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Their mortgage portfolio is more than toxic.<br><a href=\"http://healdsburgbubble.blogspot.com/2009/05/reset-chart-from-credit-suisse-has.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://healdsburgbubble.blogspot.com/2009/05/re...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_15:49:28", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12608517": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You do know that JJP has a very easy way to search by archived threads don't you? Its right over there to your right...by month. You can go back and look at the threads and see what has been written in the past....so just pulling stuff outta your ass won't actually work. Now just for fun, I went back to look at some threads from Aug, Sept and Oct...because I wanted to see the vindictive mean and appaling things said about Palin's kids...the kids mind you, because that's what you're accusing the posters here of doing. I came across this thread on Bristol's pregnancy and why it matters:<br><a href=\"http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2008/09/why-bristol-palins-pregnancy-matters/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2008/09/why-...</a><br><br>Are you suggesting that anything written about Bristol's pregnancy rises to the level of \"ghetto whore\"? Are you? Or did you just LIE and think no one would actually go back and look?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_18:42:29", "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": 22, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12606863, "depth": 3, "points": 8, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12584458": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "In this Cabinet, I think so.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_12:59:04", "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": 12583923, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12588556": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "yes, historically black cemetary", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_14:23:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "twitter-15330022", "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": 12586128, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12615694": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey now!<br><br>&lt;3&lt;3&lt;3&lt;3 Maybe it was...LOVE &lt;3 &lt;3 &lt;3 &lt;3", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_23:17:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "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": 12587700, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12614672": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "the subject is POLITICIANS KIDS SHOULD BE OFF LIMITS.<br>u all are trying to change the subject.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_22:31:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "mon_dieu_ishmael", "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": 12614512, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12586003": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm impressed.<br><br>*sneaks off to Greenlady's Bad Corner*", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_13:38:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "Webb", "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": 12585423, "depth": 1, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12612116": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "All politicians kids should be off limits, even the kids of politicians you hate.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_20:39:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "mon_dieu_ishmael", "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": 12608055, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12589592": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<b>Heads Up!</b>  Kristinn Taylor, co-founder and spokesman of the Washington D.C. Chapter of the conservative group Free Republic is scheduled to be on MSNBC this afternoon at <b>3:30 PM EDT</b> to talk with David Shuster and Tamran Hall about the viral Free Republic thread about Malia Obama.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_14:27:09", "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": 55, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12605673": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "'Jane Roe' Arrested at Supreme Court Hearing<br>By Paul Kane<br>Washington Post Staff Writer <br>Monday, July 13, 2009; 5:09 PM <br><br>The woman at the center of the Supreme Court's landmark abortion rights ruling was arrested today at the confirmation hearing for Sonia Sotomayor among a wave of anti-abortion protesters who lined the sidewalks outside the Senate office buildings and several of whom made it into the hearing room and disrupted in an attempt to disrupt the proceedings. <br><br>Norma McCorvey, 61, of Texas, better known as \"Jane Roe\" in the famous Roe v. Wade case from January 1973, was arrested after she and another protester started yelling during the opening statement of Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), according to Capitol Police. McCorvey, whose pursuit of the right to access to abortion in the early 1970s led to the ruling that has been a pivotal part of every Supreme Court nomination process since, eventually become a leading opponent of the procedure. <br><br>Sgt. Kimberly Schneider of the Capitol Police said McCorvey and Francis Mahoney, 68, of Florida were charged with unlawful conduct for disrupting Congress, the third and fourth such arrests the police made during the more than five-hour proceedings. McCorvey was part of the group of protesters outside the Hart Senate Office Building throughout the day, a gathering led by Randall Terry, the former head of Operation Rescue, an organization dedicated to ending abortion. <br><br>The last two rows of the hearing room were reserved for about 50 members of the public, who rotate into the hearings for short intervals and then must be escorted out to allow other citizens to view the historic proceedings. McCorvey and Mahoney were part of a group being escorted out as Franken was praising the service of  Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), a staunch supporter of the Roe decision. Kennedy left the Judiciary Committee earlier this year, making this the first Supreme Court confirmation fight without his presence since 1965. <br><br>When McCorvey and Mahoney started shouting, they were quickly removed from the room.  Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), Judiciary Committee chairman, banged the gavel on the crowd for the third time today. <br><br><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/13/AR2009071302345.html?hpid=topnews\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_18:00:19", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12602396": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The children of politicians should be off limits.  They are private individuals who have their own private lives.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_16:42:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "mon_dieu_ishmael", "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": 12600555, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12608541": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No such thread exists justice. He just made that shit up.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_18:43:39", "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": 12608055, "depth": 4, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12596254": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "excellent analysis Catsy.  I concur.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_14:49:07", "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": 12594972, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12586015": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "of course money talks...http://www.jabberwonk.com/flinker.cfm?cliid=qo1qg<br><br>Michael Savage\u2019s Son And Wife \u2018Disavow\u2019 His Hateful Views on Gays to Stave off Boycott <br><br>Jon Ponder | Jul. 13, 2009<br>Facing a potentially brand-killing boycott of Rockstar Energy Drink by key sectors of its target demos \u2014 nightclubbing young gays and their non-gay, socially liberal cohorts \u2014 CEO Russ Weiner and his mother, CFO Janet Weiner \u2014 issued a statement last week in which they sought to distance themselves from the unabashedly homophobic views of radio ranter Michael Savage, who is their father and husband, respectively:\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_13:38:32", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12586022": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Check out <a href=\"http://www.whereistheoutrage.net/wordpress/2009/07/12/the-errington-thompson-show-7-4-09/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this post</a>.  Could win an <a href=\"http://Amazon.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Amazon.com</a> gift certificate!!  I like giving stuff way!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_13:38:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "ecthompson", "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}, "12637224": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Isn't it amazing when one gets the right to make a choice for oneself and maybe didn't like the results of that choice.....They want to deny anyone else the same opportunity for choice that they had?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-14_11:08:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "khrish", "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": 12605673, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12615721": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And what do you call \"defending the joke\"? You see, that's why Palin and the Palinites insisted that Letterman didn't get the names mixed up, as he obviously did, but was actually talking about the 14=year-old. They could accuse anyone who pointed out that he wasn't talking about the 14 year old, and anyone who disagreed that he was a \"pedophile\", of \"defending the joke\". Don't you know how transparent that shit is? You should know it's not going to work here.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_23:19:16", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12613272, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12583475": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Damn.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_12:40:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "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": 12583394, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12613174": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Her name is Piper.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_21:30:43", "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": 12609298, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12608055": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You are lying! When did anyone @ JJP make despicable racist vile sexual comments about any of Sarah Palin's daughter?  I dare you to find the thread.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_18:24:30", "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": 19, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12606863, "depth": 3, "points": 7, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12615227": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I DONT'S AGREE WTH YOU.<br><br>THE. END.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_22:56:03", "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": 12614434, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12584118": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "She attended Xavier as an undergrad also.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_12:53:31", "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": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12583923, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12612682": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You've yet to produce even a shred of evidence that any other \"children\" were insulted and basically THREATENED the way Malia Obama was. Meghan McCain was never called a \"whore\" and she clearly is an adult woman who has consciously thrust herself into political commentary - but Malia Obama was viciously attacked over a T-shirt...and you think you can PRETEND to get self-righteous on behalf of all politician's kids?? GTFOH", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_21:05:59", "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": 12611910, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12601933": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Till's grave was not disturbed. They found his original casket rusting in a storage shed. Till was reburied in a new casket after his body was exhumed recently and the glass coffin was supposed to be a part of a future memorial.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_16:30:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "eclecticbrotha", "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": 12586128, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12614739": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>(and letterman got the wrong daughter) deserved to be called a slut, etc... .</i><br><br>You lie like a rug!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_22:34:22", "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": 12613009, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12612694": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Being \"old\" it's relative.  Someone half my age at 25, I would (might) consider a 'kid\" in that my daughter is a bit beyond that age.<br><br>Otherwise - my cut-off point is 18 - considered the age of majority for voting and certain other adult rights.  <br><br>Regardless - the viciousness directed against Malia Obama hasn't been \"enjoyed\" by other politicians of similar age here that I've seen or the sites/places I read.  And - that is what was addressed to you originally.  If you have proof, then produce it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_21:06:47", "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": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12612569, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12584538": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Did Joycelyn Elders attend an HBCU?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_13:00:52", "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": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12583923, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12594457": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And turn and put your nose in the hole that's drawn on the chalkboard..NOW!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_14:40:38", "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": 12586003, "depth": 2, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12612704": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh so we shouldn't critique Lynn Cheney because, ya know...that's Dick's \"kid\"...yeah....ok.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_21:07:43", "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": 12612569, "depth": 7, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12596322": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "hmmm......when I was in elem school, all we learned was \"if I had a hammer\"...and I'm pretty sure we were talking about an actual hammer.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_14:51:04", "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": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12594371, "depth": 1, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12613221": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You're a liar, plain and simple. People defended the fact that Letterman was referencing Bristol and not Willow. No one, not one person said any of Palin's daughters deserved to be called a slut. That is something you made up because apparently, its something that YOU are thinking. I went through the archives, notice how you punked out and won't respond to that post - dont worry though, everybody else notices! LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_21:32:58", "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": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12613009, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12584551": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Y'all are missing the best part though...Miss Sarah has her Sharpie out to autograph the baby.  What kind of craziness is that?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_13:01:10", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12582382, "depth": 1, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12585578": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Actually no I meant will it be the first ever HBCU graduate in the cabinet.  Seems like the path for many high ranking political African Americans are via the Ivy League schools. Granted I am sadly uninformed, so counting JJPers to school me. LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_13:29:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "twitter-19128897", "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": 12584961, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12613227": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Damn, I come back from dinner, and you'e still at it.<br><br>Let me spell it for you:  YOU'RE BUSTED!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_21:33:22", "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": 12611910, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12609298": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ya know what pisses me off - the TWISTING of any incident by  Sarah Palin.<br><br>Case in point: Their alleged values versus the reality of Bristol's pregnancy. <br><br>Trig:  A picture of <b>Palin </b> holding Trig that was photoshopped with the head of prominent Alaskan ReThugs.  It was NOT an attack on Trig or anyone with Down Syndrome.<br><br>Willow:  Supposedly the 'joke' David Letterman told was directed at Willow.  It was NOT.  Anyone who heard, regardless of their political bent, would've known it was about Bristol.  David fucked up in not knowing the difference (physically) between the 18 year-old and the 14 year-old. <br><br>What Republican child or children have been ran over in the press and radio - and now with the explosion of media & technology - blogs like Chelsea Clinton, Amy Carter, and the Obama girls.  Have Mark Sanford's boys been subjected to anything like this?<br><br>Track, btw, got into legal trouble and was given the option of jail or the military.<br><br>The children of politicians - is there an age limit?  Liz Cheney as an adult versus 8 year-old Pipsy Palin.  What is THAT kid's name.<br><br>The problem with Kristinn - he didn't want to take any responsibility for what appeared on his site.  And that constant meme - \"yeah but, so & so did it.  Grow fucking up.  It doesn't matter what someone else; it matters what you do.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_19:07:41", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12606863, "depth": 3, "points": 6, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12601459": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Just re-read some more of these comments on <a href=\"http://FreeRepublic.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">FreeRepublic.com</a>.  Just who are these people writing this stuff?  We have alot of racial healing to do in this nation!<br><br>VIDEO: Free Republic's Kristinn Taylor Spars With Shuster Over Malia Thread", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_16:17:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "bison1", "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": 12599137, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12586101": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Unless I'm married to you or at least having sex with you on a 'regular' basis, the inner thigh region is off limits.   I don't understand Brooks' motives in even bringing this up.  I'm suspicious as hell of him anyway, and this just seals that all right up.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_13:39:55", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12583050, "depth": 1, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12586107": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "When they say Morehouse, they really mean Morehouse Medical School.  She didn't attend Morehouse College; she attended Morehouse Medical School.  <br><br>Blame it on the dumb f*cks for not being more specific.  Folks are thinking that Regina is male.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_13:40:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "Webb", "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": 12583923, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12614780": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What? You only made that accusation in order to change the subject. <br><br>They have a script, I'll tell ya.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_22:36:53", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12614672, "depth": 12, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12615813": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You are full of crap.<br><br>The key point that you seem to be missing is that these so-called \"cheap shots\" were taken at an 18 year old woman. No where on this blog was she called a street whore. She was not called a slut or any other offensive name. No one ragged on her for wearing shorts and a t-shirt.<br><br>Now as far as Sarah Palin is concerned, we called her a sno-ho b/c that's what she is. I think you seem to be conflating the two.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_23:24:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "CarolinagirlinGA", "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": 12615012, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12587654": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "More interesting links discussing the ethnic clashes and cleansing of China's Uighur Muslims<br><br><b>Xinjiang: China's 'other Tibet' </b><br><a href=\"http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2008/03/2008525184819409441.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/...</a><br><br><b>Muslim states 'silent' on Uighurs</b><br><a href=\"http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/07/20097725217198672.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/...</a>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_14:07:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "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": 12586730, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12583050": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Remember David Brooks and the hand on the thigh?<br><br>A response:<br><br>July 11, 2009<br>The Highly Selective Dignity Code<br>by hilzoy<br><br>David Brooks wrote a column the other day complaining about the demise of the \"dignity code\". He expanded on this point on MSNBC Today:<br>\"You know, all three of us spend a lot of time covering politicians and I don\u2019t know about you guys, but in my view, they\u2019re all emotional freaks of one sort or another. They\u2019re guaranteed to invade your personal space, touch you. I sat next to a Republican senator once at dinner and he had his hand on my inner thigh the whole time. I was like, ehh, get me out of here.\"<br><br>News flash: This has been happening to people forever, at least if you count women as people. Back when George Washington was writing out his \"Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation\", which Brooks cites as an example of the Dignity Code, Thomas Jefferson was hitting on Sally Hemings. A professor whose class I was enrolled in once grabbed my breasts at a party. Every woman I know has stories like this. Maybe being groped in a public setting is a novel experience for straight guys; not being a straight guy, I wouldn't know. But if it is, that isn't because no one ever groped anyone in a public setting before. <br><br><br>Honestly: this is like complaining about the recent breakdown of our longstanding social strictures against violence, and citing as evidence the fact that some white person somewhere got lynched last year. <br><br><br><br>So I'm left to wonder: why did David Brooks write this column? Is it (a) because none of his female friends and relations ever told him about the existence of sexual harassment? Or (b) because he doesn't think that public groping violates the Dignity Code when you do it to women, because for some reason women just don't count?<br><br><br>Inquiring minds want to know. <br><br><br>(PS: Ann Althouse's response (h/t) is an inadvertent classic: \"Perhaps the Republican Senator just periodically patted him on the thigh and technically the fingers extended into the inner part.\" \"Technically\", indeed.)<br><br><a href=\"http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2009/07/the-highly-selective-dignity-code.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_12:31:39", "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": 14, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12586128": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So is the Burr Oak cementary primarily contain the remains of Black families? I received a story saying they found Emmitt Till's grave disturbed.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_13:40:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "twitter-19128897", "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}, "12583394": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "But why did one of my stupid friends say its just like the Omen at the zoo....because you know babies and animals can detect pure evil...<br><br>ROFLMAO", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_12:38:46", "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": 12583094, "depth": 2, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12596375": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "From wikipedia:<br><br>List of African American United States Cabinet Secretaries<br>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<br>Jump to: navigation, search<br> <br>Condoleezza Rice became the second African American Secretary of State in 2004.The United States Cabinet has had 16 African American appointed officers. By definition, African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa.[1] The term is generally used for Americans with at least partial Sub-Saharan African ancestry.[2] Originally, African Americans were regarded as second-class citizens or slaves in America.[3] No African American ever held a Cabinet position before the signing Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned discrimination in public accommodations, employment, and labor unions.[4]<br><br>Robert C. Weaver became the first African-American to hold a Cabinet-level position when he was appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in 1966 by President Lyndon B. Johnson.[5] In 1975, Secretary of Transportation William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr. became the first Republican African American appointed to the Cabinet.[6] Patricia Roberts Harris became the first African American female cabinet member when she was appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in 1977. In 1979, Harris became the first African American to be head of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, which was split into the departments of Education and Health and Human Services in the same year.[7] Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice's appointments as Secretary of State made them the highest-ranking African Americans in the United States presidential line of succession.[8]<br><br>The Department of Housing and Urban Development has had the most African American Secretaries, with four. The departments of State, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs have each had two. The four existing departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Interior, and Treasury have not had African American Secretaries. President Bill Clinton has appointed the most African Americans to the Cabinet during his tenure, with seven.<br><br><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_American_United_States_Cabinet_Secretaries\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_Am...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_14:52:41", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12585578, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12613272": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "if you defended the joke, than you were defended the implications of the joke.<br>Thus you were defending attacks on politicians children. <br>When I expressed my disapproval of the joke, I was treated just as I am being treated now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_21:36:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "mon_dieu_ishmael", "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": 12613221, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12615325": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "no i don't have to look through archives<br>your the one who made the accusation<br>therefore it's on you <br>to prove you aren't lying<br><br>and if you find proof<br>i will apologize<br>until then", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_23:00:48", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12613009, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12593317": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "David Brooks prob wishes he had kept his mouth shut<br> i bet Lindsey  Graham  leaving all kinds of threats on David Brooks phone", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_14:36:35", "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": 12588259, "depth": 3, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12596392": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Today's Conversation: Society Does Not Actively Support Single Motherhood (But The Black \"Community\" Does)<br><br><a href=\"http://tinyurl.com/ntsg5c\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://tinyurl.com/ntsg5c</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_14:53:03", "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}, "12594972": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Here's a reply over at Obsidian:<br><br><i> I was hoping that someone would blog this NYT article, because I just finished reading it and had to fight to retain my breakfast, let alone my appetite.