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	this.jsonData = {"reactions": [{"body": "The Rotting Racist Underbelly of the Tea Party Protests http://snipr.com/mp26d #teabag #tcot #tea #teaparty", "author_name": "AgeofMastery", "id": 1793726, "get_service_url": "http://twitter.com/", "title": "", "url": "http://twitter.com/AgeofMastery/statuses/2585306306", "source": "backtype", "get_service_name": "twitter", "avatar_url": "http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/266263466/get-attachment.aspx_normal.jpg", "author_url": "", "date_created": "5 months ago", "retweets": []}, {"body": "The Rotting Racist Underbelly of the Tea Party Protests\n<a href=\"http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/04/the-rotting-racist-underbelly-of-the-tea-party-protests/\">http://tinyurl.com/dn579c</a>  yep,they're ignorant racist kooks alright. lol #teaparty", "author_name": "setv", "id": 665382, "get_service_url": "http://twitter.com/", "title": "", "url": "http://twitter.com/setv/statuses/1554461203", "source": "backtype", "get_service_name": "twitter", "avatar_url": "http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/133220893/page15-1005-full_normal.jpg", "author_url": "http://twitter.com/setv", "date_created": "7 months ago", "retweets": []}, {"body": "\"I\u2019m starting to become pretty convinced at this point that \u201csocialist\u201d is a some kind of code word for \u201cn*****\u201d.\"  <a href=\"http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/04/the-rotting-racist-underbelly-of-the-tea-party-protests\">http://twurl.nl/juocys</a>", "author_name": "SoundSystemSDC", "id": 665383, "get_service_url": "http://twitter.com/", "title": "", "url": "http://twitter.com/SoundSystemSDC/statuses/1548291423", "source": "backtype", "get_service_name": "twitter", "avatar_url": "http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/31568772/awesomeCrowJr_normal.jpg", "author_url": "http://twitter.com/SoundSystemSDC", "date_created": "7 months ago", "retweets": []}, {"body": "Reads: &quot;TeaBagging&quot; Jspot.com <a href=\"http://tinyurl.com/cmkjlf\">http://tinyurl.com/cmkjlf</a>. Jack &amp; Jill Politics on teabaggers' racist underbelly. <a href=\"http://tinyurl.com/dn579c\"><b>http://tinyurl.com/dn579c</b></a>", "author_name": "lilatovcocktail (Lila Hanft)", "source_url": "http://www.ubervu.com/conversations/www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/04/the-rotting-racist-underbelly-of-the-tea-party-protests/", "id": 115225, "get_service_url": "http://twitter.com/", "title": "Reads: \"TeaBagging\" Jspot.com http://tinyurl.com/cmkjlf. 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The historical, traditional population.Might prove to be signifigant.[sic]Might be a meaningless last gasp.Have to see how it plays out...", "author_name": "ReasonWinsOut", "id": 700970, "get_service_url": "http://digg.com/", "title": "", "url": "http://digg.com/political_opinion/The_Rotting_Racist_Underbelly_of_the_Tea_Party_Protests#c24924126", "source": "backtype", "get_service_name": "digg", "avatar_url": null, "author_url": "http://digg.com/users/ReasonWinsOut", "date_created": "7 months ago", "retweets": []}, {"body": "I love how somebody yells at the end of the video, &quot;We're not gonna take it anymore!&quot;....gimme a fucking break, Obama has been in for 3 months.", "author_name": "disraeligears54", "id": 700971, "get_service_url": "http://digg.com/", "title": "", "url": "http://digg.com/political_opinion/The_Rotting_Racist_Underbelly_of_the_Tea_Party_Protests#c24923058", "source": "backtype", "get_service_name": "digg", "avatar_url": null, "author_url": 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"is_initial_load": true, "is_authenticated": false, "timestamp": "2009-12-09_14:39:49", "remote_domain": "", "page": 1, "is_moderator": false, "display_username": "", "points": null, "subscribe_on_post": 2, "moderator_can_edit": false, "is_remote": false, "is_verified": false, "missing_perm": "login"}, "realtime_paused": false, "posts": {"8122372": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have something to counter the tea parties of the Republiklan party.<br><br>Go to <a href=\"http://action.democratz.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://action.democratz.org</a> and sit in safety of your office or home and call Republiklan party campaign contributors and demand legislation from them and tell them you will boycott them until the legislation gets passed. Imagine hundreds of thousands of people calling these contributors to the Republiklan party and telling people that you will boycott them until we get the legislation we want.<br><br>Let idiot conservatives bluster about taxes while we bring their campaign contributors to their knees safely and legally when we make phone calls to them from the safety from an office or home and make a free call :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:33:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "WWWoDEMOCRATZoORG", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "8122373": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This is from Glen Beck's messageboard:<br><br>My son, is an operator with an SF team and we are in reg comm. they are ready. we are ready. and if you start reading between the lines, you will see it. L presidente obama bin osama, is breathing borrowed air. as are all of congress. it has gone to far. they will all hang. just be ready.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:33:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "HopeOverFear", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "8137734": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "*** dead*** snicker", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_19:53:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8136818, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8122376": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Prove the \"many fiscal conservatives\" were unhappy with Bush...or are you just making that up too?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:34:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8122110, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8123919": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I have never heard of Stormfront until today. <br><br>The people I know who are involved with the Tea Party's have more in common with D than Stormfront. D has repeatedly encouraged folks to come out and see for themselves what this is all about. Why not do that before looking for racist motivation or right-wing media conspiracies?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_16:33:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8123713, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8138257": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "We absolutely CANNOT go into Somalia. Just a few reasons.<br>1 - <a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeremy-scahill/putting-todays-pirate-att_b_184752.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeremy-scahill/pu...</a> <br>the pirates have the support of the Somali people because of Europe destroying fishing on some parts of their coast and poisoning others<br><br>2 - the somaliland to the north of somalia, a break-away country, is doing not too bad without western internvention<br><br>3 - the book WHITE MAN'S BURDEN by william easterly pretty much outlines how western intervention into the rest has a small rate of success. the best thing we can do to help the somalias in end the destruction of their coasts and find ways to get food, medicine, and education DIRECTLY to the people. we don't need to invade or anything of that. I mean, you see how well Iraq, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Guatamala, Haiti, Angola, Zaire/Congo, etc and so on has gone", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_20:19:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "no1kstate", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124989, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8138773": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "For real!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_20:44:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124455, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8139780": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "WHY ARE YOU ALL TALKING TO CONSERV0 - WHY WHY WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_21:35:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "8140057": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Just like a booger.  You just gotta pick it. lol.<br><br>Seriously, I guess some feel that Conserv is actually interested in having a dialogue.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_21:47:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8139780, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8125467": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Re: the videos, you are the one who said in the morning thread \"Youtube makes it difficult to take words out of context when clips are available in their entirety\".  So no matter what the agenda of the videographer was what he captured happened, right?  That is your argument.<br><br>It is racist if the only political candidate or elected President doubted is black.   Also, ill-informed and racist generally go hand and hand.<br><br>If the sole argument is fiscal responsibility then the protests are fine.  Rock on.  It's the calls from the white supremacy groups to attend and recruit, the call for people to take kids out of school because they are being brainwashed, the fact they are supported by Glenn Beck and the most extremist faction of the conservatives which make these events seem like they are taking an ugly turn.  And I can't support or understand what the events are turning into.  If the events stay on message about taxes and fiscal responsibility without blaming this situation 100% on Obama, calling Obama a socialist, non-American, a terrorist, a mouthpiece for Soros or anything to do with race I will apologize on Thursday.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_17:37:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124871, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8138780": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "it's only FAIR that those who have more pay more. As it:<br>fair1\u2002 \u2002/f\u025b\u0259r/  Show Spelled Pronunciation [fair]  Show IPA adjective, -er, -est, adverb, -er, -est, noun, verb <br>\u2013adjective 1. free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice: a fair decision; a fair judge <br><br>fair 1  Being in accordance with relative merit or significance: She wanted to receive her fair share of the proceeds<br><br>Correct me if I'm wrong, sabalo, but you're not a christian conservative?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_20:44:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "no1kstate", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124442, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8122912": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So when the wealthiest among us carry the largest tax burden, is this not \" a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came.\"?  It is.<br><br>How much 'taxing of the rich' is enough? Can the proposed future spending be supported by the 'wealthy'  alone?<br><br>And what do we ask of those who pay little or no taxes but require that the state provide more and more for their general welfare?<br><br>There must be a balance. What is the proper role of government in the lives of individuals? That is the debate at the heart of the protest.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:54:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8121922, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8123937": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://mediamatters.org/items/200904130004?f=h_top\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://mediamatters.org/items/200904130004?f=h_top</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_16:33:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "miss_opinion", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8123848, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8123938": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You are an idiot.  There is no other way to describe you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_16:33:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8123581, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8138075": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Straight....................no chaser", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_20:10:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8137120, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8235557": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Not everything is freaking racism. Calling every white person who disagrees with Obama is racist is no different than Bush calling everyone who disagrees with him unpatriotic. There are going to be harsh words for the pres. There are harsh words for any pres Democrat or republican. Lets stop with this every thing is racist BS and just play the freaking game. <br><br>Does anyone have any valid counter argument besides ohh they are racists.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-15_14:42:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "tawf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8231131, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8124455": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "FUCK YOU, asshole. This has nothing to do with Jill.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_16:55:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "HopeOverFear", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8123581, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8211496": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great post.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_18:21:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "Blackacre", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "8127018": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<I>I know there were Republicans who were upset about the bailouts and voiced their opinions in other ways.</I><br><br>But amazingly, no one felt the need to have a \"tea party\" then......which gives credence to many on our side who see these 'tea parties\" as shallow anti-Obama rallies.......if federal spending was such a concern than these same people would have held rallies in front of the White House and on the steps of the Capitol during the largely Republican-led presidency and Congress of the majority of these past years under which the deficit rose and the economy faltered.  But yet we heard SILENCE.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_18:10:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8125942, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8123947": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://mediamatters.org/items/200904130004?f=h_top\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://mediamatters.org/items/200904130004?f=h_top</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_16:34:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "miss_opinion", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8123919, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8151088": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"They're just protesting the fact that OBAMA is in the White House and they cant' have that.\"<br><br>That is an understatement.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_23:26:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8148329, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8191357": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is a superb post, Jill. I want to thank you for exposing these mofos for who they are. expose them to the world.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_09:07:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "8203322": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "&gt;smacking forehead&lt;<br><br>puh-lease.  seriously.  puh-lease.<br><br>OH MY GOD.  I wish they would put his original freaking birth certificate in glass so that all of you insane people will just give it a freaking REST already.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_14:33:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "sugaredpeas", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124871, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8137275": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Serious question:<br><br>Us and who else D....according to John Bolton, the \"coalition of the willing\" should attack......who is there even left in the \"coalition of willing?\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_19:29:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8136400, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8202521": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I just want to say as a baby-boomer that I am so disappointed in my generation of selfish little pigs that found the world we did because our fathers and mothers worked their fingers to the bone create a great country that we promptly decided was good enough to no longer need investment or sacrifice and ran into the damned ground as fast as we could, all the while pissing and moaning about what little those who understood could wrest from our grubby hands as we increasingly fashioned a society with no future for our own children.  I hope we all burn in hell but I'm sure we're too selfish to even imagine the actual retribution we deserve from both our progeny and our ancestors for the chances we've wasted.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_14:08:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "TerrierJack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "8122429": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You know what, ConservNone, you can go STRAIGHT TO HELL I have FUCKING HAD IT WITH YOU and those psychopaths who call themselves Republicans. This is a SERIOUS THREAT TO THE SAFETY OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES and you're going to sit there and DARE TRY TO SPIN THIS??? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU??? You know what, don't answer that question, I already know the answer.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:35:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "HopeOverFear", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8121523, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8125502": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "D~<br><br>I don't think it's necessary to attend a Tea Party, any more than it would be necessary to attend an anti-affirmative action rally.  If I, a Black man of unknown political persuasion, were to attend either of the two types of rallies, the unspoken foundations for the sentiments would be the same.  Most people would watch their tongues; smirk a lot; and begin nearly every other sentence with \"<i>this isn't about race, it's about _______</i>.\"   <br><br>At some point, Black folks who want to remain Republicans need to call out their White counterparts.   Otherwise, their polite silence is easily interpreted as acceptance (of said unspoken sentiments).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_17:39:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "RonnieB", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8125084, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8137792": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm not protesting that. I've made my reasons for participating public here.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_19:56:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8137608, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8120898": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "EXCELLENT post Jill. here are two dailykos posts that explore the topic further. Glenn Beck is a frightening and dangerous dude<br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/4/12/719355/-Timothy-McVeigh%2C-the-Radical-Right-and-Glenn-Beck\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/4/12/719...</a><br><br>and this one on conservative obsession with ACORN, their need for a big bad boogeyman and the racial undertones of their attacks<br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/4/12/718102/-ACORN-And-Conservative-Paranoia\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/4/12/718...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_14:34:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "baratunde", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 15, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "8125707": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Do you have a graph that shows the shiteous economic environment President Obama was left with compared to GWBuSh...<br><br>or what GHWBush  left Clinton?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_17:48:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8125023, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8131142": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Actions speak louder than words and what Obama will actually do on these issues remains to be seen.<br><br>Charter schools and merit pay have been met with great resistance from the Teacher's Union and it still unclear if President Obama will be able to enact the reforms he is advocating because the Democratic party is so entangled with the teacher's union.<br><br>The writing of health care reform legislation is being outsourced by the administration to Congress and again, the devil is in the details. And while 'pre-existing conditions' limit coverage or cost more, what is to stop the government from denying or limiting treatment to individuals who do not live the healthiest of lifestyles as determined by the state? <br><br>Competition and choice are key to education and health care reform and if those two tenets are included in any reform measures, great.<br><br>\"Saving the planet\" while an admirable goal, may just be beyond our control. I am all for reducing pollution and living more environmentally sensitive lives but that should be an individual's responsibility. The market will adapt and restructure to meet the demand created by consumers for more 'green' products. Cap and trade is a tax that will have widespread negative economic consequences if it enacted. China and India are sorely lagging in reducing pollution.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_18:26:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8125398, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8121927": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yet--nary a peep . . . . .", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:16:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Leota2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8121806, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8154380": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Excellent post, thank you for that... this whole movement is \"astroturf\" - the exact opposite of grass roots.  A handful of conservative ideologues are behind this thing as an excuse to push their twisted agenda that has absolutely nothing to do with taxes, and Fox News is no small part of it.  I only hope that when they go to cover the events that they manufactured, they catch a few bits of this kind of racist, paranoid behavior and unintentionally let it air.<br><br>The level of ignorance with these people is insane, they don't even understand the point of the original Boston Tea Party, a massive act of vandalism, destroying over $1 million (in today's money) worth of product belonging to the world' largest multinational corporation who was receiving unfair tax breaks from the king.<br><br><a href=\"http://luxamericana.com/2009/03/19/historical-facts-shame-wingnuts/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://luxamericana.com/2009/03/19/historical-f...</a><br><br>These idiots don't even know modern facts, much less history.  But they're not concerned with facts, they're concerned with revolution... hidden behind the veil of \"taxed enough already\" and bailout hysteria is treasonous racism and a hatred for democracy (and the republic!).  Glenn Beck's 9-12 project claims to be based on solid \"principles\" and \"values\", but it's all lipstick on a rabid dog.  The list goes on and on....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_00:17:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "David_Claiborne", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "8138826": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "But, but,..Town, deh is WHITE!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_20:46:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8137198, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8137811": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No one is trying to take your money to equalize anybody's wallet, and I didn't say sucessful people \"owed more to society\" I said they should pay their fair share and not put the burden on the middle class.  <br>As someone who has risen from poverty to success I'm sure you didn't rise all by yourself, and you should be thankful not greedy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_19:56:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "Booky", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124561, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8135768": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Check out  what another chickenhawk neo-con, John Bolton, who conveniently skipped out on serving in Vietnam had to say :<br><br><a href=\"http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/13/bolton-somalia-war/#comments\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/13/bolton-soma...</a><br><br>    FOX HOST: Ambassador, if you were serving in this administration, would it be your recommendation that they go in to, militarily with air strikes and/or boots on the ground, into these so-called feral cities, where these pirates are taking hold? Should we go in and take those people out, and take their installations out, now, militarily? Is that what you\u2019re suggesting?<br><br>    BOLTON: Yes. \u2026 Unless we go in and really end this problem once and for all, we will simply see it grow over time. <br><br>On Friday, Bolton called for a \u201ccoalition of the willing\u201d to attack Somalia, saying the use of force was \u201cthe prudential response\u201d to piracy problems. He kept up his calls for war over the weekend.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_18:37:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124989, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8202767": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "But why?  <br><br>You concede that the sudden urgency of the now on this issue is probably more Obama related than economy related.<br><br>The people who have been lining this up and midwifing it along are white supremacists and their slightly more reticent cousins.  <br><br>What point do these parties make?  I don't understand.  It is a protest (?) without a solution, without an alternative and it is tied up with some serious hate for black people in general and our president in particular.<br><br>I mean, thanks, but no thanks.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_14:16:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "sugaredpeas", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8129045, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8139356": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Double shot.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_21:15:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8138075, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8125023": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Reason for concern, but not staggering. What Obama and Democrats are proposing is staggering. <br><br>Check out this graphic:<br>Bush Deficit vs. Obama Deficit in Pictures<br><a href=\"http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/24/bush-deficit-vs-obama-deficit-in-pictures/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/24/bush-defici...</a><br><br>Or this video:<br>The Crisis<br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yREOUxo6Qdc&eurl=http://stopspendingourfuture.org/&feature=player_embedded\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yREOUxo6Qdc&eurl...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_17:17:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124189, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8126561": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Seriously though D.  Be safe.<br><br>ya know what we do when we walk into a room of people right??<br><br>We look for another black person.  It don't matter where we go, we scope out the place to see if we're the only ones.<br><br>In this case, there is a strong possibility that you will be the only one.  <br><br>BTW, ur not planning on bringing the kid right? (you have 1 son and 1 daughter on the way right?)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_18:05:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "lamh", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8125215, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8122468": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Here's what I hope, I hope people like D are very careful at his Tea Party.  Be safe. <br><br>Make sure you have your  \"I'm a Black Republican\" button on.  And like I said over on another thread, if things start to jump off, get outta there.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:37:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "lamh", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 13, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8122469": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "UGH, you are so infuriatingly wrong about EVERYTHING. But we'll humor you and continue to let you THINK that the left is \"upset\" about a \"grassroots conservative movement\" (ooh yeah we're soooo scared!)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:37:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "HopeOverFear", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8122092, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8140392": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding!!<br>THE.TRUTH. <br><br>DAMN.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_22:05:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8137120, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8136818": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Pull your head out of your ass.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_19:05:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "HopeOverFear", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8125644, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8138355": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Egypt's my best guess. <br><br>I'm thinking something like what we did with the Northern Alliance in the opening days of OEF.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_20:24:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8138146, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8122996": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What is it then, if not 'upset' or 'fear'? What concerns you? Just a few short weeks ago this was being dismissed, laughed and shrugged off. Now it is being attacked as racist in a coordinated manner from the left.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:57:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8122469, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8136416": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"The LGBT community might have been good allies.\"<br><br>yea like that would happen.  lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_18:46:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8136332, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8137340": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Guess that would make me a \"pessimistic pessimist;\" I look for the worst and try to mitigate. I've worst-case-scenarioed this from an ACORN interruption (not likely) to someone getting shot (VA is a open carry state, as I've recently found out).