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Burris would still be senator. Being junior senator doesn't mean Burris is off the hook. Obama was a junior senator but an effective. Same with HRC.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_11:41:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "faba19c60bc49948a7a5801b50c79fe1", "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": 4830554, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4856320": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Was your experience this election different than 2000, and 2004?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_19:14:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "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": 4855642, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4829611": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So anyone can hear virtually any benign remark coming out of the mouth of a person who looks of middle eastern descent or muslim faith and that justifies this?? All in the name of security? <br><br>WASHINGTON - Officials ordered nine Muslim passengers, including three young children, off an AirTran flight headed to Orlando from Reagan National Airport yesterday afternoon after two other passengers overheard what they thought was a suspicious remark. <br>Members of the party, all but one of them U.S.-born citizens who were headed to a religious retreat in Florida, were subsequently cleared for travel by FBI agents who characterized the incident as a misunderstanding, an airport official said. But the passengers said AirTran refused to rebook them, and they had to pay for seats on another carrier secured with help from the FBI. <br>Kashif Irfan, one of the removed passengers, said the incident began about 1 p.m. after his brother, Atif, and his brother's wife wondered aloud about the safest place to sit on an airplane. <br>\"My brother and his wife were discussing some aspect of airport security,\" Irfan said. \"The only thing my brother said was, 'Wow, the jets are right next to my window.' I think they were remarking about safety.\" <br>Irfan said he and the others think they were profiled because of their appearance. He said five of the six adults in the party are of South Asian descent, and all six are traditionally Muslim in appearance, with the men wearing beards and the women in headscarves. Irfan, 34, is an anesthesiologist. His brother, 29, is a lawyer. Both live in Alexandria with their families, and both were born in Detroit. They were traveling with their wives, Kashif Irfan's sister-in-law, a friend and Kashif Irfan's three sons, ages 7, 4 and 2. <br>Full story: <a href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28467263\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28467263</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_09:33:48", "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}, "4833286": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CPL:   That would be <b>SCENE #2</b>  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Annnnnnd, he would NAME the canine - - - -<br><br><b>THE THIRD!</b>     :&gt;)      :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:41:31", "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": 4833155, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4829703": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/01/illinois.senate.burris/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/01/illinois...</a><br><br>If Burris shows up on the Senate floor Tuesday to be sworn in, he'll be barred from coming in.<br><br>However, if BLAGO shows up Tuesday, they MUST let him in as sitting governors have Senate floor priviledges.<br><br>Part of me HOPES Blago shows up.  If they let him in and let him walk around the Senate floor, isn't that a tacit acknowledgment that he's still in charge in IL?<br><br>And if he's still in charge in IL...............................?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_09:45:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 85, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4829705": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Not knowing what was actually said-which, in all likelihood, we probably never will-better to err on the side of caution. Seems to me that if they were being profiled because of their appearance, they would've never made it on to the plane to begin with.<br><br>They were cleared, so it's an obvious misunderstanding. Some harm, but no true foul.<br><br>Why AirTran didn't put them on another plane, I don't know. On the <a href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/01/family.grounded/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">CNN version</a> of this story (cause I just can't trust MSNBC on anything except sports scores), Mr. Irfan says he's not looking for money, but threatens that he might sue. <br><br>It will be interesting to see when the suit is settled out of court for an \"undisclosed sum\" and the public apology, what's done with that money. Since, you know, that's not the point.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_09:45:57", "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": 10, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4829611, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831754": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "YOu are assuming that it is according to the ethnicity of its visters.  Just because someone ma be Latin@ does not mean that they would vote that way. Whiteness is hegemonic and therefore any poll that includes them would naturally place them in a position of dominance.  The idea is to critique the idea that white is always pure and good.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:58:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "womanistmusings", "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": 4831351, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832268": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "She already wants to kill me, anyway.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:32:52", "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": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832142, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832781": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well, if she can't do it, there's always.....<br><br>Never mind.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:07:22", "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": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832764, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832270": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "it's fascinating....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:32:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4830575, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831759": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "As well as Burris and Blago -- that P.C. was ham-fisted \"stratergery.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:57:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "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": 4831663, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832462": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "But the DKos crowd has NOTHING to say about:<br><br>TRACK, TRIG AND TRIPP.<br><br>Kos must be whining - so the posters whine in the SAME DAMNED WAY.<br><br>So much for independence of personal thought because the DKos crowd doesn't have it and never will.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:44:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 22, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832250, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4856849": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "My view of the blogosphere is that civility drops by the way-side. <br><br>The larger the community the more likely you are to be offended by something at some point.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_20:14:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "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": 4856767, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834819": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "AFTERNOON THREAD IS UP", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:49:10", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4830740": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "See, I didn't want to say the \"black\" part, but yes, it will be a PR disaster to have MSNBC, Faux, CNN, etc. continuously looping the Capitol police hustling this tiny old black man out the door on the TV 24-7...and then somebody (coff, *Faux*) will have old footage of water hoses being turned on black people.<br><br>And then if Blago shows up and they just let him casually stroll around the Senate floor?<br><br>LMAO", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_11:42:44", "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": 13, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4830215, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834837": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Nope, so I sleep with one eye open.<br><br>:)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:48:56", "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": 4834789, "depth": 13, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834328": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I bet she will. Good luck to her. I am going to keep checking in to see if she finds anybody.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:10:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "islandgirl550", "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": 4832641, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831769": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:58:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "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": 4831723, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832687": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I guess both McCain's and Obama's dads were egomaniacs since their sons were named after him.<br><br>Shoot, we should have retroactively impeached George HW Bush since he named his inept son after himself.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:00:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832462, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833309": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's just the pregnancy talking.<br><br><br><br>I think.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:42:37", "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": 4833214, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831252": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yeah, I wanna see the drama! lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:23:55", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831038, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4861471": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I hope she does, that would be wonderful.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_23:53:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "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": 4831594, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4829730": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Part of me feels bad for Burris for being caught in the middle of all this. Seems like he is (would be/would have been?) capable of doing a good job.<br><br>Part of me feels he's an idiot for accepting the appointment in the first place.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_09:50:18", "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": 83, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4829703, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4856412": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Will the back say \"Don't Lynch me Bro?\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_19:25:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "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": 4855031, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4830250": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Arh-nuld can't hold up California's budget with his big honking biceps?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_10:56:20", "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": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4828724, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4830215": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "a tiny 71 year old BLACK man.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_10:51:44", "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": 15, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4829803, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832301": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You'll get no argument from me, there.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:35:03", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831795, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831279": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'd kiss you, but that just wouldn't be....conservative.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:26:08", "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": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831154, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4829744": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No, it's not the point that the eventual plaintiffs are offered a monetary judgment.  Why does it matter to you?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_09:50:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4829705, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831793": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "How about the sections which invade the rights to privacy and civil liberties.  Any nation spying on its own citizens has become the F word.<br><br>As in FASCIST.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:01:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 4831352, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831795": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You say that race will always be in the mix but there's a smart way of bringing it and a dumb way. The way Rush and Burris played it was quite dumb.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:01:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "faba19c60bc49948a7a5801b50c79fe1", "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": 4831479, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4828724": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  CALIFORNIAN ALERT!!:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2157246/posts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Schwarzenegger's latest budget plan: Deep cuts, large tax hikes, more borrowing</a><br><br><i>SACRAMENTO \u2014 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's staff Wednesday released his most detailed plan yet to tackle the state's staggering budget deficit, calling for deep cuts to state services, hefty tax increases and a large new round of borrowing to close a projected $41.6 billion shortfall through mid-2010.<br><br>While little of the proposal was new, it included some striking elements, such as cutting billions of dollars from public school funding and slashing the deduction state taxpayers can claim for their dependents. The plan also arrived a day after the state controller warned tax refunds might have to be paid with IOUs in the spring because California is so short of cash.<br><br>In years past, the governor has unveiled his annual budget plan in highly choreographed events before a gaggle of TV cameras. This time he remained on vacation in Sun Valley, Idaho, leaving his finance aides to present the plan on New Year's Eve.<br><br><b>The plan, the governor's third in as many months, has little chance of being adopted and serves more as a statement of his fiscal priorities. It would cut $5 billion from funding for public schools over the next 18 months <u>while imposing a temporary 1.5-cent sales tax increase</u>. Spending on welfare, health care for the poor and aid for the aged, blind and disabled would be cut dramatically.</b></i><br><br><b>[There is NO SUCH THING as a TEMPORARY TAX!!  It will B with us FOREVA & EVA!]</b><br><br><br><br><i>Despite forswearing more borrowing, Schwarzenegger proposes tapping Wall Street for a nearly $5 billion loan and pledging future lottery proceeds in exchange for an additional $5 billion. But the Wall Street loan may be iffy at best, given the frozen national credit markets and the state's shaky finances, while the lottery plan would have to be approved by voters.</i><br><br>As with the rest of the planet,\" things are RUFF in these there hills!\"  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_06:36:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4854837": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Co-Sign, Admiral!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_17:02:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4854436, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4828214": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Found a nice vid on RCA that had been on the news in the summer:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4TIitZpqv4&NR=1\" rel=\"nofollow\">You can vote however you like</a><br><br>Annnnnd, the wiki:<br><br><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Clark\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ron Clark<br>From Wikipedia, </a><br><br><i>Ron Clark is an American teacher who has worked with disadvantaged students in rural North Carolina and Harlem, New York City. He is known for his books and multiple teaching awards.<br><br>History<br><br>The Ron Clark Academy, housed in a renovated red brick warehouse [2], is located in southwest Atlanta, Georgia, and accommodates fifth through eighth grade students. Students are from low wealth to high wealth families. Clark had planned to build the school for ten years before construction began. Along with the proceeds of his two books The Essential 55 and The Excellent 11, Clark raised additional funding for the project which eventually cost over $3.5 million. The academy was established on June 25, 2007. Classes began for students on September 4, 2007.</i><br><br>THERE IS MORE.<br><br>God continue to Bless the students/families/staff.   :&gt;)  Annnd, Ms. Oprah!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_04:52:49", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831753": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ok, you <i>wouldn't</i> replace it. Missed that the first time.<br><br>So, with that said....you know there's an inherent risk that comes with that, right?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:58:59", "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": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831708, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833204": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I won't be there but I will be watching with my laptop open commenting with the rest of JJP.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:35:59", "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": 4832566, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832826": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Punching liberals? Where do I sign up?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:07:25", "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": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832694, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834407": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes, it does, because if he were white, DKosters wouldn't be having this discussion.<br><br>That's why it's being discussed here - the DOUBLE STANDARD again.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:17:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 4834204, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4855650": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So it's dead huh? even though the opinions were so strong? interesting...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_18:05:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "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": 4854645, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831807": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Prince.  Thass ma boy, there.  Met homeboy back in 1979 when he wasn't NObody.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:02:26", "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": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4830460, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834368": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Which campaign? Burris?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:15:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "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": 4833891, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834016": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Here's one article from dkos where they go after the whole naming thing:<br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/16/18614/8031\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/16/186...</a><br><br>Took me hmm. 20 seconds to run a search. <br><br>So, does that throw your whole argument into doubt because your evidence is not accurate?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:47:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 14, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832952, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834372": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "i completely agree.  i used to identify as a progressive but after the \"progressive\" blogosphere's behavior in 2008 i've stopped.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:15:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "JonPincus", "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": 4833891, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832325": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Roll with it, Town!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:36:29", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832110, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831302": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Tell it, Town!<br><br>Where was Reid's spine for the past years?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:27:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831154, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834376": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Jon, ITA; the technological advances is the only reason to modify FISA - otherwise the legislation was already good enough for what the Bush Adminstration wanted.<br><br>They didn't want to have to justify their reasons in a court of law, and I don't understand why D can't see that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:15:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4834334, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834377": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Islandgirl,<br><br>A belated Happy Birthday! Hope it was fun!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:15:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4830575, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4830794": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Both elected, and both had higher aspirations. This 71 yr old man does not have such aspirations. This is not EVEN about what he could or would do as a senator, frankly, it has NOTHING to do with that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_11:47:29", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4830720, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4829771": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Makes me wonder why he'd say that. Anyone with good sense knows that as soon as the higher ups from AirTran get back from their vacations, they're going to issue a very public apology.<br><br>Why even threaten the suit?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_09:55:39", "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": 4829744, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832866": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CPL:    LOL!!!   :&gt;)<br><br>Actually, I'm believin' that there will be NO canines. <br><br>In, fact, the article stated that the POLICE would NOT take any actions, except to \"bring in\" the SECURITY.<br><br>In any case - - - stayin' tuned to - - - -<br><br><b>\"AS THE SENATE TURNS. . . .\"</b><br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsdLRTvd-Is&feature=related\" rel=\"nofollow\">AS THE \"SENATE\" TURNS</a><br><br>\"Brought to you by  \"Alpo Dog Food\", and featuring that famous rock group<b> \"GUNS & HOSES\"!</b>   :&gt;)<br><br> O.K.    I'm  tha-rough!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:11:06", "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": 4832587, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4856589": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "She was soooo good. I had made it inside Invesco just in time to hear her and I felt the goosebumps. She really puts her heart and soul into her singing. She's one of the few I can feel. I look forward to her getting older because once she moves away from the trendy (crappy to me) songs she can work with really good writers or work on her songwriting craft if she's so inclined and get better quality songs. She'll always have a career.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_19:45:36", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831594, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831587": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "really? I think she is the cutest but not very hard hitting. I am gonna have to check her out again.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:46:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "JJai", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 13, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831426, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834393": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "They were going to harp about Burris until Palin's idiocy was pointed out.<br><br>Their hypocracy was showing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:18:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 4834238, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834319": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "By that measure bigoted hypocritical \"black liberals\" should irritate the most. <br><br>Bigoted comments are annoying; however, I'd rather hear what people really think and believe as opposed to P.C. foolishiness. <br><br>At least when people say things out loud you get a chance to address them.<br><br>shrug.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:11:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "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": 4832694, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4830812": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Exactly.  LOL!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_11:48:45", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4830740, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4830813": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The stage has been set, costumes have been fitted, lines rehearsed..........lights.......cameras...............ACTION!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_11:49:13", "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": 4830740, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4830818": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_11:49:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4830740, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833891": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "ITA This campaign has been a MAJOR eye opener for me about so called \"liberals\".  At the end of the day, all we have is each other.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:44:45", "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": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832694, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832356": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "True Dat!!!! GLH.  <br><br>Tamron:   Let's just wrap this segment up, before I open up a GIANORMOUS can of WHOOP AZZZZZ on ya!  LOL!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:38:36", "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": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832170, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831847": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What you and Jon fail to realize is that FISA didn't need to be modified or replaced.  For over the 30 years of its existance, the FISA courts have only rejected FIVE requests for surveillance and that's out of over 50, 000 requests the court received.<br><br>FISA was developed to restore the nation's confidence in the government as a result of Richard Nixon's spying on people and saying he had the legitimate authority to do so because he was the POTUS and the Constititution didn't apply to him (sound Familiar?)<br><br>Why did it need to be changed or modified?  Because the current Administration wanted to do away with the actual FISA court, and thereby free them to do whatever the hell they wanted in terms of spying on whomever they wanted, WITHOUT THE LEGAL AUTHORITY TO DO SO.<br><br>That's why FISA needs to be repealed.  I'm surprised you don't see it for yourselves.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:04:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 4831753, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4829803": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Burris is probably like \"Dude.  I'm 71.  This is my last shot.  I'm taking it and I don't give  f* what anyone has to say about it.\"<br><br>Seriously, it's a no-lose situation for Burris because if things work out for him, he's a US Senator.  if they don't, he goes back to do what he was doing this time last week:  chillin'.<br><br>The clowns on Daily Kos are screaming that Burris  should be thrown off the floor because he \"has no rights to be there because he hasn't been sworn in.\"  By that logic, Mark Warner, Mark Begich, the Udalls, the lady who beat Liddy Dole, etc. don't \"have any rights either\" because until the swearing in, they won't have been sworn in either.<br><br>I hope Burris does show up and there's a nice scuffle between Capitol Police and a tiny 71 year old man.  I also hope Blago shows up just to see what those mofos will do.  LOL LOL LOL!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_09:59:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 82, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4829730, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834528": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Point taken, but are you trying to say the DKosters were being equal opportunity to go after what Burris named his children when they called him an \"egomaniac\"?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:25:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 4834491, "depth": 12, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4828272": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Anyone online.<br><br>Go to <a href=\"http://www.wvon.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.wvon.com</a> right now.<br><br>Click on  LISTEN LIVE in the upper right corner of the website. Absolutely fabulous discussion right now -replay of the Burris nomination.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_05:03:40", "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": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834420": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "interesting... what sort of behavior?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:19:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "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": 4834372, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834238": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Your first paragraph isn't clear to me, are you saying Dkosers did not highlight Palin's \"flaws\" or that they did question her on the basis of naming her kids?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:03:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "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": 4834140, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831351": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Why would the \"ranking\" of \"beautiful\" women shock you? <br>Do you think that it would line up according to % of the ethnicity of the visitors? <br><br>e.g. I'm hispanic so i say hispanic women look best.<br><br>Interestingly according to the creator of the poll \"native american,\" \"mixed\" \"hispanic\" and \"middle eastern\" are \"races.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:29:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831199, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831352": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm curious: what would you replace the PATRIOT Act with?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:29:43", "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": 22, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831277, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4829817": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Because if you DON'T threaten to sue, AirTran will not only NOT apologize, they'll do it to somebody else.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_09:59:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4829771, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834428": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They're turning into the \"liberal\" equivalent of Red State.  I can only take them in small doses, and even then, only certain posters.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:18:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 4834357, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832895": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Here's the link. Tamron educates Chris Matthews.<br><br>&lt; a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPTTWtLocwg\"&gt;MSNBC Anchor: \"I used To Go To Rev. Wright's Church \"</a>\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:13:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "e1e14398c00f730e4f2f2710fcbfed5d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832631, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4858496": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Same to ya.  Shoot me an <a href=\"mailto:email....lstills@gmail.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">email....lstills@gmail.com</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_22:55:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 4857339, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831851": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "We really want to go there, do we?  OK.  Lip collagen, botox, booty lifts, tannning booths.........Who are these WHTIE WOMEN trying to emulate?  <br><br>As GreenLadyHere says:    \"I'M THA...RUGH!\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:05:42", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831199, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831879": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "co-sign", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:07:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "faba19c60bc49948a7a5801b50c79fe1", "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": 4831693, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831774": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That's why Beyonce is whining - SHE WANTED THIS GIG.<br><br>But her lack of sympathy for Jennifer Hudson's tragedy is the reason why she's not going to be a part of history - SERVES THAT NO TALENT HEIFER RIGHT.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:58:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 15, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831594, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831882": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So, we are to take offense b/c other people do not find black women to be the most beautiful? I'm struggling to find the relevance of a non-scientific, hazy methodology Internet poll. <br><br>How would you choose to judge beauty? Further, you disregard the assumption of folks voting inline with ethnicity, then you use an equally strained assumption (in regard to the poll) to explain the results. <br><br>You have strong points with the analysis of standards of beauty; however, the poll is pretty shaky.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:07:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "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": 4831754, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831885": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "D:  FIRST THINGS FIRST!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>Virtual HUGS to the MRS!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:06:13", "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": 4831668, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834478": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Bigoted \"Black Liberals\", Pie?<br><br>Explain your comment, please, because I think you're trying to call people out without looking like you're being bigoted.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:22:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4834319, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4854796": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "D, if you do that you are going to jail.,...  I am going to start selling fish plates to get your bail money together.  I am calling my girl that gets the styrofoam plates for cheap. LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_16:58:08", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4854556, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833263": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You did warn me about the spaces.  Thanks again.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:39:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "e1e14398c00f730e4f2f2710fcbfed5d", "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": 4833151, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831892": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "CPL,  Ouch!    <br><br>Happy New Year to ya!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:08:09", "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": 4831774, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831257": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "BAB:   Heeeee-eeeey!!  **hands in the air**    **gettin' my dance on***<br><br>Annnnnnnnnnd, re-payin' the FAVOR - - - <br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jLGa4X5H2c\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br>Boogie wonderland - Earth Wind and Fire</a><br><br>ENJOY!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:24:34", "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": 4831149, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831897": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "(and here I thought, in 2009, you and I weren't gonna argue)<br><br>You know what I'm going to say to that....and I know what you-and everyone else here-will say in response.<br><br>You realize there are some elements in the world who are just <i>waiting</i> for the PATRIOT Act to be repealed by executive order, so that they can come after the US while we're trying to get our collective heads out, right? You alright with that?<br><br>Cause I'm not.<br><br>Now, I'll concede that the PATRIOT Act should have some sort of provision that allows it to be suspended when no longer needed. But doing away with it entirely isn't-I don't think-the best course of action, especially since it's had <i>some</i> effect in keeping us safe.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:08:23", "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": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831793, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4858522": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "All too true.  He only used Dubya to do the dirty work.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_23:00:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 4856644, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4854940": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Now I've seen all of those tees before except the I Luv Michelle Obama one for guys....now that I likes! Any guy seen wearing that one will automatically get the CORRECT cell number! LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_17:10:35", "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": 4854556, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832926": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Piepiepie:  Co-sign!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:14:51", "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": 4831693, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832929": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It probably wouldn't be poltiically correct...but start with Geraldine Ferraro - if you have problems with hitting a \"lady\" (and I use the term loosely) - I'll do it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:13:52", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832826, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4830370": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Feeling temporal today-  Slide show of b michael couture<br><br><br><a href=\"http://www.bmichaelusa.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.bmichaelusa.com/</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_11:08:59", "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": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4828580, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4854299": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama's Mama's name is STANLEY<br><br>Straight up STANLEY. <br><br>How's THAT for ego. <br><br>If her Daddy had been Black, he would have at least named her Staniesha. <br><br>LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_16:27:03", "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": 4832102, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4854436": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And if Obama gets deeply involved in this, it could taint him, too.<br>All I know is that Obama has released a statement, that's all.<br><br>Town, you're good (and correct).<br><br>Reid will back down; he always does.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_16:32:18", "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": 4832110, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834469": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "CPL, we are in violent agreement here.  The technical issues could have been fixed with very minor and localized changes.  At it's core this is about the Nixon-inspired \"Article II\"/unitary executive theory, mass surveillance of Americans, and immunity from the rule of law.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:22:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "JonPincus", "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": 4834376, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834472": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So, you think they supported Palin? <br><br>I read it as Dkosers don't like either and will engage in pettiness like everywhere else on the blogosphere.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:22:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "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": 4834393, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833052": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Nah, on this one, there's a couple I'd love to punch, but......<br><br>(continued below)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:22:53", "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": 4833004, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4854442": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well, we called the Maury show, and....<br><br>Kidding, of course.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_16:32:41", "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": 4853978, "depth": 15, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4856455": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "D:  SHE subjects HERSELF to RIDICULE!   I just join in on the laughter 2!<br><br>***shrug***    :&gt;)     :&gt;)   ***shakin' my head***    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_19:29:59", "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": 4854518, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831918": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Man, if Reid has people throw Burris out on Monday, this is going to be one hot mess.<br><br>A hot mess Reid could have avoided if he'd kept his yap shut.  He always flaps his yap and either caves in or does nothing to back it up.<br><br>I'm wondering how he's made it as a boxer all those years in Nevada.<br><br>Additionally, the DailyKos crowd goes along with whatever pixie dust Kos sprinkles along the way.  Today, they support Reid; how quickly they forget how loud they were calling for Reid's head on a plate because he didn't punish Joe Lieberman for campaigning against Obama.<br><br>The DailyKos Crowd is EQUALLY capable of DOUBLE STANDARDS themselves.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:09:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 4829803, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831919": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CPL:    YES!  I remember!!  TRUE  DAT!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:07:56", "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": 4831742, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4829362": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dang....I missed it....but do you know what song that is that plays on the video on that homepage?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_08:52:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4828272, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834334": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Agreed for the most part; at the end of my post I linked to Deborah Pierce's \"Brief history of FISA\" has good references for all of this.  I do agree with D below that technology changes since 1978 have introduced some \"technical defects\" into the law that need to be fixed to get back to the original intent (and that July's shoddy amendment doesn't fully address them).  However you're totally right that the Bush Administration and their Republican and Blue Dog allies in Congress used this along with a false sense of urgency from August's \"deadline\" to ram through absolutely horrible legislation.<br><br>It's important to distinguish between repealing FISA as a whole and repealing last July's amendment and the 2001 extensions emedded in the Patriot Act.  Also in the short term there are a bunch of things that Obama and Holder can do if they choose -- my post links to docments from EFF, ACLU, CDT, andthe Liberty and Security coalition.  There was no way I could get this all in the title though so I just went with \"get FISA right\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:12:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "JonPincus", "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": 4831847, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832952": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "WE'RE NOT PLAYING.<br><br>What is the problem with what Roland Burris named his children?<br><br>George Foreman has five sons and they're all named GEORGE. I guess if he were running for office, that would be an issue.<br><br>Kos' real name is MARKOS MOULITSAS ZUNIGA. And no one's having a cow about THAT.<br><br>Roland and Rolanda are named after their FATHER, which in most cultures, is a time-honored tradition.<br><br>Oh, WAIT.  It's only time-honored traditions WHEN EVERYONE ELSE EXCEPT POC DO IT.  My bad.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:16:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 15, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832615, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831418": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Town:  YEP! saw this/posted - on Countdown 19.  :&gt;)<br><br>I said that the article read like a \"real 'SMACKDOWN'\" appears to B inevitable!   :&gt;)<br><br>Got my \"JJP popcorn\"/green tea annnnnnnnd easy chair!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:34:50", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4829703, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834491": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Palin was white, disliked and her kids names were made fun of by Dkosers and late night comedians alike ...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:24:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "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": 4834407, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4830908": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "ROTFLMBAO!!!   Damn, this just might get a Tony Award.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_11:55:33", "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": 4830813, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832960": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You can take the AP's report with a grain of salt...they have frequently been off, but nevertheless:<br><br>Officials say the daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy will be the governor's choice to fill the New York Senate seat being vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton.<br><br>Two people close to Gov. David Paterson tell The Associated Press they believe Caroline Kennedy will be his choice, but the governor cautions he's still looking.<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/02/caroline-kennedy-paterson_n_154811.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/02/caroli...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:16:55", "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}, "4831426": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Tamron Hall has become my favorite news anchor.<br><br>That's all.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:36:46", "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": 16, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832967": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I had to back away from visiting Kos because it has become so depressing!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:17:22", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832503, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832631": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "During the Rev. Wright \"controversy\" Tamron stated on air that she had attended the church on several occasions and did not hear anything inflammatory.  She also talked about the important service the church provided the community.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:54:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "e1e14398c00f730e4f2f2710fcbfed5d", "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": 4832356, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834508": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Bush trying to circumvent the law because he knows his reason for trying to authorize those surveillances he wanted to do would have forced the FISA court to deny him his request (probably his request would have been the 6th one denied).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:25:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 4834469, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831438": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "An odd compliment:<br><br>You write good stuff. Above my level of comprehension, but still good.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:37:11", "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": 4831199, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4829903": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This is almost worth taking a trip over to the Hill next week for.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_10:12:18", "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": 4829803, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4856440": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Justice58:   I know!   **sigh***<br><br>Annnnnnd, again, I note how <b>COLD/IMPERSONAL/DISTANCING</b> her comments are.   Hmmmmmm.<br><br>I wonder IFFF she has spent much time with her \"grandchild\"!  Hmmmm.<br><br>ENOUGH!!   For now.   On to the \"REAL WORLD!\"    :&gt;)     :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_19:27:04", "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": 4854647, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4853971": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:   MORE GOSSIP:  'csuse I'm  ***shakin' my head**<br><br><br><i>Palin says she welcomes her first grandchild, Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston, born to Bristol and her fiance' Levi Johnston on December 27.<br><b><u>\u201cWe are over the moon</u> with the arrival of this healthy, beautiful baby,\u201d Governor Palin said. \u201cThe road ahead for this young couple will not be easy, but nothing worthwhile is ever easy.\"</b><br>\"Bristol and Levi are committed to accomplish what millions of other young parents have accomplished, to provide a loving and secure environment for their child. They are both hard workers, they're very strong, and have faith they've made the right decision in setting aside their own interests to make this child their highest priority,\" the governor said in a statement <a href=\"http://LifeNews.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">LifeNews.com</a> obtained.</i><br><br><a href=\"http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/aggregator.php?entry=636773\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sarah Palin; a gradmother at 44</a><br><br><br><b>\"WE ARE OVER THE MOON . . . . ????</b><br><br>Who talks like that???    Answer:   \"THE GOV.\"<br><br>Now when I was a child, I remember that \"MOON\" concept.  BUT - - - <br><br><a href=\"http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2203440/hey_diddle_diddle_nursery_rhymes/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hey Diddle Diddle - Nursery Rhymes </a><br><br>Dija see what jumped over the MOON?   :&gt;)   <br><br>I'm just sayin' . . . . . . .", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_16:12:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831582": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "But this has to play out as Chicago political hardball - not as black folk showcasing a racial grievance.  <br><br>If Blago is a true <i> KISS MY ENTIRE @SS gangsta </i> , he'll accompany Mr. Burris to the Hill.  <br><br>I hope Congressman Rush stays out of this.  PUHLEEZE!!<br><br>Nah mean???<br><br>:: stuffs mouth with popcorn :::", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:47:02", "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": 4831252, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833230": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ha!  I know you're right!<br><br>I swear to Gawd...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:37:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4833098, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833145": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Fake Noise won't even show the video if it comes to big gangsta Capitol Hill Po-Po throwing a 71-year-old man out of the Senate Chambers.<br><br>Someone needs to ask Harry Reid if he really wants to start off the Congressional session with this hot mess publicity?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:30:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 4830740, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4853978": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yeah right!<br>lol<br><br>You got her pregnant, right? End of Story!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_16:13:20", "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": 4834837, "depth": 14, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4830457": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Absolutely NO legal basis. At all.<br><br>I said it before..<br><br>Either we are a country of LAWS again, or we are not. <br><br>Follow the damn law. <br><br>May not like it. BUt, it is what it is.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_11:16:38", "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": 4829556, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4854492": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Care to explain your comments then so I can understand your logic?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_16:35:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "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": 4854319, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831966": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "icebergslim:  This would be a nice \"pick-me-up\" for her.  God Bless her.   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:12:49", "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": 4831594, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832503": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "They have nothing else to whine about, that's all.<br><br>Maybe if POC quit patronizing Kos' website, it would force him and the rest of those supposedly \"liberal\" posters to face their OWN DAMNED BIGOTRY.<br><br>Yeah, I said it.  There are liberal BIGOTS that post there and they're getting as bad as STORMFRONT or RED STATE.<br><br>I don't bother with them anymore.  Watch what they do when Obama screws up - they'll holler for IMPEACHMENT and the offense won't even be a violation of the Constitution.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:47:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 40, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832102, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4829920": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is going to turn out to be a flap over some arcane rule at AirTran-that will be done away with in short order-or an employee who decided to be an ass, who might catch the same result.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_10:13:07", "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": 4829817, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4854497": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How being bigoted ? <br><br>\": a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices  ; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance\"<br><br>Reread Miranda's \"measure\" why would a specific \"bigot\" irritate more than any other? <br><br>The context seems to suggest that the right assumption is bigoted against black people as an ethnic group. Since there seems to be a spectrum from: Racist (Stormfront) to Conservative (Redstate) to Liberal (Dkos), I'm assuming this has to do with an ideological spectrum that exists.<br><br>However, I'm suggesting that there are other groups that make up one's identity -- as such a bigoted statement from a \"black liberal\" would merit more outrage than a \"white liberal,\" sense that seems to be the rationale -- the closer to one's own positions and groups the more outrage is expressed at the deviance of a particular position.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_16:36:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "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": 4834478, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4854500": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ha! Well if he wasn't a pedophile, I'd bet his \"Inaugural\" single would be #1 on the charts right this second.....he's a sicko, but he's a talented songwriting sicko.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_16:36:13", "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": 4834658, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4830950": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey, islandgirl.  Hope you had a wonderful Birthday.  <br><br>Looks like Ms. N has her fav 4 on the field in her search for Mr. right.  lol!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_11:58:43", "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": 4830575, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4855017": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well, give me the wrong one, since I'm still looking for a \"I voted for McCain\" shirt that doesn't say \"I voted for McCain-Palin.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_17:16:19", "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": 4854940, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833004": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "D:   I know that U   R   NOT serious, soooooo,  Ima give U  a     :&gt;)<br><br>Annnnnd, quiet as it is kept - - - - U have a little \"liberal-gene\" as evidenced by soma your co-signs.!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>MIRROR!??    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:20:58", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832826, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831471": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Town:   ORRRR, a \"dog\" will be let loose JUST ta \"follow him around!\"  :&gt;)       :&gt;)    <br><br>What a \"scene!\"  :&gt;)         :&gt;)      :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:39:34", "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": 4830740, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833322": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree. But Harry Reid has been nothing but hot air so far. But we shall see how this plays out...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:43:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4833145, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4854518": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sometimes, I just have to laugh at the Governor of Alaska.<br><br>The fact that she said that out loud should get her speechwriter fired.<br><br>For God's sake, we get it: your daughter didn't abort the baby. Point proven; pro-lifers rejoice. Now, please, for the sake of the country, <i>go away</i> for 2-3 years. I need a break.<br><br>&lt;/rant&gt;", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_16:36:57", "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": 4853971, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831479": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Unfortunately, in America RACE will always in the mix.<br><br>It just depends on what kind of cake's being baked.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:39:52", "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": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4830695, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4854008": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "D,and then all the Pumas will be standing in line and you can play \"Roceim, Sockem Robot\"<br><br><a href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/blogs/images/sfgate/culture/2006/08/14/IMG_8109.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.sfgate.com/blogs/images/sfgate/cultu...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_16:14:03", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832929, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832505": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Word, CPL, Word.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:48:02", "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": 4831699, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4856447": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's hilarious!!<br><br>And a good idea...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_18:29:13", "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": 4856412, "depth": 12, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4830460": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Five things I learned from visiting with Prince: From album plans to thoughts on Prop. 8<br><br>1.  He did not vote for Proposition 8. In fact, he didn't vote at all.<br><br>There is more<br><br><a href=\"http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2008/12/visiting-with-p.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2008...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_11:16:51", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4829949": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "OKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_10:20:06", "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": 4829903, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832510": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Happy New Year, Spirit.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:47:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 4831892, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834560": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thing is, I do see it.<br><br>Here's my thing: were the PATRIOT Act and the Terrorist Surveillance Program extreme reactions to 9/11? Yes.<br><br>Did they help? Probably; most Americans didn't really care/notice the programs until the fine print started getting read out loud.<br><br>Are they necessary forever? Of course not.<br><br>If there's no reason to further modify FISA or keep the TSP/PATRIOT Act, then by all means, they can go.<br><br>But someone-namely, the Obama Administration-had better be <i><b>damned sure</i></b> they're no longer needed, and be ready to explain why.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:28:43", "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": 4834376, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831490": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well I don't see the point of using armed men to shut out the man even though he is an egotistical idiot.  Yes the senate Democrats are weak but that does not take away the taint. Just because something is legal doesn't make it right. Blagojevich was following the black letter of the law doesn't mean that he followed the spirit of the law. The Democrats may get away with this by delaying the appointment. Once Blago gets impeached they can vacate the appointment. Quinn will appoint who ever he wants.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:40:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "faba19c60bc49948a7a5801b50c79fe1", "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": 4830979, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4830979": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yeah, I've seen you crying on Daily Kos about this.<br><br>BURRIS was (s)elected legally as well unless and until proven otherwise.  Blago ain't stupid and neither is Burris, so I'm gonna assume with a 99% certainty that this deal is clean and above board, whether Blago personally is or not.<br><br>The fact of the matter is Rod Blagojevich is still the governor of IL.<br><br>The US Constitution, 17th Amendment states the executive authority (Blago) of the state (IL) has the right to appoint a vacancy to the US Senate (Burris).<br><br>Blago has not been indicted, charged or impeached.<br><br>The IL Supreme Court DECLINED to strip him of his powers as Governor.<br><br>Blago, whether you like it or not, STILL has the authority and yes, the DUTY, to fill vacancies.  Which he DID in a legal, lawful manner (unless and until proven otherwise).<br><br>All these other shenanigans Reid, Jesse White, etc. are trying to do is really trying to shut down the Constitution to achieve a result they want.<br><br>Now you Daily Kos types have been CRYING for the past 50-11 months about Bush & Co. wiping his ass with the Constitution but when Reid does it, it's suddenly OK?<br><br>It's NOT Ok. <br><br>Reid & the Democrats are just mad that Blago punk'd them on a national level.  How the hell is the SENATE gonna tell a state governor how to conduct his business?<br><br>Doesn't matter about Candidate 5, 4, 3, 2 or 1.  Did Blago sell the Senate seat to Burriss?  If not, game over.<br><br>This is a dangerous and slippery slope the Democrats want us to co-sign.  If Reid pulls this off and shuts down Burris, DON'T BE CRYING  on Daily Kos when the Republicans decide \"we're not going to seat X Senator from Y state because we \"think\" the election was \"tainted.\"<br><br>Whether the (s)election was \"tainted\" or not is a brand new qualification the Senate is trying to add to the Constitution.<br><br>And where was all this STRENFF during the war vote, or FISA or Lieberman or any of that?  <br><br>Where was all this concern about \"taint\" when the Senate gave Ted Stevens a cheering, standing ovation?<br><br>Burris is hardly an \"idiot.\"  Burris is probably on his way to the US Senate.  Why would Burris be concerned about \"taint\" when you have \"tainted\" people like Ted Stevens and Larry Craig roaming around the halls of the Senate?   <br><br>How do we know everything is on the up and up with the Delaware (s)election/appointment?  \"If you appoint me, then I'll step down in 2010 so Biden's son can shuffle dance his way to the Senate?\"  Maybe we should investigate that, since you Daily Kos types want to investigate Burris' motives so bad and want to investigate Caroline Kennedy's motives so bad.  Investigate that shit right there.  <br><br>Blago caught y'all with your pants down.  He made a LEGAL appointment to the US Senate as was his right to do guaranteed by the IL Constitution and the US Constitution.  IL could have had a special election and I'm assuming the Democrats probably would have won since the IL GOP had such stellar choices such as Alan Keyes the last time around.  But naw, IL wanted to play games, and Blago checkmated your asses.<br><br>Seat Burris, have another Democratic vote and call it a day.<br><br>Or don't seat Burris, have a sideshow that drowns Obama and whine when President-elect Jindal or President-elect Palin come to town.<br><br>Your choice.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:02:34", "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": 27, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4830196, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833238": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I meant to say (and for some reason it got deleted!) that if Harris would've been a white woman, we wouldnt be hearing about how \"corrupt\" or \"Tainted\" or \"Damaging\" his appointment is.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:38:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "f9aaa8acc43fd7620185ff90cef3c05a", "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": 4833218, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832641": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "islandgirl550:  Heeeey!  HAPPY NEW YEAR!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>SAW her - - Neenie?  :&gt;)   She will probably get more responses with her \"15 minutes of fame\" spot on TV.    :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:56:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4830575, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832520": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "woman:  I went on my \"Field Trip\" and made a post!   :&gt;)<br><br>ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!   Wha'?  ***blinkin' eyes***<br><br>I'm TIRED of \"POLLS\" like this which are \"divisive\" almost by definition!!  WHEW!!<br><br>Annnnnnnd, IT'S \"purported\" PURPOSE!!???   <br><br>Nevermind!!<br><br>ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!<br><br><b>YOUR ANALYSIS - - - -  -SO ON POINT!!\"</b>    THANK YOU!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:47:58", "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": 4831199, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834057": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No, it only verifies my claim - they're only doing it because its a BLACK MAN, and if you can't accept that, stop responding to my posts.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:53:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 13, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4834016, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4830474": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm with Town. <br><br>They have no rights legally to do this. <br><br>So, let's get it on...LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_11:17:43", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4829803, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834263": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/02/blagojevich-could-be-impe_n_154829.html rel=\"nofollow\"> Blogo Could Be Impeached Next Week.</a><br><br>Get out the popcorn.  Next week will be lively for sure.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:06:44", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4830477": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Have to agree; black, white, hispanic, or what have you, anyone Blago appointed would be in the same boat.<br><br>He's gonna be a warm body until '10, when he'll stand for election and lose in the last, final rejection of Blago.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_11:16:37", "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": 14, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4830196, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831503": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Town:   WHAT YOU SAID!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)  Co-sign!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:41:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4830979, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834577": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "this bears repeating:<br><br><b><i> \"Open bigots are like rattlesnakes - you get a warning before the strike\"</b></i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:30:02", "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": 4834462, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832532": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I said modify if not outright rescinding of it.<br><br>We are going to argue - GET USED TO IT.  Especially when you base your positions on inherently ReThug talking points.<br><br>&lt;&lt;&lt;adopts Amazon-like stance with hands on hips&gt;&gt;&gt;", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:50:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831897, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4830999": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You don't \"say something\" about security at an airport. You'd think that be common sense, but I know it's on signs in airports for the common-sense impaired as well.<br><br>Course, let's be honest here: if it were anyone other than a white person, someone would cry racial profiling. And if it were a white person, it'd be Bush's fault for creating the evil TSA.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:03:57", "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": 4830610, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4857220": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wasn't she named for Obama's grandfather after they found out Toot couldn't have any more kids when she was born?<br><br>I knew her name was Stanley Anne Dunham - it said so on Obama's BIRTH CERTIFICATE that the Wingnuts say is illegal.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_20:55:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 4854299, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832026": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Bush modifications to FISA still don't completely take into account advances in technology since the law was first written.<br><br>The ability to collect intelligence on foreign entities and intelligence agencies-however that's done-IS the responsibility of the government.<br><br>And since no one can definitively show that it's been used for sport-what you're trying to reduce it to-why get rid of it, again?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:15:35", "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": 4831847, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4854319": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It is a faulty assumption, and its all yours.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_16:29:49", "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": 4834703, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4854556": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "...followed by Jeezy/Nas' \"My President is Black.\"<br><br>Speaking of, if I see one more person in <a href=\"http://mixunit.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=11897\" rel=\"nofollow\">the shirt</a>, <i>they're</i> getting punched.