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Not to burst the bubble but how do you know Idris dates black women? If that's going to be our requirement that will eliminate most of them. Seriously!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:15:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304704, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303367": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Your friend needs to watch Alias.  Dixon was a great spy and he blended in fine.  His cover was usually related to being a rich African or Jamaican which plays well internationally.  Your friend needs to open his mind.  Bond movies never take place in rural Iowa.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:21:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4302360, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4301321": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Love the photo!  Wish I weren't too old to take a trip down to the playground instead of eating lunch in my cubicle... if anyone's going to be in DC for the inauguration (is it really just 42 days away?!), this might be useful: <a href=\"http://inaugurationsurvivalguide.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://inaugurationsurvivalguide.com</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_20:57:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "22f632421d18b5f057e321b025029f98", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4302667": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Joe was always an opportnistic piece of crap.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_22:32:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4302537, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303886": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Webb,<br><br>Don't feel bad.  I actually remember sitting in front of the TV, stunned. ABSOLUTELY STUNNED!!!<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryiXNZep7uY\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gino Vanelli  - I just wanna stop</a><br><br>Does Italian count?   LOLOLOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:57:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303002, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304912": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "isonprize,   LOL!  \"I wouldn't kick either of 'em out of bed for eating crackers\"<br><br>MAXWELL<br><br>Idris?? WHheewwww ... 'til the cops come knockin'<br><br><br><br>\"Till the Cops Come Knockin'<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9009y0Eu2A\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9009y0Eu2A</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_01:16:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304152, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303890": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Webb, that's correct on the silhouette:<br><br><a href=\"http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/bobby_caldwell/what_you_wont_do_for_love/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/bobby_ca...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:58:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303668, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4301331": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Michele Obama s my \"American of the Year\" too!<br><br>\"Barack's better half not only has stature but is statuesque,\" the black essayist writes. \"She has coruscating intelligence, beauty, style and ... a butt.\"<br><br>IHowever, I submit that she's Barack's better WHOLE!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_20:58:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4300971, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4310037": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Anyone remember Morgana King, the jazz singer? She was the equivalent of Teena Marie on the jazz set.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_11:01:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fea6d7dd575d826f15c611519273816", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303874, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4301334": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Underwoods could work... they won't have to change the complexion of the Bond girl.<br><br>*snicker*<br><br>*runs and hides*", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_20:59:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301251, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303383": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes, I co-sign.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:22:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4300971, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4302360": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I FEEL you Tru!!<br><br>I would have said the same thing!!!<br><br>I can't stand haters that puncture the rapture zone, lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_22:11:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "bf592ce4366b6f179fe40d8422c998a5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 12, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301957, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304388": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Exactly.  Growing up, the only white artist that stunned me was Teena Marie because I did not see her face until I went to buy her album \"Lady T\" in our little local record store.  Hall & Oates were based next door in Philly (I'm from South Jersey) so no surprise there although Lisa Stansfield almost got me in the 90s.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:34:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304066, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4314653": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Traitor wasn't advertised at all! I thought Casino Royale was surprisingly good. Haven't seen the new Bond yet.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_14:10:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4314438, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4302883": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "eek!  i didn't know what coruscate meant so i had to look it up.  but it's a beautiful word and it fits michelle obama:  to give off flashes of light; sparkle; to be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_22:45:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "zackboston", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301331, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4305444": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No problem!<br><br>JJP had me mess around and start playing Teena Marie from my iTunes!  <i>Behind the Groove, Portuguese Love, I Need Your Lovin'</i><br><br>There is a reason I would receive Teena Marie albums for birthday gifts as a kid!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_02:08:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4305083, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4308230": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Idris does date black women. In fact, he has a beautiful daughter who is unmistakeably black.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_09:01:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304900, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304425": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "whiterosebuddy:       -Er,  -ummmm   Did you REQUEST this?<br><br><a href=\"http://www.stumbleupon.com/toolbar/#topic=Jazz&url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.youtube.com%252Fwatch%253Fv%253D1yKgAEkCKxY\" rel=\"nofollow\">SUMMERTIME (Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong)</a><br><br>ENJOY!!!   :&gt;)      [There were soooo many versions to chose from.!  WHEW!    :&gt;)]", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:37:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301031, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303403": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wait.... so you mean that's a white dude sing that song??????<br><br>Color me surprised. I decided to google this to see for myself and yep he is a white guy w/ a big ol' black voice like Micheal McDonald and Rick Astley. Video below:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuo1deYXnIw\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuo1deYXnIw</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:24:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "CarolinagirlinGA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303002, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4302896": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Go, spirit_55z! It's starting to feel like ladies night at JJP. Idris Elba is most definitely the best looking man on this list. Thanks for the eye candy!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_22:45:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "claudia_m", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4302599, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4301873": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Actual black actresses already have so few opportunities, but Hollywood has really marganilized them by getting these \"two-fers\".....a pop act with name recognition - if they can say a line without throwing up they'll get the part before Kerry Washington, Tajari Henson or Regina King....and I mean for serious dramatic acting roles.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_21:37:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301285, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4305463": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Weird trivia for ya - Bootsy Collins shares a birthday with Hillary Clinton.  I think about it every Oct. 26th LOL!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_02:09:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303784, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303199": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "HaHa...I went through that trauma already.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:08:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303002, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303370": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Doesn't he have a toilet somewhere in Ohio to unclog?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:22:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4302185, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4301374": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No offense to Beyonce, I'm all for diversity, but somethings should just not happen.  Lynda Carter may have been a Latina, but Wonder Woman in the comics was obviously white.  Yes she was supposedly an Amazon princess, and therefore dark-skinned, but it was a comic book character, and most comic book characters are not  known for being historically correct.<br><br>Besides, at some point doesn't it just become insulting.  Would we really be happy with just because a black guy got to play Superman?  Or vice versa, wouldn't it have been silly to have a white guy play Blade?<br><br>It's one thing to want a black princess be a NEW main character in a Disney film, but many of these comic book characters have well-established origins and characteristics.<br><br>Sadly, this includes Bond (I know it's not a comic book character, but it is a fictonal character with descriptive traits and features)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_21:02:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "fd35c4322b63b2dab06baea3e23047cf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301285, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303423": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LoL, it's like going 20-years thinking that Kenny G is black, then seeing him in a video and literally being traumatized.  <br><br>I was also reminded of that Dave Chappelle episode where he plays the Black&Blind KKK GrandWizard who reveals himself...but my head didn't explode last night.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:25:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Webb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303265, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304448": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's come across as pitiful because it's soobvious when they do it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:39:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303488, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304961": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "that is wonderful.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_01:21:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304801, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4302914": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Illinois Legislature already moving to strip Blago of his power to appoint the Senator and have a special election<br><br><a href=\"http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/12/illinois_legislature_pushing_b.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com...</a><br><br>Jesse Jackson to run?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_22:46:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "TariqNelson", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 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}, "4304451": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Trumystique, believe The Righteous Brothers were te first white artist who were coined \"Blue Eyed Soul.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:39:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303874, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4302917": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Dont know if this has been posted. My reaction is : Already???<br><br>AP: Cracks Appear In Obama Foreign Policy Team <a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/08/cracks-appear-in-obama-fo_n_149486.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/08/cracks...</a><br>WASHINGTON \u2014 The first sign of cracks in President-elect Barack Obama's foreign policy team of rivals emerged on Monday as his choices for secretary of state and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations visited the State Department.<br><br>As Secretary of State-pick Hillary Rodham Clinton and U.N. envoy-choice Susan Rice separately visited the diplomatic agency's headquarters in Washington's Foggy Bottom neighborhood, persons familiar with the transition said that Rice wants to install her own transition team inside the department.<br><br>Such a move by an incoming U.N. ambassador is rare, if not unprecedented, because the job is based at the United Nations in New York, where Rice already has a small transition staff, the sources familiar with the incoming administration.<br><br>The push by Rice, an early Obama supporter whose position the President-elect wants to elevate to a cabinet post, is also a signal that she intends to use her influence with the new president to play a more significant role than previous U.N. envoys, they said. The transition sources spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.<br><br>Officials with Clinton's transition team declined to comment on the matter, and aides to Rice could not immediately be reached. State Department officials declined to comment on issues related to the transition. THERE IS MORE", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_22:47:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Trumystique", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303430": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I just went over to You Tube right now because I thought surely the version in my head is not the original you are talking about. Sure enough, its Bobby Caldwell.<br><br>This is embarrassing. I'm not keeping up with my people. ;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:26:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "b45f45c3d16eaa32e1783c1d1798a893", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303002, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303434": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I co-sign with the no self-absorbed and arrogant P. Diddy or Terrence Howard!<br><br>I can't stand either. I wish Diddy can apply all this creativity to his artists.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:26:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4300732, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304972": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Haha! THAT WAS THE SHOW! I remember being so mad that they hired this blonde Amazon for Nikita but Peta Wilson totally won me over. The movie is still one of my faves!! It was great when they went into Season 2 and could move on from the movie plot. I love Roy Dupois that man was sex on a stick! I also have the DVDs and the music was way ahead of its time. The end of Season 3/start of Season 4 when they erased Nikita's mind was sooo messed up.  That show was such a mind job. I got banned from an Alias board for complaining that it was a more expensive but pale imitation of LFN. It was! You can get the entire 5 seasons on <a href=\"http://Overstock.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Overstock.com</a> for around $110 if you use a coupon. We are just starved for a show about a capable, smart and attractive woman who's kicking butt we'd practically watch anything half-way decent.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_01:22:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303582, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4312141": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Idris Elba makes me think naughty thoughts unbefitting a married, Christian woman.  There were huge issues in my household when we watched his seasons of the Wire.<br><br>Beyonce needs to sit down.  I don't want to see her as Wonder Woman, but I would call for Obama's impeachment if he invites her anywhere near the Inauguration.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_13:06:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301285, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303951": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I found the DVDs on sale at Best Buy so I got lucky.  <br><br>Dang you are making me want to break them out and watch over from the beginning.  I loved Michael with his constant brooding and his love for Nikita.  He was a bad ass.  And Nikita could probably kick Sydney Bristow's ass.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:02:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303783, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303953": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It totally escaped me...and I like to think that \"I know thangs.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:02:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Webb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303755, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304468": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "isonprize:    LOL!!!    :&gt;)<br><br><b>H----E----R---E    it is!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)  </b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:41:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304152, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304192": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Webb:  -Er,   -ummmmm,  Did you REQUEST this??<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laStiu_sUd4\" rel=\"nofollow\">WHAT YOU WON'T DO FOR LOVE!</a><br><br>ENJOY!!    :&gt;)<br><br>-UMMMM, Is this called a \"CROSS-OVER\"  thang!??     :&gt;)      :&gt;)<br><br>Just askin'. . . . .    :&gt;)     :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:19:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303002, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304470": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That is hilarious.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:40:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303953, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303447": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Speaking of Disney's first black princess, when is The Princess and the Frog going to be released?  I can't wait for Tiana.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:27:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301374, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4301400": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This blogger sounds a little catty.  Is that the usual M.O. for the latimes", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_21:03:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "fd35c4322b63b2dab06baea3e23047cf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4300948, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303454": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Beyonce can't act because she can't get into the character.  Playing \"Sasha Fierce\" doesn't count.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:28:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4302725, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303456": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Webb, <br><br>That is too funny! But I must say, it's one of my favorite songs and I have it on my portable satellite radio. It's right after Bill Withers' - Lovely Day (which I think Barack and Michelle- should dance to at the inauguration). <br><br>Hehehehe....yes, he is white.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:28:17", "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": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303002, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303469": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Vin Diesel looks like a newborn baby bird.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:28:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301693, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304498": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "wrb:  LOL!!!!<br><br><b>  FAN!</b>    CHECK!!<br><br><b>AIR CONDITIONER!</b>   CHECK!!<br><br><b>\"OXYGEN MASK!\"</b>   CHECK!!<br><br>Feel better!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:44:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304343, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4314227": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "As though those mainstream reporters were somehow more deserving to be on the plane than an Ebony correspondent. Awww, PEBO, I knew you was looking out on the low!:-)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_14:48:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4300948, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4313991": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Michael McDonald from The Doobie Bros.  Love \"I keep Forgetting\" and \"On My Own\" w/Miss Pattie Labelle.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_14:34:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "sdg1844", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303874, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4305013": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ROTFLMAO!!! You're killing me with the \"squinting\"<br><br>You knowTeena's mama had headphones hooked up to her belly!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_01:25:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304668, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4314303": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Even on JJP, Beyonce gets no love. I don't get it. Why are people so upset with her? I like her and I enjoy her music and she's the one chick my entire family all ages and genders likes, including my 60-something mother. She was good in \"Cadillac Records\" which proves she's working on her craft. I would not be mad to see her at the inauguration since she's a great performer and will do the honor justice.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_14:52:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4312141, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4302461": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL! Thanks spirit_55z, you never can tell if folks will take this type of stuff personally. Thanks for having a good sense of humor!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_22:18:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301478, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303486": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Webb, LOL!!!  My ex hubby brought me the album for my birthday one year.  Yeah, he be white, but Soulful.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:30:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 18, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303002, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303488": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Celebrities are the usual opportunists. They are trying to see if they could jump on the \"Obama is the first black president, so I can be the first black something else\" wagon.<br><br>Tiring.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:30:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301285, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4301957": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Idris! Idris!<br><br>I had a friend that said that a black guy could never be a spy let alone Bond.  This because white people always notice black people where ever they are. So undercover work would be limited to big metro areas with substantial black populations or in Africa and the Caribbean.<br><br>I told my friend to shut up because he was ruining my fantasies of Idris as Bond", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_21:43:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "Trumystique", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 14, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301118, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304519": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "isonprize:      I saw \"CADILLAC!\"   :&gt;)    :&gt;)  ****shrug****", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:45:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304174, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4302990": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Beautiful picture.  <br><br><br>Oh the joys of childhood.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_22:52:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 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}, "4313368": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "susan rice or condi rice??? really...?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_14:14:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304403, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4313539": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robin Thicke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love him!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_14:24:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303874, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4300948": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/12/obama-ebony.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008...</a><br><br>Ebony beats Time to the punch, makes Obama Person of the Year <br><br><i>You'll never guess who Ebony magazine has selected as its first Person of the Year. (Do you think Time may follow suit shortly?)<br><br>\"He did it!\" screams Ebony's news release about Barack Obama. \"He's rightfully earned the title of President-elect.\"<br><br>Now we know why reporters for the N.Y. Post, Washington Times and Dallas Morning News were tossed off Barack Obama's campaign plane campaign plane shortly before the election to make room for, among others, an Ebony correspondent.<br><br>Just coincidentally, all three booted papers had endorsed Obama's opponent, the Arizona guy.<br><br>Ebony, along with other magazines, already published a cover story on Michelle Obama.<br><br>Anyway, the special January issue goes on sale today, and Ebony reps are hoping it does as well as other published Obama memorabilia did closer to the historic Nov. 4 election that saw, in case you hadn't heard, the U.S. elect its first African American president.<br></i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_20:31:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303002": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I have a confession/admission to make JJP fam.  You ever heard the song, \"What You Won't Do For Love?\" <br><br><i><br>What you won't do...do for love<br>You try everything...but you don't give up<br>In my world only you__<br>Made me do for love...what I would not do<br></i>  <br><br>I've heard the song a gazillion times...grew up with it (and it should be on my ipod by now)...but last night I got quite a shock watching MusicChoice (R&B Soul) while they played WYWDFL.  When they play a song, they'll show the artist...and there was this white dude.<br><br>Lo and behold, I discovered that the singer of WYWDFL, Bobby Caldwell, is caucasian.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_22:52:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Webb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 47, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304689": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Robin Thicke. <br> <br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFzNXUUSFF0\" rel=\"nofollow\">Average White Band. -- Hamish Stewart  -  Cut the Cake</a><br><br> As I mentioned earlier, Gino Vanelli,   <br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUFxj59Fa9o\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tower of Power -- What is hip?</a><br>Lenny is lead singer, but the band was black and white, and it was TIGHT!!! <br><br>Here's another one  --<br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DptRJzHNI6A&feature=related\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tower of Power. -- So Very Hard to Go</a><br><br>Ya'll are takin' me back!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:59:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303874, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304030": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ROTLMAO!!! Big Bird", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:07:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303469, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304037": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL or maybe he just needs to take his butt up to Alaska and have Sarah \"inspect\" his pipes.  Todd looks like the type that would sit and watch Joe and Sarah go at it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:08:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303550, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4301478": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ha!, JunePearl.  You can come out of hiding!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_21:09:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301334, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304552": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Annovelista, Teena palled around with that buck wild , funk man, Rick James.  They had a few duets.  My aerobics intructor used to wear Lisa Stansfield 's song \"Around the World out!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:47:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304388, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304668": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "For both Teena Marie and Lisa Stansfield  I would squint and say \"Maybe she's Arab, Latina or something but I really see some African blood there\". My eyes were almost closed I was squinting so much.<br><br>I was suprised by Lisa, I admit. These English folk are really suprising cause its like they are listening to soul music in utero.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:57:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "Trumystique", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304388, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4300971": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Michelle Obama warrants salute for breaking barriers<br>By DeWayne Wickham<br><br><i>What might surprise you is that he is not my pick for \"American of the Year.\" The first recipient of my annual acknowledgement of a person who has done something to improve the lives of people in this country, or given us the inspiration to make America a better place, is Michelle Obama.