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I'm always looking through various media for idea on raising, uplifting, empowering etc. my daughter. Don't recall if you've been part of the various bruhahas here with Lisa/Blackwomenblowthetrumpet or not, irrelevant. Just thinking that this article was along those lines of reclaiming yourself, actualization etc. Does this make sense? Hope so. Thanks again", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_14:25:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "TyrenM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12384006, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12382728": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wow.<br><br><i>Barbara Walters' Spy Cam at Jackson Memorial<br><br>Posted Jul 8th 2009 1:05PM by TMZ Staff<br><br>If everyone were to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge, Barbara Walters would too.<br><br>During last night's \"20/20\" Michael Jackson special, Walters showcased footage shot by an ABC producer sitting next to her at the memorial. The video captures Katherine Jackson and Michael's kids two rows in front of Barbara watching the service -- despite the fact that tickets to the event clearly state \"no camera/video/recording.\"<br><br>Barbara Walters' Spy Cam at Jackson Memorial Click to view!An ABC source tells us Barbara's producer decided to shoot video because \"once inside the Staples Center it was quite obvious to our producer that plenty of people were shooting video.\"<br><br>Calls to AEG (which threw the event) were not returned.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2009/07/08/barbara-walters-spy-cam-at-jackson-memorial/%3C/i\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.tmz.com/2009/07/08/barbara-walters-s...</a>&gt;</i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_11:02:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12383754": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "no respect what so ever<br>anything to get a damn story<br>she should have just kept her old azz at the memorial service<br>she ain't got long until hers comes", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_11:30:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "danadevin74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12382728, "depth": 1, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12388876": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Americans = White<br><br> Other Species = Minority<br><br> and i thought all us Humans were one species<br>see if it wasn't for Fox  we wouldn't know these things", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_13:37:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "danadevin74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12387054, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12375053": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well, there are tragedies in MJ's life w/o all the accusations. I'm not so sure that BO was referring to the charges. To me, it's open-ended. And, knowing how careful and cautious BO is, it just may include the abusive childhood and press hounding that he faced.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_08:58:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "goldenstar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12373856, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12384270": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "GIMME MY MUTHAPHUCKING ICE TEA, BIOTCH!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_11:43:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12383867, "depth": 3, "points": 6, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12385295": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "EWWWWW!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_12:11:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12382631, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12384274": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Except when she gets hers, only ABC will care.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_11:43:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Shazza", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12383754, "depth": 2, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12374039": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Isn't the Federal Reserve Bank a private entity?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_08:05:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12374191": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Gotta give it to Earl. He's on point with this one. I hope Bob Herbert reads it. <br><br>It's interesting that when you ask people why they think MJ is a child molester, they can never give specifics. It's always some bullshyte generalization of court details like Herbert saying, <i>\"One case of alleged pedophilia against Jackson, the details of which would make your hair stand on end...\"</i>. <br><br>Instead of asking why MJ settled, they need to ask that question of the parents who accused him of molesting their children.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_08:13:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12373856, "depth": 1, "points": 10, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12384858": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "is this old news?<br><br>    On Wednesday, Shay\u2014a 38-year-old Army veteran, mother, and event planner from Louisiana who has been endorsed by her governor, Bobby Jindal\u2014was holding court on her Facebook page, initiating a political conversation by posting that \u201cWalMart just signed a death warrant\u201d by \u201cendorsing Obama\u2019s healthcare plan.\u201d At 1:52, a friend named listed as Eric S. Piker, but whose personal page says his actual name is Eric Pike, wrote \u201cIt\u2019s the government making us commies... can\u2019t even smoke in my damn car... whats next they going to issue toilet paper once a month... tell us how to wipe our asses...\u201d<br><br>    Two minutes later, Piker posted again saying \u201cObama Bin Lauden [sic] is the new terrorist... Muslim is on there side [sic]... need to take this country back from all of these mad coons... and illegals.\u201d<br><br>    Eight minutes after that, at 2:02, Shay weighed in on Piker\u2019s comments: \u201cYou tell em Eric! lol.\u201d<br><br><a href=\"http://www.tdbimg.com/files/2009/07/05/img-article---avlon-audra-shay-facebook-03_233200859004.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.tdbimg.com/files/2009/07/05/img-arti...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_11:59:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "TAG60", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12381217": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I could see a vote on a Michael Jackson tribute becoming a hot potato or southern legislators in particular.  even though many of their constitutents R MJ fans.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_10:19:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "ruthdfw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12380640, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12382244": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i><br>Invokes Bob Herbert\u2019s NT Times article to back up his point.</i><br><br>Not surprised. This is what <i>they</i> do: Use a black person's comment(s) to justify their racist rants, as if that black person is the authority of all things black.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_10:49:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12381943, "depth": 1, "points": 8, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12385777": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yu'll understand that regardless the behavior - the racism and misogyny go hand-in-hand.<br><br>Of course that 'broadcasting' was intentional.  Someone breaking into their frequency.  I don't know, Kenneth, whaddya think?  Shall we USE that fucking excuse no matter how lame it sounds?<br><br>.<br>.<br><br>Kenneth says, 'yes.'", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_12:23:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "IWordsmith", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12384498, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12388920": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't recall what has happened the last few times when PBO has left the country but it seems that the media goes into hyper drive with domestic issues when he does. And then when he's at home, the media whips up foreign policy problems. The frenzy just feels a little manufactured to me. <br><br>This could very well be a coincidence but recently all the reporting was that Obama is bailing on the public option and then they ask him and he states otherwise and then people (except for Ed-go Ed!!) move on.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_13:38:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "LisaM5432", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12376636": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "EXACTLY! I always said if it were MY child, there'd be no amount of money I'd settle for. Not to mention why a civil suit? Why not a criminal charge?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_09:48:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "Shazza", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12374191, "depth": 2, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12383919": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "He's white they are weak-willed still seeking a white man's approval.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_11:34:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12382411, "depth": 4, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12388417": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Obama gets more animated about foreign policy than he does about economic policy. I saw this during the primaries. If you compared his proposed plan in dealing with the economic crisis to that of HRC and John Edwards, one would have noticed that Obama's was the least ambitious. Both Hillary and Edwards proposed a foreclosure moratorium for one year and a freeze  on interest rates. If Obama had done this at the beginning of his Presidency then the foreclosure crisis would have been abated and would have contributed to the  increase in the unemployment numbers.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_13:26:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Micheline", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12387178, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12388427": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "perxactly.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_13:26:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12385614, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12388940": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "In other words - she'll just DO IT.  No need to go thru all the red tape, then?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_13:39:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "IWordsmith", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12383680, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12376141": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "OK I have to admit I thought about a tattoo for a while. Went to a place with my BFF (who has like 5) but once confronted with the selection, there was nothing I could commit to PERMANENTLY marking onto my body. However, I think this is pretty cool-looking:<br><a href=\"http://www.mediatakeout.com/2009/33992-another_michael_jackson_tat_this_time_its_willie_from_day_26.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.mediatakeout.com/2009/33992-another_...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_09:33:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "Shazza", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12381197": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Why not the Q Dogs?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_10:18:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12381115, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12394066": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Pat BuKKKlanan spews this drivel on MSNBC everytime the word \"racism' is mentioned.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_14:04:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12389049, "depth": 7, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12382293": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Preach.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_10:50:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12376464, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12382807": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_11:04:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12382631, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12388442": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It is a standard post, yes. I've seen it on many a forum too...including this one:<br><br>\"More of the damn same. Drop out of high school. Have kids you can't afford. Call each other nigga. Rob a liquor store. Go to jail. Get out and go back to to selling drugs. And then have the nerve to ask the President to do something for you. How about doing something for yourself? Too many blacks in America have a welfare mentality. Those stories have happened to people across America no matter the color. Stop looking for a handout.\"<br><br>TAG60's quote adds the \"Anti-black racism won't go away until blacks stop complaining about it\" meme.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_13:26:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Plantsmantx", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12387169, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12388457": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Um...that's why he's on TV...'cause he's a CLOWN", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_13:27:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12382515, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12395627": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't think he hurt any kids either Town. But, as Ice Cube said \"You musta split your wig, to let mJ babysit your kids. They need to throw the momma in jail. That n old as hell.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_14:39:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "TyrenM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12381136, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12410988": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "See, THIS SHYT is why I have to stay on the CBC's ass!  Sheila Jackson-Lee, one of the WORST members of the CBC, can never be found for meaningful shyt - but she can take her wanna-be diva ass and expend what lil' capital the CBC has on shyt like this.<br><br>I love Mike, and will miss him dearly, but the reality is, she could be beating down for universal health care, fix ish still left by Katrina, and help audit the damned Federal Reserve...but NOOOOOOOOOOO, she wastes time on resolutions.