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Susan Taylor was never the owner of Essence - she was the most visible face of the magazine for almost 2 decades though - when you thought of Essence, immediately she came to mind.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_21:00:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "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": 4112845, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4128772": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Admiral, say it again.  There's no where to hide these days.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_11:45:52", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4128574, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4114949": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ugh. Gregory? Do they want the show to fail?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_21:08:38", "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": 4111904, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112390": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Totally WHACKED!!<br><br>I can't STAND Gregory..he is awful...sooooo insipid and a sycophant!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:17:53", "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": 4111904, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4119047": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "no discussion about the AIDS pandemic?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_22:07:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4128776": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL<br><br>I still like MSNBC with the trifecta of Rachel, Chris and Keith. I know Tweety over steps the bounds of sanity but his moments of nailing people who don't know what they are talking about, make up for it.<br><br>Anyone remember this?<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1wSZBTAXRs&feature=PlayList&p=32235B86B34360B5&index=22\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1wSZBTAXRs&feat...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_11:46:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4116367, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4116396": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm still trying to figure that one out.<br><br>I think Wintour KNOWS we are watching her this time...especially after JHud, the Lebron/Gisele fiasco, and the worldwide success of the Italian Vogue all Black issue.....she betta come correct with Michelle.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_21:33:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "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": 4113947, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4122636": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The least qualified out of the bunch. Affirmative Action for white men yet again!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_01:17:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111904, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4121104": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CPL:   BWAhahahahahaha!!   No he di'int!    YES HE DID!!!  :&gt;)<br><br>I recognized the \"FACE\" immediately!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Nice post!!  Do ya think he's been readin' JJP?   :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_23:15:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4121014, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4121618": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Dont know if this is true. But people are reporting that Obama is buying Michelle a beautiful ring as a thank you gift. <a href=\"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1090653/Barack-Obama-buy-rare-20-000-gold-ring-wife-say-thanks-support.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/artic...</a><br>Michelle Obama is to receive this \u00a320,000 thank you from her husband for her support during the election.<br><br>The Harmony ring is made of rhodium - the world's most expensive metal --and encrusted with diamonds. It is being hastily made by Italian designer Giovanni Bosco in time for January's inauguration ceremony. ....<br><br><br>Hmmm... Black gold indeed. Thats powerful symbolism if true that this man know what really makes him rich.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_23:48:10", "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": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4117011": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Whiterosebuddy, Idon't know that much about Hitchens, I know what white entitlement sounds and looks like, and I loathe it!<br><br>\"You can call me Joan; I'vebeen to your house, Christopher.\"   You don't have to call me Ms. Walsh, we had drinks together.'  What the fuck?!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_21:39:49", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4112829, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111898": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL I thought that too re the smile. That picture has been uses a lot and I've never seen his smile that wide. Someone got a little too happy with the photoshop :P <br><br>I didn't know Susan sold Esscene. Shame. <br><br>Frankly I think I might buy the Michelle issue only. I kind of wish they picked a new Barack picture.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:38:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "245857794a8d4da90a73fbb64352b916", "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": 4111715, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4113947": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Why they had JHud looking like a pig getting ready for the apple?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_21:01:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4112207, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4120922": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  From Politico 44:<br><br><br>THE WHITEBOARD<br>President-elect Obama will meet with some of the nation\u2019s governors tonight in Philadelphia to discuss the economy. The governors will likely try to ensure that they get their piece of Obama\u2019s planned economic stimulus package, to which the president-elect has yet to give a price tag.<br><br>8:30 PM\t<br><br>Obama departs reception with Democratic governors, and arrives at the Sheraton Hotel shortly thereafter.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.politico.com/politico44/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Politico 44 The Next President - Minute By Minute - Dec 1</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_22:59:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4127263": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Haven't watched MTP since I was a kid, and it looks like that will continue.  I just haven't been able to take Gregory seriously since he tripped the light fantastic with Karl \"MC\" Rove.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_10:13:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111904, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111904": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"David Gregory to Host Meet the Press\"<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/01/david-gregory-to-moderate_n_147540.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/01/david-...</a><br><br>MTP says it has nothing to announce.<br>Gregory is not confirming or denying it...<br><br><br>wack", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:38:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 14, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111908": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes! They better come correct because that Jennifer Hudson cover was not the business.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:38:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111649, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112422": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Me neither.<br><br>I suffered through infrequent, 3x weekly,  viewings of 'Race' to the White House, which had always been ROAD to the White house until this year...I did not find that subliminal message amusing.<br><br>Now that it is 1600 Pennysylvania, I barely watch once a week//I started watching Campbell more...but she has turned into all bias and bull since the election.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:20:17", "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": 4112341, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4118058": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Am I the only one one scared about what Vogue is going to do to Michelle after what they did to JHud? Ugh. I can't even look at Annie Liebovitz the same way after that and the god-awful Lebron James/King Kong cover. Double Ugh. And please lawd don't let Andre Leon Talley near Michelle. Remember what he did to JHud at the Oscars. Triple Ugh!<br><br>Also, I hate to burst everyone's bubble but the cover images aren't original to Essence according to this Women's Wear Daily article:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.wwd.com/media-news/fashion-memopad/oz-comes-to-new-york-vogue-the-movie-1873036?src=rss/recentstories/20081201#/article/media-news/fashion-memopad/oz-comes-to-new-york-vogue-the-movie-1873036?page=4\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.wwd.com/media-news/fashion-memopad/o...</a><br><br>However, the covers look good so I guess it doesn't matter. Hopefully Essence will be able to actually interview the Obamas again at some point.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_21:48:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "a1a6fe07d6a55171eab9c48ea6c85fe5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112427": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I kinda agree with ya there to some small extent.  In some cases, the Clinton drama is usually because the Clinton's leaked the drama", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:20:38", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111921, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4119089": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:   Imma buy as much as I can!!  Bofadem!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_22:10:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111658, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112435": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I will meet you there!  I need some Tanqueray 10, with ice shaken not stirred~~", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:21:20", "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": 4111946, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4133434": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "IIRC Maya is a teacher at a private all-girls school in the Honolulu area.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_15:37:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "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": 4130738, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4129855": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So,so sad, so,so true, Lilytiger!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_12:31:12", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4128546, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4121867": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "see is stuff like that, that makes it so hard on us broke brothas lol. barack is messing it up buying rings, showing her he loves her, kissing her, taking her on dates, geez now all of us gotta act right lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_23:58:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "3da4f68bf4cf2bd15ab3285db21c41ee", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4121618, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4120644": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.worldaidscampaign.org/static/en/Key-events/World-AIDS-Day/World-AIDS-Day-2008/\" rel=\"nofollow\">World Aids Day  2008</a><br><br>From the London perspective: <br> <a href=\"http://www.worldaidsday.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\">World Aids Day  2008 (UK)</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_22:33:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4119047, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4121159": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "evita:  Ohhhh noooooo!!  YUK!!!  DOUBLE YUK!!  **shivers**<br><br>He need to \"Meet The Press\" ta find out what they do!!   He 'on't know!!<br><br>DANG!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_23:19:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111904, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111946": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "OH GOD! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!<br><br>First, Hillary gets SoS, and now this. <br><br>I need a drank!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:43:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111904, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4122699": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "h&f:  Thank you very much!  Good information for ALL of us ta know!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_01:23:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4122440, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4115021": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is great - thanks for posting the link.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_21:11:10", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4113541, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4115024": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "When are these issues gonna be on the newstand?  Does anyone know when Ebony will be on the stand?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_21:11:15", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4154986": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "evita, yes, and it was soooooo fun!  MTP and David Gregory, oh the incongruency of it all!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-03_17:35:55", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4154574, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112493": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Personally even when I agree with Hitchens, I find him very unpleasant, more so than Joan.  At least with Joan we know she's a Clinton-lover from the beginning, the devil you know.  Besides, IIRC, wasn't Hitchens pretty dismissive of Obama particularly during the Rev Wright/Bitter moments during the primaries.  He basically got behind Obama because eventually he couldn't stand Palin, Clinton, or McCain, so Obama was the lesser of the evils.<br><br>So I take much of what Hitchens says with a grain of salt.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:26:01", "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": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111754, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4122734": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Could you tell by the frown on her face at the conference! At least Obama elevated her position so she skips over Hillary and goes straight to him. Once Hillbot messes up Dr. Rice can step right in.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_01:27:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4112452, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4121533": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I can see where people wouldn't be thinking about it, but I think by putting it on the backburner doesn't help.  I noticed that the only channel I actually see HIV/AIDS commercials on is BET.  Maybe you are right, maybe its the \"face\" of this issue that is getting in the way.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_23:40:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "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": 4121124, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4114034": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "He maybe right about Hil and Bill, but his views on Obama I will take with a grain of salt.  Even if you agree with him about the Clintons, pay attention to how he speaks of Obama. It just seems to me he has absolutely no respect for Obama, and it's times like these when it completely oozes out of his pores.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_21:02:14", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4112812, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4130938": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "wrb:  LOL!   :&gt;)  Don't know abou the sister.  I'm thinking that she doesn't live in Hawaii.  I'll TRY to look it up!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_13:26:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4130738, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111706": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "*raising both hands and a leg* ME!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:21:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111658, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4130946": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "YES!!  It was reported on MSNBC as well.<br>Michelle has earned it and he knows that she is the best thing in his life.<br><br>Lord what is America gone do with all this Black Love on DISPLAY!!!??<br><br>And white hubbies gone have to step it up too!  Can't you just hear their wives...if that BLACK man can shower his wife with love and affection...what YOU gon do?<br><br>And SiSTARS?  Sistars?.....Not a brother alive that don't know he best get to gettin and watching Oprah's FAVORITE things...and buying ERRRYTHANG she shows!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_13:27:09", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4121618, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4113541": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Looks like I'm not the only one who's adopting the <a href=\"http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/welcome-secretary-clinton-obamas-promises-be-kept#comment-22962\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wait and see approach</a>.<br><br>Check out Al Girodano's new Post:<br><a href=\"http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/welcome-secretary-clinton-obamas-promises-be-kept\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/welco...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:56:42", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4123275": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That was soooo wrong! The photos that accompanied the article inside the mag were better. They totally did that on purpose. Just don't hire Liebowitz as she has racial fetishisms that come out in her work. She sees them as Black people in stereotype not beautiful subjects. She should definitely have Pat McGrath doing her makeup though.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_01:57:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4113947, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112525": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes, that was sweet how he did that!!///   I was ctfu!!<br><br>YES!! and then she had the NERVE to claim that it was a small group?!  I was like WTF?<br><br>Sorry, Walsh but there are so many of us that HRC could not win the nomination...HELLO!!<br><br>Lots and lots of people are sick of HRC and could not stomach the idea of her and Bill back in the WH!<br><br>While I was turned off by the race-baiting, too..I was a staunch Obama supporter from the moment he spoke at the 2004 DNC convention and HRC tore her proverbial draws with me when she voted for the war AND told all of us if we wanted an apology we could vote for someone else.<br><br>You are definitely right on that white entitlement BS...that made me nauseous.<br><br>Which was why, I was just overjoyed when Obama trounced her in caucus after caucus.  With massive crowds from coast to coast and she with a former President in tow, could barely muster 4K folks at a rally.<br><br>Rev Pflegel said it BEST!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:28:22", "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": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4112055, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112016": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "His smile is forced because homeboy is feeling the weight on his shoulders. And he was like \"Fools I dont have time for this mess. This is your last shot and I'll smile for you because after this we are done. I have work to do\".<br><br>Michelle looks fabulous. Her smile is all like \"Remember when you were telling me he is corny and drives a car with holes in it and that I should be with someone who was up to my standards. Heiffers, guess who is going to be in the White House!\". Maybe she wasnt thinking that exactly but she is thinking about something that isnt charitable or else she was thinking about christening rooms in the White House ifyouknowhatiamsayin", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:49:01", "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}, "4121626": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  JUST IN CASE U WERE WONDERING:<br><br><a href=\"http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/12/01/kilpatrick-aide-pleads-guilty-in-sex-scandal/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kilpatrick aide pleads guilty in sex scandal</a><br><br><i><b>Stoic and publicly silent through months of a sex scandal, the woman whose relationship with former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick led to his downfall broke her silence Monday, shedding tears as she pleaded guilty.<br><br>Christine Beatty, a former aide to the mayor, accepted a four-month jail sentence in exchange for admitting to obstruction of justice charges for her actions in a civil lawsuit brought by two police officers. The officers claimed Kilpatrick retaliated against them when they suspected wrongdoing by members of his inner circle.