<br><br>You can read it yourself, but I'll save you the trouble and boil it down to a shorter version: \"Waah! The media, bloggers, and the McCain campaign were mean to Sarah Palin, and left her with no choice but to quit. She was failed by everyone around her. But she'll be back, you betcha!\"<br><br>I'm serious. It was that bad. Every page was filled with bleating about how unfair everything and everyone was to Palin, and how she was just swept up in events. There's a nod here and there to her incompetence, but most of the blame gets leveled squarely on the media.<br><br>I hope they didn't waste ink on that whiny piece of crap.<br><br>Posted by: Catsy | July 13, 2009 at 12:35 PM <br><br></i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_14:42:20", "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": 12594110, "depth": 1, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12611754": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I dont believe anyone ever called Bristol a whore.... I dont even recall that kind of rhetoric on any site. I know I've seen the phrase \"knocked up\"...and by Levi's OWN description of himself, I know he's been called a F---in redneck - but I've never seen her children called anything that rose to the level of \"whore\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_20:23:26", "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": 12609378, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12612268": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Adult children?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_20:46:45", "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": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12612116, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12585645": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Totally agree Surgeon General is a very prestigious position. The reference to Morehouse just made me wonder about HBCU & presidental cabinets.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_13:31:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "twitter-19128897", "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": 12584841, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12586674": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "fyi<br><br>\"Chicago Democrats are planning a huge homecoming for President Barack Obama on July 23, when he\u2019ll headline a private dinner and a massive reception that will include Chicago Bulls players and the hot disc jockey DJ Cassidy. <br><br>The events are Obama\u2019s first political activity in Chicago since Election Night.\"<br><br><a href=\"http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24857.html#ixzz0LA9lfbWw&D\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24857...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_13:49:06", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12591475": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yeah, brace yourself for the putrid prattle she'll be spewing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_14:31:53", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12589592, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12587700": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Right, was it oral Orrin or cocky Coburn?  Who was it?  Brooks is a journalist.  He knows better than to introduce mysteries to the public.  Whodunnit Brooks???", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_14:07:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "Webb", "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": 12587255, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12583094": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "that is now burned into my brain..<br><br>you really didn't have to do that to us.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_12:32:33", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12582382, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12615357": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Not no but hell no!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_23:02:30", "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": 12614434, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12594371": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"Orgasm A Day\" Campaign Directed At British Schoolchildren Sparks Controversy<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/12/ogasm-a-day-campaign-dire_n_230221.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/12/ogasm-...</a><br><br>As GreenLady would say \"shaking my head from side to side\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_14:40:19", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12586180": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Girl, don't I know it.  No originality, no courage, no purpose.....<br><br>You know the MSM will continue to paint this woman as some enigma, as<br>someone who's just misunderstood. (Maybe if she'd learn proper sentence<br>structure we could a least understand what she is saying.)<br><br>They will continue to uphold this woman as someone unique, while our school<br>systems are struggling to educate our kids and prepare them for higher<br>service, this woman is running around the country MOCKING intelligence and<br>good education.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_13:41:20", "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": 12585675, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12585675": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Renegade is supposedly the Secret Service code name for PBO.  Renaissance is supposed to be the name they have for Michelle.   <br><br>What a waste of TIME'S shiny paper.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_13:31:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "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": 12585351, "depth": 1, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12614434": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Either you agree with me THAT ALL POLITICIANS CHILDREN ARE OFF LIMITS or else you think that politicians children are fair game to be lied on, maligned, joked about, etc... .<br>To me it seems a clear cut choice.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_22:20:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "mon_dieu_ishmael", "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": 12613227, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12588253": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "dup", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_14:19:42", "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": 12585351, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12615392": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You made an accusation against posters on JJP.<br><br>We call you a liar, so prove us wrong!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_23:04:33", "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": 12614672, "depth": 12, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12595937": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Don't know whether to take aspirins now or wait until later.  Whatever happens I am sure that I am not ready to watch someone *try* to defend the indefensible.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_14:44:38", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12591475, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12588259": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LMAO!!!! \"molested him\".....ROFLMAO! Fess up Brooks!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_14:19:50", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12586419, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12588260": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "dup", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_14:19:52", "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": 12585351, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12610086": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And there ya have it!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_19:33:26", "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": 12609298, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12599017": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Pewk!<br>Barracuda, Renegade...whatEVER...just a piece of shyt is all.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_15:40:50", "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": 12585351, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12586730": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<b>Ethnic violence in China draws muted response from many Muslim nations</b><br><br>CAIRO (AP) \u2014 China's crackdown on its Muslim Uighur minority has drawn a muted response from many Muslim countries that may be wary of damaging lucrative trade ties with Beijing or attracting attention to their own attitudes toward political dissent.<br><br>The non-Arab countries of Iran and Turkey have been among the few to criticize China. Iran is busy dealing with its own unrest following a disputed presidential election, while Turkey has ethnic ties to China's Uighur minority.<br><br>But throughout much of the Middle East and the Arab world, the violence in China has generated little reaction.<br><br>Arab regimes \"couldn't criticize the attacks on Chinese Muslims because they themselves have no democracy,\" said Labib Kamhawi, a Jordanian political analyst. \"They're in the same boat as the Chinese government.\"<br><br>China has poured tens of thousands of troops into the western Xinjiang region over the past few days, imposing tight control on the capital of Urumqi and surrounding areas after ethnic violence left more than 180 people dead and 1,680 wounded last week.<br><br>The Uighurs, who number 9 million in Xinjiang, have complained about an influx of Han Chinese and government restrictions on their Muslim religion. They accuse the majority Han community of discrimination and the Communist Party of trying to erase their language and culture.<br><br>China is a major trading partner for many Arab countries including Sudan, Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich Gulf nations. It is Jordan's third-largest largest trading partner, following Saudi Arabia and the United States. Jordan also is seeking to attract Chinese investment in projects such as renewable energy, railroads and water desalination.<br><br>For more:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.dailypress.com/news/world/sns-ap-ml-china-protest-muslims%2C0%2C1665373.story\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailypress.com/news/world/sns-ap-ml-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_13:50:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "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}, "12600555": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I heard him too! He was extremely rude and defensive!  Obama\u2019s daughter was being attacked because she was born African-America. After Palin used her daughter as a political prop, her  daughter was criticized because of  the blatant hypocrisy of Bristol\u2019s behavior juxtaposition the values avowed by her mother.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_16:02:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "bison1", "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": 12599137, "depth": 1, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12610941": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lolol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_19:56:16", "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": 12602080, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12608756": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh,oh!  You so BUSTED him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_18:48:07", "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": 17, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12608517, "depth": 4, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12587255": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes, David, do tell.  <br><br>Why the hell would David Brooks mention someone fondling his thigh publicly, and not name the fella?  Was it Larry Craig?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_13:59:47", "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": 12586419, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12583680": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "better worded than my very thoughts the other day.......<br><br>from <a href=\"http://politicsdaily.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">politicsdaily.com</a><br><br>\"Why Brooks let the senator keep his hand there for the entire dinner is a mystery. Why he described the incident on television, but then refused to name the politician, is another. The relationship between the press and politicians is often scrutinized, with many observers claiming that the two are \"in bed\" together. Given Brooks's odd story, that untoward relationship apparently extends to the dinner table as well.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_12:44:26", "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": 12583050, "depth": 1, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12622600": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "She's a politician's daughter, so now you have caveats. In other words, you're just making it up as you go along.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-14_06:24:27", "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": 12615106, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12585230": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah, can you post a thread on Dr. Regina Benjamin, please?  Thank you for considreing it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_13:19:57", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12584961, "depth": 3, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12600594": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "All right - that's it.  I'm off the Internet the rest of the day.  I can't take it.<br><br>Someone take away Brownback's copy of 'Splash.'   jezzus.....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_16:03:20", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12600185, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12608281": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "better title<br><br>(The Fool)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_18:33:01", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12588265, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12586780": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's worse, the families lived in these castles too. <br><br>The floor boards were of course hand made, so there were gaps in the floor so you could  actually SEE each other. <br><br>This is one way why dehumanization strategy was an important aspect of the slave trade.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_13:51:09", "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": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12582392, "depth": 1, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12601634": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Because it can't be said enough, a mind is a terrible thing to waste.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_16:22:36", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12600185, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12608806": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Please, find one comment on these threads that called any of Palin's kids NIGGER, GHETTO TRASH.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_18:50:06", "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": 12606863, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12598572": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I just saw it! Couldn't believe that Kristinn said those remarks were comparable to what was said about Palin's kids.  These folks are riDICulous.<br><br>HATE warps the mind and soul.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_15:38:15", "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": 12589592, "depth": 1, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12609843": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Seems like they are writing to the wrong agency. After all, under the B___ admin, it was the FBI that put out a call, an information bulletin, <i>\u2018Black Separatism a Volatile Movement of Node\u2014Node of Domestic Radicalization'</i>.  Some call this bulletin the \"New COINTELPRO\" which named the Nation of Islam, New Black Panther Party, and Five Percenters as groups of current concern to law enforcement..", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_19:23:27", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12608824, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12608824": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Is this same micky-fick sending letters to Justice to ask about federal charges against the thugs that beat Luis Ramirez??", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_18:50:43", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12604584, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12608826": {"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": "2009-07-13_18:50:46", "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}, "12614459": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>People here played pile on with Palin's kids. The comments about her kids were vindictive, mean, and appalling.</i><br><br><br>You made an accusation so prove it!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_22:21:30", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12613459, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12602080": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"what the world needs now is love, sweet love.\"<br>If only Dr Elder had taught our 8th grade \"health\" classes, we would all be a lot happier.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_16:34:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "mon_dieu_ishmael", "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": 12594371, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12614466": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"David Brooks is going to have to say who molested him at this party. This isn't deep throat.\"<br><br>-Hey now!<br>It might be \"deep throat\".<br>Did Brooks ever say what happended AFTER the party?<br>Just asking...<br><br>\"This isn't Watergate. Brooks isn't the next Woodward or Bernstein.\"<br>-Maybe the next Linda Lovelace...(hey, I said \"maybe\").", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_22:21:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "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": 12586419, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12611910": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What part of Politicians children should be off limits is unclear to you.<br>Let me spell it for you   O F F   L I M I T S.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_20:29:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "mon_dieu_ishmael", "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": 12608756, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12600136": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What the ?????<br><br><i>Afternoon Open Thread \u00b7 10 minutter dage siden</i><br><br>I knew I wasn't in Amerika any mores.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_15:56:22", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12596279": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What the <i>hell</i> is Mrs Obama wearing at the Vatican, and what does her attire have to do with this story...<br><br>I don't have a problem with kids learning this...it's much better than the patently false garbage they hear in church.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_14:49:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "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": 12594371, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12587341": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "the early Black Cabinet folks ONLY came from HBCU's", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_14:01:16", "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": 12585578, "depth": 4, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12596561": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Togo West<br>Rod Paige<br>Hazel O'Leary<br>Patricia Roberts Harris<br>Alexis Herman<br>Mike Espy<br><br>all attended HBCU's.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_14:58:11", "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": 12596375, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12613459": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I really, really think that you need to go back and read the snarky comments.   <br>Perhaps I did not make myself clear:  The Children of Politicians should be OFF LIMITS.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_21:46:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "mon_dieu_ishmael", "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": 12613091, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12599124": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I have to worry about a man who lets another man fondle him under a table.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_15:44:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "Guns3000", "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": 12586419, "depth": 2, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12615511": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Document.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_23:09:07", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12615012, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12616026": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No, the cheap shots were at Sarah Palin for being a hypocrite still preaching abstinence only when her own daughter ended up knocked up which should have shown her that policy was misguided. Hell, Bristol herself said it was unrealistic until Sarah reminded her what she was supposed ot be saying.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_23:34:35", "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": 12615012, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12599137": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>Heads Up! Kristinn Taylor, co-founder and spokesman of the Washington D.C. Chapter of the conservative group Free Republic is scheduled to be on MSNBC this afternoon at 3:30 PM EDT to talk with David Shuster and Tamran Hall about the viral Free Republic thread about Malia Obama.</i><br><br>Jesus Christ!  Could the man have SHUT UP long enough to allow others to speak.  He talked about only those on the right - at Free Republic, nonetheless - having standards.  \"The left, the democrats, the blogs, etc\" are without standards, but yet the man couldn't be polite enough to allow David Schuster to respond. <br><br>That's a debate tactic, and his mike should've been cut.  Seriously, if you're not grown up enough to talk like adults then don't bother.<br><br>There was something else - oh!  He brought up of course Sarah Palin & her children and it being \"vile\"  but let me tell you, insinuating that Bristol Palin got 'knocked up by Alex Rodriguez is totally different from Malia Obama being called\"n*gger\" and \"ghetto trash\" - not to mention all of it posted.  <br><br> Bristol Palin & her parents were being called out on their glaring hypocrisy.  There is absolutely no excuse or justification for the bullshit directed against Malia Obama.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_15:44:33", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 13, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12609378": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Did anyone allude to her being a whore because she was pregnant 'out of wedlock?'  <br><br>See - the glaring, blaring hypocrisy comes when these jackasses promote certain values, want to change gov't, societal norms to mirror those values BUT don't want to practice those values themselves. <br><br>(Jackass and it's variation is my word of the day.)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_19:10:36", "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": 12608517, "depth": 4, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12615012": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I tell you what, you go back over the last 8 months, ever since Bristol announced her pregnancy, and read the comments at JJP.<br>PPLZ reveled in it, its was cheap shot, after cheap shot at an 18 year old girl who made 2 mistakes, 1) having sex with a pile of shyt like Levi Johnson, 2) being born to Sarah Palin.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_22:47:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "mon_dieu_ishmael", "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": 12614459, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12613483": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Perhaps I am not making myself clear:<br>THE CHILDREN OF POLITICANS (ALL OF THEM) SHOULD BE OFF LIMITS.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_21:47:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "mon_dieu_ishmael", "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": 12612694, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12596887": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Cliff Notes of the appearance:<br><br>Kristinn:  Well the media and David Letterman made fun of Track/Trick/Trig/Tripp/Willow/Piper/Bristol so Malia Obama is fair game!  We NEVER made fun of Chelsea Clinton or Amy Carter!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_15:07:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 50, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12589592, "depth": 1, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12614512": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>People here played pile on with Palin's kids. The comments about her kids were vindictive, mean, and appalling.</i><br><br><br>Don't change the subject. Prove your accusation?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_22:24:01", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12613272, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12602227": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "OK, so mermaids and centaurs are banned........<br><br>but nothing on ventriliquist dummies?? Because if there is one thing that freaks me out...its those dummies.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_16:38:35", "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": 12600185, "depth": 1, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12588265": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "garbage.  What a waste of an issue.  Oh well, I guess they can afford to lose money.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_14:19:58", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12585351, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12600185": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Whew!! I'm glad to see Brownback and Landrieu are taking care of business. I have lost so much sleep throughout my life worrying about ...<br><br>wait for it ...<br><br>scientists creating mermaids and centaurs. <br><br>Thank you so much senators for protecting the sacredness of life through <a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/13/brownback-and-landrieu-in_n_230762.html rel=\"nofollow\">the Human-Animal Hybrid Prohibition Act would ban the creation of human-animal hybrids</a>. What a way to end a Senate term. He's protecting us from Ariel and centaurs.<br><br>#$@%^@#$^ Idiots!! SMDH", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_15:57:46", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12584829": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There is just something fundamentally wrong with that woman. PERIOD.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_13:07:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "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": 12584551, "depth": 2, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12611456": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sasha has the most piercing eyes. She's too cute and has an equally stunning older sister.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_20:07:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "adriana01", "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}, "12604139": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "For real, and all night too.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_17:33:46", "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": 12599124, "depth": 3, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12585351": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Looks who's on th ecover of this weeks Time Magazine<br><br>The Renegade July 20, 2009 <br><br><a href=\"http://www.time.com/time/covers/0%2C16641%2C20090720%2C00.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,2009072...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_13:23:06", "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": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12584841": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No - Surgeon General is not a cabinet position.<br><br>However, I don't think that demeans the position; I never have.  It's a prestigious position.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_13:07:45", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12583923, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12583819": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Lawdy!  Babies really do know the DEVIL when it appears.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_12:47:25", "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": 12582382, "depth": 1, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12612494": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "everyone agrees with you about the children being off limits<br>but you said comments about Palin's children were made here and that the comments were appalling<br><br>you should be able to find those comments<br>and if you can't find those comments<br>that means you just lied<br>and got called out", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_20:57:21", "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": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12611910, "depth": 6, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12606863": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "People here played pile on with Palin's kids.  The comments about her kids were vindictive, mean, and appalling.  Like they never did anything stupid when they were 18.