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Hooo!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_11:40:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5010851, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5019661": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Breaking News: Baltimore's mayor has been indicted<br><br>BALTIMORE -- Maryland's state prosecutor says a grand jury has indicted Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon on 12 counts, including perjury, theft and misconduct in office. <br><br>The prosecutor's office announced the indictment on its Web site on the final day of a four-month grand jury session in which a City Council member and a prominent developer who once dated the mayor were indicted on public corruption charges. <br><br>Dixon's attorneys say they and the mayor will make statements later this afternoon.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:45:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5012498": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sharpton+ Fox+ratings =$$$$$$$$$$$$", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_11:15:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "01cd55b5b177f7c1827c08939b7d75f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5011839, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5012483": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "evita:   ****raising my right hand***    :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_11:12:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5011774, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5016795": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Miranda:   'cause SHRUB only has 11 more days B4 he \"walks out  of that door!\"****   :&gt;)   So he's trying ta look effective!   HAH!! NOT AFTER 8 YEARS!!<br><br>Annnnnnd, we will SURVIVE!!<br><br>YES!  There is a SONG:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBR2G-iI3-I\" rel=\"nofollow\">I Will Survive</a>  <br><br>ENJOY!!          :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:35:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5015722, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5017113": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sepia:    LOL!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>At least YOU have the appropriate aerosol!!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)  Good one!!  :&gt;)<br><br>CO-SIGN on YOUR POINTS!!!    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:52:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5016762, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5020698": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This is a serious threat. It will allow them to make the crux of the issue not local but national. In 1965 given where the vast majority of AfricanAmericans lived segregation rules and regulations were still the norm the case for the law was very clear. Gerrymandering was not the case as it is now(look how almost all districts are not party competetive) but with poll taxes etal to dilute our vote it  didn't matter. With gerrymandering AfricanAmerican voters are for the most part resegregated but w/ voting rights. This political resegregation allows few AfricanAmericans the opportunity to represent the larger demographic locally and nationally except at the large urban level(thoughI have to admit the post about Colorado blew me away).<br><br>Among other problems are the history of this country constantly  trying to rewrite the law to take our rights away.  And given the way, since Reagan,  the Republicans have bent over backward to appoint reactionary conservative judges at both the base and appelate level I do not think even Thurgood Marshall could provide a basis within the law to overturn segregation.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_16:31:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5018530, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5012507": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The media sees the 2012 Republican nomination as a natural birthright for Ms. Palin.  Ratings Gold!  Add that to her dedicated following and it makes a lot of sense.  Heck, Mika and Scarborough, alone, have made it their mission to turn Morning Joe into \"Morning Palin\" whenever possible.<br><br>Palin missed her first stepping stone when Stevens lost his Senate seat.  So she's got to do something to remain relevant until she gets the chance to run again.<br><br>The campaign never truly ends.  Obama supporters should remember this because Palin's got her eyes set on 2012 . . . President Palin????  Oh NO!  It's enough to make a supporter want to start working on Obama's re-election campaign right now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_11:14:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "B_Serious", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 12, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5011394, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5013253": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ybguide:   HEY!    :&gt;)<br><br>Read your post.  YES!  We must recognize PROGRESS in that area of DIRE NEED!!  :&gt;)<br><br>CONGRATS to Mr. Tom Williams!!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Thank you for the post!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_11:52:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5011535, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5012518": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lol@negrodamus hat!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_11:14:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "01cd55b5b177f7c1827c08939b7d75f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5011902, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5014060": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Admiral:  The news reported that both Mr. Obama/Biden had a \"chat\" with her and that she \"stood down!\"  [Thanks D.    :&gt;)]<br><br>I'll post the article L8R.  My computer is \"actin' up!\"     :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>FOUND IT!:<br><br><a href=\"http://washingtonindependent.com/24357/feinstein-on-panetta\" rel=\"nofollow\">Feinstein on Panetta</a><br><br><i>Beef officially squashed. Here\u2019s what Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said about CIA director-(quasi-)designate Leon Panetta to reporters outside the Senate floor this afternoon:<br><br>    \u201cI\u2019ve known Leon for 20 years. He is smart, he is credible, and he is truthful. And I believe he will surround himself with very qualified intelligence professionals in the top positions, and that we will have a very close working relationship. This is important to me, because there are big issues facing the agency. He will tell truth to power, not what power wants to hear, but what power should hear. And that\u2019s probably the most fundamental part of all of this, so that what many of us think happened with the Iraq [National Intelligence Estimate] never happens again\u2026\u201d</i><br><br>Hmmm.  So THIS is how YOU make YOURSELF IMPORTANT!?  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_12:39:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5013584, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5017134": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dayum!  What a bargin!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:54:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "01cd55b5b177f7c1827c08939b7d75f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5014157, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5017135": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rorysmomma:    LOL!     :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:55:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5011747, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5017136": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Sanjay Gupta shit isn't worth my time when over 40 million people in this country don't have any kind of healthcare coverage.<br><br>But the thing that went on in Oakland is.<br><br><a href=\"http://simplifythepositive.blogspot.com/2009/01/word-for-today-is-riot.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Word For Today Is \"Riot\"</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:55:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "BrownManATL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5013041": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Anybody have any favorite episodes?  My list (no particular order) . . .<br><br>Season 1:<br>Two Cathedrals<br>Take This Sabbath Day<br>The Short List<br>Celestial Navigation<br><br>Season 5:<br>The Supremes", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_11:42:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "B_Serious", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5011774, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5013342": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Absolutely, B-Serious!  This is a savvy move by Fox.  I'm  down!<br><br>Any word yet on the nature of Alan Colmes' next project?  I enjoy watching him shut down foolishness, so I'll be supporting his next project, too.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_11:59:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "bb90730b238bd2c1f318bc1437a3fc1e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5012125, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5021263": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jenifer:   HEY!   :&gt;)   YEP!<br><br>They announced that he has a photographic memory!  I noted that he spoke without notes.<br><br>He's an attorney.  <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Blagojevich\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rod Blagojevich<br>From Wikipedia</a><br><br><br>Blagojevich, although a mediocre student,[16] graduated from Chicago's Foreman High School after transferring from Lane Technical High School. He played basketball in high school and participated in two fights after training as a Golden Gloves boxer.[16] After graduation, he enrolled at the University of Tampa.[17] After two years, he transferred to Northwestern University in suburban Evanston where he obtained his bachelor's degree in 1979.<b> He obtained his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Pepperdine University School of Law in 1983. </b>He later said of the experience: \"I went to law school at a place called Pepperdine in Malibu, Calif., overlooking the Pacific Ocean--a lot of surfing and movie stars and all the rest. I barely knew where that law library was.\"[1] Through his father-in-law's connections, Blagojevich clerked for Chicago Alderman Edward Vrdolyak.[18] Blagojevich then took a job as Cook County Assistant State's Attorney (assistant prosecutor) under State's Attorney Richard M. Daley,[18] specializing in domestic abuse crimes and felony weapons cases.[19] [20]<br><br>***shakin' my head***   :&gt;)     :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_17:00:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5020771, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5020767": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.jhsdurham.on.ca/parenting/images/cryingbaby.gif\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.jhsdurham.on.ca/parenting/images/cry...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_16:32:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5019589, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5014076": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Happy FRY-DAY, GreenLady.  <br><br>I've been thinking about JJP bloggers who would play certain characters on the West Wing.  IMHO of course.  Here we go!<br><br>Press Secretary- C.J. Cregg - GreenLady-   Tell Chucky T.  to go find his election map!<br><br>President Bartlett- Martin Sheen- Baratunde  (stand when the POTUS enters the room)<br><br>Charlie Young Prersonal Aide to the Presient- Dule Hill - Webb  (sharp as a boy scouts knife)<br><br>First Lady Abigail Barlett- Town  (Ok and an MD to boot)<br><br>The President's Secretary-  Kathryn Joosten -Mrs. Landingham- Spirit_55Z  (What can I say, I love smart  competent crones)<br><br>Chief of Staff- Leo McGarry - \"D\"-  :-)))  (after his conversion from Republican -Democrat lol!)<br><br>National Security Advisor Dr.-Nancy McNally - Anna Deavere Smith -(she's a B-more City sista)  - CPL  (You know you can bring it!)<br><br>Deputy Chief of Staff- Josh Lyman-   Admiral  (  Dep's got SWAGGER)<br><br>Assistant to Josh- Donna Moss- Sepia, MsKitty  (Holds it down and witty)<br><br>Communications Director- Richard Schiff- Toby Ziegler-  B-Serious  (Serious)<br><br>Deputy Communications Director- Rob Lowe- Sam Seaborn- CraigHickman (Resident Wordsmith) Sam's an ivy leaguer- Princeton <br><br>My favorite Seaborn quote:   \"If you haven't seen C.J. do The Jackal, then you haven't seen Shakespeare the way it's meant to be done.\"<br><br>Happy Friday to all!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_12:40:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "01cd55b5b177f7c1827c08939b7d75f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5012483, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5014077": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "God help me, but I agree with Obama.<br><br>College football needs a playoff system.<br><br>Not that he can intervene, of course. :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_12:38:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 13, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5013760, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5014078": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "According to Scarborough, Palin is Reagan circa 1976 (which, I guess means Obama is Jimmy Carter in his eyes). . . . underestimated, misunderstood and waiting in the wings to lead the next conservative revolution.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_12:40:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "B_Serious", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5013729, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5014079": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Carolinagirl. Right on! I'll have to check out Hannity Sharpton and share opinion later.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_12:40:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "811a7e4549eb422165aaec909333a57a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5020741": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Blago says \"do unto others as you would them do unto you\"<br><br>Isn't it \"do unto others as you would have them do six times over for you\"?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_16:33:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5020635, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5014088": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hand raised in air..LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_12:39:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5011774, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5018187": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I hear you.<br><br>But they should have it out on the field.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_14:41:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5018039, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5012044": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Evita,<br><br>I record the 2am, the 7am and the 8am episodes.  They relax me. I watch them when I can't take the crazy liberal blogs.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_10:47:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "9aadb0900f70a3231c0993761fccbc52", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5018701": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I might have to tune into Fox now. This has the makings of a hot mess.  Sharpton is no Colmes and will not be shushed by Hannity.  And Buckman has no chance.  Has \"bitch, please\" ever been said on cable news?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:11:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5011839, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5011535": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Posted it yesterday, but wanted to give him his props again. <a href=\"http://ybpguide.com/2009/01/08/bigups-tom-williams/\" rel=\"nofollow\">BigUps: Tom Williams</a>.<br><br>First Black coach for the Yale football team.<br><br>We <em>slowly</em> making it through the NCAA. Come on Turner Gill!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_10:11:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "ybpguide", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5013584": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hey now!<br><br>Did someone tell DiFi?<br><br>It's like a law...or something.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_12:11:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5013454, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5016504": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "spirit:    LOL!!      :&gt;)        :&gt;)   Nice find!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>I couldn't get the 2nd link.  Sorry.  :&gt;(", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:21:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5015259, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5018709": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "For realz.  Damn near made me paranoid to buy a new car after that episode.<br><br>I'm like why Sorkin gotta make Landingham put her head t'een her legs and kiss her azzz goodbye.  <br><br>But then, Charlie didn't get the ax.  You know Black guy gets it early on in the tv and movies.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:12:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "01cd55b5b177f7c1827c08939b7d75f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5018371, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5014108": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If it's Rev. Al being Rev. Al...<br><br>it'll make money and be entertaining..LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_12:41:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5011839, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5026397": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Maybe that's why the Bushes were crowding Obama.<br><br>Some countries and entities are definitely thinking of prosecuting them in absentia for war crimes.<br><br>They set one foot out of the U.S., and they might find themselves taken like Pinochet was....", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_20:32:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "blksista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5024255, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5020255": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "-Why, here comes our very own little Joe Btfsplk...again.<br><br>\"Joe Btfsplk: The world's worst jinx, Joe Btfsplk had a perpetually dark rain cloud over his head; instantaneous bad luck befell anyone unfortunate enough to be in his vicinity. Though well-meaning and friendly, his reputation inevitably precedes him, so Joe is a very lonely little man. He has an apparently unpronounceable name, but creator Al Capp \"pronounced\" Btfsplk by simply blowing a \"raspberry\", or Bronx cheer. Joe's personal black cloud became one of the most iconic images in the strip.\"<br><br>-Wikipedia", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_16:00:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5019589, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5012577": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "good lord! now i know why i don't have it yet. <br><br>(my day is jan 20th, ya'll) <br><br>Jill put up a thermometer on the right and pass the hat!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_11:18:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5012315, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5011042": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I love your site and have just added you to my blog roll.  <a href=\"http://www.onbeingablacklawyer.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.onbeingablacklawyer.com</a> is a blog dedicated to issues impacting black attorneys.  With all the Hill ruckus going on this week, we decided to do some snarky profiles of CBC members who are also lawyers. Give it a look here:  <a href=\"http://www.onbeingablacklawyer.com/?cat=147\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.onbeingablacklawyer.com/?cat=147</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_09:28:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "071432b07dcde81fc7e0d90d9a10c098", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5020771": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "this man could defend himself on this case!<br><br>this just goes to show you that a curser does have vocabulary!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_16:34:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "c8de09172ed0bac30a7de05e95460a48", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5020635, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5021290": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "pjamma:  LOL!!  In HIS world!    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_17:00:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5020741, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5021804": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LMAO", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_17:26:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5020255, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5015058": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yeah, I'm curious also.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:06:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "7acec36f3ac1c3ce26f5070a275439fa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5014900, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5015152": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "From the Chicao Tribune<br><br><a href=\"http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2009/01/live-blog-of-il.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/20...</a><br><br>Rep. Milt Patterson (D-Chicago) was the lone vote against impeaching the governor. Patterson, from Chicago's Southwest Side, said after the roll call that he didn't feel it was his job to vote to impeach the governor. He declined comment on whether he approved of the job Blagojevich is doing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:07:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "b1e8e18ba31ae1e4c8fe371561db8970", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5014456, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5018741": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Steele-McCain '12.<br><br>If it worked for you, it'll work for us too.<br><br>(maybe. LOL)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:14:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5018673, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5012598": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Agree, Miranda.<br><br>\"The America that has elected Barack Obama as its first African-American president is far different than when Section 5 was first enacted in 1965,\" say lawyers for the utility district.\"  <br><br>Here we go with the POST-RACIAL BULLSHIT!<br><br>umm.....HELL NO.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_11:21:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "01cd55b5b177f7c1827c08939b7d75f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5012396, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5020281": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hey now!<br><br>That 'taint nice, ARP! ;-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_16:00:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5019929, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5013114": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "evita:  LOOK AT-CHOO!!  :&gt;)    What GREAT IDEAS!! :&gt;)<br><br>MAJOR COMMENDATIONS!!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_11:45:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5012645, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5019839": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  From Gen. Colin Powell:<br><br><a href=\"http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1151ap_inauguration_service.html?source=rss\" rel=\"nofollow\">Inaugural committee promotes service for MLK Day</a><br><br><i>WASHINGTON -- <b>Gen. Colin Powell asked Americans to consider their day off on Martin Luther King Day a \"day on\" instead.<br><br>Powell, an honorary co-chair of the inauguration, announced the Presidential Inaugural Committee's \"Renew America Together\" volunteering initiative on Friday to take place on Jan. 19, the King holiday.<br><br>President-elect Barack Obama, Vice President-elect Joe Biden and their families will volunteer in the Washington area that day, a day before the Jan. 20 inauguration. They're asking Americans to do the same in their own communities.</b><br><br>\"I think it will capture the imagination of the American people,\" Powell said, adding that there was a \"fervor\" for the new administration that should be tapped.<br><br><b>The goal is to make public service a greater priority throughout American life.</b><br><br>\"It's not enough, I think, just to do it one day a year,\" Powell said.<br><br>The inaugural committee launched a Web site, <a href=\"http://USAService.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">USAService.org</a>, to help Americans find opportunities to volunteer in their own communities. Spokeswoman Linda Douglass said there are already nearly 5,000 online listings, and people are welcome to add their own.<br><br>Although a troubled economy has meant a drop in charitable giving, Powell said he was confident that Obama and Biden could appeal to the generous American spirit.<br><br>\"My experience is, in time of need, the American people recognize that they have to do more than they would have otherwise,\" he said.<br><br>Powell founded the America's Promise Alliance, a group that tries to improve children's lives, and has also worked with the Boys and Girls Club and the United Negro College Fund.<br><br><b>He said he has not been asked to work in the Obama Administration and has made it clear he doesn't want to.<br><br>\"I'm not looking for a job,\" he said. \"I'm very happy in private life, thank you very much.\"</b><br><br>Community Service-Community Organizer!  YES!!!   :&gt;)</i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:48:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5019260": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "evita:  YES!  Thank you.  I watched with my \"OXYGEN MASK\" securely fastened!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:21:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5011896, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5014145": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That was too good for words.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_12:43:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5014076, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5014168": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Gov. Blagojevich impeached by the Illinois House of Representatives.<br><br>Watch live coverage now on <a href=\"http://CNN.com/Live\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://CNN.com/Live</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_12:42:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "01cd55b5b177f7c1827c08939b7d75f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 12, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5018475": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It might be the mirror universe \"D\".<br><br>You know, the one with the beard.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_14:59:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5015185, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5014157": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I bought the entire series when it was on sale at Target last Winter for 14.99 a season.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_12:44:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5012315, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5026211": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "EVENING THREAD IS UP", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_20:17:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5021328": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Admiral:   LOL!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_17:04:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5019575, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5015185": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "D:  I saw it with my own eyes!!   D SAID: <b> God help me, but I agree with Obama.</b><br><br>LAWD HA'MERCY!! My watch[TIME] JUST STOPPED!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>\"One GIANT LEAP for MANKIND!!\"  :&gt;)      :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:07:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5014077, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5019604": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah, but that would only work if an undefeated team were:<br><br>1. left out of the \"national championship\" bowk, and<br>2. won whatever bowl they played in to remain undefeated.<br><br>I think Boise State should've just played Utah, and the major conferences should've be been left to watch. There would be enough revenues (I think) from a true national-championship game to make up not having an Oklahoma/Florida there.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:43:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5019441, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5016725": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Al could use the steady paycheck, as could we all going into 2009.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:30:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "b1e8e18ba31ae1e4c8fe371561db8970", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5012125, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5019929": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh you mean taint isn't illegal????????????<br><br>Ooooh there never was any \"taint\" to begin with!!!!!!! HA!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:51:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "7acec36f3ac1c3ce26f5070a275439fa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5019575, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5018776": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Admiral:    LOL!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:16:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5018475, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5017242": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Love #2, GreenLady.  Something 'Sno Ho just doesn't have the INTELLIGENCE to COMPREHEND.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_14:00:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "01cd55b5b177f7c1827c08939b7d75f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5013454, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5021340": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Pyschotic for one. Two, I hope they have to wear boxing gloves cause someone is going to get clocked.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_17:04:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5011839, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5012125": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sharpton is the PERFECT choice for that seat.  That's fighting fire with fire.  I might have to watch a show or two, now :)  <br><br>I disagree wih Sharpton's approach on certain issues.  But he's an excellent debater.  And he gives just as good (if not better) than he gets.  Sharpton's a master at the zinger.<br><br>Pretty smart move by Fox.  They should keep Sharpton for the long haul. The ratings would probably go through the roof.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_10:53:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "B_Serious", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5011839, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5019589": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<b>Obama is a loser and MSM knows it\u2026\u201c<a href=\"http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2009/01/09/tavis-smiley-pbs-were-all-working-barack-obama\" rel=\"nofollow\">We can't abandon him now. We can't abandon our posts. What are we going to do to help make him a great president?</a>\u201d</b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:40:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "Karmi", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5020699": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_16:29:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5019575, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5012645": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Speaking of thermometers- remember the fundraising effort JJP tried to do with Donor's Choose? Well I contributed a few hundred dollars on behalf my family and the family of my fiance IN LIEU OF favors for my wedding. The kids from the classroom projects we funded sent us thank you cards... now I'm going to make a shadow box with the materials so show people at the wedding. Who really needs more potpourri? ;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_11:22:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5012577, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5015722": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hmmmm.......why the feds finally busting open these cases now?