<br><br><br>Dispels stereotypes <br><br><br>In his winning presidential campaign, Obama helped a nation traumatized by the events of the past eight years heal its wounds. As his partner in marriage and his political life, Michelle Obama had an even bigger impact this year. She debunked the myth of the black woman. She is not a welfare mother, an angry woman, or an overachieving can't-find-a-good-man sista. Obama said his wife is his \"rock\" \u2014 the strong, steadying force in his life. But for many black women, Michelle Obama is their \"everywoman.\"<br><br>She is the well-educated black wife and mother that Hollywood won't acknowledge and much of white America hasn't discovered. She's a black woman with wide hips and an occasional bad hair day who moved Erin Aubry Kaplan to say in a <a href=\"http://Salon.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Salon.com</a> article: \"Barack's better half not only has stature but is statuesque,\" the black essayist writes. \"She has coruscating intelligence, beauty, style and ... a butt.\"<br><br>While such descriptions of Michelle Obama might make some people uncomfortable, it goes to the heart of what makes a lot of black women rave as much about her becoming first lady as they do her husband's becoming president. She looks more like them than Halle Berry or Beyonce does.<br><br>Obama's election ends the long monopoly white men have had on this country's highest office. But as the loyal partner in his life, Michelle Obama shows the world the strength that many black women possess. And, in doing so, she salves the centuries-old wounds of the millions of black women who have been victimized and marginalized by negative stereotypes. <br><br>For all these reasons, Michelle Obama is my \"American of the Year.\"<br><br></i><br><br><a href=\"http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/12/michelle-obama.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/12/michelle...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_20:32:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303730": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Spirit, I was just about to nominate my sixth husband but you beat me to it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:47:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301251, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304560": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I am hopeless. So just went to Best Buy to see if they had any on sale. I saw them selling a La Femme Nikita and Babylon 5 starter pack and I was like: I WANT THAT!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:48:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Trumystique", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304293, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304049": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yeah, I understand \"Blue-Eyed\" Soul like carolinagirl suggested:<br>Michael McDonald/Doobie Brothers, Hall&Oates, Robin Thicke<br><br>But WYWDFL?  Not in a million years would I have thought that singer was non-AA...totally flabbergasted.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:09:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "Webb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303874, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304052": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Definitely NOT Don Chedle. Everytime I see him, I think about his character \"Ice Tray\" on the Fresh Prince of Bel Air.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBItEHdArXU\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBItEHdArXU</a><br><br>LMAO.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:09:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "CarolinagirlinGA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4302599, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4305083": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Annovelista, thanks for the trip.  I thought Webb would be interested in some Teena Marie history.  I hadn't read this interview.  LAWD HA' MERCY!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_01:31:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304763, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4305596": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "42 days?!  Isn't there any way to speed this thing up?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_02:28:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "94dec464ba2020919c31e0f36a8cc034", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "12 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}, "4313789": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I love that Maxwell song!! I listen to it twice a day.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_14:27:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304912, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303550": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Town, TariqNelson recommends he get a REAL plumber to unclog his ass.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:34:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303370, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303551": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "My aunt is friends with Fishburne's wife, she's nice. <br><br>I never liked Wesley's ass. Don Chedle is Don Chedle.<br><br>Morris Chestnut and Idris Elba anyday!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:34:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4302599, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304066": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I thought it was common knowledge that Bobby Caldwell sang that song.  I remember when my older brother bought the album.  If I am not mistaken Caldwell had a beard and a mustache.<br><br>During that era there were a quite of few white R&B artists that never really crossed over to a pop (white mainstream) audience.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:10:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "ecb8e53ad4dc175b15ab69340dd091f1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303755, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303559": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh_, you know I had to do some followup research too (<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Caldwell\" rel=\"nofollow\">at wikipedia</a>).  What's particularly hilarious is how his record company marketed him to the \"black\" audience:<br><blockquote><br>In order to ensure significant airplay on the African American-dominated R&B radio format of the time, Caldwell's management took certain steps \u2014 such as portraying the artist only in silhouette on the cover and in advertisements \u2014 to hide the fact that he was white. The secret was, for obvious reasons, shattered by his first live appearances.</blockquote><br><br>Rhondacoca can testisfy to that, lol.  Their management team succeeded, b/c I surely did not have a clue that whoever sung WYWDFL was not AA....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:34:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Webb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303403, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4302537": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. \"Joe\" is turning out to be a real piece of crap", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_22:23:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "TariqNelson", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4302185, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4305098": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "OMG!  I thought he was black as well.  I always pictured James Ingrim singing this song.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_01:33:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303002, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304674": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You're thinking of the Traitor film - which was great by the way. Rent it when it comes out on DVD! Vin Diesel is too much of a meat-head to play Bond. We need someone elegant. Idris is good. Chiwetel Ejiofor would be great as well - another Brit and a lead actor. I'd even consider Digimon - I mean Djimon Honsou.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:58:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301526, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303565": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yup!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:35:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301873, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303060": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "susan, word. Michelle Obama is a STAR!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_22:55:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4302883, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4301526": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Didn't Don Cheadle do something...? And does Vin Diesel count? LOL.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_21:12:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "claudia_m", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 15, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301280, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303581": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lol.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:36:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303454, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4302558": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I firmly agree. But I guess they're gonna learn their lesson when Cadillac Records fails to be Dreamgirls 2.0. <br><br>I actually like Beyonce...as a singer. Not everyone can do it all!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_22:24:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301873, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4305275": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Thanks GreenLady,<br><br>Enjoyed it! I thought he was a black guy also! Oops!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_01:49:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304192, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4301031": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sasha looks so happy in that picture, swinging on a wonderful summer day in her raspberry red sundress....gosh I remember when life was such a joy like that...warm weather, a nice swing and nothing but a sun filled delightful day.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_20:36:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "bf592ce4366b6f179fe40d8422c998a5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4301547": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Nice one...!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_21:13:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "claudia_m", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301334, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304111": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Snipes is not feeling black women.  Idris Elba is my pick-o-the bunch!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:13:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303551, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4314352": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOVE, LOVE, LOVED IT! Now that you've brought ti back, I have to get it on DVD.  Michael, Michael...you SEXY BEAST!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_14:54:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "sdg1844", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304972, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4305138": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I remember Bootsy's sunglasses!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_01:36:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303784, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4305147": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "isonprize, hellooooo!    AWB  \"PICK UP THE PIECES\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_01:37:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304689, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4305149": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Michael McDonald was the man.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_01:37:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303874, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4305150": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "carolinagirl:     <br><br><i>And she dresses in accessible mall brands, like J. Crew and White House Black Market, as well as in higher-priced designer labels like Maria Pinto and Thakoon. \"One thing I love about her is that she isn't a stick figure and not a plus size,\" says Mr. Mizrahi. <b>\"She has a body pride I love.\"</b></i><br><br>Annnnnnd SHE is also <b>LARGE and IN CHARGE!!</b> in HER OWN WAY!!  :&gt;)   <br><br>PROUD OF HER!!!    :&gt;)     :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_01:37:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303177, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4301569": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sasha's adorable; oh, those care free days of summer.  Remember the old rope  tree swings with the thick board seats?  We'd swing so high, we would leave our bodies!  Weeeeee!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_21:16:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304134": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sydney would totally be crying for her mama after Nikita broker her kneecapa and threatened to hook up an iron to her crotch or something. Thats why I couldnt watch Alias not even for Carl Yumbly ( I know its Lumbly but he is a fine ass man)<br><br>And dont even get me started on the clothes on LFN. Loved them!!!<br><br>You found the whole set at Best Buy? When was this? You have no idea how obsessed I am. When they started playing reruns at 1 am I watched and taped all of those. I even re-watch season 1. I want me some DVDs. But the whole box set is $350.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:14:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Trumystique", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303951, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4302599": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Here you go ladies!!<br><br>1 Idris Elba:  <a href=\"http://www.jamati.com/online/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/idris_elba_blackprwire.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.jamati.com/online/wp-content/uploads...</a><br><br><br>2.  Lawrence Fishburne: <a href=\"http://www.rhyolitesite.com/lawrence.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.rhyolitesite.com/lawrence.jpg</a><br><br>3.  Wesley Snipes:  <a href=\"http://paulignatius.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/wesley-snipes-crazy.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://paulignatius.files.wordpress.com/2008/07...</a><br><br>4.  Don Chedle:  <a href=\"http://www.vibe.com/images/celebs/don_cheadle.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.vibe.com/images/celebs/don_cheadle.jpg</a><br><br>5.  Morris Chesnut:  <a href=\"http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb40/anonymous227/celebs/mybabydaddy.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb40/anonymo...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_22:26:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301285, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303626": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I didnt think of that. But I didnt think AP was uniformly anti-Obama just a few reporters.<br><br>Pass the salt please.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:39:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "Trumystique", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303339, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4314386": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Elizabeth Taylor played Cleopatra. Angelina Jolie played Marianne Pearl. Should I go on down the long list of white actresses and actors who have played ethnic roles?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_14:56:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301374, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304152": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Eye candy, indeed!    <br><br>I hear Wesley beats his women, so he's out.<br><br>Love me some Laurence F, but he's too old for the part, and these days, more than a bit on the chubby side.<br><br>Don Cheadle  has the acting chops, but since when has  \"007\" been about acting?<br><br>So that leaves Morris Chestnut and Idris Elba.  I wouldn't kick either of 'em out of bed for eating crackers, but  <br><br>Idris??    WHheewwww ...   'til the cops come knockin'<br><br><br>GreenLady,  where is an oxygen mask when I need one? LOLOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:16:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4302896, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303644": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "OMG!!! You do not know how excited I am about it. Finally. I spent my whole childhood having to deal with Disney having princesses and characters in every other race. When they went to Africa, the chracters were animals. <br><br>I am so excited.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:40:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303447, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4302725": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "All the acting coaches in the world can't help what is just not there. Beyonce can't act...not a pure dramatic role. Every acting role I've seen Beyonce play...she is still Beyonce to me on the screen. I completely forgot I was looking at Diana Ross in Lady Sings The Blues...that was strung out Billie Holiday. Now that was some acting!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_22:36:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4302558, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4302114": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Don Cheadle is the new War Machine in the next two Iron Man movies so he is the next black superhero.<br><br>Answering lamh31's first question, I think the intent is to make this part of the Bond series as in the next Bond after Daniel Craig should be black.  I actually think since 00 is a classification that it would be easy to introduce a new 00 in the next few movies that is black instead of just making James Bond black.  Assuming they go in numerical order, with Bond being 7, then the new guy should be 008.  I wonder what happened to 006?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_21:55:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301526, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4302385": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_22:12:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301400, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303659": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL!  Rhondacoca, youth is a beautiful thing,and  we get to learn from each other.  I'm digging it. How about you?<br><br>And yes they still make swings of rope and wood in backyards a home.  Some have leather seats like the one Sasha's in.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:42:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303363, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304174": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Now, you wouldn't be talking about  Beyonce in the role of Etta James, would you?     When I saw the ad, I just rolled my eyes...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:18:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301873, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4302046": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "MOVING THIS OVER FROM THE DAY THREAD<br><br>Response to Michele<br><br>I think this is a pretty brilliant summation and conceptualization. I really hadnt thought of this in the context of the STHU conversation( Hildebrand).<br><br>But you remind me that this has always been my fear about Obama and any Obama administration. Obama has spent alot of time talking about unity and finding common purpose across gender, race, class, sexual orientation or political affiliation divisions. But in trying to find the common purpose he often negates these identities by trying to appeal to universality- as you have so aptly put it. This Other-ing happens in so many contexts from the liberal or feminist blogosphere, literary studies, health care what have you.<br><br>I hate to credit Shelby Steele ( cause he is wrong most of the time )-- but I do think in some ways Obama is a bargainer and that is probably his default position. But I am convinced he can be turned on.<br><br>Shelby's take on Obama : \"Bargainers make the subliminal promise to whites not to shame them with America\u2019s history of racism, on the condition that they will not hold the bargainer\u2019s race against him.<br>And whites love this bargain \u2014 and feel affection for the bargainer \u2014 because it gives them racial innocence in a society where whites live under constant threat of being stigmatized as racist. So the bargainer presents himself as an opportunity for whites to experience racial innocence.\"<br><br>So I think Obama is a instinctually a bargainer from his family background. And he honed this gut level instinctual reaction professionally as a community organizer. My experience of many community organizers is this ethos of \" I wont judge you and I will meet you where you are\".<br><br>The community organizers dont talk about these social identities and at the same time try to pretend that they DONT EXIST. So in a collective bargaining situation if black workers are saying they are being denied position at the table in the union's white power structure they will be marginalized and told \" Dont worry about it we are speaking to everyone's concerns and we are hammering out a deal\" and if black workers continue and suggest lack of input, voice etc - they are labeled as troublemakers, selfish etc.<br><br>So yes I see these same tendencies in Obama as well and it gives me concern. It gave me concern before the election when I listened to his speeches and it concerns me now.<br><br>But I am still hopeful and heres why.<br><br>He can be forced to deal with these issues. The perfect example was the Reverend Wright issue. For most of the time Obama tried to ignore race in this country and its very real consequences on his candidacy and its power in the lives and aspirations of Americans. Wright and the MSM wouldnt let it go and he was forced to give his speech which I think was one of the most nuanced and compelling discussions of race in this country.<br><br>The only downside of the Wright situation was instead of being happy to talk about this issue the campaign narrative I heard was : It is really unfortunate that you (the MSM) forced us here with your pettiness. Shouldnt we be beyond these divisions? Lets not talk about race anymore lets get back to the issues like putting food on the table, paying for tuition and all the OTHER ISSUES THAT ARE REALLY IMPORTANT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.<br><br>That was a missed opportunity. Instead the narrative segue should have been:<br>This is a teachable moment. Race is very real in the lives in American and we should recognize it as such . At the same time we should not let racial division stop us from uniting for common purpose. We are all concerned about issues like putting food on the table, paying for tuition. We must recognize that challenges to employment and education have been complicated by an ugly history that has important effects today for African Americans. By focusing on the economy and the particular challenges faced by certain groups we can make sure that the American promise is kept for all Americans.<br><br>Obama is capable of this type of narrative. And this second narrative was offered later in the campaign. So Obama can come up with this contextualized narrative he just has to be pushed to it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_21:50:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Trumystique", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 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}, "4303665": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I love Le Femme Nikita!  I have the DVDs.  I thought I was the only one who<br>watched it.<br>But I also love me some Alias.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_22:42:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303582, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304691": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:   There was a comment about ALASKA,  soooooooI took a \"Field Trip\" to <i>MUDFLATS</i>:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.themudflats.net/2008/12/08/mudstock-iv-southern-california/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mudstock IV - Southern California!</a><br><br><i>Southern California Mudpuppies!<br><br>Another successful Mudstock meetup; this time in sunny California! I\u2019ve gotten lots of messages from attendees and everyone had nothing but wonderful things to say about Fawnskin Mudpuppy and her husband who hosted this festive gathering. They opened their home to Mudstock IV, and a great time was had by all! Here\u2019s the recap from Fawnskin herself:</i><br><br>THIS MOVEMENT means that ALASKA'S  \"RED\" is being CHALLENGED!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Can't wait to hear an interim report of a \"PURPLE\" on the way to \"BLUE!\"   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Whooooo!    Hoooo!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>President-Elect Obama!  :&gt;)   <b>LARGE and IN CHARGE!</b>  :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:59:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 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}, "4303668": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Was it the actual vinyl LP?  Wikipedia is saying that Bobby C was portrayed, \"only in silhouette on the cover and in advertisements \u2014 to hide the fact that he was white,\" from AAs.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:42:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Webb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 17, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303486, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303582": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Im sorry but Alias to me: horrible show. I couldnt watch it after being a devotee of La Femme Nikita. Actually there were black spies on the LFN despite the main cast being lilywhite. But they did have a few believeable storylines with black spies.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:36:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Trumystique", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303367, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4302135": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So wrong, but so true.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_21:56:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301334, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303672": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree with you and I was thinking the same thing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:42:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301374, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4305213": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "spirit:  WE graduated from the SAME undergraduate school -----1000 years apart, though!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>Wonder IFFF he wants my \"autograph??\"   ***shrug***   HAH!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_01:44:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301251, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4301118": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I certainly like the idea of the next Bond being black...but Diddy ain't my idea of Bond.<br>I would like maybe Morris Chestnut, Wesley Snipes, Idris Elba,someBODY chocolate fine with a NFL body type like the Rock.<br><br>I want him suave, debonair and rich dark chocolate.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_20:41:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "bf592ce4366b6f179fe40d8422c998a5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 28, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4300732, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304704": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I am down with Chiwetel if Idris is sick or something . He is not as fine as Idris but he is a great actor.<br><br>But hell naw to Djimon \"Give Me Free\" Hounsou. He is beautiful but I cant stand him. Plus there is no wish fulfillment cause I am sure its all about white girls for him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_01:00:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "Trumystique", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304674, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4305731": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "spirit:    LOL!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_02:44:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4305325, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4314438": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I enjoyed \"Traitor\" a lot as well, surprised considering the subject matter that it got made. Not surprised that it didn't do so well...but I'm glad others have discovered it. <br>As for the Bond debate, Idris is undeniable if it ever happens. In the meantime, I'm fine with Daniel Craig's fine self.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_14:59:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304674, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304712": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I just check Amazon for you and they have Season 1 for $41.00, 2-4 for<br>$56.00 and 5 for $22.00", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:02:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304560, "depth": 12, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303177": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "First Lady-in-Waiting Michelle Obama has become a muse for designers:<br><br><a href=\"http://sec.online.wsj.com/article/SB122852270571084377.html?mod=article-outset-box\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://sec.online.wsj.com/article/SB12285227057...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:06:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "CarolinagirlinGA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 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}, "4304203": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Playing \"Sasha Fierce\" doesn't count.<br><br>YOU. AIN'T. RIGHT.  I \"screamed' out loud when I read this.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:20:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303454, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4302161": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Halle got the chance at Catwoman and that was just horrible.  Then again, Catwoman was the antagonist so I guess that doesn't count.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_21:57:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301873, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4313946": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Chestnut and Underwood are married to black women.<br><br>trust me...I look these things up.<br><br>Thats why Terence Howard needs to go sit down...not only is a strange, boring and long-winded. He shuns the sistas.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_14:31:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304900, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303707": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lol...that was funny.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:44:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301957, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303333": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>She's(Palin) not looking for power.</i><br><br>Like hell she's not! Joe Scumbag is pure trash! It is so disgusting to hear him trash McCain, but yet trying to capitalize off of him. D#mn!<br> I wish he'd just stfu & go away.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:19:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4302185, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304224": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah, I read that the head person at AP is a right winger and he has been on a tear about Obama since he was promoted during the primaries.