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ROFLMAO!! And sending me with you dammit!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_22:52:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12015904, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11991091": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "i posted that article on my facebook page. it was good and juicy!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_14:51:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "Ladyvenoms", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11989128, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11998263": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's so offensive...damn.....", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_18:07:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11995006, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12019772": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "the times are are definitely changing...I don't see this as small stuff.  <br><br>President Obama..has truly become the Commander in Chief in more ways than one.<br><br><a href=\"http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2009/07/01/marines-launch-major-push-in-afghanistan/?cxntfid=blogs_jay_bookman_blog\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2009/07/0...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_23:18:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "12012608": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I did not see this today, but, I heard it on the radio and I actually had to wince when I heard Gibbs try to respond......me thinks the Obama teams needs to hear what is being said by these people.   I don't think they were out of line and it reminded me of how the bushies controlled their \"town hall meetings.\"<br><br><a href=\"http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/07/01/cbs_helen_thomas_challenge_gibbs_on_controlled_town_hall_meeting.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/07/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_20:45:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "11995202": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "interesting piece from womanist-musings regarding comments on race from Morgan Freeman<br><br><a href=\"http://www.womanist-musings.com/2009/07/no-more-race-talk-for-morgan-freeman.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.womanist-musings.com/2009/07/no-more...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_16:51:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "12015685": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "something very serious is going on..pay attention..we have four thousand troops fighting in a war that our president hasn't told us about.<br><br><br><a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/world/asia/02afghan.html?_r=1&hp\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/world/asia/02...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_22:24:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "12015686": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Jenny is the heiress to Skilsaw<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoRh8T_VX-Y\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoRh8T_VX-Y</a><br><br>this carving is soooo representative of what she could do to him!<br><br>\"that tear is  not going to deter me\"<br><br>lol lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_22:24:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12012384, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12015687": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Me either!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_22:24:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12004311, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11991735": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Greg Tate: Michael Jackson, the Man in Our Mirror<br><br><a href=\"http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-07-01/news/michael-jackson-the-man-in-our-mirror\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-07-01/news/mic...</a><br><br>What Black American culture\u2014musical and otherwise\u2014lacks for now isn't talent or ambition, but the unmistakable presence of some kind of spiritual genius: the sense that something other than or even more than human is speaking through whatever fragile mortal vessel is burdened with repping for the divine, the magical, the supernatural, the ancestral. You can still feel it when you go hear Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Aretha Franklin, or Cecil Taylor, or when you read Toni Morrison\u2014living Orishas who carry on a tradition whose true genius lies in making forms and notions as abstract, complex, and philosophical as soul, jazz, or the blues so deeply and universally felt. But such transcendence is rare now, given how desperate, soul-crushing, and immobilizing modern American life has become for the poorest strata of our folk, and how dissolute, dispersed, and distanced from that resource-poor, but culturally rich, heavyweight strata the rest of us are becoming. And, like Morrison cautioned a few years ago, where the culture is going now, not even the music may be enough to save us.<br><br>The yin and yang of it is simple: You don't get the insatiable hunger (or the Black acculturation) that made James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, and Michael Jackson run, not walk, out the 'hood without there being a 'hood\u2014the Olympic obstacle-course incubator of much musical Black genius as we know it. As George Clinton likes to say, \"Without the humps, there's no getting over.\" (Next stop: hip-hop\u2014and maybe the last stop, too, though who knows, maybe the next humbling god of the kulcha will be a starchitect or a superstring theorist, the Michael Jackson of D-branes, black P-branes, and dark-energy engineering.) Black Americans are inherently and even literally \"damaged goods,\" a people whose central struggle has been overcoming the non-person status we got stamped and stomped into us during slavery and post-Reconstruction and resonates even now, if you happen to be Black and poor enough. (As M-1 of dead prez wondered out loud, \"What are we going to do to get all this poverty off of us?\") As a people, we have become past-masters of devising strategies for erasing the erasure. Dreaming up what's still the most sublime visual representation of this process is what makes Jean-Michel Basquiat's work not just ingenious, but righteous and profound. His dreaming up the most self-flagellating erasure of self to stymie the erasure is what makes Michael Jackson's story so numbing, so macabre, so absurdly Stephen King.<br><br>The scariest thing about the Motown legacy, as my father likes to argue, is that you could have gone into any Black American community at the time and found raw talents equal to any of the label's polished fruit: the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, or Holland-Dozier-Holland\u2014all my love for the mighty D and its denizens notwithstanding. Berry Gordy just industrialized the process, the same as Harvard or the CIA has always done for the brightest prospective servants of the Evil Empire. The wisdom of Berry's intervention is borne out by the fact that since Motown left Detroit, the city's production of extraordinary musical talent can be measured in droplets: the Clark Sisters, Geri Allen, Jeff Mills, Derrick May, Kenny Garrett, J Dilla. But Michael himself is our best proof that Motown didn't have a lock on the young, Black, and gifted pool, as he and his siblings were born in Gary, Indiana: a town otherwise only notable for electing our good brother Richard Hatcher to a 20-year mayoral term and for hosting the historic 1972 National Black Political Convention, a gathering where our most politically educated folk (the Black Panther Party excepted) chose to shun Shirley Chisholm's presidential run. Unlike Motown, no one could ever accuse my Black radical tradition of blithely practicing unity for the community. Or of possessing the vision and infrastructure required to pull a cat like Michael up from the abysmal basement of America and groom him for world domination.<br><br>Motown saved Michael from Gary, Indiana: no small feat. Michael and his family remain among the few Negroes of note to escape from the now century-old city, which today has a Black American population of 84 percent. These numbers would mean nothing if we were talking about a small Caribbean nation, but they tend to represent a sign of the apocalypse where urban America is concerned. The Gary of 2009 is considered the 17th most dangerous city in America, which may be an improvement. The real question of the hour is, How many other Black American men born in Gary in 1958 lived to see their 24th birthday in 1982, the year Thriller broke the world open louder than a cobalt bomb and remade Black American success in Michael's before-and-after image? Where Black modernity is concerned, Michael is the real missing link: the \"bridge of sighs\" between the Way We Were and What We've Become in what Nelson George has astutely dubbed the \"Post-Soul Era\"\u2014the only race-coded \"post\" neologism grounded in actual history and not puffery. Michael's post-Motown life and career are a testament to all the cultural greatness that Motown and the chitlin circuit wrought, but also all the acute identity crises those entities helped set in motion in the same funky breath.<br><br>From Compton to Harlem, we've witnessed grown men broke-down crying in the 'hood over Michael; some of my most hard-bitten, 24/7 militant Black friends, male and female alike, copped to bawling their eyes out for days after they got the news. It's not hard to understand why: For just about anybody born in Black America after 1958\u2014and this includes kids I'm hearing about who are as young as nine years old right now\u2014Michael came to own a good chunk of our best childhood and adolescent memories. The absolute irony of all the jokes and speculation about Michael trying to turn into a European woman is that after James Brown, his music (and his dancing) represent the epitome\u2014one of the mightiest peaks\u2014of what we call Black Music. Fortunately for us, that suspect skin-lightening disease, bleaching away his Black-nuss via physical or psychological means, had no effect on the field-holler screams palpable in his voice, or the electromagnetism fueling his elegant and preternatural sense of rhythm, flexibility, and fluid motion. With just his vocal gifts and his body alone as vehicles, Michael came to rank as one of the great storytellers and soothsayers of the last 100 years.<br><br>Furthermore, unlike almost everyone in the Apollo Theater pantheon save George Clinton, Michael now seems as important to us an image-maker\u2014an illusionist and a fantasist at that\u2014as he was a musician/entertainer. And until Hype Williams came on the music-video scene in the mid '90s, no one else insisted that the visuals supporting r&b and hip-hop be as memorable, eye-popping, and seductive as the music itself. Nor did anyone else spare no expense to ensure that they were. But Michael's phantasmal, shape-shifting videos, upon reflection, were also, strangely enough, his way of socially and politically engaging the worlds of other real Blackfolk from places like South Central L.A., Bahia, East Africa, the prison system, Ancient Egypt. He did this sometimes in pursuit of mere spectacle (\"Black and White\"), sometimes as critical observer (\"The Way You Make Me Feel\"), sometimes as a cultural nationalist romantic (\"Remember the Time\"), even occasionally as a harsh American political commentator (\"They Don't Care About Us\"). Looking at those clips again, as millions of us have done over this past weekend, is to realize how prophetic Michael was in dropping mad cash to leave behind a visual record of his work that was as state-of-the-art as his musical legacy. As if he knew that one day our musical history would be more valued for what can be seen as for what can be heard.<br><br>(Having said that, my official all-time-favorite Michael clip is the one of him on Oprah viciously beatboxing and freestyling a new jam into creation\u2014instantaneously connecting Michael in a syncopating heartbeat to those spiritual tributaries that Langston Hughes described, the ones \"ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.\" Bottom line: Anyone whose racial-litmus-test challenge to Michael came with a rhythm-and-blues battle royale event would have gotten their ass royally waxed.)<br><br>George Clinton thought the reason Michael constantly chipped away at his appearance was less about racial self-loathing than about the number-one problem superstars have, which is figuring out what to do when people get sick of looking at your face. His orgies of rhino- and other plasty's were no more than an attempt to stay ahead of a fickle public's fickleness. In the '90s, at least until Eminem showed up, hip-hop would seem to have proven that major Black pop success in America didn't require a whitening up, maybe much to Michael's chagrin. Critical sidebar: I have always wanted to believe that Michael was actually one of the most secretly angry Black race-men on the planet. I thought that if he had been cast as the Iraqi nativist who beat the shit out of Marky Mark in Ridley and Russell's Three Kings while screaming, \"What is the problem with Michael Jackson? Your sick fucking country makes the Black man hate his self,\" Wahlberg would have left the set that day looking like the Great Pumpkin. I have also come to wonder if a mid-life-crisis Michael was, in fact, capable and culpable of having staged his own pedophilic race-war revival of that bitterly angry role? Especially during those Jesus Juice\u2013swilling sleepovers at his Neverland Plantation, again and again and again? I honestly hope to never discover that this was indeed the truth.<br><br>Whatever Michael's alienation and distance from the Black America he came from\u2014from the streets, in particular\u2014he remained a devoted student of popular Black music, dance, and street style, giving to and taking from it in unparalleled ways. He let neither ears nor eyes nor footwork stray too far out of touch from the action, sonically, sartorially, or choreographically. But whatever he appropriated also came back transmogrified into something even more inspiring and ennobled than before. Like the best artists everywhere, he begged, borrowed, and stole from (and/or collaborated with) anybody he thought would make his own expression more visceral, modern, and exciting, from Spielberg to Akon to, yes, OK, smartass, cosmetic surgeons. In any event, once he went solo, Michael was, above all else, committed to his genius being felt as powerfully as whatever else in mass culture he caught masses of people feeling at the time. I suppose there is some divine symmetry to be found in Michael checking out when Barack Obama, the new King of Pop, is just settling in: Just count me among those who feel that, in Michael Jackson terms, the young orator from Hawaii is only up to about the Destiny tour.<br><br>Of course, Michael's careerism had a steep downside, tripped onto a slippery slope, when he decided that his public and private life could be merged, orchestrated, and manipulated for publicity and mass consumption as masterfully as his albums and videos. I certainly began to feel this when word got out of him sleeping in a hyperbaric chamber or trying to buy the Elephant Man's bones, and I became almost certain this was the case when he dangled his hooded baby son over a balcony for the paparazzi, to say nothing of his alleged darker impulses. At what point, we have to wonder, did the line blur for him between Dr. Jacko and Mr. Jackson, between Peter Pan fantasies and predatory behaviors? At what point did the Man in the Mirror turn into Dorian Gray? When did the Warholian creature that Michael created to deflect access to his inner life turn on him and virally rot him from the inside?<br><br>Real Soul Men eat self-destruction, chased by catastrophic forces from birth and then set upon by the hounds of hell the moment someone pays them cash-money for using the voice of God to sing about secular adult passion. If you can find a more freakish litany of figures who have suffered more freakishly disastrous demises and career denouements than the Black American Soul Man, I'll pay you cash-money. Go down the line: Robert Johnson, Louis Jordan, Johnny Ace, Little Willie John, Frankie Lymon, Sam Cooke, James Carr, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Al Green, Teddy Pendergrass, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield. You name it, they have been smacked down by it: guns, planes, cars, drugs, grits, lighting rigs, shoe polish, asphyxiation by vomit, electrocution, enervation, incarceration, their own death-dealing preacher-daddy. A few, like Isaac Hayes, get to slowly rust before they grow old. A select few, like Sly, prove too slick and elusive for the tide of the River Styx, despite giddy years mocking death with self-sabotage and self-abuse.<br><br>Michael's death was probably the most shocking celebrity curtain call of our time because he had stopped being vaguely mortal or human for us quite a while ago, had become such an implacably bizarre and abstracted tabloid creation, worlds removed from the various Michaels we had once loved so much. The unfortunate blessing of his departure is that we can now all go back to loving him as we first found him, without shame, despair, or complication. \"Which Michael do you want back?\" is the other real question of the hour: Over the years, we've seen him variously as our Hamlet, our Superman, our Peter Pan, our Icarus, our Fred Astaire, our Marcel Marceau, our Houdini, our Charlie Chaplin, our Scarecrow, our Peter Parker and Black Spider-Man, our Ziggy Stardust and Thin White Duke, our Little Richard redux, our Alien vs. Predator, our Elephant Man, our Great Gatsby, our Lon Chaney, our Ol' Blue Eyes, our Elvis, our Frankenstein, our ET, our Mystique, our Dark Phoenix.<br><br>Celebrity idols are never more present than when they up and disappear, never ever saying goodbye, while affirming James Brown's prophetic reasoning that \"Money won't change you/But time will take you out.\" JB also told us, \"I've got money, but now I need love.\" And here we are. Sitting with the rise and fall and demise of Michael, and grappling with how, as dream hampton put it, \"The loneliest man in the world could be one of the most beloved.\" Now that some of us oldheads can have our Michael Jackson back, we feel liberated to be more gentle toward his spirit, releasing him from our outright rancor for scarring up whichever pre-trial, pre-chalk-complexion incarnation of him first tickled our fancies. Michael not being in the world as a Kabuki ghost makes it even easier to get through all those late-career movie-budget clips where he already looks headed for the out-door. Perhaps it's a blessing in disguise both for him and for us that he finally got shoved through it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_15:10:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "HopeOverFear", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11994191": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<I>\"Asked if he has plans to run for public office, he replied, \"I hope not. You know, I talked to God about that and he was like, 'No.</I><br><br>Dude!  I'm like 'OH HELL NO!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_16:17:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "IWordsmith", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11993873, "depth": 2, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11988563": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Michael Jackson's top two choices for guardian of his children are:<br>1. Katherine Jackson<br>2. Diana Ross<br><br>So says Rev. Al", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_13:55:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "12009569": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sanford drops pledge to release travel records  <br>by Jed Lewison <br> Share this on Twitter - Sanford drops pledge to release travel records   Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 01:35:59 PM PDT<br>Smoke, meet fire?<br><br>COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) \u2014 South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has backed out of a promise to release personal financial records proving he did not use state money for trips to see his mistress.<br><br>A day after Sanford declared in an emotional Associated Press interview that his mistress is his soul mate, spokesman Joel Sawyer says the governor does not want to discuss personal matters in the media anymore. <br><br>Unless Sanford plans on resigning, this move doesn't make any sense. He can refuse to release them voluntarily, but sooner or later -- and probably sooner -- he'll be compelled by state lawmakers or law enforcement officials to release the records.<br><br>The only possibility of the records staying private -- at least while he remains in office -- is if he resigns<br><br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/1/748903/-Sanford-drops-pledge-to-release-travel-records\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/1/748903/-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_19:07:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "11993703": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It means Michael loved his mother but was smart enough to know that he left her with complete executorship, she would have given the money to Joe.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_16:01:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "NMP", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11993569, "depth": 2, "points": 7, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11990122": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm speechless. Mouth hanging open speechless.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_14:24:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "sdg1844", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11989236, "depth": 1, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12015729": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Okay,<br> <br>I have to admit, I haven't watched the whole BAD video in bout what 15 years.  ya know the part with Wesley Snipes! I didn't even reme,mber that the video was directed by Martin Scorceses (WTF!!).  It just came on VH1 Soul, the whole 15+ mins of it.<br><br>Music vids just aren't 15 mins.  You'd be hard pressed to find one that clocks in at 5 min.<br><br>And can anyone else remember anyone doing videos will a full cabal of dancers choreographed to within an inch of their lives before Michael Jackson?  I can't.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_22:27:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "lamh", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "11993715": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Isn't this the same circus (magnified 100 times) when Elvis dies. It was over kill then and over kill X 100 today.<br><br>NOW, these sloeful, crazy azz niggas fixta change the location BACK to LA for the MJ Memorial after eerybody got gassed up and mapquest directions to go the Neverland. Geesh", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_16:02:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11992400, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12015220": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This may sound tough but I truly believe that any parent who would allow their child to become so obese is also guilty of child abuse and child neglect.   Unless the parent is totally ignorant, they are guilty.<br><br>I do not buy laziness, stress or any other problem...oh we want to hold Mark Sandford to account, but, we don't want to hold lazy parents who allow their children to become morbidly obese...?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_21:58:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12014503, "depth": 1, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12022395": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sometimes you just got to role the dice and hope they land on \"settlement\".  She won't be the only one throwing their name in the hat for a chance of a payoff.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_01:32:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11991725, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12009596": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Chuckie T has as much strength and taste for journalism as a watered down can of Campbelll's Soup.<br><br>That Murphy dude's gone scruffy.  He and Dan Abrams look like they've been at some \"Men who run with the Bears\" retreat", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_19:09:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12009519, "depth": 1, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11993726": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "7/01/2009<br>Mark Sanford's Line in the Twat:<br><br><a href=\"http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_16:02:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11993732": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm still laughing.....hoooo boy!    Actually a Palin/Joe the Plumber ticket would be hilarious!!<br><br><a href=\"http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-5697-Grassroots-Politics-Examiner%7Ey2009m7d1-Will-Joe-the-Plumber-run-for-office-I-talked-to-God-about-that-and-he-was-like-No\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-5697-Grassro...</a><br><br>\"Asked if he has plans to run for public office, he replied, \"I hope not. You know, I talked to God about that and he was like, 'No.<br><br>He continued, \"I believe he's gotten me on this grassroots movement. If I can encourage leaders to step up, that's what I would like to do. That's a heavy role. That's something I don't know if I am prepared to do yet.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_16:02:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12012166": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I am not usually given into \"secret society\" types of things....but, the more I read about this the more I have questions.  I'm now thinking the cliche \"where there is smoke there is fire\" is fitting here.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.jabberwonk.com/flinker.cfm?cliid=10q9uw\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.jabberwonk.com/flinker.cfm?cliid=10q9uw</a><br><br>\"'Family': Fundamentalism, Friends In High Places<br>Listen Now [19 min 22 sec] add to playlist | download<br><br>Greg Martin<br><br>In The Family, Jeff Sharlet writes about his foray into Ivanwald, the communal-living stronghold of the fundamentalist group known as The Fellowship. Courtesy of Harper Collins<br><br>Founded in 1935 in opposition to FDR's New Deal, the right-wing fundamentalist religious group organizes prayer meetings for Congressmen, as well as the annual National Prayer Breakfast. The group also has an alleged connection to a house in Washington, D.C. known as C Street, which serves as a prayer house and residence for politicians like Governor Mark Sanford, Senator John Ensign and Senator Tom Coburn.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_20:27:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "11989128": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Since the Vanity Fair article on Caribou Barbie has come out, Andrew Sullivan is back with his 'Lies of Sarah Palin'. That series was hilarious. <br><br><br><a href=\"http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_13:57:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "11993226": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "OMG.....wonder who is doing the vetting?   Just a few years ago a guy who adopted a foreign girl was caught for selling videos of her.   Makes me think the adoption process should also include a few years of follow up.    I know at one time foster children in California would have private follow up visits with their caseworker so they could talk freely about anything and not feel intimidated by the presence of foster family members.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_15:48:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11989236, "depth": 1, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11994255": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great thread!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_16:20:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "twitter-34175917", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "12011664": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Maureen Dowd hit gold on this article regarding Mark the hypocrite Sanford.  I havent' laughed this much in one day for a loooong time.   Between Sanford and Palin, the fake plumber, and fat ass Limbaugh....the Republican party needs cpr big time!!!<br><br><a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/opinion/01dowd.html?ref=opinion\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/opinion/01dow...</a><br><br>\"Stay focused, ladies. Here is The Practical Guide to Help Spurned Political Wives Survive Old Problems in the Era of New Technology.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_20:08:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11998356": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Do you want to stop being \"the black guy\", or do you want people to stop labelling your professionalism and expertise because thye see you as black? I, for one, don't want to be \"not black\", and I don't think it should be necessary for anyone to become \"not black\" before whatever level of professionalism and expertise they may have is recognized.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_18:11:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Plantsmantx", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11997051, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12009624": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Pawlenty Signs Election Certificate <br><br> <br>After being given the green light, Gov. Tim Pawlenty has signed the election certificate naming Al Franken the state's next U.S. Senator.<br><br>5 EYEWITNESS NEWS caught up with the governor at the airport Tuesday as he arrived back from Washington D.C.<br><br>\"Well Sen. Coleman and Al Franken made very gracious statements today acknowledging the work of the Minnesota Supreme Court. They\u2019ve addressed the issues that it\u2019s time for Minnesota to have two senators. It\u2019s past time, so we\u2019re going to get the certificate signed and make that happen,\" Pawlenty told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS.<br><br>When asked about his personal feelings about the outcome, the governor thanked Coleman for his dedication to the state.<br><br>\"As Solicitor General for the state of Minnesota, when he worked in the Attorney General\u2019s Office as mayor of St. Paul, and as a U.S. Senator\u2014Norm Coleman\u2019s been an extraordinary leader and public servant for Minnesota. I thank him for his service and I know he\u2019ll continue to do great things here and around the country. He\u2019s a friend and a good person,\" Pawlenty said.<br><br>Spokesman Brian McClung says Pawlenty signed the election certificate around 6:15 p.m. at the governor\u2019s residence in St. Paul Tuesday.<br><br>The certificate is now at Secretary of State Mark Ritchie\u2019s office for his countersignature. <br><br>The certificate and cover letter will be faxed to the Secretary of the U.S. Senate and the original will be sent overnight and hand-delivered on Wednesday.<br><br><a href=\"http://kstp.com/news/stories/S1005610.shtml?cat=1\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://kstp.com/news/stories/S1005610.shtml?cat=1</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_19:10:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "11989658": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "From The Black Snob.