<br>The children of politicians should be off limits.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_18:04:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "mon_dieu_ishmael", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 49, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12596887, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12603280": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Please, who the hell in the RIGHT mind would ever think Palin is a viable candidate to be President of the United States of America.<br><br>The GOP unleased this rabid animal in 2008, and all she's done is collect all the shiney bones(trinkets), spewed a bunch of nonsensical rhetoric about smaller government, energy independence, yelped a few \"you betchas\" and winked her way into a frenzy of whining, complaining and blaming folks for her fucked up views.<br><br>The woman has VICTIMHOOD encoded in her DNA.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_17:07:27", "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": 12594972, "depth": 2, "points": 6, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12613009": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Why don't you spend the next couple of hours to prove me wrong??  You look through the archives.<br>Go back about 8 months.  Happy browsing.<br>I have a good memory and when Letterman made his joke about Palin's daughter, just about everyone here either defended the joke or said she (and letterman got the wrong daughter) deserved to be called a slut, etc... .", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_21:22:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "mon_dieu_ishmael", "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": 12612494, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12609429": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Kinda like 'a boy named Sue'  /snort?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_19:13:04", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12586107, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12596632": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Now, let's compare that with her description of the President's body language in the photo where he supposedly ogled that girl. That woman is stone crazy, LOL. <br><br>\"Now, swivel your eyes over to Obama's feet. The foot closest to the woman, like Sarkozy's, is planted and aimed forward, but the other steps off in the direction of the woman, bending the knee upward into a bit of a crotch-squeeze and forming the base of a dramatic tilt of the entire body into a flexible S-shape that leans toward the woman. Obama's arms hang free, emphasizing the tilt, and either gravity or will causes the left arm to hang inches away from the torso. See how much lower the right hand is than the left? His neck is craned out and around so that the line of sight is directly at the ass. His mouth is open as if to say: That's what I want.\"<br><br>She was serious, too...", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_15:00:02", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12583050, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12600729": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "As I was reading that article, alls I heard in my head was wah wah wah wah, wah wah wah wah!!<br><br>Probably why I 'ont gots no money now.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_16:07:07", "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": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12599300, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12623771": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The point that MDI is attempting to get from us is an unequivocal \"all politician's children are off limits\" regardless of age.  That premise is unacceptable because 'children' grow into adults and cannot be unequivocal.<br><br>Regardless of who was treated worse, it can be said that it is considered inappropriate to attack the \"under age\" children of any politician.  (Under age in this case meaning the age of majority most often recognized as 18.)<br><br>The sticking point:  MDI made an 'accusation' regarding the posters here going off on the underage children of politicians.  When asked to provide proof, what then transpires is this idiotic back and forth to first claim all children of all politicians off limits.  It's not going to happen.<br><br>You cannot make an accusation and then expect those you accuse to prove your point.  The onus for <u>that </u> is on the one doing the accusing - ITC.... mon_dieu_ishmael   <br><br>It's simple - provide the proof or shut the fuck up.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-14_07:43:54", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12608541, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12597661": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What families lived there? Slave trader families? OMG..how depraved.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_15:29:56", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12586780, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12604831": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "2009 Black Blog Awards!<br><br>Nominate JJP for:  Best Group Blog<br>                   Best Political/News Blog<br>                   Best Blog<br><br><a href=\"http://www.blackweblogawards.com/categories/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.blackweblogawards.com/categories/</a><br><br><br>\u2022The Black Weblog Awards are for weblogs by Black people. If you\u2019ve got a question on what a Black weblog is, feel free to browse the winners from past years.<br><br>\u2022For the nomination process, blog owners must claim their own blog. Only one blog can be nominated per e-mail address. Duplicate nominations that are found are immediately removed from the system without notification based on submission date. Nominations are open from June 20 \u2013 July 25.<br><br>\u2022Those nominating a blog must have a valid e-mail address for submitting. When you go through the nomination process, you will have the option to subscribe to the Black Weblog Awards Newsletter distribution list and for entry into the Black Blog Directory. Please read our privacy policy if there are any concerns. Your information will not be used in any other way than those aforementioned, but ballots with fake and \u201canti-spam\u201d addresses will not be accepted.<br><br>\u2022Please do not submit nominations through our contact form or through any of our social network profiles. Any nominations received through these means will not count towards nominations or finalist vote counts.<br><br>\u2022Blogs that have won a particular category at least three times are no longer eligible to win for that particular category. This includes blogs that have won either the Judges\u2019 and/or Popular vote for their category.<br><br>\u2022Each category will have two winners: a Popular vote and a Judges\u2019 vote. The top five most nominated blogs in each category will become finalists which the public will vote on via the finalist form. These are the Popular vote winners. Our panel of judges will select their favorite blogs (ranked on a weighted system) from the pool of nominees. These are the Judges\u2019 vote winners. Voting for both takes place from August 1-31.<br><br>\u2022The winners for both the Popular and Judges\u2019 Votes will be announced on September 4.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_17:54:27", "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}, "12582314": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "EVERY time I see her precious face, I think of my granddaughter.  Packed full and overflowing with energy & life.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_12:16:43", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12612253": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I was asking that question of ishmael (mon dieu).  I don't believe so either - certainly not here.  <br><br>None of the blogs I've been in has there been anything like what was generated towards Malia Obama, in either the posts or comments towards Bristol Palin.  Her pregnancy and the values represented by the Republican party have been talked about.<br><br>I also don't visit Daily Kos, Americablog or other 'big blogs' much, so can't say there.  Huffington Post can get pretty stupid sometimes.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_20:46:03", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12611754, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12601777": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yawn - I have read/heard this boilerplate claptrap since the 1960s.  As Miranda posted recently:  Atlanta has to send money back to the feds. that was allocated in the late 1990s but not spent.  Detroit has had to do the same thing with educational funds.<br>Urban policy always boils down to the mayors asking for money, most of which they waste.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_16:26:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "mon_dieu_ishmael", "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": 12597178, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12586419": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "David Brooks is going to have to say who molested him at this party.  This isn't deep throat.  This isn't Watergate.  Brooks isn't the next Woodward or Bernstein.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_13:44:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "Webb", "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": 12583050, "depth": 1, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12610998": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I probably should add this note: I will not 'attack' children....especially anyone under 18, regardless.  I wouldn't have used the picture of Trig.  I wouldn't have made a joke about Bristol Palin & Alex Rodriguez.<br><br>I don't care about John Edwards' kids, Mark Sanford's boys or any other politician because to me it's about the policies of the parent(s).  In the case of Sarah Palin, you cannot have it both ways - you cannot be cheerleader of a certain value system and NOT expect some kind of retribution when you do not 'live up to' your own values or standards.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_19:56:59", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12610086, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12604343": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Indeed. Bedrooms were usually in upper-floors, but parlors and whatnot were on the floor above the stolen Africans.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_17:39:30", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12597661, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12606393": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<b>Minority Broadcasters In Danger Of Extinction, Ask Geithner For Help</b><br><br><br><br>Fourteen minority broadcasters sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner Monday asking for financial assistance.<br><br>In the current economic situation, \"minority-owned broadcasters are close to becoming an extinct species,\" they said in the letter. They also noted that the percentage of broadcasting companies owned by minorities is in the low single digits.<br><br>The broadcasters called on the Treasury to institute a program similar to the recent Auto Supplier Support Program, which would increase the flow of credit to broadcast companies. They also asked Geithner to consider issuing government-backed loans.<br><br>The letter comes on the heels of a similar one from House leadership in June, including James Clyburn (D-SC), Barney Frank (D-MA), Charlie Rangel (D-NY) and Ed Towns (D-NY).<br><br>The text of the letter is included at the link:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/13/minority-broadcasters-in_n_230890.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/13/minori...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_18:02:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "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}, "12597178": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<strong>White House to push forward with National Urban Policy Agenda</strong>    <br><em>After remaining out of the public eye since its creation in February, the White House Office of Urban Affairs plans on Monday to launch a public conversation to create a national urban policy agenda, said Adolfo Carri\u00f3n Jr., its director.<br><br>    The White House will host a daylong urban policy discussion including mayors, county executives, governors, urban policy experts, and heads of various agencies, Carri\u00f3n said in a telephone interview yesterday .<br><br>    President Obama is expected to address the conference and announce plans to send Carri\u00f3n and other senior administration officials on a tour of American cities to discuss urban issues, Carri\u00f3n said.<br><br>    The conference is the first indication that the White House could back its urban policy office with the kind of muscle that Obama suggested during his campaign, before the economic collapse. He called for a new kind of urban policy to address cities and also their suburbs, and urban advocates hoped that this could be a focus of his administration's economic development approach.<br><br>    \"We have not had a national urban policy for decades,\" said Carri\u00f3n. \"Meanwhile, the economy has changed.\"<br><br>    Those gathered Monday will consider local initiatives that could become best practices to emulate, with the goals of increasing the competitiveness, sustainable development and opportunity of metropolitan regions.<br><br>    The conference is to present an interdisciplinary approach to urban issues and include the heads of the Departments of Labor, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Small Business Administration. [...]<br><br>    \"For too long government has operated from the top down,\" said Carri\u00f3n. \"We've always heard why does the national government send down these unfunded mandates, under funded mandates, mandates that are not necessarily universally applicable. The bottom-up approach speaks to the need for this to be flexible.\" </em><br><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/12/AR2009071200948_pf.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_15:16:05", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12594110": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "July 13, 2009<br>The Fall<br>by publius<br><br>Tomorrow's NYT takes a look at the fall of Sarah Palin over the past few months.  The theme that emerges is that Palin simply wasn't ready for the glare of the spotlight.  In particular, the NYT describes Palin as overly obsessed with -- and distracted by -- criticisms.  She apparently felt the need to answer them all.<br><br>To me, this hair-trigger sensitivity was a function of her inexperience.  It's easy to forget just how meteoric her rise was.  She went from a small-town nobody mayor in 2006 to governor.  And even then, most people had never heard of her until McCain picked her.  Basically, she went from nobody to world celebrity in 24 hours.  As a result, she never had time to develop the thick skin that successful politicians must eventually acquire.  <br><br>Indeed, one of the overlooked benefits of political experience is that you develop scars.  Sure, experience helps you learn issues and the media game and all that.  But it also hardens you.  You learn over the years to take your blows, pick your battles, and adjust to reading savage attacks on you and even your family.  You learn not to be debilitated by it.<br><br>This proven toughness was always Clinton's strongest virtue.  Whatever her flaws, I had no doubt that she could take a punch and punch back.  With Obama, I was never 100% sure.  But even Obama developed scars before it was all over.  He took his lumps over a grueling two year period and excelled.  Palin, by contrast, had a few days.  She needed more time -- and more battles.  <br><br>It's a lot like childhood vaccines.  Children don't get all their vaccinations at once.  They get them progressively over years -- and they become progressively more resilient.  Seasoned politicians have to learn to be resilient.<br><br>And that, ultimately, was Palin's problem (well, one of them).  Everything came at once, and too fast.  And she simply folded under the pressure.  <br><br>I'm not saying I could do better -- it's an insanely difficult game to master.  But it is a reason why she should have never been picked in the first place.<br><br>Posted by publius at 01:41 AM in <br><br><a href=\"http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2009/07/the-fall.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_14:39:29", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12615106": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Caroline Kennedy was running for the US senate.  She was a politician in her own right.  (and don't tell me she was not running).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_22:51:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "mon_dieu_ishmael", "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": 12613620, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12609987": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So place some rules and regulations.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_19:29:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Micheline", "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": 12601777, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12613060": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "By the way, Levi Johnston said in an interview this morning that Palin even suggested a family reality show, which means putting the kids on public display \"for money\"....but, Levi said the kids were against it.   Now what is all this catterwalling Palin does about leaving her children alone?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_21:25:19", "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": 12609298, "depth": 4, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12609477": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "them good old archives<br>see how you can just look stuff up<br>i guess someone will be here apologizing<br>pretty soon<br><br>and another thing i don't think the owners of this site<br>would let people come on here and attack kids<br>no matter who the parents are", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_19:15:00", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12608517, "depth": 4, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12585423": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Apologies all around.<br>It's hard out there for a pimp.<br>Olympic hopeful funds training by running escort service<br><a href=\"http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article6691745.ece\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_13:25:27", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12597752": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Californians Hold The Power Of The Proposition<br>by Ina Jaffe<br><a href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106479362\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?st...</a><br><br>\"Voters tend to be interested in immediate gratification,\" Schnur says. \"And if they are asked to vote for something that is appealing to them, there's no part of the package that says, 'You might like this now, but will you like it in 10 or 20 years?' \"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_15:32:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "ch555x", "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}, "12612569": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Adult children are private citizens.  And what is an adult?  Age of sexual consent,  Bar/Bat Mitzah, drinking age?<br>I see no reason to hound adult children of politicians.<br>If you have an issue with a politician, take it up with that person.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_21:00:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "mon_dieu_ishmael", "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": 12612268, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12587173": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Y'all need to ck out how the discussion about her blew up over at TNC's page on Friday:<br><br><a href=\"http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/07/why_palin_wont_make_it_out_of_a_gop_primary.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_13:58:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "devessel", "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": 12585675, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12595682": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ROFLMAO!!! You know it!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_14:43:46", "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": 12593317, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12613091": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You lied on posters here @ JJP!  How dare you!! <br><br>You said: <b>People here played pile on with Palin's kids. The comments about her kids were vindictive, mean, and appalling.</b><br><br>Not anyone I know here would even dare to go there. I have come to know some of these people pretty well and a few on a personal level.  I have been around here longer than some of the posters. I was here before the big crowd came.  I have never seen anyone write anything vulgar or vile  towards any of Sarah Palin's children. I dare you to find it. You want justify what posters @ FreeRepublic wrote about an innocent little girl that hasn't even gone through puberty yet.  They were foul, racist, sexual degoratory comments directed @ an 11 year old child. Sarah Palin was talked about here because of her hypocrisy. No one here ever called Bristol Palin a \"street whore\", or said \"wonder when will she have her first abortion\" OMG, I can hardly stand to even write the word about an 11 year old child. That is  what you would call appauling, sexual racist comments. <br><br>Don't you ever accuse these posters @ JJP of that kind of bullsh!t ever again.  I'm here just about everyday and I see what they write. I don't even believe anything that vile was ever posted @ Huffington Post either because the comment wouldn't have been approved.<br><br>So you come here to post a bold-faced lie as if these posters did the same so it's justified. You're not just a liar but a dirty liar!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_21:26:55", "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": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12612116, "depth": 5, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12603370": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL, grown-ass man lets another dude put his hand on his inner thigh for an entire evening?<br><br>GTFO with that shit, Brooks.  Nothing against being gay, but being a straight male, there's no way I'm letting some dude put his hand on my thigh, much less for the duration of a dinner.  Hell, I wouldn't even let a woman I'm not attracted to grope me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_17:10:08", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12583050, "depth": 1, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12607979": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "GAWD...it is just sick..cause you know they had to smell the stench of their filth..the way they packed them in, thousands of men for weeks, did not bathe them and all the human excrement...those people were just crude and barbaric to live above all that human filth.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_18:21:43", "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": 12604343, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12613100": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes, it was a great day for CHOICE!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_21:27:30", "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": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12605673, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12584941": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<b>More Problems in Sight For Black Radio Surrounding HR 848 </b><br><br><br><a href=\"http://www.afro.com/tabId/551/itemId/4136/More-Problems-in-Sight-Surrounding-HR-848.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">AFRO</a><br><br><br><blockquote>(July 12, 2009) - Black radio faces a new wave of problems, one industry insider said this week, threatening stations that have long been a reliable source of news, information and culture among the nation\u2019s African American communities.<br><br>The problems stem from a controversial piece of new legislation, House Resolution 848, which drew experts to Washington, D.C. for a congressional hearing this week, including Paul Porter, a media critic who has had a prominent voice in American radio the past 20 years.<br><br>Porter said that while its legislative supporters\u2019 \"initial concerns were simply to grant performers royalties for radio airplay, the response of broadcasters has opened the door to an array of larger problems than just dwindling revenues.\"<br><br>Formally known as the Performance Rights Act, the bill, sponsored by Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), was introduced this past February.<br><br>Having recently passed an initial vote in a committee chaired by Conyers, the bill would require radio stations as well as networks to ante up royalties to all recording artists whose songs are played over the air waves.</blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_13:09:53", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12582382": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "OMG....look at this picture...<br><br>GET AWAY FROM MEEEEE!!! NOOOOOOOO!!!<br><br><a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/13/us/politics/13palin.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/13/us/politics/1...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_12:18:14", "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": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12613616": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You see it one way; I see it another.<br><br>You're not addressing what you were asked to originally address.<br><br>I'm not having a problem understanding what you're are saying.  No need to CAP.  I don't usually have a problem engaging whoever in the political spectrum.  If Meagan McCain wants to engage on the national political stage, which she has, then I will engage.  The Bush twins - don't know what they're doing.  Liz Cheney is engaged because she has been political.  That's MY point. <br><br>Piper (thank you, WRB) Palin, etc:  No.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_21:54:58", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12613483, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12604584": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The New Black Panthers are in the sights of the GOP<br><br><b><a href=\"http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/gop-holder-battle-over-new-black-panthers-2009-07-12.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">GOP, Holder battle over New Black Panthers </a></b><br><br><br>Source: The Hill<br><blockquote>Key House Republicans are charging Attorney General Eric Holder of playing politics at the Justice Department.<br><br>Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) said Holder has ignored at least three letters sent over the past month from Republicans demanding to know why Justice dismissed charges of voter intimidation filed against two members of the \u201cNew Black Panther Party for Self-Defense\u201d (NBPP).<br><br>NBPP National Chairman Milik Zulu Shabazz and party member Jerry Jackson both faces charges for violating the Voting Rights Act for engaging in coercion, threats and intimidation and attempted coercion, threats, and intimidation of voters and those aiding voters at a Philadelphia polling station on November 4th, 2008.<br><br>Charges against the Black Panthers were originally filed when President George W. Bush was in power.<br><br>A spokeswoman for Justice said facts did not back up the charges, and that career officials at Justice, not political appointees, decided to drop the charges.</blockquote>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_17:46:52", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12583923": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Is the Surgeon General a cabinet position? Will Dr. Regina Benjamin be the first cabinet official from an HBCU, as I heard some reference to Morehouse?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_12:49:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "twitter-19128897", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 13, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12613620": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That's not what you said about Caroline Kennedy now is it?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_21:55:03", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12613483, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12582392": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sasha's face says it all, about the CapeCoastCastle...she was feeling all the emotions eminating from her parents and the stories of brutal hate.<br><br>I was shocked when Obama spoke and said that there was a church right above the dundgeons where they would hold Thousands of male slaves for weeks!  Incredible, the sickness of the mentality of warped minds, worshipping ABOVE the hell they created!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_12:18:27", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12601850": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Freerepublic Defense Video: <a href=\"http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/07/13/free_republics_kristinn_taylor_spars_with_shuster_over_malia_thread.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/07/...</a>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_16:28:13", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12589592, "depth": 1, "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": "25292382", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": -5558759591938874905}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "afternoon_open_thread_15", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 154, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 25292382, "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"};
	/* */ this.jsonData.cookie_messages = {"user_created": null, "post_has_profile": null, "post_twitter": null, "post_not_approved": null}; this.jsonData.session = {"url": null, "name": null, "email": null}; /* */