<br><br>I used up all my points taking my son to the McCain rally here. There's a Victory in Iraq rally in DC that I'm speaking at in June; only reason the kids are coming then is because other members of my family will be with them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_19:32:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8137151, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8136832": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "EVENING OPEN THREAD IS UP", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_19:06:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "8129045": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "....and I don't discount that. I concede the coincidence.<br><br>That's why my challenge to you all is to come see what it's about.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_18:20:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8127018, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8121984": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "They were so unhappy with Bush and the GOP that they kept quiet about it?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:19:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8121806, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8124033": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "A simple google search yields these 3 articles and more...<br><br>GOP is in 'deep funk' over Bush spending - 3/12/06<br><a href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/03/12/MNG9BHMUFU1.DTL\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=...</a><br><br>Republicans waiting for Bush to sharpen his focus -2/20/04<br><a href=\"http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/bush/articles/2004/02/20/republicans_waiting_for_bush_to_sharpen_his_focus/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/b...</a><br><br>Some Big Conservative Donors, Unhappy With Bush, Say They Won't Back His Campaign - 6/04/04<br><a href=\"http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0604-08.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0604-08...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_16:37:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8122376, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8138372": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Raising the tax rate back to the rate under clinton is \"punishing\" success? Please! That's crock.<br><br>Like Booky said, no one's suggesting \"equalizing\" our wallets.<br><br>Those who do well pay more because they can afford to. That way we can afford to fix our infrastructure and education system among other things. That way, we can actually have \"equal opportunity\" if not equal outcomes.<br><br>so it's not pushing success, its about sharing it<br><br>booky's right: be thankful, not greedy", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_20:24:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "no1kstate", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124561, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8140424": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Drove across a bridge?   Flew in an airplane?   Flushed a toilet? <br><br>STOPPED AT A RED LIGHT?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_22:07:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124750, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8125579": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "All tea parties may not be alike...but so far we DO see documented evidence ot race-baiting and dog whistle politics just like during the campaign.<br><br>There is even footage of a reporter from a television station who said live on TV that she was chased and felt the need to run to the police after witnessing the \"event.\"<br><br>If this is a genuine movement, I will ask you like I asked Conservnone further down.....knowing the history of bad economic policy that Republicans have bestowed and left Americans with...knowing the fiscal recklessness GWBush presdied over and the shitpile he left Obama with......why didn't this movement given steam, say 3 or 4 years ago? Conditions have sunk downhill considerably under EVERY Republican administration in recent history...how do you align with \"conservatives\" when there economic philosophies lie are the crux of the problems?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_17:43:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8125084, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8136332": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "A teabagging event will result in nothing good.<br><br>That's interesting; didn't know about anything in the LGBT community (not that I follow them or anything). They might have been good allies.<br><br>(like I would've been able to sell <i>that</i> to anyone)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_18:42:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8130455, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8121999": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Tell it.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:19:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8120641, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8137872": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "sabalo, are you saying rich and poor should pay the same?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_19:59:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Booky", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124442, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8128657": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Nope. The kid(s) will only go to certain events; we decided that after the election. <br><br>Hell, if the mrs wasn't on bed rest, she <i>still</i> wouldn't go; thinks it's all silly.<br><br>I've gotten used to being \"it.\" There's only five of us, and we can't be everywhere. ;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_18:18:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8126561, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8123538": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It is not a threat, I already sent the link to Instapundit. I see nothing wrong with linking to this post so that the Tea Party Movement is not mischaracterized by those who oppose it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_16:18:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8122579, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8177433": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "D, you have a tough job here at JJP for for a minute you've held it down for conservatives. I'm genuinely interested in your first hand perspective of what goes down at your tea fiesta on Wednesday. <br><br>hit us up if you're interested in doing a guest post on the matter. really. one of the things i most loved about doing campaigning for obama was getting away from the tv, radio, internet and being on the ground with real folks.<br><br>holla.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_01:41:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "baratunde", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8125942, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "8329880": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Tawf - while what you say is true, that doesn't ameliorate the fact that this group is funded, and supported by racists.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-18_10:01:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "BTx", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8235557, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8121028": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jus pisses me off no end.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_14:39:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "IWordsmith", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8120735, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8125084": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wow. That's all I've got to say.<br><br>Not gonna rehash the arguments.<br><br>One of the writers from JJP should attend the Tea Parties. I reached out to CPL here in VA to attend our Richmond one. Or Town, if (s)he's available. If there's any one else in VA-or who can get here on the 15th-that wants to cover ours here, let me know and I'll put you in touch with our organizers so you can speak with them directly.<br><br>The only way you all are going to know what's really going on is to see it for yourself. Not through Fox News, Michelle Malkin, Stormfront, Media Matters, Daily Kos, or Democratic Underground. Get <i>your</i> truth, not someone else's.<br><br>And that's really all I have to say.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_17:19:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 19, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8136349": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You didn't really respond to my query on how the President is a 'collectivist' , but I didn't expect it. Thanks for playing, tho'", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_18:43:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "ebogan", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8131142, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8201331": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I wonder does the \"love it or leave it\" theory apply to these people....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_13:29:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "theuppitynegro", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "8139428": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think the timing is awefully disturbing. And, we have to create a large deficit in order to get us out the economic mess conservative policies have left us in. While Obama's budget is huge, he's doing exactly what he said he'd do and exactly what the majority of Americans want. Though, the majority of white Americans did vote for McCain - which adds to the \"illusion\" that these tea-parties are racist.<br><br>And these people are going to be the ones to benefit from the tax cuts that were included in the stimulus package. I guess along with the tea parties on the 15th, they'll also be mailing the stimulus portion of their tax returns back to the govt.<br><br>And as for why \"leftists\" think the tea-parties are just Fox News productions is that it seems like the tea-party folks get all their (mis)information from Fox News. I'm not saying that have to watch MSNBC, but at least get the facts.<br><br>As for, I was tipped off that these parties were not on the up and up when I heard they wanted to party like it was 1773. 1773? I know that's the year of the boston tea party - by the way, that was taxation without representation so I don't see how their complaint and the complaint today are the same - but really. 1773?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_21:18:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "no1kstate", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "8122025": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If it's not a racist, anti Obama movement what is it Conserv1?  You certainly weren't concerned about individual economic freedom, fiscal disicipline and responsibility form Bush and Dick and the republican congress.<br><br>When are you going to answer the 5 questions?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:20:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "Booky", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8121523, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8123050": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Where were these people when Bush ran up the deficit by investing in the military industrial complex? And why don't they understand that the current budget is inflated mostly due to the way war spending has been included unlike before with the Bush administration? The truth of all of this is that their emotions are being exploited causing further polarization by the loony fundamentalists on the right.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:59:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "RiPPa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "8296050": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Perhaps you need to rethink your example. A homeowner's association applies its fees equally across the members. They don't charge a premium simply because your house is worth more.<br><br>If the tax system applied its fees equally, either via a flat percentage (somewhat better than the current state of affairs) or a flat rate (unsustainable but absolutely fair) perhaps your argument would have merit.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-17_11:19:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "sabalo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8125769, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8124079": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Media Matters. Now there's an objective source.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_16:39:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8123947, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8123848": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL.<br><br>The level of spending by this administration cannot be sustained by increasing taxes on the wealthy alone. <br><br>You are naive to buy into the illusion.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_16:30:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8123661, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8121523": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I knew that it would only be a matter of time before the left would attempt to paint this as an anti-Obama, racist movement. It is not.<br><br>I will be at the Tea party in Chicago and I take up your challenge. I will take your top five questions with me. I will also link to this post at every Tea Party supporting site I can.<br><br>It is a shame that you choose to promote this smear campaign against concerned citizens who want the government to limit their reach into the private sector, respect individual economic freedom and demand fiscal discipline and responsibility from our elected officials.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:00:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 49, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8124597": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So you must realize that a majority of corporations do NOT pay taxes at all in the US....and many more set up off-shore accounts in tax shelters, including many military contractors, who have laughed their way to the bank on the taxpayer's dime.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_17:00:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124442, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8136374": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Conserv - how can this be translated as a leftist argument when the comment came from the right?  <br><br>unlike most - I believe there are lunatics everywhere, they are a small group and what the heck, you just can't control stupid.  I get that but for you to write this off as a leftist tactic is just silly. btw Running off to go tattle just makes you out to be a spineless punk.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_18:44:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8121523, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8137313": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Please dont defame Thomas Paine.Here is what he had to say:<br>Separate an individual from society, and give him an island or a continent to possess, and he cannot acquire personal property. He cannot be rich. So inseparably are the means connected with the end, in all cases, that where the former do not exist the latter cannot be obtained. All accumulation, therefore, of personal property, beyond what a man's own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes on every principle of justice, of gratitude, and of civilization, a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came.<br>This is putting the matter on a general principle, and perhaps it is best to do so; for if we examine the case minutely it will be found that the accumulation of personal property is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it; the consequence of which is that the working hand perishes in old age, and the employer abounds in affluence.<br>It is, perhaps, impossible to proportion exactly the price of labor to the profits it produces; and it will also be said, as an apology for the injustice, that were a workman to receive an increase of wages daily he would not save it against old age, nor be much better for it in the interim. Make, then, society the treasurer to guard it for him in a common fund; for it is no reason that, because he might not make a good use of it for himself, another should take it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_19:31:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8137120, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8124089": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "There are those of us who believe in both economic AND social freedom. I have a problem with the government punishing success AND I have a problem with the government legislating morality.<br><br>Why must it always be about Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_16:40:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "sabalo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 34, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8123088, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8126470": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh look.........Conserv done went and got him a friend!! LOL<br><br>YOU people are sooooooo transparent.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_18:03:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124089, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8256799": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Give me a break!  The Tea Party movement has NOTHING to do with whether or not people think Obama was born in the U.S.  It has NOTHING to do with the fact that he's a black man.  It has EVERYTHING to do with the fact that working Americans are sick and tired of funding government spending (BOTH parties, btw).  It is a non-partisan movement to restore our Republic and send a message to Washington that they can't trample all over the Constitution laid down by our forefathers and upheld until very recently.  Why is that the liberal constituency want to make everything about race??  And you call the conservative constituency racist???  Come on.  Wake up.  YOU'RE the ones that can't let go of the race issue.  I know plenty of white people who voted for Obama.  In fact, if you look at the statistics, the Republicans carried the South (with a more condense black population) than the East, West and North.  Yet, it is those states, with the least black populous that elected Obama.  So get over it, already.  African Americans are much more racist than Caucasian Americans ever thought about being.  Unfortunately, it's going to back-fire on you.  People are sick of hearing it. <br><br>You find some liberal-minded white guy to go out and try to make it look like everyone believes that Obama wasn't born in the U.S. so that makes all of the conservative people in the nation \"nuts\" and 'extremists\".  That was not even an issue at any tea party events I've attended.  <br><br>Get over yourself and enjoy the fact that, for a short while, you've got a black man in the highest office in the Nation.  That's all that matters to the majority of you racist and small-minded liberals.  Never mind that the country is going to hell in a hand-basket.  And, just to set the record straight once again, we're sick of Government spending that is out of control.  We, the taxpayers who pay the majority of taxes, are sick of supporting those who do not carry their load, we're sick of paying to fund social programs to support those who sit and wait for handouts, we're sick of funding businesses whose fiscal irresponsibility has led to their collapse without a bailout.  We are trying to send a message to Congress that We the People have had enough.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-16_07:16:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "rmmdandtbd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "8123581": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh please. This is exactly how Jill and others on the left want you to react. Get a grip and look at this a little more critically.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_16:20:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8122429, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8125630": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Either they were speechless OR they couldn't get their displeasure out because they were too busy calling people \"unpatriotic\".", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_17:45:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8121984, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8138101": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "OK!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_20:11:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8137120, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8138432": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Exactly! If you don't wanna be \"punished for being successful\" then be broke!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_20:27:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "no1kstate", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124854, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8122400": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "BTW Conserv,<br><br>I'm sure you've seen the video of the \"Tea Party\" where they were advocating book burning, and fueling that Obama not a citizen meme.  <br><br>You know as well as I do, that there will be video of the exact same thing going on at the april 15 tea parties. <br><br>For you sake, I hope that people act responsibly, but I won't expect it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:34:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "lamh", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8121523, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8138435": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Some of who?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_20:27:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8137980, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8202436": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "A hotbed of American exceptionalism.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_14:05:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "8120865": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Many white supremacists report planning to attend Tea Parties or already have and some are looking for a way to recruit into their White Nationalist movement.</i><br><br>I hope you're reading David <a href=\"http://crooksandliars.com/user/250/posts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Neiwert's work</a> at Crooks and Liars and his blog, <a href=\"http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Orcinus</a> because he is a well-known and respected source on these white supremacists types.  Trust me - he and I come from the same area. His latest from Saturday is an eye-opener.<br><br>It's ongoing.  Go <a href=\"http://mountaingoatreport.typepad.com/the_mountaingoat_report/2009/04/tea-party.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> here</a> - check out the latest from someone we're following in Idaho.<br><br>The chairman for the Constitution Party in Idaho is a black man. Can you believe that shit?  (Mid-page is his contact info w/picture) <br><br><a href=\"http://cpidaho.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://cpidaho.org/</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_14:32:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "IWordsmith", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8125644": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Come in off the ledge.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_17:45:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8125402, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8216269": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Fox News IS an official sponsor of some of these events. They may not be totally behind it, but they've got resources invested in it, which is why they've advertised them like crazy", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_21:44:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "fivefouls1987", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8139428, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8138959": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Go ahead and do what? Comment on Instapundit? Yeah, ok...LOL. Will I see the information you posted there?<br><br>AHEM.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_20:53:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Plantsmantx", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124772, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8136400": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm slowly not seeing any other options, Monie....and I'd prefer <i>not</i> to go into Somalia.<br><br>If the piracy continues to get out of hand, we may not have a choice. We've got UN authorization until December....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_18:45:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8135768, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8125649": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "These dumb fucks haven't asked for the first  43 Presidents of the Untied States of America birth certificates.<br><br><br>WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE COPIES OF GEORGE WASHINGTON THROUGHT GEORGE W. BUSH'S BIRTH CERTIFICATES?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_17:46:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124871, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8124442": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think you and I have a different definition of \"fair.\" <br><br>Truly \"fair\" taxation would be shared equally. Budget / # of People = Your Share.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_16:55:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "sabalo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124230, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8122579": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That is a threat....I hope everyone recognizes it as such. We knew that Conserv was nothing more than a troll who wished to see this site completely disrupted.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:41:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8122323, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8121559": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Glenn Beck is definitely scary.  This fool is calling for violence and spilled blood.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:01:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8120898, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8123610": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I've only seen that video once, but wasn't the guy who gave the spiel on the Constitution Party actually Chuck Baldwin, who was that party's Presidential candidate? I wonder where this FOX SPONSORED tea party took place?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_16:21:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Plantsmantx", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8122400, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8231131": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Kudos to Jill for this one over at my site!<br><br>The \"Tea Party\" is funded by the same old backroom thugs who brought you much of the scientific racial and uber-conservative movement.<br><br>The \"tea party\" anti-tax movement is not as spontaneous as its organizers would like you to think. Chris Good writes in The Atlantic, \"Here is the organizational landscape of the April 15 tea party movement, in a nutshell: three national-level conservative groups, all with slightly different agendas, are guiding it. All are quick to tell you that the movement is a bottom-up affair and that its grassroots cred is real. They are: FreedomWorks, the conservative action group led by Dick Armey; dontGO, a tech savvy free-market action group that sprung out of last August's oil-drilling debate in the House of Representatives; and Americans for Prosperity, an issue advocacy/activist group based on free market principles.<br><br>The principal funder of Americans for Prosperity is one of the Koch Foundations.  Who fund a number of the Anti Civil Rights organizations such as the Federalist Society, the misnomered Institute for Justice - and along with the Bradley, Scaife and Olin Foundations funds much of the conservative, as well as racist \"Foundations\" and \"Think Tanks\" in the country - including folks like Jared Taylor's New Century Foundation which funds the racist screed American Renaissance so favored by conservative authors, and the Civil Rights Institute, and organization dedicated to school re segregation by another name.<br><br>Racism in America is a fully funded exercise, with something on the order of $40 to $100 million a year being spent to keep the pot boiling.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-15_12:44:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "BTx", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "8202976": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "wait, seriously?<br><br>really? <br><br>Were we watching the same past eight years?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_14:23:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "sugaredpeas", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8121523, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8123088": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I just love how these folks are willing to march in the streets to protect the tax breaks  for the wealthiest Americans because they don't want the government \"interfering\". And yet, they have no problem telling us who we can marry and when to have a baby.<br><br>*smh*", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_16:00:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Ladyvenoms", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 35, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8136571": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Politics is about permanent friends and temporary allies.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_18:53:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8136416, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8125156": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And I seriously doubt the 'average American' has any clue about this. <br><br>And the only reason you and I know about it because we informed political geeks.<br><br>A woman here has a daughter who is an officer on the U.S.S. Boxer; it's in the Sea of Aden \"fighting pirates.\"  The woman didn't know there were still pirates.  Pirates to her?  Johnny Depp - Capt. Sparrow - and of course, there's Long-John Silver.<br><br>Now anyone who is avid about reading the news from all parts of the world or just keeping up would know that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_17:22:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "IWordsmith", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124597, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8136422": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>I have never heard of Stormfront until today</i> <br><br><br>Please stop. Just stop!