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Isn't that what \"passing\" is...trying to deny where you came from?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_13:13:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014109, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1014793": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Bill went to Harlem because it was cheaper.  If those other Manhattan offices had been available at the rate the Harlem office was, he likely never would have even considered Harlem much less moved there.<br><br>The thing is, Billary thinks they are dealing with the Stephanie Tubbs Jones ilk of black people, so when he says \"It won't last\" Billary is thinking of them, and they are right when it comes to them.<br><br>I think for the under 40 set, Billary's about to have a rude awakening.  Billary STILL doesn't get how they threw black folks under the bus.  I truly believe if Billary had kept it clean and shut down all the race stuff (Ferraro I'm looking at YOU), she would be the Democratic nominee today, not Obama.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_15:12:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014187, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1017354": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Here's Malveaux trying to throw the \"Audacity\" of him acting like he was \"running for president of the world\" in his face, allowing Obama to Barack that ass with his answer:<br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCprJK9RC3Y\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCprJK9RC3Y</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-28_00:30:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "eclecticbrotha", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014986, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1014288": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's right.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_13:15:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014254, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1014289": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Put Suzanne Malveaux on the \"brown assassins\" list. In the post-interview wrap up she said the most important question \"on everyone's minds\" was whether Obama feels beholden to the black community because of benefiting from AA.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_13:16:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "eclecticbrotha", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 13, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014213, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1013788": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Divide and conquer. 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I could be wrong here, but that's what I think anyway.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_11:40:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "kate03", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1014878": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well we brown people have a lot of shared history and recent ancestry as many of us are the descendants of those who were enslaved. Our appearance does not give an accurate estimate of our gene pool. We have common goals. It is of interest and intent by those motivated by racial bias and a desire to retain power to impose a system of inferiority and discord amongst others. Some people may have problems with each other and are misinformed but certainly not all. It is a similar theme as the one being pushed about Black men and Black women hating each other and being dysfunctional.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_15:32:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1015392": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree, Peggy's pretty amazing too.  I think she's conservative though...I don't seek out her stuff, but when I encounter something, it's always insightful.<br><br>Ben Stein, I'm not that familiar with, but on Larry King he praised Barack for being one of the most talented campaigners he's ever seen.  He also later said he doesn't work for McCain and can tell the truth.  I don't know if that's his usual style, but it was refreshing.  <br><br>I think what we're starving for is someone saying just how amazing Barack's candidacy has been.  Deep down, they all admire/envy him...I know it.  But, even the Democrats are mum.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_17:19:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1015236, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1014373": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Was it just me, or did Leonard Pitts, Jr. try to create a \"Gotcha\" moment at the Unity Conference?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_13:33:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1013870": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'd like to think and agree that much of it has to do with the media. Sure, maybe in some communities out in California, this is a problem (one with a history in gang activity), but I haven't heard much in the way of a black vs brown thing. Seems to me, that its a white america vs brown thing which is evident wit the immigration debate.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_11:46:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "fa46b02788f5bf05d55c728239ffdb34", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1014385": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "unfortunatly...<br>ward conerrly goes state to stae lecturing on Affirmative Action and how to end it. apparently he's now using Barackm as a Talking Point  as to why you no longer need it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_13:36:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "smoothie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014272, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1013883": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't think white people are thinking that hard.<br><br>I would say that most white people don't know a Hispanic person or a Black person outside of a work situation, so when the talking heads and Billary and news media keep repeating that \"Hispanics and Blacks don't like each other and Hispanics won't vote for Obama cuz he's black\" white people are going to believe it, especially if someone white is saying it.<br><br>The only way white people will stop believe that \"blacks vs. hispanics\" meme is if someone WHITE says it's not true.  But Billary and the news media keep saying it's true, and even though polls are showing Hispanics favoring Obama by 66%, they still believe that Hispanics don't like Obama b/c he's black and Hispanics & blacks have a major problem with each other.<br><br>So I do think the Black/Latino tension is a figment of white people's imagination, but only because they've been told that by white authority figures who need for there to be a \"division\" for their own agendas.<br><br>This reminds me of the movie \"ROMEO MUST DIE,\" when incidents would happen and the Black gangs thought the Asian gangs were behind them, and vice versa.  But it was the White guy who was riling the Black and Asian gangs up against each other behind the scenes, so he could profit from the dvision and make off like a bandit.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_11:50:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1014399": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "i keep an eye on this type of headline and article always, closely, for about the last two years. a series of articles are now arising like a spike and to me it is clear that the right wing is either planting articles or planting seeds of ideas in certain press mediums or somehow influencing the conversation and wants to introduce a rift no matter how tiny so that it can be wedged and wedged to a greater degree by november. dont bleeve the hype i say. we're working together every day all day online and off. of course there is tension and violence and everything between all kinds on this continent. as a media person, i dont doubt the issue, but all things are going on always. so why report on this now? why so many articles right now? i certainly pay attention to the timing, the framing, the effect of those articles and who benefits by the proliferation of them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_13:41:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "nezua", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1015425": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You're on fire today!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_17:26:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014925, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1014925": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The world associates Harlem with blackness, black cultural Renaissance..  Bill would stick his penis into that particular mouth, and mark his territory.<br><br>There's something far more valuable to Bill than dollars...and money is not a problem for him.  Bill knows the soul of the black community is more valuable.  <br><br><i>We</i> threw our lot in with the devil, and the devil moved into <i>our</i> house because he knows where we live, and he knew we belonged to him.   Then the devil tried to collect by destroying Barack.  The devil needs to be taught a lesson.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_15:41:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014793, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1014928": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I await what your browser finds, Craig! <br><br>This was a very good article and honest. Having lived overseas, man, all the world really wants is someone at the helm that isn't insane and takes their needs into some kind of consideration. They really have deflated any apsirations more than that. I think that is why they look at Barack so intensely. It is like getting the bestest ever christmas present instead of the socks you were expecting.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_15:42:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "29f6805818d1f575c4b8e2182a2ac4ce", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014862, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1015442": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "......and to remind the voters what \"black\" is.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_17:30:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1015222, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1015446": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Lily:  Your passion and wisdom are amazing!  I hope that this doesn't sound trite, but , as profound as you have spoken!! <br><br>\". . . but if we are honest, no one man can ever fight the machine that way.\"  <br><br>You have reinforced the African proverb [though I found out that other cultures have expressed the same in a variety of ways] that \"IT TAKES A VILLAGE . . .\"<br>We must see ouselves as a part of the VILLAGE OF \"CHANGE\" if we are to realize the CHANGE!  So we continue to fight in our various ways to keep the message loud and clear!  I thank our Ambassador- Mr. Obama-for his world tour where his/our message could be declared and embraced!<br><br>KUDOS to you and your FAMILY for their \"VILLAGE EFFORTS!!!\"  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br>Much love!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_17:31:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014057, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1017502": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks for the link.  He was great here...he seemed so much more relaxed than pre trip.  I think he's relieved it went well and he kind of got that hurdle out of the way.  Now he has some armour against John McCain on security and foreign policy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-28_01:10:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1017354, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1016479": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Racial tensions in Miami, Florida are an everyday reality for Black  Americans in this city.  <br><br>With the desire to disenfranchise Black folks for the struggle they waged to obtain civil rights, the powers-that-be in this city, embraced the incoming Cuban migration at the expense of the community, with civil rights legislation used to benefit those folks who had not lifted a finger in the cause of civil rights.<br><br>For more than 40 years, the Black community has been subjected to the use of a foreign language as a weapon in order to deny jobs, educational opportunities and other resources.  Black politicians to their own detriment have sold out their communities for the proverbial 30 pieces of silver, only to be kicked to the curb by both Hispanics and Whites when they were no longer needed.<br><br>At the present time in Miami, the irony is that the white population is less than 20 percent and most middle class Blacks are moving out in droves.  It seems that in less than 40 years, civil rights that were designed to balance discrepancies in treatment of Blacks have been turned on their ear to benefit another group that did not lift one finger in support of the legislation they are now taking full advantage of.<br><br>People from other countries who have never worked a day in their lives in this country in many cases are entitled to social services, including Social Security Supplemental, that many of our grandparents are denied until they can prove they are US citizens.  People affecting the outcomes of elections who have voter registration cards that shouldn't have as they are not US citizens.<br><br>The answer to your question for this town if you were to get a Black person to candidly tell the truth would be that yes, there is more than tension between Blacks and Hispanics, there is bitterness that this group of people are benefitting from a struggle they did not suffer from, but many have the audacity to state publicly, proudly, and arrogantly, that Black folks have too much power in this country.<br><br>Yes, there is tension and it is not a preception but reality in this place.<br><br>Let's be real.  When you can't get a job because you don't speak the <br>\"right\" language, or you enter a store and no one speaks English, the tension is only exacerbated.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_21:16:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "53b68a68032d55308b4b72dedfc2bae6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1014945": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Here's is what my niece, who is Dutch, had to say:<br><br><i>We were so impressed with his presents (sic), his words and his aura. We had tears in our eyes. We WANT to believe him, we WANT to trust him. He's doing what no politician has done in our lifetime (30 years to be exact)he showed us europeans there is a possibility to come together as nations, to work tgether. He gave us all hope for the future.