<br><br>SMH....", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_18:09:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12380640, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12399726": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You're accusing PBO of \"short-term inaction?\"  You're just being euphemistic, right?  You're really saying that the President is \"slacking\" in a nice, corporate way.<br><br>Short-term inaction = slackin = slowful = Sleep'N'Eat...what an interesting way to describe an African-American male. <br><br>As far as i'm concerned, Barack Obama is the Hardest-Working Man(Person) in American Politics that i've ever seen.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_15:36:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Webb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12396236, "depth": 2, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12388976": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This was posted on the Philly paper website commenting on the pool story:<br>if you want people opinins of blacks to change. then you should change how you behave. get and education and take respocibility for your actions if you want people opinins of blacks to change. then you should change how you behave. get and education and take respocibility for your actions <br><br>I'm sure ANY of those kids could spell better than this douchebag.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_13:40:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Shazza", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12388833, "depth": 6, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12383867": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "wellz naw sepia, you's know mister bill need ta tell us'n who's ta like, who's ta not like, who's bad, who's guud, cuz we's cant be trussed wit no stuff like dat. we's dont know no betta. mister bill knows whuts guud fo us.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_11:33:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12382244, "depth": 2, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12387178": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Anyone who has been part of the J&J family for more than 6 months knows that in November I effectively proclaimed myself the last of the Obamicans in that I would not criticize him--until there was real reason.  I've refused to join the chorus of \"oh know he didn't\" everytime he makes a decision that doesn't fully comport with our pro-Black or \"progressive\" ideals.  All that said, listening to Colin Powell's recent comments expressing concern about the President's seeming lack of focus on the economy and now Joe Klein expressing similar concerns, I have to admit the tape on mouth is starting to lose its adhesive.  Both of these men admire the President and still support him, even believe he can be one of the greatest presidents, if not the greatest, so please save the criticism that they are out to get him.  They are giving him damn good advice that he would be smart to listen to.<br><br>It's not that I've lost faith in the President.  I  HAVE  NOT!!!  But he's not giving me reason to trust he has an effective plan in place to deal with this economic crisis.  Point blank, he doesn't look like he's on his grind.  He's clearly trying to distract himself from the economy by immersing himself in foreign affairs when he doesn't have to.  Secretary Clinton and his foreign policy team are more than capable.  I still believe that most Americans are willing to give the President time to get us out of this mess, that he didn't create, but we need to see him with his sleeves rolled-up and head in the books so-to-speak.  As the kids like to say, where's the hustle?<br><br>This trip abroad could not have come at a worse time, on the heals of a worse than expected jobs report and Vice President Biden not being able to keep his fuckin' mouth shut (I'm taking bets he won't be on the ticket in 2012).  This should be his last trip of the year.  His focus should be exclusively on domestic matters.  <br><br>He's allowed the GOP to gain real traction on deficit spending criticism, and he's losing control of the health care debate.  He's allowed Rahm and Biden, two creatures of Congress, to persuade him to give Congress too much control of his signature policies.  It's time for the President to take control of this shit!  <br><br>Joe Klein sums it up best...<br><br>\"Barack Obama has been President for six months now, and we are beginning to learn a few things about how he does business. The most surprising of these is that he is a vehement traditionalist, a small-c conservative, despite his opponents' best efforts to paint him as a radical. In foreign policy, this has meant a return to traditional diplomatic devices \u2014 treaties, alliances, negotiation, a global strategic vision \u2014 after the ad hoc, go-it-alone bellicosity of his predecessor. No less a high priest than Henry Kissinger recently called Obama a \"chess player,\" which is high praise in the world of diplomacy. In domestic policy, however, it has meant an undue respect for the institution of Congress, a sclerotic body badly in need of creative leadership. This is leading Obama into trouble.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_12:57:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "NMP1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12374101": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is horrible.  Tasering needs to be ban.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/08/new-mexico-teen-girl-tase_n_228280.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/08/new-me...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_08:08:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12374464": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Bill Clinton on the GOP hypocrisy about healthcare costs:<br><br>Taking the stage to a roaring applause, Clinton said that he found current Republican complaints about Obama's economic policies, specifically the stimulus package, to be \"fastidious\" and \"hilarious.\"<br><br>\"The members of the other party say they are not for the stimulus, or health care reform, or fighting climate change because it costs money and they really would hate to put that debt on our grandchildren,\" he said. \"In the last eight years I saw the surplus I left, which would have taken you out of debt, even with the 2001 recession, by 2013... I saw it blown away and the debt doubled. And in the 12 years before I became president they quadrupled the debt.\"<br><br>\"These same people,\" he added, \"it didn't bother them a bit to put a burden on our grandchildren to pay for a millionaire's tax cut. But if we are helping some poor person go to work, or helping some young person go to college, that is unacceptable... I'm not saying we don't have to worry about the debt. We do. It is a problem. But it is a problem that will have to be addressed after the economy grows again and we start generating revenues.\"<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/08/bill-clinton-obama-will-s_n_228287.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/08/bill-clinton-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_08:28:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12408963": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I was scratching my head saying the same thing when I was reading this. I just don't get it!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_17:16:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "facebook-596212145", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12382411, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12394117": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Go Sepia!<br><br>Lay it down!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_14:05:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12382411, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12389005": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thank god for Town...", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_13:40:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "IWordsmith", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12382199, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12376208": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The biggest tragedy of MJ's life is he never <em><strong>had</strong></em> a childhood.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_09:36:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "eclecticbrotha", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12375053, "depth": 2, "points": 13, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12381339": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think perhaps more than anything those statements showed how out of touch he was with the increasing sexualization of our society and children.<br><br>Also I hear someone say that he thought of himself as Peter Pan figure.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_10:23:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "ruthdfw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12376460, "depth": 3, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12380954": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's right, I'm dancing in my chair.  Got one hand in the air whilst I type with the other (LOL).<br><br>You're really spoiling us.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_10:10:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12373819, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12395687": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "it's a different time; folks weren't watching livestreams  or TIVOing in '97. no doubt millions more watched it.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_14:41:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "moja31", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12389830, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12385962": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "one of the many pearls of wisdom comment on the article.<br><br><br>JMAN 2 hours ago wrote:<br><br>Why don't the black people quit looking for special treatment, quit having kids that you have no intention of fathering and quit acting so ghetto, quit being racist against all other races but your own. Then maybe we can move to the next step of ending racism. You don't hear all the other races whinning about racism all the time. Even though there seems to be more racist blacks then whites or any other skin color. I can't tell you how many times I have heard white men reffered to as pecker woods or white boys but we just laugh it off and realize your ignorance. We don't run to the media and other outlets saying blacks are racist against whites. I believe reverse racism is the new racism. How many whites do you see creating white only TV stations, unions, affirmative action, ect...Obama is proof that whites are no longer a racist race. More white people voted for him then black people. The only person you can change is yourself.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_12:27:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "TAG60", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 12, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12384498, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12394155": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You do, of course, realize the G8 part of the trip was scheduled and is necessary for PORUS to attend.  Also the trip to Russia included signing an historic agreement to reduce the number of nuclear weapons.  I eceived a e-mail form OFA yesterday to press my congressman and Senator for health care reform with a \"robust public option.\"  So he has not turned it over to Biden.  Have you done your aprt by calling your Senators?  I believe your premise is wrong and Joe Lein is a writer, with no elected office on his resume.  He may not know waht he is talking about.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_14:06:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nardwilly", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12387178, "depth": 1, "points": 7, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12374703": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "thanks", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_08:42:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12373819, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12389042": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'd settle for nothing less than, at <br>minimum, putting a bullet in someone's ass.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_13:41:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12376636, "depth": 3, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12411060": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "you mean, \"Screamin' A\" Smith, don't you?<br><br>Any man dating a woman known as \"Superhead\" has long lost my respect as a journalist or anything else.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_18:11:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12382515, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12383925": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "yes<br>and that first black president stuff really irked me<br>they didn't give him that title because of anything positive", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_11:34:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "danadevin74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12382411, "depth": 4, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12380855": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Smith has always been a joke going back to his days at the Inky.  But he's a know-it-all loudmouth, which is the only qualification you need these days to be a pundit.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_10:07:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12376035, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12389049": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And sometimes they get creative and add something like \"listen to Bill Cosby!\"...(but what they really mean by that is listen to Heathcliff Huxtable because you know, they like him)...or they'll throw in a dig at Al, Jesse or Farrakhan..or maybe all three.<br><br>There must be a form file somewhere and they just copy and paste this stuff.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_13:42:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12388442, "depth": 6, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12382411": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I see Bill Clinton as a white privileged asshole who used black folks for 8+ years, who doesn't deserve the time of day from black folks. After the crap he pulled last year, I don't know why any black organization would want to honor him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_10:53:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12382201, "depth": 3, "points": 15, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12400326": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "BWA HA HA HA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_15:50:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12393948, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12380875": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Racism, discrimination widespread inside HFD?