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_18:46:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8123919, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8320209": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ask them? What? We're talking about paying taxes, right? Why do I have to ask someone to \"contribute? You pay more because you can afford to. Period.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-17_23:43:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "no1kstate", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8296099, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8122092": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Why can\u2019t some on the left accept that this as a legitimate phenomenon?  <br><br>Denying the sincerity of the protesters is no different from conservatives denying the sincerity of all those who protested the Iraq war.<br><br>Are those on the left so narrow that they think energetic opposition to big government spending and an expanded role into the private sector is at it's core really an racist, anti-Obama plot hatched by FOX news?<br><br>We will not know until after Wednesday if this is a movement that will gain traction and grow. But it is obvious that the left is very upset and cannot stand the idea of a  grassroots conservative movement.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:23:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 13, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8120898, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8297682": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Running water does not require government intervention; there are plenty of people with wells that do just fine. In a city, a private industry could easily handle the load of water distribution.</i><br><br>::<br><br>Well, I live in a small town, and without \"government intervention\" in the form of enforcing safety standards on potable water that comes from a well, a lot of public health hazards would ensue. <br><br>A private industry, like a restaurant or a dental clinic, that uses well water needs to be inspected. I'm not interested in people getting sick and dying before a business goes under because it has contaminated the population with something from its well.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-17_12:01:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8296325, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8140527": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "NOPE.  That don't count.  THEY WERE REAL AMERICANS!<br><br>REAL \"MERCANS\"  I tell ya.   REAL!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_22:12:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8137198, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8124658": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The President's health care plans, while still short on specifics certainly seeks government control of the means of distribution. His education policies discourage competition and choice. A 'cap and trade' energy policy to punish polluters will result in higher energy prices for all Americans and any gains we make in reducing pollution will be offset by China, India and other developing nations.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_17:03:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8123774, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8125395": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"More black tea, sir?\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_17:34:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8125084, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8137464": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "djchefron suggested NATO, but I don't think you can invoke Article V for piracy.<br><br>I suggested getting another African country with a decent military to provide a ground force, and letting us provide support and logisics.<br><br>Short of that...yeah, that \"coalition of the willing\" won't fly. <br><br>Bring back the battleships...problem solved.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_19:39:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8137275, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8137980": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You follow some of us.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_20:05:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8136332, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8122110": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Not true. You just were not in tune to the criticism and the Dems supported Bush's big spending.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:24:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8121984, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8128257": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"I have never heard of Stormfront until today.\"<br><br><br>ROFLMAO!!!! Damn.....you lie like a rug....LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_18:16:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8123919, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8121091": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jill:   <i>I\u2019ve been parsing the words and the racists have been very careful to cover their tracks and fury that a black man is President. But not well enough. I\u2019m starting to become pretty convinced at this point that \u201csocialist\u201d is a some kind of code word for \u201cnigger\u201d.</i><br><br>THAT!    SUMS!   IT!   UP!!!<br><br>From the \"SOCIETY PAGE\":<br><br><b>THEY  R</b> - - <br>+  <a href=\"http://libertyunbound.com/archive/2004_07/chambers-kkk.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">PLANNING A  \"TEA PARTY\"</a>   <br><br>Aaaarrrggg!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_14:42:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "8122629": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Where were you during the Bush years Conserv1?<br><br><br><a href=\"http://www.beggarscanbechoosers.com/2009/04/where-were-tea-party-protesters-during.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.beggarscanbechoosers.com/2009/04/whe...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:42:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Booky", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8121523, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8140553": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Don't let this asshole infuriate you.  Please.  <br><br>Cup of chamomile for every one!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_22:14:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8122469, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8137995": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jill doesn't have to paint the Tea Parties as a inherently racist protest.  The Tea Parties paint themselves as ainherently racist protest.  I'm willing to bet  the protest will be all white (blue collar) with D. thrown in so they can say they aren't racist.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_20:05:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "Booky", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124772, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8139020": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And believing it's socialist to raise taxes back to the rate under Clinton for people making over $250K is . . .", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_20:57:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "no1kstate", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8123848, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8123661": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So you \"speak\" for the 5% of the wealthiest of individuals in the country...why that is such a noble cause.......is there a 5k run or a Jerry Lewis type telethon where I can participate? I hear the cries of the super-rich and it pains me.....I want to help.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_16:22:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8122912, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8136979": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Here, Miranda, let me supply the sound effects.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.soundboard.com/sb/crickets_sounds_audio.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.soundboard.com/sb/crickets_sounds_au...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_19:13:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8126921, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8136982": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't think he can't help it, I think he's a habitual liar.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_19:13:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8136422, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8123673": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I sent the link to this website to Instapundit. Glenn Reynolds has been chronicling the Tea Party Movement since the beginning and I think it is only right to see to it that attempts to paint the efforts of well-meaning citizens as racist are countered.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_16:23:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8122323, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8124189": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If that's the case, then \"fiscal conservatives\" have been upset for the past almost 30 years.<br><br>Reagan, Bush I and Bush 2 all left staggering deficits,  decimated the economy and presided over the slowest job growth in the last 40 years,  3 of the  lowest performing presidents.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_16:44:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124033, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8125215": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL.<br><br>I'm good, but thanks for the concern. :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_17:25:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 12, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8122468, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8287522": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "We are at war with Somalia. Maybe you have forgotten, but we have been in Somalia since Clinton was in office. I mean, we don't AFRICOM for nothing. Africa is the U.S. government's goal. They have resources and our government wants to control them.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.pulitzercenter.org/openitem.cfm?id=685\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.pulitzercenter.org/openitem.cfm?id=685</a><br><a href=\"http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/12/us-losing-sec-1.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/12/us-losing...</a><br><a href=\"http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/somalia.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/wa...</a><br><a href=\"http://hornofafrica.ssrc.org/de_Waal3/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://hornofafrica.ssrc.org/de_Waal3/</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-17_00:55:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "Kev999", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "8280872": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Odd as it might sound....<br> But when Georige Bush came into office the National Debt was at 3.8 Trillion.<br> By 06, the debt was up to 9 Trillion.<br> Georgie never vetoed any spending bill. In fact, the first thing he ever vetoed was Federal money for stem cell research.<br> Let us also remember the government checks Bush and Co had sent out to the people to help the economy.<br> Odd how these individuals never ever protested any of this spending.  <br>  Remember, cutting taxes and spending like there is no tomorrow made this debt.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-16_22:07:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "ssgchester", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "8136492": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm not trying to get \"surrounded.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_18:50:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8125084, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8122671": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=588834\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stormfront.org</a>, the worlds largest white supremacy site is promoting this event and members are coming out in full force.   The comments are scary and extend far beyond big government.  The videos from the rallies to date have extended wayyy beyond big government.  Shit is about to get crazy on the 15th.  And I mean in an anti-Obama, racist movement.  My black ass is not about to go anywhere near these fools.<br><br>A quote from the site...<br><br><i>...estimates are there could be 100's across the country. What's so encouraging is that the organizers and participants are pre-dominantly whites. The remnants of traditional 1950's. Old white America. The historical, traditional population.<br><br>Might prove to be signifigant.<br><br>Might be a meaningless last gasp.<br><br>Have to see how it plays out. <br><br>I'm going to take the day off and attend the local one, carrying my Gadsden flag. Encourage others to do the same. Hopefully the beginning of a sense of ethno-centrism.</i><br><br>Another quote:<br><br><i>Who says </i>we're <i>going in with only a focus on taxes, or that many of the folks in these protests aren't also concerned about our people to some degree? <br>Go where our people are starting to stand up around symptoms of the problem, and INTERVENE to guide them. Just because these started as an anti-tax protest doesn't mean that they must be limited and can't be developed upward toward an explicitly racial mass struggle. At the very least, you will find some Whites who are receptive...you will make gains one way or the other. But you must take the field and and throw OUR ball. Let our folks know that they have champions who see the cause of this mess and are building an alternative to resolve the real problem.<br><br>Oh, and so what if some of the leaders of these things might not like your intervention. We are their replacements, and they will realize the foreshadowing before most of our own race-conscious folks do.</i><br><br>This is going to have everything to do with race.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:44:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8121523, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8190912": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Let's do it.<br><br>I'll shoot you an email.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_08:36:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8177433, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8139070": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"really an racist, anti-Obama plot hatched by FOX news\"<br><br>Because W did the same and worse and all the conservatives cheered.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_20:59:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "no1kstate", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8122092, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8123713": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "But it is racist - that's why the Stormfronters are so excited....this is a recruiting day for them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_16:24:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8122996, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8137027": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Neo-cons sure do love them some killin.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_19:16:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8135768, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8124230": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The government isn't \"punishing success\".  The government is asking the successful to pay their fair share.  Of whom much is given much is required.  Remember?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_16:46:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "Booky", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 30, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124089, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8296161": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Just because YOU weren't paying attention at the time, doesn't mean that there were plenty of us out here protesting the war, the tax hikes, and the unsustainable burden of debt that the government, R -and- D, have been loading onto our backs.<br><br>As hard as it is to grasp, some of us don't play in the Republican versus Democrat game.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-17_11:22:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "sabalo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8137120, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8125769": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Please.  The government doesn't \"punish success\" any more than a homeowner's association \"punishes\" someone for owning a home.  <br><br>Please peddle that phrase to the simple-minded trogs who are likely to buy it.   And as difficult as it is to believe, you've got no buyers here.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_17:51:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "RonnieB", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124089, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8124750": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Did you attend public schools, ride on paved roads.....was there ever a time when anyone in your family needed WIC, food stamps, public assistance, SSI....have you ever had to be the your own policeman, firefighter or used any public funded service. Did you receive a Pell grant or other aid for college.<br><br>Are you a one-man community who installed your own fiber-optic lines for internet , phone lines, created your own water lines and sanitize your own water....I could go on and on.<br><br>Do you at all use the infrastructure that we use to run our communities?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_17:06:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124561, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8122703": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I have heard this tired rebuttal ad nauseum here. <br><br>I will however answer the questions.<br><br>Is Obama a socialist?<br>No. However he is a 'collectivist' and a 'statist.' I feel that he believes that bigger government spending and intrusion into the private sector is the answer to most problems. I also feel that he believes, like most on the left,  that the government should be used to advance 'fairness' even at the expense of individual freedom.<br><br>\u201cDo you believe Obama\u2019s presidency is a conspiracy by the Jews and Blacks?No.<br><br>\u201cWho do you think Obama takes his orders from?\u201d No one. However, I do believe that Obama is a pupil of the left and his view of this country and our role in the world has been formed from a sheltered, urban, academic existence.<br><br>\u201cIs Barack Obama an American citizen like you?\u201d<br>Yes.<br><br>\u201cHow do you feel about having a black president in the White House - what\u2019s the worst that could happen?\u201d <br>I think it is great. I would have voted for him if I felt we shared the same political ideals and philosophy. I am strongly pro-tax cuts, pro-free market, pro-federalism, anti-judicial activism, pro-school choice, pro-gun rights, who did not initially support the war, but supported the surge strategy...so not much in common.<br><br>The worst thing that could happen as a result of Obama's presidency is that we suffer another terrorist attack (a risk for any incoming President) or that his economic policies will prolong not hasten our economic recovery. That these policies that reward failure and shield companies and individuals from their own risky choices will lead to higher taxes for all tax paying Americans, result in continuing high unemployment, inflation, stagnant GDP and create an unsustainable 'entitlement mentality' that will foster greater dependence on the federal government for our individual well-being.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:45:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8122025, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8122704": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Okay, at what point does the Secret Service start paying visits to some of these folks?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:46:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8122373, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8330065": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Nice.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-18_10:18:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8202436, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8140626": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "thank ya Ms Martin", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_22:17:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8139780, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8139099": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What's your qualm with media matters. I personally think they can make a mountain out of a molehill, but the give you what the person said in context. What's the problem?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_21:01:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "no1kstate", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124079, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8140346": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Especially when they stir the pot and then stand back and let poor white and black kids get killed along with 'the enemy'<br><br>You know, as long as THEIR kids ain't going off the war.  That's why, even though I've got a few beefs with Joey Biden, I gotta love the guy.  His son, is in the military.  And there ain't shyt the Rethugs can say about that!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_22:03:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "isonprize", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8137027, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8136543": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>The next Tim McVeigh is waiting in the wings to make an example out of somebody.</i><br><br><br>You're not kidding.  And Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity are grooming that someone daily.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_18:52:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8125402, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8124772": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Go ahead. Look, Jill called upon citizen journalists to cover the Tea Parties with the express intent of painting them as inherently racist protests. <br><br>Why? I suspect it is to discredit the movement and to keep it from gaining traction and threatening the Democratic majority in the WH and Congress. Tell me why I am wrong about this?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_17:07:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8123763, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8137574": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\" And in all actuality, a good number of AA may actually agree with some of the religious conservative philosphy, but the race-baiting problems that have plagued and still continues to plague the Repub party is waht drives many of us away frm them.\"<br><br>Ding, ding, ding.  lamh32 you get the prize.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_19:45:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8137151, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8124561": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Define fair. If you have $200 and I have $10, would it be fair of me to take enough of your money to equalize our wallets? Obviously, you're more successful... so I'm just asking you to pay your \"fair share.\"<br><br>To suggest that successful people \"owe\" more to society is ridiculous. They weren't \"given\" success.<br><br>As someone who has risen from poverty to success, I can assure you... no one was \"giving\" me anything.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_16:59:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "sabalo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 22, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124230, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8148329": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm not defaming Thomas Paine, I would say most of the waving Lipton in the air like they just don't care don't even know two cents worth of oolong about Thomas Paine...or anything else.  They're just protesting the fact that OBAMA is in the White House and they cant' have that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_23:20:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8137313, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8124989": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yu'll realize that if McCain had gotten in or Bush was still president, we'd now be at war with Somalia.<br><br>Although I haven't seen that much TV parading back and forth at work, it doesn't appear to be much on the pirates and their 'untimely deaths.'  No heroics for this administration?  Does Obama need to put up a banner in front of the White House?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_17:16:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "IWordsmith", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 15, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8190938": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No one could actually oppose expanded government power and trillions of debt and indentured servitude for generations of taxpayers could they?<br><br>No one could wonder how many jobs are lost when you steal (tax, inflate away, or borrow) the purchasing power we are currently using to support people, in order to fund your bailouts and cronies?<br><br>Racists must be behind it.  Because no one could believe in limited government and individual liberty could they?<br><br>What a pack of moronic whores you airheaded flaks for the tax predator ruling class are.<br><br>After they get the guiilotine, you slime are next.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_08:38:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "BruceMajors", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "8123763": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh, you sent it to Instapundit. Can I go comment about it on his blog? And yes Miranda, I think it's a threat, too.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_16:27:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "Plantsmantx", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8123538, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8140094": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Good post Jill.  Call them out and hold MSM accountable.  They should cover the real story.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_21:50:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "8138618": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I know that's right.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_20:36:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8136492, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8138619": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Are you serious? Eygpt in Subsaharan Africa.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_20:36:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8138355, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8139133": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "you're right that not all conservs were happy with bush<br><br>tea parties before 2009?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_21:03:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "no1kstate", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8122110, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8123774": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Collectivism:A school of thought which maintains that the factors of production and the means of distribution should be owned by all and not by individuals who might pursue their self-interest at a cost to the state. It advocates public control, which is not necessarily brought about by state ownership.<br><br>I must've been asleep during the campaign, but where has the President now, or then, avocated this?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_16:27:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "ebogan", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8122703, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8138628": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lol<br><br>Funny!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_20:36:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8136492, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8296325": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Let's see...<br><br>Roads are covered Constitutionally. We're okay there unless we want to start talking philosophy.<br><br>Running water does not require government intervention; there are plenty of people with wells that do just fine. In a city, a private industry could easily handle the load of water distribution.<br><br>As hard as it is to believe, the 8 hour day is not mandatory, nor are all jobs subject to OT. <br><br>The FCC assigns airwaves... and private industry provides the programming. We could argue the FCC's proper role, but I suspect that I'd be more progressive than you are when it comes to that.<br><br>And again, accused of being Republican. Democrats and Republicans are predictable, if tiresome.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-17_11:27:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "sabalo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124854, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8122246": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "As you said in the Morning Thread, it's not smear if it is caught on YouTube.<br><br>Can't wait for your videos.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:29:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "pjamma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8121523, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8120641": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The thing about facades that are really masking rotting interiors<br>--is that sooner rather than later the whole structure falls in.  Then the maggoty<br>innards are laid bare for all to see.  Welcome to the \"Tea Party\"--where<br>GOP billionaires and FOX (who financially support this)  will have no control of the<br>lunatics once they are on the streets and in front of cameras.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_14:23:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Leota2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "8137608": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "D. the truth of matter is the status quo have incited  the masses in order to protect their interest.    The truth of matter D. is that if you don't earn over $250 K per year your taxes aren't going to be raised, as a matter of fact you will recieve a tax cut.  What part of that are you protesting exactly?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_19:47:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Booky", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8125084, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8123788": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Have you posted your displeasure with the comments at Stormfront? Link please to your comments on Stormfront where you bash them for their racist rhetoric.