</i><br><br>This is a young woman who can't stand anything German. Goes back to the legacy of World War II, as you might imagine. I figured she probably wouldn't enjoy Barack speaking in Berlin.<br><br>Boy was I wrong.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_15:46:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014928, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1023656": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"And the Beat Goes On\" [Sunny & Cher]<br>Timothy Pratt - Las Vegas Sun:   Black-Hispanic Rivalry May Be A Myth  [ya think ?  :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br><a href=\"http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/jul/28/black-hispanic-rivalry-may-be-myth/\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/jul/28/black-hisp...</a><br><br>Doing this in between projects!  Whew!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  Ya know, I haven't had my \"DISS THE DUDE\" moments today!  It's ruff!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  Whew.  Deep breaths!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-28_16:33:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1015984": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "test", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_19:30:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "baratunde", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "1018056": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree with you that white people aren't thinking that hard.  As I'm sure everyone here knows, racism isn't really on the average white person's radar on a daily basis.<br><br>I think some whites like to focus on a 'divide' between blacks and hispanics (or any other non-white ethnic group) because it validates their own racism.  big Media outlets know that one of the products they need to sell to their viewers is a feeling of validation so they cover these bogus stories.  I think whites - and I say this as a white person myself - watch/read these stories and figure 'blacks are racist against Mexicans so they're no better than I am!'  I know it sounds crazy - not to mention utterly retarded - but I believe it to be true and have heard this sort of rubbish more than once in my life.<br><br>I'd like to think there is a more nefarious reason for the coverage (creating division between groups, for example), but I think for the vast majority of the white population that actually make a big deal about this so-called divide, it just makes them feel less bad about their own racism.<br><br>Apologies if someone further downthread posted the same thing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-28_04:11:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "Yoyogibear", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1014473": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/27/hagel-mccain-on-thin-grou_n_115193.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hagel strikes back on McCain ad</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_13:58:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1014986": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"the most important question\"<br>jesus. i want video.<br>wtf is wrong with these people?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_15:58:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "baratunde", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014289, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "1015074": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "great article!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_16:17:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "baratunde", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014862, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "1014479": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/27/mccain-fumbles-his-this-w_n_115206.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">McCain Fumbles on Sunday TV</a><br><br>He's unfit for the presidency.<br><br>That's all anyone needs to say about him from this point forward.<br><br>Anything else is just noise.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_13:59:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1014484": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No. She. Didn't.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_14:01:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014289, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1015001": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "adriana, great comments as usual.<br><br>that bridge building is under way.<br>Man Eegee of Latino Politico and nezua (of Unapologetic Mexican) comment here, and I know I'm going to make more of an effort to do the same on Latino blogs.<br><br>At next year's Netroots Nation, we're trying to plan for a joint caucus. I encourage all of you to do the same. Check out Latina Lista and other Latino blogs and drop some comments and engage in the discussion. Bring what you find back here or email us with tips and topic suggestions.<br><br>thx", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_16:00:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "baratunde", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014174, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "1035500": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Miami's Cuban population is largely descendant from those members of the Battista oligarchy and their lackeys who were forced to flee Cuba  with the ascendence of  Castro and the revolution.  They came from a regime/economy  that was largely based on the oppression and discrimination of blacks.  (Although, interestingly enough, Battista is considered to have been black. ) They merely continued behaving in the manner to which they were accustomed. They not only look down on blacks but most other hispanics.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-29_08:59:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "melanctha", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1016479, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1015030": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LMAO. So true.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_16:08:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "CarolinagirlinGA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014739, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1015543": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thank you!<br><br>I'm glad to see that Man Eegee and Nezua visit here and comment. <br><br>I will take you up on this idea and e-mail you about blog posts and issues that you guys could help us with. <br><br>I have a blog post up now on my own site about the Luis Ramirez beating death that happened in PA. If you do get a chance, you can see how comments have gone down the road of how the Latino community can learn from the NAACP, Urban League, etc. <br><br>And I have addressed on more than one occasion our social similarities and the existence of the Afro-Latino community.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_17:50:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "adriana01", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1015001, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1015553": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "He simply told the unvarnished truth.  The truth that many operatives have plotted to cover.  <br><br>Finally, real journalilsm that wasn't paid for or inspired by.........", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_17:52:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014862, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1015557": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "town:  Co-signing!  In the classrooms that I have taught in, I have seen as much cooperation among Black and Hipanics as existed within each individual group.  But, I have observed tensions too, and with a bit of \"social engineering\" [putting students into \"groups\" according to my rules  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  :&gt;)], the \"mixed\" groups form powerful allies and the competition is fierce and productive!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br>So to the question - Is the tension a figment . . .?  - if \"social engineering\" can go on in the environment of a classroom, it surely can take place in the \"larger community!\"  This is one of the reasons that I keep asking for DATA!  If a journalist simply \"OPINES\" without DATA [e.g., there is A LOT of tension between Blacks and Hispanics], I ask --SHOW ME THE DATA that defines A LOT!!!  What was the SAMPLE SIZE?  SES of the SAMPLE, etc, etc, etc.<br>Unfortunately, the opinions get \"OUT THERE\" in a short amont of time and wreak havoc, in some cases, B4 rebuttal questions can be asked!  And someone else has helped form opinions.<br>Finally, [WHEW  :&gt;) ], that's why i appreciat this thread, Mr. Turner, as an intervention to a completion of the formulation of solid opinions - as TRUTH!!!<br>(Deep breaths  :&gt;)  :&gt;) )", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_17:53:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1013883, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1015068": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "My wording may not be completely accurate, but a flurry of Kossacks asked similar questions minutes after she spoke to Blitzer.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_16:16:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "eclecticbrotha", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014484, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1015582": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Thanks to you both. As a great man once sang. <br><br>I am everyday people", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_17:59:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "29f6805818d1f575c4b8e2182a2ac4ce", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1015446, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1014560": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/27/obama-vp-pick-wont-based_n_115188.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Obama: VP Pick Won't Be Based on Geography</a><br><br>He has looked the most comfortable with:<br><br>Bob Casey<br>Kathleen Sebelius<br>Chris Richardson", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_14:17:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1017122": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "TruthSeeker:  Amen!  \"Stomp The Devil Out!\" [church song  :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_23:35:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014925, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1015078": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Because it hurts the sitting president's feelings to see that the world wasn't hating America they just hate HIM.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_16:19:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "eclecticbrotha", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014782, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1016616": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "msmartin:  Band-aid, please!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_21:43:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1015672, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1014057": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I have mentioned that I am a mix on this board so that i don't misrepresent myself here. Forgive my actual words in some places as I struggle to take my feelings and transform them to the written page.  I know there are many of us, in the brown population, who know that until America makes amends and truly changes its relationship between blacks and whites, our own status will not change. We believe racism is like a cancer on this land. Until we go to the root of the cancer which is slavery and race relations between the most powerful (white rich connected men) and the least powerful (black slaves and their descendants and even blacks who are not directly descended) working on other groups would be like treating the symptoms.  I am not saying that I there are no powerful blacks, this board alone proves how truly powerful and amazingly accomplished you are even with the institutional inequalities. My Native and Mexican people cannot be treated as equal until you are treated as equal. True equality, true respect, true amends. This is what the white press doesn't understand.  Genocide of Natives and refusing new hordes of people across borders happens all the time and has happened throughout time. The slavery that your people endured is uniquely cruel. Words fail me at what I am trying to say so forgive the actual words but listen to the meaning. Until their is a completion with slavery and the residual effects of it, there will never be equality for us all. When one of us is hurt, the others are hurt as well.<br><br>That being said. My brother and his girlfriend work very hard in LA with migration (yes, not immigration) rights and laws. That is mainly the Latino population but since 9/11 there have been a lot of Africans and Middle Easterners who have had lawyers and advocates because of them. In the few days after FISA and another group of mainly white voters were bailing on Obama I and thousands of others received an email. In it was the knowledge that no one gets into power with idealism alone but we need to have that person there to represent us. He may not be able to fight the way we would love him to, but if we are honest, no one man can ever fight the machine that way.<br>There was an link to an article<br><a href=\"http://www.truthout.org/article/obama-and-progressive-base\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.truthout.org/article/obama-and-progr...</a> <br>and this passage was highlighted<br><br>  Under a McCain presidency, we'd be back to square one, where we've found ourselves since January 2001. Putting Obama in the White House would not by any means ensure progressive change, but under his presidency, the grassroots would have an opportunity to create it.<br><br>    Along the way, let's strive to eliminate disillusionment by dispensing with illusions. No one who is a presidential candidate can proceed to overcome corporate power or the warfare state. The pervasive and huge problems that have proved to be so destructive are deep, structural and embedded in the political economy. The changes most worth believing in are the ones social movements can make possible.