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{"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I won't be able to help 'cause I'll be on my way to kickin' Christie's ass right with Rikyrah!!<br><br>If ANYBODY tries to justify the BS that has been aimed toward Malia, they catch hate from me anyway they come at it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_22:11:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12519295, "depth": 3, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12520454": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Will Palin step up to defend Malia Obama?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_23:17:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12517440, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12518919": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ole evil eyes will probably go with decrying the \"left wing media\" for doing the same to Palin's children (with not any evidence of that)...say its equally wrong to insult Obama's children (even though there is no \"equal\" that was done to any of Palin's children) and then contort his eyes even more by suggesting this shouldn't even be a subject when we have more important things to discuss like the failing Obama policies, socialist healthcare agenda...blah blah blah......I know the talking points already, they are so predictable.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, 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All I can say is read it. This is more about the state of sports journalism - which is exactly like the state of political journalism:<br><br>Excerpt:<br>There is good on this planet and there is diabolical evil. When does life choose the meeting point? Good wins in spells but unfortunately there are moments where evil goes hard enough to snuff out the greatness of man in a fleeting yet horrific slice in time. In the space thereafter we are then left with a choice. A choice which is the origin of shaping and shifting a futuristic perspective. Because of the presence of evil, do we take the soul of a man and squash it into an assumed hellish abyss or do we properly advance history\u2026documenting the total scope of his walk in full appreciation of his life?<br><br>This is for Steve McNair\u2019s family. This is for his sons. This is for his life. This is for his legacy.<br><br>Full piece: <a href=\"http://thestartingfive.net/2009/07/10/the-steve-mcnair-tragedy-a-column/#comment-27909\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://thestartingfive.net/2009/07/10/the-steve...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_20:50:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12521484": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hey Justice!  I see you too!  Wanna change the subject to Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearing starting on Monday morn?<br><br>Scratch, scratch, meow!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-12_00:33:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12521326, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12518927": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "One of the commenters over there asked:<br><br>\"Is Free Republic mainstream blog level stuff?\"<br><br>Yes, very much so. You can say it's the internet voice of the Republican base, and racist invective is common there. Why is she so surprised?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_21:28:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "Plantsmantx", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12518706, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12518426": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "They have to learn the realities of the country they're in.  It doesn't matter that they're the POTUS's kids.  They shouldn't be treated like fragile chinaware.<br><br>Besides, with 2 great parents there for them, it probably not even care.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_20:51:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "LTMidnight", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12518093, "depth": 2, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12519430": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A commenter from DKos pretty much says what this is about.<br><br>    More than that, it's the dehumanization.<br><br>    If Barack and Michelle Obama are raising intelligent, responsible, loving and caring children who obviously trust and love their parents, it makes the Obamas appear to be loving, responsible parents who love their children. And that makes them look human.<br><br>    In order for hate to thrive, people have to be turned into monsters. No matter how nice, no matter how responsible, no matter how devoted or how much they care. And so those who are invested in despising Barack Obama have to create a myth about him and about all those around him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_22:11:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "LTMidnight", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12518706, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12521005": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I never try to claim I have bought anything new to the conversation.  I don't have that kind of ego.   <br><br>Please bring to me this \"original\" thread you keep yapping about.   <br><br>Next....your \"wag the finger of shame on black people\" has me totally mystified.<br><br>Are you well?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_23:57:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12520920, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12521525": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well, I don't want to be slick...never one of my goals...   I would disagree that I have made anything a \"habit.\"  Next I thank you for acknowledging to me my public failings as you have witnessed.  <br><br>I know I am imperfect and know that I can and do say things that are not always consistent.<br><br>By the way, if someone did a  similar \"check\" on Justice58 and Town, would you both be found without any of the inconsistencies you gathered on me???", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-12_00:36:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12521326, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12517440": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "David Schuester is going to talk about the mean/racist comments about Malia on Monday on MSNBC. I'm torn. While I think we need to call the bastards out, I don't know that I want it all over the MSM where Malia, Sasha, and her friends will inevitably hear about it somehow. Not that I don't think Michelle, Obama, and Grandma Robinson can't handle it, I just don't know that it's fair to do that to an 11 year old girl. We all know by now that when the idiots like the Freepers get called out, they only get worse.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_19:35:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 24, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12566082": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Where in my comment did I say he SHOULD have been murdered?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_02:34:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12519383, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12521538": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I swear, EVERYTIME Blacks and Class come up, it's a barroom brawl up in here!<br><br>LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-12_00:38:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12521284, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12521029": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Of course...what do you want to say?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_23:59:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12520916, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12519498": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Didn't he lay it down? I loved this part:<br><br>None of us are perfect, but a period of weakness and wrongdoing isn\u2019t the end all be all just because others say so. On one hand we celebrate serial adulterers of whatever ilk for the sake of personal mental security, only to highlight the transgressions of others with a force so strongly demonic it snakes its way into the first paragraph of their obituary.<br>The grave spit.<br><br>Nothing left to say but \"amen\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_22:16:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12519068, "depth": 2, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12521036": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No. I'm not going to take the bait and play the game. If I do, you will have achieved the distraction you're going for.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_23:59:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "Plantsmantx", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12520644, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12521038": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "National Rifle Assoc and New Haven Firefighters! Do the Rethugs ever give up? Geesh!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_23:59:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12520943, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12615763": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If I didn't actually SAY it, don't assume I meant it. I tend to say what I mean. :o)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_23:22:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12599060, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12518484": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think I just invented some new cuss words reading that piece in the Sun.  What the hell is wrong with people. Their racism is disgusting enough but aiming it at a child is just beyond low.  I have no doubt that Michelle and Barack will talk to their daughter about this but it disgusts me to this day that Black parents to this day are forced to burst the wonderful innocence of childhood to arm their children against racist assholes.  With that I am headed straight to the liquor cabinet.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_20:56:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "womanistmusings", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12517669, "depth": 1, "points": 7, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12517647": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'd heard his name, but all I knew him for was football, not any of the charity work he did. I'm not a football fan, so I really don't see what's so \"great\" about him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_19:49:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12517537, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12516956": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ah Winter, how I miss thee. I may be a summer baby, but I HATE being hot. I'd much rather be cold any day.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_19:02:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12520551": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That's the only reason she posted it- to change the subject...and to indirectly defend the people who discriminated against those kids.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_23:23:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "Plantsmantx", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12520419, "depth": 2, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12518505": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Africans reach out to Obama via text messages<br><br>(CNN) \u2014 The text messages address various issues and come from all over the African continent.<br><br>From the personal: \"Obama, as a young lady I dream of being the president. U r a huge encouragement.\"<br><br>To cries for help: \"Dear president, Darfur firing again\u2026waiting for peace through the change u promised.\"<br><br>To calls for intervention: \"Encourage African leaders to improve the quality and access to education for citizens.\"<br><br>The messages, from Ghana, Sudan and South Africa respectively, were among more than 5,000 sent to Barack Obama during his first visit as president to sub-Saharan Africa as president.<br><a href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/07/11/obama.texting/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/07/11/obam...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_20:58:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12518503": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's not a matter of being treated like fragile chinaware; Black children have always been denied the innocence and wonder of childhood due to white racists.  This is something that is stolen from us generation after generation and we have a right to be angered over this.  A white child of her age has no idea about how unfair this world is.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_20:57:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "womanistmusings", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12518426, "depth": 3, "points": 7, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12516978": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.womanist-musings.com/2009/07/obama-monkey-what-honour.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Obama The Monkey What An Honour: </a> Yep in order to honour the pres a German zoo decided to name a new Mandrill Obama,  With friends like that who needs enemies?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_19:03:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "womanistmusings", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12521077": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Whateva it takes to stop this cat fight!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-12_00:02:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12521029, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12518521": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "it still pisses me off<br>but i know the Obama's  will prepare them", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_20:59:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "danadevin74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12518426, "depth": 3, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12520578": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I disagree, it is about both race and class...I don't understand what?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_23:25:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12520426, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12520043": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The pool issue is truly sad and depicts the racism going on in our country today.   BUT, blacks can't have it both way either....I just read this article and it made me angry for its racist component, only it is blacks being anti white or anyone else.<br><br>I don't care who you are, you can't have it both ways...if racism from whites is wrong, then racism from blacks is wrong too.<br><br>And before all you posters go nuts, I am not black or white, I am a Native American with relatives on both sides of the color line.  So DON\"T KILL THE MESSENGER!!  and by the way, OH freaking SHIT, us Natives would love to have this kind of power enclave.   <br><br><a href=\"http://nymag.com/guides/summer/2009/57472/index1.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://nymag.com/guides/summer/2009/57472/index...</a><br><br>The Only Ones deal with glass ceilings at work, unfortunate misunderstandings in their neighborhoods, condescension from blacks who think their education or class makes them inauthentic, and identity crises in their kids. When they get to their Vineyard vacation homes, they want to escape that casual, institutional, and intra-black racism and be around people who help them feel less anomalous. Trey Ellis, who wrote the script for The Inkwell, the notoriously bad film about the black Vineyard experience (Ellis himself called it terrible), says, \u201cThe black part of the Vineyard is like, I would imagine, being gay and going to the Castro. It\u2019s this mecca where you can be yourself and be with people who have so much in common with you. No one has to feign some street cred when they\u2019re playing tennis.\u201d It\u2019s a source of communion and of pride. \u201cWhen you see a beautiful black family with their kids, it makes you feel really good about being black,\u201d says Chrisette Hudlin, wife of Reggie and a lifelong Vineyarder who travels there every summer from L.A. \u201cAs a person who\u2019s high-achieving and striving for the best for their family, you\u2019re looking at these other black people who have the same goals, and it makes you feel good as a black person. You don\u2019t feel out of place.\u201d Several Only Ones say there\u2019s nowhere in America that makes them more proud of black people.<br><br><br><br>This is particularly true among parents, who talk about the importance of introducing their children to other black upper-class families so they can know they\u2019re not as peculiar as they might feel. \u201cBlack kids need to be around successful black families, because other blacks from humble beginnings want you to apologize for being successful,\u201d says psychiatrist Carlotta Miles. \u201cOn the Vineyard, you don\u2019t need excuses or self-consciousness or defensiveness.\u201d Drew Dixon Williams grew up in Washington, D.C., where her mother, Sharon Pratt, served as mayor, and she spent summers on the island. \u201cIt\u2019s sort of embarrassing to say this, coming from Washington,\u201d she says, \u201cbut I used to say with a straight face\u2014because I was too young to know better\u2014that I would get my black experience on Martha\u2019s Vineyard. I didn\u2019t have to be defensive about not being black enough or being black in the first place. We were all from The Cosby Show.\u201d", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_22:51:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 27, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12519559": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ya know I find it quite comical that these folks are about to get brand new and pretend like they've never heard of \"free republic\". That will probably be a talking point...pretend like its so small and insignificant and no one would even know it exists but for the \"liberals\" pointing it out...a classic switcheroo. Here it comes y'all...they'll blame the \"left wing media\" for pointing it out.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_22:20:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12518927, "depth": 3, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12518555": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Before you hit the thunderbird just play this a couple of times.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txrikNFX-8E&feature=related\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txrikNFX-8E&feat...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_21:02:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "LTMidnight", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12518484, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12519068": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Mizzo dropped it straight.  Thanks, Miranda.  Love TSF", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_21:41:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12518409, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12521120": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I was looking for this.  It came via email from the Nat'l Women's Law Center.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.nwlc.org/details.cfm?id=3624&section=JCWR\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.nwlc.org/details.cfm?id=3624&section...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-12_00:05:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "IWordsmith", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12521038, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12517537": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You know the song \"Frankie and Johnny\" that is what I think about when I here the McNair story. I never heard of the guy until I heard about his death.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_19:43:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "malletgirl02", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12517421, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12521122": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "whatever...if you want to argue or debate a subject, it involves more than making an accusation and then shutting off communications.   apparently you like to throw turds and then shutdown because you can't defend your position.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-12_00:06:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12521036, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12517541": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I hear ya, Muzikal. I hear ya. My sympathy goes towards his wife and children. Can you imagine how they feel, especially his wife? No doubt she has so many questions that will never be answered. It's a shame.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_19:43:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12517421, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12520617": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "so you covered the subject a week ago sooooo thoroughly it should never be raised again...hmmmm", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_23:27:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 14, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12520419, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12521131": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Not me....I'm loading the balloons with water!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-12_00:07:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "IWordsmith", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12520949, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12520109": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "My daughters and I watched the series together last August.  It's powerful<br>and heart rending.