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:20:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "bf592ce4366b6f179fe40d8422c998a5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303697, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4332898": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That Sasha is such a cutie...but where are her legs?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-11_15:07:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 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}, "4303419": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "singing- not sing", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:25:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "CarolinagirlinGA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303403, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4313444": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "race is real...but food is realer...", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_14:18:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4302046, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4302185": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "15 minutes sure is a long time:<br>Joe the Plumber: McCain \"Appalled Me,\" Made Me Feel \"Dirty\"<br><br>Politico reports that Joe Wurzelbacher isn't a huge fan of the man who made him famous. He told conservative radio host Glenn Beck that he felt \"dirty\" after \"being on the campaign trail and seeing some of the things that take place.\"<br><br>\"I honestly felt even more dirty after I had been on the campaign trail and seen some things that take place. It was scary, man,\" Wurzelbacher said. He told Beck he asked McCain \"some pretty direct questions\" about the bailout, and wasn't pleased with the response. \"They appalled me, absolutely. You know, I was angry. In fact, I wanted to get off the bus after I talked to him. <br><br>Asked why he didn't leave McCain's campaign if he was \"appalled\" by the candidate, Wurzelbacher said, \"Honestly, because the thought of Barack Obama as president scares me even more.\"<br><br>While Wurzelbacher was critical of McCain, he gushed about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. \"Sarah Palin is absolutely the real deal,\" he said.<br><br>You know, I only got to spend a short amount of time with her but, you know, it was been asked if I felt any presence when I was with John McCain or Barack Obama. You know, with Sarah Palin, I don't want to say I felt a presence but she definitely had energy and she definitely went to work for American people, and it disgusts me on how often they try to bash her just for her sincerity. It's just, you know, she really wants to work for America and I mean, I wish people would listen to her and let them, and let her work for us. You know, she wants to serve us. She's not looking for power.<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/09/joe-the-plumber-mccain-ap_n_149723.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/09/joe-th...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_21:59:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 12, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303723": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm excited too. My great-niece is too young for it, but I will be there opening weekend in the theaters, praying and hoping it's decent, so that I can buy the DVD too.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:46:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303644, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4313917": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LMAO! Better late than never.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_14:30:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "sdg1844", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303002, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4301682": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I LIKE Blair Underwood...he has just the right demeanor...great choice Spirit!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_21:24:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "bf592ce4366b6f179fe40d8422c998a5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301478, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4313459": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Lol!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_14:20:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303886, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303934": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ROFLO!! Clayton Bigsby.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:01:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303423, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304249": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Webb:    <b>\"OXYGEN MASK??\"</b>   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:22:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304049, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304763": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Um, er uh... yes, I know.  Didn't I just say I was buying Teena Marie albums back in the day?  LOL!!  Lisa Stansfield was like a decade later when I was grown but, yes, I know all about Lady T and Slick Rick and his incredible but crazy genius. <br><br>In fact, I always pass on my favorite interview with Rick.  A little known but telling interview he gave to the finance site <a href=\"http://Bankrate.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bankrate.com</a>.  I promise you it is a MUST read!<br><br><b> Rick James tried, but couldn't burn all his money</b><br><br>By Larry Getlen  <a href=\"http://Bankrate.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bankrate.com</a><br><br>Editor's note: Rick James passed away Aug. 6, 2004. He gave this interview to Bankrate in 2002.<br><br><i>Rick James' story will make a fantastic movie one day. While most people's knowledge of James boils down to two facts -- that he had a tremendous hit with the song \"Super Freak,\" and that he crashed in spectacular fashion, going to prison for a pair of incidents involving crack cocaine and several women claiming physical abuse -- his story is even richer, deeper, and more sordid than that.<br><br>James entered the Naval Reserve while still a teenager, but his misbehavior got him assigned to active duty. He was scheduled to ship off to Vietnam when he went AWOL. He took a bus to Toronto where he was immediately harassed by locals, and was saved from the fight by three musicians, two of whom turned out to be Robbie Robertson and Garth Hudson of The Hawks (later to become The Band.) He soon joined a band led by the future founder of Steppenwolf. Another member of that band was Neil Young. James and Young wrote songs together, and they got signed to Motown Records. But a dispute with a manager led that manager to inform the Navy of James' whereabouts. James surrendered, and spent a year in the brig for desertion.<br><br>Upon his release, James joined Motown as a staff writer and released several records that did well in the black community. Then 1981's \"Street Songs,\" featuring \"Super Freak\" and \"Give It To Me Baby,\" made him a superstar. But with success came excess, and James quickly spiraled into full-blown crack addiction. James tried several times to get clean, but before he did, several incidents involving violence against women landed him in Folsom Prison.<br><br>Today, James is clean and productive, touring the country and preparing a series of new projects. Bankrate spoke to him about how his portfolio withstood the storms, and how his vices tapped into his wallet.<br><br>BANKRATE: How much money do you think you blew on coke?<br>- advertisement -<br><br>RICK JAMES: I spent $7,000 a week, and I did that for five years. I had a serious five-year hiatus where I didn't record, and didn't want to because me and Motown were in a lawsuit that I eventually won. But I couldn't record for another company, so I had a five-year sabbatical where I was just smoking, just freebasing. So I was smoking $7,000 every week. That's a couple of ounces a night.<br><br>BANKRATE: Did \"Super Freak\" make you rich in the long term, or did you blow that money on excess?<br><br>RICK JAMES: I made so much. You have to understand, I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling ... I'm the most sampled artist in history. Right now. I mean, Mary J. Blige just sampled me, LL Cool J, Will Smith, you name it. MC Hammer, the biggest rap record of all time is \"Super Freak,\" (Hammer's \"Can't Touch This\"), Salt n Pepa, Ja Rule and Jennifer Lopez, Ole Dirty Bastard.<br><br>BANKRATE: So even with all the money you blew, you didn't come close to blowing it all?<br><br>RICK JAMES: Right. I could have never been broke. See, that was the thing. Even when I was down to a couple hundred thousand, I would always get a check for 600, 700 more thousand, from the \"Super Freak\" album, or Teena Marie. That's the way it was. That's the way it is. That's because I kept my publishing throughout the years, and I was probably one of the first black acts getting $1 million an album at Motown in those days.<br><br>BANKRATE: How much are you worth?<br><br>RICK JAMES: I don't know. $30 million, $40 million, something like that. You don't really know your own worth because you don't know what may happen tomorrow. I may release an album tomorrow that gets me $10, $20 million, then I'm worth $70, $80 million more.<br><br>BANKRATE: Did you invest any of that money wisely?<br><br>RICK JAMES: I have very good accountants who look out for me. CDs, land, oil drillings, stocks, bonds, many different things. I have great people.<br><br>BANKRATE: Are you into the market yourself?<br><br>RICK JAMES: No I'm not, but I have played the market, and I have won.<br><br>BANKRATE: Any stocks or investments in particular you did really well with?<br><br>RICK JAMES: Pork bellies I'm a fan of, because people, especially black people, whenever there's hard times, times of financial insecurity, black people going to eat some bacon. Some ham hocs, pork bellies. And, because of the baby boom, pharmaceuticals are a very good investment. And holograms are going to be great. Holographic imagery. I think it's going to be the next step for music and TV.<br><br>BANKRATE: Looking back, what's the dumbest thing you ever spent your money on?<br><br>RICK JAMES: Cocaine.<br><br>BANKRATE: Not counting drugs -- material possessions.<br><br>RICK JAMES: A jacket and a pair of boots I bought from Bijan's in Beverly Hills. I walked by the store, and this old white woman was sitting at a big ornate desk, and she snubbed her nose at me. But Bijan waved me in, and I walked in and gave her this look, like, I'll show you. So I found this leather jacket cut to the waist with black mink inside, and this plain pair of black boots. $28,000. When I saw the bill, I said, \"There must be a mistake here.\" I only did it out of ego. I may have worn that jacket maybe twice, then I realized it was too small for me. </i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_01:04:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304552, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4301693": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Cheadle does not have the right body type...vinDiesel AINT chocolate! nor fine", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_21:25:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "bf592ce4366b6f179fe40d8422c998a5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301526, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4302656": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "JunePearl, It's all good!  I just throw it in the mix and watch how it settles!  :-))<br><br>They're all fine looking Brothas.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_22:30:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4302461, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303339": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Consider the source: AP is not friendly to Obama so anything negative they say has to be taken with a grain of salt.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:19:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4302917, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4314501": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Chiweltel only dates white women. Idris is - or was- married to a black woman. But interracial dating in the U.K. is big on both sides, black woman with white man and black man with white woman.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_15:02:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304900, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4302727": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "He certainly is, and someone needs to take a plunger and flush his ass down the toilet.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_22:36:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4302537, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303755": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL!! Where have you been?  I thought that was common knowledge -even for those of us who grew up listening to WYWDFL!<br><br>He is on my holiday playlist with Vanessa Williams.  They do a great version of \"Baby, It's Cold Outside\" on one of her Christmas albums.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:48:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303002, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303756": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They better.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:48:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301334, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4300685": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What a glorious picture! Captures the simple pleasures of childhood.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_20:12:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "Trumystique", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4300686": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Beautiful picture!  Sasha is just too dang cute!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_20:12:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304783": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Nah, he's with Kimora so he likes them at least half black.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_01:05:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304704, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4309915": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This man is full of shit.  That is all.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_10:53:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4302185, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303774": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Also, The Unit. <br><br>Dennis Haysbert is trading countries every week on those missions.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:49:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303367, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4313503": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have that song on my playlist too!!<br><br>He also sang a great rendition of \"Beyond the Sea\", its used by casino and liquor companies alot.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_14:22:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303755, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303265": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I saw him at this concert when I was like 9 and I was like, why do they have this white man singing that song? lolz<br><br>My father was like because it is a white man who sings that song.<br><br>Its funny, my friend just expressed to me that she did not know that Teena Marie was white. I always knew that because I had the LPs though I used to swear she wasn't really white but just looks white-you know like Mariah Carey.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:13:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303002, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304293": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "They were individual seasons.  The first three seasons were around $39.00<br>each and the last two were $59.00.  Check Amazon.  They have random sales on<br>there TV collection.  You may have to piece it together but at least you can<br>eventually have the set.<br><br>This was about a a year and a half ago.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:26:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304134, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303783": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I have the DVDs not the full set yet. Started with s1 and they are so expensive.<br><br>Michael was so pathological in his love. I was still like Roy is hot ( really but those tight pants, the soulful stares...). Remember season 5 when he cut his face and was staring at Nikita in longing. That was so crazy but I was like \"Ohhh he loves her!\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:50:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Trumystique", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303665, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303784": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "There is PLENTY of evidence of that, hiding the artist, that is.   \"race\" artists used to do it all the time.  Just not show the artists at all, if they were black. <br><br>But check out Teena Marie's first album cover.  <br><a href=\"http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://bp0.blogger.com/_-eWy9xG9GY8/R61L1_8uWCI/AAAAAAAAB_o/TlL3zKPPfv4/s320/teena%2Bexpanded.jpg&imgrefurl=http://fullundie.blogspot.com/2008/02/teena-marie-wild-peaceful-1979.html&usg=__K2LBDFX3QYr-Ew8qfZa26iQh6Vg=&h=286&w=320&sz=18&hl=en&start=27&tbnid=7DaCUuV11mtceM:&tbnh=105&tbnw=118&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dteena%2Bmarie%2Balbum%2Bcovers%26start%3D20%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN\" rel=\"nofollow\">Teena Marie - Wild and Peaceful  1979</a><br><br>I know, I know, I guess I'm giving up my age, but I DO miss album art.   And the Earth Wind and Fire albums often had posters in them,  Bootsy's sunglasses... Don't get me started!   CD cases just don't get it!!!  And mp3?   There is nothing to put the art on!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:50:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 15, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303668, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304298": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "late 80s, you're younger than me : )<br><br>imma mid-80s baby and proud!<br><br>anywho's its wayyyy past my bedtime, peace&blessings", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:26:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303363, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4305325": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Dang, GLH.  He's fine as wine.  You can co-sgn Bair  him with your new icon.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_01:54:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4305213, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304403": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Why do we take white-oriented corp news sources as legit leads for stories? Just because we read something in the WSJ or NYT doesn't mean it's true or that the story hasn't been slanted. <br><br>Do We Create or Regurgitate News as Bloggers? <a href=\"http://snipurl.com/7ovz5\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://snipurl.com/7ovz5</a><br><br>I'm certain Dr. Rice - who recently got married by the way - is going to control her turf and keep an eye on Billary and will be given the leeway to do so. Cuz we all know it's a matter of time.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:35:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4302917, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4302769": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "@ spirit_55z<br><br>perhaps a REAL plumber can do it", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_22:38:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "TariqNelson", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4302727, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303795": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "cracking up at this description...lmao", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:51:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Think_About_It", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303469, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303284": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "She reminds me of me when I was little:)<br><br>I am waiting for the Obama admin. to get back to me regarding the \"White House Babysitting\" Job.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:15:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4302990, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4305682": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Justice58:  LOL!  :&gt;)<br><br>My pleasure!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_02:39:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4305275, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4300732": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "On a different note...Diddy sure does love himself....<br><br>On why he should be the next James Bond...<br><br><i>\u201cI know there\u2019s some black people that can save the world. White people aren\u2019t the only people that can save the world. My variation, I would come from the New York agency. I would actually be working with James Bond. And he would get kidnapped, and I would have to come get him and save the day. It\u2019s a natural thing. It\u2019s organic. I think it would be a tragedy for the next James Bond not to be black, and I think the next Superman should be black. We are like the coolest creatures on the face of the Earth.</i><br><br>I support this 100%, as long as just about any other black actor besides Diddy plays Bond.  And no Terrence Howard.  <br><br><a href=\"http://www.bestweekever.tv/2008/12/09/diddy-makes-a-strong-case-to-be-the-black-james-bond/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.bestweekever.tv/2008/12/09/diddy-mak...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_20:16:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 80, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4301251": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Word, whiterosebuddy.  I'll throw Blair Underwoods name in the hat.  :-))", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_20:52:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 12, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4301118, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303300": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:16:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4302769, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304801": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "PE Obama has invited the remaining Tuskegee airmen to the inauguration.  <br><br><a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/10/us/politics/10inaug.html?hp\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/10/us/politics/1...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_01:07:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "6d7d49072a27d86f59ab4d7ced4a8012", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "12 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}, "4303314": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think he said the teachable moments much time after the incident. ( Of course correct me if I am wrong).  Right after the speech the reaction of his campaign staff/surrogates  was to use teachable moment language and then say \"Let's get back to the issues\".<br><br>Ironically, this narrative of \"Lets deal with universal issues so STHU with your identity politics\" is a bitter to pill to swallow when you are on the receiving end and not the one saying it.    Case in point <a href=\"http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/12/whats-the-big-d.html#more\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...</a> . <br><br>Ahhh, the sweet irony!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:17:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "Trumystique", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4302321, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304341": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Webb:  Wild Cherry -\"Play That Funky Music\"<br><br>We used to jam to this song in the 70's  They were our \"Blue Light in the Basement days!!!<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmH61C8cmG8\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmH61C8cmG8</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:30:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304049, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304343": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I know...I have been fanning and panting and sighing every since clicking on that wooooonderful Idris Elba link Sprit posted.<br><br>Thank YOU Spirit...for making us feel good.<br><br>I am just melting over here drooling and ...well y'know what I'm sayin", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:30:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "bf592ce4366b6f179fe40d8422c998a5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304152, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4301280": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "My money is on Idris.  Bond is British after all, and Idris is hot, hot, hot.  I love Morris, but unfortunately he is way too short.   He is not as tall as he looks.  <br><br>Question: Is this supposed to be a real part of the Bond series, or just a new version for the non-melanin-challenged movie goers.<br><br>Question 2: Has there every really been a James Bond inspired spy flick starring a black actor, that wasn't I,Spy, or the average Blaxploitation film star?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_20:54:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "fd35c4322b63b2dab06baea3e23047cf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 16, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4300732, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4314081": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Here's a manifestation of the \"blue-eyed soul\" phenomenon from my childhood years. Don't laugh (even though I did upon stumbling upon this on Youtube, LOL)<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BLQgQNuN-M\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BLQgQNuN-M</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_14:39:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "c87fa9ab975275187368e74f6f34d3d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4305404, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4301285": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I've heard that they were looking at Idris Elba, which actually makes sense...seeing that he is British, and Diddy has <b>no</b> acting talent. Let's just keep it real, Diddy would embarass us.<br><br>Beyonce was just yapping the other day about \"how great it would be if Wonder Woman could be Black. We have a Black president. The world is ready to see a Black Wonder Woman. I would love to do that\". Chile, sit down. You can't act! Just let it go. <br><br>Y'all ain't slick! What is with these celebraties?!<br><br>Lynda Carter broke barriers as a Latina playing Wonder Woman. It would be nice to see an up and coming Latina playing her role. <br><br>I think it takes a lot of nerve to tell me they should consider you for a part. Come on now! Isn't that what your manager is for?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_20:54:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "JunePearl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 32, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4300732, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303697": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "show me a positive Obama story from AP, and I'm going to have to look for the angle. <br><br>Ever since the speech at Hampton in October 2007, have I not believed one word AP writes about Obama.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:44:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303626, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4314535": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "While we're on this topic, as trivial as it is...has anyone ever seen Jamie Foxx's daughter's mother??", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_15:04:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4308230, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304880": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Here is the trailer for those who have not seen Princess Tiana.  She is so cute!<br><br><a href=\"http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/princessandthefrog/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/princessand...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_01:14:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4303644, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4302321": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think Obama's talk on race in Philly did rise to what you call a teachable moment and that in fact he did say exactly this:<br><br>\"Race is very real in the lives in American and we should recognize it as such . At the same time we should not let racial division stop us from uniting for common purpose. We are all concerned about issues like putting food on the table, paying for tuition. We must recognize that challenges to employment and education have been complicated by an ugly history that has important effects today for African Americans. By focusing on the economy and the particular challenges faced by certain groups we can make sure that the American promise is kept for all Americans.\"<br><br>At least that is what I heard when he spoke of a more perfect union and that his granmothers issues on race are based on her generations stereotypes and images. That America has progressed with each generation and that she is moving towards keeping her promise to all Americans.  The demonstrable truth of that was Obama's candidacy and winning primary after primary.<br><br>I don't think Obama traded on making whites racially innocent in fact, he confronted them with the very racism they perpetuate by bringing up how the things his grandmother said would make him cringe.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_22:08:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "bf592ce4366b6f179fe40d8422c998a5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4302046, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4314708": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I was talking about Susan.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_14:13:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4313368, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4303355": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey, MsMartin!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-09_23:21:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4302667, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4305404": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Here ya go!!  From back in the day...  TIGHT!!<br><br>This band got their name because somebody said  --  These cats ain't your average white band.<br><br>Indeed!!<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0h9X3gl2Bc\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pick up the pieces</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_02:03:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4305147, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4304184": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Town, you know you are so, so, wrong for being so, so, right!<br><br>These characters are straight out of some deviant sci-fi pic.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-10_00:19:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "12 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4304037, "depth": 4, "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": "8168129", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": -5129676116741353462}, "thread": {"total_posts": 0, "paginate": false, "per_page": 0, "slug": "countdown_to_the_inauguration_42_days_8212_open_thread", "num_pages": 1, "days_alive": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 8168129, "num_posts": 182, "closed": false, "queued": false, "killed": 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: ";
  this.MODERATE_OPTIONS = "Moderate Options";

