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I saw the previews for a while and I am so tempted to watch it but I am feel like I am supporting stereotypical garbage.  But today's episode is about a brother and sister who are getting married.<br><br>No really, they are serious.  The fiance says \"keep it in the family\".  LOL Then the girl comes out of the room and asks her mother what she thinks about the dress, the Mother says -- I don't like it becasue it is ugly.  It is the ugliest dress I ever laid my eyes on.  Then the girl says, Ma you hurt my feelings I aint getting married.  Then the mother says -- you are going to marry your brother whether you like it or not.  <br><br>LOL  <br><br>Then they are having the bridal shower and they have a stripper.  Granny is there with NO TEETH.  Telling the guy take it off and is rubbing the guys . . . well.  <br><br>I guess I will be watching this show tonight.  LOL I have never seen anything like it.  <br>May as well get educated.  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White women, Asian women, even Middle Eastern women (there was an article in Essence magazine several years ago about this) use relaxers.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:37:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4944822, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4946467": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Is this for real??? I just FOUND CMT (never watched the channel before)- knew I probably had it....and oh my word..................is this for real?!?!?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:36:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4946059, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4948012": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I have put in a relaxer myself and IMO I did a better job of it than most \"beauticians.\"  For one, I made sure to rinse and rinse and rinse and rinse.<br><br>They say one of the reasons why many people with relaxers have problems growing hair on the back of the left side of their head is because that's the first place the beautician applies the relaxer so it stays on the longest and she usually stands to your left when she's rinsing you out and that spot isn't rinsed as well as it could be.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_00:10:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4947775, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4946481": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Now you have me watching this! I wont forgive you, I swear I won't!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:39:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4946297, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4945970": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL!<br><br>No, sure isn't<br><br>Go Michelle!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:10:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4945916, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4946495": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com/2009/01/case-for-dr-sanjay-gupta-as-surgeon.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Case for Dr. Sanjay Gupta as Surgeon General (Video)</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:40:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "icebergslim", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 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}, "4944449": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "?? I dont' understand your response to the article.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_20:38:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4944171, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4946501": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You are on the money Iceberg.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:41:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4946282, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4944455": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "hahaha a \"great\" advocate.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_20:38:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4943789, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4946504": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "OMG....its a marathon! Its show after show of \"Redneck Weddings\"......wow......I thought these were just internet funnies that I got every so often from friends...who knew??", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:41:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4946297, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4946506": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Okay.  I had enough.  I am stopping at one Whiterose.  <br><br>Apparently tonight is an allnighter on this program.  Go figure. lol<br><br>I am laughing too hard so I am going cold turkey at the one preview and I can see I would get hooked on this garbage.  Cutting myself off now before I change my mind.  LOL <br><br>I have to pray for myself after this one.  lol Later all.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:41:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4946158, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4946510": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow.<br>I just love that adverb, clusterphuck!! lol....K.O. is right....except their was no cluster with Lewinsky just her and Bill, is all.<br><br>According to Gallup, I am in the minority, only 27% of Americans agree with me that Burris should be seated.  <br><br>Whatever.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.gallup.com/poll/113674/Americans-Burris-Should-Blocked-Special-Election-Held.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.gallup.com/poll/113674/Americans-Bur...</a>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:39:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4946265, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4946517": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "RAOTFLMAO.  See Miranda.  I am TRYING TO STOP WATCHING. lol Please.  help me.  . . . . this is just wrong.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:42:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4946504, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4946522": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Spirit, I'm so sorry about your sister. You've definitely given me food for thought.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:42:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4945873, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4950111": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  Welllll.  IFFF the GOSSIP keep coming---I feel that it is my CIVIC DUTY to SPREAD IT!:    :&gt;)<br><br><a href=\"http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=9622031\" rel=\"nofollow\">New poll shows Palin would trail Murkowski big in a Senate race</a><br><br><i><b>ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Even with the last election barely two months in the rearview mirror, some in the national media have speculated that Gov. Sarah Palin might make a run for the U.S. Senate in 2010 as a prelude to running for president in 2012.<br><br>But a new poll out Monday shows Palin would have a tough time if she decides to take on Sen. Lisa Murkowski.</b><br><br>Pollster Dave Dittman just finished a statewide survey on a possible Palin-versus-Murkowski matchup - and Murkowski beats Palin, at least in this poll, hands down.<br><br><b>Murkowski garnered 57 percent to Palin's 33 percent; 9 percent said they were not sure.</b><br><br>And given the senator's popularity, Dittman says Palin would not be wise to challenge Murkowski.<br><br>\"And I think there would be a feeling, too, of overreaching -- going too far, too aggressive, too much too soon -- if Sarah decided to run for Senate,\" Dittman said. \"When you've already got someone there with seniority, who most people think is doing a good job, I think it would be a huge mistake.\"<br><br>Murkowski sent what many viewed as a veiled warning to Palin a few weeks ago, telling <a href=\"http://politico.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">politico.com</a>, \"I can guarantee it would be a very tough election ... If she wants to be president, I don't think the way to the presidency is a short stop in the United States Senate.\"<br><br><b>The governor's press secretary, Bill McAllister, says Palin has never indicated she's thinking about running against Murkowski.<br><br>\"It's unfortunate that we keep talking about this rivalry that doesn't exist,\" he said. \"She has not said, and I don't think needs to say, that she's going to rule something out in terms of her political plans in the future. But she's very focused on being governor now, does not see herself as a rival to Senator Murkowski.\"</b><br><br>And McAllister points to a newspaper opinion piece Murkowski and Palin co-wrote recently, stating they are not rivals.<br><br>\"There's no reason to think that she's vying for a Senate seat,\" McAllister said, \"I mean, in politics I suppose you never know what's going to happen.\"<br><br>And in the world of politics, that is often the key question.<br><br><b>A poll commissioned last month by the Web site <a href=\"http://dailykos.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">dailykos.com</a> showed Palin beating Murkowski 55 to 31 percent, although local pollster Dittman says he has concerns about the methods used to arrive at those numbers.</b><br><br>Contact Mike Ross at mross@ktuu.com</i><br><br>B4 I read the LAST paragraph, I was 'bout ta state that a former POLL had some very different results.  Well!<br><br>Now we have \"DUELING POLLS!\"   :&gt;)  *****<br><br>Time ta call \"Mr. Silvers\" to adjudicate!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>****<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyKvD-4IxOY\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dueling Banjos Scene (Deliverance)</a>    ENJOY!!    :&gt;)     :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_01:48:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4947041": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "How long are people leaving their relaxers in for? I have never been burned by a relaxer, or had my hair fall out due to one.  I think a lot of the damage is due to people abusing the chemicals. Never try to go \"bone straight\" because that takes all the body and life out of the hair. I also see a lot of people overstyling their relaxed hair. In the summer, there's no point in putting a lot of heat on the hair to keep it straight, because its just too hot and humid. <br><br>I've alternated between relaxed hair and natural for about 10 years now, and no matter what, it's all about the care put into the hair.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_23:07:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "67044c13b01a2ea2367d1fb4e9a68a0d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4946149, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4948067": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "tracey:   Hey!    :&gt;)<br><br>-Er.   -ummmm -   Did you REQUEST this?<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hGlYT38DZY\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>I Got You Babe</b> 1965 (Sonny and Cher)</a><br><br>ENJOY!!    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_00:14:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4945925, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4949093": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I love Ms.  Flat Iron, but Ms. Straightening Comb gives me flashbacks of sitting in the kitchen while my mom pressed my hair and me cringing in fright as she was trying to get my edges.  There where very few times she got my forehead or ear (because I was squirming after she told me to sit still) but those few times were enough.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_01:03:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4948108, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4944998": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That's my favorite picture of soon to be President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_21:12:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "LisaM5432", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4946032": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm sorry, Spirit!<br><br>Wow, I didn't have any idea about something like that!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:13:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4945873, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4946037": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "wait wait  . ..  for decorations they hung bras from the ceiling.  lol  RAOTFL<br><br><br>Lawd lawd.  I have never seen anything like this.  LOL  Dropping off for 1/2 hour all.  <br><br>I guess I will be watching this.  too funny.  I can't believe they set themselves up like this.  lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:13:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 18, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4945946, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4948598": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Greenlady, thanks.  Its an experience I'll not forget.  We live, we love, we learn.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_00:36:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4947704, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4946563": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks, claudia.  I'll be sure to pass along any information I can on the this.  <br><br>Town made an important point about the caustic nature being alot more potent years ago.<br><br>None the less, chemicals are chemicals. We all have free will, and information is power.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:45:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4946149, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4944011": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Co-sign! Love them together!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_20:02:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4943806, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4948108": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Town:   BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!   ***shakin' my head***    :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Admittedly, B4 <b>Ms. Flat Iron</b>, <b>Ms. Straightening Comb [her 'cousin']</b> and I really \"bonded\"!    :&gt;)     :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_00:16:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4947956, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4947597": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks, WRB.  Yes, an oncologist made the definitivve diagnosis.  I asked to see the lab results.  <br><br>I'm a retired RN so I  know how to read labs, histology report (cell study) was whack.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_23:42:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4947299, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4946577": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Iceberslim<br><br>You need to add Obama's retort to that write up. He gave a good one!! It was one of his first zingers on the campaign trail and it was awesome. He told that Austrian to send his own 250K people over there to fight the 'good fight'...I am paraphrasing..Obama worded it sooo much better...it was a very gracious FU!!  hahahaa<br><br>I do not think that the Bushes were thinking the Obama's would need Blair house earlier. They probably never once thought about the girls having to start school before the 15th.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:46:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4946282, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4948118": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Daisy, your'e right about proper care of the hair: It's  so important particularly  with relaxed hair.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_00:18:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4947041, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4955295": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "In case you missed these:<br><br><a href=\"http://community.livejournal.com/obama_daily/166895.html#cutid1\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://community.livejournal.com/obama_daily/16...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_03:50:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "tovangar2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 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}, "4947618": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "whiterosebuddy:  LOL!   :&gt;<br><br>Ima close my <b>EYE</b> at the appropriate time! [IFFF the plane is shown on tv]   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_23:44:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4944585, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4947619": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "you guys are crazy. I confess I watched an episode before where they jumped into a mud pit after the ceremony. Bizarre and hilarious....<br><br>I also find it bizarre that the host of the show satirizes its subjects and they still appear on ths show. Most times like Flavor of Love, etc. the hosts feign interest and empathy in the contestants...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_23:44:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4947308, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4946597": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "you are too funny...and I do have to admit ..your descriptions made me HOWL...rotfl", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:48:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4946321, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4944552": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If the White House is a rockin', don't come a knockin'!<br><br>Bow Chicka Wow Wow! <br><br>:-P", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_20:45:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4944368, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4948150": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks, Sepia.  It's all about experience, learning and growth.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_00:21:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4946522, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4944056": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And now that we know what is under that shirt that she is holding onto...we completely understand that swoooned look on Michelle's face, and Obama is loving every minute with his head tilted back and looking like he ate the last piece of pie...yummy good is the only way to describe his expression...and 'gimme some mo\"<br>'", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_20:05:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4944011, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4947130": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This is more wrong than Flava of Love, Real Housewives of Atlanta, and 2 Live Crew bootleg videos combined..", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_23:13:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4946517, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4950205": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Val:    Psssssst!   ***<i>whispering</i>***<br><br><i>I believe that you were directed to the \"BAD CHAIR!\"</i><br><br>Shhhhhh.  <i>This is between me and you.&gt;/i&gt;   :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>BUT, Ima 'gree with you.  It's hard ta stop laughin'! :&gt;)    :&gt;)</i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_02:01:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4947308, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4947140": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LAWN JOCKEY ALERT!<br><br>Anybody watching PRIMETIME on ABC?<br><br>Can anybody tell why this fat lip greasy looking \"brotha\" was so Quick Draw McGraw to throw the Latinos out of the store?<br><br>And it wasn't his store or place to throw people out?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_23:14:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4944585": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Guuurl....if AIR FORCE ONE is rockin....it ain't turbulence!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_20:48:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4944552, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4958922": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jeb Bush Joins the Tenet Gravy Train<br>Brett Arends <br>05/09/07 - 10:25 AM EDT<br>A senior member of the Bush dynasty is about to get a large sum of money from a company with a history of ethical violations. <br><br>Stop me if you've heard this one before. <br><br>Jeb Bush, the president's brother and former governor of Florida, is up for election Thursday as a director of troubled hospital chain Tenet Healthcare (THC Quote - Cramer on THC - Stock Picks). Assuming he's waved through, his pay in his first year would come to nearly $37,000 a day. <br><br>This is the same Tenet that had to pay $900 million to Uncle Sam last summer to settle charges that it had overbilled Medicare and Medicaid over many years. <br><br>Nine hundred million dollars. <br><br>The U.S. attorneys announcing the settlement accused the company of \"fraud\" and trying to \"manipulate and cheat the system.\" <br><br>Mike Leavitt, the Health and Human Services Secretary appointed by Jeb's brother George, said the company had \"fraudulently abused the Medicare program.