<br>07:54 AM CDT on Thursday, July 9, 2009<br>Jeff McShan and Jeremy Desel / 11 News - 4 Raw Videos <br><br>HOUSTON -- Just one day after racist and sexist graffiti was found written outside the women's quarters at Fire Station 54, an emotional Fire Chief Phil Boriskie addressed another racist incident. <br><br>It happened just before 7 a.m. Wednesday. <br><br>\u201cI am mad as hell,\u201d said Chief Boriskie. \u201cThe good men and women of the Houston Fire Department don\u2019t deserve this.\u201d <br><br>The racist message, which included the \"n\" word, was broadcast over the firefighters\u2019 radio system and lasted seven to eight seconds. <br><br>HFD strongly believes someone from the outside is responsible. They think someone hacked into their frequency, <br><br>\u201cWe have referred this to the OIG for a complete investigation,\u201d Fire Chief Boriskie said. <br><br>Whether the message originated from the outside or not, several women, who either currently work for the fire department or have since retired, say they are not surprised by the recent incidents. <br><br>\u201cI mean, let\u2019s be real. I didn\u2019t come in with a blind eye to where I was working. I am at a place where it is a majority of white males,\u201d said veteran female firefighter Vantrece Williams. <br><br>Williams says she's been harassed, but nothing was ever done about it. Mainly because she says many firefighters won\u2019t speak out when they witness something bad taking place. <br><br>\u201cIf we want to continue being on TV with the negative images, then we just continue to be quiet,\u201d said Williams. <br><br>11 News heard allegations of women firefighters being groped by their male co-workers, and an allegation of a male firefighter masturbating over a female co-worker while she was trying to sleep in her bed. <br><br>\u201cYou see it. It gets to the point, because nothing happens, that you have to pick your battles,\u201d said Williams.<br><br><br><a href=\"http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou090708_mp_racism-inside-hfd.20b25d62.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou0907...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_10:08:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 17, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12396236": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "NMP, I'm one who believes that short-term inaction can sometimes have long-term consequences.  I am one who has long said that President Obama--my political hero--arrived at the White House and began to conduct Washington's business.  But I hired him to arrive at the White House and <i>handle that bizniss!</i><br><br>Consumers, middle-class families, and small businesses are sliding into the abyss.  But Wall Street and Madison Ave. needed bail outs (so that they can quickly return to corruption as usual) and they got them.    Public transit and infrastructure crumble by the day.  And a second tidal wave of foreclosures--this time it's the folks with *good* credit--is on its way.  <br><br>From time to time, the President is going to have add a little pimp to his game.  And instead of sitting politely at the chess table, turn that muthafka over and put a hurtin' on all the cheaters.<br><br>There are times when we'll need our President to be a gentleman AND a gangsta.  Because sometimes, short-term inaction has long-term consequences.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_14:54:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "RonnieB", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12387178, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12395727": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm willing to be that more than that actually watched, you also have to remember there were some people listening on the radio, and then all of the people gathered in their local town squares watching.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_14:42:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12389830, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12378335": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If News Corp. is doing this oversees, there's no telling what they're doing in the U.S.!<br><br><i>Inquiry Begun on Hacking Cases at Murdoch Papers<br><br>By JOHN F. BURNS and ALAN COWELL<br>Published: July 9, 2009<br><br>LONDON \u2014 Britain\u2019s most senior police officer said Thursday he had ordered a preliminary inquiry into reports by The Guardian newspaper that Rupert Murdoch\u2019s British newspaper subsidiary paid about $1.6 million to settle court cases involving allegations that its reporters worked with private investigators to hack into the cellphone messages of numerous public figures.<br><br>Among those whose cellphones were tapped or hacked into were the former deputy prime minister and at least one other cabinet minister, The Guardian reported.<br><br>The Guardian\u2019s report was denied by Mr. Murdoch, whose News Corporation owns the Fox Broadcasting Company in the United States as well as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post. Bloomberg News quoted Mr. Murdoch as saying on Wednesday that he was not aware of any payments made to settle legal cases in which the company\u2019s reporters in Britain might have been involved in criminal activity.<br><br>\u201cIf that had happened, I would know about it,\u201d he said.<br><br>On Thursday, Sir Paul Stephenson, the head of Scotland Yard, said he had assigned an assistant commissioner, John Yates, to \u201cestablish the facts\u201d about the case \u201cand look into the detail,\u201d according to the Press Association news agency, quoting Sky News, which is also part of Mr. Murdoch\u2019s media empire.<br><br>\u201cI think we have got a track record of doing exactly what we are supposed to do,\u201d Mr. Stephenson was quoted as saying. \u201cIf we need to investigate, we will investigate. We will do the right thing and do what we have to do to investigate crime wherever it exists.\u201d<br><br>Mr. Yates is a senior officer named in April as the head of counterterrorism at Scotland Yard. He achieved prominence earlier when he conducted a lengthy, but inconclusive, inquiry into allegations that the ruling Labor party traded honors for political donations.<br><br>The Guardian report could not be independently verified. The newspaper cited an unnamed \u201csenior source\u201d at Scotland Yard as saying that staff members at News International, the Murdoch subsidiary that owns four major newspapers in Britain, including The Times of London, The Sunday Times and two tabloids, The News of the World and The Sun, had used private investigators to hack into \u201cthousands\u201d of cellphones to obtain confidential personal data, including tax records, social security files, bank statements and itemized telephone bills. It cited another source \u201cwith knowledge of the police findings\u201d as saying that the investigators had tapped \u201ctwo or three thousand\u201d cellphones.<br><br>The Guardian article, citing those sources, said that the targets of the hacking included John Prescott, who was deputy to former Prime Minister Tony Blair, and a cabinet member, Tessa Jowell, as well as lawmakers from all three of Britain\u2019s major political parties. Accessing stored phone messages covertly is illegal in Britain, except for the police or intelligence agencies acting with a warrant.<br><br>\u201cI find it staggering that there could be a list known to the police of people who had their phone tapped,\u201d said Mr. Prescott on Thursday. \u201cI\u2019m named as one of them. For such a criminal act not to be reported to me, and for action not to be taken against the people who have done it, reflects very badly on the police and I want to know their answer.\u201d<br><br>The Guardian said Scotland Yard files also showed that the newspapers had used private investigators to approach government agencies, banks, phone companies and other agencies that, the paper said, were conned into handing over confidential information on politicians, actors, athletes, musicians and television presenters, all of whom are named in the files. The Guardian said the files named 31 reporters working for The News of the World and The Sun in connection with the operation.<br><br>In the past few months, Britain has been rocked by scandals related to the use of expense accounts by members of Parliament, but The Guardian did not explain how or if the information it obtained was used, or if it had any relation to the scandals.<br><br>The Guardian article caused an immediate uproar, with demands from politicians and others for the government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown to order a police investigation and to explain why earlier police inquiries had not resulted in any action against the Murdoch-owned papers.<br><br>Simon Hughes, a prominent lawmaker for the Liberal Democrats, an opposition party, who was among those named by the paper as having had their cellphone messages tapped, said that if The Guardian\u2019s story was accurate, those responsible should be \u201cseverely punished.\u201d He told the BBC that The Guardian\u2019s revelations amounted to \u201ca very big warning bell\u201d of the damage that could be done by exploiting the possibilities of \u201cthe new data-centered age.\u201d<br><br>The Guardian cited no sources for its claim that News International, the Murdoch subsidiary, had paid \u00a31 million, about $1.6 million, in damages and legal costs to three people involved in professional soccer in Britain, including about $1.1 million to Gordon Taylor, chief executive of the Professional Footballers\u2019 Association.<br><br>The Guardian said the financial settlements in Britain were accompanied by clauses that prevented the people receiving the money from speaking about the cases. Such confidentiality clauses are common in many settlements. It said the settlements arose from disclosures that emerged from a trial of two private investigators working for the Murdoch-owned News of the World who served brief prison terms after being convicted in 2007 for hacking into cellphone messages.<br><br>One of the men convicted, Clive Goodman, was found to have accessed more than 600 messages on cellphones used by members of the royal family. The other man, Glenn Mulcaire, a former professional soccer player, admitted that he had hacked into the cellphone of Mr. Taylor, head of the soccer association, as well as those of the model Elle Macpherson and Max Clifford, a public relations agent.<br><br>In documents submitted to the High Court in London during the trial of Mr. Goodman and Mr. Mulcaire, executives of News International said The News of the World\u2019s editors and reporters had not been involved in any way in the phone tapping.<br><br>But the controversy stirred by The Guardian could reach into the highest ranks of Mr. Murdoch\u2019s empire. Several senior executives at News International or The News of the World were named by The Guardian as having denied knowledge of the tapping during the Goodman-Mulcaire trials.<br><br>John F. Burns reported from London and Alan Cowell from Paris.<br><a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/world/europe/10britain.html?hp\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/world/europe/...</a><br></i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_09:54:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12380899": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "they really will put <em>anybody</em> on the air to talk shit about obama huh? what the hell does stephen a. smith know about economics?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_10:08:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "moja31", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12376035, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12387054": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "ok really...this is becoming quite ridiculous. I don't know whether to laugh or throw something.<br>Did you know the reason why Americans are not pure is because they keep marrying other species and ethnics. Peep the vid...courtesy of those great minds at FOX<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqbL9-HzxH4&eurl=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.naijaryders.com%252Fforums%252F229437-americans-marry-other-species-ethnics.html&feature=player_embedded\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqbL9-HzxH4&eurl...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_12:54:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "TAG60", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12388136": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I hope that old witch caught Prince Michael laying his head on Janet's shoulder as she was holding Paris in her arms....but I am sure Barbara Wawa won't show that.... that would look like the kids love the Jacksons.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_13:19:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12384647, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12384498": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sheer psychopaths.  And I don't believe for one minute someone hacked into their system.  Broadcasting \"nigger' was intentional.<br><br>It's disgusting, jacking off on female peers while they are sleeping.<br><br>Fire Chief Boriskie better do more than \"get mad\" and Williams needs to take legal action against the department for these demeaning and racially charged acts.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_11:49:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 14, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12383541, "depth": 2, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12388595": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You Nailed it, Moja!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_13:30:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12386307, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12385014": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That is exactly what these coons get paid to do.<br><br>Yet Bob Herbert was quick to come to Joan Walsh's defense when Dick Armey<br>dissed her.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0109/Armey_scolded_for_sexist_crack_on_MSNBC.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0109/...</a><br><br>Now, wasn't Bob so gallant comimg to the white damsel's side.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_12:04:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12382244, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12381943": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Rep. Peter King On \"O'Reilly\" - Stands By MJ Comments<br>Invokes Bob Herbert\u2019s NT Times article to back up his point.