</b><br><br>Sexually explicit text messages between Kilpatrick and Beatty, published in January by the Detroit Free Press, contradicted witness-stand denials they were having an affair. Both were married at the time.<br><br>\u201cI lied under oath,\u201d Beatty told the judge, echoing the words Kilpatrick used during his own guilty plea in September.<br><br>\u201cI did so with the intent to mislead the court and jury and to impede and obstruct the fair administration of justice,\u201d she said in pleading guilty to two felonies.<br><br>Beatty, 38, initially was unable to choke back tears. Wayne County Circuit Judge Timothy Kenny gave her a moment to compose herself.<br><br>Beatty\u2019s jail sentence will begin Jan. 5. With credit for good behavior, she could be free in 100 days.<br><br>Beatty, the mother of two young daughters who has since gotten divorced, had vigorously fought her case until Monday.<br><br>\u201cIt was time to get it over with, get on with her life, get it out of her children\u2019s lives,\u201d defense lawyer Mayer Morganroth said outside court. \u201cOtherwise it goes on and on.\u201d<br><br>Beatty refused to speak to reporters as she left the court.<br><br>Beatty was charged with perjury, misconduct and obstruction of justice for her testimony before and during a 2007 civil trial in Wayne County.<br><br>\u201cWe live in an age where greed and protecting one\u2019s secrets is glorified and accepted. I am very pleased that this defendant admitted her guilt,\u201d county Prosecutor Kym Worthy said later.<br><br>Kilpatrick, 38, pleaded guilty three months ago, resigned from office and was sentenced to 120 days in jail.<br><br>In the civil lawsuit, officers Gary Brown and Harold Nelthrope claimed their police careers suffered when Kilpatrick learned they suspected misconduct by his security unit. Among the allegations: Police bodyguards helped cover up Kilpatrick\u2019s extramarital affairs.<br><br>A jury ruled last year in favor of Brown and Nelthrope. Kilpatrick settled that case and another one for $8.4 million when he learned that a lawyer for the former officers had obtained the mayor\u2019s text messages.<br><br>City Council members said they didn\u2019t know the deal carried secret provisions to keep a lid on messages between Kilpatrick and Beatty. Then the Free Press published some excepts earlier this year.<br><br>Kilpatrick was ordered to pay $1 million in restitution to the city and surrender his law license. Beatty must pay $100,000 and cannot attend law school while on probation.<br><br>Under state sentencing guidelines, she likely faced 19 months or more in prison if she had been convicted of all seven charges, according to Worthy\u2019s staff.<br><br>AP</i><br><br>LAWD HA'MERCY!   It's gonna B a looooooooonnng 4 months!!<br><br>Annnnnnd, we still haven't read all the text messages!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>Welll, gotta keep perspective on what's REALLY important!  :&gt;)  Inquiring minds want ta KNOW!!  :&gt;)     :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_23:48:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4128419": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "MsKitty, he tripped it with Mary J. too!<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evoMTW1eso0\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evoMTW1eso0</a><br><br>Lest we forget:  <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evoMTW1eso0\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evoMTW1eso0</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_11:25:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4127263, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4130471": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "OMG that Mary J clip?  That was so bad I was embarrassed <i>for</i> him.  Somebody really needs to pull Gregory aside the next time he gets ready to make a fool of himself.  Seriously.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_13:02:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "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": 4128419, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4130990": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "wrb:  CO-SIGN!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_13:29:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4130887, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112563": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I tell you what, I can't stand Campbell Brown.  Her whole \"no bias, no bull\" schictk is getting old.  It's mostly bull.  I kinda wish Campbell Brown and David Gregory would have just gone away after the electiob,", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:31:17", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112564": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Miranda...I felt the EXACT same way about that Porter/Diddy cover...it was an huge INSULT.  An absolute disgrace ...but every since Susan Taylor sold Essence the folks in charge have a real challenging time making the mag afrocentric focused in terms of what our culture values...and they just promote that rapper/thug/babymomma..crap that sells records and passes for black culture as a powerful marketing tool.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:31:24", "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": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4112155, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112055": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hitchens was having NONE of it. I loved it when he called her out on being offended that he referred to her as Ms. Walsh. <br><br>And who is she to dismiss criticism of the Clintons as people who are \"career Clinton haters\" who have spent years trying to bring them down. Walsh needs to realize that there are plenty of people, like myself, who were Clinton supporters but became turned off by their race-baiting and white privilege schtick in the quest for the Oval Office.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:51:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111754, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4122808": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "HAHAHAHA! OMG Too true. I wrote a post about Black famous women choosing scrubs and how that sends a bad message to the rest of us.<br><a href=\"http://snipr.com/6zl2i\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://snipr.com/6zl2i</a> <br><br>See now that Barack & Michelle are going to the WH everybody wants to talk about Black love but he wasn't raised by Black people and trained to look down on us the way so many of these other men choose to do. He is the exception. And he made a lot of mistakes by leaving Michelle alone with the girls early on - but I wonder how many people have actually read his books. He's been steadily making progress for years and wasn't readily made \"perfect\". People want to idolize them and that's dangerous.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_01:35:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4112155, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112574": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I missed that cover, what did they do?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:32:18", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111908, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4131013": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "MSNBC reported it is a $35K dollar ring.<br><br>Some folks already saying that ain't a lot for diamonds and rhodium plated platinum.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_13:30:35", "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": 4130946, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111559": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They both look fabulous!  I hope that the articles will live up to the cover photos.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:08:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "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}, "4154574": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "ROFL<br><br>That was sooooo wrong. <br><br>omg, smh, lmao", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-03_17:12:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4128419, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4121124": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Its not that people are complacent they just dont care when their jobs are being lost and they are stressing about Christmas around the corner. Granted no one cares when the economy is good because black lives are undervalued the world over. People dont care. They dont care that in this country the face of AIDS is black and brown men who have sex with men. They dont care about the black and brown women with HIV in this country or in the rest of the word. The pattern of HIV in this world is a mirror of vulnerability and barometer of poverty, violence, lack of education, gender, race and sexual orientation based discrimination.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_23:16:49", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4120837, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4121551": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "nickwah22:  TRUE DAT!!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)  I will!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_23:41:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4121495, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4122845": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Just a correction. Taylor didn't own Essence. It was owned by Black men and she ran the magazine. It has gone a little downhill since being sold but they wanted to cash out.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_01:39:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4112564, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4122336": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I know nothing about him, but if given the appointment, it would give him 4 years to build a foundation, which would be good.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_00:47:04", "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": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4121837, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4130378": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Admiral:  LOL!!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)  YOU!! :&gt;)     :&gt;)    :&gt;)  **shakin' my head**", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_12:57:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4128109, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4122748": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  YEP!  What can we say??", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_01:28:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4121879, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4113643": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "AWWW man DAYUM!!<br><br>That is just too ugly...she looks like a loudmouth jezebel COW!!<br><br>That is damn awful...in a RED hussy dress too?!   Strikes me as the type of picture that would have T.I's lyrics as the caption:<br><br>'love the way you drop it brain so good could swore you went to college'<br><br>And you KNOW ...what I'm sayin", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:57:53", "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": 4112756, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4121837": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  SOS Clinton -  OUT!  NEXT??????<br><br><a href=\"http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/buffalo-mayor-gains-support-to-be-clinton-successor/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Buffalo Mayor Gains Support to Be Clinton Successor</a><br><br><i> With Hillary Rodham Clinton\u2019s nomination to be secretary of state now official, the discussions are ratcheting to a more frenzied level regarding her possible successor as United States senator. In fact, a number of elected officials from western New York are publicly urging Gov. David A. Paterson to appoint Mayor Byron W. Brown of Buffalo.<br><br><b>His supporters say that Mr. Brown, 50, would be the first black senator from New York and that he would also provide a national platform for a state official from western New York.<br><br>Mr. Brown was elected to the State Senate in 2000 and served there until his election as mayor in 2005.</b><br><br>\u201cI think that the mayor would generate a tremendous amount of enthusiasm and excitement,\u201d said State Senator Antoine M. Thompson, a Democrat who represents parts of Buffalo and Niagara Falls.<br><br>\u201cHe\u2019s a former state senator, and so he\u2019s familiar with state issues,\u201d Senator Thompson said. \u201cI think that people would like to see someone from upstate, particularly since we don\u2019t have anyone from upstate holding any prominent statewide office.\u201d<br><br>Of course, the governor has indicated that he will not announce a successor to Senator Clinton until she is confirmed by the Senate. But that has not prevented the lobbying from western New York from moving forward vigorously.</i><br><br>THERE IS MORE.<br><br>Since I don't know the Mayor, any comments?  Thank you.  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_23:55:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4122666": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  The First Family will take a Much Needed Vacation:<br><br><a href=\"http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/12/obama_to_vacation_in_hawaii_fo.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">Obama To Vacation In Hawaii For Christmas</a><br><br><i>President-elect Barack Obama will spend the Christmas and New Year's holidays on an extended vacation with his family in Hawaii, Democratic sources confirmed today. The length of the vacation is not yet clear, and transition officials would not comment. Obama last visited the islands in October when his grandmother was sick. The Christmas trek to Hawaii may be a regular occurance for Obama in the White House, which would please the press corps, the Secret Service, WHCA and the locals to no end -- though it must be said: Crawford was probably easier to secure. <br><br>Obama vacations there whenever he gets the chance, jetting it before the Democratic National Convention. It was in Hawaii where, his official biography says, he made the final decision to run for president.</i><br><br>WELL DESERVED!!  They will probably pay tribute to Grandma Toots.  R.I.P.<br><br>God Bless Them ALL.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_01:19:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112638": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes, you are right about Hitchens and his evolution to O-ness support.<br>But I just an soooooo SICK of the Clintons...they just suck all the oxygen out the room.<br><br>I would love to be a fly in a cabinet meeting to watch Obama rein in those egos and I bet he has to do some serious refereeing between Hill and Susan...I am just waiting to see how he throws Power up in the mix...Hill thought she had boxed them out by asking to pick her staff.<br><br>Obama agreed but is going to go STILL surround her ass with Powers and Rice...hahahahahaha<br><br>I am sick of the Clintons and for that I was glad to root for Hitchens today...cause Walsh was too full of white female entitlement promoting HRC.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:37:13", "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": 4112493, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4130051": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Buffalo reminds me of MIlwaukee, my hometown. But Milwaukee is experiencing a cultural and urban renaissance right now.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_12:39:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4122440, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4120837": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Thanks, I was looking for blog posts from here or other sites.  I figured with today being WAD there would be a few floating around.  I think HIV/AIDS is becoming a normalcy in our society and wanted to see what progress if any has been made.  AIDS cases are down in Jamaica though, I read those stats somewhere today.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_22:50:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4120644, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4128518": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Careful, it is the Daily Mail of the UK and they are not known for their sterling (heh , pun intended) journalism.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_11:30:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4121618, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4131201": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Lilytiger:  RAOTFL!!  :&gt;)  <i>STERLING</i>  NICE!!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_13:40:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4128518, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4120331": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I meant Samantha sorry", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_22:20:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "245857794a8d4da90a73fbb64352b916", "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": 4112452, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111639": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hmmm I love her but something is off. I think they air brushed her too much. Is Michelle's hair short now?<br><br>LOL like it matters. I'm still getting those issues!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:15:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "245857794a8d4da90a73fbb64352b916", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112155": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I have a subscription - it came with my tickets to the Essence festival. I was boycotting Essence before that....still quite mad at the whole cover of PDiddy with Kim Porter and Essence promoting their \"black love\"...I was so done with Essence after that...then another issue had R. Kelly's wife in it proclaiming his innocence. If it wasn't for those damn tickets......but I have loved the covers of the Obama's and now these two....so I guess I can forgive them....a lil bit.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:00:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111658, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4132640": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "you're right envy is the right word.<br><br>I suspect that a lot of Repubs are envious of Obama's charisma and saavy", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_14:55:27", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4131182, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111649": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Vogue has a  lot to match. Nobody makes a Black woman look beautiful the way that Essence can.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:16:12", "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": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4128546": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Did he say that with saddness that their skulls weren't being cracked.<br><br>He comes off like a great guy, kind of like the sex offender down the street, and then boom he shows himself.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_11:32:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4121077, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112675": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Joan Walsh Administers a Smackdown to Christopher Hitchens<br>ummm, I don't think so!  She was her usual whinney self.  eewwww!<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvAe4UJZl0w\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvAe4UJZl0w</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:40:05", "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": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4112525, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111921": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Susan is working with Hillary so I dont get that this is such a big deal. Naturally she would be asked about it. She did call her a monster lol. This Clinton drama feels over hyped and forced.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:40:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "245857794a8d4da90a73fbb64352b916", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111688, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111658": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Raise the hand...who is going to buy BOTH COVERS?<br><br><br>ME ME ME ME ME ME<br><br>LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:17:00", "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": 13, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4121399": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LMAO<br><br>luv FN", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_23:24:39", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4121014, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112667": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Susan Taylor didn't sell it, she was the editor-in-chief, not the owner....nevertheless, the magazine has NOT been the same since she left the helm.  I find myself simply looking at the pictures. That whole Diddy/Kim Porter thing was absolutely appalling. I still can't believe they actually went THERE.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:39:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4112564, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4128574": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The title (Joan Walsh Administers a Smackdown to Christopher Hitchens) is bullshit.<br><br>Hitchens is right about the Clintons, and he slapped Joan down.