<br><br>Feds uncover two more investor Ponzi schemes<br><br>On Thursday, authorities announced two alleged Ponzi schemes, just weeks after the arrest of investor Bernard Madoff stunned Wall Street. Madoff was arrested for allegedly running one of the largest investment frauds in history in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme. <br><br>The latest schemes show how alleged frauds are unraveling as investors get more averse to risk. In a Ponzi, a portion of the cash brought in from new investors is given to older investors in the form of a return. If cash stops coming in, or current investors demand their cash at the same time, the scheme collapses. <br><br><a href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/money/markets/2009-01-08-investor-ponzi-schemes_N.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.usatoday.com/money/markets/2009-01-0...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:13:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5020845": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "hmmmmm hmmmmph.<br><br>NOBODY talks about that!  She had to prove herself as a viable to even VISIT the White House.<br><br>Had that been Malia who was pregnant and unwed...all the isht would've hit the fan", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_16:37:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "c8de09172ed0bac30a7de05e95460a48", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5016762, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5033134": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Rikyrah, although we have been calling him PE Obama...he was not officially PE until today with this certification.<br><br>So, he is PE Obama and on 20th will become President, as you know.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-10_00:00:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5010744, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5016754": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "NO.  Many AAs don't like what has happened, but innocent until proven guilty.  Which means if Blago was such a f**ked up governor, why was he not impeached sooner than now?  Meaning where is the evidence?  Right now we just have what is in a criminal complaint.  No testimony, no evidence, supposedly \"tapes\".  That is it.  Which it means to me, that they need to provide the evidence to get rid of Blago.<br><br>Blago has a presser at 2P CST.<br><br>Expect him to fight this to the end.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:33:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "icebergslim", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5016541, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5012147": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "evita, count me in as a bonifide addict of the WW.  I own the DVD of the entire series!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_10:52:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "01cd55b5b177f7c1827c08939b7d75f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5011774, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5019316": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "heartsandflowers:  LOL!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)  GOOD ONE!  :&gt;)<br><br>But, I believe that he converted from \"Rev. Relaxer/Texturizer!\"  :&gt;)<br><br>Orrrr, was it the other way around??     :&gt;)      :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:24:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5014428, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5021365": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You are so on the money. I made similar comments at another blog. This stupid sow has no idea how easy she had it because she was a mediocre White Woman.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_17:06:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5012160, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5021129": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The whole ' guilty until proven innocent' thing, Sepia. <br><br>In addition, we know everyone involved in this has been after Blago for years. THAT is what isn't reported in the media. How the hell is the Speaker of the Illinois House IMPARTIAL? Mofo has been AT WAR with Blago from the word GO, because he wants to giftwrap the Governor's Mansion for his unqualified Baby Girl. ....why don't they report on THAT.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_16:51:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5016821, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5021881": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Taint that the truth.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_17:32:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "01cd55b5b177f7c1827c08939b7d75f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5019575, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5016762": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "ITA. If Sarah Palin was a black woman, they would've crucified her. Hell, look at how the media Michelle Obama and she has lived her life the right way: College educated, married because she was in love, not because she was knocked up and had children AFTER she said \"I do\" and those said children can read and write on the appropriate level. So, the sno ho needs to have a hot cup of STFU before I hafta go get my Bitch, Be Gone! spray.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:33:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5012160, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5012668": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "B-Serious, I have 2 grown daughters who were taught to give generously lol!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_11:25:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "01cd55b5b177f7c1827c08939b7d75f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5012315, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5016693": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I enjoy the bowls as well, but I don't see the merits of a systems that can crown a \"champion\" and exculde 1-2 undefeated teams.<br><br>A true \"national championship\" game would be between the teams that have the best records.<br><br>I'm not saying get rid of the bowls...just the BCS.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:30:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5015467, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5012160": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "IMO she got off easily.These are the facts that didn't get the attention .<br>1.Her children are High School dropouts.There is no shame in that I dropped out to join the army but how are you going to talk about education when you dont stress it for your own kids.<br>2.You preach about abstinence only education but your own daughter enjoys sex without protection and when she gets pregnant it is celebrated like a divine event but everybody else who last name isn't Palin who gets pregnant is going to hell.<br>3.You holler about welfare and earmarks but your state is like someone on crack.A little is not enough you keep coming back saying give me more,more,more.<br>4.Lets face it you are a grifter.Anything you ever done is about now can I benefit<br>5.Finally you are just plain stupid.Just once, someone should just say \"Please Sarah STFU\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_10:55:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5011394, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5021745": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I wonder if anyone will be serving any mothaf&&*%^ iced tea?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_17:25:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "DWS2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5014366, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5014219": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL!  Very nice!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_12:45:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "B_Serious", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5014076, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5017809": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lol@ Rev Hot Comb.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_14:20:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "01cd55b5b177f7c1827c08939b7d75f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5014428, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5018403": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "True dat.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_14:54:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5016795, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5013206": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "B-Serious:  Co-sign!  <i>She's got to do something to remain relevant.</i><br><br>That's her \"game plan.\"   Although it feels funny/disconcerting to say HER NAME in the same sentence with the word PLAN!     :&gt;)    :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>That's why I keep WATCHIN'!  Cain't loose site of the \"enemy!\" IMHO   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_11:48:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5012507, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5015256": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm mad I have to get converted to participate....LOL.<br><br>West Wing was one of my favorite shows when I could catch it. I've always wanted to go back and see how I feel about it now that I have a political bent of my own.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:09:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5014076, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5014235": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Totally whack, B-Serious.  Do they think we're asleep at the wheel?  <br><br>No more drinking the generic KOOLAID, SUCKERS!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_12:48:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "01cd55b5b177f7c1827c08939b7d75f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5013942, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5018746": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Admiral:  LOL!   :&gt;)<br><br>Ya know, I \"axed\" my state teachers' retirement system\", annnnnnnd, they sent out a \"re-assuring letter\" to all o' us!<br><br>Soooooo,   ***shrug***  :&gt;)    :&gt;)  Feeling fairly good 'bout it!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:15:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5018524, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5011680": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "she's pissed that unlike joe the plumber, sarah is not getting enough new offers. i guess she DOESN'T want to be the gov of the great state of Alaska.<br><br>what a loser.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_10:21:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5011394, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5013729": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"Heck, Mika and Scarborough, alone, have made it their mission to turn Morning Joe into \"Morning Palin\" whenever possible.\"<br><br>Really?<br><br>I'm glad I no longer watch those shallow twits.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_12:20:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5012507, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5016802": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-press-conference-taps-blair.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Obama presser announcing Blair, Panetta for CIA, video, transcript</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:34:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "icebergslim", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5021222": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Next up: The 13th Amendment!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_16:59:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5020980, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5017160": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "evita:   Ima STR8  CO-SIGN on  \"LOSER!\"  VIRTUAL \"DAP\"!    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:56:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5011680, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5015676": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "D:  <i>. . .he's much smarter than I gave him credit for.</i><br><br><b>TRUST!!</b>, D.  He is!!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:11:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5015360, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5013746": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "only in her world though........LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_12:21:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5013584, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5015285": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Nardwilly:    YOU just B  \"ON IT!!\"  :&gt;)      :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:09:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5015152, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5013972": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Interesting.  I've never listened to his show.  I'll have to check it out.  Thanks!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_12:35:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "bb90730b238bd2c1f318bc1437a3fc1e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5013425, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5017338": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I have never watched one episode of \"The West Wing\", or \"24\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_14:05:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "fd35c4322b63b2dab06baea3e23047cf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5011774, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5018495": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Word.  And neither could Larry Craig.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:01:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "01cd55b5b177f7c1827c08939b7d75f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5018039, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5013760": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  Awwww man!!  I couldnt; \"edit\" in order to ADD my \"QUESTIONS section.  :&gt;(<br>Annnnd, I was just typing away.    \"&gt;)      \"&gt;)<br><br>Welll-   There will be a video!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>1.  He's looking for GOOD IDEAS for the ECONOMIC package that Congress MUST pass - quickly.<br><br>2.  On foreign ambassadorial positions:  Iraq -  first/most urgent.  Others: will use young public servants for some to show them that there is a career pathway; annnnd \"seasoned\" professional for others.<br><br>Congratulated Florida for their football win.  Says that ther is a need for a \"play-off\".<br><br><b>BREAKING NEWS</b>  Vote to impeach Gov Blago:  <b>114  -   1 No</b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_12:23:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 14, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5013250": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I doubt they even hear the case.  Especially with a weak legal premise such as the following:<br><br><i>\"The question is whether the role of race in American politics has so changed \u2026 that remedies that were once constitutional are now impingements on state sovereignty,\"</i><br><br>The purpose behind the Voting Rights Act was/is a matter of \"access,\" not a question of electing the first black President.<br><br>And the reach of the VRA goes well beyond race as it relates to black America.  For example, the VRA also deals with access for other minorities based on things such as language (printing ballots in spanish, chinese, etc. where necessary).<br><br>There's no reason for the court to hear this case.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_11:53:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "B_Serious", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5012396, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5018371": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I cried when she died......it was so sad.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_14:54:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5016465, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5012741": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL!  Sounds good to me.  They have good taste.<br><br>I really wish they'd bring that show back.  Some of the best writing I've ever seen.  Hey NBC . . . BRING BACK THE WEST WING !", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_11:29:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "B_Serious", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5012668, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5017217": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:   Gen. Colin Powell JUST had his presser to support Mr. P-EO on \"community service\". [My words. But that's what he is agreeing with.]  I'll try to get the video, unless someone else makes the post.    :&gt;)      :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:59:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5021449": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Then after that, they can work on getting back to the 3/5ths rule!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_17:11:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5021222, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5020938": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "DAMN - they are gonna hear it! Lawd a mercy.....its bout to get heated.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_16:43:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5013250, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5013774": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "There really isn't.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_12:21:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5013250, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5018899": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's Scarborough's way of saying Obama is a seat-holder.  You know the political spin . . . the right-wing says things like:<br><br>- Obama has no mandate<br>- We're still a center-right country<br><br>You've probably heard it a million times.<br><br>So, actually, we're the ignorant ones according to Scarborough.  We're just too dumb to comprehend the political brilliance that is Sarah Palin (eye roll).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:19:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "B_Serious", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5018393, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5019414": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "D:  LOL!  <br><br>WHAT IS \"IT\"?    'cause, at least Mr. Biden is among the \"living.\"  :&gt;)<br><br>BUT   Steele  cf to Mr. OBAMA???  Oh puh-leese!<br><br>It's NOT about the \"melanin\"!   Substance!  D.   Substance!   <br><br>***calmly***     :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:32:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5018741, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5018393": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wow....they really do take pride in their ignorance dont they?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_14:55:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5014078, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5011747": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You and I both know that as long as they put a camera on her ass she is going to show it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_10:27:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5011394, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5018673": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "D:   D!    D!:      Puh-leese!   LET IT GOooooooo!    :&gt;)<br><br>He ain't!   He cain't  It's OVA!!!    Remember NOV. 4, 2008??    :&gt;)<br><br>Let him FIGHT the \"BATTLE AGAINST FRUIT FLIES!\"   :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br>[I posted on that a couple of days ago.   :&gt;)]<br><br>***calmly***", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:09:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5018520, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5017898": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Josh\" sure did get his SWAGGER on.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_14:26:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "01cd55b5b177f7c1827c08939b7d75f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5014329, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5026098": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Values have been plummetting.  Hispanics will count as 3/5th of a person while blacks will count as 1/16th.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_20:08:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5021449, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5021486": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "MIranda:    BWAHAHAHAHA!!     :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_17:12:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5020767, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5020381": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Karmi,<br><br><br><i>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Barack Obama is officially the next president of the United States, Congress declared Thursday in fulfilling its centuries-old constitutional duty to certify and tally the electoral college vote from each state.</i><br><br><br><br>Start getting use to it. Woo Hoo!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_16:08:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5019589, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5019441": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think the Bowl system, and at least a Plus-1 game would take care of this.<br><br>If there was a Plus-1, at least undefeated Utah could play Florida.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:33:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "RonnieB", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5016693, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5012274": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Right with ya, evita!<br><br>Next to <i>Martin</i> and <i>The Cosby Show</i>, The West Wing is my favorite show of all time.  It's a shame it had to end.  They had a lull for a couple of years, but really picked it up for the final two seasons.<br><br>No doubt, The West Wing helped me through the past 8 years . . . lol.  Actually, I know I'm not alone when I say that Obama's campaign was reminiscent of Santos' run in the final season.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/news/2008/02/barack_obama_was_model_for_wes_1.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.npr.org/blogs/news/2008/02/barack_ob...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_11:02:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "B_Serious", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5011774, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5020980": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "SUPREME COURT TO HEAR CHALLENGE TO VOTING RIGHTS ACT<br> <br>By Joan Biskupic, USA TODAY<br>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will hear a challenge to the landmark 1965 voting rights act, paving the way for a major decision this term on federal power to oversee state election laws.<br>In the backdrop is the recent election of Barack Obama and the question of whether America still needs an expansive law protecting against discrimination in voting now that a black man has won the presidency.<br><br>A decision in the case from Texas, to be heard in April, could impact the U.S. government's authority to ensure that racial minorities \u2014 who were subjected to literacy tests and other devices to keep them from the polls for most of the 20th Century \u2014 continue to have as much of a chance as whites to elect candidates of their choice.<br><br>In dispute is the 2006 renewal of the Voting Rights Act, which Congress passed overwhelmingly and President Bush signed. <br><br>Richard Hasen, an election-law expert at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, said the dispute \"has the potential to be the most important election case since Bush v. Gore.\" That 2000 decision cut off Florida ballot recounts and ensured Bush the White House.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_16:45:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5020983": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "AFTERNOON OPEN THREAD IS UP", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_16:45:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5010744": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Now that he's been certified as The President, do we call him The President? Or is he the President-Elect until the swearing in on Jan. 20th? <br><br>You know JJP wants to be right in our protocol...LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_08:59:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5014329": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "My favorite show ever. I have all seven seasons on DVD (bought seperately, not together!). Bradley Whitford became my celebrity boyfriend because of this show. ;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_12:51:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "b45f45c3d16eaa32e1783c1d1798a893", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5011774, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5011774": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Is anyone else STILL addicted to The West Wing TV show? Bravo has earned my love, forever.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_10:30:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 31, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5015360": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If he can untangle the mess (monopoly) that is the BCS, he's much smarter than I gave him credit for.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:08:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5015185, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5032260": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "B-Serious, I don't get out much.... in the liberal blogosphere, that is.   I 'll reserve my Koolaid drinking for anoher occassion.<br><br>I agree on the idea of expanding Pro 5 to include more states.  <br><br>If I remember correctly, of th 9 southern states currently included in Pro 5, Virginia is the only state that PEO won in November.<br><br>I 'd add Florida and Pennsylnia too", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_22:49:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5018530, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5016392": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes.  A very powerful scene.  Again, that show had some of the best writing I've ever seen.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:19:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "B_Serious", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5014347, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5014347": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "B-Serious, my all time fav is Two Cathedrals.  Powerful!!  favorite scene, although there are many, is when Bartlett puts out his cigarette on the floor in the cathedral after having a brief but intense discussion with God.<br><br>Also, this is the episode of  Mrs. Landingham's funeral.<br><br>Dayum!  TV at it's finest.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_12:54:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "01cd55b5b177f7c1827c08939b7d75f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5013343, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5012812": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "dj:   Well, she does draw the news media like \"bees to honey\" orrrr like \"flies to buffalo chips.\"  :&gt;)<br><br>Re #1.  How 'bout the fact that she did NOT stress EDUCATION for herself;  <b>5 colleges in 6 years.</b><br><br>Annnnnnnd, she still SPEAKS[????] as IFFF she failed all of her English classes.  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>As I've stated B4, at this point in time, I think that she is a \"MAJOR JOKE\" without being a \"threat to the nation.\"  :&gt;)      :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Let me clarify. She has always been a \"JOKE\", BUT she gained some support/momentum during the general election which made me very uncomfortable.<br><br>NOW, it's just \"LAFF-IN\" time!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;) [ As intolerable as she is!]  :&gt;)<br><br>I think that it is interesting how her \"narsicissm/egocentrism\" trumps her \"judgment\" such that she keeps  coming out and being \"punched around\" like one of those \"punching bags!\"  She keeps getting back up!   :&gt;)      :&gt;)  Funny  - yet pitiful!      :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_11:33:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5012160, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5012301": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com/2009/01/can-michelle-obama-save-fashion-video.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Can Michelle Obama save fashion?</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_11:03:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "icebergslim", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5019472": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL.<br><br>I know....but the slogan sounds good. ;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:33:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5019414, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5019474": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>a) Obama: Delay on stimulus not an option<br><br>Barack Obama on Friday expressed impatience with \u201cposturing\u201d on Capitol Hill over objections to the size and shape of his economic stimulus plan \u2013 saying he won\u2019t stand for delays that slow down help to the American people.<br><br>\u201cJust show me, if you can show me something that is going to work, I will welcome it. . .What is not an option is for us to sit and engage in posturing or standard partisan fights, when the American people are out there struggling,\u201d Obama said at a news conference to announce his intelligence team.</i><br><br>In other words: \"Ya'll bitches betta have my stimulus package!\"<br><br>:-P", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:33:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5018481, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5011797": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<A HREF=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykOJteDrr0s rel=\"nofollow\">I got a message for Sarah Palin</A>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_10:32:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "CarolinagirlinGA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5011394, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5019991": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "pjamma:  LOL!   :&gt;)<br><br>***whispering***  <i>Shhhhhhhh</i><br><br><i>This is between me and you!  My SAVINGS are in my mattress!&lt;/i.<br><br>O.K.  I'm depending on your silence!    :&gt;)      :&gt;)</i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:55:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5018606, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5015386": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Against Race Politics:  Nardwilly is ALL OVER IT!  :&gt;)     :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:09:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5015058, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5012315": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Have they dropped the price on that yet?  Last time I checked, the series box-set went for $250.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_11:04:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "B_Serious", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5012147, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5014366": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Maybe Rev. Al will take Hannity to Harlem.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_12:53:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5014108, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5013343": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "oops .. . \"Two Cathedrals\" was Season 2, not Season 1.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_11:59:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "B_Serious", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5013041, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5019909": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Two Lame Ducks Who Didn't Vote To Impeach<br>By Eric Kleefeld - January 9, 2009, 12:59PM<br>Meet Illinois state Reps. Milton Patterson and Elga Jefferies -- the only members of the state House to vote against impeaching Rod Blagojevich.