<br><br>Of course BillO tells King he\u2019s not a racist, and of course King pulls his Catholicism card<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tOt2XSFkOU\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tOt2XSFkOU</a><br><br>Al Sharpton on \"O'Reilly\" - Peter King \"Reckless, Irresponsible\"<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXX3yxmfUQs\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXX3yxmfUQs</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_10:41:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12382457": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "These are my thoughts exactly!  After all, a true pedophile would never make a statement such as this.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_10:54:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "jelana", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12376460, "depth": 3, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12418298": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks. We all don't agree all agree on certain key issues but uplifting black women and girls is what I'm trying to do!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_22:17:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12395013, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12388098": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Those last two lines sum it up WELL.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_13:19:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12387178, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12378371": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "By Robin Givhan<br>Washington Post Staff Writer <br>Thursday, July 9, 2009 <br><br>ROME, July 8 -- First lady Michelle Obama has a singular designation during her short stay in Italy while the president attends the G8 Summit in L'Aquila. She is the \"spouse.\" <br><br>This designation comes with advantages such as an outdoor luncheon catered by renowned chef Heinz Beck and served at a table draped in ivory tulle on a terrace overlooking one of the world's most ancient cities. It means a private tour of the Capitoline Museums with their paintings and bronzes and the famous sculpture of Romulus and Remus -- symbols of Rome -- being suckled by a wolf. It includes having an advance staff that has taste-tested the variety of gelati the city has to offer so that her daughters will not have to suffer through any unpalatable sweets. (They chose well. Sasha and Malia Obama visited Giolitti, one of the best ice cream parlors in Rome.) And a G8 spouse never ever has to sit in traffic. <br><br>But \"spouse\" also means moving through the day as an object, as an emblem to be photographed and studied. It means politely making small talk and deftly avoiding the Italian imbroglio of the day: the head of state's operatic marital discord. Since the summit began Wednesday, the luncheon -- the G8 spouses luncheon -- was the first big outing for the wives, along with several other female Italian officials. It was hosted by another spouse -- the wife of the mayor of Rome, Isabella Rauti Alemanno. <br><br>Afterward they posed for a group portrait. They gathered, mingling and chatting, in one of the museum's atria -- a location ostensibly chosen so they could view the statue of Marcus Aurelius on horseback. But none of the women really seemed to notice that three-story sculpture in the room. They also didn't react to the two stooped elderly guardsmen who flanked the grand equestrian monument, even though they were dressed in gold velvet britches and cranberry-colored military coats adorned with gold braid and epaulets. The real purpose of the moment was the group portrait. It would mark the occasion but it also had the women lined up in a single, shoulder-to-shoulder row as if they were awaiting Bert Parks to announce Miss Congeniality. <br><br>There is more<br><a href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/08/AR2009070804092.html?wpisrc=newsletter\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_09:55:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12384006": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Today's Conversation:<br>Cinderella - Guerrilla Training Manual for African-American Women <a href=\"http://tinyurl.com/lkuvm5\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://tinyurl.com/lkuvm5</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_11:36:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12410637": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Now y'all know how I feel when I have to point out shyt like this.<br><br>Too much of anything leads to IMBALANCE.<br><br>We don't call him out or challenge him - business as usual.<br><br>We challenge - HE RESPONDS.  And that should be what we want most of all.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_18:00:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12387691, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12398354": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Perfect. But then, that person really doesn't have to know how to spell, does he/she?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_15:11:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "Plantsmantx", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12388976, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12388630": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm waiting to see who will be the first numbnut to ask about it in the  press briefings with Gibbs.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_13:31:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12386307, "depth": 3, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12386586": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Bingo!, moja31.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_12:42:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12386307, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12381979": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "i see all kinds of bullshit posturing coming out of this one, there was already some talking head chatter about it right after the memorial . <br>the wingnuts are already up in arms, and their favorite congress people will accordingly pretend that they don't vote on these kinds of resolutions all the time, and feign their offense very loudly. democrats will be afraid to appear to endorse the oft referred to \"more tragic elements of his life,\" and most of the CBC will probably defend the resolution (except those who feel he hated being black). <br>somewhere along the way, Al & Jesse will be called up by the networks for a comment, and obviously they'll comply. and on and on, you can fill in the rest.<br>i hope it doesn't happen this way, but i won't hold my breath. our elected officials just can't help themselves; anything that can get blown up into some opportunity ripe for posturing, will.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_10:42:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "moja31", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12380640, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12388128": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "probably about the same time they learn to stop being racist...never. if you're a racist idiot, you're probably just generally an idiot; i'm not sure how much these folks <em>can</em> learn.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_13:19:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "moja31", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12385549, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12389155": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "AFTERNOON OPEN THREAD IS UP!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_13:44:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12385064": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I just shared this with a friend who's a Zeta...she's not happy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_12:05:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12382411, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12384043": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Not an ounce of respect. That old witch. <b>Saaaaaa&gt;&gt;lap</b><br><br>She wanted to capture on video anything that would give juicy gossip about those little white kids with black folks.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_11:37:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12383754, "depth": 2, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12382515": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "um, haven't I been complaining about this for awhile now? All the Black folks I CAN'T SEE on tv, but this CLOWN is everywhere!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_10:56:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12376035, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12383541": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Lord Have Mercy!  This is maddening. How long, Lord?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_11:24:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 15, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12380875, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12387127": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "a mind is a terrible thing to waste", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_12:55:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "danadevin74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12385962, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12384057": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Bout as much as he knows about anything else, which aint damn much.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_11:37:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12380899, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12373819": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Good Morning.Your Thursday jam.Enjoy<br>Energy To Burn-B.T. Express<br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOsMvUsgDPw\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOsMvUsgDPw</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_07:49:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12385077": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL!  BillO the PSCYHO!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_12:05:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12384270, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12378947": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Murdoch papers paid \u00a31m to gag phone-hacking victims<br>News of the World bugging led to \u00a3700,000 payout to PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor <br>Nick Davies <br>guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 8 July 2009 17.33 BST <br>Article history<br><br>News International has always maintained it had no knowledge of phone hacking by anybody acting on its behalf.<br>Murdoch told Bloomberg news last night that he knew nothing about the payments. \"If that had happened I would know about it,\" he said.<br>A private investigator who had worked for News Group, Glenn Mulcaire, was also jailed in January 2007. He admitted hacking into the phones of five other targets, including the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, Gordon Taylor. Among the phones he hacked were those of the Lib Dem MP Simon Hughes, celebrity PR Max Clifford, model Elle MacPherson and football agent Sky Andrew. <br><br>News Group denied all knowledge of the hacking, but Taylor last year sued them on the basis that they must have known about it.<br>In documents initially submitted to the high court, News Group executives said the company had not been involved in any way in Mulcaire's hacking of Taylor's phone. They denied keeping any recording or notes of intercepted messages. But, at the request of Taylor's lawyers, the court ordered the production of detailed evidence from Scotland Yard's inquiry in the Goodman case, and from an inquiry by the Information Commissioner's office into journalists who dishonestly obtain confidential personal records.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/08/murdoch-papers-phone-hacking\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/08/mur...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_09:57:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12383557": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Just triflin.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_11:25:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12382728, "depth": 1, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12394829": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Et tu, NMP1?<br><br>I feel the anxiety too; I wish there was a secret bullet/pill for the mess the country is in right now.  But the analogy of the US government being a cruise liner and not a speedboat remains.<br><br>I totally agree:  PBO is a \"chess player,\" whereas the last president played Tic-Tac-Toe for 8-years-straight. Chess takes time and strategy.  <b>But the real problem is that the country is still \"use\" to playing Tic-Tac-Toe, expecting quick results in Iraq, New Orleans, and now the broader economy.</b>  <br><br>The American people are still use to being sold lies again and again, and buying the bullshyt.  <br><br>Instant gratification got us here.  Instant gratification will NOT get us out of here.  We need an enduring economy borne of innovation and discovery.  We need industries that cannot be wiped-out-overnight, and guess what, it's going to take more than six months to build these industries.  We're not going to wake up tomorrow morning and see electric vehicles all over the place.<br><br>Lastly, we live in a global economy.  When America hurts, the world hurts.  The Age of Unilateralism and America-Going-It-Alone ended on 1/19/2009.  President Obama must engage on foreign issues so that when (if) things get better, we will be able to focus on selling our shyt abroad.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_14:21:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Webb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12387178, "depth": 1, "points": 8, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12385614": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "will the repubs  ever learn that technology is not their friend?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_12:19:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "danadevin74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12385549, "depth": 2, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12385616": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "In other words - some of my best friends are black (see Bob Herbert as proof).", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_12:19:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "IWordsmith", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12381943, "depth": 1, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12383288": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "smh", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_11:18:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "ch555x", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12380875, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12383417": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What was the producer hoping to get? Did he think he was going to catch lil Paris whispering in Mama Katherine's ear that she doesnt know who this \"Michael Jackson\" person is? What?