\" <br><br>It's also the same Tenet that just paid $80 million to the IRS after an audit found it owed back taxes going back as far as 1995. <br><br>The company recently had to restate nearly five years of earnings statements after an investigation into its books. <br><br>And this is just the big stuff. Tenet's recent public filings read like a police blotter. One of its clinics in South Carolina performed 436 open heart operations without certification. The company is being sued in California by staff claiming they were systematically short-changed on pay and overtime, in breach of the state's labor code. Three former Tenet staff members, at a New Orleans hospital it owned, are under investigation for allegedly euthanizing four patients following Hurricane Katrina. <br><br>All in all, it's hardly a surprise Tenet Healthcare stock has lost 85% of its value over the past five years. <br><br>The company hadn't returned phone calls seeking a comment by press time; neither had the former governor's representatives. <br><br>Tenet isn't partisan. Among its current directors is Bob Kerrey, the former Democratic senator from Nebraska. <br><br>This will be Jeb Bush's first job since leaving the governor's office in Tallahassee four months ago. <br><br>Of course, it's not quite the election he was hoping for. Once upon a time, the dynasty was grooming him to run for president. But his older brother got there first and has probably poisoned that well forever. <br><br>Chris Matthews and Wolf Blitzer won't be on hand for the vote at Thursday's stockholders meeting. Do not expect to see many \"Jeb '08\" badges around the Westin Hotel in Dallas. Somehow, the atmosphere won't quite match the excitement of waiting for the returns from Ohio. <br><br>But Jeb, look on the bright side. <br><br>You've been complaining about your finances. Your last filings as governor showed your net worth was down to just $1.4 million. Obviously, that figure won't count any of the vast Bush family fortune. But still, it's embarrassing. Who wants to ask mom and pop for extra cash every Fourth of July? At your age, you should be buying your own yacht. <br><br>Sure, the Tenet job may look pretty tacky for someone of your standing, but the pay isn't bad. <br><br>It's lucky the media aren't paying too much attention. Anyone reading the public filings would have discovered that in your first year, you'll earn $474,500 -- for 13 days' work. <br><br>That's $36,500 a day. And the \"work\" consists of sitting in a board room, so it's not exactly heavy lifting. <br><br>If the board meetings last an average of four hours, you'll be pulling in $9,125 an hour. <br><br>Not bad for a guy who could manage only a B.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas. Many of Tenet's 65,000 personnel are qualified medical staff with years of experience. Yet according to public filings, their average salary and benefits last year came to around $69,000 for full-time work. <br><br>You get that in two days. <br><br>Who says all the good jobs are going to China? <br><br>I'm sure your family lawyer has already explained the details, Jeb, but just to recap the terms: As a nonemployee director you'll get an immediate golden handshake of $260,000 in \"restricted stock units.\" Nothing says \"welcome aboard\" quite like a quarter-million. Plus you'll get another $130,000 in restricted stock units each year. That's on top of your retainer of $65,000 a year. <br><br>And all that is before you turn up for a single board meeting. For each one you attend, you get another $1,500. There's another $1,200 every time you show up at a committee meeting. <br><br>A word of advice: Avoid the audit and compliance committees. There's too much work and there's always the risk something will go wrong. For an easy life, join the compensation committee. It meets only seven times a year and you don't have to do anything. Just hire some consultants to review executive pay, and agree to whatever they suggest. The executives will be grateful, and that can pay real dividends down the road. See it as using shareholder money to stock up the favor bank. <br><br>What a deal!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_08:04:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 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}, "4950740": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Coleman responds:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1870065,00.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Coleman Sues Over Minnesota Senate Recount</a><br><br><i>(ST. PAUL, Minn.) \u2014<b> Republican Norm Coleman filed a lawsuit <u>Tuesday</u> challenging Democrat Al Franken's apparent recount victory in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race, delaying a resolution of the contest for weeks or months.</b><br><br>At a Capitol news conference filled with cheering supporters, Coleman said he won't accept a board's determination a day earlier that Franken captured 225 more votes in the November election. He had a seven-day window to file the lawsuit.<br><br>\"We are filing this contest to make absolutely sure every valid vote was counted and no one's was counted more than anyone else's,\" Coleman said.<br><br>Coleman shrugged off the idea that he might concede the election to avoid a protracted fight that could leave Minnesota with only a single senator in Washington for months.<br><br>\"Something greater than expediency is at stake here,\" Coleman said. He added: \"Democracy is not a machine. Sometimes it's messy and inconvenient, and reaching the best conclusion is never quick because speed is not the first objective, fairness is.\"<br><br>State law prevents officials from issuing an election certificate until legal matters are resolved.<br><br>Franken attorney Marc Elias called Coleman's lawsuit \"essentially the same thin gruel, warmed-over leftovers from meals we've all been served over the last few weeks.\"<br><br><b>He said that Coleman has the right to sue, but that doesn't mean his claims have merit, and he is confident Franken would prevail.</b><br><br>Franken e-mailed supporters Tuesday to request donations to continue the fight, just as Coleman did a day earlier.<br><br>Coleman, whose term expired Saturday, led Franken by 215 votes in the Nov. 4 count but that advantage flipped during a prolonged recount.<br><br>In going to court, Coleman has three big challenges: raising money to pay escalating legal bills, proving the election was flawed and managing the public's desire to have the race over.<br><br>\"They definitely have an uphill fight on their hands,\" said Guy-Uriel Charles, a professor of election and constitutional law at the University of Minnesota. \"Their legal theory will have to overcome a burden of proof, and then they have to find enough votes to overcome Franken's lead.\"<br><br>That could prove difficult, since any bloc of new votes would almost surely include some for Franken, who declared victory Monday.<br><br>A lawsuit gives both sides options they lacked during the recount, such as accessing voter rolls, inspecting machines and introducing testimony from election workers</i><br><br>THERE IS MORE.<br><br>I believe that he was running LOW on FUNDS!  Wonder HOW he's funding this litigation??   Oh. Well.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_02:40:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 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}, "4950393": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  TECHNICAL ANNOUNCEMENT:<br><br><i>If you don't have cable TV, you won't be able to watch the opening inaugural ceremonies on January 18th. Barack Obama's inaugural committee announced Tuesday that HBO will exclusively air the kick-off concert and celebration on the steps of Lincoln Memorial that night. The premium cable channel will, however, offer access to cable and satellite distributors to televise the festivities for free.</i><br><br>FROM:  <a href=\"http://www.politico.com/politico44/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.politico.com/politico44/</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_02:26:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 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}, "4947675": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Town:  Haven't had one in over 40 years.  BUT I have been \"great friends\", recently, with <b>Ms. Ceramic Flat Iron!</b>   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_23:48:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4944822, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4950243": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "spirit:  Amen!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_02:05:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4948598, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4946149": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wow, I had never heard about these kinds of side effects before. And I am so sorry to hear about what happened to your sister, Spirit_55z. Your experience certainly carries a lot of weight in this area, so if you run across any more articles on this issue, I'd be interested to read them.<br><br>I also have my own chemical burn horror stories. When a big chunk of my hair fell out, I was forced to go natural! LOL. But I've had locks for five years now and couldn't be happier.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:20:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "claudia_m", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4945873, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4946151": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "but you share your shame with your JJP fam? lol<br><br>are they really brother and sister? what is the 411?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:22:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4946059, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4946158": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Val,<br>This is buffoonery. It might be funny..but the cost to us as a culture is too great to support shows of this nature.  Please enjoy it tonight...but let's boycott this type humor. It is totally unhealthy for our children, their self-esteems and their future.  <br><br>It perpetuates racism.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:22:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4946059, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4947186": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Miranda.  I tried to stop watching and I couldnt.  This one is weird.  The guy collects dead roadkill and racoon penis bones because he says it is made of ivory and the bride wants her cake held up by beer cans and they want to use a hack saw to cut the cake.  LOL  It is wrong.  I.CANT.STOP.WATCHING.  I'm trying.  I really am.  This is just wrong.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_23:17:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4947130, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4947704": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "spirit:  My deepest sympathies!  PRAYING for YOU/YOURS.<br><br>Thanks for the advice.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_23:49:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4945873, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4946731": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Over the last ten years a number of black companies have been taken over by white companies: L'Oreal owns SoftSheen / Carson now, etc.<br><br>I've heard Dark and Lovely was always harsh. Revlon is basically bankrupt. <br><br>Perhaps applying a toxic chemical every 6 weeks is too soon. <br><br>Worst of all are people who apply these harsh relaxers to little girls.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:56:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "a9b9abf70e450bc2128c0e057afa51ce", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4944822, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4945452": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That was great! What a nice pick-me-up! A good bashing of that walking boil was just what I needed to hear!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_21:37:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4945234, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4944139": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lol<br><br>Yes!  Their love  for each other is a beautiful thing!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_20:13:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4944056, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4944654": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_20:54:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4944552, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4949269": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have that \"cotton candy\" hair you mention and you are so right, I was good after 10 minutes.  My sister has really thick hair and she would leave hers in for half a hour.  I stopped getting relaxers long ago because a flat iron works best for me.  <br><br>spritz I am so sorry to hear about your sister.  My sister also had cancer and after a year of treatment she is cancer free.  Now I'm wondering if there is a correlation between the fact she used to leave her relaxers in for so long and the cancer.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_01:13:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4947256, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4948248": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  I tried to check this at another site.  Nothing - YET!   :&gt;)<br><br><a href=\"http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/06/obama-to-announce-new-reform-post/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Obama to announce new reform post</a><br><br><i>From CNN Senior White House Correspondent Ed Henry:<br>WASHINGTON (CNN) \u2014 President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday will announce his selection for the role of \"chief performance officer,\" a newly created position that will work to scrub the federal budget and reform<br>government, a Democratic official told CNN.<br><br>The person will \"help put us on a path to fiscal discipline,\" the official said.</i><br><br>Watchin' this!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_00:28:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 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}, "4946205": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL - now that's a good one. I've missed how hilarious the open threads can be.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:21:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "claudia_m", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4944585, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4948257": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm sure, and save a bunch of $$$ too, I'll bet.<br><br>Yes, I've been in salons were the beauticians are overworked and some try to get as many heads in to make those tips too. <br><br>It's tricky, you just gotta know who's doing the do.  I do miss going to the Beauty shops.  <br><br>There was definitely a sense of community. bonding amongst the sistas.  :-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_00:29:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4948012, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4949802": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You're giving me flashbacks of my sister burning the crap out of my poor little ears. And adding insult to injury afterwards..... by putting my hair in all those pony tails!  Just  much too much!<br><br>lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_01:34:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4949093, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4944171": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "All right let it stop right now. We are not lab rats. just ask and someone will tell you. We don't ask about bris. I know what gefilite fish, haggis and nori are because I was going to eat it. I know the chinese are all over Asia and have local names and look like where they live except in Jamica. But enough is enough. From the front page of the WAPO internet edition:<br><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/05/AR2009010501864.html?hpid=topnews\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_20:15:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 35, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4945196": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Too funny!  like he eat the last piece of pie..... yummy good.  Black love, it's a wonderful thing", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_21:23:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4944056, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4946743": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "RAOTFL.  <br><br>Too funny.  hahahahahaha", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:55:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4946265, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4947256": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Daisy,<br>How long you leave a relaxer in demands on your hair texture. Black folks have such a wide spectrum of hair texture that it is difficult to say without looking at the hair.  <br><br>Typically, the more porous the hair the less tightly coiled the strands are and it requires less time to relax.  A person can usually tell how porous their hair is by how it reacts to humidity.  If your hair is sensitive to humidity, i.e. it immediately curls up and looks like cotton candy on your head. Then your hair is porous, and will require less than 20 mins. to relax.  Which means it should be sectioned and applied quickly.  As the next thing that has to be done is the smoothing process which is what creates the bone straight hair without overuse of chemical. Smoothing is when you repeatedly run the comb through each section gently combing straight the hair as you smooth the relaxer through from the scalp to the ends of the hair.<br><br>Hope that helps.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_23:22:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4947041, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4947775": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Town, you're soon point as usual.   <br><br>Case in point about applying chemical ourselves. I tried color my hair after I relaxing it. I left so much of my hair uncolored.<br><br> Looked like a skunk, and what color I did get in there, I didn't wash it all out after the allotted time.<br><br>I can understand women wanting to relax their hair.  I did, and I know the reasons why I did it; to have ease in combing it, to have straight hair, to confrom to fit in and get a job....<br><br>Now, I choose it naturally because I choose the freedom of expressing it naturally.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_23:54:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4947439, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4946242": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "nope wasnt a can of beer.  Her mother put the ziploc bag over a banana and told her make sure she tied a ribbon on the end of the ziploc bag so it wouldn't leak and to make it pretty.<br><br>lolol Tom Arnold is the host of the show.  sorry.  last comment from me.  <br><a href=\"http://www.cmt.com/shows/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.cmt.com/shows/</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:22:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4946059, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4946059": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "wait one more.  The mother sits her daughter down to tell her about birth control.  So she gets a zip lock bag and pulls it over a can of beer.  <br><br>RAOTFLMAO.  whooo hoo lololol bwahahhaaaaa<br><br>I have to shut the doors so my kids and husband can't see me watching this mess.  lolol.  shame on me.  shame.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:15:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 17, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4946037, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4945234": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "KO is going off on Ann \"Coiltergiest.\"  LOL!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_21:25:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4946265": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com/2009/01/on-keith-olbermann-burris-this-is.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Countdown on Burris, \"...this is the biggest clusterf*** since Monica Lewinsky\" (Video)</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:25:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "icebergslim", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4947291": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Help Whiterose.  My brain is being fried.  <br>wait. . . I know.  I will call my husband into the room and I will be so embarassed I will HAVE to change the channel before he opens the door.<br><br>That is a plan.  yep I have got to do it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_23:24:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4947186, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4947299": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sorry to hear about your sister Spirit.<br>Was it an oncologist that told your sister the chemicals leaked  into her bloodtream? <br><br>The article notes there is not a correlation with breast cancer.<br><br>When researchers at the Boston University-based Black Women's Health study were looking to understand why black women younger than 45 have a higher incidence of breast cancer than white women, they looked to use of chemical hair relaxers for a possible explanation. But they found no evidence to support that.<br><br>The researchers found that between 1997 and 2003, 574 women of the more than 48,000 in the study developed breast cancer, but there was no correlation between relaxer use and the illness. Women who had never used the products were found to have the same breast cancer risk as those who did.