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_11:33:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4112675, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4121412": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "bad decision.<br><br>horrible<br><br>blech", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_23:25:56", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111904, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111688": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "These covers are HOT! Two of the best covers Essence has had in a long time!<br><br>Joan Walsh was at it again on Hardball. <br><br>Tweety mentioned Samantha Power rejoining PE Obama's team. Walsh said that Hillary signed off on letting her back into the fold. Signed off? WTH? So, Walsh is insinuating that Hillary got the final say on whether or not Power was welcomed back like Kotter? GMAB! <br><br>And then, later in the conversation, she made a Freudian Slip saying (and I'm paraphrasing) that Hillary will \"do her own thing\"! UGH!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:20:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 20, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112207": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "AIn't that the truth.<br><br>I have already said Vogue upset me  with that Jennifer Hudson cover a couple of years ago.<br><br>But Anna Wintour, and basically the whole fashion industry adores Michelle And Barack Obama---so hopefully that will translate to a splendid cover.....we'll see.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:04:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "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": 4111649, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4135258": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "thanks", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_17:13:10", "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": 4121081, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111715": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "They did somethin...her nose and his looks different..his too wide hers too narrow. Every since Susan Taylor sold Essence the folks of non-color go over the top sometimes and our features are just not natural looking. Obama's smile even looks forced and his arms are crossed, and it is like they were trying to make Michelle sexually provocative as she appears to be leaning forward to show cleavage.<br><br>typical hypersex media ploy", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:22:32", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111639, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4122469": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't want no Scrubs......", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_01:00:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4121867, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4128109": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "But...but...that's too exotic! (snark)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_11:06:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4122666, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4131182": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "He's jealous of Barack. Everything he says about Barack needs to be seen through the prism of envy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_13:38:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4114034, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4131185": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "wrb:   LOL!!!  :&gt;)<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH59jVKyui8&feature=related\" rel=\"nofollow\">DIAMONDS ARE A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND (Beyonce)</a><br><br>ENJOY!!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_13:38:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4130946, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112756": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "WRB, check this out:<br><br><a href=\"http://concreteloop.com/2007/02/jennifer-hudson-covers-vogue#more-10485\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://concreteloop.com/2007/02/jennifer-hudson...</a><br><br>...tell us what you think.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:46:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4112574, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111678": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ditto, ditto, ditto", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:19:06", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111658, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4121473": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  LOOK at THIS \"PLATE!\":  :&gt;)<br><br><a href=\"http://www.nypost.com/seven/12012008/news/regionalnews/obama_plates_give_li_thieves_license_to__141704.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">OBAMA PLATES GIVE LI THIEVES LICENSE TO STEAL</a><br><br><i> A Long Island Obama supporter scored vanity license plates bearing his presidential hero's name - now, if he could only use them.<br><br>Jonathan Lifschutz, 50, of Great Neck, got his \"OBAMA\" plates from the Department of Motor Vehicles three days after the Jan. 26 South Carolina primary, and they soon became the most sought-after in the state.<br><br>In fact, they were so sought-after that Lifschutz couldn't keep them on his Saab - because would-be thieves tried prying them off.<br><br>He even caught one man in the act.<br><br>So Lifschutz, a financial analyst, has taken off the plates for safekeeping and put the old ones back on.<br><br>\"Those plates will probably, at some point, become a collector's item - in someone else's house,\" he joked. \"I decided that they will best be preserved if I took them off and just carried them in the car.\"<br><br>Lifschutz - a one-time Hillary Rodham Clinton backer and donor - said he applied for the license plates after he saw former President Bill Clinton minimize Barack Obama's primary victory over Sen. Clinton in South Carolina. Kyle Murphy and Clemente Lisi</i><br><br>CUTE PLATE!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Now I'm gon look for one!!  :&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": "2008-12-01_23:33:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111754": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Walsh was getting on my LAST nerve with her 'all things Hillary' mantra. I was glad Hitchens was there to voice the views of many, many, many people which is we are sick of all things Clinton!!<br><br>We want them to go away and get off the nation stage, like all other Presidents when they leave office. I have Clinton fatigue.<br><br>i am not looking forward to hearing about hill and bill the next 4 years...the press is going to cover their asses like they are still in office and Obama is their god damn personal assistant that is in the WH when they are off globe trotting!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:26:02", "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": 14, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111688, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4120972": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "nickwah22:  From the President-Elect [change.gov]\"<br><br><a href=\"http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/president_elect_obama_commemorates_20th_annual_world_aids_day/\" rel=\"nofollow\">President-elect Obama commemorates 20th Annual World AIDS Day<br>Monday, December 1, 2008 03:04pm EST</a><br><br>THERE IS A VIDEO.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_23:03:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4119047, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4111757": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Michelle is gorgeous!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_19:26:41", "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}, "4116367": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "She needs to go to Faux News with her Rethug husband Dan Senor.  He's  a Republican strategist and Fox News.  As for Gregory, he has a much journalistic finese as a screw driver.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_21:32:48", "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": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4112563, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4121495": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "People would probably cause accidents trying to take pics of it.  I'd store them in the house for safe keep.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_23:35:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4121473, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112452": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No, Susan did not call HRC a monster...Samantha Powers did.<br>Susan has nothing but disdain for HRC, that is REAL evident.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:22:40", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111921, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4131229": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "osmond:  HEY!   :&gt;)    LOL!  :&gt;)  U  got it!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_13:41:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4121867, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4130887": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "We can say that she was a triflin heffa who put her own sexual needs ahead of her children and family as well as another woman's home and family.  Her and Kwame deserve everything they get. Both of them destroyed two mens lifetime careers, pensions and homes because of the men doing their jobs all because Kwame and Chris wanted to delve into each other's crevices.<br><br>Those text messages were lewd and lascivious.  How any married woman with children could have wrote what she did to a married man that was her boss is simply unbelieveable.  She laid down with dogs and she got up with fleas. <br><br>Not to mention that Kwame and her husband were good friends had been since playing Pop Warner as youths together and her husband was the coach of his son's Pop Warner teams.<br><br>Both of these scuzzbuckets deserve want they get.<br><br>I have no sympathy for either one.  Both of them should of married out of HS, but they didn't and to turn around and destroy 2 families later on is simply inexcusable.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_13:24:14", "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": 4122748, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112812": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Everything you said about Hitchens is right.<br><br>But he's also right about Hillary and Bill Clinton.<br><br>I can never take a brilliant writer with a grain of salt, even when I disagree with him. I often do. <br><br>Not this time.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:51:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4112493, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4122440": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That's my hometown - gawd I can't believe I just admitted that! He's not a bad Mayor. Buffalo has always been very segregated though. It was ranked 4th most racist city in the country at one point. I was highly shocked a Black Mayor got elected at all. There's lots of unemployment and burnt out houses surrounded by really nice suburbs (where the white people live). A lot of Black people left for Atlanta or the Carolinas or elsewhere and the ones left tend to fall into these ridiculous constructs of how being Black means you have to not talk white and other foolishness. I admit I couldn't wait to leave after high school and don't hold it in the highest regard. The best thing about Buffalo is its close proximity to Toronto.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_00:57:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4121837, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4130738": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I am sure the Secret Service is happy, happy, happy...but I was wondering what family does Obama have there now that his grandma died?<br><br>Does his sister Maya live there with her family?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_13:15:51", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4130378, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4121014": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Since y'all waxing about Hillary, I urge you to check out the \"WORD ASSOCIATION\" section of Field Negro's blog, and find out what picture word association he is using for Hillary. <br><br>WARNING: Do not be drinking anything while you are near your keyboard.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.field-negro.blogspot.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.field-negro.blogspot.com/</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_23:06:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112829": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes, that headlinewas  definitely written by a Hill supporter<br><br>cause all those of us who are not would have written it in the reverse!<br><br>Christopher Hitchens Administers a Smackdown to Joan Walsh.<br><br>I am no fan of Hitchens but I agree with him about the Clintons.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:52:33", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4112675, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112845": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Taylor was editor in chief AND owner...she is now just editor in chief", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:53:51", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4112667, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4112847": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "These covers are fab!  Classy and tasteful.  President  Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.  YES THEY ARE AND YES THEY DID!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:53:55", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4118992": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I rarely write into a magazine, but I wrote in - snail mail, and got my sisters and niece to write in too over that tripe with Kim Porter.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_22:01:23", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4112564, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4120529": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thursday, Dec. 4 @ 9pm et/pt Christiane Amanpour's special about <b>genocide</b> called \"Scream Bloody Murder\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_22:24:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "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}, "4112341": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I won't be watching that incompetent shill.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_20:14:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4111904, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4130776": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I concur, GLH...this is good info...hope the brother has the credentials to withstand the political abuse his appoint will elicit.  Cause Cuomo's son was suppose to be one of the top runners.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_13:18:04", "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": 4122699, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4121051": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  From change.gov:<br><br><a href=\"http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/the_national_security_team/\" rel=\"nofollow\">THE NATIONAL SECURITY TEAM</a><br><br>Pics & ALL<br><br><i>Monday, December 1, 2008 01:58pm EST<br><br>With today's introduction of key members of the National Security Team, President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden have now chosen nearly half of the cabinet, including the heads of the departments of State, Defense, Treasury, and Justice.<br><br>Nominees announced today include Senator Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, Eric Holder as Attorney General, Governor Janet Napolitano as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Susan Rice as Ambassador to the United Nations, and General Jim Jones, USMC (Ret) as National Security Adviser. President-elect Obama also announced that he has asked Robert Gates to stay on as Secretary of Defense.<br><br>Opinion leaders from across the ideological spectrum have praised the cabinet that is taking shape.<br><br>\"In selecting nominees for his Cabinet and a new White House staff, President-elect Barack Obama has so far placed an admirable emphasis on proven competence over personal loyalty or political purity,\" the Washington Post editorial board wrote last week.<br><br>View pictures from today's press conference and read President-elect Obama's prepared remarks below.</i><br><br>Mr. President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama!! <b>LARGE and IN CHARGE!</b> :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_23:09:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4121879": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "she lost it all......for Mayor Trifling", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_23:59:45", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4121626, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4122606": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well I think Michelle would demand final approval. It's not like Vogue can't take a good photo  - remember the Oprah cover? ATL just needs to stop trying to be artsy and keep it simple. You know he's already gotten mail about messing with Mrs. O. When he styled Sophie Okonedo he was ok. I recognized the Barack photo immediately.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_01:14:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4118058, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4131311": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Co-signing, Lilytiger, a terrific trifecta, indeed; they all have their issues but they bring it!<br><br>This video gets my pick for Tweety's  Oscar winning performance: He TKO'd Michelle Backman.  That bitch won anyways, but we'll be watching her here in Minnesota.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bT01mC9xSA\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bT01mC9xSA</a><br>**********************************************************************<br>LOL! Yes, Kevin James with his bryll cream hair, crest whitening strips teeth, and tighty whites, brought a spit ball gun to a hand grenade fight.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_13:45:27", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4128776, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4119024": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "whiterosebuddy:  Co-SIGN!!  <i>Christopher Hitchens Administers a Smackdown to Joan Walsh.<br>I am no fan of Hitchens but I agree with him about the Clintons.</i>  <br><br>Agree on your sentiments!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_22:04:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4112829, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4121077": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<b>Huckabee Claims Civil Rights Of Gays Are Not Being Violated: They Aren\u2019t Getting Their \u2018Skulls Cracked\u2019</b><br><a href=\"http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/18/huckabee-gay-rights/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/18/huckabee-ga...</a><br><br>Any bit of like I had for him has gone out the window..", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_23:12:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4122103": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "OMG! I almost fell off the couch<br><br>Laughing with some girlfriends this weekend talking about how we wanted \"Obama-Like\" brothas for Christmas....it was discussed  here some time ago as well. But yes, my friend...Obama is raising the bar.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-02_00:22:24", "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": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4121867, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4121081": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Take it from me, a NYC magazine vet who has known/met many folks at Essence over the years including Susan Taylor...<br><br>Ed Lewis and Clarence Smith started Essence in 1970 and Lewis was an owner before the Time Warner sale a few years ago.  <br><br>Susan Taylor was never the owner of Essence and left in 2007 as Publications Director (she was Editorial Director for years). She started out as a beauty editor in the 70s and rose to EIC and eventually Editorial Director.<br> <br>Monique Greenwood and Diane Weathers were both Editor-in-Chief before Angela Burt Murray stepped in about 3 or 4 years ago.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_23:12:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4112845, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4120572": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I thought that PE Obama shot looked familiar.   Michelle's shot, however, is new to me.   She looks great!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-01_22:27:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4118058, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "7783931", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": 3438866379312194597}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "countdown_to_the_inauguration_50_days_8212_open_thread", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 121, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 7783931, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
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	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_50_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_50_days_8212_open_thread/latest.rss">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS + '</a> \
			</span> \
		</div> \
		';

