var curleft = 0;
		var curtop = 0;
		if (obj.offsetParent) {
			do {
				curleft += obj.offsetLeft;
				curtop += obj.offsetTop;
			} while (obj = obj.offsetParent);
		}
		return [curleft,curtop];
	};

	this.getWindowSize = function() {
		var windowWidth = -1;
		var windowHeight = -1;

		if(typeof(window.innerWidth) == 'number') { //Non-IE
			windowWidth = window.innerWidth;
			windowHeight = window.innerHeight;
		} else if(document.documentElement) { // IE 6+ in 'standards compliant mode'
			windowWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth;
			windowHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight || document.body.clientHeight;
		}

		return [windowWidth, windowHeight];
	}

	this.getScrollPos = function() {
		var scrollWidth, scrollTop;

		if(document.documentElement && (document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.documentElement.scrollWidth)) {
			scrollWidth = document.documentElement.scrollWidth;
			// IE is weird here.  If no doctype is provided, document.body.scrollTop is 0,
			// otherwise document.documentElement.scrollTop is 0.
			scrollTop = document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.body.scrollTop;
		} else if(document.body.scrollTop && document.body.scrollWidth) {
			scrollWidth = document.body.scrollWidth;
			scrollTop = document.body.scrollTop;
		}

		return [scrollWidth, scrollTop];
	}

	this.addEventListener = function(instance, eventName, listener) {
		var listenerFn = listener;
		if (instance.addEventListener) {
			instance.addEventListener(eventName, listenerFn, false);
		} else if (instance.attachEvent) {
			listenerFn = function() {
				listener(window.event);
			};
			instance.attachEvent("on" + eventName, listenerFn);
		} else {
			throw new Error("Event registration not supported");
		}
		return {
			instance: instance,
			name: eventName,
			listener: listenerFn
		};
	};

	this.removeEventListener = function(event) {
		var instance = event.instance;
		if (instance.removeEventListener) {
			instance.removeEventListener(event.name, event.listener, false);
		} else if (instance.detachEvent) {
			instance.detachEvent("on" + event.name, event.listener);
		}
	};

	this.fixIframesIE = function(id) {
		var disqusThread = Dsq.$(disqus_container_id);
		var iframes = disqusThread.getElementsByTagName('iframe');

		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-content');
		}

		for(i = 0; i < iframes.length; i++) {
			if (container) {
				iframes[i].style.width = container.offsetWidth;
			}
		}
	};

	this.getElementsByClassName = function(oElm, strTagName, strClassName) {
	/* Credit: Jonathan Snook [http://www.snook.ca/jonathan], Robert Nyman [http://www.robertnyman.com] */
		var arrElements = (strTagName == "*" && oElm.all)? oElm.all : oElm.getElementsByTagName(strTagName);
		var arrReturnElements = new Array();
		strClassName = strClassName.replace(/\-/g, "\\-");
		var oRegExp = new RegExp("(^|\\s)" + strClassName + "(\\s|$)");
		var oElement;
		for(var i = 0; i < arrElements.length; i++) {
			oElement = arrElements[i];
			if(oRegExp.test(oElement.className)) {
				arrReturnElements.push(oElement);
			}
		}
		return (arrReturnElements);
	};

	this.postToUrl = function(url, post_data, opt_redirect) {
		var form = document.createElement('form');
		var iframe_container = document.createElement('div');
		var id = 'dsq-temp-iframe-' + (new Date()).getTime();

		form.method = 'POST';
		form.action = url;
		if (!opt_redirect) {
			form.target = id;
		}
		iframe_container.innerHTML = '<iframe style="display:none" name="' + id + '" id="' + id + '"></iframe>';

		for(var key in post_data) {
			if(post_data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var input = document.createElement('input');
				input.name = key;
				input.type = 'hidden';
				input.value = post_data[key];

				form.appendChild(input);
			}
		}

		Dsq.$b.appendChild(iframe_container);
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(form);
		form.submit();
	};

	// Strips integer id from id of element in the form ('some-id-###')
	this.extractId = function(e) {
		var chunks = e.id.split('-');
		if(chunks.length <= 1) {
			return 0;
		} else {
			return parseInt(chunks[chunks.length-1]);
		}
	};

	this.getStyle = function(el, styleProp) {
		if(el.currentStyle) {
			var y = el.currentStyle[styleProp];
		} else if(window.getComputedStyle) {
			var y = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, null).getPropertyValue(styleProp);
		}

		if(y == 'transparent' || y == '') {
			this.getStyle(el.parentNode, styleProp);
		} else {
			return y;
		}
	};

	this.execScript = function(url, append_qs, container) {
		var script = document.createElement('script');
		append_qs = typeof append_qs == 'undefined' ? true : append_qs;
		container = container || Dsq.container;

		if(append_qs) {
			var j = (url.indexOf('?') >= 0) ? '&' : '?';
			url += j + (new Date()).getTime();
		}
		script.type = 'text/javascript';
		script.charset = 'UTF-8';
		script.src = url;
		container.appendChild(script);
		return script;
	};

	this.pluralize = function(num, singular, plural) {
		return (num != 1) ? plural || 's' : singular || '';
	};

	this.getRequestParams = function(queryString /* optional */) {
		var pairs, tuple;
		var params = {};

		queryString = queryString || window.location.search.substring(1);
		pairs = queryString.split('&');

		for (var i = 0, pair; pair = pairs[i]; i++) {
			tuple = pair.split('=');
			params[tuple[0]] = (tuple[1] || true);
		}

		return params;
	};

	this.addCssRule = function(selector, styleText, index) {
		var stylesheet;
		index = index || 0;

		if(!this._styleSheet) {
			var styleEl = document.createElement('style');
			document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(styleEl);
			this._styleSheet = styleEl.sheet;
			if(!this._styleSheet) {
				// IE does not like our newly created stylesheet.
				this._styleSheet = document.styleSheets[document.styleSheets.length-1];
			}
		}
		stylesheet = this._styleSheet;

		if(stylesheet.insertRule) {
			var ruleText = selector + ' { ' + styleText + ' }';
			if(index == -1) {
				index = stylesheet.cssRules.length;
			}
			stylesheet.insertRule(ruleText, index);
		} else if(stylesheet.addRule) {
			stylesheet.addRule(selector, styleText, index);
		}
	};

	this.forEachIn = function(obj, callback) {
		for(var key in obj) {
			if(obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				callback(key, obj[key]);
			}
		}
	};

	this._interpolateGlobalContext = {
		// values that get used a lot and are global to the request
		'profile_url': Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE,

		'disqus_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url,
		'media_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url,
		'request_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.username,
		'request_display_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username,
		'forum_name': Dsq.jsonData.forum.name
	};

	this.renderFromContextStack = function(key, contexts) {
		// Returns the first instance of `key` in the array of objects `contexts` or else ''
		for (var i=0; i<contexts.length; i++) {
			if (contexts[i][key] !== undefined) {
				return String(contexts[i][key]);
			}
		}
		throw new Error('key ' + key + ' not found in context');
	};

	var that = this;
	this.interpolate = function(fmt, opt_localContext) {
		// Interpolate `fmt` named-format string with an assumed global context.
		// Based on `interpolate` in django.views.i18n
		var contextStack = [opt_localContext || {}, that._interpolateGlobalContext];
		return fmt.replace(/%\(\w+\)s/g, function(match){
			return that.renderFromContextStack(match.slice(2,-2), contextStack);
		});
	};

	this.stripTags = function(s) {
		// Removes HTML tags from `s`
		return s.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/g,"");

	};

	this.assert = function(b) {
		if (!b) {
			throw new Error('Assertion error.');
		}
	};

};
// Dsq.Utils

/**
 * Dsq.Popup: Popup helper functions.
 */
Dsq.Popup = new function() {
	this.timeHide = new Array();
	this.timeShow = new Array();
	this.activePopup = {};
	this.profileCache = {};
	this.statusCache = {};

	this.showTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the hide timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeHide[post_id]);

		// start the timer
		if(!Dsq.Popup.profileIsOn && !Dsq.Thread.adminIsOn) {
			this.timeShow[post_id] = setTimeout("Dsq.Popup.popProfile(\"" + post_id + "\")", 400);
		}
	};

	this.hideTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the show timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeShow[post_id]);
	};

	this.updateProfile = function(username) {
		// Callback from /embed/profile.js
		if (this.statusCache[username]) {
			var statusEl = Dsq.$('dsq-profile-status-' + username);
			statusEl.innerHTML = this.statusCache[username];
			statusEl.style.display = 'block';
		}

		if (this.profileCache[username]) {
			var _cache = this.profileCache[username];

			var _genhtml = function(text) { return '<span><big>' + text + '</big></span>'; };
			var _no_comments = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS(_cache.comments_count));
			var _no_likes = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_LIKES(_cache.likes_count));
			var _no_points = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_POINTS(_cache.points));

			var statsEl = Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + username);
			statsEl.innerHTML = '';

			if (Dsq.jsonData.users[username].registered) {
				statsEl.innerHTML = _no_comments + _no_likes;
			}
			statsEl.innerHTML += _no_points;

			var activeSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.active_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.active_sites[i];
				activeSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (activeSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = activeSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = 'This site.';
			}

			var moderatedSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.moderated_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.moderated_sites[i];
				moderatedSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (moderatedSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + username).innerHTML = moderatedSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + username).innerHTML = '';
			}
		}

		// Reposition popup after full HTML is rendered
		if(Dsq.Popup.activePopup && Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el) {
			Dsq.Popup.initPopup(Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.type);
		}

	};

	this.showCookieMsgs = function() {
		var title = '';
		var message = '';
		var numAlerts = 0;

		Dsq.Utils.forEachIn(Dsq.jsonData.cookie_messages, function(k, v) {
			if (!v) return;

			switch(k) {
				// Cookie: Twitter
				case 'post_twitter':
					if (v === 'error') {
						title = 'Twitter Error!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-error">Oops, we couldn\'t tweet this comment. Please check your <a href="http://disqus.com/account/services">account settings</a>.</li>';
					} else {
						var _msg = v.split(':');
						title = 'Tweeted!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-success">Your comment was successfully tweeted. <a href="http://twitter.com/' + _msg[0] + '/status/' + _msg[1] + '">Click here to view the tweet</a>.</li>';
					}
					break;
				// Cookie: Unapproved Post
				case 'post_not_approved':
					title = 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-not-approved">Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.</li>';
					break;
				// Cookie: Profile Found
				case 'post_has_profile':
					title = 'Use your existing commenter profile';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-has-profile">You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a></li>';
					break;
				case 'user_created':
					var _data = v.split(':');
					title = 'Profile created!';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-user-created">You have just created a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, the best way to claim, manage, and track your comments all over the web. \
					<br /><br />A confirmation is being sent to <strong>' + _data[1] + '</strong>. Please check for this email in order to verify your profile. \
					<ul class="dsq-list-tick"> \
						<li>Your username is <strong>' + _data[0] +'</strong>. <a href="http://disqus.com/people/' + _data[0] + '/" target="_blank">Click here to view your public profile</a>.</li> \
						<li>Be sure to set your profile picture, as well as connect your <span class="dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> and <span class="dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> accounts. <a href="http://disqus.com/account/" target="_blank">Click here for account settings</a>.</li> \
					</ul> \
					</li>'
					break;
				default:
					break;
			}
			numAlerts++;
		});

		if(numAlerts > 1) {
			message = '<ul class="dsq-list-bluebullet">' + message;
			message += '</ul>';
			title = 'Thanks for posting!';
		}
		if(numAlerts > 0) {
			if(typeof(disqus_cookie_msgs) == 'function') {
				disqus_cookie_msgs(message, title);
			} else {
				Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
			}
		}
	};

	this.helpBadges = function(post_id) {
		var html = ' \
			<ul class="dsq-popup-help"> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile with a confirmed email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, but has not yet confirmed his or her email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span> is not logged in with any account and has not claimed his or her comments.</li> \
				<li class="dsq-help-otheraccts">Other accounts</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> is using his or her Facebook profile via Facebook Connect.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> is using his or her Twitter profile via Twitter Sign-in.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-openid">OpenID</span> is using his or her OpenID.</li> \
			</ul> \
		';

		this.popModal(html, 'Help: Types of Commenters', post_id);
		return;
	};

	this.permalink = function(post_id) {
		var header = 'Link to this comment';
		var body = '<strong>You are anchored to</strong>:<br />' + document.location.protocol + '//' + document.location.host + document.location.pathname + document.location.search + '#comment-' + post_id;