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_23:25:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4945873, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4944745": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Huh?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_20:57:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4944171, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4946282": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com/2009/01/bush-is-low-down-about-obamas-staying.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bush is low down about the Obamas staying at Blair House</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:26:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "icebergslim", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4947308": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "lol can't blame you.  I can't forgive myself for peeking at the first episode.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_23:26:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4946481, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4950827": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:   OOO!    OOOO!     OOO! LOOK!   LOOK!:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/06/michelle-obamas-inaugurat_n_155718.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Michelle Obama's Inauguration Dress: Vogue Designers Weigh In</a><br><br><i>Naturally, Vogue has a few ideas about what Michelle Obama should wear to the inauguration. Because the future First Lady has worn up-and-coming designers like Thakoon and Jason Wu, they asked a few other Vogue Fashion Fund designers for some sketches. Scroll down for two of them... click here for more.<br><br><br><br>Alexander Wang (obviously):<br><br><b>Marchesa:</b> </i>    I   LOVE THIS ONE!!!!   :&gt;)  <br><br>THERE ARE MORE!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_02:48:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 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}, "4947828": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:   Found this article about Mr. P-EO - back then:  :&gt;)<br><br><a href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/06/politics/main4703255.shtml?source=RSSattr=Politics_4703255\" rel=\"nofollow\">Video Emerges Of Obama The Food Critic</a><br><br><i>AP) Barack and Michelle Obama are known for nights out on the town in Chicago, dining at some of its poshest restaurants with the smartest chefs. But who knew the president-elect was a food critic?<br><br>\"Check Please!,\" a Chicago public television round-table restaurant review show, has posted online two 7-year-old clips of Obama touting a favorite eating spot, the Dixie Kitchen and Bait Shop in Hyde Park.<br><br>\"I ordered the Southern Sampler just because I couldn't make up my mind,\" Obama says during the panel discussion, taped in August 2001 when he was in the Illinois Senate.<br><br>\"I wasn't sure what I was in the mood for,\" he says. \"It's not gourmet cuisine, but that's not why I go to Dixie Kitchen. What I'm looking for is food that tastes good for a good price.\"<br><br>David Manilow, creator and executive producer of \"Check Please!,\" said Tuesday the program was one of the first episodes taped and it never aired. He said he chose Obama because of his comfort in front of television cameras.<br><br>Manilow said he's never forgotten about the episode, but decided to wait to air the entire show on Chicago's WTTW until the Friday before Obama's inauguration, Jan. 16 at 8 p.m. He plans to release a third clip on Wednesday as a teaser.<br><br><b>\"He's the kind of guy who can go to a pizza place or the fanciest place in town and be comfortable,\" Manilow said.<u> \"What you get to see from him is that seven years ago he was the same person.\"</u></b><br><br>Ever the politician, Obama gave a shout-out to his state Senate district during the show.<br><br><b>\"You can do some good business out on the South Side of Chicago,\" Obama said. \"We're glad to have you, since it's my legislative district. I want to see our small business owners succeeding out there.\"</b><br><br><b>Dixie Kitchen owner Carol Andresen said she's served the Obamas for years, describing them as gracious and unassuming guests. She likes what Obama had to say about her restaurant.</b><br><br>\"It's true,\" she said. \"He said this is not gourmet food and it's not. We are one of the few restaurants left today that makes almost everything from scratch.\"<br><br>Andresen also said she's delighted with all the attention.<br><br>\"We've always been very successful so this will probably make us more successful,\" she said.<br><br>\"Check Please!\" has aired in Chicago for eight seasons and has thousands of people vie to be reviewers, Manilow said.<br><br><b>But what if Obama wanted to come back?<br><br>\"There's an open seat at the table for him anytime,\" Manilow said.</b></i><br><br>He is just as GRACIOUS NOW!!  :&gt;)   VERY NICE!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_23:55:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 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}, "4946297": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "girl was adopted.  lol<br><br>JJai - I know I am wrong.  This is against everything I believe.  LOL but it is funny as heck.  Now they are putting notices on trees in the neighborhood to give the directions to their backyard wedding.  They are using cardboard and duct tape.  and yes I am sharing this with you all because I am too embarassed to tell my husband I am watchng this.  LOLOL You have GOT to see it. lololol It is hysterical.  <br><br>LOLOLOLOL You should see their transportation.  A rusted truck.  OMG!!!!! I can't take it.  lolololol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:26:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4946151, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4944258": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh geez.  I opened it and immediately closed it.  <br><br>Can't do it.  Won't read it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_20:23:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4944171, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4947847": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Justice, thanks.  It 's what happened to my sister.  It doesn't mean other women or men will have the same experience.  It's an experience we can discuss and learn more about.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_23:59:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4946032, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4949898": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks for posting this.  Repeat after me: A texturizer is still a relaxer.  Just because a chemical is naturally occurring doesn't mean that it's not damaging.<br><br>There is no way to straighten hair without damaging it.  Do you really think that ceramic flat iron that is permanently straightening your hair isn't damaging it?<br><br>Girlfriend please.<br><br>The analogy that helped me see the light was my hair was like my right hand. I start off with all five fingers-my hair is healthy. Relaxers weaken your hair (cut off a finger). Color weakens it even more (there goes another finger). You have to blow dry (there's another finger). Don't forget the flat iron or curling irons to silken everything out (where did that four finger go?) <br><br>You left with a thumb and damaged hair.<br><br>I recommend <a href=\"http://afrobella.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">afrobella.com</a>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_01:37:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "87e72423da46e42e4cbc3c35b48533b8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4944822, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4944782": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LMAO......Its not bad. <br>I actually had a classmate at FAMU whose goal was to create her own line of organic relaxers (and yeah she did retouches all up in Truth Hall, LMAO!)...she was a pharmacy/business admin double major (damn, aint that some ish??) I often wonder if these new lines of organic products I see are her creations.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_21:01:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4944258, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4945808": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/broom-cia#comments\" rel=\"nofollow\">Broom the CIA By Al Giordano</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_21:59:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "fd35c4322b63b2dab06baea3e23047cf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 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}, "4946321": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I know that. <br><br>I know it.  I believe that. But I peeked and I cant stop watching.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:27:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4946158, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4947779": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "i caught that clip.. i can't believe so many people went by without saying anything! I would have injected myself all UP in the convo.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_23:54:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4947140, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4948039": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You're welcome, Spirit!<br><br>I know, but it sure is worth learning more about it.<br><br>Again, so sorry for your loss. I can relate.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_00:12:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4947847, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4943789": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Feinstein: Seat Burris In Senate<br> <br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/06/feinstein-seat-burris-in_n_155747.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/06/feinst...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_19:47:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4944304": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A VERY GOOD READ:<br><br><a href=\"http://sportsonmymind.com/2009/01/06/years-gone-by-in-the-system-a-new-years-resolution/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://sportsonmymind.com/2009/01/06/years-gone...</a><br><br>Excerpt:<br><br>Ahhhh yes, the system.<br><br>Ten years later and 30 years ago a group of black people demanded that the system change by demanding that they be able to live their lives as they choose. Thirty years ago they found themselves engaged in a one-way shootout at their home in the middle of Philadelphia - yes, in the middle of a major American metropolis. The system sent its enforcers out to kill the black people who demanded respect from the system; nine of those people were framed and convicted of murder.<br><br>Seven years later and 23 years ago that same group of black people, reformed and living with a near-maniacal sense of urgency due to losses of their members to the system and living with an added resolve, had over 10,000 rounds of live ammunition fired into their new home - a row house - in the middle of a major U.S. metropolis where black boxers of global renown were born and raised yet where they would instead erect a statue of a white boxer born from the figment of a Hollywood scriptwriter\u2019s imagination.<br><br>Good morning America.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_20:27:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 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}, "4949064": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "America's Most and Least Favorite Cities <br>Where Americans Do\u2014and Don't\u2014Want to Work and Live<br><br>Do you live in a city that you want to live in? If you're lucky, you already do\u2014but many Americans would relocate at the drop of a hat if they could. This is the sort of thing that drives human resources people nuts. <br><br>After all, their jobs are all about finding, and retaining, talent, so it helps to know where people are willing to move to\u2014or away from. To find out where these places are, they commissioned a study\u2014and were good enough to share their findings with us.<br><br>1.  New York<br><br><a href=\"http://promo.realestate.yahoo.com/americas-most-and-least-favorite-cities.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://promo.realestate.yahoo.com/americas-most...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_01:01:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 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}, "4945844": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lolol  I am just JEALOUS I tell you.  lol but I am happy for my Girl First Lady Michelle.  lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:02:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4944585, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4944822": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This is not a thread to bash people wearing relaxers.  I had a relaxer in my hair for 20+ years.  I haven't relaxed my hair in 3 years and I'll rock a Roshumba fro before I go back to relaxers.  I won't tell any pther woman what to do with her hair -- that's her choice.<br><br>The problem with seeking out a \"gentle relaxer\" is there's no such thing as a gentle relaxer.  The chemicals are breaking down the structure of the hair.<br><br>I remember in the 80s and early 90s, black women would relax the hair and the hair was still thick and had some life to it.  Mine did, anyway.<br><br>But it seems for the past 10 or so years, I'm seeing  A LOT more black women with broke off edges, thinning hair, wispy ends and I believe the chemical formulations of the relaxers have gotten A LOT stronger.<br><br>IMO if Clairol or Miss Olgilvee was breaking off white women's hair like black women's hair is being broke off, Clairol and Miss Olgilvee would be off the shelves.  <br><br>I'm not saying that to be racially provocative.  Black women's hair is simply not going to be a high priority for 95% of the country so if these companies are selling caustic chemicals that's breaking down BW's hair no matter what brand -- they don't know about it and they don't understand, so they can't make the necessary and needed changes.<br><br>The best way to get \"gentle\" relaxers is to stop using relaxers so much. But there's so much pressure out there to have long silky straight hair...<br><br>I expect to see a lot more of these type of articles {the exotic & strange things black people do} in the future now that the Obamas have come to town.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_21:04:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 30, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4944171, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4943806": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Now You Know, I Love That Pic! The Come From Behind Kiss!<br><br> Sweet Love!  I Like That So Much! <b>:)</b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_19:48:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4945355": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hell Yeah....he sure is! lol<br><br>Keith is so much fun!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_21:33:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4945234, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4945873": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm going to go into some detail on the caustic and deadly affects of chemical relaxers<br><br>I  too had relaxers for a decade until my twin sister died of cancer.  She was 33 years old and had 5 children.  It's been 20 years since I've gone natural and I have no regrets.<br><br><br>She was a cosmetologisst and applied and breathed chemicals from relaxers, haircoloring, etc.  She also had relaxed hair.  <br><br>Her doctor told her the chemical burns in her scalp was the cause of her cancer.  He said the chemical seeped into her blood stream, and her immune system couldn't work with the toxicity.<br><br>I agree with him  I 've taken care of a few black female cancer patients in my day who had relaxers, and my suspisions led me to believe a precursor to their illness was from the repeated use of relaxer toxicity.<br><br>I agree it's all about choices here; I'll never go back to chemicalized hair; keeping the \"knottted coils\" thank you.<br><br>Yes, we'll  probably see more of these articles; we need to educate all the non-Blacks so they'll be in the know about the Obamas.  LOL<br><br>This issue is one thaat women of all colors who use chemicals can and should take a closer look at.  How far does one go to achieve beauty (silky shiney hair) or risk health and possibly their life?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:04:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 20, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4944822, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4949155": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Buck stops here!  LOL!<br><br>DES MOINES, Iowa -- An Iowa bank had an unexpected visitor on New Year's Day, a deer.<br><br>Witnesses said the deer smashed headfirst through the front window of the Frontier Bank in Rock Rapids and then started wandering around the building.<br><br>Check out this video.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.kcci.com/news/18423717/detail.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.kcci.com/news/18423717/detail.html</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_01:07:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 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}, "4944349": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dianne Feinstein, <a href=\"http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17118.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">SEAT BURRIS</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_20:29:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "icebergslim", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 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}, "4947935": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I might say something if it was like it was on TV.  If the worker said something under their breath I probably wouldn't have.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_00:05:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4947779, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4947964": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "iceberslim:  I took a \"Field Trip\" annnnnd, made a comment!  <br><br>SHRUB is like a \"LEOPARD\" [cain't change his spots] to the END!!<br><br>14 more days!!  Whooo!   Hooo!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_00:07:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4946282, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4960082": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah: Welllll. IFFF the GOSSIP keep coming---I feel that it is my CIVIC DUTY to SPREAD IT!: :&gt;)<br><br>:-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_10:12:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "7acec36f3ac1c3ce26f5070a275439fa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4950111, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4947439": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The problem is many black women arent' going to put the relaxers in themselves; you can't see what you're doing.<br><br>So you go to the beautician who is SUPPOSED to know what she's doing but overlaps the relaxer, leaves it on too long to go wash out somebody else's head, smooths the relaxer all through the ends (a NO NO) or doesn't rinse it out 100%.  99% rinsed out is NOT good enough.<br><br>So you have dangerous chemicals, which IMO have gotten stronger within the last 15 years, being applied by people who don't know or don't care what you're doing...<br><br>then when your hair starts to break off, they suggest that \"cute\" cut...<br><br>But it doesn't solve the problem...<br><br>Then they suggest a weave here and there...<br><br>And then you see what you see walking down the streets of urban and corporate America today:  fried, burnt up, broke down shells of hair...<br><br>Plus, a lot of women do not know how to take care of their hair, relaxed or natural.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_23:32:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4947041, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4944368": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I love to see pics of the Obamas together.  Especially the President Elect and First Lady Michelle.  They let the whole world know they have great \"relations\".  lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_20:32:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4947956": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If I had known about Ms. Flat Iron earlier, I would have broke up with Mr. Relaxer a lot earlier.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_00:06:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4947675, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4945916": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"ain't nothing wrong with a lil' relations...\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_22:06:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Texas_Girl_in_LA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4944368, "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": "9483555", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": 7373709685635982690}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "countdown_to_the_inauguration_14_days_8212_open_thread", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 105, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 9483555, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
	/* */ this.jsonData.cookie_messages = {"user_created": null, "post_has_profile": null, "post_twitter": null, "post_not_approved": null}; this.jsonData.session = {"url": null, "name": null, "email": null}; /* */