<br><br>As it turns out, both of them are lame ducks. Patterson didn't seek re-election last year, and Jefferies was defeated in her Democratic primary.<br><br>Why did they do it? Patterson, who voted No, told the CBS affiliate for southern Illinois that he had \"no first-hand knowledge of any of the evidence,\" and that he had to go with his \"gut feeling\" and leave it up to prosecutors, not legislators, to charge the governor.<br><br>I had the chance to speak briefly on the phone with Jefferies, who voted Present -- which is essentially the same as a No vote, because it counts towards defeating a motion.<br><br>\"I voted Present because I did not completely agree on a Yes vote, and I didn't agree on a No vote,\" Jefferies said. \"I felt that the reason all this had come about has been blown out of context.\"<br><br>Jefferies said that she felt that the investigation against Blagojevich had become personal, with the legislators digging in on hirings that went back years. \"I think there's a lot of things that he could have done differently,\" said Jefferies. \"I'm not saying he's been 100% right. And he'll have his day in court.\"<br><br>Jefferies concluded: \"I voted my conscience.\"<br><br><a href=\"http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/01/the_two_lame_ducks_who_didnt_vote_to_impeach.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:51:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5017958": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Get some of the DVDs of \"24;\" don't think this season is gonna be much to write home about.<br><br>Though the season starts Sunday. God bless HD. :-)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_14:29:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5017338, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5020008": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The reason is nonfeasance. malfeasance is what Bernie Made-off did, i.e. he knowingly did everything possible to evade the law for the purpose of stealing his clients money. Nonfeasance is when you deliberatly fail to enforce the law by not providing the resources to do so or willfuly fail to carry out the law.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:56:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5015722, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5016939": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ohhhh.   D:  It's a simple procedure:  BAPTISM-  Dip/wipe your face off/change your clothes!   :&gt;)      :&gt;)    Seeeee!     :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:42:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5015256, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5018481": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  <b>FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 2009  DAY -11; On His \"JOURNEY TO JANUARY 20, 2009!\"</b>  Whoo!  Hoo!   :&gt;)<br><br>1.  <b>HEADLINE(s):</b><br><br>     a)  <a href=\"http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17274.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Obama: Delay on stimulus not an option</a><br><br><i>Barack Obama on Friday expressed impatience with \u201cposturing\u201d on Capitol Hill over objections to the size and shape of his economic stimulus plan \u2013 saying he won\u2019t stand for delays that slow down help to the American people.<br><br>\u201cJust show me, if you can show me something that is going to work, I will welcome it. . .What is not an option is for us to sit and engage in posturing or standard partisan fights, when the American people are out there struggling,\u201d Obama said at a news conference to announce his intelligence team.</i><br><br>THERE IS MORE.<br><br>     b)  <a href=\"http://www.politico.com/politico44/\" rel=\"nofollow\">On a college football playoff </a><br><br><i>Economic stimulus, who should run the CIA \u2013 plenty controversial. But a college football playoff \u2013 why would he even venture into that? Barack Obama reiterated his belief in the need for college football playoffs to determine the champion Friday \u2013 saying he emailed congratulations to a player on Florida who is the son of someone on his staff, but also said Texas, Utah and USC have a legitimate gripe that they\u2019re not in the running to be the national champion.</a> [VIDEO]<br><br><b>Seee!  Mr. P-E Obama is seriously taking on CRITICAL NATIONAL ISSUES!   :&gt;)</b><br><br><br>2.  HIS SCHEDULE:     <b> Friday Jan. 9, 2009</b><br><br>All Times Eastern7:00 AM\t<br>8:00 AM\t<br>9:00 AM\t<br>9:13 AM\t<br><br>The President-elect leaves the Hay-Adams hotel and heads toward his transition office.<br>10:00 AM\t<br><b>10:30 AM\t<br><br>President-elect Barack Obama makes an announcement at his transition offices.<br>11:00 AM\t<br>11:20 AM\t<br><br>Obama ends his press conference.</b><br><br><br>THAT'S ALL FOR NOW!  :&gt;)     :&gt;)</i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:00:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5014900": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Miranda:  I missed the gentleman's name.  Watchin' for it.   :&gt;)<br><br>Gov. Blagojevich will SPEAK 2-day.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:02:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5014456, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5025656": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "B-Serious, Thanks.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_19:33:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "01cd55b5b177f7c1827c08939b7d75f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5022175, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5022513": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sepia:   I got it!       I  got it!!          Re: <i>In other words:</i><br><br><i>Pssst.</i>       Here's my plan:  I'll give the statements/quotes/etc.<br><br>YOU:  <b>TELL IT LIKE IT IS!</b>  :&gt;)         :&gt;)<br><br>'cause YOU SURE do that WELL!!  :&gt;)   Thanks!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_18:08:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5019474, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5011839": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Al Sharpton Filling Liberal Seat on 'Hannity' Premiere<br><a href=\"http://www.broadcastingcable.com/CA6627796.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.broadcastingcable.com/CA6627796.html</a><br><br>There are TWO things I can say for Al Sharpton: 1. he's no punk 2. he never met any a TV camera he didn't like. <br><br><br>Someone play psychic and tell me how you think this is going to fly...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_10:33:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 18, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5020032": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "D!   D!    D!     LOL!!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)  ***shakin' my head***", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:57:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5019472, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5012865": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "carolinagirl:   BWAHAHAHAHA!!   So very appropriate!!  :&gt;)      :&gt;)  Nice find!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_11:35:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5011797, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5013381": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "President-Elect Obama until he is sworn in.<br>...I wouldn't want anyone to think I was uppity...;-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_11:59:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5010744, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5012360": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Talk about your must-see TV..............smart move Fox.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_11:07:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5011839, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5021065": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "pjamma, Damn skippy.  SERTA STYLE!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_16:50:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "01cd55b5b177f7c1827c08939b7d75f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5018606, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5032845": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I vote with you Nardwilly.  It is the collegiate atmosphere that makes the games popular...we do not need a playoff...it will take 2 much out of the STUDENT athletes and the alumi trying to go to games in multi cities.<br><br>Bad idea..no playoffs.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_23:37:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5015467, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5016465": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "D, you know you're Mrs. Landingham's favorite! :-))", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:21:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "01cd55b5b177f7c1827c08939b7d75f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5015256, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5021445": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Justice58:   Great post!   :&gt;)<br><br>Also, he's now DOWN to <b> NEGATIVE 447/8</b>  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_17:10:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5020381, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5019541": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  'bout that \"earthquake\" yesterday:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.newser.com/story/47455/quakes-shake-la-kill-2-in-costa-rica.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Quakes Shake LA, Kill 2 in Costa Rica</a><br><br><i>  (Newser) \u2013<b> A magnitude 4.5 earthquake shook Southern California last night, leaving no reported damage</b>\u2014but Costa Rica didn\u2019t fare as well in a 6.1 magnitude shake-up that killed two girls. A 7-year-old and a 9-year-old died in a landslide that destroyed their home, CNN reports. Some 1,000 tourists were stranded in one town. \u201cWe have had more than 600 aftershocks in the past three hours,\u201d said a seismologist.<br><br><b>The Southern California quake was felt in Los Angeles and Orange County, but didn\u2019t reach San Diego, the Los Angeles Times reports. \u201cWe heard rumbling noise before the shock waves hit our home in Ontario,\u201d one person posted online. \u201cWe felt the jolt, whatever time it came in, but we haven\u2019t had any reports of damages yet,\u201d said a local fire captain.</b></i><br><br>I had it pegged at 5.    :&gt;)  Close!   :&gt;)  Glad that there were NO LOSSES!  God Blessed!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:39:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5018520": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The threat of a Palin 2012 campaign is the <i>ONLY</I> thing keeping me from becoming an actual member of the Republican Party.<br><br>God help me, but I'd rather McCain run again.</i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:02:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5012507, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5014428": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Too bad it's not a permanent slot - now THAT would've been interesting. Rev Hot Comb on Fixed Noise everyday would be something I'd watch.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_12:58:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5011839, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5019575": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Illinois Supremes: Burris Doesn't Need Sec. of State Signature<br>By Eric Kleefeld - January 9, 2009, 2:13PM<br>The Illinois Supreme Court has just handed down its decision on Roland Burris' lawsuit to force Secretary of State Jesse White to sign Burris' certificate of appointment to the Senate. Their decision is that they won't honor Burris' wish to force the signature -- because they say he doesn't need it:<br><br>...Petitioners are not entitled to an order from this court requiring the Secretary to perform those Acts. Under the Secretary of State Act, the Secretary's sole responsibility was to register the appointment (15 ILCS 305/5(2) (West 2006)), which he did. No further action is required by the Secretary of State or any other official to make the Governor's appointment of Roland Burris to the United States Senate valid under Illinois law.<br>Remember that the Senate chose to make an issue of the lack of a signature in their decision to turn Burris away this past Tuesday. Had the court ordered the signature, then this mess would have been over. But what it means now is that the ball has been kicked right back into the Senate's court, which is on its way to seating Burris anyway -- after all, as the court and many others have pointed out, this appointment is clearly legal.<br><br><a href=\"http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/01/illinois_supremes_burris_doesnt_need_sec_of_state.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com...</a><br><br>-I guess there 'taint no 'taint.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:41:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 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}, "5018530": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL. . . Yup, they must think we're stupid.<br><br>Actually I wouldn't even call it \"Koolaid.\"  I actually don't like this term b/c its used to demean Obama supporters -- often black Obama supporters -- who purportedly don't see the \"truth\" like some of our \"friends\" in the liberal blogosphere. <br><br>But I digress.  . . <br><br>This legal challenge strikes me as political opportunism at its worst.  My guess is that those supporting this argument weren't Obama supporters to begin with.  <br><br>If I had my way, I'd probably expand Provision 5 to include more states than it does now.  A lot of states get off easy because Provision 5 shines the spotlight on the South.   <br><br>Well, last time I checked, two of the biggest problem states were Michigan (the threat of using foreclosure lists to purge voters) and Ohio.  Those two states ain't in the South.<br><br>So I say expand Provision 5.  But again, I'd be surprised if this challenge got any traction.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:02:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "B_Serious", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5014235, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5010851": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "President-elect, until sworn.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_09:11:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5010744, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5019558": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sharpton AND Michelle Bachman? I have GOT to see this! I hope the Rev. chews her up for the crap she said about PEO.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:41:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5011839, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5018524": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "But will your 401K?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:02:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5016795, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5015467": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No it does not.  Everything does not have to have a final answer.  We need more ambiguity in our lives.  I enjoy the Bowl games because they still have collegiate spirit.  A playoff system will generate into corporate party places.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:11:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "b1e8e18ba31ae1e4c8fe371561db8970", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5014077, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5012396": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This may need to be its on topic for the day:<br><br>SUPREME COURT CONSIDERS CHALLENGE TO VOTING RIGHTS ACT<br>WASHINGTON \u2014 The question of whether America needs the Voting Rights Act now that a black man has won the presidency looms over a major appeal the Supreme Court is scheduled to consider in its private conference Friday.<br>The justices could say as early as Friday if they will hear a challenge to the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act renewed by Congress in 2006. Their decision could impact federal power to oversee state election practices and to ensure racial minorities have as much of a chance as whites to elect candidates of their choice.<br><br>The law in dispute was overwhelmingly approved by Congress and signed by President Bush in 2006. Yet the Supreme Court in recent years has found some U.S regulation of the states too intrusive.<br><br>\"If the court takes the case, it has the potential to be the most important election case since Bush v. Gore,\" says Richard Hasen, an election-law expert at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, of the 2000 decision that ensured Bush the presidency. He notes the court has earlier upheld the disputed provision. \"The question is whether the role of race in American politics has so changed \u2026 that remedies that were once constitutional are now impingements on state sovereignty,\" he says.<br>A Texas utility district says the provision known as Section 5, which gives the U.S. government authority to oversee state electoral-law changes, is no longer needed. \"The America that has elected Barack Obama as its first African-American president is far different than when Section 5 was first enacted in 1965,\" say lawyers for the utility district.<br><a href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/judicial/2009-01-08-court_N.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/judicia...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_11:08:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5020829": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Fat fingers, sorry.<br>this post on the 1954 decision was not included w/ the above:<br><a href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/54jul/sutherland.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/54jul/sutherl...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_16:37:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5020698, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5013425": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Funny thing is that Colmes is a completely different person on his radio show.  He comes off as weak on Fox News, but he sure doesn't take any mess when he's on the radio.  I think it surprises a lot of callers.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_12:04:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "B_Serious", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5013342, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5014456": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "114 to 1..........who was the one?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_12:59:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5014168, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5013942": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's like asking . . . <br><br>\"Now that we have a black President, do we really need those pesky 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution?  Can we bring back the slave codes?  I mean, it's not like race relations are haven't changed since the Civil War.\"  LOL!<br><br>Unreal.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_12:33:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "B_Serious", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5013774, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5018039": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Jesus Christ himself couldn't convince Utah they aren't #1.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_14:34:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5015360, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5011896": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Did anyone see this?<br><br>From Barry to Barack (with video and awesome pictures!)<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/08/from-barry-to-barack-occi_n_156418.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/08/from-b...</a><br><br>Barry Obama discussion starts at 6:48min", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_10:39:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5011902": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "*wearing Negrodamus hat*<br><br>Sean Hannity will be constantly \"pwnd\" on the Hannity and Sharpton show and will have an emotional breakdown and admit he has a secret crush on Obama.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_10:37:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "CarolinagirlinGA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5011839, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5016821": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<b><i>Many AAs don't like what has happened</i></b><br><br>Why?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:37:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5016754, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5011394": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "How long are they going to be showing Sarah Palin complain about the media. its like its the only thing she knows. Please sarah palin is nothing in comparison to what we face. she needs to get the hell on.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_10:01:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "3da4f68bf4cf2bd15ab3285db21c41ee", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 25, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5018565": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "spirit:  Sooooo    ta-rue!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:04:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5017242, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5026248": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If Obama's a loser, what does that make John McCain and Sarah Palin?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_20:18:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5019589, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5017033": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "spirit:  Heeeey!             ***Looking around, excitedly!!***<br><br> Where's the APPLICATION?  I'm AVAILABLE!!  :&gt;)  Whooo!   Hoo!   :&gt;)<br><br>Oh. Wait. . . . . I just re-read your post!    U   R  just musing!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)   Oh,    O.K.    :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>Thank you!     :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>BUT, Ima still send Chucky T.   ***back to the wall maps***<br><br>He shoulda kept his REAL day job!!   :&gt;)      :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:49:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5014076, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5010890": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "thanks, D. :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_09:15:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5010851, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5013454": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:    <b>HE SPEAKEATH!!</b>  Yaaaa!   :&gt;)<br><br>1.  JOB REPORT:    524 X 1000 lost in December.  Other stats show that this situation is DIRE!!<br><br>2. APPOINTMENTS: [Intelligence]  GOOD INTELLIGENCE is a NECESSITY.  <b>BASED ON <u>FACTS</u> NOT IDEOLOGY!!</b>  [Yes he did say that!   :&gt;) shrub]<br><br>  a.  Adm. Dennis Blair - - National Intelligence Director<br><br>  b. Leon Panetta --Director of the Central Intelligence Agency<br><br>  c.  John Brennan - - Homeland Security Advisor/Counter-Terrorism; supports Mr. Panetta.<br><br><br>QUESTIONS:", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_12:06:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5020624": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CUTE!<br><br>Well it's not the first time I have been sent to the bad  chair! :-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_16:25:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "7acec36f3ac1c3ce26f5070a275439fa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5020281, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5019603": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Judge Hands Loss to White House on Visitors Logs<br>The Associated Press <br>Friday, January 9, 2009; 1:55 PM <br><br>WASHINGTON -- A federal judge on Friday rejected the Bush administration's latest attempt to keep secret the identities of White House visitors and declared that the Bush administration had engaged in illegal record-keeping practices. <br><br>U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth concluded the illegal practices took place before October 2004 when the Secret Service transferred large numbers of entry and exit logs to the White House and then deleted internal Secret Service copies of them. <br><br>The practices ended, the judge said, after various private organizations went to court in an effort to gain access to the logs. <br><br>Lamberth's ruling brushed aside the government's argument that revealing Secret Service logs would impede the president's ability to perform his constitutional duties. <br><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/09/AR2009010902045.html?hpid=moreheadlines\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:43:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5010900": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Have you listened to Charles Butler yet? I do think you'd enjoy him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_09:17:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5010851, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5012437": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "WW is my morning addiction. This morning I was checking out the rug in Bartlet's Oval Office, after listening to Dubya go on about his.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_11:12:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "d8ba2b0b29836b2e779d25f29e6b86ea", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5011774, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5020635": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:<b> BREAKING NEWS!</b>  BLAGO SPEAKS:<br><br> OOOOOO-eeeeeee!  Blago's MAD!!! <br><br>Annnnnnd, he's kickin' butt and callin' NAMES!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_16:28:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5016541": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hmm. Sounds like Mr. Patterson may be involved in some way.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:21:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5015152, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5019614": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "In Excelsis Deo.  As soon as <i>The Little Drummer Boy</i> starts I break out in tears.  Every time.  I love that episode.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:44:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5013041, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5022175": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Miranda,<br><br>Thanks for the information.  I'm going to make a front page post about it later tonight.<br><br>It's disturbing that they're even going to hear the case.  Again, I'll make a front page post about it later tonight. <br><br>Thanks.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_17:50:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "B_Serious", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5020980, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5016827": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah<br><br>During the House's 90-minute debate on impeachment, no one spoke up to defend the governor. But Rep. Milton Patterson, a Chicago Democrat, made the sole vote against impeaching Blagojevich.<br><br>Patterson said he read the impeachment committee's report and wasn't comfortable voting against the governor. \"I have no firsthand knowledge of any of the evidence,\" he said.<br><br>\"I went by my own gut feeling, it's as simple as that,\" he said. \"I read the report. If the government is going to indict him, let them go ahead and do that. That's their job and I'm doing my job.\"<br><br><a href=\"http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090109/ap_on_re_us/illinois_governor\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090109/ap_on_re_us...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:37:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "7acec36f3ac1c3ce26f5070a275439fa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5016754, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5015259": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This woman represents anything but CHANGE.  Check out the hairdos<br><br><a href=\"http://www.upcloseandpolitical.com/html/ucap_gallery_sub_dfeinstei.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.upcloseandpolitical.com/html/ucap_ga...</a><br><br>2009 <a href=\"http://politicalumpire.com/Images/News%2520Photos/Dianne%2520Feinstein.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://politicalumpire.com/Images/News%20Photos...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:09:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "01cd55b5b177f7c1827c08939b7d75f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5013746, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5012970": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "D:  Yaaaa.  :&gt;)  Good on you for you new computer.  :&gt;)   :&gt;)  Then \"new baby!\"   Y'all got it goin' on!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br><b>HAPPY NEW YEAR!</b>    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_11:38:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5010947, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5018606": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm seriously thinking of keeping my 401K in my mattress.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_15:06:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5018524, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5016560": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Miranda:  Got that right!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_13:22:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5013746, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5012978": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree with you B-Serious.<br><br>Each day I see her in the news, I think WTF? But then....I understand why. She wants to continue to rile up her base for her 2012 run. But there is only so much you can do for 4 years with the lack of...well...everything on her part. <br><br>Stevens' senate was her best opportunity.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_11:39:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Texas_Girl_in_LA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5012507, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5021022": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Just reported: The court's gonna hear the case.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_16:47:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5020829, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5024255": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<b>Conyers On Prosecuting Bush Team: \"Stay Tuned\"</b><br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/09/conyers-on-prosecuting-bu_n_156560.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/09/conyer...</a><br><br><i>Rep. John Conyers, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is still invested in prosecuting members of the Bush administration once they leave office.</i><br><br><i>In an interview on the \"Bill Press Show\" Friday, the Michigan Democrat floated the notion that the Bush team's illegal wiretapping, torture, detention, and other practices could land some members in an international tribunal.</i><br><br><i>\"I don't want to get too speculative on that, because it's still under review,\" said Conyers on the radio show. \"Now, remember, violation of the federal criminal code doesn't end because you leave office. If a crime has been committed and there seems to be reasonable evidence that it did get committed, there's nothing for a person to be prosecuted... Leaving office doesn't free you up from what you may have done wrong ... Anyone that leaves office, including [the] President ... there's the World Court ... They have tribunals ... This thing is not over with. As they say: Stay tuned.\"</i><br><br><i>Conyer has made similar proclamations before. The feisty, long-serving Democrat advocated impeaching Bush but was dissuaded from the notion by Democratic leadership.</i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-09_18:38:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "9632150", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": 3349359895026865315}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "friday_open_thread_91", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 193, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 9632150, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
	/* */ this.jsonData.cookie_messages = {"user_created": null, "post_has_profile": null, "post_twitter": null, "post_not_approved": null}; this.jsonData.session = {"url": null, "name": null, "email": null}; /* */