<br><br> I understood his vote and while the supporters of Edwards and Hillary cry out that see she voted against it and he would never have voted yes, I believe if they were the nominee, they would have voted the same. The idealised world versus the real world.<br><br>The Latino community is not bailing. No nos moveran.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_12:27:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "29f6805818d1f575c4b8e2182a2ac4ce", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1014059": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "A little off tangent here but I just saw this on HuffPo. Bill C pretty much dismisses any ill will Black people feel towards him for acting a fool during the primaries. Quote: I don't think it will last. <br><br>I didn't think that much him before and think even less of him and his wife now. I think he showed his true self and Billary will have to deal with the fallout for some time to come.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/nyregion/thecity/27harl.html?ref=thecity\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/nyregion/thec...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_12:28:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "LisaM5432", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1015085": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The guy is in the early stages of dementia. He denies what he said two days ago and then even says we really were greeted as liberators in Iraq.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_16:20:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "eclecticbrotha", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014479, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1017140": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "smoothie:  I'm trying to figure out what happened in California.  I didn't hear the discussion when Ward came through here.  I feel badly for not being involved.  I'm just sayin'", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_23:38:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014385, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1015607": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "co-signing, ms martin:  I don't know how long the mantra that \"we don't that much about Mr. Obama\" is going to keep up!  What more do \"they\" have ta know??  I know!! [she said dropping her voice in disgust :&gt;)]  So at least \"they\" can keep up the \"Black\" thing - as you have pointed out!!!<br>Whew!! (Deep breaths! )  :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_18:03:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1015442, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1015610": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hey msmartin,hope you're having a great day!&gt; Subject: [Disqus] Re: Black-Latino Tension Is A Figment Of White People&#8217;\ts Imagination (or Desire?)&gt; From: &gt; To: <a href=\"mailto:maven_haven@hotmail.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">maven_haven@hotmail.com</a>&gt; Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:27:06 +0000&gt; &gt; msmartin wrote:&gt; &gt; You're on fire today!&gt; &gt; Link: <a href=\"http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/black_latino_tension_is_a_figment_of_white_people8217s_imagination_or_desire/#comment-1015425\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/black_lat...</a>&gt; &gt; --&gt; You may reply to this email to post your response.  To turn off notifications, go to your Disqus settings at: <a href=\"http://disqus.com/settings/notifications/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://disqus.com/settings/notifications/</a><br>_________________________________________________________________<br>Discover the new Windows Vista<br><a href=\"http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vi...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_18:05:05", "killed": true, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1015425, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1014587": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "As John kept saying two parent family ad naseum, why didn't George say, Gay couple means two parent family. <br>The stupid and the stupid having a conversation. TV really does suck.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_14:23:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "29f6805818d1f575c4b8e2182a2ac4ce", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014479, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1015616": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Lily:  SEEEEEE!  You go for the \"songs\" too!!  And \"old school\" is my favorita!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_18:07:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1015582, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1014082": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You were right about the \"brown assassins\" comments. They're trying to hem him up at the Unity conference. First the moderator tries to get him to say the surge was a success, now we have a guy trying to say denying he's a Muslim insults Muslims.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_12:33:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "eclecticbrotha", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1013801, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1017155": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "eclecta: Tru dat!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_23:42:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1015078, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1015623": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey Truth, I am and hope you are as well!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_18:08:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1015610, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8655181": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Studying isn't easy but if you keep at it you will reap the reward.  Everyone should keep learning and not stop.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-24_11:03:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "8865a30b3c4cdfbcb3545abe0500dfba", "has_been_anonymized": true, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "1014109": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "affirmative action didnt take long to become a topic..I find anyone quoting Ward Connerly very ignornant of his past. He started his business on a grant based on minority status and the moment he got succesful, he started a campaign against Affirmative Action.. (gotta love the self hating black rethugs)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_12:39:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "smoothie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "8343906": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Don't stop learning people.  Just keep at it and you'll get it eventually.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-19_01:41:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "2401cf7c2d0b5097a1978d92484b28b0", "has_been_anonymized": true, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "1014132": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Its nice to know that the minority media is as beholden to the neocons as the rest of the media. Most of the Q&A had nothing to do with the trip, just a bunch of gotcha attempts about affirmative action, being accused of being Muslim blah blah blah", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_12:44:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "eclecticbrotha", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 15, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1015672": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I heard a Repblican pundit say \"they need to know he shares their values\".  I opine that he likely not only shares their values, but has more.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_18:17:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1015607, "depth": 7, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1014653": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/money/workplace/2008-07-21-fist-bump-handshake_N.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fist Bump Hits Business World</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_14:37:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1014146": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm afraid I'm missing that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_12:47:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014082, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1018247": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Your points (at least in the first 4 paragraphs) are reasonable.  Miami might be an extreme case though.  I'm not sure it's representative of America as a whole.<br><br>regarding people who have never worked in this country being entitled to social services while older African Americans aren't is a bit more questionable to me.  I'm not sure how, say, illegal immigrants could get such services while others, who were born in America, can't get the same services.  If there is actual evidence of that happening, I'd be interested in seeing it.  I tend to hear it from my right-wing relatives, but don't see much evidence of it myself...<br><br>Regarding language issues, put yourself in their shoes.  It's possible they don't know the language.  If you've ever been overseas, you may have noticed that many Americans (and other foreigners) who live in another country never manage to pick up the language of their host country, either.  It's especially difficult for adults who didn't have sufficient exposure to English when they were younger.  That might account for the non-English-speaking stores in Miami (though, if they have lived in the US for any period of time, I imagine they can struggle to express themselves at least in very basic English).  People with no English skills in America are also often forced, thru necessity, to work in their own communities.  Why would boeing, for example, hire someone in the US who speaks *only* Korean?  The fact of the matter is, such people have little choice but to start their own business or work in an ethnic supermarket or some other place where they can get by largely thru their own language.<br><br>Similarly, Americans aren't the only people who have to learn the 'right' language.  I live in Japan and work as a staff recruiter.  Many of the jobs I get are at non-Japanese companies and require English skills that the vast majority of Japanese people don't have.  As a result, for those Japanese people who weren't fortunate enough to live in America, for example, when they were young and when their parents (father) were working in the US, they either have to learn English on their own time or build a career/life in an area where it's not required.<br><br>The tension with regards to language seems completely unnecessary to me.  It is what it is.  I'm sure language issues have existed since the beginning of human migration.   FWIW, if you walk into a store where the employees don't speak English but are talking amongst themselves, I suspect they're engaged in a mundane conversation, just like English speakers are when they work together.  Americans seem particularly inclined to think that they're being talked about negatively when they are around others who aren't speaking English.  In reality, I think it's seldom that exciting.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-28_05:07:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Yoyogibear", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1016479, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1014153": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Exhale.<br><br>Reading such things (and knowing their truth) makes me take a deep, deep breath.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_12:48:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1013883, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1016205": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "WTF.  Sometimes Black people embarass the sh** out of themselves for being so openly foolish in public.  <br><br>Are these people journalists?  Where are the standards?  Please tell me this wasn't an actual journalist that asked this?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_20:19:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014289, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "18518926": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "When it comes to dressing up for a date, the <a href=\"http://www.blinddateuncensored.net/\" rel=\"nofollow\">blind date uncensored</a> clothes you are going to wear should be appropriate to the place and activity you are going to go and do.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-10-04_16:07:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "AngelinaBellew", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "2 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}, "1014671": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm sure she did.  I didn't care much for her reporting during the primaries.  Like you said, this is a war being waged on many battlefields.  Many.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_14:41:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014484, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1018258": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Re-posting... I'm a newbie and accidentally posted my reply at the bottom of the page...<br><br>I agree with you that white people aren't thinking that hard. As I'm sure everyone here knows, racism isn't really on the average white person's radar on a daily basis.<br><br>I think some whites like to focus on a 'divide' between blacks and hispanics (or any other non-white ethnic group) because it validates their own racism. big Media outlets know that one of the products they need to sell to their viewers is a feeling of validation so they cover these bogus stories. I think whites - and I say this as a white person myself - watch/read these stories and figure 'blacks are racist against Mexicans so they're no better than I am!' I know it sounds crazy - not to mention utterly retarded - but I believe it to be true and have heard this sort of rubbish more than once in my life.<br><br>I'd like to think there is a more nefarious reason for the coverage (creating division between groups, for example), but I think for the vast majority of the white population that actually make a big deal about this so-called divide, it just makes them feel less bad about their own racism.<br><br>Apologies if someone further downthread posted the same thing.