		
		

		return html;

	};
	
	this.footer = function() {
		var html = '';

		html += Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
		
			html += Dsq.Templates.realtime();
			html += Dsq.Templates.showThreadSettings();
			html += Dsq.Templates.postBox();

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		


		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) {
 			html += ' \
				<div class="dsq-global-moderator-extras">'
					+ '<strong>shortname:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url
					+ '<strong>thread id:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.id
					+ '<strong>thread slug:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.slug
				+ '</div> \
			';
		}

		return html;
	};
	
	this.realtime = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			html += '<div id="dsq-realtime-options" class="dsq-options">'
					 + Dsq.Strings.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS + ' <strong id="dsq-realtime-status" style="text-transform: lowercase">' + Dsq.Strings.ENABLED + '</strong>. \
					 <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-toggle" style="text-transform: capitalize"></a> \
					</div>';
		}

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
			html += ' \
				<div style="display: none" id="dsq-realtime-alert" class="dsq-realtime-alert"><span id="dsq-realtime-queued"></span> <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-show"></a></div> \
			';
		}
		
		return html;
	};

	this.showThreadSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '<div id="dsq-thread-settings" class="dsq-thread-settings">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATOR_OPTIONS;
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showSettings(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.SETTINGS + '</a>';
		if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled && Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.reportMissingReactions(); return false;">'
						+ Dsq.Strings.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS
						+ '</a>';
		}
		html +='</div>';

		return html;
	};

	this.postBox = function(post_id, use_fallback_iframe) {


		var html;
		var display_sharing_options = Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated;

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post) {
			return '';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.hasOwnProperty(Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain)) {
				display_sharing_options = false;
			}
		}
		
		if (post_id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];				
		}
		
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		var _requestUserInfo = function() {
			var html;



			var user_has_email = false;

			html = '<div class="dsq-request-user-info"> <!-- // If authenticated --> \
				<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT + '?ctkn=' + Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN + '" class="dsq-request-user-logout">' + Dsq.Strings.LOGOUT + '</a> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td rowspan="2">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '')
								+ '<img src="' + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR + '" width="48" height="48" class="dsq-request-user-avatar">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-name">'
								+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
									 ? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '">' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '</span>'
									 : (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_verified
											? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span>'
											: '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span>'))
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '') 
								+ Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username 
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
							+  (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && user_has_email ? ' <small>(<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.remoteAccountSettings(); return false;">change settings</a>)</small>' : '')
							+  (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <small>(<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/info/" target="_blank">change name</a> or <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/avatar/" target="_blank">picture</a>)</small>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-stats"> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count == 1 ? 'comment' : 'comments') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count == 1 ? 'like' : 'likes') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.points + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.points == 1 ? 'point' : 'points') + '</span> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		var _loginOptions = function() {
			var html;
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-authenticate"> \
				<p class="dsq-autheneticate-copy">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
					? Dsq.Strings.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A + ' <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. ' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.LOGIN_BELOW + '.'
					: Dsq.Strings.REQUIRED + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT + '.')
				+ '</p> \
				<ul class="dsq-login-buttons">'
					+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-disqus.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Facebook.login(); return false;"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-facebook.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-twitter.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL(); return false" ><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-openid.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_yahoo ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Yahoo.startYahooConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-yahoo.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
				+ '</ul> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {



				return '<div id="dsq-form-area" style="display:none"><div id="dsq-textarea-wrapper"></div></div>' + _loginOptions();
			} else {
				return '';
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<div id="' + (post_id 
			? 'dsq-reply-post-' + post_id
			: 'dsq-new-post')
		 	+ '" class="dsq-post-area"> \
			<div class="dsq-dc-logo"> \
				<a href="http://disqus.com/comments" target="_blank"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/disqus-logo.png"></a> \
			</div>'
			+ (post_id 
				? '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.REPLYING_TO + ' ' + userData.display_name + '</h3>'
				: '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT + '</h3>')
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated 
				? _requestUserInfo()
				: _loginOptions() )
			+ '<div id="dsq-form-area' + pid + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-textarea"> \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper" id="dsq-textarea-wrapper' + pid + '"></div> \
			</div>'
			+ (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated
			? ' \
			<div class="dsq-post-fields"> \
				<form action="." method="GET" onsubmit="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, false); return false;"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-name' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_name ? disqus_def_name : (Dsq.jsonData.session.name ? Dsq.jsonData.session.name : Dsq.Strings.NAME + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-website' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (Dsq.jsonData.session.url ? Dsq.jsonData.session.url : Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')" class="dsq-placeholder') + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" /></div></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-email' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_email ? disqus_def_email : (Dsq.jsonData.session.email ? Dsq.jsonData.session.email : Dsq.Strings.EMAIL + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"> \
							<div class="dsq-subscribe"> \
								<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.chooseSubscribe(' + post_id + '); return false" class="dsq-subscribe-menu"><span id="dsq-subscribe-select' + pid + '">' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post ? Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL : Dsq.Strings.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS) + '</span> <small>&#9660;</small></a> \
								<ul class="dsq-panel" id="dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid + '"> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(2, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">Subscribe to all comments by email</a></li> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(0, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">Do not subscribe to comments</a></li> \
								</ul> \
								<input id="dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid + '" type="hidden" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post + '" /> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
				</form> \
			</div>'
			: '')
			+ '<div class="dsq-post-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-sharing-options" ' + (!display_sharing_options ? 'style="display:none;"' : '') + '> \
					<button class="dsq-button-small" onfocus="document.getElementById(\'dsq-post-button' + pid + '\').focus();"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.SHARING_OPTIONS + ' <small>&#9660;</small></span></button> \
					<div class="dsq-panel"> '
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '"'
								  + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Twitter</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook
								&& (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.enabled === true ||
										(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'facebook'))
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Facebook</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Yahoo!</label> \
								</div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Tumblr</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Wordpress</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Movable Type</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
								  <label for="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' TypePad</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ '<div><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections/" target="_blank" class="dsq-configure-options">' + Dsq.Strings.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS + '</a></div>'
					+ '</div> \
				</div>'
				+ '<button class="dsq-button" id="dsq-post-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, false)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.POST_AS + ' '
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					? Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					: Dsq.Strings.GUEST)
				+ '</span></button>'
				+ (post_id
					? '<button class="dsq-button" id="dsq-cancel-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.CANCEL + '</span></button>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
			+ '</div>' // end dsq-form-area
		+ '</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};




	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-append-post-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		html = ' \
		<table> \
			<tr> \
				<td id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-avatar" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
					<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
					? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
					: '')
				+ '</a> \
				</td> \
				<td class="dsq-comment-header-meta"> \
		';

		
		return html;
	};
	
	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var html;
		var parent_display_name = '';
		
		if(_meta.parent_post_id) {

			var _parent_meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[_meta.parent_post_id];

			if (_parent_meta) {
				var parentUserData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_parent_meta.user_key];
				parent_display_name = parentUserData.display_name;
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/moderator.png" class="dsq-moderator-star" title="Moderator" /> \
		<span class="dsq-comment-header-time"><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')" title="Permalink">' + (_meta.is_realtime ? Dsq.Strings.JUST_NOW : _meta.date) + '</a></span> '
		+ (_meta.parent_post_id && parent_display_name
			? '<a href="#comment-' + _meta.parent_post_id + '" title="Jump to comment">in reply to ' + parent_display_name + '</a>'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		<td id="dsq-like-pts-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-comment-header-likes">'
		+ (_meta.points
			? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		</tr> \
		</table> \
		';
		return html;
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		var html = '';
		return html;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed || !_meta.approved) { return ''; }
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
					? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.moderateOptions(' + post_id+ '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</a>'
					: '')
				+ '<a href="#" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG + '</a> \
			</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right">'
				+ (_meta.votable 
					? '<span id="dsq-like-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-like">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1)" >Like</button>'
						: 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;')
					+ '</span>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<button class="dsq-button-small dsq-post-edit" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + ')" >' + Dsq.Strings.EDIT + '</button>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<span class="dsq-comment-footer-reply" id="dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"> \
						<button class="dsq-button-small">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button> \
						<button class="dsq-comment-footer-reply-tab">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button><span></span> \
					</span>'
					: '')
			+ '</div> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		var item = '<li class="dsq-comment dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-header"> \
			<table> \
			<tr> \
			<td class="dsq-header-avatar"> \
			';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'" class="dsq-avatar">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {

			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar92.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== ''
				? '</a>'
				: '')
			+ '</td>'
			+ '<td><cite class="dsq-comment-cite">' + reaction.author_name + '</cite> <span class="dsq-comment-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</span></td>'
			+ '<td class="dsq-comment-header-likes"></td>'
			+ '</tr></table></div>' // end dsq-comment-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header" \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-reaction-header-left">'
							+ '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png" />'
							+ ' From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
							+ 'via ' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? '<a href="http://backtype.com/">BackType</a>' : '<a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">UberVU</a>')
						+ '</td>'
						+ '<td class="dsq-reaction-header-right">';
			
			if(reaction.retweets) {
				var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
				if (num_retweets > 0) {
					if (num_retweets == 1) {
						item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
					} else {
						item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');
						item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
						var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 3) ? 3 : num_retweets;
						item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);
						if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
							item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
								+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
						}
					}
				}
			}	
			item += '</td></tr> \
			</table> \
			</div>' // end dsq-reaction-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-body"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left"> \
				</div>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator 
					? ' \
					<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right"> \
						<button class="dsq-button-small dsq-hide-reaction" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + ')">Hide</button> \
					</div>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

		return '<h3 id="dsq-reactions-title" class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-container"> \
			<table> \
				<tbody> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-tl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-tr"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-body"> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
								<div class="dsq-popup-title"> \
									<button class="dsq-button-small" style="float:right" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)">Close</button>' 
									+ content['header'] 
								+ '</div>'
								+ content['body']
							+ '</div> \
							<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
						</td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-bl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-br"></td> \
					</tr> \
				</tbody> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
	};



	
	this.chooseSubscribe = function(post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		menu.style.display = menu.style.display == 'block' ? 'none' : 'block';
		
	};
	
	this.setSubscribe = function(value, el, post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var input = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid);
		var select = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-select' + pid);
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		select.innerHTML = el.innerHTML;
		input.value = value;
		this.chooseSubscribe(post_id);
	};
	
	this.getFormFields = function(post_id) {

		var fields = {};
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var name = Dsq.$('dsq-field-name' + pid);
		var email = Dsq.$('dsq-field-email' + pid);
		var website = Dsq.$('dsq-field-website' + pid);
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid);
		var password = Dsq.$('dsq-field-password' + pid);

		fields = {
			'name': name,
			'email': email,
			'website': website,
			'username': username,
			'password': password
		}
		
		return fields;
	}
	
	this.validateFields = function(post_id) {
		
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) { return true; }
		
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		
		var nameField = fields.name;
		var websiteField = fields.website;
		var emailField = fields.email;
		
		websiteField.value = (websiteField.value == Dsq.Templates.placeholder['website']) ? '' : websiteField.value;
		
		var v = [{

			validator: Dsq.Validators.name,
			value: nameField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.email,
			value: emailField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.url,
			value: websiteField.value
		}];
		
		return Dsq.Validators.validate(v, function(e) { Dsq.Popup.popModal(e, 'Oops...') } );
	};
	
	this.checkExistingUser = function(post_id) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);		
		Dsq.Popup.loading(post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		}
	};

	this.validateAuth = function(el_clicked, post_id, auth_choice) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		var email = fields.email ? fields.email.value : '';
		var username = fields.username ? fields.username.value : '';
		var password = fields.password ? fields.password.value : '';
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		}
	};

	this.lightboxUpdateEmail = function(post_id, new_email) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		fields.email.value = new_email;
	};

	this.lightboxAuthenticate = function(post_id, auth_choice, auth_data) {
		var title, body;
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		if(typeof(auth_data) == 'undefined') {
			var auth_data = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		}

		d = auth_data;

		switch(auth_choice) {
			case 'register':
				var suggestedUsername = d.name.value.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/g,'').toLowerCase();
			
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Register a <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';

				body = ' \
				<ul class="dsq-lightbox-register-reasons"> \
				<li>Verify your comments</li> \
				<li>Edit and delete comments</li> \
				<li>Manage comments and replies</li> \
				</ul> \
				';

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Email</td> \
							<td><input type="text" value="' + d.email.value + '" onchange="Dsq.Templates.lightboxUpdateEmail(' + post_id + ', this.value)" /><div id="dsq-email-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + suggestedUsername + '"/><div id="dsq-username-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /><div id="dsq-password-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'login\'); return false">Login instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Register and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			case 'login':
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Login to your <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';
				body = '';
				
				if(d.avatar_url) {
					body += '<div class="dsq-lightbox-recognized"><table><tr>';
					body += '<td><img src="' + d.avatar_url + '" alt="" /></td>';
					body += '<td><span class="dsq-badge ' + (d.verified ? 'dsq-badge-verified' : 'dsq-badge-registered') + '">' + (d.verified ? 'Verified' : 'Registered') + '</span></td>';
					body += '<td>Hey <strong>' + d.display_name + '</strong>, is that you? Login below to claim this comment.';
					body += '</tr></table></div>';
				}