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_16:40:27", "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": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4854500, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834590": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Who? (just curious)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:32:28", "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": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832781, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834079": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Alexander:   Annnnnnnnd, <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syd6vbAh94w\" rel=\"nofollow\">THIS ONE 2 - - MSNBC TAMRON HALL PLAYS UP OBAMA & PLAYS DOWN HILLARY</a><br><br>EVEN   DURING the PRIMARY!!   Listen to the END!    :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Go Girl!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:54:22", "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": 4832631, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832544": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "spirit:    Tha-rough - - I tell you!!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:50:33", "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": 4831851, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834841": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sure wouldn't. If Blogo had chosen, say...Schakowsky, there would be no problem, would there?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:49:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "c87fa9ab975275187368e74f6f34d3d1", "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": 4834407, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4857269": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Please see <i>THE OLD MAN AND THE STORM</i> a <u>Frontline</u> presentation, on your local PBS stations, Tuesday evening, January 6.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/katrina/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Link to website and to video excerpts here.</a><br><br>New Orleans will return, step by step, inch by inch.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_20:59:44", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831708": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm not sure why you think I don't want to repeal it.  I even said I wouldn't replace most of it.<br><br>More information here in <a href=\"http://criminaljustice.change.org/blog/view/turning_the_page_on_fisa \" rel=\"nofollow\">Turning the page on FISA</a>.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:55:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "JonPincus", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831532, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834090": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "They go after Palin in the post...<br><br>How does this verify your claim?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:54:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "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": 4834057, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4858503": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Pie, are you a troll?  Because you keep picking arguments, which don't encourage debating of the issues.<br><br>Just saying....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_22:58:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 4854492, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831532": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm confused.<br><br>The (your?) statement is \"\"Get FISA right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties.\"<br><br>But it seems like you don't actually want to repeal the PATRIOT Act; seems like you'd just rather they read it first.<br><br>Where am I wrong?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:43:18", "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": 12, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831484, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832559": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Girl, one good whiff of their \"liberal\"  entitlement vapors for me was enough.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:50:07", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831918, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831537": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree with you Micheline.  There are a lot of race issues in the world and this is not one of them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:42:16", "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": 4830695, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833074": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "....I will pass on punching any women, though they may deserve it (Gloria Steinem comes to mind).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:24:27", "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": 4832929, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832566": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Does anyone know the time of the Oficial Kickoff Ceremony on the Lincoln Monument on Sunday, January 18?<br><br>Will JJP be having any \"get-to-gether\" during the inauguration week?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:51:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "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}, "4833079": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Fine, I wouldn't want to apply a beat down ANY OTHER WAY.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:25:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832644, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831545": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "D:  Don't worry.  It's JUST VIRTUAL!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>You won't lose your \"Conservatism\"?! [Is that a word??]   :&gt;)       :&gt;)     :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:44:14", "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": 4831279, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832570": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"The Thrill On The Hill\"<br><br>And if I'm on the volunteer PIC committee, I might have a front-row seat for this shyt.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:52:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 4830474, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832991": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'll believe this was an accident when I see pigs skydiving off The Westin in downtown Atlanta:<br><br>Think Progress caught a \"magic negro\" reference during the New Years Eve broadcast on Fox News.<br>Viewers were allowed to text in messages that scrolled across the bottom in lieu of the news.<br>One message read:<br>HAPPY NEW YEAR AND LET'S HOPE THE MAGIC NEGRO DOES A GOOD JOB. LOVE JEN AND JOHN C.<br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=710_ItlHUXI\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=710_ItlHUXI</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:19:42", "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}, "4831773": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Denise!<br><br>I agree!<br><br> <i>If Blago is a true KISS MY ENTIRE @SS gangsta , he'll accompany Mr. Burris to the Hill. </i><br><br><br>That's what I'm talking 'bout!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:00:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831582, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832573": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The sideshow won't be any worse than the Cabinet nomination hearings of H.Clinton and E.Holder -- So, I don't buy that part. <br><br>Everything of the moment is the \"biggest thing ever\" then disappears. (Lieberman, Rahm-Blago, JJjr-blago etc.)<br><br>The \"Law is the Law,\" and plenty of smart people on both sides have constructed arguments that will be heard in the courts. So, that part is crossed out.<br><br>As far as the courts go.. Well in the senate race in MN Republicans and Democrats are already using the courts to settle the matter.<br><br>The democrats have strong reasons to use every court method possible -- one is the actually \"taint.\" Two is the politics of allowing Blago to infect the senate agenda -- Democrats LOVE the optics of standing up to one of their own.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:52:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "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": 4830979, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831038": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I hope Blago swaggers into D.C. with Mr. Burris next week just to keep this from looking like a complete NEGRO mess.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:05:20", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4829803, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834357": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "ditto ... horrible negative sexist racist etc. etc. etc. stuff.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:14:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "JonPincus", "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": 4832967, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832992": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "GreenLadyHere:  You and D, taught me how to hyperlink.  Can you please please tell me what I doing wrong (directly below).  Your humble student.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:19:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "e1e14398c00f730e4f2f2710fcbfed5d", "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": 4832170, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831554": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "People make the decision to bring race into things where it doesn't necessarily belong.<br><br>This is one of them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:43:09", "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": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831479, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4856644": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Don't we have Dick Cheney to thank for all of this. He was pissed about having to adhere to standards during the Nixon administration and immediately went to work tearing EVERYTHING down after the Rethugs installed Shrub on his throne? Only thing is, he went way overboard and they destroyed the country.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_19:50:27", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831847, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834109": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "For Myth- The Inauguration Scheudule<br><br><a href=\"http://www.pic2009.org/pages/schedule/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.pic2009.org/pages/schedule/</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:55:46", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834485": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What \"measure\" are you using that you're assuming is mine?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:23:49", "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": 4834319, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833098": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I bet that poll didn't ask how many white men like black women.<br><br>&lt;&lt;&lt;side eye&gt;&gt;&gt;", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:27:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 4832214, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832587": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Let 'em show up with those German Shepherds to turn loose on Burris and see who looks more like the fool.<br><br>Hint - Not Burris.  LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:53:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 4831471, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4855642": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "the routine racism, sexism, elitism and unexamined privilege that's so often tolerated and often encouraged/engaged in.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_18:05:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "JonPincus", "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": 4834420, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834365": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Co-sign.  The last thing that we, as enlightened, astute and ciritical-thinking Black folk, can do is to continue to acting as if some so-called liberals are our patriarchs.  <br><br>If media are so \"liberal\", why aren't we represented--in front of, <b>and behind</b> the cameras--on nightly news and Sunday morning news shows? <br><br>Truth be told, some of these so-called \"liberals\" would rather have seen a redux of George Bush than to have a Black man with backbone in the White House.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:14:51", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832503, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832615": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I can't tell if you all are playing or serious.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:53:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 16, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832462, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831569": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "D:   Goooooo!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Annnnnnnd, REPRESENT!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:45:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4829903, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834275": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I was named for my father's favorite sister, and my mother's closest cousin. <br><br>My great-niece was given the middle name of her mother, her  great aunt, her great-great aunt, and her great-great-great aunt. <br><br>If I have a daughter, one of her names will be Emma, a family name going back 200 years. <br><br>These mofos need to STFU. <br><br>Laughing about Junebug.<br><br>My nieces are ' Sister' and ' Little Sister'.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:06:05", "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": 4833789, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831484": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "In general I wouldn't.  For the specific sections that are worthwhile, new legislation -- that Congresspeople actually read and debate before voting on.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:38:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "JonPincus", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831352, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4830551": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Town,<br><br>A nice scuffle, huh? LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_11:25:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4829803, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832601": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Wayans or MAD TV couldn't have scripted this better.<br><br>File in the \"YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHYT UP\" category.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:53:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 4830908, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4830554": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Burris won't be responsible for rounding up votes on federal measures and negotiating federal money or grants for Illinois won't be a problem. Dick Durbin is the senior senator and its Barack Obama's homestate....its really not an issue. This is like pageantry when all is said and done. Blago is letting someone where a crown for 2 years and in the process attempting to save his own azz, that's all it amounts too under these circumstances....so everyone might as well, chill and let it ride. In the end, Burris will be the senator unti 2010 - Reid and company need to be working on their \"save face\" remarks for the impending press conference.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_11:25:49", "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": 4830196, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4857179": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Actually, Schakowsky would have been a problem too, because she's a white female progressive.<br><br>They want a Blue Dog in that seat if its' going to remain Democratic.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_20:50:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 4834841, "depth": 12, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834140": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Because if some soul hadn't bothered to point out the names of Palin's kids, to indicate the hypocracy of going after Roland Burris for naming his kids after him, and not highlighting Palin's idiocy.<br><br>The fact is, what Roland named his kids had nothing to do with being appointed to fill Obama's seat and those posts indicated the DKosters had nothing else to argue except to go personal.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:58:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4834090, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832058": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I thought it was always Hudson's spot to turn down.....?<br><br>Beyonce's already done it. That wouldn't be anything worth watching.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:17:19", "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": 12, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831774, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831070": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "True Dat!!  The Benjamins are the only language these mofos understand.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:09:07", "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": 4829817, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833119": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well, if Blago doesn't show up, and Burris is out there on his own,  I'm going to question the politlcal acumen of the black folk responsible for setting this up. <br><br>Just throwing this out there.  We shall  see.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:29:27", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832325, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833633": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "D:    :&gt;)         :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:44:07", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4833074, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834658": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "New Year's Resolution:<br><br>I dare not mention R. Kelly's involvement in the inaugural again.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:37:11", "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": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4834590, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831075": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "God help me, but I agree with part of this.<br><br>(not the President-elect Palin part)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:09:34", "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": 12, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4830979, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4854647": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "GreenLady,<br><br>I'm just shaking my head! Unfreakingbelievable. I mean...For crying out loud!!!!!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_16:45:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4853971, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832102": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Over at DKos making a slime, insinuation of Burris naming his kids Burris Jr and Rolanda.  Can we get some backup on this site and set the record straight?<br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/2/4559/21830/994/679373\" rel=\"nofollow\">Link</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:21:24", "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": 71, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833127": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Pass that bucket, Denise - I'm co signing on how this needs to play out as Chi-town Style politics as opposed to race politics, too.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:30:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 4831582, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831594": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com/2009/01/jennifer-hudson-may-sing-at.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jennifer Hudson may sing at Inauguration</a><br><br><b>GO JEN!!!!</b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:46:22", "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": 20, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834155": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>I also have five male cousins who are all named after their fathers, and if you holler \"Junebug\" (country slang for \"Junior\") at the family reunion picnic, seven heads are going to turn in answer.</i><br><br><br><br><br>Ah CPL, You don't miss a beat! LOL!<br><br>But, sure you're right! My oldest is named after his father & the list goes on..", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:58:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4833789, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4855660": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Count me as one of those people who is not really a fan of Beyonce's singing.  I mean I like her, but I think of her as a latter day Whitney Houston, ya know before Whitney went back to her \"hood roots\".  Now we all know Whitney can blow, but when she first started out, it was watered down pop music at it's finest.  You know Whitney could blow, but she obviously had not embraced here hoodness yet.  I find later day Whitney the best (yes I mean heroin addicted, tripped out, I love me some Bobby,  Whitney).  Beyonce is more of a hip hop pop princess.  <br><br>I find that I like singer with more feeling to there voice, even if they do not have the greatest range.  What makes Mary J Blige a great singer is that you could feel her when she sung.   The same way Aretha Franklin could sing \"Ain't No Way...\" and \"Mr Feelgood\" with passion, that's what Mary J does.  Beyonce just seems to sing with no real passion.  I think that is one of the reasons why her \"Deanna\" in \"Dreamsgirls\" didn't blow anyone away.  It was fluff.  It was basically, Beyonce, playing Diana Ross, playing Beyonce, playing Deanna. <br><br>Anyway, Beyonce needs to find that passion, and I'm sorry, but her marriage to Jay-Z ain't doing it either.<br><br>Seriously, can anyone name a song by Beyonce or Destiny's Child that will stand the test of time like Aretha's \"Do Right Man\".  I can't think of any.  Can ya'll?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_18:05:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "fd35c4322b63b2dab06baea3e23047cf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831594, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4830610": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Its not \"erring\" on the side of caution when paranoid nitwits with stereotypical views about people in traditional muslim garb are giving the right to have someone thrown off of a plane because - ON MY GOD! They said something about security!! Its just \"erring\" on the side of stupidity.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_11:30:18", "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": 4829705, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832110": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Doesn't matter if Blago followed the black letter of the law, disrespected the spirit of the law, etc.<br><br>Blagojevich followed the law and made a legal, lawful appointment to the US Senate.<br><br>Now the Democrats may \"get away\" with shutting down Blago & Burris, this is true.<br><br>But the Democrats BET NOT cry ever again when the GOP pulls some tricks out of their hats.<br><br>I don't want to see any whining at Daily Kos about how John Boehner did this or Mitch McConnell did that. If the Dems succeed in shutting down Burris, I don't want to see any whining from the Daily Kos crowd when the GOP doesn't seat Al Franken, and uses \"taint\" as the reason why.<br><br>Oh, but I know you'll say \"The Democrats are in the majority, so they can't muster up the votes.\"<br><br>Well, you keep this trickery up, and the Republicans will remix 1994 on your asses in 2010.  And when they try to block \"X\" Democratic senator from being seated because of \"taint,\" don't cry.  Because they'll have this case as a precedent and guess what, they'll be doing it legally too.<br><br>This is why I don't get caught up in Democrat = good  Republican = bad because to my eyes, they're both just different sides of the same coin.<br><br>Again, you CAN NOT point your crusty fingers at Bush, Cheney, etc. and scream they are blowing their boogers on the Constitution but because your guy Reid does it, it's suddenly \"okay.\"<br><br>It's not okay.<br><br>The US Senate can't come down and tell a sitting governor not to exercise his duties guaranteed by the state and US Constitution.  If that's the case, why have state governments at all?  Just let the 2 senators from each state conduct state business and abolish governors altogether.<br><br>Now, I want Blago to roll down to Capitol Hill Tuesday with Burris and see which one of them gets blocked.  If they hustle Burris out but let Blago in, they have tacitly acknowledged that he is still the executive authority of the state of Illinois and still has the priviledges that go along with that.  Which includes the right to appoint somebody to fulfill the Senate vacancy.<br><br>If being under investigation/impeached means you can't run the government then Bill Clinton should have stepped down in '98 and let Al Gore take over.<br><br>I'm sorry but you can't point the finger at Bush when he blows his nose on the Constitution but cheer Reid on when he does it.<br><br>Hypocrisy is not a good look for the '09.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:21:50", "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": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831490, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4830575": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hope everyone had a nice New Years! This is off topic, but has anyone seen this website where a black woman is looking for a husband? I checked out her site, wow, she is taking action. Guess I should stop complaining. LOL!<br><br><a href=\"http://www.52weeks2findhim.com/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.52weeks2findhim.com/index.html</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_11:27:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "islandgirl550", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4857201": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They are not going to get the hearings started by Monday, the first day of the new session of Congress.<br><br>This move should have been made when they asked Blago to leave and he broke out into his Jennifer Hudson impersonation when he said \"I'm telling you Mofos I'm NOT GOING!\"", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_20:54:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4834263, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4856691": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You should check out these sites<br><a href=\"http://whitewomensuck.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://whitewomensuck.blogspot.com</a><br><a href=\"http://whitemenforblackwomen.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://whitemenforblackwomen.blogspot.com</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_19:56:02", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831882, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4829556": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I am currently watching Jesse White on Fox & Friends.  I gotta tell ya, setting aside all the political rhetoric about Blago's arrogance and what he <i> should not </i> have done, there is no LEGAL BASIS for refusing to certify Burris.   NONE!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_09:25:50", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4828272, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4854645": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If you really wanted any clarification, you would have asked BEFORE assuming. At this juncture, I dont give a rats azz what you think. Assume on.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_16:46:32", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4854492, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834588": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm not calling anyone out in specific -- I call out on a point by point basis and try to avoid ad hominem arguments.<br><br>That's why I said \"bigoted comments\" we all have our own positions and bias. <br><br>It doesn't matter where you end up, you are bound to be offended by something.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:30:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "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": 4834478, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831607": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's absolutely absurd.<br><br>The law is not clear on seating Burris and it is likely to be played all the way through the senate.<br><br>As far as the \"optics,\" I think there are also numerous people who seem to think Obama standing up to a song and dance by Bobby Rush, Burris and Blago talking about racial grievence is bad for Obama and the Dems?<br><br>Are you serious? This is manna from heaven... either way they win.<br><br>Further -- there are already delays in MN, and they'll be plenty of mud thrown in Eric Holder's and Hillary Clinton's nominations. <br><br>So, I don't by the \"we can only do one thing at a time ruse.\"<br><br>The other interesting part is the element of \"spine,\" which has not yet really been described accurately to me. <br><br><br>An actual democrat who is show to have serious LEGAL and ethical issues clearly comprimises himself and you want every democrat in the county to roll-over.  Worse, the primary rationale is the appointment is black.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:48:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "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": 4830695, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831609": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "spirit:   LOL!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   He didn't larn that in \"actin' school!!\"    :&gt;)      :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:48:34", "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": 4830250, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834682": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Franken won through a recount. This fella was appointed.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:39:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "faba19c60bc49948a7a5801b50c79fe1", "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": 4832110, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831722": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks I appreciate that", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:56:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "womanistmusings", "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": 4831438, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833151": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "1. Drop the space between the &lt; and the a,<br><br>2. End the tag with &lt; / a &gt; (again, with the spaces removed).<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPTTWtLocwg\" rel=\"nofollow\">MSNBC Anchor: \"I used To Go To Rev. Wright's Church</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:32:29", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832895, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834689": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "co-sign", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:40:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "faba19c60bc49948a7a5801b50c79fe1", "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": 4833119, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832130": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Justice58, it's just good ole common sense; and it don't cost nada!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:23:06", "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": 4831214, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833155": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Green Lady, Burris might befriend that dog and turn it against its masters.  LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:31:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 4831471, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832644": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You can stand how you want, damnit, I'll stare you right back down.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:56:32", "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": 4832532, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832135": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "pjamma:   I like her  2!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:23:18", "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": 4831426, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832142": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL your wife might not appreciate that either!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:24:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831279, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834703": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "i saw a spectrum:<br>Stormfront<br>Redstate<br>DKos<br>Where's the next logical step? <br>For me it is close to your position, since you are on this site I'm assume the next step from \"liberal\" is \"black liberal\"<br><br>Perhaps it's a faulty assumption, nevertheless I think it's interesting.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:41:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4834485, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4829586": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "p.s.<br><br>Don't get it twisted.  &gt;b&gt; None </b> of this has a goddam thing to do with PE Obama.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_09:28:20", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4829556, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833092": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great video Alexander!<br><br>If people are having trouble with the link above try <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPTTWtLocwg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPTTWtLocwg</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:26:50", "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": 4832895, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833178": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Northern VA, right?<br><br>I'll see you soon. ;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:34:17", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4833079, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831727": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "JJai, Taron Hall is attractive, but don't l get misled by her cuteness.  <br><br>Tamron Hall can bring it!  Here's a video clip of December 30, 2008 to back it up:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.wowowow.com/post/msnbc-tamron-hall-magic-negro-anchor-lady-barack-obama-christmas-song-video-163292\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.wowowow.com/post/msnbc-tamron-hall-m...</a><br><br>*******************************************************************<br><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamron_Hall\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamron_Hall</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:57:00", "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": 4831587, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834204": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And that has to do with his blackness?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:01:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "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": 4834140, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834092": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks GreenLady.  i have seen most of the website on it.  They just have not announced the time that Obama is kicking off the Opening at the Lincoln Monument. I think that's a better opportunity to get close to him since its free and there are no pimped-out tickets.  Just gotta get there early.  Just announced a ball on Sunday night at the Smithsonian, where Lincoln had is inaugural ball of course, and the tickets are affordable.  Good chance Obama and or Biden will be there.  Just wanted to know whether or not JJP was pulling any think together duirng that week?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:55:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "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}, "4854690": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You can have her.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_16:50:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "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": 4831426, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833185": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "While it changes the risk profile it's in a positive direction: repealing the PATRIOT Act and using resources currently being wasted on security theater and bulk surveillance (like on active-duty military's conversation with their families) on something more productive would decrease the risk of terrorist activities.  <br><br>Also there's a different kind of risk that's introduced by things like National Security Letters that enforce gag orders, and the way the FAA eliminates the possibility of audit.  Bruce Schneier made some excellent points about this in the recent Wall Street Journal article.  At this system level this increases the possibility of collective blind spots and so is also a major security risk.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:34:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "JonPincus", "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": 4831753, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4830626": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm just sayin...they best to realize that yep, Blago played the Big Joker...game OVER. Now shuffle the deck, re-deal and start a new game - and this time don't make jokers wild.