	
	this.curPageId = 'dsq-comments';

	this.frames = {};
};

var disqus_popup_reference = null;

if(typeof DsqLocal == 'undefined') {
	DsqLocal = {};
}



/**
 * Dsq.Strings: UI strings
 */
Dsq.Strings = new function() {
	this.ADD_NEW_COMMENT = "Add New Comment";
	this.LOG_INTO_DISQUS = "Log into DISQUS";
	this.USE_MEDIA = "Use Media";
	this.LOGOUT = "Logout";
	this.SHARING_OPTIONS = "Sharing options";
	this.SHARE_ON = "Share on";
	this.TWEET_THIS_COMMENT = "Tweet this comment";
	this.SHARE_ON_NEWSFEED = "Share on news feed";
	this.SEND_UPDATE_TO_YAHOO = "Send update to Yahoo!";
	this.REBLOG_ON = "Reblog on";
	this.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS = "Configure options";
	this.POST_AS = "Post as";
	this.SORT_BY = "Sort by";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe by email";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS = "Subscribe by RSS";
	this.POPULAR_NOW = "Popular now";
	this.BEST_RATING = "Best Rating";
	this.NEWEST_FIRST = "Newest first";
	this.OLDEST_FIRST = "Oldest first";
	this.HIGHLIGHTED = "Highlighted";
	this.UNSUBSCRIBE = "Unsubscribe";
	this.REQUIRED = "Required";
	this.OPTIONAL = "Optional";
	this.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A = "You are commenting as a";
	this.LOGIN_BELOW = "Login below";
	this.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT = "Please login below to comment.";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe to all comments by email";
	this.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS = "Do not subscribe to comments";
	this.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS = "Real-time updating is";
	this.ENABLED = "enabled";
	this.PAUSED = "paused";
	this.PAUSE = "Pause";
	this.RESUME = "Resume";
	this.SHOW = "Show";
	this.JUST_NOW = "Just now";
	this.REPLY = "Reply";
	this.EDIT = "Edit";
	this.FLAG = "Flag";
	this.MODERATE = "Moderate";
	this.CANCEL = "Cancel";
	this.REPLYING_TO = "Replying to";
	this.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS = "Report missing reactions";
	this.POST_A_COMMENT = "Post a comment";
	this.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT = "Flag inappropriate comment";
	this.FLAGGED = "Flagged";
	this.NO = "No";
	this.YES = "Yes";
	this.NEVER_MIND = "Never mind";
	this.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR = "Are you sure you would like to report this comment to a moderator";
	this.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION = "This will flag comments for moderators to take action";
	this.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN = "To rate, please log in";
	this.JUST_A_MOMENT = "Just a moment...";
	this.GUEST = "Guest";
	this.NAME = "Name";
	this.EMAIL = "Email";
  this.WEBSITE = "Website";
  this.SETTINGS = "Settings";
  this.MODERATOR_OPTIONS = "Moderator options: ";
};
// Dsq.Strings

/**
 * Dsq.FmtStrings: functions that return interpolated UI strings
 */
Dsq.FmtStrings = new function() {
	// Seems we have to use named interpolation for Django to translate. Investigate more.
	this.LOGGED_IN_AS = function(username) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate('Logged in as %(username)s', {username:username});
	};

	this.LOGOUT_FROM = function(disqus) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate('Logout from %(disqus)s', {disqus:disqus});
	};

	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_15' +
		'&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_15/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_15'
			+ '&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_15/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">154</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/afternoon_open_thread_15/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_15/">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:25292382" 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_15/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:25292382" 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:25292382" 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_15',
			// 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_15/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_15'
			+ '&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_15'
			+ '&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_15'
				+ '&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/25292382/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';
		that._twitterWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/twitter/begin/', 'twitterWindow', popupParams);
		that._twitterInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeTwitterConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeTwitterConnect = function() {
		if (that._twitterWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._twitterInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

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

	this.startYahooConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._yahooWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/yahoo/begin/', 'yahooWindow', popupParams);
		that._yahooInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeYahooConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeYahooConnect = function() {
		if (that._yahooWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._yahooInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

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

	this.requestURL = function() {
		var message = '<table class="dsq-openid-form"><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;" rowspan="2"><img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url + '/images/openid-icon-100x100.png" /></td>';
		message += '<td><label for="dsq-openid-url">OpenID URL:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-url" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td><label for="dsq-openid-username">Display name:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-username" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td class="dsq-openid-submit" colspan="3"><input type="button" value="Sign in" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.startConnect();" /></td></tr>';
		message += "</table>";

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sign in using OpenID');
	};

	this.startConnect = function() {
		var isblank = function(str) {
			return /^\s*$/.test(str);
		};

		var openid_url = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-url').value;
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-username').value;

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=500';
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/openid/begin/' + '?url=' + encodeURIComponent(openid_url) + '&username=' + encodeURIComponent(username);
		that._openidWindow = window.open(url, 'openidWindow', popupParams);
		that._openidInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeConnect = function() {
		if (that._openidWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._openidInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

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

	this.hide = function(id) {
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/hidereaction.js?' + 'reaction_id=' + id);
	};

	this.reportMissingReactions = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled) {
			return;
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.queued) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Your report has been received. The system will automatically search for new reactions; if any are found, they will be displayed on this comment thread.<br/><br/>Thank&nbsp;you.',
												 'Reported missing reactions');
			return;
		}

		Dsq.Utils.execScript(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/forums/jackandjillpolitics/queueurl.js');
	};
};

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

	obj.authenticate = function() {
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + "/saml/cnn/try/";
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl(url, {'target': document.location}, true);
	};

	return obj;
}();


if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
	(function() {
		DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE = /<div class="dsq-header-avatar"(.*?)>/gim;
		Dsq.Templates.registerFilter('postPrependHeader', function(html, post_id) {
			// Add "onmouseout" for dsq-header-avatar for dropProfile
			// functionality since IE6 cannot use :hover.
			function _headerAvatarReplace(content, inner, _unused, html) {
				return '<div class="dsq-header-avatar" '
					+ inner
					+ ' onmouseout="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')">';
			}
			html = html.replace(DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE, _headerAvatarReplace);
			return html;
		});
	})();
}