<br><br>Another entry in the SCAN Chronicles:<br><br>Sallie Selassie In \"This Chateau Isn't Big Enough For the Eight of Us, Pt. 1\" <br>Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 11:00AM <br><br>In the war against ignorance, on the frontlines remains one of the Secret Council of American Negroes\u2019 wiliest of double-agents, code name \u201cSallie Sellassie.\u201d Living as the adopted child of an infamous, orphan addicted celebrity couple, Sallie\u2019s main objective is to use her parents name for fame to the benefit of Negroes everywhere.<br><br>In her last correspondence with SCAN and her \u201chandler,\u201d codename \u201cBrofucious,\u201d Sellassie was dealing with the pressures of living in a house with \u201ctoo many damn babies\u201d in it, while working to get additional aid for the Gulf Coast. The following conversation took place in early April after Cannes.<br><br>More after the jump.<br><br><br>Sallie: What took you so long to answer the phone?<br><br>SCAN: Sorry. Things are a little backlogged here. Under new management.<br><br>Sallie: So the rumors are true.<br><br>SCAN: Black Ops is now being run through the new No. 2\u2019s chief of staff.<br><br>Sallie: And you still have a job?<br><br>SCAN: Quiet you. What\u2019s going on over there?<br><br>Sallie: What are you talking about?<br><br>SCAN: You called all freaked out? What\u2019s up?<br><br>Sallie: She knows.<br><br>SCAN: Who knows? No one knows. You\u2019re like four. Who would suspect you?<br><br>Sallie: I won\u2019t eat my Cream of Wheat unless The Man takes a bite from it first. I don\u2019t know if I can trust her.<br><br>SCAN: Trust her? Doesn\u2019t she love you?<br><br>Sallie: Yes ... but I can be replaced. We all can. There needs to be a thinning of the herd.<br><br>SCAN: What are you talking about?<br><br>Sallie: I need permission to take Maddox out.<br><br>SCAN: Um. Permission DENIED! You already killed that maid that one time and that shit was not unauthorized. Do you know how hard it was to get Aissa Miga to the Chateau just to dump that body in the Danube? She and Rama Yade have more things to do that clean up your boo boos in France.<br><br>Sallie: Fine.<br><br>SCAN: Why are you so threatened by him anyway?<br><br>Sallie: He was the first. Her first. She\u2019s blinded by him and everything he does. Just like she\u2019s blind with Shiloh, the wonder twins and Pax. Whenever there is something broken or dirty or ruined she always looks at ME first.<br><br>SCAN: Well ... did you do it?<br><br>Sallie: That is BESIDE the point! I\u2019m the only black kid in the house. She looks at me like any day I\u2019m going to shout \u201cBurn, baby, burn\u201d and whip out a machete.<br><br>SCAN: I think you\u2019re exaggerating.<br><br>Sallie: What do you know, GARY? Your ass isn\u2019t out here on the frontlines. You\u2019re cozy in your little cubicle eating your puffed up fried pig epidermis and hot pickles living the good life.<br><br>SCAN: They\u2019re called \u201cpork rinds,\u201d OK? And they\u2019re a \u201csometimes\u201d food.<br><br>Sallie: Hold on. Someone\u2019s coming.<br><br>[Sound of someone muffling/hiding the Playskool Phone.]<br><br>Sallie: What are you doing in here?<br><br>Maddox: I was going to ask you the same thing.<br><br>Sallie: We had a deal. You and Pax stay on YOUR side of the suite. You have cooties and this is a cootie-control zone. Plus we have a whole floor of fucking suites! It\u2019s bad enough I have to share mine with The Chosen One.<br><br>Maddox: So who are you working for?<br><br>Sallie: What are you talking about?<br><br>Maddox: I heard you talking to someone?<br><br>Sallie: I talk to myself sometimes. I\u2019d talk to you, but don\u2019t want to lower myself to the discourse of cootie ass shit. I have standards.<br><br>Maddox: It\u2019s her. Isn\u2019t it?<br><br>Sallie: What?<br><br>Maddox: She approached you. Didn\u2019t she?<br><br>Sallie: I don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about?<br><br>Maddox: Stay away from her. She\u2019s bad scrambled eggs.<br><br>Sallie: Who?<br><br>Maddox: She wants to ruin everything and I can\u2019t have that. I can\u2019t let you do that.<br><br>Sallie: Once again, numbnuts, WHO ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?<br><br>Maddox: YOU KNOW WHO?<br><br>Sallie: WHO!<br><br>Maddox: THE RACHEL! She\u2019s a threat to everything we hold dear.<br><br><br>Rest of it here:<br><a href=\"http://blacksnob.com/scan/2009/7/1/sallie-selassie-in-this-chateau-isnt-big-enough-for-the-eigh.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blacksnob.com/scan/2009/7/1/sallie-selas...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_14:11:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "11995805": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If Palin's on the ticket, I will be an Obama staffer in '12.<br><br>You heard it here first.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_17:10:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11993732, "depth": 1, "points": 8, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12016286": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Huh? Dat you, D?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_22:57:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11995805, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12014244": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "wow the Bush comparison won't end. Let me guess he goes to Camp David like Bush? He wants them to call him Mr. President like Bush?<br><br>Imagine Bush's dumbass answering a guestion from a person he didn't know at a Town Hall meeting? He couldn't even answer questions he knew were coming.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_21:24:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "karlewis", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12012608, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11991725": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Full Moon Crazies Come Home to Roost:<br>MICHAEL JACKSON'S SECRET WIFE CONTESTED THE WILL<br>says she is the mother of his 3 children<br><br><a href=\"http://www.okmagazine.com/news/view/15390\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.okmagazine.com/news/view/15390</a><br><br><br>Nona Paris Lola Ankhesenamun Jackson is an African Jew from London!!<br><br>She now claims, \"Though he died to this earth he lives with my father [Satan the Devil] Khalid Lucifer.\"<br>  <br><br>ROTFLMFBAO!!! \"Khalid\" Lucif....<br><br>Let the ELVISication of Michael Jackson run its full course", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_15:10:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11992247": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Whew Lawdy!  This sick mofo even drugged the kids.  This scum deserves the sack over the head, up against the wall, ready...aim....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_15:25:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11989236, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12016199": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Scorcese directed Bad???????????? DAYUM MJ!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_22:53:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12015729, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11993273": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Obama Takes Health Care Pitch To Annandale, Virginia<br>Huffpost - Obama Takes Health Care Pitch To Annandale, Virginia stumble PHILIP ELLIOTT | July 1, 2009 03:34 PM EST<br><br>ANNANDALE, Va. \u2014 President Barack Obama hugged a cancer patient Wednesday at an emotional forum before a supportive audience and vowed to bring greater efficiency and accessibility to the nation's health care system.<br><br>Debby Smith, 53, of Appalachia, Va., a volunteer for Obama's political operation, fought tears as she told the president of her kidney cancer and her inability to obtain health insurance or hold a job. Obama embraced her and called her \"exhibit A\" in what he said was an unsustainable system that is too expensive and complex for millions of Americans.<br><br>\"We are going to try to find ways to help you immediately,\" he told Smith as hundreds looked on at a community college forum _ and countless others watched on television. But the nation's long-term needs require a greater emphasis on preventive care and \"cost-effective care,\" he said.<br><br>Smith obtained her ticket through the White House. Aides said she was a volunteer for Organizing for America, Obama's political operation within the Democratic National Committee. Among the other questioners were a member of the Service Employees International Union and a person with Health Care for America Now, which recently organized a Capitol Hill rally for overhauling health care.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/01/obama-takes-health-care-p_n_223726.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/01/obama-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_15:49:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "11993274": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jul 1 2009, 3:08 pm by Daniel Indiviglio<br><br>Who Killed the Public-Private Investment Program?<br>Earlier in the week, I wrote about my skepticism regarding banks no longer needing the Public-Private Investment Program (PPIP). Ezra Klein seems to be skeptical as well. But he also claims that the program failed, not because the Treasury decided it was no longer necessary, but because banks refused to participate. I don't agree with his logic<br><br>Just for some context, Klein is writing about a good post by James Kwak over on the Baseline Scenario. In that post Kwak explains how the government has vacillated between the assets and liabilities/equity sides of banks balance sheets in their rescue attempts. The latest attempt, the PPIP, tries to heal the assets side, as it would allow banks to get rid of their toxic securities. <br><br>After quoting a portion of Kwak's piece, Klein says: <br><br>I'd amend Kwak's final line a bit: The argument is that as long as the economy keeps improving and the banks can continue raising capital, everything is fine, no matter how many toxic assets the banks hold. And that may be true!<br>And I agree. But then: <br><br>But it continues to be the case that the PPIP plan fell apart not because the Treasury Department decided it was unnecessary but because the banks, which were suddenly flush with fresh capital, refused to participate in it.<br>Let's think about this. First, the Treasury gave the banks stress tests. Some banks passed; some banks needed more capital. Once that capital is raised, the Treasury is essentially saying, \"Okay Generic-Bank, you've reached the capital level we require to deem you safe.\" <br><br>You can question whether those capital levels are truly safe or not. I question that too. But this certainly sends a signal to the market that the government is comfortable with capital levels. And that's a strong vote of confidence. If the bank still had problems after raising that capital, it would have a pretty strong case for going back to Uncle Sam, hat-in-hand, saying: \"But you said we'd be okay! Since you were wrong, please bail us out again.\" Having set those capital requirements killed the PPIP. <br><br>Moreover, let's go back to that quote I had from Sheila Bair in that post from earlier in the week, from the WSJ article I source: <br><br>Earlier this month, the FDIC formally postponed the loan-buying portion of PPIP, called the Legacy Loan Program. \"Banks have been able to raise capital without having to sell bad assets through the LLP, which reflects renewed investor confidence in our banking system,\" Ms. Bair said.<br>How can you make the claim that the government didn't kill the program, when you have the head of the FDIC saying exactly that? It's true that banks probably were not so interested in participating, but again, that's because the government first deemed them safe, based on obtaining the capital needed according to the stress tests. <br><br>Noam Scheiber over at the New Republic quotes an insider who confirms that the Treasury did not much mind killing the program, given enhanced bank capital levels:<br><br>If you had asked--I don't want to speak for the secretary--what's problem number one? I think he'd say capital. Problem two? Capital. Problem three? Capital. Everything was in the service of that view. The legacy loans program was meant to help clean balance sheets. It was not an independent good in itself. It was seen as friendly to equity raising. Now people say the legacy loans thing is not gaining as much traction, so is that a failure? But because we had a good outcome in terms of raising equity, they [the banks] were able to raise equity without shedding assets ... you should be okay with that.<br>In other words, the Treasury had always been most concerned with capital. Now that they're more comfortable, they're not as concerned with the PPIP going ahead. Banks probably don't want to participate as much now either -- that's true for sure. But their reasoning is the same as the Treasury's: they're happier with their balance sheet due to their new capital levels. <br><br>If the banks played any parting killing the program, it was in conjunction with the Treasury. It provided the capital requirement framework through the stress tests and adheres to the same capital-driven philosophy. <br><br><a href=\"http://business.theatlantic.com/2009/07/who_killed_the_public-private_investment_program.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://business.theatlantic.com/2009/07/who_kil...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_15:49:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "11997883": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "luv Rude Pundit", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_17:54:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11993726, "depth": 1, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12015904": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Um, uh... they weren't 'fleeing' much of anywhere...<br><br><br>(on my way to the bad chair as I type this...)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_22:36:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12015497, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11993798": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Vetting? Black childlren?  States are practically paying them to take them with no questions asked.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_16:05:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "NMP", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11993226, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11993811": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Janet? Tito? Jermaine? Marlon? Rebbie? Anybody AA as executor?<br><br>Katherine says \"Maybe I can go ask Ms. Diana for $5 for some milk for these babies...or they might have to come stay with her and her 6 kids\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_16:05:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11993703, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11991253": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "TRUE DAT!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_14:56:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11988563, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12009691": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "An impressive piece of writing.  I dig Greg Tate's writing.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_19:13:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "sdg1844", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11991735, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12016349": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I dont know what look he's going for....but the drunken vinyl siding salesman look is what appears to be his goal.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_23:01:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12015486, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11994335": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Outside of Janet, none of siblings named have demonstrated fiscal responsibility.  Multiple bankruptcies, foreclosures, and just bad personal decisions all the way around. This could also be a reflection of the just how close (distant) Michael was to his siblings.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_16:22:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mothsmoke", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11993811, "depth": 4, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11994342": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ohhhh, nowww - it wasn't like it was his REAL son.  He was adopted.  It's all A-OK then.<br><br>/snark/  (just in case someone thinks I'm serious about this rotted out motherfucker.)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_16:23:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "IWordsmith", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11989236, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11989236": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Duke University employee charged with offering son for sex<br>by Trench Reynolds on June 26th, 2009 <br>Duke employee arrested on child sex charge:<br><br>42-year-old Frank Lombard of Durham, North Carolina has been arrested for allegedly offering his adopted 5-year-old son up for sex over the internet. Lombard is also associate director of the Center for Health Policy at Duke University and has been placed on unpaid leave. <br><br>An FBI informant allegedly saw Lombard online performing sex acts on an African-American child believed to be one of his adopted sons. <br><br>As an adoptee myself this next part really disgusts me to no end. The following is from a chat between Lombard and an undercover agent.<br><br>In the chat transcript, \u201cF.L.\u201d is asked how he got access to a child so young. \u201cAdopted,\u201d he replied, and said that the process was \u201cnot so hard \u2026 esp (sic) for a black boy.\u201d<br><br>In the chat, \u201cF.L.\u201d told Palchak that abusing the child was \u201ceasier when he was too young to know what was happening and when he couldn\u2019t talk \u2026He had a little too much Benadryl. Was knocked out.\u201d<br><br>So not only did Lombard adopt his kids for his own sick sexual fetishes but he also took advantage of the fact that there are an inordinate amount of black children waiting to be adopted into loving homes. <br><br>It\u2019s a shame that this isn\u2019t an executable offense because I would volunteer to throw the switch.<br><br>Rot in hell scumbag<br><br><br><a href=\"http://www.parentsbehavingbadly.com/2009/06/26/duke-university-employee-charged-with-offering-son-for-sex/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.parentsbehavingbadly.com/2009/06/26/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_13:59:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12015486": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No, he was also sporting the same lame ass beard the other day while discussing Michael Jackson.  Someone needs to tell him that it's not a good look.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_22:11:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "parker404", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12009495, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11994358": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Kinda like a Public Service Announcement.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_16:23:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "IWordsmith", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11992852, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11994878": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Black Snob is a fool.  Too funny!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_16:40:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "parker404", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11989658, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12012799": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "you just made me laugh out loud  \"Jenny visited a witch doctor, etc\"<br><br>oh sheez! thank you for that", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_20:53:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12012384, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12020480": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Gibbs got served by the press....the Obama admin. needs to learn from their arrogance....it was painful to listen to Gibbs and his giggle laugh today!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_23:36:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12014244, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11998470": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ed Schultz is ON FIRE!!!<br><br>He rocks.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_18:16:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "11998471": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Contest! Name the next politician to go 'hiking the Appalachian Trail'<br><br>You have to hand it to South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, who has publicly confessed to infidelity. He's added a new euphemism for \"cheating\" to the American lexicon:<br>\"Oh -- he (or she) has been hiking the Appalachian Trail!\"<br>Wink. Nudge. Big smirk. I'd bet Sanford wishes he'd never invented that sorry excuse as a cover for his adultery in Argentina.<br>The question on my mind is, who's next going to \"take a hike on the AT\"?<br>Which means it's contest time!<br>I challenge you to predict the name of the next national political figure, or evolution-damning preacher, who calls a press conference and fesses up to cheating on his (or her) spouse.<br>We have two great prizes to offer:<br><br>The first is \"The Best of the Appalachian Trail Overnight Hikes\" 2nd Edition (Menasha Ridge Press, 2007) by Victoria Logue, Frank Logue and Leonard M. Adkins. It will be autographed by Adkins, an outdoors writer who has thru hiked the AT five times and blogs at <a href=\"http://habitualhiker.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">habitualhiker.com</a>.<br><br>The second is \"Sex Scandal in America - Politics and the Ritual of Public Shaming\" (The Key Publishing House Inc., 2009) by David Rosen. It bills itself as \"a comprehensive history of sexual scandals in America from colonial times (including Pocahontas and the Puritans) to today.\"<br>Of course, plenty of people already have taken themselves out of the running. <br><br>Talking Points Memo and Americablog have done a good job covering adulterous Republicans. And How to Kill Chickens has a pretty good inventory of cheating Democrats. So make sure you don't waste your prediction on any of the folks they've already covered.<br>You must enter this contest as a comment on this blog. Rules are below the jump. (Click on Read more)<br>Rules:<br><br><a href=\"http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/dancasey/2009/06/30/contest-name-the-next-politician-to-go-hiking-the-appalachian-trail/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/dancasey/2009/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_18:16:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "11991307": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XY1SyaqDaY\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XY1SyaqDaY</a><br><br>I had forgotten about this one y'all<br><br>\"I Wanna Be Where You Are\" - Vintage Michael Jackson", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_14:58:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "11993873": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Palin-Blagoyevich in 2012", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_16:07:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11993732, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12013330": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "please<br>he's already told us how he was crying<br>and volunteering info about other woman<br>without being asked<br>he might as well release personal financial records", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_21:09:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "danadevin74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12009569, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11992852": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I hope he's put in general population in a state prison and its announced over the intercom what he's in for.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_15:38:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11989236, "depth": 1, "points": 8, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11997982": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Bring it down a notch, Myth", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_17:57:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Texas_Girl_in_LA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11994015, "depth": 2, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11995936": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Here is a link to CBS News program from last night about Michael Jackson.  It has a segment from MTV, that kinda gives you a glimpse into what MTV may be planning for the VMA or a different MJ tribute.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/25/in_depth_showbiz/main5114292.shtml?tag=cbsnewsLeadStoriesArea.0\" rel=\"nofollow\">Michael Jackson King of Pop: Picking Up The Pieces</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_17:15:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "lamh", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "12023073": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Clifton Davis \"turned out\" MJ, When/How?  Some things I don't remember and neither do I want to recall.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_02:21:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12020137, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11994406": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "With an estate as complicated as MJ's, I think it would have been irresponsible for him to name any relative as executor.  Some issues are best handled by professionals.  I don't see why it's a problem that the professionals chosen for this matter were white.  MJ employed Black people in other roles important to him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_16:25:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "parker404", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11993811, "depth": 4, "points": 7, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11988266": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "From Ta-Nehisi Coates<br><br>The Madness of Monica Conyers<br>01 Jul 2009 01:21 pm<br><br>[Gautham Nagesh]<br><br> <br>Greetings folks, it's an honor to be part of the team for the week. I spend my days covering federal technology for Nextgov and have also written for National Journal. My main interests are sports, government waste, fried foods and anything involving my home state of Michigan.<br><br><br>One note on Neil's post: I actually interviewed for a job with Vibe when I was in college, where I was asked to name my three favorite rap albums of all time. At the time I replied Ready to Die, Aquemini and Midnight Marauders. Apparently that was not the right answer, because the interviewer did a double take and I didn't get the job.<br><br>My topic for today is the ongoing train wreck that is soon-to-be-former Detroit City Council member Monica Conyers. Conyers announced her resignation from office this week after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery in a scandal over a city sludge-hauling contract. If that makes her sounds like a character from The Wire, then you've got a pretty good idea of what kind of politician Conyers has proven to be. From the Detroit News:<br><br>Conyers faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine after pleading guilty Friday in federal court to allegations she sold her vote on a $1.2 billion sludge hauling contract to Synagro Technologies Inc. for a pair of $3,000 bribes. Federal officials say no other council members will face charges in the 2007deal.<br>The News was also kind enough to put together a brief highlight reel of some of Conyers' most memorable public mishaps:<br><br><br>Conyers, the wife of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, made headlines even before taking office when she allegedly got into a fight during a birthday party and slugged a woman. No one was charged in the incident. <br><br>During her tenure, Monica Conyers put an aunt and her son on city payroll, used city police to escort her to Atlanta and Florida, had police officers chauffeur her children to private school in Oakland County and had spats with colleagues, including an infamous one with Kenneth Cockrel that ended with her calling him \"Shrek.\" <br><br><br>Yes, that's the same Congressman Conyers who chairs the House Judiciary Committee. John Conyers is now facing scrutiny himself after his wife's former aide and political consultant Sam Riddle told the Detroit Free Press on Monday about a letter Rep. Conyers sent in 2007 to the EPA in support of an effort by Detroit businessman Jim Papas to build a hazardous waste injection well in his district. Conyers had previously opposed the well publicly in 2003 and 2004 citing environmental concerns, but that was before Papas indirectly contributed $10,000 to Monica Conyers.<br><br>It seems unlikely that John Conyers will meet the same fate as his wife, mostly because it's hard to believe even if he did play some role in her dealings that he would be similarly cavalier about the possibility of getting caught. The Synagro case has been going on for over a year and yet during that period of time Monica Conyers has done nothing but draw attention to herself by causing controversies on the City Council and fiercely attacking her many opponents. <br><br>She even launched her own show on local television, \"Ask the Councilwoman\", where she takes calls from her supporters and admonishes her critics. I've been watching the show on YouTube whenever possible and I have to say my favorite episode was June 9, when she interviewed Princeton University professor Cornel West and dissed Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as too conservative and unaccomplished. Conyers graduated from the University of the District of Columbia's law school but has reportedly failed the bar exam four times and does not practice law.<br><br>Now that she's facing three to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, here's hoping voters have seen the last of Conyers, who hinted at a mayoral run even as the prosecutors circled closer. Her name will remain on the ballot in the August 4th primary for the Detroit City Council, where it will hopefully serve as a warning to others seeking to enrich themselves on the city's dime. <br><br>After spending the last couple years embroiled in the saga of disgraced former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (whose mother Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick is also a Congresswoman and under investigation by the House Ethics Committee), the city deserves leaders interested in something besides lining their own pockets. Another Council member, Motown singer Martha Reeves referred to the Council as her \"second job\" in an interview with the BBC this week. Hopefully this fall's elections will produce some candidates more interested in fixing the city than dancing in the streets. <br><br><br><a href=\"http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/07/the_madness_of_monica_conyers.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_13:53:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "12014385": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "all of them deserve every dollar they get and more", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_21:28:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12013279, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12013362": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "yes he looked very uncomfortable tonight<br>like he was nervous", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_21:10:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "danadevin74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12009519, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12009781": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "TVONE showing a speicall program on MJ called: Michael Jackson: The Life and Times of the King of Pop.