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_11:32:01", "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": 4830474, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4828580": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah: <b>FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 2009;  DAY -18; On His \"JOURNEY TO JANUARY 20, 2009!</b>  :&gt;)<br><br>1.  <b>WORD(s)</b> of the DAY:  <b>TRANSITION TRAIL/WORLD CRISES</b><br><br>2.  <b>HEADLINE(s):</b><br><br>     a)  <a href=\"http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OBAMA?SITE=VABRM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\" rel=\"nofollow\">Obama to meet with lawmakers, former presidents</a><br><br><i> CHICAGO (AP) --<b><u> President-elect Barack Obama will meet with congressional leaders to discuss his economic stimulus plan</u> and other legislative issues soon after his arrival in Washington in the coming days.</b><br><br>Obama and his family planned to fly to Washington on Sunday after their holiday vacation in Hawaii and a stopover in Chicago.<br><br>The president-elect was to meet with congressional leaders Monday, according to a senior Democratic congressional aide. Obama will meet with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, then join with them in a meeting with GOP leaders, said the aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he had not been authorized to discuss the plans.<br><br>Obama was also scheduled to talk with President George W. Bush and former presidents at the White House on Wednesday.<br><br><b>Obama, his wife Michelle, and their children left his native Hawaii on Thursday after a 12-day vacation and flew to Chicago, <u>arriving early Friday.</u> The Obamas planned to go to Washington on Sunday so 7-year-old Sasha and 10-year-old Malia can start school on Monday.</b><br><br>The Obamas aren't set to move into the president-elect's traditional Washington quarters until Jan. 15. In the interim, the first family-in-waiting will stay at the historic Hay-Adams Hotel near the White House.<br><br>The Obamas kept a low profile while vacationing on the island of Oahu. Aside from daily trips to the gym and golf courses, the president-elect seldom left his vacation retreat, a rented $9 million home near Honolulu. When he did venture out, it usually was to grab some shave ice, a local treat, go to the zoo or take some other child-friendly excursion.<br><br>Michelle Obama similarly remained out of sight, other than the occasional trip to the gym. She did not join Obama and the girls when they went to an aquatic park or to the zoo, nor when he visited the nearby Marine base on Christmas Day.</i><br><br>    b)  A statement re The Inaugural Poet\":<br><br><a href=\"http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/01/the-inaugural-poet-adorned/\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Inaugural Poet, Adorned</a><br><br><i>While the fashion world waits on edge to hear whom Michelle Obama is choosing to dress her for Inauguration Day, there is some fashion news on another inaugural front \u2013the West Front of the Capitol, to be exact.<br><br>Among those on the West Front with Barack Obama on Jan. 20 will be Elizabeth Alexander, the poet from Yale whom he has selected to read at his swearing-in ceremony.<br><br>We had been wondering more about her poem than her attire, given that her mission is more spiritual than temporal, but <b>we nonetheless learned today that Ms. Alexander has chosen b. michael, a couture designer in New York, to create three pieces for her. Or, as a spokesman for b. michael put it, the designer is creating <u>three \u201clooks\u201d for Ms. Alexander</u></b><br><br><b>One</b> will be day-time wear for her reading. <b>Another</b> will be a gown for an evening inaugural ball. The <b>third</b> is an outer coat.<br><br>The coat will be the most visible, given that much of the world will be watching the swearing-in ceremony (no pressure, b!) and the weather will no doubt call for bundling up.<br><br>Mark-Anthony Edwards, a spokesman for b. michael, said he could not disclose the styles or colors that will be created for her. Asked to describe the tone that the designer is striving for, Mr. Edwards wrote in an e-mail:<br><br>\u201cIt has been said of Elizabeth Alexander her \u2018poems bristle with the irresistible quality of a world seen fresh\u2019 and also her \u2018instinct for turning her profound cultural vision into one that illuminates universal experience.\u2019 This is b. michael\u2019s inspiration for the tone.\u201d<br><br>It is hard to know whether Ms. Alexander\u2019s selection of b. michael will influence the choice of her friend, Michelle Obama, or if it says anything at all about the direction Mrs. Obama might go in.</i><br><br>THERE IS MORE.<br><br>THAT'S ALL FOR NOW!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_06:06:45", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4855645": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This discussion is dead huh?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_18:03:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "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": 4834478, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4854695": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_16:50:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4854299, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4857244": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Remember my New Year's Eve post?  I said the EXACT SAME THING and damned neat got shouted down about how it wasn't about race.<br><br>If Reid wasn't screaming about kicking out Lieberman, he should just STHU on this one cause he can't play this without it looking TOTALLY RACIAL.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_20:57:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 4833218, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832170": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "spirit:   Watched it!!!  She \"brought it!!\"  Whooooo!   Hooo!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:25:33", "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": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831727, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831659": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "spirit:   Thanks.   :&gt;)   I like the \"ruffles.\"   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:51:37", "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": 4830370, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831149": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Any disco queens here? <br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXDHzs4--6s\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXDHzs4--6s</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:15:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "bigassbelle", "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}, "4831663": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You can blame Bobby Rush for injecting race in this mix and it was pathetic, to say the least.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:50:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831554, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831277": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Following up on my post from a couple of days about about the <a href=\"http://www.change.org/ideas\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ideas for Change</a> competition ... Baratunde's idea wound up in a three-way tied for third place in Global Warming.  He had also submitted it in Energy, where it's #2 ... not sure whether they'll combine these.  Either way, though, it's in the finals.   [So is mine: \"Get FISA right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties\" was #2 in Criminal Justice.]<br><br>The second round of voting starts on January 5 and so now's a good time to think about how to promote the ideas ...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:26:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "JonPincus", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 23, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834225": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lol<br><br>You're hilarious!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:02:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4833268, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831154": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm sorry, you can't wag your finger at Bush and say SHAME ON YOU FOR WIPING YOUR ASS ON THE CONSTITUTION but when Harry Reid & the Democrats do it say \"Would you like 2-ply or 3?\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:14:29", "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": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831075, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4857267": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ya know Kos hates diversity - hell, he even hates using the word.<br><br>You and I both know why - we confronted their asses about it at Netroots Nation and Donna Edwards wouldn't allow Kos to sprinkle his pixie dust on her victory over Al Wynn.<br><br>I've been on Kos' shyt list ever since and since it doesn't pay my bills, I don't give a damn.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_21:00:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 4856481, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831668": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Can't;  the ultrasound appointment.<br><br>Damn.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:50:58", "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": 4831569, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4856990": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well dang Harry!! what about Hermoine or Jenny Weasley?? Dang! lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_20:31:36", "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": 4856691, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832694": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I dont know about you, but the liberal bigots irritate me WAY more than the regular ole bigots of stormfront or red state. The ones on stormfront and red state simply amuse me...that pack of idiots on dkos, I'd like to punch.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:59:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 30, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832503, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833207": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Try this website:<br><br><A HREF=\"http://www.HTMLclinic.com/example.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> HTML Clinic</A> <br><br>This helped me w/ my hyperlinks. Hope it helps you Alexander.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:35:52", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832895, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831672": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Denise:   ABSOLUTELY!!!   NONE!!!    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:52:53", "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": 4829586, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833268": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'll be waiting for ya...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:39:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 4833178, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833213": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Alexander:  \"WHAT D SAID!!\"     :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Annnnnnd, \"WHAT CAROLINAGIRL - - <b>MY MENTOR!  :&gt;)</b> SAID!\"   :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:36:34", "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": 4832895, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833214": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Probably for being a Republican.<br><br>That woman has a good deal of love and patience if she hasn't killed you already.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:36:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832268, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4856767": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I didn't hang out there in 2000 or 2004.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_20:05:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "JonPincus", "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": 4856320, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833218": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I saw that.  At this point, I cannot help but look at this Burris situation through the prisms of race.  I can't.  to be honest, if Burris would've been a, lets \"damaging\" his appointment is.  We wouldn't be hearing about police officers arresting his ass as if he was a low level drug dealer.  Not only that, if Burris would've been a white woman, Harry Reid wouldnt be acting a like he's such a bad ass.  <br><br>p.s-) so pernicious is this whole thing that I dont even think PE BO would have a problem with Blago's selection if she'd have been a white woman.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:35:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "f9aaa8acc43fd7620185ff90cef3c05a", "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": 4832102, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4854724": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm asking for clarification now, I'm interested.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_16:53:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "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": 4854645, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834758": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm not sure which politicians, public intellectuals or celebs are not \"egomaniacs.\"<br><br>Just like folks going after Beyonce v. J. Hudson, on this site.  <br><br>The ego is often a juicy target for folks we dislike.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:45:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "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": 4834528, "depth": 13, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4856481": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Carmen Van Kerckhove blog host of <a href=\"http://www.racialicious.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.racialicious.com</a> coined the term HIPSTER RACISM that is soooo appropriate amongst the so-called progressives/liberals whatever they want to cll themselves. We need to start setting standards and vetting WHO our ALLIES are. The majority of the posters over there would not pass the smell test! <br><br>Of course as you know from my dealings with him \"we\" are free to do our own thing. There's no exclusion, nothing to address because we all want the \"same\" things.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_19:33:28", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832503, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4828618": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Awwww!   Missed it!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)  Sorry!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_06:14:36", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4828272, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4855031": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Be honest, I might get shot before making it to jail. LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_17:17:21", "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": 4854796, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831180": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Town, Booyah!   \"LAW IS THE LAW\"  What is it  that we don't seem to understand here?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:16:57", "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": 4830979, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831693": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I absolutely agree. Using \"race\" as an explicit factor will also make it difficult for black politicians in IL to get past race to win state-wide offices. <br><br>The Axelrod model has done well over and over, Deval Patrick (1st black gov of MA), Obama (1st black president) etc... <br><br>The Racial Grievance model doesn't work well.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:54:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "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": 4831554, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832718": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:01:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832559, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833272": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Or, even better:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_links.asp\" rel=\"nofollow\">How to Link</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:39:01", "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": 4832895, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831699": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Discrimination and bigotry costs when you have to start counting major Benjamins as a result.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:53:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 4831070, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834772": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "by folks I mean your comment specifically --", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:44:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae80223634f76c002d9fc9b3981186f9", "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": 4834758, "depth": 14, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831189": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Go Town!<br><br>The Law is the Law!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:18:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4830979, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832214": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You're so on it! I'm so tired of the black woman being abused. Just f-ing tired of it! <br><br>Great post! Even though it breaks my heart.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:29:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831199, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4856791": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have been blogging about the movie star crappy Gov since I started my blog this summer. He SUCKS! He has NO LEADERSHIP SKILLS. He was an unqualified white man who used celebrity to railroad an election. Kinda like my Mayor Gavin Newsom using gay marriage to ward off a well-financed recall attempt that was about to be launched against him. There is no way I'm paying 10% sales tax. Even NYS isn't that high and eliminated it for certain types of purchases.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_20:08:41", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4828724, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834462": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "At least if you go to StormFront or Red State, you can't say you weren't warned.  The \"liberals\" remind me of water moccasins - silent but deadly.<br><br>Open bigots are like rattlesnakes - you get a warning before the strike.<br><br>The snake analogy referring to bigots - courtesy of my father. LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:20:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 4832694, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831196": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Exactly!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:19:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "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": 4830474, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832733": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Damn...I sure do know alot of egomaniacs in my own family.....in fact, I know a lot of egomaniacs period.....oh well! The dkos crowd and those that think being a \"jr\" or being named after a parent is a bad thing can KISS MY GRITS!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:03:55", "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": 4832687, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833246": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah! I did the same thing. I had to up and leave after their latest hissy fit about Rick Warren. SMH!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:38:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "LisaM5432", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832967, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831199": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.womanist-musings.com/2009/01/children-of-lesser-god.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Children of A lesser God: </a>The rape of a young black girl (trigger warning) but very powerful.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.womanist-musings.com/2009/01/which-race-has-most-beautiful-women.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Which race has the most beautiful women:</a>A beauty poll where once again black women are found lacking while white women are held up as the paradigm of beauty.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:18:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "womanistmusings", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831203": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I was just about to add in the black part myself. What are they going to do get a firehose and some dogs and remind him of his childhood?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:20:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "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": 4830215, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834789": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You sure? <b>:)</b><br><br><br>Just kidding, D!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:47:13", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4833309, "depth": 12, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4830695": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I agree  that anyone appointed by Blago is tainted but why bring race into the mix. It's not worth it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_11:37:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "faba19c60bc49948a7a5801b50c79fe1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 13, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4830477, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4830697": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Definitely!  Hit 'em in the pocketbook!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_11:39:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4830610, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4830186": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Nonfeasance. It is a word we should become familiar w/. We lived it these last 8 yrs under the Bush administration and was the basis of his governance.<br>This link to WAPO is a reflection of the many jobs that need feasance, i.e. attention to detail we have come to expect from PE Obama. They are also the secondary jobs that will allow the Democratic Party to build an executive cadre or nomenklature for 2012 cabinet positions.<br><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/31/AR2008123102216.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a><br><br>rikyrah You commented on the Ukraine/Europe gas ruckus the other day. A good place to follow energy policy and ideas is: the oil <a href=\"http://drum.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">drum.com</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_10:48:33", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831723": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Blago should've waited a couple of days.<br><br>\"Don't lynch me, bro\" would've been a good start to '09.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:55:22", "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": 4831663, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831214": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Spirit,<br><br>I swear to Gawd!  You gotsta have ESP working! lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:19:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4831180, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4834557": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CPL:  -Errr,   -ummm  Did you REQUEST this??:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPhe97IYAko&eurl=http://www.microwaves101.com/content/unknowneditor41.cfm\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hank Ballard : Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go ( 1960 )</a><br><br>ENJOY!!!!   :&gt;)      :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_15:29:34", "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": 4832570, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833143": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Myth:  Found <a href=\"http://chicago.about.com/od/governmentandmedia/a/InauguralEvents.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">THIS - - INAUGURATION EVENTS</a><br><br>Maybe it will lead to other articles.  :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:31:42", "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": 4832566, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4830196": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The difference between Udall, Begich , etc is that they were elected legitimately. This fool was appointed by a corrupt governor who try to sell the senate seat.  Lets face it Burris is an idiot.  On top of accepting this assignment he then accuses the senate of being racist.  Talk about starting on the wrong foot. Because of this he will probably be an ineffective senator. It's not just rounding up votes but also being able to negotiate. Burris made his choice now he needs to put up and shut up.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_10:49:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "faba19c60bc49948a7a5801b50c79fe1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 46, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4829803, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831224": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "OMG!! I just wrote my comment right above and then scrolled down read yours and you mentioned firehoses too...lol!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:21:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "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": 4830740, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832250": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Why can't Burris name his kids Roland Jr. and Rolanda?<br><br>Did John McCain Jr have some kind of complex when he named his son John McCain III?<br><br>Did Barack Obama Sr. have some kind of complex when he named his son Barack Obama Jr.?<br><br>These Daily Kos clowns who cried and whined all year that it wasn't right when Billary and the Republicans were insinuating something \"bad\" about Obama because his middle name is \"Hussein\" are now gonna turn around and insinuate something \"bad\" about Burris because he named his kids Roland Jr. and Rolanda?<br><br>These clowns need to get a life.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_13:31:48", "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": 23, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4832102, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4857339": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Now you know we aren't the 'right' kind of Black women for that crowd! Happy new year the way!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_20:07:12", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4857267, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4832764": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yep, there was talks of her singing at the inauguration before the tragedy struck. After her performance at the DNC, who in their right mind wouldn't want to have her do it one mo time? That girl can BLOW.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:06:16", "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": 4832058, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4833789": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "By that reasoning, I must have a hell of a lot of egomaniacs in my family, too, because my grandfather was Burdett Stills, Sr; my father was Burdett Stills, JR; my brother is Burdett Stills, III, and his son, my nephew, is Burdett Stills, IV.<br><br>According to my nephew, if he has his way when he marries and if he should have a son, that child has already been named.  He will be Burdett Stills, V.<br><br>I also have five male cousins who are all named after their fathers, and if you holler \"Junebug\" (country slang for \"Junior\") at the family reunion picnic, seven heads are going to turn in answer.<br><br>I should also say that my grandmother was named Leutisha, and guess what; my cousin and I are both named after her because my mother and her sister-in-law were pregnant with us at the same time, and my grandmother was complaining because there were already three granddaughters NOT NAMED AFTER HER. My mom and her brother agreed if they had girls, one of us would be named after my grandmother.<br><br>I got the name first, by thirty days - my uncle kept his promise and named his daughter after my grandmother as well.<br><br>Tell the DKos-ters to \"bust\" that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_14:44:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 4832733, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4831742": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "He tried to do this another way, through the ballot initiatives when I was in California (living there) and he got punked at the voting booth; especially when the three most powerful labor unions in California punked his ass.<br><br>You do NOT piss off the Firefighters Union, The Teachers Union or the California Nurses Association.<br><br>Ah-nold found out the HARD WAY.  Serves him right for trying to transform into a wingnut ReThug, instead of the moderate he had always been.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_12:56:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "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": 4830250, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4854101": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lol :-))))", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-02_16:18:55", "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": 4853971, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "9251563", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": -6512990846727763500}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "friday_open_thread_99", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 291, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 9251563, "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_99' +
		'&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_99/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_99'
			+ '&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_99/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">291</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/friday_open_thread_99/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_99/">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:9251563" 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_99/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:9251563" 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:9251563" 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_99',
			// 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_99/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_99'
			+ '&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_99'
			+ '&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_99'
				+ '&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/9251563/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-4828214">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4828214" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4828214" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4828214">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4828214" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4828214" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Found a nice vid on RCA that had been on the news in the summer:<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4TIitZpqv4&NR=1" rel="nofollow">You can vote however you like</a><br><br>Annnnnd, the wiki:<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Clark" rel="nofollow">Ron Clark<br>From Wikipedia, </a><br><br><i>Ron Clark is an American teacher who has worked with disadvantaged students in rural North Carolina and Harlem, New York City. He is known for his books and multiple teaching awards.<br><br>History<br><br>The Ron Clark Academy, housed in a renovated red brick warehouse [2], is located in southwest Atlanta, Georgia, and accommodates fifth through eighth grade students. Students are from low wealth to high wealth families. Clark had planned to build the school for ten years before construction began. Along with the proceeds of his two books The Essential 55 and The Excellent 11, Clark raised additional funding for the project which eventually cost over $3.5 million. The academy was established on June 25, 2007. Classes began for students on September 4, 2007.</i><br><br>THERE IS MORE.<br><br>God continue to Bless the students/families/staff.   :&gt;)  Annnd, Ms. Oprah!   :&gt;)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4828272">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4828272" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4828272" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4828272">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4828272" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4828272" class="dsq-comment-message">Anyone online.<br><br>Go to <a href="http://www.wvon.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.wvon.com</a> right now.<br><br>Click on  LISTEN LIVE in the upper right corner of the website. Absolutely fabulous discussion right now -replay of the Burris nomination.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4828618">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4828618" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4828618" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4828618">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4828618" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4828618" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Awwww!   Missed it!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)  Sorry!   :&gt;)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4829362">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4829362" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4829362" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4829362">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4829362" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4829362" class="dsq-comment-message">Dang....I missed it....but do you know what song that is that plays on the video on that homepage?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4829556">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4829556" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4829556" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4829556">Denise</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4829556" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4829556" class="dsq-comment-message">I am currently watching Jesse White on Fox & Friends.  I gotta tell ya, setting aside all the political rhetoric about Blago\'s arrogance and what he <i> should not </i> have done, there is no LEGAL BASIS for refusing to certify Burris.   NONE!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4829586">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4829586" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4829586" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4829586">Denise</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4829586" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4829586" class="dsq-comment-message">p.s.<br><br>Don\'t get it twisted.  &gt;b&gt; None </b> of this has a goddam thing to do with PE Obama.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4831672">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831672" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831672" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831672">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831672" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831672" class="dsq-comment-message">Denise:   ABSOLUTELY!!!   NONE!!!    :&gt;)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4830457">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4830457" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4830457" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4830457">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4830457" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4830457" class="dsq-comment-message">Absolutely NO legal basis. At all.<br><br>I said it before..<br><br>Either we are a country of LAWS again, or we are not. <br><br>Follow the damn law. <br><br>May not like it. BUt, it is what it is.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4828580">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4828580" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4828580" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4828580">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4828580" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4828580" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah: <b>FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 2009;  DAY -18; On His "JOURNEY TO JANUARY 20, 2009!</b>  :&gt;)<br><br>1.  <b>WORD(s)</b> of the DAY:  <b>TRANSITION TRAIL/WORLD CRISES</b><br><br>2.  <b>HEADLINE(s):</b><br><br>     a)  <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OBAMA?SITE=VABRM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" rel="nofollow">Obama to meet with lawmakers, former presidents</a><br><br><i> CHICAGO (AP) --<b><u> President-elect Barack Obama will meet with congressional leaders to discuss his economic stimulus plan</u> and other legislative issues soon after his arrival in Washington in the coming days.</b><br><br>Obama and his family planned to fly to Washington on Sunday after their holiday vacation in Hawaii and a stopover in Chicago.