		this.popModal(body, header, post_id);
	};

	this.login = function(header, body) {
		var h = header || 'Login or Register';
		var b = body || '';
		b += Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: 'dsq-popup-login'});
		b += '</iframe>'; // HACK: Sometimes there is something funky with the IFRAME SRC that causes no end tag
		this.popModal(b, h, null, true, 'dsq-popup-login');
	};

	this.blacklist = function(id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		var title = 'Add to Blacklist';
		var message = ' \
		Adding this person to the blacklist will block him or her from commenting on this site. Check the following types that you would like to add to the blacklist:'
		+ (userData['registered'] ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-username" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-username"><strong>Username</strong>: ' + userData['username'] + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ (_meta.email ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-email" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-email"><strong>Email address</strong>: ' + _meta.email + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ '<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
			<input id="dsq-blacklist-ip" type="checkbox" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-blacklist-ip-warning\').style.display=\'block\'"> \
			<label for="dsq-blacklist-ip"><strong>IP address</strong>: ' + _meta.ip + '</label> \
		</div> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p id="dsq-blacklist-ip-warning" style="display:none">	\
				Note: Blocking this person\'s IP address may also unintentionally prevent others, who share his/her IP address, from commenting on this site. \
				This may include people who are sharing the same computer, living in the same house, or using the same Internet provider. Only block an IP address as a last resort. \
			</p> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p style="text-align:center"><button onclick="Dsq.Post.blockUser(' + id + '); this.disabled=true; this.innerHTML=\'Just one moment...\'">Add to Blacklist</button></p> \
		';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
	};

	this.remoteAccountSettings = function() {
		var body = '';
		// Set up IFrame.
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/_auth/embed/remote_settings/';
		var attributes = {id: 'dsq-popup-account-settings'};
		if (typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}

		body = Dsq.Templates._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
		this.popModal(body, 'Account Settings', null, true, 'dsq-popup-account-settings');
	};

	this.popModal = function(message, title, post_id, use_listener, extra_classes) {
		var container = document.createElement('div');
		var header, body;

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);

		if(typeof(title) == 'undefined') { title = ''; }
		if(typeof(use_listener) == 'undefined') { use_listener = true; }

		if(post_id) {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message-' + post_id;
		} else {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message';
		}

		header = title;
		body = message;

		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupModal(header, body);
		Dsq.Popup.initPopup(container, post_id, 'message', extra_classes);
		if(use_listener) {
			Dsq.Popup.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', Dsq.Popup._closePopup);
		}
	};

	this.popAlert = this.popModal;

	this.loading = function(post_id) {
		var title = Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
		var body = '<div style="text-align:center; padding: 5px 0 10px 0"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif" alt="" /></div>'
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
	};

	this.lightbox = function(message, title, post_id) {
		// Wraps Dsq.Popup.popModal

		var overlay = document.createElement('div');
		overlay.id = 'dsq-overlay';
		overlay.className = 'dsq-overlay';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(overlay);
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, post_id, false, 'dsq-lightbox');
	};

	this.popProfile = function(post_id, userKey) {
		var post = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id];
		if (post && post.has_been_anonymized) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('This message was anonymized by its previous owner.', 'Anonymized', post_id);
			return;
		}

		if(post_id) {
			userKey = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id].user_key;	
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][userKey];
		var elId = 'dsq-popup-profile-' + userKey;
		var container = document.createElement('div');

		if(this.activePopup.el) {
			this._closePopup(null, true);
			if(this.activePopup.linkClicked) {
				this.activePopup.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		container.id = elId;
		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupProfile(userKey);

		this.initPopup(container, post_id, 'profile');
		this.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._closePopup);

		if(!this.profileCache[userKey]) {
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/embed/profile.js'
				+ '?username=' + userKey
				+ '&anon=' + (userData['registered'] ? 0 : 1)
				+ '&f=' + Dsq.jsonData['request'].forum);
		} else {
			this.updateProfile(userKey);
		}
	};

	this._closePopup = function(e, force) {
		var activePopup = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el;
		var id = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id;
		var link = 'dsq-avatar-' + id; // HACK: Specific to profile toggle target

		// HACK: This event should be gone if there is no active popup.
		if(!activePopup) {
			return;
		}
		if(force || !Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, activePopup.id)) {
			// TODO: This is breaking iE?
			if(Dsq.Popup.popupListener) {
				Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Popup.popupListener);
			}
			
			// Kill overlay
			var overlay = Dsq.$('dsq-overlay');
			if(overlay) { Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(overlay); }
			
			try {
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(activePopup);
			} catch(e) {
				// HACK: IE6 throws an error when using deleteNode() with a node containing a <table> in the html.
				activePopup.parentNode.removeChild(activePopup);
			}
			Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {};
		}

		if(!force && Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Popup.activePopup.linkClicked = true;
		}

	};

	this.initPopup = function(popup, post_id, type, extra_classes) {
		popup.className = 'dsq-popup dsq-popup-' + type + ' ' + (extra_classes ? extra_classes : '');
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6 || Dsq.Utils.ie7) {
			// HACK: We can't modify the body before it's ready, so we need
			//       to use an IE-safe "DOMReady" workaround before loading
			//       our popup.
			Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(function() {Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup); });
		} else {
			Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup);
		}

		popup.style.display = 'block';

		var xPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[0] - popup.offsetWidth) / 2;
		var yPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[1] - popup.offsetHeight) / 2;

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
			yPos += Dsq.Utils.getScrollPos()[1];
		}

		popup.style.left = xPos + 'px';
		popup.style.top = yPos + 'px';

		Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {
			'el' : popup,
			'id' : post_id,
			'type': type,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};
	};

	this.isClicked = function(e, id) {
		var t = e.target || e.srcElement;
		while(t && t.parentNode) {
			if(t.id == id) {
				return true;
			}

			t = t.parentNode;
		}
		return false;
	};
};
// Dsq.Popup

/**
 * Dsq.Templates
 */
Dsq.Templates = new function() {
	/*
	 * Counter keeping track of the number of posts iterated over.
	 */
	this.postLoopCounter = 0;
	this.filters = {};
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-post-add';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-post-add';

	this.registerTemplate = function(name, func) {
		this['$$_' + name] = func;

		if(typeof DsqLocal.Filters != 'undefined'
		&& typeof DsqLocal.Filters[name] == 'function') {
			// Push filters to this.filters to unify code.
			this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
			this.filters[name].push(DsqLocal.Filters[name]);
		}

		this[name] = function() {
			var ret;

			if(typeof DsqLocal.Templates != 'undefined'
			&& typeof DsqLocal.Templates[name] == 'function') {
				ret = DsqLocal.Templates[name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(ret === undefined) {
				ret = this['$$_' + name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(this.filters[name]) {
				var args = [ret];

				args.push.apply(args, arguments);
				for(var i = 0; i < this.filters[name].length; i++) {
					ret = this.filters[name][i].apply(this, args);
				}
			}

			return ret;
		};
	};

	this.registerFilter = function(name, func) {
		this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
		this.filters[name].push(func);
	};

	/**
	 * Dsq.Templates.Filters
	 */
	this.Filters = new function() {
		this.commentContainer = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var classes = [];
			if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page > 1) {
				classes.push('dsq-append');
			}

			//
			// Extra classes used for custom themes
			//

			if(_meta.depth) {
				classes.push('dsq-comment-child', 'dsq-depth-' + _meta.depth, 'dsq-parent-is-' + _meta.parent_post_id);
			}


			//

			if(_meta.author_is_creator) {
				// TODO: We need to deprecate the "special" class since it is not properly prefixed.
				classes.push('special', 'dsq-special');
			}
			if(_meta.author_is_moderator) {
				classes.push('dsq-moderator');
			}
			classes.push(['dsq-odd', 'dsq-even'][Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter % 2]);

			s = s.substring(0, s.lastIndexOf('>'));
			return s + ' class="dsq-comment ' + classes.join(' ') + '" style="margin-left:' + _meta.depth*30 + 'px">';
		};

		this.commentContent = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			if (_meta.killed) {
				return '<em>Comment removed.</em>';
			} else if (!_meta.approved) {
				return '<em>This comment was flagged for review.</em>';
			}

			s = s.replace(Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE, Dsq.MediaPostHandler);
			return s;
		};
	};

	//
	// Thread
	//
	// TODO: These need to be stripped of all Django template tags.

	this.authPost = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			return '';
		}
		var result = [];
		result = result.concat([
				'<div id="dsq-auth"',
						Dsq.jsonData.integration.reply_position ? 'class="dsq-auth-bottom"' : '',
						'>',
					'<div class="dsq-by">',
						'<a href="http://disqus.com" target="_blank">',
							(Dsq.jsonData.integration.disqus_logo ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/by-disqus.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">') :
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/dsq-button-120x19.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">')
							),
						'</a>',
					'</div>',
					'<div class="dsq-auth-header">',
						'<h3 id="dsq-add-new-comment" class="dsq-h3-addcomment">',
								Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT,
						'</h3>',
						'<div id="dsq-login">',
						(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
								? '<p class="dsq-login-message" id="dsq-login-message">You are commenting as a <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. You may select one to log into:</p>'
								: '')
		]);
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			result = result.concat([
							Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
								'<a id="dsq-login-toggle" href="%(disqus_url)s%(login_url)s?next=article:%(thread_id)s" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsq-profile-btn.png" title="%(log_into)s" alt="%(log_into)s"/></a>',
								{login_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGIN, thread_id: Dsq.jsonData.thread.id, log_into: Dsq.Strings.LOG_INTO_DISQUS}
								),
							'&nbsp; ',
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ?
								'<div id="dsq-fbc-login" onlogin="DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin()" size="medium" background="light" length="short" style="display:inline; margin-right:7px"></div>' :
								''
							),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-twitter-login" class="dsq-twitter-login" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect();" style="display:inline; cursor: pointer"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/twitter-signin-short.png" style="margin-right:7px" /></div>', {}) : ''),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-openid-login" class="dsq-openid-login" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL();" style="display:inline; cursor:pointer;"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/openid-login-button.png"/></div>', {}
								) : '')
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
						'</div>', // dsq-login
					'</div>', // dsq-auth-header
					'<div id="dsq-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated" ',
						Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated ? 'style="display:block"' : '',
						'>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-pic">',
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">' +
																			'<img class="dsq-post-avatar" src="%(avatar_url)s" alt="" /></a>',
																			{avatar_url: Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR,
																			url: (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
																					 ? Dsq.jsonData.request.url
																					 : Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE) }),
						'</div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>', {url:Dsq.jsonData.request.url})
										  )
										: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(profile_url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>')
											)
									),
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">',
									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsqicon12.png" alt="%(logged_in_as)s"/>&nbsp',
											{logged_in_as: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username)})
										: ''),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="%(logout_from_disqus)s">',
											{logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN, logout_from_disqus: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('DISQUS')})
										: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'twitter')
												? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using Twitter (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
												 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
												: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'openid')
													 ? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using OpenID (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
													 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
													 : ''
													)
											)
									),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote ? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('<span class="logo-disqus">DISQUS</span>') : ''),
									'</a>',
								'</li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
		]);
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect) {
			result = result.concat([
					'<div id="dsq-fbc-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated">',
						'<div id="dsq-fbc-profilepic" class="dsq-authenticated-pic" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.ProfilePic" size="square" facebook-logo="true"></div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									'Logged in as <span id="dsq-fbc-name" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.Name" linked="true" useyou="false"></span>',
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">using Facebook Connect <a href="#" onclick="javascript:DisqusFbcParentController.logout();return false;">(Logout)</a></li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
				'</div>', // dsq-auth
				'<div id="dsq-toolbar-items">',
				'</div>'
		]);
		result = result.concat([
					//
					//
					//
				((!Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) ?
					// Needs to be translated:
					('<p id="dsq-no-anon-msg">Required: Please log into <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> ' +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? 'or connect with Facebook ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? 'or sign in with Twitter ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? 'or sign in using OpenID ' : '') +
					Dsq.Utils.interpolate('to comment on <strong>%(forum_name)s</strong>.</p>')) :
					''
				),
				'<div id="dsq-post-add"></div>',
				'<div style="margin:10px 0">',
				((Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media) ?
						'<a href="#" id="dsq-media-link" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, false, \'media\'); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.USE_MEDIA + ' <small>&#9660;</small></a>' :
						''),
				'</div>'
		]);
		return result.join('');
	};


	this.header = function() {

		var html = '\<h3 id="dsq-comments-count" class="dsq-h3-commentcount">\
	 <span id="dsq-num-posts">119</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/afternoon_open_thread_010/latest.rss"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png"></a>\
	 </span>\
	 </h3>\
	 <div id="dsq-options" style="margin:15px 0">\
	 <span class="dsq-item-sort">\
	 Sort by\
	 <select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);">\
	 <option value="hot" selected="selected">Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" >Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/afternoon_open_thread_010/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 <p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:25913937" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p>\
	 </div>\
		';