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-28_05:12:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Yoyogibear", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1013883, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1016218": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I saw that surge comment.  It really angers me that there is no objective viewpoint, or a lack of actual knowledge about what is happening overseas.  There are legitimate arguments about the success of the surge, but I guess since John foreign policy expert McCain says that it cured all the evils in Iraq, journalists are too lazy to actually research and find other viewpoints.  These people make me sick.  This is the same kind of foolishness that had everybody sitting on their hands in the lead up to the invasion of Iraq.  Its funny how Obama predicted, to a T, what would happen once we invaded, but instead of acknowledging that, every idiot with a mike wants him to change his view on the \"surge.\"  Nobody is brow beating McCain about saying we would be greeted as liberators, the war would be paid for with Iraqi oil, and the hostilities should only last about six months.  <br><br>I swear smoke is coming out of my ears right now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_20:24:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014082, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1014174": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I am in CA, and among my more educated peers (Latino and black), there don't seem to be any tensions. We realize that we have many similarities in terms of our struggle for equal access to quality education, just treatment from law enforcement, etc. <br><br>Now, on the streets, I think that there are tensions between blacks and Latinos in some of the poorer areas like Watts, South LA, etc. where Latinos have become the majority of the population without really understanding the struggle of their black neighbors. And this has to do w/ education, the dire economic situation that these Latinos are in (they work so much that often they don't have time to engage in their communities, they live in the shadows because they are undocumented, etc.). And of course, in the prisons, segregation of the populations is a reality, and when these people get out, they carry over that mentality.<br><br>I feel that we need to build black-brown coalitions, especially on-line. I would love to see some of the bloggers here speak out on the Latino blogs or cross post some of the issues that we are facing to gain a broader understanding. As a Latina, I have always felt a connection to the black community and a great respect for its accomplishments because our struggle is a collective one. <br><br>To answer the original blog post, I think that there is an incentive by white American in general, beyond the corporate interests, to keep us divided so that we \"don't demand too much.\" Imagine the power that we could harness by coming together.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_12:53:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "adriana01", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1015199": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That was a damned good article, covering all the bases and expressing utter exasperation with the train wreck that is McCain.   Frank Rich is a man still connected to objective reality, what a relief.<br><br>...And it gives Barack his due praise.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_16:44:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014862, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1014688": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.gallup.com/poll/109102/Gallup-Daily-Obama-49-McCain-40.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gallup:</a><br><br>Obama 49%<br>McCain 40%<br><br>The biggest lead so far in the daily tracking polls.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_14:44:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1014695": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yeah.  Then he said at the end \"traditional family\".   The typical tv personality (and that's what they are, not journalists) is too dumb to think on their feet during an interview.  They stick with the questions as written and can't improvise of follow up effectively on a provocative answer..or non-answer in McCain's case.<br><br>I cannot stand McCain.. and his nasty grimace/snarl/smirk that the pundits call a smile.   Know how I feel when I see that snarl, the same way I feel when I hear a rattlesnake, even on tv: Danger! <br><br> It's like High School all over again with him.  McCain's the dumb jock and Barack's the whiz kid....except this whiz kid can throw 3 pointers...and the dumb jock's aging and he's got mental arthritis.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_14:46:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014587, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1014187": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Why did he go and plant himself in Harlem....to piss on a tree and mark his territory?  Think he was trying to <i>honour</i> the black community?<br><br>Bill has blood on his hands.  Innocent Rwandan blood.  Tainted HIV and Hep-C infected blood.  Bill is a swine, and the black community has a murderous swine in it's midst.  There's always a price, and the pig we protected  - and his swine wife - returned to almost destroy the first black candidate.  <br><br>To Bill, the predator - our people are just prey.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_12:56:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014059, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1014191": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You expressed yourself brilliantly. With insight and wisdom and truth. Thank you for this.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_12:57:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014057, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1015222": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "There's a reason CNN is running \"Black in America\" on a continuous loop. So they can have a CNN dumbass ask a question like this.<br><br>She's promoting <a href=\"http://youtube.com/watch?v=h3_8K1HgzMk\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Spook Who Sat By The Door</a> nonsense. <br><br>I refuse to watch CNN except in snippets.<br><br>It's more racist than FOX because it <i>acts</i> like it's not.<br><br>I saw this shit coming back in April when they started advertising the series.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_16:48:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014986, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1013663": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I can say this much, Down here in San Antonio where its roughly 60% Latin and about 8% black we get along fine. Though the numbers are slightly different in my home city of houston, we get along fine there as well. <br><br>Ive always looked at this controversy as a ploy created by certain groups to turn one against the other, in a grand scheme to watch them both wipe each other out.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_10:51:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "smoothie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1015236": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "His writing has been the best of anyone's this election cycle. Peggy Noonan is a close second.<br><br>He really ought to get the Pulitzer Prize for his body of work.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_16:51:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1015199, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1014213": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The war on Barack is being waged on many battlefields.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_13:01:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 14, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014132, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1015752": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Finally! I REAL journalist who's willing to tell the truth!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_18:37:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014862, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1014223": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I feel that we need to build black-brown coalitions, especially on-line. I would love to see some of the bloggers here speak out on the Latino blogs or cross post some of the issues that we are facing to gain a broader understanding. As a Latina, I have always felt a connection to the black community and a great respect for its accomplishments because our struggle is a collective one.<br><br>::<br><br>Sounds good to me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_13:03:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "1014739": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "..Great.  Now if black people could  figure out a way to earn royalties on our stolen cultural soliloquisms.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_15:01:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014653, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1014746": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Aside from the media being too dumb to modify a planned interview session, McCain is getting more assists than a NBA player from them.<br><br>Wiz kid with a three-point shot - I love it.<br><br>I'm not sure he was ever really mentally capable to begin with, hence his grades and rankings.  He's better known for his will to fight;  he is the type who doesn't possess the ability to think, so he acts out his emotions in an agressive and physcial manner.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_15:02:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014695, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1015787": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ouch.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_18:45:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "eclecticbrotha", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1015672, "depth": 8, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1014254": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This goes so much deeper than just race relations and which minority group this government decides to give its scraps to.  Neocon thinktanks decided at the inception of this union that in order to distract the masses from their \"power\" agenda they would always need to be a struggle for those scraps.  A very few very powerful men around the world has now coveting that same plan of action.  Mexico is losing jobs to India, African nations are refused and fair global trade policies so they will also need to compete for slave labour and now Iraqis and Pakistanis and shipped off to Dubai working for pennies a day.  People of color (as numerous in number that we are) are victims of wealthy elite and until that is recognized we will remain beholden to the megaconglomerates that see us all as pawns.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_13:08:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "nettie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1016310": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I fell you, TRW.<br><br>Barack is pushing back hard, though.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_20:42:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1016218, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1014267": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Doesn't sound off the mark to me.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_13:12:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1013852, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1014268": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Tell us how you really feel, why don't you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_13:12:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014187, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1014782": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I was just reading that....The campaign said they didn't expect a bounce and actually thought there might be a slight dip while they were out of the country.  Ha, I don't know if they're playing games on that one, they must have internal polling.  Anyway, no matter what Conservatives or middle America says, everybody wants to be loved.  There's no way the adoring crowd in Berlin is a bad thing for Barack...or America.  <br><br>Then, foreign leaders are trying to kiss his ass to curry favour with their own people!  How is it bad for a potential American President to have that kind of influence?  How??", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-27_15:10:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1014688, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "2226470", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": -6601307148746839904}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "black_latino_tension_is_a_figment_of_white_people8217s_imagination_or_desire", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 90, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 2226470, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
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	this.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=black_latino_tension_is_a_figment_of_white_people8217s_imagination_or_desire' +
		'&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/black_latino_tension_is_a_figment_of_white_people8217s_imagination_or_desire/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='	+ 'black_latino_tension_is_a_figment_of_white_people8217s_imagination_or_desire'
			+ '&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/black_latino_tension_is_a_figment_of_white_people8217s_imagination_or_desire/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">90</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/black_latino_tension_is_a_figment_of_white_people8217s_imagination_or_desire/latest.rss"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png"></a>\
	 </span>\
	 </h3>\
	 <div id="dsq-options" style="margin:15px 0">\
	 <span class="dsq-item-sort">\
	 Sort by\
	 <select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);">\
	 <option value="hot" selected="selected">Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" >Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/black_latino_tension_is_a_figment_of_white_people8217s_imagination_or_desire/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 <p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:2226470" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p>\
	 </div>\
		';