	
	this.curPageId = 'dsq-comments';

	this.frames = {};
};

var disqus_popup_reference = null;

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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





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



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

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

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

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

};

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

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

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

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

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

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

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

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

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

				this._accumMsg = '';

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

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

	if (packetNum === 0) {

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

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

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

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

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

	this._lastSeqno++;

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

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

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

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

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

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


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

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

	var listener = function(e) {

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


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

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

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

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



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


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

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

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

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

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

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

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

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

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

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

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

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

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

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


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



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


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


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

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

	this.packetHandler = null;


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


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

			that._ready = true;
		};

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

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







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

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

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

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


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

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

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


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

		if (msg.username) {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=jackandjillpolitics' +
		'&t=friday_open_thread_91' +
		'&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/friday_open_thread_91/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='	+ 'friday_open_thread_91'
			+ '&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/friday_open_thread_91/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">193</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/friday_open_thread_91/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/friday_open_thread_91/">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:9632150" 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/friday_open_thread_91/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:9632150" 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:9632150" 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'				: 'friday_open_thread_91',
			// 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/friday_open_thread_91/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='	+ 'friday_open_thread_91'
			+ '&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='	+ 'friday_open_thread_91'
			+ '&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='		+ 'friday_open_thread_91'
				+ '&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/9632150/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

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

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

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

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

}();

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();


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





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

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

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

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

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

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





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

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

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

})();