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username or Email</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (d.avatar_url ? d.username : '') + '" /></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password <a href="http://disqus.com/forgot" target="_blank">(cannot log in?)</a></td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'register\'); return false">Register instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Login and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
		Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid).focus();
	};
	
	this.buttonsToRestore = [];
	this.setLoadingButton = function(btn, post_id) {
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		if (btn) {

			var loadingBtn = document.createElement('button');
			loadingBtn.id = btn.id + '-loading';
			loadingBtn.innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-lite.gif" alt="" /> Just a moment...';
			loadingBtn.className = btn.className + ' dsq-post-loading';
			btn.parentNode.appendChild(loadingBtn);
			btn.style.display = 'none';
			var cancelBtn = Dsq.$('dsq-cancel-button' + pid);
			if(cancelBtn) { cancelBtn.style.display = 'none'; this.buttonsToRestore.push(cancelBtn); }
			this.buttonsToRestore.push(btn);
		} else {

			var buttons = this.buttonsToRestore;
			for(var i = 0; i < buttons.length; i++) {
				buttons[i].style.display = 'inline';
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$(buttons[i].id + '-loading'));
			}
		}
		
	};

	this.postComment = function(post_id, el_clicked, force, auth_choice) {
		var append_id = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);

		if (Dsq.Templates.validateFields(post_id)) {

			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && !force &&
				((!Dsq.Utils.readCookie('skipped_auth') && !disqus_skip_auth && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled) || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post)) {
				Dsq.Templates.checkExistingUser(post_id);
				return false;
			}
			var params = [];
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
				params.push(fields.name.value,
					fields.email.value,
					fields.website.value);

				if (auth_choice == 'login' || auth_choice == 'register') {
					params.push({
						auth_choice: auth_choice,
						username: fields.username.value,
						password: fields.password.value,
						email: fields.email.value
					});
				} else {
					params.push(null);
				}

				params.push(null /* sharing options */, Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + append_id).value);
			} else {
				var service_checked = function(name) {
					var el = Dsq.$('dsq-sharing-' + name + append_id);
					return (el !== null && el.checked === true) ? '1' : '0';
				};
				params.push(null, null, null, null, {
					tw: service_checked('twitter'),
					fb: service_checked('facebook'),
					tr: service_checked('tumblr'),
					wp: service_checked('wordpress'),
					mt: service_checked('movabletype'),
					tp: service_checked('typepad'),
					yh: service_checked('yahoo')
				});
			}

			var frame = Dsq.frames['reply_' + (post_id ? post_id : 0)];
			frame.post.apply(frame, params);

			if (el_clicked) {
				Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
			}
			
			if (force) {
				Dsq.Utils.createCookie('skipped_auth', true);	
			}
			
		} else {
			return false;
		}
	};

	this.editComment = function(el_clicked, post_id) {
		var edited_message = Dsq.$('dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id).value;

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].edit(post_id, edited_message);
	};

	this.toggleEdit = function(post_id) {
		var body = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-body-' + post_id);
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);

		if (!Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id]) {


			message.style.display = 'none';
			if (Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {

				var edit_area = document.createElement('div');
				edit_area.id = 'dsq-edit-' + post_id;
				edit_area.className = 'dsq-edit dsq-textarea';
				edit_area.innerHTML = ' \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper"> \
					<textarea class="dsq-edit-textarea" id="dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id + '">' + message.innerHTML + '</textarea> \
				</div> \
				<div class="dsq-save-edit"> \
					<button onclick="Dsq.Templates.editComment(this, ' + post_id + ')" class="dsq-button-small">Save Edit</button> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id + '" style="display: none"></div> \
				';

				body.appendChild(edit_area);

				if (!Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id), post_id);
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].init();
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
		} else {

			message.style.display = 'block';
			Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id] = !Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id];
	};
	
	this.edit = function(el, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(post_id, button) {
		
		if(!this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

			if (Dsq.$('dsq-reply-post-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id);
				var container = Dsq.$('dsq-textarea-wrapper-' + post_id);
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] && container) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(container, post_id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].init(function() {

						Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id, true);
						Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id).innerHTML = '';

						var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
						Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id), post_id, {theme: theme});

					});
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-append-post';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply-active';
			
		} else {

			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = '';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply';
		}
		
		this.stateReplyToggled[post_id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[post_id];

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie && this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

		}

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: post_id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]
		});
	};
	
	this.moderateOptions = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		if(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) { return false; }

		var html;
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-moderate-options"> \
		<table>'
		+ (_meta.email ? '<tr><td>Email</td><td>' + _meta.email + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ (_meta.ip ? '<tr><td>IP address</td><td>' + _meta.ip + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ '<tr> \
			<td>Actions</td> \
			<td><ul>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
				? '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
				: '')
			+ '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Delete Comment</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li> \
			</ul></td> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		html += '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
		
		return Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Moderate Options', post_id);
	};
	
	this.placeholder = {
		'class': 'dsq-placeholder',
		'name': Dsq.Strings.NAME,
		'email': Dsq.Strings.EMAIL,
		'website': Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')'
	};
	
	this.handlePlaceholder = function(evt, el, key) {
		var placeholder = Dsq.Templates.placeholder[key];
		var className = Dsq.Templates.placeholder['class'];
		
		switch(evt.type) {
			case 'focus':
				if(el.value == placeholder) {
					el.value = '';
					el.className = '';
				}
				break;

			case 'blur':
				if(el.value == '') {
					el.value = placeholder;
					el.className = className;
				}
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
	};
	
	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked) {

		var extra_params = '';

		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked);
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'countdown_to_the_inauguration_50_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_50_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">121</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
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		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
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		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.
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		//

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			html = ' \<a class="dsq-paginate-append-text" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this); return false">Show more comments...</a>\
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		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = html;
			return '';
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			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;
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		if(trackbacks.length) {
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				html += '<li><cite><a href="' + trackback.author_url + '" rel="nofollow">' + trackback.author_name + '</a></cite> \
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			html = '<h3 class="dsq-h3-trackbacks">Trackbacks</h3>' + html;
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				limit = source.length;
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			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
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				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
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		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
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		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
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		if (has_more) {
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			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
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			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
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	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
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			return;
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		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
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		if (reaction.url === '') {
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		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 + '"/>';
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			+ '</a></div>'
			+ '<cite><span>' + reaction.author_name + '</span></cite>'
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			+ '</div><div class="dsq-reaction-body">'
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						item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
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			return '';
		}

		html = '';
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			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
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		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>';
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	this.missingPermissions = function() {
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	//
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	//

	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;
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	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
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		var _includeServices = function() {
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			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
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					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
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					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
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			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
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		return ' \
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				: '')
			+ '</a>'
			+ '</div> \
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	};

	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
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		return ''
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				: '')
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"> \
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			</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>'
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			;
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		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
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					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
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						<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"> \
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									<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false">Sign-in</a> \
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						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
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	//

	this._makeAttributes = function(attributes) {
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		// 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 = {
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			'f'				: 'jackandjillpolitics',
			't'				: 'countdown_to_the_inauguration_50_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
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		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_50_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_50_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_50_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_50_days_8212_open_thread'
				+ '&email=' 	+ encodeURIComponent(email));

		} else if(!email) {
			// If anonymous user and no email has been provided yet, prompt for email

			var title = 'Subscribe to this comment thread';
			var message = ' \
				New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox! \
				<div class="dsq-subscribe-submit"> \
					<p><strong>Enter your email address below.</strong></p> \
					<input type="text" id="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
					<button onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1, Dsq.$(\'dsq-subscribe-email\').value)">Subscribe</button> \
				</div> \
			';

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

	this.showSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return;
		}

		/* The form has to be re-designed when more options will come out. */
		var html = 'Automatically close comments after <input size="3" id="dsq-thread-days-alive" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.days_alive + '" type="text" /> days. Existing comments will still be displayed.<br /><br />(Using 0 days will disable this feature)<br /><br />'
								 + '<button onclick="Dsq.Thread.updateDaysAlive();" class="dsq-button-small"><span>Save</span></button>'
								 + '<span id="dsq-thread-settings-status" class="dsq-options-status"></span>';
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Settings');
	};

	this.updateDaysAlive = function() {
		var days = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-days-alive').value;
		var status = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-settings-status');
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/update_days_alive.js', {days:days,thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
		status.innerHTML = 'Saved!';
		window.setTimeout(function() { status.innerHTML = ''; }, 1000);
	};
};
// Dsq.Thread

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

	// Private
	var handlers = {};
	var getHandlers = function(event) {
		if (handlers[event] === undefined) {
			handlers[event] = [];
		}
		return handlers[event];
	};

	// Public
	// Value keys : postId, node, xtype
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED = 1;
	// Value keys : postId, opened
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED = 2;
	obj.fire = function(event, opt_value) {
		if (!event) {
			throw new Error('Unknown event');
		}
		var value = opt_value || {};
		for (var i=0; i<getHandlers(event).length; i++) {
			getHandlers(event)[i](value);
		}
	};
	obj.addHandler = function(event, callback) {
		getHandlers(event).push(callback);
	};

	return obj;
}();

/**
 * Dsq.Realtime
 */
Dsq.Realtime = new function() {
	var initialized = false;
	var interval = null;
	var last_checked = Dsq.jsonData.request.timestamp;
	var new_posts = [];
	var ongoing_request = false;
	var prev_script = null;

	function updateNewPostCount() {
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-alert').style.display = new_posts.length ? 'block' : 'none';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-queued').innerHTML = new_posts.length
		+ ' new '
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, 'comment', 'comments')
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, ' was', ' were')
		+ ' just posted.';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.SHOW + ')';
	}

	function insertNewPosts() {
		var post_id = null;
		var after_id = Dsq.$('dsq-sort-select').value === 'oldest' ? -1 : null;

		for (var i=0; i<new_posts.length; i++) {
			post_id = new_posts[i];
			Dsq.Post.insert(after_id, post_id, Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id].message);
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		}
		new_posts = [];
	}

	this.enableInterval = function() {
		interval = setInterval(Dsq.Realtime.check, Dsq.jsonData.context.realtime_speed);
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.ENABLED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.PAUSE + ')';
	}

	this.disableInterval = function() {
		if (interval) {
			clearInterval(interval);
			interval = null;
		}
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.PAUSED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.RESUME + ')';
	}

	this.toggleInterval = function() {
		if (!interval) {
			Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
		} else {
			Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
		}
		return false;
	}

	this.initialize = function() {
		if (!initialized) {
			initialized = true;
			Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').onclick = this.toggleInterval;
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').onclick = this.show;
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
			if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.realtime_paused) {
				Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
			} else {
				Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
			}
		}
	}

	this.show = function() {
		insertNewPosts();
		updateNewPostCount();
		return false;
	}

	this.check = function() {
		if (!ongoing_request && Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			if (prev_script) {
				prev_script.parentNode.removeChild(prev_script);
			}
			ongoing_request = true;
			prev_script = Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/7783931/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);
	};