		

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

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

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.authPost();
		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		

		return html;
	};

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

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

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

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

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/black_latino_tension_is_a_figment_of_white_people8217s_imagination_or_desire/trackback/';
		}

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

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

		return html;
	}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '	<p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:2226470" 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:2226470" 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'				: 'black_latino_tension_is_a_figment_of_white_people8217s_imagination_or_desire',
			// 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/black_latino_tension_is_a_figment_of_white_people8217s_imagination_or_desire/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='	+ 'black_latino_tension_is_a_figment_of_white_people8217s_imagination_or_desire'
			+ '&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='	+ 'black_latino_tension_is_a_figment_of_white_people8217s_imagination_or_desire'
			+ '&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='		+ 'black_latino_tension_is_a_figment_of_white_people8217s_imagination_or_desire'
				+ '&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/2226470/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

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

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

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

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

}();

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();

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

	this.startTwitterConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._twitterWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/twitter/begin/', 'twitterWindow', popupParams);
		that._twitterInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeTwitterConnect, 1000);
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();


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





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

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

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

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

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

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





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

		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Themes[theme]) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1014057">Lily</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014057" class="dsq-comment-message">I have mentioned that I am a mix on this board so that i don\'t misrepresent myself here. Forgive my actual words in some places as I struggle to take my feelings and transform them to the written page.  I know there are many of us, in the brown population, who know that until America makes amends and truly changes its relationship between blacks and whites, our own status will not change. We believe racism is like a cancer on this land. Until we go to the root of the cancer which is slavery and race relations between the most powerful (white rich connected men) and the least powerful (black slaves and their descendants and even blacks who are not directly descended) working on other groups would be like treating the symptoms.  I am not saying that I there are no powerful blacks, this board alone proves how truly powerful and amazingly accomplished you are even with the institutional inequalities. My Native and Mexican people cannot be treated as equal until you are treated as equal. True equality, true respect, true amends. This is what the white press doesn\'t understand.  Genocide of Natives and refusing new hordes of people across borders happens all the time and has happened throughout time. The slavery that your people endured is uniquely cruel. Words fail me at what I am trying to say so forgive the actual words but listen to the meaning. Until their is a completion with slavery and the residual effects of it, there will never be equality for us all. When one of us is hurt, the others are hurt as well.<br><br>That being said. My brother and his girlfriend work very hard in LA with migration (yes, not immigration) rights and laws. That is mainly the Latino population but since 9/11 there have been a lot of Africans and Middle Easterners who have had lawyers and advocates because of them. In the few days after FISA and another group of mainly white voters were bailing on Obama I and thousands of others received an email. In it was the knowledge that no one gets into power with idealism alone but we need to have that person there to represent us. He may not be able to fight the way we would love him to, but if we are honest, no one man can ever fight the machine that way.<br>There was an link to an article<br><a href="http://www.truthout.org/article/obama-and-progressive-base" rel="nofollow">http://www.truthout.org/article/obama-and-progr...</a> <br>and this passage was highlighted<br><br>  Under a McCain presidency, we\'d be back to square one, where we\'ve found ourselves since January 2001. Putting Obama in the White House would not by any means ensure progressive change, but under his presidency, the grassroots would have an opportunity to create it.<br><br>    Along the way, let\'s strive to eliminate disillusionment by dispensing with illusions. No one who is a presidential candidate can proceed to overcome corporate power or the warfare state. The pervasive and huge problems that have proved to be so destructive are deep, structural and embedded in the political economy. The changes most worth believing in are the ones social movements can make possible.<br><br> I understood his vote and while the supporters of Edwards and Hillary cry out that see she voted against it and he would never have voted yes, I believe if they were the nominee, they would have voted the same. The idealised world versus the real world.<br><br>The Latino community is not bailing. No nos moveran.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1014191" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014191" class="dsq-comment-message">You expressed yourself brilliantly. With insight and wisdom and truth. Thank you for this.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1015446">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1015446" class="dsq-comment-message">Lily:  Your passion and wisdom are amazing!  I hope that this doesn\'t sound trite, but , as profound as you have spoken!! <br><br>". . . but if we are honest, no one man can ever fight the machine that way."  <br><br>You have reinforced the African proverb [though I found out that other cultures have expressed the same in a variety of ways] that "IT TAKES A VILLAGE . . ."<br>We must see ouselves as a part of the VILLAGE OF "CHANGE" if we are to realize the CHANGE!  So we continue to fight in our various ways to keep the message loud and clear!  I thank our Ambassador- Mr. Obama-for his world tour where his/our message could be declared and embraced!<br><br>KUDOS to you and your FAMILY for their "VILLAGE EFFORTS!!!"  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br>Much love!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1015582">Lily</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1015582" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks to you both. As a great man once sang. <br><br>I am everyday people</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1015616">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1015616" class="dsq-comment-message">Lily:  SEEEEEE!  You go for the "songs" too!!  And "old school" is my favorita!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1014174" href="http://www.latinopoliticsblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">adriana01</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014174" class="dsq-comment-message">I am in CA, and among my more educated peers (Latino and black), there don\'t seem to be any tensions. We realize that we have many similarities in terms of our struggle for equal access to quality education, just treatment from law enforcement, etc. <br><br>Now, on the streets, I think that there are tensions between blacks and Latinos in some of the poorer areas like Watts, South LA, etc. where Latinos have become the majority of the population without really understanding the struggle of their black neighbors. And this has to do w/ education, the dire economic situation that these Latinos are in (they work so much that often they don\'t have time to engage in their communities, they live in the shadows because they are undocumented, etc.). And of course, in the prisons, segregation of the populations is a reality, and when these people get out, they carry over that mentality.<br><br>I feel that we need to build black-brown coalitions, especially on-line. I would love to see some of the bloggers here speak out on the Latino blogs or cross post some of the issues that we are facing to gain a broader understanding. As a Latina, I have always felt a connection to the black community and a great respect for its accomplishments because our struggle is a collective one. <br><br>To answer the original blog post, I think that there is an incentive by white American in general, beyond the corporate interests, to keep us divided so that we "don\'t demand too much." Imagine the power that we could harness by coming together.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1015001" href="http://baratunde.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">baratunde</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1015001" class="dsq-comment-message">adriana, great comments as usual.<br><br>that bridge building is under way.<br>Man Eegee of Latino Politico and nezua (of Unapologetic Mexican) comment here, and I know I\'m going to make more of an effort to do the same on Latino blogs.<br><br>At next year\'s Netroots Nation, we\'re trying to plan for a joint caucus. I encourage all of you to do the same. Check out Latina Lista and other Latino blogs and drop some comments and engage in the discussion. Bring what you find back here or email us with tips and topic suggestions.<br><br>thx</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1015543" href="http://www.latinopoliticsblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">adriana01</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1015543" class="dsq-comment-message">Thank you!<br><br>I\'m glad to see that Man Eegee and Nezua visit here and comment. <br><br>I will take you up on this idea and e-mail you about blog posts and issues that you guys could help us with. <br><br>I have a blog post up now on my own site about the Luis Ramirez beating death that happened in PA. If you do get a chance, you can see how comments have gone down the road of how the Latino community can learn from the NAACP, Urban League, etc. <br><br>And I have addressed on more than one occasion our social similarities and the existence of the Afro-Latino community.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1014254">nettie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014254" class="dsq-comment-message">This goes so much deeper than just race relations and which minority group this government decides to give its scraps to.  Neocon thinktanks decided at the inception of this union that in order to distract the masses from their "power" agenda they would always need to be a struggle for those scraps.  A very few very powerful men around the world has now coveting that same plan of action.  Mexico is losing jobs to India, African nations are refused and fair global trade policies so they will also need to compete for slave labour and now Iraqis and Pakistanis and shipped off to Dubai working for pennies a day.  People of color (as numerous in number that we are) are victims of wealthy elite and until that is recognized we will remain beholden to the megaconglomerates that see us all as pawns.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1014288">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014288" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s right.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1014348" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014348" class="dsq-comment-message">The global political economy summed up in a nutshell.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1013883">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1013883" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t think white people are thinking that hard.<br><br>I would say that most white people don\'t know a Hispanic person or a Black person outside of a work situation, so when the talking heads and Billary and news media keep repeating that "Hispanics and Blacks don\'t like each other and Hispanics won\'t vote for Obama cuz he\'s black" white people are going to believe it, especially if someone white is saying it.<br><br>The only way white people will stop believe that "blacks vs. hispanics" meme is if someone WHITE says it\'s not true.  But Billary and the news media keep saying it\'s true, and even though polls are showing Hispanics favoring Obama by 66%, they still believe that Hispanics don\'t like Obama b/c he\'s black and Hispanics & blacks have a major problem with each other.<br><br>So I do think the Black/Latino tension is a figment of white people\'s imagination, but only because they\'ve been told that by white authority figures who need for there to be a "division" for their own agendas.<br><br>This reminds me of the movie "ROMEO MUST DIE," when incidents would happen and the Black gangs thought the Asian gangs were behind them, and vice versa.  But it was the White guy who was riling the Black and Asian gangs up against each other behind the scenes, so he could profit from the dvision and make off like a bandit.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1014153" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014153" class="dsq-comment-message">Exhale.<br><br>Reading such things (and knowing their truth) makes me take a deep, deep breath.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1015557">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1015557" class="dsq-comment-message">town:  Co-signing!  In the classrooms that I have taught in, I have seen as much cooperation among Black and Hipanics as existed within each individual group.  But, I have observed tensions too, and with a bit of "social engineering" [putting students into "groups" according to my rules  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  :&gt;)], the "mixed" groups form powerful allies and the competition is fierce and productive!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br>So to the question - Is the tension a figment . . .?  - if "social engineering" can go on in the environment of a classroom, it surely can take place in the "larger community!"  This is one of the reasons that I keep asking for DATA!  If a journalist simply "OPINES" without DATA [e.g., there is A LOT of tension between Blacks and Hispanics], I ask --SHOW ME THE DATA that defines A LOT!!!  What was the SAMPLE SIZE?  SES of the SAMPLE, etc, etc, etc.<br>Unfortunately, the opinions get "OUT THERE" in a short amont of time and wreak havoc, in some cases, B4 rebuttal questions can be asked!  And someone else has helped form opinions.<br>Finally, [WHEW  :&gt;) ], that\'s why i appreciat this thread, Mr. Turner, as an intervention to a completion of the formulation of solid opinions - as TRUTH!!!<br>(Deep breaths  :&gt;)  :&gt;) )</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1018258">Yoyogibear</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1018258" class="dsq-comment-message">Re-posting... I\'m a newbie and accidentally posted my reply at the bottom of the page...