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Do a little research or watch some of the news shows; they are everywhere speaking out against Prop 8.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_23:16:26", "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": 4547621, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4542040": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Why are they not calling this woman Bristol baby's grandmother?<br><br>\"Wasilla resident Sherry L. Johnston, mother of Bristol Palin's boyfriend, faces a Jan. 6 court date for an oxycontin-related arrest at her home by Alaska State Troopers.\"<br><br><a href=\"http://www.mcclatchydc.com/254/story/58245.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.mcclatchydc.com/254/story/58245.html</a><br><br>I bet those Johnston wish they had never heard of Sarah Palin, the way they have put the spotlight on all of their lives.<br><br>Limbaugh is an oxycontin addict too...so now we will be treated to endless stories of how horrible this woman's life was and then 'snap' before you know it, she will be on the speaker's circuit telling others how they can turn their lives around and she will be a guest on DeGenere's show.  Or maybe Couric wil grant her a BarbaraWawa type interview.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_12:56:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4541976": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No, I answered too.<br><br>History will be made as Obama will finally officially be the POTUS", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_12:50:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4541872, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4552220": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh. My. God.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br><br><br>***Sigh****  <br><br><br>Miranda, did you see that?? OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-21_00:11:10", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4547619": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sepia: <br><br> NICE DOCUMENTATION!!  :&gt;)<br><br>I recall that \"EXPLANATION.\"  <br><br>Annnnnnnd, I raised my eyebrows!!  That's when I began to look sideways at Dr. Rachel  and say hmmmmm!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_21:15:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4546867, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4551616": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Works for me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_23:06:38", "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": 4546116, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4547621": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm so out of it I didn't even know there were gay leaders. Who are they?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_21:15:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "597d41e5cf3bad57c2ed99748f2762d2", "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": 4547283, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4543552": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"With fuel prices dipping to a five-year low, trucks are becoming popular again. From the Ford F-150 to the Toyota Tundra, see which trucks are most researched at AOL Autos. 15 Most Popular Trucks at AOL Autos\"<br><br><a href=\"http://autos.aol.com/gallery/most-popular-trucks\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://autos.aol.com/gallery/most-popular-trucks</a><br><br>*facepalm* When are we gonna grow up and learn from our mistakes?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_14:47:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "CarolinagirlinGA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4543859": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes, and the same thing can be said of any group that is currently engaging in marginalization. What's your point?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_15:09:21", "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": 18, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4543437, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546092": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>But my real question is \"How come the LGBT community keeps allowing the opposition to make make the first moves and challenge them instead of vice versa?\"</i><br><br>I have the same question.  I've been thinking about this a lot lately.<br><br><i>You can only get sucker-punched so many times before you learn that you have to anticipate the next move.</i><br><br>My suspicion is that this may have something to do with the privilege (race, class and possibly also gender identity) of who is at the center in publicly defining what the \"LGBT community\" is and should care about. <br><br>One thing I have seen in recent discussions at dailykos -- about Prop 8 specifically -- is that some of the people who are speaking loudest about how upset they are also seem to think that they are somehow ... not in a deep long fight in which power doesn't concede without a struggle. <br><br>Like, in my experience there is a certain required discipline and vigilance that seems to come with a deep understanding that the system around you is not there to serve your needs, that it is in some way (related to the struggle) hostile to your humanity. Such understanding shows the need for a certain kind of strategy, thoughtfulness, etc. It's a battle that requires hard careful long work, not a canvass for individual self-expression.<br><br>What I see instead is movement people acting as if this system surrounding them is somehow by definition here to take care of them -- and then feeling angry when it does not, and speaking/acting out of that space. IMO the most common reason for such feeling is because of a sense of privilege and entitlement.  <br><br>I think that there is hard work to be done (that doesn't always stem from \"I feel this, let me directly act from that feeling without considering what is around me\") but that from this space of entitlement, that hard work looks like a form of oppression that should be resisted because \"it's so unfair!\" If you come from the perspective that you should get things handed to you without a struggle in this system, then to me it seems like that's the kind of thing it would feel like.<br><br>I don't know if this is the most accurate answer to your question, though.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_18:21:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "4ec3c0272b87ba5c8ce3a9168cf4e78a", "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": 4542337, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4544046": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "STFU Geraldine! You don't matter anymore!  Race-baiter! How's that!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_15:22:37", "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": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4543491, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4552241": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Did you check your email?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-21_00:13:51", "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": 4551920, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4542131": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lanh31:   OMG    I'm praying for your recovery!  FEEL BETTER!  God bless you!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_13:03:13", "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": 4541161, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4547636": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\" I would also ask why having all these other movements bring up our civil rights struggle doesn't seem to be a problem.\"<br><br>It did irk me during the primaries when feminists were saying it was \"Hillary's turn\" because women (white women) were more discriminated against than black men. Also, the Latino movement are consisted of different movements. The Latin Kings (Puerto Rican group) were alongside The Black Panthers. Mexican Migrant workers had Cesar Chavez as their leader, just to name a few examples.<br><br>I NEVER said I was more of a problem for the LGBT community to compare, it just seems as though they ONLY compare our struggle with theirs. It's almost as if they are relying on it to get what they want. \"Gay is the new Black.\" Really? <br><br>Just because I don't entirely agree with their tactics for fighting injustice doesn't mean I'm intolerant to their cause. Like I said, I'm for gay marriage. But what's going to happen when they do get what they want? Will they cast us aside like the feminist movement did?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_21:16:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "54f52d386220fcc3393f84671c2f45ef", "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": 4547365, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546101": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So you put the words in Justice's mouth that YOU wanted to be there? Is that how it works now? Or are you projecting your own internal feelings?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_18:22:43", "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": 4545810, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4545289": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well, there are at least 30+ Republican senators and about 80 Republican congressperson BO will have to reach out to........that, in my book, is having to reach out to some of the most hardened folks out there in terms of race relations.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_17:12:04", "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": 4542664, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4544576": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'll entertain this, but I'm really going to step away from it after this b/c we are not going to see eye to eye.<br><br>I used the apples and oranges analogy for a reason. They have many similarities, but just b/c they are similar DOESN'T mean they are the same:<br><br>1. They are both fruit, but not the same fruit.<br><br>2. They are both sweet, but they do not taste the same.<br><br>So lets go to the two discriminations:<br><br>Both groups get discriminated against in similar ways (same fruit):<br><br>1. not allowed in clubs or bars<br><br>But there are also differences (different taste):<br><br>1. gay people don't get followed around in the department store<br><br>The point isn't that one is worse than the other, but they are also not the same. You can't make comparisons. Now, I'm off to talk about holiday drinks. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you Plantsmantx.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_16:08:10", "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": 4544301, "depth": 8, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4545803": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I am all for gay rights and am sad that Prop 8 failed as I don't like to see hate and religious views put into law, but, I have to say, I do get offended that the two struggles are the same to some people, especailly when it did not stop more than a few gays from calling blacks the n-word without a second thought. I still don't get why the gay's are on this marriage thing so much when they need federal hate crime laws and anti-job discrimination more, in my opinion.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_17:56:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "9b4d552581e546588725d43e7987a8b1", "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": 4545462, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546116": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "-Oh no he didn't! (snark)<br><br>Obama short on Southerners in Cabinet appointments<br>By BEN EVANS - Associated Press Writer <br><br>WASHINGTON -- The South may have inched toward Democrats in November, but that progress isn't showing in President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet selections.<br><br>Obama hasn't nominated a single Southerner among his 15 Cabinet secretaries. So far, Obama's only pick from the region is a borderline Southerner in a relatively low-profile position: former Dallas mayor Ron Kirk for U.S. trade representative.<br><br>The disparity isn't an accident - critics already are calling it a snub - and that perception could slow the pace of recent electoral gains Democrats have made below the Mason-Dixon line. <br><br>\"Southerners need not apply,\" said Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga. \"It's hard to believe that there wasn't anybody qualified for something from the South.\"<br><br><a href=\"http://www.thestate.com/statewire/story/627026.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.thestate.com/statewire/story/627026....</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_18:23:15", "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": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4542021": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I hope you feel better.<br><br>Eat healthy, get some rest and eliminate the stress....it'll help you physically and mentally.<br><br>Take care.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_12:53:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "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": 4541161, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4547143": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No, it's not always the same. I think the comparisons are made when and where they're valid, and what's wrong with that? It's not as if any gay people are out there saying \"We have to use seperate restrooms, just like they did\". Come on. A comparison like that wouln'd get under my skin, but only because I'd be too busy being nonplussed by the silliness of it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_20:18:07", "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": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4546718, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4543570": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm glad its nothing more serious. I so feel for you though....because every single Feb, I get strep throat/tonsilitis.........and I'm too afraid to have my tonsils removed so I just suffer for my week.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_14:49:35", "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": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4543401, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4543064": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Neither McCain nor Clinton has said the kinds of things about blacks that Warren has said about gays. They haven't even come close. And neither of them can be said to be staunchly opposed to the aspirations of blacks. There's no real comparison. Again- at some point, Obama will \"reach out\" to someone who really is the white racist equivalent of Warren. Will y'all be as sanguine about that as you are about Warren?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_14:09:43", "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": 20, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4542814, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4544091": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Agreed!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_15:25:55", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4543819, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546142": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Lawd have mercy.........................", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_18:26:14", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4546116, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4543589": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "We don't learn from our mistakes because we never think its our mistake. Americans are pretty arrogant in that way.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_14:51:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4543552, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4551783": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "GreenLady, WHYCOME she didn't AXE the Huckster the tough questions???!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_23:28:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4547619, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4545644": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's not even so much about gay not being able to marry, per se. Many blacks take offense to black equality being equated with gay rights...period.. This was the argument long before gay marriage came up as an issue. Why?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_17:43:05", "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": 25, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4545462, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4543401": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm back from the ER ya'll it didn't really take that long.  After my post I was out of there in about 1 hour.<br><br>The PA told me I have tonsilitis.  I've actually had strep throat and tonsilitis before, but it's been a long time since I had an active case.<br><br>The prescription for me is lots of fluids, soups, and R&R.  Lucky for me, you don't need to swallow to type or surf the internet.<br><br>Thx for all the well wishes guys.  I appreciate it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_14:37:18", "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": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4544630": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Those are some DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANGEROUS ingredients.<br><br>Thanks!  I love danger.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_16:11:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "blksista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4544407, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546684": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "There is no comparison? Come on. No, their struggle is not exactly like ours in every way. How could it be? No other group's struggle has been exactly like ours. I don't think they make the comaprisons they do to try to say \"Our struggle is exactly like theirs\". I think they do it to get the point across that their struggle is just as valid as ours. That's it. At one time or another, many oppressed groups of people all over the world have compared their struggle with our civil rights movement, and we haven't rejected the comparisons. Why reject this one?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_19:27:25", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4546507, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4543936": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lamh31<br><br><br>Just a little something for the sick!<br><br><a href=\"http://www.chocolates-uk.co.uk/images2/2008-14.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.chocolates-uk.co.uk/images2/2008-14.jpg</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_15:16:01", "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": 4543401, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4547203": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes, all hate is ugly and dangerous.....even moreso when that hate turns into violence which turns into death which is SANCTIONED BY THE STATE. Please understand, I believe all hate crimes are equally repugnant - but law enforcement officials and judges and politicans participated in and legislated hate against African-americans in a way that will never EVER happen to any other group in this country EVER again and it took a lot of LIVES to get it that way...PERIOD. Yes, Prop 8 passed...but Prop 8 doesn't dictate where you will live, it doesn't dictate where you will go to school, it doesn't mandate that you recite the Bill of Rights before you can vote, it doesnt make it illegal for you to READ. I saw the protests regarding Prop 8, I saw a scene of angry white people that terrified a little old white lady who was protesting against them - and I didn't see anyone get arrested....guess what? You think a bunch of black people could pull that off?? You really think hundreds of black people could protest anything, surround a little old white lady and no one end up DEAD? No...Not yesterday, Not today...and Not tomorrow. It is what it is.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_20:24:53", "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": 4546597, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4545674": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I dont think sexuality is really a choice, but please dont try and compare the obvious diffrences in discrimination of homosexuals vs minorities. Last time I checked, the cops did not stop anyone because they were Driving While Gay. Dillard's Dept Store has not, to my knowledge, had Gay shoppers marked for scrutiny. On what application for a job, apartment or loan does it ask about sexual orientation? Newsflash: NONE", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_17:45:32", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4545368, "depth": 11, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4545165": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Miranda, that is an excellent point! <br><br>For two days, Rachel has been criticizing PEO for choosing Rick Warren to give a 2 minute prayer, yet she forgets that she has allowed \"Uncle Pat\" spout his ignorance on her show. Neither she nor KO have come out to denounce Pat's hateful remarks about how blacks should be thankful for slavery. When she was on The Today Show with Geraldine Ferraro, she said NOTHING when Gerry whined about PEO. And IIRC, Rachel didn't call out her fellow GLBT peeps when they blamed black people for Prop 8 passing. <br><br>I like and enjoy Rachel's show, but I can't stand her selective civil rights protesting.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_16:59:17", "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": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4543279, "depth": 6, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546925": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks Lilytiger! I'm not a Akon fan too much, but this is one is pretty cool!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_19:53:04", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4546333, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4547219": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think it's because some of us question why the LGBT community has to find every opportunity to compare their struggle with ours. There are other examples like the women's movement, the illegal immigration movement, the labor movement, etc. But the first comparison that comes out of their mouths is to the civil rights movement. <br><br>I am for gay rights and I do believe their struggle for equality is similar, but it's not the same, especially for white LGBTs. They don't have a history where their ancestors were chained and ripped from their way of life to live in a foreign land. Their names, their languages, their original religions, their entire humanity were stolen. They couldn't even be allow to read without the risk of getting killed. <br><br>Yes, it's wrong to deny the LGBT community to marry. But if you want the best way to compare it to the black experience, why not equate it with interracial marriage? It was also outlawed overwhelmingly across the country. <br><br>I'm just saying, for the LGBT community to compare one issue with an entire racial struggle comes off as insensitive (some might say opportunistic) and it feels forced upon for us to just accept these comparisons.<br><br>Therefore, I do want to ask, why is it so important for the LGBT community to always want to bring up the civil rights movement more than any other struggle?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_20:25:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "54f52d386220fcc3393f84671c2f45ef", "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": 4546684, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4553368": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Tell it, Oxygirl!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-21_02:32:00", "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": 4552640, "depth": 12, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546718": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I have one example Plantsmarx that sticks in my head.<br><br>I remember the mid-80's, I was in elementary school.  And the actor Rock Hudson had passed away.   Rock Hudson back then was like a modern-day Brad Pitt--one of THE leading men in Hollywood. And I remember my mom being shocked at his death, or so the cause.  You see, Rock Hudson perished from AIDS-----but how could that be most people thought, many like her knew him as this leading man both on screen and presumably off.  But it was later revealed that Hudson was a gay man who often went to great lengths to hide his sexual orientation....and became successful as an actor in the process, since revealing his sexual orientation at that time may have proved detrimental.<br><br>But I also think back to some of Black Hollywood's premier actors and actresses, who had an extremely hard time finding work, you know the sophisticated lead roles.   Many of them faced outright discimination...Dorothy Dandrige's story is a prime example. Those same Black actors were looking for the roles and accolades that Rock Hudson had but unfortunately, they couldn't hide their skin tone at the door. <br><br>Fortunately there has been progress in both representation of POC and gays on television and in media. And for that I am thankful.<br><br><br>Let's be clear, though the pain hurts and bigotry stings....the struggle is not always the same.  And I think the equivalence is what gets under the skin of some people.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_19:30:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "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": 4545644, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4542111": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "carolinagirl:  GREAT SURVEY!!!  THANK YOU for \"axing\" the appropriate question!!  :&gt;)   My response was on the other thread.  :&gt;)<br><br>Perhaps THIS question should GUIDE our thinking regarding all of his decisions.  I know that I will use it.  THANK YOU, AGAIN.<br><br>Gotta \"raise up\" for most of the day.  C U'ALL L8R.   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_13:01:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4541872, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4544160": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/misguided-priorities/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Misguided Priorities</a><br><br><i>By focusing their message on what the Democratic Party can't/hasn't/won't do for the black community, they miss an opportunity to tell what the Republican Party can do for the black community. Without a coherent message that relates the Republican/conservative platform to African Americans-or any other minority-we cannot convince anyone that our Party is the best one to lead this country forward.</I></i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_15:31:53", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546211": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I hope you're feeling better.