Dsq.container.className = "clearfix";
Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5010744">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5010744" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5010744" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5010744">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5010744" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5010744" class="dsq-comment-message">Now that he\'s been certified as The President, do we call him The President? Or is he the President-Elect until the swearing in on Jan. 20th? <br><br>You know JJP wants to be right in our protocol...LOL</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5010851">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5010851" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5010851" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5010851" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5010851" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5010851" class="dsq-comment-message">President-elect, until sworn.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5010890">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5010890" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5010890" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5010890">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5010890" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5010890" class="dsq-comment-message">thanks, D. :)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5010900">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5010900" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5010900" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5010900">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5010900" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5010900" class="dsq-comment-message">Have you listened to Charles Butler yet? I do think you\'d enjoy him.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5010947">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5010947" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5010947" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5010947" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5010947" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5010947" class="dsq-comment-message">Haven\'t yet; computer at home took a dump, so I\'ve been living via blackberry. Got the new one last night.<br><br>Haven\'t forgotten, though. :)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5012970">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5012970" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5012970" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5012970">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5012970" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5012970" class="dsq-comment-message">D:  Yaaaa.  :&gt;)  Good on you for you new computer.  :&gt;)   :&gt;)  Then "new baby!"   Y\'all got it goin\' on!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br><b>HAPPY NEW YEAR!</b>    :&gt;)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5012997">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5012997" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5012997" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5012997">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5012997" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5012997" class="dsq-comment-message">D:   Yep!!   :&gt;)   ONLY <b>11 MORE DAYS!!</b>    Whooo! Hooo!   :&gt;)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5013381">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5013381" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5013381" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5013381">Admiral_Komack</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5013381" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5013381" class="dsq-comment-message">President-Elect Obama until he is sworn in.<br>...I wouldn\'t want anyone to think I was uppity...;-)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5033134">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5033134" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5033134" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5033134">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5033134" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5033134" class="dsq-comment-message">Rikyrah, although we have been calling him PE Obama...he was not officially PE until today with this certification.<br><br>So, he is PE Obama and on 20th will become President, as you know.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5011042">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5011042" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5011042" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5011042" href="http://www.onbeingablacklawyer.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Yolanda Young</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5011042" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5011042" class="dsq-comment-message">I love your site and have just added you to my blog roll.  <a href="http://www.onbeingablacklawyer.com" rel="nofollow">www.onbeingablacklawyer.com</a> is a blog dedicated to issues impacting black attorneys.  With all the Hill ruckus going on this week, we decided to do some snarky profiles of CBC members who are also lawyers. Give it a look here:  <a href="http://www.onbeingablacklawyer.com/?cat=147" rel="nofollow">http://www.onbeingablacklawyer.com/?cat=147</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5011394">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5011394" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5011394" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5011394">oz</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5011394" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5011394" class="dsq-comment-message">How long are they going to be showing Sarah Palin complain about the media. its like its the only thing she knows. Please sarah palin is nothing in comparison to what we face. she needs to get the hell on.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5011680">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5011680" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5011680" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5011680" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5011680" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5011680" class="dsq-comment-message">she\'s pissed that unlike joe the plumber, sarah is not getting enough new offers. i guess she DOESN\'T want to be the gov of the great state of Alaska.<br><br>what a loser.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5017160">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5017160" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5017160" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5017160">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5017160" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5017160" class="dsq-comment-message">evita:   Ima STR8  CO-SIGN on  "LOSER!"  VIRTUAL "DAP"!    :&gt;)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5011747">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5011747" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5011747" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5011747">rorysmomma</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5011747" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5011747" class="dsq-comment-message">You and I both know that as long as they put a camera on her ass she is going to show it.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5017135">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5017135" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5017135" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5017135">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5017135" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5017135" class="dsq-comment-message">rorysmomma:    LOL!     :&gt;)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5011797">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5011797" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5011797" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5011797">carolinagirl</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5011797" class="dsq-comment-message"><A HREF=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykOJteDrr0s rel="nofollow">I got a message for Sarah Palin</A></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5012865">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5012865" class="dsq-comment-message">carolinagirl:   BWAHAHAHAHA!!   So very appropriate!!  :&gt;)      :&gt;)  Nice find!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5012160">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5012160" class="dsq-comment-message">IMO she got off easily.These are the facts that didn\'t get the attention .<br>1.Her children are High School dropouts.There is no shame in that I dropped out to join the army but how are you going to talk about education when you dont stress it for your own kids.<br>2.You preach about abstinence only education but your own daughter enjoys sex without protection and when she gets pregnant it is celebrated like a divine event but everybody else who last name isn\'t Palin who gets pregnant is going to hell.<br>3.You holler about welfare and earmarks but your state is like someone on crack.A little is not enough you keep coming back saying give me more,more,more.<br>4.Lets face it you are a grifter.Anything you ever done is about now can I benefit<br>5.Finally you are just plain stupid.Just once, someone should just say "Please Sarah STFU".</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5012812">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5012812" class="dsq-comment-message">dj:   Well, she does draw the news media like "bees to honey" orrrr like "flies to buffalo chips."  :&gt;)<br><br>Re #1.  How \'bout the fact that she did NOT stress EDUCATION for herself;  <b>5 colleges in 6 years.</b><br><br>Annnnnnnd, she still SPEAKS[????] as IFFF she failed all of her English classes.  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>As I\'ve stated B4, at this point in time, I think that she is a "MAJOR JOKE" without being a "threat to the nation."  :&gt;)      :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Let me clarify. She has always been a "JOKE", BUT she gained some support/momentum during the general election which made me very uncomfortable.<br><br>NOW, it\'s just "LAFF-IN" time!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;) [ As intolerable as she is!]  :&gt;)<br><br>I think that it is interesting how her "narsicissm/egocentrism" trumps her "judgment" such that she keeps  coming out and being "punched around" like one of those "punching bags!"  She keeps getting back up!   :&gt;)      :&gt;)  Funny  - yet pitiful!      :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5016762">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5016762" class="dsq-comment-message">ITA. If Sarah Palin was a black woman, they would\'ve crucified her. Hell, look at how the media Michelle Obama and she has lived her life the right way: College educated, married because she was in love, not because she was knocked up and had children AFTER she said "I do" and those said children can read and write on the appropriate level. So, the sno ho needs to have a hot cup of STFU before I hafta go get my Bitch, Be Gone! spray.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5017113">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5017113" class="dsq-comment-message">Sepia:    LOL!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>At least YOU have the appropriate aerosol!!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)  Good one!!  :&gt;)<br><br>CO-SIGN on YOUR POINTS!!!    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5020845" href="http://www.jeniferdaniels.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jenifer</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5020845" class="dsq-comment-message">hmmmmm hmmmmph.<br><br>NOBODY talks about that!  She had to prove herself as a viable to even VISIT the White House.<br><br>Had that been Malia who was pregnant and unwed...all the isht would\'ve hit the fan</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5021365">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5021365" class="dsq-comment-message">You are so on the money. I made similar comments at another blog. This stupid sow has no idea how easy she had it because she was a mediocre White Woman.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5012507" href="http://www.reachblack.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">B-Serious</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5012507" class="dsq-comment-message">The media sees the 2012 Republican nomination as a natural birthright for Ms. Palin.  Ratings Gold!  Add that to her dedicated following and it makes a lot of sense.  Heck, Mika and Scarborough, alone, have made it their mission to turn Morning Joe into "Morning Palin" whenever possible.<br><br>Palin missed her first stepping stone when Stevens lost his Senate seat.  So she\'s got to do something to remain relevant until she gets the chance to run again.<br><br>The campaign never truly ends.  Obama supporters should remember this because Palin\'s got her eyes set on 2012 . . . President Palin????  Oh NO!  It\'s enough to make a supporter want to start working on Obama\'s re-election campaign right now.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5012978">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5012978" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with you B-Serious.<br><br>Each day I see her in the news, I think WTF? But then....I understand why. She wants to continue to rile up her base for her 2012 run. But there is only so much you can do for 4 years with the lack of...well...everything on her part. <br><br>Stevens\' senate was her best opportunity.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5013206">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5013206" class="dsq-comment-message">B-Serious:  Co-sign!  <i>She\'s got to do something to remain relevant.</i><br><br>That\'s her "game plan."   Although it feels funny/disconcerting to say HER NAME in the same sentence with the word PLAN!     :&gt;)    :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>That\'s why I keep WATCHIN\'!  Cain\'t loose site of the "enemy!" IMHO   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5013729">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5013729" class="dsq-comment-message">"Heck, Mika and Scarborough, alone, have made it their mission to turn Morning Joe into "Morning Palin" whenever possible."<br><br>Really?<br><br>I\'m glad I no longer watch those shallow twits.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5014078" href="http://www.reachblack.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">B-Serious</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5014078" class="dsq-comment-message">According to Scarborough, Palin is Reagan circa 1976 (which, I guess means Obama is Jimmy Carter in his eyes). . . . underestimated, misunderstood and waiting in the wings to lead the next conservative revolution.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5018393">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5018393" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow....they really do take pride in their ignorance dont they?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5018899" href="http://www.reachblack.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">B-Serious</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5018899" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s Scarborough\'s way of saying Obama is a seat-holder.  You know the political spin . . . the right-wing says things like:<br><br>- Obama has no mandate<br>- We\'re still a center-right country<br><br>You\'ve probably heard it a million times.<br><br>So, actually, we\'re the ignorant ones according to Scarborough.  We\'re just too dumb to comprehend the political brilliance that is Sarah Palin (eye roll).</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5018520" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5018520" class="dsq-comment-message">The threat of a Palin 2012 campaign is the <i>ONLY</I> thing keeping me from becoming an actual member of the Republican Party.<br><br>God help me, but I\'d rather McCain run again.</i></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5018673">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5018673" class="dsq-comment-message">D:   D!    D!:      Puh-leese!   LET IT GOooooooo!    :&gt;)<br><br>He ain\'t!   He cain\'t  It\'s OVA!!!    Remember NOV. 4, 2008??    :&gt;)<br><br>Let him FIGHT the "BATTLE AGAINST FRUIT FLIES!"   :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br>[I posted on that a couple of days ago.   :&gt;)]<br><br>***calmly***</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5018741" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5018741" class="dsq-comment-message">Steele-McCain \'12.<br><br>If it worked for you, it\'ll work for us too.<br><br>(maybe. LOL)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5019414">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5019414" class="dsq-comment-message">D:  LOL!  <br><br>WHAT IS "IT"?    \'cause, at least Mr. Biden is among the "living."  :&gt;)<br><br>BUT   Steele  cf to Mr. OBAMA???  Oh puh-leese!<br><br>It\'s NOT about the "melanin"!   Substance!  D.   Substance!   <br><br>***calmly***     :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5019472" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5019472" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL.<br><br>I know....but the slogan sounds good. ;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5020032">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5020032" class="dsq-comment-message">D!   D!    D!     LOL!!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)  ***shakin\' my head***</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5011535" href="http://ybpguide.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ybpguide</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5011535" class="dsq-comment-message">Posted it yesterday, but wanted to give him his props again. <a href="http://ybpguide.com/2009/01/08/bigups-tom-williams/" rel="nofollow">BigUps: Tom Williams</a>.<br><br>First Black coach for the Yale football team.<br><br>We <em>slowly</em> making it through the NCAA. Come on Turner Gill!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5013253">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5013253" class="dsq-comment-message">ybguide:   HEY!    :&gt;)<br><br>Read your post.  YES!  We must recognize PROGRESS in that area of DIRE NEED!!  :&gt;)<br><br>CONGRATS to Mr. Tom Williams!!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Thank you for the post!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5011774" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5011774" class="dsq-comment-message">Is anyone else STILL addicted to The West Wing TV show? Bravo has earned my love, forever.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5012147">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5012147" class="dsq-comment-message">evita, count me in as a bonifide addict of the WW.  I own the DVD of the entire series!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5012315" href="http://www.reachblack.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">B-Serious</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5012315" class="dsq-comment-message">Have they dropped the price on that yet?  Last time I checked, the series box-set went for $250.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5012577" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5012577" class="dsq-comment-message">good lord! now i know why i don\'t have it yet. <br><br>(my day is jan 20th, ya\'ll) <br><br>Jill put up a thermometer on the right and pass the hat!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5012645" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5012645" class="dsq-comment-message">Speaking of thermometers- remember the fundraising effort JJP tried to do with Donor\'s Choose? Well I contributed a few hundred dollars on behalf my family and the family of my fiance IN LIEU OF favors for my wedding. The kids from the classroom projects we funded sent us thank you cards... now I\'m going to make a shadow box with the materials so show people at the wedding. Who really needs more potpourri? ;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5013114">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5013114" class="dsq-comment-message">evita:  LOOK AT-CHOO!!  :&gt;)    What GREAT IDEAS!! :&gt;)<br><br>MAJOR COMMENDATIONS!!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5012668">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5012668" class="dsq-comment-message">B-Serious, I have 2 grown daughters who were taught to give generously lol!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5012741" href="http://www.reachblack.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">B-Serious</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5012741" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL!  Sounds good to me.  They have good taste.<br><br>I really wish they\'d bring that show back.  Some of the best writing I\'ve ever seen.  Hey NBC . . . BRING BACK THE WEST WING !</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5014157">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5014157" class="dsq-comment-message">I bought the entire series when it was on sale at Target last Winter for 14.99 a season.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5017134">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5017134" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5017134" class="dsq-comment-message">Dayum!  What a bargin!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5012274" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5012274" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5012274" href="http://www.reachblack.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">B-Serious</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5012274" class="dsq-comment-message">Right with ya, evita!<br><br>Next to <i>Martin</i> and <i>The Cosby Show</i>, The West Wing is my favorite show of all time.  It\'s a shame it had to end.  They had a lull for a couple of years, but really picked it up for the final two seasons.<br><br>No doubt, The West Wing helped me through the past 8 years . . . lol.  Actually, I know I\'m not alone when I say that Obama\'s campaign was reminiscent of Santos\' run in the final season.<br><br><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/news/2008/02/barack_obama_was_model_for_wes_1.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.npr.org/blogs/news/2008/02/barack_ob...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5012437" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5012437">lavender</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5012437" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5012437" class="dsq-comment-message">WW is my morning addiction. This morning I was checking out the rug in Bartlet\'s Oval Office, after listening to Dubya go on about his.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5012483" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5012483" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5012483">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5012483" class="dsq-comment-message">evita:   ****raising my right hand***    :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5014076">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5014076" class="dsq-comment-message">Happy FRY-DAY, GreenLady.  <br><br>I\'ve been thinking about JJP bloggers who would play certain characters on the West Wing.  IMHO of course.  Here we go!<br><br>Press Secretary- C.J. Cregg - GreenLady-   Tell Chucky T.  to go find his election map!<br><br>President Bartlett- Martin Sheen- Baratunde  (stand when the POTUS enters the room)<br><br>Charlie Young Prersonal Aide to the Presient- Dule Hill - Webb  (sharp as a boy scouts knife)<br><br>First Lady Abigail Barlett- Town  (Ok and an MD to boot)<br><br>The President\'s Secretary-  Kathryn Joosten -Mrs. Landingham- Spirit_55Z  (What can I say, I love smart  competent crones)<br><br>Chief of Staff- Leo McGarry - "D"-  :-)))  (after his conversion from Republican -Democrat lol!)