<br><br>I agree with you that white people aren\'t thinking that hard. As I\'m sure everyone here knows, racism isn\'t really on the average white person\'s radar on a daily basis.<br><br>I think some whites like to focus on a \'divide\' between blacks and hispanics (or any other non-white ethnic group) because it validates their own racism. big Media outlets know that one of the products they need to sell to their viewers is a feeling of validation so they cover these bogus stories. I think whites - and I say this as a white person myself - watch/read these stories and figure \'blacks are racist against Mexicans so they\'re no better than I am!\' I know it sounds crazy - not to mention utterly retarded - but I believe it to be true and have heard this sort of rubbish more than once in my life.<br><br>I\'d like to think there is a more nefarious reason for the coverage (creating division between groups, for example), but I think for the vast majority of the white population that actually make a big deal about this so-called divide, it just makes them feel less bad about their own racism.<br><br>Apologies if someone further downthread posted the same thing.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1013663" href="http://realpeeplz.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">smoothie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1013663" class="dsq-comment-message">I can say this much, Down here in San Antonio where its roughly 60% Latin and about 8% black we get along fine. Though the numbers are slightly different in my home city of houston, we get along fine there as well. <br><br>Ive always looked at this controversy as a ploy created by certain groups to turn one against the other, in a grand scheme to watch them both wipe each other out.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1013788" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1013788" class="dsq-comment-message">Divide and conquer. Oldest ploy in the book.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1013801" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1013801" class="dsq-comment-message">Could it be that more white people (not just pundits) need our groups to be divided as the population demographics shift?<br><br>::<br><br>I think that\'s it. Estimates suggest the Hispanic voter base will increase by up to 10% from 2004.<br><br>That\'s no small increase.<br><br>As the Black electorate becomes more involved than it has ever been at the same time the Hispanic electorate expands, well....</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1014082">eclecticbrotha</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014082" class="dsq-comment-message">You were right about the "brown assassins" comments. They\'re trying to hem him up at the Unity conference. First the moderator tries to get him to say the surge was a success, now we have a guy trying to say denying he\'s a Muslim insults Muslims.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1014146" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014146" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m afraid I\'m missing that.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1016218">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1016218" class="dsq-comment-message">I saw that surge comment.  It really angers me that there is no objective viewpoint, or a lack of actual knowledge about what is happening overseas.  There are legitimate arguments about the success of the surge, but I guess since John foreign policy expert McCain says that it cured all the evils in Iraq, journalists are too lazy to actually research and find other viewpoints.  These people make me sick.  This is the same kind of foolishness that had everybody sitting on their hands in the lead up to the invasion of Iraq.  Its funny how Obama predicted, to a T, what would happen once we invaded, but instead of acknowledging that, every idiot with a mike wants him to change his view on the "surge."  Nobody is brow beating McCain about saying we would be greeted as liberators, the war would be paid for with Iraqi oil, and the hostilities should only last about six months.  <br><br>I swear smoke is coming out of my ears right now.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1016310" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1016310" class="dsq-comment-message">I fell you, TRW.<br><br>Barack is pushing back hard, though.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1013852" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1013852" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1013852">kate03</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1013852" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1013852" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig,<br>I think white ethnocentric institutions need divided groups, a lot of white people, who are basically blind to the effects of racist structure, are mostly pawns in the game. I could be wrong here, but that\'s what I think anyway.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1014267" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014267" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1014267" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1014267" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014267" class="dsq-comment-message">Doesn\'t sound off the mark to me.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1013870" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1013870" href="http://rippdemup.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">RiPPa</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1013870" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1013870" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'d like to think and agree that much of it has to do with the media. Sure, maybe in some communities out in California, this is a problem (one with a history in gang activity), but I haven\'t heard much in the way of a black vs brown thing. Seems to me, that its a white america vs brown thing which is evident wit the immigration debate.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1014059" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014059" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1014059">Lisa M</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014059" class="dsq-comment-message">A little off tangent here but I just saw this on HuffPo. Bill C pretty much dismisses any ill will Black people feel towards him for acting a fool during the primaries. Quote: I don\'t think it will last. <br><br>I didn\'t think that much him before and think even less of him and his wife now. I think he showed his true self and Billary will have to deal with the fallout for some time to come.<br><br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/nyregion/thecity/27harl.html?ref=thecity" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/nyregion/thec...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014187" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1014187">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1014187" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014187" class="dsq-comment-message">Why did he go and plant himself in Harlem....to piss on a tree and mark his territory?  Think he was trying to <i>honour</i> the black community?<br><br>Bill has blood on his hands.  Innocent Rwandan blood.  Tainted HIV and Hep-C infected blood.  Bill is a swine, and the black community has a murderous swine in it\'s midst.  There\'s always a price, and the pig we protected  - and his swine wife - returned to almost destroy the first black candidate.  <br><br>To Bill, the predator - our people are just prey.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1014268" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014268" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1014268" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1014268" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014268" class="dsq-comment-message">Tell us how you really feel, why don\'t you.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1014793" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014793" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1014793">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1014793" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014793" class="dsq-comment-message">Bill went to Harlem because it was cheaper.  If those other Manhattan offices had been available at the rate the Harlem office was, he likely never would have even considered Harlem much less moved there.<br><br>The thing is, Billary thinks they are dealing with the Stephanie Tubbs Jones ilk of black people, so when he says "It won\'t last" Billary is thinking of them, and they are right when it comes to them.<br><br>I think for the under 40 set, Billary\'s about to have a rude awakening.  Billary STILL doesn\'t get how they threw black folks under the bus.  I truly believe if Billary had kept it clean and shut down all the race stuff (Ferraro I\'m looking at YOU), she would be the Democratic nominee today, not Obama.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014925" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1014925">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1014925" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014925" class="dsq-comment-message">The world associates Harlem with blackness, black cultural Renaissance..  Bill would stick his penis into that particular mouth, and mark his territory.<br><br>There\'s something far more valuable to Bill than dollars...and money is not a problem for him.  Bill knows the soul of the black community is more valuable.  <br><br><i>We</i> threw our lot in with the devil, and the devil moved into <i>our</i> house because he knows where we live, and he knew we belonged to him.   Then the devil tried to collect by destroying Barack.  The devil needs to be taught a lesson.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1015425" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1015425" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1015425">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1015425" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1015425" class="dsq-comment-message">You\'re on fire today!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1015610" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1015610">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1015610" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey msmartin,hope you\'re having a great day!&gt; Subject: [Disqus] Re: Black-Latino Tension Is A Figment Of White People&#8217;	s Imagination (or Desire?)&gt; From: &gt; To: <a href="mailto:maven_haven@hotmail.com" rel="nofollow">maven_haven@hotmail.com</a>&gt; Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:27:06 +0000&gt; &gt; msmartin wrote:&gt; &gt; You\'re on fire today!&gt; &gt; Link: <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/black_latino_tension_is_a_figment_of_white_people8217s_imagination_or_desire/#comment-1015425" rel="nofollow">http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/black_lat...</a>&gt; &gt; --&gt; You may reply to this email to post your response.  To turn off notifications, go to your Disqus settings at: <a href="http://disqus.com/settings/notifications/" rel="nofollow">http://disqus.com/settings/notifications/</a><br>_________________________________________________________________<br>Discover the new Windows Vista<br><a href="http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE" rel="nofollow">http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vi...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1015623" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1015623" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1015623">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1015623" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1015623" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey Truth, I am and hope you are as well!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1017122" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1017122" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1017122">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1017122" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1017122" class="dsq-comment-message">TruthSeeker:  Amen!  "Stomp The Devil Out!" [church song  :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1014109" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014109" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1014109" href="http://realpeeplz.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">smoothie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1014109" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014109" class="dsq-comment-message">affirmative action didnt take long to become a topic..I find anyone quoting Ward Connerly very ignornant of his past. He started his business on a grant based on minority status and the moment he got succesful, he started a campaign against Affirmative Action.. (gotta love the self hating black rethugs)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1014272" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014272" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1014272">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1014272" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014272" class="dsq-comment-message">Because he\'s "passing".  Isn\'t that what "passing" is...trying to deny where you came from?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1014385" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014385" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1014385" href="http://realpeeplz.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">smoothie</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1014385" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014385" class="dsq-comment-message">unfortunatly...<br>ward conerrly goes state to stae lecturing on Affirmative Action and how to end it. apparently he\'s now using Barackm as a Talking Point  as to why you no longer need it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1017140" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1017140" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1017140">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1017140" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1017140" class="dsq-comment-message">smoothie:  I\'m trying to figure out what happened in California.  I didn\'t hear the discussion when Ward came through here.  I feel badly for not being involved.  I\'m just sayin\'</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1014132" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014132" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1014132">eclecticbrotha</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1014132" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014132" class="dsq-comment-message">Its nice to know that the minority media is as beholden to the neocons as the rest of the media. Most of the Q&A had nothing to do with the trip, just a bunch of gotcha attempts about affirmative action, being accused of being Muslim blah blah blah</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1014213" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014213" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1014213" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1014213" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014213" class="dsq-comment-message">The war on Barack is being waged on many battlefields.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1014289" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014289" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1014289">eclecticbrotha</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1014289" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014289" class="dsq-comment-message">Put Suzanne Malveaux on the "brown assassins" list. In the post-interview wrap up she said the most important question "on everyone\'s minds" was whether Obama feels beholden to the black community because of benefiting from AA.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1014986" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014986" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1014986" href="http://baratunde.