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_18:33:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4543401, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4544167": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Did you read the comments? Buchanan's comments are aimed at everybody that's not a straight conservative white man.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_15:32:16", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4543999, "depth": 9, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546736": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Miranda,<br><br>Break. it. down.<br><br><br>(I couldn't help myself)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_19:31:45", "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": 4546507, "depth": 7, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546737": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sepia, do you recall when Mike Huckabee waso Rachel's show? Not one question to him on his  Prop 8 stance.<br><br>She's using the bully pulpit  to whine about PEO for her own selish gains. Town summed it up nicely on another thread.  They want him to lick and suck!!! <br><br><a href=\"http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/21/maddow-huckabee/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/21/maddow-huck...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_19:32:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4545165, "depth": 7, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4551859": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "spirit:<br><br><br>IFFF one doesn't want ta hear the ANSWERS annnnnnd, do a FOLLOW-UP QUESTION.<br><br>I guess. . . .   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_23:36:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4551783, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4542645": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I know WRB. Your answer was #1.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_13:38:31", "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": 4541976, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546234": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They're not serious?! Can't be?!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_18:34:17", "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": 4546116, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4547261": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Souterners need not ever vote for a Republican president again either.<br><br>Yeah. Right.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_20:31:34", "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": 4546116, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546245": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Because the use of physical violence as a metaphor for feelings about the Warren thing, is an INSULT to those who actually endured physical violence in their quest for racial justice.  Some of the commenters are purposefully trying to draw upon scenes of being physically assaulted. I wouldn't be surprised if they stoop to images of water hoses and dogs.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_18:36:13", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4545794, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4542664": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "At some point, Obama will \"reach out\" to the white racist equivalent of Rick Warren. I can't wait to see how y'all will handle that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_13:39:15", "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": 47, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4542461, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4545225": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "There have been times, when I leave Jack & Jill Politics to head back to my blog, when I felt like Fred G. Sanford shuffling around his Watts junkyard.<br><br>But no more, because Poppa's Got A Brand New Bag.  Brown Man has taken the plunge and braved the hazards of HTML and CSS to get himself some a new home base.<br><br><a href=\"http://simplifythepositive.blogspot.com/2008/12/brown-man-thinking-hard-gets-early-xmas.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Brown Man Thinking Hard Gets Early Xmas Present</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_17:06:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "BrownManATL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4547283": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Because most self-anointed white gay leaders are stupid. <br><br>That's why.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_20:33:34", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4545803, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546260": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": ",,,and I'll just (sort of) reiterate, too- that's like saying a black person who can \"pass\" doesn't deserve the same \"protected class\" status as other blacks because they can hide their blackness.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_18:37:34", "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": 12, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4545762, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4544213": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Those are not my words, I got that quote from womanistmusings. However, the point is comparing sexual orientation discrimination to racial discrimination is comparing apples to oranges. This is not an argument of who gets discriminated more, but it is different discrimination. One is not like the other.<br><br>It also goes against the argument of \"what if it was the blacks\" like that is all there is to black people. Like we're just a monolith. The fact that we are having this debate shows that we are not. Black people are made up of men, women, children, fathers, mothers, students, professionals, young, old, gay, straight, etc. The fact that you have to ask what my point was seems disingenuous.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_15:36:58", "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": 17, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4543859, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4547287": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"Huckabee is a doctrinaire anti-gay theocratic social conservative whose views are well-known and heartfelt\"<br><br>Heartfelt?? huh.......so all Rick Warren has to do is prove his views come from the \"heart\" and it'll be okay? Yeah, Rachel jumped the shark with that comment. I cant take her venting over Rick Warren seriously after that statement.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_20:33:39", "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": 4546867, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4545757": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes, with the key word phrase being \"having to\", although even that is arguable.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_17:53:05", "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": 4545289, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546597": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Gay and trans people - of all races - are routinely assaulted physically or murdered because they are queer. It's called gay bashing and sometimes, sometimes, registered as a hate crime, if they are \"lucky.\"<br><br>In what universe is this a competition?  Racism is ugly and dangerous. Homophobia is ugly and dangerous. Anti Semitism is ugly and dangerous. All hate is ugly and dangerous.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_19:17:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "d8ba2b0b29836b2e779d25f29e6b86ea", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4546245, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546785": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well.....its not like I really need my liver...do I? LOLOL", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_19:37:38", "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": 4544407, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4545762": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'll just write what I wrote a little earlier:<br><br>Last time I checked, the cops did not stop anyone because they were Driving While Gay. Dillard's Dept Store has not, to my knowledge, had Gay shoppers marked for scrutiny. On what application for a job, apartment or loan does it ask about sexual orientation? Newsflash: NONE - So please stop the illogical comparison with racial discrimination.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_17:53:28", "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": 13, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4545644, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4547300": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Personally the comparison does not get under MY skin.  <br><br>But when you have one community essentially blaming the passage of a proposition on another ,that does.<br><br>And when members of the same group are upset and feel the need to call the P-E Obama and other blacks the n-word in their frustration, i also have a problem with that.<br><br>So really, you need to \"Come on\"  You asked a question and i gave you a different prespective, which in my opinion is NOT offensive.<br><br>My example is a clear message that  throughout history, and even now, you can be a gay individual and still possibly be able to navigate to certain heights than say a black or brown person would----that is simply the truth in some instances.<br><br>Of couse gay individuals face discrimination as well...I am just showing that the dynamics of discrimination permeate and affect individuals differently...and that is why our perceptions are also different in some cases.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_20:36:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "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": 4547143, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4541161": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "good morning jjp. Right now I'm lying in a hospital bed waiting to see the ER doc.  My throat was bothering me last night & I woke up this morning with my throat enflamed, and my ear feeling infected!  So I decided to go to the ER, why pay insurance premiums if you're not going to use them.  I just hope I won't be here all day!  <br><br>Hope ya'll have a better morning.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_11:46:07", "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": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546794": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "EVENING THREAD IS UP", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_19:37:40", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546284": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh.......boo hoo.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_18:39:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "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": 4546116, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4544237": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>Is Rick Warren being \"persecuted\" because some are objecting to his appearence at the inauguration?</i><br><br><br><br>Umm...Yeah! Because of his beliefs!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_15:39:19", "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": 4543635, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4551920": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Why did white shoot milk?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_23:44:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4546980, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546289": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What I personally want to see is more outreach by the LGBT community to other communities.<br><br>Now I do not reside in CA, so of course I don't know the full scope of  the campaigning on behalf of LGBT.  But others have commented that outreach was NOT widespread.  And matter-of-factly , it is almost no-existent until we have an initiative on the ballot.  <br><br>In my opinion, the gay rights struggle has to remain at the forefront....engage with other civil rights organizations...publish their stories of struggle in other minority publications....just like I can see a commercial about the Latter-day Saints, I should also see a commercial about the human rights issue of gay marriage.  It may not change everyone's mind, but at least the LGBT are making their cause visible, they are giving a \"human\" side to their story.  <br><br>And also, when they have the next widespread immigration march, let the LGBT show their presence there too....or when the civil rights of blacks are being challenged, show their presence there too.<br><br>I have to say, today I see more examples of the lives of LGBT in media and in television than I do Black representation...and I think that has helped open the dialogue on what has long been a taboo subject in America.   But LGBT should not get mad at other groups and blame them for the passage of legislation when often they virtually shut others out.<br><br>The Black civil rights movement surely didn't gain the progress it did overnight...you and i both know it took about a hundred years after slaves were freed to actually outlaw outright discrimination....and that still hasn't eliminated it entirely.  But when the civil rights movement was at its peak...no one rested...the message stayed out front and center...and because of that, Blacks and many other minorities who stood alongside and behind them made inroads.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_18:40:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "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": 4545757, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4542707": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well since there are many blacks that don't engage in group think, yeah they don't have a problem with it and I'm one of them. We can't kick people out and expect to have our own say. My parents don't support gay marriage and would vote yes on prop 8 if they could. They also heavily supported and donated to Obama's campaign. So I guess they aren't allowed to be part of this thing too right? We need to stop persecuting people for believing in a opposite opinion.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_13:42:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "245857794a8d4da90a73fbb64352b916", "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": 4542461, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4547318": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "EXACTLY!!  And she's supposedly smart<br>enough to know where PEO stands on the issue too.  <br><br>MANIPULATION!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_20:37:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4546867, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4542199": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Town mentioned how nasty it has been on Daily Kos  regarding the Warren pick. I've also seen some nastiness towards Caroline Kennedy. I have a feeling some Clinton followers are behind it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_13:08:13", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4551928": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Lisa Jackson is a Southerner...she is from New Orleans", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_23:45:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4546116, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4553428": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Please don't tar us all with the same brush.  SOME homosexuals are some of the biggest racists, yes I'd agree with that, just like some heterosexuals are some of the biggest racists, but don't refer to the community like its a monolithic racist group, because that is just insulting, especially to those of us who have to navigate both queer and minority communities.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-21_02:44:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "9c303acec6970a11c48eacffef4d32c4", "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": 4551996, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4545278": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Gay marriage is a human rights issue.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_17:10:58", "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": 4544301, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546815": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes, because 26 year old Sherika Watkins who attended Spelman is a shoo in for the position", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_19:40:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4546507, "depth": 7, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4551936": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I KNOW that's right.  <br><br>Last hired and first fired was particularly hard on families.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_23:46:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4546021, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4545794": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>versus saying you are getting slapped in the face or all these other platitudes</i><br><br>I just want to thank you for saying/highlighting this.<br><br>These metaphors of physical violence have been common in some online discussions about the Warren thing, and every time I read one of them it feels somehow wrong to me. But I can't pin down in words precisely why.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_17:55:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "4ec3c0272b87ba5c8ce3a9168cf4e78a", "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": 4542940, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4544259": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>comparing sexual orientation discrimination to racial discrimination is comparing apples to oranges.</i><br><br><br>There you go! Now that's what I'm talking about!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_15:42:12", "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": 15, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4544213, "depth": 6, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4542337": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I've mentioned it before...I feel bad about the pain the Warren pick is causing....and so I am not being dismissive of the response even though i feel it is over-the-top.<br><br>But my real question is \"How come the LGBT community keeps allowing  the opposition to make make the first moves and challenge them instead of vice versa?\"<br><br>Now we see that Ken Starr is going to try to retroactively void the legality of same-sex marriages that preceded the Prop. 8 passages.  Why wasn't there a suit placed before the courts by LGBT community to uphold these marriages immediately following Prop 8's passage, to  prevent more rights from being taken away?  They had to know proponents for Prop 8 were coming for more.<br><br>You can only get sucker-punched so many times before you learn that you have to anticipate the next move.<br><br>I am not a legal buff...but I hope this issue will one day, at the right time, will go all the way to the Supreme Court.  Because as long as it stays up to states, there will be this back-and-forth ideolgical fight.  And right now, proponents for Prop 8 are getting what they want while simultaneously fracturing the Democratic party...which I think at the end of the day is their ultimate goal.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_13:17:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "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": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4551944": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They are nameless because they aren't leaders. They are agitators.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_23:46:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4547621, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4545801": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "'Cuz ya just know I'm tempted.  ;)<br><br>It is NOT the same.  It's probably a small miracle it hasn't somehow been compared to the tragic history of native peoples in this country.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_17:56:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "IWordsmith", "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": 4545462, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4553483": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm with you on the back of the bus comments, and especially the \"Gay is the new black\" ones, but I feel like I have to defend the use of separate but equal because- what other way is there to describe civil unions?  Straight people get marriage, gay people get civil unions.  Separate institutions that are in theory equal.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-21_02:52:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "9c303acec6970a11c48eacffef4d32c4", "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": 4547464, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4552976": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I saw it for the second time this Saturday. It was great! I give it my thumbs up!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-21_01:38:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "adriana01", "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": 4546980, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4544273": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No, I was not being disingenous, because I really don't see your point. No, blacks are not a monolith, but they do get discriminiated against in a pretty monolithic way, don't you think? The marginalizers don't spend a lot of time fine tuning their bigotry to fit each subset of black people. Bigotry is bigotry.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_15:43:05", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4544213, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4545810": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So, what you're saying is that you would have chosen to be white if you had the choice, right? Oh, and you would pass for white if you could too, right? After all, under that circumstance, it would be your choice to endure the anti-black discrimination. Why would you if you didn't have to?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_17:57:15", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4544924, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4545304": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "We all know that Hillary became Senator all on her own. Certainly not via her family name or political connections. And of course she has \"35 years of experience\" or I guess back in 2000 that would have been 27 years of hard core political experience to be a Senator. She faced a very tough, well known opponent who wasn't just picked out of a hat after the only real competition found out he had cancer (Read: Mistress). So I can understand people being angry. Only women who have been first lady or know-nothing Wasilla Mayors/Alaska Gov should be able to run for Senate. Everyone else has to have massive resumes to even be considered, cause we sure don't want no political Dynasties, america is vastly opposed.<br><br>Just asked the Bushes, the Clinton's, Patterson's, Jackson's, the Murkowski's up in Alaska, etc", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_17:13:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "5018fed0ab413b3c89461fe90acac450", "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": 4544775, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546329": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "110-year-old Bastrop woman dies 2 days after birthday<br>By GARY SCHARRER and CINDY TUMIEL <br>San Antonio Express-News<br>Dec. 19, 2008, 10:36PM<br><br>AUSTIN \u2014 The 110-year-old daughter of a slave who lived long enough to vote for the first African-American president died in her sleep Thursday \u2014 two days after her birthday.<br><br>Amanda Roberts Jones of Cedar Creek, a community near Bastrop, had just received a new dress that she was looking forward to wearing on Sunday to a birthday reception honoring her long life.<br><br>The party will go on as planned.<br><br>\"We are still going to celebrate her life,\" granddaughter Beverly Shaw said Friday.<br><br>It was a life that lasted through an entire century and parts of two others.<br><br>Construction of the Titanic had not yet started, the Wright brothers had not yet taken flight and electricity for the Texas Hill Country was still about 45 years away when Amanda Roberts arrived as a newborn baby in Bastrop on Dec. 16, 1898.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6174043.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolita...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_18:45:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4543260": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So where do you think Mccain got all of these ideas about creating this \"he's not one of us\" meme from---it was Hillary Clintion.  DOcuments show that Hillary strategists and ,in essence, her wanted to cast this doubt over Obama...since he wasn't all-American , he's \"foreign\", he doesn't share our values(and you know what that means)<br><br>Whose staff was forwarding the ubiquitous \"Obama is a secret Muslim who is going to destroy America\" e-mails---oh yeah, it was some of Hillary's staff whom she later had to fire.<br><br>And most importantly whose policies helped enact \"Don't Ask, Don't Tell\"  which essentially told servicemembers that if you are gay, you have to hide it because if it becomes known, your ass will be kicked out.....Oh yeah, that also came from Bill Clinton whose wife conveniently used his platform as hers.  Ain't it amazing how sooo many people forget about that one.<br><br>And in case you didn't know before, Mccain has also had associations with known bigots.  John McCain hired Richard Quinn, twice in 2000 and 2008, as a political strategist for his campaign.  Richard Quinn wrote in a column for his magazine that  the MLK holiday was \"vitriolic and profane\" while also applauding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, diaparaging Nelson Mandela and praising David Duke.<br><br>And in 2000, while asked about Quinn's words, McCain defended him and said Quinn was a \"respected\" and \"fine man\"<br><br>ANd all the while, more gay voters left Democratic ranks and voted for McCain than they did previously for Bush.<br><br>I am a supporter for Gay rights, so don't think I am being dismissive.  But what I do know is that Obama is not going to make every single decision that will fit MY  position perfectly...hell, no politician can't.....my own husband can't!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_14:26:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "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": 4543064, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546333": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I just have to leave this link to Akon's new single called Freedom. I am not a big fan of his, but this song is beautiful.