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_16:28:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8123581, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8121922": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Thomas Paine<br>Separate an individual from society, and give him an island or a continent to possess, and he cannot acquire personal property. He cannot be rich. So inseparably are the means connected with the end, in all cases, that where the former do not exist the latter cannot be obtained. All accumulation, therefore, of personal property, beyond what a man's own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes on every principle of justice, of gratitude, and of civilization, a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came.<br>This is putting the matter on a general principle, and perhaps it is best to do so; for if we examine the case minutely it will be found that the accumulation of personal property is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it; the consequence of which is that the working hand perishes in old age, and the employer abounds in affluence.<br>It is, perhaps, impossible to proportion exactly the price of labor to the profits it produces; and it will also be said, as an apology for the injustice, that were a workman to receive an increase of wages daily he would not save it against old age, nor be much better for it in the interim. Make, then, society the treasurer to guard it for him in a common fund; for it is no reason that, because he might not make a good use of it for himself, another should take it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:16:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8121523, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8330128": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No, not every one who criticizes Obama is a bigot with a racist agenda, but are you willing to call out racism when you see it, or do you just continue to protest too much?<br><br>Why don't you stop the bullshit that <i>nothing</i> is racist and just get on with it.?<br><br>Who needs a valid counterargument in the face of the evidence BTx just presented? Why are you  looking for one?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-18_10:22:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8235557, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8130455": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The LGBT community is having their tax protest on April 15 to bring attention to the fact that the government won\u2019t give folks in same sex relationships the same tax benefits as married couples.  That protest is clear and that is a cause most can get behind.<br><br>This repub/gop protest is something I can't understand.  How many people do you think will get behind giving more tax breaks to the rich and less to the rest of America?  Faux news and the few nut jobs want to generate much hype around April 15 and the scheduled events no matter what they have to do or how extreme they have to get to drive conversations on the MSM and on blogs.  As a matter of fact, I think they are doing a disservice to groups like D's and maybe even Conserv1 (well maybe just D) who truly believe in a call for more fiscal responsibility and less government involvement.  D had me actually thinking about attending a session to \"see what it was all about\" and then these lunatics took what could have been a serious issue and successfully turned it into a joke.  I am sure I am not the only one who was willing to take a look.  Kinda sad really.  Anyway, I recommend you ignore it.   It isn't that serious.  If you want to help promote or watch the tax day events, focus on the LGBT protests because that is a cause that is understandable and most of us can stand behind.<br><br>The repub/gop teabagging event will result in what exactly????? Is the expectation that most of the country will get up and say you know what . . . we want Congress to reallocate the tax breaks given to 95% of Americans and re-route to the top 5%.  Really?  <br><br>Anyway - let the teabaggers have their fun.  Let it go.  It isn't that serious.  Don't fall for the hype and certainly don't help the process by pushing these stories to help feed the cycle.  it just isn't worth it.  <br><br>Just want to add - not all Repubs are crazy nut jobs.  Some are quite sane and have good intentions but are stuck in a party that is lost, without a future, and seems hell bent into finishing up that freefall to rock bottom.  Maybe the solution is to form another party . . . but that is another topic.  Anyway . . . my 2 cents.  Carry on people.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_18:24:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "8136604": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL....but different event.<br><br>You've got a standing invite, though.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_18:55:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8136492, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8120735": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Notice how these Tea Partiers were partying just fine when Bush and his rubber-stamp Congress were using our tax dollars to bloat government, and give away its largess to the likes of Kellogg, Brown & Root or Halliburton or Blackwater?  Nor did the Tea Partiers have a problem with tax subsidies to Wall Street and Big Agriculture.<br><br>These closet bigots only have a problem with the use of tax dollars when they're used to  educate, medicate and patriate people of color.  They'd be (even more) dangerous if they weren't so obvious.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_14:27:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "RonnieB", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 14, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8137120": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Let's cut to the chase:<br><br>The WHITE teabaggers DO NOT WANT \"their\" money going to the niggas.<br><br>Period.<br><br>Hate to be blunt, but there it is.  Nobody lifted a cup of Earl Grey or Twinings when Bush ran up the GubMent Charge Card left and right...nobody had a damn thing to say about spending when he was spending BILLIONS of dollars per MONTH in taxpayer money in Iraq and Afghanistan while neglecting bridges and levees and people right here in the USA.<br><br>None of these teabaggers had a half note to say.  Only when Obama gets in there and says \"Um, why are we charging Coach bags and Manolos when the light bill is due\" is everyone protesting and waving bags of tea.<br><br>Bush wiped his ass on the Constitution since 2001, and nobody gave a crap about the Constitution but only NOW when Obama's in there are people paying attention to the Constitution.  All of a sudden now Thomas Paine is in style.<br><br>Get out of here with that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_19:21:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124561, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8138146": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Nooo - those commanders were saying there aren't enough ships in the Navy to be canvassing the Indian Ocean.<br><br>Seriously what African country has enough of decent military to get involved in the chaos of Somali with all the tribal ties?  Something on the western side?  Egypt?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_20:13:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "IWordsmith", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8137464, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8125347": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Fiscal responsibility and smaller government?You killing me LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_17:31:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124871, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8137642": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Co sign RonnieB.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_19:49:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "Booky", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8125502, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8296877": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No, I am not a Christian conservative, nor am I a conservative at all.  I think the closest you'll get to where I stand is minarchist... the maximum social and economic freedom possible while still maintaining an individually productive society. <br><br>Religion = Effective Atheist.<br>Pol = Minarchistish, if anything.<br><br>I lump the Republicans and the Democrats in the same \"lip service to ideals while we rape the people of this country\" category, myself.<br><br>Free from bias... there an interesting point. It is biased to force someone to a higher percentage of their income simply because they make more. If were were talking straight percentages, perhaps the argument for no bias could be made.<br><br>Alternately, something like the Fair Tax cold be implemented, in which everyone gets their essentials tax free and all purchases are taxed. Say the rate is 20% You buy a car for $10,000, you pay your percent of tax on it ($2000). Chip Silverspoon buys his Mercedes for $50,000, he ends up paying $10,000 in tax. Not perfect, but it meets the criteria we're both looking for.<br><br>a) Poorer people pay less.<br>b) Richer people pay more.<br>c) One always has the choice to participate (buy) or not.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-17_11:32:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "sabalo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8138780, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8138397": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Houston Teabaggers List Corporate Lobbyists as Sponsors & Glenn Reynolds Looks Like a Fool<br>By: Jane Hamsher Monday April 13, 2009 4:41 pm  6<br>Just go read Gavin. <br><br>When you're done, come back and read about Americans for Prosperity (listed on the Houston Tea Party site as \"local sponsor\") and its President, Tim Phillips: <br><br>Before replacing Koch Industries lobbyist Nancy Pfotenhauer as president of Americans for Prosperity, Timothy R. Phillips had a long career as a conservative operative. In 1992, Phillips managed Rep. Bob Goodlatte\u2019s (R-VA) first Congressional campaign and served as his chief of staff for four years. In 1997, Phillips co-founded public relations firm Century Strategies with Ralph Reed. There, Phillips oversaw \u201cdirect mail, telemarketing, coalition building and strategic services\u201d for the 2000 and 2004 Bush for President campaigns, and specialized in \u201cgrasstops\u201d operations to establish fake grassroots organizations. [Century Strategies (Internet Archive)] <br><br>David H. Koch is the Chairman of the Board of Americans for Prosperity. Its funders include the usual rogue's gallery of big right wing infrastructure donors: Armstrong/Bradley/Lambe nexus. <br><br>I guess that's what Glenn Reynolds considers \"pure grassroots.\"<br><br>Oh, gotta stop laughing. I'm hurting myself.<br><a href=\"http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/13/houston-teabaggers-list-corporate-lobbyists-as-sponsors-glenn-reynolds-looks-like-a-fool/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/13/houston-teaba...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_20:25:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "8127408": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Tell me why I am wrong about this?\"<br><br>Well dear....your track record....you've been wrong about everything else.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_18:12:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124772, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8139507": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"they'll also be mailing the stimulus portion of their tax returns back to the govt.\"<br><br>LOL yea ok No1KState - like that will really happen.  I would love to know how many/if any follows through on that promise.<br><br>We'll see.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_21:22:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8139428, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8141345": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Egypt is not going to do this.  What's in it for them?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_22:58:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "IWordsmith", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8138619, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8124854": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "'They' don't get that, Monie.  People here apparently cannot figure out why the roads are falling apart when year after year, the Republican legislature legislates where funding goes for infrastructure, and refuses to give money for road repair.  THEN cry incessantly about the condition of the fucking roads.<br><br>It's A-OK that I\"m paying taxes for 'being successful' but mister? sabalo doesn't.  I'll drive on paved roads, use running water - chlorinated at that; work an 8-hour day, enjoy the benefits of television regardless of the mode of transport, etc., but don't want to pay taxes for \"being successful.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_17:11:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "IWordsmith", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124750, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8153673": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<I>...I would say most of the waving Lipton in the air like they just don't care don't even know two cents worth of oolong about Thomas Paine...</I><br><br>Town, you keep me laughing....all I see visually in my head is a bunch of white people with   with teabags clutched in their hands and no rhythm rocking side to side....It just sounds like an SNL skit<br><br>My oldest son is looking at me, while I'm sitting at  the computer laughing, thinking his Mom has lost it.....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_23:36:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8148329, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8126396": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What's your purpose in saying that?<br><br>lamh32 voiced her concern, and I appreciate it. I laugh because I don't have an \"I'm a Black Republican\" button, and I've put on too much weight to wear the shirt.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_18:01:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8125402, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8140733": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL - He's not interested in dialogue; he just wants to irritate.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_22:23:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8140057, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8137151": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "ya probably right about that.  And in all actuality, a good number of AA may actually agree with some of the religious conservative philosphy, but the race-baiting problems that have plagued and still continues to plague the Repub party is waht drives many of us away frm them.<br><br>Sadly, I suspect this will be the case until all the \"ole guard\" dies and the newer gen come into power.  It just seems that right now, the \"ole guard\" is fighting too damn hard and not even listening to the young peeps.  <br><br>Gotta give it to the Dems, when it comes to the \"ole guard\", it still the young who have driven the \"Obama movement\"<br><br>I'm with the wife on this one, it's probably a good decision not to have the children along for some events.<br><br>BTW, I call myself an optimistic pessimist.  I \"expect the worst, and hope for the best\".   So I'm hoping things go smoothly Wednesday", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_19:22:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "lamh", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8128657, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8123840": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No you need to look more critically.<br><br>Where was the teabagging when Bush raised the deficits and presided over the worst waste and abuse by military contractors whose recklessness have left  a number of  soldiers DEAD.<br><br>Where were the tea parties in say, 2005, 2006, 2007?  Give us some links of teabaggers criticizing and railing against Bush calling him a communist, socialist......bailouts began under HIS lame-duck presidency...the economy began to falter under his watch...the recession, which was fervently denied by those on the right began in 2007...though intentionally confirmed after the election was over.<br><br>But let's take it back further...where was the teabagging movement when 747 savings and loans failed under the Reagan/Bush administration....costing taxpayers over 150 billion back then....if you have \"conservative\" principles, then you are surely ignorant, devoid of facts because in modern history ALL bailouts have followed the presidency of Republicans", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_16:30:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8123581, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8124871": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Gee, you don't think the videographer in the YouTube clip had an agenda? <br><br>Is it 'racist' to be ill- informed about where Obama was born?<br><br>Does the fact that some who participate in the protests do not believe he is a US citizen negate the argument for fiscal responsibility and smaller government? No.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_17:11:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8122246, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8139720": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You are seriously in need of a good deprogrammer.  I believe if the conservative talking point of the day was that the moon was made out of green cheese you would be on here espousing that very argument.  It is through reading your posts that I understand why the GOP is so bankrupt.  Your party has become a laughingstock and the so-called tea party movement has already been debunked and the financiers identified.  If the GOP continues on in this vein for the next 12 months, they will truly be out in the wilderness.  Rather than coming up with workable solutions for the future you have pouted since November 4th.  Come up with an idea that doesn't involve demonizing Obama and you might have a chance but the more you allow idiots like Beck, Hannity, Malkin, and others defind you, the more irrelevant you become.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_21:32:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "hopee", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124871, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8126921": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;crickets&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_18:09:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8123788, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8197578": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "i have been saying this about the GOP during and after the election.  this is a group of white lower middle class, mostly obese, and poorly educated whites.  look at the crowds during the election and this so called protest.....  bunch of scared white folk..... as if the hordes of different races are going to rape and pillage....<br><br>just watch a documentary of the whites who came to plymouth rock, instead of working with the indeginous peoples, they killed them in the name of christ, and if they didnt believe in forsaking 10000 years of living here, they were killed.......... all in the name of the christ figure..............  same shit is going on now............ the GOP sickos would love to kill every different skin colored folk, all in the name of the dark skinned Semite Jewish guy they call the lord.......... and now the white folk in texass want to secede the union.....  history repeats itself, over and over........................ civil war anyone??????", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_11:30:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "BoilinBag", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "8141303": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh hell - no!  I'm not saying we should go into Somalia at ALL.  We were talking today at work - of course.  Fox News was trying its damnedest to get a connection between al-Queda and these Somali pirates, and we could just hear the drumbeats for Somalia. <br><br>To hell that it's in chaos, but you know Cheney especially wouldn't give a shit.  Their whole deal, I'm absolutely convinced was to destroy this country.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_22:55:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "IWordsmith", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8138257, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8121806": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "There were many fiscal conservatives who were unhappy with Bush and the GOP when they embarked on their big government spending spree. And Dems, by and large supported it, too.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:12:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 12, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8120735, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8296911": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Corporations never have, and never will, pay tax. Any tax on business is passed on to the consumer, which is why taxing business is absolutely pointless.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-17_11:33:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "sabalo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124597, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8124369": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Conserv1 you must have Media Matters confused with Faux News.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_16:51:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "Booky", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124079, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8122323": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This: <br><br>\"I will also link to this post at every Tea Party supporting site I can.\"<br><br>Sounds to me like some sort of veiled threat.  <br><br>Ya hear that admin.  If in the days following the Tea Partys, JJP are suddenly enudated with RW trolls, you know who to blame.<br><br>Would that be a \"ban-able\" offense?  Just saying?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:32:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "lamh", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8121523, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8296099": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So it's about taking someone else's resources to accomplish what you'd like to accomplish with those resources?<br><br>Here's a thought... why not just... you know... ask them to contribute?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-17_11:20:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "sabalo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8138372, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8125398": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Since the President doesn't, and has not avocated what you conservatives call \"socialized medicine\", according to his site, he avocates a Small Business Tax Credit to help lessen the burden on small business to provide health care for their employees - how is that the \"goverment control of the means of distribution since these busnessses would be paying the same private insurance companies (who control the means of distribution through pre-existing conditions, etc) I would have surmised that a 'free marketeer' such as yourself would welcome something like this! \"Cap and Trade\" as I understand it is about polluters buying permits to polllute, and the permits would be traded on the open market, creating an investment vehicle - again capitalism at its finest! Where's the collectivism involved in this? On education, he supports charter schools and merit pay for teachers, which I believe are the twin darlings of conservative approaches to education, how does this discourage \"competition and choice\"? As far as China, they are already embarking on an ambitious goal to reduce their pollution, and have committed to building a green infrastructure.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_17:34:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "ebogan", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124658, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8137688": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You said it Miranda.  Neo-cons like to bomb people, that's messed up.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_19:51:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Booky", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8137027, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8125402": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Right. Keep laughing. The next Tim McVeigh is waiting in the wings to make an example out of somebody.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_17:34:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "HopeOverFear", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8125215, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8203285": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Get YOUR truth.<br><br>I'm neither a white supremacist or a cousin of one.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_14:32:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8202767, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8209886": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sorry, It's not a \"fact\" that Obama will not raise taxes, it is merely fact that he said he would not raise taxes on those making less than $250K.  What a politican says in a campaign and what he does when actually governing are two different things, and I will wait and see what he (or more accurately, our legislature) chooses to do.<br><br>What is obvious so far is that Obama has chosen to massively increase federal spending without paying for it.  And that's what I'm protesting.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_17:16:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "MOswingvoter", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8137608, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8138214": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Whoa!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_20:16:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "IWordsmith", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8137120, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8122347": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Why didn't the \"Tea Parties\" take place then?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:32:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "Plantsmantx", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8122110, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8122861": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Conserv1 you must have President Obama confused with George War Bush.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_15:52:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Booky", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8122703, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8137198": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "In fact, the first 8 presidents were NOT natural born citizens of the United States.  I believe Martin Van Buren was the very first president born as a citizen of the United States.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_19:24:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8125649, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8138739": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah, thought about that. <br><br>They're the only ones on the continent who COULD do it.<br><br>Willingness, though, is a different question.<br><br>Could just carpet bomb the place...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_20:42:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8138619, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8138740": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "**Dead**<br><br><br><br>LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_20:42:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8136818, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8125942": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'd be a fool to say that race-baiting wasn't going on. All I can speak to is what we're going here.<br><br>You're right that Republican fiscal policies have helped get us to where we are today. Why nothing before today....honestly, I don't know. I don't have a good answer for you. I can say I was otherwise occupied up until 2006....<br><br>I know there were Republicans who were upset about the bailouts and voiced their opinions in other ways.<br><br>For now, I can't say it's a movement; it's an action. If you count the few that took place in Feb., April 15th is a second step; in what direction remains unknown. Even for my own involvement, I'll have to see what the next steps are before committing myself to anything else.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_17:55:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8125579, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8129015": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh...so if 3 articles prove \"some\"  conservatives were upset with Bush's spending, then the hundreds of articles, including those on \"aryan nation\" friendly sites, prove that these tea parties are just klan rallies in disguise....because all it takes is a couple of articles to prove it...right?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_18:20:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8124033, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8126457": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That last paragraph I'm completely in agreement with; I think the same.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_18:02:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8125502, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8123898": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://mediamatters.org/items/200904130004?f=h_top\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://mediamatters.org/items/200904130004?f=h_top</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-13_16:32:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "miss_opinion", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8121523, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8153770": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh, good. 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The Federal Communications Commission...... ah, such is life.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-17_12:28:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "IWordsmith", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8296325, "depth": 7, "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": "15677814", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": -3102645163495499127}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "the_rotting_racist_underbelly_of_the_tea_party_protests", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 207, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 15677814, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
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	this._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=the_rotting_racist_underbelly_of_the_tea_party_protests' +
		'&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/the_rotting_racist_underbelly_of_the_tea_party_protests/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='	+ 'the_rotting_racist_underbelly_of_the_tea_party_protests'
			+ '&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/the_rotting_racist_underbelly_of_the_tea_party_protests/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) ?