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_19:18:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "lamh", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "12013279": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "For Some WH Aides, Public Service Has Its (Six-Figure) Rewards<br>By Michael D. Shear<br>The magic number in the Obama White House appears to be 172,000.<br><br>Dollars, that is. Per year.<br><br>Twenty-two of the president's top aides -- most with the title \"assistant to the president\" -- make exactly that much in exchange for their service to the country, the White House reported to Congress today. The Obama administration also published the information on the White House blog.<br><br>Those making the magic number include 28-year-old Jonathan Favreau, the president's wordsmith (director of speechwriting), and 66-year-old James L. Jones, the national security adviser.<br><br>One person in the White House -- other than the president himself ($400,000) -- is listed as making more than $172,000: David E. Marcozzi, the president's director of public health policy, is described as a \"detailee\" from the Department of Health and Human Services and receives $192,934 for his work. (Vice President Biden and his staff are not included in the White House report.)<br><br>On the other end of the scale are Michael J. Warren, a senior adviser for the department of personnel, and Patricia G. McGinnis, who is listed simply as \"adviser\" to the president. Both make nothing, according to the official salary list.<br><br>In between are 462 other employees who make from a low of $36,000 to a high of $163,940. For the utterly curious, the report -- which has been provided to Congress every year since 1995 -- is searchable and sortable on the White House Web site.<br><br>There are a few gems in there. Deputy Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer makes a bit more ($150,000) than his wife, Sarah Feinberg, who earns $120,000 as the top staffer to Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.<br><br>But the gender tables are turned in the case of assistant press secretary Tommy Vietor, who recently proposed to Michelle Obama's press secretary, Katie Lelyveld. At $84,000 a year, she makes significantly more than her soon-to-be-husband ($57,500).<br><br>The vast bulk of the employees appear to earn between $40,000 and $55,000 per year, making the White House quite a modestly paid enterprise for most of the workaholics who spend time there.<br><br>The list of the $172,000-a-year men and women of the White House:<br><br>David Axelrod, Melody Barnes, John Brennan, Elizabeth Brown, Carol Browner, Gregory Craig, Thomas Donilon, Anita Dunn, Rahm Emanuel, Jonathan Favreau, Patrick Gaspard, Robert Gibbs, Valerie Jarrett, James Jones, Christopher Lu, Alyssa Mastromonaco, James Messina, Peter Rouse, Philip Schiliro, Susan her, Lawrence Summers and Mona Sutphen.<br><br><br><a href=\"http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/07/01/for_some_wh_aides_public_servi.html?hpid=topnews\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/07/01/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_21:07:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "11998526": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ed just put e'rybody on blast about healthcare. Don't come up incorrect on Ed 'bout healthcare. He'll cut ya!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_18:18:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "LisaM5432", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12020533": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Stand Down! In case no body told you, the people our Marines are going after came here 8 years ago. Make no mistake our enemy the Taliban will feel the might of our Devil Dogs... Hoorah", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_23:39:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "karlewis", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12015685, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11992902": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Black and White and Dead All Over<br>Stop the presses! Will journalism take democracy down with it?<br>By Dave Gilson<br><br>43% of Americans say it would hurt civic life \"a lot\" if their local newspaper closed. Yet when asked if they'd miss their paper, 42% say \"not much\" or \"not at all.\"<br><br>About 80% of news is originally reported by newspapers, according to former Los Angeles Times editor John Carroll.<br><br>In 2006, 62% of all reporters worked for newspapers.<br><br>Nearly 1 in 5 newspaper journalists has lost his or her job since 2001.<br><br>In the first 5 months of 2009, 100 newspapers shut down and more than 9,000 newspaper jobs were lost.<br><br>In April, Lou Carlozo, who wrote the Chicago Tribune's \"Recession Diaries\" blog, was laid off\u2014and not allowed to post about it.<br><br>That same month, St. Louis' Suburban Journals canned Todd Smith, a reporter who was shot last year when a gunman stormed a city council meeting he was covering.<br><br>Earlier this year, Phoenix's East Valley Tribune won a Pulitzer Prize for an investigative story written by a reporter who'd been let go 6 months earlier.<br><br>Even 4 years ago, 37 of the 100 largest daily papers had no full-time investigative reporters.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/media/2009/07/black-and-white-and-dead-all-over\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.motherjones.com/media/2009/07/black-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_15:39:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "11992400": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "OMG.....LOL...You killin me with that \"ELVISication\" of MJ...ROFLMAO!!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_15:29:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11991725, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12031314": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Myth,<br><br>Firstly,  the one truism we know about Michael Jackson is that he was  <br>not a race man.  Moreover, ALL of his adult life, his inner circle was  <br>white.  Black folks may be reclaiming him in death, but he was not  <br>ours in life.  He rarely spoke to any of his family with the exception  <br>of his mom.  The people he appointed as executors were the architects  <br>of his biggest successes.  Why wouldn't he trust them to oversee his  <br>estate.  He's serving the interests of his kids.  As much as he  <br>obviously loves his mother, he knows her lifelong weakness has been  <br>Joe Jackson.  Those kids will not be wanting for anything.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_10:04:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "NMP", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11993811, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12037462": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"He knows her lifelong weakness has been Joe Jackson\"<br><br>They have not lived together in over 10 years. And I would venture a guess that she wasn't weak for him for the last 30 years.<br><br>Nevertheless, a fourth executor close to the family would have provided her with more assurances", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_12:30:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12031314, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12012384": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That was a good piece.  <br><br>Me thinks that Jenny visited a witch doctor down on the coast; she had some serious roots worked on old dude.  I have never seen a political figure so magnificently self-destruct, die in slow motion and dig his own grave.  <br><br>If i lived in SC, I'd be thinking, \"My state is fucked.  My governor really, really doesn't give a fuck about this state.\"  Sanford is ready to get on a plane back to Buenos Aires as soon as the people will/can fire his ass.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_20:34:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Webb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12011664, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11994466": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dang......now God's doing a facepalm, cuz dumb azz Joe the fake plumber clearly didn't understand that \"NO\" was not limited to just running for public office. Geez.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_16:27:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11993732, "depth": 1, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12015972": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ok, I think not exaggerated....morning will bring other news<br><br><a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/world/asia/02afghan.html?_r=1&hp\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/world/asia/02...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_22:41:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12015860, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11998438": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Term Saw High Court Move to The Right<br>Roberts-Led March Likely to Continue<br>By Robert Barnes<br>Washington Post Staff Writer <br>Wednesday, July 1, 2009 <br><br>For the Supreme Court, it was the year of living on the verge. <br>On the verge of declaring the key provision of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional, but then stepping back. Looking hard at whether some protections of minorities amount to violations of the Constitution, then leaving the topic for another day. Appearing sympathetic to school officials for their decision to strip-search a 13-year-old student, but shielding them only from any liability for their actions. <br><br>The court's term avoided the blockbuster decisions that at one point seemed inevitable. But its path was clear: a patient and steady move to the right led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., one that is likely to continue even if President Obama is successful in adding Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the high court -- and perhaps two others like her. <br><br>The court's conservatives made it harder for those pressing civil rights claims to get into court, and the same for environmentalists. Conservative justices raised the bar for those alleging age discrimination, a decision that liberal Justice John Paul Stevens called \"an unabashed display of judicial lawmaking.\" They declined to find a constitutional right to DNA testing for prisoners who say the tests could prove their innocence. <br>While there were lopsided majorities on some high-profile cases near the end of the term, the court remained extremely divided, deciding nearly a third of its cases by 5 to 4 votes. Liberals won a few, although sometimes in cases where ideology seemed it should not matter. <br><br><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/30/AR2009063004170.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_18:14:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "12022123": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "She definitely does not need Sanford's money!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_01:15:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12015686, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12020321": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thousands of US Marines Launch Operation in Afghanistan<br><br><a href=\"http://news.antiwar.com/2009/07/01/thousands-of-us-troops-launch-operation-in-afghanistan/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://news.antiwar.com/2009/07/01/thousands-of...</a><br><br>Helmand Governor Predicts Success<br>by Jason Ditz, July 01, 2009 <br><br><br>\"Thousands of US Marines launched a massive offensive into the villages of the Helmand River Valley, which they intend to purge of all insurgents before the August 20 presidential election. Military officials describe the offensive as the first major operation of the Obama Administration\u2019s revamped strategy. Helmand\u2019s governor has reportedly predicted the offensive will be a success.<br><br>Besides the large number of troops involved in the attack, officials say the operation is set apart from previous ones in that they intend to remain in the area for a prolonged period of time. Helmand, the center of British operations in Afghanistan, has seen some of the worst violence in the nation.<br><br>It is unclear how the Marines intend to operate in Afghan villages considering General Stanfley McChrystal\u2019s reported order to stop engaging in fights near the homes of Afghan civilians. Recently US troops operating in and around populated areas have called in air strikes killing enormous numbers of civilians.<br><br>Despite repeated calls from commanders for the US to commit even more troops to the conflict, National Security Adviser James Jones declared today that he had told commanders that the administration won\u2019t consider adding more troops beyond the planned surge this year, though President Obama was considering deploying an additional 10,000 troops at some point in 2010.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_23:27:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "12012862": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I not a big fan of execution but I say fry the bastard.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_20:56:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11989236, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11992442": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Actor Karl Malden dies at 97 <br><br>Karl Malden, one of Hollywood's strongest and most versatile supporting actors, <br>who won an Oscar playing his Broadway-originated role as Mitch in \"A Streetcar <br>Named Desire,\" died today. He was 97.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_15:30:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "11997051": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I agree with Mr. Freeman. Stop seeing my race before you see me. I am tired of being \"the black guy\". That title automatically labels my professionalism and my expertise because I am a black guy. We have got to stop being Pavlov's dog, not every bell rings of race.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_17:25:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "karlewis", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11995202, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11995006": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "from Alan Colmes' blog.........surprised SNL hasn't done something on this.<br><br><a href=\"http://networkedblogs.com/p6815748\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://networkedblogs.com/p6815748</a><br><br>\"Good News: Sanford Will \u201cTry To Fall Back In Love\u201d With Wife<br>June 30th, 2009, 6:16 PM EDT<br>Mark Sanford says Maria Belen Shapur is his \u201csoul mate\u201d, but that he is going to try to fall back in love with his wife.  Jenny Sanford must be thrilled to hear this.<br><br>Sanford also told The Associated Press he has \u2018crossed lines\u2019 with women other than Chapur, but never had sex with them.<br><br>Sanford said one of the trips to see Chapur included what was supposed to be a farewell meeting in New York chaperoned by a spiritual adviser soon after his wife found out about the affair.<br><br>Just what does \u201ccrossed lines\u201d mean? I\u2019m guessing he doesn\u2019t mean he busted through protesting union organizers.  Does it mean he had dates? Made out with other women? And how soon before another one comes forward?<br><br>Barry Manilow had a hit with it; David Pomeranz wrote it.  Good luck, Governor\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_16:44:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11993726, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11993472": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.alternet.org/story/141019/%2527i_quit_the_evangelical_movement_in_disgust%2527%253A_former_evangelist_fears_right-wing_lunacy_will_lead_to_more_murder/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.alternet.org/story/141019/%27i_quit_...</a><br><br>'I Quit the Evangelical Movement in Disgust': Former Evangelist Fears Right-Wing Lunacy Will Lead to More Murder<br><br>By Frank Schaeffer, AlterNet. Posted July 1, 2009.<br><br>Conservative pundits and GOP lawmakers must try to cure the sickness of their right-wing followers -- before it explodes again. Or don't they care?<br><br>What are the Republicans in Congress and the other \"respectable\" leaders on the far right -- from Focus on the Family's James Dobson to Rush Limbaugh, from Laura Ingraham to the leaders of the NRA -- doing to stop the right-wing domestic wave of terrorism exploding in the aftermath of President Barack Obama's election? I ask this as a former evangelical right-wing and \"pro-life\" leader who quit the right and the Republicans in disgust over their extremism...<br><br>Right-wing domestic terrorism committed by a few unhinged people who take the crazy talk (and nutty \"open-carry\" church services) seriously is a test of the patriotism of the so-called mainstream right-wing leaders. If the mainstream right doesn't stand up to try to tamp down the fear levels in its very own lunatic fringe, and if it doesn't lower the pitch of its anti-Obama rhetoric, then it is complicit in whatever comes next.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_15:54:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "11992967": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Loved him in \"The Streets of San Francisco\" with Michael Douglas too.<br><br>RIP Mr. Malden.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_15:41:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11992442, "depth": 1, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12015497": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I dont understand at all, how this child got to 555 pounds. I just can't wrap my head around that, I really really cant. I just can't believe its from eating a lot and for this woman to run off with him like that, ......its abuse.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_22:12:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12015220, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12013451": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Adultery is still illegal in S.C.  Maybe those who want him out should press charges.<br><br><i>\"SECTION 16-15-60. Adultery or fornication.<br><br>Any man or woman who shall be guilty of the crime of adultery or fornication shall be liable to indictment and, on conviction, shall be severally punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment for not less than six months nor more than one year or by both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.<br><br>SECTION 16-15-70. \"Adultery\" defined.<br><br>\"Adultery\" is the living together and carnal intercourse with each other or habitual carnal intercourse with each other without living together of a man and woman when either is lawfully married to some other person.\"</i><br><br><a href=\"http://www.scstatehouse.gov/CODE/t16c015.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.scstatehouse.gov/CODE/t16c015.htm</a>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_21:12:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11997599, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12009873": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "DAYUM, D, tell us how YOU REALLY FEEL!  ROFL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_19:22:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11995805, "depth": 2, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11996060": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's going to be off the charts!  BET is planning a \"make-up\" tribute.  Just let it go!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_17:19:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "NMP", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11995936, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11997599": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "yep, and if he were in the Armed Services, he'd be out for adultery.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_17:43:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11996143, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12014503": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Courts Charge Mother of 555-Pound Boy<br>A Mother Facing Felony Charges for Her Son's Obesity<br><br>The mother of a 555-pound, 14-year-old boy in South Carolina was charged with neglect last week for allegedly failing to control her son's weight. <br>Before fleeing town with her son, Jerri Gray had been contacted by the local Department of Social Services previous times about her son's weight and was even issued a treatment plan to turn around Alexander Draper's morbid obesity, Gray's attorney Grant Varner told <a href=\"http://ABCnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">ABCnews.com</a>. <br><br>But when Gray failed to bring Alexander in for some of his medical treatment appointments recommended by the department and he continued to gain weight, the state sent notice that Gray would lose custody of her only child. <br><br>\"She panicked,\" Varner said. \"She had no lawyer, she couldn't afford a lawyer and they took off. They had no destination really. They stopped in Baltimore to do laundry, which is where they were found.\" <br><br>Full Story: <a href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Health/WellnessNews/story?id=7941609&page=1\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://abcnews.go.com/Health/WellnessNews/story...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_21:30:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "11998121": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "(dead at the TITLE alone!)___________________________", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_18:02:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11997883, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12009899": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "whenever i see dan abrams, especially with that fugly hobo beard, the only thing i can think is: \"how the f*ck was he dating renee zellweger?!?\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_19:23:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "moja31", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12004311, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11996077": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Folks loved them some Michael.  This will make you smile, as fans around the world have been doing \"Moonwalk tributes.\"<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/01/mass-moonwalks-around-the_n_224055.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/01/mass-m...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_17:19:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "Baracktopia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "12009630": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I hope Ed's serious about taking Stein and those other folk to Toronto.  Hit the streets and interview the REAL Canadian citizens who have universal healthcare.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_19:11:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11998656, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12015860": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "A bit of an exaggerated response, maybe?   Afghanistan is not a \"new\" war.  I'm very much against involvement, but this didn't just appear out of thin air...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_22:34:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12015685, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12009914": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Apart from Ed Schultz, the Rude Pundit is quick with the rudeness!<br><br>Damn, it's times like these I miss Steve Gilliard.  The Big Guy would cut folk left, right and center, cause he had it like that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_19:24:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11997883, "depth": 2, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11994015": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "He'd betta hope Mike get's buried soon if he wants anybody to notice.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_16:11:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11992442, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11992508": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "BWA  HA HA HAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  <br><br>Can't wait to read a piece on Madona and her crew.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_15:30:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11989658, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12011455": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LMAO", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_20:00:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12009596, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11998656": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I know!!! He totally rocks!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_18:23:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11998526, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12002246": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yep, BET needs to let it go.  I actually watch VH1SOUL not BET.  I haven't watched BET since bout the time Viacom bought it aloNg with MTV.  I actually like TVONE much better than BET.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_18:52:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "lamh", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11996060, "depth": 2, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11996113": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This Week in Blackness - Ep 2 Season 2<br><br>BET FAIL<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_fHqx8gskk\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_fHqx8gskk</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_17:21:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "facebook-1453461857", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12004311": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Dan Abrams on Ed Shultz!  What's up with that homeless man's beard Dan was sporting?  Couldn't stand him when he had his own show, and still can't stand him!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_18:54:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "lamh", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11992544": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "THIS IS HILARIOUS!!<br><br>HILARIOUS, I tell ya!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_15:31:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11991725, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11993569": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "3 WHITE MEN AND 3 BABIES<br>MJ names 3 white men as executors of his Will with TOTAL, TOTAL authority over all of MJ's assets.<br><br>Does this mean that Katherine has to say. \"Massa, I need some milk for these here 3 white babies of Mikuls. I'll take good care of them for my millato son Mr. Michael sir. Can I just get $5\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_15:57:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11991725, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11994598": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Some agencies are shipping black American children off to Canada and German to be adopted.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_16:32:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11989236, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12028391": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yr Welcome Angelar.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_08:49:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "Webb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12012799, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11991021": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What a cheap brawd, $6000 for a \"YES\" vote on 1.2 billion contract. GTFOH, talk about getting bamboozled.  And her husband didn't know $hit about it right?  SUUUUUUUURE and Britney Spears is becoming a nun, too. They really need to clean house up there in Detroit.  Those good folks up there can't catch a break between the Big 3 automakers going bust, Kwame's shenigans and this Conyers fiasco no wonder why Detroit is the way it is.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_14:49:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Guns3000", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "12021230": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ohhh, they are going after the heroin.  The Taliban is not going to take that lightly.  Poppy fields are worth far more the people.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_00:16:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12015685, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11996143": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What's really getting on my nerves about Mark Sanford and his defenders--on the Right AND Left--is the fact that what he did, leaving his state unaccounted for, would have gotten a private AWOL from a base in his state court marshalled!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_17:22:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "NMP", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11999220": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If a woman with 4 kids took off like that to chase after a lover out of the country and not let anyone know where she was she would be called every name in the book.    Think about it, what if there was an emergency with one of his children.   The guy is a big jerk and for me it all goes back to one thing, he feels entitled.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_18:47:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11996143, "depth": 1, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12020137": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Nice memories...took me back...I remembered that waswhen I learned that Clifton Davis turned out MJ...after becoming the J5 manager.<br><br>Melba Moore bout lost her mind when she found out Clifton was sleeping with men...she was deeply in love with him and it just blew up her whole persona.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_23:18:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11991307, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12016120": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That was nice, thanks", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_22:48:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11996077, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12014077": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Chuck Todd = Fail", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-01_21:21:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12009519, "depth": 1, "points": 2, "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": "23793214", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": -1561394834947593099}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "afternoon_open_thread_16", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 119, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 23793214, "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_16' +
		'&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_16/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_16'
			+ '&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_16/reply.html';
	this.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE = '/AnonymousUser/';
	this.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR = 'http://media.disqus.com/images/noavatar92.png';
};
// Dsq.Urls