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_22:56:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12519608, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12519608": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I watched this earlier and some other parts of the series....I wish our children never had to know the depths of how low humanity can be:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQGJwA0vCwo&feature=related\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQGJwA0vCwo&feat...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_22:23:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12519238, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12518588": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Good points ...<br>==========================================<br>Trial by Firefighters<br><br>By LANI GUINIER and SUSAN STURM<br><br>STANDING on the steps of the federal courthouse in New Haven, the lawyer Karen Torre reveled in her clients\u2019 victory in a recent case before the Supreme Court. She anointed her clients \u2014 the white firefighters who scored well on a promotion test \u2014 \u201ca symbol\u201d for millions of Americans who are \u201ctired of seeing individual achievement and merit take a back seat to race and ethnicity.\u201d<br><br>But the Supreme Court\u2019s 5-to-4 decision last month \u2014 that New Haven should not have scrapped the test \u2014 perpetuates profound misconceptions about the capacity of paper-and-pencil tests to gauge a person\u2019s potential on the job. Exams like the one the New Haven firefighters took are neither designed nor administered to identify the employees most qualified for promotion. And Ms. Torre\u2019s identity-politics sloganeering diverts attention from what we need most: a clear-eyed reassessment of our blind faith in entrenched testing regimes.<br><br>New Haven used a multiple-choice test to measure its firefighters\u2019 retention of information from national firefighting textbooks and study guides. Civil service tests like these do not identify people who are best suited for leadership positions. The most important skills of any fire department lieutenant or captain are steady command presence, sound judgment and the ability to make life-or-death decisions under pressure. In a city that is nearly 60 percent black and Latino, the ability to promote cross-racial harmony under stress is also crucial.<br><br>These skills are not well measured by tests that reward memorization and ask irrelevant questions like whether it is best to approach a particular emergency from uptown or downtown even when the city isn\u2019t oriented that way. The Civil Service Board in New Haven declined to certify the test not only because of concerns about difference in scores between black and white firefighters but also because it failed to assess qualities essential for firefighting.<br><br>Full article: <a href=\"http://gangbox.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/whos-qualified-more-on-the-new-haven-firefighters-case\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://gangbox.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/whos-qu...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_21:05:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "morphusBfly", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12519615": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I probably watch more news channels than I should, but I swear that I can almost stand everyone, even Pat Buckkkanan...but, Ron Christie makes me change the channel or hit the mute button.  If you really sit down and listen to him, this guy is filled with anger that won't quit.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_22:24:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12518739, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12518592": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "My sense is PBO already knows about what has been said about Malia and Michelle.  <br><br>He owns a blackberry, and has trusted staff to keep him abreast of what type of news to report to him, and I'm sure when it comes to his daughters, he'd want to know so he and Michelle can buffer and protect them.<br><br>He and Michelle would decide if, when, what, and how they would tell Malia.<br><br>President Obama is a politician.  He knows how vicious folks are and has more than likely schooled both girls in the ways of racist, ignorant heathens.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_21:05:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12517440, "depth": 1, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12520644": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "please explain what you are actually talking about?????", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_23:29:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12520551, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12518093": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "yes i have mixed feelings about it also<br>i do wan't those nasty bastards called out<br>but then again i don't wan't Malia and Sasha<br>hurt by them", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_20:23:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "danadevin74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12517440, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12521678": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You ain't neva lied on that one!  <br><br>Or the whole issue of skin color and black people.   WHEW!!! <br><br>Or HEY, what about American born black folk and folks from the diaspora.   One example being what a friend of mine calls herself --  Jamerican, as in Jamaican-American, which she makes a very clear distinction of being different from African American.  Wooooo.  <br><br>On and poppin'!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-12_00:50:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12521538, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12517073": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Mcnallys Smith School of Music, fresh off a summer <br>wokshop, will offer the country\u2019s first accredited hip-hop diploma program.<br><br>Hip-Hop with honors<br>By HAYLEY TSUKAYAMA, Star Tribune Richard Sennott, Star Tribune Richard Sennott, Star Tribune<br>Jul 10, 2009 <br><br>T oki Wright is in the recording studio while Zach Bagaason runs back the first 30 seconds of Wright's song, \"State of Emergency.\" Bagaason's brother and music partner, Brandon, is in another corner of the room giving his two cents, while Sean McPherson of Heiruspecs stands in the doorway.  <br>They're surrounded by 22 high-school students. Some are taking copious notes, while others are just trying really hard to be cool about being in the same room with some of the biggest names in Twin Cities hip-hop -- their instructors.  <br>Or, to put it another way, it's a typical day of school at the McNally Smith College of Music summer hip-hop workshop.  <br>\"It's really cool to be in there with Toki Wright and Big Quarters,\" said Daniel Olesen, 15, of Central High School. \"And Heiruspecs rocks,\" he added with a grin. Daniel is enrolled in the program through St. Paul Connections, which allows students to take classes like this for only $1. Other students, like Johnathan (J-Boy) Irwy, 17, came from Maryland to attend the summer program, after seeing an ad for it on Facebook. \"It's a useful way to utilize my interest in hip-hop,\" he said. \"It gives me the chance to get hands-on and it's phenomenal to be with these teachers.\"  <br>McNally Smith's new hip-hop curriculum marks an important step in a fast-growing field of study. Several schools and universities offer classes about the social roots of hip-hop. The MacPhail Center for the Arts started a summer hip-hop camp last year and is offering it again in August. McNally Smith's summer workshop, which is directed at high school students, shares many of its instructors and hip-hop practitioners with another endeavor: Starting this fall, the school will offer the first nationally accredited diploma program for hip-hop. The diploma will indicate a targeted area of study within a student's associate or bachelor's degree.  <br>Dessa Darling, a member of Doomtree and hip-hop faculty member, said that a practical and academic program was long overdue. \"The question is less 'Why now?' than 'Why didn't this happen before?'\" she said.  <br>Valuable education tool  <br>Wright said he hopes the hip-hop program will attract all kinds of students -- particularly nontraditional students who might not feel that school is a good fit. He also wants the program to be a community resource for anyone trying to understand hip-hop culture.  <br><br>There is more.<br><br><a href=\"http://m.startribune.com/topic/3975-Lifestyle/articles/192410519\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://m.startribune.com/topic/3975-Lifestyle/a...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_19:08:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12519638": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "does anyone know his bio kind of thing, how did he learn to hate himself so much?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_22:25:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12518919, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12521698": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "She's single, yes?   You don't think someone will accuse her of being gay?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-12_00:51:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12521355, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12518637": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I never said it was right, I just said it's a reality.<br><br>Besides, do you really think Malia or Sasha watch MSNBC or are even aware about some of the things said about the mom and dad?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_21:08:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "LTMidnight", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12518503, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12521710": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I certainly don't call someone a name because their view is different....with the exception of Karmi or Conserv1. Their goal is to stop debate.<br><br>But you have insulted me on more than one occasion with name calling...\"you're too emotional\" about your views. I don't like disrespecting an older woman but don't push me. If you want respect then you must be respectable.<br><br>I dare you to find a post where I attacked someone because their view was different from mine and it led to name calling...excluding trolls.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-12_00:53:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12521525, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12521202": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "One of the minority witnesses is David Rivkin, Esq., Partner, Baker Hostetler .  Can't stand this fucker.  Saw him a lot on the discussion centering around torture; he's quite the apologist.<br><br><a href=\"http://tpzoo.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/torture-apologist-david-rivkin-gets-owned-by-lawrence-odonnell/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://tpzoo.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/torture-a...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-12_00:10:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "IWordsmith", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12520613, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12521725": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I admire her for it....<br><br>from your Native American friend....Angelar", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-12_00:54:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12521678, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12521730": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I see you too, Myth! <br><br>Don't you guys worry, Myth know I love her!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-12_00:54:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12521484, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12517676": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Beat me to it.<br><br>EDIT:  Remember, these are the same people claiming the Obama being elected means there's no longer racism in America.  I think it's important to show otherwise.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_19:51:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "LTMidnight", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12517440, "depth": 1, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12517421": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You know, when you're not a fan of someone it's easy to see how people may not be very sad to see someone go. I was never a fan of Steve McNair, and I felt sorry that he died until I learned how he died. Maybe that's how people who don't like Michael Jackson feel. Even though MJ has really had an effect on my life, and basically wrote its soundtrack, there are people out there who really believed the accusations about him. The difference here, to me, is we know for sure McNair was a cheating dog. <br><br>So I don't begrudge McNair fans their chance to mourn him, I didn't like people stomping all over MJ's memory, but I still don't feel any sympathy for him.<br><br>Had he been at home with his wife, had he not stepped out on her in the first place, he wouldn't have ended up getting killed by a crazy woman. I can't really move past that to think he was really a great man even in light of the other good he did. He basically ABANDONED his wife and four sons (apparently one of those sons is from an extra-marital affair ~smh~). And yes, I know \"let she that is without sin cast the first stone, there are just some things I don't accept.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_19:34:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12518160": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "July 11, 2009, 12:12 pm <br>Sunday Breakfast Menu, July 12<br>By Janie Lorber<br><br>On the eve of the first day of Judge Sonia Sotomayor\u2019s confirmation hearings, the Sunday talk shows will be abuzz with speculation over what she\u2019ll face in the halls of Congress.<br>Republicans will focus on what they believe is Judge Sotomayor\u2019s willingness to bring her personal experiences, and even an agenda, into her decisions. (The minority witness list includes Frank Ricci, the New Haven firefighter who won his discrimination case before the Supreme Court. )<br><br>Beyond that, Democrats in Congress have two major goals before they break for the August recess now just three weeks away \u2014 confirming Mr. Obama\u2019s Supreme Court nominee and voting on health care bills in the House and Senate. Both will be front and center tomorrow morning.<br><br>House Democrats will float a proposal to tax the wealthiest Americans \u2014 individuals earning $280,000 and up and couples earning more than $350,000 \u2014 to help finance the expensive reform package. The proposal is a nonstarter for Republicans, makes conservative Democrats uneasy and provides great fodder for talk-show debate. (As well as discussion among our Caucus readers.) <br><br>The top two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senators Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, and Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, are guests on CBS\u2019 \u201cFace the Nation.\u201d Mr. Sessions, who was rejected as a nominee for a district court judgeship amid charges of racial insensitivity 20 years ago, brings an unusual perspective to the process.<br><br>(For a preview of some senators\u2019 questions and thoughts as they prepared for the Judiciary hearings, our own Elisabeth Goodridge has interviewed several of them and posted an audio feature.) <br><br>Read more\u2026<br><br><a href=\"http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_20:28:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12599060": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The tone of your post made seem like because Mcnair was committing adultery him being murdered was justified.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_15:42:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "Guns3000", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12566082, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12521749": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "In the words of Dana...<br><br>Stop that!! lol", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-12_00:56:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12521538, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12519704": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "AMEN!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_22:31:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12519498, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12517659": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Right, and imagine what kind of diseases he could have been taking to her since his murderer wasn't his first affair, and had he lived surely wouldn't have been his last.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_19:50:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12517541, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12521245": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Cats scratch for blood. You can dry that water off of you in a balloon fight!  LMAO!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-12_00:15:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12521131, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12517664": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Personally, I think if someone is crazy, they're crazy. That 20 year old was crazy. It didn't matter where he was that night. I don't condone his affair, but I in no way will allow any of that to be the blame for his death. She was a fool. If not him, someone else. If he had been single he would still be dead.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_19:50:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12517421, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12521251": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Dr. Charmaine Yoest, <b>Americans United for Life</b> ???<br><br>All right off to watch a movie, 'the internationalist' with Clive Owen.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-12_00:15:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "IWordsmith", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12521038, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12517669": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Looks like the Freepers will get some attention after all.<br><br>They are already a hit in Canada <br><a href=\"http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Conservative+\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Conse...</a>...<br><br>And David Shuster will address their \"love\" for Malia on Monday.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/11/752493/-David-Shuster-will-cover-Free-Republics-smears-against-Malia-Obama-on-Monday\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/11/752493/...</a><br><br>Hopefully we get comments from Steele on his take.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_19:51:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "LTMidnight", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12520748": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "YOU'RE the one who changed the subject.<br><br>Now because a week later you find the subject fascinating you want to discuss it again?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_23:37:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 13, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12520617, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12521776": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I like your response and sincerely apologize for anything I may have said or done  previously.<br><br>best regards,", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-12_00:59:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12521710, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12518706": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Shay of Booker Rising has called out freeper:<br><br>Booker Rising To Freepers: \"Y'all Need To Chill With The Racist Attacks. Also, Kids Are Off Limits!\" <br><br><a href=\"http://www.bookerrising.net/2009/07/booker-rising-to-freepers-yall-need-to.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.bookerrising.net/2009/07/booker-risi...</a><br><br><i>Free Republic,<br><br>One of my blog's readers has called attention to an incident on your website. I am troubled by the racist language displayed on Free Republic in regards to Malia Obama - the 11-year-old daughter of President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama - after she wore peace sign T-shirts in Rome and after her interaction with her mother on a private tourist visit.<br><br>First of all, those of you who claimed that Mrs. Obama was doing \"monkey sounds\" for spending a fun moment with her daughter at the Coliseum in Italy are ignorant. What happened to promoting family values? Supposedly a conservative virtue? Also, since when was being the President and First Lady \"ghetto\" and growing up in Chicago's black middle-class - as Michelle Obama did and as I did for part of my childhood - \"thug ghetto culture\"? Keep the focus on policies, not on personal attacks.<br><br>Now, on to Malia Obama, on which the racist attacks are even more offensive to me as a black center-right woman. Trashing an 11-year-old girl - \"typical street whore\", \"nasty radical hair\", \"street trash\", \"freak kid\", \"flea bag who looks to be dragged from the trash dumpster\" is cruel, low-class, and unacceptable. Sexualizing an 11-year-old girl because she is black (\"typical street whore\", \"wonder when she will have her first abortion\", commenting that she's sexually attractive) - thinking that black girls are \"fair game\" - is highly unacceptable.<br><br>I don't know if the Obamas put Malia up to wearing those T-shirts or not. It's also very plausible that she supports a nuclear-freeze stance on her own. After all, at age 11 (I'm now 38), I thought apartheid was horribly wrong and racist. I also come from a political family (including past elected officials) and loved reading National Geographic about other countries. Either way, it's no business of yours what Malia wears or doesn't wear. She's a minor private citizen and her fashion is her and her family's choice. Also, what happened to freedom of expression?