  // Thread moderator actions
  this.CLOSE_THREAD = "Close thread";
  this.OPEN_THREAD = "Open thread";
  this.REMOVE_THREAD = "Remove thread";
  this.RESTORE_THREAD = "Restore thread";
  this.ACTIONS = "Actions";
};
// 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_42_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_42_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>';
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showModeratorActions(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</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 <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : '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_42_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_42_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">182</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/countdown_to_the_inauguration_42_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_42_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:8168129" 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_42_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 <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : '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:8168129" 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:8168129" 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_42_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_42_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_42_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_42_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_42_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.showModeratorActions = function() {
      if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
          return;
      }

      var html = '<div class="dsq-moderate-options"><table><tr>' +
                 '<td>' + Dsq.Strings.ACTIONS + '</td><td><ul>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleClosed(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.closed ? Dsq.Strings.OPEN_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.CLOSE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleKilled(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.killed ? Dsq.Strings.RESTORE_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.REMOVE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '</ul></td></tr></table></div>' +
              '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate-threads/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
      Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, Dsq.Strings.MODERATE_OPTIONS);
  };

	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);
	};

  this.toggleClosed = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/toggle_thread_closed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };

  this.toggleKilled = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/toggle_thread_killed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };
};
// 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/8168129/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);
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4300685">Trumystique</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4300685" class="dsq-comment-message">What a glorious picture! Captures the simple pleasures of childhood.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4300686" class="dsq-comment-message">Beautiful picture!  Sasha is just too dang cute!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4300732" class="dsq-comment-message">On a different note...Diddy sure does love himself....<br><br>On why he should be the next James Bond...<br><br><i>“I know there’s some black people that can save the world. White people aren’t the only people that can save the world. My variation, I would come from the New York agency. I would actually be working with James Bond. And he would get kidnapped, and I would have to come get him and save the day. It’s a natural thing. It’s organic. I think it would be a tragedy for the next James Bond not to be black, and I think the next Superman should be black. We are like the coolest creatures on the face of the Earth.</i><br><br>I support this 100%, as long as just about any other black actor besides Diddy plays Bond.  And no Terrence Howard.  <br><br><a href="http://www.bestweekever.tv/2008/12/09/diddy-makes-a-strong-case-to-be-the-black-james-bond/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bestweekever.tv/2008/12/09/diddy-mak...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4301118">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4301118" class="dsq-comment-message">I certainly like the idea of the next Bond being black...but Diddy ain\'t my idea of Bond.<br>I would like maybe Morris Chestnut, Wesley Snipes, Idris Elba,someBODY chocolate fine with a NFL body type like the Rock.<br><br>I want him suave, debonair and rich dark chocolate.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4301251">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4301251" class="dsq-comment-message">Word, whiterosebuddy.  I\'ll throw Blair Underwoods name in the hat.  :-))</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4301334" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4301334" class="dsq-comment-message">Underwoods could work... they won\'t have to change the complexion of the Bond girl.<br><br>*snicker*<br><br>*runs and hides*</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4301478">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4301478" class="dsq-comment-message">Ha!, JunePearl.  You can come out of hiding!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4301682">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4301682" class="dsq-comment-message">I LIKE Blair Underwood...he has just the right demeanor...great choice Spirit!!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4302461" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4302461" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL! Thanks spirit_55z, you never can tell if folks will take this type of stuff personally. Thanks for having a good sense of humor!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4302656" class="dsq-comment-message">JunePearl, It\'s all good!  I just throw it in the mix and watch how it settles!  :-))<br><br>They\'re all fine looking Brothas.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4301547" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4301547" class="dsq-comment-message">Nice one...!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4302135">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4302135" class="dsq-comment-message">So wrong, but so true.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4303756" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4303756" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303756" class="dsq-comment-message">They better.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4303730" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303730" class="dsq-comment-message">Spirit, I was just about to nominate my sixth husband but you beat me to it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4305213">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4305213" class="dsq-comment-message">spirit:  WE graduated from the SAME undergraduate school -----1000 years apart, though!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>Wonder IFFF he wants my "autograph??"   ***shrug***   HAH!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4305325" class="dsq-comment-message">Dang, GLH.  He\'s fine as wine.  You can co-sgn Bair  him with your new icon.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4305731" class="dsq-comment-message">spirit:    LOL!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4301957">Trumystique</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4301957" class="dsq-comment-message">Idris! Idris!<br><br>I had a friend that said that a black guy could never be a spy let alone Bond.  This because white people always notice black people where ever they are. So undercover work would be limited to big metro areas with substantial black populations or in Africa and the Caribbean.<br><br>I told my friend to shut up because he was ruining my fantasies of Idris as Bond</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4302360">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4302360" class="dsq-comment-message">I FEEL you Tru!!<br><br>I would have said the same thing!!!<br><br>I can\'t stand haters that puncture the rapture zone, lol</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4303367">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303367" class="dsq-comment-message">Your friend needs to watch Alias.  Dixon was a great spy and he blended in fine.  His cover was usually related to being a rich African or Jamaican which plays well internationally.  Your friend needs to open his mind.  Bond movies never take place in rural Iowa.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4303582">Trumystique</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303582" class="dsq-comment-message">Im sorry but Alias to me: horrible show. I couldnt watch it after being a devotee of La Femme Nikita. Actually there were black spies on the LFN despite the main cast being lilywhite. But they did have a few believeable storylines with black spies.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4303665">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303665" class="dsq-comment-message">I love Le Femme Nikita!  I have the DVDs.  I thought I was the only one who<br>watched it.<br>But I also love me some Alias.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4303783">Trumystique</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303783" class="dsq-comment-message">I have the DVDs not the full set yet. Started with s1 and they are so expensive.<br><br>Michael was so pathological in his love. I was still like Roy is hot ( really but those tight pants, the soulful stares...). Remember season 5 when he cut his face and was staring at Nikita in longing. That was so crazy but I was like "Ohhh he loves her!"</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4303951">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303951" class="dsq-comment-message">I found the DVDs on sale at Best Buy so I got lucky.  <br><br>Dang you are making me want to break them out and watch over from the beginning.  I loved Michael with his constant brooding and his love for Nikita.  He was a bad ass.  And Nikita could probably kick Sydney Bristow\'s ass.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304134">Trumystique</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304134" class="dsq-comment-message">Sydney would totally be crying for her mama after Nikita broker her kneecapa and threatened to hook up an iron to her crotch or something. Thats why I couldnt watch Alias not even for Carl Yumbly ( I know its Lumbly but he is a fine ass man)<br><br>And dont even get me started on the clothes on LFN. Loved them!!!<br><br>You found the whole set at Best Buy? When was this? You have no idea how obsessed I am. When they started playing reruns at 1 am I watched and taped all of those. I even re-watch season 1. I want me some DVDs. But the whole box set is $350.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304293">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304293" class="dsq-comment-message">They were individual seasons.  The first three seasons were around $39.00<br>each and the last two were $59.00.  Check Amazon.  They have random sales on<br>there TV collection.  You may have to piece it together but at least you can<br>eventually have the set.<br><br>This was about a a year and a half ago.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304560">Trumystique</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304560" class="dsq-comment-message">I am hopeless. So just went to Best Buy to see if they had any on sale. I saw them selling a La Femme Nikita and Babylon 5 starter pack and I was like: I WANT THAT!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304712">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304712" class="dsq-comment-message">I just check Amazon for you and they have Season 1 for $41.00, 2-4 for<br>$56.00 and 5 for $22.00</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4304972" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304972" class="dsq-comment-message">Haha! THAT WAS THE SHOW! I remember being so mad that they hired this blonde Amazon for Nikita but Peta Wilson totally won me over. The movie is still one of my faves!! It was great when they went into Season 2 and could move on from the movie plot. I love Roy Dupois that man was sex on a stick! I also have the DVDs and the music was way ahead of its time. The end of Season 3/start of Season 4 when they erased Nikita\'s mind was sooo messed up.  That show was such a mind job. I got banned from an Alias board for complaining that it was a more expensive but pale imitation of LFN. It was! You can get the entire 5 seasons on <a href="http://Overstock.com" rel="nofollow">Overstock.com</a> for around $110 if you use a coupon. We are just starved for a show about a capable, smart and attractive woman who\'s kicking butt we\'d practically watch anything half-way decent.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4314352">SDG</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4314352" class="dsq-comment-message">LOVE, LOVE, LOVED IT! Now that you\'ve brought ti back, I have to get it on DVD.  Michael, Michael...you SEXY BEAST!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4303774">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303774" class="dsq-comment-message">Also, The Unit. <br><br>Dennis Haysbert is trading countries every week on those missions.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4303707" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303707" class="dsq-comment-message">lol...that was funny.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4301280">lamh31</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4301280" class="dsq-comment-message">My money is on Idris.  Bond is British after all, and Idris is hot, hot, hot.  I love Morris, but unfortunately he is way too short.   He is not as tall as he looks.  <br><br>Question: Is this supposed to be a real part of the Bond series, or just a new version for the non-melanin-challenged movie goers.<br><br>Question 2: Has there every really been a James Bond inspired spy flick starring a black actor, that wasn\'t I,Spy, or the average Blaxploitation film star?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4301526" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4301526" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4301526" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4301526" class="dsq-comment-message">Didn\'t Don Cheadle do something...? And does Vin Diesel count? LOL.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4301693" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4301693" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4301693">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4301693" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4301693" class="dsq-comment-message">Cheadle does not have the right body type...vinDiesel AINT chocolate! nor fine</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4303469" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4303469" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4303469">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4303469" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303469" class="dsq-comment-message">Vin Diesel looks like a newborn baby bird.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4303795" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4303795">Think_About_It</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4303795" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303795" class="dsq-comment-message">cracking up at this description...lmao</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4304030" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304030">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4304030" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304030" class="dsq-comment-message">ROTLMAO!!! Big Bird</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4302114" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4302114" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4302114">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4302114" class="dsq-comment-message">Don Cheadle is the new War Machine in the next two Iron Man movies so he is the next black superhero.<br><br>Answering lamh31\'s first question, I think the intent is to make this part of the Bond series as in the next Bond after Daniel Craig should be black.  I actually think since 00 is a classification that it would be easy to introduce a new 00 in the next few movies that is black instead of just making James Bond black.  Assuming they go in numerical order, with Bond being 7, then the new guy should be 008.  I wonder what happened to 006?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4304674" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4304674" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4304674" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4304674" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304674" class="dsq-comment-message">You\'re thinking of the Traitor film - which was great by the way. Rent it when it comes out on DVD! Vin Diesel is too much of a meat-head to play Bond. We need someone elegant. Idris is good. Chiwetel Ejiofor would be great as well - another Brit and a lead actor. I\'d even consider Digimon - I mean Djimon Honsou.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4304704" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4304704" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304704">Trumystique</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4304704" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304704" class="dsq-comment-message">I am down with Chiwetel if Idris is sick or something . He is not as fine as Idris but he is a great actor.<br><br>But hell naw to Djimon "Give Me Free" Hounsou. He is beautiful but I cant stand him. Plus there is no wish fulfillment cause I am sure its all about white girls for him.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4304900" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4304900" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4304900" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304900" class="dsq-comment-message">Well Digimon is with Kimora. Not to burst the bubble but how do you know Idris dates black women? If that\'s going to be our requirement that will eliminate most of them. Seriously!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4308230">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4308230" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4308230" class="dsq-comment-message">Idris does date black women. In fact, he has a beautiful daughter who is unmistakeably black.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4314535">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4314535" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4314535" class="dsq-comment-message">While we\'re on this topic, as trivial as it is...has anyone ever seen Jamie Foxx\'s daughter\'s mother??</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4313946" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4313946" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4313946" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4313946" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4313946" class="dsq-comment-message">Chestnut and Underwood are married to black women.<br><br>trust me...I look these things up.<br><br>Thats why Terence Howard needs to go sit down...not only is a strange, boring and long-winded. He shuns the sistas.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4314501" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4314501">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4314501" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4314501" class="dsq-comment-message">Chiweltel only dates white women. Idris is - or was- married to a black woman. But interracial dating in the U.K. is big on both sides, black woman with white man and black man with white woman.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4304783" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4304783" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304783">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4304783" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304783" class="dsq-comment-message">Nah, he\'s with Kimora so he likes them at least half black.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4314438">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4314438" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4314438" class="dsq-comment-message">I enjoyed "Traitor" a lot as well, surprised considering the subject matter that it got made. Not surprised that it didn\'t do so well...but I\'m glad others have discovered it. <br>As for the Bond debate, Idris is undeniable if it ever happens. In the meantime, I\'m fine with Daniel Craig\'s fine self.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4314653" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4314653" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4314653" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4314653" class="dsq-comment-message">Traitor wasn\'t advertised at all! I thought Casino Royale was surprisingly good. Haven\'t seen the new Bond yet.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4301285" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4301285" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4301285" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve heard that they were looking at Idris Elba, which actually makes sense...seeing that he is British, and Diddy has <b>no</b> acting talent. Let\'s just keep it real, Diddy would embarass us.<br><br>Beyonce was just yapping the other day about "how great it would be if Wonder Woman could be Black. We have a Black president. The world is ready to see a Black Wonder Woman. I would love to do that". Chile, sit down. You can\'t act! Just let it go. <br><br>Y\'all ain\'t slick! What is with these celebraties?!