	// TODO: Move Seesmic code outside of the main script.  Don't let this script clobber the global namespace.
	if(typeof seesmic == 'undefined') { var seesmic = {}; }
	seesmic.widget = new function () {
		this.callback = function (data) {
			playerVersion = data.disqusplayer;
		};
	};

	
	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://seesmic.com/version.js?callback=seesmic.widget.callback');
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptEl);

	
	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://media.disqus.com/javascript/library/swfobject.js');
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptEl);

	function see_play_video(_videoUri, _add) {
		var swf = !!playerVersion ? playerVersion : 'http://seesmic.com/embeds/StandalonePlayer.swf';

		flashcontentDiv = Dsq.$(_videoUri + '_content');
		previewDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_preview');
		hideDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_hide');
		showDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_show');
		if(_add) {
			// push flash widget
			var so = new SWFObject(swf, 'sotester', '300', '270', '9', '#000000');
			so.addVariable('video', _videoUri);
			so.addParam('allowFullScreen', 'true');
			so.addParam('allowScriptAccess','always');
			so.useExpressInstall('swfobject/expressinstall.swf');
			so.write(_videoUri + '_content');

			previewDiv.style.display = 'none';
			hideDiv.style.display = 'block';
			showDiv.style.display = 'none';
		}
		else {
			flashcontentDiv.innerHTML = '';
			previewDiv.style.display = 'block';
			hideDiv.style.display = 'none';
			showDiv.style.display = 'block';
		}
	};





(function() {
	//
	// Load theme.  This overrides the base templates with template functions
	// from the respective themes.
	//
	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		var theme = 'narcissus';
		// HACK: Set variable on window to use post message.
		window.disqus_use_postmessage = true;

		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Themes[theme]) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Templates[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Post) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Post[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
	}

	//
	// Register templates.  This must be done after all themes are loaded.
	//
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('authPost', Dsq.Templates.authPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('header', Dsq.Templates.header);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('footer', Dsq.Templates.footer);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('trackbacks', Dsq.Templates.trackbacks);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('reactions', Dsq.Templates.reactions);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('prependPost', Dsq.Templates.prependPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('appendPost', Dsq.Templates.appendPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postPrependHeader', Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postAppendHeader', Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('preBody', Dsq.Templates.preBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBody', Dsq.Templates.postBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postFooter', Dsq.Templates.postFooter);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('_popupGeneric', Dsq.Templates._popupGeneric);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('voted', Dsq.Templates.voted);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('popupProfile', Dsq.Templates.popupProfile);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBox', Dsq.Templates.postBox);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('pagination', Dsq.Templates.pagination);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postComment_onSuccess', Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess);

})();