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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4118058" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4118058">dcgatn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4118058" class="dsq-comment-message">Am I the only one one scared about what Vogue is going to do to Michelle after what they did to JHud? Ugh. I can\'t even look at Annie Liebovitz the same way after that and the god-awful Lebron James/King Kong cover. Double Ugh. And please lawd don\'t let Andre Leon Talley near Michelle. Remember what he did to JHud at the Oscars. Triple Ugh!<br><br>Also, I hate to burst everyone\'s bubble but the cover images aren\'t original to Essence according to this Women\'s Wear Daily article:<br><br><a href="http://www.wwd.com/media-news/fashion-memopad/oz-comes-to-new-york-vogue-the-movie-1873036?src=rss/recentstories/20081201#/article/media-news/fashion-memopad/oz-comes-to-new-york-vogue-the-movie-1873036?page=4" rel="nofollow">http://www.wwd.com/media-news/fashion-memopad/o...</a><br><br>However, the covers look good so I guess it doesn\'t matter. Hopefully Essence will be able to actually interview the Obamas again at some point.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4120572" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4120572" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4120572">isonprize</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4120572" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4120572" class="dsq-comment-message">I thought that PE Obama shot looked familiar.   Michelle\'s shot, however, is new to me.   She looks great!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4122606" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4122606" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4122606" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4122606" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4122606" class="dsq-comment-message">Well I think Michelle would demand final approval. It\'s not like Vogue can\'t take a good photo  - remember the Oprah cover? ATL just needs to stop trying to be artsy and keep it simple. You know he\'s already gotten mail about messing with Mrs. O. When he styled Sophie Okonedo he was ok. I recognized the Barack photo immediately.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4112847" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4112847" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4112847">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4112847" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112847" class="dsq-comment-message">These covers are fab!  Classy and tasteful.  President  Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.  YES THEY ARE AND YES THEY DID!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4111904" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4111904" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4111904" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4111904" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111904" class="dsq-comment-message">"David Gregory to Host Meet the Press"<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/01/david-gregory-to-moderate_n_147540.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/01/david-...</a><br><br>MTP says it has nothing to announce.<br>Gregory is not confirming or denying it...<br><br><br>wack</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4112341">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4112341" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4112341" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4112341" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4112341" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112341" class="dsq-comment-message">I won\'t be watching that incompetent shill.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4112422" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4112422" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4112422">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4112422" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112422" class="dsq-comment-message">Me neither.<br><br>I suffered through infrequent, 3x weekly,  viewings of \'Race\' to the White House, which had always been ROAD to the White house until this year...I did not find that subliminal message amusing.<br><br>Now that it is 1600 Pennysylvania, I barely watch once a week//I started watching Campbell more...but she has turned into all bias and bull since the election.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4112390" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4112390" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4112390">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4112390" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112390" class="dsq-comment-message">Totally WHACKED!!<br><br>I can\'t STAND Gregory..he is awful...sooooo insipid and a sycophant!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4111946" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4111946" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4111946">Sepia</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4111946" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111946" class="dsq-comment-message">OH GOD! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!<br><br>First, Hillary gets SoS, and now this. <br><br>I need a drank!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4112435" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4112435">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4112435" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112435" class="dsq-comment-message">I will meet you there!  I need some Tanqueray 10, with ice shaken not stirred~~</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4114949" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4114949" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4114949" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4114949" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4114949" class="dsq-comment-message">Ugh. Gregory? Do they want the show to fail?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4121159" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4121159">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4121159" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4121159" class="dsq-comment-message">evita:  Ohhhh noooooo!!  YUK!!!  DOUBLE YUK!!  **shivers**<br><br>He need to "Meet The Press" ta find out what they do!!   He \'on\'t know!!<br><br>DANG!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4121412">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4121412" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4121412" class="dsq-comment-message">bad decision.<br><br>horrible<br><br>blech</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4122636" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4122636" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4122636" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4122636" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4122636" class="dsq-comment-message">The least qualified out of the bunch. Affirmative Action for white men yet again!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4127263">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4127263" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4127263" class="dsq-comment-message">Haven\'t watched MTP since I was a kid, and it looks like that will continue.  I just haven\'t been able to take Gregory seriously since he tripped the light fantastic with Karl "MC" Rove.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4128419" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4128419" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4128419">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4128419" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4128419" class="dsq-comment-message">MsKitty, he tripped it with Mary J. too!<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evoMTW1eso0" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evoMTW1eso0</a><br><br>Lest we forget:  <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evoMTW1eso0" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evoMTW1eso0</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4130471" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4130471" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4130471">MsKitty</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4130471" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4130471" class="dsq-comment-message">OMG that Mary J clip?  That was so bad I was embarrassed <i>for</i> him.  Somebody really needs to pull Gregory aside the next time he gets ready to make a fool of himself.  Seriously.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4154574" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4154574" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4154574" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4154574" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4154574" class="dsq-comment-message">ROFL<br><br>That was sooooo wrong. <br><br>omg, smh, lmao</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4154986" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4154986" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4154986">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4154986" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4154986" class="dsq-comment-message">evita, yes, and it was soooooo fun!  MTP and David Gregory, oh the incongruency of it all!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4111559" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4111559" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4111559">isonprize</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4111559" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111559" class="dsq-comment-message">They both look fabulous!  I hope that the articles will live up to the cover photos.</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4111639" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4111639" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4111639">Miss- Opinion </span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4111639" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111639" class="dsq-comment-message">Hmmm I love her but something is off. I think they air brushed her too much. Is Michelle\'s hair short now?<br><br>LOL like it matters. I\'m still getting those issues!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4111715" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4111715" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4111715">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4111715" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111715" class="dsq-comment-message">They did somethin...her nose and his looks different..his too wide hers too narrow. Every since Susan Taylor sold Essence the folks of non-color go over the top sometimes and our features are just not natural looking. Obama\'s smile even looks forced and his arms are crossed, and it is like they were trying to make Michelle sexually provocative as she appears to be leaning forward to show cleavage.<br><br>typical hypersex media ploy</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4111898" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4111898" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4111898">Miss- Opinion </span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4111898" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111898" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL I thought that too re the smile. That picture has been uses a lot and I\'ve never seen his smile that wide. Someone got a little too happy with the photoshop :P <br><br>I didn\'t know Susan sold Esscene. Shame. <br><br>Frankly I think I might buy the Michelle issue only. I kind of wish they picked a new Barack picture.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4111649" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4111649" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4111649">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4111649" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111649" class="dsq-comment-message">Vogue has a  lot to match. Nobody makes a Black woman look beautiful the way that Essence can.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4111908">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4111908" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111908" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes! They better come correct because that Jennifer Hudson cover was not the business.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4112574" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4112574" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4112574">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4112574" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112574" class="dsq-comment-message">I missed that cover, what did they do?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4112756" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4112756" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4112756">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4112756" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112756" class="dsq-comment-message">WRB, check this out:<br><br><a href="http://concreteloop.com/2007/02/jennifer-hudson-covers-vogue#more-10485" rel="nofollow">http://concreteloop.com/2007/02/jennifer-hudson...</a><br><br>...tell us what you think.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4113643" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4113643" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4113643">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4113643" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4113643" class="dsq-comment-message">AWWW man DAYUM!!<br><br>That is just too ugly...she looks like a loudmouth jezebel COW!!<br><br>That is damn awful...in a RED hussy dress too?!   Strikes me as the type of picture that would have T.I\'s lyrics as the caption:<br><br>\'love the way you drop it brain so good could swore you went to college\'<br><br>And you KNOW ...what I\'m sayin</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4112207" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4112207" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4112207">Monie</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4112207" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112207" class="dsq-comment-message">AIn\'t that the truth.<br><br>I have already said Vogue upset me  with that Jennifer Hudson cover a couple of years ago.<br><br>But Anna Wintour, and basically the whole fashion industry adores Michelle And Barack Obama---so hopefully that will translate to a splendid cover.....we\'ll see.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4113947" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4113947" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4113947">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4113947" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4113947" class="dsq-comment-message">Why they had JHud looking like a pig getting ready for the apple?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4116396" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4116396" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4116396">Monie</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4116396" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4116396" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m still trying to figure that one out.<br><br>I think Wintour KNOWS we are watching her this time...especially after JHud, the Lebron/Gisele fiasco, and the worldwide success of the Italian Vogue all Black issue.....she betta come correct with Michelle.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4123275">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4123275" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4123275" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4123275" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4123275" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4123275" class="dsq-comment-message">That was soooo wrong! The photos that accompanied the article inside the mag were better. They totally did that on purpose. Just don\'t hire Liebowitz as she has racial fetishisms that come out in her work. She sees them as Black people in stereotype not beautiful subjects. She should definitely have Pat McGrath doing her makeup though.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4111658" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4111658" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4111658">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4111658" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111658" class="dsq-comment-message">Raise the hand...who is going to buy BOTH COVERS?<br><br><br>ME ME ME ME ME ME<br><br>LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4111678" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4111678" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4111678">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4111678" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111678" class="dsq-comment-message">ditto, ditto, ditto</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4111706" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4111706">Sepia</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4111706" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111706" class="dsq-comment-message">*raising both hands and a leg* ME!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4112155" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4112155" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4112155">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4112155" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112155" class="dsq-comment-message">I have a subscription - it came with my tickets to the Essence festival. I was boycotting Essence before that....still quite mad at the whole cover of PDiddy with Kim Porter and Essence promoting their "black love"...I was so done with Essence after that...then another issue had R. Kelly\'s wife in it proclaiming his innocence. If it wasn\'t for those damn tickets......but I have loved the covers of the Obama\'s and now these two....so I guess I can forgive them....a lil bit.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4112564" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4112564" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4112564">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4112564" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112564" class="dsq-comment-message">Miranda...I felt the EXACT same way about that Porter/Diddy cover...it was an huge INSULT.  An absolute disgrace ...but every since Susan Taylor sold Essence the folks in charge have a real challenging time making the mag afrocentric focused in terms of what our culture values...and they just promote that rapper/thug/babymomma..crap that sells records and passes for black culture as a powerful marketing tool.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4112667" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4112667" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4112667">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4112667" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112667" class="dsq-comment-message">Susan Taylor didn\'t sell it, she was the editor-in-chief, not the owner....nevertheless, the magazine has NOT been the same since she left the helm.  I find myself simply looking at the pictures. That whole Diddy/Kim Porter thing was absolutely appalling. I still can\'t believe they actually went THERE.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4112845">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4112845" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4112845" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4112845">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4112845" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112845" class="dsq-comment-message">Taylor was editor in chief AND owner...she is now just editor in chief</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4113922" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4113922" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4113922">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4113922" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4113922" class="dsq-comment-message">The current editor-in-chief is Angela Burt-Murray. Susan Taylor was never the owner of Essence - she was the most visible face of the magazine for almost 2 decades though - when you thought of Essence, immediately she came to mind.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4121081" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4121081" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4121081" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4121081" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4121081" class="dsq-comment-message">Take it from me, a NYC magazine vet who has known/met many folks at Essence over the years including Susan Taylor...<br><br>Ed Lewis and Clarence Smith started Essence in 1970 and Lewis was an owner before the Time Warner sale a few years ago.  <br><br>Susan Taylor was never the owner of Essence and left in 2007 as Publications Director (she was Editorial Director for years). She started out as a beauty editor in the 70s and rose to EIC and eventually Editorial Director.<br> <br>Monique Greenwood and Diane Weathers were both Editor-in-Chief before Angela Burt Murray stepped in about 3 or 4 years ago.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4135258" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4135258" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4135258">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4135258" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4135258" class="dsq-comment-message">thanks</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4118992" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4118992">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4118992" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4118992" class="dsq-comment-message">I rarely write into a magazine, but I wrote in - snail mail, and got my sisters and niece to write in too over that tripe with Kim Porter.