<br><br>Lynda Carter broke barriers as a Latina playing Wonder Woman. It would be nice to see an up and coming Latina playing her role. <br><br>I think it takes a lot of nerve to tell me they should consider you for a part. Come on now! Isn\'t that what your manager is for?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4301374">lamh31</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4301374" class="dsq-comment-message">No offense to Beyonce, I\'m all for diversity, but somethings should just not happen.  Lynda Carter may have been a Latina, but Wonder Woman in the comics was obviously white.  Yes she was supposedly an Amazon princess, and therefore dark-skinned, but it was a comic book character, and most comic book characters are not  known for being historically correct.<br><br>Besides, at some point doesn\'t it just become insulting.  Would we really be happy with just because a black guy got to play Superman?  Or vice versa, wouldn\'t it have been silly to have a white guy play Blade?<br><br>It\'s one thing to want a black princess be a NEW main character in a Disney film, but many of these comic book characters have well-established origins and characteristics.<br><br>Sadly, this includes Bond (I know it\'s not a comic book character, but it is a fictonal character with descriptive traits and features)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4303447">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4303447" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303447" class="dsq-comment-message">Speaking of Disney\'s first black princess, when is The Princess and the Frog going to be released?  I can\'t wait for Tiana.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4303644" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4303644" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4303644" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303644" class="dsq-comment-message">OMG!!! You do not know how excited I am about it. Finally. I spent my whole childhood having to deal with Disney having princesses and characters in every other race. When they went to Africa, the chracters were animals. <br><br>I am so excited.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4303723" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4303723">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4303723" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303723" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m excited too. My great-niece is too young for it, but I will be there opening weekend in the theaters, praying and hoping it\'s decent, so that I can buy the DVD too.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4304880" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304880">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304880" class="dsq-comment-message">Here is the trailer for those who have not seen Princess Tiana.  She is so cute!<br><br><a href="http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/princessandthefrog/" rel="nofollow">http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/princessand...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4303672" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4303672" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4303672" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4303672" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303672" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with you and I was thinking the same thing.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4314386" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4314386">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4314386" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4314386" class="dsq-comment-message">Elizabeth Taylor played Cleopatra. Angelina Jolie played Marianne Pearl. Should I go on down the long list of white actresses and actors who have played ethnic roles?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4301873" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4301873">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4301873" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4301873" class="dsq-comment-message">Actual black actresses already have so few opportunities, but Hollywood has really marganilized them by getting these "two-fers".....a pop act with name recognition - if they can say a line without throwing up they\'ll get the part before Kerry Washington, Tajari Henson or Regina King....and I mean for serious dramatic acting roles.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4302161" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4302161">pjamma</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4302161" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4302161" class="dsq-comment-message">Halle got the chance at Catwoman and that was just horrible.  Then again, Catwoman was the antagonist so I guess that doesn\'t count.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4302558" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4302558" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4302558" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4302558" class="dsq-comment-message">I firmly agree. But I guess they\'re gonna learn their lesson when Cadillac Records fails to be Dreamgirls 2.0. <br><br>I actually like Beyonce...as a singer. Not everyone can do it all!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4302725" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4302725">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4302725" class="dsq-comment-message">All the acting coaches in the world can\'t help what is just not there. Beyonce can\'t act...not a pure dramatic role. Every acting role I\'ve seen Beyonce play...she is still Beyonce to me on the screen. I completely forgot I was looking at Diana Ross in Lady Sings The Blues...that was strung out Billie Holiday. Now that was some acting!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4303454" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4303454" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4303454">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4303454" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303454" class="dsq-comment-message">Beyonce can\'t act because she can\'t get into the character.  Playing "Sasha Fierce" doesn\'t count.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4303581" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4303581" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4303581" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4303581" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303581" class="dsq-comment-message">lol.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4304203" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4304203" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304203">isonprize</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4304203" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304203" class="dsq-comment-message">Playing "Sasha Fierce" doesn\'t count.<br><br>YOU. AIN\'T. RIGHT.  I "screamed\' out loud when I read this.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4303565" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4303565" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4303565" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4303565" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303565" class="dsq-comment-message">Yup!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4304174" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4304174" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304174">isonprize</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4304174" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304174" class="dsq-comment-message">Now, you wouldn\'t be talking about  Beyonce in the role of Etta James, would you?     When I saw the ad, I just rolled my eyes...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4304519" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304519">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304519" class="dsq-comment-message">isonprize:      I saw "CADILLAC!"   :&gt;)    :&gt;)  ****shrug****</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4302599" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4302599">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4302599" class="dsq-comment-message">Here you go ladies!!<br><br>1 Idris Elba:  <a href="http://www.jamati.com/online/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/idris_elba_blackprwire.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.jamati.com/online/wp-content/uploads...</a><br><br><br>2.  Lawrence Fishburne: <a href="http://www.rhyolitesite.com/lawrence.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.rhyolitesite.com/lawrence.jpg</a><br><br>3.  Wesley Snipes:  <a href="http://paulignatius.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/wesley-snipes-crazy.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://paulignatius.files.wordpress.com/2008/07...</a><br><br>4.  Don Chedle:  <a href="http://www.vibe.com/images/celebs/don_cheadle.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.vibe.com/images/celebs/don_cheadle.jpg</a><br><br>5.  Morris Chesnut:  <a href="http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb40/anonymous227/celebs/mybabydaddy.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb40/anonymo...</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4302896" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4302896" class="dsq-comment-message">Go, spirit_55z! It\'s starting to feel like ladies night at JJP. Idris Elba is most definitely the best looking man on this list. Thanks for the eye candy!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304152">isonprize</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304152" class="dsq-comment-message">Eye candy, indeed!    <br><br>I hear Wesley beats his women, so he\'s out.<br><br>Love me some Laurence F, but he\'s too old for the part, and these days, more than a bit on the chubby side.<br><br>Don Cheadle  has the acting chops, but since when has  "007" been about acting?<br><br>So that leaves Morris Chestnut and Idris Elba.  I wouldn\'t kick either of \'em out of bed for eating crackers, but  <br><br>Idris??    WHheewwww ...   \'til the cops come knockin\'<br><br><br>GreenLady,  where is an oxygen mask when I need one? LOLOL</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304343">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304343" class="dsq-comment-message">I know...I have been fanning and panting and sighing every since clicking on that wooooonderful Idris Elba link Sprit posted.<br><br>Thank YOU Spirit...for making us feel good.<br><br>I am just melting over here drooling and ...well y\'know what I\'m sayin</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304498">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304498" class="dsq-comment-message">wrb:  LOL!!!!<br><br><b>  FAN!</b>    CHECK!!<br><br><b>AIR CONDITIONER!</b>   CHECK!!<br><br><b>"OXYGEN MASK!"</b>   CHECK!!<br><br>Feel better!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304468">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304468" class="dsq-comment-message">isonprize:    LOL!!!    :&gt;)<br><br><b>H----E----R---E    it is!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)  </b></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304912">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304912" class="dsq-comment-message">isonprize,   LOL!  "I wouldn\'t kick either of \'em out of bed for eating crackers"<br><br>MAXWELL<br><br>Idris?? WHheewwww ... \'til the cops come knockin\'<br><br><br><br>"Till the Cops Come Knockin\'<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9009y0Eu2A" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9009y0Eu2A</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4313789" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4313789" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4313789" class="dsq-comment-message">I love that Maxwell song!! I listen to it twice a day.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4303551" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303551" class="dsq-comment-message">My aunt is friends with Fishburne\'s wife, she\'s nice. <br><br>I never liked Wesley\'s ass. Don Chedle is Don Chedle.<br><br>Morris Chestnut and Idris Elba anyday!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4304111" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304111">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304111" class="dsq-comment-message">Snipes is not feeling black women.  Idris Elba is my pick-o-the bunch!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304052">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304052" class="dsq-comment-message">Definitely NOT Don Chedle. Everytime I see him, I think about his character "Ice Tray" on the Fresh Prince of Bel Air.<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBItEHdArXU" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBItEHdArXU</a><br><br>LMAO.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4303488" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4303488" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303488" class="dsq-comment-message">Celebrities are the usual opportunists. They are trying to see if they could jump on the "Obama is the first black president, so I can be the first black something else" wagon.<br><br>Tiring.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4304448" href="http://sooncome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JunePearl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304448" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s come across as pitiful because it\'s soobvious when they do it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4312141">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4312141" class="dsq-comment-message">Idris Elba makes me think naughty thoughts unbefitting a married, Christian woman.  There were huge issues in my household when we watched his seasons of the Wire.<br><br>Beyonce needs to sit down.  I don\'t want to see her as Wonder Woman, but I would call for Obama\'s impeachment if he invites her anywhere near the Inauguration.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4314303">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4314303" class="dsq-comment-message">Even on JJP, Beyonce gets no love. I don\'t get it. Why are people so upset with her? I like her and I enjoy her music and she\'s the one chick my entire family all ages and genders likes, including my 60-something mother. She was good in "Cadillac Records" which proves she\'s working on her craft. I would not be mad to see her at the inauguration since she\'s a great performer and will do the honor justice.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4303434" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303434" class="dsq-comment-message">I co-sign with the no self-absorbed and arrogant P. Diddy or Terrence Howard!<br><br>I can\'t stand either. I wish Diddy can apply all this creativity to his artists.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4300948">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4300948" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/12/obama-ebony.html" rel="nofollow">http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008...</a><br><br>Ebony beats Time to the punch, makes Obama Person of the Year <br><br><i>You\'ll never guess who Ebony magazine has selected as its first Person of the Year. (Do you think Time may follow suit shortly?)<br><br>"He did it!" screams Ebony\'s news release about Barack Obama. "He\'s rightfully earned the title of President-elect."<br><br>Now we know why reporters for the N.Y. Post, Washington Times and Dallas Morning News were tossed off Barack Obama\'s campaign plane campaign plane shortly before the election to make room for, among others, an Ebony correspondent.<br><br>Just coincidentally, all three booted papers had endorsed Obama\'s opponent, the Arizona guy.<br><br>Ebony, along with other magazines, already published a cover story on Michelle Obama.<br><br>Anyway, the special January issue goes on sale today, and Ebony reps are hoping it does as well as other published Obama memorabilia did closer to the historic Nov. 4 election that saw, in case you hadn\'t heard, the U.S. elect its first African American president.<br></i></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4301400">lamh31</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4301400" class="dsq-comment-message">This blogger sounds a little catty.  Is that the usual M.O. for the latimes</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4302385" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4302385" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4314227">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4314227" class="dsq-comment-message">As though those mainstream reporters were somehow more deserving to be on the plane than an Ebony correspondent. Awww, PEBO, I knew you was looking out on the low!:-)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4300971">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4300971" class="dsq-comment-message">Michelle Obama warrants salute for breaking barriers<br>By DeWayne Wickham<br><br><i>What might surprise you is that he is not my pick for "American of the Year." The first recipient of my annual acknowledgement of a person who has done something to improve the lives of people in this country, or given us the inspiration to make America a better place, is Michelle Obama.<br><br><br>Dispels stereotypes <br><br><br>In his winning presidential campaign, Obama helped a nation traumatized by the events of the past eight years heal its wounds. As his partner in marriage and his political life, Michelle Obama had an even bigger impact this year. She debunked the myth of the black woman. She is not a welfare mother, an angry woman, or an overachieving can\'t-find-a-good-man sista. Obama said his wife is his "rock" — the strong, steadying force in his life. But for many black women, Michelle Obama is their "everywoman."<br><br>She is the well-educated black wife and mother that Hollywood won\'t acknowledge and much of white America hasn\'t discovered. She\'s a black woman with wide hips and an occasional bad hair day who moved Erin Aubry Kaplan to say in a <a href="http://Salon.com" rel="nofollow">Salon.com</a> article: "Barack\'s better half not only has stature but is statuesque," the black essayist writes. "She has coruscating intelligence, beauty, style and ... a butt."<br><br>While such descriptions of Michelle Obama might make some people uncomfortable, it goes to the heart of what makes a lot of black women rave as much about her becoming first lady as they do her husband\'s becoming president. She looks more like them than Halle Berry or Beyonce does.<br><br>Obama\'s election ends the long monopoly white men have had on this country\'s highest office. But as the loyal partner in his life, Michelle Obama shows the world the strength that many black women possess. And, in doing so, she salves the centuries-old wounds of the millions of black women who have been victimized and marginalized by negative stereotypes. <br><br>For all these reasons, Michelle Obama is my "American of the Year."<br><br></i><br><br><a href="http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/12/michelle-obama.html" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/12/michelle...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4301331">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4301331" class="dsq-comment-message">Michele Obama s my "American of the Year" too!<br><br>"Barack\'s better half not only has stature but is statuesque," the black essayist writes. "She has coruscating intelligence, beauty, style and ... a butt."<br><br>IHowever, I submit that she\'s Barack\'s better WHOLE!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4302883" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4302883">zackboston</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4302883" class="dsq-comment-message">eek!  i didn\'t know what coruscate meant so i had to look it up.  but it\'s a beautiful word and it fits michelle obama:  to give off flashes of light; sparkle; to be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4303060">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303060" class="dsq-comment-message">susan, word. Michelle Obama is a STAR!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4303383" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4303383" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303383" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, I co-sign.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4301031">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4301031" class="dsq-comment-message">Sasha looks so happy in that picture, swinging on a wonderful summer day in her raspberry red sundress....gosh I remember when life was such a joy like that...warm weather, a nice swing and nothing but a sun filled delightful day.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304425">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304425" class="dsq-comment-message">whiterosebuddy:       -Er,  -ummmm   Did you REQUEST this?<br><br><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/toolbar/#topic=Jazz&url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.youtube.com%252Fwatch%253Fv%253D1yKgAEkCKxY" rel="nofollow">SUMMERTIME (Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong)</a><br><br>ENJOY!!!   :&gt;)      [There were soooo many versions to chose from.!  WHEW!    :&gt;)]</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4301321">littlewings</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4301321" class="dsq-comment-message">Love the photo!  Wish I weren\'t too old to take a trip down to the playground instead of eating lunch in my cubicle... if anyone\'s going to be in DC for the inauguration (is it really just 42 days away?!), this might be useful: <a href="http://inaugurationsurvivalguide.com" rel="nofollow">http://inaugurationsurvivalguide.com</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4301569">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4301569" class="dsq-comment-message">Sasha\'s adorable; oh, those care free days of summer.  