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_11:21:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12382728, "depth": 1, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12377437": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Keep saying that, Sepia!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_09:52:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12376426, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12373856": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Bury the Never Ending Myth of Jackson as Child Molester<br><br>Websites, blogs and chatrooms pulsed with garish cracks about it. Legions of commentators and news reporters snuck it in every chance they got. More than a few of Michael Jackson's fervent admirers and supporters made a dismissive reference to it. Even President Barack Obama in a cautious acknowledgment of Jackson's towering contributions to American music and artistry still made reference to the \"tragedy\" in Jackson's life which was a subtle nod to it. And New York Congressman Pete King skipped the niceties and flatly said it.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/earl-ofari-hutchinson/bury-the-never-ending-myt_b_228307.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/earl-ofari-hutchi...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_07:51:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "miss_opinion", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 12, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12387169": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This is a standard post from the numbnuts. I've seen this exact post on many a forum. It doesnt matter what the article or column is about, this is the standard post you get from the wingnuts. The article could be about astronomers discovering a new star and you'll get this post in their somewhere.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_12:56:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12385962, "depth": 4, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12376426": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Black opposition to Obama is lucrative. <br><br>C.R.E.A.M.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_09:44:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12376035, "depth": 1, "points": 7, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12387691": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "this makes a lot of sense, and I hear you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_13:09:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12387178, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12411244": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I always said if he was innocent, he should have told that kid's parents he would see their asses in court.<br><br>No parent who has a child who was a vic of child molestation, will be willing to put their child through the ordeal of a public trial unless they were DAMNED SURE the perp was caught.<br><br>Mike was asexual - I don't think he had any interest in men or women.<br><br>I also believe that during his supposed childhood, Papa Joe had those boys performing in some serious dives - strip clubs, juke joints - how do we know some pedophile didn't get a hold of Mike and molested HIM back then?<br><br>I agree - after the first allegation, it was like homeboy up and died right there, in 1993.  He physically died on June 25th - but his spirit was long gone.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_18:17:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12376636, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12385549": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "When will these idiots learn not to post their racism on Facebook for all the world to see?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_12:18:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "parker404", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12384858, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12513156": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dear Lisa,<br>Good afternoon. My reply to heartsandflowers was regarding uplifting of black women/girls. Being the father of a young black daughter, I constantly seek out ideas along those lines. That's where you come in. My post wasn't about revisiting the day long back and forth with Wordsmith etal, it was about listing your blog as what I believe to be along the lines of places that are about empowering, uplifting black women. <br>Since you monitor computers at BWBBT, you know I visit (or try to) weekly. Since you don't allow male commentors except your chosen, I can't speak to you directly. Your blog, your choice.<br>My using brouhahas in the plural offend you, typo. My bad. In the year I've been reading JJP and BWBBT, i've seen others who disagree with you. Again that's not what my post was about. It was intended to list BWBBT as an educational place to think (OK, in my mind) think, reflect, see how my choices affect my daughter and change myself for the better. You state its not for me. For women. I get that. I take what I need and leave the rest. Thank you and keep on keepin on.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-11_16:24:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "TyrenM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12470188, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12384647": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "and thats the main thing <br>they don't wan't those kids <br>with black folks<br><br>trying to find something to talk about<br>but those kids will be fine<br>they had a father who loved them<br>and they have a family who love them<br>and if them kids wasn't comfortable <br>with the Jackson family <br>you would have noticed it", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_11:53:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "danadevin74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12384043, "depth": 3, "points": 6, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12375947": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sessions Uses Sotomayor as a Pawn in His Lifelong Crusade Against Civil Rights<br>In 1986, an ambitious young United States Attorney named Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III was denied a seat on the federal bench because of his own deep seeded hostility to the very notion of civil rights. As a federal prosecutor, Sessions conducted a tenuous criminal investigation into voting rights advocates that registered African-Americans to vote-an investigation that culminated in an unsuccessful prosecution against a former aide to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He once quipped that he \"used to think [the KKK] were OK\" until he found out some of them were \"pot smokers;\" and he routinely referred to an African-American attorney who worked for him as \"boy\"--even once warning that attorney to \"be careful what you say to white folks\" after Sessions overheard him chastising a white secretary.<br>Read More<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-millhiser/sessions-uses-sotomayor-a_b_228482.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-millhiser/ses...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_09:26:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12376460": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "When MJ admitted that on national television, my opinion that he really did see the world through the lens of a 10 yr old strengthened. Any middle-aged man, of any race, that doesn't know that saying you share your bed with little boys will be recieved as a sexual thing and thus shouldn't be said doesn't get it. MJ didn't get it, but I dont' think he ever touched a boy inappropriately.  There was nothing about him, otherwise, that suggested he might.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_09:45:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "ASmith", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12375971, "depth": 2, "points": 7, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12376464": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wishful thinking:<br><br>I wish his azz was one of the unemployed after he left ESPN<br><br>It is a straight conspiracy...you mean to tell me they could not have found ANYBODY else to be a commentator other than this loud-mouth mofo....<br><br>That's it, I'm writing somebody today....all these great minds on JJP alone could wipe the floor with some of these folks they are giving a microphone to these days....please, someone call a black political blogger like now already ....and then I thought about it....they would rather keep Black commentators \"Palinized\"....they ain't ready for knowledgeable Black folks talking about politics the way it should be discussed....they are still in shock over Obama getting elected", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_09:45:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12376035, "depth": 1, "points": 8, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12381586": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Melissa Harris-Lacewell's column wonderfully describes the tradition of Black Funerals while looking back on the service held for MJ.<br><br>\"African-American death rituals have long been celebratory as well as mournful. As a marginal people whose collective identity is rooted in struggle, death is celebrated as a release from pain, inequality and torment. As a deeply religious people, death is celebrated as an opportunity for reunion with God.\"<br><br>It really is a must read.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-oped0709jacksonjul09%2C0%2C6884986.story#\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_10:30:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "ruthdfw", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12401050": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I believe your anxiety stems from a bombardment of negativity. The talking heads, (legitimate or not) are giving you pause as to the effectiveness and capability of the president to lead this country.  No president, (and a Black one) in our lifetime has encountered such a governmental and economic disaster.   The president is doing well under the circumstances; he has an excellent team of people working with him.  If the American people will pull together and demand the lower government cooperate by taking the stimulus money and using it as it was intended people will begin to see and feel some relief.  I don\u2019t expect the president to work on the economy only; GWB left America in bad standing through the world. I tell you NMP1,I don\u2019t feel stressed and upset with Obama as I was with GWB.   Maybe I am na\u00efve, but I think we are in good hands.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_16:07:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "moObama", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12387178, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12375971": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Part of the reason why people think Michael he was a child molester because he openly he admitted that he slept with young children.  That is unacceptable.  My mother used to tell me as black man I need to keep myself out of situations where I'm perceived that I'm doing wrong because people are going to assume I'm doing wrong.  Mike was the greatest entertainer that ever lived and I'm not going to yell child molester but the fact that he slept with young children and didn't realize or didn't care how that would be perceived is shocking.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_09:27:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "Guns3000", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12373856, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12383653": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Um, maybe those people were the networks and news agencies providing a live feed so people around the world could see the funeral.<br><br>Of course, I'm not surprised Baba Wawa would disrespect a black funeral since she found no problem with disrespecting a black family by boasting about her affair with Sen. Brooke.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_11:27:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12382728, "depth": 1, "points": 10, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12382631": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL..he's the new lil wayne of political shows.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_10:59:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12382515, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12470188": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "@TyrenM<br><br>I am not sure what you are referring to when you mention \"various bruhahas here with Lisa/Blackwomenblowthetrumpet\" but allow me to offer the facts....<br><br>There HAVE NOT been \"various bruhahas\".  Allow me to offer the true FACTS for those who are reading and who may erroneously think that your \"various bruhahas\" remark is based on fact...<br><br>I offered comments on the ONE post \"Our Kind of People Are Speaking Again\" ONLY when WordSmith was \"claiming\" (DECEITFULLY) that my blog bashes Michelle Obama. This is completely false.<br><br>WordSmith then attempted to produce \"proof\" for the audience.<br>Even THAT step was deceitful because it only PROVED that my comments on the Obamas are constructive and thought-provoking and it also PROVED that quality writing and quality discussion is occurring at my blog forum.<br><br>It is quite revealing that when WordSmith CLAIMED TO BE seeking facts and truth.... she did not bother to tell the audience that there were TWO posts at my forum about Michelle Obama...<br><br>She did not bother to provide any excerpts of THOSE TWO posts and yet the discussion was about Michelle Obama?  Sooo interesting.<br><br>If a person CLAIMS to seek truth and want to give the facts then that person will offer the posts that were ABOUT MICHELLE... rather than choosing excerpts to reinforce deceptive perceptions!<br><br>I called out that scam. I also presented links to the two posts that were actually ABOUT Michelle... since the audience seemed soooo deeply interested in what I had written about Michelle. <br><br>It was interesting thought that no one was visiting my forum to read the post that were about Michelle. This reveals that they really WERE NOT deeply interested in the evidence.<br><br>I should mention, TyrenM, that CORRECTING erroneous information about my blog forum IN ONE DISCUSSION here at JJP constitutes \"various bruhahas here\" ...but you are certainly entitled to state your own perspectives.<br><br>I am entitled to offer the facts.<br><br>My forum focuses on The Four Stages of Self-actualization For Black Women and insists upon collective introspection.