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4122845" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4122845" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4122845" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4122845" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4122845" class="dsq-comment-message">Just a correction. Taylor didn\'t own Essence. It was owned by Black men and she ran the magazine. It has gone a little downhill since being sold but they wanted to cash out.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4122808" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4122808" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4122808" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4122808" class="dsq-comment-message">HAHAHAHA! OMG Too true. I wrote a post about Black famous women choosing scrubs and how that sends a bad message to the rest of us.<br><a href="http://snipr.com/6zl2i" rel="nofollow">http://snipr.com/6zl2i</a> <br><br>See now that Barack & Michelle are going to the WH everybody wants to talk about Black love but he wasn\'t raised by Black people and trained to look down on us the way so many of these other men choose to do. He is the exception. And he made a lot of mistakes by leaving Michelle alone with the girls early on - but I wonder how many people have actually read his books. He\'s been steadily making progress for years and wasn\'t readily made "perfect". People want to idolize them and that\'s dangerous.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4119089" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4119089">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4119089" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4119089" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:   Imma buy as much as I can!!  Bofadem!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4111688" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4111688" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4111688">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4111688" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111688" class="dsq-comment-message">These covers are HOT! Two of the best covers Essence has had in a long time!<br><br>Joan Walsh was at it again on Hardball. <br><br>Tweety mentioned Samantha Power rejoining PE Obama\'s team. Walsh said that Hillary signed off on letting her back into the fold. Signed off? WTH? So, Walsh is insinuating that Hillary got the final say on whether or not Power was welcomed back like Kotter? GMAB! <br><br>And then, later in the conversation, she made a Freudian Slip saying (and I\'m paraphrasing) that Hillary will "do her own thing"! UGH!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4111754" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4111754" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4111754">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4111754" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111754" class="dsq-comment-message">Walsh was getting on my LAST nerve with her \'all things Hillary\' mantra. I was glad Hitchens was there to voice the views of many, many, many people which is we are sick of all things Clinton!!<br><br>We want them to go away and get off the nation stage, like all other Presidents when they leave office. I have Clinton fatigue.<br><br>i am not looking forward to hearing about hill and bill the next 4 years...the press is going to cover their asses like they are still in office and Obama is their god damn personal assistant that is in the WH when they are off globe trotting!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4112055" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4112055" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4112055">Sepia</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4112055" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112055" class="dsq-comment-message">Hitchens was having NONE of it. I loved it when he called her out on being offended that he referred to her as Ms. Walsh. <br><br>And who is she to dismiss criticism of the Clintons as people who are "career Clinton haters" who have spent years trying to bring them down. Walsh needs to realize that there are plenty of people, like myself, who were Clinton supporters but became turned off by their race-baiting and white privilege schtick in the quest for the Oval Office.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4112525" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4112525">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4112525" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112525" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, that was sweet how he did that!!///   I was ctfu!!<br><br>YES!! and then she had the NERVE to claim that it was a small group?!  I was like WTF?<br><br>Sorry, Walsh but there are so many of us that HRC could not win the nomination...HELLO!!<br><br>Lots and lots of people are sick of HRC and could not stomach the idea of her and Bill back in the WH!<br><br>While I was turned off by the race-baiting, too..I was a staunch Obama supporter from the moment he spoke at the 2004 DNC convention and HRC tore her proverbial draws with me when she voted for the war AND told all of us if we wanted an apology we could vote for someone else.<br><br>You are definitely right on that white entitlement BS...that made me nauseous.<br><br>Which was why, I was just overjoyed when Obama trounced her in caucus after caucus.  With massive crowds from coast to coast and she with a former President in tow, could barely muster 4K folks at a rally.<br><br>Rev Pflegel said it BEST!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4112675" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4112675" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4112675">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112675" class="dsq-comment-message">Joan Walsh Administers a Smackdown to Christopher Hitchens<br>ummm, I don\'t think so!  She was her usual whinney self.  eewwww!<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvAe4UJZl0w" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvAe4UJZl0w</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4112829" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4112829" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4112829">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4112829" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112829" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, that headlinewas  definitely written by a Hill supporter<br><br>cause all those of us who are not would have written it in the reverse!<br><br>Christopher Hitchens Administers a Smackdown to Joan Walsh.<br><br>I am no fan of Hitchens but I agree with him about the Clintons.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4117011" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4117011" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4117011">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4117011" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4117011" class="dsq-comment-message">Whiterosebuddy, Idon\'t know that much about Hitchens, I know what white entitlement sounds and looks like, and I loathe it!<br><br>"You can call me Joan; I\'vebeen to your house, Christopher."   You don\'t have to call me Ms. Walsh, we had drinks together.\'  What the fuck?!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4119024" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4119024" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4119024">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4119024" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4119024" class="dsq-comment-message">whiterosebuddy:  Co-SIGN!!  <i>Christopher Hitchens Administers a Smackdown to Joan Walsh.<br>I am no fan of Hitchens but I agree with him about the Clintons.</i>  <br><br>Agree on your sentiments!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4128574" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4128574" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4128574">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4128574" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4128574" class="dsq-comment-message">The title (Joan Walsh Administers a Smackdown to Christopher Hitchens) is bullshit.<br><br>Hitchens is right about the Clintons, and he slapped Joan down.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4128772" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4128772" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4128772">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4128772" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4128772" class="dsq-comment-message">Admiral, say it again.  There\'s no where to hide these days.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4112493" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4112493" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4112493">lamh31</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4112493" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112493" class="dsq-comment-message">Personally even when I agree with Hitchens, I find him very unpleasant, more so than Joan.  At least with Joan we know she\'s a Clinton-lover from the beginning, the devil you know.  Besides, IIRC, wasn\'t Hitchens pretty dismissive of Obama particularly during the Rev Wright/Bitter moments during the primaries.  He basically got behind Obama because eventually he couldn\'t stand Palin, Clinton, or McCain, so Obama was the lesser of the evils.<br><br>So I take much of what Hitchens says with a grain of salt.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4112638" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4112638" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4112638">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112638" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, you are right about Hitchens and his evolution to O-ness support.<br>But I just an soooooo SICK of the Clintons...they just suck all the oxygen out the room.<br><br>I would love to be a fly in a cabinet meeting to watch Obama rein in those egos and I bet he has to do some serious refereeing between Hill and Susan...I am just waiting to see how he throws Power up in the mix...Hill thought she had boxed them out by asking to pick her staff.<br><br>Obama agreed but is going to go STILL surround her ass with Powers and Rice...hahahahahaha<br><br>I am sick of the Clintons and for that I was glad to root for Hitchens today...cause Walsh was too full of white female entitlement promoting HRC.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4112812" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112812" class="dsq-comment-message">Everything you said about Hitchens is right.<br><br>But he\'s also right about Hillary and Bill Clinton.<br><br>I can never take a brilliant writer with a grain of salt, even when I disagree with him. I often do. <br><br>Not this time.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4114034">lamh31</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4114034" class="dsq-comment-message">He maybe right about Hil and Bill, but his views on Obama I will take with a grain of salt.  Even if you agree with him about the Clintons, pay attention to how he speaks of Obama. It just seems to me he has absolutely no respect for Obama, and it\'s times like these when it completely oozes out of his pores.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4131182" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4131182" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4131182" class="dsq-comment-message">He\'s jealous of Barack. Everything he says about Barack needs to be seen through the prism of envy.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4132640">lamh31</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4132640" class="dsq-comment-message">you\'re right envy is the right word.<br><br>I suspect that a lot of Repubs are envious of Obama\'s charisma and saavy</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4111921">Miss- Opinion </span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111921" class="dsq-comment-message">Susan is working with Hillary so I dont get that this is such a big deal. Naturally she would be asked about it. She did call her a monster lol. This Clinton drama feels over hyped and forced.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4112427" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4112427">lamh31</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112427" class="dsq-comment-message">I kinda agree with ya there to some small extent.  In some cases, the Clinton drama is usually because the Clinton\'s leaked the drama</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4112452">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112452" class="dsq-comment-message">No, Susan did not call HRC a monster...Samantha Powers did.<br>Susan has nothing but disdain for HRC, that is REAL evident.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4120331">Miss- Opinion </span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4120331" class="dsq-comment-message">I meant Samantha sorry</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4122734" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4122734" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4122734" class="dsq-comment-message">Could you tell by the frown on her face at the conference! At least Obama elevated her position so she skips over Hillary and goes straight to him. Once Hillbot messes up Dr. Rice can step right in.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4111757">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4111757" class="dsq-comment-message">Michelle is gorgeous!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4112563">lamh31</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112563" class="dsq-comment-message">I tell you what, I can\'t stand Campbell Brown.  Her whole "no bias, no bull" schictk is getting old.  It\'s mostly bull.  I kinda wish Campbell Brown and David Gregory would have just gone away after the electiob,</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4116367">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4116367" class="dsq-comment-message">She needs to go to Faux News with her Rethug husband Dan Senor.  He\'s  a Republican strategist and Fox News.  As for Gregory, he has a much journalistic finese as a screw driver.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4128776">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4128776" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL<br><br>I still like MSNBC with the trifecta of Rachel, Chris and Keith. I know Tweety over steps the bounds of sanity but his moments of nailing people who don\'t know what they are talking about, make up for it.<br><br>Anyone remember this?<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1wSZBTAXRs&feature=PlayList&p=32235B86B34360B5&index=22" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1wSZBTAXRs&feat...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4131311">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4131311" class="dsq-comment-message">Co-signing, Lilytiger, a terrific trifecta, indeed; they all have their issues but they bring it!<br><br>This video gets my pick for Tweety\'s  Oscar winning performance: He TKO\'d Michelle Backman.  That bitch won anyways, but we\'ll be watching her here in Minnesota.<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bT01mC9xSA" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bT01mC9xSA</a><br>**********************************************************************<br>LOL! Yes, Kevin James with his bryll cream hair, crest whitening strips teeth, and tighty whites, brought a spit ball gun to a hand grenade fight.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4113541">lamh31</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4113541" class="dsq-comment-message">Looks like I\'m not the only one who\'s adopting the <a href="http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/welcome-secretary-clinton-obamas-promises-be-kept#comment-22962" rel="nofollow">Wait and see approach</a>.<br><br>Check out Al Girodano\'s new Post:<br><a href="http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/welcome-secretary-clinton-obamas-promises-be-kept" rel="nofollow">http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/welco...</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4115021" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4115021" class="dsq-comment-message">This is great - thanks for posting the link.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4115024">lamh31</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4115024" class="dsq-comment-message">When are these issues gonna be on the newstand?  Does anyone know when Ebony will be on the stand?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4119047">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4119047" class="dsq-comment-message">no discussion about the AIDS pandemic?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4120644">isonprize</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4120644" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.worldaidscampaign.org/static/en/Key-events/World-AIDS-Day/World-AIDS-Day-2008/" rel="nofollow">World Aids Day  2008</a><br><br>From the London perspective: <br> <a href="http://www.worldaidsday.org/" rel="nofollow">World Aids Day  2008 (UK)</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4120837">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4120837" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks, I was looking for blog posts from here or other sites.  I figured with today being WAD there would be a few floating around.  I think HIV/AIDS is becoming a normalcy in our society and wanted to see what progress if any has been made.  AIDS cases are down in Jamaica though, I read those stats somewhere today.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4121124">Trumystique</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4121124" class="dsq-comment-message">Its not that people are complacent they just dont care when their jobs are being lost and they are stressing about Christmas around the corner. Granted no one cares when the economy is good because black lives are undervalued the world over. People dont care. They dont care that in this country the face of AIDS is black and brown men who have sex with men. They dont care about the black and brown women with HIV in this country or in the rest of the word. The pattern of HIV in this world is a mirror of vulnerability and barometer of poverty, violence, lack of education, gender, race and sexual orientation based discrimination.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4121533">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4121533" class="dsq-comment-message">I can see where people wouldn\'t be thinking about it, but I think by putting it on the backburner doesn\'t help.  I noticed that the only channel I actually see HIV/AIDS commercials on is BET.  Maybe you are right, maybe its the "face" of this issue that is getting in the way.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4120972">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4120972" class="dsq-comment-message">nickwah22:  From the President-Elect [change.gov]"<br><br><a href="http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/president_elect_obama_commemorates_20th_annual_world_aids_day/" rel="nofollow">President-elect Obama commemorates 20th Annual World AIDS Day<br>Monday, December 1, 2008 03:04pm EST</a><br><br>THERE IS A VIDEO.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4120529">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4120529" class="dsq-comment-message">Thursday, Dec. 4 @ 9pm et/pt Christiane Amanpour\'s special about <b>genocide</b> called "Scream Bloody Murder"</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4120922">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4120922" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  From Politico 44:<br><br><br>THE WHITEBOARD<br>President-elect Obama will meet with some of the nation’s governors tonight in Philadelphia to discuss the economy. The governors will likely try to ensure that they get their piece of Obama’s planned economic stimulus package, to which the president-elect has yet to give a price tag.<br><br>8:30 PM	<br><br>Obama departs reception with Democratic governors, and arrives at the Sheraton Hotel shortly thereafter.<br><br><a href="http://www.politico.com/politico44/" rel="nofollow">Politico 44 The Next President - Minute By Minute - Dec 1</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4121014" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4121014" class="dsq-comment-message">Since y\'all waxing about Hillary, I urge you to check out the "WORD ASSOCIATION" section of Field Negro\'s blog, and find out what picture word association he is using for Hillary. <br><br>WARNING: Do not be drinking anything while you are near your keyboard.<br><br><a href="http://www.field-negro.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.field-negro.blogspot.com/</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4121104">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4121104" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL:   BWAhahahahahaha!!   No he di\'int!    YES HE DID!!!  :&gt;)<br><br>I recognized the "FACE" immediately!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Nice post!!  Do ya think he\'s been readin\' JJP?   :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4121399">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4121399" class="dsq-comment-message">LMAO<br><br>luv FN</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4121051">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4121051" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  From change.gov:<br><br><a href="http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/the_national_security_team/" rel="nofollow">THE NATIONAL SECURITY TEAM</a><br><br>Pics & ALL<br><br><i>Monday, December 1, 2008 01:58pm EST<br><br>With today\'s introduction of key members of the National Security Team, President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden have now chosen nearly half of the cabinet, including the heads of the departments of State, Defense, Treasury, and Justice.