<br><br>By the way, a black female choosing to wearing her hair naturally - as lil' Malia is doing is not \"nasty radical hair\". She's wearing her hair as God/nature/whatever-you-want-to-call-it intended for her to wear her hair. Do I have \"nasty radical hair\" because I wear my hair in braids?! I've also worn my hair in twists - which is how Malia is wearing her hair - in the past. How about black female conservatives like Star Parker (braids) or Amy Holmes (curly 'fro)?! How about the libertarian June Arunga of Kenya, who wears a short Afro?! Are these women with \"nasty radical hair\"? Not only do you display sheer ignorance about black hairstyles, but you are disrespecting many black center-right women with such stupidity.<br><br>What happened to judging someone on the content of their character, and not the color of her skin and how she wears her hair? And children being off limits? If 14-year-old Willow Palin is off limits - and she should be - then 11-year-old Malia Obama should also be.<br><br>With racist views like the comments displayed on your website, you do absolutely no favors to the cause of persuading more blacks to embrace center-right values like individual liberty, capitalism, small government - in essence, a free republic. You merely reinforce the already-prevalent view in Black America that conservatism is for racists and the mean-spirited. I would strongly encourage you to stay out of the racist gutter, show some class by not picking on kids, and stay focused on policy disagreements.<br><br>Shay Riley<br>Booker Rising webmaster<br><a href=\"http://www.bookerrising.net\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.bookerrising.net</a><br>news site for black moderates and black conservatives<br></i><br><br>-----------------------------<br><br>Freeper's response:<br><br>EMAIL: Free Republic's Response Regarding The Racist Attacks On Malia Obama On Its Website <br><br><a href=\"http://www.bookerrising.net/2009/07/email-free-republics-response-regarding.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.bookerrising.net/2009/07/email-free-...</a><br><br>Here's the response that I got from Jim Robinson, the founder and president of Free Republic:<br><br>EMAIL #1 (8:32pm CT, 7/10): Get real.<br><br>EMAIL #2 (9:24pm CT, 7/10): Someone posted a dumb \"caption this\" photo thread and it got out of hand and our moderators pulled it. I received the same leftist DailyKos article you did in my mailbox this morning and posted a copy here:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2289769/posts\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/228976...</a><br><br>Please notice my comment in reply number 1:<br>Can't help myself. This kind of crap fills my inbox every morning.<br>But the writer has a point. We should steer clear of Obama's children. They can't help it if their old man is an American-hating Marxist pig. And I'm sure the left really means no harm to Sarah Palin's children. Thank God for the love and basic human decency displayed by TRUE Democrats. 1 posted on Friday, July 10, 2009 9:53:00 AM by Jim Robinson<br><br>No, we do not condone racism on FR. Never have.<br>--------------------------------------------------<br><br>Booker Rising response: Today I sent a follow-up email to Free Republic: \"First of all, I didn't realize that opposing racism was merely the province of liberals. I guess I didn't get that memo. The fact remains that racist attacks on an 11-year-old girl - not to mention racist attacks on her mother, the First Lady - were posted over and over again on your website, and you did little to stop it. Attacks continued even after your response. Not even an apology for this wrong. If that is what you call NOT condoning racism, then I hate to see what condoning racism on your website looks like. Like I said in my letter, you merely reinforce the already-prevalent view in Black America that conservatism is for racists and the mean at heart. If it's wrong against Willow Palin, it's also wrong against Malia Obama. Simply shameful.\"<br><br>In case you're wondering...I'm not sure if my open letter (which was \"under review\" when I posted it yesterday) ever made it to Free Republic's website. I assume not. Why? As of 7:11pm CT today, this error message comes up for the account that I created: \"Your posting privilege has been revoked.\" I guess I violated Free Republic's posting rules because I called the website out for its racist attacks on an 11-year-old girl, but yet racists who smeared her keep their privileges. This is not over, bookeristas. That's all I can say for now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_21:12:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12517440, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12521269": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Speaking of Diana Ross, I just bought a book today about the Supremes written by Mark Ribowsky.    I will start reading tomorrow, but, the book flag says \"Ribowsky spares no detail in revealing the astounding saga of both Ross's successful rise to the top and Ballard's tragic fall, exposing the real story behind her firing and her sudden death at age thirty two after a battle with depression, alcohol, and drugs. \"<br><br>I meant to say I have always been a HUGE fan of the Supremes.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-12_00:16:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12521115, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12521284": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well, Rikyrah, guess I'll try to redirect this discussion on another day because this fight is on and poppin' tonight!!!<br>LMAO!<br>Scratch, scratch<br>M-e-o-w!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-12_00:18:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12521115, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12519238": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You know Miranda, after visiting the Cape Coast Slave Castle, I think Malia and Sasha got full-blown revelations of just how truly EVIL racism truly is.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_21:54:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12518978, "depth": 3, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12520786": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Don't hold  your breath waiting for that to happen.  We need your wicked funny here at JJP!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_23:41:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12520438, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12518739": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I swear, if that Slave Catching Sambo Ron Christie tries to defend this on Shuster's show.........", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_21:14:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12517440, "depth": 1, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12520792": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I respect Town, but, I would like Town to prove her allegation that I tried to change any subject having to deal with \"what?\"   I don't get this at all???", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_23:41:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12520419, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12517722": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "While I agree that crazy is crazy, I don't think he'd be dead if he were single because chances are he wouldn't have met her (as he met her while he was at Dave and Busters with his family). Also, he was apparently telling her that he was going to divorce his wife and marry her (according to her family) or at the very least he gave her that impression. Then you had the fact that he was apparently cheating on his mistress with another mistress. I think other women would have gotten mad but they wouldn't have killed him. <br><br>They were both fools, and we need to deal with the reality not the \"what ifs\" and IF he hadn't been cheating on his wife and had his ass at home, he'd be alive today to continue all of that charity work.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_19:55:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12517664, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12521445": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "We'll try to raise the issue again 2morrow and finally take MJ of the front page. (Along with this issue beginning discussed down below!)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-12_00:30:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12521251, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12521318": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "hee hee, you make me think of my sisters..when one of them starts up with each other, the others try to stop the \"fuss\" as soon as possible.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-12_00:21:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12521077, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12521326": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You have made it a habit of insulting others that don't share your view . Even to the point of calling others names. You first came insulting GreenLady & Miranda about their caption of a photo. I remember. It was a caption for crying out loud. <br><br>Just a few days ago you insulted me and Town because our opinion didn't line up with yours on Paris Jackson being encouraged to speak about her daddy. You called people  greedy but couldn't explain who were the greedy culprits or who had the Jackson children's best interest at heart. You called Town \"naive\" and me \"emotional\". How the hell do you expect someone to respect your opinion when you do don't respect others?<br><br>You're not slick Angelar, I'm looking right at you. I see you!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-12_00:22:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12520866, "depth": 5, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12519295": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I''ll be sure and hold you back!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_22:00:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "LisaM5432", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12518739, "depth": 2, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12517258": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "oh i second that emotion!!! as an everyday biker,  i'm most fond of fall sweater weather.  this photo made me laugh out loud!!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_19:22:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "zackboston", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12516956, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12521355": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It remains to be seen but it doesnt appear that the Minority Witnesses are very strong. Same old rehash warmed over. I doubt that there will ever be another confirmation hearing like Unca Clarence and Anita Hill had.  Maybe some old Sotomayor flame will fall out of the closet with some dirt that will make it interesting enough to be glued to the TV once again. I kinda doubt it though.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-12_00:24:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12521202, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12518978": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm sure he knows too. I'm sure the secret service keeps a watchful eye on sites like that one.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_21:32:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12518592, "depth": 2, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12519327": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Gawd, I'd love to take that Slave-catching, Hankerchief Head, Skinnin & Grinnin, Shuckin & Buckin, Lawn Jockey, COON to the woodshed, but good.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_22:02:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12518919, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12517280": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They named a turtle after him in Florida:<br><br><blockquote> KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) - July 5, 2009 -- A sea turtle named after President Barack Obama that was rescued just before Inauguration Day has been set free on Independence Day.<br><br>Obama the loggerhead sea turtle was found ailing off a Key West beach on Jan. 19, the eve of the inauguration. Suffering from an intestinal impaction, the 200-pound female was nursed back to health with a diet of squid and mineral oil at the Turtle Hospital in Marathon.<br><br>Turtle Hospital administrator Ryan Butts said the turtle was set free Saturday on a Key West beach as about 100 people watched. He says it was appropriate to give the loggerhead its liberty on the Fourth of July after being rescued at a historic moment.</blockquote>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_19:24:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12516978, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12520866": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "lets be honest, we change subjects almost by minute by minute...on this website.  I have to remember at my age every freaking subject we address from hour to hour and from week to week?   OK  maybe I should....but I don't.  <br><br>I have never claimed perfection, but, just because we may have discussed a subject, doesn't mean I couldn't have changed my mind on something.<br><br>Gheez, I pray every day that the good Lord will accept me and forgive me my sins.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_23:46:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Angelar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12520748, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12521115": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That Diana Ross/Brandy melodrama - Double Platinum - is on TVOne right now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-12_00:05:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12517819": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I disagree because if someone is crazy, no \"if\" will matter. She shot a man while he slept and killed herself. There is no justification for that regardless of what he did, said, might have said, implied, etc. That just my opinion on it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_20:03:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12517722, "depth": 3, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12520916": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Can I change the subject to Sonia SotomayOR?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_23:50:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12520792, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12519383": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Just because someone cheats doesn't mean they should be murdered in their sleep.  If murder is a justifiable punishment for cheating the cemeteries would be overflowing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_22:07:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "Guns3000", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12517421, "depth": 1, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12520920": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You SPECIFICALLY tried to change the subject when it was brought up.<br><br>NOW you want to A) act like you've brought some brand new information to the board and B) simutaneously wag the finger of shame on black people \"because y'all do it too.\"<br><br>Go BACK to the original thread where it was discussed. <br><br>If there's something about black people that you don't understand, either ask (instead of changing the subject) or fall back and observe so you can get your learning on.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_23:50:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12520866, "depth": 5, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12520926": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "To Sotomayor????", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_23:51:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12520748, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12520613": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "TIME TO GET READY FOR CHANGE TO COME TO AMERICA--MONDAY @ 10AM<br>Be there or Be Square!!<br><br><br>FACT: Chief Justice John Roberts was confirmed 72 days after his designation, despite a one-week delay in the start of the hearings due to Hurricane Katrina, the passing of Chief Justice Rehnquist, and his re-nomination to be Chief Justice.<br><br>Seventy-two days from the date of Judge Sotomayor\u2019s designation is August 6 \u2013 before the Senate recess for August. <br><br>John Roberts (2005)<br>DAY 1 \u2013 Designation (July 19)<br>DAY 8 \u2013 Questionnaire Sent (July 27) <br>DAY 13 \u2013 Questionnaire Returned (Aug. 1) <br>DAY 48 \u2013 Hearing Set to Begin (Sept. 6) *Delay due to passing of Chief Justice Rehnquist and Hurricane Katrina <br>DAY 72 \u2013 Senate Confirmation *17 days after hearing <br><br>Sonia Sotomayor (2009)<br>DAY 1 \u2013 Designation (May 26)<br>DAY 2 \u2013 Questionnaire Sent (May 27) <br>DAY 9 \u2013 Questionnaire Returned (June 4) <br>DAY 48 \u2013 Hearing Set to Begin (July 13)<br>DAY 72 \u2013 August 6<br><br><br>THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE'S CAST OF CHARACTERS DEBUTS AL FRANKEN!!<br><br><br>Visually, they'll be grouped like this: Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy and Sotomayor at center stage facing each other. Eleven other Senate Democrats \u2014 nine white men, two white women \u2014 will sit to the audience's right, eager to help Sotomayor defend herself against any conservative charges. Their mandate: do no harm to her overwhelming prospects for taking over retired Justice David Souter's seat on the nine-member court.<br><br>On the audience's left \u2014 but to the right on your scorecard \u2014 will be seven white male Republican senators with a delicate task: respectfully challenging the Latina nominee \u2014 on crutches, recovering from a broken ankle \u2014 without alienating women or Hispanics.<br><br>And try to do it while facing two visible reminders of the GOP's rout in the 2008 elections.<br><br>Seated at the end of the Democratic side will be Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, until this year a Republican, and Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., the former TV comedian making his Senate debut.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_23:27:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12520419": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "We covered this issue about a week ago, and I think you tried to change the subject.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_23:15:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 24, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12520043, "depth": 1, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12519909": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "i usually don't advocate \"slave-catcher\" talk......BUT DAT SHIT IS TOO FUNNY", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_22:45:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "Guns3000", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12519327, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12518374": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You know what just struck me - the hearing starts at 10:00 am EST....that's 8:00 am here.  I'm up, but I'm working.  See, I was going to go in at 6:00 am, work 4 hours and then watch for a couple of hours - then go back to work.  Best laid plans.  I absolutely HATE it that I got switched from evening to days.  It really cuts into my geek time.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_20:47:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "IWordsmith", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12518160, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12520426": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You simply don't understand this article.  It is about class but not race.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_23:15:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "jelana", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12520043, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12520943": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Here's more on the 'witnesses' from Patrick Leahy's office.<br><br><a href=\"http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200907/070909a.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200907/070909a.html</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_23:52:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "IWordsmith", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12520613, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12520949": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm trying to change the subject too!! 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I thought it was all about protecting children but I guess I'm wrong.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_23:52:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12520786, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "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": "25115406", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": -421505482411631378}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "evening_open_thread_060", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 100, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 25115406, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
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	this.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS = "Report missing reactions";
	this.POST_A_COMMENT = "Post a comment";
	this.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT = "Flag inappropriate comment";
	this.FLAGGED = "Flagged";
	this.NO = "No";
	this.YES = "Yes";
	this.NEVER_MIND = "Never mind";
	this.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR = "Are you sure you would like to report this comment to a moderator";
	this.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION = "This will flag comments for moderators to take action";
	this.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN = "To rate, please log in";
	this.JUST_A_MOMENT = "Just a moment...";
	this.GUEST = "Guest";
	this.NAME = "Name";
	this.EMAIL = "Email";
  this.WEBSITE = "Website";
  this.SETTINGS = "Settings";
  this.MODERATOR_OPTIONS = "Moderator options: ";
};
// Dsq.Strings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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