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKT8F2eFKMQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKT8F2eFKMQ</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_18:46:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "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}, "4543134": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Good Day JJP Peeps. Digging out from the snow, and Im going to build a Snow President -Elect Obama and First Lady -Elect Michelle in my back yard.  I grateful for the snow!  What Blessings are you aware of today?<br><br>Words to inspire:<br><br>\"SOMETIMES LIFE CARRIES US ALONG SO FAST THAT WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO THINK ABOUT THE MOMENT.  OFTEN WE OVERLOOK THE BLESSINGS OF THE DAY.\"<br><br>--------------   Harold Klemp, The Slow Burning Love of God", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_14:16:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4551967": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Because being gay is something you do. Being black is who you are.  One is inherent the other is an action or behavior.  <br><br>Race is not a behavior.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_23:48:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4545644, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4544288": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Props... Miranda!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_15:43:16", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4544167, "depth": 10, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4547365": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"But if you want the best way to compare it to the black experience, why not equate it with interracial marriage?\" <br><br>They do. That's one of the (I think) valid ways in which they do compare. <br><br>\"Therefore, I do want to ask, why is it so important for the LGBT community to always want to bring up the civil rights movement more than any other struggle?\"<br><br>Well, in response, I would ask YOU why it is so important for the Latino movement, the womens' movement, the labor movement, the Australian native movement, the Native American movement, the Indian Dalit (formerly Untouchables) movement, and others to bring up the U.S. black civil rights movement more than any other struggle? I would also ask why having all these other movements bring up our civil rights struggle doesn't seem to be a problem. Heck, I'd even ask why there seems to be LESS of a problem with having right-wing fundies and even white supremacists compare their \"struggles\" with ours.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_20:43:36", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4547219, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546859": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "as a resident of this BANKRUPT, #3 in UNEMPLOYMENT, and i believe #2 in home FORECLOSURES state, i am agreeing with you ONE HUNDRED PERCENT!!!   jerry brown needs to grab a clue, QUICKLY!   we are living in serious, serious  times...i don't give a fuck about who does (or does not) get married.  <br><br>who was it that said \"romance without finance is a nuisance\"...???", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_19:45:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "99bcec632769e483ead5faa515e84132", "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": 4545349, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4547372": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And one more thing.....even though I am a heterosexual married woman who wishes for eqaulity for all people on Earth,  I can almost guarantee you that Gay or Lesbian POC also find discrimination among others in the LGBT community...and that is also just as disgusting as any other bigotry.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_20:43:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "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": 4547143, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4544301": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "When it really gets down to it, what's the difference between sexual orientation discrimination and racial discrimination?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_15:45:28", "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": 14, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4544259, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4545838": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "IIt's just that it's sometimes a little hard to accept complaints of anti-black discrimination from blacks who are against gay rights. And I say that as a heterosexual black man.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_18:00:12", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4545674, "depth": 12, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4543279": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I suppose you heavily object to Rachel Maddow giving Pat Buchanan any airtime on her show....seeing as he has said much worse about everybody that isn't a straight conservative white man.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_14:27:26", "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": 17, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4543064, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4545330": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Justice58: Please, Please Stop making sense!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_17:16:23", "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": 4544924, "depth": 9, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546867": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Spirit, no, I didn't see that show. Well, well, well. So, not only did Rachel have Huckabee -- someone who has made anti-gay remarks -- on her show, but she didn't call him out on it or his stance on Prop 8. <br><br>And to add insult to injury, here's her reason why she didn't ask him:<br><br><i><b>I weighed whether or not to ask him about his anti-gay views, but I really don't care about them very much. Huckabee is a doctrinaire anti-gay theocratic social conservative whose views are well-known and heartfelt. I also probably wouldn't bother asking Sarah Palin about her anti-gay views if I had the opportunity to interview her -- it's just not the most interesting or newsworthy (or ridiculous) thing about either of them.</b></i><br><br>So, she doesn't consider it important \"interesting\" or \"newsworthy\" to question those who want to run this country and implement policy, about their anti-gay views, but she's complaining about PEO inviting a pastor -- who will not and cannot implement policy -- to his inauguration. <br><br>Rachel, you disappoint me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_19:45:42", "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": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4546737, "depth": 8, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4543799": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well...since you ask:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2553\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2553</a><br>On Dr. King/Civl RIghts<br>Buchanan, who opposed virtually every civil rights law and court decision of the last 30 years, published FBI smears of Martin Luther King Jr. as his own editorials in the St. Louis Globe Democrat in the mid-1960s. \"We were among Hoover's conduits to the American people,\" he boasted (Right from the Beginning, p. 283). <br><br>Justiying Apartheid<br>Trying to justify apartheid in South Africa, he denounced the notion that \"white rule of a black majority is inherently wrong. Where did we get that idea? The Founding Fathers did not believe this.\" (syndicated column, 2/7/90)<br><br>On Immigration<br>In a September 1993 speech to the Christian Coalition, Buchanan described multiculturalism as \"an across-the-board assault on our Anglo-American heritage.\" <br><br>On Gays and AIDs<br>On AIDS, Buchanan wrote in 1983: \"The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS).\" (Los Angeles Times, 11/28/86) Later that year, he demanded that New York City Ed Koch and New York Gov. Mario Cuomo cancel the Gay Pride Parade or else \"be held personally responsible for the spread of the AIDS plague.\" \"With 80,000 dead of AIDS, our promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide,\" Buchanan wrote in 1990 (syndicated column, 10/17/90). In the 1992 campaign, he declared: \"AIDS is nature's retribution for violating the laws of nature.\" (Seattle Times, 7/31/93) <br><br>You really don't want to get into a tit-for-tat when it comes to the bibotry that comes out of Pat Buchanan's mouth...he's a pro at it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_15:05:05", "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": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4543479, "depth": 7, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4547387": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "T:   Eh-hemmmm:   AFTER you post, there are 4 OPTIONS at the BOTTOM of the post.  Click on <b>edit</b> [Option #2]<br><br>Click on it; make your edit; then click on <b>SAVE CHANGES</b><br><br>Annnnnnnnd, guess what? The <b>EDIT</b> option[now, the ONLY one] will still be available.  :&gt;)<br><br>\"WHYCOME\" I know this?   I have had to make MANY \"EDITS!\"  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>NOW, you try this!   Respond to me.  Post.  Then SCROLL DOWN and find <b>EDIT</b>   \"Make that CHANGE\" [Michael Jackson]  :&gt;)    :&gt;);  then SAVE CHANGES.   :&gt;)    ::L)<br><br>Sincerely,  <br><br>  \"TECHNOLOGICALLY-CHALLENGED ----GLH   :&gt;)      :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_20:46:24", "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": 4546136, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546364": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If a black person who can \"pass\" chooses to be White on their driver's license, loan applications, job applications, etc..then hell no, they DON'T deserve the same \"protected class\" status - whatever the hell THAT is. (and dont bother with an explanation).<br>Now again....where on any of those do you classify your sexual orientation?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_18:50:19", "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": 4546260, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4543298": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You are so wrong on so many levels! LOL!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_14:29:04", "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": 4542457, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4545349": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Is the latest: Overturn Prop 8. by CA's AG, Jerry Brown, a cheap stunt to distract from the fact that the State of California is going Bankrupt? I mean, I cant help but question the timing...and ask: When will our politics become about serious matter affecting the well being of all us and not just certain constituencies?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_17:19:41", "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": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4545225, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546136": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "ps. sorry for the grammatical errors...I have no idea how to edit after I post...<br><br>T.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_18:25:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6755b31010b50fc47eac9ee8b3bb319", "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": 4542378, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546378": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Okay~ Somebody.....Anybody....Is this person for real? I mean, come on..?<br><br>(Rolling My Eyes)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_18:52:12", "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": 4545810, "depth": 10, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4543819": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "carolinagirl....you can keep writing it...but they'll keep ignoring it. Its too much truth, and apparently they just can't handle it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_15:06:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4543437, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546380": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow.......Amanda Roberts got her wings.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_18:52:17", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4546329, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4542287": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great slideshow...from the slavehouse to the white house<br><br>I found the picture of X and Ali with their daughters on their laps very poignant and powerful.<br><br><a href=\"http://newsone.blackplanet.com/nation/gallery-from-the-slavehouse-to-the-whitehouse/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://newsone.blackplanet.com/nation/gallery-f...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_13:15:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546466": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Actually Jack, there aren't any to be honest.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_19:03:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "e538246f0104b16ba3087bd1ba869c72", "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": 4546116, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4552022": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No, that is like saying that 99.9% of blacks need the  same 'protected class' because they can't pass, and Miranda itemized ways in which they can't.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_23:54:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4546260, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4545368": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I guess I'm going to have to presume, lol. I guess that blacks who can \"pass\" have only themselves to blame for racial discrimination that happens as a result of them telling people they're black, right?<br><br>I'm wondering if that's better or worse than that other argument. You know, the one that goes \"Gays can choose to be gay, but my blackness was not a choice\". That's like saying \"I'd be white if I had a choice, but I don't\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_17:21:34", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4544471, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4541228": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hope you're OK!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_11:52:40", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4541161, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4545370": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I am so with you. Especially 'thrown under the bus\" That one is long past useful.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_17:21:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "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": 4544441, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4542814": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "He had a meeting with rival John McCain, who ran one of the most race-baiting  and dishonorable campaigns.  I didn't like it, but I'm still here.  And Mccain still gets to have a say in the legislation that affects our lives<br><br>He selected Hillary Clinton as SOS, and I also thought she crossed some lines but hey, he extended an olive branch to her too.<br><br>And even though Ahmendinajad (sp?) has  said some very disgusting things about Israel, I also hope Obama and his administration engages Iran diplomatically because continuing to ignore other nations will NOT make us safer.<br><br>Look at what being a freakin know-it-all and carrying out selfish agendas have gotten us...millions of iraqis dead or displaced, thousands of Americans dead and maimed...all because ideologues didn't want to fuckin listen.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_13:51:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 21, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4542664, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4542307": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I do not understand the Caroline nastiness either. It just makes we wanna scream at this stuff that is being spewed over at D. Kos.   I mean for pete's sake...are those folks overthere even 'qualified' to write articles?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_13:16:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4542199, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546407": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Because the use of physical violence as a metaphor for feelings about the Warren thing, is an INSULT to those who actually endured physical violence in their quest for racial justice. Some of the commenters are purposefully trying to draw upon scenes of being physically assaulted. I wouldn't be surprised if they stoop to images of water hoses and dogs.</i><br><br>THANK YOU! for putting that to words. <br><br><b>Thank you.</b><br><br>Yes.<br><br>Reminds me of how there was a dkos diary a couple of weeks ago that was like a parody to me because it was (seriously and with no apparent comprehension of the reality) comparing what the diarist clearly described as a totally undangerous cops-not-attacking-us \"family morning out at a Prop 8 protest\" with Selma and Stonewall.<br><br>There is a lot of unreal deeply disrespectful rhetoric going on.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_18:55:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "4ec3c0272b87ba5c8ce3a9168cf4e78a", "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": 4546245, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4551996": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It is a known fact that homosexuals are some of the biggest racists. The gay scene has lots of 'separate but equal' theatre groups, restaurants, bars, and networking ...where folks of color are looked at with disdain and are treated dismissively if not derisively.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_23:51:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4547372, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546413": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What about the black person who doesn't choose to be \"white\"?<br><br>You don't classify your sexual orientation anywhere on any of those. However, that doesn't mean that discrimination against a gay person after it is known he/she is gay is somehow more acceptable than it is against a black person. It also means that they shouldn't have to feel compelled to hide who they are any more than a black person who can \"pass\" should.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_18:56:31", "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": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4546364, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4543635": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Is Rick Warren being \"presecuted\" because some are objecting to his appearence at the inauguration? Is J. Philippe Rushton being persecuted because some object to his ideas about race and intelligence?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_14:54:12", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4542707, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546421": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't expect nor ask that gays hide who they are....now I guess the fight should include adding sexual orientation as a classification at the DMV, SSI, Mortgage applications, credit card applications, job applications.....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_18:57:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4546295, "depth": 12, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4543721": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I apologize if anyone has posted this before, but I wanted to know how people feel about this report from the Nation, excerpted on <a href=\"http://thinkprogress.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">thinkprogress.org</a>, about how white vigilante groups blockaded small town in post-Katrina New Orleans and murdered blacks.<br><br>Earlier this week, A.C. Thompson of The Nation revealed that after Hurricane Katrina, white vigilante groups patrolled New Orleans, blockaded streets, and shot at least eleven black men. It \u201cwas like pheasant season in South Dakota. If it moved, you shot it,\u201d said one vigilante. Color of Change is organizing a campaign to tell Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) and state officials to investigate the shootings, as \u201cLouisiana\u2019s broken law enforcement agencies have refused to investigate these crimes.\u201d Watch Thompson\u2019s video on his report: <br><br><a href=\"http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/20/the-nation-katrina/#comments\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/20/the-nation-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_14:59:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "mjohnso27", "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}, "4544376": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well, as I just said in another comment, bigotry is bigotry. I don't grade it according to whether or not it's aimed at the group I belong to.  Warren is no less a bigot because (in this case) he's aiming his bigotry at gays.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_15:51:37", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4544167, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4544892": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Co-sign. I also think it disgusting that people are comparing her to Sarah Palin.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_16:34:44", "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": 4544775, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4547969": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is why identity politics should cease. No matter what I or anyone else says, you believe I'm slighting the LGBT community. I can't have any view other than agreeing with you 100%. That's why I see what Obama had in mind when he invited Rick Warren and Dr. Joseph Lowery. We can't keep fighting the same battles over and over. I'm black and I'm a woman. Which group am I supposed to align myself to more? Why do I have to? Why is it that I question one thing about the LGBT community that I'm considered insensitive? Why is it that if a black person points out some racist attitudes in the LGBT community it's swept aside?I'm not saying that specifically, it's what I've read on several blogs. WE ARE ALL HUMAN, but does that mean we have to condone every group's actions? Hell, there's a lot of things in the black community I don't agree with. For all groups to move on we have to find a way where we can disagree sometimes and still listen and work together.  The key word is LISTEN.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_21:56:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "54f52d386220fcc3393f84671c2f45ef", "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": 4547636, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4544391": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Is J. Philippe Rushton being also persecuted because of his beliefs?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_15:54:04", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4544237, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4547464": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I have seen that comment made numerous times on various blogs. An example:<br><br>\"Do we have to sit at the back of the bus now, too?\"<br><br>\"Separate but equal is ok now?\"<br> <br>Any my favorite:<br><br>\"Gay is the new black\"<br><br>I totally support gay marriage. I'm all for anyone being able to ruin their lives by getting hitched (sorry, couldn't resist):<br><br>But not having full legal marriage for GLBT people here in San Francisco where I live, and CA as a whole, but to have civil unions instead; is not a black civil rights era level assault on freedom, and I say this as a black, gay man myself.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_20:56:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "5018fed0ab413b3c89461fe90acac450", "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": 4547143, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4542346": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jewish Pencillin= Chicken soup", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_13:18:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4541161, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4547467": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lamh31:    Yaaaaaa!    :&gt;)     :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>Waiting for the day when you say - - - -<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWcNiebYGuo\" rel=\"nofollow\">I Feel Good (James Brown Live 8 )</a><br><br><br>ENJOY!!!!    :&gt;)     :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_20:57:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4543401, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4552078": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That doesn't make sense because if a black is able to pass, they ususally don't suffer from discrimination.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_23:59:39", "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": 4546260, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4553615": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You do speak the truth.<br><br>I guess what is happening is that Obama is being blamed for every ill that has befallen this country by, what appears to many of us , the same people.<br><br>Clintonistas. The wording, the arguments, the tone and tactics. I am sure there are many who are newly upset but really, it is hard to find someone who will give a prayer that isn't against gay marriage. If he did chose that  person then there would be another argument on his making a political and divisive statement on a day for all Americans. And it would comprise of right wingers and Clintonistas. <br><br>So as I believe in human rights I say that the day we can have a non christian give the prayer then it will really be a great day for religious rights. <br><br>See, there is no pleasing everyone. <br><br>Still, we do need to dial down the sweeping statements but we can point out the very vocal subgroup and comparisons they are making that don't ring true or right.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-21_03:11:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "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": 4553428, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546965": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I hear ya, BAP. The past few days have been very frustrating. <br><br>I'm sick and tired of people always trying to ride the coattails of the Civil Rights Movement and demanding that black people take up their causes, but they never want to reciprocate. Heck, many times these are the very same perpetrators of racism against us.