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		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
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	this.frameReply = function(post_id, extra_params, attributes) {
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					params[key] = extra_params[key];
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	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/the_rotting_racist_underbelly_of_the_tea_party_protests/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='	+ 'the_rotting_racist_underbelly_of_the_tea_party_protests'
			+ '&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='	+ 'the_rotting_racist_underbelly_of_the_tea_party_protests'
			+ '&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='		+ 'the_rotting_racist_underbelly_of_the_tea_party_protests'
				+ '&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/15677814/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() {
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8202436" class="dsq-comment-message">A hotbed of American exceptionalism.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8330065" class="dsq-comment-message">Nice.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8121523">Conserv1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8121523" class="dsq-comment-message">I knew that it would only be a matter of time before the left would attempt to paint this as an anti-Obama, racist movement. It is not.<br><br>I will be at the Tea party in Chicago and I take up your challenge. I will take your top five questions with me. I will also link to this post at every Tea Party supporting site I can.<br><br>It is a shame that you choose to promote this smear campaign against concerned citizens who want the government to limit their reach into the private sector, respect individual economic freedom and demand fiscal discipline and responsibility from our elected officials.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8121922">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8121922" class="dsq-comment-message">Thomas Paine<br>Separate an individual from society, and give him an island or a continent to possess, and he cannot acquire personal property. He cannot be rich. So inseparably are the means connected with the end, in all cases, that where the former do not exist the latter cannot be obtained. All accumulation, therefore, of personal property, beyond what a man\'s own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes on every principle of justice, of gratitude, and of civilization, a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came.<br>This is putting the matter on a general principle, and perhaps it is best to do so; for if we examine the case minutely it will be found that the accumulation of personal property is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it; the consequence of which is that the working hand perishes in old age, and the employer abounds in affluence.<br>It is, perhaps, impossible to proportion exactly the price of labor to the profits it produces; and it will also be said, as an apology for the injustice, that were a workman to receive an increase of wages daily he would not save it against old age, nor be much better for it in the interim. Make, then, society the treasurer to guard it for him in a common fund; for it is no reason that, because he might not make a good use of it for himself, another should take it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8122912">Conserv1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8122912" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8122912" class="dsq-comment-message">So when the wealthiest among us carry the largest tax burden, is this not " a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came."?  It is.<br><br>How much \'taxing of the rich\' is enough? Can the proposed future spending be supported by the \'wealthy\'  alone?<br><br>And what do we ask of those who pay little or no taxes but require that the state provide more and more for their general welfare?<br><br>There must be a balance. What is the proper role of government in the lives of individuals? That is the debate at the heart of the protest.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8123661">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8123661" class="dsq-comment-message">So you "speak" for the 5% of the wealthiest of individuals in the country...why that is such a noble cause.......is there a 5k run or a Jerry Lewis type telethon where I can participate? I hear the cries of the super-rich and it pains me.....I want to help.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8123848">Conserv1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8123848" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8123848" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL.<br><br>The level of spending by this administration cannot be sustained by increasing taxes on the wealthy alone. <br><br>You are naive to buy into the illusion.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8123937">miss_opinion</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8123937" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200904130004?f=h_top" rel="nofollow">http://mediamatters.org/items/200904130004?f=h_top</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8139020" href="http://herecomethatgirl.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">No1KState</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8139020" class="dsq-comment-message">And believing it\'s socialist to raise taxes back to the rate under Clinton for people making over $250K is . . .</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8122025">Booky</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8122025" class="dsq-comment-message">If it\'s not a racist, anti Obama movement what is it Conserv1?  You certainly weren\'t concerned about individual economic freedom, fiscal disicipline and responsibility form Bush and Dick and the republican congress.<br><br>When are you going to answer the 5 questions?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8122703">Conserv1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8122703" class="dsq-comment-message">I have heard this tired rebuttal ad nauseum here. <br><br>I will however answer the questions.<br><br>Is Obama a socialist?<br>No. However he is a \'collectivist\' and a \'statist.\' I feel that he believes that bigger government spending and intrusion into the private sector is the answer to most problems. I also feel that he believes, like most on the left,  that the government should be used to advance \'fairness\' even at the expense of individual freedom.<br><br>“Do you believe Obama’s presidency is a conspiracy by the Jews and Blacks?No.<br><br>“Who do you think Obama takes his orders from?” No one. However, I do believe that Obama is a pupil of the left and his view of this country and our role in the world has been formed from a sheltered, urban, academic existence.<br><br>“Is Barack Obama an American citizen like you?”<br>Yes.<br><br>“How do you feel about having a black president in the White House - what’s the worst that could happen?” <br>I think it is great. I would have voted for him if I felt we shared the same political ideals and philosophy. I am strongly pro-tax cuts, pro-free market, pro-federalism, anti-judicial activism, pro-school choice, pro-gun rights, who did not initially support the war, but supported the surge strategy...so not much in common.<br><br>The worst thing that could happen as a result of Obama\'s presidency is that we suffer another terrorist attack (a risk for any incoming President) or that his economic policies will prolong not hasten our economic recovery. That these policies that reward failure and shield companies and individuals from their own risky choices will lead to higher taxes for all tax paying Americans, result in continuing high unemployment, inflation, stagnant GDP and create an unsustainable \'entitlement mentality\' that will foster greater dependence on the federal government for our individual well-being.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8122861">Booky</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8122861" class="dsq-comment-message">Conserv1 you must have President Obama confused with George War Bush.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8123774">ebogan</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8123774" class="dsq-comment-message">Collectivism:A school of thought which maintains that the factors of production and the means of distribution should be owned by all and not by individuals who might pursue their self-interest at a cost to the state. It advocates public control, which is not necessarily brought about by state ownership.<br><br>I must\'ve been asleep during the campaign, but where has the President now, or then, avocated this?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8124658">Conserv1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8124658" class="dsq-comment-message">The President\'s health care plans, while still short on specifics certainly seeks government control of the means of distribution. His education policies discourage competition and choice. A \'cap and trade\' energy policy to punish polluters will result in higher energy prices for all Americans and any gains we make in reducing pollution will be offset by China, India and other developing nations.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8125398">ebogan</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8125398" class="dsq-comment-message">Since the President doesn\'t, and has not avocated what you conservatives call "socialized medicine", according to his site, he avocates a Small Business Tax Credit to help lessen the burden on small business to provide health care for their employees - how is that the "goverment control of the means of distribution since these busnessses would be paying the same private insurance companies (who control the means of distribution through pre-existing conditions, etc) I would have surmised that a \'free marketeer\' such as yourself would welcome something like this! "Cap and Trade" as I understand it is about polluters buying permits to polllute, and the permits would be traded on the open market, creating an investment vehicle - again capitalism at its finest! Where\'s the collectivism involved in this? On education, he supports charter schools and merit pay for teachers, which I believe are the twin darlings of conservative approaches to education, how does this discourage "competition and choice"? As far as China, they are already embarking on an ambitious goal to reduce their pollution, and have committed to building a green infrastructure.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8131142">Conserv1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8131142" class="dsq-comment-message">Actions speak louder than words and what Obama will actually do on these issues remains to be seen.<br><br>Charter schools and merit pay have been met with great resistance from the Teacher\'s Union and it still unclear if President Obama will be able to enact the reforms he is advocating because the Democratic party is so entangled with the teacher\'s union.<br><br>The writing of health care reform legislation is being outsourced by the administration to Congress and again, the devil is in the details. And while \'pre-existing conditions\' limit coverage or cost more, what is to stop the government from denying or limiting treatment to individuals who do not live the healthiest of lifestyles as determined by the state? <br><br>Competition and choice are key to education and health care reform and if those two tenets are included in any reform measures, great.<br><br>"Saving the planet" while an admirable goal, may just be beyond our control. I am all for reducing pollution and living more environmentally sensitive lives but that should be an individual\'s responsibility. The market will adapt and restructure to meet the demand created by consumers for more \'green\' products. Cap and trade is a tax that will have widespread negative economic consequences if it enacted. China and India are sorely lagging in reducing pollution.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8136349">ebogan</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8136349" class="dsq-comment-message">You didn\'t really respond to my query on how the President is a \'collectivist\' , but I didn\'t expect it. Thanks for playing, tho\'</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8122246">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8122246" class="dsq-comment-message">As you said in the Morning Thread, it\'s not smear if it is caught on YouTube.<br><br>Can\'t wait for your videos.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8124871" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8124871">Conserv1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8124871" class="dsq-comment-message">Gee, you don\'t think the videographer in the YouTube clip had an agenda? <br><br>Is it \'racist\' to be ill- informed about where Obama was born?<br><br>Does the fact that some who participate in the protests do not believe he is a US citizen negate the argument for fiscal responsibility and smaller government? No.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8125347">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8125347" class="dsq-comment-message">Fiscal responsibility and smaller government?You killing me LOL</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8125467">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8125467" class="dsq-comment-message">Re: the videos, you are the one who said in the morning thread "Youtube makes it difficult to take words out of context when clips are available in their entirety".  So no matter what the agenda of the videographer was what he captured happened, right?  That is your argument.<br><br>It is racist if the only political candidate or elected President doubted is black.   Also, ill-informed and racist generally go hand and hand.<br><br>If the sole argument is fiscal responsibility then the protests are fine.  Rock on.  It\'s the calls from the white supremacy groups to attend and recruit, the call for people to take kids out of school because they are being brainwashed, the fact they are supported by Glenn Beck and the most extremist faction of the conservatives which make these events seem like they are taking an ugly turn.  And I can\'t support or understand what the events are turning into.  If the events stay on message about taxes and fiscal responsibility without blaming this situation 100% on Obama, calling Obama a socialist, non-American, a terrorist, a mouthpiece for Soros or anything to do with race I will apologize on Thursday.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8125649" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8125649">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8125649" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8125649" class="dsq-comment-message">These dumb fucks haven\'t asked for the first  43 Presidents of the Untied States of America birth certificates.<br><br><br>WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE COPIES OF GEORGE WASHINGTON THROUGHT GEORGE W. BUSH\'S BIRTH CERTIFICATES?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8137198" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8137198" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8137198">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8137198" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8137198" class="dsq-comment-message">In fact, the first 8 presidents were NOT natural born citizens of the United States.  I believe Martin Van Buren was the very first president born as a citizen of the United States.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8138826" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8138826">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8138826" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8138826" class="dsq-comment-message">But, but,..Town, deh is WHITE!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8140527" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8140527" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8140527">isonprize</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8140527" class="dsq-comment-message">NOPE.  That don\'t count.  THEY WERE REAL AMERICANS!<br><br>REAL "MERCANS"  I tell ya.   REAL!!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8139720" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8139720">hopee</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8139720" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8139720" class="dsq-comment-message">You are seriously in need of a good deprogrammer.  I believe if the conservative talking point of the day was that the moon was made out of green cheese you would be on here espousing that very argument.  It is through reading your posts that I understand why the GOP is so bankrupt.  Your party has become a laughingstock and the so-called tea party movement has already been debunked and the financiers identified.  If the GOP continues on in this vein for the next 12 months, they will truly be out in the wilderness.  Rather than coming up with workable solutions for the future you have pouted since November 4th.  Come up with an idea that doesn\'t involve demonizing Obama and you might have a chance but the more you allow idiots like Beck, Hannity, Malkin, and others defind you, the more irrelevant you become.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8203322" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8203322">sugaredpeas</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8203322" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8203322" class="dsq-comment-message">&gt;smacking forehead&lt;<br><br>puh-lease.  seriously.  puh-lease.<br><br>OH MY GOD.  I wish they would put his original freaking birth certificate in glass so that all of you insane people will just give it a freaking REST already.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8122323">lamh32</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8122323" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8122323" class="dsq-comment-message">This: <br><br>"I will also link to this post at every Tea Party supporting site I can."<br><br>Sounds to me like some sort of veiled threat.  <br><br>Ya hear that admin.  If in the days following the Tea Partys, JJP are suddenly enudated with RW trolls, you know who to blame.<br><br>Would that be a "ban-able" offense?  Just saying?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8122579" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8122579">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8122579" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8122579" class="dsq-comment-message">That is a threat....I hope everyone recognizes it as such. We knew that Conserv was nothing more than a troll who wished to see this site completely disrupted.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8123538" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8123538" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8123538">Conserv1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8123538" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8123538" class="dsq-comment-message">It is not a threat, I already sent the link to Instapundit. I see nothing wrong with linking to this post so that the Tea Party Movement is not mischaracterized by those who oppose it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8123763" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8123763" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8123763">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8123763" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8123763" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh, you sent it to Instapundit. Can I go comment about it on his blog? And yes Miranda, I think it\'s a threat, too.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8124772" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8124772" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8124772">Conserv1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8124772" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8124772" class="dsq-comment-message">Go ahead. Look, Jill called upon citizen journalists to cover the Tea Parties with the express intent of painting them as inherently racist protests. <br><br>Why? I suspect it is to discredit the movement and to keep it from gaining traction and threatening the Democratic majority in the WH and Congress. Tell me why I am wrong about this?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8127408" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8127408" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8127408">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8127408" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8127408" class="dsq-comment-message">"Tell me why I am wrong about this?"<br><br>Well dear....your track record....you\'ve been wrong about everything else.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8137995" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8137995" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8137995">Booky</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8137995" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8137995" class="dsq-comment-message">Jill doesn\'t have to paint the Tea Parties as a inherently racist protest.  The Tea Parties paint themselves as ainherently racist protest.  I\'m willing to bet  the protest will be all white (blue collar) with D. thrown in so they can say they aren\'t racist.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8138959" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8138959">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8138959" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8138959" class="dsq-comment-message">Go ahead and do what? Comment on Instapundit? Yeah, ok...LOL. Will I see the information you posted there?<br><br>AHEM.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8123673" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8123673" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8123673">Conserv1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8123673" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8123673" class="dsq-comment-message">I sent the link to this website to Instapundit. Glenn Reynolds has been chronicling the Tea Party Movement since the beginning and I think it is only right to see to it that attempts to paint the efforts of well-meaning citizens as racist are countered.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8122400" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8122400">lamh32</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8122400" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8122400" class="dsq-comment-message">BTW Conserv,<br><br>I\'m sure you\'ve seen the video of the "Tea Party" where they were advocating book burning, and fueling that Obama not a citizen meme.  <br><br>You know as well as I do, that there will be video of the exact same thing going on at the april 15 tea parties. <br><br>For you sake, I hope that people act responsibly, but I won\'t expect it.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8123610" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8123610">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8123610" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8123610" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve only seen that video once, but wasn\'t the guy who gave the spiel on the Constitution Party actually Chuck Baldwin, who was that party\'s Presidential candidate? I wonder where this FOX SPONSORED tea party took place?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8122629" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8122629">Booky</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8122629" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8122629" class="dsq-comment-message">Where were you during the Bush years Conserv1?<br><br><br><a href="http://www.beggarscanbechoosers.com/2009/04/where-were-tea-party-protesters-during.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.beggarscanbechoosers.com/2009/04/whe...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8123898" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8123898" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8123898">miss_opinion</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8123898" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8123898" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200904130004?f=h_top" rel="nofollow">http://mediamatters.org/items/200904130004?f=h_top</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8136374" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8136374">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8136374" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8136374" class="dsq-comment-message">Conserv - how can this be translated as a leftist argument when the comment came from the right?  <br><br>unlike most - I believe there are lunatics everywhere, they are a small group and what the heck, you just can\'t control stupid.  I get that but for you to write this off as a leftist tactic is just silly. btw Running off to go tattle just makes you out to be a spineless punk.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8202976" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8202976">sugaredpeas</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8202976" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8202976" class="dsq-comment-message">wait, seriously?<br><br>really? <br><br>Were we watching the same past eight years?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8122429" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8122429" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8122429" href="muttlikme.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mutt Like Me</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8122429" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8122429" class="dsq-comment-message">You know what, ConservNone, you can go STRAIGHT TO HELL I have FUCKING HAD IT WITH YOU and those psychopaths who call themselves Republicans. This is a SERIOUS THREAT TO THE SAFETY OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES and you\'re going to sit there and DARE TRY TO SPIN THIS??? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU??? You know what, don\'t answer that question, I already know the answer.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8123581" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8123581">Conserv1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8123581" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8123581" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh please. This is exactly how Jill and others on the left want you to react. Get a grip and look at this a little more critically.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8123788" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8123788" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8123788">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8123788" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8123788" class="dsq-comment-message">Have you posted your displeasure with the comments at Stormfront? Link please to your comments on Stormfront where you bash them for their racist rhetoric.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8126921" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8126921" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8126921">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8126921" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8126921" class="dsq-comment-message">&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;crickets&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8136979" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8136979" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8136979">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8136979" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8136979" class="dsq-comment-message">Here, Miranda, let me supply the sound effects.<br><br><a href="http://www.soundboard.com/sb/crickets_sounds_audio.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.soundboard.com/sb/crickets_sounds_au...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8123840">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8123840" class="dsq-comment-message">No you need to look more critically.<br><br>Where was the teabagging when Bush raised the deficits and presided over the worst waste and abuse by military contractors whose recklessness have left  a number of  soldiers DEAD.<br><br>Where were the tea parties in say, 2005, 2006, 2007?  Give us some links of teabaggers criticizing and railing against Bush calling him a communist, socialist......bailouts began under HIS lame-duck presidency...the economy began to falter under his watch...the recession, which was fervently denied by those on the right began in 2007...though intentionally confirmed after the election was over.<br><br>But let\'s take it back further...where was the teabagging movement when 747 savings and loans failed under the Reagan/Bush administration....costing taxpayers over 150 billion back then....if you have "conservative" principles, then you are surely ignorant, devoid of facts because in modern history ALL bailouts have followed the presidency of Republicans</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8123938">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8123938" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8123938" class="dsq-comment-message">You are an idiot.  There is no other way to describe you.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8124455" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8124455" href="muttlikme.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mutt Like Me</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8124455" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8124455" class="dsq-comment-message">FUCK YOU, asshole. This has nothing to do with Jill.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8138773" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8138773" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8138773">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8138773" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8138773" class="dsq-comment-message">For real!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8122671" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8122671">pjamma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8122671" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8122671" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=588834" rel="nofollow">Stormfront.org</a>, the worlds largest white supremacy site is promoting this event and members are coming out in full force.   The comments are scary and extend far beyond big government.  The videos from the rallies to date have extended wayyy beyond big government.  Shit is about to get crazy on the 15th.  And I mean in an anti-Obama, racist movement.  My black ass is not about to go anywhere near these fools.<br><br>A quote from the site...