		

		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) { 
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-alert-message dsq-upgrade-message"> \
				<strong>Disqus upgrade available.</strong> Hi ' + Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username + ', this message is being displayed to you because you are a moderator of this site. <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-upgrade-message\').style.display=\'block\';this.style.display=\'none\';return false">Click here for details.</a> \
				<div style="display:none; margin-top:10px;" id="dsq-upgrade-message"> \
					A new theme is available with added features. <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/settings/' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url + '/?p=customize">To change your theme, click here</a> and choose the theme Narcissus. \
					If you do not upgrade, you are missing out on features such as: real-time commenting, new sign-in integrations, and an upgrade interface. \
					<strong>This message will automatically go away in one week.</strong> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			' + html; 
		}
		return html;
	};

	this.footer = function() {
		var html = Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.authPost();
		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		

		return html;
	};

	this.pagination = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) { Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = ''; }
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.thread.paginate) { return ''; }

		//
		// TODO: num_paginator still uses the template tag for pagination, 
		// 		while append_paginator does it all in JavaScript.
		//		This should all be in JavaScript.
		//

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages > 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.page < Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages) {
			html = ' \<a class="dsq-paginate-append-text" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this); return false">Show more comments...</a>\
	 <button class="dsq-button-small dsq-paginate-append-button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this);">Load more comments</button>\
			';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = html;
			return '';
		} else {
			return '<div id="dsq-pagination" class="dsq-pagination">' + html + '</div>';
		}
	};

	this.trackbacks = function() {
		var html = '';

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/afternoon_open_thread_010/trackback/';
		}

		html += '<div class="dsq-item-trackback">Trackback URL&nbsp;&nbsp;<input class="dsq-trackback-url" onclick="this.select()" readonly="true" value="' + trackback_url + '"></div>';

		if(trackbacks.length) {
			html += '<ul id="dsq-references">'
			for(var i = 0; i < trackbacks.length; i++) {
				var trackback = trackbacks[i];
				html += '<li><cite><a href="' + trackback.author_url + '" rel="nofollow">' + trackback.author_name + '</a></cite> \
						<p class="dsq-meta">' + trackback.date + '</p> \
						<p class="dsq-content">' + trackback.excerpt + '</p></li>';
			}
			html += '</ul>';
			html = '<h3 class="dsq-h3-trackbacks">Trackbacks</h3>' + html;
		}

		return html;
	}

	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		/* Reaction HTML begins */
		var item = '<li class="dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-header-avatar">';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'">';
		} else {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="#" onclick="return false;">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {
			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar32.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png"/>'
			+ '</a></div>'
			+ '<cite><span>' + reaction.author_name + '</span></cite>'
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"><a class="dsq-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</a></span>'
			+ '</div><div class="dsq-reaction-body">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-footer">From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
			+ 'via ' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? '<a href="http://backtype.com/">BackType</a>' : '<a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">UberVU</a>')
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator ? '&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a class="dsq-hide-reaction" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + '); return false;">Hide</a>' : '') + '</div></div>';

		if(reaction.retweets) {
			var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
			if (num_retweets > 0) {
				item += '<div class="dsq-reaction-retweets">';
				if (num_retweets == 1) {
					item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
				} else {
					item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');

					item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
					var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 15) ? 15 : num_retweets;
					item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);

					if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
						item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
							+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
					}
				}
				item += '</div>';
			}
		}

		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '	<p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:25913937" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p> \n';
	};

	//
	// Post
	//

	this.prependPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="comment-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-comment-reply-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-header-avatar" id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
				<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
				? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '</a>'
			+ '</div> \
		';
	};

	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];

		return ''
			+ (_meta.author_is_moderator
				? '<img class="dsq-mod-star" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/bullet-star.png" title="Moderator" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"> \
				<a id="dsq-time-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-time" href="#comment-' + post_id + '" title="Permalink">' + _meta.date + '</a> \
			</span>';
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		return '';
	}

	this.postBody = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Deprecate flagging conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		return ''
			+ (_meta.edited
				? '<p class="dsq-editedtxt">(Edited by a moderator)</p>'
				: '')
			;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Use media should be conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed) { return ''; }

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
				<div id="dsq-points-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-likedtxt">'
				+ (_meta.points
					? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.'
					: '')
				+ '</div>'
				+ '<ul class="dsq-comment-options dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.votable
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first dsq-rate" id="dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id + '">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Like</a>'
						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-report' + (!_meta.votable ? ' dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '"><a href="#" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">Report</a></li> \
				</ul> \
				<ul class="dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first"><a href="#" id="dsq-reply-link-' + post_id +'" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(this, ' + post_id +'); return false;">Reply</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<li id="dsq-edit-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-edit-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="' + (!_meta.can_reply ? 'dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-more-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-more-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'more\'); return false">More <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media
					? '<li id="dsq-media-el-' + post_id +'" style="display:none"><a id="dsq-media-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'media\'); return false">Use Media <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
				+ '<div id="dsq-reply-bar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar" style="display:none"> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-items-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-items"> \
						</div> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-auth"> \
							 \
								 \
									<a href="#" class="dsq-help dsq-reply-req-opt" title="You must log into an account in order to comment on Jack and Jill Politics" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Required:</a> \
								 \
								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
								<a id="dsq-reply-login-' + post_id + '" href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:25913937" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</a> \
								 \
									&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img class="fb_login_image" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/fbconnect/login-buttons/connect_light_small_short.gif" alt="Facebook Connect"/> \
									<a href="#" onclick="FB.Connect.requireSession(DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin); return false;">Connect</a> \
								 \
								&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/twitter-signin-icon.png" alt="" /> \
									<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false">Sign-in</a> \
								 \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Iframes
	//

	this._makeAttributes = function(attributes) {
		// Makes a tag attributes string out of an object.
		// Caller is responsible for making sure nothing needs to be escaped.
		var result = [];
		for (key in attributes) {
			result.push(' ' + key + '="' + attributes[key] + '"');
		}
		result = result.join('');
		return result;
	};

	this._frameGeneric = function(base_url, params, attributes) {
		if(typeof(disqus_callback_params) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_callback_params = '';
		}

		var default_params = {
			// TODO: These should be moved to Dsq.jsonData.
			'f'				: 'jackandjillpolitics',
			't'				: 'afternoon_open_thread_010',
			// Do we need encodeURIComponent here?
			'ifrs'			: encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css),
			'to_redirect'	: encodeURIComponent(window.location),
			'cbp'			: disqus_callback_params,
			'ff'			: Dsq.Thread.ff,
			'fc'			: Dsq.Thread.fc,
			'ac'			: Dsq.Thread.ac,
			'default_text'	: disqus_default_text
		};

		base_url += '?' + (new Date()).getTime();
		// Add params to default_params.
		if(params) {
			for(var key in params) {
				if(params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					default_params[key] = encodeURIComponent(params[key]);
				}
			}
		}
		// Build querystring.
		for(var key in default_params) {
			if(default_params[key] && default_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				base_url += '&' + key + '=' + default_params[key];
			}
		}

		return [
			'<iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0"',
			(' allowtransparency="true" src="' + base_url + '"'),
			this._makeAttributes(attributes),
			'</iframe>'].join('');
	};

	this.frameLogin = function(opt_attributes) {
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/login.html';
		var attributes = opt_attributes || {};
		attributes['class'] = 'dsq-post-login';

		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameReply = function(post_id, extra_params, attributes) {
		// Returns the HTML for a reply iframe. Called by Dsq.Iframes.setReplyIframeToContainer
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY;
		var params = {
			'def_email'		: disqus_def_email,
			'def_name'		: disqus_def_name
		};
		if(extra_params) {
			for(var key in extra_params) {
				if(extra_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					params[key] = extra_params[key];
				}
			}
		}
		if(_meta) {
			params['parent_post'] = post_id;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			params['per_page'] = disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			attributes['class'] += '-authenticated';
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameEdit = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/edit.html';
		var params = {
			'p' : post_id
		};
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, {'class': 'dsq-post-edit', 'name': 'dsq-edit_' + post_id + '-frame'});
	};

	//
	// Menus
	//

	this.menuMore = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: "Remove post" button should hide menu.
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')">Link</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Profile</a></li>'
	+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
		? '	<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>' + (_meta.email ? '<li class="dsq-admin-email">' + _meta.email + '</li>' : '')
		+ '	<li class="dsq-admin-ip">' + _meta.ip + '</li> \
			<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>'
		+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
			? ' <li class="dsq-admin-edit"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
			: '')
		+ ' <li class="dsq-remove"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Remove Comment</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-report-spam"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-block-user"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li>'
		: '');
	};

	this.menuMedia = function(post_id) {
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(this, ' + post_id + ', \'seesmic\'); return false;">Record video</a></li> \
		';
	};

	this.dropProfile = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};


		var menu = '<li class="dsq-drop-showlnk"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Expand &#8663;</a></li>';
		var pointsMessage = '';
		if (userData['registered']) {
			pointsMessage = 'with ' + userData['points'] + ' points (more points are better).';
		}

		if (userData['is_remote']) {
			var domain = userData['remote_domain_name'];
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' is a ' + domain + ' user ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
			menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-' + domain.toLowerCase() + '">' + domain + '</span></li>';
		} else if (userData['registered']) {
			if (userData['verified']) {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a verified commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span></li>';
			} else {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a registered, but unverified, commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span></li>';
			}
		} else {
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has not claimed this commenter profile." onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()"><span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span></li>';
		}

		menu += _includeServices();
		return menu;
	};

	//
	// Popups
	//

	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-top"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-body" class="clearfix"> \
				<div class="dsq-popup-body-padding"> \
					<div class="dsq-popup-header"> \
						<a class="dsq-close-link" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/modal-close.png" alt="" /></a>'
						+ content['header']
					+ '</div>'
					+ content['body']
					+ '<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
				</div> <!-- padding --> \
			</div> <!-- body --> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-bottom"></div> \
		</div> \
		';
	};

	this.popupProfile = function(user_key) {
		var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(user_key, null);
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var html = '';
			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == 0
					? '<h4>Connections</h4><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li> \
					<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" title="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" /> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>'
				+ (i+1 == userServices.length ? '</ul>' : '');
			}
			return html;
		};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<table> \
				<tr> \
					<td> \
						<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><img class="dsq-popup-profile-avatar" src="' + userData['avatar'] + '" alt="" /></a> \
					</td> \
					<td> \
						<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user"> \
							<h3>' + userData['display_name'] + '</h3> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats" id="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + user_key + '">Loading...</div> \
						</div> \
					</td> \
				</tr> \
			</table> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-state"> \
				This is a&nbsp;<span class="'
					+ (userData['registered']
						? (userData['verified']
							? ' dsq-badge-verified'
							: (userData['is_remote']
								? ' dsq-badge-' + userData['remote_domain_name'].toLowerCase()
								: ' dsq-badge-registered')
							)
							: ' dsq-badge-guest') + '">'
			+ (userData['registered']
				? (userData['verified']
					? 'Verified'
					: (userData['is_remote']
						 ? userData['remote_domain_name']
						 : 'Registered')
					)
				: 'Guest')
			+ '</span>&nbsp;commenter profile.'
			+ '&nbsp;<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><strong>View more comments </strong></a>'
			+ (!userData['points']
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice">If this is you, <a href="http://disqus.com/profile" target="_blank">claim it now</a> to manage your comments.</p>'
				: '')
			+ ((userData['registered'] && !userData['verified'] && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username == userData['username'])) && !userData['is_remote'])
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice"><strong>Alert</strong>: You have not verified this account. <a href="http://disqus.com/verify">Verify it now.</a></p>'
				: '')
			+ '</div> \
			<div id="dsq-profile-status-' + user_key + '" class="dsq-popup-profile-status" style="display:none"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-snapshot"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td> \
							<div id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Most active sites</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
						<td>'
							+ _includeServices()
							+ '<div id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Moderator of</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupReblog = function() {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<cite><span>Reblog this comment</span></cite> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div id="dsq-reblog-form" class="dsq-reblog-form"> \
			</div> \
		';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupModal = function(title, message) {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<h3>' + title + '</h3> \
		';

		bodyHtml = message;