<br><br>National Security Advisor Dr.-Nancy McNally - Anna Deavere Smith -(she\'s a B-more City sista)  - CPL  (You know you can bring it!)<br><br>Deputy Chief of Staff- Josh Lyman-   Admiral  (  Dep\'s got SWAGGER)<br><br>Assistant to Josh- Donna Moss- Sepia, MsKitty  (Holds it down and witty)<br><br>Communications Director- Richard Schiff- Toby Ziegler-  B-Serious  (Serious)<br><br>Deputy Communications Director- Rob Lowe- Sam Seaborn- CraigHickman (Resident Wordsmith) Sam\'s an ivy leaguer- Princeton <br><br>My favorite Seaborn quote:   "If you haven\'t seen C.J. do The Jackal, then you haven\'t seen Shakespeare the way it\'s meant to be done."<br><br>Happy Friday to all!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5014145">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5014145" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5014145" class="dsq-comment-message">That was too good for words.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5014219" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5014219" href="http://www.reachblack.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">B-Serious</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5014219" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5014219" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL!  Very nice!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5015256" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5015256" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5015256" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m mad I have to get converted to participate....LOL.<br><br>West Wing was one of my favorite shows when I could catch it. I\'ve always wanted to go back and see how I feel about it now that I have a political bent of my own.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5016465" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5016465">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5016465" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5016465" class="dsq-comment-message">D, you know you\'re Mrs. Landingham\'s favorite! :-))</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5018371" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5018371">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5018371" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5018371" class="dsq-comment-message">I cried when she died......it was so sad.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5018709" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5018709">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5018709" class="dsq-comment-message">For realz.  Damn near made me paranoid to buy a new car after that episode.<br><br>I\'m like why Sorkin gotta make Landingham put her head t\'een her legs and kiss her azzz goodbye.  <br><br>But then, Charlie didn\'t get the ax.  You know Black guy gets it early on in the tv and movies.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5016939">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5016939" class="dsq-comment-message">Ohhhh.   D:  It\'s a simple procedure:  BAPTISM-  Dip/wipe your face off/change your clothes!   :&gt;)      :&gt;)    Seeeee!     :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5017033">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5017033" class="dsq-comment-message">spirit:  Heeeey!             ***Looking around, excitedly!!***<br><br> Where\'s the APPLICATION?  I\'m AVAILABLE!!  :&gt;)  Whooo!   Hoo!   :&gt;)<br><br>Oh. Wait. . . . . I just re-read your post!    U   R  just musing!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)   Oh,    O.K.    :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>Thank you!     :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>BUT, Ima still send Chucky T.   ***back to the wall maps***<br><br>He shoulda kept his REAL day job!!   :&gt;)      :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5013041" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5013041" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5013041" href="http://www.reachblack.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">B-Serious</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5013041" class="dsq-comment-message">Anybody have any favorite episodes?  My list (no particular order) . . .<br><br>Season 1:<br>Two Cathedrals<br>Take This Sabbath Day<br>The Short List<br>Celestial Navigation<br><br>Season 5:<br>The Supremes</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5013343" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5013343" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5013343" href="http://www.reachblack.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">B-Serious</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5013343" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5013343" class="dsq-comment-message">oops .. . "Two Cathedrals" was Season 2, not Season 1.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5014347" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5014347" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5014347">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5014347" class="dsq-comment-message">B-Serious, my all time fav is Two Cathedrals.  Powerful!!  favorite scene, although there are many, is when Bartlett puts out his cigarette on the floor in the cathedral after having a brief but intense discussion with God.<br><br>Also, this is the episode of  Mrs. Landingham\'s funeral.<br><br>Dayum!  TV at it\'s finest.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5016392" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5016392" href="http://www.reachblack.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">B-Serious</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5016392" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes.  A very powerful scene.  Again, that show had some of the best writing I\'ve ever seen.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5019614">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5019614" class="dsq-comment-message">In Excelsis Deo.  As soon as <i>The Little Drummer Boy</i> starts I break out in tears.  Every time.  I love that episode.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5014088" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5014088">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5014088" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5014088" class="dsq-comment-message">Hand raised in air..LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5014329" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5014329" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5014329">Kat</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5014329" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5014329" class="dsq-comment-message">My favorite show ever. I have all seven seasons on DVD (bought seperately, not together!). Bradley Whitford became my celebrity boyfriend because of this show. ;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5017898" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5017898" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5017898">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5017898" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5017898" class="dsq-comment-message">"Josh" sure did get his SWAGGER on.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5017338" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5017338">lamh31</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5017338" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5017338" class="dsq-comment-message">I have never watched one episode of "The West Wing", or "24"</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5017958" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5017958" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5017958" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5017958" class="dsq-comment-message">Get some of the DVDs of "24;" don\'t think this season is gonna be much to write home about.<br><br>Though the season starts Sunday. God bless HD. :-)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5011839" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5011839" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5011839" class="dsq-comment-message">Al Sharpton Filling Liberal Seat on \'Hannity\' Premiere<br><a href="http://www.broadcastingcable.com/CA6627796.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.broadcastingcable.com/CA6627796.html</a><br><br>There are TWO things I can say for Al Sharpton: 1. he\'s no punk 2. he never met any a TV camera he didn\'t like. <br><br><br>Someone play psychic and tell me how you think this is going to fly...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5011902">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5011902" class="dsq-comment-message">*wearing Negrodamus hat*<br><br>Sean Hannity will be constantly "pwnd" on the Hannity and Sharpton show and will have an emotional breakdown and admit he has a secret crush on Obama.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5012518">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5012518" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5012518" class="dsq-comment-message">lol@negrodamus hat!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5012125" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5012125" href="http://www.reachblack.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">B-Serious</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5012125" class="dsq-comment-message">Sharpton is the PERFECT choice for that seat.  That\'s fighting fire with fire.  I might have to watch a show or two, now :)  <br><br>I disagree wih Sharpton\'s approach on certain issues.  But he\'s an excellent debater.  And he gives just as good (if not better) than he gets.  Sharpton\'s a master at the zinger.<br><br>Pretty smart move by Fox.  They should keep Sharpton for the long haul. The ratings would probably go through the roof.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5013342">Denise</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5013342" class="dsq-comment-message">Absolutely, B-Serious!  This is a savvy move by Fox.  I\'m  down!<br><br>Any word yet on the nature of Alan Colmes\' next project?  I enjoy watching him shut down foolishness, so I\'ll be supporting his next project, too.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5013425" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5013425" href="http://www.reachblack.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">B-Serious</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5013425" class="dsq-comment-message">Funny thing is that Colmes is a completely different person on his radio show.  He comes off as weak on Fox News, but he sure doesn\'t take any mess when he\'s on the radio.  I think it surprises a lot of callers.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5013972" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5013972">Denise</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5013972" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5013972" class="dsq-comment-message">Interesting.  I\'ve never listened to his show.  I\'ll have to check it out.  Thanks!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5016725" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5016725" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5016725">Nardwilly</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5016725" class="dsq-comment-message">Al could use the steady paycheck, as could we all going into 2009.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5012360" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5012360">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5012360" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5012360" class="dsq-comment-message">Talk about your must-see TV..............smart move Fox.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5012498" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5012498">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5012498" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5012498" class="dsq-comment-message">Sharpton+ Fox+ratings =$$$$$$$$$$$$</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5014108">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5014108" class="dsq-comment-message">If it\'s Rev. Al being Rev. Al...<br><br>it\'ll make money and be entertaining..LOL</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5014366" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5014366">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5014366" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5014366" class="dsq-comment-message">Maybe Rev. Al will take Hannity to Harlem.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5021745">DWS2</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5021745" class="dsq-comment-message">I wonder if anyone will be serving any mothaf&&*%^ iced tea?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5014428" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5014428" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5014428" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5014428" class="dsq-comment-message">Too bad it\'s not a permanent slot - now THAT would\'ve been interesting. Rev Hot Comb on Fixed Noise everyday would be something I\'d watch.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5017809" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5017809">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5017809" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5017809" class="dsq-comment-message">lol@ Rev Hot Comb.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5019316" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5019316">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5019316" class="dsq-comment-message">heartsandflowers:  LOL!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)  GOOD ONE!  :&gt;)<br><br>But, I believe that he converted from "Rev. Relaxer/Texturizer!"  :&gt;)<br><br>Orrrr, was it the other way around??     :&gt;)      :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5018701">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5018701" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5018701" class="dsq-comment-message">I might have to tune into Fox now. This has the makings of a hot mess.  Sharpton is no Colmes and will not be shushed by Hannity.  And Buckman has no chance.  Has "bitch, please" ever been said on cable news?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5019558">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5019558" class="dsq-comment-message">Sharpton AND Michelle Bachman? I have GOT to see this! I hope the Rev. chews her up for the crap she said about PEO.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5021340">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5021340" class="dsq-comment-message">Pyschotic for one. Two, I hope they have to wear boxing gloves cause someone is going to get clocked.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5011896" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5011896" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5011896" class="dsq-comment-message">Did anyone see this?<br><br>From Barry to Barack (with video and awesome pictures!)<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/08/from-barry-to-barack-occi_n_156418.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/08/from-b...</a><br><br>Barry Obama discussion starts at 6:48min</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5019260">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5019260" class="dsq-comment-message">evita:  YES!  Thank you.  I watched with my "OXYGEN MASK" securely fastened!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5012044">ndn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5012044" class="dsq-comment-message">Evita,<br><br>I record the 2am, the 7am and the 8am episodes.  They relax me. I watch them when I can\'t take the crazy liberal blogs.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5012301" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5012301" href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">icebergslim</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5012301" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5012301" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com/2009/01/can-michelle-obama-save-fashion-video.html" rel="nofollow">Can Michelle Obama save fashion?</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5012396" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5012396">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5012396" class="dsq-comment-message">This may need to be its on topic for the day:<br><br>SUPREME COURT CONSIDERS CHALLENGE TO VOTING RIGHTS ACT<br>WASHINGTON — The question of whether America needs the Voting Rights Act now that a black man has won the presidency looms over a major appeal the Supreme Court is scheduled to consider in its private conference Friday.<br>The justices could say as early as Friday if they will hear a challenge to the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act renewed by Congress in 2006. Their decision could impact federal power to oversee state election practices and to ensure racial minorities have as much of a chance as whites to elect candidates of their choice.<br><br>The law in dispute was overwhelmingly approved by Congress and signed by President Bush in 2006. Yet the Supreme Court in recent years has found some U.S regulation of the states too intrusive.<br><br>"If the court takes the case, it has the potential to be the most important election case since Bush v. Gore," says Richard Hasen, an election-law expert at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, of the 2000 decision that ensured Bush the presidency. He notes the court has earlier upheld the disputed provision. "The question is whether the role of race in American politics has so changed … that remedies that were once constitutional are now impingements on state sovereignty," he says.<br>A Texas utility district says the provision known as Section 5, which gives the U.S. government authority to oversee state electoral-law changes, is no longer needed. "The America that has elected Barack Obama as its first African-American president is far different than when Section 5 was first enacted in 1965," say lawyers for the utility district.<br><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/judicial/2009-01-08-court_N.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/judicia...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5012598" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5012598">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5012598" class="dsq-comment-message">Agree, Miranda.<br><br>"The America that has elected Barack Obama as its first African-American president is far different than when Section 5 was first enacted in 1965," say lawyers for the utility district."  <br><br>Here we go with the POST-RACIAL BULLSHIT!<br><br>umm.....HELL NO.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5013250" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5013250" href="http://www.reachblack.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">B-Serious</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5013250" class="dsq-comment-message">I doubt they even hear the case.  Especially with a weak legal premise such as the following:<br><br><i>"The question is whether the role of race in American politics has so changed … that remedies that were once constitutional are now impingements on state sovereignty,"</i><br><br>The purpose behind the Voting Rights Act was/is a matter of "access," not a question of electing the first black President.<br><br>And the reach of the VRA goes well beyond race as it relates to black America.  For example, the VRA also deals with access for other minorities based on things such as language (printing ballots in spanish, chinese, etc. where necessary).<br><br>There\'s no reason for the court to hear this case.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5013774" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5013774">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5013774" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5013774" class="dsq-comment-message">There really isn\'t.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5013942" href="http://www.reachblack.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">B-Serious</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5013942" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5013942" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s like asking . . . <br><br>"Now that we have a black President, do we really need those pesky 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution?  Can we bring back the slave codes?  I mean, it\'s not like race relations are haven\'t changed since the Civil War."  LOL!<br><br>Unreal.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5014235">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5014235" class="dsq-comment-message">Totally whack, B-Serious.  Do they think we\'re asleep at the wheel?  <br><br>No more drinking the generic KOOLAID, SUCKERS!!!!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5018530" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5018530" href="http://www.reachblack.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">B-Serious</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5018530" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL. . . Yup, they must think we\'re stupid.<br><br>Actually I wouldn\'t even call it "Koolaid."  I actually don\'t like this term b/c its used to demean Obama supporters -- often black Obama supporters -- who purportedly don\'t see the "truth" like some of our "friends" in the liberal blogosphere. <br><br>But I digress.  . . <br><br>This legal challenge strikes me as political opportunism at its worst.  My guess is that those supporting this argument weren\'t Obama supporters to begin with.  <br><br>If I had my way, I\'d probably expand Provision 5 to include more states than it does now.  A lot of states get off easy because Provision 5 shines the spotlight on the South.   <br><br>Well, last time I checked, two of the biggest problem states were Michigan (the threat of using foreclosure lists to purge voters) and Ohio.  Those two states ain\'t in the South.<br><br>So I say expand Provision 5.  But again, I\'d be surprised if this challenge got any traction.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5020698" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5020698">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5020698" class="dsq-comment-message">This is a serious threat. It will allow them to make the crux of the issue not local but national. In 1965 given where the vast majority of AfricanAmericans lived segregation rules and regulations were still the norm the case for the law was very clear. Gerrymandering was not the case as it is now(look how almost all districts are not party competetive) but with poll taxes etal to dilute our vote it  didn\'t matter. With gerrymandering AfricanAmerican voters are for the most part resegregated but w/ voting rights. This political resegregation allows few AfricanAmericans the opportunity to represent the larger demographic locally and nationally except at the large urban level(thoughI have to admit the post about Colorado blew me away).<br><br>Among other problems are the history of this country constantly  trying to rewrite the law to take our rights away.  And given the way, since Reagan,  the Republicans have bent over backward to appoint reactionary conservative judges at both the base and appelate level I do not think even Thurgood Marshall could provide a basis within the law to overturn segregation.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5020829">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5020829" class="dsq-comment-message">Fat fingers, sorry.<br>this post on the 1954 decision was not included w/ the above:<br><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/54jul/sutherland.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/54jul/sutherl...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5021022" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5021022">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5021022" class="dsq-comment-message">Just reported: The court\'s gonna hear the case.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5032260" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5032260">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5032260" class="dsq-comment-message">B-Serious, I don\'t get out much.... in the liberal blogosphere, that is.   