	
	this.curPageId = 'dsq-comments';

	this.frames = {};
};

var disqus_popup_reference = null;

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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





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



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

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

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

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

};

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

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

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

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

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

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

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

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

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

				this._accumMsg = '';

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

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

	if (packetNum === 0) {

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

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

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

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

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

	this._lastSeqno++;

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

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

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

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

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

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


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

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

	var listener = function(e) {

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


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

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

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

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



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


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

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

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

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

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

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

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

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

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

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

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

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

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

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


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



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


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


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

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

	this.packetHandler = null;


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


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

			that._ready = true;
		};

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

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







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

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

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

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


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

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

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


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

		if (msg.username) {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=jackandjillpolitics' +
		'&t=countdown_to_the_inauguration_14_days_8212_open_thread' +
		'&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/countdown_to_the_inauguration_14_days_8212_open_thread/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='	+ 'countdown_to_the_inauguration_14_days_8212_open_thread'
			+ '&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/countdown_to_the_inauguration_14_days_8212_open_thread/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">105</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/countdown_to_the_inauguration_14_days_8212_open_thread/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/countdown_to_the_inauguration_14_days_8212_open_thread/">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:9483555" 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/countdown_to_the_inauguration_14_days_8212_open_thread/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:9483555" 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:9483555" 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'				: 'countdown_to_the_inauguration_14_days_8212_open_thread',
			// 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/countdown_to_the_inauguration_14_days_8212_open_thread/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='	+ 'countdown_to_the_inauguration_14_days_8212_open_thread'
			+ '&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='	+ 'countdown_to_the_inauguration_14_days_8212_open_thread'
			+ '&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='		+ 'countdown_to_the_inauguration_14_days_8212_open_thread'
				+ '&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/9483555/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

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

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

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

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

}();

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();


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





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

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

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

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

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

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





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

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

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

})();