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_19:58:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4545462, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4544407": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "On a lighter note, I think I just found my new holiday drink:<br><br>Ingredients: <br><br>1 oz. Belvedere vodka <br>1 dash Grand Marnier <br>1.5 oz. cranberry juice <br>.5 oz. fresh lime juice <br>1 twist orange <br>1 oz. Palais sparkling Br\u00fbt champagne <br><br>Preparation: <br><br>1) Shake vodka, Grand Marnier, cranberry juice and lime juice over ice. <br><br>2) Strain into a chilled champagne flute. <br><br>3) Top with champagne. <br><br>4) Garnish with an orange slice.<br><br><br><a href=\"http://www.fineliving.com/fine/entertaining/article/0%2C2498%2CFINE_22197_5712584%2C00.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.fineliving.com/fine/entertaining/art...</a><br><br>Yummy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_15:55:23", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546971": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is a great example. While there has been progress in representation of POC and gays in entertainment....its a shame that every single black male that is supposed to be perceived as gay is always the hair stylist with the most exaggerated mannerisms since Flip Wilson was Geraldine.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_19:57:41", "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": 4546718, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4544924": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Stop trying to make it out to be a civil rights issue! It's not! Big difference.<br><br>When I was a little girl, I had to watch my parents go into the back door of restaurants if they wanted to eat. I also saw 2 separate waiting rooms at the Dr.'s office...One for whites.....One for blacks (Colored). I witnessed my parents being passed over in the check-out line and had to wait, so Whites could be waited on first.  Has that ever happen to someone just because they're gay? <br><br>Comparing sexual orientation discrimination to racial discrimination is off the mark!  Like Apples & Oranges!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_16:37:40", "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": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4544301, "depth": 8, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546548": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm glad it wasn't too serious. Getting a true diagnosis helps stop the imagination. Don't you get a lot of ice cream too?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_19:11:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4543401, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4544775": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That woman is out of her mind; she still hasn't stopped drinking the Kool Aid since Billary lost.<br><br>I'm of two minds about Caroline (CaroLINE, not CaroLYNN) Kennedy.  On one side, I think I know one reason why she's going for it--to keep the name of Kennedy on the radar for awhile after Unca Ted is dead.  I have no problem with this.<br><br>On the other hand, Caroline has even less experience in government than her predecessor, who had more time to listen to N.Y. residents as well as having the support of the departing bloviator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.  But that still doesn't disqualify her from the job.<br><br>I'm rather disturbed at some of the liberal radio hosts like Ron Kuby dissing and dismissing the woman.  Yes, she is the daughter of the late JFK.  Yes, she's the only one left of that illustrious branch of the family.  But you would think that there is something evil and underhand about her wanting the job.<br><br>I wish her well whether or not Patterson gives her the word.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_16:24:17", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4544046, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4544418": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I wanted to repost this from Andrew Sullivan's site, because it succintly sums up a lot of what I feel about this whole Rick Warren issue\"<br><br><a href=\"http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/12/reality-check.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...</a><br><br>Posted under the headline \"Reality Check\"<br><br>\"At the risk of sounding completely daft, I don't see the big deal about Rick Warren. I mean, here is a preacher who will give an invocation for a president who is in favor of repealing the DADT policy, the DOMA act, and wants to pass the Matthew Shepard Act. A president who is not in favor of a Marriage Protection Amendment to the Constitution, who believes that gay marriage is a state issue, opposed Proposition 8, and has indicated that that their administration will be completely gay friendly.<br>If there is anyone in this equation who should be uncomfortable about being at the inauguration, it should be Rick Warren.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_15:56:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "5018fed0ab413b3c89461fe90acac450", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4542378, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546980": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I saw the move \"MILK\"  this afternoon.  Has anyone else seen it?  It was released last month. In the 1970's,the fight was for Prop 6<br><br>Academy Award nominee Gus Van Sant directs Academy Award winner Sean Penn as gay-rights icon Harvey Milk. Mr. Milk (1930-1978) was an activist and politician, and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in America; in 1977, he was voted to the city supervisors\u2019 board of San Francisco. <br><br>The following year, both he and the city's mayor George Moscone were shot to death by another city supervisor, Dan White. Mr. Milk was previously the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary feature \"The Times of Harvey Milk,\" but \"Milk\" is the first non-documentary feature to explore the man's life and career.<br><br><br><a href=\"http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/movie/milk/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/movie/milk/</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_19:59:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4541353": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Get well soon lamh31. I hope everything turns out okay.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_12:01:02", "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": 4541161, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4542378": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "About Rick Warren. I note that PE Obama has offered a response to our objection of the choice of Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the inaugural ceremony. It could be that my anger is clouding my reason, but I couldn't decide whether he was being sincere or patronizing, \"Aw shucks! You crazy kids are so 'noisy and opinionated'; I've made my decsion so live with it.\" <br><br>Today, a few days removed, I am still disappointed that PE Obama chose to give such a prominent platform to a man whose views are diametrically opposed to mine, and many others. Many here have suggested that the reason many white Democrats are upset is that they think that they gave the black man a chance and now he is not doing their bidding. Look, blacks like myself, are truly flabbergasted by this choice as well. Of course, we are pleased that Dr. Lowery will present another kind of voice at the festivities but that doesn't take away the core point: I, we, fought hard to make this man our president - through snow, sleet, rain and sunshine - and we loath to share our moment of joy with an unrepentant bigot. <br><br>Of course, I appreciate PE Obama's desire to create a climate for reasoned dialogue among people with opposing viewpoints but I, personally, am not confident that Rick Warren and his ilk are open to viewpoints other than their own. Maybe, I am being too pessimistic, but when I look at it from that perspective, Rick Warren's presence at the ceremony is an exercise in futiltiy, and, therefore, extremely frustrating. I hope I am wrong. Maybe this will open some hearts and minds to issues that I, and others in the Democratic Party, care about. We'll see.<br><br>As for the question that was posed here: What will happen after Rick Warren says the invocation? My answer? Well, certainly, the world will not come to a crashing end but that shouldn't discount the displeasure that many feel about having him there. It also does nothing to quell my growing fear that this may, MAY, become a first in a series of accomodations that the Democratic leadership are willing to make in order to appease the Right, at the expense of the base, with nothing to show for it.<br><br>Just my 2 cents.<br><br>T.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_13:20:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6755b31010b50fc47eac9ee8b3bb319", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 66, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4541872": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Okay, new thread:<br><br>\"What do you think will happen as a result of Warren doing the invocation?\"<br><br>So far, I have the following answers:<br><br>1.  Barack Obama will become the President of the United States of America<br><br>2. The sky won't fall.<br><br>3. *crickets*", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_12:41:54", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4545458": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL....well said.<br><br>I read a comment on another blog that no one dared to respond too...there have been many occassions where a senator died in office or a sitting senator died while campaigning for re-election...and their spouse was appointed to the position or won in the election. No one questions the experience of the widow/widower......why is that? Is it out of sympathy only? Does being married to a senator (or former president) give you experience by osmosis?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_17:30:38", "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": 4545304, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4542387": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Al Sharpton on Warren hullaboo:<br><br>\"I think that from my understanding, President-elect Obama is trying to reach out to people that don't agree and do agree with him, to unite the country. I certainly don't agree with Reverend Rick Warren. I'm sure Reverend Warren doesn't agree with me on certain things. But I think there's room for everyone and I think that is what President Obama is trying do. I thought it was a very gracious thing. I think Warren said it was courageous. I think it was both,\" said Sharpton. \"I think that President-elect Obama showed a lot of graciousness extending this to him, showing that he's trying to pull the country together even with those he disagrees with and [those that are] frankly... less than gracious to him.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_13:21:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4541086": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "NASCAR settles $225M bias, harassment suit filed by ex-official<br><br>NASCAR has settled a $225 million lawsuit filed by a former official who sued for racial discrimination and sexual harassment, The Associated Press is reporting.<br><br>The suit was filed by Mauricia Grant and settled Dec. 3, AP says. Settlement terms are confidential, and there was no immediate comment from Grant's attorney.<br><br>She was a technical inspector who certified cars in NASCAR's second-tier Nationwide Series from January 2005 until she was fired in October 2007. In her lawsuit she alleged 23 specific incidents of sexual harassment and 34 specific incidents of racial and gender discrimination", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_11:41:05", "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}, "4545462": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If I hear one more person, especially a white person, equate Black people's 400 some odd year struggle for equality to that of gays not being able to marry, I do believe I will rip out every strand of my hair and run baldheaded and screaming down the street.<br><br>IT'S.NOT.THE.SAME........", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_17:31:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "BlackAmericanPrincess", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 36, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4544439": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sight.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_15:58:05", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4544301, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4544441": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh, and if I never here the words \"Rick Warren\" \"thrown under a bus\" and for good measure \"Geraldine Ferraro\" ever again, it will be too soon.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_15:58:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "5018fed0ab413b3c89461fe90acac450", "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": 4544418, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4552640": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You can hide your gayness, you cannot hide your race.  You blanch over the struggles of blacks in this country and expect sympathy for gaining the right to marry?  I really don't think so.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-21_00:56:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "oxygirl", "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": 4544376, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546507": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Seriously...the whooshing sound over your head...was the point. <br>\"what about the black person who doesn't choose to be \"white\"? Who? The one who gets stopped for a ticket, was about to get a warning until the cop saw his driver's license? That person? Or the one who was all set for a pretty good interest rate until the loan officer saw where the little \"X\" was marked in the Racial Classification category (you know that's just for EEOC purposes, they don't really look at that...wink wink). Or how about the WHITE person that just so happens to have graduated from Clark Univ in Atlanta...you think there are HR personnel out there that still don't reject resumes based off perception of blackness ALONE?? Get real....there is NO FREAKING COMPARISON.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_19:07:52", "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": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4546413, "depth": 6, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4543437": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"The imagine \"if the blacks were being spoken about like this\" also presupposes that there are no black members in the group in question. There is no standard black identity which means that within any group that is currently undergoing marginalization it quite possible in fact highly likely that there are black members.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_14:38:45", "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": 21, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4542664, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4552149": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Check your email. :-)))", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-21_00:05:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4551920, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4544471": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sight? I think I know what you mean, but I don't want to be presumptious. What do you mean by \"sight\"?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_15:59:25", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4544439, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4542940": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"What will happen after Rick Warren says the invocation? My answer? Well, certainly, the world will not come to a crashing end but that shouldn't discount the displeasure that many feel about having him there. It also does nothing to quell my growing fear that this may, MAY, become a first in a series of accomodations that the Democratic leadership are willing to make in order to appease the Right, at the expense of the base, with nothing to show for it.\"<br><br><br>I'm not discounting your displeasure, but not everyone is going to be pleased about the choices he makes. I haven't been happy about some of the Cabinet picks (Hillary Clinton in particular), but I don't make threats about witholding my support before the man can even get sworn in. To me that reeks in pettiness.<br><br>You also point out that you have a fear of democratic leadership appeasing the right at the expense of the base. That makes more sense to me versus saying you are getting slapped in the face or all these other platitudes. My take is a wait and see approach, b/c in the end, no one knows what is going to happen, but we all know that there will be policies that we wont' agree with. I can't get all up in arms until I see the results of the Cabinet picks and see what he does w/ the Democratic majority in the House and Senate. I just can't.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_14:00:03", "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": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4542378, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4547553": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "As far as I'm concerned, Rachel's just another TALKING HEAD who gets paid. <br><br>She's using the show as a platform for GLBT issues. My issue with that is she's not neutral.<br>Shes too close to it, because she'sgay.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_21:08:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4547287, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4547556": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No you didn't say \"like Fred G. Sanford shuffling around his Watts junkyard\".<br><br>ROFLMAO!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_21:08:31", "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": 4545225, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546021": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "BAP,<br><br>I'm gonna have to follow Carolinagirl and step back from this because I'm starting to get mad from just thinking about some of the things my poor hard working parents had to go through just because they were wearing black face.  And then having some wanting to ride on the backs of that struggle? Whew Lawd...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_18:13:58", "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": 4545462, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4545510": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Let's hope for Bristol's sake that the baby she's carrying isn't sick or deformed.  If this nutty mom had ever exposed her own kid to some drugs and dope...<br><br>He seemed a few bricks short of a load anyway, but this would take the cake if the baby is effed up as badly as with Trig Palin.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_17:34:26", "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": 4542457, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4542951": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "BTW. Thanks for actually answering the question. I'm still waiting on everyone else.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_14:00:59", "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": 4542940, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546542": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Gates is a native of Alabama, methinks...<br><br>T.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_19:11:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6755b31010b50fc47eac9ee8b3bb319", "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": 4546466, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4546295": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No, I wasn't putting words into her mouth. I what I meant is \"Even if you could hide your blackness, I'm sure you wouldn't. Why expect gays to want to hide who they are?\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_18:41:49", "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": 4546101, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4551668": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"...many times these are the very same perpetrators of racism against us.\"<br><br>And will continue to be after we help them to achieve their desires.  I'm all for human rights and believe people should be able to marry whomever they choose, mine is not to judge or impose, but your blues ain't mine and never will be when you don't recognize and cease participating in my suffrage.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_23:13:37", "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": 4546965, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4543479": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes, I do, even though Rachel Maddow isn't the President Elect. <br><br>\"Dr Warren said that homosexuality is not a natural way of life and thus not a human right. \"We shall not tolerate this aspect at all,\" Dr Warren said.\"<br><a href=\"http://allafrica.com/stories/200803281265.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://allafrica.com/stories/200803281265.html</a><br><br>\"When it came time for questions, a woman stood up, proclaimed her Judaism, and asked Warren if she was going to burn in hell. He paused before responding--and then answered her question the only way it could be answered. Yes, he said to audible gasps.\"<br><br><a href=\"http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/14/weekend-preview-obama-and-mccain-at-saddleback-church.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archiv...</a><br><br>\"Much worse\", you say?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_14:41:51", "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": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4543279, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4541432": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hope you feel better soon, lamh31!<br><br>I know the feeling~~My throat was like that a few days before Thanksgiving & I felt horrible. <br><br>The ER can be slow but hope your stay isn't!<br><br>Get well soon!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_12:05:37", "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": 4541161, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4542457": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Names for the baby<br>Girl-Crystal<br>Boy- Metthew", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_13:26:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4542040, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4542461": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "There are many blacks,  as well, who are not flabbergasted by the choice. who see nothing worth ranting about for this sustained amount of time. It just is not anymore significant than McClurkin being on the gosepel tour.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_13:26:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 52, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4542378, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4543999": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I still ask...much worse? Or do Buchanan's comments just seem much worse to you because they're aimed at blacks?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-20_15:20:34", "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": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4543799, "depth": 8, "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": "8657428", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": -751716001386769073}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "saturday_open_thread_10", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 171, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 8657428, "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=saturday_open_thread_10' +
		'&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/saturday_open_thread_10/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='	+ 'saturday_open_thread_10'
			+ '&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/saturday_open_thread_10/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">171</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/saturday_open_thread_10/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/saturday_open_thread_10/">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:8657428" 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/saturday_open_thread_10/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:8657428" 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:8657428" 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'				: 'saturday_open_thread_10',
			// 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/saturday_open_thread_10/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='	+ 'saturday_open_thread_10'
			+ '&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='	+ 'saturday_open_thread_10'
			+ '&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='		+ 'saturday_open_thread_10'