I \'ll reserve my Koolaid drinking for anoher occassion.<br><br>I agree on the idea of expanding Pro 5 to include more states.  <br><br>If I remember correctly, of th 9 southern states currently included in Pro 5, Virginia is the only state that PEO won in November.<br><br>I \'d add Florida and Pennsylnia too</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5020938">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5020938" class="dsq-comment-message">DAMN - they are gonna hear it! Lawd a mercy.....its bout to get heated.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5013454">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5013454" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:    <b>HE SPEAKEATH!!</b>  Yaaaa!   :&gt;)<br><br>1.  JOB REPORT:    524 X 1000 lost in December.  Other stats show that this situation is DIRE!!<br><br>2. APPOINTMENTS: [Intelligence]  GOOD INTELLIGENCE is a NECESSITY.  <b>BASED ON <u>FACTS</u> NOT IDEOLOGY!!</b>  [Yes he did say that!   :&gt;) shrub]<br><br>  a.  Adm. Dennis Blair - - National Intelligence Director<br><br>  b. Leon Panetta --Director of the Central Intelligence Agency<br><br>  c.  John Brennan - - Homeland Security Advisor/Counter-Terrorism; supports Mr. Panetta.<br><br><br>QUESTIONS:</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5013584" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5013584">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5013584" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5013584" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey now!<br><br>Did someone tell DiFi?<br><br>It\'s like a law...or something.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5013746" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5013746">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5013746" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5013746" class="dsq-comment-message">only in her world though........LOL</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5015259" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5015259">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5015259" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5015259" class="dsq-comment-message">This woman represents anything but CHANGE.  Check out the hairdos<br><br><a href="http://www.upcloseandpolitical.com/html/ucap_gallery_sub_dfeinstei.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.upcloseandpolitical.com/html/ucap_ga...</a><br><br>2009 <a href="http://politicalumpire.com/Images/News%2520Photos/Dianne%2520Feinstein.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://politicalumpire.com/Images/News%20Photos...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5016504" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5016504">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5016504" class="dsq-comment-message">spirit:    LOL!!      :&gt;)        :&gt;)   Nice find!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>I couldn\'t get the 2nd link.  Sorry.  :&gt;(</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5016560" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5016560">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5016560" class="dsq-comment-message">Miranda:  Got that right!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5014060">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5014060" class="dsq-comment-message">Admiral:  The news reported that both Mr. Obama/Biden had a "chat" with her and that she "stood down!"  [Thanks D.    :&gt;)]<br><br>I\'ll post the article L8R.  My computer is "actin\' up!"     :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>FOUND IT!:<br><br><a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/24357/feinstein-on-panetta" rel="nofollow">Feinstein on Panetta</a><br><br><i>Beef officially squashed. Here’s what Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said about CIA director-(quasi-)designate Leon Panetta to reporters outside the Senate floor this afternoon:<br><br>    “I’ve known Leon for 20 years. He is smart, he is credible, and he is truthful. And I believe he will surround himself with very qualified intelligence professionals in the top positions, and that we will have a very close working relationship. This is important to me, because there are big issues facing the agency. He will tell truth to power, not what power wants to hear, but what power should hear. And that’s probably the most fundamental part of all of this, so that what many of us think happened with the Iraq [National Intelligence Estimate] never happens again…”</i><br><br>Hmmm.  So THIS is how YOU make YOURSELF IMPORTANT!?  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5017242">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5017242" class="dsq-comment-message">Love #2, GreenLady.  Something \'Sno Ho just doesn\'t have the INTELLIGENCE to COMPREHEND.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5018565">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5018565" class="dsq-comment-message">spirit:  Sooooo    ta-rue!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5013760">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5013760" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Awwww man!!  I couldnt; "edit" in order to ADD my "QUESTIONS section.  :&gt;(<br>Annnnd, I was just typing away.    "&gt;)      "&gt;)<br><br>Welll-   There will be a video!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>1.  He\'s looking for GOOD IDEAS for the ECONOMIC package that Congress MUST pass - quickly.<br><br>2.  On foreign ambassadorial positions:  Iraq -  first/most urgent.  Others: will use young public servants for some to show them that there is a career pathway; annnnd "seasoned" professional for others.<br><br>Congratulated Florida for their football win.  Says that ther is a need for a "play-off".<br><br><b>BREAKING NEWS</b>  Vote to impeach Gov Blago:  <b>114  -   1 No</b></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5014077" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5014077" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5014077" class="dsq-comment-message">God help me, but I agree with Obama.<br><br>College football needs a playoff system.<br><br>Not that he can intervene, of course. :)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5015185">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5015185" class="dsq-comment-message">D:  I saw it with my own eyes!!   D SAID: <b> God help me, but I agree with Obama.</b><br><br>LAWD HA\'MERCY!! My watch[TIME] JUST STOPPED!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>"One GIANT LEAP for MANKIND!!"  :&gt;)      :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5015360" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5015360" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5015360" class="dsq-comment-message">If he can untangle the mess (monopoly) that is the BCS, he\'s much smarter than I gave him credit for.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5015676" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5015676" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5015676">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5015676" class="dsq-comment-message">D:  <i>. . .he\'s much smarter than I gave him credit for.</i><br><br><b>TRUST!!</b>, D.  He is!!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5018039">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5018039" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5018039" class="dsq-comment-message">Jesus Christ himself couldn\'t convince Utah they aren\'t #1.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5018187" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5018187" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5018187" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5018187" class="dsq-comment-message">I hear you.<br><br>But they should have it out on the field.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5018495" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5018495">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5018495" class="dsq-comment-message">Word.  And neither could Larry Craig.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5018475">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5018475" class="dsq-comment-message">It might be the mirror universe "D".<br><br>You know, the one with the beard.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5018776" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5018776">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5018776" class="dsq-comment-message">Admiral:    LOL!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5015467" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5015467">Nardwilly</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5015467" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5015467" class="dsq-comment-message">No it does not.  Everything does not have to have a final answer.  We need more ambiguity in our lives.  I enjoy the Bowl games because they still have collegiate spirit.  A playoff system will generate into corporate party places.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5016693" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5016693" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5016693" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5016693" class="dsq-comment-message">I enjoy the bowls as well, but I don\'t see the merits of a systems that can crown a "champion" and exculde 1-2 undefeated teams.<br><br>A true "national championship" game would be between the teams that have the best records.<br><br>I\'m not saying get rid of the bowls...just the BCS.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5019441">RonnieB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5019441" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5019441" class="dsq-comment-message">I think the Bowl system, and at least a Plus-1 game would take care of this.<br><br>If there was a Plus-1, at least undefeated Utah could play Florida.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5019604" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5019604" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5019604" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, but that would only work if an undefeated team were:<br><br>1. left out of the "national championship" bowk, and<br>2. won whatever bowl they played in to remain undefeated.<br><br>I think Boise State should\'ve just played Utah, and the major conferences should\'ve be been left to watch. There would be enough revenues (I think) from a true national-championship game to make up not having an Oklahoma/Florida there.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5032845">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5032845" class="dsq-comment-message">I vote with you Nardwilly.  It is the collegiate atmosphere that makes the games popular...we do not need a playoff...it will take 2 much out of the STUDENT athletes and the alumi trying to go to games in multi cities.<br><br>Bad idea..no playoffs.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5014079">Tyren M.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5014079" class="dsq-comment-message">Carolinagirl. Right on! I\'ll have to check out Hannity Sharpton and share opinion later.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5014168">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5014168" class="dsq-comment-message">Gov. Blagojevich impeached by the Illinois House of Representatives.<br><br>Watch live coverage now on <a href="http://CNN.com/Live" rel="nofollow">http://CNN.com/Live</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5014456">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5014456" class="dsq-comment-message">114 to 1..........who was the one?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5014900">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5014900" class="dsq-comment-message">Miranda:  I missed the gentleman\'s name.  Watchin\' for it.   :&gt;)<br><br>Gov. Blagojevich will SPEAK 2-day.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5015058">Against Race Politics</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5015058" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, I\'m curious also.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5015386">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5015386" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5015386" class="dsq-comment-message">Against Race Politics:  Nardwilly is ALL OVER IT!  :&gt;)     :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5015152" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5015152">Nardwilly</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5015152" class="dsq-comment-message">From the Chicao Tribune<br><br><a href="http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2009/01/live-blog-of-il.html" rel="nofollow">http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/20...</a><br><br>Rep. Milt Patterson (D-Chicago) was the lone vote against impeaching the governor. Patterson, from Chicago\'s Southwest Side, said after the roll call that he didn\'t feel it was his job to vote to impeach the governor. He declined comment on whether he approved of the job Blagojevich is doing.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5015285">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5015285" class="dsq-comment-message">Nardwilly:    YOU just B  "ON IT!!"  :&gt;)      :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5016541">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5016541" class="dsq-comment-message">Hmm. Sounds like Mr. Patterson may be involved in some way.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5016754" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5016754" href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">icebergslim</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5016754" class="dsq-comment-message">NO.  Many AAs don\'t like what has happened, but innocent until proven guilty.  Which means if Blago was such a f**ked up governor, why was he not impeached sooner than now?  Meaning where is the evidence?  Right now we just have what is in a criminal complaint.  No testimony, no evidence, supposedly "tapes".  That is it.  Which it means to me, that they need to provide the evidence to get rid of Blago.<br><br>Blago has a presser at 2P CST.<br><br>Expect him to fight this to the end.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5016827" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5016827">Against Race Politics</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5016827" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah<br><br>During the House\'s 90-minute debate on impeachment, no one spoke up to defend the governor. But Rep. Milton Patterson, a Chicago Democrat, made the sole vote against impeaching Blagojevich.<br><br>Patterson said he read the impeachment committee\'s report and wasn\'t comfortable voting against the governor. "I have no firsthand knowledge of any of the evidence," he said.<br><br>"I went by my own gut feeling, it\'s as simple as that," he said. "I read the report. If the government is going to indict him, let them go ahead and do that. That\'s their job and I\'m doing my job."<br><br><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090109/ap_on_re_us/illinois_governor" rel="nofollow">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090109/ap_on_re_us...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5016821" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5016821">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5016821" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5016821" class="dsq-comment-message"><b><i>Many AAs don\'t like what has happened</i></b><br><br>Why?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5021129" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5021129">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5021129" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5021129" class="dsq-comment-message">The whole \' guilty until proven innocent\' thing, Sepia. <br><br>In addition, we know everyone involved in this has been after Blago for years. THAT is what isn\'t reported in the media. How the hell is the Speaker of the Illinois House IMPARTIAL? Mofo has been AT WAR with Blago from the word GO, because he wants to giftwrap the Governor\'s Mansion for his unqualified Baby Girl. ....why don\'t they report on THAT.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5018628" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5018628">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5018628" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5018628" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m assuming the evidence will come out during the impeachment hearings.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5015722">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5015722" class="dsq-comment-message">Hmmmm.......why the feds finally busting open these cases now?<br><br>Feds uncover two more investor Ponzi schemes<br><br>On Thursday, authorities announced two alleged Ponzi schemes, just weeks after the arrest of investor Bernard Madoff stunned Wall Street. Madoff was arrested for allegedly running one of the largest investment frauds in history in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme. <br><br>The latest schemes show how alleged frauds are unraveling as investors get more averse to risk. In a Ponzi, a portion of the cash brought in from new investors is given to older investors in the form of a return. If cash stops coming in, or current investors demand their cash at the same time, the scheme collapses. <br><br><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/markets/2009-01-08-investor-ponzi-schemes_N.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.usatoday.com/money/markets/2009-01-0...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5016795">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5016795" class="dsq-comment-message">Miranda:   \'cause SHRUB only has 11 more days B4 he "walks out  of that door!"****   :&gt;)   So he\'s trying ta look effective!   HAH!! NOT AFTER 8 YEARS!!<br><br>Annnnnnd, we will SURVIVE!!<br><br>YES!  There is a SONG:<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBR2G-iI3-I" rel="nofollow">I Will Survive</a>  <br><br>ENJOY!!          :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5018403">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5018403" class="dsq-comment-message">True dat.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5018524">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5018524" class="dsq-comment-message">But will your 401K?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5018606">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5018606" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m seriously thinking of keeping my 401K in my mattress.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5019991">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5019991" class="dsq-comment-message">pjamma:  LOL!   :&gt;)<br><br>***whispering***  <i>Shhhhhhhh</i><br><br><i>This is between me and you!  My SAVINGS are in my mattress!&lt;/i.<br><br>O.K.  I\'m depending on your silence!    :&gt;)      :&gt;)</i></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5021065">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5021065" class="dsq-comment-message">pjamma, Damn skippy.  SERTA STYLE!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5018746">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5018746" class="dsq-comment-message">Admiral:  LOL!   :&gt;)<br><br>Ya know, I "axed" my state teachers\' retirement system", annnnnnnd, they sent out a "re-assuring letter" to all o\' us!<br><br>Soooooo,   ***shrug***  :&gt;)    :&gt;)  Feeling fairly good \'bout it!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5020008">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5020008" class="dsq-comment-message">The reason is nonfeasance. malfeasance is what Bernie Made-off did, i.e. he knowingly did everything possible to evade the law for the purpose of stealing his clients money. Nonfeasance is when you deliberatly fail to enforce the law by not providing the resources to do so or willfuly fail to carry out the law.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5016802" href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">icebergslim</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5016802" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-press-conference-taps-blair.html" rel="nofollow">Obama presser announcing Blair, Panetta for CIA, video, transcript</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5017136" href="http://www.brownmanthinkinghard.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Brown Man</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5017136" class="dsq-comment-message">The Sanjay Gupta shit isn\'t worth my time when over 40 million people in this country don\'t have any kind of healthcare coverage.<br><br>But the thing that went on in Oakland is.<br><br><a href="http://simplifythepositive.blogspot.com/2009/01/word-for-today-is-riot.html" rel="nofollow">The Word For Today Is "Riot"</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5017217">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5017217" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:   Gen. Colin Powell JUST had his presser to support Mr. P-EO on "community service". [My words. But that\'s what he is agreeing with.]  I\'ll try to get the video, unless someone else makes the post.    :&gt;)      :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5018481">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5018481" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  <b>FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 2009  DAY -11; On His "JOURNEY TO JANUARY 20, 2009!"</b>  Whoo!  Hoo!   :&gt;)<br><br>1.  <b>HEADLINE(s):</b><br><br>     a)  <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17274.html" rel="nofollow">Obama: Delay on stimulus not an option</a><br><br><i>Barack Obama on Friday expressed impatience with “posturing” on Capitol Hill over objections to the size and shape of his economic stimulus plan – saying he won’t stand for delays that slow down help to the American people.<br><br>“Just show me, if you can show me something that is going to work, I will welcome it. . .What is not an option is for us to sit and engage in posturing or standard partisan fights, when the American people are out there struggling,” Obama said at a news conference to announce his intelligence team.</i><br><br>THERE IS MORE.<br><br>     b)  <a href="http://www.politico.com/politico44/" rel="nofollow">On a college football playoff </a><br><br><i>Economic stimulus, who should run the CIA – plenty controversial. But a college football playoff – why would he even venture into that? Barack Obama reiterated his belief in the need for college football playoffs to determine the champion Friday – saying he emailed congratulations to a player on Florida who is the son of someone on his staff, but also said Texas, Utah and USC have a legitimate gripe that they’re not in the running to be the national champion.</a> [VIDEO]<br><br><b>Seee!  Mr. P-E Obama is seriously taking on CRITICAL NATIONAL ISSUES!   :&gt;)</b><br><br><br>2.  HIS SCHEDULE:     <b> Friday Jan. 9, 2009</b><br><br>All Times Eastern7:00 AM	<br>8:00 AM	<br>9:00 AM	<br>9:13 AM	<br><br>The President-elect leaves the Hay-Adams hotel and heads toward his transition office.<br>10:00 AM	<br><b>10:30 AM	<br><br>President-elect Barack Obama makes an announcement at his transition offices.<br>11:00 AM	<br>11:20 AM	<br><br>Obama ends his press conference.</b><br><br><br>THAT\'S ALL FOR NOW!  :&gt;)     :&gt;)</i></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5019474">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5019474" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>a) Obama: Delay on stimulus not an option<br><br>Barack Obama on Friday expressed impatience with “posturing” on Capitol Hill over objections to the size and shape of his economic stimulus plan – saying he won’t stand for delays that slow down help to the American people.<br><br>“Just show me, if you can show me something that is going to work, I will welcome it. . .What is not an option is for us to sit and engage in posturing or standard partisan fights, when the American people are out there struggling,” Obama said at a news conference to announce his intelligence team.