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



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

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

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

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

};

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

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

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

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

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

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

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

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

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

				this._accumMsg = '';

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

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

	if (packetNum === 0) {

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

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

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

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

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

	this._lastSeqno++;

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

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

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

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

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

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


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

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

	var listener = function(e) {

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


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

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

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

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



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


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

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

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

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

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

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

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

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

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

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

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

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

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

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


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



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


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


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

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

	this.packetHandler = null;


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


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

			that._ready = true;
		};

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

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







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

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

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

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


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

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

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


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

		if (msg.username) {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=jackandjillpolitics' +
		'&t=evening_open_thread_060' +
		'&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/evening_open_thread_060/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='	+ 'evening_open_thread_060'
			+ '&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/evening_open_thread_060/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">100</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/evening_open_thread_060/latest.rss"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png"></a>\
	 </span>\
	 </h3>\
	 <div id="dsq-options" style="margin:15px 0">\
	 <span class="dsq-item-sort">\
	 Sort by\
	 <select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);">\
	 <option value="hot" selected="selected">Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" >Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/evening_open_thread_060/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 <p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:25115406" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p>\
	 </div>\
		';

		

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

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

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.authPost();
		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		

		return html;
	};

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

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

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

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

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/evening_open_thread_060/trackback/';
		}

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

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

		return html;
	}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '	<p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:25115406" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p> \n';
	};

	//
	// Post
	//

	this.prependPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="comment-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

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

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-header-avatar" id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
				<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
				? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '</a>'
			+ '</div> \
		';
	};

	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];

		return ''
			+ (_meta.author_is_moderator
				? '<img class="dsq-mod-star" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/bullet-star.png" title="Moderator" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"> \
				<a id="dsq-time-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-time" href="#comment-' + post_id + '" title="Permalink">' + _meta.date + '</a> \
			</span>';
	};

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

	this.postBody = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Deprecate flagging conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		return ''
			+ (_meta.edited
				? '<p class="dsq-editedtxt">(Edited by a moderator)</p>'
				: '')
			;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Use media should be conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed) { return ''; }

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
				<div id="dsq-points-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-likedtxt">'
				+ (_meta.points
					? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.'
					: '')
				+ '</div>'
				+ '<ul class="dsq-comment-options dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.votable
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first dsq-rate" id="dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id + '">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Like</a>'
						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-report' + (!_meta.votable ? ' dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '"><a href="#" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">Report</a></li> \
				</ul> \
				<ul class="dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first"><a href="#" id="dsq-reply-link-' + post_id +'" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(this, ' + post_id +'); return false;">Reply</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<li id="dsq-edit-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-edit-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="' + (!_meta.can_reply ? 'dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-more-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-more-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'more\'); return false">More <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media
					? '<li id="dsq-media-el-' + post_id +'" style="display:none"><a id="dsq-media-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'media\'); return false">Use Media <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
				+ '<div id="dsq-reply-bar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar" style="display:none"> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-items-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-items"> \
						</div> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-auth"> \
							 \
								 \
									<a href="#" class="dsq-help dsq-reply-req-opt" title="You must log into an account in order to comment on Jack and Jill Politics" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Required:</a> \
								 \
								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
								<a id="dsq-reply-login-' + post_id + '" href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:25115406" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</a> \
								 \
									&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img class="fb_login_image" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/fbconnect/login-buttons/connect_light_small_short.gif" alt="Facebook Connect"/> \
									<a href="#" onclick="FB.Connect.requireSession(DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin); return false;">Connect</a> \
								 \
								&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/twitter-signin-icon.png" alt="" /> \
									<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false">Sign-in</a> \
								 \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Iframes
	//

	this._makeAttributes = function(attributes) {
		// Makes a tag attributes string out of an object.
		// Caller is responsible for making sure nothing needs to be escaped.
		var result = [];
		for (key in attributes) {
			result.push(' ' + key + '="' + attributes[key] + '"');
		}
		result = result.join('');
		return result;
	};

	this._frameGeneric = function(base_url, params, attributes) {
		if(typeof(disqus_callback_params) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_callback_params = '';
		}

		var default_params = {
			// TODO: These should be moved to Dsq.jsonData.
			'f'				: 'jackandjillpolitics',
			't'				: 'evening_open_thread_060',
			// Do we need encodeURIComponent here?
			'ifrs'			: encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css),
			'to_redirect'	: encodeURIComponent(window.location),
			'cbp'			: disqus_callback_params,
			'ff'			: Dsq.Thread.ff,
			'fc'			: Dsq.Thread.fc,
			'ac'			: Dsq.Thread.ac,
			'default_text'	: disqus_default_text
		};

		base_url += '?' + (new Date()).getTime();
		// Add params to default_params.
		if(params) {
			for(var key in params) {
				if(params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					default_params[key] = encodeURIComponent(params[key]);
				}
			}
		}
		// Build querystring.
		for(var key in default_params) {
			if(default_params[key] && default_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				base_url += '&' + key + '=' + default_params[key];
			}
		}

		return [
			'<iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0"',
			(' allowtransparency="true" src="' + base_url + '"'),
			this._makeAttributes(attributes),
			'</iframe>'].join('');
	};

	this.frameLogin = function(opt_attributes) {
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/login.html';
		var attributes = opt_attributes || {};
		attributes['class'] = 'dsq-post-login';

		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameReply = function(post_id, extra_params, attributes) {
		// Returns the HTML for a reply iframe. Called by Dsq.Iframes.setReplyIframeToContainer
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY;
		var params = {
			'def_email'		: disqus_def_email,
			'def_name'		: disqus_def_name
		};
		if(extra_params) {
			for(var key in extra_params) {
				if(extra_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					params[key] = extra_params[key];
				}
			}
		}
		if(_meta) {
			params['parent_post'] = post_id;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			params['per_page'] = disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			attributes['class'] += '-authenticated';
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameEdit = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/edit.html';
		var params = {
			'p' : post_id
		};
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, {'class': 'dsq-post-edit', 'name': 'dsq-edit_' + post_id + '-frame'});
	};

	//
	// Menus
	//

	this.menuMore = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: "Remove post" button should hide menu.
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')">Link</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Profile</a></li>'
	+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
		? '	<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>' + (_meta.email ? '<li class="dsq-admin-email">' + _meta.email + '</li>' : '')
		+ '	<li class="dsq-admin-ip">' + _meta.ip + '</li> \
			<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>'
		+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
			? ' <li class="dsq-admin-edit"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
			: '')
		+ ' <li class="dsq-remove"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Remove Comment</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-report-spam"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-block-user"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li>'
		: '');
	};

	this.menuMedia = function(post_id) {
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(this, ' + post_id + ', \'seesmic\'); return false;">Record video</a></li> \
		';
	};

	this.dropProfile = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};


		var menu = '<li class="dsq-drop-showlnk"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Expand &#8663;</a></li>';
		var pointsMessage = '';
		if (userData['registered']) {
			pointsMessage = 'with ' + userData['points'] + ' points (more points are better).';
		}

		if (userData['is_remote']) {
			var domain = userData['remote_domain_name'];
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' is a ' + domain + ' user ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
			menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-' + domain.toLowerCase() + '">' + domain + '</span></li>';
		} else if (userData['registered']) {
			if (userData['verified']) {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a verified commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span></li>';
			} else {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a registered, but unverified, commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span></li>';
			}
		} else {
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has not claimed this commenter profile." onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()"><span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span></li>';
		}

		menu += _includeServices();
		return menu;
	};

	//
	// Popups
	//

	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-top"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-body" class="clearfix"> \
				<div class="dsq-popup-body-padding"> \
					<div class="dsq-popup-header"> \
						<a class="dsq-close-link" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/modal-close.png" alt="" /></a>'
						+ content['header']
					+ '</div>'
					+ content['body']
					+ '<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
				</div> <!-- padding --> \
			</div> <!-- body --> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-bottom"></div> \
		</div> \
		';
	};

	this.popupProfile = function(user_key) {
		var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(user_key, null);
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var html = '';
			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == 0
					? '<h4>Connections</h4><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li> \
					<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" title="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" /> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>'
				+ (i+1 == userServices.length ? '</ul>' : '');
			}
			return html;
		};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<table> \
				<tr> \
					<td> \
						<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><img class="dsq-popup-profile-avatar" src="' + userData['avatar'] + '" alt="" /></a> \
					</td> \
					<td> \
						<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user"> \
							<h3>' + userData['display_name'] + '</h3> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats" id="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + user_key + '">Loading...</div> \
						</div> \
					</td> \
				</tr> \
			</table> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-state"> \
				This is a&nbsp;<span class="'
					+ (userData['registered']
						? (userData['verified']
							? ' dsq-badge-verified'
							: (userData['is_remote']
								? ' dsq-badge-' + userData['remote_domain_name'].toLowerCase()
								: ' dsq-badge-registered')
							)
							: ' dsq-badge-guest') + '">'
			+ (userData['registered']
				? (userData['verified']
					? 'Verified'
					: (userData['is_remote']
						 ? userData['remote_domain_name']
						 : 'Registered')
					)
				: 'Guest')
			+ '</span>&nbsp;commenter profile.'
			+ '&nbsp;<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><strong>View more comments </strong></a>'
			+ (!userData['points']
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice">If this is you, <a href="http://disqus.com/profile" target="_blank">claim it now</a> to manage your comments.</p>'
				: '')
			+ ((userData['registered'] && !userData['verified'] && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username == userData['username'])) && !userData['is_remote'])
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice"><strong>Alert</strong>: You have not verified this account. <a href="http://disqus.com/verify">Verify it now.</a></p>'
				: '')
			+ '</div> \
			<div id="dsq-profile-status-' + user_key + '" class="dsq-popup-profile-status" style="display:none"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-snapshot"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td> \
							<div id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Most active sites</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
						<td>'
							+ _includeServices()
							+ '<div id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Moderator of</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupReblog = function() {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<cite><span>Reblog this comment</span></cite> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div id="dsq-reblog-form" class="dsq-reblog-form"> \
			</div> \
		';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupModal = function(title, message) {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<h3>' + title + '</h3> \
		';

		bodyHtml = message;

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.alertContent = function(name, post_id) {
		var alert = {
			'post_not_approved': {
				'title': 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator',
				'message': 'Thanks for posting. Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.'
			},
			'post_has_profile': {
				'title': 'Use your existing commenter profile',
				'message': 'You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> commenter profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a>'
			}
		};
		return alert[name] || false;
	};

	//
	// Actions
	//

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {
		// Update number of points
		Dsq.$('dsq-points-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.';

		// Update link text
		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.';
		}
	};

	this.subscribed = function(status) {
		var title, message;

		if(status) {
			title = 'Subscribed!';
			message = 'You have subscribed to this comment thread. New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox, where you may read and respond by email.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">Unsubscribe</a> \
			';
		} else {
			title = 'Unsubscribed';
			message = 'You have unsubscribed to this comment thread. New comments will no longer be sent to your email inbox.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a> \
			';
		}

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);

	};
	
	this.highlighted = function() {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('This comment has been highlighted.', 'Highlighted comment');
	};

	//
	// Media
	//

	this.mediaSeesmic = function(id, thumb) {
		return ' \
			<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_preview" class="dsq-seesmic-preview"><a href="http://www.seesmic.com/video/' + id + '" target="_blank" class="see_link">&nbsp;</a> \
				<div style="display:block;width:160px; height:120px; border:none; background-image:url(http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/' + thumb + ')"> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_hide" class="seePlayOverlay" style="display:none;"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',false)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/stopOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_show" class="seePlayOverlay"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',true)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/playOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; border:none; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			<div id="' + id + '_content" style="display:block; width:100%; padding-top:5px"></div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Callbacks
	//

	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(parent_post_id) {
		// Increment post count
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');
		
		if (num_posts) { 
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) { 
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
	};
};
// Dsq.Templates


/**
 * Dsq.Post
 */
Dsq.Post = new function() {
	this.openedMenu = {};
	this.menuEventListener = null;
	this.stateReplyToggled = {};
	this.stateEditToggled = {};
	this.stateRecordLink = {};

	/**
	 * Inserts a new post into the document.
	 *
	 * @param after_id {Number}	Insert a post before specified id.  If after_id
	 *							evaluates to false, then post in the front.  If
	 *							after_id is -1, post at the end.
	 */
	this.insert = function(after_id, id, message, author) {
		// Skeleton template from thread_posts.html.
		var skeleton = ' \
			<li id="dsq-comment-%(id)s"> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-header-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-header"> \
					<cite id="dsq-cite-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-cite"> \
						<a id="dsq-author-user-%(id)s" href="%(author_url)s" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">%(author_name)s</a> \
					</cite> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-body-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-body"> \
					<div id="dsq-comment-message-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-message">%(message)s</div> \
				</div> \
			</li> \
		';
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var _user_meta = Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key];
		var markup = Dsq.Utils.interpolate(skeleton, {
			id: id,
			message: message,
			author_url: _user_meta.blog,
			author_name: _user_meta.display_name
		});
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		markup = markup.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
		div.innerHTML = markup;

		if (after_id === -1) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').appendChild(div);
		} else if (!after_id) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').insertBefore(div, Dsq.$('dsq-comments').firstChild);
		} else if (Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + after_id)) {
			// Get next node after "after_id", so we can insert before it.
			// If "after_id" is the last comment, the target node is the
			// last node.
			