				+ '&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/8657428/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-4545462">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4545462" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4545462" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4545462">BlackAmericanPrincess</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4545462" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4545462" class="dsq-comment-message">If I hear one more person, especially a white person, equate Black people\'s 400 some odd year struggle for equality to that of gays not being able to marry, I do believe I will rip out every strand of my hair and run baldheaded and screaming down the street.<br><br>IT\'S.NOT.THE.SAME........</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4546965">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546965" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546965" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546965">Sepia</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546965" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546965" class="dsq-comment-message">I hear ya, BAP. The past few days have been very frustrating. <br><br>I\'m sick and tired of people always trying to ride the coattails of the Civil Rights Movement and demanding that black people take up their causes, but they never want to reciprocate. Heck, many times these are the very same perpetrators of racism against us.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4551668">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4551668" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4551668" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4551668">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4551668" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4551668" class="dsq-comment-message">"...many times these are the very same perpetrators of racism against us."<br><br>And will continue to be after we help them to achieve their desires.  I\'m all for human rights and believe people should be able to marry whomever they choose, mine is not to judge or impose, but your blues ain\'t mine and never will be when you don\'t recognize and cease participating in my suffrage.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4546021">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546021" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546021" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546021">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546021" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546021" class="dsq-comment-message">BAP,<br><br>I\'m gonna have to follow Carolinagirl and step back from this because I\'m starting to get mad from just thinking about some of the things my poor hard working parents had to go through just because they were wearing black face.  And then having some wanting to ride on the backs of that struggle? Whew Lawd...</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4551936">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4551936" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4551936" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4551936">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4551936" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4551936" class="dsq-comment-message">I KNOW that\'s right.  <br><br>Last hired and first fired was particularly hard on families.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4545801">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4545801" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4545801" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4545801" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4545801" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4545801" class="dsq-comment-message">\'Cuz ya just know I\'m tempted.  ;)<br><br>It is NOT the same.  It\'s probably a small miracle it hasn\'t somehow been compared to the tragic history of native peoples in this country.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4545644">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4545644" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4545644" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4545644">Plantsmantx</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4545644" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4545644" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s not even so much about gay not being able to marry, per se. Many blacks take offense to black equality being equated with gay rights...period.. This was the argument long before gay marriage came up as an issue. Why?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4545762">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4545762" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4545762" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4545762">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4545762" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4545762" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ll just write what I wrote a little earlier:<br><br>Last time I checked, the cops did not stop anyone because they were Driving While Gay. Dillard\'s Dept Store has not, to my knowledge, had Gay shoppers marked for scrutiny. On what application for a job, apartment or loan does it ask about sexual orientation? Newsflash: NONE - So please stop the illogical comparison with racial discrimination.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4546260">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546260" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546260" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546260">Plantsmantx</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546260" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546260" class="dsq-comment-message">,,,and I\'ll just (sort of) reiterate, too- that\'s like saying a black person who can "pass" doesn\'t deserve the same "protected class" status as other blacks because they can hide their blackness.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4546364">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546364" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546364" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546364">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546364" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546364" class="dsq-comment-message">If a black person who can "pass" chooses to be White on their driver\'s license, loan applications, job applications, etc..then hell no, they DON\'T deserve the same "protected class" status - whatever the hell THAT is. (and dont bother with an explanation).<br>Now again....where on any of those do you classify your sexual orientation?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546413" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546413" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546413">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546413" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546413" class="dsq-comment-message">What about the black person who doesn\'t choose to be "white"?<br><br>You don\'t classify your sexual orientation anywhere on any of those. However, that doesn\'t mean that discrimination against a gay person after it is known he/she is gay is somehow more acceptable than it is against a black person. It also means that they shouldn\'t have to feel compelled to hide who they are any more than a black person who can "pass" should.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546507" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546507" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546507">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546507" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546507" class="dsq-comment-message">Seriously...the whooshing sound over your head...was the point. <br>"what about the black person who doesn\'t choose to be "white"? Who? The one who gets stopped for a ticket, was about to get a warning until the cop saw his driver\'s license? That person? Or the one who was all set for a pretty good interest rate until the loan officer saw where the little "X" was marked in the Racial Classification category (you know that\'s just for EEOC purposes, they don\'t really look at that...wink wink). Or how about the WHITE person that just so happens to have graduated from Clark Univ in Atlanta...you think there are HR personnel out there that still don\'t reject resumes based off perception of blackness ALONE?? Get real....there is NO FREAKING COMPARISON.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546736" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546736" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546736">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546736" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546736" class="dsq-comment-message">Miranda,<br><br>Break. it. down.<br><br><br>(I couldn\'t help myself)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546815" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546815" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546815">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546815" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546815" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, because 26 year old Sherika Watkins who attended Spelman is a shoo in for the position</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546684" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546684" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546684">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546684" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546684" class="dsq-comment-message">There is no comparison? Come on. No, their struggle is not exactly like ours in every way. How could it be? No other group\'s struggle has been exactly like ours. I don\'t think they make the comaprisons they do to try to say "Our struggle is exactly like theirs". I think they do it to get the point across that their struggle is just as valid as ours. That\'s it. At one time or another, many oppressed groups of people all over the world have compared their struggle with our civil rights movement, and we haven\'t rejected the comparisons. Why reject this one?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4547219" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4547219" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4547219">ceetay</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4547219" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4547219" class="dsq-comment-message">I think it\'s because some of us question why the LGBT community has to find every opportunity to compare their struggle with ours. There are other examples like the women\'s movement, the illegal immigration movement, the labor movement, etc. But the first comparison that comes out of their mouths is to the civil rights movement. <br><br>I am for gay rights and I do believe their struggle for equality is similar, but it\'s not the same, especially for white LGBTs. They don\'t have a history where their ancestors were chained and ripped from their way of life to live in a foreign land. Their names, their languages, their original religions, their entire humanity were stolen. They couldn\'t even be allow to read without the risk of getting killed. <br><br>Yes, it\'s wrong to deny the LGBT community to marry. But if you want the best way to compare it to the black experience, why not equate it with interracial marriage? It was also outlawed overwhelmingly across the country. <br><br>I\'m just saying, for the LGBT community to compare one issue with an entire racial struggle comes off as insensitive (some might say opportunistic) and it feels forced upon for us to just accept these comparisons.<br><br>Therefore, I do want to ask, why is it so important for the LGBT community to always want to bring up the civil rights movement more than any other struggle?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4547365" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4547365" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4547365">Plantsmantx</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4547365" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4547365" class="dsq-comment-message">"But if you want the best way to compare it to the black experience, why not equate it with interracial marriage?" <br><br>They do. That\'s one of the (I think) valid ways in which they do compare. <br><br>"Therefore, I do want to ask, why is it so important for the LGBT community to always want to bring up the civil rights movement more than any other struggle?"<br><br>Well, in response, I would ask YOU why it is so important for the Latino movement, the womens\' movement, the labor movement, the Australian native movement, the Native American movement, the Indian Dalit (formerly Untouchables) movement, and others to bring up the U.S. black civil rights movement more than any other struggle? I would also ask why having all these other movements bring up our civil rights struggle doesn\'t seem to be a problem. Heck, I\'d even ask why there seems to be LESS of a problem with having right-wing fundies and even white supremacists compare their "struggles" with ours.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4547636" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4547636" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4547636">ceetay</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4547636" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4547636" class="dsq-comment-message">" I would also ask why having all these other movements bring up our civil rights struggle doesn\'t seem to be a problem."<br><br>It did irk me during the primaries when feminists were saying it was "Hillary\'s turn" because women (white women) were more discriminated against than black men. Also, the Latino movement are consisted of different movements. The Latin Kings (Puerto Rican group) were alongside The Black Panthers. Mexican Migrant workers had Cesar Chavez as their leader, just to name a few examples.<br><br>I NEVER said I was more of a problem for the LGBT community to compare, it just seems as though they ONLY compare our struggle with theirs. It\'s almost as if they are relying on it to get what they want. "Gay is the new Black." Really? <br><br>Just because I don\'t entirely agree with their tactics for fighting injustice doesn\'t mean I\'m intolerant to their cause. Like I said, I\'m for gay marriage. But what\'s going to happen when they do get what they want? Will they cast us aside like the feminist movement did?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4547969" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4547969" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4547969">ceetay</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4547969" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4547969" class="dsq-comment-message">This is why identity politics should cease. No matter what I or anyone else says, you believe I\'m slighting the LGBT community. I can\'t have any view other than agreeing with you 100%. That\'s why I see what Obama had in mind when he invited Rick Warren and Dr. Joseph Lowery. We can\'t keep fighting the same battles over and over. I\'m black and I\'m a woman. Which group am I supposed to align myself to more? Why do I have to? Why is it that I question one thing about the LGBT community that I\'m considered insensitive? Why is it that if a black person points out some racist attitudes in the LGBT community it\'s swept aside?I\'m not saying that specifically, it\'s what I\'ve read on several blogs. WE ARE ALL HUMAN, but does that mean we have to condone every group\'s actions? Hell, there\'s a lot of things in the black community I don\'t agree with. For all groups to move on we have to find a way where we can disagree sometimes and still listen and work together.  The key word is LISTEN.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4552022" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4552022" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4552022">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4552022" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4552022" class="dsq-comment-message">No, that is like saying that 99.9% of blacks need the  same \'protected class\' because they can\'t pass, and Miranda itemized ways in which they can\'t.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4552078" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4552078" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4552078">msmartin</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4552078" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4552078" class="dsq-comment-message">That doesn\'t make sense because if a black is able to pass, they ususally don\'t suffer from discrimination.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546718" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546718" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546718">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546718" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546718" class="dsq-comment-message">I have one example Plantsmarx that sticks in my head.<br><br>I remember the mid-80\'s, I was in elementary school.  And the actor Rock Hudson had passed away.   Rock Hudson back then was like a modern-day Brad Pitt--one of THE leading men in Hollywood. And I remember my mom being shocked at his death, or so the cause.  You see, Rock Hudson perished from AIDS-----but how could that be most people thought, many like her knew him as this leading man both on screen and presumably off.  But it was later revealed that Hudson was a gay man who often went to great lengths to hide his sexual orientation....and became successful as an actor in the process, since revealing his sexual orientation at that time may have proved detrimental.<br><br>But I also think back to some of Black Hollywood\'s premier actors and actresses, who had an extremely hard time finding work, you know the sophisticated lead roles.   Many of them faced outright discimination...Dorothy Dandrige\'s story is a prime example. Those same Black actors were looking for the roles and accolades that Rock Hudson had but unfortunately, they couldn\'t hide their skin tone at the door. <br><br>Fortunately there has been progress in both representation of POC and gays on television and in media. And for that I am thankful.<br><br><br>Let\'s be clear, though the pain hurts and bigotry stings....the struggle is not always the same.  And I think the equivalence is what gets under the skin of some people.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546971" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546971" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546971">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546971" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546971" class="dsq-comment-message">This is a great example. While there has been progress in representation of POC and gays in entertainment....its a shame that every single black male that is supposed to be perceived as gay is always the hair stylist with the most exaggerated mannerisms since Flip Wilson was Geraldine.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4547143" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4547143" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4547143">Plantsmantx</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4547143" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4547143" class="dsq-comment-message">No, it\'s not always the same. I think the comparisons are made when and where they\'re valid, and what\'s wrong with that? It\'s not as if any gay people are out there saying "We have to use seperate restrooms, just like they did". Come on. A comparison like that wouln\'d get under my skin, but only because I\'d be too busy being nonplussed by the silliness of it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4547300" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4547300" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4547300">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4547300" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4547300" class="dsq-comment-message">Personally the comparison does not get under MY skin.  <br><br>But when you have one community essentially blaming the passage of a proposition on another ,that does.<br><br>And when members of the same group are upset and feel the need to call the P-E Obama and other blacks the n-word in their frustration, i also have a problem with that.<br><br>So really, you need to "Come on"  You asked a question and i gave you a different prespective, which in my opinion is NOT offensive.<br><br>My example is a clear message that  throughout history, and even now, you can be a gay individual and still possibly be able to navigate to certain heights than say a black or brown person would----that is simply the truth in some instances.<br><br>Of couse gay individuals face discrimination as well...I am just showing that the dynamics of discrimination permeate and affect individuals differently...and that is why our perceptions are also different in some cases.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4547372" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4547372" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4547372">Monie</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4547372" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4547372" class="dsq-comment-message">And one more thing.....even though I am a heterosexual married woman who wishes for eqaulity for all people on Earth,  I can almost guarantee you that Gay or Lesbian POC also find discrimination among others in the LGBT community...and that is also just as disgusting as any other bigotry.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4551996" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4551996" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4551996">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4551996" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4551996" class="dsq-comment-message">It is a known fact that homosexuals are some of the biggest racists. The gay scene has lots of \'separate but equal\' theatre groups, restaurants, bars, and networking ...where folks of color are looked at with disdain and are treated dismissively if not derisively.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4553428" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4553428" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4553428">patatsea</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4553428" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4553428" class="dsq-comment-message">Please don\'t tar us all with the same brush.  SOME homosexuals are some of the biggest racists, yes I\'d agree with that, just like some heterosexuals are some of the biggest racists, but don\'t refer to the community like its a monolithic racist group, because that is just insulting, especially to those of us who have to navigate both queer and minority communities.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4553615" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4553615" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4553615">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4553615" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4553615" class="dsq-comment-message">You do speak the truth.<br><br>I guess what is happening is that Obama is being blamed for every ill that has befallen this country by, what appears to many of us , the same people.<br><br>Clintonistas. The wording, the arguments, the tone and tactics. I am sure there are many who are newly upset but really, it is hard to find someone who will give a prayer that isn\'t against gay marriage. If he did chose that  person then there would be another argument on his making a political and divisive statement on a day for all Americans. And it would comprise of right wingers and Clintonistas. <br><br>So as I believe in human rights I say that the day we can have a non christian give the prayer then it will really be a great day for religious rights. <br><br>See, there is no pleasing everyone. <br><br>Still, we do need to dial down the sweeping statements but we can point out the very vocal subgroup and comparisons they are making that don\'t ring true or right.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4547464" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4547464" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4547464">hal</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4547464" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4547464" class="dsq-comment-message">I have seen that comment made numerous times on various blogs. An example:<br><br>"Do we have to sit at the back of the bus now, too?"<br><br>"Separate but equal is ok now?"<br> <br>Any my favorite:<br><br>"Gay is the new black"<br><br>I totally support gay marriage. I\'m all for anyone being able to ruin their lives by getting hitched (sorry, couldn\'t resist):<br><br>But not having full legal marriage for GLBT people here in San Francisco where I live, and CA as a whole, but to have civil unions instead; is not a black civil rights era level assault on freedom, and I say this as a black, gay man myself.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4553483" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4553483" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4553483">patatsea</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4553483" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4553483" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m with you on the back of the bus comments, and especially the "Gay is the new black" ones, but I feel like I have to defend the use of separate but equal because- what other way is there to describe civil unions?  Straight people get marriage, gay people get civil unions.  Separate institutions that are in theory equal.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4551967" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4551967" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4551967">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4551967" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4551967" class="dsq-comment-message">Because being gay is something you do. Being black is who you are.  One is inherent the other is an action or behavior.  <br><br>Race is not a behavior.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4545803" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4545803" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4545803">Karen</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4545803" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4545803" class="dsq-comment-message">I am all for gay rights and am sad that Prop 8 failed as I don\'t like to see hate and religious views put into law, but, I have to say, I do get offended that the two struggles are the same to some people, especailly when it did not stop more than a few gays from calling blacks the n-word without a second thought. I still don\'t get why the gay\'s are on this marriage thing so much when they need federal hate crime laws and anti-job discrimination more, in my opinion.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4547283">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4547283" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4547283" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4547283" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4547283" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4547283" class="dsq-comment-message">Because most self-anointed white gay leaders are stupid. <br><br>That\'s why.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4547621">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4547621" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4547621" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4547621">Eric</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4547621" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4547621" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m so out of it I didn\'t even know there were gay leaders. Who are they?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4551696" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4551696" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4551696">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4551696" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4551696" class="dsq-comment-message">There are many.  Do a little research or watch some of the news shows; they are everywhere speaking out against Prop 8.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4551944" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4551944" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4551944">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4551944" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4551944" class="dsq-comment-message">They are nameless because they aren\'t leaders. They are agitators.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4542337">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4542337" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve mentioned it before...I feel bad about the pain the Warren pick is causing....and so I am not being dismissive of the response even though i feel it is over-the-top.<br><br>But my real question is "How come the LGBT community keeps allowing  the opposition to make make the first moves and challenge them instead of vice versa?"