</i><br><br>In other words: "Ya\'ll bitches betta have my stimulus package!"<br><br>:-P</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5022513">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5022513" class="dsq-comment-message">Sepia:   I got it!       I  got it!!          Re: <i>In other words:</i><br><br><i>Pssst.</i>       Here\'s my plan:  I\'ll give the statements/quotes/etc.<br><br>YOU:  <b>TELL IT LIKE IT IS!</b>  :&gt;)         :&gt;)<br><br>\'cause YOU SURE do that WELL!!  :&gt;)   Thanks!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5019541">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5019541" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  \'bout that "earthquake" yesterday:<br><br><a href="http://www.newser.com/story/47455/quakes-shake-la-kill-2-in-costa-rica.html" rel="nofollow">Quakes Shake LA, Kill 2 in Costa Rica</a><br><br><i>  (Newser) –<b> A magnitude 4.5 earthquake shook Southern California last night, leaving no reported damage</b>—but Costa Rica didn’t fare as well in a 6.1 magnitude shake-up that killed two girls. A 7-year-old and a 9-year-old died in a landslide that destroyed their home, CNN reports. Some 1,000 tourists were stranded in one town. “We have had more than 600 aftershocks in the past three hours,” said a seismologist.<br><br><b>The Southern California quake was felt in Los Angeles and Orange County, but didn’t reach San Diego, the Los Angeles Times reports. “We heard rumbling noise before the shock waves hit our home in Ontario,” one person posted online. “We felt the jolt, whatever time it came in, but we haven’t had any reports of damages yet,” said a local fire captain.</b></i><br><br>I had it pegged at 5.    :&gt;)  Close!   :&gt;)  Glad that there were NO LOSSES!  God Blessed!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5019575">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5019575" class="dsq-comment-message">Illinois Supremes: Burris Doesn\'t Need Sec. of State Signature<br>By Eric Kleefeld - January 9, 2009, 2:13PM<br>The Illinois Supreme Court has just handed down its decision on Roland Burris\' lawsuit to force Secretary of State Jesse White to sign Burris\' certificate of appointment to the Senate. Their decision is that they won\'t honor Burris\' wish to force the signature -- because they say he doesn\'t need it:<br><br>...Petitioners are not entitled to an order from this court requiring the Secretary to perform those Acts. Under the Secretary of State Act, the Secretary\'s sole responsibility was to register the appointment (15 ILCS 305/5(2) (West 2006)), which he did. No further action is required by the Secretary of State or any other official to make the Governor\'s appointment of Roland Burris to the United States Senate valid under Illinois law.<br>Remember that the Senate chose to make an issue of the lack of a signature in their decision to turn Burris away this past Tuesday. Had the court ordered the signature, then this mess would have been over. But what it means now is that the ball has been kicked right back into the Senate\'s court, which is on its way to seating Burris anyway -- after all, as the court and many others have pointed out, this appointment is clearly legal.<br><br><a href="http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/01/illinois_supremes_burris_doesnt_need_sec_of_state.php" rel="nofollow">http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com...</a><br><br>-I guess there \'taint no \'taint.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5019929">Against Race Politics</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5019929" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh you mean taint isn\'t illegal????????????<br><br>Ooooh there never was any "taint" to begin with!!!!!!! HA!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5020281">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5020281" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey now!<br><br>That \'taint nice, ARP! ;-)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5020624">Against Race Politics</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5020624" class="dsq-comment-message">CUTE!<br><br>Well it\'s not the first time I have been sent to the bad  chair! :-)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5020699">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5020699" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5021328">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5021328" class="dsq-comment-message">Admiral:   LOL!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5021881">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5021881" class="dsq-comment-message">Taint that the truth.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5019603">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5019603" class="dsq-comment-message">Judge Hands Loss to White House on Visitors Logs<br>The Associated Press <br>Friday, January 9, 2009; 1:55 PM <br><br>WASHINGTON -- A federal judge on Friday rejected the Bush administration\'s latest attempt to keep secret the identities of White House visitors and declared that the Bush administration had engaged in illegal record-keeping practices. <br><br>U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth concluded the illegal practices took place before October 2004 when the Secret Service transferred large numbers of entry and exit logs to the White House and then deleted internal Secret Service copies of them. <br><br>The practices ended, the judge said, after various private organizations went to court in an effort to gain access to the logs. <br><br>Lamberth\'s ruling brushed aside the government\'s argument that revealing Secret Service logs would impede the president\'s ability to perform his constitutional duties. <br><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/09/AR2009010902045.html?hpid=moreheadlines" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5019661">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5019661" class="dsq-comment-message">Breaking News: Baltimore\'s mayor has been indicted<br><br>BALTIMORE -- Maryland\'s state prosecutor says a grand jury has indicted Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon on 12 counts, including perjury, theft and misconduct in office. <br><br>The prosecutor\'s office announced the indictment on its Web site on the final day of a four-month grand jury session in which a City Council member and a prominent developer who once dated the mayor were indicted on public corruption charges. <br><br>Dixon\'s attorneys say they and the mayor will make statements later this afternoon.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5019839">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5019839" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  From Gen. Colin Powell:<br><br><a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1151ap_inauguration_service.html?source=rss" rel="nofollow">Inaugural committee promotes service for MLK Day</a><br><br><i>WASHINGTON -- <b>Gen. Colin Powell asked Americans to consider their day off on Martin Luther King Day a "day on" instead.<br><br>Powell, an honorary co-chair of the inauguration, announced the Presidential Inaugural Committee\'s "Renew America Together" volunteering initiative on Friday to take place on Jan. 19, the King holiday.<br><br>President-elect Barack Obama, Vice President-elect Joe Biden and their families will volunteer in the Washington area that day, a day before the Jan. 20 inauguration. They\'re asking Americans to do the same in their own communities.</b><br><br>"I think it will capture the imagination of the American people," Powell said, adding that there was a "fervor" for the new administration that should be tapped.<br><br><b>The goal is to make public service a greater priority throughout American life.</b><br><br>"It\'s not enough, I think, just to do it one day a year," Powell said.<br><br>The inaugural committee launched a Web site, <a href="http://USAService.org" rel="nofollow">USAService.org</a>, to help Americans find opportunities to volunteer in their own communities. Spokeswoman Linda Douglass said there are already nearly 5,000 online listings, and people are welcome to add their own.<br><br>Although a troubled economy has meant a drop in charitable giving, Powell said he was confident that Obama and Biden could appeal to the generous American spirit.<br><br>"My experience is, in time of need, the American people recognize that they have to do more than they would have otherwise," he said.<br><br>Powell founded the America\'s Promise Alliance, a group that tries to improve children\'s lives, and has also worked with the Boys and Girls Club and the United Negro College Fund.<br><br><b>He said he has not been asked to work in the Obama Administration and has made it clear he doesn\'t want to.<br><br>"I\'m not looking for a job," he said. "I\'m very happy in private life, thank you very much."</b><br><br>Community Service-Community Organizer!  YES!!!   :&gt;)</i></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5019909">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5019909" class="dsq-comment-message">The Two Lame Ducks Who Didn\'t Vote To Impeach<br>By Eric Kleefeld - January 9, 2009, 12:59PM<br>Meet Illinois state Reps. Milton Patterson and Elga Jefferies -- the only members of the state House to vote against impeaching Rod Blagojevich.<br><br>As it turns out, both of them are lame ducks. Patterson didn\'t seek re-election last year, and Jefferies was defeated in her Democratic primary.<br><br>Why did they do it? Patterson, who voted No, told the CBS affiliate for southern Illinois that he had "no first-hand knowledge of any of the evidence," and that he had to go with his "gut feeling" and leave it up to prosecutors, not legislators, to charge the governor.<br><br>I had the chance to speak briefly on the phone with Jefferies, who voted Present -- which is essentially the same as a No vote, because it counts towards defeating a motion.<br><br>"I voted Present because I did not completely agree on a Yes vote, and I didn\'t agree on a No vote," Jefferies said. "I felt that the reason all this had come about has been blown out of context."<br><br>Jefferies said that she felt that the investigation against Blagojevich had become personal, with the legislators digging in on hirings that went back years. "I think there\'s a lot of things that he could have done differently," said Jefferies. "I\'m not saying he\'s been 100% right. And he\'ll have his day in court."<br><br>Jefferies concluded: "I voted my conscience."<br><br><a href="http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/01/the_two_lame_ducks_who_didnt_vote_to_impeach.php" rel="nofollow">http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5020635" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5020635">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5020635" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:<b> BREAKING NEWS!</b>  BLAGO SPEAKS:<br><br> OOOOOO-eeeeeee!  Blago\'s MAD!!! <br><br>Annnnnnd, he\'s kickin\' butt and callin\' NAMES!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5020741">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5020741" class="dsq-comment-message">Blago says "do unto others as you would them do unto you"<br><br>Isn\'t it "do unto others as you would have them do six times over for you"?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5021290">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5021290" class="dsq-comment-message">pjamma:  LOL!!  In HIS world!    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5020771" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5020771" href="http://www.jeniferdaniels.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jenifer</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5020771" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5020771" class="dsq-comment-message">this man could defend himself on this case!<br><br>this just goes to show you that a curser does have vocabulary!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5021263" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5021263" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5021263">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5021263" class="dsq-comment-message">Jenifer:   HEY!   :&gt;)   YEP!<br><br>They announced that he has a photographic memory!  I noted that he spoke without notes.<br><br>He\'s an attorney.  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Blagojevich" rel="nofollow">Rod Blagojevich<br>From Wikipedia</a><br><br><br>Blagojevich, although a mediocre student,[16] graduated from Chicago\'s Foreman High School after transferring from Lane Technical High School. He played basketball in high school and participated in two fights after training as a Golden Gloves boxer.[16] After graduation, he enrolled at the University of Tampa.[17] After two years, he transferred to Northwestern University in suburban Evanston where he obtained his bachelor\'s degree in 1979.<b> He obtained his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Pepperdine University School of Law in 1983. </b>He later said of the experience: "I went to law school at a place called Pepperdine in Malibu, Calif., overlooking the Pacific Ocean--a lot of surfing and movie stars and all the rest. I barely knew where that law library was."[1] Through his father-in-law\'s connections, Blagojevich clerked for Chicago Alderman Edward Vrdolyak.[18] Blagojevich then took a job as Cook County Assistant State\'s Attorney (assistant prosecutor) under State\'s Attorney Richard M. Daley,[18] specializing in domestic abuse crimes and felony weapons cases.[19] [20]<br><br>***shakin\' my head***   :&gt;)     :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5020980">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5020980" class="dsq-comment-message">SUPREME COURT TO HEAR CHALLENGE TO VOTING RIGHTS ACT<br> <br>By Joan Biskupic, USA TODAY<br>WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will hear a challenge to the landmark 1965 voting rights act, paving the way for a major decision this term on federal power to oversee state election laws.<br>In the backdrop is the recent election of Barack Obama and the question of whether America still needs an expansive law protecting against discrimination in voting now that a black man has won the presidency.<br><br>A decision in the case from Texas, to be heard in April, could impact the U.S. government\'s authority to ensure that racial minorities — who were subjected to literacy tests and other devices to keep them from the polls for most of the 20th Century — continue to have as much of a chance as whites to elect candidates of their choice.<br><br>In dispute is the 2006 renewal of the Voting Rights Act, which Congress passed overwhelmingly and President Bush signed. <br><br>Richard Hasen, an election-law expert at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, said the dispute "has the potential to be the most important election case since Bush v. Gore." That 2000 decision cut off Florida ballot recounts and ensured Bush the White House.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5021222" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5021222">Sepia</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5021222" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5021222" class="dsq-comment-message">Next up: The 13th Amendment!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5021449" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5021449" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5021449">Miranda</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5021449" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5021449" class="dsq-comment-message">Then after that, they can work on getting back to the 3/5ths rule!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5026098" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5026098" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5026098">Town</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5026098" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5026098" class="dsq-comment-message">Values have been plummetting.  Hispanics will count as 3/5th of a person while blacks will count as 1/16th.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5022175" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5022175" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5022175" href="http://www.reachblack.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">B-Serious</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5022175" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5022175" class="dsq-comment-message">Miranda,<br><br>Thanks for the information.  I\'m going to make a front page post about it later tonight.<br><br>It\'s disturbing that they\'re even going to hear the case.  Again, I\'ll make a front page post about it later tonight. <br><br>Thanks.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5025656" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5025656" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5025656">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5025656" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5025656" class="dsq-comment-message">B-Serious, Thanks.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5020983" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5020983" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5020983">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5020983" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5020983" class="dsq-comment-message">AFTERNOON OPEN THREAD IS UP</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5024255" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5024255" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5024255">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5024255" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5024255" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>Conyers On Prosecuting Bush Team: "Stay Tuned"</b><br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/09/conyers-on-prosecuting-bu_n_156560.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/09/conyer...</a><br><br><i>Rep. John Conyers, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is still invested in prosecuting members of the Bush administration once they leave office.</i><br><br><i>In an interview on the "Bill Press Show" Friday, the Michigan Democrat floated the notion that the Bush team\'s illegal wiretapping, torture, detention, and other practices could land some members in an international tribunal.</i><br><br><i>"I don\'t want to get too speculative on that, because it\'s still under review," said Conyers on the radio show. "Now, remember, violation of the federal criminal code doesn\'t end because you leave office. If a crime has been committed and there seems to be reasonable evidence that it did get committed, there\'s nothing for a person to be prosecuted... Leaving office doesn\'t free you up from what you may have done wrong ... Anyone that leaves office, including [the] President ... there\'s the World Court ... They have tribunals ... This thing is not over with. As they say: Stay tuned."</i><br><br><i>Conyer has made similar proclamations before. The feisty, long-serving Democrat advocated impeaching Bush but was dissuaded from the notion by Democratic leadership.</i></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5026397" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5026397" href="http://thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blksista</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5026397" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5026397" class="dsq-comment-message">Maybe that\'s why the Bushes were crowding Obama.<br><br>Some countries and entities are definitely thinking of prosecuting them in absentia for war crimes.<br><br>They set one foot out of the U.S., and they might find themselves taken like Pinochet was....</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5026211" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5026211" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5026211">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5026211" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5026211" class="dsq-comment-message">EVENING THREAD IS UP</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5019589" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5019589" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-5019589" href="http://swamphermit.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Karmi</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5019589" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5019589" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>Obama is a loser and MSM knows it…“<a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2009/01/09/tavis-smiley-pbs-were-all-working-barack-obama" rel="nofollow">We can\'t abandon him now. We can\'t abandon our posts. What are we going to do to help make him a great president?</a>”</b></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5020255" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5020255" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5020255">Admiral_Komack</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5020255" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5020255" class="dsq-comment-message">-Why, here comes our very own little Joe Btfsplk...again.<br><br>"Joe Btfsplk: The world\'s worst jinx, Joe Btfsplk had a perpetually dark rain cloud over his head; instantaneous bad luck befell anyone unfortunate enough to be in his vicinity. Though well-meaning and friendly, his reputation inevitably precedes him, so Joe is a very lonely little man. He has an apparently unpronounceable name, but creator Al Capp "pronounced" Btfsplk by simply blowing a "raspberry", or Bronx cheer. Joe\'s personal black cloud became one of the most iconic images in the strip."<br><br>-Wikipedia</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5021804" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5021804" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5021804">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5021804" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5021804" class="dsq-comment-message">LMAO</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5020381" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5020381" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5020381">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5020381" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5020381" class="dsq-comment-message">Karmi,<br><br><br><i>WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama is officially the next president of the United States, Congress declared Thursday in fulfilling its centuries-old constitutional duty to certify and tally the electoral college vote from each state.</i><br><br><br><br>Start getting use to it. Woo Hoo!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5021445" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5021445" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5021445">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5021445" class="dsq-comment-message">Justice58:   Great post!   :&gt;)<br><br>Also, he\'s now DOWN to <b> NEGATIVE 447/8</b>  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5020767" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5020767" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5020767">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5020767" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5020767" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.jhsdurham.on.ca/parenting/images/cryingbaby.gif" rel="nofollow">http://www.jhsdurham.on.ca/parenting/images/cry...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5021486" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5021486" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5021486">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5021486" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5021486" class="dsq-comment-message">MIranda:    BWAHAHAHAHA!!     :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5026248" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5026248" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5026248">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5026248" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5026248" class="dsq-comment-message">If Obama\'s a loser, what does that make John McCain and Sarah Palin?</div>\
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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');
}

})();