<br><br><i>...estimates are there could be 100\'s across the country. What\'s so encouraging is that the organizers and participants are pre-dominantly whites. The remnants of traditional 1950\'s. Old white America. The historical, traditional population.<br><br>Might prove to be signifigant.<br><br>Might be a meaningless last gasp.<br><br>Have to see how it plays out. <br><br>I\'m going to take the day off and attend the local one, carrying my Gadsden flag. Encourage others to do the same. Hopefully the beginning of a sense of ethno-centrism.</i><br><br>Another quote:<br><br><i>Who says </i>we\'re <i>going in with only a focus on taxes, or that many of the folks in these protests aren\'t also concerned about our people to some degree? <br>Go where our people are starting to stand up around symptoms of the problem, and INTERVENE to guide them. Just because these started as an anti-tax protest doesn\'t mean that they must be limited and can\'t be developed upward toward an explicitly racial mass struggle. At the very least, you will find some Whites who are receptive...you will make gains one way or the other. But you must take the field and and throw OUR ball. Let our folks know that they have champions who see the cause of this mess and are building an alternative to resolve the real problem.<br><br>Oh, and so what if some of the leaders of these things might not like your intervention. We are their replacements, and they will realize the foreshadowing before most of our own race-conscious folks do.</i><br><br>This is going to have everything to do with race.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8120865" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8120865" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8120865" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8120865" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Many white supremacists report planning to attend Tea Parties or already have and some are looking for a way to recruit into their White Nationalist movement.</i><br><br>I hope you\'re reading David <a href="http://crooksandliars.com/user/250/posts" rel="nofollow">Neiwert\'s work</a> at Crooks and Liars and his blog, <a href="http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Orcinus</a> because he is a well-known and respected source on these white supremacists types.  Trust me - he and I come from the same area. His latest from Saturday is an eye-opener.<br><br>It\'s ongoing.  Go <a href="http://mountaingoatreport.typepad.com/the_mountaingoat_report/2009/04/tea-party.html" rel="nofollow"> here</a> - check out the latest from someone we\'re following in Idaho.<br><br>The chairman for the Constitution Party in Idaho is a black man. Can you believe that shit?  (Mid-page is his contact info w/picture) <br><br><a href="http://cpidaho.org/" rel="nofollow">http://cpidaho.org/</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8120641" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8120641" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8120641">Leota2</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8120641" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8120641" class="dsq-comment-message">The thing about facades that are really masking rotting interiors<br>--is that sooner rather than later the whole structure falls in.  Then the maggoty<br>innards are laid bare for all to see.  Welcome to the "Tea Party"--where<br>GOP billionaires and FOX (who financially support this)  will have no control of the<br>lunatics once they are on the streets and in front of cameras.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8121999" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8121999" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8121999">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8121999" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8121999" class="dsq-comment-message">Tell it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8120735" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8120735" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8120735">RonnieB</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8120735" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8120735" class="dsq-comment-message">Notice how these Tea Partiers were partying just fine when Bush and his rubber-stamp Congress were using our tax dollars to bloat government, and give away its largess to the likes of Kellogg, Brown & Root or Halliburton or Blackwater?  Nor did the Tea Partiers have a problem with tax subsidies to Wall Street and Big Agriculture.<br><br>These closet bigots only have a problem with the use of tax dollars when they\'re used to  educate, medicate and patriate people of color.  They\'d be (even more) dangerous if they weren\'t so obvious.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8121028">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8121028" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8121028" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8121028" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8121028" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8121028" class="dsq-comment-message">Jus pisses me off no end.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8121806" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8121806" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8121806">Conserv1</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8121806" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8121806" class="dsq-comment-message">There were many fiscal conservatives who were unhappy with Bush and the GOP when they embarked on their big government spending spree. And Dems, by and large supported it, too.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8121927" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8121927" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8121927">Leota2</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8121927" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8121927" class="dsq-comment-message">Yet--nary a peep . . . . .</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8121984" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8121984" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8121984">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8121984" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8121984" class="dsq-comment-message">They were so unhappy with Bush and the GOP that they kept quiet about it?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8122110" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8122110" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8122110">Conserv1</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8122110" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8122110" class="dsq-comment-message">Not true. You just were not in tune to the criticism and the Dems supported Bush\'s big spending.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8122347" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8122347" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8122347">Plantsmantx</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8122347" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8122347" class="dsq-comment-message">Why didn\'t the "Tea Parties" take place then?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8122376" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8122376" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8122376">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8122376" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8122376" class="dsq-comment-message">Prove the "many fiscal conservatives" were unhappy with Bush...or are you just making that up too?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8124033" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8124033" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8124033">Conserv1</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8124033" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8124033" class="dsq-comment-message">A simple google search yields these 3 articles and more...<br><br>GOP is in \'deep funk\' over Bush spending - 3/12/06<br><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/03/12/MNG9BHMUFU1.DTL" rel="nofollow">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=...</a><br><br>Republicans waiting for Bush to sharpen his focus -2/20/04<br><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/bush/articles/2004/02/20/republicans_waiting_for_bush_to_sharpen_his_focus/" rel="nofollow">http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/b...</a><br><br>Some Big Conservative Donors, Unhappy With Bush, Say They Won\'t Back His Campaign - 6/04/04<br><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0604-08.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0604-08...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8124189" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8124189" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8124189">Monie</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8124189" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8124189" class="dsq-comment-message">If that\'s the case, then "fiscal conservatives" have been upset for the past almost 30 years.<br><br>Reagan, Bush I and Bush 2 all left staggering deficits,  decimated the economy and presided over the slowest job growth in the last 40 years,  3 of the  lowest performing presidents.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8125023" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8125023" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8125023">Conserv1</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8125023" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8125023" class="dsq-comment-message">Reason for concern, but not staggering. What Obama and Democrats are proposing is staggering. <br><br>Check out this graphic:<br>Bush Deficit vs. Obama Deficit in Pictures<br><a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/24/bush-deficit-vs-obama-deficit-in-pictures/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/24/bush-defici...</a><br><br>Or this video:<br>The Crisis<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yREOUxo6Qdc&eurl=http://stopspendingourfuture.org/&feature=player_embedded" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yREOUxo6Qdc&eurl...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8125707" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8125707" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8125707">Monie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8125707" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8125707" class="dsq-comment-message">Do you have a graph that shows the shiteous economic environment President Obama was left with compared to GWBuSh...<br><br>or what GHWBush  left Clinton?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8129015" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8129015" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8129015">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8129015" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8129015" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh...so if 3 articles prove "some"  conservatives were upset with Bush\'s spending, then the hundreds of articles, including those on "aryan nation" friendly sites, prove that these tea parties are just klan rallies in disguise....because all it takes is a couple of articles to prove it...right?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8139133" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8139133" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8139133" href="http://herecomethatgirl.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">No1KState</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8139133" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8139133" class="dsq-comment-message">you\'re right that not all conservs were happy with bush<br><br>tea parties before 2009?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8125630" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8125630" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8125630">Admiral_Komack</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8125630" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8125630" class="dsq-comment-message">Either they were speechless OR they couldn\'t get their displeasure out because they were too busy calling people "unpatriotic".</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8120898" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8120898" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8120898" href="http://baratunde.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">baratunde</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8120898" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8120898" class="dsq-comment-message">EXCELLENT post Jill. here are two dailykos posts that explore the topic further. Glenn Beck is a frightening and dangerous dude<br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/4/12/719355/-Timothy-McVeigh%2C-the-Radical-Right-and-Glenn-Beck" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/4/12/719...</a><br><br>and this one on conservative obsession with ACORN, their need for a big bad boogeyman and the racial undertones of their attacks<br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/4/12/718102/-ACORN-And-Conservative-Paranoia" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/4/12/718...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8121559" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8121559" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8121559">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8121559" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8121559" class="dsq-comment-message">Glenn Beck is definitely scary.  This fool is calling for violence and spilled blood.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8122092" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8122092" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8122092">Conserv1</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8122092" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8122092" class="dsq-comment-message">Why can’t some on the left accept that this as a legitimate phenomenon?  <br><br>Denying the sincerity of the protesters is no different from conservatives denying the sincerity of all those who protested the Iraq war.<br><br>Are those on the left so narrow that they think energetic opposition to big government spending and an expanded role into the private sector is at it\'s core really an racist, anti-Obama plot hatched by FOX news?<br><br>We will not know until after Wednesday if this is a movement that will gain traction and grow. But it is obvious that the left is very upset and cannot stand the idea of a  grassroots conservative movement.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8122469" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8122469" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8122469" href="muttlikme.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mutt Like Me</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8122469" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8122469" class="dsq-comment-message">UGH, you are so infuriatingly wrong about EVERYTHING. But we\'ll humor you and continue to let you THINK that the left is "upset" about a "grassroots conservative movement" (ooh yeah we\'re soooo scared!)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8122996">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8122996" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8122996" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8122996">Conserv1</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8122996" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8122996" class="dsq-comment-message">What is it then, if not \'upset\' or \'fear\'? What concerns you? Just a few short weeks ago this was being dismissed, laughed and shrugged off. Now it is being attacked as racist in a coordinated manner from the left.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8123713" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8123713" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8123713">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8123713" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8123713" class="dsq-comment-message">But it is racist - that\'s why the Stormfronters are so excited....this is a recruiting day for them.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8123919" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8123919" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8123919">Conserv1</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8123919" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8123919" class="dsq-comment-message">I have never heard of Stormfront until today. <br><br>The people I know who are involved with the Tea Party\'s have more in common with D than Stormfront. D has repeatedly encouraged folks to come out and see for themselves what this is all about. Why not do that before looking for racist motivation or right-wing media conspiracies?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8123947" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8123947" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8123947">miss_opinion</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8123947" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8123947" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200904130004?f=h_top" rel="nofollow">http://mediamatters.org/items/200904130004?f=h_top</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8124079" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8124079" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8124079">Conserv1</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8124079" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8124079" class="dsq-comment-message">Media Matters. Now there\'s an objective source.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8124369" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8124369" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8124369">Booky</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8124369" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8124369" class="dsq-comment-message">Conserv1 you must have Media Matters confused with Faux News.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8139099" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8139099" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8139099" href="http://herecomethatgirl.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">No1KState</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8139099" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8139099" class="dsq-comment-message">What\'s your qualm with media matters. I personally think they can make a mountain out of a molehill, but the give you what the person said in context. What\'s the problem?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8128257" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8128257" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8128257">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8128257" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8128257" class="dsq-comment-message">"I have never heard of Stormfront until today."<br><br><br>ROFLMAO!!!! Damn.....you lie like a rug....LOL</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8136422">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8136422" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8136422" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8136422">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8136422" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8136422" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>I have never heard of Stormfront until today</i> <br><br><br>Please stop. Just stop!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8136982" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8136982" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8136982">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8136982" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8136982" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t think he can\'t help it, I think he\'s a habitual liar.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8140553" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8140553" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8140553">isonprize</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8140553" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8140553" class="dsq-comment-message">Don\'t let this asshole infuriate you.  Please.  <br><br>Cup of chamomile for every one!!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8139070" href="http://herecomethatgirl.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">No1KState</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8139070" class="dsq-comment-message">"really an racist, anti-Obama plot hatched by FOX news"<br><br>Because W did the same and worse and all the conservatives cheered.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8121091">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8121091" class="dsq-comment-message">Jill:   <i>I’ve been parsing the words and the racists have been very careful to cover their tracks and fury that a black man is President. But not well enough. I’m starting to become pretty convinced at this point that “socialist” is a some kind of code word for “nigger”.</i><br><br>THAT!    SUMS!   IT!   UP!!!<br><br>From the "SOCIETY PAGE":<br><br><b>THEY  R</b> - - <br>+  <a href="http://libertyunbound.com/archive/2004_07/chambers-kkk.jpg" rel="nofollow">PLANNING A  "TEA PARTY"</a>   <br><br>Aaaarrrggg!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8122372" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8122372" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8122372">WWWoDEMOCRATZoORG</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8122372" class="dsq-comment-message">I have something to counter the tea parties of the Republiklan party.<br><br>Go to <a href="http://action.democratz.org" rel="nofollow">http://action.democratz.org</a> and sit in safety of your office or home and call Republiklan party campaign contributors and demand legislation from them and tell them you will boycott them until the legislation gets passed. Imagine hundreds of thousands of people calling these contributors to the Republiklan party and telling people that you will boycott them until we get the legislation we want.<br><br>Let idiot conservatives bluster about taxes while we bring their campaign contributors to their knees safely and legally when we make phone calls to them from the safety from an office or home and make a free call :)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8122373" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8122373" href="muttlikme.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mutt Like Me</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8122373" class="dsq-comment-message">This is from Glen Beck\'s messageboard:<br><br>My son, is an operator with an SF team and we are in reg comm. they are ready. we are ready. and if you start reading between the lines, you will see it. L presidente obama bin osama, is breathing borrowed air. as are all of congress. it has gone to far. they will all hang. just be ready.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8122704">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8122704" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay, at what point does the Secret Service start paying visits to some of these folks?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8122468" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8122468" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8122468">lamh32</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8122468" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s what I hope, I hope people like D are very careful at his Tea Party.  Be safe. <br><br>Make sure you have your  "I\'m a Black Republican" button on.  And like I said over on another thread, if things start to jump off, get outta there.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8125215" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8125215" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL.<br><br>I\'m good, but thanks for the concern. :)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8125402" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8125402" href="muttlikme.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mutt Like Me</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8125402" class="dsq-comment-message">Right. Keep laughing. The next Tim McVeigh is waiting in the wings to make an example out of somebody.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8125644">Conserv1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8125644" class="dsq-comment-message">Come in off the ledge.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8136818" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8136818" href="muttlikme.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mutt Like Me</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8136818" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8136818" class="dsq-comment-message">Pull your head out of your ass.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8137734">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8137734" class="dsq-comment-message">*** dead*** snicker</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8138740">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8138740" class="dsq-comment-message">**Dead**<br><br><br><br>LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8126396" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8126396" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8126396" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8126396" class="dsq-comment-message">What\'s your purpose in saying that?<br><br>lamh32 voiced her concern, and I appreciate it. I laugh because I don\'t have an "I\'m a Black Republican" button, and I\'ve put on too much weight to wear the shirt.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8136543" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8136543">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8136543" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>The next Tim McVeigh is waiting in the wings to make an example out of somebody.</i><br><br><br>You\'re not kidding.  And Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity are grooming that someone daily.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8126561">lamh32</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8126561" class="dsq-comment-message">Seriously though D.  Be safe.<br><br>ya know what we do when we walk into a room of people right??<br><br>We look for another black person.  It don\'t matter where we go, we scope out the place to see if we\'re the only ones.<br><br>In this case, there is a strong possibility that you will be the only one.  <br><br>BTW, ur not planning on bringing the kid right? (you have 1 son and 1 daughter on the way right?)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8128657" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8128657" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8128657" class="dsq-comment-message">Nope. The kid(s) will only go to certain events; we decided that after the election. <br><br>Hell, if the mrs wasn\'t on bed rest, she <i>still</i> wouldn\'t go; thinks it\'s all silly.<br><br>I\'ve gotten used to being "it." There\'s only five of us, and we can\'t be everywhere. ;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8137151">lamh32</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8137151" class="dsq-comment-message">ya probably right about that.  And in all actuality, a good number of AA may actually agree with some of the religious conservative philosphy, but the race-baiting problems that have plagued and still continues to plague the Repub party is waht drives many of us away frm them.<br><br>Sadly, I suspect this will be the case until all the "ole guard" dies and the newer gen come into power.  It just seems that right now, the "ole guard" is fighting too damn hard and not even listening to the young peeps.  <br><br>Gotta give it to the Dems, when it comes to the "ole guard", it still the young who have driven the "Obama movement"<br><br>I\'m with the wife on this one, it\'s probably a good decision not to have the children along for some events.<br><br>BTW, I call myself an optimistic pessimist.  I "expect the worst, and hope for the best".   So I\'m hoping things go smoothly Wednesday</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8137340" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8137340" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8137340" class="dsq-comment-message">Guess that would make me a "pessimistic pessimist;" I look for the worst and try to mitigate. I\'ve worst-case-scenarioed this from an ACORN interruption (not likely) to someone getting shot (VA is a open carry state, as I\'ve recently found out).<br><br>I used up all my points taking my son to the McCain rally here. There\'s a Victory in Iraq rally in DC that I\'m speaking at in June; only reason the kids are coming then is because other members of my family will be with them.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8137574">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8137574" class="dsq-comment-message">" And in all actuality, a good number of AA may actually agree with some of the religious conservative philosphy, but the race-baiting problems that have plagued and still continues to plague the Repub party is waht drives many of us away frm them."<br><br>Ding, ding, ding.  lamh32 you get the prize.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8123050" href="http://rippdemup.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">RiPPa</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8123050" class="dsq-comment-message">Where were these people when Bush ran up the deficit by investing in the military industrial complex? And why don\'t they understand that the current budget is inflated mostly due to the way war spending has been included unlike before with the Bush administration? The truth of all of this is that their emotions are being exploited causing further polarization by the loony fundamentalists on the right.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8124989" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8124989" class="dsq-comment-message">Yu\'ll realize that if McCain had gotten in or Bush was still president, we\'d now be at war with Somalia.<br><br>Although I haven\'t seen that much TV parading back and forth at work, it doesn\'t appear to be much on the pirates and their \'untimely deaths.\'  No heroics for this administration?  Does Obama need to put up a banner in front of the White House?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8135768">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8135768" class="dsq-comment-message">Check out  what another chickenhawk neo-con, John Bolton, who conveniently skipped out on serving in Vietnam had to say :<br><br><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/13/bolton-somalia-war/#comments" rel="nofollow">http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/13/bolton-soma...