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.alertContent = function(name, post_id) {
		var alert = {
			'post_not_approved': {
				'title': 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator',
				'message': 'Thanks for posting. Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.'
			},
			'post_has_profile': {
				'title': 'Use your existing commenter profile',
				'message': 'You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> commenter profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a>'
			}
		};
		return alert[name] || false;
	};

	//
	// Actions
	//

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {
		// Update number of points
		Dsq.$('dsq-points-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.';

		// Update link text
		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.';
		}
	};

	this.subscribed = function(status) {
		var title, message;

		if(status) {
			title = 'Subscribed!';
			message = 'You have subscribed to this comment thread. New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox, where you may read and respond by email.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">Unsubscribe</a> \
			';
		} else {
			title = 'Unsubscribed';
			message = 'You have unsubscribed to this comment thread. New comments will no longer be sent to your email inbox.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a> \
			';
		}

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);

	};
	
	this.highlighted = function() {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('This comment has been highlighted.', 'Highlighted comment');
	};

	//
	// Media
	//

	this.mediaSeesmic = function(id, thumb) {
		return ' \
			<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_preview" class="dsq-seesmic-preview"><a href="http://www.seesmic.com/video/' + id + '" target="_blank" class="see_link">&nbsp;</a> \
				<div style="display:block;width:160px; height:120px; border:none; background-image:url(http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/' + thumb + ')"> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_hide" class="seePlayOverlay" style="display:none;"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',false)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/stopOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_show" class="seePlayOverlay"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',true)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/playOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; border:none; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			<div id="' + id + '_content" style="display:block; width:100%; padding-top:5px"></div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Callbacks
	//

	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(parent_post_id) {
		// Increment post count
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');
		
		if (num_posts) { 
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) { 
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
	};
};
// Dsq.Templates


/**
 * Dsq.Post
 */
Dsq.Post = new function() {
	this.openedMenu = {};
	this.menuEventListener = null;
	this.stateReplyToggled = {};
	this.stateEditToggled = {};
	this.stateRecordLink = {};

	/**
	 * Inserts a new post into the document.
	 *
	 * @param after_id {Number}	Insert a post before specified id.  If after_id
	 *							evaluates to false, then post in the front.  If
	 *							after_id is -1, post at the end.
	 */
	this.insert = function(after_id, id, message, author) {
		// Skeleton template from thread_posts.html.
		var skeleton = ' \
			<li id="dsq-comment-%(id)s"> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-header-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-header"> \
					<cite id="dsq-cite-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-cite"> \
						<a id="dsq-author-user-%(id)s" href="%(author_url)s" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">%(author_name)s</a> \
					</cite> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-body-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-body"> \
					<div id="dsq-comment-message-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-message">%(message)s</div> \
				</div> \
			</li> \
		';
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var _user_meta = Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key];
		var markup = Dsq.Utils.interpolate(skeleton, {
			id: id,
			message: message,
			author_url: _user_meta.blog,
			author_name: _user_meta.display_name
		});
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		markup = markup.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
		div.innerHTML = markup;

		if (after_id === -1) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').appendChild(div);
		} else if (!after_id) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').insertBefore(div, Dsq.$('dsq-comments').firstChild);
		} else if (Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + after_id)) {
			// Get next node after "after_id", so we can insert before it.
			// If "after_id" is the last comment, the target node is the
			// last node.
			
			// var append_post_id = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(after_id).replace('<div id="','').replace('"></div>', '');
			var append_post_id = 'dsq-append-post-' + after_id;
			var node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			while (node = node.nextSibling) {
				if (!node || node.nodeType == 1) { // 1 == Node.ELEMENT_NODE
					break;
				}
			}
			if (!node) {
				node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			}
			node.parentNode.insertBefore(div, node);
		}
	};

	this.incrementPostCount = function() {
		
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');

		if (num_posts) {
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) {
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
	}
	
	this.outlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className += ' dsq-comment-outline';
		setTimeout("(function () { Dsq.Post.clearOutlineComment(" + post_id + ") })()", 3000);
	};
	
	this.clearOutlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className.replace('dsq-comment-outline', '');
	};

	this.showMenu = function(el, id, name) {
		var anchorPos = Dsq.Utils.findPos(el);
		var menu = document.createElement('ul');

		if(this.openedMenu) {
			if(this.openedMenu.linkClicked) {
				this.openedMenu.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		switch(name) {
			case 'more':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMore(id);
				break;
			case 'media':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMedia(id);
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}

		// Add menu to document body
		menu.id = 'dsq-menu-' + id;
		menu.className = 'dsq-menu';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(menu);

		// Position and show
		anchorPos[1] += 15;
		menu.style.left = anchorPos[0] + 'px';
		menu.style.top = anchorPos[1] + 'px';
		menu.style.display = 'block';

		// Set global reference
		this.openedMenu = {
			'el' : menu,
			'id' : id,
			'name' : name,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};

		// Set listener
		this.menuEventListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._hideMenu);
	};

	this._hideMenu = function(e) {
		var el = e.target || e.srcElement;
		var openedMenu = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el;
		var id = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.id;

		if(!id) {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link';
		} else {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link-' + id;
		}

		if(!openedMenu) {
			return;
		}

		if(!Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, openedMenu.id)) {
			openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Post.menuEventListener);
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(openedMenu);

		} else {
			// Hide the menu if a link was clicked inside the menu.  We can't
			// completely remove the menu until the onclick event on the link
			// fires, but the menuEventListener will prevent multiple menus
			// from polluting the DOM.
			if(el && typeof el.href != 'undefined') {
				openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el = null;
			}
		}

		if(Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Post.openedMenu.linkClicked = true;
		}
	};


	this.getUserServices = function(user_key, id) {
		if(!user_key && id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
			user_key = _meta.user_key;
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var userServices = [];

		// Keep a full list of supported services. This is the order they will display in the drop-profile.
		// Each service must have a corresponding case in _buildServiceUrl()
		var supportedServices = ['blog', 'twitter', 'facebook', 'tumblr'];

		function _buildServiceUrl(serviceName) {
			var data = userData[serviceName];
			var services = {
				blog:		function(d) { return d; },
				twitter:	function(d) { return d; },
				facebook:	function(d) { return d; },
				tumblr:		function(d) { return 'http://' + d + '.tumblr.com'; }
			};
			return services[serviceName](data);
		}

		for(var i = 0; i < supportedServices.length; i++) {
			if(userData[supportedServices[i]]) {
				var serviceUrl = _buildServiceUrl(supportedServices[i]);
				userServices.push({'name' : supportedServices[i], 'url' : serviceUrl});
			}
		}
		return userServices;
	}

	this.dropProfile = function(id) {
		var dp = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-profile-' + id);

		// IE6 needs JS to display/hide. All other browsers use CSS.
		if(dp) {
			if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) dp.style.display = (dp.style.display == 'inline') ? 'none' : 'inline';
			return false;
		} else {
			dp = document.createElement('ul');
		}

		dp.id = 'dsq-drop-profile-' + id;
		dp.className = 'dsq-drop-profile';

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) { dp.style.display = 'inline'; }

		var container = Dsq.$('dsq-header-avatar-' + id);
		dp.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.dropProfile(id);
		container.appendChild(dp);
	};

	this.dropProfileMore = function(el, id) {
		var hiddenItems = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-hidden-' + id);

		hiddenItems.style.display = 'inline';
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
	};

	this._updateReplyLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "reply / cancel" links based on state.
		var displayDict = {};

		if(id) {
			if(this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				el.innerHTML = 'Cancel';
				displayDict['media'] = 'inline';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'none';
			} else {
				el.innerHTML = 'Reply';
				displayDict['media'] = 'none';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'inline';
			}
		}

		for(var key in displayDict) {
			if(displayDict.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var	linkEl = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-el-' + id),
					spacer = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-spacer-' + id);

				if(linkEl) {
					linkEl.style.display = displayDict[key];
					if(spacer) spacer.style.display = displayDict[key];
				}
			}
		}
	};

	this._updateMediaLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "use media / cancel" links based on state.
		var appendId = (id) ? ('-' + id) : '';
		var link = Dsq.$('dsq-media-link' + appendId);

		if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			link.innerHTML = 'Cancel Media';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(link, id); return false; };
		} else {
			link.innerHTML = 'Use Media <small>&#9660;</small>';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.showMenu(link, id, 'media'); return false; };
		}
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(el, id) {
		// Create reply IFrame
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			if (!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				// Create IFrame if it doesn't exist.
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-frame-' + id), id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].init();
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].setState(id, _meta.depth);
				}
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
			}
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			if(!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				// Reply toolbar
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id), id);
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Iframes.hideAllInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id));
				if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
					// HACK: Cancel media before canceling self.
					this.toggleMediaReply(Dsq.$('dsq-media-link-' + id), id);
				}
			}
		}

		this.stateReplyToggled[id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[id];
		this._updateReplyLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-reply-' + id); }

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[id]
		});
	};

	this.toggleMediaReply = function(el, id, xtype) {
		id = id || 0;
		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(!this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id, {xtype:xtype}, 'dsq-post-video');
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id);
		}
		this.stateRecordLink[id] = !this.stateRecordLink[id];
		this._updateMediaLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};

	this.edit = function(el, id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.frameEdit(id);
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-comment-message-' + id); }
	};

    this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
                Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
            }

            Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/vote.js'
                + '?post_id='    + id
                + '&vote='        + vote);

		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login(Dsq.Strings.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN);
		}
    };

	this.report = function(id, confirmed) {
		if(confirmed) {
			Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/afternoon_open_thread_010/post_report/', {'post_id': id});
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Thank you. This comment has been flagged for moderator attention.', 'Successfully flagged');
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$('dsq-post-report-' + id));
		} else {
			var title = Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT;
			var message = Dsq.Strings.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR + '? \
			<br /><br /> \
			<button onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.NO + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.NEVER_MIND + '</button>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<button onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + id + ', true);"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.YES + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT + '</button><br /><br />'
			+ Dsq.Strings.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION + '. \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, id);
		}
	};



	this.showAlert = function(id, msg) {
		var msgEl = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id);
		var alert = '<div class="dsq-comment-alert">' + msg + '</div>';

		msgEl.innerHTML = alert + msgEl.innerHTML;
	};

};
// Dsq.Post


/**
 * Dsq.Thread
 */
Dsq.Thread = new function() {
	this.fc = null;
	this.ff = null;
	this.ac = null;

	
	this.adminIsOn = false;

	
	
	

	this.hlComment = null;
	this.hlCommentClass = null;

	this.getNextComment = function(el) {
		var start_id = el.id;
		while(el = el.nextSibling) {
			if(el.id && el.id.indexOf('dsq-comment-') != -1 && el.id != start_id) {
				return el;
			}
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.getActiveCommentId = function() {
		if (document.URL.indexOf('#comment-') >= 0) {
			var anchor = document.URL.slice(document.URL.indexOf('#') + 1);
			return anchor.replace('comment-', '');
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.highlightAnchor = function() {
		var i = this.getActiveCommentId();
		if (i == null) return false;
		var id = 'dsq-comment-' + i;
		var hash = window.location.hash;

		// Toggle the hash incase the comment isn't available when the page loads
		// for WebKit-based browsers.
		if (Dsq.Utils.webkit) {
			window.location.hash = '';
			window.location.hash = hash;
		}

		this.hlComment = Dsq.$(id);
		// Adding this conditional guard pending #289
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlCommentClass = this.hlComment.className;
		this.hlComment.className += ' dsq-hl-anchor';

		setTimeout("Dsq.Thread.highlightClear()", 3000);
	};

	this.highlightClear = function() {
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlComment.className = this.hlCommentClass;
	};

	this.login = function(toggle) {
		// toggle id is #dsq-reply-login-[id]
		var postId;
		if(toggle.id.indexOf('dsq-reply-login') != -1) {
			postId = toggle.id.slice(16);
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + postId);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(toggle) {
			if(toggle.className == 'dsq-login-active') {
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(container, postId);
				toggle.className = '';
			} else {
				Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
				toggle.className = 'dsq-login-active';
			}
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
		}

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};


	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked, per_page) {
		// Use extra_params to pass any override parameters that we need to persist.
		var extra_params = '';

		// "Per page" can either be overriden by providing it as an argument
		// (per-call) or setting the disqus_per_page override variable (global).
		if(typeof per_page == 'undefined') {
			per_page = null;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined' && per_page === null) {
			per_page = disqus_per_page;
		}