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		return [windowWidth, windowHeight];
	}

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

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

		return [scrollWidth, scrollTop];
	}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

				form.appendChild(input);
			}
		}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		return params;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	};

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

};
// Dsq.Utils

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);

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

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

		header = title;
		body = message;

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

	this.popAlert = this.popModal;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	};

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

		popup.style.display = 'block';

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

			return ret;
		};
	};

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

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

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

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


			//

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


	this.header = function() {

		var html = '\<h3 id="dsq-comments-count" class="dsq-h3-commentcount">\
	 <span id="dsq-num-posts">119</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/afternoon_open_thread_16/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>\
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	 <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:23793214" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p>\
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		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"> \
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				</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_16/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;
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		}

		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>';
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					item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');

					item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
					var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 15) ? 15 : num_retweets;
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					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>';
			}
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		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:23793214" 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:23793214" 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_16',
			// 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_16/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_16'
			+ '&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_16'
			+ '&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_16'
				+ '&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/23793214/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;
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			// Add "onmouseout" for dsq-header-avatar for dropProfile
			// functionality since IE6 cannot use :hover.
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			return html;
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	// TODO: Move Seesmic code outside of the main script.  Don't let this script clobber the global namespace.
	if(typeof seesmic == 'undefined') { var seesmic = {}; }
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		flashcontentDiv = Dsq.$(_videoUri + '_content');
		previewDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_preview');
		hideDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_hide');
		showDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_show');
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			so.addVariable('video', _videoUri);
			so.addParam('allowFullScreen', 'true');
			so.addParam('allowScriptAccess','always');
			so.useExpressInstall('swfobject/expressinstall.swf');
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(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;