<br><br>Now we see that Ken Starr is going to try to retroactively void the legality of same-sex marriages that preceded the Prop. 8 passages.  Why wasn\'t there a suit placed before the courts by LGBT community to uphold these marriages immediately following Prop 8\'s passage, to  prevent more rights from being taken away?  They had to know proponents for Prop 8 were coming for more.<br><br>You can only get sucker-punched so many times before you learn that you have to anticipate the next move.<br><br>I am not a legal buff...but I hope this issue will one day, at the right time, will go all the way to the Supreme Court.  Because as long as it stays up to states, there will be this back-and-forth ideolgical fight.  And right now, proponents for Prop 8 are getting what they want while simultaneously fracturing the Democratic party...which I think at the end of the day is their ultimate goal.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546092">Michelle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546092" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>But my real question is "How come the LGBT community keeps allowing the opposition to make make the first moves and challenge them instead of vice versa?"</i><br><br>I have the same question.  I\'ve been thinking about this a lot lately.<br><br><i>You can only get sucker-punched so many times before you learn that you have to anticipate the next move.</i><br><br>My suspicion is that this may have something to do with the privilege (race, class and possibly also gender identity) of who is at the center in publicly defining what the "LGBT community" is and should care about. <br><br>One thing I have seen in recent discussions at dailykos -- about Prop 8 specifically -- is that some of the people who are speaking loudest about how upset they are also seem to think that they are somehow ... not in a deep long fight in which power doesn\'t concede without a struggle. <br><br>Like, in my experience there is a certain required discipline and vigilance that seems to come with a deep understanding that the system around you is not there to serve your needs, that it is in some way (related to the struggle) hostile to your humanity. Such understanding shows the need for a certain kind of strategy, thoughtfulness, etc. It\'s a battle that requires hard careful long work, not a canvass for individual self-expression.<br><br>What I see instead is movement people acting as if this system surrounding them is somehow by definition here to take care of them -- and then feeling angry when it does not, and speaking/acting out of that space. IMO the most common reason for such feeling is because of a sense of privilege and entitlement.  <br><br>I think that there is hard work to be done (that doesn\'t always stem from "I feel this, let me directly act from that feeling without considering what is around me") but that from this space of entitlement, that hard work looks like a form of oppression that should be resisted because "it\'s so unfair!" If you come from the perspective that you should get things handed to you without a struggle in this system, then to me it seems like that\'s the kind of thing it would feel like.<br><br>I don\'t know if this is the most accurate answer to your question, though.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4542199">Micheline </span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4542199" class="dsq-comment-message">Town mentioned how nasty it has been on Daily Kos  regarding the Warren pick. I\'ve also seen some nastiness towards Caroline Kennedy. I have a feeling some Clinton followers are behind it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4542307">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4542307" class="dsq-comment-message">I do not understand the Caroline nastiness either. It just makes we wanna scream at this stuff that is being spewed over at D. Kos.   I mean for pete\'s sake...are those folks overthere even \'qualified\' to write articles?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4541086">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4541086" class="dsq-comment-message">NASCAR settles $225M bias, harassment suit filed by ex-official<br><br>NASCAR has settled a $225 million lawsuit filed by a former official who sued for racial discrimination and sexual harassment, The Associated Press is reporting.<br><br>The suit was filed by Mauricia Grant and settled Dec. 3, AP says. Settlement terms are confidential, and there was no immediate comment from Grant\'s attorney.<br><br>She was a technical inspector who certified cars in NASCAR\'s second-tier Nationwide Series from January 2005 until she was fired in October 2007. In her lawsuit she alleged 23 specific incidents of sexual harassment and 34 specific incidents of racial and gender discrimination</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4541161">lamh31</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4541161" class="dsq-comment-message">good morning jjp. Right now I\'m lying in a hospital bed waiting to see the ER doc.  My throat was bothering me last night & I woke up this morning with my throat enflamed, and my ear feeling infected!  So I decided to go to the ER, why pay insurance premiums if you\'re not going to use them.  I just hope I won\'t be here all day!  <br><br>Hope ya\'ll have a better morning.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4541228">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4541228" class="dsq-comment-message">Hope you\'re OK!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4541353">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4541353" class="dsq-comment-message">Get well soon lamh31. I hope everything turns out okay.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4541432">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4541432" class="dsq-comment-message">Hope you feel better soon, lamh31!<br><br>I know the feeling~~My throat was like that a few days before Thanksgiving & I felt horrible. <br><br>The ER can be slow but hope your stay isn\'t!<br><br>Get well soon!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4542021">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4542021" class="dsq-comment-message">I hope you feel better.<br><br>Eat healthy, get some rest and eliminate the stress....it\'ll help you physically and mentally.<br><br>Take care.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4542131">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4542131" class="dsq-comment-message">lanh31:   OMG    I\'m praying for your recovery!  FEEL BETTER!  God bless you!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4542346">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4542346" class="dsq-comment-message">Jewish Pencillin= Chicken soup</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4541872">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4541872" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay, new thread:<br><br>"What do you think will happen as a result of Warren doing the invocation?"<br><br>So far, I have the following answers:<br><br>1.  Barack Obama will become the President of the United States of America<br><br>2. The sky won\'t fall.<br><br>3. *crickets*</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4541976">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4541976" class="dsq-comment-message">No, I answered too.<br><br>History will be made as Obama will finally officially be the POTUS</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4542645">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4542645" class="dsq-comment-message">I know WRB. Your answer was #1.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4542111">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4542111" class="dsq-comment-message">carolinagirl:  GREAT SURVEY!!!  THANK YOU for "axing" the appropriate question!!  :&gt;)   My response was on the other thread.  :&gt;)<br><br>Perhaps THIS question should GUIDE our thinking regarding all of his decisions.  I know that I will use it.  THANK YOU, AGAIN.<br><br>Gotta "raise up" for most of the day.  C U\'ALL L8R.   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4542040">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4542040" class="dsq-comment-message">Why are they not calling this woman Bristol baby\'s grandmother?<br><br>"Wasilla resident Sherry L. Johnston, mother of Bristol Palin\'s boyfriend, faces a Jan. 6 court date for an oxycontin-related arrest at her home by Alaska State Troopers."<br><br><a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/254/story/58245.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.mcclatchydc.com/254/story/58245.html</a><br><br>I bet those Johnston wish they had never heard of Sarah Palin, the way they have put the spotlight on all of their lives.<br><br>Limbaugh is an oxycontin addict too...so now we will be treated to endless stories of how horrible this woman\'s life was and then \'snap\' before you know it, she will be on the speaker\'s circuit telling others how they can turn their lives around and she will be a guest on DeGenere\'s show.  Or maybe Couric wil grant her a BarbaraWawa type interview.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4542457">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4542457" class="dsq-comment-message">Names for the baby<br>Girl-Crystal<br>Boy- Metthew</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4543298">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4543298" class="dsq-comment-message">You are so wrong on so many levels! LOL!!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4545510" href="http://thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blksista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4545510" class="dsq-comment-message">Let\'s hope for Bristol\'s sake that the baby she\'s carrying isn\'t sick or deformed.  If this nutty mom had ever exposed her own kid to some drugs and dope...<br><br>He seemed a few bricks short of a load anyway, but this would take the cake if the baby is effed up as badly as with Trig Palin.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4542287">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4542287" class="dsq-comment-message">Great slideshow...from the slavehouse to the white house<br><br>I found the picture of X and Ali with their daughters on their laps very poignant and powerful.<br><br><a href="http://newsone.blackplanet.com/nation/gallery-from-the-slavehouse-to-the-whitehouse/" rel="nofollow">http://newsone.blackplanet.com/nation/gallery-f...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4542378">T.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4542378" class="dsq-comment-message">About Rick Warren. I note that PE Obama has offered a response to our objection of the choice of Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the inaugural ceremony. It could be that my anger is clouding my reason, but I couldn\'t decide whether he was being sincere or patronizing, "Aw shucks! You crazy kids are so \'noisy and opinionated\'; I\'ve made my decsion so live with it." <br><br>Today, a few days removed, I am still disappointed that PE Obama chose to give such a prominent platform to a man whose views are diametrically opposed to mine, and many others. Many here have suggested that the reason many white Democrats are upset is that they think that they gave the black man a chance and now he is not doing their bidding. Look, blacks like myself, are truly flabbergasted by this choice as well. Of course, we are pleased that Dr. Lowery will present another kind of voice at the festivities but that doesn\'t take away the core point: I, we, fought hard to make this man our president - through snow, sleet, rain and sunshine - and we loath to share our moment of joy with an unrepentant bigot. <br><br>Of course, I appreciate PE Obama\'s desire to create a climate for reasoned dialogue among people with opposing viewpoints but I, personally, am not confident that Rick Warren and his ilk are open to viewpoints other than their own. Maybe, I am being too pessimistic, but when I look at it from that perspective, Rick Warren\'s presence at the ceremony is an exercise in futiltiy, and, therefore, extremely frustrating. I hope I am wrong. Maybe this will open some hearts and minds to issues that I, and others in the Democratic Party, care about. We\'ll see.<br><br>As for the question that was posed here: What will happen after Rick Warren says the invocation? My answer? Well, certainly, the world will not come to a crashing end but that shouldn\'t discount the displeasure that many feel about having him there. It also does nothing to quell my growing fear that this may, MAY, become a first in a series of accomodations that the Democratic leadership are willing to make in order to appease the Right, at the expense of the base, with nothing to show for it.<br><br>Just my 2 cents.<br><br>T.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4544418">hal</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4544418" class="dsq-comment-message">I wanted to repost this from Andrew Sullivan\'s site, because it succintly sums up a lot of what I feel about this whole Rick Warren issue"<br><br><a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/12/reality-check.html" rel="nofollow">http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...</a><br><br>Posted under the headline "Reality Check"<br><br>"At the risk of sounding completely daft, I don\'t see the big deal about Rick Warren. I mean, here is a preacher who will give an invocation for a president who is in favor of repealing the DADT policy, the DOMA act, and wants to pass the Matthew Shepard Act. A president who is not in favor of a Marriage Protection Amendment to the Constitution, who believes that gay marriage is a state issue, opposed Proposition 8, and has indicated that that their administration will be completely gay friendly.<br>If there is anyone in this equation who should be uncomfortable about being at the inauguration, it should be Rick Warren."</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4544441">hal</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4544441" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh, and if I never here the words "Rick Warren" "thrown under a bus" and for good measure "Geraldine Ferraro" ever again, it will be too soon.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4545370">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4545370" class="dsq-comment-message">I am so with you. Especially \'thrown under the bus" That one is long past useful.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4542461">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4542461" class="dsq-comment-message">There are many blacks,  as well, who are not flabbergasted by the choice. who see nothing worth ranting about for this sustained amount of time. It just is not anymore significant than McClurkin being on the gosepel tour.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4542707">Miss- Opinion </span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4542707" class="dsq-comment-message">Well since there are many blacks that don\'t engage in group think, yeah they don\'t have a problem with it and I\'m one of them. We can\'t kick people out and expect to have our own say. My parents don\'t support gay marriage and would vote yes on prop 8 if they could. They also heavily supported and donated to Obama\'s campaign. So I guess they aren\'t allowed to be part of this thing too right? We need to stop persecuting people for believing in a opposite opinion.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4543635">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4543635" class="dsq-comment-message">Is Rick Warren being "presecuted" because some are objecting to his appearence at the inauguration? Is J. Philippe Rushton being persecuted because some object to his ideas about race and intelligence?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4544237">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4544237" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4544237" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Is Rick Warren being "persecuted" because some are objecting to his appearence at the inauguration?</i><br><br><br><br>Umm...Yeah! Because of his beliefs!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4544391">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4544391" class="dsq-comment-message">Is J. Philippe Rushton being also persecuted because of his beliefs?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4542664" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4542664" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4542664">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4542664" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4542664" class="dsq-comment-message">At some point, Obama will "reach out" to the white racist equivalent of Rick Warren. I can\'t wait to see how y\'all will handle that.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4542814" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4542814" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4542814">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4542814" class="dsq-comment-message">He had a meeting with rival John McCain, who ran one of the most race-baiting  and dishonorable campaigns.  I didn\'t like it, but I\'m still here.  And Mccain still gets to have a say in the legislation that affects our lives<br><br>He selected Hillary Clinton as SOS, and I also thought she crossed some lines but hey, he extended an olive branch to her too.<br><br>And even though Ahmendinajad (sp?) has  said some very disgusting things about Israel, I also hope Obama and his administration engages Iran diplomatically because continuing to ignore other nations will NOT make us safer.<br><br>Look at what being a freakin know-it-all and carrying out selfish agendas have gotten us...millions of iraqis dead or displaced, thousands of Americans dead and maimed...all because ideologues didn\'t want to fuckin listen.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4543064" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4543064" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4543064">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4543064" class="dsq-comment-message">Neither McCain nor Clinton has said the kinds of things about blacks that Warren has said about gays. They haven\'t even come close. And neither of them can be said to be staunchly opposed to the aspirations of blacks. There\'s no real comparison. Again- at some point, Obama will "reach out" to someone who really is the white racist equivalent of Warren. Will y\'all be as sanguine about that as you are about Warren?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4543279" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4543279" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4543279">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4543279" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4543279" class="dsq-comment-message">I suppose you heavily object to Rachel Maddow giving Pat Buchanan any airtime on her show....seeing as he has said much worse about everybody that isn\'t a straight conservative white man.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4545165" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4545165">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4545165" class="dsq-comment-message">Miranda, that is an excellent point! <br><br>For two days, Rachel has been criticizing PEO for choosing Rick Warren to give a 2 minute prayer, yet she forgets that she has allowed "Uncle Pat" spout his ignorance on her show. Neither she nor KO have come out to denounce Pat\'s hateful remarks about how blacks should be thankful for slavery. When she was on The Today Show with Geraldine Ferraro, she said NOTHING when Gerry whined about PEO. And IIRC, Rachel didn\'t call out her fellow GLBT peeps when they blamed black people for Prop 8 passing. <br><br>I like and enjoy Rachel\'s show, but I can\'t stand her selective civil rights protesting.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546737" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546737" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546737">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546737" class="dsq-comment-message">Sepia, do you recall when Mike Huckabee waso Rachel\'s show? Not one question to him on his  Prop 8 stance.<br><br>She\'s using the bully pulpit  to whine about PEO for her own selish gains. Town summed it up nicely on another thread.  They want him to lick and suck!!! <br><br><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/21/maddow-huckabee/" rel="nofollow">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/21/maddow-huck...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546867" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546867" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546867">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546867" class="dsq-comment-message">Spirit, no, I didn\'t see that show. Well, well, well. So, not only did Rachel have Huckabee -- someone who has made anti-gay remarks -- on her show, but she didn\'t call him out on it or his stance on Prop 8. <br><br>And to add insult to injury, here\'s her reason why she didn\'t ask him:<br><br><i><b>I weighed whether or not to ask him about his anti-gay views, but I really don\'t care about them very much. Huckabee is a doctrinaire anti-gay theocratic social conservative whose views are well-known and heartfelt. I also probably wouldn\'t bother asking Sarah Palin about her anti-gay views if I had the opportunity to interview her -- it\'s just not the most interesting or newsworthy (or ridiculous) thing about either of them.</b></i><br><br>So, she doesn\'t consider it important "interesting" or "newsworthy" to question those who want to run this country and implement policy, about their anti-gay views, but she\'s complaining about PEO inviting a pastor -- who will not and cannot implement policy -- to his inauguration. <br><br>Rachel, you disappoint me.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4547287" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4547287">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4547287" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4547287" class="dsq-comment-message">"Huckabee is a doctrinaire anti-gay theocratic social conservative whose views are well-known and heartfelt"<br><br>Heartfelt?? huh.......so all Rick Warren has to do is prove his views come from the "heart" and it\'ll be okay? Yeah, Rachel jumped the shark with that comment. I cant take her venting over Rick Warren seriously after that statement.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4547553" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4547553" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4547553">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4547553" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4547553" class="dsq-comment-message">As far as I\'m concerned, Rachel\'s just another TALKING HEAD who gets paid. <br><br>She\'s using the show as a platform for GLBT issues. My issue with that is she\'s not neutral.<br>Shes too close to it, because she\'sgay.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4547318" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4547318">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4547318" class="dsq-comment-message">EXACTLY!!  And she\'s supposedly smart<br>enough to know where PEO stands on the issue too.  <br><br>MANIPULATION!!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4547619" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4547619">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4547619" class="dsq-comment-message">Sepia: <br><br> NICE DOCUMENTATION!!  :&gt;)<br><br>I recall that "EXPLANATION."  <br><br>Annnnnnnd, I raised my eyebrows!!  That\'s when I began to look sideways at Dr. Rachel  and say hmmmmm!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4551783" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4551783" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4551783">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4551783" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4551783" class="dsq-comment-message">GreenLady, WHYCOME she didn\'t AXE the Huckster the tough questions???!!!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4551859" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4551859">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4551859" class="dsq-comment-message">spirit:<br><br><br>IFFF one doesn\'t want ta hear the ANSWERS annnnnnd, do a FOLLOW-UP QUESTION.<br><br>I guess. . . .   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4543479" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4543479" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4543479">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4543479" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, I do, even though Rachel Maddow isn\'t the President Elect. <br><br>"Dr Warren said that homosexuality is not a natural way of life and thus not a human right. "We shall not tolerate this aspect at all," Dr Warren said."<br><a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/200803281265.html" rel="nofollow">http://allafrica.com/stories/200803281265.html</a><br><br>"When it came time for questions, a woman stood up, proclaimed her Judaism, and asked Warren if she was going to burn in hell. He paused before responding--and then answered her question the only way it could be answered. Yes, he said to audible gasps."<br><br><a href="http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/14/weekend-preview-obama-and-mccain-at-saddleback-church.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archiv...</a><br><br>"Much worse", you say?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4543799" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4543799" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4543799">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4543799" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4543799" class="dsq-comment-message">Well...since you ask:<br><br><a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2553" rel="nofollow">http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2553</a><br>On Dr. King/Civl RIghts<br>Buchanan, who opposed virtually every civil rights law and court decision of the last 30 years, published FBI smears of Martin Luther King Jr. as his own editorials in the St. Louis Globe Democrat in the mid-1960s. "We were among Hoover\'s conduits to the American people," he boasted (Right from the Beginning, p. 283). <br><br>Justiying Apartheid<br>Trying to justify apartheid in South Africa, he denounced the notion that "white rule of a black majority is inherently wrong. Where did we get that idea? The Founding Fathers did not believe this." (syndicated column, 2/7/90)<br><br>On Immigration<br>In a September 1993 speech to the Christian Coalition, Buchanan described multiculturalism as "an across-the-board assault on our Anglo-American heritage." <br><br>On Gays and AIDs<br>On AIDS, Buchanan wrote in 1983: "The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS)." (Los Angeles Times, 11/28/86) Later that year, he demanded that New York City Ed Koch and New York Gov. Mario Cuomo cancel the Gay Pride Parade or else "be held personally responsible for the spread of the AIDS plague." "With 80,000 dead of AIDS, our promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide," Buchanan wrote in 1990 (syndicated column, 10/17/90). In the 1992 campaign, he declared: "AIDS is nature\'s retribution for violating the laws of nature." (Seattle Times, 7/31/93) <br><br>You really don\'t want to get into a tit-for-tat when it comes to the bibotry that comes out of Pat Buchanan\'s mouth...he\'s a pro at it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4543999" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4543999" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4543999">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4543999" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4543999" class="dsq-comment-message">I still ask...much worse? Or do Buchanan\'s comments just seem much worse to you because they\'re aimed at blacks?