Remember the old rope  tree swings with the thick board seats?  We\'d swing so high, we would leave our bodies!  Weeeeee!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4303363" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4303363" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303363" class="dsq-comment-message">No? I have been reading this blog for almost a year now and I think that I am one of the youngest people here because I keep reading posts about 401Ks, all who voted for Dukakis and Clinton, husbands, kids, 10+ years at the same job, "old rope tree swings with the thick board seats" as well as other indicators of age. <br><br>I don\'t think they make those anymore. I was born in the late 80s, everything is plastic.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303659" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL!  Rhondacoca, youth is a beautiful thing,and  we get to learn from each other.  I\'m digging it. How about you?<br><br>And yes they still make swings of rope and wood in backyards a home.  Some have leather seats like the one Sasha\'s in.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304298" class="dsq-comment-message">late 80s, you\'re younger than me : )<br><br>imma mid-80s baby and proud!<br><br>anywho\'s its wayyyy past my bedtime, peace&blessings</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4302046" class="dsq-comment-message">MOVING THIS OVER FROM THE DAY THREAD<br><br>Response to Michele<br><br>I think this is a pretty brilliant summation and conceptualization. I really hadnt thought of this in the context of the STHU conversation( Hildebrand).<br><br>But you remind me that this has always been my fear about Obama and any Obama administration. Obama has spent alot of time talking about unity and finding common purpose across gender, race, class, sexual orientation or political affiliation divisions. But in trying to find the common purpose he often negates these identities by trying to appeal to universality- as you have so aptly put it. This Other-ing happens in so many contexts from the liberal or feminist blogosphere, literary studies, health care what have you.<br><br>I hate to credit Shelby Steele ( cause he is wrong most of the time )-- but I do think in some ways Obama is a bargainer and that is probably his default position. But I am convinced he can be turned on.<br><br>Shelby\'s take on Obama : "Bargainers make the subliminal promise to whites not to shame them with America’s history of racism, on the condition that they will not hold the bargainer’s race against him.<br>And whites love this bargain — and feel affection for the bargainer — because it gives them racial innocence in a society where whites live under constant threat of being stigmatized as racist. So the bargainer presents himself as an opportunity for whites to experience racial innocence."<br><br>So I think Obama is a instinctually a bargainer from his family background. And he honed this gut level instinctual reaction professionally as a community organizer. My experience of many community organizers is this ethos of " I wont judge you and I will meet you where you are".<br><br>The community organizers dont talk about these social identities and at the same time try to pretend that they DONT EXIST. So in a collective bargaining situation if black workers are saying they are being denied position at the table in the union\'s white power structure they will be marginalized and told " Dont worry about it we are speaking to everyone\'s concerns and we are hammering out a deal" and if black workers continue and suggest lack of input, voice etc - they are labeled as troublemakers, selfish etc.<br><br>So yes I see these same tendencies in Obama as well and it gives me concern. It gave me concern before the election when I listened to his speeches and it concerns me now.<br><br>But I am still hopeful and heres why.<br><br>He can be forced to deal with these issues. The perfect example was the Reverend Wright issue. For most of the time Obama tried to ignore race in this country and its very real consequences on his candidacy and its power in the lives and aspirations of Americans. Wright and the MSM wouldnt let it go and he was forced to give his speech which I think was one of the most nuanced and compelling discussions of race in this country.<br><br>The only downside of the Wright situation was instead of being happy to talk about this issue the campaign narrative I heard was : It is really unfortunate that you (the MSM) forced us here with your pettiness. Shouldnt we be beyond these divisions? Lets not talk about race anymore lets get back to the issues like putting food on the table, paying for tuition and all the OTHER ISSUES THAT ARE REALLY IMPORTANT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.<br><br>That was a missed opportunity. Instead the narrative segue should have been:<br>This is a teachable moment. Race is very real in the lives in American and we should recognize it as such . At the same time we should not let racial division stop us from uniting for common purpose. We are all concerned about issues like putting food on the table, paying for tuition. We must recognize that challenges to employment and education have been complicated by an ugly history that has important effects today for African Americans. By focusing on the economy and the particular challenges faced by certain groups we can make sure that the American promise is kept for all Americans.<br><br>Obama is capable of this type of narrative. And this second narrative was offered later in the campaign. So Obama can come up with this contextualized narrative he just has to be pushed to it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4302321">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4302321" class="dsq-comment-message">I think Obama\'s talk on race in Philly did rise to what you call a teachable moment and that in fact he did say exactly this:<br><br>"Race is very real in the lives in American and we should recognize it as such . At the same time we should not let racial division stop us from uniting for common purpose. We are all concerned about issues like putting food on the table, paying for tuition. We must recognize that challenges to employment and education have been complicated by an ugly history that has important effects today for African Americans. By focusing on the economy and the particular challenges faced by certain groups we can make sure that the American promise is kept for all Americans."<br><br>At least that is what I heard when he spoke of a more perfect union and that his granmothers issues on race are based on her generations stereotypes and images. That America has progressed with each generation and that she is moving towards keeping her promise to all Americans.  The demonstrable truth of that was Obama\'s candidacy and winning primary after primary.<br><br>I don\'t think Obama traded on making whites racially innocent in fact, he confronted them with the very racism they perpetuate by bringing up how the things his grandmother said would make him cringe.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303314" class="dsq-comment-message">I think he said the teachable moments much time after the incident. ( Of course correct me if I am wrong).  Right after the speech the reaction of his campaign staff/surrogates  was to use teachable moment language and then say "Let\'s get back to the issues".<br><br>Ironically, this narrative of "Lets deal with universal issues so STHU with your identity politics" is a bitter to pill to swallow when you are on the receiving end and not the one saying it.    Case in point <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/12/whats-the-big-d.html#more" rel="nofollow">http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...</a> . <br><br>Ahhh, the sweet irony!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4313444">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4313444" class="dsq-comment-message">race is real...but food is realer...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4302185" class="dsq-comment-message">15 minutes sure is a long time:<br>Joe the Plumber: McCain "Appalled Me," Made Me Feel "Dirty"<br><br>Politico reports that Joe Wurzelbacher isn\'t a huge fan of the man who made him famous. He told conservative radio host Glenn Beck that he felt "dirty" after "being on the campaign trail and seeing some of the things that take place."<br><br>"I honestly felt even more dirty after I had been on the campaign trail and seen some things that take place. It was scary, man," Wurzelbacher said. He told Beck he asked McCain "some pretty direct questions" about the bailout, and wasn\'t pleased with the response. "They appalled me, absolutely. You know, I was angry. In fact, I wanted to get off the bus after I talked to him. <br><br>Asked why he didn\'t leave McCain\'s campaign if he was "appalled" by the candidate, Wurzelbacher said, "Honestly, because the thought of Barack Obama as president scares me even more."<br><br>While Wurzelbacher was critical of McCain, he gushed about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. "Sarah Palin is absolutely the real deal," he said.<br><br>You know, I only got to spend a short amount of time with her but, you know, it was been asked if I felt any presence when I was with John McCain or Barack Obama. You know, with Sarah Palin, I don\'t want to say I felt a presence but she definitely had energy and she definitely went to work for American people, and it disgusts me on how often they try to bash her just for her sincerity. It\'s just, you know, she really wants to work for America and I mean, I wish people would listen to her and let them, and let her work for us. You know, she wants to serve us. She\'s not looking for power.<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/09/joe-the-plumber-mccain-ap_n_149723.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/09/joe-th...</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4302537" href="http://www.tariqnelson.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">TariqNelson</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4302537" class="dsq-comment-message">Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. "Joe" is turning out to be a real piece of crap</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4302667" class="dsq-comment-message">Joe was always an opportnistic piece of crap.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303355" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey, MsMartin!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4302727" class="dsq-comment-message">He certainly is, and someone needs to take a plunger and flush his ass down the toilet.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4302769" href="http://www.tariqnelson.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">TariqNelson</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4302769" class="dsq-comment-message">@ spirit_55z<br><br>perhaps a REAL plumber can do it</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4303300" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303333" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>She\'s(Palin) not looking for power.</i><br><br>Like hell she\'s not! Joe Scumbag is pure trash! It is so disgusting to hear him trash McCain, but yet trying to capitalize off of him. D#mn!<br> I wish he\'d just stfu & go away.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4303370">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303370" class="dsq-comment-message">Doesn\'t he have a toilet somewhere in Ohio to unclog?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303550" class="dsq-comment-message">Town, TariqNelson recommends he get a REAL plumber to unclog his ass.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304037" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL or maybe he just needs to take his butt up to Alaska and have Sarah "inspect" his pipes.  Todd looks like the type that would sit and watch Joe and Sarah go at it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304184" class="dsq-comment-message">Town, you know you are so, so, wrong for being so, so, right!<br><br>These characters are straight out of some deviant sci-fi pic.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4309915" class="dsq-comment-message">This man is full of shit.  That is all.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4302914" href="http://www.tariqnelson.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">TariqNelson</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4302914" class="dsq-comment-message">Illinois Legislature already moving to strip Blago of his power to appoint the Senator and have a special election<br><br><a href="http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/12/illinois_legislature_pushing_b.php" rel="nofollow">http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com...</a><br><br>Jesse Jackson to run?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4302917">Trumystique</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4302917" class="dsq-comment-message">Dont know if this has been posted. My reaction is : Already???<br><br>AP: Cracks Appear In Obama Foreign Policy Team <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/08/cracks-appear-in-obama-fo_n_149486.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/08/cracks...</a><br>WASHINGTON — The first sign of cracks in President-elect Barack Obama\'s foreign policy team of rivals emerged on Monday as his choices for secretary of state and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations visited the State Department.<br><br>As Secretary of State-pick Hillary Rodham Clinton and U.N. envoy-choice Susan Rice separately visited the diplomatic agency\'s headquarters in Washington\'s Foggy Bottom neighborhood, persons familiar with the transition said that Rice wants to install her own transition team inside the department.<br><br>Such a move by an incoming U.N. ambassador is rare, if not unprecedented, because the job is based at the United Nations in New York, where Rice already has a small transition staff, the sources familiar with the incoming administration.<br><br>The push by Rice, an early Obama supporter whose position the President-elect wants to elevate to a cabinet post, is also a signal that she intends to use her influence with the new president to play a more significant role than previous U.N. envoys, they said. The transition sources spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.<br><br>Officials with Clinton\'s transition team declined to comment on the matter, and aides to Rice could not immediately be reached. State Department officials declined to comment on issues related to the transition. THERE IS MORE</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4303339">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303339" class="dsq-comment-message">Consider the source: AP is not friendly to Obama so anything negative they say has to be taken with a grain of salt.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4303626">Trumystique</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303626" class="dsq-comment-message">I didnt think of that. But I didnt think AP was uniformly anti-Obama just a few reporters.<br><br>Pass the salt please.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4303697">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303697" class="dsq-comment-message">show me a positive Obama story from AP, and I\'m going to have to look for the angle. <br><br>Ever since the speech at Hampton in October 2007, have I not believed one word AP writes about Obama.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304224" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, I read that the head person at AP is a right winger and he has been on a tear about Obama since he was promoted during the primaries.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4304403" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304403" class="dsq-comment-message">Why do we take white-oriented corp news sources as legit leads for stories? Just because we read something in the WSJ or NYT doesn\'t mean it\'s true or that the story hasn\'t been slanted. <br><br>Do We Create or Regurgitate News as Bloggers? <a href="http://snipurl.com/7ovz5" rel="nofollow">http://snipurl.com/7ovz5</a><br><br>I\'m certain Dr. Rice - who recently got married by the way - is going to control her turf and keep an eye on Billary and will be given the leeway to do so. Cuz we all know it\'s a matter of time.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4313368">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4313368" class="dsq-comment-message">susan rice or condi rice??? really...?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4314708" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4314708" class="dsq-comment-message">I was talking about Susan.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4302990">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4302990" class="dsq-comment-message">Beautiful picture.  <br><br><br>Oh the joys of childhood.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4303284" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303284" class="dsq-comment-message">She reminds me of me when I was little:)<br><br>I am waiting for the Obama admin. to get back to me regarding the "White House Babysitting" Job.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4303002" href="http://www.WEESeeYou.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Webb</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303002" class="dsq-comment-message">I have a confession/admission to make JJP fam.  You ever heard the song, "What You Won\'t Do For Love?" <br><br><i><br>What you won\'t do...do for love<br>You try everything...but you don\'t give up<br>In my world only you__<br>Made me do for love...what I would not do<br></i>  <br><br>I\'ve heard the song a gazillion times...grew up with it (and it should be on my ipod by now)...but last night I got quite a shock watching MusicChoice (R&B Soul) while they played WYWDFL.  When they play a song, they\'ll show the artist...and there was this white dude.<br><br>Lo and behold, I discovered that the singer of WYWDFL, Bobby Caldwell, is caucasian.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4303199" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303199" class="dsq-comment-message">HaHa...I went through that trauma already.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4303265" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303265" class="dsq-comment-message">I saw him at this concert when I was like 9 and I was like, why do they have this white man singing that song? lolz<br><br>My father was like because it is a white man who sings that song.<br><br>Its funny, my friend just expressed to me that she did not know that Teena Marie was white. I always knew that because I had the LPs though I used to swear she wasn\'t really white but just looks white-you know like Mariah Carey.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4303423" href="http://www.WEESeeYou.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Webb</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303423" class="dsq-comment-message">LoL, it\'s like going 20-years thinking that Kenny G is black, then seeing him in a video and literally being traumatized.  <br><br>I was also reminded of that Dave Chappelle episode where he plays the Black&Blind KKK GrandWizard who reveals himself...but my head didn\'t explode last night.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4303934">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303934" class="dsq-comment-message">ROFLO!! Clayton Bigsby.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4303403">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303403" class="dsq-comment-message">Wait.... so you mean that\'s a white dude sing that song??????<br><br>Color me surprised. I decided to google this to see for myself and yep he is a white guy w/ a big ol\' black voice like Micheal McDonald and Rick Astley. Video below:<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuo1deYXnIw" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuo1deYXnIw</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4303419">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303419" class="dsq-comment-message">singing- not sing</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4303559" href="http://www.WEESeeYou.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Webb</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303559" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh_, you know I had to do some followup research too (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Caldwell" rel="nofollow">at wikipedia</a>).  What\'s particularly hilarious is how his record company marketed him to the "black" audience:<br><blockquote><br>In order to ensure significant airplay on the African American-dominated R&B radio format of the time, Caldwell\'s management took certain steps — such as portraying the artist only in silhouette on the cover and in advertisements — to hide the fact that he was white. The secret was, for obvious reasons, shattered by his first live appearances.</blockquote><br><br>Rhondacoca can testisfy to that, lol.  Their management team succeeded, b/c I surely did not have a clue that whoever sung WYWDFL was not AA....</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4303430">Kat</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303430" class="dsq-comment-message">I just went over to You Tube right now because I thought surely the version in my head is not the original you are talking about. Sure enough, its Bobby Caldwell.<br><br>This is embarrassing. I\'m not keeping up with my people. ;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4303456">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303456" class="dsq-comment-message">Webb, <br><br>That is too funny! But I must say, it\'s one of my favorite songs and I have it on my portable satellite radio. It\'s right after Bill Withers\' - Lovely Day (which I think Barack and Michelle- should dance to at the inauguration). <br><br>Hehehehe....yes, he is white.