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-10_16:37:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "facebook-1314242676", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12395013, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12398749": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "*dead*", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_15:19:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12393948, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12387249": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "here is the transcript.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.mediamatter.org/mmtv/200907080028\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.mediamatter.org/mmtv/200907080028</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_12:58:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "TAG60", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12376498": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes....whoring to a whole 'nother level....dollar, dollar bill y'all.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_09:46:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12376426, "depth": 2, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12376501": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There it is!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_09:46:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "Shazza", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12376426, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12410807": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Guess he feels by joining a Black Frat, he'll get back his honorary Negro Card.<br><br>I THINK NOT.  &lt;&lt;&lt;side eye&gt;&gt;&gt;", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_18:04:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12382411, "depth": 4, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12381115": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>President Bill Clinton set to join Phi Beta Sigma<br>July 9, 12:36 AM<br><br>The men of Phi Beta Sigma are hosting their National Conclave this week in New Orleans, Louisiana.<br><br>According to sources in New Orleans yesterday the men of this brotherhood voted on several members to be inducted into the fraternity at a later date.<br><br>One of those men is former President Bill Clinton and the other is Rev. Al Sharpton.<br><br>Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity has not confirmed this information as of yet but sources in New Orleans who wish to remain anonymous have confirmed that this order of business has been voted on and both men will be inducted later this year.<br><br>Similarly last year it was said that Michelle Obama would be initiated into Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc, the country's first and oldest black greek lettered sorority. No official word was ever made public as to wether or not First Lady Michelle Obama ever became a member of the organization.<br><br>If Bill Clinton is inducted into Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. he will be the first former President of the United States to become a member of a historically black greek lettered organization. Congratulations to former President Bill Clinton and the brotherhood of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.examiner.com/x-4839-Philadelphia-HipHop-Music-Examiner%7Ey2009m7d9-President-Bill-Clinton-set-to-join-Phi-Beta-Sigma\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.examiner.com/x-4839-Philadelphia-Hip...</a><br></i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_10:16:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12382142": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>OMG! Who is this Steven A. Smith, journalist?</i><br><br><br>Another black boot-licking hanky head that MSNBC has bought! <br><br><b>Saaaaaaaaa&gt;&gt;lap</b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_10:46:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12376035, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12383680": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If I'm not mistaken, Nancy Pelosi stated today at press conference, she didn't think there needs to be a resolution!  So here we go...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_11:28:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12380640, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12385671": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "they aren't so smart.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_12:21:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "TAG60", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12389830": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wow over 30 million people watched MJ's Homegoing!<br><a href=\"http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/entertainment/gossip/10780\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/ente...</a><br><br>Of course they just had to add 2 million more watched Princess Di's but come on-over 30 MILLION!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_13:47:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "Shazza", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12381136": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Mike didn't help his own case when he admitting to sharing his bed with young boys AFTER the first case.  I do not believe MJ ever molested a child; I think MJ was asexual and didn't have sexual interest in anyone, let alone a child.  BUT it's not healthy for adults to be hanging around children like that.  It didn't help when family members like LaToya were telling the press that he was guilty.<br><br>Again, I don't believe he ever harmed a hair on a child but whoever was helping him with PR didn't do him any favors by letting him do that interview with Martin Bashir, which led to the 2nd set of charges.  I believe it was over for MJ after that trial.  IMO he died then, not on June 25.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_10:16:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12373856, "depth": 1, "points": 8, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12399570": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "He damn sure does...each and everytime.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_15:33:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12394066, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12382165": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "well if BillO tells you you're not a racist, then it's <em>obviously</em> settled.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_10:47:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "moja31", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12381943, "depth": 1, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12384214": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Keep on telling it, Sepia.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_11:41:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12382411, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12393948": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well you know you got women up in the Northeast taking bubble baths and drinking champagne with their pet chimps.  Maybe that's what he means???", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_14:01:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12388847, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12380640": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "House Resolution Would Memorialize Jackson <br>It'll be interesting to see how the votes shake out on a House resolution offered by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) to honor Michael Jackson.<br><br>Speaking today at the pop icon's funeral, Jackson Lee (who is no relation to the late singer) held up a copy of her resolution and said it will be debated on the House floor. The measure will hail Jackson as \"an American legend, a musical icon and a world humanitarian,\" she said.<br><br>The lengthy resolution, which includes 44 separate \"whereas\" clauses, chronicles Jackson's career and accomplishments from his days as a baby-faced member of the \"Jackson 5\" to his rise as the \"King of Pop\" with such explosive hits as \"Thriller,\" \"Billie Jean\" and \"Beat It.\"<br><br>The measure also notes some of Jackson's more obscure humanitarian work, including these clauses:<br><br>Whereas in December 1991, Michael's office MJJ Productions donated more than 200 turkey dinners to needy families in Los Angeles; <br><br>Whereas, on April 9, 1984, David Smithee, a 14-year-old boy suffering from cystic fibroses was invited to Michael's home, in response to a dying request to meet Michael. David passed away 7 weeks later;<br><br>Whereas on December 1993, in conjunction with the Gorbachev Foundation, Michael Jackson airlifted 60,000 doses of children's vaccines to Tblisi, Georgia;<br><br>Whereas in 1994, Michael donated $500,000 to Elizabeth Taylor's AIDS Foundation.<br><br>Jackson Lee's resolution goes on at great length to list many other of Jackson's good deeds before finally concluding:<br><br>Whereas we today mourn with and send our condolences to the children that Michael Jackson left behind: Prince Michael, Paris Michael, and Prince Michael II and his mother, father, brothers, and sisters: Now, therefore, be it<br><br>Resolved, That the House of Representatives--<br><br>(1) recognizes Michael Jackson as a global humanitarian and a noted leader in the fight against worldwide hunger and medical crises; and<br><br>(2) celebrates Michael Jackson as an accomplished contributor to the worlds of arts and entertainment, scientific advances in the treatment of HIV/AIDS, and global food security.<br><br>As of this afternoon, the resolution did not yet appear on the House floor schedule. But rest assured that when it does come before the House for debate, Congresswoman Jackson Lee will ask for a recorded vote. And we fully expect Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), who this week lambasted Michael Jackson as a \"pervert,\" a \"child molester\" and a \"pedophile,\" will happily lead the Nay column.<br><br>\"We would vote against it,\" King's spokesman, Kevin Fogarty, told us today.<br><br><a href=\"http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2009/07/house_resolution_would_jackson.html?wprss=sleuth\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2009/07...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_10:00:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12388833": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The \"standard comment\" is classic Pat BucKKKlanan speak.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_13:36:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12386796, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12376035": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "OMG! Who is this Steven A. Smith, journalist? He's on MSNBC and is calling the Obama administration inept because of the employment numbers increasing. He's black and where has he been the past 25 years?<br><br>He's been a sportswriter/sportscaster but this ain't no ballgame.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_09:29:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "goldenstar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 16, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 5, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12388324": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "BWA HA HA HA HA", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_13:24:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12384270, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12399592": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Love ya, Webb!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_15:34:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12394829, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12386796": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That reads very much like the \"pearls of wisdom\" we see from one or two people on this blog.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_12:48:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Plantsmantx", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12385962, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12388847": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What is the other \"species\" that Americans marry? <br><br>Gawd he is stupid....damn damn DAYUM...he is just SIMPLE.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_13:37:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12387054, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12400113": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Some of them say that because they perceive Cosby as flogging black people on behalf of whites. I've run into a few people online who've pulled the \"Cosby card\", and I directed them to Coates' Atlantic profile-the one in which Cosby exclaims \"This is how we lost to the white man!!\" They couldn't handle it. They said it was a lie, and he didn't actually say such a thing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_15:44:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Plantsmantx", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12389049, "depth": 7, "points": 4, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12388342": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm right there with you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_13:24:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "LisaM5432", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12387178, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12382199": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The theme of this article is \"Look, Michelle knows how to act.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_10:48:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12378371, "depth": 1, "points": 12, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12382201": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I see Bubba more as a Kappa.  I'm not sure of their national reputation, but when I went to Rutgers back in the day the Kappas were considered the \"pretty boy/playa\" fraternity (LOL).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_10:48:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12381197, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12399615": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "sad, but true.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-09_15:34:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12398354, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "24775043", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": -3594843025188526594}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "thursday_open_thread_85", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 136, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 24775043, "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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		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s like'
				: '%(num)s likes'
			), {num:num});
	};