			// var append_post_id = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(after_id).replace('<div id="','').replace('"></div>', '');
			var append_post_id = 'dsq-append-post-' + after_id;
			var node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			while (node = node.nextSibling) {
				if (!node || node.nodeType == 1) { // 1 == Node.ELEMENT_NODE
					break;
				}
			}
			if (!node) {
				node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			}
			node.parentNode.insertBefore(div, node);
		}
	};

	this.incrementPostCount = function() {
		
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');

		if (num_posts) {
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) {
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
	}
	
	this.outlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className += ' dsq-comment-outline';
		setTimeout("(function () { Dsq.Post.clearOutlineComment(" + post_id + ") })()", 3000);
	};
	
	this.clearOutlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className.replace('dsq-comment-outline', '');
	};

	this.showMenu = function(el, id, name) {
		var anchorPos = Dsq.Utils.findPos(el);
		var menu = document.createElement('ul');

		if(this.openedMenu) {
			if(this.openedMenu.linkClicked) {
				this.openedMenu.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		switch(name) {
			case 'more':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMore(id);
				break;
			case 'media':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMedia(id);
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}

		// Add menu to document body
		menu.id = 'dsq-menu-' + id;
		menu.className = 'dsq-menu';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(menu);

		// Position and show
		anchorPos[1] += 15;
		menu.style.left = anchorPos[0] + 'px';
		menu.style.top = anchorPos[1] + 'px';
		menu.style.display = 'block';

		// Set global reference
		this.openedMenu = {
			'el' : menu,
			'id' : id,
			'name' : name,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};

		// Set listener
		this.menuEventListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._hideMenu);
	};

	this._hideMenu = function(e) {
		var el = e.target || e.srcElement;
		var openedMenu = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el;
		var id = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.id;

		if(!id) {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link';
		} else {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link-' + id;
		}

		if(!openedMenu) {
			return;
		}

		if(!Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, openedMenu.id)) {
			openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Post.menuEventListener);
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(openedMenu);

		} else {
			// Hide the menu if a link was clicked inside the menu.  We can't
			// completely remove the menu until the onclick event on the link
			// fires, but the menuEventListener will prevent multiple menus
			// from polluting the DOM.
			if(el && typeof el.href != 'undefined') {
				openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el = null;
			}
		}

		if(Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Post.openedMenu.linkClicked = true;
		}
	};


	this.getUserServices = function(user_key, id) {
		if(!user_key && id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
			user_key = _meta.user_key;
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var userServices = [];

		// Keep a full list of supported services. This is the order they will display in the drop-profile.
		// Each service must have a corresponding case in _buildServiceUrl()
		var supportedServices = ['blog', 'twitter', 'facebook', 'tumblr'];

		function _buildServiceUrl(serviceName) {
			var data = userData[serviceName];
			var services = {
				blog:		function(d) { return d; },
				twitter:	function(d) { return d; },
				facebook:	function(d) { return d; },
				tumblr:		function(d) { return 'http://' + d + '.tumblr.com'; }
			};
			return services[serviceName](data);
		}

		for(var i = 0; i < supportedServices.length; i++) {
			if(userData[supportedServices[i]]) {
				var serviceUrl = _buildServiceUrl(supportedServices[i]);
				userServices.push({'name' : supportedServices[i], 'url' : serviceUrl});
			}
		}
		return userServices;
	}

	this.dropProfile = function(id) {
		var dp = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-profile-' + id);

		// IE6 needs JS to display/hide. All other browsers use CSS.
		if(dp) {
			if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) dp.style.display = (dp.style.display == 'inline') ? 'none' : 'inline';
			return false;
		} else {
			dp = document.createElement('ul');
		}

		dp.id = 'dsq-drop-profile-' + id;
		dp.className = 'dsq-drop-profile';

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) { dp.style.display = 'inline'; }

		var container = Dsq.$('dsq-header-avatar-' + id);
		dp.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.dropProfile(id);
		container.appendChild(dp);
	};

	this.dropProfileMore = function(el, id) {
		var hiddenItems = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-hidden-' + id);

		hiddenItems.style.display = 'inline';
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
	};

	this._updateReplyLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "reply / cancel" links based on state.
		var displayDict = {};

		if(id) {
			if(this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				el.innerHTML = 'Cancel';
				displayDict['media'] = 'inline';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'none';
			} else {
				el.innerHTML = 'Reply';
				displayDict['media'] = 'none';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'inline';
			}
		}

		for(var key in displayDict) {
			if(displayDict.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var	linkEl = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-el-' + id),
					spacer = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-spacer-' + id);

				if(linkEl) {
					linkEl.style.display = displayDict[key];
					if(spacer) spacer.style.display = displayDict[key];
				}
			}
		}
	};

	this._updateMediaLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "use media / cancel" links based on state.
		var appendId = (id) ? ('-' + id) : '';
		var link = Dsq.$('dsq-media-link' + appendId);

		if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			link.innerHTML = 'Cancel Media';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(link, id); return false; };
		} else {
			link.innerHTML = 'Use Media <small>&#9660;</small>';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.showMenu(link, id, 'media'); return false; };
		}
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(el, id) {
		// Create reply IFrame
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			if (!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				// Create IFrame if it doesn't exist.
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-frame-' + id), id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].init();
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].setState(id, _meta.depth);
				}
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
			}
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			if(!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				// Reply toolbar
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id), id);
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Iframes.hideAllInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id));
				if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
					// HACK: Cancel media before canceling self.
					this.toggleMediaReply(Dsq.$('dsq-media-link-' + id), id);
				}
			}
		}

		this.stateReplyToggled[id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[id];
		this._updateReplyLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-reply-' + id); }

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[id]
		});
	};

	this.toggleMediaReply = function(el, id, xtype) {
		id = id || 0;
		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(!this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id, {xtype:xtype}, 'dsq-post-video');
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id);
		}
		this.stateRecordLink[id] = !this.stateRecordLink[id];
		this._updateMediaLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};

	this.edit = function(el, id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.frameEdit(id);
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-comment-message-' + id); }
	};

    this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
                Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
            }

            Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/vote.js'
                + '?post_id='    + id
                + '&vote='        + vote);

		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login(Dsq.Strings.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN);
		}
    };