</a><br><br>    FOX HOST: Ambassador, if you were serving in this administration, would it be your recommendation that they go in to, militarily with air strikes and/or boots on the ground, into these so-called feral cities, where these pirates are taking hold? Should we go in and take those people out, and take their installations out, now, militarily? Is that what you’re suggesting?<br><br>    BOLTON: Yes. … Unless we go in and really end this problem once and for all, we will simply see it grow over time. <br><br>On Friday, Bolton called for a “coalition of the willing” to attack Somalia, saying the use of force was “the prudential response” to piracy problems. He kept up his calls for war over the weekend.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8136400" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8136400" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8136400" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m slowly not seeing any other options, Monie....and I\'d prefer <i>not</i> to go into Somalia.<br><br>If the piracy continues to get out of hand, we may not have a choice. We\'ve got UN authorization until December....</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8137275">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8137275" class="dsq-comment-message">Serious question:<br><br>Us and who else D....according to John Bolton, the "coalition of the willing" should attack......who is there even left in the "coalition of willing?"</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8137464" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8137464" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8137464" class="dsq-comment-message">djchefron suggested NATO, but I don\'t think you can invoke Article V for piracy.<br><br>I suggested getting another African country with a decent military to provide a ground force, and letting us provide support and logisics.<br><br>Short of that...yeah, that "coalition of the willing" won\'t fly. <br><br>Bring back the battleships...problem solved.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8138146" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8138146" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8138146" class="dsq-comment-message">Nooo - those commanders were saying there aren\'t enough ships in the Navy to be canvassing the Indian Ocean.<br><br>Seriously what African country has enough of decent military to get involved in the chaos of Somali with all the tribal ties?  Something on the western side?  Egypt?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8138355" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8138355" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8138355" class="dsq-comment-message">Egypt\'s my best guess. <br><br>I\'m thinking something like what we did with the Northern Alliance in the opening days of OEF.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8138619">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8138619" class="dsq-comment-message">Are you serious? Eygpt in Subsaharan Africa.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8138739" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8138739" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8138739" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, thought about that. <br><br>They\'re the only ones on the continent who COULD do it.<br><br>Willingness, though, is a different question.<br><br>Could just carpet bomb the place...</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8141345" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8141345" class="dsq-comment-message">Egypt is not going to do this.  What\'s in it for them?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8137027">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8137027" class="dsq-comment-message">Neo-cons sure do love them some killin.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8137688">Booky</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8137688" class="dsq-comment-message">You said it Miranda.  Neo-cons like to bomb people, that\'s messed up.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8140346" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8140346">isonprize</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8140346" class="dsq-comment-message">Especially when they stir the pot and then stand back and let poor white and black kids get killed along with \'the enemy\'<br><br>You know, as long as THEIR kids ain\'t going off the war.  That\'s why, even though I\'ve got a few beefs with Joey Biden, I gotta love the guy.  His son, is in the military.  And there ain\'t shyt the Rethugs can say about that!!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8138257" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8138257" href="http://herecomethatgirl.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">No1KState</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8138257" class="dsq-comment-message">We absolutely CANNOT go into Somalia. Just a few reasons.<br>1 - <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeremy-scahill/putting-todays-pirate-att_b_184752.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeremy-scahill/pu...</a> <br>the pirates have the support of the Somali people because of Europe destroying fishing on some parts of their coast and poisoning others<br><br>2 - the somaliland to the north of somalia, a break-away country, is doing not too bad without western internvention<br><br>3 - the book WHITE MAN\'S BURDEN by william easterly pretty much outlines how western intervention into the rest has a small rate of success. the best thing we can do to help the somalias in end the destruction of their coasts and find ways to get food, medicine, and education DIRECTLY to the people. we don\'t need to invade or anything of that. I mean, you see how well Iraq, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Guatamala, Haiti, Angola, Zaire/Congo, etc and so on has gone</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8141303" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8141303" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8141303" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh hell - no!  I\'m not saying we should go into Somalia at ALL.  We were talking today at work - of course.  Fox News was trying its damnedest to get a connection between al-Queda and these Somali pirates, and we could just hear the drumbeats for Somalia. <br><br>To hell that it\'s in chaos, but you know Cheney especially wouldn\'t give a shit.  Their whole deal, I\'m absolutely convinced was to destroy this country.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8153770" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8153770" href="http://herecomethatgirl.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">No1KState</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8153770" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh, good. I was reading some of the comments following yours and they worried me.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8125084" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8125084" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8125084" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8125084" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow. That\'s all I\'ve got to say.<br><br>Not gonna rehash the arguments.<br><br>One of the writers from JJP should attend the Tea Parties. I reached out to CPL here in VA to attend our Richmond one. Or Town, if (s)he\'s available. If there\'s any one else in VA-or who can get here on the 15th-that wants to cover ours here, let me know and I\'ll put you in touch with our organizers so you can speak with them directly.<br><br>The only way you all are going to know what\'s really going on is to see it for yourself. Not through Fox News, Michelle Malkin, Stormfront, Media Matters, Daily Kos, or Democratic Underground. Get <i>your</i> truth, not someone else\'s.<br><br>And that\'s really all I have to say.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8125395" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8125395">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8125395" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8125395" class="dsq-comment-message">"More black tea, sir?"</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8125502">RonnieB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8125502" class="dsq-comment-message">D~<br><br>I don\'t think it\'s necessary to attend a Tea Party, any more than it would be necessary to attend an anti-affirmative action rally.  If I, a Black man of unknown political persuasion, were to attend either of the two types of rallies, the unspoken foundations for the sentiments would be the same.  Most people would watch their tongues; smirk a lot; and begin nearly every other sentence with "<i>this isn\'t about race, it\'s about _______</i>."   <br><br>At some point, Black folks who want to remain Republicans need to call out their White counterparts.   Otherwise, their polite silence is easily interpreted as acceptance (of said unspoken sentiments).</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8126457" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8126457" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8126457" class="dsq-comment-message">That last paragraph I\'m completely in agreement with; I think the same.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8137642" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8137642">Booky</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8137642" class="dsq-comment-message">Co sign RonnieB.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8125579" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8125579" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8125579">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8125579" class="dsq-comment-message">All tea parties may not be alike...but so far we DO see documented evidence ot race-baiting and dog whistle politics just like during the campaign.<br><br>There is even footage of a reporter from a television station who said live on TV that she was chased and felt the need to run to the police after witnessing the "event."<br><br>If this is a genuine movement, I will ask you like I asked Conservnone further down.....knowing the history of bad economic policy that Republicans have bestowed and left Americans with...knowing the fiscal recklessness GWBush presdied over and the shitpile he left Obama with......why didn\'t this movement given steam, say 3 or 4 years ago? Conditions have sunk downhill considerably under EVERY Republican administration in recent history...how do you align with "conservatives" when there economic philosophies lie are the crux of the problems?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8125942" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8125942" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8125942" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8125942" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8125942" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'d be a fool to say that race-baiting wasn\'t going on. All I can speak to is what we\'re going here.<br><br>You\'re right that Republican fiscal policies have helped get us to where we are today. Why nothing before today....honestly, I don\'t know. I don\'t have a good answer for you. I can say I was otherwise occupied up until 2006....<br><br>I know there were Republicans who were upset about the bailouts and voiced their opinions in other ways.<br><br>For now, I can\'t say it\'s a movement; it\'s an action. If you count the few that took place in Feb., April 15th is a second step; in what direction remains unknown. Even for my own involvement, I\'ll have to see what the next steps are before committing myself to anything else.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8127018" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8127018" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8127018">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8127018" class="dsq-comment-message"><I>I know there were Republicans who were upset about the bailouts and voiced their opinions in other ways.</I><br><br>But amazingly, no one felt the need to have a "tea party" then......which gives credence to many on our side who see these \'tea parties" as shallow anti-Obama rallies.......if federal spending was such a concern than these same people would have held rallies in front of the White House and on the steps of the Capitol during the largely Republican-led presidency and Congress of the majority of these past years under which the deficit rose and the economy faltered.  But yet we heard SILENCE.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8129045" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8129045" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8129045" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8129045" class="dsq-comment-message">....and I don\'t discount that. I concede the coincidence.<br><br>That\'s why my challenge to you all is to come see what it\'s about.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8202767" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8202767">sugaredpeas</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8202767" class="dsq-comment-message">But why?  <br><br>You concede that the sudden urgency of the now on this issue is probably more Obama related than economy related.<br><br>The people who have been lining this up and midwifing it along are white supremacists and their slightly more reticent cousins.  <br><br>What point do these parties make?  I don\'t understand.  It is a protest (?) without a solution, without an alternative and it is tied up with some serious hate for black people in general and our president in particular.<br><br>I mean, thanks, but no thanks.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8203285" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8203285" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8203285" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8203285" class="dsq-comment-message">Get YOUR truth.<br><br>I\'m neither a white supremacist or a cousin of one.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8177433" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8177433" href="http://baratunde.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">baratunde</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8177433" class="dsq-comment-message">D, you have a tough job here at JJP for for a minute you\'ve held it down for conservatives. I\'m genuinely interested in your first hand perspective of what goes down at your tea fiesta on Wednesday. <br><br>hit us up if you\'re interested in doing a guest post on the matter. really. one of the things i most loved about doing campaigning for obama was getting away from the tv, radio, internet and being on the ground with real folks.<br><br>holla.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8190912" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8190912" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8190912" class="dsq-comment-message">Let\'s do it.<br><br>I\'ll shoot you an email.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8136492" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8136492" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8136492">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8136492" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8136492" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m not trying to get "surrounded."</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8136604" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8136604" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8136604" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL....but different event.<br><br>You\'ve got a standing invite, though.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8138618" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8138618" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8138618">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8138618" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8138618" class="dsq-comment-message">I know that\'s right.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8138628" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8138628" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8138628">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8138628" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8138628" class="dsq-comment-message">lol<br><br>Funny!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8137608" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8137608" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8137608">Booky</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8137608" class="dsq-comment-message">D. the truth of matter is the status quo have incited  the masses in order to protect their interest.    The truth of matter D. is that if you don\'t earn over $250 K per year your taxes aren\'t going to be raised, as a matter of fact you will recieve a tax cut.  What part of that are you protesting exactly?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8137792" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8137792" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8137792" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8137792" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8137792" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m not protesting that. I\'ve made my reasons for participating public here.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8209886" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8209886" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8209886">MOswingvoter</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8209886" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8209886" class="dsq-comment-message">Sorry, It\'s not a "fact" that Obama will not raise taxes, it is merely fact that he said he would not raise taxes on those making less than $250K.  What a politican says in a campaign and what he does when actually governing are two different things, and I will wait and see what he (or more accurately, our legislature) chooses to do.<br><br>What is obvious so far is that Obama has chosen to massively increase federal spending without paying for it.  And that\'s what I\'m protesting.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8130455" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8130455" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8130455">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8130455" class="dsq-comment-message">The LGBT community is having their tax protest on April 15 to bring attention to the fact that the government won’t give folks in same sex relationships the same tax benefits as married couples.  That protest is clear and that is a cause most can get behind.<br><br>This repub/gop protest is something I can\'t understand.  How many people do you think will get behind giving more tax breaks to the rich and less to the rest of America?  Faux news and the few nut jobs want to generate much hype around April 15 and the scheduled events no matter what they have to do or how extreme they have to get to drive conversations on the MSM and on blogs.  As a matter of fact, I think they are doing a disservice to groups like D\'s and maybe even Conserv1 (well maybe just D) who truly believe in a call for more fiscal responsibility and less government involvement.  D had me actually thinking about attending a session to "see what it was all about" and then these lunatics took what could have been a serious issue and successfully turned it into a joke.  I am sure I am not the only one who was willing to take a look.  Kinda sad really.  Anyway, I recommend you ignore it.   It isn\'t that serious.  If you want to help promote or watch the tax day events, focus on the LGBT protests because that is a cause that is understandable and most of us can stand behind.<br><br>The repub/gop teabagging event will result in what exactly????? Is the expectation that most of the country will get up and say you know what . . . we want Congress to reallocate the tax breaks given to 95% of Americans and re-route to the top 5%.  Really?  <br><br>Anyway - let the teabaggers have their fun.  Let it go.  It isn\'t that serious.  Don\'t fall for the hype and certainly don\'t help the process by pushing these stories to help feed the cycle.  it just isn\'t worth it.  <br><br>Just want to add - not all Repubs are crazy nut jobs.  Some are quite sane and have good intentions but are stuck in a party that is lost, without a future, and seems hell bent into finishing up that freefall to rock bottom.  Maybe the solution is to form another party . . . but that is another topic.  Anyway . . . my 2 cents.  Carry on people.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8136332" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8136332" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8136332" class="dsq-comment-message">A teabagging event will result in nothing good.<br><br>That\'s interesting; didn\'t know about anything in the LGBT community (not that I follow them or anything). They might have been good allies.<br><br>(like I would\'ve been able to sell <i>that</i> to anyone)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8136416">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8136416" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8136416" class="dsq-comment-message">"The LGBT community might have been good allies."<br><br>yea like that would happen.  lol</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8136571" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8136571" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8136571" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8136571" class="dsq-comment-message">"Politics is about permanent friends and temporary allies."</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8137980" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8137980" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8137980" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8137980" class="dsq-comment-message">You follow some of us.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8138435" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8138435" class="dsq-comment-message">Some of who?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8136832">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8136832" class="dsq-comment-message">EVENING OPEN THREAD IS UP</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8138397">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8138397" class="dsq-comment-message">Houston Teabaggers List Corporate Lobbyists as Sponsors & Glenn Reynolds Looks Like a Fool<br>By: Jane Hamsher Monday April 13, 2009 4:41 pm  6<br>Just go read Gavin. <br><br>When you\'re done, come back and read about Americans for Prosperity (listed on the Houston Tea Party site as "local sponsor") and its President, Tim Phillips: <br><br>Before replacing Koch Industries lobbyist Nancy Pfotenhauer as president of Americans for Prosperity, Timothy R. Phillips had a long career as a conservative operative. In 1992, Phillips managed Rep. Bob Goodlatte’s (R-VA) first Congressional campaign and served as his chief of staff for four years. In 1997, Phillips co-founded public relations firm Century Strategies with Ralph Reed. There, Phillips oversaw “direct mail, telemarketing, coalition building and strategic services” for the 2000 and 2004 Bush for President campaigns, and specialized in “grasstops” operations to establish fake grassroots organizations. [Century Strategies (Internet Archive)] <br><br>David H. Koch is the Chairman of the Board of Americans for Prosperity. Its funders include the usual rogue\'s gallery of big right wing infrastructure donors: Armstrong/Bradley/Lambe nexus. <br><br>I guess that\'s what Glenn Reynolds considers "pure grassroots."<br><br>Oh, gotta stop laughing. I\'m hurting myself.<br><a href="http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/13/houston-teabaggers-list-corporate-lobbyists-as-sponsors-glenn-reynolds-looks-like-a-fool/" rel="nofollow">http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/13/houston-teaba...</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8139428" href="http://herecomethatgirl.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">No1KState</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8139428" class="dsq-comment-message">I think the timing is awefully disturbing. And, we have to create a large deficit in order to get us out the economic mess conservative policies have left us in. While Obama\'s budget is huge, he\'s doing exactly what he said he\'d do and exactly what the majority of Americans want. Though, the majority of white Americans did vote for McCain - which adds to the "illusion" that these tea-parties are racist.<br><br>And these people are going to be the ones to benefit from the tax cuts that were included in the stimulus package. I guess along with the tea parties on the 15th, they\'ll also be mailing the stimulus portion of their tax returns back to the govt.<br><br>And as for why "leftists" think the tea-parties are just Fox News productions is that it seems like the tea-party folks get all their (mis)information from Fox News. I\'m not saying that have to watch MSNBC, but at least get the facts.<br><br>As for, I was tipped off that these parties were not on the up and up when I heard they wanted to party like it was 1773. 1773? I know that\'s the year of the boston tea party - by the way, that was taxation without representation so I don\'t see how their complaint and the complaint today are the same - but really. 1773?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8139507">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8139507" class="dsq-comment-message">"they\'ll also be mailing the stimulus portion of their tax returns back to the govt."<br><br>LOL yea ok No1KState - like that will really happen.  I would love to know how many/if any follows through on that promise.<br><br>We\'ll see.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8216269">fivefouls1987</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8216269" class="dsq-comment-message">Fox News IS an official sponsor of some of these events. They may not be totally behind it, but they\'ve got resources invested in it, which is why they\'ve advertised them like crazy</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8139780">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8139780" class="dsq-comment-message">WHY ARE YOU ALL TALKING TO CONSERV0 - WHY WHY WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8140057">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8140057" class="dsq-comment-message">Just like a booger.  You just gotta pick it. lol.<br><br>Seriously, I guess some feel that Conserv is actually interested in having a dialogue.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8140733">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8140733" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL - He\'s not interested in dialogue; he just wants to irritate.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8140626">Myth</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8140626" class="dsq-comment-message">thank ya Ms Martin</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8140094">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8140094" class="dsq-comment-message">Good post Jill.  Call them out and hold MSM accountable.  They should cover the real story.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8154380" href="http://luxamericana.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">David_Claiborne</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8154380" class="dsq-comment-message">Excellent post, thank you for that... this whole movement is "astroturf" - the exact opposite of grass roots.  A handful of conservative ideologues are behind this thing as an excuse to push their twisted agenda that has absolutely nothing to do with taxes, and Fox News is no small part of it.  I only hope that when they go to cover the events that they manufactured, they catch a few bits of this kind of racist, paranoid behavior and unintentionally let it air.<br><br>The level of ignorance with these people is insane, they don\'t even understand the point of the original Boston Tea Party, a massive act of vandalism, destroying over $1 million (in today\'s money) worth of product belonging to the world\' largest multinational corporation who was receiving unfair tax breaks from the king.<br><br><a href="http://luxamericana.com/2009/03/19/historical-facts-shame-wingnuts/" rel="nofollow">http://luxamericana.com/2009/03/19/historical-f...</a><br><br>These idiots don\'t even know modern facts, much less history.  But they\'re not concerned with facts, they\'re concerned with revolution... hidden behind the veil of "taxed enough already" and bailout hysteria is treasonous racism and a hatred for democracy (and the republic!).  Glenn Beck\'s 9-12 project claims to be based on solid "principles" and "values", but it\'s all lipstick on a rabid dog.  The list goes on and on....</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8190938">BruceMajors</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8190938" class="dsq-comment-message">No one could actually oppose expanded government power and trillions of debt and indentured servitude for generations of taxpayers could they?<br><br>No one could wonder how many jobs are lost when you steal (tax, inflate away, or borrow) the purchasing power we are currently using to support people, in order to fund your bailouts and cronies?<br><br>Racists must be behind it.  Because no one could believe in limited government and individual liberty could they?<br><br>What a pack of moronic whores you airheaded flaks for the tax predator ruling class are.<br><br>After they get the guiilotine, you slime are next.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8191357">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8191357" class="dsq-comment-message">This is a superb post, Jill. I want to thank you for exposing these mofos for who they are. expose them to the world.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8197578">BoilinBag</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8197578" class="dsq-comment-message">i have been saying this about the GOP during and after the election.  this is a group of white lower middle class, mostly obese, and poorly educated whites.  look at the crowds during the election and this so called protest.....  bunch of scared white folk..... as if the hordes of different races are going to rape and pillage....<br><br>just watch a documentary of the whites who came to plymouth rock, instead of working with the indeginous peoples, they killed them in the name of christ, and if they didnt believe in forsaking 10000 years of living here, they were killed.......... all in the name of the christ figure..............  same shit is going on now............ the GOP sickos would love to kill every different skin colored folk, all in the name of the dark skinned Semite Jewish guy they call the lord.......... and now the white folk in texass want to secede the union.....  history repeats itself, over and over........................ civil war anyone??????