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4303486">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303486" class="dsq-comment-message">Webb, LOL!!!  My ex hubby brought me the album for my birthday one year.  Yeah, he be white, but Soulful.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4303668" href="http://www.WEESeeYou.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Webb</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303668" class="dsq-comment-message">Was it the actual vinyl LP?  Wikipedia is saying that Bobby C was portrayed, "only in silhouette on the cover and in advertisements — to hide the fact that he was white," from AAs.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4303784">isonprize</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303784" class="dsq-comment-message">There is PLENTY of evidence of that, hiding the artist, that is.   "race" artists used to do it all the time.  Just not show the artists at all, if they were black. <br><br>But check out Teena Marie\'s first album cover.  <br><a href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://bp0.blogger.com/_-eWy9xG9GY8/R61L1_8uWCI/AAAAAAAAB_o/TlL3zKPPfv4/s320/teena%2Bexpanded.jpg&imgrefurl=http://fullundie.blogspot.com/2008/02/teena-marie-wild-peaceful-1979.html&usg=__K2LBDFX3QYr-Ew8qfZa26iQh6Vg=&h=286&w=320&sz=18&hl=en&start=27&tbnid=7DaCUuV11mtceM:&tbnh=105&tbnw=118&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dteena%2Bmarie%2Balbum%2Bcovers%26start%3D20%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN" rel="nofollow">Teena Marie - Wild and Peaceful  1979</a><br><br>I know, I know, I guess I\'m giving up my age, but I DO miss album art.   And the Earth Wind and Fire albums often had posters in them,  Bootsy\'s sunglasses... Don\'t get me started!   CD cases just don\'t get it!!!  And mp3?   There is nothing to put the art on!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4303874">Trumystique</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303874" class="dsq-comment-message">There are lots of soulful white artists. You know they can sing but they are blue eyed. Yknow that Blue Eyed Soul<br> I think the list varies depending on who you are. Some people might be:<br>Teene  Maria ( mos def)<br>George Michael<br>Jon B<br><br>Who else?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4304049" href="http://www.WEESeeYou.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Webb</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304049" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, I understand "Blue-Eyed" Soul like carolinagirl suggested:<br>Michael McDonald/Doobie Brothers, Hall&Oates, Robin Thicke<br><br>But WYWDFL?  Not in a million years would I have thought that singer was non-AA...totally flabbergasted.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304249">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304249" class="dsq-comment-message">Webb:    <b>"OXYGEN MASK??"</b>   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304341">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304341" class="dsq-comment-message">Webb:  Wild Cherry -"Play That Funky Music"<br><br>We used to jam to this song in the 70\'s  They were our "Blue Light in the Basement days!!!<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmH61C8cmG8" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmH61C8cmG8</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304451">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304451" class="dsq-comment-message">Trumystique, believe The Righteous Brothers were te first white artist who were coined "Blue Eyed Soul."</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304689">isonprize</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304689" class="dsq-comment-message">Robin Thicke. <br> <br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFzNXUUSFF0" rel="nofollow">Average White Band. -- Hamish Stewart  -  Cut the Cake</a><br><br> As I mentioned earlier, Gino Vanelli,   <br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUFxj59Fa9o" rel="nofollow">Tower of Power -- What is hip?</a><br>Lenny is lead singer, but the band was black and white, and it was TIGHT!!! <br><br>Here\'s another one  --<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DptRJzHNI6A&feature=related" rel="nofollow">Tower of Power. -- So Very Hard to Go</a><br><br>Ya\'ll are takin\' me back!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4305147" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4305147">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4305147" class="dsq-comment-message">isonprize, hellooooo!    AWB  "PICK UP THE PIECES"</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4305404">isonprize</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4305404" class="dsq-comment-message">Here ya go!!  From back in the day...  TIGHT!!<br><br>This band got their name because somebody said  --  These cats ain\'t your average white band.<br><br>Indeed!!<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0h9X3gl2Bc" rel="nofollow">Pick up the pieces</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4314081">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4314081" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s a manifestation of the "blue-eyed soul" phenomenon from my childhood years. Don\'t laugh (even though I did upon stumbling upon this on Youtube, LOL)<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BLQgQNuN-M" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BLQgQNuN-M</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4305149">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4305149" class="dsq-comment-message">Michael McDonald was the man.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4310037">lyric</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4310037" class="dsq-comment-message">Anyone remember Morgana King, the jazz singer? She was the equivalent of Teena Marie on the jazz set.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4313539" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4313539" class="dsq-comment-message">Robin Thicke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love him!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4313991">SDG</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4313991" class="dsq-comment-message">Michael McDonald from The Doobie Bros.  Love "I keep Forgetting" and "On My Own" w/Miss Pattie Labelle.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4305138">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4305138" class="dsq-comment-message">I remember Bootsy\'s sunglasses!!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4305463" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4305463" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4305463" class="dsq-comment-message">Weird trivia for ya - Bootsy Collins shares a birthday with Hillary Clinton.  I think about it every Oct. 26th LOL!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4303890">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303890" class="dsq-comment-message">Webb, that\'s correct on the silhouette:<br><br><a href="http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/bobby_caldwell/what_you_wont_do_for_love/" rel="nofollow">http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/bobby_ca...</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4303755" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303755" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL!! Where have you been?  I thought that was common knowledge -even for those of us who grew up listening to WYWDFL!<br><br>He is on my holiday playlist with Vanessa Williams.  They do a great version of "Baby, It\'s Cold Outside" on one of her Christmas albums.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4303953" href="http://www.WEESeeYou.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Webb</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303953" class="dsq-comment-message">It totally escaped me...and I like to think that "I know thangs."</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4304470" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304470" class="dsq-comment-message">That is hilarious.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304066">ljf</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304066" class="dsq-comment-message">I thought it was common knowledge that Bobby Caldwell sang that song.  I remember when my older brother bought the album.  If I am not mistaken Caldwell had a beard and a mustache.<br><br>During that era there were a quite of few white R&B artists that never really crossed over to a pop (white mainstream) audience.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4304388" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304388" class="dsq-comment-message">Exactly.  Growing up, the only white artist that stunned me was Teena Marie because I did not see her face until I went to buy her album "Lady T" in our little local record store.  Hall & Oates were based next door in Philly (I\'m from South Jersey) so no surprise there although Lisa Stansfield almost got me in the 90s.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304552">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304552" class="dsq-comment-message">Annovelista, Teena palled around with that buck wild , funk man, Rick James.  They had a few duets.  My aerobics intructor used to wear Lisa Stansfield \'s song "Around the World out!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4304763" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304763" class="dsq-comment-message">Um, er uh... yes, I know.  Didn\'t I just say I was buying Teena Marie albums back in the day?  LOL!!  Lisa Stansfield was like a decade later when I was grown but, yes, I know all about Lady T and Slick Rick and his incredible but crazy genius. <br><br>In fact, I always pass on my favorite interview with Rick.  A little known but telling interview he gave to the finance site <a href="http://Bankrate.com" rel="nofollow">Bankrate.com</a>.  I promise you it is a MUST read!<br><br><b> Rick James tried, but couldn\'t burn all his money</b><br><br>By Larry Getlen  <a href="http://Bankrate.com" rel="nofollow">Bankrate.com</a><br><br>Editor\'s note: Rick James passed away Aug. 6, 2004. He gave this interview to Bankrate in 2002.<br><br><i>Rick James\' story will make a fantastic movie one day. While most people\'s knowledge of James boils down to two facts -- that he had a tremendous hit with the song "Super Freak," and that he crashed in spectacular fashion, going to prison for a pair of incidents involving crack cocaine and several women claiming physical abuse -- his story is even richer, deeper, and more sordid than that.<br><br>James entered the Naval Reserve while still a teenager, but his misbehavior got him assigned to active duty. He was scheduled to ship off to Vietnam when he went AWOL. He took a bus to Toronto where he was immediately harassed by locals, and was saved from the fight by three musicians, two of whom turned out to be Robbie Robertson and Garth Hudson of The Hawks (later to become The Band.) He soon joined a band led by the future founder of Steppenwolf. Another member of that band was Neil Young. James and Young wrote songs together, and they got signed to Motown Records. But a dispute with a manager led that manager to inform the Navy of James\' whereabouts. James surrendered, and spent a year in the brig for desertion.<br><br>Upon his release, James joined Motown as a staff writer and released several records that did well in the black community. Then 1981\'s "Street Songs," featuring "Super Freak" and "Give It To Me Baby," made him a superstar. But with success came excess, and James quickly spiraled into full-blown crack addiction. James tried several times to get clean, but before he did, several incidents involving violence against women landed him in Folsom Prison.<br><br>Today, James is clean and productive, touring the country and preparing a series of new projects. Bankrate spoke to him about how his portfolio withstood the storms, and how his vices tapped into his wallet.<br><br>BANKRATE: How much money do you think you blew on coke?<br>- advertisement -<br><br>RICK JAMES: I spent $7,000 a week, and I did that for five years. I had a serious five-year hiatus where I didn\'t record, and didn\'t want to because me and Motown were in a lawsuit that I eventually won. But I couldn\'t record for another company, so I had a five-year sabbatical where I was just smoking, just freebasing. So I was smoking $7,000 every week. That\'s a couple of ounces a night.<br><br>BANKRATE: Did "Super Freak" make you rich in the long term, or did you blow that money on excess?<br><br>RICK JAMES: I made so much. You have to understand, I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn\'t have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling ... I\'m the most sampled artist in history. Right now. I mean, Mary J. Blige just sampled me, LL Cool J, Will Smith, you name it. MC Hammer, the biggest rap record of all time is "Super Freak," (Hammer\'s "Can\'t Touch This"), Salt n Pepa, Ja Rule and Jennifer Lopez, Ole Dirty Bastard.<br><br>BANKRATE: So even with all the money you blew, you didn\'t come close to blowing it all?<br><br>RICK JAMES: Right. I could have never been broke. See, that was the thing. Even when I was down to a couple hundred thousand, I would always get a check for 600, 700 more thousand, from the "Super Freak" album, or Teena Marie. That\'s the way it was. That\'s the way it is. That\'s because I kept my publishing throughout the years, and I was probably one of the first black acts getting $1 million an album at Motown in those days.<br><br>BANKRATE: How much are you worth?<br><br>RICK JAMES: I don\'t know. $30 million, $40 million, something like that. You don\'t really know your own worth because you don\'t know what may happen tomorrow. I may release an album tomorrow that gets me $10, $20 million, then I\'m worth $70, $80 million more.<br><br>BANKRATE: Did you invest any of that money wisely?<br><br>RICK JAMES: I have very good accountants who look out for me. CDs, land, oil drillings, stocks, bonds, many different things. I have great people.<br><br>BANKRATE: Are you into the market yourself?<br><br>RICK JAMES: No I\'m not, but I have played the market, and I have won.<br><br>BANKRATE: Any stocks or investments in particular you did really well with?<br><br>RICK JAMES: Pork bellies I\'m a fan of, because people, especially black people, whenever there\'s hard times, times of financial insecurity, black people going to eat some bacon. Some ham hocs, pork bellies. And, because of the baby boom, pharmaceuticals are a very good investment. And holograms are going to be great. Holographic imagery. I think it\'s going to be the next step for music and TV.<br><br>BANKRATE: Looking back, what\'s the dumbest thing you ever spent your money on?<br><br>RICK JAMES: Cocaine.<br><br>BANKRATE: Not counting drugs -- material possessions.<br><br>RICK JAMES: A jacket and a pair of boots I bought from Bijan\'s in Beverly Hills. I walked by the store, and this old white woman was sitting at a big ornate desk, and she snubbed her nose at me. But Bijan waved me in, and I walked in and gave her this look, like, I\'ll show you. So I found this leather jacket cut to the waist with black mink inside, and this plain pair of black boots. $28,000. When I saw the bill, I said, "There must be a mistake here." I only did it out of ego. I may have worn that jacket maybe twice, then I realized it was too small for me. </i></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4305083">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4305083" class="dsq-comment-message">Annovelista, thanks for the trip.  I thought Webb would be interested in some Teena Marie history.  I hadn\'t read this interview.  LAWD HA\' MERCY!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4305444" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4305444" class="dsq-comment-message">No problem!<br><br>JJP had me mess around and start playing Teena Marie from my iTunes!  <i>Behind the Groove, Portuguese Love, I Need Your Lovin\'</i><br><br>There is a reason I would receive Teena Marie albums for birthday gifts as a kid!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304668">Trumystique</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304668" class="dsq-comment-message">For both Teena Marie and Lisa Stansfield  I would squint and say "Maybe she\'s Arab, Latina or something but I really see some African blood there". My eyes were almost closed I was squinting so much.<br><br>I was suprised by Lisa, I admit. These English folk are really suprising cause its like they are listening to soul music in utero.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4305013">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4305013" class="dsq-comment-message">ROTFLMAO!!! You\'re killing me with the "squinting"<br><br>You knowTeena\'s mama had headphones hooked up to her belly!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4313503" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4313503" class="dsq-comment-message">I have that song on my playlist too!!<br><br>He also sang a great rendition of "Beyond the Sea", its used by casino and liquor companies alot.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4303886">isonprize</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303886" class="dsq-comment-message">Webb,<br><br>Don\'t feel bad.  I actually remember sitting in front of the TV, stunned. ABSOLUTELY STUNNED!!!<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryiXNZep7uY" rel="nofollow">Gino Vanelli  - I just wanna stop</a><br><br>Does Italian count?   LOLOLOL</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4313459" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4313459" class="dsq-comment-message">Lol!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304192">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304192" class="dsq-comment-message">Webb:  -Er,   -ummmmm,  Did you REQUEST this??<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laStiu_sUd4" rel="nofollow">WHAT YOU WON\'T DO FOR LOVE!</a><br><br>ENJOY!!    :&gt;)<br><br>-UMMMM, Is this called a "CROSS-OVER"  thang!??     :&gt;)      :&gt;)<br><br>Just askin\'. . . . .    :&gt;)     :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4305275">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4305275" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks GreenLady,<br><br>Enjoyed it! I thought he was a black guy also! Oops!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4305682" class="dsq-comment-message">Justice58:  LOL!  :&gt;)<br><br>My pleasure!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4305098">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4305098" class="dsq-comment-message">OMG!  I thought he was black as well.  I always pictured James Ingrim singing this song.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4313917" class="dsq-comment-message">LMAO! Better late than never.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4303177" class="dsq-comment-message">First Lady-in-Waiting Michelle Obama has become a muse for designers:<br><br><a href="http://sec.online.wsj.com/article/SB122852270571084377.html?mod=article-outset-box" rel="nofollow">http://sec.online.wsj.com/article/SB12285227057...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4305150">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4305150" class="dsq-comment-message">carolinagirl:     <br><br><i>And she dresses in accessible mall brands, like J. Crew and White House Black Market, as well as in higher-priced designer labels like Maria Pinto and Thakoon. "One thing I love about her is that she isn\'t a stick figure and not a plus size," says Mr. Mizrahi. <b>"She has a body pride I love."</b></i><br><br>Annnnnnd SHE is also <b>LARGE and IN CHARGE!!</b> in HER OWN WAY!!  :&gt;)   <br><br>PROUD OF HER!!!    :&gt;)     :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304691" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:   There was a comment about ALASKA,  soooooooI took a "Field Trip" to <i>MUDFLATS</i>:<br><br><a href="http://www.themudflats.net/2008/12/08/mudstock-iv-southern-california/" rel="nofollow">Mudstock IV - Southern California!</a><br><br><i>Southern California Mudpuppies!<br><br>Another successful Mudstock meetup; this time in sunny California! I’ve gotten lots of messages from attendees and everyone had nothing but wonderful things to say about Fawnskin Mudpuppy and her husband who hosted this festive gathering. They opened their home to Mudstock IV, and a great time was had by all! Here’s the recap from Fawnskin herself:</i><br><br>THIS MOVEMENT means that ALASKA\'S  "RED" is being CHALLENGED!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Can\'t wait to hear an interim report of a "PURPLE" on the way to "BLUE!"   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Whooooo!    Hoooo!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>President-Elect Obama!  :&gt;)   <b>LARGE and IN CHARGE!</b>  :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304801">Librarian</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304801" class="dsq-comment-message">PE Obama has invited the remaining Tuskegee airmen to the inauguration.  <br><br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/10/us/politics/10inaug.html?hp" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/10/us/politics/1...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4304961">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4304961" class="dsq-comment-message">that is wonderful.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4305596">Manju</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4305596" class="dsq-comment-message">42 days?!  Isn\'t there any way to speed this thing up?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4332898">TruthSeeker</span>\
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Dsq.Debug.profile(function() {
	if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page == 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.is_initial_load) {
		Dsq.container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.header() + Dsq.container.innerHTML + Dsq.Templates.footer();
	}
	Dsq.$(Dsq.curPageId).innerHTML = Dsq.$(Dsq.curPageId).innerHTML.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
}); // Dsq.Debug.Profile