<br><br>Nominees announced today include Senator Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, Eric Holder as Attorney General, Governor Janet Napolitano as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Susan Rice as Ambassador to the United Nations, and General Jim Jones, USMC (Ret) as National Security Adviser. President-elect Obama also announced that he has asked Robert Gates to stay on as Secretary of Defense.<br><br>Opinion leaders from across the ideological spectrum have praised the cabinet that is taking shape.<br><br>"In selecting nominees for his Cabinet and a new White House staff, President-elect Barack Obama has so far placed an admirable emphasis on proven competence over personal loyalty or political purity," the Washington Post editorial board wrote last week.<br><br>View pictures from today\'s press conference and read President-elect Obama\'s prepared remarks below.</i><br><br>Mr. President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama!! <b>LARGE and IN CHARGE!</b> :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4121473">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4121473" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  LOOK at THIS "PLATE!":  :&gt;)<br><br><a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/12012008/news/regionalnews/obama_plates_give_li_thieves_license_to__141704.htm" rel="nofollow">OBAMA PLATES GIVE LI THIEVES LICENSE TO STEAL</a><br><br><i> A Long Island Obama supporter scored vanity license plates bearing his presidential hero\'s name - now, if he could only use them.<br><br>Jonathan Lifschutz, 50, of Great Neck, got his "OBAMA" plates from the Department of Motor Vehicles three days after the Jan. 26 South Carolina primary, and they soon became the most sought-after in the state.<br><br>In fact, they were so sought-after that Lifschutz couldn\'t keep them on his Saab - because would-be thieves tried prying them off.<br><br>He even caught one man in the act.<br><br>So Lifschutz, a financial analyst, has taken off the plates for safekeeping and put the old ones back on.<br><br>"Those plates will probably, at some point, become a collector\'s item - in someone else\'s house," he joked. "I decided that they will best be preserved if I took them off and just carried them in the car."<br><br>Lifschutz - a one-time Hillary Rodham Clinton backer and donor - said he applied for the license plates after he saw former President Bill Clinton minimize Barack Obama\'s primary victory over Sen. Clinton in South Carolina. Kyle Murphy and Clemente Lisi</i><br><br>CUTE PLATE!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Now I\'m gon look for one!!  :&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-4121495">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4121495" class="dsq-comment-message">People would probably cause accidents trying to take pics of it.  I\'d store them in the house for safe keep.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4121551">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4121551" class="dsq-comment-message">nickwah22:  TRUE DAT!!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)  I will!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4121618">Trumystique</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4121618" class="dsq-comment-message">Dont know if this is true. But people are reporting that Obama is buying Michelle a beautiful ring as a thank you gift. <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1090653/Barack-Obama-buy-rare-20-000-gold-ring-wife-say-thanks-support.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/artic...</a><br>Michelle Obama is to receive this £20,000 thank you from her husband for her support during the election.<br><br>The Harmony ring is made of rhodium - the world\'s most expensive metal --and encrusted with diamonds. It is being hastily made by Italian designer Giovanni Bosco in time for January\'s inauguration ceremony. ....<br><br><br>Hmmm... Black gold indeed. Thats powerful symbolism if true that this man know what really makes him rich.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4128518">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4128518" class="dsq-comment-message">Careful, it is the Daily Mail of the UK and they are not known for their sterling (heh , pun intended) journalism.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4131201">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4131201" class="dsq-comment-message">Lilytiger:  RAOTFL!!  :&gt;)  <i>STERLING</i>  NICE!!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4130946">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4130946" class="dsq-comment-message">YES!!  It was reported on MSNBC as well.<br>Michelle has earned it and he knows that she is the best thing in his life.<br><br>Lord what is America gone do with all this Black Love on DISPLAY!!!??<br><br>And white hubbies gone have to step it up too!  Can\'t you just hear their wives...if that BLACK man can shower his wife with love and affection...what YOU gon do?<br><br>And SiSTARS?  Sistars?.....Not a brother alive that don\'t know he best get to gettin and watching Oprah\'s FAVORITE things...and buying ERRRYTHANG she shows!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4131013">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4131013" class="dsq-comment-message">MSNBC reported it is a $35K dollar ring.<br><br>Some folks already saying that ain\'t a lot for diamonds and rhodium plated platinum.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4131185">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4131185" class="dsq-comment-message">wrb:   LOL!!!  :&gt;)<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH59jVKyui8&feature=related" rel="nofollow">DIAMONDS ARE A GIRL\'S BEST FRIEND (Beyonce)</a><br><br>ENJOY!!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4121867">osmond</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4121867" class="dsq-comment-message">see is stuff like that, that makes it so hard on us broke brothas lol. barack is messing it up buying rings, showing her he loves her, kissing her, taking her on dates, geez now all of us gotta act right lol</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4122103">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4122103" class="dsq-comment-message">OMG! I almost fell off the couch<br><br>Laughing with some girlfriends this weekend talking about how we wanted "Obama-Like" brothas for Christmas....it was discussed  here some time ago as well. But yes, my friend...Obama is raising the bar.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4122469" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4122469" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t want no Scrubs......</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4131229">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4131229" class="dsq-comment-message">osmond:  HEY!   :&gt;)    LOL!  :&gt;)  U  got it!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4121626">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4121626" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  JUST IN CASE U WERE WONDERING:<br><br><a href="http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/12/01/kilpatrick-aide-pleads-guilty-in-sex-scandal/" rel="nofollow">Kilpatrick aide pleads guilty in sex scandal</a><br><br><i><b>Stoic and publicly silent through months of a sex scandal, the woman whose relationship with former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick led to his downfall broke her silence Monday, shedding tears as she pleaded guilty.<br><br>Christine Beatty, a former aide to the mayor, accepted a four-month jail sentence in exchange for admitting to obstruction of justice charges for her actions in a civil lawsuit brought by two police officers. The officers claimed Kilpatrick retaliated against them when they suspected wrongdoing by members of his inner circle.</b><br><br>Sexually explicit text messages between Kilpatrick and Beatty, published in January by the Detroit Free Press, contradicted witness-stand denials they were having an affair. Both were married at the time.<br><br>“I lied under oath,” Beatty told the judge, echoing the words Kilpatrick used during his own guilty plea in September.<br><br>“I did so with the intent to mislead the court and jury and to impede and obstruct the fair administration of justice,” she said in pleading guilty to two felonies.<br><br>Beatty, 38, initially was unable to choke back tears. Wayne County Circuit Judge Timothy Kenny gave her a moment to compose herself.<br><br>Beatty’s jail sentence will begin Jan. 5. With credit for good behavior, she could be free in 100 days.<br><br>Beatty, the mother of two young daughters who has since gotten divorced, had vigorously fought her case until Monday.<br><br>“It was time to get it over with, get on with her life, get it out of her children’s lives,” defense lawyer Mayer Morganroth said outside court. “Otherwise it goes on and on.”<br><br>Beatty refused to speak to reporters as she left the court.<br><br>Beatty was charged with perjury, misconduct and obstruction of justice for her testimony before and during a 2007 civil trial in Wayne County.<br><br>“We live in an age where greed and protecting one’s secrets is glorified and accepted. I am very pleased that this defendant admitted her guilt,” county Prosecutor Kym Worthy said later.<br><br>Kilpatrick, 38, pleaded guilty three months ago, resigned from office and was sentenced to 120 days in jail.<br><br>In the civil lawsuit, officers Gary Brown and Harold Nelthrope claimed their police careers suffered when Kilpatrick learned they suspected misconduct by his security unit. Among the allegations: Police bodyguards helped cover up Kilpatrick’s extramarital affairs.<br><br>A jury ruled last year in favor of Brown and Nelthrope. Kilpatrick settled that case and another one for $8.4 million when he learned that a lawyer for the former officers had obtained the mayor’s text messages.<br><br>City Council members said they didn’t know the deal carried secret provisions to keep a lid on messages between Kilpatrick and Beatty. Then the Free Press published some excepts earlier this year.<br><br>Kilpatrick was ordered to pay $1 million in restitution to the city and surrender his law license. Beatty must pay $100,000 and cannot attend law school while on probation.<br><br>Under state sentencing guidelines, she likely faced 19 months or more in prison if she had been convicted of all seven charges, according to Worthy’s staff.<br><br>AP</i><br><br>LAWD HA\'MERCY!   It\'s gonna B a looooooooonnng 4 months!!<br><br>Annnnnnd, we still haven\'t read all the text messages!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>Welll, gotta keep perspective on what\'s REALLY important!  :&gt;)  Inquiring minds want ta KNOW!!  :&gt;)     :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4121879">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4121879" class="dsq-comment-message">she lost it all......for Mayor Trifling</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4122748">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4122748" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  YEP!  What can we say??</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4130887">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4130887" class="dsq-comment-message">We can say that she was a triflin heffa who put her own sexual needs ahead of her children and family as well as another woman\'s home and family.  Her and Kwame deserve everything they get. Both of them destroyed two mens lifetime careers, pensions and homes because of the men doing their jobs all because Kwame and Chris wanted to delve into each other\'s crevices.<br><br>Those text messages were lewd and lascivious.  How any married woman with children could have wrote what she did to a married man that was her boss is simply unbelieveable.  She laid down with dogs and she got up with fleas. <br><br>Not to mention that Kwame and her husband were good friends had been since playing Pop Warner as youths together and her husband was the coach of his son\'s Pop Warner teams.<br><br>Both of these scuzzbuckets deserve want they get.<br><br>I have no sympathy for either one.  Both of them should of married out of HS, but they didn\'t and to turn around and destroy 2 families later on is simply inexcusable.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4130990">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4130990" class="dsq-comment-message">wrb:  CO-SIGN!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4121837">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4121837" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  SOS Clinton -  OUT!  NEXT??????<br><br><a href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/buffalo-mayor-gains-support-to-be-clinton-successor/" rel="nofollow">Buffalo Mayor Gains Support to Be Clinton Successor</a><br><br><i> With Hillary Rodham Clinton’s nomination to be secretary of state now official, the discussions are ratcheting to a more frenzied level regarding her possible successor as United States senator. In fact, a number of elected officials from western New York are publicly urging Gov. David A. Paterson to appoint Mayor Byron W. Brown of Buffalo.<br><br><b>His supporters say that Mr. Brown, 50, would be the first black senator from New York and that he would also provide a national platform for a state official from western New York.<br><br>Mr. Brown was elected to the State Senate in 2000 and served there until his election as mayor in 2005.</b><br><br>“I think that the mayor would generate a tremendous amount of enthusiasm and excitement,” said State Senator Antoine M. Thompson, a Democrat who represents parts of Buffalo and Niagara Falls.<br><br>“He’s a former state senator, and so he’s familiar with state issues,” Senator Thompson said. “I think that people would like to see someone from upstate, particularly since we don’t have anyone from upstate holding any prominent statewide office.”<br><br>Of course, the governor has indicated that he will not announce a successor to Senator Clinton until she is confirmed by the Senate. But that has not prevented the lobbying from western New York from moving forward vigorously.</i><br><br>THERE IS MORE.<br><br>Since I don\'t know the Mayor, any comments?  Thank you.  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4122336">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4122336" class="dsq-comment-message">I know nothing about him, but if given the appointment, it would give him 4 years to build a foundation, which would be good.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4122440" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4122440" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s my hometown - gawd I can\'t believe I just admitted that! He\'s not a bad Mayor. Buffalo has always been very segregated though. It was ranked 4th most racist city in the country at one point. I was highly shocked a Black Mayor got elected at all. There\'s lots of unemployment and burnt out houses surrounded by really nice suburbs (where the white people live). A lot of Black people left for Atlanta or the Carolinas or elsewhere and the ones left tend to fall into these ridiculous constructs of how being Black means you have to not talk white and other foolishness. I admit I couldn\'t wait to leave after high school and don\'t hold it in the highest regard. The best thing about Buffalo is its close proximity to Toronto.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4122699">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4122699" class="dsq-comment-message">h&f:  Thank you very much!  Good information for ALL of us ta know!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4130776">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4130776" class="dsq-comment-message">I concur, GLH...this is good info...hope the brother has the credentials to withstand the political abuse his appoint will elicit.  Cause Cuomo\'s son was suppose to be one of the top runners.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4130051" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4130051" class="dsq-comment-message">Buffalo reminds me of MIlwaukee, my hometown. But Milwaukee is experiencing a cultural and urban renaissance right now.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4122666">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4122666" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  The First Family will take a Much Needed Vacation:<br><br><a href="http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/12/obama_to_vacation_in_hawaii_fo.php" rel="nofollow">Obama To Vacation In Hawaii For Christmas</a><br><br><i>President-elect Barack Obama will spend the Christmas and New Year\'s holidays on an extended vacation with his family in Hawaii, Democratic sources confirmed today. The length of the vacation is not yet clear, and transition officials would not comment. Obama last visited the islands in October when his grandmother was sick. The Christmas trek to Hawaii may be a regular occurance for Obama in the White House, which would please the press corps, the Secret Service, WHCA and the locals to no end -- though it must be said: Crawford was probably easier to secure. <br><br>Obama vacations there whenever he gets the chance, jetting it before the Democratic National Convention. It was in Hawaii where, his official biography says, he made the final decision to run for president.</i><br><br>WELL DESERVED!!  They will probably pay tribute to Grandma Toots.  R.I.P.<br><br>God Bless Them ALL.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4128109" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4128109">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4128109" class="dsq-comment-message">But...but...that\'s too exotic! (snark)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4130378">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4130378" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4130378" class="dsq-comment-message">Admiral:  LOL!!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)  YOU!! :&gt;)     :&gt;)    :&gt;)  **shakin\' my head**</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4130738">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4130738" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4130738" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4130738">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4130738" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4130738" class="dsq-comment-message">I am sure the Secret Service is happy, happy, happy...but I was wondering what family does Obama have there now that his grandma died?<br><br>Does his sister Maya live there with her family?</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4130938">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4130938" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4130938" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4130938">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4130938" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4130938" class="dsq-comment-message">wrb:  LOL!   :&gt;)  Don\'t know abou the sister.  I\'m thinking that she doesn\'t live in Hawaii.  I\'ll TRY to look it up!  :&gt;)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4133434">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4133434" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4133434" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4133434">MsKitty</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4133434" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4133434" class="dsq-comment-message">IIRC Maya is a teacher at a private all-girls school in the Honolulu area.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4112016">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4112016" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4112016" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4112016">Trumystique</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4112016" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4112016" class="dsq-comment-message">His smile is forced because homeboy is feeling the weight on his shoulders. And he was like "Fools I dont have time for this mess. This is your last shot and I\'ll smile for you because after this we are done. I have work to do".<br><br>Michelle looks fabulous. Her smile is all like "Remember when you were telling me he is corny and drives a car with holes in it and that I should be with someone who was up to my standards. Heiffers, guess who is going to be in the White House!". Maybe she wasnt thinking that exactly but she is thinking about something that isnt charitable or else she was thinking about christening rooms in the White House ifyouknowhatiamsayin</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4121077">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4121077" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4121077" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4121077">nickwah22</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4121077" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4121077" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>Huckabee Claims Civil Rights Of Gays Are Not Being Violated: They Aren’t Getting Their ‘Skulls Cracked’</b><br><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/18/huckabee-gay-rights/" rel="nofollow">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/18/huckabee-ga...</a><br><br>Any bit of like I had for him has gone out the window..</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4128546">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4128546" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4128546" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4128546">Lilytiger</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4128546" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4128546" class="dsq-comment-message">Did he say that with saddness that their skulls weren\'t being cracked.<br><br>He comes off like a great guy, kind of like the sex offender down the street, and then boom he shows himself.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4129855">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4129855" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4129855" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4129855">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4129855" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4129855" class="dsq-comment-message">So,so sad, so,so true, Lilytiger!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 </ul>\
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