</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8201331">theuppitynegro</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8201331" class="dsq-comment-message">I wonder does the "love it or leave it" theory apply to these people....</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8202521">TerrierJack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8202521" class="dsq-comment-message">I just want to say as a baby-boomer that I am so disappointed in my generation of selfish little pigs that found the world we did because our fathers and mothers worked their fingers to the bone create a great country that we promptly decided was good enough to no longer need investment or sacrifice and ran into the damned ground as fast as we could, all the while pissing and moaning about what little those who understood could wrest from our grubby hands as we increasingly fashioned a society with no future for our own children.  I hope we all burn in hell but I\'m sure we\'re too selfish to even imagine the actual retribution we deserve from both our progeny and our ancestors for the chances we\'ve wasted.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8211496">Blackacre</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8211496" class="dsq-comment-message">Great post.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8231131" href="http://btx3.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">BTx</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8231131" class="dsq-comment-message">Kudos to Jill for this one over at my site!<br><br>The "Tea Party" is funded by the same old backroom thugs who brought you much of the scientific racial and uber-conservative movement.<br><br>The "tea party" anti-tax movement is not as spontaneous as its organizers would like you to think. Chris Good writes in The Atlantic, "Here is the organizational landscape of the April 15 tea party movement, in a nutshell: three national-level conservative groups, all with slightly different agendas, are guiding it. All are quick to tell you that the movement is a bottom-up affair and that its grassroots cred is real. They are: FreedomWorks, the conservative action group led by Dick Armey; dontGO, a tech savvy free-market action group that sprung out of last August\'s oil-drilling debate in the House of Representatives; and Americans for Prosperity, an issue advocacy/activist group based on free market principles.<br><br>The principal funder of Americans for Prosperity is one of the Koch Foundations.  Who fund a number of the Anti Civil Rights organizations such as the Federalist Society, the misnomered Institute for Justice - and along with the Bradley, Scaife and Olin Foundations funds much of the conservative, as well as racist "Foundations" and "Think Tanks" in the country - including folks like Jared Taylor\'s New Century Foundation which funds the racist screed American Renaissance so favored by conservative authors, and the Civil Rights Institute, and organization dedicated to school re segregation by another name.<br><br>Racism in America is a fully funded exercise, with something on the order of $40 to $100 million a year being spent to keep the pot boiling.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8235557">tawf</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8235557" class="dsq-comment-message">Not everything is freaking racism. Calling every white person who disagrees with Obama is racist is no different than Bush calling everyone who disagrees with him unpatriotic. There are going to be harsh words for the pres. There are harsh words for any pres Democrat or republican. Lets stop with this every thing is racist BS and just play the freaking game. <br><br>Does anyone have any valid counter argument besides ohh they are racists.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8329880" href="http://btx3.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">BTx</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8329880" class="dsq-comment-message">Tawf - while what you say is true, that doesn\'t ameliorate the fact that this group is funded, and supported by racists.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8330128" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8330128" class="dsq-comment-message">No, not every one who criticizes Obama is a bigot with a racist agenda, but are you willing to call out racism when you see it, or do you just continue to protest too much?<br><br>Why don\'t you stop the bullshit that <i>nothing</i> is racist and just get on with it.?<br><br>Who needs a valid counterargument in the face of the evidence BTx just presented? Why are you  looking for one?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8256799">rmmdandtbd</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8256799" class="dsq-comment-message">Give me a break!  The Tea Party movement has NOTHING to do with whether or not people think Obama was born in the U.S.  It has NOTHING to do with the fact that he\'s a black man.  It has EVERYTHING to do with the fact that working Americans are sick and tired of funding government spending (BOTH parties, btw).  It is a non-partisan movement to restore our Republic and send a message to Washington that they can\'t trample all over the Constitution laid down by our forefathers and upheld until very recently.  Why is that the liberal constituency want to make everything about race??  And you call the conservative constituency racist???  Come on.  Wake up.  YOU\'RE the ones that can\'t let go of the race issue.  I know plenty of white people who voted for Obama.  In fact, if you look at the statistics, the Republicans carried the South (with a more condense black population) than the East, West and North.  Yet, it is those states, with the least black populous that elected Obama.  So get over it, already.  African Americans are much more racist than Caucasian Americans ever thought about being.  Unfortunately, it\'s going to back-fire on you.  People are sick of hearing it. <br><br>You find some liberal-minded white guy to go out and try to make it look like everyone believes that Obama wasn\'t born in the U.S. so that makes all of the conservative people in the nation "nuts" and \'extremists".  That was not even an issue at any tea party events I\'ve attended.  <br><br>Get over yourself and enjoy the fact that, for a short while, you\'ve got a black man in the highest office in the Nation.  That\'s all that matters to the majority of you racist and small-minded liberals.  Never mind that the country is going to hell in a hand-basket.  And, just to set the record straight once again, we\'re sick of Government spending that is out of control.  We, the taxpayers who pay the majority of taxes, are sick of supporting those who do not carry their load, we\'re sick of paying to fund social programs to support those who sit and wait for handouts, we\'re sick of funding businesses whose fiscal irresponsibility has led to their collapse without a bailout.  We are trying to send a message to Congress that We the People have had enough.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8280872">ssgchester</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8280872" class="dsq-comment-message">Odd as it might sound....<br> But when Georige Bush came into office the National Debt was at 3.8 Trillion.<br> By 06, the debt was up to 9 Trillion.<br> Georgie never vetoed any spending bill. In fact, the first thing he ever vetoed was Federal money for stem cell research.<br> Let us also remember the government checks Bush and Co had sent out to the people to help the economy.<br> Odd how these individuals never ever protested any of this spending.  <br>  Remember, cutting taxes and spending like there is no tomorrow made this debt.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8287522">Kev999</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8287522" class="dsq-comment-message">We are at war with Somalia. Maybe you have forgotten, but we have been in Somalia since Clinton was in office. I mean, we don\'t AFRICOM for nothing. Africa is the U.S. government\'s goal. They have resources and our government wants to control them.<br><br><a href="http://www.pulitzercenter.org/openitem.cfm?id=685" rel="nofollow">http://www.pulitzercenter.org/openitem.cfm?id=685</a><br><a href="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/12/us-losing-sec-1.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/12/us-losing...</a><br><a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/somalia.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/wa...</a><br><a href="http://hornofafrica.ssrc.org/de_Waal3/" rel="nofollow">http://hornofafrica.ssrc.org/de_Waal3/</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8123088" href="http://ladyvenoms.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ladyvenoms</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8123088" class="dsq-comment-message">I just love how these folks are willing to march in the streets to protect the tax breaks  for the wealthiest Americans because they don\'t want the government "interfering". And yet, they have no problem telling us who we can marry and when to have a baby.<br><br>*smh*</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8124089" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8124089" href="http://soulless.devmedio.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">sabalo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8124089" class="dsq-comment-message">There are those of us who believe in both economic AND social freedom. I have a problem with the government punishing success AND I have a problem with the government legislating morality.<br><br>Why must it always be about Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8124230" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8124230">Booky</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8124230" class="dsq-comment-message">The government isn\'t "punishing success".  The government is asking the successful to pay their fair share.  Of whom much is given much is required.  Remember?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8124442" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8124442" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8124442" href="http://soulless.devmedio.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">sabalo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8124442" class="dsq-comment-message">I think you and I have a different definition of "fair." <br><br>Truly "fair" taxation would be shared equally. Budget / # of People = Your Share.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8124597">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8124597" class="dsq-comment-message">So you must realize that a majority of corporations do NOT pay taxes at all in the US....and many more set up off-shore accounts in tax shelters, including many military contractors, who have laughed their way to the bank on the taxpayer\'s dime.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8125156" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8125156" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8125156" class="dsq-comment-message">And I seriously doubt the \'average American\' has any clue about this. <br><br>And the only reason you and I know about it because we informed political geeks.<br><br>A woman here has a daughter who is an officer on the U.S.S. Boxer; it\'s in the Sea of Aden "fighting pirates."  The woman didn\'t know there were still pirates.  Pirates to her?  Johnny Depp - Capt. Sparrow - and of course, there\'s Long-John Silver.<br><br>Now anyone who is avid about reading the news from all parts of the world or just keeping up would know that.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8296911" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8296911" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8296911" href="http://soulless.devmedio.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">sabalo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8296911" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8296911" class="dsq-comment-message">Corporations never have, and never will, pay tax. Any tax on business is passed on to the consumer, which is why taxing business is absolutely pointless.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8137872" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8137872">Booky</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8137872" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8137872" class="dsq-comment-message">sabalo, are you saying rich and poor should pay the same?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8138780" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8138780" href="http://herecomethatgirl.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">No1KState</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8138780" class="dsq-comment-message">it\'s only FAIR that those who have more pay more. As it:<br>fair1   /fɛər/  Show Spelled Pronunciation [fair]  Show IPA adjective, -er, -est, adverb, -er, -est, noun, verb <br>–adjective 1. free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice: a fair decision; a fair judge <br><br>fair 1  Being in accordance with relative merit or significance: She wanted to receive her fair share of the proceeds<br><br>Correct me if I\'m wrong, sabalo, but you\'re not a christian conservative?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8296877" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8296877" href="http://soulless.devmedio.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">sabalo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8296877" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8296877" class="dsq-comment-message">No, I am not a Christian conservative, nor am I a conservative at all.  I think the closest you\'ll get to where I stand is minarchist... the maximum social and economic freedom possible while still maintaining an individually productive society. <br><br>Religion = Effective Atheist.<br>Pol = Minarchistish, if anything.<br><br>I lump the Republicans and the Democrats in the same "lip service to ideals while we rape the people of this country" category, myself.<br><br>Free from bias... there an interesting point. It is biased to force someone to a higher percentage of their income simply because they make more. If were were talking straight percentages, perhaps the argument for no bias could be made.<br><br>Alternately, something like the Fair Tax cold be implemented, in which everyone gets their essentials tax free and all purchases are taxed. Say the rate is 20% You buy a car for $10,000, you pay your percent of tax on it ($2000). Chip Silverspoon buys his Mercedes for $50,000, he ends up paying $10,000 in tax. Not perfect, but it meets the criteria we\'re both looking for.<br><br>a) Poorer people pay less.<br>b) Richer people pay more.<br>c) One always has the choice to participate (buy) or not.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8124561" href="http://soulless.devmedio.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">sabalo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8124561" class="dsq-comment-message">Define fair. If you have $200 and I have $10, would it be fair of me to take enough of your money to equalize our wallets? Obviously, you\'re more successful... so I\'m just asking you to pay your "fair share."<br><br>To suggest that successful people "owe" more to society is ridiculous. They weren\'t "given" success.<br><br>As someone who has risen from poverty to success, I can assure you... no one was "giving" me anything.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8124750">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8124750" class="dsq-comment-message">Did you attend public schools, ride on paved roads.....was there ever a time when anyone in your family needed WIC, food stamps, public assistance, SSI....have you ever had to be the your own policeman, firefighter or used any public funded service. Did you receive a Pell grant or other aid for college.<br><br>Are you a one-man community who installed your own fiber-optic lines for internet , phone lines, created your own water lines and sanitize your own water....I could go on and on.<br><br>Do you at all use the infrastructure that we use to run our communities?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8124854" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8124854" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8124854" class="dsq-comment-message">\'They\' don\'t get that, Monie.  People here apparently cannot figure out why the roads are falling apart when year after year, the Republican legislature legislates where funding goes for infrastructure, and refuses to give money for road repair.  THEN cry incessantly about the condition of the fucking roads.<br><br>It\'s A-OK that I"m paying taxes for \'being successful\' but mister? sabalo doesn\'t.  I\'ll drive on paved roads, use running water - chlorinated at that; work an 8-hour day, enjoy the benefits of television regardless of the mode of transport, etc., but don\'t want to pay taxes for "being successful."</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8138432" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8138432" href="http://herecomethatgirl.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">No1KState</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8138432" class="dsq-comment-message">Exactly! If you don\'t wanna be "punished for being successful" then be broke!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8296325" href="http://soulless.devmedio.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">sabalo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8296325" class="dsq-comment-message">Let\'s see...<br><br>Roads are covered Constitutionally. We\'re okay there unless we want to start talking philosophy.<br><br>Running water does not require government intervention; there are plenty of people with wells that do just fine. In a city, a private industry could easily handle the load of water distribution.<br><br>As hard as it is to believe, the 8 hour day is not mandatory, nor are all jobs subject to OT. <br><br>The FCC assigns airwaves... and private industry provides the programming. We could argue the FCC\'s proper role, but I suspect that I\'d be more progressive than you are when it comes to that.<br><br>And again, accused of being Republican. Democrats and Republicans are predictable, if tiresome.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8297682" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8297682" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8297682" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Running water does not require government intervention; there are plenty of people with wells that do just fine. In a city, a private industry could easily handle the load of water distribution.</i><br><br>::<br><br>Well, I live in a small town, and without "government intervention" in the form of enforcing safety standards on potable water that comes from a well, a lot of public health hazards would ensue. <br><br>A private industry, like a restaurant or a dental clinic, that uses well water needs to be inspected. I\'m not interested in people getting sick and dying before a business goes under because it has contaminated the population with something from its well.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8298494" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8298494" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8298494" class="dsq-comment-message">You\'re tiresome .... this isn\'t about ReThugs vs the Democrats. <br><br>Bullshit on a "private industry" easily handling .....  what total bullshit!<br><br>No, running water does not require gov\'t intervention; it\'s not about INTERVENTION,  It\'s about providing a source of "clean" water.  Regardless of where the water comes, people don\'t want to have a contamiated source of water.   We had a well when growing up on our farm; still have it at my parent\'s place.  Ignorance really is blissful, isn\'t it Sabalo?  <br><br>Never said the 8-hour day is mandatory.  It is a beneft brought to us by the unions and all those who came before and fought for the right to not be taken advantage of.  There ARE laws governing pay regarding hours worked, etc. <br><br>This was the best - the FCC - what is that?  The Federal Communications Commission...... ah, such is life.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8140424" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8140424">isonprize</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8140424" class="dsq-comment-message">Drove across a bridge?   Flew in an airplane?   Flushed a toilet? <br><br>STOPPED AT A RED LIGHT?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8137120">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8137120" class="dsq-comment-message">Let\'s cut to the chase:<br><br>The WHITE teabaggers DO NOT WANT "their" money going to the niggas.<br><br>Period.<br><br>Hate to be blunt, but there it is.  Nobody lifted a cup of Earl Grey or Twinings when Bush ran up the GubMent Charge Card left and right...nobody had a damn thing to say about spending when he was spending BILLIONS of dollars per MONTH in taxpayer money in Iraq and Afghanistan while neglecting bridges and levees and people right here in the USA.<br><br>None of these teabaggers had a half note to say.  Only when Obama gets in there and says "Um, why are we charging Coach bags and Manolos when the light bill is due" is everyone protesting and waving bags of tea.<br><br>Bush wiped his ass on the Constitution since 2001, and nobody gave a crap about the Constitution but only NOW when Obama\'s in there are people paying attention to the Constitution.  All of a sudden now Thomas Paine is in style.<br><br>Get out of here with that.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8137313">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8137313" class="dsq-comment-message">Please dont defame Thomas Paine.Here is what he had to say:<br>Separate an individual from society, and give him an island or a continent to possess, and he cannot acquire personal property. He cannot be rich. So inseparably are the means connected with the end, in all cases, that where the former do not exist the latter cannot be obtained. All accumulation, therefore, of personal property, beyond what a man\'s own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes on every principle of justice, of gratitude, and of civilization, a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came.<br>This is putting the matter on a general principle, and perhaps it is best to do so; for if we examine the case minutely it will be found that the accumulation of personal property is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it; the consequence of which is that the working hand perishes in old age, and the employer abounds in affluence.<br>It is, perhaps, impossible to proportion exactly the price of labor to the profits it produces; and it will also be said, as an apology for the injustice, that were a workman to receive an increase of wages daily he would not save it against old age, nor be much better for it in the interim. Make, then, society the treasurer to guard it for him in a common fund; for it is no reason that, because he might not make a good use of it for himself, another should take it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8148329">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8148329" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m not defaming Thomas Paine, I would say most of the waving Lipton in the air like they just don\'t care don\'t even know two cents worth of oolong about Thomas Paine...or anything else.  They\'re just protesting the fact that OBAMA is in the White House and they cant\' have that.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8151088">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8151088" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8151088" class="dsq-comment-message">"They\'re just protesting the fact that OBAMA is in the White House and they cant\' have that."<br><br>That is an understatement.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8153673">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8153673" class="dsq-comment-message"><I>...I would say most of the waving Lipton in the air like they just don\'t care don\'t even know two cents worth of oolong about Thomas Paine...</I><br><br>Town, you keep me laughing....all I see visually in my head is a bunch of white people with   with teabags clutched in their hands and no rhythm rocking side to side....It just sounds like an SNL skit<br><br>My oldest son is looking at me, while I\'m sitting at  the computer laughing, thinking his Mom has lost it.....</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8138075">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8138075" class="dsq-comment-message">Straight....................no chaser</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8139356">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8139356" class="dsq-comment-message">Double shot.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8138101">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8138101" class="dsq-comment-message">OK!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8138214" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8138214" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8138214" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8138214" class="dsq-comment-message">Whoa!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8140392">isonprize</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8140392" class="dsq-comment-message">Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding!!<br>THE.TRUTH. <br><br>DAMN.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8296161" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8296161" href="http://soulless.devmedio.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">sabalo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8296161" class="dsq-comment-message">Just because YOU weren\'t paying attention at the time, doesn\'t mean that there were plenty of us out here protesting the war, the tax hikes, and the unsustainable burden of debt that the government, R -and- D, have been loading onto our backs.<br><br>As hard as it is to grasp, some of us don\'t play in the Republican versus Democrat game.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8137811" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8137811" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8137811">Booky</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8137811" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8137811" class="dsq-comment-message">No one is trying to take your money to equalize anybody\'s wallet, and I didn\'t say sucessful people "owed more to society" I said they should pay their fair share and not put the burden on the middle class.  <br>As someone who has risen from poverty to success I\'m sure you didn\'t rise all by yourself, and you should be thankful not greedy.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8138372">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8138372" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8138372" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8138372" href="http://herecomethatgirl.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">No1KState</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8138372" class="dsq-comment-message">Raising the tax rate back to the rate under clinton is "punishing" success? Please! That\'s crock.<br><br>Like Booky said, no one\'s suggesting "equalizing" our wallets.<br><br>Those who do well pay more because they can afford to. That way we can afford to fix our infrastructure and education system among other things. That way, we can actually have "equal opportunity" if not equal outcomes.<br><br>so it\'s not pushing success, its about sharing it<br><br>booky\'s right: be thankful, not greedy</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8296099" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8296099" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8296099" href="http://soulless.devmedio.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">sabalo</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8296099" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8296099" class="dsq-comment-message">So it\'s about taking someone else\'s resources to accomplish what you\'d like to accomplish with those resources?<br><br>Here\'s a thought... why not just... you know... ask them to contribute?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8320209">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8320209" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8320209" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8320209" href="http://herecomethatgirl.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">No1KState</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8320209" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8320209" class="dsq-comment-message">Ask them? What? We\'re talking about paying taxes, right? Why do I have to ask someone to "contribute? You pay more because you can afford to. Period.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8125769">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8125769" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8125769" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8125769">RonnieB</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8125769" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8125769" class="dsq-comment-message">Please.  The government doesn\'t "punish success" any more than a homeowner\'s association "punishes" someone for owning a home.  <br><br>Please peddle that phrase to the simple-minded trogs who are likely to buy it.   And as difficult as it is to believe, you\'ve got no buyers here.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8296050">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8296050" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8296050" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8296050" href="http://soulless.devmedio.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">sabalo</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8296050" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8296050" class="dsq-comment-message">Perhaps you need to rethink your example. A homeowner\'s association applies its fees equally across the members. They don\'t charge a premium simply because your house is worth more.<br><br>If the tax system applied its fees equally, either via a flat percentage (somewhat better than the current state of affairs) or a flat rate (unsustainable but absolutely fair) perhaps your argument would have merit.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8126470">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8126470" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8126470" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8126470">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8126470" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8126470" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh look.........Conserv done went and got him a friend!! LOL<br><br>YOU people are sooooooo transparent.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 </ul>\
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