// HACK: Resetting cache because we're done with.
Dsq.Utils.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = null;


	
	
	var dsq_styleEl = document.getElementById(disqus_container_id);
	var dsq_anchorEl = document.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
	
	Dsq.Thread.fc = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_styleEl, 'color');
	if(dsq_anchorEl) { Dsq.Thread.ac = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_anchorEl, 'color'); }
	Dsq.Thread.ff = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_styleEl, (Dsq.Utils.ie || window.opera ? 'fontFamily' : 'font-family'));
	// For Safari / Opera: strip quotes.
	Dsq.Thread.ff = Dsq.Thread.ff.replace(/['"]/g, '');
	Dsq.Thread.fc = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.fc);
	Dsq.Thread.ac = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.ac);
	Dsq.Thread.ff = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.ff);

	
	
	
	if(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer)) {
		// TODO: Check to see if theme uses postmessage.
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.textareaContainer));
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].init(function() {
				// Use fallback iframe
				Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer).innerHTML = '';
				var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer), null, {theme: theme});
				// if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
			});
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-post-add'));
		}
	}

	
	

	
	if(document.location.hash != '') {
		document.location.hash = document.location.hash.substring(1);
	}

	Dsq.Popup.showCookieMsgs();

	
	if(document.location.search != '' && location.hash != '#disqus_thread') {
		var reply_id = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams().dsq;
		if(reply_id) { document.location.hash = 'comment-' + reply_id; }
	}

	
	if((typeof OB_Script != 'undefined') && (typeof OB_versionNum != 'undefined')) {
		if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox") != -1) {
			if(window.frames['dsq-reply-frame']) {
				window.frames['dsq-reply-frame'].location = Dsq.Urls.REPLY + (new Date()).getTime() + '&f=jackandjillpolitics&t=countdown_to_the_inauguration_42_days_8212_open_thread&to_redirect=' + encodeURIComponent(window.location) + '&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
			}
		}
	}

	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			Dsq.Realtime.initialize();
		}
	}

	



	window.ExecuteWhen = (function () {
	var obj = {}
	
	// Private
	var running = false;
	var timer = null;
	var pending = [];
	var startTimer = function() {
		running = true;
		timer = setInterval(obj.heartBeat, 100);
	};
	var stopTimer = function() {
		running = false;
		clearInterval(timer);
	};
	
	// Public
	obj.add = function (condition, code) {
		pending.push([condition,code]);
		this.heartBeat(); //!
		if (!running) {
			startTimer();
		}
	};
	obj.heartBeat = function() {
		if (!pending.length) {
			stopTimer();
		}
		var newPending = [];
		for (var i=0; i<pending.length; i++) {
			var cond = pending[i][0];
			var code = pending[i][1];
			// FIXME: if cond or code throw an error, they never get removed from pending
			if (cond()){
				code();
			}
			else {
				newPending.push([cond, code]);
			}
		}
		pending = newPending;
	};
	return obj;
})();

// also used in embed_thread.js:
window.fbIsReady = function () {return window.FB && FB.init;};
// NOTE: This script gets executed again without threadEl
//       set when we are loaded again as the fbc_receiver.
//       In this case, we don't need the hidden container.

if(!window.FB || !FB.init) {
	if(window.Dsq && Dsq.container) {
		// container is not present when init.js is loaded from an xd-receiver iframe; in this case,
		// we don't need the FB_HiddenContainer anyway.
		var fbDiv = document.createElement('div');
		fbDiv.id = "FB_HiddenContainer";	// Required or else FeatureLoader will execute a document.write.
		fbDiv.style.position = 'absolute';	// This is intentionally not setting display to none as this breaks
		fbDiv.style.top = '-10000px';		// Flash in Safari.
		fbDiv.style.left = '-10000px';
		fbDiv.style.width = '0px';
		fbDiv.style.height = '0px';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(fbDiv);
	}
	var fbJS = document.createElement('script');
	fbJS.type = "text/javascript";
	fbJS.src = "http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php";
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(fbJS);

	ExecuteWhen.add(window.fbIsReady,
		function () {
			// HACK: This is a workaround FBC's single domain limitation by
			//		 allowing sites to create multiple forums with different
			//		 Facebook API keys.  This must be used in conjunction with
			//		 disqus_facebook_forum (see authenticateFacebook).
			var facebook_api_key = 'bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d';
			if (typeof disqus_facebook_api_key != 'undefined') {
				facebook_api_key = disqus_facebook_api_key;
			}

			FB.init(facebook_api_key, window.facebookXdReceiverPath || null,
				{fetchSignedPublicSessionData: true});
		});
}


	


if(typeof(disqus_callback) == 'function') {
	var callback_params = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams()['dsq_cbp'] || null;

	// We don't care about any errors in third-party code
	try {
		disqus_callback(callback_params);
	} catch (x) {
		if (typeof(console) != 'undefined' && typeof(console.log) == 'function') {
			// But it would be nice to let developers know about them
			console.log(x);
		}
		// pass
	}

	// HACK: We don't know if the callback wraps our container, which may
	// possibly result in a new DOM element.
	Dsq.container = document.getElementById('dsq-content');
}

})();