Dsq.container.className = "clearfix";
Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12599137">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12599137" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12599137" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12599137" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12599137" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12599137" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Heads Up! Kristinn Taylor, co-founder and spokesman of the Washington D.C. Chapter of the conservative group Free Republic is scheduled to be on MSNBC this afternoon at 3:30 PM EDT to talk with David Shuster and Tamran Hall about the viral Free Republic thread about Malia Obama.</i><br><br>Jesus Christ!  Could the man have SHUT UP long enough to allow others to speak.  He talked about only those on the right - at Free Republic, nonetheless - having standards.  "The left, the democrats, the blogs, etc" are without standards, but yet the man couldn\'t be polite enough to allow David Schuster to respond. <br><br>That\'s a debate tactic, and his mike should\'ve been cut.  Seriously, if you\'re not grown up enough to talk like adults then don\'t bother.<br><br>There was something else - oh!  He brought up of course Sarah Palin & her children and it being "vile"  but let me tell you, insinuating that Bristol Palin got \'knocked up by Alex Rodriguez is totally different from Malia Obama being called"n*gger" and "ghetto trash" - not to mention all of it posted.  <br><br> Bristol Palin & her parents were being called out on their glaring hypocrisy.  There is absolutely no excuse or justification for the bullshit directed against Malia Obama.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12600555" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12600555" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12600555">bison1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12600555" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12600555" class="dsq-comment-message">I heard him too! He was extremely rude and defensive!  Obama’s daughter was being attacked because she was born African-America. After Palin used her daughter as a political prop, her  daughter was criticized because of  the blatant hypocrisy of Bristol’s behavior juxtaposition the values avowed by her mother.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12602396" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12602396">mon_dieu_ishmael</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12602396" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12602396" class="dsq-comment-message">The children of politicians should be off limits.  They are private individuals who have their own private lives.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12601459" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12601459" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12601459">bison1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12601459" class="dsq-comment-message">Just re-read some more of these comments on <a href="http://FreeRepublic.com" rel="nofollow">FreeRepublic.com</a>.  Just who are these people writing this stuff?  We have alot of racial healing to do in this nation!<br><br>VIDEO: Free Republic\'s Kristinn Taylor Spars With Shuster Over Malia Thread</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12600185" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12600185" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12600185">Lisa M</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12600185" class="dsq-comment-message">Whew!! I\'m glad to see Brownback and Landrieu are taking care of business. I have lost so much sleep throughout my life worrying about ...<br><br>wait for it ...<br><br>scientists creating mermaids and centaurs. <br><br>Thank you so much senators for protecting the sacredness of life through <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/13/brownback-and-landrieu-in_n_230762.html rel="nofollow">the Human-Animal Hybrid Prohibition Act would ban the creation of human-animal hybrids</a>. What a way to end a Senate term. He\'s protecting us from Ariel and centaurs.<br><br>#$@%^@#$^ Idiots!! SMDH</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12602227" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12602227" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12602227">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12602227" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12602227" class="dsq-comment-message">OK, so mermaids and centaurs are banned........<br><br>but nothing on ventriliquist dummies?? Because if there is one thing that freaks me out...its those dummies.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12600594" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12600594" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12600594" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12600594" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12600594" class="dsq-comment-message">All right - that\'s it.  I\'m off the Internet the rest of the day.  I can\'t take it.<br><br>Someone take away Brownback\'s copy of \'Splash.\'   jezzus.....</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12601634" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12601634" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12601634">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12601634" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12601634" class="dsq-comment-message">Because it can\'t be said enough, a mind is a terrible thing to waste.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12582392" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12582392" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12582392">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12582392" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12582392" class="dsq-comment-message">Sasha\'s face says it all, about the CapeCoastCastle...she was feeling all the emotions eminating from her parents and the stories of brutal hate.<br><br>I was shocked when Obama spoke and said that there was a church right above the dundgeons where they would hold Thousands of male slaves for weeks!  Incredible, the sickness of the mentality of warped minds, worshipping ABOVE the hell they created!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12586780" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12586780" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12586780" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12586780" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12586780" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s worse, the families lived in these castles too. <br><br>The floor boards were of course hand made, so there were gaps in the floor so you could  actually SEE each other. <br><br>This is one way why dehumanization strategy was an important aspect of the slave trade.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12597661" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12597661" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12597661">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12597661" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12597661" class="dsq-comment-message">What families lived there? Slave trader families? OMG..how depraved.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12604343" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12604343" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12604343" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12604343" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12604343" class="dsq-comment-message">Indeed. Bedrooms were usually in upper-floors, but parlors and whatnot were on the floor above the stolen Africans.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12607979" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12607979" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12607979">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12607979" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12607979" class="dsq-comment-message">GAWD...it is just sick..cause you know they had to smell the stench of their filth..the way they packed them in, thousands of men for weeks, did not bathe them and all the human excrement...those people were just crude and barbaric to live above all that human filth.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12582382" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12582382" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12582382">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12582382" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12582382" class="dsq-comment-message">OMG....look at this picture...<br><br>GET AWAY FROM MEEEEE!!! NOOOOOOOO!!!<br><br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/13/us/politics/13palin.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/13/us/politics/1...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12583819" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12583819" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12583819">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12583819" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12583819" class="dsq-comment-message">Lawdy!  Babies really do know the DEVIL when it appears.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12584551" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12584551" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12584551">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12584551" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12584551" class="dsq-comment-message">Y\'all are missing the best part though...Miss Sarah has her Sharpie out to autograph the baby.  What kind of craziness is that?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12584829" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12584829" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12584829">isonprize</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12584829" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12584829" class="dsq-comment-message">There is just something fundamentally wrong with that woman. PERIOD.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12583094" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12583094" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12583094">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12583094" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12583094" class="dsq-comment-message">that is now burned into my brain..<br><br>you really didn\'t have to do that to us.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12583394" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12583394" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12583394">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12583394" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12583394" class="dsq-comment-message">But why did one of my stupid friends say its just like the Omen at the zoo....because you know babies and animals can detect pure evil...<br><br>ROFLMAO</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12583475" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12583475" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12583475">isonprize</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12583475" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12583475" class="dsq-comment-message">Damn.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12611456" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12611456" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12611456" href="http://www.latinopoliticsblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">adriana01</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12611456" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12611456" class="dsq-comment-message">Sasha has the most piercing eyes. She\'s too cute and has an equally stunning older sister.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12582314" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12582314" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12582314" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12582314" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12582314" class="dsq-comment-message">EVERY time I see her precious face, I think of my granddaughter.  Packed full and overflowing with energy & life.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12583050" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12583050" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12583050">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12583050" class="dsq-comment-message">Remember David Brooks and the hand on the thigh?<br><br>A response:<br><br>July 11, 2009<br>The Highly Selective Dignity Code<br>by hilzoy<br><br>David Brooks wrote a column the other day complaining about the demise of the "dignity code". He expanded on this point on MSNBC Today:<br>"You know, all three of us spend a lot of time covering politicians and I don’t know about you guys, but in my view, they’re all emotional freaks of one sort or another. They’re guaranteed to invade your personal space, touch you. I sat next to a Republican senator once at dinner and he had his hand on my inner thigh the whole time. I was like, ehh, get me out of here."<br><br>News flash: This has been happening to people forever, at least if you count women as people. Back when George Washington was writing out his "Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation", which Brooks cites as an example of the Dignity Code, Thomas Jefferson was hitting on Sally Hemings. A professor whose class I was enrolled in once grabbed my breasts at a party. Every woman I know has stories like this. Maybe being groped in a public setting is a novel experience for straight guys; not being a straight guy, I wouldn\'t know. But if it is, that isn\'t because no one ever groped anyone in a public setting before. <br><br><br>Honestly: this is like complaining about the recent breakdown of our longstanding social strictures against violence, and citing as evidence the fact that some white person somewhere got lynched last year. <br><br><br><br>So I\'m left to wonder: why did David Brooks write this column? Is it (a) because none of his female friends and relations ever told him about the existence of sexual harassment? Or (b) because he doesn\'t think that public groping violates the Dignity Code when you do it to women, because for some reason women just don\'t count?<br><br><br>Inquiring minds want to know. <br><br><br>(PS: Ann Althouse\'s response (h/t) is an inadvertent classic: "Perhaps the Republican Senator just periodically patted him on the thigh and technically the fingers extended into the inner part." "Technically", indeed.)<br><br><a href="http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2009/07/the-highly-selective-dignity-code.html" rel="nofollow">http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12603370" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12603370" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12603370">AxelFoley</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12603370" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12603370" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL, grown-ass man lets another dude put his hand on his inner thigh for an entire evening?<br><br>GTFO with that shit, Brooks.  Nothing against being gay, but being a straight male, there\'s no way I\'m letting some dude put his hand on my thigh, much less for the duration of a dinner.  Hell, I wouldn\'t even let a woman I\'m not attracted to grope me.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12586419" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12586419" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12586419" href="http://www.WEESeeYou.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Webb</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12586419" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12586419" class="dsq-comment-message">David Brooks is going to have to say who molested him at this party.  This isn\'t deep throat.  This isn\'t Watergate.  Brooks isn\'t the next Woodward or Bernstein.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12599124" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12599124" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12599124">Guns3000</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12599124" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12599124" class="dsq-comment-message">I have to worry about a man who lets another man fondle him under a table.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12604139" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12604139" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12604139">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12604139" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12604139" class="dsq-comment-message">For real, and all night too.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12588259" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12588259" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12588259">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12588259" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12588259" class="dsq-comment-message">LMAO!!!! "molested him".....ROFLMAO! Fess up Brooks!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12593317" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12593317" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12593317">danadevin74</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12593317" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12593317" class="dsq-comment-message">David Brooks prob wishes he had kept his mouth shut<br> i bet Lindsey  Graham  leaving all kinds of threats on David Brooks phone</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12595682" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12595682" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12595682">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12595682" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12595682" class="dsq-comment-message">ROFLMAO!!! You know it!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12587255" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12587255" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12587255">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12587255" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12587255" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, David, do tell.  <br><br>Why the hell would David Brooks mention someone fondling his thigh publicly, and not name the fella?  Was it Larry Craig?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12587700" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12587700" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12587700" href="http://www.WEESeeYou.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Webb</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12587700" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12587700" class="dsq-comment-message">Right, was it oral Orrin or cocky Coburn?  Who was it?  Brooks is a journalist.  He knows better than to introduce mysteries to the public.  Whodunnit Brooks???</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12615694" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12615694">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12615694" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey now!<br><br>&lt;3&lt;3&lt;3&lt;3 Maybe it was...LOVE &lt;3 &lt;3 &lt;3 &lt;3</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12614466">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12614466" class="dsq-comment-message">"David Brooks is going to have to say who molested him at this party. This isn\'t deep throat."<br><br>-Hey now!<br>It might be "deep throat".<br>Did Brooks ever say what happended AFTER the party?<br>Just asking...<br><br>"This isn\'t Watergate. Brooks isn\'t the next Woodward or Bernstein."<br>-Maybe the next Linda Lovelace...(hey, I said "maybe").</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12583680" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12583680">Angelar</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12583680" class="dsq-comment-message">better worded than my very thoughts the other day.......<br><br>from <a href="http://politicsdaily.com" rel="nofollow">politicsdaily.com</a><br><br>"Why Brooks let the senator keep his hand there for the entire dinner is a mystery. Why he described the incident on television, but then refused to name the politician, is another. The relationship between the press and politicians is often scrutinized, with many observers claiming that the two are "in bed" together. Given Brooks\'s odd story, that untoward relationship apparently extends to the dinner table as well."</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12586101" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12586101" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12586101" class="dsq-comment-message">Unless I\'m married to you or at least having sex with you on a \'regular\' basis, the inner thigh region is off limits.   I don\'t understand Brooks\' motives in even bringing this up.  I\'m suspicious as hell of him anyway, and this just seals that all right up.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12596632">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12596632" class="dsq-comment-message">Now, let\'s compare that with her description of the President\'s body language in the photo where he supposedly ogled that girl. That woman is stone crazy, LOL. <br><br>"Now, swivel your eyes over to Obama\'s feet. The foot closest to the woman, like Sarkozy\'s, is planted and aimed forward, but the other steps off in the direction of the woman, bending the knee upward into a bit of a crotch-squeeze and forming the base of a dramatic tilt of the entire body into a flexible S-shape that leans toward the woman. Obama\'s arms hang free, emphasizing the tilt, and either gravity or will causes the left arm to hang inches away from the torso. See how much lower the right hand is than the left? His neck is craned out and around so that the line of sight is directly at the ass. His mouth is open as if to say: That\'s what I want."<br><br>She was serious, too...</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12583923" href="http://twitter.com/HopeChat" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">RuthDFW</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12583923" class="dsq-comment-message">Is the Surgeon General a cabinet position? Will Dr. Regina Benjamin be the first cabinet official from an HBCU, as I heard some reference to Morehouse?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12584118">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12584118" class="dsq-comment-message">She attended Xavier as an undergrad also.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12584458">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12584458" class="dsq-comment-message">In this Cabinet, I think so.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12584538">Myth</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12584538" class="dsq-comment-message">Did Joycelyn Elders attend an HBCU?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12584961" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12584961">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12584961" class="dsq-comment-message">I took it to mean THIS cabinet - not first from HBCU, period.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12585230">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12585230" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12585230" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah, can you post a thread on Dr. Regina Benjamin, please?  Thank you for considreing it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12585578" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12585578" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12585578" href="http://twitter.com/HopeChat" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">RuthDFW</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12585578" class="dsq-comment-message">Actually no I meant will it be the first ever HBCU graduate in the cabinet.  Seems like the path for many high ranking political African Americans are via the Ivy League schools. Granted I am sadly uninformed, so counting JJPers to school me. LOL</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12587341">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12587341" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12587341" class="dsq-comment-message">the early Black Cabinet folks ONLY came from HBCU\'s</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12596375" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12596375">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12596375" class="dsq-comment-message">From wikipedia:<br><br>List of African American United States Cabinet Secretaries<br>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<br>Jump to: navigation, search<br> <br>Condoleezza Rice became the second African American Secretary of State in 2004.The United States Cabinet has had 16 African American appointed officers. By definition, African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa.[1] The term is generally used for Americans with at least partial Sub-Saharan African ancestry.[2] Originally, African Americans were regarded as second-class citizens or slaves in America.[3] No African American ever held a Cabinet position before the signing Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned discrimination in public accommodations, employment, and labor unions.[4]<br><br>Robert C. Weaver became the first African-American to hold a Cabinet-level position when he was appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in 1966 by President Lyndon B. Johnson.[5] In 1975, Secretary of Transportation William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr. became the first Republican African American appointed to the Cabinet.[6] Patricia Roberts Harris became the first African American female cabinet member when she was appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in 1977. In 1979, Harris became the first African American to be head of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, which was split into the departments of Education and Health and Human Services in the same year.[7] Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice\'s appointments as Secretary of State made them the highest-ranking African Americans in the United States presidential line of succession.[8]<br><br>The Department of Housing and Urban Development has had the most African American Secretaries, with four. The departments of State, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs have each had two. The four existing departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Interior, and Treasury have not had African American Secretaries. President Bill Clinton has appointed the most African Americans to the Cabinet during his tenure, with seven.<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_American_United_States_Cabinet_Secretaries" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_Am...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12596561">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12596561" class="dsq-comment-message">Togo West<br>Rod Paige<br>Hazel O\'Leary<br>Patricia Roberts Harris<br>Alexis Herman<br>Mike Espy<br><br>all attended HBCU\'s.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12584841" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12584841" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12584841" class="dsq-comment-message">No - Surgeon General is not a cabinet position.<br><br>However, I don\'t think that demeans the position; I never have.  It\'s a prestigious position.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12585645" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12585645" href="http://twitter.com/HopeChat" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">RuthDFW</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12585645" class="dsq-comment-message">Totally agree Surgeon General is a very prestigious position. The reference to Morehouse just made me wonder about HBCU & presidental cabinets.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12586107" href="http://www.WEESeeYou.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Webb</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12586107" class="dsq-comment-message">When they say Morehouse, they really mean Morehouse Medical School.  She didn\'t attend Morehouse College; she attended Morehouse Medical School.  <br><br>Blame it on the dumb f*cks for not being more specific.  Folks are thinking that Regina is male.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12609429" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12609429" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12609429" class="dsq-comment-message">Kinda like \'a boy named Sue\'  /snort?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12584941">morphus</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12584941" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>More Problems in Sight For Black Radio Surrounding HR 848 </b><br><br><br><a href="http://www.afro.com/tabId/551/itemId/4136/More-Problems-in-Sight-Surrounding-HR-848.aspx" rel="nofollow">AFRO</a><br><br><br><blockquote>(July 12, 2009) - Black radio faces a new wave of problems, one industry insider said this week, threatening stations that have long been a reliable source of news, information and culture among the nation’s African American communities.<br><br>The problems stem from a controversial piece of new legislation, House Resolution 848, which drew experts to Washington, D.C. for a congressional hearing this week, including Paul Porter, a media critic who has had a prominent voice in American radio the past 20 years.<br><br>Porter said that while its legislative supporters’ "initial concerns were simply to grant performers royalties for radio airplay, the response of broadcasters has opened the door to an array of larger problems than just dwindling revenues."<br><br>Formally known as the Performance Rights Act, the bill, sponsored by Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), was introduced this past February.<br><br>Having recently passed an initial vote in a committee chaired by Conyers, the bill would require radio stations as well as networks to ante up royalties to all recording artists whose songs are played over the air waves.</blockquote></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12585351">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12585351" class="dsq-comment-message">Looks who\'s on th ecover of this weeks Time Magazine<br><br>The Renegade July 20, 2009 <br><br><a href="http://www.time.com/time/covers/0%2C16641%2C20090720%2C00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,2009072...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12585675" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12585675">isonprize</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12585675" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12585675" class="dsq-comment-message">Renegade is supposedly the Secret Service code name for PBO.  Renaissance is supposed to be the name they have for Michelle.   <br><br>What a waste of TIME\'S shiny paper.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12586180">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12586180" class="dsq-comment-message">Girl, don\'t I know it.  