	this.report = function(id, confirmed) {
		if(confirmed) {
			Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/evening_open_thread_060/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='	+ 'evening_open_thread_060'
			+ '&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='	+ 'evening_open_thread_060'
			+ '&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='		+ 'evening_open_thread_060'
				+ '&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/25115406/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
			});
		}
	};
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<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12518409">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12518409" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12518409" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12518409">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12518409" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12518409" class="dsq-comment-message">My goodness, Michael Tillery (Mizzo) laid it down in this piece. All I can say is read it. This is more about the state of sports journalism - which is exactly like the state of political journalism:<br><br>Excerpt:<br>There is good on this planet and there is diabolical evil. When does life choose the meeting point? Good wins in spells but unfortunately there are moments where evil goes hard enough to snuff out the greatness of man in a fleeting yet horrific slice in time. In the space thereafter we are then left with a choice. A choice which is the origin of shaping and shifting a futuristic perspective. Because of the presence of evil, do we take the soul of a man and squash it into an assumed hellish abyss or do we properly advance history…documenting the total scope of his walk in full appreciation of his life?<br><br>This is for Steve McNair’s family. This is for his sons. This is for his life. This is for his legacy.<br><br>Full piece: <a href="http://thestartingfive.net/2009/07/10/the-steve-mcnair-tragedy-a-column/#comment-27909" rel="nofollow">http://thestartingfive.net/2009/07/10/the-steve...</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12519068">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12519068" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12519068" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12519068">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12519068" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12519068" class="dsq-comment-message">Mizzo dropped it straight.  Thanks, Miranda.  Love TSF</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12519498">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12519498" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12519498" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12519498">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12519498" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12519498" class="dsq-comment-message">Didn\'t he lay it down? I loved this part:<br><br>None of us are perfect, but a period of weakness and wrongdoing isn’t the end all be all just because others say so. On one hand we celebrate serial adulterers of whatever ilk for the sake of personal mental security, only to highlight the transgressions of others with a force so strongly demonic it snakes its way into the first paragraph of their obituary.<br>The grave spit.<br><br>Nothing left to say but "amen".</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12519704">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12519704" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12519704" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12519704">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12519704" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12519704" class="dsq-comment-message">AMEN!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12517440">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12517440" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12517440" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12517440" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12517440" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12517440" class="dsq-comment-message">David Schuester is going to talk about the mean/racist comments about Malia on Monday on MSNBC. I\'m torn. While I think we need to call the bastards out, I don\'t know that I want it all over the MSM where Malia, Sasha, and her friends will inevitably hear about it somehow. Not that I don\'t think Michelle, Obama, and Grandma Robinson can\'t handle it, I just don\'t know that it\'s fair to do that to an 11 year old girl. We all know by now that when the idiots like the Freepers get called out, they only get worse.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12518592">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12518592" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12518592" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12518592">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12518592" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12518592" class="dsq-comment-message">My sense is PBO already knows about what has been said about Malia and Michelle.  <br><br>He owns a blackberry, and has trusted staff to keep him abreast of what type of news to report to him, and I\'m sure when it comes to his daughters, he\'d want to know so he and Michelle can buffer and protect them.<br><br>He and Michelle would decide if, when, what, and how they would tell Malia.<br><br>President Obama is a politician.  He knows how vicious folks are and has more than likely schooled both girls in the ways of racist, ignorant heathens.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12518978">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12518978" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12518978" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12518978">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12518978" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12518978" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m sure he knows too. I\'m sure the secret service keeps a watchful eye on sites like that one.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12519238">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12519238" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12519238" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12519238">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12519238" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12519238" class="dsq-comment-message">You know Miranda, after visiting the Cape Coast Slave Castle, I think Malia and Sasha got full-blown revelations of just how truly EVIL racism truly is.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12519608">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12519608" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12519608" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12519608">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12519608" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12519608" class="dsq-comment-message">I watched this earlier and some other parts of the series....I wish our children never had to know the depths of how low humanity can be:<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQGJwA0vCwo&feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQGJwA0vCwo&feat...</a></div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12520109">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12520109" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12520109" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12520109">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12520109" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12520109" class="dsq-comment-message">My daughters and I watched the series together last August.  It\'s powerful<br>and heart rending.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12517676">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12517676" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12517676" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12517676" href="http://themidnightsolution.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LTMidnight</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12517676" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12517676" class="dsq-comment-message">Beat me to it.<br><br>EDIT:  Remember, these are the same people claiming the Obama being elected means there\'s no longer racism in America.  I think it\'s important to show otherwise.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12518739">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12518739" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12518739" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12518739">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12518739" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12518739" class="dsq-comment-message">I swear, if that Slave Catching Sambo Ron Christie tries to defend this on Shuster\'s show.........</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12518919">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12518919" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12518919" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12518919">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12518919" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12518919" class="dsq-comment-message">Ole evil eyes will probably go with decrying the "left wing media" for doing the same to Palin\'s children (with not any evidence of that)...say its equally wrong to insult Obama\'s children (even though there is no "equal" that was done to any of Palin\'s children) and then contort his eyes even more by suggesting this shouldn\'t even be a subject when we have more important things to discuss like the failing Obama policies, socialist healthcare agenda...blah blah blah......I know the talking points already, they are so predictable.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12519327">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12519327" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12519327" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12519327">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12519327" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12519327" class="dsq-comment-message">Gawd, I\'d love to take that Slave-catching, Hankerchief Head, Skinnin & Grinnin, Shuckin & Buckin, Lawn Jockey, COON to the woodshed, but good.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12519909">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12519909" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12519909" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12519909">Guns3000</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12519909" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12519909" class="dsq-comment-message">i usually don\'t advocate "slave-catcher" talk......BUT DAT SHIT IS TOO FUNNY</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12519638">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12519638" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12519638" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12519638">Angelar</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12519638" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12519638" class="dsq-comment-message">does anyone know his bio kind of thing, how did he learn to hate himself so much?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12519295">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12519295" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12519295" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12519295">Lisa M</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12519295" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12519295" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'\'ll be sure and hold you back!!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12519426">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12519426" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12519426" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12519426">isonprize</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12519426" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12519426" class="dsq-comment-message">I won\'t be able to help \'cause I\'ll be on my way to kickin\' Christie\'s ass right with Rikyrah!!<br><br>If ANYBODY tries to justify the BS that has been aimed toward Malia, they catch hate from me anyway they come at it.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12519615">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12519615" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12519615" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12519615">Angelar</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12519615" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12519615" class="dsq-comment-message">I probably watch more news channels than I should, but I swear that I can almost stand everyone, even Pat Buckkkanan...but, Ron Christie makes me change the channel or hit the mute button.  If you really sit down and listen to him, this guy is filled with anger that won\'t quit.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12520454">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12520454" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12520454" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12520454">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12520454" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12520454" class="dsq-comment-message">Will Palin step up to defend Malia Obama?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12518093" class="dsq-comment-message">yes i have mixed feelings about it also<br>i do wan\'t those nasty bastards called out<br>but then again i don\'t wan\'t Malia and Sasha<br>hurt by them</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12518426" href="http://themidnightsolution.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LTMidnight</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12518426" class="dsq-comment-message">They have to learn the realities of the country they\'re in.  It doesn\'t matter that they\'re the POTUS\'s kids.  They shouldn\'t be treated like fragile chinaware.<br><br>Besides, with 2 great parents there for them, it probably not even care.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12518503" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s not a matter of being treated like fragile chinaware; Black children have always been denied the innocence and wonder of childhood due to white racists.  This is something that is stolen from us generation after generation and we have a right to be angered over this.  A white child of her age has no idea about how unfair this world is.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12518637" class="dsq-comment-message">I never said it was right, I just said it\'s a reality.<br><br>Besides, do you really think Malia or Sasha watch MSNBC or are even aware about some of the things said about the mom and dad?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12518521" class="dsq-comment-message">it still pisses me off<br>but i know the Obama\'s  will prepare them</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12518706" class="dsq-comment-message">Shay of Booker Rising has called out freeper:<br><br>Booker Rising To Freepers: "Y\'all Need To Chill With The Racist Attacks. Also, Kids Are Off Limits!" <br><br><a href="http://www.bookerrising.net/2009/07/booker-rising-to-freepers-yall-need-to.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.bookerrising.net/2009/07/booker-risi...</a><br><br><i>Free Republic,<br><br>One of my blog\'s readers has called attention to an incident on your website. I am troubled by the racist language displayed on Free Republic in regards to Malia Obama - the 11-year-old daughter of President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama - after she wore peace sign T-shirts in Rome and after her interaction with her mother on a private tourist visit.<br><br>First of all, those of you who claimed that Mrs. Obama was doing "monkey sounds" for spending a fun moment with her daughter at the Coliseum in Italy are ignorant. What happened to promoting family values? Supposedly a conservative virtue? Also, since when was being the President and First Lady "ghetto" and growing up in Chicago\'s black middle-class - as Michelle Obama did and as I did for part of my childhood - "thug ghetto culture"? Keep the focus on policies, not on personal attacks.<br><br>Now, on to Malia Obama, on which the racist attacks are even more offensive to me as a black center-right woman. Trashing an 11-year-old girl - "typical street whore", "nasty radical hair", "street trash", "freak kid", "flea bag who looks to be dragged from the trash dumpster" is cruel, low-class, and unacceptable. Sexualizing an 11-year-old girl because she is black ("typical street whore", "wonder when she will have her first abortion", commenting that she\'s sexually attractive) - thinking that black girls are "fair game" - is highly unacceptable.<br><br>I don\'t know if the Obamas put Malia up to wearing those T-shirts or not. It\'s also very plausible that she supports a nuclear-freeze stance on her own. After all, at age 11 (I\'m now 38), I thought apartheid was horribly wrong and racist. I also come from a political family (including past elected officials) and loved reading National Geographic about other countries. Either way, it\'s no business of yours what Malia wears or doesn\'t wear. She\'s a minor private citizen and her fashion is her and her family\'s choice. Also, what happened to freedom of expression?<br><br>By the way, a black female choosing to wearing her hair naturally - as lil\' Malia is doing is not "nasty radical hair". She\'s wearing her hair as God/nature/whatever-you-want-to-call-it intended for her to wear her hair. Do I have "nasty radical hair" because I wear my hair in braids?! I\'ve also worn my hair in twists - which is how Malia is wearing her hair - in the past. How about black female conservatives like Star Parker (braids) or Amy Holmes (curly \'fro)?! How about the libertarian June Arunga of Kenya, who wears a short Afro?! Are these women with "nasty radical hair"? Not only do you display sheer ignorance about black hairstyles, but you are disrespecting many black center-right women with such stupidity.<br><br>What happened to judging someone on the content of their character, and not the color of her skin and how she wears her hair? And children being off limits? If 14-year-old Willow Palin is off limits - and she should be - then 11-year-old Malia Obama should also be.<br><br>With racist views like the comments displayed on your website, you do absolutely no favors to the cause of persuading more blacks to embrace center-right values like individual liberty, capitalism, small government - in essence, a free republic. You merely reinforce the already-prevalent view in Black America that conservatism is for racists and the mean-spirited. I would strongly encourage you to stay out of the racist gutter, show some class by not picking on kids, and stay focused on policy disagreements.<br><br>Shay Riley<br>Booker Rising webmaster<br><a href="http://www.bookerrising.net" rel="nofollow">http://www.bookerrising.net</a><br>news site for black moderates and black conservatives<br></i><br><br>-----------------------------<br><br>Freeper\'s response:<br><br>EMAIL: Free Republic\'s Response Regarding The Racist Attacks On Malia Obama On Its Website <br><br><a href="http://www.bookerrising.net/2009/07/email-free-republics-response-regarding.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.bookerrising.net/2009/07/email-free-...</a><br><br>Here\'s the response that I got from Jim Robinson, the founder and president of Free Republic:<br><br>EMAIL #1 (8:32pm CT, 7/10): Get real.<br><br>EMAIL #2 (9:24pm CT, 7/10): Someone posted a dumb "caption this" photo thread and it got out of hand and our moderators pulled it. I received the same leftist DailyKos article you did in my mailbox this morning and posted a copy here:<br><br><a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2289769/posts" rel="nofollow">http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/228976...</a><br><br>Please notice my comment in reply number 1:<br>Can\'t help myself. This kind of crap fills my inbox every morning.<br>But the writer has a point. We should steer clear of Obama\'s children. They can\'t help it if their old man is an American-hating Marxist pig. And I\'m sure the left really means no harm to Sarah Palin\'s children. Thank God for the love and basic human decency displayed by TRUE Democrats. 1 posted on Friday, July 10, 2009 9:53:00 AM by Jim Robinson<br><br>No, we do not condone racism on FR. Never have.<br>--------------------------------------------------<br><br>Booker Rising response: Today I sent a follow-up email to Free Republic: "First of all, I didn\'t realize that opposing racism was merely the province of liberals. I guess I didn\'t get that memo. The fact remains that racist attacks on an 11-year-old girl - not to mention racist attacks on her mother, the First Lady - were posted over and over again on your website, and you did little to stop it. Attacks continued even after your response. Not even an apology for this wrong. If that is what you call NOT condoning racism, then I hate to see what condoning racism on your website looks like. Like I said in my letter, you merely reinforce the already-prevalent view in Black America that conservatism is for racists and the mean at heart. If it\'s wrong against Willow Palin, it\'s also wrong against Malia Obama. Simply shameful."<br><br>In case you\'re wondering...I\'m not sure if my open letter (which was "under review" when I posted it yesterday) ever made it to Free Republic\'s website. I assume not. Why? As of 7:11pm CT today, this error message comes up for the account that I created: "Your posting privilege has been revoked." I guess I violated Free Republic\'s posting rules because I called the website out for its racist attacks on an 11-year-old girl, but yet racists who smeared her keep their privileges. This is not over, bookeristas. That\'s all I can say for now.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12519430" class="dsq-comment-message">A commenter from DKos pretty much says what this is about.<br><br>    More than that, it\'s the dehumanization.<br><br>    If Barack and Michelle Obama are raising intelligent, responsible, loving and caring children who obviously trust and love their parents, it makes the Obamas appear to be loving, responsible parents who love their children. And that makes them look human.<br><br>    In order for hate to thrive, people have to be turned into monsters. No matter how nice, no matter how responsible, no matter how devoted or how much they care. And so those who are invested in despising Barack Obama have to create a myth about him and about all those around him.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12518927" class="dsq-comment-message">One of the commenters over there asked:<br><br>"Is Free Republic mainstream blog level stuff?"<br><br>Yes, very much so. You can say it\'s the internet voice of the Republican base, and racist invective is common there. Why is she so surprised?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12519559">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12519559" class="dsq-comment-message">Ya know I find it quite comical that these folks are about to get brand new and pretend like they\'ve never heard of "free republic". That will probably be a talking point...pretend like its so small and insignificant and no one would even know it exists but for the "liberals" pointing it out...a classic switcheroo. Here it comes y\'all...they\'ll blame the "left wing media" for pointing it out.