		
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			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
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Dsq.container.className = "clearfix";
Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12009519" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12009519" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12009519">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12009519" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12009519" class="dsq-comment-message">I cant believe I\'m saying this but<br><br>Tweety &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; Chuck Todd<br><br>Mercy.... he totally sucks in this role.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12014077">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12014077" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12014077" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12014077">pjamma</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12014077" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12014077" class="dsq-comment-message">Chuck Todd = Fail</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12009596">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12009596" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12009596" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12009596">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12009596" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12009596" class="dsq-comment-message">Chuckie T has as much strength and taste for journalism as a watered down can of Campbelll\'s Soup.<br><br>That Murphy dude\'s gone scruffy.  He and Dan Abrams look like they\'ve been at some "Men who run with the Bears" retreat</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12011455">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12011455" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12011455" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12011455">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12011455" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12011455" class="dsq-comment-message">LMAO</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12013362">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12013362" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12013362" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12013362">danadevin74</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12013362" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12013362" class="dsq-comment-message">yes he looked very uncomfortable tonight<br>like he was nervous</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11996113">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11996113" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11996113" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11996113" href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1453461857" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">facebook-1453461857</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11996113" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11996113" class="dsq-comment-message">This Week in Blackness - Ep 2 Season 2<br><br>BET FAIL<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_fHqx8gskk" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_fHqx8gskk</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11996143">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11996143" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11996143" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11996143">NMP</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11996143" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11996143" class="dsq-comment-message">What\'s really getting on my nerves about Mark Sanford and his defenders--on the Right AND Left--is the fact that what he did, leaving his state unaccounted for, would have gotten a private AWOL from a base in his state court marshalled!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11999220">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11999220" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11999220" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11999220">Angelar</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11999220" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11999220" class="dsq-comment-message">If a woman with 4 kids took off like that to chase after a lover out of the country and not let anyone know where she was she would be called every name in the book.    Think about it, what if there was an emergency with one of his children.   The guy is a big jerk and for me it all goes back to one thing, he feels entitled.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11997599">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11997599" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11997599" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11997599">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11997599" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11997599" class="dsq-comment-message">yep, and if he were in the Armed Services, he\'d be out for adultery.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12013451">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12013451" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12013451" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12013451">pjamma</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12013451" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12013451" class="dsq-comment-message">Adultery is still illegal in S.C.  Maybe those who want him out should press charges.<br><br><i>"SECTION 16-15-60. Adultery or fornication.<br><br>Any man or woman who shall be guilty of the crime of adultery or fornication shall be liable to indictment and, on conviction, shall be severally punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment for not less than six months nor more than one year or by both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.<br><br>SECTION 16-15-70. "Adultery" defined.<br><br>"Adultery" is the living together and carnal intercourse with each other or habitual carnal intercourse with each other without living together of a man and woman when either is lawfully married to some other person."</i><br><br><a href="http://www.scstatehouse.gov/CODE/t16c015.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.scstatehouse.gov/CODE/t16c015.htm</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11998526">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11998526" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11998526" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11998526">Lisa M</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11998526" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11998526" class="dsq-comment-message">Ed just put e\'rybody on blast about healthcare. Don\'t come up incorrect on Ed \'bout healthcare. He\'ll cut ya!!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11998656">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11998656" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11998656" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11998656">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11998656" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11998656" class="dsq-comment-message">I know!!! He totally rocks!!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12009630">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12009630" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12009630" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12009630">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12009630" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12009630" class="dsq-comment-message">I hope Ed\'s serious about taking Stein and those other folk to Toronto.  Hit the streets and interview the REAL Canadian citizens who have universal healthcare.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11989236">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11989236" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11989236" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11989236">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11989236" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11989236" class="dsq-comment-message">Duke University employee charged with offering son for sex<br>by Trench Reynolds on June 26th, 2009 <br>Duke employee arrested on child sex charge:<br><br>42-year-old Frank Lombard of Durham, North Carolina has been arrested for allegedly offering his adopted 5-year-old son up for sex over the internet. Lombard is also associate director of the Center for Health Policy at Duke University and has been placed on unpaid leave. <br><br>An FBI informant allegedly saw Lombard online performing sex acts on an African-American child believed to be one of his adopted sons. <br><br>As an adoptee myself this next part really disgusts me to no end. The following is from a chat between Lombard and an undercover agent.<br><br>In the chat transcript, “F.L.” is asked how he got access to a child so young. “Adopted,” he replied, and said that the process was “not so hard … esp (sic) for a black boy.”<br><br>In the chat, “F.L.” told Palchak that abusing the child was “easier when he was too young to know what was happening and when he couldn’t talk …He had a little too much Benadryl. Was knocked out.”<br><br>So not only did Lombard adopt his kids for his own sick sexual fetishes but he also took advantage of the fact that there are an inordinate amount of black children waiting to be adopted into loving homes. <br><br>It’s a shame that this isn’t an executable offense because I would volunteer to throw the switch.<br><br>Rot in hell scumbag<br><br><br><a href="http://www.parentsbehavingbadly.com/2009/06/26/duke-university-employee-charged-with-offering-son-for-sex/" rel="nofollow">http://www.parentsbehavingbadly.com/2009/06/26/...</a></div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11992852">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11992852" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11992852" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11992852">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11992852" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11992852" class="dsq-comment-message">I hope he\'s put in general population in a state prison and its announced over the intercom what he\'s in for.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11994358">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11994358" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11994358" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11994358" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11994358" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11994358" class="dsq-comment-message">Kinda like a Public Service Announcement.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11990122">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11990122" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11990122" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11990122">SDG</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11990122" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11990122" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m speechless. Mouth hanging open speechless.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11993226">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11993226" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11993226" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11993226">Angelar</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11993226" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11993226" class="dsq-comment-message">OMG.....wonder who is doing the vetting?   Just a few years ago a guy who adopted a foreign girl was caught for selling videos of her.   Makes me think the adoption process should also include a few years of follow up.    I know at one time foster children in California would have private follow up visits with their caseworker so they could talk freely about anything and not feel intimidated by the presence of foster family members.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11993798">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11993798" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11993798" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11993798">NMP</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11993798" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11993798" class="dsq-comment-message">Vetting? Black childlren?  States are practically paying them to take them with no questions asked.</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-11992247">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11992247" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11992247" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11992247">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11992247" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11992247" class="dsq-comment-message">Whew Lawdy!  This sick mofo even drugged the kids.  This scum deserves the sack over the head, up against the wall, ready...aim....</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11994342">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11994342" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11994342" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11994342" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11994342" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11994342" class="dsq-comment-message">Ohhhh, nowww - it wasn\'t like it was his REAL son.  He was adopted.  It\'s all A-OK then.<br><br>/snark/  (just in case someone thinks I\'m serious about this rotted out motherfucker.)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-11994598">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11994598" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11994598" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11994598">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11994598" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11994598" class="dsq-comment-message">Some agencies are shipping black American children off to Canada and German to be adopted.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12012862">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12012862" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12012862" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12012862">pjamma</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12012862" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12012862" class="dsq-comment-message">I not a big fan of execution but I say fry the bastard.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12016159">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12016159" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12016159" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12016159">Angelar</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12016159" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12016159" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/world/asia/02afghan.html?_r=1&hp" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/world/asia/02...</a><br><br>U.S. Marines Try to Retake Afghan Valley From Taliban</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12004311">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12004311" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12004311" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12004311">lamh32</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12004311" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12004311" class="dsq-comment-message">Dan Abrams on Ed Shultz!  What\'s up with that homeless man\'s beard Dan was sporting?  Couldn\'t stand him when he had his own show, and still can\'t stand him!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12009495">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12009495" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12009495" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12009495">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12009495" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12009495" class="dsq-comment-message">OMG....ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was looking at him wondering what the hell? Did he just wake up, realize he was late and just run over to the studios?? He looked like he just got out of detox.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12015486">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12015486" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12015486" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12015486">parker404</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12015486" class="dsq-comment-message">No, he was also sporting the same lame ass beard the other day while discussing Michael Jackson.  Someone needs to tell him that it\'s not a good look.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12016349" class="dsq-comment-message">I dont know what look he\'s going for....but the drunken vinyl siding salesman look is what appears to be his goal.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12009899" class="dsq-comment-message">whenever i see dan abrams, especially with that fugly hobo beard, the only thing i can think is: "how the f*ck was he dating renee zellweger?!?"</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12009624" class="dsq-comment-message">Pawlenty Signs Election Certificate <br><br> <br>After being given the green light, Gov. Tim Pawlenty has signed the election certificate naming Al Franken the state\'s next U.S. Senator.<br><br>5 EYEWITNESS NEWS caught up with the governor at the airport Tuesday as he arrived back from Washington D.C.<br><br>"Well Sen. Coleman and Al Franken made very gracious statements today acknowledging the work of the Minnesota Supreme Court. They’ve addressed the issues that it’s time for Minnesota to have two senators. It’s past time, so we’re going to get the certificate signed and make that happen," Pawlenty told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS.<br><br>When asked about his personal feelings about the outcome, the governor thanked Coleman for his dedication to the state.<br><br>"As Solicitor General for the state of Minnesota, when he worked in the Attorney General’s Office as mayor of St. Paul, and as a U.S. Senator—Norm Coleman’s been an extraordinary leader and public servant for Minnesota. I thank him for his service and I know he’ll continue to do great things here and around the country. He’s a friend and a good person," Pawlenty said.<br><br>Spokesman Brian McClung says Pawlenty signed the election certificate around 6:15 p.m. at the governor’s residence in St. Paul Tuesday.<br><br>The certificate is now at Secretary of State Mark Ritchie’s office for his countersignature. <br><br>The certificate and cover letter will be faxed to the Secretary of the U.S. Senate and the original will be sent overnight and hand-delivered on Wednesday.<br><br><a href="http://kstp.com/news/stories/S1005610.shtml?cat=1" rel="nofollow">http://kstp.com/news/stories/S1005610.shtml?cat=1</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11998470" class="dsq-comment-message">Ed Schultz is ON FIRE!!!<br><br>He rocks.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11993726" class="dsq-comment-message">7/01/2009<br>Mark Sanford\'s Line in the Twat:<br><br><a href="http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12009914" class="dsq-comment-message">Apart from Ed Schultz, the Rude Pundit is quick with the rudeness!<br><br>Damn, it\'s times like these I miss Steve Gilliard.  The Big Guy would cut folk left, right and center, cause he had it like that.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11995006" class="dsq-comment-message">from Alan Colmes\' blog.........surprised SNL hasn\'t done something on this.<br><br><a href="http://networkedblogs.com/p6815748" rel="nofollow">http://networkedblogs.com/p6815748</a><br><br>"Good News: Sanford Will “Try To Fall Back In Love” With Wife<br>June 30th, 2009, 6:16 PM EDT<br>Mark Sanford says Maria Belen Shapur is his “soul mate”, but that he is going to try to fall back in love with his wife.  Jenny Sanford must be thrilled to hear this.<br><br>Sanford also told The Associated Press he has ‘crossed lines’ with women other than Chapur, but never had sex with them.<br><br>Sanford said one of the trips to see Chapur included what was supposed to be a farewell meeting in New York chaperoned by a spiritual adviser soon after his wife found out about the affair.<br><br>Just what does “crossed lines” mean? I’m guessing he doesn’t mean he busted through protesting union organizers.  Does it mean he had dates? Made out with other women? And how soon before another one comes forward?<br><br>Barry Manilow had a hit with it; David Pomeranz wrote it.  Good luck, Governor"</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11991735" class="dsq-comment-message">Greg Tate: Michael Jackson, the Man in Our Mirror<br><br><a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-07-01/news/michael-jackson-the-man-in-our-mirror" rel="nofollow">http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-07-01/news/mic...</a><br><br>What Black American culture—musical and otherwise—lacks for now isn\'t talent or ambition, but the unmistakable presence of some kind of spiritual genius: the sense that something other than or even more than human is speaking through whatever fragile mortal vessel is burdened with repping for the divine, the magical, the supernatural, the ancestral. You can still feel it when you go hear Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Aretha Franklin, or Cecil Taylor, or when you read Toni Morrison—living Orishas who carry on a tradition whose true genius lies in making forms and notions as abstract, complex, and philosophical as soul, jazz, or the blues so deeply and universally felt. But such transcendence is rare now, given how desperate, soul-crushing, and immobilizing modern American life has become for the poorest strata of our folk, and how dissolute, dispersed, and distanced from that resource-poor, but culturally rich, heavyweight strata the rest of us are becoming. And, like Morrison cautioned a few years ago, where the culture is going now, not even the music may be enough to save us.