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





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



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

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

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

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

};

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

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

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

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

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

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

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

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

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

				this._accumMsg = '';

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

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

	if (packetNum === 0) {

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

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

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

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

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

	this._lastSeqno++;

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

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

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

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

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

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


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

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

	var listener = function(e) {

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


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

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

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

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



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


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

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

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

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

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

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

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

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

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

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

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

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

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

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


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



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


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


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

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

	this.packetHandler = null;


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


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

			that._ready = true;
		};

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

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







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

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

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

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


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

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

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


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

		if (msg.username) {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=jackandjillpolitics' +
		'&t=thursday_open_thread_85' +
		'&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/thursday_open_thread_85/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='	+ 'thursday_open_thread_85'
			+ '&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/thursday_open_thread_85/reply.html';
	this.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE = '/AnonymousUser/';
	this.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR = 'http://media.disqus.com/images/noavatar92.png';
};
// Dsq.Urls

/**
 * Dsq.Validators: Validation for form fields
 */
Dsq.Validators = new function() {
	this.VALID_EMAIL_RE = /^[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*\@(([a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*)+\.[a-z]{2,}|([0-9]+\.){3}[0-9]+)$/i;
	this.name = function(name) {
		var error = false;

		if(typeof Dsq.Templates.placeholder !== 'undefined' &&
		   name == Dsq.Templates.placeholder.name) {
			error = true;
		}
		if(name.length <= 1) {
			error = true;
		}

		if(error) {
			return "Please enter a name to comment.";
		} else {
			return true;
		}
	};
	this.email = function(addr) {
		if(Dsq.Validators.VALID_EMAIL_RE.test(addr)) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please enter a valid email to comment.";
		}
	};
	this.url = function(addr) {
		if(!addr || addr.indexOf('.') != -1) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please check your website URL (this field is optional).";
		}
	};

	this.validate = function(bulk_validation, failure_callback) {
		failure_callback = failure_callback || function(e){ alert(e); };

		for(var i = 0; i < bulk_validation.length; i++) {
			v = bulk_validation[i];
			ret = v.validator(v.value);
			if(ret !== true) {
				failure_callback(ret);
				return false;
			}
		}
		return true;
	};
};

/**
 * Dsq.Utils: Generic utility functions.
 */
Dsq.Utils = new function() {
	this.ie = /msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent);
	this.ie7 = (document.all && !window.opera && window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true : false;
	this.ie6 = (!window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true: false;
	this.webkit = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('AppleWebKit/') >= 0;
	this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = {};
	this._styleSheet = null;

	this.gebiFromElement = function(el, id, tag) {
		// This only method only helps IE.
		if(!this.ie) {
			return Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var cacheKey = el.id + '-' + tag;
			tag = tag || 'div';
			if(typeof this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] != 'undefined') {
				collection = this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey];
			} else {
				collection = el.getElementsByTagName(tag);
				this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] = collection;
			}

			for(var i = 0; i < collection.length; i++) {
				if(collection[i].id == id) {
					return collection[i];
				}
			}
			return null;
		}
	};

	this.execOnReady = function(func) {
		var node = document.createElement('document:ready');
		try {
			node.doScroll('left');
			func();
			node = null;
		} catch(err) {
			setTimeout(function() { Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(func); }, 10);
		}
	};


	// Courtesy of http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html
	this.createCookie = function(name,value,days) {
		if (days) {
			var date = new Date();
			date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
			var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
		}
		else var expires = "";
		document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
	};

	this.readCookie = function(name) {
		var nameEQ = name + "=";
		var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
		for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
			var c = ca[i];
			while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
			if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.eraseCookie = function(name) {
		Dsq.Utils.createCookie(name,"",-1);
	};

	this.deleteNode = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			this.deleteChildren(node);
			if(typeof node.outerHTML != 'undefined') { node.outerHTML = ''; }
			else if(node.parentNode) { node.parentNode.removeChild(node); }
			delete node;
		}
	};

	this.deleteChildren = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			for(var x = node.childNodes.length-1; x >= 0; x--) {
				var childNode = node.childNodes[x];
				if(childNode.hasChildNodes()) { this.deleteChildren(childNode); }
				if(typeof childNode.outerHTML != 'undefined') { childNode.outerHTML = ''; }
				else node.removeChild(childNode);
				delete childNode;
			}
		}
	};

	this.findPos = function(obj) {
		var curleft = 0;
		var curtop = 0;
		if (obj.offsetParent) {
			do {
				curleft += obj.offsetLeft;
				curtop += obj.offsetTop;
			} while (obj = obj.offsetParent);
		}
		return [curleft,curtop];
	};

	this.getWindowSize = function() {
		var windowWidth = -1;
		var windowHeight = -1;

		if(typeof(window.innerWidth) == 'number') { //Non-IE
			windowWidth = window.innerWidth;
			windowHeight = window.innerHeight;
		} else if(document.documentElement) { // IE 6+ in 'standards compliant mode'
			windowWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth;
			windowHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight || document.body.clientHeight;
		}

		return [windowWidth, windowHeight];
	}

	this.getScrollPos = function() {
		var scrollWidth, scrollTop;

		if(document.documentElement && (document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.documentElement.scrollWidth)) {
			scrollWidth = document.documentElement.scrollWidth;
			// IE is weird here.  If no doctype is provided, document.body.scrollTop is 0,
			// otherwise document.documentElement.scrollTop is 0.
			scrollTop = document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.body.scrollTop;
		} else if(document.body.scrollTop && document.body.scrollWidth) {
			scrollWidth = document.body.scrollWidth;
			scrollTop = document.body.scrollTop;
		}

		return [scrollWidth, scrollTop];
	}

	this.addEventListener = function(instance, eventName, listener) {
		var listenerFn = listener;
		if (instance.addEventListener) {
			instance.addEventListener(eventName, listenerFn, false);
		} else if (instance.attachEvent) {
			listenerFn = function() {
				listener(window.event);
			};
			instance.attachEvent("on" + eventName, listenerFn);
		} else {
			throw new Error("Event registration not supported");
		}
		return {
			instance: instance,
			name: eventName,
			listener: listenerFn
		};
	};

	this.removeEventListener = function(event) {
		var instance = event.instance;
		if (instance.removeEventListener) {
			instance.removeEventListener(event.name, event.listener, false);
		} else if (instance.detachEvent) {
			instance.detachEvent("on" + event.name, event.listener);
		}
	};

	this.fixIframesIE = function(id) {
		var disqusThread = Dsq.$(disqus_container_id);
		var iframes = disqusThread.getElementsByTagName('iframe');

		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-content');
		}

		for(i = 0; i < iframes.length; i++) {
			if (container) {
				iframes[i].style.width = container.offsetWidth;
			}
		}
	};

	this.getElementsByClassName = function(oElm, strTagName, strClassName) {
	/* Credit: Jonathan Snook [http://www.snook.ca/jonathan], Robert Nyman [http://www.robertnyman.com] */
		var arrElements = (strTagName == "*" && oElm.all)? oElm.all : oElm.getElementsByTagName(strTagName);
		var arrReturnElements = new Array();
		strClassName = strClassName.replace(/\-/g, "\\-");
		var oRegExp = new RegExp("(^|\\s)" + strClassName + "(\\s|$)");
		var oElement;
		for(var i = 0; i < arrElements.length; i++) {
			oElement = arrElements[i];
			if(oRegExp.test(oElement.className)) {
				arrReturnElements.push(oElement);
			}
		}
		return (arrReturnElements);
	};

	this.postToUrl = function(url, post_data, opt_redirect) {
		var form = document.createElement('form');
		var iframe_container = document.createElement('div');
		var id = 'dsq-temp-iframe-' + (new Date()).getTime();

		form.method = 'POST';
		form.action = url;
		if (!opt_redirect) {
			form.target = id;
		}
		iframe_container.innerHTML = '<iframe style="display:none" name="' + id + '" id="' + id + '"></iframe>';

		for(var key in post_data) {
			if(post_data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var input = document.createElement('input');
				input.name = key;
				input.type = 'hidden';
				input.value = post_data[key];

				form.appendChild(input);
			}
		}

		Dsq.$b.appendChild(iframe_container);
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(form);
		form.submit();
	};