Dsq.container.className = "clearfix";
Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4943789">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4943789" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4943789" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4943789">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4943789" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4943789" class="dsq-comment-message">Feinstein: Seat Burris In Senate<br> <br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/06/feinstein-seat-burris-in_n_155747.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/06/feinst...</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4944455">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4944455" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4944455" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4944455" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4944455" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4944455" class="dsq-comment-message">hahaha a "great" advocate.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4943806">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4943806" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4943806" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4943806">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4943806" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4943806" class="dsq-comment-message">Now You Know, I Love That Pic! The Come From Behind Kiss!<br><br> Sweet Love!  I Like That So Much! <b>:)</b></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4944011">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4944011" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4944011" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4944011">Sepia</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4944011" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4944011" class="dsq-comment-message">Co-sign! Love them together!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4944056">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4944056" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4944056" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4944056">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4944056" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4944056" class="dsq-comment-message">And now that we know what is under that shirt that she is holding onto...we completely understand that swoooned look on Michelle\'s face, and Obama is loving every minute with his head tilted back and looking like he ate the last piece of pie...yummy good is the only way to describe his expression...and \'gimme some mo"<br>\'</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4944139">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4944139" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4944139" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4944139">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4944139" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4944139" class="dsq-comment-message">lol<br><br>Yes!  Their love  for each other is a beautiful thing!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4945196">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4945196" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4945196" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4945196">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4945196" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4945196" class="dsq-comment-message">Too funny!  like he eat the last piece of pie..... yummy good.  Black love, it\'s a wonderful thing</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4944171">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4944171" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4944171" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4944171">RobM</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4944171" class="dsq-comment-message">All right let it stop right now. We are not lab rats. just ask and someone will tell you. We don\'t ask about bris. I know what gefilite fish, haggis and nori are because I was going to eat it. I know the chinese are all over Asia and have local names and look like where they live except in Jamica. But enough is enough. From the front page of the WAPO internet edition:<br><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/05/AR2009010501864.html?hpid=topnews" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4944258">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4944258" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh geez.  I opened it and immediately closed it.  <br><br>Can\'t do it.  Won\'t read it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4944782">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4944782" class="dsq-comment-message">LMAO......Its not bad. <br>I actually had a classmate at FAMU whose goal was to create her own line of organic relaxers (and yeah she did retouches all up in Truth Hall, LMAO!)...she was a pharmacy/business admin double major (damn, aint that some ish??) I often wonder if these new lines of organic products I see are her creations.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4944449" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4944449" class="dsq-comment-message">?? I dont\' understand your response to the article.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4944745">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4944745" class="dsq-comment-message">Huh?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4944822">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4944822" class="dsq-comment-message">This is not a thread to bash people wearing relaxers.  I had a relaxer in my hair for 20+ years.  I haven\'t relaxed my hair in 3 years and I\'ll rock a Roshumba fro before I go back to relaxers.  I won\'t tell any pther woman what to do with her hair -- that\'s her choice.<br><br>The problem with seeking out a "gentle relaxer" is there\'s no such thing as a gentle relaxer.  The chemicals are breaking down the structure of the hair.<br><br>I remember in the 80s and early 90s, black women would relax the hair and the hair was still thick and had some life to it.  Mine did, anyway.<br><br>But it seems for the past 10 or so years, I\'m seeing  A LOT more black women with broke off edges, thinning hair, wispy ends and I believe the chemical formulations of the relaxers have gotten A LOT stronger.<br><br>IMO if Clairol or Miss Olgilvee was breaking off white women\'s hair like black women\'s hair is being broke off, Clairol and Miss Olgilvee would be off the shelves.  <br><br>I\'m not saying that to be racially provocative.  Black women\'s hair is simply not going to be a high priority for 95% of the country so if these companies are selling caustic chemicals that\'s breaking down BW\'s hair no matter what brand -- they don\'t know about it and they don\'t understand, so they can\'t make the necessary and needed changes.<br><br>The best way to get "gentle" relaxers is to stop using relaxers so much. But there\'s so much pressure out there to have long silky straight hair...<br><br>I expect to see a lot more of these type of articles {the exotic & strange things black people do} in the future now that the Obamas have come to town.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4945873">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4945873" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m going to go into some detail on the caustic and deadly affects of chemical relaxers<br><br>I  too had relaxers for a decade until my twin sister died of cancer.  She was 33 years old and had 5 children.  It\'s been 20 years since I\'ve gone natural and I have no regrets.<br><br><br>She was a cosmetologisst and applied and breathed chemicals from relaxers, haircoloring, etc.  She also had relaxed hair.  <br><br>Her doctor told her the chemical burns in her scalp was the cause of her cancer.  He said the chemical seeped into her blood stream, and her immune system couldn\'t work with the toxicity.<br><br>I agree with him  I \'ve taken care of a few black female cancer patients in my day who had relaxers, and my suspisions led me to believe a precursor to their illness was from the repeated use of relaxer toxicity.<br><br>I agree it\'s all about choices here; I\'ll never go back to chemicalized hair; keeping the "knottted coils" thank you.<br><br>Yes, we\'ll  probably see more of these articles; we need to educate all the non-Blacks so they\'ll be in the know about the Obamas.  LOL<br><br>This issue is one thaat women of all colors who use chemicals can and should take a closer look at.  How far does one go to achieve beauty (silky shiney hair) or risk health and possibly their life?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4946032">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4946032" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m sorry, Spirit!<br><br>Wow, I didn\'t have any idea about something like that!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4947847">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4947847" class="dsq-comment-message">Justice, thanks.  It \'s what happened to my sister.  It doesn\'t mean other women or men will have the same experience.  It\'s an experience we can discuss and learn more about.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4948039">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4948039" class="dsq-comment-message">You\'re welcome, Spirit!<br><br>I know, but it sure is worth learning more about it.<br><br>Again, so sorry for your loss. I can relate.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4946149" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4946149" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4946149" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow, I had never heard about these kinds of side effects before. And I am so sorry to hear about what happened to your sister, Spirit_55z. Your experience certainly carries a lot of weight in this area, so if you run across any more articles on this issue, I\'d be interested to read them.<br><br>I also have my own chemical burn horror stories. When a big chunk of my hair fell out, I was forced to go natural! LOL. But I\'ve had locks for five years now and couldn\'t be happier.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4946563">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4946563" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks, claudia.  I\'ll be sure to pass along any information I can on the this.  <br><br>Town made an important point about the caustic nature being alot more potent years ago.<br><br>None the less, chemicals are chemicals. We all have free will, and information is power.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4947041">Daisy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4947041" class="dsq-comment-message">How long are people leaving their relaxers in for? I have never been burned by a relaxer, or had my hair fall out due to one.  I think a lot of the damage is due to people abusing the chemicals. Never try to go "bone straight" because that takes all the body and life out of the hair. I also see a lot of people overstyling their relaxed hair. In the summer, there\'s no point in putting a lot of heat on the hair to keep it straight, because its just too hot and humid. <br><br>I\'ve alternated between relaxed hair and natural for about 10 years now, and no matter what, it\'s all about the care put into the hair.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4947256">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4947256" class="dsq-comment-message">Daisy,<br>How long you leave a relaxer in demands on your hair texture. Black folks have such a wide spectrum of hair texture that it is difficult to say without looking at the hair.  <br><br>Typically, the more porous the hair the less tightly coiled the strands are and it requires less time to relax.  A person can usually tell how porous their hair is by how it reacts to humidity.  If your hair is sensitive to humidity, i.e. it immediately curls up and looks like cotton candy on your head. Then your hair is porous, and will require less than 20 mins. to relax.  Which means it should be sectioned and applied quickly.  As the next thing that has to be done is the smoothing process which is what creates the bone straight hair without overuse of chemical. Smoothing is when you repeatedly run the comb through each section gently combing straight the hair as you smooth the relaxer through from the scalp to the ends of the hair.<br><br>Hope that helps.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4949269">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4949269" class="dsq-comment-message">I have that "cotton candy" hair you mention and you are so right, I was good after 10 minutes.  My sister has really thick hair and she would leave hers in for half a hour.  I stopped getting relaxers long ago because a flat iron works best for me.  <br><br>spritz I am so sorry to hear about your sister.  My sister also had cancer and after a year of treatment she is cancer free.  Now I\'m wondering if there is a correlation between the fact she used to leave her relaxers in for so long and the cancer.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4947439">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4947439" class="dsq-comment-message">The problem is many black women arent\' going to put the relaxers in themselves; you can\'t see what you\'re doing.<br><br>So you go to the beautician who is SUPPOSED to know what she\'s doing but overlaps the relaxer, leaves it on too long to go wash out somebody else\'s head, smooths the relaxer all through the ends (a NO NO) or doesn\'t rinse it out 100%.  99% rinsed out is NOT good enough.<br><br>So you have dangerous chemicals, which IMO have gotten stronger within the last 15 years, being applied by people who don\'t know or don\'t care what you\'re doing...<br><br>then when your hair starts to break off, they suggest that "cute" cut...<br><br>But it doesn\'t solve the problem...<br><br>Then they suggest a weave here and there...<br><br>And then you see what you see walking down the streets of urban and corporate America today:  fried, burnt up, broke down shells of hair...<br><br>Plus, a lot of women do not know how to take care of their hair, relaxed or natural.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4947775" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4947775">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4947775" class="dsq-comment-message">Town, you\'re soon point as usual.   <br><br>Case in point about applying chemical ourselves. I tried color my hair after I relaxing it. I left so much of my hair uncolored.<br><br> Looked like a skunk, and what color I did get in there, I didn\'t wash it all out after the allotted time.<br><br>I can understand women wanting to relax their hair.  I did, and I know the reasons why I did it; to have ease in combing it, to have straight hair, to confrom to fit in and get a job....<br><br>Now, I choose it naturally because I choose the freedom of expressing it naturally.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4948012">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4948012" class="dsq-comment-message">I have put in a relaxer myself and IMO I did a better job of it than most "beauticians."  For one, I made sure to rinse and rinse and rinse and rinse.<br><br>They say one of the reasons why many people with relaxers have problems growing hair on the back of the left side of their head is because that\'s the first place the beautician applies the relaxer so it stays on the longest and she usually stands to your left when she\'s rinsing you out and that spot isn\'t rinsed as well as it could be.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4948257">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4948257" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m sure, and save a bunch of $$$ too, I\'ll bet.<br><br>Yes, I\'ve been in salons were the beauticians are overworked and some try to get as many heads in to make those tips too. <br><br>It\'s tricky, you just gotta know who\'s doing the do.  I do miss going to the Beauty shops.  <br><br>There was definitely a sense of community. bonding amongst the sistas.  :-)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4948118" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4948118">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4948118" class="dsq-comment-message">Daisy, your\'e right about proper care of the hair: It\'s  so important particularly  with relaxed hair.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4946522">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4946522" class="dsq-comment-message">Spirit, I\'m so sorry about your sister. You\'ve definitely given me food for thought.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4948150" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4948150">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4948150" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks, Sepia.  It\'s all about experience, learning and growth.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4947299" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4947299">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4947299" class="dsq-comment-message">Sorry to hear about your sister Spirit.<br>Was it an oncologist that told your sister the chemicals leaked  into her bloodtream? <br><br>The article notes there is not a correlation with breast cancer.<br><br>When researchers at the Boston University-based Black Women\'s Health study were looking to understand why black women younger than 45 have a higher incidence of breast cancer than white women, they looked to use of chemical hair relaxers for a possible explanation. But they found no evidence to support that.<br><br>The researchers found that between 1997 and 2003, 574 women of the more than 48,000 in the study developed breast cancer, but there was no correlation between relaxer use and the illness. Women who had never used the products were found to have the same breast cancer risk as those who did.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4947597" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4947597">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4947597" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks, WRB.  Yes, an oncologist made the definitivve diagnosis.  I asked to see the lab results.  <br><br>I\'m a retired RN so I  know how to read labs, histology report (cell study) was whack.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4947704" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4947704">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4947704" class="dsq-comment-message">spirit:  My deepest sympathies!  PRAYING for YOU/YOURS.<br><br>Thanks for the advice.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4948598">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4948598" class="dsq-comment-message">Greenlady, thanks.  Its an experience I\'ll not forget.  We live, we love, we learn.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4950243">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4950243" class="dsq-comment-message">spirit:  Amen!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4946460">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4946460" class="dsq-comment-message">The need to stop acting like black folk are the only ones who use relaxers. White women, Asian women, even Middle Eastern women (there was an article in Essence magazine several years ago about this) use relaxers.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4946731" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4946731" href="http://bettychambers.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">GoldenAh</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4946731" class="dsq-comment-message">Over the last ten years a number of black companies have been taken over by white companies: L\'Oreal owns SoftSheen / Carson now, etc.<br><br>I\'ve heard Dark and Lovely was always harsh. Revlon is basically bankrupt. <br><br>Perhaps applying a toxic chemical every 6 weeks is too soon. <br><br>Worst of all are people who apply these harsh relaxers to little girls.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4947675">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4947675" class="dsq-comment-message">Town:  Haven\'t had one in over 40 years.  BUT I have been "great friends", recently, with <b>Ms. Ceramic Flat Iron!</b>   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4947956" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4947956">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4947956" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4947956" class="dsq-comment-message">If I had known about Ms. Flat Iron earlier, I would have broke up with Mr. Relaxer a lot earlier.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4948108">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4948108" class="dsq-comment-message">Town:   BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!   ***shakin\' my head***    :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Admittedly, B4 <b>Ms. Flat Iron</b>, <b>Ms. Straightening Comb [her \'cousin\']</b> and I really "bonded"!    :&gt;)     :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4949093">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4949093" class="dsq-comment-message">I love Ms.  Flat Iron, but Ms. Straightening Comb gives me flashbacks of sitting in the kitchen while my mom pressed my hair and me cringing in fright as she was trying to get my edges.  There where very few times she got my forehead or ear (because I was squirming after she told me to sit still) but those few times were enough.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4949514" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4949514" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4949514">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4949514" class="dsq-comment-message">pjamma:  SAME  experiences!!  :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>BUT, even worse, I vividly remember the sounds of <i>"ffffitttzzzz"</i> when  I did my own hair.!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>I had so many burn spots that IFFFF I didn\'t know betta, I woulda REPORTED MYSELF for "ADULT ABUSE!!" :&gt;)<br><br>LAWD HA\'MERCY!!!  :&gt;)  ***shakin\' my head***</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4949802" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4949802">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4949802" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4949802" class="dsq-comment-message">You\'re giving me flashbacks of my sister burning the crap out of my poor little ears. And adding insult to injury afterwards..... by putting my hair in all those pony tails!  Just  much too much!<br><br>lol</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4949898" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4949898">Monica</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4949898" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4949898" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks for posting this.  Repeat after me: A texturizer is still a relaxer.  Just because a chemical is naturally occurring doesn\'t mean that it\'s not damaging.<br><br>There is no way to straighten hair without damaging it.  Do you really think that ceramic flat iron that is permanently straightening your hair isn\'t damaging it?<br><br>Girlfriend please.<br><br>The analogy that helped me see the light was my hair was like my right hand. I start off with all five fingers-my hair is healthy. Relaxers weaken your hair (cut off a finger). Color weakens it even more (there goes another finger). You have to blow dry (there\'s another finger). Don\'t forget the flat iron or curling irons to silken everything out (where did that four finger go?) <br><br>You left with a thumb and damaged hair.<br><br>I recommend <a href="http://afrobella.com" rel="nofollow">afrobella.com</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4944304" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4944304">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4944304" class="dsq-comment-message">A VERY GOOD READ:<br><br><a href="http://sportsonmymind.com/2009/01/06/years-gone-by-in-the-system-a-new-years-resolution/" rel="nofollow">http://sportsonmymind.com/2009/01/06/years-gone...</a><br><br>Excerpt:<br><br>Ahhhh yes, the system.<br><br>Ten years later and 30 years ago a group of black people demanded that the system change by demanding that they be able to live their lives as they choose. Thirty years ago they found themselves engaged in a one-way shootout at their home in the middle of Philadelphia - yes, in the middle of a major American metropolis. The system sent its enforcers out to kill the black people who demanded respect from the system; nine of those people were framed and convicted of murder.<br><br>Seven years later and 23 years ago that same group of black people, reformed and living with a near-maniacal sense of urgency due to losses of their members to the system and living with an added resolve, had over 10,000 rounds of live ammunition fired into their new home - a row house - in the middle of a major U.S. metropolis where black boxers of global renown were born and raised yet where they would instead erect a statue of a white boxer born from the figment of a Hollywood scriptwriter’s imagination.<br><br>Good morning America.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4944349" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4944349" href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">icebergslim</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4944349" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4944349" class="dsq-comment-message">Dianne Feinstein, <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17118.html" rel="nofollow">SEAT BURRIS</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4944368" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4944368" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4944368">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4944368" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4944368" class="dsq-comment-message">I love to see pics of the Obamas together.  Especially the President Elect and First Lady Michelle.  They let the whole world know they have great "relations".  lol</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4944401" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4944401" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4944401">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4944401" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4944401" class="dsq-comment-message">lol<br><br>Sure do!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4944552" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4944552" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4944552">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4944552" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4944552" class="dsq-comment-message">If the White House is a rockin\', don\'t come a knockin\'!<br><br>Bow Chicka Wow Wow! <br><br>:-P</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4944585" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4944585">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4944585" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4944585" class="dsq-comment-message">Guuurl....if AIR FORCE ONE is rockin....it ain\'t turbulence!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4945844" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4945844">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4945844" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4945844" class="dsq-comment-message">lolol  I am just JEALOUS I tell you.  lol but I am happy for my Girl First Lady Michelle.  lol</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4946205" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4946205" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4946205" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4946205" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4946205" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL - now that\'s a good one. I\'ve missed how hilarious the open threads can be.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4947618" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4947618" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4947618">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4947618" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4947618" class="dsq-comment-message">whiterosebuddy:  LOL!   :&gt;<br><br>Ima close my <b>EYE</b> at the appropriate time! [IFFF the plane is shown on tv]   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4944654" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4944654" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4944654">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4944654" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4944654" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4945916" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4945916">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4945916" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4945916" class="dsq-comment-message">"ain\'t nothing wrong with a lil\' relations..."</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4945970" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4945970" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4945970">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4945970" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4945970" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL!<br><br>No, sure isn\'t<br><br>Go Michelle!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4944998" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4944998" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4944998">Lisa M</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4944998" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4944998" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s my favorite picture of soon to be President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4945925" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4945925" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4945925">tracey</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4945925" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4945925" class="dsq-comment-message">Me too; it\'s like "Babe I got you, it\'s going to be allright"  Isn\'t that what our love is all about....</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4948067" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4948067">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4948067" class="dsq-comment-message">tracey:   Hey!    :&gt;)<br><br>-Er.   -ummmm -   Did you REQUEST this?<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hGlYT38DZY" rel="nofollow"><b>I Got You Babe</b> 1965 (Sonny and Cher)</a><br><br>ENJOY!!    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4945234" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4945234" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4945234">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4945234" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4945234" class="dsq-comment-message">KO is going off on Ann "Coiltergiest."  LOL!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4945355" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4945355" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4945355">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4945355" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4945355" class="dsq-comment-message">Hell Yeah....he sure is! lol<br><br>Keith is so much fun!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4945452" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4945452">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4945452" class="dsq-comment-message">That was great! What a nice pick-me-up! A good bashing of that walking boil was just what I needed to hear!