<br><br>The yin and yang of it is simple: You don\'t get the insatiable hunger (or the Black acculturation) that made James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, and Michael Jackson run, not walk, out the \'hood without there being a \'hood—the Olympic obstacle-course incubator of much musical Black genius as we know it. As George Clinton likes to say, "Without the humps, there\'s no getting over." (Next stop: hip-hop—and maybe the last stop, too, though who knows, maybe the next humbling god of the kulcha will be a starchitect or a superstring theorist, the Michael Jackson of D-branes, black P-branes, and dark-energy engineering.) Black Americans are inherently and even literally "damaged goods," a people whose central struggle has been overcoming the non-person status we got stamped and stomped into us during slavery and post-Reconstruction and resonates even now, if you happen to be Black and poor enough. (As M-1 of dead prez wondered out loud, "What are we going to do to get all this poverty off of us?") As a people, we have become past-masters of devising strategies for erasing the erasure. Dreaming up what\'s still the most sublime visual representation of this process is what makes Jean-Michel Basquiat\'s work not just ingenious, but righteous and profound. His dreaming up the most self-flagellating erasure of self to stymie the erasure is what makes Michael Jackson\'s story so numbing, so macabre, so absurdly Stephen King.<br><br>The scariest thing about the Motown legacy, as my father likes to argue, is that you could have gone into any Black American community at the time and found raw talents equal to any of the label\'s polished fruit: the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, or Holland-Dozier-Holland—all my love for the mighty D and its denizens notwithstanding. Berry Gordy just industrialized the process, the same as Harvard or the CIA has always done for the brightest prospective servants of the Evil Empire. The wisdom of Berry\'s intervention is borne out by the fact that since Motown left Detroit, the city\'s production of extraordinary musical talent can be measured in droplets: the Clark Sisters, Geri Allen, Jeff Mills, Derrick May, Kenny Garrett, J Dilla. But Michael himself is our best proof that Motown didn\'t have a lock on the young, Black, and gifted pool, as he and his siblings were born in Gary, Indiana: a town otherwise only notable for electing our good brother Richard Hatcher to a 20-year mayoral term and for hosting the historic 1972 National Black Political Convention, a gathering where our most politically educated folk (the Black Panther Party excepted) chose to shun Shirley Chisholm\'s presidential run. Unlike Motown, no one could ever accuse my Black radical tradition of blithely practicing unity for the community. Or of possessing the vision and infrastructure required to pull a cat like Michael up from the abysmal basement of America and groom him for world domination.<br><br>Motown saved Michael from Gary, Indiana: no small feat. Michael and his family remain among the few Negroes of note to escape from the now century-old city, which today has a Black American population of 84 percent. These numbers would mean nothing if we were talking about a small Caribbean nation, but they tend to represent a sign of the apocalypse where urban America is concerned. The Gary of 2009 is considered the 17th most dangerous city in America, which may be an improvement. The real question of the hour is, How many other Black American men born in Gary in 1958 lived to see their 24th birthday in 1982, the year Thriller broke the world open louder than a cobalt bomb and remade Black American success in Michael\'s before-and-after image? Where Black modernity is concerned, Michael is the real missing link: the "bridge of sighs" between the Way We Were and What We\'ve Become in what Nelson George has astutely dubbed the "Post-Soul Era"—the only race-coded "post" neologism grounded in actual history and not puffery. Michael\'s post-Motown life and career are a testament to all the cultural greatness that Motown and the chitlin circuit wrought, but also all the acute identity crises those entities helped set in motion in the same funky breath.<br><br>From Compton to Harlem, we\'ve witnessed grown men broke-down crying in the \'hood over Michael; some of my most hard-bitten, 24/7 militant Black friends, male and female alike, copped to bawling their eyes out for days after they got the news. It\'s not hard to understand why: For just about anybody born in Black America after 1958—and this includes kids I\'m hearing about who are as young as nine years old right now—Michael came to own a good chunk of our best childhood and adolescent memories. The absolute irony of all the jokes and speculation about Michael trying to turn into a European woman is that after James Brown, his music (and his dancing) represent the epitome—one of the mightiest peaks—of what we call Black Music. Fortunately for us, that suspect skin-lightening disease, bleaching away his Black-nuss via physical or psychological means, had no effect on the field-holler screams palpable in his voice, or the electromagnetism fueling his elegant and preternatural sense of rhythm, flexibility, and fluid motion. With just his vocal gifts and his body alone as vehicles, Michael came to rank as one of the great storytellers and soothsayers of the last 100 years.<br><br>Furthermore, unlike almost everyone in the Apollo Theater pantheon save George Clinton, Michael now seems as important to us an image-maker—an illusionist and a fantasist at that—as he was a musician/entertainer. And until Hype Williams came on the music-video scene in the mid \'90s, no one else insisted that the visuals supporting r&b and hip-hop be as memorable, eye-popping, and seductive as the music itself. Nor did anyone else spare no expense to ensure that they were. But Michael\'s phantasmal, shape-shifting videos, upon reflection, were also, strangely enough, his way of socially and politically engaging the worlds of other real Blackfolk from places like South Central L.A., Bahia, East Africa, the prison system, Ancient Egypt. He did this sometimes in pursuit of mere spectacle ("Black and White"), sometimes as critical observer ("The Way You Make Me Feel"), sometimes as a cultural nationalist romantic ("Remember the Time"), even occasionally as a harsh American political commentator ("They Don\'t Care About Us"). Looking at those clips again, as millions of us have done over this past weekend, is to realize how prophetic Michael was in dropping mad cash to leave behind a visual record of his work that was as state-of-the-art as his musical legacy. As if he knew that one day our musical history would be more valued for what can be seen as for what can be heard.<br><br>(Having said that, my official all-time-favorite Michael clip is the one of him on Oprah viciously beatboxing and freestyling a new jam into creation—instantaneously connecting Michael in a syncopating heartbeat to those spiritual tributaries that Langston Hughes described, the ones "ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins." Bottom line: Anyone whose racial-litmus-test challenge to Michael came with a rhythm-and-blues battle royale event would have gotten their ass royally waxed.)<br><br>George Clinton thought the reason Michael constantly chipped away at his appearance was less about racial self-loathing than about the number-one problem superstars have, which is figuring out what to do when people get sick of looking at your face. His orgies of rhino- and other plasty\'s were no more than an attempt to stay ahead of a fickle public\'s fickleness. In the \'90s, at least until Eminem showed up, hip-hop would seem to have proven that major Black pop success in America didn\'t require a whitening up, maybe much to Michael\'s chagrin. Critical sidebar: I have always wanted to believe that Michael was actually one of the most secretly angry Black race-men on the planet. I thought that if he had been cast as the Iraqi nativist who beat the shit out of Marky Mark in Ridley and Russell\'s Three Kings while screaming, "What is the problem with Michael Jackson? Your sick fucking country makes the Black man hate his self," Wahlberg would have left the set that day looking like the Great Pumpkin. I have also come to wonder if a mid-life-crisis Michael was, in fact, capable and culpable of having staged his own pedophilic race-war revival of that bitterly angry role? Especially during those Jesus Juice–swilling sleepovers at his Neverland Plantation, again and again and again? I honestly hope to never discover that this was indeed the truth.<br><br>Whatever Michael\'s alienation and distance from the Black America he came from—from the streets, in particular—he remained a devoted student of popular Black music, dance, and street style, giving to and taking from it in unparalleled ways. He let neither ears nor eyes nor footwork stray too far out of touch from the action, sonically, sartorially, or choreographically. But whatever he appropriated also came back transmogrified into something even more inspiring and ennobled than before. Like the best artists everywhere, he begged, borrowed, and stole from (and/or collaborated with) anybody he thought would make his own expression more visceral, modern, and exciting, from Spielberg to Akon to, yes, OK, smartass, cosmetic surgeons. In any event, once he went solo, Michael was, above all else, committed to his genius being felt as powerfully as whatever else in mass culture he caught masses of people feeling at the time. I suppose there is some divine symmetry to be found in Michael checking out when Barack Obama, the new King of Pop, is just settling in: Just count me among those who feel that, in Michael Jackson terms, the young orator from Hawaii is only up to about the Destiny tour.<br><br>Of course, Michael\'s careerism had a steep downside, tripped onto a slippery slope, when he decided that his public and private life could be merged, orchestrated, and manipulated for publicity and mass consumption as masterfully as his albums and videos. I certainly began to feel this when word got out of him sleeping in a hyperbaric chamber or trying to buy the Elephant Man\'s bones, and I became almost certain this was the case when he dangled his hooded baby son over a balcony for the paparazzi, to say nothing of his alleged darker impulses. At what point, we have to wonder, did the line blur for him between Dr. Jacko and Mr. Jackson, between Peter Pan fantasies and predatory behaviors? At what point did the Man in the Mirror turn into Dorian Gray? When did the Warholian creature that Michael created to deflect access to his inner life turn on him and virally rot him from the inside?<br><br>Real Soul Men eat self-destruction, chased by catastrophic forces from birth and then set upon by the hounds of hell the moment someone pays them cash-money for using the voice of God to sing about secular adult passion. If you can find a more freakish litany of figures who have suffered more freakishly disastrous demises and career denouements than the Black American Soul Man, I\'ll pay you cash-money. Go down the line: Robert Johnson, Louis Jordan, Johnny Ace, Little Willie John, Frankie Lymon, Sam Cooke, James Carr, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Al Green, Teddy Pendergrass, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield. You name it, they have been smacked down by it: guns, planes, cars, drugs, grits, lighting rigs, shoe polish, asphyxiation by vomit, electrocution, enervation, incarceration, their own death-dealing preacher-daddy. A few, like Isaac Hayes, get to slowly rust before they grow old. A select few, like Sly, prove too slick and elusive for the tide of the River Styx, despite giddy years mocking death with self-sabotage and self-abuse.<br><br>Michael\'s death was probably the most shocking celebrity curtain call of our time because he had stopped being vaguely mortal or human for us quite a while ago, had become such an implacably bizarre and abstracted tabloid creation, worlds removed from the various Michaels we had once loved so much. The unfortunate blessing of his departure is that we can now all go back to loving him as we first found him, without shame, despair, or complication. "Which Michael do you want back?" is the other real question of the hour: Over the years, we\'ve seen him variously as our Hamlet, our Superman, our Peter Pan, our Icarus, our Fred Astaire, our Marcel Marceau, our Houdini, our Charlie Chaplin, our Scarecrow, our Peter Parker and Black Spider-Man, our Ziggy Stardust and Thin White Duke, our Little Richard redux, our Alien vs. Predator, our Elephant Man, our Great Gatsby, our Lon Chaney, our Ol\' Blue Eyes, our Elvis, our Frankenstein, our ET, our Mystique, our Dark Phoenix.<br><br>Celebrity idols are never more present than when they up and disappear, never ever saying goodbye, while affirming James Brown\'s prophetic reasoning that "Money won\'t change you/But time will take you out." JB also told us, "I\'ve got money, but now I need love." And here we are. Sitting with the rise and fall and demise of Michael, and grappling with how, as dream hampton put it, "The loneliest man in the world could be one of the most beloved." Now that some of us oldheads can have our Michael Jackson back, we feel liberated to be more gentle toward his spirit, releasing him from our outright rancor for scarring up whichever pre-trial, pre-chalk-complexion incarnation of him first tickled our fancies. Michael not being in the world as a Kabuki ghost makes it even easier to get through all those late-career movie-budget clips where he already looks headed for the out-door. Perhaps it\'s a blessing in disguise both for him and for us that he finally got shoved through it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11988266" class="dsq-comment-message">From Ta-Nehisi Coates<br><br>The Madness of Monica Conyers<br>01 Jul 2009 01:21 pm<br><br>[Gautham Nagesh]<br><br> <br>Greetings folks, it\'s an honor to be part of the team for the week. I spend my days covering federal technology for Nextgov and have also written for National Journal. My main interests are sports, government waste, fried foods and anything involving my home state of Michigan.<br><br><br>One note on Neil\'s post: I actually interviewed for a job with Vibe when I was in college, where I was asked to name my three favorite rap albums of all time. At the time I replied Ready to Die, Aquemini and Midnight Marauders. Apparently that was not the right answer, because the interviewer did a double take and I didn\'t get the job.<br><br>My topic for today is the ongoing train wreck that is soon-to-be-former Detroit City Council member Monica Conyers. Conyers announced her resignation from office this week after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery in a scandal over a city sludge-hauling contract. If that makes her sounds like a character from The Wire, then you\'ve got a pretty good idea of what kind of politician Conyers has proven to be. From the Detroit News:<br><br>Conyers faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine after pleading guilty Friday in federal court to allegations she sold her vote on a $1.2 billion sludge hauling contract to Synagro Technologies Inc. for a pair of $3,000 bribes. Federal officials say no other council members will face charges in the 2007deal.<br>The News was also kind enough to put together a brief highlight reel of some of Conyers\' most memorable public mishaps:<br><br><br>Conyers, the wife of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, made headlines even before taking office when she allegedly got into a fight during a birthday party and slugged a woman. No one was charged in the incident. <br><br>During her tenure, Monica Conyers put an aunt and her son on city payroll, used city police to escort her to Atlanta and Florida, had police officers chauffeur her children to private school in Oakland County and had spats with colleagues, including an infamous one with Kenneth Cockrel that ended with her calling him "Shrek." <br><br><br>Yes, that\'s the same Congressman Conyers who chairs the House Judiciary Committee. John Conyers is now facing scrutiny himself after his wife\'s former aide and political consultant Sam Riddle told the Detroit Free Press on Monday about a letter Rep. Conyers sent in 2007 to the EPA in support of an effort by Detroit businessman Jim Papas to build a hazardous waste injection well in his district. Conyers had previously opposed the well publicly in 2003 and 2004 citing environmental concerns, but that was before Papas indirectly contributed $10,000 to Monica Conyers.<br><br>It seems unlikely that John Conyers will meet the same fate as his wife, mostly because it\'s hard to believe even if he did play some role in her dealings that he would be similarly cavalier about the possibility of getting caught. The Synagro case has been going on for over a year and yet during that period of time Monica Conyers has done nothing but draw attention to herself by causing controversies on the City Council and fiercely attacking her many opponents. <br><br>She even launched her own show on local television, "Ask the Councilwoman", where she takes calls from her supporters and admonishes her critics. I\'ve been watching the show on YouTube whenever possible and I have to say my favorite episode was June 9, when she interviewed Princeton University professor Cornel West and dissed Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as too conservative and unaccomplished. Conyers graduated from the University of the District of Columbia\'s law school but has reportedly failed the bar exam four times and does not practice law.<br><br>Now that she\'s facing three to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, here\'s hoping voters have seen the last of Conyers, who hinted at a mayoral run even as the prosecutors circled closer. Her name will remain on the ballot in the August 4th primary for the Detroit City Council, where it will hopefully serve as a warning to others seeking to enrich themselves on the city\'s dime. <br><br>After spending the last couple years embroiled in the saga of disgraced former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (whose mother Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick is also a Congresswoman and under investigation by the House Ethics Committee), the city deserves leaders interested in something besides lining their own pockets. Another Council member, Motown singer Martha Reeves referred to the Council as her "second job" in an interview with the BBC this week. Hopefully this fall\'s elections will produce some candidates more interested in fixing the city than dancing in the streets. <br><br><br><a href="http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/07/the_madness_of_monica_conyers.php" rel="nofollow">http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11988563" class="dsq-comment-message">Michael Jackson\'s top two choices for guardian of his children are:<br>1. Katherine Jackson<br>2. Diana Ross<br><br>So says Rev. Al</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11991253" class="dsq-comment-message">TRUE DAT!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11989128">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11989128" class="dsq-comment-message">Since the Vanity Fair article on Caribou Barbie has come out, Andrew Sullivan is back with his \'Lies of Sarah Palin\'. That series was hilarious. <br><br><br><a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/" rel="nofollow">http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11991091" href="http://ladyvenoms.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ladyvenoms</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11991091" class="dsq-comment-message">i posted that article on my facebook page. it was good and juicy!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11989658" class="dsq-comment-message">From The Black Snob.<br><br>Another entry in the SCAN Chronicles:<br><br>Sallie Selassie In "This Chateau Isn\'t Big Enough For the Eight of Us, Pt. 1" <br>Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 11:00AM <br><br>In the war against ignorance, on the frontlines remains one of the Secret Council of American Negroes’ wiliest of double-agents, code name “Sallie Sellassie.” Living as the adopted child of an infamous, orphan addicted celebrity couple, Sallie’s main objective is to use her parents name for fame to the benefit of Negroes everywhere.<br><br>In her last correspondence with SCAN and her “handler,” codename “Brofucious,” Sellassie was dealing with the pressures of living in a house with “too many damn babies” in it, while working to get additional aid for the Gulf Coast. The following conversation took place in early April after Cannes.<br><br>More after the jump.<br><br><br>Sallie: What took you so long to answer the phone?<br><br>SCAN: Sorry. Things are a little backlogged here. Under new management.<br><br>Sallie: So the rumors are true.<br><br>SCAN: Black Ops is now being run through the new No. 2’s chief of staff.<br><br>Sallie: And you still have a job?<br><br>SCAN: Quiet you. What’s going on over there?<br><br>Sallie: What are you talking about?<br><br>SCAN: You called all freaked out? What’s up?<br><br>Sallie: She knows.<br><br>SCAN: Who knows? No one knows. You’re like four. Who would suspect you?<br><br>Sallie: I won’t eat my Cream of Wheat unless The Man takes a bite from it first. I don’t know if I can trust her.<br><br>SCAN: Trust her? Doesn’t she love you?<br><br>Sallie: Yes ... but I can be replaced. We all can. There needs to be a thinning of the herd.<br><br>SCAN: What are you talking about?<br><br>Sallie: I need permission to take Maddox out.<br><br>SCAN: Um. Permission DENIED! You already killed that maid that one time and that shit was not unauthorized. Do you know how hard it was to get Aissa Miga to the Chateau just to dump that body in the Danube? She and Rama Yade have more things to do that clean up your boo boos in France.<br><br>Sallie: Fine.<br><br>SCAN: Why are you so threatened by him anyway?<br><br>Sallie: He was the first. Her first. She’s blinded by him and everything he does. Just like she’s blind with Shiloh, the wonder twins and Pax. Whenever there is something broken or dirty or ruined she always looks at ME first.<br><br>SCAN: Well ... did you do it?<br><br>Sallie: That is BESIDE the point! I’m the only black kid in the house. She looks at me like any day I’m going to shout “Burn, baby, burn” and whip out a machete.<br><br>SCAN: I think you’re exaggerating.<br><br>Sallie: What do you know, GARY? Your ass isn’t out here on the frontlines. You’re cozy in your little cubicle eating your puffed up fried pig epidermis and hot pickles living the good life.<br><br>SCAN: They’re called “pork rinds,” OK? And they’re a “sometimes” food.<br><br>Sallie: Hold on. Someone’s coming.<br><br>[Sound of someone muffling/hiding the Playskool Phone.]<br><br>Sallie: What are you doing in here?<br><br>Maddox: I was going to ask you the same thing.<br><br>Sallie: We had a deal. You and Pax stay on YOUR side of the suite. You have cooties and this is a cootie-control zone. Plus we have a whole floor of fucking suites! It’s bad enough I have to share mine with The Chosen One.<br><br>Maddox: So who are you working for?<br><br>Sallie: What are you talking about?<br><br>Maddox: I heard you talking to someone?<br><br>Sallie: I talk to myself sometimes. I’d talk to you, but don’t want to lower myself to the discourse of cootie ass shit. I have standards.<br><br>Maddox: It’s her. Isn’t it?