		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}
		if(per_page !== null) {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + per_page;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			el_clicked.style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'afternoon_open_thread_010'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};

	this.sortBy = function(sort) {
		var disqus_script = document.createElement('script');
		var disqus_date = new Date();

		if (location.hash != '') {
			location.hash = '#disqus_thread';
		}

		if(typeof(disqus_url) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_url = disqus_href;
		}
		disqus_script.type = 'text/javascript';
		disqus_script.src = 'http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'afternoon_open_thread_010'
			+ '&sort='	+ sort
			+ '&title='
			+ '&'		+ disqus_date.getTime();

		Dsq.$('dsq-comments').innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif">';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(disqus_script);
	};

	this.subscribe = function(status, email) {
		// `status` is an int -- 1 to subscribe, 0 to unsubscribe
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || email) {
			// If authenticated user OR anonymous email provided

			if(email) {
				Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
			}

			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/subscribe.js'
				+'?status=' 	+ status
				+ '&slug='		+ 'afternoon_open_thread_010'
				+ '&email=' 	+ encodeURIComponent(email));

		} else if(!email) {
			// If anonymous user and no email has been provided yet, prompt for email

			var title = 'Subscribe to this comment thread';
			var message = ' \
				New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox! \
				<div class="dsq-subscribe-submit"> \
					<p><strong>Enter your email address below.</strong></p> \
					<input type="text" id="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
					<button onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1, Dsq.$(\'dsq-subscribe-email\').value)">Subscribe</button> \
				</div> \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
		}
	};

	this.showSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return;
		}

		/* The form has to be re-designed when more options will come out. */
		var html = 'Automatically close comments after <input size="3" id="dsq-thread-days-alive" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.days_alive + '" type="text" /> days. Existing comments will still be displayed.<br /><br />(Using 0 days will disable this feature)<br /><br />'
								 + '<button onclick="Dsq.Thread.updateDaysAlive();" class="dsq-button-small"><span>Save</span></button>'
								 + '<span id="dsq-thread-settings-status" class="dsq-options-status"></span>';
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Settings');
	};

	this.updateDaysAlive = function() {
		var days = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-days-alive').value;
		var status = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-settings-status');
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/update_days_alive.js', {days:days,thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
		status.innerHTML = 'Saved!';
		window.setTimeout(function() { status.innerHTML = ''; }, 1000);
	};
};
// Dsq.Thread

Dsq.Events = function() {
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var handlers = {};
	var getHandlers = function(event) {
		if (handlers[event] === undefined) {
			handlers[event] = [];
		}
		return handlers[event];
	};

	// Public
	// Value keys : postId, node, xtype
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED = 1;
	// Value keys : postId, opened
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED = 2;
	obj.fire = function(event, opt_value) {
		if (!event) {
			throw new Error('Unknown event');
		}
		var value = opt_value || {};
		for (var i=0; i<getHandlers(event).length; i++) {
			getHandlers(event)[i](value);
		}
	};
	obj.addHandler = function(event, callback) {
		getHandlers(event).push(callback);
	};

	return obj;
}();

/**
 * Dsq.Realtime
 */
Dsq.Realtime = new function() {
	var initialized = false;
	var interval = null;
	var last_checked = Dsq.jsonData.request.timestamp;
	var new_posts = [];
	var ongoing_request = false;
	var prev_script = null;

	function updateNewPostCount() {
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-alert').style.display = new_posts.length ? 'block' : 'none';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-queued').innerHTML = new_posts.length
		+ ' new '
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, 'comment', 'comments')
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, ' was', ' were')
		+ ' just posted.';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.SHOW + ')';
	}

	function insertNewPosts() {
		var post_id = null;
		var after_id = Dsq.$('dsq-sort-select').value === 'oldest' ? -1 : null;

		for (var i=0; i<new_posts.length; i++) {
			post_id = new_posts[i];
			Dsq.Post.insert(after_id, post_id, Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id].message);
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		}
		new_posts = [];
	}

	this.enableInterval = function() {
		interval = setInterval(Dsq.Realtime.check, Dsq.jsonData.context.realtime_speed);
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.ENABLED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.PAUSE + ')';
	}

	this.disableInterval = function() {
		if (interval) {
			clearInterval(interval);
			interval = null;
		}
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.PAUSED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.RESUME + ')';
	}

	this.toggleInterval = function() {
		if (!interval) {
			Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
		} else {
			Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
		}
		return false;
	}

	this.initialize = function() {
		if (!initialized) {
			initialized = true;
			Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').onclick = this.toggleInterval;
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').onclick = this.show;
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
			if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.realtime_paused) {
				Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
			} else {
				Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
			}
		}
	}

	this.show = function() {
		insertNewPosts();
		updateNewPostCount();
		return false;
	}

	this.check = function() {
		if (!ongoing_request && Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			if (prev_script) {
				prev_script.parentNode.removeChild(prev_script);
			}
			ongoing_request = true;
			prev_script = Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/25913937/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

	this.update = function(timestamp, posts, users) {
		ongoing_request = false;
		last_checked = timestamp;

		if (users) {
			for (var user_id in users) {
				if (users.hasOwnProperty(user_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id] = users[user_id];
					}
				}
			}
		}

		if (posts) {
			for (var post_id in posts) {
				if (posts.hasOwnProperty(post_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] = posts[post_id];
						new_posts.push(post_id);
					}
				}
			}

			if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				insertNewPosts();
			} else {
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
		}
	};

}();

// DEPRECATED
Dsq.Iframes = function() {
	// Different style of object from the above. Hoping to switch to this for some reason.
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var showIframeInContainer = function(container, id, markup) {
		// Look through container for iframes, hiding them, except show one that matches id
		// If none of them matched id, create a new iframe using markup and insert it.
		// Returns the iframe node if and only if it was newly created.
		var found = false;
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				if (child.id == id) {
					child.style.display = 'block';
					found = true;
				} else {
					child.style.display = 'none';
				}
			}
		}
		if (found) {
			return;
		}
		// The iframe wasn't found, so construct it and add it to the container.
		// Don't use innerHTML because it might reload iframes
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		div.innerHTML = markup;
		var iframe = div.childNodes[0];
		div.removeChild(iframe);
		container.appendChild(iframe);
		return iframe;
	};

	// Public
	obj.makeReplyIframeId = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var id = 'dsq-post-add-iframe';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			id += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			id += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return id;
	};
	obj.makeLoginIframeId = function(opt_postId) {
		if (!opt_postId) {
			return 'dsq-login-iframe';
		}
		return 'dsq-login-iframe-' + opt_postId;
	};
	obj.makeReplyIframeName = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var name = 'dsq-reply-frame';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			name += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			name += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return name;
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId, opt_extraParams, opt_className) {
		// Construct the id so we can check if it's already present.
		// Hide any other iframes we find, and show this one if it's found.
		var params = opt_extraParams || {};
		// use xtype in the id and name so we can distinguish media replies from text replies:
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeId(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var name = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeName(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var attributes = {
			'id': id,
			'name': name,
			'class': opt_className || 'dsq-post-reply'
			};
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameReply(opt_postId, opt_extraParams, attributes);
		var iframe = showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
		// It was newly created
		if (iframe) {
			Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED, {
				postId: opt_postId,
				node: iframe,
				xtype: params.xtype
			});
		}
	};
	obj.showLoginIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId) {
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeLoginIframeId(opt_postId);
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: id});
		showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed = function(container, opt_postId) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			obj.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, opt_postId);
		} else {
			obj.hideAllInContainer(container);
		}
	};
	obj.hideAllInContainer = function(container) {
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				child.style.display = 'none';
			}
		}
	};

	return obj;
}();