No originality, no courage, no purpose.....<br><br>You know the MSM will continue to paint this woman as some enigma, as<br>someone who\'s just misunderstood. (Maybe if she\'d learn proper sentence<br>structure we could a least understand what she is saying.)<br><br>They will continue to uphold this woman as someone unique, while our school<br>systems are struggling to educate our kids and prepare them for higher<br>service, this woman is running around the country MOCKING intelligence and<br>good education.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12587173">devessel</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12587173" class="dsq-comment-message">Y\'all need to ck out how the discussion about her blew up over at TNC\'s page on Friday:<br><br><a href="http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/07/why_palin_wont_make_it_out_of_a_gop_primary.php" rel="nofollow">http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12588253">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12588253" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12588253" class="dsq-comment-message">dup</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12588260">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12588260" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12588260" class="dsq-comment-message">dup</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12588265" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12588265">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12588265" class="dsq-comment-message">garbage.  What a waste of an issue.  Oh well, I guess they can afford to lose money.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12608281" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12608281">danadevin74</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12608281" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12608281" class="dsq-comment-message">better title<br><br>(The Fool)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12599017" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12599017">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12599017" class="dsq-comment-message">Pewk!<br>Barracuda, Renegade...whatEVER...just a piece of shyt is all.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12585423" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12585423">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12585423" class="dsq-comment-message">Apologies all around.<br>It\'s hard out there for a pimp.<br>Olympic hopeful funds training by running escort service<br><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article6691745.ece" rel="nofollow">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12586003" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12586003" href="http://www.WEESeeYou.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Webb</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12586003" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m impressed.<br><br>*sneaks off to Greenlady\'s Bad Corner*</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12594457" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12594457">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12594457" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12594457" class="dsq-comment-message">And turn and put your nose in the hole that\'s drawn on the chalkboard..NOW!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12586015" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12586015" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12586015">Angelar</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12586015" class="dsq-comment-message">of course money talks...http://www.jabberwonk.com/flinker.cfm?cliid=qo1qg<br><br>Michael Savage’s Son And Wife ‘Disavow’ His Hateful Views on Gays to Stave off Boycott <br><br>Jon Ponder | Jul. 13, 2009<br>Facing a potentially brand-killing boycott of Rockstar Energy Drink by key sectors of its target demos — nightclubbing young gays and their non-gay, socially liberal cohorts — CEO Russ Weiner and his mother, CFO Janet Weiner — issued a statement last week in which they sought to distance themselves from the unabashedly homophobic views of radio ranter Michael Savage, who is their father and husband, respectively:"</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12586022" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12586022">ecthompson</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12586022" class="dsq-comment-message">Check out <a href="http://www.whereistheoutrage.net/wordpress/2009/07/12/the-errington-thompson-show-7-4-09/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this post</a>.  Could win an <a href="http://Amazon.com" rel="nofollow">Amazon.com</a> gift certificate!!  I like giving stuff way!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12586128" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12586128" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12586128" href="http://twitter.com/HopeChat" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">RuthDFW</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12586128" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12586128" class="dsq-comment-message">So is the Burr Oak cementary primarily contain the remains of Black families? I received a story saying they found Emmitt Till\'s grave disturbed.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12601933" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12601933" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12601933">eclecticbrotha</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12601933" class="dsq-comment-message">Till\'s grave was not disturbed. They found his original casket rusting in a storage shed. Till was reburied in a new casket after his body was exhumed recently and the glass coffin was supposed to be a part of a future memorial.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12588556" href="http://twitter.com/thefriendraiser" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">jenifer daniels</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12588556" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12588556" class="dsq-comment-message">yes, historically black cemetary</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12586674" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12586674">Angelar</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12586674" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12586674" class="dsq-comment-message">fyi<br><br>"Chicago Democrats are planning a huge homecoming for President Barack Obama on July 23, when he’ll headline a private dinner and a massive reception that will include Chicago Bulls players and the hot disc jockey DJ Cassidy. <br><br>The events are Obama’s first political activity in Chicago since Election Night."<br><br><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24857.html#ixzz0LA9lfbWw&D" rel="nofollow">http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24857...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12586730">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12586730" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>Ethnic violence in China draws muted response from many Muslim nations</b><br><br>CAIRO (AP) — China\'s crackdown on its Muslim Uighur minority has drawn a muted response from many Muslim countries that may be wary of damaging lucrative trade ties with Beijing or attracting attention to their own attitudes toward political dissent.<br><br>The non-Arab countries of Iran and Turkey have been among the few to criticize China. Iran is busy dealing with its own unrest following a disputed presidential election, while Turkey has ethnic ties to China\'s Uighur minority.<br><br>But throughout much of the Middle East and the Arab world, the violence in China has generated little reaction.<br><br>Arab regimes "couldn\'t criticize the attacks on Chinese Muslims because they themselves have no democracy," said Labib Kamhawi, a Jordanian political analyst. "They\'re in the same boat as the Chinese government."<br><br>China has poured tens of thousands of troops into the western Xinjiang region over the past few days, imposing tight control on the capital of Urumqi and surrounding areas after ethnic violence left more than 180 people dead and 1,680 wounded last week.<br><br>The Uighurs, who number 9 million in Xinjiang, have complained about an influx of Han Chinese and government restrictions on their Muslim religion. They accuse the majority Han community of discrimination and the Communist Party of trying to erase their language and culture.<br><br>China is a major trading partner for many Arab countries including Sudan, Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich Gulf nations. It is Jordan\'s third-largest largest trading partner, following Saudi Arabia and the United States. Jordan also is seeking to attract Chinese investment in projects such as renewable energy, railroads and water desalination.<br><br>For more:<br><br><a href="http://www.dailypress.com/news/world/sns-ap-ml-china-protest-muslims%2C0%2C1665373.story" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailypress.com/news/world/sns-ap-ml-...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12587654" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12587654">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12587654" class="dsq-comment-message">More interesting links discussing the ethnic clashes and cleansing of China\'s Uighur Muslims<br><br><b>Xinjiang: China\'s \'other Tibet\' </b><br><a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2008/03/2008525184819409441.html" rel="nofollow">http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/...</a><br><br><b>Muslim states \'silent\' on Uighurs</b><br><a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/07/20097725217198672.html" rel="nofollow">http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12589592" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12589592">morphus</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12589592" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12589592" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>Heads Up!</b>  Kristinn Taylor, co-founder and spokesman of the Washington D.C. Chapter of the conservative group Free Republic is scheduled to be on MSNBC this afternoon at <b>3:30 PM EDT</b> to talk with David Shuster and Tamran Hall about the viral Free Republic thread about Malia Obama.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12596887" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12596887" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12596887">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12596887" class="dsq-comment-message">Cliff Notes of the appearance:<br><br>Kristinn:  Well the media and David Letterman made fun of Track/Trick/Trig/Tripp/Willow/Piper/Bristol so Malia Obama is fair game!  We NEVER made fun of Chelsea Clinton or Amy Carter!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12606863" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12606863" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12606863">mon_dieu_ishmael</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12606863" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12606863" class="dsq-comment-message">People here played pile on with Palin\'s kids.  The comments about her kids were vindictive, mean, and appalling.  Like they never did anything stupid when they were 18.<br>The children of politicians should be off limits.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12608517" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12608517" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12608517">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12608517" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12608517" class="dsq-comment-message">You do know that JJP has a very easy way to search by archived threads don\'t you? Its right over there to your right...by month. You can go back and look at the threads and see what has been written in the past....so just pulling stuff outta your ass won\'t actually work. Now just for fun, I went back to look at some threads from Aug, Sept and Oct...because I wanted to see the vindictive mean and appaling things said about Palin\'s kids...the kids mind you, because that\'s what you\'re accusing the posters here of doing. I came across this thread on Bristol\'s pregnancy and why it matters:<br><a href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2008/09/why-bristol-palins-pregnancy-matters/" rel="nofollow">http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2008/09/why-...</a><br><br>Are you suggesting that anything written about Bristol\'s pregnancy rises to the level of "ghetto whore"? Are you? Or did you just LIE and think no one would actually go back and look?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12608756" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12608756" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12608756">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12608756" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12608756" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh,oh!  You so BUSTED him.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12611910" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12611910" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12611910">mon_dieu_ishmael</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12611910" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12611910" class="dsq-comment-message">What part of Politicians children should be off limits is unclear to you.<br>Let me spell it for you   O F F   L I M I T S.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12612494" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12612494" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12612494">danadevin74</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12612494" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12612494" class="dsq-comment-message">everyone agrees with you about the children being off limits<br>but you said comments about Palin\'s children were made here and that the comments were appalling<br><br>you should be able to find those comments<br>and if you can\'t find those comments<br>that means you just lied<br>and got called out</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12613009" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12613009" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12613009">mon_dieu_ishmael</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12613009" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12613009" class="dsq-comment-message">Why don\'t you spend the next couple of hours to prove me wrong??  You look through the archives.<br>Go back about 8 months.  Happy browsing.<br>I have a good memory and when Letterman made his joke about Palin\'s daughter, just about everyone here either defended the joke or said she (and letterman got the wrong daughter) deserved to be called a slut, etc... .</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12613221" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12613221" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12613221">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12613221" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12613221" class="dsq-comment-message">You\'re a liar, plain and simple. People defended the fact that Letterman was referencing Bristol and not Willow. No one, not one person said any of Palin\'s daughters deserved to be called a slut. That is something you made up because apparently, its something that YOU are thinking. I went through the archives, notice how you punked out and won\'t respond to that post - dont worry though, everybody else notices! LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12613272" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12613272" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12613272">mon_dieu_ishmael</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12613272" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12613272" class="dsq-comment-message">if you defended the joke, than you were defended the implications of the joke.<br>Thus you were defending attacks on politicians children. <br>When I expressed my disapproval of the joke, I was treated just as I am being treated now.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12614512" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12614512" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12614512">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12614512" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12614512" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>People here played pile on with Palin\'s kids. The comments about her kids were vindictive, mean, and appalling.</i><br><br><br>Don\'t change the subject. Prove your accusation?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12614672" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12614672" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12614672">mon_dieu_ishmael</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12614672" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12614672" class="dsq-comment-message">the subject is POLITICIANS KIDS SHOULD BE OFF LIMITS.<br>u all are trying to change the subject.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12614780" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12614780" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12614780">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12614780" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12614780" class="dsq-comment-message">What? You only made that accusation in order to change the subject. <br><br>They have a script, I\'ll tell ya.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12615392" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12615392" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12615392">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12615392" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12615392" class="dsq-comment-message">You made an accusation against posters on JJP.<br><br>We call you a liar, so prove us wrong!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12615721" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12615721" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12615721">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12615721" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12615721" class="dsq-comment-message">And what do you call "defending the joke"? You see, that\'s why Palin and the Palinites insisted that Letterman didn\'t get the names mixed up, as he obviously did, but was actually talking about the 14=year-old. They could accuse anyone who pointed out that he wasn\'t talking about the 14 year old, and anyone who disagreed that he was a "pedophile", of "defending the joke". Don\'t you know how transparent that shit is? You should know it\'s not going to work here.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12614739" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12614739" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12614739">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12614739" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12614739" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>(and letterman got the wrong daughter) deserved to be called a slut, etc... .</i><br><br>You lie like a rug!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12615325" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12615325" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12615325">danadevin74</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12615325" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12615325" class="dsq-comment-message">no i don\'t have to look through archives<br>your the one who made the accusation<br>therefore it\'s on you <br>to prove you aren\'t lying<br><br>and if you find proof<br>i will apologize<br>until then</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12612682" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12612682" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12612682">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12612682" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12612682" class="dsq-comment-message">You\'ve yet to produce even a shred of evidence that any other "children" were insulted and basically THREATENED the way Malia Obama was. Meghan McCain was never called a "whore" and she clearly is an adult woman who has consciously thrust herself into political commentary - but Malia Obama was viciously attacked over a T-shirt...and you think you can PRETEND to get self-righteous on behalf of all politician\'s kids?? GTFOH</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12613227" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12613227" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12613227">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12613227" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12613227" class="dsq-comment-message">Damn, I come back from dinner, and you\'e still at it.<br><br>Let me spell it for you:  YOU\'RE BUSTED!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12614434" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12614434" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12614434">mon_dieu_ishmael</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12614434" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12614434" class="dsq-comment-message">Either you agree with me THAT ALL POLITICIANS CHILDREN ARE OFF LIMITS or else you think that politicians children are fair game to be lied on, maligned, joked about, etc... .<br>To me it seems a clear cut choice.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12615227" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12615227" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12615227">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12615227" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12615227" class="dsq-comment-message">I DONT\'S AGREE WTH YOU.<br><br>THE. END.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12615357" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12615357" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12615357">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12615357" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12615357" class="dsq-comment-message">Not no but hell no!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12609378" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12609378" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12609378" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12609378" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12609378" class="dsq-comment-message">Did anyone allude to her being a whore because she was pregnant \'out of wedlock?\'  <br><br>See - the glaring, blaring hypocrisy comes when these jackasses promote certain values, want to change gov\'t, societal norms to mirror those values BUT don\'t want to practice those values themselves. <br><br>(Jackass and it\'s variation is my word of the day.)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12611754" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12611754" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12611754">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12611754" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12611754" class="dsq-comment-message">I dont believe anyone ever called Bristol a whore.... I dont even recall that kind of rhetoric on any site. I know I\'ve seen the phrase "knocked up"...and by Levi\'s OWN description of himself, I know he\'s been called a F---in redneck - but I\'ve never seen her children called anything that rose to the level of "whore".</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12612253" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12612253" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12612253" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12612253" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12612253" class="dsq-comment-message">I was asking that question of ishmael (mon dieu).  I don\'t believe so either - certainly not here.  <br><br>None of the blogs I\'ve been in has there been anything like what was generated towards Malia Obama, in either the posts or comments towards Bristol Palin.  Her pregnancy and the values represented by the Republican party have been talked about.<br><br>I also don\'t visit Daily Kos, Americablog or other \'big blogs\' much, so can\'t say there.  Huffington Post can get pretty stupid sometimes.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12609477" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12609477" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12609477">danadevin74</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12609477" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12609477" class="dsq-comment-message">them good old archives<br>see how you can just look stuff up<br>i guess someone will be here apologizing<br>pretty soon<br><br>and another thing i don\'t think the owners of this site<br>would let people come on here and attack kids<br>no matter who the parents are</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12608055" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12608055" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12608055">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12608055" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12608055" class="dsq-comment-message">You are lying! When did anyone @ JJP make despicable racist vile sexual comments about any of Sarah Palin\'s daughter?  I dare you to find the thread.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12608541" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12608541" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12608541">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12608541" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12608541" class="dsq-comment-message">No such thread exists justice. He just made that shit up.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12623771" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12623771" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12623771" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12623771" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12623771" class="dsq-comment-message">The point that MDI is attempting to get from us is an unequivocal "all politician\'s children are off limits" regardless of age.  That premise is unacceptable because \'children\' grow into adults and cannot be unequivocal.<br><br>Regardless of who was treated worse, it can be said that it is considered inappropriate to attack the "under age" children of any politician.  (Under age in this case meaning the age of majority most often recognized as 18.)<br><br>The sticking point:  MDI made an \'accusation\' regarding the posters here going off on the underage children of politicians.  When asked to provide proof, what then transpires is this idiotic back and forth to first claim all children of all politicians off limits.  It\'s not going to happen.<br><br>You cannot make an accusation and then expect those you accuse to prove your point.  The onus for <u>that </u> is on the one doing the accusing - ITC.... mon_dieu_ishmael   <br><br>It\'s simple - provide the proof or shut the fuck up.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12612116" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12612116" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12612116">mon_dieu_ishmael</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12612116" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12612116" class="dsq-comment-message">All politicians kids should be off limits, even the kids of politicians you hate.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12613091" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12613091" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12613091">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12613091" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12613091" class="dsq-comment-message">You lied on posters here @ JJP!  How dare you!! <br><br>You said: <b>People here played pile on with Palin\'s kids. The comments about her kids were vindictive, mean, and appalling.</b><br><br>Not anyone I know here would even dare to go there. I have come to know some of these people pretty well and a few on a personal level.  I have been around here longer than some of the posters. I was here before the big crowd came.  I have never seen anyone write anything vulgar or vile  towards any of Sarah Palin\'s children. I dare you to find it. You want justify what posters @ FreeRepublic wrote about an innocent little girl that hasn\'t even gone through puberty yet.  They were foul, racist, sexual degoratory comments directed @ an 11 year old child. Sarah Palin was talked about here because of her hypocrisy. No one here ever called Bristol Palin a "street whore", or said "wonder when will she have her first abortion" OMG, I can hardly stand to even write the word about an 11 year old child. That is  what you would call appauling, sexual racist comments. <br><br>Don\'t you ever accuse these posters @ JJP of that kind of bullsh!t ever again.  I\'m here just about everyday and I see what they write. I don\'t even believe anything that vile was ever posted @ Huffington Post either because the comment wouldn\'t have been approved.<br><br>So you come here to post a bold-faced lie as if these posters did the same so it\'s justified. You\'re not just a liar but a dirty liar!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12613459" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12613459" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12613459">mon_dieu_ishmael</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12613459" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12613459" class="dsq-comment-message">I really, really think that you need to go back and read the snarky comments.   <br>Perhaps I did not make myself clear:  The Children of Politicians should be OFF LIMITS.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12614459" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12614459" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12614459">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12614459" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12614459" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>People here played pile on with Palin\'s kids. The comments about her kids were vindictive, mean, and appalling.</i><br><br><br>You made an accusation so prove it!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12615012" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12615012" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12615012">mon_dieu_ishmael</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12615012" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12615012" class="dsq-comment-message">I tell you what, you go back over the last 8 months, ever since Bristol announced her pregnancy, and read the comments at JJP.<br>PPLZ reveled in it, its was cheap shot, after cheap shot at an 18 year old girl who made 2 mistakes, 1) having sex with a pile of shyt like Levi Johnson, 2) being born to Sarah Palin.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12615511" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12615511" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12615511">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12615511" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12615511" class="dsq-comment-message">Document.