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4544167" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4544167" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4544167">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4544167" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4544167" class="dsq-comment-message">Did you read the comments? Buchanan\'s comments are aimed at everybody that\'s not a straight conservative white man.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4544288" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4544288" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4544288">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4544288" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4544288" class="dsq-comment-message">Props... Miranda!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4544376" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4544376" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4544376">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4544376" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4544376" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, as I just said in another comment, bigotry is bigotry. I don\'t grade it according to whether or not it\'s aimed at the group I belong to.  Warren is no less a bigot because (in this case) he\'s aiming his bigotry at gays.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4552640" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4552640" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4552640">oxygirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4552640" class="dsq-comment-message">You can hide your gayness, you cannot hide your race.  You blanch over the struggles of blacks in this country and expect sympathy for gaining the right to marry?  I really don\'t think so.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4553368" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4553368">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4553368" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4553368" class="dsq-comment-message">Tell it, Oxygirl!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4543232" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4543232">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4543232" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4543232" class="dsq-comment-message">They aren\'t against the aspirations of blacks until they run up against them.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4543260" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4543260" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4543260">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4543260" class="dsq-comment-message">So where do you think Mccain got all of these ideas about creating this "he\'s not one of us" meme from---it was Hillary Clintion.  DOcuments show that Hillary strategists and ,in essence, her wanted to cast this doubt over Obama...since he wasn\'t all-American , he\'s "foreign", he doesn\'t share our values(and you know what that means)<br><br>Whose staff was forwarding the ubiquitous "Obama is a secret Muslim who is going to destroy America" e-mails---oh yeah, it was some of Hillary\'s staff whom she later had to fire.<br><br>And most importantly whose policies helped enact "Don\'t Ask, Don\'t Tell"  which essentially told servicemembers that if you are gay, you have to hide it because if it becomes known, your ass will be kicked out.....Oh yeah, that also came from Bill Clinton whose wife conveniently used his platform as hers.  Ain\'t it amazing how sooo many people forget about that one.<br><br>And in case you didn\'t know before, Mccain has also had associations with known bigots.  John McCain hired Richard Quinn, twice in 2000 and 2008, as a political strategist for his campaign.  Richard Quinn wrote in a column for his magazine that  the MLK holiday was "vitriolic and profane" while also applauding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, diaparaging Nelson Mandela and praising David Duke.<br><br>And in 2000, while asked about Quinn\'s words, McCain defended him and said Quinn was a "respected" and "fine man"<br><br>ANd all the while, more gay voters left Democratic ranks and voted for McCain than they did previously for Bush.<br><br>I am a supporter for Gay rights, so don\'t think I am being dismissive.  But what I do know is that Obama is not going to make every single decision that will fit MY  position perfectly...hell, no politician can\'t.....my own husband can\'t!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4543437" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4543437" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4543437">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4543437" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4543437" class="dsq-comment-message">"The imagine "if the blacks were being spoken about like this" also presupposes that there are no black members in the group in question. There is no standard black identity which means that within any group that is currently undergoing marginalization it quite possible in fact highly likely that there are black members."</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4543819" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4543819" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4543819">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4543819" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4543819" class="dsq-comment-message">carolinagirl....you can keep writing it...but they\'ll keep ignoring it. Its too much truth, and apparently they just can\'t handle it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4544091" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4544091" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4544091">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4544091" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4544091" class="dsq-comment-message">Agreed!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4543859" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4543859" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4543859">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4543859" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4543859" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, and the same thing can be said of any group that is currently engaging in marginalization. What\'s your point?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4544213" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4544213">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4544213" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4544213" class="dsq-comment-message">Those are not my words, I got that quote from womanistmusings. However, the point is comparing sexual orientation discrimination to racial discrimination is comparing apples to oranges. This is not an argument of who gets discriminated more, but it is different discrimination. One is not like the other.<br><br>It also goes against the argument of "what if it was the blacks" like that is all there is to black people. Like we\'re just a monolith. The fact that we are having this debate shows that we are not. Black people are made up of men, women, children, fathers, mothers, students, professionals, young, old, gay, straight, etc. The fact that you have to ask what my point was seems disingenuous.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4544259" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4544259">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4544259" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4544259" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>comparing sexual orientation discrimination to racial discrimination is comparing apples to oranges.</i><br><br><br>There you go! Now that\'s what I\'m talking about!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4544301" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4544301" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4544301">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4544301" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4544301" class="dsq-comment-message">When it really gets down to it, what\'s the difference between sexual orientation discrimination and racial discrimination?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4544924" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4544924" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4544924">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4544924" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4544924" class="dsq-comment-message">Stop trying to make it out to be a civil rights issue! It\'s not! Big difference.<br><br>When I was a little girl, I had to watch my parents go into the back door of restaurants if they wanted to eat. I also saw 2 separate waiting rooms at the Dr.\'s office...One for whites.....One for blacks (Colored). I witnessed my parents being passed over in the check-out line and had to wait, so Whites could be waited on first.  Has that ever happen to someone just because they\'re gay? <br><br>Comparing sexual orientation discrimination to racial discrimination is off the mark!  Like Apples & Oranges!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4545330" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4545330" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4545330">AM2k6</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4545330" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4545330" class="dsq-comment-message">Justice58: Please, Please Stop making sense!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4545810" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4545810" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4545810">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4545810" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4545810" class="dsq-comment-message">So, what you\'re saying is that you would have chosen to be white if you had the choice, right? Oh, and you would pass for white if you could too, right? After all, under that circumstance, it would be your choice to endure the anti-black discrimination. Why would you if you didn\'t have to?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546378" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546378" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546378">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546378" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546378" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay~ Somebody.....Anybody....Is this person for real? I mean, come on..?<br><br>(Rolling My Eyes)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546101" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546101" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546101">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546101" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546101" class="dsq-comment-message">So you put the words in Justice\'s mouth that YOU wanted to be there? Is that how it works now? Or are you projecting your own internal feelings?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546295" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546295" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546295">Plantsmantx</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546295" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546295" class="dsq-comment-message">No, I wasn\'t putting words into her mouth. I what I meant is "Even if you could hide your blackness, I\'m sure you wouldn\'t. Why expect gays to want to hide who they are?"</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546421" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546421" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546421">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546421" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546421" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t expect nor ask that gays hide who they are....now I guess the fight should include adding sexual orientation as a classification at the DMV, SSI, Mortgage applications, credit card applications, job applications.....</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4544576" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4544576" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4544576">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4544576" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ll entertain this, but I\'m really going to step away from it after this b/c we are not going to see eye to eye.<br><br>I used the apples and oranges analogy for a reason. They have many similarities, but just b/c they are similar DOESN\'T mean they are the same:<br><br>1. They are both fruit, but not the same fruit.<br><br>2. They are both sweet, but they do not taste the same.<br><br>So lets go to the two discriminations:<br><br>Both groups get discriminated against in similar ways (same fruit):<br><br>1. not allowed in clubs or bars<br><br>But there are also differences (different taste):<br><br>1. gay people don\'t get followed around in the department store<br><br>The point isn\'t that one is worse than the other, but they are also not the same. You can\'t make comparisons. Now, I\'m off to talk about holiday drinks. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you Plantsmantx.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4544439" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4544439" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4544439">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4544439" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4544439" class="dsq-comment-message">Sight.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4544471" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4544471" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4544471">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4544471" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4544471" class="dsq-comment-message">Sight? I think I know what you mean, but I don\'t want to be presumptious. What do you mean by "sight"?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4545368" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4545368" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4545368">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4545368" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4545368" class="dsq-comment-message">I guess I\'m going to have to presume, lol. I guess that blacks who can "pass" have only themselves to blame for racial discrimination that happens as a result of them telling people they\'re black, right?<br><br>I\'m wondering if that\'s better or worse than that other argument. You know, the one that goes "Gays can choose to be gay, but my blackness was not a choice". That\'s like saying "I\'d be white if I had a choice, but I don\'t".</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4545674" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4545674" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4545674">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4545674" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4545674" class="dsq-comment-message">I dont think sexuality is really a choice, but please dont try and compare the obvious diffrences in discrimination of homosexuals vs minorities. Last time I checked, the cops did not stop anyone because they were Driving While Gay. Dillard\'s Dept Store has not, to my knowledge, had Gay shoppers marked for scrutiny. On what application for a job, apartment or loan does it ask about sexual orientation? Newsflash: NONE</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4545838" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4545838" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4545838">Plantsmantx</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4545838" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4545838" class="dsq-comment-message">IIt\'s just that it\'s sometimes a little hard to accept complaints of anti-black discrimination from blacks who are against gay rights. And I say that as a heterosexual black man.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4545278" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4545278" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4545278">Micheline </span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4545278" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4545278" class="dsq-comment-message">Gay marriage is a human rights issue.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4544273" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4544273" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4544273">Plantsmantx</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4544273" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4544273" class="dsq-comment-message">No, I was not being disingenous, because I really don\'t see your point. No, blacks are not a monolith, but they do get discriminiated against in a pretty monolithic way, don\'t you think? The marginalizers don\'t spend a lot of time fine tuning their bigotry to fit each subset of black people. Bigotry is bigotry.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4545289" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4545289" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4545289">AM2k6</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4545289" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4545289" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, there are at least 30+ Republican senators and about 80 Republican congressperson BO will have to reach out to........that, in my book, is having to reach out to some of the most hardened folks out there in terms of race relations.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4545757" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4545757" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4545757">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4545757" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4545757" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, with the key word phrase being "having to", although even that is arguable.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546289" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546289">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546289" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546289" class="dsq-comment-message">What I personally want to see is more outreach by the LGBT community to other communities.<br><br>Now I do not reside in CA, so of course I don\'t know the full scope of  the campaigning on behalf of LGBT.  But others have commented that outreach was NOT widespread.  And matter-of-factly , it is almost no-existent until we have an initiative on the ballot.  <br><br>In my opinion, the gay rights struggle has to remain at the forefront....engage with other civil rights organizations...publish their stories of struggle in other minority publications....just like I can see a commercial about the Latter-day Saints, I should also see a commercial about the human rights issue of gay marriage.  It may not change everyone\'s mind, but at least the LGBT are making their cause visible, they are giving a "human" side to their story.  <br><br>And also, when they have the next widespread immigration march, let the LGBT show their presence there too....or when the civil rights of blacks are being challenged, show their presence there too.<br><br>I have to say, today I see more examples of the lives of LGBT in media and in television than I do Black representation...and I think that has helped open the dialogue on what has long been a taboo subject in America.   But LGBT should not get mad at other groups and blame them for the passage of legislation when often they virtually shut others out.<br><br>The Black civil rights movement surely didn\'t gain the progress it did overnight...you and i both know it took about a hundred years after slaves were freed to actually outlaw outright discrimination....and that still hasn\'t eliminated it entirely.  But when the civil rights movement was at its peak...no one rested...the message stayed out front and center...and because of that, Blacks and many other minorities who stood alongside and behind them made inroads.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4542940" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4542940">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4542940" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4542940" class="dsq-comment-message">"What will happen after Rick Warren says the invocation? My answer? Well, certainly, the world will not come to a crashing end but that shouldn\'t discount the displeasure that many feel about having him there. It also does nothing to quell my growing fear that this may, MAY, become a first in a series of accomodations that the Democratic leadership are willing to make in order to appease the Right, at the expense of the base, with nothing to show for it."<br><br><br>I\'m not discounting your displeasure, but not everyone is going to be pleased about the choices he makes. I haven\'t been happy about some of the Cabinet picks (Hillary Clinton in particular), but I don\'t make threats about witholding my support before the man can even get sworn in. To me that reeks in pettiness.<br><br>You also point out that you have a fear of democratic leadership appeasing the right at the expense of the base. That makes more sense to me versus saying you are getting slapped in the face or all these other platitudes. My take is a wait and see approach, b/c in the end, no one knows what is going to happen, but we all know that there will be policies that we wont\' agree with. I can\'t get all up in arms until I see the results of the Cabinet picks and see what he does w/ the Democratic majority in the House and Senate. I just can\'t.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4542951" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4542951">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4542951" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4542951" class="dsq-comment-message">BTW. Thanks for actually answering the question. I\'m still waiting on everyone else.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4545794" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4545794" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4545794">Michelle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4545794" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4545794" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>versus saying you are getting slapped in the face or all these other platitudes</i><br><br>I just want to thank you for saying/highlighting this.<br><br>These metaphors of physical violence have been common in some online discussions about the Warren thing, and every time I read one of them it feels somehow wrong to me. But I can\'t pin down in words precisely why.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546245" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546245" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546245">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546245" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546245" class="dsq-comment-message">Because the use of physical violence as a metaphor for feelings about the Warren thing, is an INSULT to those who actually endured physical violence in their quest for racial justice.  Some of the commenters are purposefully trying to draw upon scenes of being physically assaulted. I wouldn\'t be surprised if they stoop to images of water hoses and dogs.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546407" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546407" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546407">Michelle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546407" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546407" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Because the use of physical violence as a metaphor for feelings about the Warren thing, is an INSULT to those who actually endured physical violence in their quest for racial justice. Some of the commenters are purposefully trying to draw upon scenes of being physically assaulted. I wouldn\'t be surprised if they stoop to images of water hoses and dogs.</i><br><br>THANK YOU! for putting that to words. <br><br><b>Thank you.</b><br><br>Yes.<br><br>Reminds me of how there was a dkos diary a couple of weeks ago that was like a parody to me because it was (seriously and with no apparent comprehension of the reality) comparing what the diarist clearly described as a totally undangerous cops-not-attacking-us "family morning out at a Prop 8 protest" with Selma and Stonewall.<br><br>There is a lot of unreal deeply disrespectful rhetoric going on.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546597" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546597" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546597">Lavender </span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546597" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546597" class="dsq-comment-message">Gay and trans people - of all races - are routinely assaulted physically or murdered because they are queer. It\'s called gay bashing and sometimes, sometimes, registered as a hate crime, if they are "lucky."<br><br>In what universe is this a competition?  Racism is ugly and dangerous. Homophobia is ugly and dangerous. Anti Semitism is ugly and dangerous. All hate is ugly and dangerous.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4547203" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4547203">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4547203" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4547203" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, all hate is ugly and dangerous.....even moreso when that hate turns into violence which turns into death which is SANCTIONED BY THE STATE. Please understand, I believe all hate crimes are equally repugnant - but law enforcement officials and judges and politicans participated in and legislated hate against African-americans in a way that will never EVER happen to any other group in this country EVER again and it took a lot of LIVES to get it that way...PERIOD. Yes, Prop 8 passed...but Prop 8 doesn\'t dictate where you will live, it doesn\'t dictate where you will go to school, it doesn\'t mandate that you recite the Bill of Rights before you can vote, it doesnt make it illegal for you to READ. I saw the protests regarding Prop 8, I saw a scene of angry white people that terrified a little old white lady who was protesting against them - and I didn\'t see anyone get arrested....guess what? You think a bunch of black people could pull that off?? You really think hundreds of black people could protest anything, surround a little old white lady and no one end up DEAD? No...Not yesterday, Not today...and Not tomorrow. It is what it is.