Dsq.Twitter = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startTwitterConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
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<ul id="dsq-comments">\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12830785" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12830785" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12830785">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12830785" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12830785" class="dsq-comment-message">GIVE ME MY HEALTHCARE, PUBLIC OPTION-STYLE, BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12832432">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12832432" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12832432" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12832432" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12832432" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12832432" class="dsq-comment-message">Bwaaaaaaaaaaaahahahaha!!!!!!!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12850841">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12850841" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12850841" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12850841">Sepia</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12850841" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12850841" class="dsq-comment-message">*dead*</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12855248">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12855248" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12855248" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12855248">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12855248" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12855248" class="dsq-comment-message">Spirit - that is EXACTLY what I heard.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12843238">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12843238" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12843238" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12843238">lamh32</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12843238" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12843238" class="dsq-comment-message">Fiscal Conservative my Ass.  He can\'t accept can the stimulus money for his constituents, but he sure likes to travel in style on their dime.<br><br><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25073.html" rel="nofollow">Sanford traveled well on taxpayers\' dime</a><br><blockquote>Aside from the damage done to his standing as a social conservative, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s recent admission of an extramarital affair may end up tarnishing another of his political credentials — his carefully honed reputation as a tightfisted steward of taxpayer money...<br><br>The records detail more than $468,000 worth of state-funded travel for Sanford and show that he routinely billed taxpayers for high-end airline seats, racking up more than $44,000 on business- and first-class tickets. He often stayed in pricey hotels that far exceeded the rates he imposed on other state employees. </blockquote></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12855956">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12855956" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12855956" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12855956">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12855956" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12855956" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL @ Lawrence O\'Donnell.......call him out! call that racist micky fick Pat Buchanan OUT.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12857455">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12857455" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12857455" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12857455" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12857455" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12857455" class="dsq-comment-message">I missed it, what happened?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12856330">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12856330" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12856330" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12856330">moja31</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12856330" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856330" class="dsq-comment-message"><em>CNN/WAPO\'s Howard Kurtz tweets: "Olympia Snowe, Richard Lugar say they will vote for Sotomayor. <strong>Plus Mel Martinez (duh). </strong>Wonder how many other Repubs will take the plunge."</em><br><br>you know...because he\'s latino. I\'m sure Kurtz felt it was just as obvious when white dems voted for Roberts...right.<br><a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/200907170029#comments" rel="nofollow">http://mediamatters.org/blog/200907170029#comments</a></div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12855265">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12855265" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12855265" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12855265" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12855265" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12855265" class="dsq-comment-message">David Arquette Apologizes For Latina Women Remark<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/17/david-arquette-apologizes_n_238025.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/17/david-...</a><br><br><br>See this is the kind of stuff that pisses me off. WHITE PEOPLE TAKE NOTE OF THIS. David Arquette was on Fox and said a pretty stupid joke about Latinas- perpetuating a stereotype etc. Now he issues a an apology. He went for the laugh and got it and now all he says is that he didn\'t MEAN to offend anyone. No harm, no foul. <br><br>THIS PISSES ME OFF. Racism is NOT DEPENDENT on the person\'s INTENTION to be racist when sharing a racist joke, promoting a stereotype, or using a racist term.<br><br>In other words, no matter what your intention is: if you do or say something racist then you are a RACIST. This is not say that you are a member of the Kl Klux Klan. This is not say that you intend to hurt other people or intend to treat them as lower than you. However, when you do and say what you and say the cumulative effect is a subordinate social position of people of color. When you do that you AFFIRM racism. You perpetuate it. You promote it.<br><br>An apology like "my bad, didn\'t mean it" is NOT ENOUGH. You HAVE TO SAY "DAMN I SAID SOMETHING RACIST AND IT WAS WRONG, AND I AIN\'T NEVER GONNA SAY IT AGAIN BECAUSE I AM TRYING TO NOT BE RACIST." When you pick on people (say jokes, promote stereotypes) and you KNOW it\'s wrong that means you value the laugh over the people. THOSE are your values, not valuing diversity or valuing people.  <br><br>So before that California Gary Frago comes up with his apology saying "my bad... some of my best friend\'s are black," let me say NOT ENOUGH, YOU RACIST.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12832680">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12832680" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12832680" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12832680" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12832680" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12832680" class="dsq-comment-message">Everyone else who has an investment in this is mad, glad to see he is expressing that frustration we all have. I\'ve said it before, and I\'ll say it again, if this does not get fixed now, it is going to be several generations before we have this chance. People are ready now, and we got the numbers behind making this happen. If you haven\'t called your senators and congresswomen/men yet, please do so NOW.<br><br>Although...I will say...*chuckle*... I waiting for Angry Black Man to show up somewhere in the media. They have been waiting to use that term for the longest time.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Ok, I\'m gonna say something once, and we shall never talk about this again: I never saw what people meant when they said Obama looks cute. But this is probably the first time I think he looks sexy. He looks all manly and stuff when he\'s yelling at folk.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12848776">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12848776" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12848776" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12848776" href="muttlikme.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mutt Like Me</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12848776" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12848776" class="dsq-comment-message">"But this is probably the first time I think he looks sexy. He looks all manly and stuff when he\'s yelling at folk." Indeed! If I were Michelle I\'d...nevermind, ahem.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12849075">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12849075" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12849075" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12849075">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12849075" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12849075" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s all that TESTERONE!<br><br>Michelle to Barack when he enters the Lincoln bedroom:  <br>"Come on over here daddy president, Iet me show you how to make some<br>HOR-MONES."<br><br>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;tip toes over to the naughty corner&gt;&gt;&gt;</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12852764" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12852764" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12852764">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12852764" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12852764" class="dsq-comment-message">LMAO @ You, Spirit!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12849242">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12849242" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12849242" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12849242" href="muttlikme.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mutt Like Me</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12849242" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12849242" class="dsq-comment-message">HAHAHAHA YOU WRONG FO\' DAT!!!!!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12855164">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12855164" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12855164" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12855164">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12855164" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12855164" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s TESTOSTERONE.  LOL!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12855225" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12855225" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12855225">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12855225" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12855225" class="dsq-comment-message">"He looks all manly and stuff when he\'s yelling at folk."<br><br>and there you have it.  lolol</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12857058">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12857058" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12857058" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12857058">windswept</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12857058" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12857058" class="dsq-comment-message">I posted this link once before, but I want to make sure everyone sees this.<br><br><a href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/watch2.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/watc...</a><br><br>This is what is going on in America\'s healthcare industry.  This is why movies like Sicko scare them.  This is why they\'re fighting fang and claw to stop the Public Option, and kill it in the cradle.  This is why they\'re fighting against reform as if their way of life depends on it - because it does.<br><br>Make no mistake - this is us, the American public, versus corporate greed.  We need to be louder and stronger-willed than those who profit while others suffer.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12857651">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12857651" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12857651" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12857651">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12857651" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12857651" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve worked in the insurance industry for years, life & health, annuities, credit - all in regulatory compliance - and I can assure you that insurers are out to screw you....screw you royally. Insurance is a big ass hustle. The goal for every insurance company is the same - to take your premiums and not pay shit.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12855760" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12855760" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12855760">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12855760" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12855760" class="dsq-comment-message">I wanna know more about this C street complex for the good Christian congressmen...I think I saw a horror movie about something eerily similar to this a long time ago.<br><br>The Political Enclave That Dare Not Speak Its Name<br>The Sanford and Ensign Scandals Open a Door On Previously Secretive \'C Street\' Spiritual Haven<br><br>No sign explains the prim and proper red brick house on C Street SE. <br>Nothing hints at its secrets. <br>It blends into the streetscape, tucked behind the Library of Congress, a few steps from the Cannon House Office Building, a few more steps to the Capitol. This is just the way its residents want it to be. Almost invisible. <br>Full Story: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/25/AR2009062504480.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12856755" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12856755">Myth</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12856755" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856755" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s a brothel for elected officials!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12857475" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12857475" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12857475" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12857475" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12857475" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s a brothel for elected officials who want to keep their hypocrisy under wraps.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12855881" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12855881" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12855881">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12855881" class="dsq-comment-message">Maddow\'s been doing segments of C-Street since last week.  Hit the MSNBC site and go to archives.  It gets creepier by the day.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12855985">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12855985" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12855985" class="dsq-comment-message">Am I understanding this right...that this "residence" is exempt from property taxes because its considered a religious sanctuary or something to that effect?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12856736">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856736" class="dsq-comment-message">YEPPER.  Thesse mofos are getting their jollies off in the name of God.  Shhhhhh.... it\'s a SECRET!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12857490" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12857490" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12857490" class="dsq-comment-message">In the name of God, and on the taxpayer\'s dime.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12857879" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12857879" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12857879">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12857879" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh yes, GOP, the party of TAX CUTS.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12861430" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12861430">AxelFoley</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12861430" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12861430" class="dsq-comment-message">And it looks like the GOP is down with O.P.P.<br><br>Family values my arse.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12856573">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856573" class="dsq-comment-message">yep</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12856584">windswept</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856584" class="dsq-comment-message">Correct.  It is considered a "church" with all benefits thereof.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12857230" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12857230">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12857230" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12857230" class="dsq-comment-message">I pray everyday, why can\'t my residence be tax exempt?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12857409">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12857409" class="dsq-comment-message">LMBAO!!!  See, now, you got to be a married  politician and slapping boots with anyone other than your spouse to get the tax exemption.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12856120">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856120" class="dsq-comment-message">Here you go<br>The Family World System <br><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050530/anderson" rel="nofollow">http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050530/anderson</a><br>Hillary\'s Nasty Pastorate <br><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080331/ehrenreich" rel="nofollow">http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080331/ehrenreich</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12856477">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856477" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh see now...I read the second one "Hillary\'s Nasty Pastorate"...and now I\'ll be sleeping with the lights on for weeks..I am truly afraid.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12857626">Angelar</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12857626" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12857626" class="dsq-comment-message">If you recall going back to the primary, Hillary went on the attack about Obama\'s church...well...I said at the time, Hillary\'s choice of religious practicing had to be questioned also.   There wasn\'t any traction at that at the time.....guess, Hillary might want to rethink who she prays with going forward.    Especially since I truly believe she plans to go for the presidency one last time.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12857540" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12857540">Angelar</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12857540" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12857540" class="dsq-comment-message">I heard someone on the news today that residents of DC now drive by their visitors and describe it as the "house of prayer."   <br><br>I guess that what those people do within those walls do need a hell of alot of praying!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12841527">pimpinjon</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12841527" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12841527" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m tired of getting pimped.  I need that public option playa!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12849047">lamh32</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12849047" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay, this is just a great feel good article.<br><br><a href="http://www.politickerny.com/4541/obamas-speech-seen-bridges-bar-hilton" rel="nofollow">Obama\'s Speech, as Seen From The Bridges Bar at the HiltonBy Jason Horowitz </a><br><blockquote>Not all the attendees of the NAACP\'s national conference, held at the Hilton Hotel in midtown this week, got into the third floor ballroom to hear President Barack Obama\'s highly anticipated speech last night. <br><br>By the northeast entrance of the Hilton\'s lobby, across from a sign directing participants of the Korea Global Healthcare Conference to the hotel\'s second floor, a crowd gathered in front of a flat screen television sponsored by AT&T and promoting NAACP <a href="http://Webcast.com" rel="nofollow">Webcast.com</a> ("Text, Call or Tweet Your Friends"). <br><br>They watched attentively as the panning camera focused on the back of the Rev. Al Sharpton\'s graying, anvil-headed hair as he ate dinner. The crowd demonstrated considerably more animation a few minutes later, when the screen showed Beyoncé Knowles singing "Halo," though their excitement ended abruptly when the camera again showed the guests in the ballroom quietly eating, as it turned out Knowles\' performance was stock footage from February\'s NAACP Image Awards. Then they watched an NAACP official at the podium asking all the trustees to meet him outside in the hall.<br><br>"It must mean he\'s ready to come in," said one member of the crowd. <br><br>As the camera lingered on police commissioner Ray Kelly chatting at table 44, Wildon Richardson, a self-employed man of 50 who held a copy of the Amsterdam News ("Hero Shot in Cross Fire") and wore a pin of Michael Jackson (in red military jacket with epaulettes) on his right shoulder and one of Michael Jackson (in "Smooth Criminal" gangster hat and jacket)  on his left shoulder, started talking with an older man wearing a FUBU baseball cap.  <br><br>"Christopher Columbus discovered America? How can you discover a place that is already inhabited?" said Richardson. <br><br>"You know about Halifax, Nova Scotia," said the man in the FUBU cap. "They got a black culture seminar up there man that will blow your mind."