<br><br>Sallie: What?<br><br>Maddox: She approached you. Didn’t she?<br><br>Sallie: I don’t know what you’re talking about?<br><br>Maddox: Stay away from her. She’s bad scrambled eggs.<br><br>Sallie: Who?<br><br>Maddox: She wants to ruin everything and I can’t have that. I can’t let you do that.<br><br>Sallie: Once again, numbnuts, WHO ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?<br><br>Maddox: YOU KNOW WHO?<br><br>Sallie: WHO!<br><br>Maddox: THE RACHEL! She’s a threat to everything we hold dear.<br><br><br>Rest of it here:<br><a href="http://blacksnob.com/scan/2009/7/1/sallie-selassie-in-this-chateau-isnt-big-enough-for-the-eigh.html" rel="nofollow">http://blacksnob.com/scan/2009/7/1/sallie-selas...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11992508" class="dsq-comment-message">BWA  HA HA HAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  <br><br>Can\'t wait to read a piece on Madona and her crew.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11994878" class="dsq-comment-message">The Black Snob is a fool.  Too funny!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11991021" class="dsq-comment-message">What a cheap brawd, $6000 for a "YES" vote on 1.2 billion contract. GTFOH, talk about getting bamboozled.  And her husband didn\'t know $hit about it right?  SUUUUUUUURE and Britney Spears is becoming a nun, too. They really need to clean house up there in Detroit.  Those good folks up there can\'t catch a break between the Big 3 automakers going bust, Kwame\'s shenigans and this Conyers fiasco no wonder why Detroit is the way it is.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11991307">Myth</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11991307" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XY1SyaqDaY" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XY1SyaqDaY</a><br><br>I had forgotten about this one y\'all<br><br>"I Wanna Be Where You Are" - Vintage Michael Jackson</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12020137">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12020137" class="dsq-comment-message">Nice memories...took me back...I remembered that waswhen I learned that Clifton Davis turned out MJ...after becoming the J5 manager.<br><br>Melba Moore bout lost her mind when she found out Clifton was sleeping with men...she was deeply in love with him and it just blew up her whole persona.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12023073">Myth</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12023073" class="dsq-comment-message">Clifton Davis "turned out" MJ, When/How?  Some things I don\'t remember and neither do I want to recall.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11991725">Myth</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11991725" class="dsq-comment-message">Full Moon Crazies Come Home to Roost:<br>MICHAEL JACKSON\'S SECRET WIFE CONTESTED THE WILL<br>says she is the mother of his 3 children<br><br><a href="http://www.okmagazine.com/news/view/15390" rel="nofollow">http://www.okmagazine.com/news/view/15390</a><br><br><br>Nona Paris Lola Ankhesenamun Jackson is an African Jew from London!!<br><br>She now claims, "Though he died to this earth he lives with my father [Satan the Devil] Khalid Lucifer."<br>  <br><br>ROTFLMFBAO!!! "Khalid" Lucif....<br><br>Let the ELVISication of Michael Jackson run its full course</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11992400">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11992400" class="dsq-comment-message">OMG.....LOL...You killin me with that "ELVISication" of MJ...ROFLMAO!!!!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11993715">Myth</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11993715" class="dsq-comment-message">Isn\'t this the same circus (magnified 100 times) when Elvis dies. It was over kill then and over kill X 100 today.<br><br>NOW, these sloeful, crazy azz niggas fixta change the location BACK to LA for the MJ Memorial after eerybody got gassed up and mapquest directions to go the Neverland. Geesh</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11992544">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11992544" class="dsq-comment-message">THIS IS HILARIOUS!!<br><br>HILARIOUS, I tell ya!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11993569">Myth</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11993569" class="dsq-comment-message">3 WHITE MEN AND 3 BABIES<br>MJ names 3 white men as executors of his Will with TOTAL, TOTAL authority over all of MJ\'s assets.<br><br>Does this mean that Katherine has to say. "Massa, I need some milk for these here 3 white babies of Mikuls. I\'ll take good care of them for my millato son Mr. Michael sir. Can I just get $5"</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11993703">NMP</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11993703" class="dsq-comment-message">It means Michael loved his mother but was smart enough to know that he left her with complete executorship, she would have given the money to Joe.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11993811">Myth</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11993811" class="dsq-comment-message">Janet? Tito? Jermaine? Marlon? Rebbie? Anybody AA as executor?<br><br>Katherine says "Maybe I can go ask Ms. Diana for $5 for some milk for these babies...or they might have to come stay with her and her 6 kids"</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11994406">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11994406" class="dsq-comment-message">With an estate as complicated as MJ\'s, I think it would have been irresponsible for him to name any relative as executor.  Some issues are best handled by professionals.  I don\'t see why it\'s a problem that the professionals chosen for this matter were white.  MJ employed Black people in other roles important to him.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11994335">Mothsmoke</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11994335" class="dsq-comment-message">Outside of Janet, none of siblings named have demonstrated fiscal responsibility.  Multiple bankruptcies, foreclosures, and just bad personal decisions all the way around. This could also be a reflection of the just how close (distant) Michael was to his siblings.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12031314">NMP</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12031314" class="dsq-comment-message">Myth,<br><br>Firstly,  the one truism we know about Michael Jackson is that he was  <br>not a race man.  Moreover, ALL of his adult life, his inner circle was  <br>white.  Black folks may be reclaiming him in death, but he was not  <br>ours in life.  He rarely spoke to any of his family with the exception  <br>of his mom.  The people he appointed as executors were the architects  <br>of his biggest successes.  Why wouldn\'t he trust them to oversee his  <br>estate.  He\'s serving the interests of his kids.  As much as he  <br>obviously loves his mother, he knows her lifelong weakness has been  <br>Joe Jackson.  Those kids will not be wanting for anything.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12037462">Myth</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12037462" class="dsq-comment-message">"He knows her lifelong weakness has been Joe Jackson"<br><br>They have not lived together in over 10 years. And I would venture a guess that she wasn\'t weak for him for the last 30 years.<br><br>Nevertheless, a fourth executor close to the family would have provided her with more assurances</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12022395">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12022395" class="dsq-comment-message">Sometimes you just got to role the dice and hope they land on "settlement".  She won\'t be the only one throwing their name in the hat for a chance of a payoff.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11992442">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11992442" class="dsq-comment-message">Actor Karl Malden dies at 97 <br><br>Karl Malden, one of Hollywood\'s strongest and most versatile supporting actors, <br>who won an Oscar playing his Broadway-originated role as Mitch in "A Streetcar <br>Named Desire," died today. He was 97.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11992967">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11992967" class="dsq-comment-message">Loved him in "The Streets of San Francisco" with Michael Douglas too.<br><br>RIP Mr. Malden.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11994015">Myth</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11994015" class="dsq-comment-message">He\'d betta hope Mike get\'s buried soon if he wants anybody to notice.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11997982" class="dsq-comment-message">Bring it down a notch, Myth</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11992902" class="dsq-comment-message">Black and White and Dead All Over<br>Stop the presses! Will journalism take democracy down with it?<br>By Dave Gilson<br><br>43% of Americans say it would hurt civic life "a lot" if their local newspaper closed. Yet when asked if they\'d miss their paper, 42% say "not much" or "not at all."<br><br>About 80% of news is originally reported by newspapers, according to former Los Angeles Times editor John Carroll.<br><br>In 2006, 62% of all reporters worked for newspapers.<br><br>Nearly 1 in 5 newspaper journalists has lost his or her job since 2001.<br><br>In the first 5 months of 2009, 100 newspapers shut down and more than 9,000 newspaper jobs were lost.<br><br>In April, Lou Carlozo, who wrote the Chicago Tribune\'s "Recession Diaries" blog, was laid off—and not allowed to post about it.<br><br>That same month, St. Louis\' Suburban Journals canned Todd Smith, a reporter who was shot last year when a gunman stormed a city council meeting he was covering.<br><br>Earlier this year, Phoenix\'s East Valley Tribune won a Pulitzer Prize for an investigative story written by a reporter who\'d been let go 6 months earlier.<br><br>Even 4 years ago, 37 of the 100 largest daily papers had no full-time investigative reporters.<br><br><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/media/2009/07/black-and-white-and-dead-all-over" rel="nofollow">http://www.motherjones.com/media/2009/07/black-...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11993273" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama Takes Health Care Pitch To Annandale, Virginia<br>Huffpost - Obama Takes Health Care Pitch To Annandale, Virginia stumble PHILIP ELLIOTT | July 1, 2009 03:34 PM EST<br><br>ANNANDALE, Va. — President Barack Obama hugged a cancer patient Wednesday at an emotional forum before a supportive audience and vowed to bring greater efficiency and accessibility to the nation\'s health care system.<br><br>Debby Smith, 53, of Appalachia, Va., a volunteer for Obama\'s political operation, fought tears as she told the president of her kidney cancer and her inability to obtain health insurance or hold a job. Obama embraced her and called her "exhibit A" in what he said was an unsustainable system that is too expensive and complex for millions of Americans.<br><br>"We are going to try to find ways to help you immediately," he told Smith as hundreds looked on at a community college forum _ and countless others watched on television. But the nation\'s long-term needs require a greater emphasis on preventive care and "cost-effective care," he said.<br><br>Smith obtained her ticket through the White House. Aides said she was a volunteer for Organizing for America, Obama\'s political operation within the Democratic National Committee. Among the other questioners were a member of the Service Employees International Union and a person with Health Care for America Now, which recently organized a Capitol Hill rally for overhauling health care.<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/01/obama-takes-health-care-p_n_223726.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/01/obama-...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11993274" class="dsq-comment-message">Jul 1 2009, 3:08 pm by Daniel Indiviglio<br><br>Who Killed the Public-Private Investment Program?<br>Earlier in the week, I wrote about my skepticism regarding banks no longer needing the Public-Private Investment Program (PPIP). Ezra Klein seems to be skeptical as well. But he also claims that the program failed, not because the Treasury decided it was no longer necessary, but because banks refused to participate. I don\'t agree with his logic<br><br>Just for some context, Klein is writing about a good post by James Kwak over on the Baseline Scenario. In that post Kwak explains how the government has vacillated between the assets and liabilities/equity sides of banks balance sheets in their rescue attempts. The latest attempt, the PPIP, tries to heal the assets side, as it would allow banks to get rid of their toxic securities. <br><br>After quoting a portion of Kwak\'s piece, Klein says: <br><br>I\'d amend Kwak\'s final line a bit: The argument is that as long as the economy keeps improving and the banks can continue raising capital, everything is fine, no matter how many toxic assets the banks hold. And that may be true!<br>And I agree. But then: <br><br>But it continues to be the case that the PPIP plan fell apart not because the Treasury Department decided it was unnecessary but because the banks, which were suddenly flush with fresh capital, refused to participate in it.<br>Let\'s think about this. First, the Treasury gave the banks stress tests. Some banks passed; some banks needed more capital. Once that capital is raised, the Treasury is essentially saying, "Okay Generic-Bank, you\'ve reached the capital level we require to deem you safe." <br><br>You can question whether those capital levels are truly safe or not. I question that too. But this certainly sends a signal to the market that the government is comfortable with capital levels. And that\'s a strong vote of confidence. If the bank still had problems after raising that capital, it would have a pretty strong case for going back to Uncle Sam, hat-in-hand, saying: "But you said we\'d be okay! Since you were wrong, please bail us out again." Having set those capital requirements killed the PPIP. <br><br>Moreover, let\'s go back to that quote I had from Sheila Bair in that post from earlier in the week, from the WSJ article I source: <br><br>Earlier this month, the FDIC formally postponed the loan-buying portion of PPIP, called the Legacy Loan Program. "Banks have been able to raise capital without having to sell bad assets through the LLP, which reflects renewed investor confidence in our banking system," Ms. Bair said.<br>How can you make the claim that the government didn\'t kill the program, when you have the head of the FDIC saying exactly that? It\'s true that banks probably were not so interested in participating, but again, that\'s because the government first deemed them safe, based on obtaining the capital needed according to the stress tests. <br><br>Noam Scheiber over at the New Republic quotes an insider who confirms that the Treasury did not much mind killing the program, given enhanced bank capital levels:<br><br>If you had asked--I don\'t want to speak for the secretary--what\'s problem number one? I think he\'d say capital. Problem two? Capital. Problem three? Capital. Everything was in the service of that view. The legacy loans program was meant to help clean balance sheets. It was not an independent good in itself. It was seen as friendly to equity raising. Now people say the legacy loans thing is not gaining as much traction, so is that a failure? But because we had a good outcome in terms of raising equity, they [the banks] were able to raise equity without shedding assets ... you should be okay with that.<br>In other words, the Treasury had always been most concerned with capital. Now that they\'re more comfortable, they\'re not as concerned with the PPIP going ahead. Banks probably don\'t want to participate as much now either -- that\'s true for sure. But their reasoning is the same as the Treasury\'s: they\'re happier with their balance sheet due to their new capital levels. <br><br>If the banks played any parting killing the program, it was in conjunction with the Treasury. It provided the capital requirement framework through the stress tests and adheres to the same capital-driven philosophy. <br><br><a href="http://business.theatlantic.com/2009/07/who_killed_the_public-private_investment_program.php" rel="nofollow">http://business.theatlantic.com/2009/07/who_kil...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11993472" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/141019/%2527i_quit_the_evangelical_movement_in_disgust%2527%253A_former_evangelist_fears_right-wing_lunacy_will_lead_to_more_murder/" rel="nofollow">http://www.alternet.org/story/141019/%27i_quit_...</a><br><br>\'I Quit the Evangelical Movement in Disgust\': Former Evangelist Fears Right-Wing Lunacy Will Lead to More Murder<br><br>By Frank Schaeffer, AlterNet. Posted July 1, 2009.<br><br>Conservative pundits and GOP lawmakers must try to cure the sickness of their right-wing followers -- before it explodes again. Or don\'t they care?<br><br>What are the Republicans in Congress and the other "respectable" leaders on the far right -- from Focus on the Family\'s James Dobson to Rush Limbaugh, from Laura Ingraham to the leaders of the NRA -- doing to stop the right-wing domestic wave of terrorism exploding in the aftermath of President Barack Obama\'s election? I ask this as a former evangelical right-wing and "pro-life" leader who quit the right and the Republicans in disgust over their extremism...<br><br>Right-wing domestic terrorism committed by a few unhinged people who take the crazy talk (and nutty "open-carry" church services) seriously is a test of the patriotism of the so-called mainstream right-wing leaders. If the mainstream right doesn\'t stand up to try to tamp down the fear levels in its very own lunatic fringe, and if it doesn\'t lower the pitch of its anti-Obama rhetoric, then it is complicit in whatever comes next."</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11993732" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m still laughing.....hoooo boy!    Actually a Palin/Joe the Plumber ticket would be hilarious!!<br><br><a href="http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-5697-Grassroots-Politics-Examiner%7Ey2009m7d1-Will-Joe-the-Plumber-run-for-office-I-talked-to-God-about-that-and-he-was-like-No" rel="nofollow">http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-5697-Grassro...</a><br><br>"Asked if he has plans to run for public office, he replied, "I hope not. You know, I talked to God about that and he was like, \'No.<br><br>He continued, "I believe he\'s gotten me on this grassroots movement. If I can encourage leaders to step up, that\'s what I would like to do. That\'s a heavy role. That\'s something I don\'t know if I am prepared to do yet."</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11995805" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11995805" class="dsq-comment-message">If Palin\'s on the ticket, I will be an Obama staffer in \'12.<br><br>You heard it here first.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12009873" class="dsq-comment-message">DAYUM, D, tell us how YOU REALLY FEEL!  ROFL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12016286" class="dsq-comment-message">Huh? Dat you, D?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11994466" class="dsq-comment-message">Dang......now God\'s doing a facepalm, cuz dumb azz Joe the fake plumber clearly didn\'t understand that "NO" was not limited to just running for public office. Geez.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11993873" class="dsq-comment-message">Palin-Blagoyevich in 2012</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11994191" class="dsq-comment-message"><I>"Asked if he has plans to run for public office, he replied, "I hope not. You know, I talked to God about that and he was like, \'No.</I><br><br>Dude!  I\'m like \'OH HELL NO!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11994255" class="dsq-comment-message">Great thread!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11995202" class="dsq-comment-message">interesting piece from womanist-musings regarding comments on race from Morgan Freeman<br><br><a href="http://www.womanist-musings.com/2009/07/no-more-race-talk-for-morgan-freeman.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.womanist-musings.com/2009/07/no-more...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11997051">karlewis</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11997051" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with Mr. Freeman. Stop seeing my race before you see me. I am tired of being "the black guy". That title automatically labels my professionalism and my expertise because I am a black guy. We have got to stop being Pavlov\'s dog, not every bell rings of race.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11998356" class="dsq-comment-message">Do you want to stop being "the black guy", or do you want people to stop labelling your professionalism and expertise because thye see you as black? I, for one, don\'t want to be "not black", and I don\'t think it should be necessary for anyone to become "not black" before whatever level of professionalism and expertise they may have is recognized.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11995936" class="dsq-comment-message">Here is a link to CBS News program from last night about Michael Jackson.  It has a segment from MTV, that kinda gives you a glimpse into what MTV may be planning for the VMA or a different MJ tribute.<br><br><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/25/in_depth_showbiz/main5114292.shtml?tag=cbsnewsLeadStoriesArea.0" rel="nofollow">Michael Jackson King of Pop: Picking Up The Pieces</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11996060" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s going to be off the charts!  BET is planning a "make-up" tribute.  Just let it go!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12002246" class="dsq-comment-message">Yep, BET needs to let it go.  I actually watch VH1SOUL not BET.  I haven\'t watched BET since bout the time Viacom bought it aloNg with MTV.  I actually like TVONE much better than BET.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11996077" class="dsq-comment-message">Folks loved them some Michael.  This will make you smile, as fans around the world have been doing "Moonwalk tributes."<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/01/mass-moonwalks-around-the_n_224055.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/01/mass-m...