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4945808" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4945808">lamh31</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4945808" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4945808" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/broom-cia#comments" rel="nofollow">Broom the CIA By Al Giordano</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4945946" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4945946">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4945946" class="dsq-comment-message">Has anyone watched the program My Big Redneck Wedding on CMT?  I saw the previews for a while and I am so tempted to watch it but I am feel like I am supporting stereotypical garbage.  But today\'s episode is about a brother and sister who are getting married.<br><br>No really, they are serious.  The fiance says "keep it in the family".  LOL Then the girl comes out of the room and asks her mother what she thinks about the dress, the Mother says -- I don\'t like it becasue it is ugly.  It is the ugliest dress I ever laid my eyes on.  Then the girl says, Ma you hurt my feelings I aint getting married.  Then the mother says -- you are going to marry your brother whether you like it or not.  <br><br>LOL  <br><br>Then they are having the bridal shower and they have a stripper.  Granny is there with NO TEETH.  Telling the guy take it off and is rubbing the guys . . . well.  <br><br>I guess I will be watching this show tonight.  LOL I have never seen anything like it.  <br>May as well get educated.  LOL</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4946037" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4946037">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4946037" class="dsq-comment-message">wait wait  . ..  for decorations they hung bras from the ceiling.  lol  RAOTFL<br><br><br>Lawd lawd.  I have never seen anything like this.  LOL  Dropping off for 1/2 hour all.  <br><br>I guess I will be watching this.  too funny.  I can\'t believe they set themselves up like this.  lol</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4946059" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4946059">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4946059" class="dsq-comment-message">wait one more.  The mother sits her daughter down to tell her about birth control.  So she gets a zip lock bag and pulls it over a can of beer.  <br><br>RAOTFLMAO.  whooo hoo lololol bwahahhaaaaa<br><br>I have to shut the doors so my kids and husband can\'t see me watching this mess.  lolol.  shame on me.  shame.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4946151" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4946151" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4946151">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4946151" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4946151" class="dsq-comment-message">but you share your shame with your JJP fam? lol<br><br>are they really brother and sister? what is the 411?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4946297" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4946297">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4946297" class="dsq-comment-message">girl was adopted.  lol<br><br>JJai - I know I am wrong.  This is against everything I believe.  LOL but it is funny as heck.  Now they are putting notices on trees in the neighborhood to give the directions to their backyard wedding.  They are using cardboard and duct tape.  and yes I am sharing this with you all because I am too embarassed to tell my husband I am watchng this.  LOLOL You have GOT to see it. lololol It is hysterical.  <br><br>LOLOLOLOL You should see their transportation.  A rusted truck.  OMG!!!!! I can\'t take it.  lolololol</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4946481" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4946481">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4946481" class="dsq-comment-message">Now you have me watching this! I wont forgive you, I swear I won\'t!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4947308" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4947308" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4947308">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4947308" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4947308" class="dsq-comment-message">lol can\'t blame you.  I can\'t forgive myself for peeking at the first episode.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4947619" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4947619">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4947619" class="dsq-comment-message">you guys are crazy. I confess I watched an episode before where they jumped into a mud pit after the ceremony. Bizarre and hilarious....<br><br>I also find it bizarre that the host of the show satirizes its subjects and they still appear on ths show. Most times like Flavor of Love, etc. the hosts feign interest and empathy in the contestants...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4950205" class="dsq-comment-message">Val:    Psssssst!   ***<i>whispering</i>***<br><br><i>I believe that you were directed to the "BAD CHAIR!"</i><br><br>Shhhhhh.  <i>This is between me and you.&gt;/i&gt;   :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>BUT, Ima \'gree with you.  It\'s hard ta stop laughin\'! :&gt;)    :&gt;)</i></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4946504">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4946504" class="dsq-comment-message">OMG....its a marathon! Its show after show of "Redneck Weddings"......wow......I thought these were just internet funnies that I got every so often from friends...who knew??</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4946517">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4946517" class="dsq-comment-message">RAOTFLMAO.  See Miranda.  I am TRYING TO STOP WATCHING. lol Please.  help me.  . . . . this is just wrong.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4947130">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4947130" class="dsq-comment-message">This is more wrong than Flava of Love, Real Housewives of Atlanta, and 2 Live Crew bootleg videos combined..</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4947186">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4947186" class="dsq-comment-message">Miranda.  I tried to stop watching and I couldnt.  This one is weird.  The guy collects dead roadkill and racoon penis bones because he says it is made of ivory and the bride wants her cake held up by beer cans and they want to use a hack saw to cut the cake.  LOL  It is wrong.  I.CANT.STOP.WATCHING.  I\'m trying.  I really am.  This is just wrong.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4947291">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4947291" class="dsq-comment-message">Help Whiterose.  My brain is being fried.  <br>wait. . . I know.  I will call my husband into the room and I will be so embarassed I will HAVE to change the channel before he opens the door.<br><br>That is a plan.  yep I have got to do it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4946242">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4946242" class="dsq-comment-message">nope wasnt a can of beer.  Her mother put the ziploc bag over a banana and told her make sure she tied a ribbon on the end of the ziploc bag so it wouldn\'t leak and to make it pretty.<br><br>lolol Tom Arnold is the host of the show.  sorry.  last comment from me.  <br><a href="http://www.cmt.com/shows/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cmt.com/shows/</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4946158">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4946158" class="dsq-comment-message">Val,<br>This is buffoonery. It might be funny..but the cost to us as a culture is too great to support shows of this nature.  Please enjoy it tonight...but let\'s boycott this type humor. It is totally unhealthy for our children, their self-esteems and their future.  <br><br>It perpetuates racism.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4946321">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4946321" class="dsq-comment-message">I know that. <br><br>I know it.  I believe that. But I peeked and I cant stop watching.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4946597">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4946597" class="dsq-comment-message">you are too funny...and I do have to admit ..your descriptions made me HOWL...rotfl</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4946506">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4946506" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay.  I had enough.  I am stopping at one Whiterose.  <br><br>Apparently tonight is an allnighter on this program.  Go figure. lol<br><br>I am laughing too hard so I am going cold turkey at the one preview and I can see I would get hooked on this garbage.  Cutting myself off now before I change my mind.  LOL <br><br>I have to pray for myself after this one.  lol Later all.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4946467">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4946467" class="dsq-comment-message">Is this for real??? I just FOUND CMT (never watched the channel before)- knew I probably had it....and oh my word..................is this for real?!?!?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4946265" href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">icebergslim</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4946265" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com/2009/01/on-keith-olbermann-burris-this-is.html" rel="nofollow">Countdown on Burris, "...this is the biggest clusterf*** since Monica Lewinsky" (Video)</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4946743">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4946743" class="dsq-comment-message">RAOTFL.  <br><br>Too funny.  hahahahahaha</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4946510">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4946510" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow.<br>I just love that adverb, clusterphuck!! lol....K.O. is right....except their was no cluster with Lewinsky just her and Bill, is all.<br><br>According to Gallup, I am in the minority, only 27% of Americans agree with me that Burris should be seated.  <br><br>Whatever.<br><br><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/113674/Americans-Burris-Should-Blocked-Special-Election-Held.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.gallup.com/poll/113674/Americans-Bur...</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4946282" href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">icebergslim</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4946282" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com/2009/01/bush-is-low-down-about-obamas-staying.html" rel="nofollow">Bush is low down about the Obamas staying at Blair House</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4946501">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4946501" class="dsq-comment-message">You are on the money Iceberg.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4946577">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4946577" class="dsq-comment-message">Iceberslim<br><br>You need to add Obama\'s retort to that write up. He gave a good one!! It was one of his first zingers on the campaign trail and it was awesome. He told that Austrian to send his own 250K people over there to fight the \'good fight\'...I am paraphrasing..Obama worded it sooo much better...it was a very gracious FU!!  hahahaa<br><br>I do not think that the Bushes were thinking the Obama\'s would need Blair house earlier. They probably never once thought about the girls having to start school before the 15th.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4947964" class="dsq-comment-message">iceberslim:  I took a "Field Trip" annnnnd, made a comment!  <br><br>SHRUB is like a "LEOPARD" [cain\'t change his spots] to the END!!<br><br>14 more days!!  Whooo!   Hooo!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4946495" href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">icebergslim</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4946495" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com/2009/01/case-for-dr-sanjay-gupta-as-surgeon.html" rel="nofollow">The Case for Dr. Sanjay Gupta as Surgeon General (Video)</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4947140">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4947140" class="dsq-comment-message">LAWN JOCKEY ALERT!<br><br>Anybody watching PRIMETIME on ABC?<br><br>Can anybody tell why this fat lip greasy looking "brotha" was so Quick Draw McGraw to throw the Latinos out of the store?<br><br>And it wasn\'t his store or place to throw people out?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4947779">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4947779" class="dsq-comment-message">i caught that clip.. i can\'t believe so many people went by without saying anything! I would have injected myself all UP in the convo.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4947935">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4947935" class="dsq-comment-message">I might say something if it was like it was on TV.  If the worker said something under their breath I probably wouldn\'t have.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4947828">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4947828" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:   Found this article about Mr. P-EO - back then:  :&gt;)<br><br><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/06/politics/main4703255.shtml?source=RSSattr=Politics_4703255" rel="nofollow">Video Emerges Of Obama The Food Critic</a><br><br><i>AP) Barack and Michelle Obama are known for nights out on the town in Chicago, dining at some of its poshest restaurants with the smartest chefs. But who knew the president-elect was a food critic?<br><br>"Check Please!," a Chicago public television round-table restaurant review show, has posted online two 7-year-old clips of Obama touting a favorite eating spot, the Dixie Kitchen and Bait Shop in Hyde Park.<br><br>"I ordered the Southern Sampler just because I couldn\'t make up my mind," Obama says during the panel discussion, taped in August 2001 when he was in the Illinois Senate.<br><br>"I wasn\'t sure what I was in the mood for," he says. "It\'s not gourmet cuisine, but that\'s not why I go to Dixie Kitchen. What I\'m looking for is food that tastes good for a good price."<br><br>David Manilow, creator and executive producer of "Check Please!," said Tuesday the program was one of the first episodes taped and it never aired. He said he chose Obama because of his comfort in front of television cameras.<br><br>Manilow said he\'s never forgotten about the episode, but decided to wait to air the entire show on Chicago\'s WTTW until the Friday before Obama\'s inauguration, Jan. 16 at 8 p.m. He plans to release a third clip on Wednesday as a teaser.<br><br><b>"He\'s the kind of guy who can go to a pizza place or the fanciest place in town and be comfortable," Manilow said.<u> "What you get to see from him is that seven years ago he was the same person."</u></b><br><br>Ever the politician, Obama gave a shout-out to his state Senate district during the show.<br><br><b>"You can do some good business out on the South Side of Chicago," Obama said. "We\'re glad to have you, since it\'s my legislative district. I want to see our small business owners succeeding out there."</b><br><br><b>Dixie Kitchen owner Carol Andresen said she\'s served the Obamas for years, describing them as gracious and unassuming guests. She likes what Obama had to say about her restaurant.</b><br><br>"It\'s true," she said. "He said this is not gourmet food and it\'s not. We are one of the few restaurants left today that makes almost everything from scratch."<br><br>Andresen also said she\'s delighted with all the attention.<br><br>"We\'ve always been very successful so this will probably make us more successful," she said.<br><br>"Check Please!" has aired in Chicago for eight seasons and has thousands of people vie to be reviewers, Manilow said.<br><br><b>But what if Obama wanted to come back?<br><br>"There\'s an open seat at the table for him anytime," Manilow said.</b></i><br><br>He is just as GRACIOUS NOW!!  :&gt;)   VERY NICE!