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12516956" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12516956" class="dsq-comment-message">Ah Winter, how I miss thee. I may be a summer baby, but I HATE being hot. I\'d much rather be cold any day.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12517258" class="dsq-comment-message">oh i second that emotion!!! as an everyday biker,  i\'m most fond of fall sweater weather.  this photo made me laugh out loud!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12516978" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.womanist-musings.com/2009/07/obama-monkey-what-honour.html" rel="nofollow">Obama The Monkey What An Honour: </a> Yep in order to honour the pres a German zoo decided to name a new Mandrill Obama,  With friends like that who needs enemies?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12517280" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12517280" class="dsq-comment-message">They named a turtle after him in Florida:<br><br><blockquote> KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) - July 5, 2009 -- A sea turtle named after President Barack Obama that was rescued just before Inauguration Day has been set free on Independence Day.<br><br>Obama the loggerhead sea turtle was found ailing off a Key West beach on Jan. 19, the eve of the inauguration. Suffering from an intestinal impaction, the 200-pound female was nursed back to health with a diet of squid and mineral oil at the Turtle Hospital in Marathon.<br><br>Turtle Hospital administrator Ryan Butts said the turtle was set free Saturday on a Key West beach as about 100 people watched. He says it was appropriate to give the loggerhead its liberty on the Fourth of July after being rescued at a historic moment.</blockquote></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12517073" class="dsq-comment-message">Mcnallys Smith School of Music, fresh off a summer <br>wokshop, will offer the country’s first accredited hip-hop diploma program.<br><br>Hip-Hop with honors<br>By HAYLEY TSUKAYAMA, Star Tribune Richard Sennott, Star Tribune Richard Sennott, Star Tribune<br>Jul 10, 2009 <br><br>T oki Wright is in the recording studio while Zach Bagaason runs back the first 30 seconds of Wright\'s song, "State of Emergency." Bagaason\'s brother and music partner, Brandon, is in another corner of the room giving his two cents, while Sean McPherson of Heiruspecs stands in the doorway.  <br>They\'re surrounded by 22 high-school students. Some are taking copious notes, while others are just trying really hard to be cool about being in the same room with some of the biggest names in Twin Cities hip-hop -- their instructors.  <br>Or, to put it another way, it\'s a typical day of school at the McNally Smith College of Music summer hip-hop workshop.  <br>"It\'s really cool to be in there with Toki Wright and Big Quarters," said Daniel Olesen, 15, of Central High School. "And Heiruspecs rocks," he added with a grin. Daniel is enrolled in the program through St. Paul Connections, which allows students to take classes like this for only $1. Other students, like Johnathan (J-Boy) Irwy, 17, came from Maryland to attend the summer program, after seeing an ad for it on Facebook. "It\'s a useful way to utilize my interest in hip-hop," he said. "It gives me the chance to get hands-on and it\'s phenomenal to be with these teachers."  <br>McNally Smith\'s new hip-hop curriculum marks an important step in a fast-growing field of study. Several schools and universities offer classes about the social roots of hip-hop. The MacPhail Center for the Arts started a summer hip-hop camp last year and is offering it again in August. McNally Smith\'s summer workshop, which is directed at high school students, shares many of its instructors and hip-hop practitioners with another endeavor: Starting this fall, the school will offer the first nationally accredited diploma program for hip-hop. The diploma will indicate a targeted area of study within a student\'s associate or bachelor\'s degree.  <br>Dessa Darling, a member of Doomtree and hip-hop faculty member, said that a practical and academic program was long overdue. "The question is less \'Why now?\' than \'Why didn\'t this happen before?\'" she said.  <br>Valuable education tool  <br>Wright said he hopes the hip-hop program will attract all kinds of students -- particularly nontraditional students who might not feel that school is a good fit. He also wants the program to be a community resource for anyone trying to understand hip-hop culture.  <br><br>There is more.<br><br><a href="http://m.startribune.com/topic/3975-Lifestyle/articles/192410519" rel="nofollow">http://m.startribune.com/topic/3975-Lifestyle/a...</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12517421" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12517421" class="dsq-comment-message">You know, when you\'re not a fan of someone it\'s easy to see how people may not be very sad to see someone go. I was never a fan of Steve McNair, and I felt sorry that he died until I learned how he died. Maybe that\'s how people who don\'t like Michael Jackson feel. Even though MJ has really had an effect on my life, and basically wrote its soundtrack, there are people out there who really believed the accusations about him. The difference here, to me, is we know for sure McNair was a cheating dog. <br><br>So I don\'t begrudge McNair fans their chance to mourn him, I didn\'t like people stomping all over MJ\'s memory, but I still don\'t feel any sympathy for him.<br><br>Had he been at home with his wife, had he not stepped out on her in the first place, he wouldn\'t have ended up getting killed by a crazy woman. I can\'t really move past that to think he was really a great man even in light of the other good he did. He basically ABANDONED his wife and four sons (apparently one of those sons is from an extra-marital affair ~smh~). And yes, I know "let she that is without sin cast the first stone, there are just some things I don\'t accept.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12519383">Guns3000</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12519383" class="dsq-comment-message">Just because someone cheats doesn\'t mean they should be murdered in their sleep.  If murder is a justifiable punishment for cheating the cemeteries would be overflowing.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12566082" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12566082" class="dsq-comment-message">Where in my comment did I say he SHOULD have been murdered?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12599060">Guns3000</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12599060" class="dsq-comment-message">The tone of your post made seem like because Mcnair was committing adultery him being murdered was justified.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12615763" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12615763" class="dsq-comment-message">If I didn\'t actually SAY it, don\'t assume I meant it. I tend to say what I mean. :o)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12517537">malletgirl02</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12517537" class="dsq-comment-message">You know the song "Frankie and Johnny" that is what I think about when I here the McNair story. I never heard of the guy until I heard about his death.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12517647" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12517647" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'d heard his name, but all I knew him for was football, not any of the charity work he did. I\'m not a football fan, so I really don\'t see what\'s so "great" about him.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12517664">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12517664" class="dsq-comment-message">Personally, I think if someone is crazy, they\'re crazy. That 20 year old was crazy. It didn\'t matter where he was that night. I don\'t condone his affair, but I in no way will allow any of that to be the blame for his death. She was a fool. If not him, someone else. If he had been single he would still be dead.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12517722" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12517722" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12517722" class="dsq-comment-message">While I agree that crazy is crazy, I don\'t think he\'d be dead if he were single because chances are he wouldn\'t have met her (as he met her while he was at Dave and Busters with his family). Also, he was apparently telling her that he was going to divorce his wife and marry her (according to her family) or at the very least he gave her that impression. Then you had the fact that he was apparently cheating on his mistress with another mistress. I think other women would have gotten mad but they wouldn\'t have killed him. <br><br>They were both fools, and we need to deal with the reality not the "what ifs" and IF he hadn\'t been cheating on his wife and had his ass at home, he\'d be alive today to continue all of that charity work.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12517819">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12517819" class="dsq-comment-message">I disagree because if someone is crazy, no "if" will matter. She shot a man while he slept and killed herself. There is no justification for that regardless of what he did, said, might have said, implied, etc. That just my opinion on it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12517541">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12517541" class="dsq-comment-message">I hear ya, Muzikal. I hear ya. My sympathy goes towards his wife and children. Can you imagine how they feel, especially his wife? No doubt she has so many questions that will never be answered. It\'s a shame.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12517659" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12517659" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12517659" class="dsq-comment-message">Right, and imagine what kind of diseases he could have been taking to her since his murderer wasn\'t his first affair, and had he lived surely wouldn\'t have been his last.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12517669" href="http://themidnightsolution.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LTMidnight</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12517669" class="dsq-comment-message">Looks like the Freepers will get some attention after all.<br><br>They are already a hit in Canada <br><a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Conservative+" rel="nofollow">http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Conse...</a>...<br><br>And David Shuster will address their "love" for Malia on Monday.<br><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/11/752493/-David-Shuster-will-cover-Free-Republics-smears-against-Malia-Obama-on-Monday" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/11/752493/...</a><br><br>Hopefully we get comments from Steele on his take.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12518484" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12518484" href="http://www.womanist-musings.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">womanistmusings</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12518484" class="dsq-comment-message">I think I just invented some new cuss words reading that piece in the Sun.  What the hell is wrong with people. Their racism is disgusting enough but aiming it at a child is just beyond low.  I have no doubt that Michelle and Barack will talk to their daughter about this but it disgusts me to this day that Black parents to this day are forced to burst the wonderful innocence of childhood to arm their children against racist assholes.  With that I am headed straight to the liquor cabinet.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12518555" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12518555" href="http://themidnightsolution.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LTMidnight</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12518555" class="dsq-comment-message">Before you hit the thunderbird just play this a couple of times.<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txrikNFX-8E&feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txrikNFX-8E&feat...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12520438" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12520438">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12520438" class="dsq-comment-message">Will Palin blast the Freepers for picking on a child?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12520786">isonprize</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12520786" class="dsq-comment-message">Don\'t hold  your breath waiting for that to happen.  We need your wicked funny here at JJP!!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12520955" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12520955">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12520955" class="dsq-comment-message">I mean, ya know, Palin\'s such a defender of innocent children being picked on by the internets and the media, I thought she\'d step right up and defend 11 year old Malia from these vicious attacks.  I thought it was all about protecting children but I guess I\'m wrong.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12518160">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12518160" class="dsq-comment-message">July 11, 2009, 12:12 pm <br>Sunday Breakfast Menu, July 12<br>By Janie Lorber<br><br>On the eve of the first day of Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings, the Sunday talk shows will be abuzz with speculation over what she’ll face in the halls of Congress.<br>Republicans will focus on what they believe is Judge Sotomayor’s willingness to bring her personal experiences, and even an agenda, into her decisions. (The minority witness list includes Frank Ricci, the New Haven firefighter who won his discrimination case before the Supreme Court. )<br><br>Beyond that, Democrats in Congress have two major goals before they break for the August recess now just three weeks away — confirming Mr. Obama’s Supreme Court nominee and voting on health care bills in the House and Senate. Both will be front and center tomorrow morning.<br><br>House Democrats will float a proposal to tax the wealthiest Americans — individuals earning $280,000 and up and couples earning more than $350,000 — to help finance the expensive reform package. The proposal is a nonstarter for Republicans, makes conservative Democrats uneasy and provides great fodder for talk-show debate. (As well as discussion among our Caucus readers.) <br><br>The top two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senators Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, and Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, are guests on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” Mr. Sessions, who was rejected as a nominee for a district court judgeship amid charges of racial insensitivity 20 years ago, brings an unusual perspective to the process.<br><br>(For a preview of some senators’ questions and thoughts as they prepared for the Judiciary hearings, our own Elisabeth Goodridge has interviewed several of them and posted an audio feature.) <br><br>Read more…<br><br><a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/" rel="nofollow">http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12518374" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12518374" class="dsq-comment-message">You know what just struck me - the hearing starts at 10:00 am EST....that\'s 8:00 am here.  I\'m up, but I\'m working.  See, I was going to go in at 6:00 am, work 4 hours and then watch for a couple of hours - then go back to work.  Best laid plans.  I absolutely HATE it that I got switched from evening to days.  It really cuts into my geek time.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12518505">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12518505" class="dsq-comment-message">Africans reach out to Obama via text messages<br><br>(CNN) — The text messages address various issues and come from all over the African continent.<br><br>From the personal: "Obama, as a young lady I dream of being the president. U r a huge encouragement."<br><br>To cries for help: "Dear president, Darfur firing again…waiting for peace through the change u promised."<br><br>To calls for intervention: "Encourage African leaders to improve the quality and access to education for citizens."<br><br>The messages, from Ghana, Sudan and South Africa respectively, were among more than 5,000 sent to Barack Obama during his first visit as president to sub-Saharan Africa as president.<br><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/07/11/obama.texting/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/07/11/obam...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12518588">morphus</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12518588" class="dsq-comment-message">Good points ...<br>==========================================<br>Trial by Firefighters<br><br>By LANI GUINIER and SUSAN STURM<br><br>STANDING on the steps of the federal courthouse in New Haven, the lawyer Karen Torre reveled in her clients’ victory in a recent case before the Supreme Court. She anointed her clients — the white firefighters who scored well on a promotion test — “a symbol” for millions of Americans who are “tired of seeing individual achievement and merit take a back seat to race and ethnicity.”<br><br>But the Supreme Court’s 5-to-4 decision last month — that New Haven should not have scrapped the test — perpetuates profound misconceptions about the capacity of paper-and-pencil tests to gauge a person’s potential on the job. Exams like the one the New Haven firefighters took are neither designed nor administered to identify the employees most qualified for promotion. And Ms. Torre’s identity-politics sloganeering diverts attention from what we need most: a clear-eyed reassessment of our blind faith in entrenched testing regimes.<br><br>New Haven used a multiple-choice test to measure its firefighters’ retention of information from national firefighting textbooks and study guides. Civil service tests like these do not identify people who are best suited for leadership positions. The most important skills of any fire department lieutenant or captain are steady command presence, sound judgment and the ability to make life-or-death decisions under pressure. In a city that is nearly 60 percent black and Latino, the ability to promote cross-racial harmony under stress is also crucial.<br><br>These skills are not well measured by tests that reward memorization and ask irrelevant questions like whether it is best to approach a particular emergency from uptown or downtown even when the city isn’t oriented that way. The Civil Service Board in New Haven declined to certify the test not only because of concerns about difference in scores between black and white firefighters but also because it failed to assess qualities essential for firefighting.<br><br>Full article: <a href="http://gangbox.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/whos-qualified-more-on-the-new-haven-firefighters-case" rel="nofollow">http://gangbox.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/whos-qu...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12520043">Angelar</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12520043" class="dsq-comment-message">The pool issue is truly sad and depicts the racism going on in our country today.   BUT, blacks can\'t have it both way either....I just read this article and it made me angry for its racist component, only it is blacks being anti white or anyone else.<br><br>I don\'t care who you are, you can\'t have it both ways...if racism from whites is wrong, then racism from blacks is wrong too.<br><br>And before all you posters go nuts, I am not black or white, I am a Native American with relatives on both sides of the color line.  So DON"T KILL THE MESSENGER!!  and by the way, OH freaking SHIT, us Natives would love to have this kind of power enclave.   <br><br><a href="http://nymag.com/guides/summer/2009/57472/index1.html" rel="nofollow">http://nymag.com/guides/summer/2009/57472/index...</a><br><br>The Only Ones deal with glass ceilings at work, unfortunate misunderstandings in their neighborhoods, condescension from blacks who think their education or class makes them inauthentic, and identity crises in their kids. When they get to their Vineyard vacation homes, they want to escape that casual, institutional, and intra-black racism and be around people who help them feel less anomalous. Trey Ellis, who wrote the script for The Inkwell, the notoriously bad film about the black Vineyard experience (Ellis himself called it terrible), says, “The black part of the Vineyard is like, I would imagine, being gay and going to the Castro. It’s this mecca where you can be yourself and be with people who have so much in common with you. No one has to feign some street cred when they’re playing tennis.” It’s a source of communion and of pride. “When you see a beautiful black family with their kids, it makes you feel really good about being black,” says Chrisette Hudlin, wife of Reggie and a lifelong Vineyarder who travels there every summer from L.A. “As a person who’s high-achieving and striving for the best for their family, you’re looking at these other black people who have the same goals, and it makes you feel good as a black person. You don’t feel out of place.” Several Only Ones say there’s nowhere in America that makes them more proud of black people.<br><br><br><br>This is particularly true among parents, who talk about the importance of introducing their children to other black upper-class families so they can know they’re not as peculiar as they might feel. “Black kids need to be around successful black families, because other blacks from humble beginnings want you to apologize for being successful,” says psychiatrist Carlotta Miles. “On the Vineyard, you don’t need excuses or self-consciousness or defensiveness.” Drew Dixon Williams grew up in Washington, D.C., where her mother, Sharon Pratt, served as mayor, and she spent summers on the island. “It’s sort of embarrassing to say this, coming from Washington,” she says, “but I used to say with a straight face—because I was too young to know better—that I would get my black experience on Martha’s Vineyard. I didn’t have to be defensive about not being black enough or being black in the first place. We were all from The Cosby Show.”</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12520419">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12520419" class="dsq-comment-message">We covered this issue about a week ago, and I think you tried to change the subject.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12520551">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12520551" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s the only reason she posted it- to change the subject...and to indirectly defend the people who discriminated against those kids.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12520644">Angelar</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12520644" class="dsq-comment-message">please explain what you are actually talking about?????</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12521036">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12521036" class="dsq-comment-message">No. I\'m not going to take the bait and play the game. If I do, you will have achieved the distraction you\'re going for.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12521122">Angelar</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12521122" class="dsq-comment-message">whatever...if you want to argue or debate a subject, it involves more than making an accusation and then shutting off communications.   apparently you like to throw turds and then shutdown because you can\'t defend your position.