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12016120" class="dsq-comment-message">That was nice, thanks</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11998438" class="dsq-comment-message">Term Saw High Court Move to The Right<br>Roberts-Led March Likely to Continue<br>By Robert Barnes<br>Washington Post Staff Writer <br>Wednesday, July 1, 2009 <br><br>For the Supreme Court, it was the year of living on the verge. <br>On the verge of declaring the key provision of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional, but then stepping back. Looking hard at whether some protections of minorities amount to violations of the Constitution, then leaving the topic for another day. Appearing sympathetic to school officials for their decision to strip-search a 13-year-old student, but shielding them only from any liability for their actions. <br><br>The court\'s term avoided the blockbuster decisions that at one point seemed inevitable. But its path was clear: a patient and steady move to the right led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., one that is likely to continue even if President Obama is successful in adding Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the high court -- and perhaps two others like her. <br><br>The court\'s conservatives made it harder for those pressing civil rights claims to get into court, and the same for environmentalists. Conservative justices raised the bar for those alleging age discrimination, a decision that liberal Justice John Paul Stevens called "an unabashed display of judicial lawmaking." They declined to find a constitutional right to DNA testing for prisoners who say the tests could prove their innocence. <br>While there were lopsided majorities on some high-profile cases near the end of the term, the court remained extremely divided, deciding nearly a third of its cases by 5 to 4 votes. Liberals won a few, although sometimes in cases where ideology seemed it should not matter. <br><br><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/30/AR2009063004170.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11998471" class="dsq-comment-message">Contest! Name the next politician to go \'hiking the Appalachian Trail\'<br><br>You have to hand it to South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, who has publicly confessed to infidelity. He\'s added a new euphemism for "cheating" to the American lexicon:<br>"Oh -- he (or she) has been hiking the Appalachian Trail!"<br>Wink. Nudge. Big smirk. I\'d bet Sanford wishes he\'d never invented that sorry excuse as a cover for his adultery in Argentina.<br>The question on my mind is, who\'s next going to "take a hike on the AT"?<br>Which means it\'s contest time!<br>I challenge you to predict the name of the next national political figure, or evolution-damning preacher, who calls a press conference and fesses up to cheating on his (or her) spouse.<br>We have two great prizes to offer:<br><br>The first is "The Best of the Appalachian Trail Overnight Hikes" 2nd Edition (Menasha Ridge Press, 2007) by Victoria Logue, Frank Logue and Leonard M. Adkins. It will be autographed by Adkins, an outdoors writer who has thru hiked the AT five times and blogs at <a href="http://habitualhiker.com" rel="nofollow">habitualhiker.com</a>.<br><br>The second is "Sex Scandal in America - Politics and the Ritual of Public Shaming" (The Key Publishing House Inc., 2009) by David Rosen. It bills itself as "a comprehensive history of sexual scandals in America from colonial times (including Pocahontas and the Puritans) to today."<br>Of course, plenty of people already have taken themselves out of the running. <br><br>Talking Points Memo and Americablog have done a good job covering adulterous Republicans. And How to Kill Chickens has a pretty good inventory of cheating Democrats. So make sure you don\'t waste your prediction on any of the folks they\'ve already covered.<br>You must enter this contest as a comment on this blog. Rules are below the jump. (Click on Read more)<br>Rules:<br><br><a href="http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/dancasey/2009/06/30/contest-name-the-next-politician-to-go-hiking-the-appalachian-trail/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/dancasey/2009/...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12009569" class="dsq-comment-message">Sanford drops pledge to release travel records  <br>by Jed Lewison <br> Share this on Twitter - Sanford drops pledge to release travel records   Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 01:35:59 PM PDT<br>Smoke, meet fire?<br><br>COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has backed out of a promise to release personal financial records proving he did not use state money for trips to see his mistress.<br><br>A day after Sanford declared in an emotional Associated Press interview that his mistress is his soul mate, spokesman Joel Sawyer says the governor does not want to discuss personal matters in the media anymore. <br><br>Unless Sanford plans on resigning, this move doesn\'t make any sense. He can refuse to release them voluntarily, but sooner or later -- and probably sooner -- he\'ll be compelled by state lawmakers or law enforcement officials to release the records.<br><br>The only possibility of the records staying private -- at least while he remains in office -- is if he resigns<br><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/1/748903/-Sanford-drops-pledge-to-release-travel-records" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/1/748903/-...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12013330" class="dsq-comment-message">please<br>he\'s already told us how he was crying<br>and volunteering info about other woman<br>without being asked<br>he might as well release personal financial records</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12009781" class="dsq-comment-message">TVONE showing a speicall program on MJ called: Michael Jackson: The Life and Times of the King of Pop.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12011664" class="dsq-comment-message">Maureen Dowd hit gold on this article regarding Mark the hypocrite Sanford.  I havent\' laughed this much in one day for a loooong time.   Between Sanford and Palin, the fake plumber, and fat ass Limbaugh....the Republican party needs cpr big time!!!<br><br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/opinion/01dowd.html?ref=opinion" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/opinion/01dow...</a><br><br>"Stay focused, ladies. Here is The Practical Guide to Help Spurned Political Wives Survive Old Problems in the Era of New Technology.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12012384" href="http://www.WEESeeYou.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Webb</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12012384" class="dsq-comment-message">That was a good piece.  <br><br>Me thinks that Jenny visited a witch doctor down on the coast; she had some serious roots worked on old dude.  I have never seen a political figure so magnificently self-destruct, die in slow motion and dig his own grave.  <br><br>If i lived in SC, I\'d be thinking, "My state is fucked.  My governor really, really doesn\'t give a fuck about this state."  Sanford is ready to get on a plane back to Buenos Aires as soon as the people will/can fire his ass.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12012799">Angelar</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12012799" class="dsq-comment-message">you just made me laugh out loud  "Jenny visited a witch doctor, etc"<br><br>oh sheez! thank you for that</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12028391" href="http://www.WEESeeYou.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Webb</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12028391" class="dsq-comment-message">Yr Welcome Angelar.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12015686">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12015686" class="dsq-comment-message">Jenny is the heiress to Skilsaw<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoRh8T_VX-Y" rel="nofollow">www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoRh8T_VX-Y</a><br><br>this carving is soooo representative of what she could do to him!<br><br>"that tear is  not going to deter me"<br><br>lol lol</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12022123">Myth</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12022123" class="dsq-comment-message">She definitely does not need Sanford\'s money!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12012166">Angelar</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12012166" class="dsq-comment-message">I am not usually given into "secret society" types of things....but, the more I read about this the more I have questions.  I\'m now thinking the cliche "where there is smoke there is fire" is fitting here.<br><br><a href="http://www.jabberwonk.com/flinker.cfm?cliid=10q9uw" rel="nofollow">http://www.jabberwonk.com/flinker.cfm?cliid=10q9uw</a><br><br>"\'Family\': Fundamentalism, Friends In High Places<br>Listen Now [19 min 22 sec] add to playlist | download<br><br>Greg Martin<br><br>In The Family, Jeff Sharlet writes about his foray into Ivanwald, the communal-living stronghold of the fundamentalist group known as The Fellowship. Courtesy of Harper Collins<br><br>Founded in 1935 in opposition to FDR\'s New Deal, the right-wing fundamentalist religious group organizes prayer meetings for Congressmen, as well as the annual National Prayer Breakfast. The group also has an alleged connection to a house in Washington, D.C. known as C Street, which serves as a prayer house and residence for politicians like Governor Mark Sanford, Senator John Ensign and Senator Tom Coburn."</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12012608">Angelar</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12012608" class="dsq-comment-message">I did not see this today, but, I heard it on the radio and I actually had to wince when I heard Gibbs try to respond......me thinks the Obama teams needs to hear what is being said by these people.   I don\'t think they were out of line and it reminded me of how the bushies controlled their "town hall meetings."<br><br><a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/07/01/cbs_helen_thomas_challenge_gibbs_on_controlled_town_hall_meeting.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/07/...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12014244">karlewis</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12014244" class="dsq-comment-message">wow the Bush comparison won\'t end. Let me guess he goes to Camp David like Bush? He wants them to call him Mr. President like Bush?<br><br>Imagine Bush\'s dumbass answering a guestion from a person he didn\'t know at a Town Hall meeting? He couldn\'t even answer questions he knew were coming.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12020480">Angelar</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12020480" class="dsq-comment-message">Gibbs got served by the press....the Obama admin. needs to learn from their arrogance....it was painful to listen to Gibbs and his giggle laugh today!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12013279">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12013279" class="dsq-comment-message">For Some WH Aides, Public Service Has Its (Six-Figure) Rewards<br>By Michael D. Shear<br>The magic number in the Obama White House appears to be 172,000.<br><br>Dollars, that is. Per year.<br><br>Twenty-two of the president\'s top aides -- most with the title "assistant to the president" -- make exactly that much in exchange for their service to the country, the White House reported to Congress today. The Obama administration also published the information on the White House blog.<br><br>Those making the magic number include 28-year-old Jonathan Favreau, the president\'s wordsmith (director of speechwriting), and 66-year-old James L. Jones, the national security adviser.<br><br>One person in the White House -- other than the president himself ($400,000) -- is listed as making more than $172,000: David E. Marcozzi, the president\'s director of public health policy, is described as a "detailee" from the Department of Health and Human Services and receives $192,934 for his work. (Vice President Biden and his staff are not included in the White House report.)<br><br>On the other end of the scale are Michael J. Warren, a senior adviser for the department of personnel, and Patricia G. McGinnis, who is listed simply as "adviser" to the president. Both make nothing, according to the official salary list.<br><br>In between are 462 other employees who make from a low of $36,000 to a high of $163,940. For the utterly curious, the report -- which has been provided to Congress every year since 1995 -- is searchable and sortable on the White House Web site.<br><br>There are a few gems in there. Deputy Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer makes a bit more ($150,000) than his wife, Sarah Feinberg, who earns $120,000 as the top staffer to Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.<br><br>But the gender tables are turned in the case of assistant press secretary Tommy Vietor, who recently proposed to Michelle Obama\'s press secretary, Katie Lelyveld. At $84,000 a year, she makes significantly more than her soon-to-be-husband ($57,500).<br><br>The vast bulk of the employees appear to earn between $40,000 and $55,000 per year, making the White House quite a modestly paid enterprise for most of the workaholics who spend time there.<br><br>The list of the $172,000-a-year men and women of the White House:<br><br>David Axelrod, Melody Barnes, John Brennan, Elizabeth Brown, Carol Browner, Gregory Craig, Thomas Donilon, Anita Dunn, Rahm Emanuel, Jonathan Favreau, Patrick Gaspard, Robert Gibbs, Valerie Jarrett, James Jones, Christopher Lu, Alyssa Mastromonaco, James Messina, Peter Rouse, Philip Schiliro, Susan her, Lawrence Summers and Mona Sutphen.<br><br><br><a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/07/01/for_some_wh_aides_public_servi.html?hpid=topnews" rel="nofollow">http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/07/01/...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12014385">Angelar</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12014385" class="dsq-comment-message">all of them deserve every dollar they get and more</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12014503">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12014503" class="dsq-comment-message">Courts Charge Mother of 555-Pound Boy<br>A Mother Facing Felony Charges for Her Son\'s Obesity<br><br>The mother of a 555-pound, 14-year-old boy in South Carolina was charged with neglect last week for allegedly failing to control her son\'s weight. <br>Before fleeing town with her son, Jerri Gray had been contacted by the local Department of Social Services previous times about her son\'s weight and was even issued a treatment plan to turn around Alexander Draper\'s morbid obesity, Gray\'s attorney Grant Varner told <a href="http://ABCnews.com" rel="nofollow">ABCnews.com</a>. <br><br>But when Gray failed to bring Alexander in for some of his medical treatment appointments recommended by the department and he continued to gain weight, the state sent notice that Gray would lose custody of her only child. <br><br>"She panicked," Varner said. "She had no lawyer, she couldn\'t afford a lawyer and they took off. They had no destination really. They stopped in Baltimore to do laundry, which is where they were found." <br><br>Full Story: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/WellnessNews/story?id=7941609&page=1" rel="nofollow">http://abcnews.go.com/Health/WellnessNews/story...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12015220">Angelar</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12015220" class="dsq-comment-message">This may sound tough but I truly believe that any parent who would allow their child to become so obese is also guilty of child abuse and child neglect.   Unless the parent is totally ignorant, they are guilty.<br><br>I do not buy laziness, stress or any other problem...oh we want to hold Mark Sandford to account, but, we don\'t want to hold lazy parents who allow their children to become morbidly obese...?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12015497">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12015497" class="dsq-comment-message">I dont understand at all, how this child got to 555 pounds. I just can\'t wrap my head around that, I really really cant. I just can\'t believe its from eating a lot and for this woman to run off with him like that, ......its abuse.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12015904">isonprize</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12015904" class="dsq-comment-message">Um, uh... they weren\'t \'fleeing\' much of anywhere...<br><br><br>(on my way to the bad chair as I type this...)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12016178">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12016178" class="dsq-comment-message">You going to hell!!!! ROFLMAO!! And sending me with you dammit!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12015685">Angelar</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12015685" class="dsq-comment-message">something very serious is going on..pay attention..we have four thousand troops fighting in a war that our president hasn\'t told us about.<br><br><br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/world/asia/02afghan.html?_r=1&hp" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/world/asia/02...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12015860">isonprize</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12015860" class="dsq-comment-message">A bit of an exaggerated response, maybe?   Afghanistan is not a "new" war.  I\'m very much against involvement, but this didn\'t just appear out of thin air...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12015972">Angelar</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12015972" class="dsq-comment-message">ok, I think not exaggerated....morning will bring other news<br><br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/world/asia/02afghan.html?_r=1&hp" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/world/asia/02...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12020533">karlewis</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12020533" class="dsq-comment-message">Stand Down! In case no body told you, the people our Marines are going after came here 8 years ago. Make no mistake our enemy the Taliban will feel the might of our Devil Dogs... Hoorah</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12021230">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12021230" class="dsq-comment-message">Ohhh, they are going after the heroin.  The Taliban is not going to take that lightly.  Poppy fields are worth far more the people.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12015729" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12015729" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12015729">lamh32</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12015729" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12015729" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay,<br> <br>I have to admit, I haven\'t watched the whole BAD video in bout what 15 years.  ya know the part with Wesley Snipes! I didn\'t even reme,mber that the video was directed by Martin Scorceses (WTF!!).  It just came on VH1 Soul, the whole 15+ mins of it.<br><br>Music vids just aren\'t 15 mins.  You\'d be hard pressed to find one that clocks in at 5 min.<br><br>And can anyone else remember anyone doing videos will a full cabal of dancers choreographed to within an inch of their lives before Michael Jackson?  I can\'t.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12016199">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12016199" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12016199" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12016199">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12016199" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12016199" class="dsq-comment-message">Scorcese directed Bad???????????? DAYUM MJ!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12019772">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12019772" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12019772" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12019772">Angelar</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12019772" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12019772" class="dsq-comment-message">the times are are definitely changing...I don\'t see this as small stuff.  <br><br>President Obama..has truly become the Commander in Chief in more ways than one.<br><br><a href="http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2009/07/01/marines-launch-major-push-in-afghanistan/?cxntfid=blogs_jay_bookman_blog" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2009/07/0...</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12020321">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12020321" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12020321" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12020321">Angelar</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12020321" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12020321" class="dsq-comment-message">Thousands of US Marines Launch Operation in Afghanistan<br><br><a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2009/07/01/thousands-of-us-troops-launch-operation-in-afghanistan/" rel="nofollow">http://news.antiwar.com/2009/07/01/thousands-of...</a><br><br>Helmand Governor Predicts Success<br>by Jason Ditz, July 01, 2009 <br><br><br>"Thousands of US Marines launched a massive offensive into the villages of the Helmand River Valley, which they intend to purge of all insurgents before the August 20 presidential election. Military officials describe the offensive as the first major operation of the Obama Administration’s revamped strategy. Helmand’s governor has reportedly predicted the offensive will be a success.<br><br>Besides the large number of troops involved in the attack, officials say the operation is set apart from previous ones in that they intend to remain in the area for a prolonged period of time. Helmand, the center of British operations in Afghanistan, has seen some of the worst violence in the nation.<br><br>It is unclear how the Marines intend to operate in Afghan villages considering General Stanfley McChrystal’s reported order to stop engaging in fights near the homes of Afghan civilians. Recently US troops operating in and around populated areas have called in air strikes killing enormous numbers of civilians.<br><br>Despite repeated calls from commanders for the US to commit even more troops to the conflict, National Security Adviser James Jones declared today that he had told commanders that the administration won’t consider adding more troops beyond the planned surge this year, though President Obama was considering deploying an additional 10,000 troops at some point in 2010."</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 </ul>\
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