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">baratunde</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1014986" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014986" class="dsq-comment-message">"the most important question"<br>jesus. i want video.<br>wtf is wrong with these people?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1015222" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1015222" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1015222" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1015222" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1015222" class="dsq-comment-message">There\'s a reason CNN is running "Black in America" on a continuous loop. So they can have a CNN dumbass ask a question like this.<br><br>She\'s promoting <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=h3_8K1HgzMk" rel="nofollow">The Spook Who Sat By The Door</a> nonsense. <br><br>I refuse to watch CNN except in snippets.<br><br>It\'s more racist than FOX because it <i>acts</i> like it\'s not.<br><br>I saw this shit coming back in April when they started advertising the series.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1015442" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1015442" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1015442">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1015442" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1015442" class="dsq-comment-message">......and to remind the voters what "black" is.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1015607" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1015607" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1015607">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1015607" class="dsq-comment-message">co-signing, ms martin:  I don\'t know how long the mantra that "we don\'t that much about Mr. Obama" is going to keep up!  What more do "they" have ta know??  I know!! [she said dropping her voice in disgust :&gt;)]  So at least "they" can keep up the "Black" thing - as you have pointed out!!!<br>Whew!! (Deep breaths! )  :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1015672" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1015672" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1015672">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1015672" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1015672" class="dsq-comment-message">I heard a Repblican pundit say "they need to know he shares their values".  I opine that he likely not only shares their values, but has more.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1015787" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1015787" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1015787">eclecticbrotha</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1015787" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1015787" class="dsq-comment-message">Ouch.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1016616" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1016616" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1016616">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1016616" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1016616" class="dsq-comment-message">msmartin:  Band-aid, please!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1017354" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1017354" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1017354">eclecticbrotha</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1017354" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1017354" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s Malveaux trying to throw the "Audacity" of him acting like he was "running for president of the world" in his face, allowing Obama to Barack that ass with his answer:<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCprJK9RC3Y" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCprJK9RC3Y</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1017502" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1017502" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1017502">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1017502" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1017502" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks for the link.  He was great here...he seemed so much more relaxed than pre trip.  I think he\'s relieved it went well and he kind of got that hurdle out of the way.  Now he has some armour against John McCain on security and foreign policy.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1014484" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014484" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1014484" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1014484" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014484" class="dsq-comment-message">No. She. Didn\'t.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1014671" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014671" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1014671">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1014671" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014671" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m sure she did.  I didn\'t care much for her reporting during the primaries.  Like you said, this is a war being waged on many battlefields.  Many.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1015068" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1015068" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1015068">eclecticbrotha</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1015068" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1015068" class="dsq-comment-message">My wording may not be completely accurate, but a flurry of Kossacks asked similar questions minutes after she spoke to Blitzer.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1016205" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1016205" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1016205">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1016205" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1016205" class="dsq-comment-message">WTF.  Sometimes Black people embarass the sh** out of themselves for being so openly foolish in public.  <br><br>Are these people journalists?  Where are the standards?  Please tell me this wasn\'t an actual journalist that asked this?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014223" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1014223" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1014223" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014223" class="dsq-comment-message">I feel that we need to build black-brown coalitions, especially on-line. I would love to see some of the bloggers here speak out on the Latino blogs or cross post some of the issues that we are facing to gain a broader understanding. As a Latina, I have always felt a connection to the black community and a great respect for its accomplishments because our struggle is a collective one.<br><br>::<br><br>Sounds good to me.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014373" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1014373">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1014373" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014373" class="dsq-comment-message">Was it just me, or did Leonard Pitts, Jr. try to create a "Gotcha" moment at the Unity Conference?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014399" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1014399" href="http://www.theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">nezua</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1014399" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014399" class="dsq-comment-message">i keep an eye on this type of headline and article always, closely, for about the last two years. a series of articles are now arising like a spike and to me it is clear that the right wing is either planting articles or planting seeds of ideas in certain press mediums or somehow influencing the conversation and wants to introduce a rift no matter how tiny so that it can be wedged and wedged to a greater degree by november. dont bleeve the hype i say. we\'re working together every day all day online and off. of course there is tension and violence and everything between all kinds on this continent. as a media person, i dont doubt the issue, but all things are going on always. so why report on this now? why so many articles right now? i certainly pay attention to the timing, the framing, the effect of those articles and who benefits by the proliferation of them.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014473" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1014473" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1014473" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014473" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/27/hagel-mccain-on-thin-grou_n_115193.html" rel="nofollow">Hagel strikes back on McCain ad</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014479" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1014479" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1014479" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014479" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/27/mccain-fumbles-his-this-w_n_115206.html" rel="nofollow">McCain Fumbles on Sunday TV</a><br><br>He\'s unfit for the presidency.<br><br>That\'s all anyone needs to say about him from this point forward.<br><br>Anything else is just noise.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014587" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1014587">Lily</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1014587" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014587" class="dsq-comment-message">As John kept saying two parent family ad naseum, why didn\'t George say, Gay couple means two parent family. <br>The stupid and the stupid having a conversation. TV really does suck.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014695" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1014695">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014695" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah.  Then he said at the end "traditional family".   The typical tv personality (and that\'s what they are, not journalists) is too dumb to think on their feet during an interview.  They stick with the questions as written and can\'t improvise of follow up effectively on a provocative answer..or non-answer in McCain\'s case.<br><br>I cannot stand McCain.. and his nasty grimace/snarl/smirk that the pundits call a smile.   Know how I feel when I see that snarl, the same way I feel when I hear a rattlesnake, even on tv: Danger! <br><br> It\'s like High School all over again with him.  McCain\'s the dumb jock and Barack\'s the whiz kid....except this whiz kid can throw 3 pointers...and the dumb jock\'s aging and he\'s got mental arthritis.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014746" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1014746">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1014746" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014746" class="dsq-comment-message">Aside from the media being too dumb to modify a planned interview session, McCain is getting more assists than a NBA player from them.<br><br>Wiz kid with a three-point shot - I love it.<br><br>I\'m not sure he was ever really mentally capable to begin with, hence his grades and rankings.  He\'s better known for his will to fight;  he is the type who doesn\'t possess the ability to think, so he acts out his emotions in an agressive and physcial manner.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1015085" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1015085">eclecticbrotha</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1015085" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1015085" class="dsq-comment-message">The guy is in the early stages of dementia. He denies what he said two days ago and then even says we really were greeted as liberators in Iraq.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014560" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1014560" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1014560" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014560" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/27/obama-vp-pick-wont-based_n_115188.html" rel="nofollow">Obama: VP Pick Won\'t Be Based on Geography</a><br><br>He has looked the most comfortable with:<br><br>Bob Casey<br>Kathleen Sebelius<br>Chris Richardson</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014653" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1014653" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1014653" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014653" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/workplace/2008-07-21-fist-bump-handshake_N.htm" rel="nofollow">Fist Bump Hits Business World</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1014739" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014739" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1014739">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014739" class="dsq-comment-message">..Great.  Now if black people could  figure out a way to earn royalties on our stolen cultural soliloquisms.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1015030" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1015030" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1015030">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1015030" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1015030" class="dsq-comment-message">LMAO. So true.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1014688" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014688" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1014688" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1014688" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014688" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/109102/Gallup-Daily-Obama-49-McCain-40.aspx" rel="nofollow">Gallup:</a><br><br>Obama 49%<br>McCain 40%<br><br>The biggest lead so far in the daily tracking polls.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014782" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1014782">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014782" class="dsq-comment-message">I was just reading that....The campaign said they didn\'t expect a bounce and actually thought there might be a slight dip while they were out of the country.  Ha, I don\'t know if they\'re playing games on that one, they must have internal polling.  Anyway, no matter what Conservatives or middle America says, everybody wants to be loved.  There\'s no way the adoring crowd in Berlin is a bad thing for Barack...or America.  <br><br>Then, foreign leaders are trying to kiss his ass to curry favour with their own people!  How is it bad for a potential American President to have that kind of influence?  How??</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1014846" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014846" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1014846" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1014846" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014846" class="dsq-comment-message">Only in their jealous imaginations.<br><br>At least George Herman Walker Bush could admit he was jealous without flinching when asked what he thought about heads of state rolling out red carpets for Barack.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1015078" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1015078" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1015078">eclecticbrotha</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1015078" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1015078" class="dsq-comment-message">Because it hurts the sitting president\'s feelings to see that the world wasn\'t hating America they just hate HIM.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1017155">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1017155" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1017155" class="dsq-comment-message">eclecta: Tru dat!