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12615813" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12615813" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12615813">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12615813" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12615813" class="dsq-comment-message">You are full of crap.<br><br>The key point that you seem to be missing is that these so-called "cheap shots" were taken at an 18 year old woman. No where on this blog was she called a street whore. She was not called a slut or any other offensive name. No one ragged on her for wearing shorts and a t-shirt.<br><br>Now as far as Sarah Palin is concerned, we called her a sno-ho b/c that\'s what she is. I think you seem to be conflating the two.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12616026" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12616026" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12616026" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12616026" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12616026" class="dsq-comment-message">No, the cheap shots were at Sarah Palin for being a hypocrite still preaching abstinence only when her own daughter ended up knocked up which should have shown her that policy was misguided. Hell, Bristol herself said it was unrealistic until Sarah reminded her what she was supposed ot be saying.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12612268" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12612268" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12612268" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12612268" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12612268" class="dsq-comment-message">Adult children?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12612569" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12612569" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12612569">mon_dieu_ishmael</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12612569" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12612569" class="dsq-comment-message">Adult children are private citizens.  And what is an adult?  Age of sexual consent,  Bar/Bat Mitzah, drinking age?<br>I see no reason to hound adult children of politicians.<br>If you have an issue with a politician, take it up with that person.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12612704" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12612704" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12612704">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12612704" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12612704" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh so we shouldn\'t critique Lynn Cheney because, ya know...that\'s Dick\'s "kid"...yeah....ok.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12612694" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12612694" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12612694" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12612694" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12612694" class="dsq-comment-message">Being "old" it\'s relative.  Someone half my age at 25, I would (might) consider a \'kid" in that my daughter is a bit beyond that age.<br><br>Otherwise - my cut-off point is 18 - considered the age of majority for voting and certain other adult rights.  <br><br>Regardless - the viciousness directed against Malia Obama hasn\'t been "enjoyed" by other politicians of similar age here that I\'ve seen or the sites/places I read.  And - that is what was addressed to you originally.  If you have proof, then produce it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12613483" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12613483" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12613483">mon_dieu_ishmael</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12613483" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12613483" class="dsq-comment-message">Perhaps I am not making myself clear:<br>THE CHILDREN OF POLITICANS (ALL OF THEM) SHOULD BE OFF LIMITS.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12613616" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12613616" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12613616" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12613616" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12613616" class="dsq-comment-message">You see it one way; I see it another.<br><br>You\'re not addressing what you were asked to originally address.<br><br>I\'m not having a problem understanding what you\'re are saying.  No need to CAP.  I don\'t usually have a problem engaging whoever in the political spectrum.  If Meagan McCain wants to engage on the national political stage, which she has, then I will engage.  The Bush twins - don\'t know what they\'re doing.  Liz Cheney is engaged because she has been political.  That\'s MY point. <br><br>Piper (thank you, WRB) Palin, etc:  No.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12613620" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12613620" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12613620">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12613620" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12613620" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s not what you said about Caroline Kennedy now is it?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12615106" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12615106" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12615106">mon_dieu_ishmael</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12615106" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12615106" class="dsq-comment-message">Caroline Kennedy was running for the US senate.  She was a politician in her own right.  (and don\'t tell me she was not running).</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12622600" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12622600" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12622600">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12622600" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12622600" class="dsq-comment-message">She\'s a politician\'s daughter, so now you have caveats. In other words, you\'re just making it up as you go along.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12609298" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12609298" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12609298" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12609298" class="dsq-comment-message">Ya know what pisses me off - the TWISTING of any incident by  Sarah Palin.<br><br>Case in point: Their alleged values versus the reality of Bristol\'s pregnancy. <br><br>Trig:  A picture of <b>Palin </b> holding Trig that was photoshopped with the head of prominent Alaskan ReThugs.  It was NOT an attack on Trig or anyone with Down Syndrome.<br><br>Willow:  Supposedly the \'joke\' David Letterman told was directed at Willow.  It was NOT.  Anyone who heard, regardless of their political bent, would\'ve known it was about Bristol.  David fucked up in not knowing the difference (physically) between the 18 year-old and the 14 year-old. <br><br>What Republican child or children have been ran over in the press and radio - and now with the explosion of media & technology - blogs like Chelsea Clinton, Amy Carter, and the Obama girls.  Have Mark Sanford\'s boys been subjected to anything like this?<br><br>Track, btw, got into legal trouble and was given the option of jail or the military.<br><br>The children of politicians - is there an age limit?  Liz Cheney as an adult versus 8 year-old Pipsy Palin.  What is THAT kid\'s name.<br><br>The problem with Kristinn - he didn\'t want to take any responsibility for what appeared on his site.  And that constant meme - "yeah but, so & so did it.  Grow fucking up.  It doesn\'t matter what someone else; it matters what you do.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12613060" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12613060" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12613060">Angelar</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12613060" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12613060" class="dsq-comment-message">By the way, Levi Johnston said in an interview this morning that Palin even suggested a family reality show, which means putting the kids on public display "for money"....but, Levi said the kids were against it.   Now what is all this catterwalling Palin does about leaving her children alone?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12610086" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12610086" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12610086">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12610086" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12610086" class="dsq-comment-message">And there ya have it!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12610998" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12610998" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12610998" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12610998" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12610998" class="dsq-comment-message">I probably should add this note: I will not \'attack\' children....especially anyone under 18, regardless.  I wouldn\'t have used the picture of Trig.  I wouldn\'t have made a joke about Bristol Palin & Alex Rodriguez.<br><br>I don\'t care about John Edwards\' kids, Mark Sanford\'s boys or any other politician because to me it\'s about the policies of the parent(s).  In the case of Sarah Palin, you cannot have it both ways - you cannot be cheerleader of a certain value system and NOT expect some kind of retribution when you do not \'live up to\' your own values or standards.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12613174" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12613174" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12613174">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12613174" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12613174" class="dsq-comment-message">Her name is Piper.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12608806" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12608806" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12608806">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12608806" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12608806" class="dsq-comment-message">Please, find one comment on these threads that called any of Palin\'s kids NIGGER, GHETTO TRASH.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12598572" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12598572" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12598572">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12598572" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12598572" class="dsq-comment-message">I just saw it! Couldn\'t believe that Kristinn said those remarks were comparable to what was said about Palin\'s kids.  These folks are riDICulous.<br><br>HATE warps the mind and soul.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12591475" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12591475" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12591475">Angelar</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12591475" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12591475" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, brace yourself for the putrid prattle she\'ll be spewing.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12595937" class="dsq-comment-message">Don\'t know whether to take aspirins now or wait until later.  Whatever happens I am sure that I am not ready to watch someone *try* to defend the indefensible.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12601850" class="dsq-comment-message">Freerepublic Defense Video: <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/07/13/free_republics_kristinn_taylor_spars_with_shuster_over_malia_thread.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/07/...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12594110" class="dsq-comment-message">July 13, 2009<br>The Fall<br>by publius<br><br>Tomorrow\'s NYT takes a look at the fall of Sarah Palin over the past few months.  The theme that emerges is that Palin simply wasn\'t ready for the glare of the spotlight.  In particular, the NYT describes Palin as overly obsessed with -- and distracted by -- criticisms.  She apparently felt the need to answer them all.<br><br>To me, this hair-trigger sensitivity was a function of her inexperience.  It\'s easy to forget just how meteoric her rise was.  She went from a small-town nobody mayor in 2006 to governor.  And even then, most people had never heard of her until McCain picked her.  Basically, she went from nobody to world celebrity in 24 hours.  As a result, she never had time to develop the thick skin that successful politicians must eventually acquire.  <br><br>Indeed, one of the overlooked benefits of political experience is that you develop scars.  Sure, experience helps you learn issues and the media game and all that.  But it also hardens you.  You learn over the years to take your blows, pick your battles, and adjust to reading savage attacks on you and even your family.  You learn not to be debilitated by it.<br><br>This proven toughness was always Clinton\'s strongest virtue.  Whatever her flaws, I had no doubt that she could take a punch and punch back.  With Obama, I was never 100% sure.  But even Obama developed scars before it was all over.  He took his lumps over a grueling two year period and excelled.  Palin, by contrast, had a few days.  She needed more time -- and more battles.  <br><br>It\'s a lot like childhood vaccines.  Children don\'t get all their vaccinations at once.  They get them progressively over years -- and they become progressively more resilient.  Seasoned politicians have to learn to be resilient.<br><br>And that, ultimately, was Palin\'s problem (well, one of them).  Everything came at once, and too fast.  And she simply folded under the pressure.  <br><br>I\'m not saying I could do better -- it\'s an insanely difficult game to master.  But it is a reason why she should have never been picked in the first place.<br><br>Posted by publius at 01:41 AM in <br><br><a href="http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2009/07/the-fall.html" rel="nofollow">http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12594972" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s a reply over at Obsidian:<br><br><i> I was hoping that someone would blog this NYT article, because I just finished reading it and had to fight to retain my breakfast, let alone my appetite.<br><br>You can read it yourself, but I\'ll save you the trouble and boil it down to a shorter version: "Waah! The media, bloggers, and the McCain campaign were mean to Sarah Palin, and left her with no choice but to quit. She was failed by everyone around her. But she\'ll be back, you betcha!"<br><br>I\'m serious. It was that bad. Every page was filled with bleating about how unfair everything and everyone was to Palin, and how she was just swept up in events. There\'s a nod here and there to her incompetence, but most of the blame gets leveled squarely on the media.<br><br>I hope they didn\'t waste ink on that whiny piece of crap.<br><br>Posted by: Catsy | July 13, 2009 at 12:35 PM <br><br></i></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12603280" class="dsq-comment-message">Please, who the hell in the RIGHT mind would ever think Palin is a viable candidate to be President of the United States of America.<br><br>The GOP unleased this rabid animal in 2008, and all she\'s done is collect all the shiney bones(trinkets), spewed a bunch of nonsensical rhetoric about smaller government, energy independence, yelped a few "you betchas" and winked her way into a frenzy of whining, complaining and blaming folks for her fucked up views.<br><br>The woman has VICTIMHOOD encoded in her DNA.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12596254" class="dsq-comment-message">excellent analysis Catsy.  I concur.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12594371" class="dsq-comment-message">"Orgasm A Day" Campaign Directed At British Schoolchildren Sparks Controversy<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/12/ogasm-a-day-campaign-dire_n_230221.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/12/ogasm-...</a><br><br>As GreenLady would say "shaking my head from side to side".</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12596322" class="dsq-comment-message">hmmm......when I was in elem school, all we learned was "if I had a hammer"...and I\'m pretty sure we were talking about an actual hammer.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12602080" class="dsq-comment-message">"what the world needs now is love, sweet love."<br>If only Dr Elder had taught our 8th grade "health" classes, we would all be a lot happier.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12610941" class="dsq-comment-message">lolol</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12596279" class="dsq-comment-message">What the <i>hell</i> is Mrs Obama wearing at the Vatican, and what does her attire have to do with this story...<br><br>I don\'t have a problem with kids learning this...it\'s much better than the patently false garbage they hear in church.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12596392" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12596392" class="dsq-comment-message">Today\'s Conversation: Society Does Not Actively Support Single Motherhood (But The Black "Community" Does)<br><br><a href="http://tinyurl.com/ntsg5c" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/ntsg5c</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12597178" class="dsq-comment-message"><strong>White House to push forward with National Urban Policy Agenda</strong>    <br><em>After remaining out of the public eye since its creation in February, the White House Office of Urban Affairs plans on Monday to launch a public conversation to create a national urban policy agenda, said Adolfo Carrión Jr., its director.<br><br>    The White House will host a daylong urban policy discussion including mayors, county executives, governors, urban policy experts, and heads of various agencies, Carrión said in a telephone interview yesterday .<br><br>    President Obama is expected to address the conference and announce plans to send Carrión and other senior administration officials on a tour of American cities to discuss urban issues, Carrión said.<br><br>    The conference is the first indication that the White House could back its urban policy office with the kind of muscle that Obama suggested during his campaign, before the economic collapse. He called for a new kind of urban policy to address cities and also their suburbs, and urban advocates hoped that this could be a focus of his administration\'s economic development approach.<br><br>    "We have not had a national urban policy for decades," said Carrión. "Meanwhile, the economy has changed."<br><br>    Those gathered Monday will consider local initiatives that could become best practices to emulate, with the goals of increasing the competitiveness, sustainable development and opportunity of metropolitan regions.<br><br>    The conference is to present an interdisciplinary approach to urban issues and include the heads of the Departments of Labor, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Small Business Administration. [...]<br><br>    "For too long government has operated from the top down," said Carrión. "We\'ve always heard why does the national government send down these unfunded mandates, under funded mandates, mandates that are not necessarily universally applicable. The bottom-up approach speaks to the need for this to be flexible." </em><br><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/12/AR2009071200948_pf.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12601777" class="dsq-comment-message">Yawn - I have read/heard this boilerplate claptrap since the 1960s.  As Miranda posted recently:  Atlanta has to send money back to the feds. that was allocated in the late 1990s but not spent.  Detroit has had to do the same thing with educational funds.<br>Urban policy always boils down to the mayors asking for money, most of which they waste.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12609987" class="dsq-comment-message">So place some rules and regulations.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12597752" class="dsq-comment-message">Californians Hold The Power Of The Proposition<br>by Ina Jaffe<br><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106479362" rel="nofollow">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?st...</a><br><br>"Voters tend to be interested in immediate gratification," Schnur says. "And if they are asked to vote for something that is appealing to them, there\'s no part of the package that says, \'You might like this now, but will you like it in 10 or 20 years?\' "</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12599300" class="dsq-comment-message">Avoid using Wells farg if you can. they are going to blow up on the tax payer and charge you for the privledge. Their mortgage portfolio is more than toxic.<br><a href="http://healdsburgbubble.blogspot.com/2009/05/reset-chart-from-credit-suisse-has.html" rel="nofollow">http://healdsburgbubble.blogspot.com/2009/05/re...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12600729" class="dsq-comment-message">As I was reading that article, alls I heard in my head was wah wah wah wah, wah wah wah wah!!<br><br>Probably why I \'ont gots no money now.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12600136" class="dsq-comment-message">What the ?????<br><br><i>Afternoon Open Thread · 10 minutter dage siden</i><br><br>I knew I wasn\'t in Amerika any mores.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12604584" class="dsq-comment-message">The New Black Panthers are in the sights of the GOP<br><br><b><a href="http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/gop-holder-battle-over-new-black-panthers-2009-07-12.html" rel="nofollow">GOP, Holder battle over New Black Panthers </a></b><br><br><br>Source: The Hill<br><blockquote>Key House Republicans are charging Attorney General Eric Holder of playing politics at the Justice Department.<br><br>Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) said Holder has ignored at least three letters sent over the past month from Republicans demanding to know why Justice dismissed charges of voter intimidation filed against two members of the “New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense” (NBPP).<br><br>NBPP National Chairman Milik Zulu Shabazz and party member Jerry Jackson both faces charges for violating the Voting Rights Act for engaging in coercion, threats and intimidation and attempted coercion, threats, and intimidation of voters and those aiding voters at a Philadelphia polling station on November 4th, 2008.<br><br>Charges against the Black Panthers were originally filed when President George W. Bush was in power.<br><br>A spokeswoman for Justice said facts did not back up the charges, and that career officials at Justice, not political appointees, decided to drop the charges.</blockquote></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12608824" class="dsq-comment-message">Is this same micky-fick sending letters to Justice to ask about federal charges against the thugs that beat Luis Ramirez??</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12609843" class="dsq-comment-message">Seems like they are writing to the wrong agency. After all, under the B___ admin, it was the FBI that put out a call, an information bulletin, <i>‘Black Separatism a Volatile Movement of Node—Node of Domestic Radicalization\'</i>.  Some call this bulletin the "New COINTELPRO" which named the Nation of Islam, New Black Panther Party, and Five Percenters as groups of current concern to law enforcement..</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12604831" class="dsq-comment-message">2009 Black Blog Awards!<br><br>Nominate JJP for:  Best Group Blog<br>                   Best Political/News Blog<br>                   Best Blog<br><br><a href="http://www.blackweblogawards.com/categories/" rel="nofollow">http://www.blackweblogawards.com/categories/</a><br><br><br>•The Black Weblog Awards are for weblogs by Black people. If you’ve got a question on what a Black weblog is, feel free to browse the winners from past years.<br><br>•For the nomination process, blog owners must claim their own blog. Only one blog can be nominated per e-mail address. Duplicate nominations that are found are immediately removed from the system without notification based on submission date. Nominations are open from June 20 – July 25.<br><br>•Those nominating a blog must have a valid e-mail address for submitting. When you go through the nomination process, you will have the option to subscribe to the Black Weblog Awards Newsletter distribution list and for entry into the Black Blog Directory. Please read our privacy policy if there are any concerns. Your information will not be used in any other way than those aforementioned, but ballots with fake and “anti-spam” addresses will not be accepted.<br><br>•Please do not submit nominations through our contact form or through any of our social network profiles. Any nominations received through these means will not count towards nominations or finalist vote counts.<br><br>•Blogs that have won a particular category at least three times are no longer eligible to win for that particular category. This includes blogs that have won either the Judges’ and/or Popular vote for their category.<br><br>•Each category will have two winners: a Popular vote and a Judges’ vote. The top five most nominated blogs in each category will become finalists which the public will vote on via the finalist form. These are the Popular vote winners. Our panel of judges will select their favorite blogs (ranked on a weighted system) from the pool of nominees. These are the Judges’ vote winners. Voting for both takes place from August 1-31.<br><br>•The winners for both the Popular and Judges’ Votes will be announced on September 4.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12605673" class="dsq-comment-message">\'Jane Roe\' Arrested at Supreme Court Hearing<br>By Paul Kane<br>Washington Post Staff Writer <br>Monday, July 13, 2009; 5:09 PM <br><br>The woman at the center of the Supreme Court\'s landmark abortion rights ruling was arrested today at the confirmation hearing for Sonia Sotomayor among a wave of anti-abortion protesters who lined the sidewalks outside the Senate office buildings and several of whom made it into the hearing room and disrupted in an attempt to disrupt the proceedings. <br><br>Norma McCorvey, 61, of Texas, better known as "Jane Roe" in the famous Roe v. Wade case from January 1973, was arrested after she and another protester started yelling during the opening statement of Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), according to Capitol Police. McCorvey, whose pursuit of the right to access to abortion in the early 1970s led to the ruling that has been a pivotal part of every Supreme Court nomination process since, eventually become a leading opponent of the procedure. <br><br>Sgt. Kimberly Schneider of the Capitol Police said McCorvey and Francis Mahoney, 68, of Florida were charged with unlawful conduct for disrupting Congress, the third and fourth such arrests the police made during the more than five-hour proceedings. McCorvey was part of the group of protesters outside the Hart Senate Office Building throughout the day, a gathering led by Randall Terry, the former head of Operation Rescue, an organization dedicated to ending abortion. <br><br>The last two rows of the hearing room were reserved for about 50 members of the public, who rotate into the hearings for short intervals and then must be escorted out to allow other citizens to view the historic proceedings. McCorvey and Mahoney were part of a group being escorted out as Franken was praising the service of  Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), a staunch supporter of the Roe decision. Kennedy left the Judiciary Committee earlier this year, making this the first Supreme Court confirmation fight without his presence since 1965. <br><br>When McCorvey and Mahoney started shouting, they were quickly removed from the room.  Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), Judiciary Committee chairman, banged the gavel on the crowd for the third time today. <br><br><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/13/AR2009071302345.html?hpid=topnews" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12613100" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12613100" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12613100">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12613100" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12613100" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, it was a great day for CHOICE!!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12637224">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12637224" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12637224" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12637224">khrish</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12637224" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12637224" class="dsq-comment-message">Isn\'t it amazing when one gets the right to make a choice for oneself and maybe didn\'t like the results of that choice.....They want to deny anyone else the same opportunity for choice that they had?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12606393">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12606393" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12606393" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12606393">Monie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12606393" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12606393" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>Minority Broadcasters In Danger Of Extinction, Ask Geithner For Help</b><br><br><br><br>Fourteen minority broadcasters sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner Monday asking for financial assistance.<br><br>In the current economic situation, "minority-owned broadcasters are close to becoming an extinct species," they said in the letter. They also noted that the percentage of broadcasting companies owned by minorities is in the low single digits.<br><br>The broadcasters called on the Treasury to institute a program similar to the recent Auto Supplier Support Program, which would increase the flow of credit to broadcast companies. They also asked Geithner to consider issuing government-backed loans.<br><br>The letter comes on the heels of a similar one from House leadership in June, including James Clyburn (D-SC), Barney Frank (D-MA), Charlie Rangel (D-NY) and Ed Towns (D-NY).<br><br>The text of the letter is included at the link:<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/13/minority-broadcasters-in_n_230890.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/13/minori...</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12608826">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12608826" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12608826" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12608826">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12608826" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12608826" class="dsq-comment-message">EVENING OPEN THREAD IS UP!!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 </ul>\
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