<br><br>The president-elect was to meet with congressional leaders Monday, according to a senior Democratic congressional aide. Obama will meet with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, then join with them in a meeting with GOP leaders, said the aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he had not been authorized to discuss the plans.<br><br>Obama was also scheduled to talk with President George W. Bush and former presidents at the White House on Wednesday.<br><br><b>Obama, his wife Michelle, and their children left his native Hawaii on Thursday after a 12-day vacation and flew to Chicago, <u>arriving early Friday.</u> The Obamas planned to go to Washington on Sunday so 7-year-old Sasha and 10-year-old Malia can start school on Monday.</b><br><br>The Obamas aren\'t set to move into the president-elect\'s traditional Washington quarters until Jan. 15. In the interim, the first family-in-waiting will stay at the historic Hay-Adams Hotel near the White House.<br><br>The Obamas kept a low profile while vacationing on the island of Oahu. Aside from daily trips to the gym and golf courses, the president-elect seldom left his vacation retreat, a rented $9 million home near Honolulu. When he did venture out, it usually was to grab some shave ice, a local treat, go to the zoo or take some other child-friendly excursion.<br><br>Michelle Obama similarly remained out of sight, other than the occasional trip to the gym. She did not join Obama and the girls when they went to an aquatic park or to the zoo, nor when he visited the nearby Marine base on Christmas Day.</i><br><br>    b)  A statement re The Inaugural Poet":<br><br><a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/01/the-inaugural-poet-adorned/" rel="nofollow">The Inaugural Poet, Adorned</a><br><br><i>While the fashion world waits on edge to hear whom Michelle Obama is choosing to dress her for Inauguration Day, there is some fashion news on another inaugural front –the West Front of the Capitol, to be exact.<br><br>Among those on the West Front with Barack Obama on Jan. 20 will be Elizabeth Alexander, the poet from Yale whom he has selected to read at his swearing-in ceremony.<br><br>We had been wondering more about her poem than her attire, given that her mission is more spiritual than temporal, but <b>we nonetheless learned today that Ms. Alexander has chosen b. michael, a couture designer in New York, to create three pieces for her. Or, as a spokesman for b. michael put it, the designer is creating <u>three “looks” for Ms. Alexander</u></b><br><br><b>One</b> will be day-time wear for her reading. <b>Another</b> will be a gown for an evening inaugural ball. The <b>third</b> is an outer coat.<br><br>The coat will be the most visible, given that much of the world will be watching the swearing-in ceremony (no pressure, b!) and the weather will no doubt call for bundling up.<br><br>Mark-Anthony Edwards, a spokesman for b. michael, said he could not disclose the styles or colors that will be created for her. Asked to describe the tone that the designer is striving for, Mr. Edwards wrote in an e-mail:<br><br>“It has been said of Elizabeth Alexander her ‘poems bristle with the irresistible quality of a world seen fresh’ and also her ‘instinct for turning her profound cultural vision into one that illuminates universal experience.’ This is b. michael’s inspiration for the tone.”<br><br>It is hard to know whether Ms. Alexander’s selection of b. michael will influence the choice of her friend, Michelle Obama, or if it says anything at all about the direction Mrs. Obama might go in.</i><br><br>THERE IS MORE.<br><br>THAT\'S ALL FOR NOW!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4830370">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4830370" class="dsq-comment-message">Feeling temporal today-  Slide show of b michael couture<br><br><br><a href="http://www.bmichaelusa.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bmichaelusa.com/</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831659">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831659" class="dsq-comment-message">spirit:   Thanks.   :&gt;)   I like the "ruffles."   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4828724" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  CALIFORNIAN ALERT!!:<br><br><a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2157246/posts" rel="nofollow">Schwarzenegger\'s latest budget plan: Deep cuts, large tax hikes, more borrowing</a><br><br><i>SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger\'s staff Wednesday released his most detailed plan yet to tackle the state\'s staggering budget deficit, calling for deep cuts to state services, hefty tax increases and a large new round of borrowing to close a projected $41.6 billion shortfall through mid-2010.<br><br>While little of the proposal was new, it included some striking elements, such as cutting billions of dollars from public school funding and slashing the deduction state taxpayers can claim for their dependents. The plan also arrived a day after the state controller warned tax refunds might have to be paid with IOUs in the spring because California is so short of cash.<br><br>In years past, the governor has unveiled his annual budget plan in highly choreographed events before a gaggle of TV cameras. This time he remained on vacation in Sun Valley, Idaho, leaving his finance aides to present the plan on New Year\'s Eve.<br><br><b>The plan, the governor\'s third in as many months, has little chance of being adopted and serves more as a statement of his fiscal priorities. It would cut $5 billion from funding for public schools over the next 18 months <u>while imposing a temporary 1.5-cent sales tax increase</u>. Spending on welfare, health care for the poor and aid for the aged, blind and disabled would be cut dramatically.</b></i><br><br><b>[There is NO SUCH THING as a TEMPORARY TAX!!  It will B with us FOREVA & EVA!]</b><br><br><br><br><i>Despite forswearing more borrowing, Schwarzenegger proposes tapping Wall Street for a nearly $5 billion loan and pledging future lottery proceeds in exchange for an additional $5 billion. But the Wall Street loan may be iffy at best, given the frozen national credit markets and the state\'s shaky finances, while the lottery plan would have to be approved by voters.</i><br><br>As with the rest of the planet," things are RUFF in these there hills!"  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4830250">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4830250" class="dsq-comment-message">Arh-nuld can\'t hold up California\'s budget with his big honking biceps?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831609">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831609" class="dsq-comment-message">spirit:   LOL!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   He didn\'t larn that in "actin\' school!!"    :&gt;)      :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4831742" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831742" class="dsq-comment-message">He tried to do this another way, through the ballot initiatives when I was in California (living there) and he got punked at the voting booth; especially when the three most powerful labor unions in California punked his ass.<br><br>You do NOT piss off the Firefighters Union, The Teachers Union or the California Nurses Association.<br><br>Ah-nold found out the HARD WAY.  Serves him right for trying to transform into a wingnut ReThug, instead of the moderate he had always been.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831919">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831919" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL:    YES!  I remember!!  TRUE  DAT!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4856791" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4856791" class="dsq-comment-message">I have been blogging about the movie star crappy Gov since I started my blog this summer. He SUCKS! He has NO LEADERSHIP SKILLS. He was an unqualified white man who used celebrity to railroad an election. Kinda like my Mayor Gavin Newsom using gay marriage to ward off a well-financed recall attempt that was about to be launched against him. There is no way I\'m paying 10% sales tax. Even NYS isn\'t that high and eliminated it for certain types of purchases.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4829611">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4829611" class="dsq-comment-message">So anyone can hear virtually any benign remark coming out of the mouth of a person who looks of middle eastern descent or muslim faith and that justifies this?? All in the name of security? <br><br>WASHINGTON - Officials ordered nine Muslim passengers, including three young children, off an AirTran flight headed to Orlando from Reagan National Airport yesterday afternoon after two other passengers overheard what they thought was a suspicious remark. <br>Members of the party, all but one of them U.S.-born citizens who were headed to a religious retreat in Florida, were subsequently cleared for travel by FBI agents who characterized the incident as a misunderstanding, an airport official said. But the passengers said AirTran refused to rebook them, and they had to pay for seats on another carrier secured with help from the FBI. <br>Kashif Irfan, one of the removed passengers, said the incident began about 1 p.m. after his brother, Atif, and his brother\'s wife wondered aloud about the safest place to sit on an airplane. <br>"My brother and his wife were discussing some aspect of airport security," Irfan said. "The only thing my brother said was, \'Wow, the jets are right next to my window.\' I think they were remarking about safety." <br>Irfan said he and the others think they were profiled because of their appearance. He said five of the six adults in the party are of South Asian descent, and all six are traditionally Muslim in appearance, with the men wearing beards and the women in headscarves. Irfan, 34, is an anesthesiologist. His brother, 29, is a lawyer. Both live in Alexandria with their families, and both were born in Detroit. They were traveling with their wives, Kashif Irfan\'s sister-in-law, a friend and Kashif Irfan\'s three sons, ages 7, 4 and 2. <br>Full story: <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28467263" rel="nofollow">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28467263</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4829705" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4829705" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4829705" class="dsq-comment-message">Not knowing what was actually said-which, in all likelihood, we probably never will-better to err on the side of caution. Seems to me that if they were being profiled because of their appearance, they would\'ve never made it on to the plane to begin with.<br><br>They were cleared, so it\'s an obvious misunderstanding. Some harm, but no true foul.<br><br>Why AirTran didn\'t put them on another plane, I don\'t know. On the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/01/family.grounded/index.html" rel="nofollow">CNN version</a> of this story (cause I just can\'t trust MSNBC on anything except sports scores), Mr. Irfan says he\'s not looking for money, but threatens that he might sue. <br><br>It will be interesting to see when the suit is settled out of court for an "undisclosed sum" and the public apology, what\'s done with that money. Since, you know, that\'s not the point.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4829744">parker404ga</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4829744" class="dsq-comment-message">No, it\'s not the point that the eventual plaintiffs are offered a monetary judgment.  Why does it matter to you?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4829771" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4829771" class="dsq-comment-message">Makes me wonder why he\'d say that. Anyone with good sense knows that as soon as the higher ups from AirTran get back from their vacations, they\'re going to issue a very public apology.<br><br>Why even threaten the suit?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4829817">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4829817" class="dsq-comment-message">Because if you DON\'T threaten to sue, AirTran will not only NOT apologize, they\'ll do it to somebody else.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4829920" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4829920" class="dsq-comment-message">This is going to turn out to be a flap over some arcane rule at AirTran-that will be done away with in short order-or an employee who decided to be an ass, who might catch the same result.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831070">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831070" class="dsq-comment-message">True Dat!!  The Benjamins are the only language these mofos understand.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831699" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4831699" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831699" class="dsq-comment-message">Discrimination and bigotry costs when you have to start counting major Benjamins as a result.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832505">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832505" class="dsq-comment-message">Word, CPL, Word.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4830610">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4830610" class="dsq-comment-message">Its not "erring" on the side of caution when paranoid nitwits with stereotypical views about people in traditional muslim garb are giving the right to have someone thrown off of a plane because - ON MY GOD! They said something about security!! Its just "erring" on the side of stupidity.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4830697">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4830697" class="dsq-comment-message">Definitely!  Hit \'em in the pocketbook!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4830999" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4830999" class="dsq-comment-message">You don\'t "say something" about security at an airport. You\'d think that be common sense, but I know it\'s on signs in airports for the common-sense impaired as well.<br><br>Course, let\'s be honest here: if it were anyone other than a white person, someone would cry racial profiling. And if it were a white person, it\'d be Bush\'s fault for creating the evil TSA.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4829703">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4829703" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/01/illinois.senate.burris/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/01/illinois...</a><br><br>If Burris shows up on the Senate floor Tuesday to be sworn in, he\'ll be barred from coming in.<br><br>However, if BLAGO shows up Tuesday, they MUST let him in as sitting governors have Senate floor priviledges.<br><br>Part of me HOPES Blago shows up.  If they let him in and let him walk around the Senate floor, isn\'t that a tacit acknowledgment that he\'s still in charge in IL?<br><br>And if he\'s still in charge in IL...............................?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4829730" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4829730" class="dsq-comment-message">Part of me feels bad for Burris for being caught in the middle of all this. Seems like he is (would be/would have been?) capable of doing a good job.<br><br>Part of me feels he\'s an idiot for accepting the appointment in the first place.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4829803">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4829803" class="dsq-comment-message">Burris is probably like "Dude.  I\'m 71.  This is my last shot.  I\'m taking it and I don\'t give  f* what anyone has to say about it."<br><br>Seriously, it\'s a no-lose situation for Burris because if things work out for him, he\'s a US Senator.  if they don\'t, he goes back to do what he was doing this time last week:  chillin\'.<br><br>The clowns on Daily Kos are screaming that Burris  should be thrown off the floor because he "has no rights to be there because he hasn\'t been sworn in."  By that logic, Mark Warner, Mark Begich, the Udalls, the lady who beat Liddy Dole, etc. don\'t "have any rights either" because until the swearing in, they won\'t have been sworn in either.<br><br>I hope Burris does show up and there\'s a nice scuffle between Capitol Police and a tiny 71 year old man.  I also hope Blago shows up just to see what those mofos will do.  LOL LOL LOL!!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4829903" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4829903" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4829903" class="dsq-comment-message">This is almost worth taking a trip over to the Hill next week for.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4829949" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4829949" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4829949">Denise</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4829949" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4829949" class="dsq-comment-message">OKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4831569">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831569" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831569" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831569">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831569" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831569" class="dsq-comment-message">D:   Goooooo!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Annnnnnnd, REPRESENT!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4831668">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831668" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831668" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4831668" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831668" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831668" class="dsq-comment-message">Can\'t;  the ultrasound appointment.<br><br>Damn.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4831885">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831885" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831885" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831885">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831885" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831885" class="dsq-comment-message">D:  FIRST THINGS FIRST!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>Virtual HUGS to the MRS!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4830196">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4830196" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4830196" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4830196">Micheline </span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4830196" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4830196" class="dsq-comment-message">The difference between Udall, Begich , etc is that they were elected legitimately. This fool was appointed by a corrupt governor who try to sell the senate seat.  Lets face it Burris is an idiot.  On top of accepting this assignment he then accuses the senate of being racist.  Talk about starting on the wrong foot. Because of this he will probably be an ineffective senator. It\'s not just rounding up votes but also being able to negotiate. Burris made his choice now he needs to put up and shut up.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4830477">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4830477" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4830477" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4830477" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4830477" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4830477" class="dsq-comment-message">Have to agree; black, white, hispanic, or what have you, anyone Blago appointed would be in the same boat.<br><br>He\'s gonna be a warm body until \'10, when he\'ll stand for election and lose in the last, final rejection of Blago.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4830695">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4830695" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4830695" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4830695">Micheline </span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4830695" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4830695" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree  that anyone appointed by Blago is tainted but why bring race into the mix. It\'s not worth it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831479" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831479" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831479">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831479" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831479" class="dsq-comment-message">Unfortunately, in America RACE will always in the mix.<br><br>It just depends on what kind of cake\'s being baked.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4831554">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831554" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831554" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4831554" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831554" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831554" class="dsq-comment-message">People make the decision to bring race into things where it doesn\'t necessarily belong.<br><br>This is one of them.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831663" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831663" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4831663" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831663" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831663" class="dsq-comment-message">You can blame Bobby Rush for injecting race in this mix and it was pathetic, to say the least.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4831723">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831723" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831723" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4831723" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831723" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831723" class="dsq-comment-message">Blago should\'ve waited a couple of days.<br><br>"Don\'t lynch me, bro" would\'ve been a good start to \'09.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4831769">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831769" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831769" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831769">Piepiepie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831769" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831769" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4831759">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831759" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831759" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831759">Piepiepie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831759" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831759" class="dsq-comment-message">As well as Burris and Blago -- that P.C. was ham-fisted "stratergery."</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4831693">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831693" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831693" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831693">Piepiepie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831693" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831693" class="dsq-comment-message">I absolutely agree. Using "race" as an explicit factor will also make it difficult for black politicians in IL to get past race to win state-wide offices. <br><br>The Axelrod model has done well over and over, Deval Patrick (1st black gov of MA), Obama (1st black president) etc... <br><br>The Racial Grievance model doesn\'t work well.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4831879">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831879" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831879" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831879">Micheline </span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831879" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831879" class="dsq-comment-message">co-sign</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832926" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832926" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832926">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832926" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832926" class="dsq-comment-message">Piepiepie:  Co-sign!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831795" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831795" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831795">Micheline </span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831795" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831795" class="dsq-comment-message">You say that race will always be in the mix but there\'s a smart way of bringing it and a dumb way. The way Rush and Burris played it was quite dumb.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832301" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832301" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832301">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832301" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832301" class="dsq-comment-message">You\'ll get no argument from me, there.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831537" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831537" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831537">pjamma</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831537" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831537" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with you Micheline.  There are a lot of race issues in the world and this is not one of them.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831607" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831607" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831607">Piepiepie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831607" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831607" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s absolutely absurd.<br><br>The law is not clear on seating Burris and it is likely to be played all the way through the senate.<br><br>As far as the "optics," I think there are also numerous people who seem to think Obama standing up to a song and dance by Bobby Rush, Burris and Blago talking about racial grievence is bad for Obama and the Dems?<br><br>Are you serious? This is manna from heaven... either way they win.<br><br>Further -- there are already delays in MN, and they\'ll be plenty of mud thrown in Eric Holder\'s and Hillary Clinton\'s nominations. <br><br>So, I don\'t by the "we can only do one thing at a time ruse."<br><br>The other interesting part is the element of "spine," which has not yet really been described accurately to me. <br><br><br>An actual democrat who is show to have serious LEGAL and ethical issues clearly comprimises himself and you want every democrat in the county to roll-over.  Worse, the primary rationale is the appointment is black.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4830554" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4830554" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4830554">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4830554" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4830554" class="dsq-comment-message">Burris won\'t be responsible for rounding up votes on federal measures and negotiating federal money or grants for Illinois won\'t be a problem. Dick Durbin is the senior senator and its Barack Obama\'s homestate....its really not an issue. This is like pageantry when all is said and done. Blago is letting someone where a crown for 2 years and in the process attempting to save his own azz, that\'s all it amounts too under these circumstances....so everyone might as well, chill and let it ride. In the end, Burris will be the senator unti 2010 - Reid and company need to be working on their "save face" remarks for the impending press conference.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4830720" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4830720" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4830720">Micheline </span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4830720" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4830720" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s not pageantry. Burris would still be senator. Being junior senator doesn\'t mean Burris is off the hook. Obama was a junior senator but an effective. Same with HRC.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4830794">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4830794" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4830794" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4830794">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4830794" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4830794" class="dsq-comment-message">Both elected, and both had higher aspirations. This 71 yr old man does not have such aspirations. This is not EVEN about what he could or would do as a senator, frankly, it has NOTHING to do with that.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4830979" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4830979" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4830979">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4830979" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4830979" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, I\'ve seen you crying on Daily Kos about this.<br><br>BURRIS was (s)elected legally as well unless and until proven otherwise.  Blago ain\'t stupid and neither is Burris, so I\'m gonna assume with a 99% certainty that this deal is clean and above board, whether Blago personally is or not.<br><br>The fact of the matter is Rod Blagojevich is still the governor of IL.<br><br>The US Constitution, 17th Amendment states the executive authority (Blago) of the state (IL) has the right to appoint a vacancy to the US Senate (Burris).<br><br>Blago has not been indicted, charged or impeached.<br><br>The IL Supreme Court DECLINED to strip him of his powers as Governor.<br><br>Blago, whether you like it or not, STILL has the authority and yes, the DUTY, to fill vacancies.  Which he DID in a legal, lawful manner (unless and until proven otherwise).<br><br>All these other shenanigans Reid, Jesse White, etc. are trying to do is really trying to shut down the Constitution to achieve a result they want.<br><br>Now you Daily Kos types have been CRYING for the past 50-11 months about Bush & Co. wiping his ass with the Constitution but when Reid does it, it\'s suddenly OK?<br><br>It\'s NOT Ok. <br><br>Reid & the Democrats are just mad that Blago punk\'d them on a national level.  How the hell is the SENATE gonna tell a state governor how to conduct his business?<br><br>Doesn\'t matter about Candidate 5, 4, 3, 2 or 1.  Did Blago sell the Senate seat to Burriss?  If not, game over.<br><br>This is a dangerous and slippery slope the Democrats want us to co-sign.  If Reid pulls this off and shuts down Burris, DON\'T BE CRYING  on Daily Kos when the Republicans decide "we\'re not going to seat X Senator from Y state because we "think" the election was "tainted."<br><br>Whether the (s)election was "tainted" or not is a brand new qualification the Senate is trying to add to the Constitution.<br><br>And where was all this STRENFF during the war vote, or FISA or Lieberman or any of that?  <br><br>Where was all this concern about "taint" when the Senate gave Ted Stevens a cheering, standing ovation?<br><br>Burris is hardly an "idiot."  Burris is probably on his way to the US Senate.  Why would Burris be concerned about "taint" when you have "tainted" people like Ted Stevens and Larry Craig roaming around the halls of the Senate?   <br><br>How do we know everything is on the up and up with the Delaware (s)election/appointment?  "If you appoint me, then I\'ll step down in 2010 so Biden\'s son can shuffle dance his way to the Senate?"  Maybe we should investigate that, since you Daily Kos types want to investigate Burris\' motives so bad and want to investigate Caroline Kennedy\'s motives so bad.  Investigate that shit right there.  <br><br>Blago caught y\'all with your pants down.  He made a LEGAL appointment to the US Senate as was his right to do guaranteed by the IL Constitution and the US Constitution.  IL could have had a special election and I\'m assuming the Democrats probably would have won since the IL GOP had such stellar choices such as Alan Keyes the last time around.  But naw, IL wanted to play games, and Blago checkmated your asses.<br><br>Seat Burris, have another Democratic vote and call it a day.<br><br>Or don\'t seat Burris, have a sideshow that drowns Obama and whine when President-elect Jindal or President-elect Palin come to town.<br><br>Your choice.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831075" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831075" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4831075" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831075" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831075" class="dsq-comment-message">God help me, but I agree with part of this.<br><br>(not the President-elect Palin part)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4831154">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831154" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831154" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831154">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831154" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831154" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m sorry, you can\'t wag your finger at Bush and say SHAME ON YOU FOR WIPING YOUR ASS ON THE CONSTITUTION but when Harry Reid & the Democrats do it say "Would you like 2-ply or 3?"</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831279" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831279" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4831279" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831279" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831279" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'d kiss you, but that just wouldn\'t be....conservative.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4831545">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831545" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831545" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831545">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831545" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831545" class="dsq-comment-message">D:  Don\'t worry.  It\'s JUST VIRTUAL!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>You won\'t lose your "Conservatism"?! [Is that a word??]   :&gt;)       :&gt;)     :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4832142">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832142" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832142" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832142">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832142" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832142" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL your wife might not appreciate that either!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4832268">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832268" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832268" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4832268" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832268" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832268" class="dsq-comment-message">She already wants to kill me, anyway.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4833214">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4833214" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833214" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4833214" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4833214" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833214" class="dsq-comment-message">Probably for being a Republican.<br><br>That woman has a good deal of love and patience if she hasn\'t killed you already.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4833309" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833309" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4833309" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4833309" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833309" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s just the pregnancy talking.<br><br><br><br>I think.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834789" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834789" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834789">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834789" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834789" class="dsq-comment-message">You sure? <b>:)</b><br><br><br>Just kidding, D!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4834837">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834837" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834837" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4834837" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834837" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834837" class="dsq-comment-message">Nope, so I sleep with one eye open.<br><br>:)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4853978" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4853978" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4853978">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4853978" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4853978" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah right!<br>lol<br><br>You got her pregnant, right? End of Story!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4854442" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4854442" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4854442" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4854442" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4854442" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, we called the Maury show, and....<br><br>Kidding, of course.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831302" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831302" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831302">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831302" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831302" class="dsq-comment-message">Tell it, Town!<br><br>Where was Reid\'s spine for the past years?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831180" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831180" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831180">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831180" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831180" class="dsq-comment-message">Town, Booyah!   "LAW IS THE LAW"  What is it  that we don\'t seem to understand here?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831214" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831214" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831214">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831214" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831214" class="dsq-comment-message">Spirit,<br><br>I swear to Gawd!  You gotsta have ESP working! lol</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832130" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832130" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832130">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832130" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832130" class="dsq-comment-message">Justice58, it\'s just good ole common sense; and it don\'t cost nada!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831189" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831189" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831189">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831189" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831189" class="dsq-comment-message">Go Town!<br><br>The Law is the Law!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831490" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831490" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831490">Micheline </span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831490" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831490" class="dsq-comment-message">Well I don\'t see the point of using armed men to shut out the man even though he is an egotistical idiot.  Yes the senate Democrats are weak but that does not take away the taint. Just because something is legal doesn\'t make it right. Blagojevich was following the black letter of the law doesn\'t mean that he followed the spirit of the law. The Democrats may get away with this by delaying the appointment. Once Blago gets impeached they can vacate the appointment. Quinn will appoint who ever he wants.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832110" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832110" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832110">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832110" class="dsq-comment-message">Doesn\'t matter if Blago followed the black letter of the law, disrespected the spirit of the law, etc.<br><br>Blagojevich followed the law and made a legal, lawful appointment to the US Senate.<br><br>Now the Democrats may "get away" with shutting down Blago & Burris, this is true.<br><br>But the Democrats BET NOT cry ever again when the GOP pulls some tricks out of their hats.<br><br>I don\'t want to see any whining at Daily Kos about how John Boehner did this or Mitch McConnell did that. If the Dems succeed in shutting down Burris, I don\'t want to see any whining from the Daily Kos crowd when the GOP doesn\'t seat Al Franken, and uses "taint" as the reason why.<br><br>Oh, but I know you\'ll say "The Democrats are in the majority, so they can\'t muster up the votes."<br><br>Well, you keep this trickery up, and the Republicans will remix 1994 on your asses in 2010.  And when they try to block "X" Democratic senator from being seated because of "taint," don\'t cry.  Because they\'ll have this case as a precedent and guess what, they\'ll be doing it legally too.<br><br>This is why I don\'t get caught up in Democrat = good  Republican = bad because to my eyes, they\'re both just different sides of the same coin.<br><br>Again, you CAN NOT point your crusty fingers at Bush, Cheney, etc. and scream they are blowing their boogers on the Constitution but because your guy Reid does it, it\'s suddenly "okay."<br><br>It\'s not okay.<br><br>The US Senate can\'t come down and tell a sitting governor not to exercise his duties guaranteed by the state and US Constitution.  If that\'s the case, why have state governments at all?  Just let the 2 senators from each state conduct state business and abolish governors altogether.<br><br>Now, I want Blago to roll down to Capitol Hill Tuesday with Burris and see which one of them gets blocked.  If they hustle Burris out but let Blago in, they have tacitly acknowledged that he is still the executive authority of the state of Illinois and still has the priviledges that go along with that.  Which includes the right to appoint somebody to fulfill the Senate vacancy.<br><br>If being under investigation/impeached means you can\'t run the government then Bill Clinton should have stepped down in \'98 and let Al Gore take over.<br><br>I\'m sorry but you can\'t point the finger at Bush when he blows his nose on the Constitution but cheer Reid on when he does it.<br><br>Hypocrisy is not a good look for the \'09.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832325" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832325" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832325">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832325" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832325" class="dsq-comment-message">Roll with it, Town!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4833119" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833119" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4833119">Denise</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4833119" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833119" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, if Blago doesn\'t show up, and Burris is out there on his own,  I\'m going to question the politlcal acumen of the black folk responsible for setting this up. <br><br>Just throwing this out there.  We shall  see.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834689" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834689" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834689">Micheline </span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834689" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834689" class="dsq-comment-message">co-sign</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834682" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834682" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834682">Micheline </span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834682" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834682" class="dsq-comment-message">Franken won through a recount. This fella was appointed.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4854436" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4854436" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4854436">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4854436" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4854436" class="dsq-comment-message">And if Obama gets deeply involved in this, it could taint him, too.<br>All I know is that Obama has released a statement, that\'s all.<br><br>Town, you\'re good (and correct).<br><br>Reid will back down; he always does.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4854837" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4854837" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4854837">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4854837" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4854837" class="dsq-comment-message">Co-Sign, Admiral!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831503" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831503">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831503" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831503" class="dsq-comment-message">Town:   WHAT YOU SAID!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)  Co-sign!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832573" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832573" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832573">Piepiepie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832573" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832573" class="dsq-comment-message">The sideshow won\'t be any worse than the Cabinet nomination hearings of H.Clinton and E.Holder -- So, I don\'t buy that part. <br><br>Everything of the moment is the "biggest thing ever" then disappears. (Lieberman, Rahm-Blago, JJjr-blago etc.)<br><br>The "Law is the Law," and plenty of smart people on both sides have constructed arguments that will be heard in the courts. So, that part is crossed out.<br><br>As far as the courts go.. Well in the senate race in MN Republicans and Democrats are already using the courts to settle the matter.<br><br>The democrats have strong reasons to use every court method possible -- one is the actually "taint." Two is the politics of allowing Blago to infect the senate agenda -- Democrats LOVE the optics of standing up to one of their own.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4830215" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4830215" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4830215">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4830215" class="dsq-comment-message">a tiny 71 year old BLACK man.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4830740" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4830740" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4830740">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4830740" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4830740" class="dsq-comment-message">See, I didn\'t want to say the "black" part, but yes, it will be a PR disaster to have MSNBC, Faux, CNN, etc. continuously looping the Capitol police hustling this tiny old black man out the door on the TV 24-7...and then somebody (coff, *Faux*) will have old footage of water hoses being turned on black people.<br><br>And then if Blago shows up and they just let him casually stroll around the Senate floor?<br><br>LMAO</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4830812" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4830812" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4830812">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4830812" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4830812" class="dsq-comment-message">Exactly.  LOL!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4830813" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4830813">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4830813" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4830813" class="dsq-comment-message">The stage has been set, costumes have been fitted, lines rehearsed..........lights.......cameras...............ACTION!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4830908" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4830908" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4830908">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4830908" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4830908" class="dsq-comment-message">ROTFLMBAO!!!   Damn, this just might get a Tony Award.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832601" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832601" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4832601" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832601" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832601" class="dsq-comment-message">The Wayans or MAD TV couldn\'t have scripted this better.<br><br>File in the "YOU CAN\'T MAKE THIS SHYT UP" category.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4830818" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4830818" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4830818">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4830818" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4830818" class="dsq-comment-message">lol</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831224" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831224" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4831224" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831224" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831224" class="dsq-comment-message">OMG!! I just wrote my comment right above and then scrolled down read yours and you mentioned firehoses too...lol!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831471" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831471" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831471">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831471" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831471" class="dsq-comment-message">Town:   ORRRR, a "dog" will be let loose JUST ta "follow him around!"  :&gt;)       :&gt;)    <br><br>What a "scene!"  :&gt;)         :&gt;)      :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832587" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832587" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4832587" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832587" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832587" class="dsq-comment-message">Let \'em show up with those German Shepherds to turn loose on Burris and see who looks more like the fool.<br><br>Hint - Not Burris.  LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832866" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832866" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832866">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832866" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832866" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL:    LOL!!!   :&gt;)<br><br>Actually, I\'m believin\' that there will be NO canines. <br><br>In, fact, the article stated that the POLICE would NOT take any actions, except to "bring in" the SECURITY.<br><br>In any case - - - stayin\' tuned to - - - -<br><br><b>"AS THE SENATE TURNS. . . ."</b><br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsdLRTvd-Is&feature=related" rel="nofollow">AS THE "SENATE" TURNS</a><br><br>"Brought to you by  "Alpo Dog Food", and featuring that famous rock group<b> "GUNS & HOSES"!</b>   :&gt;)<br><br> O.K.    I\'m  tha-rough!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4833155" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833155" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4833155" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4833155" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833155" class="dsq-comment-message">Green Lady, Burris might befriend that dog and turn it against its masters.  LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4833286" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833286" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4833286">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4833286" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833286" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL:   That would be <b>SCENE #2</b>  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Annnnnnd, he would NAME the canine - - - -<br><br><b>THE THIRD!</b>     :&gt;)      :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4833145" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833145" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4833145" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4833145" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833145" class="dsq-comment-message">Fake Noise won\'t even show the video if it comes to big gangsta Capitol Hill Po-Po throwing a 71-year-old man out of the Senate Chambers.<br><br>Someone needs to ask Harry Reid if he really wants to start off the Congressional session with this hot mess publicity?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833322" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4833322">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4833322" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833322" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree. But Harry Reid has been nothing but hot air so far. But we shall see how this plays out...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831203" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831203" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4831203" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831203" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831203" class="dsq-comment-message">I was just about to add in the black part myself. What are they going to do get a firehose and some dogs and remind him of his childhood?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4830474" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4830474" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4830474">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4830474" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m with Town. <br><br>They have no rights legally to do this. <br><br>So, let\'s get it on...LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4830626" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4830626" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4830626">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4830626" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4830626" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m just sayin...they best to realize that yep, Blago played the Big Joker...game OVER. Now shuffle the deck, re-deal and start a new game - and this time don\'t make jokers wild.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831196" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831196" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4831196" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831196" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831196" class="dsq-comment-message">Exactly!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832570" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4832570" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832570" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832570" class="dsq-comment-message">"The Thrill On The Hill"<br><br>And if I\'m on the volunteer PIC committee, I might have a front-row seat for this shyt.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834557" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834557" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834557">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834557" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834557" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL:  -Errr,   -ummm  Did you REQUEST this??:<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPhe97IYAko&eurl=http://www.microwaves101.com/content/unknowneditor41.cfm" rel="nofollow">Hank Ballard : Let\'s Go, Let\'s Go, Let\'s Go ( 1960 )</a><br><br>ENJOY!!!!   :&gt;)      :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4830551" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4830551">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4830551" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4830551" class="dsq-comment-message">Town,<br><br>A nice scuffle, huh? LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831038" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831038" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831038">Denise</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831038" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831038" class="dsq-comment-message">I hope Blago swaggers into D.C. with Mr. Burris next week just to keep this from looking like a complete NEGRO mess.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831252" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831252">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831252" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831252" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, I wanna see the drama! lol</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831582" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831582">Denise</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831582" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831582" class="dsq-comment-message">But this has to play out as Chicago political hardball - not as black folk showcasing a racial grievance.  <br><br>If Blago is a true <i> KISS MY ENTIRE @SS gangsta </i> , he\'ll accompany Mr. Burris to the Hill.  <br><br>I hope Congressman Rush stays out of this.  PUHLEEZE!!<br><br>Nah mean???<br><br>:: stuffs mouth with popcorn :::</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831773" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831773">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831773" class="dsq-comment-message">Denise!<br><br>I agree!<br><br> <i>If Blago is a true KISS MY ENTIRE @SS gangsta , he\'ll accompany Mr. Burris to the Hill. </i><br><br><br>That\'s what I\'m talking \'bout!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4833127" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833127" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4833127" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4833127" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833127" class="dsq-comment-message">Pass that bucket, Denise - I\'m co signing on how this needs to play out as Chi-town Style politics as opposed to race politics, too.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831918" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831918" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4831918" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831918" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831918" class="dsq-comment-message">Man, if Reid has people throw Burris out on Monday, this is going to be one hot mess.<br><br>A hot mess Reid could have avoided if he\'d kept his yap shut.  He always flaps his yap and either caves in or does nothing to back it up.<br><br>I\'m wondering how he\'s made it as a boxer all those years in Nevada.<br><br>Additionally, the DailyKos crowd goes along with whatever pixie dust Kos sprinkles along the way.  Today, they support Reid; how quickly they forget how loud they were calling for Reid\'s head on a plate because he didn\'t punish Joe Lieberman for campaigning against Obama.<br><br>The DailyKos Crowd is EQUALLY capable of DOUBLE STANDARDS themselves.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832559" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832559" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832559">Denise</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832559" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832559" class="dsq-comment-message">Girl, one good whiff of their "liberal"  entitlement vapors for me was enough.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832718" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832718" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832718">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832718" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832718" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831418" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831418">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831418" class="dsq-comment-message">Town:  YEP! saw this/posted - on Countdown 19.  :&gt;)<br><br>I said that the article read like a "real \'SMACKDOWN\'" appears to B inevitable!   :&gt;)<br><br>Got my "JJP popcorn"/green tea annnnnnnnd easy chair!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4830186">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4830186" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4830186" class="dsq-comment-message">Nonfeasance. It is a word we should become familiar w/. We lived it these last 8 yrs under the Bush administration and was the basis of his governance.<br>This link to WAPO is a reflection of the many jobs that need feasance, i.e. attention to detail we have come to expect from PE Obama. They are also the secondary jobs that will allow the Democratic Party to build an executive cadre or nomenklature for 2012 cabinet positions.<br><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/31/AR2008123102216.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a><br><br>rikyrah You commented on the Ukraine/Europe gas ruckus the other day. A good place to follow energy policy and ideas is: the oil <a href="http://drum.com" rel="nofollow">drum.com</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4830460" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4830460">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4830460" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4830460" class="dsq-comment-message">Five things I learned from visiting with Prince: From album plans to thoughts on Prop. 8<br><br>1.  He did not vote for Proposition 8. In fact, he didn\'t vote at all.<br><br>There is more<br><br><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2008/12/visiting-with-p.html" rel="nofollow">http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2008...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831807" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831807">RonnieB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831807" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831807" class="dsq-comment-message">Prince.  Thass ma boy, there.  Met homeboy back in 1979 when he wasn\'t NObody.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4830575" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4830575">islandgirl550</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4830575" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4830575" class="dsq-comment-message">Hope everyone had a nice New Years! This is off topic, but has anyone seen this website where a black woman is looking for a husband? I checked out her site, wow, she is taking action. Guess I should stop complaining. LOL!<br><br><a href="http://www.52weeks2findhim.com/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.52weeks2findhim.com/index.html</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4830950" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4830950">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4830950" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4830950" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey, islandgirl.  Hope you had a wonderful Birthday.  <br><br>Looks like Ms. N has her fav 4 on the field in her search for Mr. right.  lol!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832270" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832270" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832270">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832270" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832270" class="dsq-comment-message">it\'s fascinating....</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832641" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832641">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832641" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832641" class="dsq-comment-message">islandgirl550:  Heeeey!  HAPPY NEW YEAR!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>SAW her - - Neenie?  :&gt;)   She will probably get more responses with her "15 minutes of fame" spot on TV.    :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834328" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834328" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834328">islandgirl550</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834328" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834328" class="dsq-comment-message">I bet she will. Good luck to her. I am going to keep checking in to see if she finds anybody.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834377" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834377">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834377" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834377" class="dsq-comment-message">Islandgirl,<br><br>A belated Happy Birthday! Hope it was fun!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831149" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4831149" href="http://www.bigassbelle.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">bigassbelle</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831149" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831149" class="dsq-comment-message">Any disco queens here? <br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXDHzs4--6s" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXDHzs4--6s</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831257" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831257">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831257" class="dsq-comment-message">BAB:   Heeeee-eeeey!!  **hands in the air**    **gettin\' my dance on***<br><br>Annnnnnnnnnd, re-payin\' the FAVOR - - - <br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jLGa4X5H2c" rel="nofollow"><br>Boogie wonderland - Earth Wind and Fire</a><br><br>ENJOY!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831199" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831199" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4831199" href="http://www.womanist-musings.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">womanistmusings</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831199" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831199" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.womanist-musings.com/2009/01/children-of-lesser-god.html" rel="nofollow">Children of A lesser God: </a>The rape of a young black girl (trigger warning) but very powerful.<br><br><a href="http://www.womanist-musings.com/2009/01/which-race-has-most-beautiful-women.html" rel="nofollow">Which race has the most beautiful women:</a>A beauty poll where once again black women are found lacking while white women are held up as the paradigm of beauty.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831351" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831351">Piepiepie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831351" class="dsq-comment-message">Why would the "ranking" of "beautiful" women shock you? <br>Do you think that it would line up according to % of the ethnicity of the visitors? <br><br>e.g. I\'m hispanic so i say hispanic women look best.<br><br>Interestingly according to the creator of the poll "native american," "mixed" "hispanic" and "middle eastern" are "races."</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831754" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4831754" href="http://www.womanist-musings.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">womanistmusings</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831754" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831754" class="dsq-comment-message">YOu are assuming that it is according to the ethnicity of its visters.  Just because someone ma be Latin@ does not mean that they would vote that way. Whiteness is hegemonic and therefore any poll that includes them would naturally place them in a position of dominance.  The idea is to critique the idea that white is always pure and good.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831882" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831882">Piepiepie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831882" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831882" class="dsq-comment-message">So, we are to take offense b/c other people do not find black women to be the most beautiful? I\'m struggling to find the relevance of a non-scientific, hazy methodology Internet poll. <br><br>How would you choose to judge beauty? Further, you disregard the assumption of folks voting inline with ethnicity, then you use an equally strained assumption (in regard to the poll) to explain the results. <br><br>You have strong points with the analysis of standards of beauty; however, the poll is pretty shaky.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4856691" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4856691" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4856691" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4856691" class="dsq-comment-message">You should check out these sites<br><a href="http://whitewomensuck.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://whitewomensuck.blogspot.com</a><br><a href="http://whitemenforblackwomen.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://whitemenforblackwomen.blogspot.com</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4856990">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4856990" class="dsq-comment-message">Well dang Harry!! what about Hermoine or Jenny Weasley?? Dang! lol</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831438" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831438" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4831438" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831438" class="dsq-comment-message">An odd compliment:<br><br>You write good stuff. Above my level of comprehension, but still good.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831722" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831722" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4831722" href="http://www.womanist-musings.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">womanistmusings</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831722" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831722" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks I appreciate that</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831851">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831851" class="dsq-comment-message">We really want to go there, do we?  OK.  Lip collagen, botox, booty lifts, tannning booths.........Who are these WHTIE WOMEN trying to emulate?  <br><br>As GreenLadyHere says:    "I\'M THA...RUGH!"</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832544">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832544" class="dsq-comment-message">spirit:    Tha-rough - - I tell you!!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832214" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832214" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832214">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832214" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832214" class="dsq-comment-message">You\'re so on it! I\'m so tired of the black woman being abused. Just f-ing tired of it! <br><br>Great post! Even though it breaks my heart.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4833098" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833098" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4833098" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4833098" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833098" class="dsq-comment-message">I bet that poll didn\'t ask how many white men like black women.<br><br>&lt;&lt;&lt;side eye&gt;&gt;&gt;</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833230" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4833230">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4833230" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833230" class="dsq-comment-message">Ha!  I know you\'re right!<br><br>I swear to Gawd...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832520" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832520">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832520" class="dsq-comment-message">woman:  I went on my "Field Trip" and made a post!   :&gt;)<br><br>ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!   Wha\'?  ***blinkin\' eyes***<br><br>I\'m TIRED of "POLLS" like this which are "divisive" almost by definition!!  WHEW!!<br><br>Annnnnnnd, IT\'S "purported" PURPOSE!!???   <br><br>Nevermind!!<br><br>ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!<br><br><b>YOUR ANALYSIS - - - -  -SO ON POINT!!"</b>    THANK YOU!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831277" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4831277" href="http://talesfromthe.net/jon" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">jon</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831277" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831277" class="dsq-comment-message">Following up on my post from a couple of days about about the <a href="http://www.change.org/ideas" rel="nofollow">Ideas for Change</a> competition ... Baratunde\'s idea wound up in a three-way tied for third place in Global Warming.  He had also submitted it in Energy, where it\'s #2 ... not sure whether they\'ll combine these.  Either way, though, it\'s in the finals.   [So is mine: "Get FISA right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties" was #2 in Criminal Justice.]<br><br>The second round of voting starts on January 5 and so now\'s a good time to think about how to promote the ideas ...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831352" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4831352" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831352" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831352" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m curious: what would you replace the PATRIOT Act with?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4831484" href="http://talesfromthe.net/jon" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">jon</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831484" class="dsq-comment-message">In general I wouldn\'t.  For the specific sections that are worthwhile, new legislation -- that Congresspeople actually read and debate before voting on.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831532" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4831532" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831532" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m confused.<br><br>The (your?) statement is ""Get FISA right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties."<br><br>But it seems like you don\'t actually want to repeal the PATRIOT Act; seems like you\'d just rather they read it first.<br><br>Where am I wrong?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831708" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4831708" href="http://talesfromthe.net/jon" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">jon</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831708" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m not sure why you think I don\'t want to repeal it.  I even said I wouldn\'t replace most of it.<br><br>More information here in <a href="http://criminaljustice.change.org/blog/view/turning_the_page_on_fisa " rel="nofollow">Turning the page on FISA</a>.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831753" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4831753" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831753" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831753" class="dsq-comment-message">Ok, you <i>wouldn\'t</i> replace it. Missed that the first time.<br><br>So, with that said....you know there\'s an inherent risk that comes with that, right?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831847" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4831847" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831847" class="dsq-comment-message">What you and Jon fail to realize is that FISA didn\'t need to be modified or replaced.  