<br><br>All of a sudden, young women started squealing and running past the Hilton\'s Bridges Bar on the hotel\'s 54th Street side to a side entrance. <br><br>"Is it the president?" one woman asked one of the Bridges Bar\'s waiters.<br><br>"That wasn\'t the president. That was Puff Daddy," the waiter, a middle-aged Asian man, said, as the girls and some more mature women screamed, "Puff Daddy just passed me by!" and "P-Diddy, that\'s P-Diddy!" <br><br>On the large screen television fixed to the wall of Bridges Bar, people watched the entertainer, dressed in a tuxedo, as he made the rounds inside the ballroom two floors above them, shaking hands with Newark Mayor Cory Booker and posing for cell phone pictures.<br><br>At 6:45, the patrons of the Bridges Bar, wearing their green NAACP conference credentials and sipping cocktails, watched the television as Prince walked onto the stage. <br><br>"Oh, no!" screamed one woman holding an appletini. "Prince is in the house!" <br><br>Prince, who paid tribute to "the true God Jahova," actually wasn\'t in the house either. His performance was stock footage too.<br><br>After the Prince clip, the live feed to the ballroom came back on the screen, and showed two men bringing out the presidential podium. The patrons of Bridges applauded. David Myrick, a community activist from New York, and his party ordered another round of white russians and brandy and settled in. <br><br>A few minutes later, the president was introduced. He came out in a red tie, white shirt and dark suit. Bridges erupted with applause. Several women ran up and took pictures of the screen with their phones. Imanda Wilson, a 49-year-old from Marion, Illinois, stood up and waved at the screen.<br><br>"It\'s just good to be among friends," Obama said. <br><br>"Yeah!" the patrons of Bridges Bar hollered back.<br><br>The Bridges viewers listened intently as Obama delivered a passionate speech. They sat hushed when he spoke about slavery and lynchings, made "mmmm-hmmms" when he spoke about the "long day of doing someone else\'s laundry, the long days of looking after someone else\'s children" and were jubilant when he said the long civil rights journey had "led me to be here tonight as the 44th president of the United States of America."<br><br>Some passages had special resonance for certain of the Bridges audience. When Obama said, "Make no mistake: the pain of discrimination is still felt in America," and added that that was true for "Muslim Americans viewed with suspicion simply because they kneel down to pray to their God," Al Mulla, a 55-year-old woman wearing a hijab and visiting New York from Kuwait City, put down her glass of water and clapped. <br><br>When he began a long portion of his speech calling for more emphasis on education and demanding greater responsibility on the parts of black children and parents when it came to studying to get ahead, saying, "You know what I\'m talking about," Wilson shouted back, "Yes we do!" <br><br>When Obama leaned down into the podium\'s microphone, as he often does to punctuate his key points, and thundered, "No one has written your destiny for you.  Your destiny is in your hands -- you cannot forget that.  That\'s what we have to teach all of our children.  No excuse," Richardson, the Michael Jackson fan who was now watching from a table in the bar, yelled, "No excuses! No excuses!" <br><br>And when Obama said, "We need to go back to the time, back to the day when we parents saw somebody, saw some kid fooling around and -- it wasn\'t your child, but they\'ll whup you anyway," Richardson laughed and said, "I remember that."<br><br>The president concluded by saying, "One hundred years from now, on the 200th anniversary of the NAACP, let it be said that this generation did its part; that we too ran the race; that full of faith that our dark past has taught us, full of the hope that the present has brought us, we faced, in our lives and all across this nation, the rising sun of a new day begun. Thank you, God bless you. God bless the United States of America."<br><br>With that, everyone in the Bridges Bar jumped out of their seats to applaud. <br><br>"God Bless you, God Bless the United States of America," yelled Richardson.<br><br>Wilson, the woman from Illinois, tearfully hugged Bill Grunewald, a 51-year-old white lawyer from  Medford, Wisconsin, who had watched the speech at the next table. Then she hugged his wife. Then his daughters. <br><br>A few minutes later, everyone in the bar crammed up against Bridges\' wall-length window to see the presidential motorcade drive past on 54th Street in an attempt to get a glimpse of the president. They did. Obama waved at them through the tinted glass of his stretched Cadillac and, euphorically, they all waved back. </blockquote></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12856720">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856720" class="dsq-comment-message">Thank you for this LAMH...it was beautiful..I felt just like I was there, as I too experienced many of these same emotions as I listened to the speech.<br><br>Goodness and hope.<br><br>thanks</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12831442" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12831442">tna1130</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12831442" class="dsq-comment-message">In the words of Dave Chappelle, "This racism is killing me inside".<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/17/gary-frago-california-cou_n_238040.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/17/gary-f...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12832359" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12832359">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12832359" class="dsq-comment-message">Don\'t let it do that. Let it kill <i>them</i> inside.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12835081">morphus</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12835081" class="dsq-comment-message">Federal agents have arrested a convicted murderer for allegedly providing the gun later used to kill ex-NFL quarterback Steve McNair.<br><br><b><a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4336409" rel="nofollow">Report: Man who provided gun (to the Steve McNair shooter) arrested</a></b><br><blockquote>Adrian J. Gilliam Jr. was arrested by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.<br><br>A criminal complaint unsealed Friday in Nashville says that Gilliam -- who was convicted of murder and attempted armed robbery in 1993 in Florida -- admitted he sold the gun to the woman who later shot McNair.<br><br>McNair was shot to death on July 4 at his condo by his 20-year-old mistress Sahel Kazemi, who then turned the gun on herself.<br><br>The complaint, signed by ATF agent Mickey French, charges Gilliam with illegally possessing a firearm, which he is barred from doing as a felon.<br><br>Detectives traced the gun to its 2002 sale at a pawn shop, according to the complaint. Gilliam eventually bought it from an individual for $100 about a year ago. According to court documents, Gilliam admitted to detectives he sold the gun to Kazemi for $100.</blockquote><hr>Didn\'t see that coming.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12841169">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12841169" class="dsq-comment-message">The good thing is the seller violated Federal Law regarding not only the ownership but the selling as well. Feds made it clear the Tenn law did not over rule Federal law.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12848559" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12848559" href="http://www.blacknbougie.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">OneChele</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12848559" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12848559" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow, they were on the case with this one.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12856867">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856867" class="dsq-comment-message">Well the real irony is if McNair had not bought that Navigator or at least PAID for it, he might be alive.<br><br>See Kashmi, on her waitress salary, was having to pay TWO car notes...so she decided to sell her old vehicle.<br><br>And THAT\'s how she met Adrian, trying to sell her car to him...and then says to him, she was interested in buying a gun...even though he wasn\'t gonna buy the car he told her, he DID have a gun for sale for $200.00<br><br>The transaction for the gun transpired 2 days b4 she shot him.<br><br>Far less, than a car payment on a NAVI...McNair was just not slick enough for his own good.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12857529" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12857529" class="dsq-comment-message">That girl was nutzo, if she didn\'t get the gun from him, she would have gotten it from somewhere else.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12835282">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12835282" class="dsq-comment-message">\\Chip Pickering\'s Wife Claims He Had Affair<br><br>JACKSON, Miss. — The estranged wife of former U.S. Rep. Chip Pickering claims in a lawsuit that the Mississippi Republican had an affair that ruined their marriage and derailed his political career.<br><br>Leisha Pickering said in the lawsuit filed this week that her husband and the woman dated in college, reconnected and began having an affair while he was in Congress and living in a building where several Christian lawmakers reside on C Street near the U.S. Capitol. Chip Pickering is the third Republican with ties to the building at 133 C Street SE to find his personal life making headlines in recent weeks, after Nevada U.S. Sen. John Ensign and South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.<br><br>Leisha Pickering is seeking unspecified damages in the alienation of affection lawsuit she filed this week against Elizabeth Creekmore Byrd of Jackson. The Pickerings filed for divorce in June 2008, but it is not complete.<br><br>Chip Pickering, 45, was elected to Congress in 1996, retired in January and is now a lobbyist in Washington for Cellular South, the company Creekmore Byrd\'s family owns. The lawsuit does not say when the affair started.<br><br>He said in a statement Thursday that his marriage is irreparably damaged.<br><br>"I still believe it is in the best interest of our five boys if our differences are resolved privately and before the appropriate court and not in the media," Pickering said.<br><br>He cast himself as a defender of decency, particularly on television and the Internet, and was among House members urging then-President George W. Bush to declare 2008 "the National Year of the Bible."<br><br>Another lawmaker who lived at the C Street house, Ensign, a member of the Christian ministry Promise Keepers, stepped down from the Senate Republican leadership in June after admitting he had an affair for much of last year with a woman on his campaign staff.<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/17/chip-pickerings-wife-clai_n_237429.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/17/chip-p...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12855104">danadevin74</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12855104" class="dsq-comment-message">that C street sounds just like a sex Den<br>everybody gonna be surprised when they find out<br>who all been getting it on at C Street</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12856793">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856793" class="dsq-comment-message">Yepper...that C stands for CONJUGAL</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12857053">Myth</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12857053" class="dsq-comment-message">C Street = Coochie Street</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12855781" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12855781">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12855781" class="dsq-comment-message">C-Street sounds like a cross between a Dan Brown novel and the movie "unfaithful."</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12858533">sagittarius</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12858533" class="dsq-comment-message">Don\'t know about Dan Brown, but I know about Carter Brown.  Good, grade B, semi-porn novels.  Porn with a plot, as I call them.  A pleasure I indulge in on a rainy day (and no, it\'s not a guilty pleasure.  Just a pleasure...)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12859064">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12859064" class="dsq-comment-message">Umm,  I\'ve never heard of Carter Brown, will check out the novels, now.<br>Thanks for the tip.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12849558">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12849558" class="dsq-comment-message">Leisha??</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12852446" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12852446" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12852446">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12852446" class="dsq-comment-message">Hmmmm...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12854648" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12854648">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12854648" class="dsq-comment-message">Actually, as far as southern belle names go....that\'s one...even Sonya.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12855409" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12855409">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12855409" class="dsq-comment-message">Really? Wow, I\'ve never heard of a white woman named Leisha. Ya learn something new everyday at JJP! :-) <br><br>I did the same thing when I found out that Letitia Baldridge (Jackie O\'s social secretary) was an older white woman. LOL!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12856803">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856803" class="dsq-comment-message">mmmm hmmmm I was thinkin the SAME thang!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12835418">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12835418" class="dsq-comment-message">Gary Frago, California Councilman, Sent Racist Anti-Obama Jokes To Staff<br><br><br>Yet another local official has gotten in hot water for sending around racist emails about the president. This time it\'s Gary Frago of Atwater, California.<br><br>In the past several months Atwater City Councilman Gary Frago has sent at least a half-dozen e-mails to city staff and other prominent community members containing racist jokes aimed at President Barack Obama, his wife and black people in general. <br><br>In all, the Sun-Star obtained seven e-mails that Frago sent from October 2008 to February 2009 from an anonymous source.<br><br>Some compared Obama to O.J. Simpson while others suggested that "nigger rigs" should now be called "presidential solutions."<br><br><br>"I don\'t see where there\'s a story, I\'m not the only one that does it," Fargo said in his defense, after the Merced Sun Star published the offensive emails. "I didn\'t originate them, they came to me and I just passed them on."<br><br>Previous disastrous interactions between racially-insensitive public officials and modern technology include the "historical keepsake photo" sent around by a Tennessee state government staffer, the picture of watermelons on the White House lawn distributed by a California mayor, and the Michelle Obama gorilla joke posted on Facebook by a GOP activist and ex-official.<br><br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/17/gary-frago-california-cou_n_238040.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/17/gary-f...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12848814">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12848814" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12848814" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>"I don\'t see where there\'s a story, I\'m not the only one that does it,"</i><br><br>Most people stop using that as an excuse by the time they hit grade 6.  Idiot.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12855664">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12855664" class="dsq-comment-message">You mean he didn\'t accuse the dog of writing and sending the emails.  See, now I might have bought his story if he would have said the dog did it.<br><br>GAWD, please mainline these mofos with MEGA doses of medication.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12851639">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12851639" class="dsq-comment-message">Wasn\'t that ignorance on it\'s face?  ..."well I\'m not the only one"<br><br><b>Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa&gt;&gt;lap</b></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12855191">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12855191" class="dsq-comment-message">"I don\'t see where there\'s a story, I\'m not the only one that does it," Fargo said in his defense, after the Merced Sun Star published the offensive emails. "I didn\'t originate them, they came to me and I just passed them on."<br><br>idiot</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12856844">windswept</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856844" class="dsq-comment-message">"But...but...but I didn\'t write it!  I just forwarded it to a bunch of people and laughed!  I didn\'t write it though!"<br><br>I wonder if he realizes that all the people who managed to graduate from grade school don\'t think he\'s clever.<br><br>I\'m at the point now where if I see an elected official within my state misbehaving, I\'m quite willing to make sure they get replaced by someone better able to care about and represent their people.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12841784">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12841784" class="dsq-comment-message">Goldman Sachs in Talks to Acquire Treasury Department<br><a href="http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/07/goldman-sachs-in-talks-to-acquire-treasury-department/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/07/goldman-sa...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12848531">wasteacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12848531" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Williams_case" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Williams_case</a><br><br>Above is the wikipedia entry for Megan Williams case. I think it has scant information on the disposition of the case. I\'m trying to subscribe to her MySpace blog. I\'ll try to give an update if I discover anything newsworthy.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12848574">morphus</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12848574" class="dsq-comment-message">The Gorilla Glue Company Responds to Zell Miller\'s Recent Comments. We Do Not Advocate Attempting to Glue the Leader of the Free World to His Chair.<br><br><b><a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/" rel="nofollow">THe Gorilla Glue Company Responds to Zell Miller</a></b><br><blockquote>The press release of the week, from the Gorilla Glue company, subject of a Zell Miller comment that raised some eyebrows this week:<br><br>    News Facts<br>    * In response to Zell Miller\'s recent comments, The Gorilla Glue Company sends letter to President Obama.<br>    * The response was sent today from the desk of Peter Ragland, President, The Gorilla Glue Company.<br>    * The Gorilla Glue Company does not advocate the gluing of President Obama to his chair with their product.<br>    * The quality adhesive products produced by the company are for the toughest building and repair jobs.<br>    * Gorilla brand products are created with strength and toughness as the goal.<br>    * The Gorilla Glue Company is a family owned business located in Cincinnati, Ohio.<br>    * Gorilla Glue represents just the type of growing small business that President Obama mentions as the job creators in our country.<br>    * Gorilla Glue continues to: create new jobs, boast of no lay-offs, provide healthcare for all full-time employees and proudly make all products in the USA.<br><br>    Quotes<br>    Attributed to Peter Ragland, President, The Gorilla Glue Company:<br><br>    * Zell Miller\'s recent comments have thrust our product and company into the limelight.<br>    * While our products are known for being strong and tough we certainly would not advocate attempting to glue the Leader of the free world to his chair.</blockquote><hr><br><a href="http://www.gorillaglue.com/Portals/0/pdfs/media_releases/LettertoPresidentObama.pdf" rel="nofollow">Gorilla Glue President Peter Ragland letter to PBO (PDF)</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12849109">jelana</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12849109" class="dsq-comment-message">It is good to know the Gorilla Glue Co has some sense.  I applaud them.  They don\'t want to be included in Zell Miller\'s racism!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12856684">windswept</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856684" class="dsq-comment-message">What\'s funny is their extraordinarily restrained response.  I read it over twice, and I can\'t help but laugh.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12857016">Myth</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12857016" class="dsq-comment-message">THIS IS HILARIOUS!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12848630">lamh32</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12848630" class="dsq-comment-message">Great post by Booman Tribune on Affirmative Action & the Ivy League.  It\'s too long to blockquote, so here\'s the link.  READ IT, it \'s pretty good.  It may even warrant a post of it\'s own.<br><br><a href="http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2009/7/17/1041/61855" rel="nofollow">A Word on Princeton and Affirmative Action</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12849205" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12849205">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12849205" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>Janet Jackson, Jermaine Dupri Split</b><br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/17/janet-jackson-jermaine-du_n_237832.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/17/janet-...