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4545239" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4545239" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4545239">AM2k6</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4545239" class="dsq-comment-message">T:  <br><br>  Besides from Culture war issues (gay marriage and abortion): What\'s your beef with Rick Warren? And to continue on something started by other JJPers regarding this Warren thing, let me ask you something: What do you think will happen when he gives the invocation?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546136">T.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546136" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546136" class="dsq-comment-message">ps. sorry for the grammatical errors...I have no idea how to edit after I post...<br><br>T.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4547387" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4547387" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4547387">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4547387" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4547387" class="dsq-comment-message">T:   Eh-hemmmm:   AFTER you post, there are 4 OPTIONS at the BOTTOM of the post.  Click on <b>edit</b> [Option #2]<br><br>Click on it; make your edit; then click on <b>SAVE CHANGES</b><br><br>Annnnnnnnd, guess what? The <b>EDIT</b> option[now, the ONLY one] will still be available.  :&gt;)<br><br>"WHYCOME" I know this?   I have had to make MANY "EDITS!"  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>NOW, you try this!   Respond to me.  Post.  Then SCROLL DOWN and find <b>EDIT</b>   "Make that CHANGE" [Michael Jackson]  :&gt;)    :&gt;);  then SAVE CHANGES.   :&gt;)    ::L)<br><br>Sincerely,  <br><br>  "TECHNOLOGICALLY-CHALLENGED ----GLH   :&gt;)      :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4542387">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4542387" class="dsq-comment-message">Al Sharpton on Warren hullaboo:<br><br>"I think that from my understanding, President-elect Obama is trying to reach out to people that don\'t agree and do agree with him, to unite the country. I certainly don\'t agree with Reverend Rick Warren. I\'m sure Reverend Warren doesn\'t agree with me on certain things. But I think there\'s room for everyone and I think that is what President Obama is trying do. I thought it was a very gracious thing. I think Warren said it was courageous. I think it was both," said Sharpton. "I think that President-elect Obama showed a lot of graciousness extending this to him, showing that he\'s trying to pull the country together even with those he disagrees with and [those that are] frankly... less than gracious to him."</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4543134">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4543134" class="dsq-comment-message">Good Day JJP Peeps. Digging out from the snow, and Im going to build a Snow President -Elect Obama and First Lady -Elect Michelle in my back yard.  I grateful for the snow!  What Blessings are you aware of today?<br><br>Words to inspire:<br><br>"SOMETIMES LIFE CARRIES US ALONG SO FAST THAT WE DON\'T HAVE TIME TO THINK ABOUT THE MOMENT.  OFTEN WE OVERLOOK THE BLESSINGS OF THE DAY."<br><br>--------------   Harold Klemp, The Slow Burning Love of God</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4543401">lamh31</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4543401" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m back from the ER ya\'ll it didn\'t really take that long.  After my post I was out of there in about 1 hour.<br><br>The PA told me I have tonsilitis.  I\'ve actually had strep throat and tonsilitis before, but it\'s been a long time since I had an active case.<br><br>The prescription for me is lots of fluids, soups, and R&R.  Lucky for me, you don\'t need to swallow to type or surf the internet.<br><br>Thx for all the well wishes guys.  I appreciate it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4543570">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4543570" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m glad its nothing more serious. I so feel for you though....because every single Feb, I get strep throat/tonsilitis.........and I\'m too afraid to have my tonsils removed so I just suffer for my week.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4543936">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4543936" class="dsq-comment-message">lamh31<br><br><br>Just a little something for the sick!<br><br><a href="http://www.chocolates-uk.co.uk/images2/2008-14.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.chocolates-uk.co.uk/images2/2008-14.jpg</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546211">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546211" class="dsq-comment-message">I hope you\'re feeling better.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546548">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546548" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m glad it wasn\'t too serious. Getting a true diagnosis helps stop the imagination. Don\'t you get a lot of ice cream too?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4547467">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4547467" class="dsq-comment-message">lamh31:    Yaaaaaa!    :&gt;)     :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>Waiting for the day when you say - - - -<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWcNiebYGuo" rel="nofollow">I Feel Good (James Brown Live 8 )</a><br><br><br>ENJOY!!!!    :&gt;)     :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4543491">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4543491" class="dsq-comment-message">Geraldine Ferraro has weighed in to urge the NY Governor to pick anyone but Caroline.<br><br><a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/12202008/news/politics/caroline_slap_145098.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.nypost.com/seven/12202008/news/polit...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4544046">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4544046" class="dsq-comment-message">STFU Geraldine! You don\'t matter anymore!  Race-baiter! How\'s that!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4544775" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4544775" href="http://thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blksista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4544775" class="dsq-comment-message">That woman is out of her mind; she still hasn\'t stopped drinking the Kool Aid since Billary lost.<br><br>I\'m of two minds about Caroline (CaroLINE, not CaroLYNN) Kennedy.  On one side, I think I know one reason why she\'s going for it--to keep the name of Kennedy on the radar for awhile after Unca Ted is dead.  I have no problem with this.<br><br>On the other hand, Caroline has even less experience in government than her predecessor, who had more time to listen to N.Y. residents as well as having the support of the departing bloviator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.  But that still doesn\'t disqualify her from the job.<br><br>I\'m rather disturbed at some of the liberal radio hosts like Ron Kuby dissing and dismissing the woman.  Yes, she is the daughter of the late JFK.  Yes, she\'s the only one left of that illustrious branch of the family.  But you would think that there is something evil and underhand about her wanting the job.<br><br>I wish her well whether or not Patterson gives her the word.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4545304">hal</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4545304" class="dsq-comment-message">We all know that Hillary became Senator all on her own. Certainly not via her family name or political connections. And of course she has "35 years of experience" or I guess back in 2000 that would have been 27 years of hard core political experience to be a Senator. She faced a very tough, well known opponent who wasn\'t just picked out of a hat after the only real competition found out he had cancer (Read: Mistress). So I can understand people being angry. Only women who have been first lady or know-nothing Wasilla Mayors/Alaska Gov should be able to run for Senate. Everyone else has to have massive resumes to even be considered, cause we sure don\'t want no political Dynasties, america is vastly opposed.<br><br>Just asked the Bushes, the Clinton\'s, Patterson\'s, Jackson\'s, the Murkowski\'s up in Alaska, etc</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4545458">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4545458" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL....well said.<br><br>I read a comment on another blog that no one dared to respond too...there have been many occassions where a senator died in office or a sitting senator died while campaigning for re-election...and their spouse was appointed to the position or won in the election. No one questions the experience of the widow/widower......why is that? Is it out of sympathy only? Does being married to a senator (or former president) give you experience by osmosis?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4544892">Micheline </span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4544892" class="dsq-comment-message">Co-sign. I also think it disgusting that people are comparing her to Sarah Palin.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4543552">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4543552" class="dsq-comment-message">"With fuel prices dipping to a five-year low, trucks are becoming popular again. From the Ford F-150 to the Toyota Tundra, see which trucks are most researched at AOL Autos. 15 Most Popular Trucks at AOL Autos"<br><br><a href="http://autos.aol.com/gallery/most-popular-trucks" rel="nofollow">http://autos.aol.com/gallery/most-popular-trucks</a><br><br>*facepalm* When are we gonna grow up and learn from our mistakes?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4543589">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4543589" class="dsq-comment-message">We don\'t learn from our mistakes because we never think its our mistake. Americans are pretty arrogant in that way.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4543721">mjohnso27</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4543721" class="dsq-comment-message">I apologize if anyone has posted this before, but I wanted to know how people feel about this report from the Nation, excerpted on <a href="http://thinkprogress.org" rel="nofollow">thinkprogress.org</a>, about how white vigilante groups blockaded small town in post-Katrina New Orleans and murdered blacks.<br><br>Earlier this week, A.C. Thompson of The Nation revealed that after Hurricane Katrina, white vigilante groups patrolled New Orleans, blockaded streets, and shot at least eleven black men. It “was like pheasant season in South Dakota. If it moved, you shot it,” said one vigilante. Color of Change is organizing a campaign to tell Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) and state officials to investigate the shootings, as “Louisiana’s broken law enforcement agencies have refused to investigate these crimes.” Watch Thompson’s video on his report: <br><br><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/20/the-nation-katrina/#comments" rel="nofollow">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/20/the-nation-...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4544160" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4544160" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4544160" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/misguided-priorities/" rel="nofollow">Misguided Priorities</a><br><br><i>By focusing their message on what the Democratic Party can\'t/hasn\'t/won\'t do for the black community, they miss an opportunity to tell what the Republican Party can do for the black community. Without a coherent message that relates the Republican/conservative platform to African Americans-or any other minority-we cannot convince anyone that our Party is the best one to lead this country forward.</I></i></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4544258" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4544258">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4544258" class="dsq-comment-message">How can the NBRA seriously not see the flaw in that line of thinking? So the whole outreach program is to just pound away with why the Dems are bad? That\'s the plan?? Basically they\'re gonna run a negative campaign? OMG......well obviously they dont have intentions to actually increase their numbers...not like that they dont. Well.....you gave it a good shot!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4544407">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4544407" class="dsq-comment-message">On a lighter note, I think I just found my new holiday drink:<br><br>Ingredients: <br><br>1 oz. Belvedere vodka <br>1 dash Grand Marnier <br>1.5 oz. cranberry juice <br>.5 oz. fresh lime juice <br>1 twist orange <br>1 oz. Palais sparkling Brût champagne <br><br>Preparation: <br><br>1) Shake vodka, Grand Marnier, cranberry juice and lime juice over ice. <br><br>2) Strain into a chilled champagne flute. <br><br>3) Top with champagne. <br><br>4) Garnish with an orange slice.<br><br><br><a href="http://www.fineliving.com/fine/entertaining/article/0%2C2498%2CFINE_22197_5712584%2C00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.fineliving.com/fine/entertaining/art...</a><br><br>Yummy.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4544630" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4544630" href="http://thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blksista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4544630" class="dsq-comment-message">Those are some DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANGEROUS ingredients.<br><br>Thanks!  I love danger.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546785">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546785" class="dsq-comment-message">Well.....its not like I really need my liver...do I? LOLOL</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4545225" href="http://www.brownmanthinkinghard.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Brown Man</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4545225" class="dsq-comment-message">There have been times, when I leave Jack & Jill Politics to head back to my blog, when I felt like Fred G. Sanford shuffling around his Watts junkyard.<br><br>But no more, because Poppa\'s Got A Brand New Bag.  Brown Man has taken the plunge and braved the hazards of HTML and CSS to get himself some a new home base.<br><br><a href="http://simplifythepositive.blogspot.com/2008/12/brown-man-thinking-hard-gets-early-xmas.html" rel="nofollow">Brown Man Thinking Hard Gets Early Xmas Present</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4545349">AM2k6</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4545349" class="dsq-comment-message">Is the latest: Overturn Prop 8. by CA\'s AG, Jerry Brown, a cheap stunt to distract from the fact that the State of California is going Bankrupt? I mean, I cant help but question the timing...and ask: When will our politics become about serious matter affecting the well being of all us and not just certain constituencies?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546859">caligirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546859" class="dsq-comment-message">as a resident of this BANKRUPT, #3 in UNEMPLOYMENT, and i believe #2 in home FORECLOSURES state, i am agreeing with you ONE HUNDRED PERCENT!!!   jerry brown needs to grab a clue, QUICKLY!   we are living in serious, serious  times...i don\'t give a fuck about who does (or does not) get married.  <br><br>who was it that said "romance without finance is a nuisance"...???</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4547556">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4547556" class="dsq-comment-message">No you didn\'t say "like Fred G. Sanford shuffling around his Watts junkyard".<br><br>ROFLMAO!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546116">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546116" class="dsq-comment-message">-Oh no he didn\'t! (snark)<br><br>Obama short on Southerners in Cabinet appointments<br>By BEN EVANS - Associated Press Writer <br><br>WASHINGTON -- The South may have inched toward Democrats in November, but that progress isn\'t showing in President-elect Barack Obama\'s Cabinet selections.<br><br>Obama hasn\'t nominated a single Southerner among his 15 Cabinet secretaries. So far, Obama\'s only pick from the region is a borderline Southerner in a relatively low-profile position: former Dallas mayor Ron Kirk for U.S. trade representative.<br><br>The disparity isn\'t an accident - critics already are calling it a snub - and that perception could slow the pace of recent electoral gains Democrats have made below the Mason-Dixon line. <br><br>"Southerners need not apply," said Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga. "It\'s hard to believe that there wasn\'t anybody qualified for something from the South."<br><br><a href="http://www.thestate.com/statewire/story/627026.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.thestate.com/statewire/story/627026....</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546142">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546142" class="dsq-comment-message">Lawd have mercy.........................</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546234" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546234">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546234" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546234" class="dsq-comment-message">They\'re not serious?! Can\'t be?!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546284" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546284" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546284">Lilytiger</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546284" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546284" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh.......boo hoo.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4546466">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546466" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546466" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546466">Mavis</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546466" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546466" class="dsq-comment-message">Actually Jack, there aren\'t any to be honest.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4546542">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546542" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546542" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546542">T.</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546542" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546542" class="dsq-comment-message">Gates is a native of Alabama, methinks...<br><br>T.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4547261">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4547261" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4547261" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4547261" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4547261" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4547261" class="dsq-comment-message">Souterners need not ever vote for a Republican president again either.<br><br>Yeah. Right.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4551616">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4551616" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4551616" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4551616">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4551616" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4551616" class="dsq-comment-message">Works for me.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4551928">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4551928" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4551928" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4551928">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4551928" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4551928" class="dsq-comment-message">Lisa Jackson is a Southerner...she is from New Orleans</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4546329">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546329" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546329" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546329">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546329" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546329" class="dsq-comment-message">110-year-old Bastrop woman dies 2 days after birthday<br>By GARY SCHARRER and CINDY TUMIEL <br>San Antonio Express-News<br>Dec. 19, 2008, 10:36PM<br><br>AUSTIN — The 110-year-old daughter of a slave who lived long enough to vote for the first African-American president died in her sleep Thursday — two days after her birthday.<br><br>Amanda Roberts Jones of Cedar Creek, a community near Bastrop, had just received a new dress that she was looking forward to wearing on Sunday to a birthday reception honoring her long life.<br><br>The party will go on as planned.<br><br>"We are still going to celebrate her life," granddaughter Beverly Shaw said Friday.<br><br>It was a life that lasted through an entire century and parts of two others.<br><br>Construction of the Titanic had not yet started, the Wright brothers had not yet taken flight and electricity for the Texas Hill Country was still about 45 years away when Amanda Roberts arrived as a newborn baby in Bastrop on Dec. 16, 1898.<br><br><a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6174043.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolita...</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4546380">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546380" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546380" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546380">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546380" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546380" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow.......Amanda Roberts got her wings.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4546333">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546333" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546333" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546333">Lilytiger</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546333" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546333" class="dsq-comment-message">I just have to leave this link to Akon\'s new single called Freedom. I am not a big fan of his, but this song is beautiful.<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKT8F2eFKMQ" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKT8F2eFKMQ</a></div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4546925">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546925" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546925" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546925">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546925" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546925" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks Lilytiger! I\'m not a Akon fan too much, but this is one is pretty cool!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4546794">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546794" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546794" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546794">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546794" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546794" class="dsq-comment-message">EVENING THREAD IS UP</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4546980">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4546980" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4546980" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4546980">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4546980" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4546980" class="dsq-comment-message">I saw the move "MILK"  this afternoon.  Has anyone else seen it?  It was released last month. In the 1970\'s,the fight was for Prop 6<br><br>Academy Award nominee Gus Van Sant directs Academy Award winner Sean Penn as gay-rights icon Harvey Milk. Mr. Milk (1930-1978) was an activist and politician, and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in America; in 1977, he was voted to the city supervisors’ board of San Francisco. <br><br>The following year, both he and the city\'s mayor George Moscone were shot to death by another city supervisor, Dan White. Mr. Milk was previously the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary feature "The Times of Harvey Milk," but "Milk" is the first non-documentary feature to explore the man\'s life and career.<br><br><br><a href="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/movie/milk/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/movie/milk/</a></div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4551920">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4551920" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4551920" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4551920">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4551920" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4551920" class="dsq-comment-message">Why did white shoot milk?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4552149">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4552149" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4552149" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4552149">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4552149" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4552149" class="dsq-comment-message">Check your email. :-)))</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4552241">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4552241" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4552241" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4552241">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4552241" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4552241" class="dsq-comment-message">Did you check your email?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4552976">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4552976" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4552976" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4552976" href="http://www.latinopoliticsblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">adriana01</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4552976" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4552976" class="dsq-comment-message">I saw it for the second time this Saturday. It was great! I give it my thumbs up!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4552220">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4552220" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4552220" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4552220">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4552220" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4552220" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh. My. God.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br><br><br>***Sigh****  <br><br><br>Miranda, did you see that?? OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 </ul>\
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