For over the 30 years of its existance, the FISA courts have only rejected FIVE requests for surveillance and that\'s out of over 50, 000 requests the court received.<br><br>FISA was developed to restore the nation\'s confidence in the government as a result of Richard Nixon\'s spying on people and saying he had the legitimate authority to do so because he was the POTUS and the Constititution didn\'t apply to him (sound Familiar?)<br><br>Why did it need to be changed or modified?  Because the current Administration wanted to do away with the actual FISA court, and thereby free them to do whatever the hell they wanted in terms of spying on whomever they wanted, WITHOUT THE LEGAL AUTHORITY TO DO SO.<br><br>That\'s why FISA needs to be repealed.  I\'m surprised you don\'t see it for yourselves.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832026" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4832026" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832026" class="dsq-comment-message">The Bush modifications to FISA still don\'t completely take into account advances in technology since the law was first written.<br><br>The ability to collect intelligence on foreign entities and intelligence agencies-however that\'s done-IS the responsibility of the government.<br><br>And since no one can definitively show that it\'s been used for sport-what you\'re trying to reduce it to-why get rid of it, again?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834334" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4834334" href="http://talesfromthe.net/jon" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">jon</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834334" class="dsq-comment-message">Agreed for the most part; at the end of my post I linked to Deborah Pierce\'s "Brief history of FISA" has good references for all of this.  I do agree with D below that technology changes since 1978 have introduced some "technical defects" into the law that need to be fixed to get back to the original intent (and that July\'s shoddy amendment doesn\'t fully address them).  However you\'re totally right that the Bush Administration and their Republican and Blue Dog allies in Congress used this along with a false sense of urgency from August\'s "deadline" to ram through absolutely horrible legislation.<br><br>It\'s important to distinguish between repealing FISA as a whole and repealing last July\'s amendment and the 2001 extensions emedded in the Patriot Act.  Also in the short term there are a bunch of things that Obama and Holder can do if they choose -- my post links to docments from EFF, ACLU, CDT, andthe Liberty and Security coalition.  There was no way I could get this all in the title though so I just went with "get FISA right".</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834376" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4834376" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834376" class="dsq-comment-message">Jon, ITA; the technological advances is the only reason to modify FISA - otherwise the legislation was already good enough for what the Bush Adminstration wanted.<br><br>They didn\'t want to have to justify their reasons in a court of law, and I don\'t understand why D can\'t see that.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4834469" href="http://talesfromthe.net/jon" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">jon</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834469" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL, we are in violent agreement here.  The technical issues could have been fixed with very minor and localized changes.  At it\'s core this is about the Nixon-inspired "Article II"/unitary executive theory, mass surveillance of Americans, and immunity from the rule of law.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834508" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4834508" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834508" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834508" class="dsq-comment-message">Bush trying to circumvent the law because he knows his reason for trying to authorize those surveillances he wanted to do would have forced the FISA court to deny him his request (probably his request would have been the 6th one denied).</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834560" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4834560" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834560" class="dsq-comment-message">Thing is, I do see it.<br><br>Here\'s my thing: were the PATRIOT Act and the Terrorist Surveillance Program extreme reactions to 9/11? Yes.<br><br>Did they help? Probably; most Americans didn\'t really care/notice the programs until the fine print started getting read out loud.<br><br>Are they necessary forever? Of course not.<br><br>If there\'s no reason to further modify FISA or keep the TSP/PATRIOT Act, then by all means, they can go.<br><br>But someone-namely, the Obama Administration-had better be <i><b>damned sure</i></b> they\'re no longer needed, and be ready to explain why.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4856644" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4856644" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4856644" class="dsq-comment-message">Don\'t we have Dick Cheney to thank for all of this. He was pissed about having to adhere to standards during the Nixon administration and immediately went to work tearing EVERYTHING down after the Rethugs installed Shrub on his throne? Only thing is, he went way overboard and they destroyed the country.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4858522" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4858522" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4858522" class="dsq-comment-message">All too true.  He only used Dubya to do the dirty work.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833185" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4833185" href="http://talesfromthe.net/jon" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">jon</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833185" class="dsq-comment-message">While it changes the risk profile it\'s in a positive direction: repealing the PATRIOT Act and using resources currently being wasted on security theater and bulk surveillance (like on active-duty military\'s conversation with their families) on something more productive would decrease the risk of terrorist activities.  <br><br>Also there\'s a different kind of risk that\'s introduced by things like National Security Letters that enforce gag orders, and the way the FAA eliminates the possibility of audit.  Bruce Schneier made some excellent points about this in the recent Wall Street Journal article.  At this system level this increases the possibility of collective blind spots and so is also a major security risk.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831793" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831793" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4831793" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831793" class="dsq-comment-message">How about the sections which invade the rights to privacy and civil liberties.  Any nation spying on its own citizens has become the F word.<br><br>As in FASCIST.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831897" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4831897" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831897" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831897" class="dsq-comment-message">(and here I thought, in 2009, you and I weren\'t gonna argue)<br><br>You know what I\'m going to say to that....and I know what you-and everyone else here-will say in response.<br><br>You realize there are some elements in the world who are just <i>waiting</i> for the PATRIOT Act to be repealed by executive order, so that they can come after the US while we\'re trying to get our collective heads out, right? You alright with that?<br><br>Cause I\'m not.<br><br>Now, I\'ll concede that the PATRIOT Act should have some sort of provision that allows it to be suspended when no longer needed. But doing away with it entirely isn\'t-I don\'t think-the best course of action, especially since it\'s had <i>some</i> effect in keeping us safe.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832532" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832532" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4832532" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832532" class="dsq-comment-message">I said modify if not outright rescinding of it.<br><br>We are going to argue - GET USED TO IT.  Especially when you base your positions on inherently ReThug talking points.<br><br>&lt;&lt;&lt;adopts Amazon-like stance with hands on hips&gt;&gt;&gt;</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832644" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832644" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4832644" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832644" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832644" class="dsq-comment-message">You can stand how you want, damnit, I\'ll stare you right back down.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4833079" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833079" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4833079" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4833079" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833079" class="dsq-comment-message">Fine, I wouldn\'t want to apply a beat down ANY OTHER WAY.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4833178" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833178" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4833178" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833178" class="dsq-comment-message">Northern VA, right?<br><br>I\'ll see you soon. ;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4833268" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833268" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4833268" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4833268" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833268" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ll be waiting for ya...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834225" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834225" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834225">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834225" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834225" class="dsq-comment-message">lol<br><br>You\'re hilarious!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831426" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831426" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831426">pjamma</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831426" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831426" class="dsq-comment-message">Tamron Hall has become my favorite news anchor.<br><br>That\'s all.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831587" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831587" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831587">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831587" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831587" class="dsq-comment-message">really? I think she is the cutest but not very hard hitting. I am gonna have to check her out again.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831727" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831727" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831727">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831727" class="dsq-comment-message">JJai, Taron Hall is attractive, but don\'t l get misled by her cuteness.  <br><br>Tamron Hall can bring it!  Here\'s a video clip of December 30, 2008 to back it up:<br><br><a href="http://www.wowowow.com/post/msnbc-tamron-hall-magic-negro-anchor-lady-barack-obama-christmas-song-video-163292" rel="nofollow">http://www.wowowow.com/post/msnbc-tamron-hall-m...</a><br><br>*******************************************************************<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamron_Hall" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamron_Hall</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832170" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832170" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832170">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832170" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832170" class="dsq-comment-message">spirit:   Watched it!!!  She "brought it!!"  Whooooo!   Hooo!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832356" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832356" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832356">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832356" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832356" class="dsq-comment-message">True Dat!!!! GLH.  <br><br>Tamron:   Let\'s just wrap this segment up, before I open up a GIANORMOUS can of WHOOP AZZZZZ on ya!  LOL!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832631" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832631" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832631">Alexander</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832631" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832631" class="dsq-comment-message">During the Rev. Wright "controversy" Tamron stated on air that she had attended the church on several occasions and did not hear anything inflammatory.  She also talked about the important service the church provided the community.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832895" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832895" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832895">Alexander</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832895" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832895" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s the link. Tamron educates Chris Matthews.<br><br>&lt; a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPTTWtLocwg"&gt;MSNBC Anchor: "I used To Go To Rev. Wright\'s Church "</a>"</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4833092" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833092" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4833092">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4833092" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833092" class="dsq-comment-message">Great video Alexander!<br><br>If people are having trouble with the link above try <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPTTWtLocwg" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPTTWtLocwg</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833151" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4833151" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4833151" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833151" class="dsq-comment-message">1. Drop the space between the &lt; and the a,<br><br>2. End the tag with &lt; / a &gt; (again, with the spaces removed).<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPTTWtLocwg" rel="nofollow">MSNBC Anchor: "I used To Go To Rev. Wright\'s Church</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4833263" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833263" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4833263">Alexander</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4833263" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833263" class="dsq-comment-message">You did warn me about the spaces.  Thanks again.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4833207" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833207" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4833207">carolinagirl</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4833207" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833207" class="dsq-comment-message">Try this website:<br><br><A HREF="http://www.HTMLclinic.com/example.html" rel="nofollow"> HTML Clinic</A> <br><br>This helped me w/ my hyperlinks. Hope it helps you Alexander.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4833213" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833213" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4833213">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4833213" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833213" class="dsq-comment-message">Alexander:  "WHAT D SAID!!"     :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Annnnnnd, "WHAT CAROLINAGIRL - - <b>MY MENTOR!  :&gt;)</b> SAID!"   :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4833272" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833272" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4833272" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4833272" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833272" class="dsq-comment-message">Or, even better:<br><br><a href="http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_links.asp" rel="nofollow">How to Link</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834079" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834079" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834079">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834079" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834079" class="dsq-comment-message">Alexander:   Annnnnnnnd, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syd6vbAh94w" rel="nofollow">THIS ONE 2 - - MSNBC TAMRON HALL PLAYS UP OBAMA & PLAYS DOWN HILLARY</a><br><br>EVEN   DURING the PRIMARY!!   Listen to the END!    :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Go Girl!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832992" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832992" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832992">Alexander</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832992" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832992" class="dsq-comment-message">GreenLadyHere:  You and D, taught me how to hyperlink.  Can you please please tell me what I doing wrong (directly below).  Your humble student.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832135" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832135" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832135">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832135" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832135" class="dsq-comment-message">pjamma:   I like her  2!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4854690" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4854690" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4854690" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4854690" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4854690" class="dsq-comment-message">You can have her.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831594" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831594" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4831594" href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">icebergslim</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831594" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831594" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com/2009/01/jennifer-hudson-may-sing-at.html" rel="nofollow">Jennifer Hudson may sing at Inauguration</a><br><br><b>GO JEN!!!!</b></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831774" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831774" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4831774" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831774" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831774" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s why Beyonce is whining - SHE WANTED THIS GIG.<br><br>But her lack of sympathy for Jennifer Hudson\'s tragedy is the reason why she\'s not going to be a part of history - SERVES THAT NO TALENT HEIFER RIGHT.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4831892" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4831892" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831892">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4831892" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831892" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL,  Ouch!    <br><br>Happy New Year to ya!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832510" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832510" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4832510" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832510" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832510" class="dsq-comment-message">Happy New Year, Spirit.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832058" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832058" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4832058" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832058" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832058" class="dsq-comment-message">I thought it was always Hudson\'s spot to turn down.....?<br><br>Beyonce\'s already done it. That wouldn\'t be anything worth watching.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832764" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832764" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832764">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832764" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832764" class="dsq-comment-message">Yep, there was talks of her singing at the inauguration before the tragedy struck. After her performance at the DNC, who in their right mind wouldn\'t want to have her do it one mo time? That girl can BLOW.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832781" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4832781" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832781" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832781" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, if she can\'t do it, there\'s always.....<br><br>Never mind.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834590" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834590" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834590">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834590" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834590" class="dsq-comment-message">Who? (just curious)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834658" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834658" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4834658" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834658" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834658" class="dsq-comment-message">New Year\'s Resolution:<br><br>I dare not mention R. Kelly\'s involvement in the inaugural again.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4854500" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4854500" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4854500">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4854500" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4854500" class="dsq-comment-message">Ha! Well if he wasn\'t a pedophile, I\'d bet his "Inaugural" single would be #1 on the charts right this second.....he\'s a sicko, but he\'s a talented songwriting sicko.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4854556" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4854556" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4854556" class="dsq-comment-message">...followed by Jeezy/Nas\' "My President is Black."<br><br>Speaking of, if I see one more person in <a href="http://mixunit.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=11897" rel="nofollow">the shirt</a>, <i>they\'re</i> getting punched.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4854796" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4854796" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4854796">rorysmomma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4854796" class="dsq-comment-message">D, if you do that you are going to jail.,...  I am going to start selling fish plates to get your bail money together.  I am calling my girl that gets the styrofoam plates for cheap. LOL</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4855031" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4855031" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4855031" class="dsq-comment-message">Be honest, I might get shot before making it to jail. LOL</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4856412" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4856412">Piepiepie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4856412" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4856412" class="dsq-comment-message">Will the back say "Don\'t Lynch me Bro?"</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4856447" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4856447" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4856447" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4856447" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s hilarious!!<br><br>And a good idea...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4854940" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4854940">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4854940" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4854940" class="dsq-comment-message">Now I\'ve seen all of those tees before except the I Luv Michelle Obama one for guys....now that I likes! Any guy seen wearing that one will automatically get the CORRECT cell number! LOL</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4855017" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4855017" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4855017" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4855017" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, give me the wrong one, since I\'m still looking for a "I voted for McCain" shirt that doesn\'t say "I voted for McCain-Palin."</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4831966">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4831966" class="dsq-comment-message">icebergslim:  This would be a nice "pick-me-up" for her.  God Bless her.   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4855660" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4855660">lamh31</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4855660" class="dsq-comment-message">Count me as one of those people who is not really a fan of Beyonce\'s singing.  I mean I like her, but I think of her as a latter day Whitney Houston, ya know before Whitney went back to her "hood roots".  Now we all know Whitney can blow, but when she first started out, it was watered down pop music at it\'s finest.  You know Whitney could blow, but she obviously had not embraced here hoodness yet.  I find later day Whitney the best (yes I mean heroin addicted, tripped out, I love me some Bobby,  Whitney).  Beyonce is more of a hip hop pop princess.  <br><br>I find that I like singer with more feeling to there voice, even if they do not have the greatest range.  What makes Mary J Blige a great singer is that you could feel her when she sung.   The same way Aretha Franklin could sing "Ain\'t No Way..." and "Mr Feelgood" with passion, that\'s what Mary J does.  Beyonce just seems to sing with no real passion.  I think that is one of the reasons why her "Deanna" in "Dreamsgirls" didn\'t blow anyone away.  It was fluff.  It was basically, Beyonce, playing Diana Ross, playing Beyonce, playing Deanna. <br><br>Anyway, Beyonce needs to find that passion, and I\'m sorry, but her marriage to Jay-Z ain\'t doing it either.<br><br>Seriously, can anyone name a song by Beyonce or Destiny\'s Child that will stand the test of time like Aretha\'s "Do Right Man".  I can\'t think of any.  Can ya\'ll?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4856589" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4856589" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4856589" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4856589" class="dsq-comment-message">She was soooo good. I had made it inside Invesco just in time to hear her and I felt the goosebumps. She really puts her heart and soul into her singing. She\'s one of the few I can feel. I look forward to her getting older because once she moves away from the trendy (crappy to me) songs she can work with really good writers or work on her songwriting craft if she\'s so inclined and get better quality songs. She\'ll always have a career.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4861471" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4861471">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4861471" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4861471" class="dsq-comment-message">I hope she does, that would be wonderful.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832102" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4832102" href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">icebergslim</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832102" class="dsq-comment-message">Over at DKos making a slime, insinuation of Burris naming his kids Burris Jr and Rolanda.  Can we get some backup on this site and set the record straight?<br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/2/4559/21830/994/679373" rel="nofollow">Link</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832250" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832250" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832250">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832250" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832250" class="dsq-comment-message">Why can\'t Burris name his kids Roland Jr. and Rolanda?<br><br>Did John McCain Jr have some kind of complex when he named his son John McCain III?<br><br>Did Barack Obama Sr. have some kind of complex when he named his son Barack Obama Jr.?<br><br>These Daily Kos clowns who cried and whined all year that it wasn\'t right when Billary and the Republicans were insinuating something "bad" about Obama because his middle name is "Hussein" are now gonna turn around and insinuate something "bad" about Burris because he named his kids Roland Jr. and Rolanda?<br><br>These clowns need to get a life.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832462" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832462" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4832462" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832462" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832462" class="dsq-comment-message">But the DKos crowd has NOTHING to say about:<br><br>TRACK, TRIG AND TRIPP.<br><br>Kos must be whining - so the posters whine in the SAME DAMNED WAY.<br><br>So much for independence of personal thought because the DKos crowd doesn\'t have it and never will.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832615" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832615" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832615">Piepiepie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832615" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832615" class="dsq-comment-message">I can\'t tell if you all are playing or serious.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832952" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832952" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4832952" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832952" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832952" class="dsq-comment-message">WE\'RE NOT PLAYING.<br><br>What is the problem with what Roland Burris named his children?<br><br>George Foreman has five sons and they\'re all named GEORGE. I guess if he were running for office, that would be an issue.<br><br>Kos\' real name is MARKOS MOULITSAS ZUNIGA. And no one\'s having a cow about THAT.<br><br>Roland and Rolanda are named after their FATHER, which in most cultures, is a time-honored tradition.<br><br>Oh, WAIT.  It\'s only time-honored traditions WHEN EVERYONE ELSE EXCEPT POC DO IT.  My bad.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834016" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834016" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834016">Piepiepie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834016" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834016" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s one article from dkos where they go after the whole naming thing:<br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/16/18614/8031" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/16/186...</a><br><br>Took me hmm. 20 seconds to run a search. <br><br>So, does that throw your whole argument into doubt because your evidence is not accurate?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4834057">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834057" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834057" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4834057" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834057" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834057" class="dsq-comment-message">No, it only verifies my claim - they\'re only doing it because its a BLACK MAN, and if you can\'t accept that, stop responding to my posts.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834090" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834090" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834090">Piepiepie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834090" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834090" class="dsq-comment-message">They go after Palin in the post...<br><br>How does this verify your claim?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834140" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834140" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4834140" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834140" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834140" class="dsq-comment-message">Because if some soul hadn\'t bothered to point out the names of Palin\'s kids, to indicate the hypocracy of going after Roland Burris for naming his kids after him, and not highlighting Palin\'s idiocy.<br><br>The fact is, what Roland named his kids had nothing to do with being appointed to fill Obama\'s seat and those posts indicated the DKosters had nothing else to argue except to go personal.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834204" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834204" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834204">Piepiepie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834204" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834204" class="dsq-comment-message">And that has to do with his blackness?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834407" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834407" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4834407" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834407" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834407" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, it does, because if he were white, DKosters wouldn\'t be having this discussion.<br><br>That\'s why it\'s being discussed here - the DOUBLE STANDARD again.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834491" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834491" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834491">Piepiepie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834491" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834491" class="dsq-comment-message">Palin was white, disliked and her kids names were made fun of by Dkosers and late night comedians alike ...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834528" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834528" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4834528" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834528" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834528" class="dsq-comment-message">Point taken, but are you trying to say the DKosters were being equal opportunity to go after what Burris named his children when they called him an "egomaniac"?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834758" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834758" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834758">Piepiepie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834758" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834758" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m not sure which politicians, public intellectuals or celebs are not "egomaniacs."<br><br>Just like folks going after Beyonce v. J. Hudson, on this site.  <br><br>The ego is often a juicy target for folks we dislike.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834772" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834772" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834772">Piepiepie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834772" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834772" class="dsq-comment-message">by folks I mean your comment specifically --</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834841" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834841" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834841">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834841" class="dsq-comment-message">Sure wouldn\'t. If Blogo had chosen, say...Schakowsky, there would be no problem, would there?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4857179" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4857179" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4857179" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4857179" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4857179" class="dsq-comment-message">Actually, Schakowsky would have been a problem too, because she\'s a white female progressive.<br><br>They want a Blue Dog in that seat if its\' going to remain Democratic.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834238" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834238" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834238">Piepiepie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834238" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834238" class="dsq-comment-message">Your first paragraph isn\'t clear to me, are you saying Dkosers did not highlight Palin\'s "flaws" or that they did question her on the basis of naming her kids?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834393" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834393" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4834393" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834393" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834393" class="dsq-comment-message">They were going to harp about Burris until Palin\'s idiocy was pointed out.<br><br>Their hypocracy was showing.