</a><br><br><b>usmagazine.com:</b><br><br><b>On July 7, Michael Jackson\'s family ­gathered to celebrate him at his much-watched memorial service.</b><br><br><b>Noticeably absent?</b><br><br><b>Janet ­Jackson\'s longtime music-exec boyfriend, Jermaine Dupri. (A pal says Dupri skipped the memorial because he "doesn\'t attend funerals.")</b><br><br><br><br>Here we go, Mythe! <br><br>I knew something was up when Jermaine wasn\'t by Janet\'s side @ Michael\'s funeral.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12855475" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12855475">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12855475" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12855475" class="dsq-comment-message">I hope this isn\'t true. I like them as a couple. He really had her back during the Super Bowl Nipplegate drama. I was hoping he would open up a can of whoop ass on that Timberlake punk!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12856019" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12856019">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856019" class="dsq-comment-message">I did read in the local paper here that indeed they broke up a couple of weeks before MJ died....I really liked them as a couple too. :(</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12853273">danadevin74</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12853273" class="dsq-comment-message">yes i get some people don\'t do funerals<br>and thats their choice<br>but when my Dad died 3 months ago my ex was right there<br>even though we had broke 13 years ago<br>and he was an azz hole when we were together<br>it\'s about being there for someone you cared about</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12854610" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12854610">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12854610" class="dsq-comment-message">You\'re so right about that, Dana!<br><br>My brother & his wife were separated for years but when there was a death in the family....both were right there!<br><br><br>(<i>and he was an azz hole when we were together</i>)<br><br>Tell me about it!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12852601">itgurl_29</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12852601" class="dsq-comment-message">Aww. I liked them as a couple. They were together for, like, 10 years! They really did beat the odds, cause I was sure they weren\'t gonna last 6 months! LOL<br><br>Another couple I think might actually make it is Mariah and Nick Cannon. They are both so goofy it just might last forever!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12854240" class="dsq-comment-message">Were they together for 10 years? Wow. I didn\'t know that.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12856481">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856481" class="dsq-comment-message">I had wondered the SAME thing Justice!<br><br>Ms. Jackson, don\'t play...this will be the third man she has left.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12856709">Myth</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856709" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah Justice!  You know they had to go ahead and confirm it because everybody could see.  If a close relative dies and you\'ve got somebody they WILL be present. Yeah right, "he doesn\'t attend funerals". NEXT!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12854600" class="dsq-comment-message">Another view of Goldman Sachs<br><a href="http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/07/max-keiser-takes-offense-to-goldman-sachs-story/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/07/max-keiser...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12854807" class="dsq-comment-message">Is Twitter, My Space and Facebook helpful or do they contribute to social disorder?<br><a href="http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/07/social-media-unlocking-the-awesome-potential-of-behavioral-disorders/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/07/social-med...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12855207" class="dsq-comment-message">hey, I have been side lined for the past day and a half (probably some don\'t mind that lol) .....Anyway, I just heard Larry Summers on Hardball say that remarks have been made about Regina Benjamin (surgeon gen. nominee) being overweight.   Did you all cover this?   I couldn\'t believe my ears.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12855392">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12855392" class="dsq-comment-message">it\'s true, but we haven\'t done a front page on it. I\'m still gathering info.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12856237">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856237" class="dsq-comment-message">I can\'t wait to get on this thread.  WTF!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12857309">Angelar</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12857309" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks, I just can\'t imagine the tripe the detractors will lower themselves to.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12855417" class="dsq-comment-message">That would be <strong>Lawrence O\'Donnell</strong>, who is not related to Kelly O\'Donnell in any way, on Hardball today. And yes, I think someone did mention it earlier today.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12857097">Angelar</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12857097" class="dsq-comment-message">of course, I screwed that up....thanks for the correction.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12857952">morphus</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12857952" class="dsq-comment-message">MSNBC: <b><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31928335/ns/health-health_care/" rel="nofollow">Surgeon general post is a big job for a big lady. Do you have to be thin to be fit for the role of nation\'s Top Doc?</a></b>.  <br><blockquote>Critics seem to believe it’s ironic that the nation’s top doctor would be overweight, and it’s led the most nattering of nags to conclude that she should not be picked for prom queen, er, I mean, surgeon general. <br><br>You would think the entire population of the blogosphere had suddenly reverted to the seventh grade.<br><br>“I refuse to let fat be socially acceptable …  The President should have known better and picked a doctor who could kick start the debate on fat not perpetuate it,” commented one reader on a national news site. </blockquote><hr><br>Let the nattering, er, prom queen contest begin...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12858140">Angelar</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12858140" class="dsq-comment-message">thanks for the info...I truly appreciate, I will have to read this.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12855268">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12855268" class="dsq-comment-message">does anyone have a link to the entire speech?  Or at least can you tell me where he made the speech?  Been working and haven\'t been keeping up as much as I normally do these last few days.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12855992">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12855992" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://mirroronamerica.blogspot.com/2009/07/president-obamas-speech-to-naacp.html" rel="nofollow">http://mirroronamerica.blogspot.com/2009/07/pre...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12856423">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856423" class="dsq-comment-message">He was in NJ campaigning for Corizine...it was supposed to be at Rutgers but they had to move it to a bigger site.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12880309">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12880309" class="dsq-comment-message">thanks.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12856620">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856620" class="dsq-comment-message">sorry. I misunderstood you.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12880306" class="dsq-comment-message">thanks for trying to help me.  I appreciate it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12855897">lamh32</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12855897" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey guys I\'m trying to go on this other blog I frequent, and I got this error message<br><br><strong>Parse error: syntax error, unexpected \'&lt;\' in /home/jcole1/public_html/bal/wp-content/plugins/live-comment-preview.php on line 187</strong><br><br>Does anyone know what his means?  Is it a problem with my computer, or the website?<br><br>Here\'s the link to the website: <a href="http://www.balloon-juice.com" rel="nofollow">www.balloon-juice.com</a>.  Has anyone gone on this website today, and if so, are you receiving an error message too?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856557" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s an error on their website, not your computer.  Someone must be updating stuff, and added a &lt; symbol in the wrong place in the code.<br><br>Check back about once an hour; a website like that wouldn\'t be down for too long.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856936" class="dsq-comment-message">thanks</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856962" class="dsq-comment-message">Been trying all afternoon. Can\'t get in.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856161" class="dsq-comment-message">GOP Rep Tiahrt (KS) Asks Whether Obama\'s Mother Would Have Had An Abortion<br>By Nicole Belle Friday Jul 17, 2009 3:00pm -<br><br>Yet another gem from the "Party of Family Values": <br><br>Arguing to restrict the public funding of abortions within the District of Columbia, Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kans.) suggested on Thursday afternoon that if such "financial incentives" were available some 47 years ago, President Barack Obama himself may never have been born.<br>"If you think of it in human terms, there is a financial incentive that will be put in place, paid for by tax dollars, that will encourage women who are -- single parents, living below the poverty level, to have the opportunity for a free abortion," said Tiahrt. "If you take that scenario and apply it to many of the great minds we have today, who would we have been deprived of? Our president grew up in a similar circumstance."<br>"If that financial incentive was in place, is it possible that his mother may have taken advantage of it?" Tiahrt asked. "Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice, if those circumstances were in place, is it possible that we would be denied his great mind? The opportunity to have tax-funded abortions, a financial incentive, is something that I think most of us want to oppose in America and it\'s certainly deserves a clean up or down vote."<br>So is Tiahrt suggesting that only black babies get aborted? Has Tiahrt been spending time with Bill Bennett? It\'s a little horrifying to me that more than 45 years after MLK\'s March on Washington, the GOP still feels no shame in expressing their abject racism so openly. It is a small comfort that Tiahrt was booed by his colleagues.<br><br>Tiahrt is running for Sam Brownback\'s Senate seat in 2010, and given the tenor of his comments, I\'d say he\'s attempting to reach out to the same base. <br>However, such sickening allusions--can you imagine the GOP uproar if a Congressman had suggested that Barbara Bush might have wanted to consider an abortion?--should not go unchallenged. The Kansas Democratic Party has put together a petition demanding an apology from Tiahrt: Take it back, Todd. <br><br>VIDEO<br><br><a href="http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/gop-rep-tiahrt-ks-asks-whether-obamas" rel="nofollow">http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/gop-rep-...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12856376">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856376" class="dsq-comment-message">Barack & Friends: Obama Sings!<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaFJtv-3Y0A" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaFJtv-3Y0A</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856580" class="dsq-comment-message">Democracy Now- Howard Dean (2\\5) on Real Healthcare Reform<br><br><br><br>Howard Dean on His Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform<br><br>"The House Ways and Means Committee approved legislation early this morning to overhaul the nations healthcare system and expand insurance coverage. By a 23-to-18 vote, the committee backed key elements of President Obamas blueprint for healthcare, including the creation of a new government health plan and requirements for employers to offer health insurance to workers or contribute to its cost. To help fund the changes to the healthcare system, the House committee also agreed to impose a surtax on families with incomes of more than $350,000 a year. Meanwhile, the conservative American Medical Association has just come out in support of the House bill, saying the status quo is unacceptable. Today we spend the hour with Howard Dean, physician, six-term Vermont governor, Democratic presidential candidate in 2004, and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Deans solution embraces President Obamas healthcare plan but argues that the reform bill is not worth passing unless the American people have the choice of signing up for a public option—a real public option." <br><br>This is part 2. Part 1 is part news and about Sotomayer\'s hearing.<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pIsV3y5gmg" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pIsV3y5gmg</a><br><br>Here is part 3.<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hDsGXmPkCs" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hDsGXmPkCs</a> <br><br>And parts 4.<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQFygmCcV_A" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQFygmCcV_A</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12856623">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856623" class="dsq-comment-message">BREAKING NEWS!<br><br>Walter Cronkite dies at 92</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12856696">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856696" class="dsq-comment-message">thanks.<br><br>RIP</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12856957">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856957" class="dsq-comment-message">Walter Cronkite was never one to suck up the lime light.  <br><br>If MSM can devote days of memorial tributes to Tim Russert....<br><br>I wonder if CBS will give him a fitting send off.   I hope so, because Mr. Cronkite deserves a national TV memorial service.<br><br>Our family  grew up listening to Walter Cronkite on the radio and then TV.<br><br>A true jounalist to the end.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12857433">moja31</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12857433" class="dsq-comment-message">oh he\'ll get his week long wall to wall memorializing, and he\'s probably more deserving of that treatment than most who get it. it\'s sad to lose a real journalist like him, in a country that already has <em>far</em> too few.<br> <br>i won\'t hold my breath waiting for certain folks to feign indignation over how the news has come to a standstill on this one though...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12856628">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12856628" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856628" class="dsq-comment-message">Ahhh....Walter Cronkite died.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12856651">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12856651" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12856651" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12856651">Myth</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12856651" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856651" class="dsq-comment-message">Walter Cronkite dead at 92!<br><br>Watch the ELVISiscation of Cronkite begin.<br><br>Better hope they don\'t release the MJ toxicology results before they bury him.  MJ may not knock Cronkite off the top headlines though. He\'s an institution</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12856731">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12856731" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12856731" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12856731" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12856731" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856731" class="dsq-comment-message">Today\'s Conversation:<br>The Black Community. What Black Community? <br><a href="http://bit.ly/rNxS" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/rNxS</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12856910">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12856910" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12856910" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12856910">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12856910" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12856910" class="dsq-comment-message">Walter Cronkite Memorial Open Thread Is Up</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12857002">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12857002" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12857002" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12857002">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12857002" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12857002" class="dsq-comment-message">THANKS!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12857026">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12857026" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12857026" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12857026" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12857026" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12857026" class="dsq-comment-message">Who was worst person of the world?  Pat Buchanan per chance.  Oh, I\'m sorry - Uncle Pat.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12857168">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12857168" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12857168" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12857168">Myth</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12857168" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12857168" class="dsq-comment-message">I doubt if you find out tonight.  MSM has gone into full Cronkite mode. Was the POTUS supposed to talk about health care tonight?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12857183">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12857183" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12857183" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12857183" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12857183" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12857183" class="dsq-comment-message">They really named him the worst person in the world?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12857251">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12857251" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12857251" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12857251" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12857251" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12857251" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay, I\'m going to start trying to keep up with my blog, so check it out: <a href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com/</a><br><br>Who else has a separate blog here? I\'ll add you to my blogroll</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12858836">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12858836" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12858836" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12858836">friskee1</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12858836" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12858836" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://blog.greenafrodiva.com" rel="nofollow">blog.greenafrodiva.com</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12857476">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12857476" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12857476" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12857476">Myth</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12857476" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12857476" class="dsq-comment-message">For those of you who have not gone into Cronkite Watch, I have an important question!<br><br>Has anybody seen my baby? Has he been Americanized? Sodomized?<br><br><br>A young Somali man captured by the US during the rescue of an American sea captain from pirates has been indicted in New York on multiple piracy charges. <br><br>Abde Wale Abdul Kadhir Muse faces 10 counts including piracy, holding a hostage for ransom and armed hijacking. <br><br><br>Let me know how he\'s doing if anyone has heard anything more about him.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12857997">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12857997" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12857997" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12857997">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12857997" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12857997" class="dsq-comment-message">EVENING OPEN THREAD IS UP!!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12880547">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12880547" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12880547" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12880547">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12880547" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12880547" class="dsq-comment-message">found the link with President Obama and Corzine at the rally where he set it off.<br><br>The rebroadcast - The president speaks at the PNC Bank Arts Center in support of Gov. Jon Corzine<br><a href="http://www.app.com/article/99999999/NEWS/399990161?template=mogulus" rel="nofollow">http://www.app.com/article/99999999/NEWS/399990...</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 </ul>\
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