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4948248">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4948248" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  I tried to check this at another site.  Nothing - YET!   :&gt;)<br><br><a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/06/obama-to-announce-new-reform-post/" rel="nofollow">Obama to announce new reform post</a><br><br><i>From CNN Senior White House Correspondent Ed Henry:<br>WASHINGTON (CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday will announce his selection for the role of "chief performance officer," a newly created position that will work to scrub the federal budget and reform<br>government, a Democratic official told CNN.<br><br>The person will "help put us on a path to fiscal discipline," the official said.</i><br><br>Watchin\' this!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4949064" class="dsq-comment-message">America\'s Most and Least Favorite Cities <br>Where Americans Do—and Don\'t—Want to Work and Live<br><br>Do you live in a city that you want to live in? If you\'re lucky, you already do—but many Americans would relocate at the drop of a hat if they could. This is the sort of thing that drives human resources people nuts. <br><br>After all, their jobs are all about finding, and retaining, talent, so it helps to know where people are willing to move to—or away from. To find out where these places are, they commissioned a study—and were good enough to share their findings with us.<br><br>1.  New York<br><br><a href="http://promo.realestate.yahoo.com/americas-most-and-least-favorite-cities.html" rel="nofollow">http://promo.realestate.yahoo.com/americas-most...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4949155" class="dsq-comment-message">The Buck stops here!  LOL!<br><br>DES MOINES, Iowa -- An Iowa bank had an unexpected visitor on New Year\'s Day, a deer.<br><br>Witnesses said the deer smashed headfirst through the front window of the Frontier Bank in Rock Rapids and then started wandering around the building.<br><br>Check out this video.<br><br><a href="http://www.kcci.com/news/18423717/detail.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.kcci.com/news/18423717/detail.html</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4950111" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Welllll.  IFFF the GOSSIP keep coming---I feel that it is my CIVIC DUTY to SPREAD IT!:    :&gt;)<br><br><a href="http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=9622031" rel="nofollow">New poll shows Palin would trail Murkowski big in a Senate race</a><br><br><i><b>ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Even with the last election barely two months in the rearview mirror, some in the national media have speculated that Gov. Sarah Palin might make a run for the U.S. Senate in 2010 as a prelude to running for president in 2012.<br><br>But a new poll out Monday shows Palin would have a tough time if she decides to take on Sen. Lisa Murkowski.</b><br><br>Pollster Dave Dittman just finished a statewide survey on a possible Palin-versus-Murkowski matchup - and Murkowski beats Palin, at least in this poll, hands down.<br><br><b>Murkowski garnered 57 percent to Palin\'s 33 percent; 9 percent said they were not sure.</b><br><br>And given the senator\'s popularity, Dittman says Palin would not be wise to challenge Murkowski.<br><br>"And I think there would be a feeling, too, of overreaching -- going too far, too aggressive, too much too soon -- if Sarah decided to run for Senate," Dittman said. "When you\'ve already got someone there with seniority, who most people think is doing a good job, I think it would be a huge mistake."<br><br>Murkowski sent what many viewed as a veiled warning to Palin a few weeks ago, telling <a href="http://politico.com" rel="nofollow">politico.com</a>, "I can guarantee it would be a very tough election ... If she wants to be president, I don\'t think the way to the presidency is a short stop in the United States Senate."<br><br><b>The governor\'s press secretary, Bill McAllister, says Palin has never indicated she\'s thinking about running against Murkowski.<br><br>"It\'s unfortunate that we keep talking about this rivalry that doesn\'t exist," he said. "She has not said, and I don\'t think needs to say, that she\'s going to rule something out in terms of her political plans in the future. But she\'s very focused on being governor now, does not see herself as a rival to Senator Murkowski."</b><br><br>And McAllister points to a newspaper opinion piece Murkowski and Palin co-wrote recently, stating they are not rivals.<br><br>"There\'s no reason to think that she\'s vying for a Senate seat," McAllister said, "I mean, in politics I suppose you never know what\'s going to happen."<br><br>And in the world of politics, that is often the key question.<br><br><b>A poll commissioned last month by the Web site <a href="http://dailykos.com" rel="nofollow">dailykos.com</a> showed Palin beating Murkowski 55 to 31 percent, although local pollster Dittman says he has concerns about the methods used to arrive at those numbers.</b><br><br>Contact Mike Ross at mross@ktuu.com</i><br><br>B4 I read the LAST paragraph, I was \'bout ta state that a former POLL had some very different results.  Well!<br><br>Now we have "DUELING POLLS!"   :&gt;)  *****<br><br>Time ta call "Mr. Silvers" to adjudicate!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>****<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyKvD-4IxOY" rel="nofollow">Dueling Banjos Scene (Deliverance)</a>    ENJOY!!    :&gt;)     :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4960082">Against Race Politics</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4960082" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah: Welllll. IFFF the GOSSIP keep coming---I feel that it is my CIVIC DUTY to SPREAD IT!: :&gt;)<br><br>:-)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4962443">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4962443" class="dsq-comment-message">Against Race Politics:    I\'m trying ta B a "FINE PUBLIC SERVANT!"  :&gt;)     :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4950393">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4950393" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  TECHNICAL ANNOUNCEMENT:<br><br><i>If you don\'t have cable TV, you won\'t be able to watch the opening inaugural ceremonies on January 18th. Barack Obama\'s inaugural committee announced Tuesday that HBO will exclusively air the kick-off concert and celebration on the steps of Lincoln Memorial that night. The premium cable channel will, however, offer access to cable and satellite distributors to televise the festivities for free.</i><br><br>FROM:  <a href="http://www.politico.com/politico44/" rel="nofollow">http://www.politico.com/politico44/</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4950740" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Coleman responds:<br><br><a href="http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1870065,00.html" rel="nofollow">Coleman Sues Over Minnesota Senate Recount</a><br><br><i>(ST. PAUL, Minn.) —<b> Republican Norm Coleman filed a lawsuit <u>Tuesday</u> challenging Democrat Al Franken\'s apparent recount victory in Minnesota\'s U.S. Senate race, delaying a resolution of the contest for weeks or months.</b><br><br>At a Capitol news conference filled with cheering supporters, Coleman said he won\'t accept a board\'s determination a day earlier that Franken captured 225 more votes in the November election. He had a seven-day window to file the lawsuit.<br><br>"We are filing this contest to make absolutely sure every valid vote was counted and no one\'s was counted more than anyone else\'s," Coleman said.<br><br>Coleman shrugged off the idea that he might concede the election to avoid a protracted fight that could leave Minnesota with only a single senator in Washington for months.<br><br>"Something greater than expediency is at stake here," Coleman said. He added: "Democracy is not a machine. Sometimes it\'s messy and inconvenient, and reaching the best conclusion is never quick because speed is not the first objective, fairness is."<br><br>State law prevents officials from issuing an election certificate until legal matters are resolved.<br><br>Franken attorney Marc Elias called Coleman\'s lawsuit "essentially the same thin gruel, warmed-over leftovers from meals we\'ve all been served over the last few weeks."<br><br><b>He said that Coleman has the right to sue, but that doesn\'t mean his claims have merit, and he is confident Franken would prevail.</b><br><br>Franken e-mailed supporters Tuesday to request donations to continue the fight, just as Coleman did a day earlier.<br><br>Coleman, whose term expired Saturday, led Franken by 215 votes in the Nov. 4 count but that advantage flipped during a prolonged recount.<br><br>In going to court, Coleman has three big challenges: raising money to pay escalating legal bills, proving the election was flawed and managing the public\'s desire to have the race over.<br><br>"They definitely have an uphill fight on their hands," said Guy-Uriel Charles, a professor of election and constitutional law at the University of Minnesota. "Their legal theory will have to overcome a burden of proof, and then they have to find enough votes to overcome Franken\'s lead."<br><br>That could prove difficult, since any bloc of new votes would almost surely include some for Franken, who declared victory Monday.<br><br>A lawsuit gives both sides options they lacked during the recount, such as accessing voter rolls, inspecting machines and introducing testimony from election workers</i><br><br>THERE IS MORE.<br><br>I believe that he was running LOW on FUNDS!  Wonder HOW he\'s funding this litigation??   Oh. Well.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4950827">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4950827" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:   OOO!    OOOO!     OOO! LOOK!   LOOK!:<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/06/michelle-obamas-inaugurat_n_155718.html" rel="nofollow">Michelle Obama\'s Inauguration Dress: Vogue Designers Weigh In</a><br><br><i>Naturally, Vogue has a few ideas about what Michelle Obama should wear to the inauguration. Because the future First Lady has worn up-and-coming designers like Thakoon and Jason Wu, they asked a few other Vogue Fashion Fund designers for some sketches. Scroll down for two of them... click here for more.<br><br><br><br>Alexander Wang (obviously):<br><br><b>Marchesa:</b> </i>    I   LOVE THIS ONE!!!!   :&gt;)  <br><br>THERE ARE MORE!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4955295">tovangar2</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4955295" class="dsq-comment-message">In case you missed these:<br><br><a href="http://community.livejournal.com/obama_daily/166895.html#cutid1" rel="nofollow">http://community.livejournal.com/obama_daily/16...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4958922">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4958922" class="dsq-comment-message">Jeb Bush Joins the Tenet Gravy Train<br>Brett Arends <br>05/09/07 - 10:25 AM EDT<br>A senior member of the Bush dynasty is about to get a large sum of money from a company with a history of ethical violations. <br><br>Stop me if you\'ve heard this one before. <br><br>Jeb Bush, the president\'s brother and former governor of Florida, is up for election Thursday as a director of troubled hospital chain Tenet Healthcare (THC Quote - Cramer on THC - Stock Picks). Assuming he\'s waved through, his pay in his first year would come to nearly $37,000 a day. <br><br>This is the same Tenet that had to pay $900 million to Uncle Sam last summer to settle charges that it had overbilled Medicare and Medicaid over many years. <br><br>Nine hundred million dollars. <br><br>The U.S. attorneys announcing the settlement accused the company of "fraud" and trying to "manipulate and cheat the system." <br><br>Mike Leavitt, the Health and Human Services Secretary appointed by Jeb\'s brother George, said the company had "fraudulently abused the Medicare program." <br><br>It\'s also the same Tenet that just paid $80 million to the IRS after an audit found it owed back taxes going back as far as 1995. <br><br>The company recently had to restate nearly five years of earnings statements after an investigation into its books. <br><br>And this is just the big stuff. Tenet\'s recent public filings read like a police blotter. One of its clinics in South Carolina performed 436 open heart operations without certification. The company is being sued in California by staff claiming they were systematically short-changed on pay and overtime, in breach of the state\'s labor code. Three former Tenet staff members, at a New Orleans hospital it owned, are under investigation for allegedly euthanizing four patients following Hurricane Katrina. <br><br>All in all, it\'s hardly a surprise Tenet Healthcare stock has lost 85% of its value over the past five years. <br><br>The company hadn\'t returned phone calls seeking a comment by press time; neither had the former governor\'s representatives. <br><br>Tenet isn\'t partisan. Among its current directors is Bob Kerrey, the former Democratic senator from Nebraska. <br><br>This will be Jeb Bush\'s first job since leaving the governor\'s office in Tallahassee four months ago. <br><br>Of course, it\'s not quite the election he was hoping for. Once upon a time, the dynasty was grooming him to run for president. But his older brother got there first and has probably poisoned that well forever. <br><br>Chris Matthews and Wolf Blitzer won\'t be on hand for the vote at Thursday\'s stockholders meeting. Do not expect to see many "Jeb \'08" badges around the Westin Hotel in Dallas. Somehow, the atmosphere won\'t quite match the excitement of waiting for the returns from Ohio. <br><br>But Jeb, look on the bright side. <br><br>You\'ve been complaining about your finances. Your last filings as governor showed your net worth was down to just $1.4 million. Obviously, that figure won\'t count any of the vast Bush family fortune. But still, it\'s embarrassing. Who wants to ask mom and pop for extra cash every Fourth of July? At your age, you should be buying your own yacht. <br><br>Sure, the Tenet job may look pretty tacky for someone of your standing, but the pay isn\'t bad. <br><br>It\'s lucky the media aren\'t paying too much attention. Anyone reading the public filings would have discovered that in your first year, you\'ll earn $474,500 -- for 13 days\' work. <br><br>That\'s $36,500 a day. And the "work" consists of sitting in a board room, so it\'s not exactly heavy lifting. <br><br>If the board meetings last an average of four hours, you\'ll be pulling in $9,125 an hour. <br><br>Not bad for a guy who could manage only a B.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas. Many of Tenet\'s 65,000 personnel are qualified medical staff with years of experience. Yet according to public filings, their average salary and benefits last year came to around $69,000 for full-time work. <br><br>You get that in two days. <br><br>Who says all the good jobs are going to China? <br><br>I\'m sure your family lawyer has already explained the details, Jeb, but just to recap the terms: As a nonemployee director you\'ll get an immediate golden handshake of $260,000 in "restricted stock units." Nothing says "welcome aboard" quite like a quarter-million. Plus you\'ll get another $130,000 in restricted stock units each year. That\'s on top of your retainer of $65,000 a year. <br><br>And all that is before you turn up for a single board meeting. For each one you attend, you get another $1,500. There\'s another $1,200 every time you show up at a committee meeting. <br><br>A word of advice: Avoid the audit and compliance committees. There\'s too much work and there\'s always the risk something will go wrong. For an easy life, join the compensation committee. It meets only seven times a year and you don\'t have to do anything. Just hire some consultants to review executive pay, and agree to whatever they suggest. The executives will be grateful, and that can pay real dividends down the road. See it as using shareholder money to stock up the favor bank. <br><br>What a deal!</div>\
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