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12520617">Angelar</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12520617" class="dsq-comment-message">so you covered the subject a week ago sooooo thoroughly it should never be raised again...hmmmm</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12520748">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12520748" class="dsq-comment-message">YOU\'RE the one who changed the subject.<br><br>Now because a week later you find the subject fascinating you want to discuss it again?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12520866">Angelar</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12520866" class="dsq-comment-message">lets be honest, we change subjects almost by minute by minute...on this website.  I have to remember at my age every freaking subject we address from hour to hour and from week to week?   OK  maybe I should....but I don\'t.  <br><br>I have never claimed perfection, but, just because we may have discussed a subject, doesn\'t mean I couldn\'t have changed my mind on something.<br><br>Gheez, I pray every day that the good Lord will accept me and forgive me my sins.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12520920">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12520920" class="dsq-comment-message">You SPECIFICALLY tried to change the subject when it was brought up.<br><br>NOW you want to A) act like you\'ve brought some brand new information to the board and B) simutaneously wag the finger of shame on black people "because y\'all do it too."<br><br>Go BACK to the original thread where it was discussed. <br><br>If there\'s something about black people that you don\'t understand, either ask (instead of changing the subject) or fall back and observe so you can get your learning on.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12520949">Myth</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12520949" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m trying to change the subject too!! LOL!!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12521131" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12521131" class="dsq-comment-message">Not me....I\'m loading the balloons with water!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12521245" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12521245" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12521245">Myth</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12521245" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12521245" class="dsq-comment-message">Cats scratch for blood. You can dry that water off of you in a balloon fight!  LMAO!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12521005" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12521005" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12521005">Angelar</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12521005" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12521005" class="dsq-comment-message">I never try to claim I have bought anything new to the conversation.  I don\'t have that kind of ego.   <br><br>Please bring to me this "original" thread you keep yapping about.   <br><br>Next....your "wag the finger of shame on black people" has me totally mystified.<br><br>Are you well?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12521326">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12521326" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12521326" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12521326">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12521326" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12521326" class="dsq-comment-message">You have made it a habit of insulting others that don\'t share your view . Even to the point of calling others names. You first came insulting GreenLady & Miranda about their caption of a photo. I remember. It was a caption for crying out loud. <br><br>Just a few days ago you insulted me and Town because our opinion didn\'t line up with yours on Paris Jackson being encouraged to speak about her daddy. You called people  greedy but couldn\'t explain who were the greedy culprits or who had the Jackson children\'s best interest at heart. You called Town "naive" and me "emotional". How the hell do you expect someone to respect your opinion when you do don\'t respect others?<br><br>You\'re not slick Angelar, I\'m looking right at you. I see you!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12521484" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12521484" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12521484">Myth</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12521484" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12521484" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey Justice!  I see you too!  Wanna change the subject to Sonia Sotomayor\'s confirmation hearing starting on Monday morn?<br><br>Scratch, scratch, meow!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12521730">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12521730" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12521730" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12521730">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12521730" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12521730" class="dsq-comment-message">I see you too, Myth! <br><br>Don\'t you guys worry, Myth know I love her!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12521525">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12521525" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12521525" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12521525">Angelar</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12521525" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12521525" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, I don\'t want to be slick...never one of my goals...   I would disagree that I have made anything a "habit."  Next I thank you for acknowledging to me my public failings as you have witnessed.  <br><br>I know I am imperfect and know that I can and do say things that are not always consistent.<br><br>By the way, if someone did a  similar "check" on Justice58 and Town, would you both be found without any of the inconsistencies you gathered on me???</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12521710" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12521710" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12521710">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12521710" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12521710" class="dsq-comment-message">I certainly don\'t call someone a name because their view is different....with the exception of Karmi or Conserv1. Their goal is to stop debate.<br><br>But you have insulted me on more than one occasion with name calling..."you\'re too emotional" about your views. I don\'t like disrespecting an older woman but don\'t push me. If you want respect then you must be respectable.<br><br>I dare you to find a post where I attacked someone because their view was different from mine and it led to name calling...excluding trolls.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12521776">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12521776" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12521776" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12521776">Angelar</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12521776" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12521776" class="dsq-comment-message">I like your response and sincerely apologize for anything I may have said or done  previously.<br><br>best regards,</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12520926" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12520926" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12520926">Myth</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12520926" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12520926" class="dsq-comment-message">To Sotomayor????</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12520792">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12520792" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12520792" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12520792">Angelar</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12520792" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12520792" class="dsq-comment-message">I respect Town, but, I would like Town to prove her allegation that I tried to change any subject having to deal with "what?"   I don\'t get this at all???</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12520916" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12520916" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12520916">Myth</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12520916" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12520916" class="dsq-comment-message">Can I change the subject to Sonia SotomayOR?</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12521029">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12521029" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12521029" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12521029">Angelar</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12521029" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12521029" class="dsq-comment-message">Of course...what do you want to say?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12521077">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12521077" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12521077" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12521077">Myth</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12521077" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12521077" class="dsq-comment-message">Whateva it takes to stop this cat fight!!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12521318">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12521318" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12521318" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12521318">Angelar</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12521318" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12521318" class="dsq-comment-message">hee hee, you make me think of my sisters..when one of them starts up with each other, the others try to stop the "fuss" as soon as possible.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12520426">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12520426" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12520426" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12520426">jelana</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12520426" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12520426" class="dsq-comment-message">You simply don\'t understand this article.  It is about class but not race.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12520578">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12520578" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12520578" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12520578">Angelar</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12520578" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12520578" class="dsq-comment-message">I disagree, it is about both race and class...I don\'t understand what?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12520613" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12520613" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12520613">Myth</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12520613" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12520613" class="dsq-comment-message">TIME TO GET READY FOR CHANGE TO COME TO AMERICA--MONDAY @ 10AM<br>Be there or Be Square!!<br><br><br>FACT: Chief Justice John Roberts was confirmed 72 days after his designation, despite a one-week delay in the start of the hearings due to Hurricane Katrina, the passing of Chief Justice Rehnquist, and his re-nomination to be Chief Justice.<br><br>Seventy-two days from the date of Judge Sotomayor’s designation is August 6 – before the Senate recess for August. <br><br>John Roberts (2005)<br>DAY 1 – Designation (July 19)<br>DAY 8 – Questionnaire Sent (July 27) <br>DAY 13 – Questionnaire Returned (Aug. 1) <br>DAY 48 – Hearing Set to Begin (Sept. 6) *Delay due to passing of Chief Justice Rehnquist and Hurricane Katrina <br>DAY 72 – Senate Confirmation *17 days after hearing <br><br>Sonia Sotomayor (2009)<br>DAY 1 – Designation (May 26)<br>DAY 2 – Questionnaire Sent (May 27) <br>DAY 9 – Questionnaire Returned (June 4) <br>DAY 48 – Hearing Set to Begin (July 13)<br>DAY 72 – August 6<br><br><br>THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE\'S CAST OF CHARACTERS DEBUTS AL FRANKEN!!<br><br><br>Visually, they\'ll be grouped like this: Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy and Sotomayor at center stage facing each other. Eleven other Senate Democrats — nine white men, two white women — will sit to the audience\'s right, eager to help Sotomayor defend herself against any conservative charges. Their mandate: do no harm to her overwhelming prospects for taking over retired Justice David Souter\'s seat on the nine-member court.<br><br>On the audience\'s left — but to the right on your scorecard — will be seven white male Republican senators with a delicate task: respectfully challenging the Latina nominee — on crutches, recovering from a broken ankle — without alienating women or Hispanics.<br><br>And try to do it while facing two visible reminders of the GOP\'s rout in the 2008 elections.<br><br>Seated at the end of the Democratic side will be Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, until this year a Republican, and Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., the former TV comedian making his Senate debut.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12520943" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12520943" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12520943" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12520943" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s more on the \'witnesses\' from Patrick Leahy\'s office.<br><br><a href="http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200907/070909a.html" rel="nofollow">http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200907/070909a.html</a></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12521038">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12521038" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12521038" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12521038">Myth</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12521038" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12521038" class="dsq-comment-message">National Rifle Assoc and New Haven Firefighters! Do the Rethugs ever give up? Geesh!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12521120" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12521120" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12521120" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12521120" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12521120" class="dsq-comment-message">I was looking for this.  It came via email from the Nat\'l Women\'s Law Center.<br><br><a href="http://www.nwlc.org/details.cfm?id=3624&section=JCWR" rel="nofollow">http://www.nwlc.org/details.cfm?id=3624&section...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12521251" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12521251" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12521251" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12521251" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12521251" class="dsq-comment-message">Dr. Charmaine Yoest, <b>Americans United for Life</b> ???<br><br>All right off to watch a movie, \'the internationalist\' with Clive Owen.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12521445" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12521445" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12521445">Myth</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12521445" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12521445" class="dsq-comment-message">We\'ll try to raise the issue again 2morrow and finally take MJ of the front page. (Along with this issue beginning discussed down below!)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12521202" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12521202" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12521202" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12521202" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12521202" class="dsq-comment-message">One of the minority witnesses is David Rivkin, Esq., Partner, Baker Hostetler .  Can\'t stand this fucker.  Saw him a lot on the discussion centering around torture; he\'s quite the apologist.<br><br><a href="http://tpzoo.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/torture-apologist-david-rivkin-gets-owned-by-lawrence-odonnell/" rel="nofollow">http://tpzoo.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/torture-a...</a></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12521355">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12521355" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12521355" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12521355">Myth</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12521355" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12521355" class="dsq-comment-message">It remains to be seen but it doesnt appear that the Minority Witnesses are very strong. Same old rehash warmed over. I doubt that there will ever be another confirmation hearing like Unca Clarence and Anita Hill had.  Maybe some old Sotomayor flame will fall out of the closet with some dirt that will make it interesting enough to be glued to the TV once again. I kinda doubt it though.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12521698">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12521698" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12521698" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12521698">isonprize</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12521698" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12521698" class="dsq-comment-message">She\'s single, yes?   You don\'t think someone will accuse her of being gay?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12521115" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12521115" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12521115">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12521115" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12521115" class="dsq-comment-message">That Diana Ross/Brandy melodrama - Double Platinum - is on TVOne right now.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12521269">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12521269" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12521269" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12521269">Angelar</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12521269" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12521269" class="dsq-comment-message">Speaking of Diana Ross, I just bought a book today about the Supremes written by Mark Ribowsky.    I will start reading tomorrow, but, the book flag says "Ribowsky spares no detail in revealing the astounding saga of both Ross\'s successful rise to the top and Ballard\'s tragic fall, exposing the real story behind her firing and her sudden death at age thirty two after a battle with depression, alcohol, and drugs. "<br><br>I meant to say I have always been a HUGE fan of the Supremes.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12521284" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12521284" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12521284">Myth</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12521284" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12521284" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, Rikyrah, guess I\'ll try to redirect this discussion on another day because this fight is on and poppin\' tonight!!!<br>LMAO!<br>Scratch, scratch<br>M-e-o-w!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12521538" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12521538" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12521538">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12521538" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12521538" class="dsq-comment-message">I swear, EVERYTIME Blacks and Class come up, it\'s a barroom brawl up in here!<br><br>LOL</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12521678">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12521678" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12521678" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12521678">isonprize</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12521678" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12521678" class="dsq-comment-message">You ain\'t neva lied on that one!  <br><br>Or the whole issue of skin color and black people.   WHEW!!! <br><br>Or HEY, what about American born black folk and folks from the diaspora.   One example being what a friend of mine calls herself --  Jamerican, as in Jamaican-American, which she makes a very clear distinction of being different from African American.  Wooooo.  <br><br>On and poppin\'!!!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12521725">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12521725" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12521725" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12521725">Angelar</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12521725" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12521725" class="dsq-comment-message">I admire her for it....<br><br>from your Native American friend....Angelar</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12521749" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12521749" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12521749">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12521749" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12521749" class="dsq-comment-message">In the words of Dana...<br><br>Stop that!! lol</div>\
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	if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page == 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.is_initial_load) {
		Dsq.container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.header() + Dsq.container.innerHTML + Dsq.Templates.footer();
	}
	Dsq.$(Dsq.curPageId).innerHTML = Dsq.$(Dsq.curPageId).innerHTML.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
}); // Dsq.Debug.Profile

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


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

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

	
	

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

	Dsq.Popup.showCookieMsgs();

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

	
	if((typeof OB_Script != 'undefined') && (typeof OB_versionNum != 'undefined')) {
		if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox") != -1) {
			if(window.frames['dsq-reply-frame']) {
				window.frames['dsq-reply-frame'].location = Dsq.Urls.REPLY + (new Date()).getTime() + '&f=jackandjillpolitics&t=evening_open_thread_060&to_redirect=' + encodeURIComponent(window.location) + '&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
			}
		}
	}

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

	



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

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

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

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

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


	


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

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

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

})();