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834472" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834472" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834472">Piepiepie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834472" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834472" class="dsq-comment-message">So, you think they supported Palin? <br><br>I read it as Dkosers don\'t like either and will engage in pettiness like everywhere else on the blogosphere.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832687" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832687" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832687">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832687" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832687" class="dsq-comment-message">I guess both McCain\'s and Obama\'s dads were egomaniacs since their sons were named after him.<br><br>Shoot, we should have retroactively impeached George HW Bush since he named his inept son after himself.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832733" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832733" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832733">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832733" class="dsq-comment-message">Damn...I sure do know alot of egomaniacs in my own family.....in fact, I know a lot of egomaniacs period.....oh well! The dkos crowd and those that think being a "jr" or being named after a parent is a bad thing can KISS MY GRITS!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833789" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4833789" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833789" class="dsq-comment-message">By that reasoning, I must have a hell of a lot of egomaniacs in my family, too, because my grandfather was Burdett Stills, Sr; my father was Burdett Stills, JR; my brother is Burdett Stills, III, and his son, my nephew, is Burdett Stills, IV.<br><br>According to my nephew, if he has his way when he marries and if he should have a son, that child has already been named.  He will be Burdett Stills, V.<br><br>I also have five male cousins who are all named after their fathers, and if you holler "Junebug" (country slang for "Junior") at the family reunion picnic, seven heads are going to turn in answer.<br><br>I should also say that my grandmother was named Leutisha, and guess what; my cousin and I are both named after her because my mother and her sister-in-law were pregnant with us at the same time, and my grandmother was complaining because there were already three granddaughters NOT NAMED AFTER HER. My mom and her brother agreed if they had girls, one of us would be named after my grandmother.<br><br>I got the name first, by thirty days - my uncle kept his promise and named his daughter after my grandmother as well.<br><br>Tell the DKos-ters to "bust" that.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834155" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834155" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834155">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834155" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834155" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>I also have five male cousins who are all named after their fathers, and if you holler "Junebug" (country slang for "Junior") at the family reunion picnic, seven heads are going to turn in answer.</i><br><br><br><br><br>Ah CPL, You don\'t miss a beat! LOL!<br><br>But, sure you\'re right! My oldest is named after his father & the list goes on..</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834275" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834275" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834275">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834275" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834275" class="dsq-comment-message">I was named for my father\'s favorite sister, and my mother\'s closest cousin. <br><br>My great-niece was given the middle name of her mother, her  great aunt, her great-great aunt, and her great-great-great aunt. <br><br>If I have a daughter, one of her names will be Emma, a family name going back 200 years. <br><br>These mofos need to STFU. <br><br>Laughing about Junebug.<br><br>My nieces are \' Sister\' and \' Little Sister\'.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832503" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4832503" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832503" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832503" class="dsq-comment-message">They have nothing else to whine about, that\'s all.<br><br>Maybe if POC quit patronizing Kos\' website, it would force him and the rest of those supposedly "liberal" posters to face their OWN DAMNED BIGOTRY.<br><br>Yeah, I said it.  There are liberal BIGOTS that post there and they\'re getting as bad as STORMFRONT or RED STATE.<br><br>I don\'t bother with them anymore.  Watch what they do when Obama screws up - they\'ll holler for IMPEACHMENT and the offense won\'t even be a violation of the Constitution.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832694" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832694" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832694">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832694" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832694" class="dsq-comment-message">I dont know about you, but the liberal bigots irritate me WAY more than the regular ole bigots of stormfront or red state. The ones on stormfront and red state simply amuse me...that pack of idiots on dkos, I\'d like to punch.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832826" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4832826" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832826" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832826" class="dsq-comment-message">Punching liberals? Where do I sign up?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832929" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832929" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832929">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832929" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832929" class="dsq-comment-message">It probably wouldn\'t be poltiically correct...but start with Geraldine Ferraro - if you have problems with hitting a "lady" (and I use the term loosely) - I\'ll do it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4833074" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833074" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4833074" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4833074" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833074" class="dsq-comment-message">....I will pass on punching any women, though they may deserve it (Gloria Steinem comes to mind).</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4833633" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833633" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4833633">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4833633" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833633" class="dsq-comment-message">D:    :&gt;)         :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4854008" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4854008" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4854008">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4854008" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4854008" class="dsq-comment-message">D,and then all the Pumas will be standing in line and you can play "Roceim, Sockem Robot"<br><br><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/blogs/images/sfgate/culture/2006/08/14/IMG_8109.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.sfgate.com/blogs/images/sfgate/cultu...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4833004" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833004" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4833004">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4833004" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833004" class="dsq-comment-message">D:   I know that U   R   NOT serious, soooooo,  Ima give U  a     :&gt;)<br><br>Annnnnd, quiet as it is kept - - - - U have a little "liberal-gene" as evidenced by soma your co-signs.!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>MIRROR!??    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4833052" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833052" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4833052" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4833052" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833052" class="dsq-comment-message">Nah, on this one, there\'s a couple I\'d love to punch, but......<br><br>(continued below)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4833891" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833891" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4833891">Sepia</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4833891" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833891" class="dsq-comment-message">ITA This campaign has been a MAJOR eye opener for me about so called "liberals".  At the end of the day, all we have is each other.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834368" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834368" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834368">Piepiepie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834368" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834368" class="dsq-comment-message">Which campaign? Burris?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4834372">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834372" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834372" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4834372" href="http://talesfromthe.net/jon" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">jon</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834372" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834372" class="dsq-comment-message">i completely agree.  i used to identify as a progressive but after the "progressive" blogosphere\'s behavior in 2008 i\'ve stopped.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834420" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834420" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834420">Piepiepie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834420" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834420" class="dsq-comment-message">interesting... what sort of behavior?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4855642" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4855642" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4855642" href="http://talesfromthe.net/jon" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">jon</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4855642" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4855642" class="dsq-comment-message">the routine racism, sexism, elitism and unexamined privilege that\'s so often tolerated and often encouraged/engaged in.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4856320" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4856320" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4856320">Piepiepie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4856320" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4856320" class="dsq-comment-message">Was your experience this election different than 2000, and 2004?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4856767" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4856767" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4856767" href="http://talesfromthe.net/jon" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">jon</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4856767" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4856767" class="dsq-comment-message">I didn\'t hang out there in 2000 or 2004.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4856849" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4856849" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4856849">Piepiepie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4856849" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4856849" class="dsq-comment-message">My view of the blogosphere is that civility drops by the way-side. <br><br>The larger the community the more likely you are to be offended by something at some point.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834319" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834319" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834319">Piepiepie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834319" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834319" class="dsq-comment-message">By that measure bigoted hypocritical "black liberals" should irritate the most. <br><br>Bigoted comments are annoying; however, I\'d rather hear what people really think and believe as opposed to P.C. foolishiness. <br><br>At least when people say things out loud you get a chance to address them.<br><br>shrug.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834478" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834478" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4834478" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834478" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834478" class="dsq-comment-message">Bigoted "Black Liberals", Pie?<br><br>Explain your comment, please, because I think you\'re trying to call people out without looking like you\'re being bigoted.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834588" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834588" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834588">Piepiepie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834588" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834588" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m not calling anyone out in specific -- I call out on a point by point basis and try to avoid ad hominem arguments.<br><br>That\'s why I said "bigoted comments" we all have our own positions and bias. <br><br>It doesn\'t matter where you end up, you are bound to be offended by something.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4854497" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4854497" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4854497">Piepiepie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4854497" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4854497" class="dsq-comment-message">How being bigoted ? <br><br>": a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices  ; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance"<br><br>Reread Miranda\'s "measure" why would a specific "bigot" irritate more than any other? <br><br>The context seems to suggest that the right assumption is bigoted against black people as an ethnic group. Since there seems to be a spectrum from: Racist (Stormfront) to Conservative (Redstate) to Liberal (Dkos), I\'m assuming this has to do with an ideological spectrum that exists.<br><br>However, I\'m suggesting that there are other groups that make up one\'s identity -- as such a bigoted statement from a "black liberal" would merit more outrage than a "white liberal," sense that seems to be the rationale -- the closer to one\'s own positions and groups the more outrage is expressed at the deviance of a particular position.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4855645" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4855645" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4855645">Piepiepie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4855645" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4855645" class="dsq-comment-message">This discussion is dead huh?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834485" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834485" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834485">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834485" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834485" class="dsq-comment-message">What "measure" are you using that you\'re assuming is mine?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834703" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834703" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834703">Piepiepie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834703" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834703" class="dsq-comment-message">i saw a spectrum:<br>Stormfront<br>Redstate<br>DKos<br>Where\'s the next logical step? <br>For me it is close to your position, since you are on this site I\'m assume the next step from "liberal" is "black liberal"<br><br>Perhaps it\'s a faulty assumption, nevertheless I think it\'s interesting.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4854319" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4854319" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4854319">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4854319" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4854319" class="dsq-comment-message">It is a faulty assumption, and its all yours.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4854492" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4854492" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4854492">Piepiepie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4854492" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4854492" class="dsq-comment-message">Care to explain your comments then so I can understand your logic?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4854645" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4854645" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4854645">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4854645" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4854645" class="dsq-comment-message">If you really wanted any clarification, you would have asked BEFORE assuming. At this juncture, I dont give a rats azz what you think. Assume on.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4854724" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4854724" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4854724">Piepiepie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4854724" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4854724" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m asking for clarification now, I\'m interested.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4855650" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4855650" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4855650">Piepiepie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4855650" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4855650" class="dsq-comment-message">So it\'s dead huh? even though the opinions were so strong? interesting...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4858503" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4858503" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4858503" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4858503" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4858503" class="dsq-comment-message">Pie, are you a troll?  Because you keep picking arguments, which don\'t encourage debating of the issues.<br><br>Just saying....</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834462" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834462" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4834462" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834462" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834462" class="dsq-comment-message">At least if you go to StormFront or Red State, you can\'t say you weren\'t warned.  The "liberals" remind me of water moccasins - silent but deadly.<br><br>Open bigots are like rattlesnakes - you get a warning before the strike.<br><br>The snake analogy referring to bigots - courtesy of my father. LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834577" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834577" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834577">Denise</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834577" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834577" class="dsq-comment-message">this bears repeating:<br><br><b><i> "Open bigots are like rattlesnakes - you get a warning before the strike"</b></i></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832967" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832967" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832967">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832967" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832967" class="dsq-comment-message">I had to back away from visiting Kos because it has become so depressing!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4833246" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833246" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4833246">Lisa M</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4833246" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833246" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah! I did the same thing. I had to up and leave after their latest hissy fit about Rick Warren. SMH!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834357" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834357" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4834357" href="http://talesfromthe.net/jon" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">jon</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834357" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834357" class="dsq-comment-message">ditto ... horrible negative sexist racist etc. etc. etc. stuff.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834428" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834428" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4834428" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834428" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834428" class="dsq-comment-message">They\'re turning into the "liberal" equivalent of Red State.  I can only take them in small doses, and even then, only certain posters.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834365" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834365" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834365">RonnieB</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834365" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834365" class="dsq-comment-message">Co-sign.  The last thing that we, as enlightened, astute and ciritical-thinking Black folk, can do is to continue to acting as if some so-called liberals are our patriarchs.  <br><br>If media are so "liberal", why aren\'t we represented--in front of, <b>and behind</b> the cameras--on nightly news and Sunday morning news shows? <br><br>Truth be told, some of these so-called "liberals" would rather have seen a redux of George Bush than to have a Black man with backbone in the White House.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4856481" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4856481" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4856481" class="dsq-comment-message">Carmen Van Kerckhove blog host of <a href="http://www.racialicious.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.racialicious.com</a> coined the term HIPSTER RACISM that is soooo appropriate amongst the so-called progressives/liberals whatever they want to cll themselves. We need to start setting standards and vetting WHO our ALLIES are. The majority of the posters over there would not pass the smell test! <br><br>Of course as you know from my dealings with him "we" are free to do our own thing. There\'s no exclusion, nothing to address because we all want the "same" things.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4857267" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4857267" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4857267" class="dsq-comment-message">Ya know Kos hates diversity - hell, he even hates using the word.<br><br>You and I both know why - we confronted their asses about it at Netroots Nation and Donna Edwards wouldn\'t allow Kos to sprinkle his pixie dust on her victory over Al Wynn.<br><br>I\'ve been on Kos\' shyt list ever since and since it doesn\'t pay my bills, I don\'t give a damn.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4857339" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4857339" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4857339" class="dsq-comment-message">Now you know we aren\'t the \'right\' kind of Black women for that crowd! Happy new year the way!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4858496" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4858496" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4858496" class="dsq-comment-message">Same to ya.  Shoot me an <a href="mailto:email....lstills@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">email....lstills@gmail.com</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833218" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4833218">AM2k6</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833218" class="dsq-comment-message">I saw that.  At this point, I cannot help but look at this Burris situation through the prisms of race.  I can\'t.  to be honest, if Burris would\'ve been a, lets "damaging" his appointment is.  We wouldn\'t be hearing about police officers arresting his ass as if he was a low level drug dealer.  Not only that, if Burris would\'ve been a white woman, Harry Reid wouldnt be acting a like he\'s such a bad ass.  <br><br>p.s-) so pernicious is this whole thing that I dont even think PE BO would have a problem with Blago\'s selection if she\'d have been a white woman.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4833238">AM2k6</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833238" class="dsq-comment-message">I meant to say (and for some reason it got deleted!) that if Harris would\'ve been a white woman, we wouldnt be hearing about how "corrupt" or "Tainted" or "Damaging" his appointment is.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4857244" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4857244" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4857244" class="dsq-comment-message">Remember my New Year\'s Eve post?  I said the EXACT SAME THING and damned neat got shouted down about how it wasn\'t about race.<br><br>If Reid wasn\'t screaming about kicking out Lieberman, he should just STHU on this one cause he can\'t play this without it looking TOTALLY RACIAL.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4854299" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4854299">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4854299" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4854299" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama\'s Mama\'s name is STANLEY<br><br>Straight up STANLEY. <br><br>How\'s THAT for ego. <br><br>If her Daddy had been Black, he would have at least named her Staniesha. <br><br>LOL</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4854695" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4854695">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4854695" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4854695" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4857220" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4857220" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4857220" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4857220" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4857220" class="dsq-comment-message">Wasn\'t she named for Obama\'s grandfather after they found out Toot couldn\'t have any more kids when she was born?<br><br>I knew her name was Stanley Anne Dunham - it said so on Obama\'s BIRTH CERTIFICATE that the Wingnuts say is illegal.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832566" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832566">Myth</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832566" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832566" class="dsq-comment-message">Does anyone know the time of the Oficial Kickoff Ceremony on the Lincoln Monument on Sunday, January 18?<br><br>Will JJP be having any "get-to-gether" during the inauguration week?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4833143" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833143" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4833143">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833143" class="dsq-comment-message">Myth:  Found <a href="http://chicago.about.com/od/governmentandmedia/a/InauguralEvents.htm" rel="nofollow">THIS - - INAUGURATION EVENTS</a><br><br>Maybe it will lead to other articles.  :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4833204" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4833204" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4833204">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4833204" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4833204" class="dsq-comment-message">I won\'t be there but I will be watching with my laptop open commenting with the rest of JJP.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4832960" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832960" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832960">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832960" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832960" class="dsq-comment-message">You can take the AP\'s report with a grain of salt...they have frequently been off, but nevertheless:<br><br>Officials say the daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy will be the governor\'s choice to fill the New York Senate seat being vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton.<br><br>Two people close to Gov. David Paterson tell The Associated Press they believe Caroline Kennedy will be his choice, but the governor cautions he\'s still looking.<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/02/caroline-kennedy-paterson_n_154811.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/02/caroli...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4832991" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4832991">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4832991" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4832991" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ll believe this was an accident when I see pigs skydiving off The Westin in downtown Atlanta:<br><br>Think Progress caught a "magic negro" reference during the New Years Eve broadcast on Fox News.<br>Viewers were allowed to text in messages that scrolled across the bottom in lieu of the news.<br>One message read:<br>HAPPY NEW YEAR AND LET\'S HOPE THE MAGIC NEGRO DOES A GOOD JOB. LOVE JEN AND JOHN C.<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=710_ItlHUXI" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=710_ItlHUXI</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834092" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834092" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834092">Myth</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834092" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834092" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks GreenLady.  i have seen most of the website on it.  They just have not announced the time that Obama is kicking off the Opening at the Lincoln Monument. I think that\'s a better opportunity to get close to him since its free and there are no pimped-out tickets.  Just gotta get there early.  Just announced a ball on Sunday night at the Smithsonian, where Lincoln had is inaugural ball of course, and the tickets are affordable.  Good chance Obama and or Biden will be there.  Just wanted to know whether or not JJP was pulling any think together duirng that week?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4834109" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834109" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834109">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834109" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834109" class="dsq-comment-message">For Myth- The Inauguration Scheudule<br><br><a href="http://www.pic2009.org/pages/schedule/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pic2009.org/pages/schedule/</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834263" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834263">pjamma</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834263" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834263" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/02/blagojevich-could-be-impe_n_154829.html rel="nofollow"> Blogo Could Be Impeached Next Week.</a><br><br>Get out the popcorn.  Next week will be lively for sure.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4857201" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4857201" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4857201" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4857201" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4857201" class="dsq-comment-message">They are not going to get the hearings started by Monday, the first day of the new session of Congress.<br><br>This move should have been made when they asked Blago to leave and he broke out into his Jennifer Hudson impersonation when he said "I\'m telling you Mofos I\'m NOT GOING!"</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4834819" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4834819">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4834819" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4834819" class="dsq-comment-message">AFTERNOON THREAD IS UP</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4853971" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4853971">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4853971" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:   MORE GOSSIP:  \'csuse I\'m  ***shakin\' my head**<br><br><br><i>Palin says she welcomes her first grandchild, Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston, born to Bristol and her fiance\' Levi Johnston on December 27.<br><b><u>“We are over the moon</u> with the arrival of this healthy, beautiful baby,” Governor Palin said. “The road ahead for this young couple will not be easy, but nothing worthwhile is ever easy."</b><br>"Bristol and Levi are committed to accomplish what millions of other young parents have accomplished, to provide a loving and secure environment for their child. They are both hard workers, they\'re very strong, and have faith they\'ve made the right decision in setting aside their own interests to make this child their highest priority," the governor said in a statement <a href="http://LifeNews.com" rel="nofollow">LifeNews.com</a> obtained.</i><br><br><a href="http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/aggregator.php?entry=636773" rel="nofollow">Sarah Palin; a gradmother at 44</a><br><br><br><b>"WE ARE OVER THE MOON . . . . ????</b><br><br>Who talks like that???    Answer:   "THE GOV."<br><br>Now when I was a child, I remember that "MOON" concept.  BUT - - - <br><br><a href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2203440/hey_diddle_diddle_nursery_rhymes/" rel="nofollow">Hey Diddle Diddle - Nursery Rhymes </a><br><br>Dija see what jumped over the MOON?   :&gt;)   <br><br>I\'m just sayin\' . . . . . . .</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4854101" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4854101">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4854101" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4854101" class="dsq-comment-message">lol :-))))</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4854518" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4854518" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4854518" class="dsq-comment-message">Sometimes, I just have to laugh at the Governor of Alaska.<br><br>The fact that she said that out loud should get her speechwriter fired.<br><br>For God\'s sake, we get it: your daughter didn\'t abort the baby. Point proven; pro-lifers rejoice. Now, please, for the sake of the country, <i>go away</i> for 2-3 years. I need a break.<br><br>&lt;/rant&gt;</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4856455">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4856455" class="dsq-comment-message">D:  SHE subjects HERSELF to RIDICULE!   I just join in on the laughter 2!<br><br>***shrug***    :&gt;)     :&gt;)   ***shakin\' my head***    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4854647" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4854647">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4854647" class="dsq-comment-message">GreenLady,<br><br>I\'m just shaking my head! Unfreakingbelievable. I mean...For crying out loud!!!!!!!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4856440">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4856440" class="dsq-comment-message">Justice58:   I know!   **sigh***<br><br>Annnnnnd, again, I note how <b>COLD/IMPERSONAL/DISTANCING</b> her comments are.   Hmmmmmm.<br><br>I wonder IFFF she has spent much time with her "grandchild"!  Hmmmm.<br><br>ENOUGH!!   For now.   On to the "REAL WORLD!"    :&gt;)     :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4857269" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4857269" href="http://thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blksista</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4857269" class="dsq-comment-message">Please see <i>THE OLD MAN AND THE STORM</i> a <u>Frontline</u> presentation, on your local PBS stations, Tuesday evening, January 6.<br><br><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/katrina/" rel="nofollow">Link to website and to video excerpts here.</a><br><br>New Orleans will return, step by step, inch by inch.</div>\
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				var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer), null, {theme: theme});
				// if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
			});
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-post-add'));
		}
	}

	
	

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

	Dsq.Popup.showCookieMsgs();

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

	
	if((typeof OB_Script != 'undefined') && (typeof OB_versionNum != 'undefined')) {
		if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox") != -1) {
			if(window.frames['dsq-reply-frame']) {
				window.frames['dsq-reply-frame'].location = Dsq.Urls.REPLY + (new Date()).getTime() + '&f=jackandjillpolitics&t=friday_open_thread_99&to_redirect=' + encodeURIComponent(window.location) + '&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
			}
		}
	}

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

	



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

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

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

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

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


	


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

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

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

})();