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1014862" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014862" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1014862" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1014862" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014862" class="dsq-comment-message">This article should win the Pulitzer Prize.<br><br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/opinion/27rich.html?hp" rel="nofollow">Frank Rich: How Obama Became Acting President</a><br><br>Damn he can write.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1014928">Lily</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014928" class="dsq-comment-message">I await what your browser finds, Craig! <br><br>This was a very good article and honest. Having lived overseas, man, all the world really wants is someone at the helm that isn\'t insane and takes their needs into some kind of consideration. They really have deflated any apsirations more than that. I think that is why they look at Barack so intensely. It is like getting the bestest ever christmas present instead of the socks you were expecting.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014945" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1014945" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014945" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s is what my niece, who is Dutch, had to say:<br><br><i>We were so impressed with his presents (sic), his words and his aura. We had tears in our eyes. We WANT to believe him, we WANT to trust him. He\'s doing what no politician has done in our lifetime (30 years to be exact)he showed us europeans there is a possibility to come together as nations, to work tgether. He gave us all hope for the future.</i><br><br>This is a young woman who can\'t stand anything German. Goes back to the legacy of World War II, as you might imagine. I figured she probably wouldn\'t enjoy Barack speaking in Berlin.<br><br>Boy was I wrong.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1015074" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1015074" href="http://baratunde.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">baratunde</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1015074" class="dsq-comment-message">great article!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1015199" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1015199">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1015199" class="dsq-comment-message">That was a damned good article, covering all the bases and expressing utter exasperation with the train wreck that is McCain.   Frank Rich is a man still connected to objective reality, what a relief.<br><br>...And it gives Barack his due praise.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1015236" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1015236" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1015236" class="dsq-comment-message">His writing has been the best of anyone\'s this election cycle. Peggy Noonan is a close second.<br><br>He really ought to get the Pulitzer Prize for his body of work.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1015392" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1015392">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1015392" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1015392" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree, Peggy\'s pretty amazing too.  I think she\'s conservative though...I don\'t seek out her stuff, but when I encounter something, it\'s always insightful.<br><br>Ben Stein, I\'m not that familiar with, but on Larry King he praised Barack for being one of the most talented campaigners he\'s ever seen.  He also later said he doesn\'t work for McCain and can tell the truth.  I don\'t know if that\'s his usual style, but it was refreshing.  <br><br>I think what we\'re starving for is someone saying just how amazing Barack\'s candidacy has been.  Deep down, they all admire/envy him...I know it.  But, even the Democrats are mum.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1015553" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1015553">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1015553" class="dsq-comment-message">He simply told the unvarnished truth.  The truth that many operatives have plotted to cover.  <br><br>Finally, real journalilsm that wasn\'t paid for or inspired by.........</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1015752">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1015752" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1015752" class="dsq-comment-message">Finally! I REAL journalist who\'s willing to tell the truth!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1014878" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1014878" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1014878" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1014878" class="dsq-comment-message">Well we brown people have a lot of shared history and recent ancestry as many of us are the descendants of those who were enslaved. Our appearance does not give an accurate estimate of our gene pool. We have common goals. It is of interest and intent by those motivated by racial bias and a desire to retain power to impose a system of inferiority and discord amongst others. Some people may have problems with each other and are misinformed but certainly not all. It is a similar theme as the one being pushed about Black men and Black women hating each other and being dysfunctional.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1015984" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1015984" href="http://baratunde.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">baratunde</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1015984" class="dsq-comment-message">test</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1016479" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1016479">Squarepeg</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1016479" class="dsq-comment-message">Racial tensions in Miami, Florida are an everyday reality for Black  Americans in this city.  <br><br>With the desire to disenfranchise Black folks for the struggle they waged to obtain civil rights, the powers-that-be in this city, embraced the incoming Cuban migration at the expense of the community, with civil rights legislation used to benefit those folks who had not lifted a finger in the cause of civil rights.<br><br>For more than 40 years, the Black community has been subjected to the use of a foreign language as a weapon in order to deny jobs, educational opportunities and other resources.  Black politicians to their own detriment have sold out their communities for the proverbial 30 pieces of silver, only to be kicked to the curb by both Hispanics and Whites when they were no longer needed.<br><br>At the present time in Miami, the irony is that the white population is less than 20 percent and most middle class Blacks are moving out in droves.  It seems that in less than 40 years, civil rights that were designed to balance discrepancies in treatment of Blacks have been turned on their ear to benefit another group that did not lift one finger in support of the legislation they are now taking full advantage of.<br><br>People from other countries who have never worked a day in their lives in this country in many cases are entitled to social services, including Social Security Supplemental, that many of our grandparents are denied until they can prove they are US citizens.  People affecting the outcomes of elections who have voter registration cards that shouldn\'t have as they are not US citizens.<br><br>The answer to your question for this town if you were to get a Black person to candidly tell the truth would be that yes, there is more than tension between Blacks and Hispanics, there is bitterness that this group of people are benefitting from a struggle they did not suffer from, but many have the audacity to state publicly, proudly, and arrogantly, that Black folks have too much power in this country.<br><br>Yes, there is tension and it is not a preception but reality in this place.<br><br>Let\'s be real.  When you can\'t get a job because you don\'t speak the <br>"right" language, or you enter a store and no one speaks English, the tension is only exacerbated.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1018247" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1018247" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1018247">Yoyogibear</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1018247" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1018247" class="dsq-comment-message">Your points (at least in the first 4 paragraphs) are reasonable.  Miami might be an extreme case though.  I\'m not sure it\'s representative of America as a whole.<br><br>regarding people who have never worked in this country being entitled to social services while older African Americans aren\'t is a bit more questionable to me.  I\'m not sure how, say, illegal immigrants could get such services while others, who were born in America, can\'t get the same services.  If there is actual evidence of that happening, I\'d be interested in seeing it.  I tend to hear it from my right-wing relatives, but don\'t see much evidence of it myself...<br><br>Regarding language issues, put yourself in their shoes.  It\'s possible they don\'t know the language.  If you\'ve ever been overseas, you may have noticed that many Americans (and other foreigners) who live in another country never manage to pick up the language of their host country, either.  It\'s especially difficult for adults who didn\'t have sufficient exposure to English when they were younger.  That might account for the non-English-speaking stores in Miami (though, if they have lived in the US for any period of time, I imagine they can struggle to express themselves at least in very basic English).  People with no English skills in America are also often forced, thru necessity, to work in their own communities.  Why would boeing, for example, hire someone in the US who speaks *only* Korean?  The fact of the matter is, such people have little choice but to start their own business or work in an ethnic supermarket or some other place where they can get by largely thru their own language.<br><br>Similarly, Americans aren\'t the only people who have to learn the \'right\' language.  I live in Japan and work as a staff recruiter.  Many of the jobs I get are at non-Japanese companies and require English skills that the vast majority of Japanese people don\'t have.  As a result, for those Japanese people who weren\'t fortunate enough to live in America, for example, when they were young and when their parents (father) were working in the US, they either have to learn English on their own time or build a career/life in an area where it\'s not required.<br><br>The tension with regards to language seems completely unnecessary to me.  It is what it is.  I\'m sure language issues have existed since the beginning of human migration.   FWIW, if you walk into a store where the employees don\'t speak English but are talking amongst themselves, I suspect they\'re engaged in a mundane conversation, just like English speakers are when they work together.  Americans seem particularly inclined to think that they\'re being talked about negatively when they are around others who aren\'t speaking English.  In reality, I think it\'s seldom that exciting.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1035500" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1035500" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1035500">melanctha</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1035500" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1035500" class="dsq-comment-message">Miami\'s Cuban population is largely descendant from those members of the Battista oligarchy and their lackeys who were forced to flee Cuba  with the ascendence of  Castro and the revolution.  They came from a regime/economy  that was largely based on the oppression and discrimination of blacks.  (Although, interestingly enough, Battista is considered to have been black. ) They merely continued behaving in the manner to which they were accustomed. They not only look down on blacks but most other hispanics.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1018056" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1018056" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1018056">Yoyogibear</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1018056" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1018056" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with you that white people aren\'t thinking that hard.  As I\'m sure everyone here knows, racism isn\'t really on the average white person\'s radar on a daily basis.<br><br>I think some whites like to focus on a \'divide\' between blacks and hispanics (or any other non-white ethnic group) because it validates their own racism.  big Media outlets know that one of the products they need to sell to their viewers is a feeling of validation so they cover these bogus stories.  I think whites - and I say this as a white person myself - watch/read these stories and figure \'blacks are racist against Mexicans so they\'re no better than I am!\'  I know it sounds crazy - not to mention utterly retarded - but I believe it to be true and have heard this sort of rubbish more than once in my life.<br><br>I\'d like to think there is a more nefarious reason for the coverage (creating division between groups, for example), but I think for the vast majority of the white population that actually make a big deal about this so-called divide, it just makes them feel less bad about their own racism.<br><br>Apologies if someone further downthread posted the same thing.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1023656" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1023656">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1023656" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1023656" class="dsq-comment-message">"And the Beat Goes On" [Sunny & Cher]<br>Timothy Pratt - Las Vegas Sun:   Black-Hispanic Rivalry May Be A Myth  [ya think ?  :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br><a href="http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/jul/28/black-hispanic-rivalry-may-be-myth/" rel="nofollow">www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/jul/28/black-hisp...</a><br><br>Doing this in between projects!  Whew!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  Ya know, I haven\'t had my "DISS THE DUDE" moments today!  It\'s ruff!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  Whew.  Deep breaths!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8343906" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8343906" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8343906">Guest</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8343906" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8343906" class="dsq-comment-message">Don\'t stop learning people.  Just keep at it and you\'ll get it eventually.</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8655181" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8655181" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8655181">Guest</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8655181" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8655181" class="dsq-comment-message">Studying isn\'t easy but if you keep at it you will reap the reward.  Everyone should keep learning and not stop.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-18518926" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-18518926" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-18518926">AngelinaBellew</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-18518926" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-18518926" class="dsq-comment-message">When it comes to dressing up for a date, the <a href="http://www.blinddateuncensored.net/" rel="nofollow">blind date uncensored</a> clothes you are going to wear should be appropriate to the place and activity you are going to go and do.</div>\
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