	// Strips integer id from id of element in the form ('some-id-###')
	this.extractId = function(e) {
		var chunks = e.id.split('-');
		if(chunks.length <= 1) {
			return 0;
		} else {
			return parseInt(chunks[chunks.length-1]);
		}
	};

	this.getStyle = function(el, styleProp) {
		if(el.currentStyle) {
			var y = el.currentStyle[styleProp];
		} else if(window.getComputedStyle) {
			var y = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, null).getPropertyValue(styleProp);
		}

		if(y == 'transparent' || y == '') {
			this.getStyle(el.parentNode, styleProp);
		} else {
			return y;
		}
	};

	this.execScript = function(url, append_qs, container) {
		var script = document.createElement('script');
		append_qs = typeof append_qs == 'undefined' ? true : append_qs;
		container = container || Dsq.container;

		if(append_qs) {
			var j = (url.indexOf('?') >= 0) ? '&' : '?';
			url += j + (new Date()).getTime();
		}
		script.type = 'text/javascript';
		script.charset = 'UTF-8';
		script.src = url;
		container.appendChild(script);
		return script;
	};

	this.pluralize = function(num, singular, plural) {
		return (num != 1) ? plural || 's' : singular || '';
	};

	this.getRequestParams = function(queryString /* optional */) {
		var pairs, tuple;
		var params = {};

		queryString = queryString || window.location.search.substring(1);
		pairs = queryString.split('&');

		for (var i = 0, pair; pair = pairs[i]; i++) {
			tuple = pair.split('=');
			params[tuple[0]] = (tuple[1] || true);
		}

		return params;
	};

	this.addCssRule = function(selector, styleText, index) {
		var stylesheet;
		index = index || 0;

		if(!this._styleSheet) {
			var styleEl = document.createElement('style');
			document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(styleEl);
			this._styleSheet = styleEl.sheet;
			if(!this._styleSheet) {
				// IE does not like our newly created stylesheet.
				this._styleSheet = document.styleSheets[document.styleSheets.length-1];
			}
		}
		stylesheet = this._styleSheet;

		if(stylesheet.insertRule) {
			var ruleText = selector + ' { ' + styleText + ' }';
			if(index == -1) {
				index = stylesheet.cssRules.length;
			}
			stylesheet.insertRule(ruleText, index);
		} else if(stylesheet.addRule) {
			stylesheet.addRule(selector, styleText, index);
		}
	};

	this.forEachIn = function(obj, callback) {
		for(var key in obj) {
			if(obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				callback(key, obj[key]);
			}
		}
	};

	this._interpolateGlobalContext = {
		// values that get used a lot and are global to the request
		'profile_url': Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE,

		'disqus_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url,
		'media_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url,
		'request_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.username,
		'request_display_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username,
		'forum_name': Dsq.jsonData.forum.name
	};

	this.renderFromContextStack = function(key, contexts) {
		// Returns the first instance of `key` in the array of objects `contexts` or else ''
		for (var i=0; i<contexts.length; i++) {
			if (contexts[i][key] !== undefined) {
				return String(contexts[i][key]);
			}
		}
		throw new Error('key ' + key + ' not found in context');
	};

	var that = this;
	this.interpolate = function(fmt, opt_localContext) {
		// Interpolate `fmt` named-format string with an assumed global context.
		// Based on `interpolate` in django.views.i18n
		var contextStack = [opt_localContext || {}, that._interpolateGlobalContext];
		return fmt.replace(/%\(\w+\)s/g, function(match){
			return that.renderFromContextStack(match.slice(2,-2), contextStack);
		});
	};

	this.stripTags = function(s) {
		// Removes HTML tags from `s`
		return s.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/g,"");

	};

	this.assert = function(b) {
		if (!b) {
			throw new Error('Assertion error.');
		}
	};

};
// Dsq.Utils

/**
 * Dsq.Popup: Popup helper functions.
 */
Dsq.Popup = new function() {
	this.timeHide = new Array();
	this.timeShow = new Array();
	this.activePopup = {};
	this.profileCache = {};
	this.statusCache = {};

	this.showTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the hide timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeHide[post_id]);

		// start the timer
		if(!Dsq.Popup.profileIsOn && !Dsq.Thread.adminIsOn) {
			this.timeShow[post_id] = setTimeout("Dsq.Popup.popProfile(\"" + post_id + "\")", 400);
		}
	};

	this.hideTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the show timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeShow[post_id]);
	};

	this.updateProfile = function(username) {
		// Callback from /embed/profile.js
		if (this.statusCache[username]) {
			var statusEl = Dsq.$('dsq-profile-status-' + username);
			statusEl.innerHTML = this.statusCache[username];
			statusEl.style.display = 'block';
		}

		if (this.profileCache[username]) {
			var _cache = this.profileCache[username];

			var _genhtml = function(text) { return '<span><big>' + text + '</big></span>'; };
			var _no_comments = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS(_cache.comments_count));
			var _no_likes = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_LIKES(_cache.likes_count));
			var _no_points = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_POINTS(_cache.points));

			var statsEl = Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + username);
			statsEl.innerHTML = '';

			if (Dsq.jsonData.users[username].registered) {
				statsEl.innerHTML = _no_comments + _no_likes;
			}
			statsEl.innerHTML += _no_points;

			var activeSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.active_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.active_sites[i];
				activeSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (activeSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = activeSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = 'This site.';
			}

			var moderatedSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.moderated_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.moderated_sites[i];
				moderatedSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (moderatedSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + username).innerHTML = moderatedSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + username).innerHTML = '';
			}
		}

		// Reposition popup after full HTML is rendered
		if(Dsq.Popup.activePopup && Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el) {
			Dsq.Popup.initPopup(Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.type);
		}

	};

	this.showCookieMsgs = function() {
		var title = '';
		var message = '';
		var numAlerts = 0;

		Dsq.Utils.forEachIn(Dsq.jsonData.cookie_messages, function(k, v) {
			if (!v) return;

			switch(k) {
				// Cookie: Twitter
				case 'post_twitter':
					if (v === 'error') {
						title = 'Twitter Error!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-error">Oops, we couldn\'t tweet this comment. Please check your <a href="http://disqus.com/account/services">account settings</a>.</li>';
					} else {
						var _msg = v.split(':');
						title = 'Tweeted!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-success">Your comment was successfully tweeted. <a href="http://twitter.com/' + _msg[0] + '/status/' + _msg[1] + '">Click here to view the tweet</a>.</li>';
					}
					break;
				// Cookie: Unapproved Post
				case 'post_not_approved':
					title = 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-not-approved">Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.</li>';
					break;
				// Cookie: Profile Found
				case 'post_has_profile':
					title = 'Use your existing commenter profile';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-has-profile">You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a></li>';
					break;
				case 'user_created':
					var _data = v.split(':');
					title = 'Profile created!';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-user-created">You have just created a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, the best way to claim, manage, and track your comments all over the web. \
					<br /><br />A confirmation is being sent to <strong>' + _data[1] + '</strong>. Please check for this email in order to verify your profile. \
					<ul class="dsq-list-tick"> \
						<li>Your username is <strong>' + _data[0] +'</strong>. <a href="http://disqus.com/people/' + _data[0] + '/" target="_blank">Click here to view your public profile</a>.</li> \
						<li>Be sure to set your profile picture, as well as connect your <span class="dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> and <span class="dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> accounts. <a href="http://disqus.com/account/" target="_blank">Click here for account settings</a>.</li> \
					</ul> \
					</li>'
					break;
				default:
					break;
			}
			numAlerts++;
		});

		if(numAlerts > 1) {
			message = '<ul class="dsq-list-bluebullet">' + message;
			message += '</ul>';
			title = 'Thanks for posting!';
		}
		if(numAlerts > 0) {
			if(typeof(disqus_cookie_msgs) == 'function') {
				disqus_cookie_msgs(message, title);
			} else {
				Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
			}
		}
	};

	this.helpBadges = function(post_id) {
		var html = ' \
			<ul class="dsq-popup-help"> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile with a confirmed email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, but has not yet confirmed his or her email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span> is not logged in with any account and has not claimed his or her comments.</li> \
				<li class="dsq-help-otheraccts">Other accounts</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> is using his or her Facebook profile via Facebook Connect.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> is using his or her Twitter profile via Twitter Sign-in.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-openid">OpenID</span> is using his or her OpenID.</li> \
			</ul> \
		';

		this.popModal(html, 'Help: Types of Commenters', post_id);
		return;
	};

	this.permalink = function(post_id) {
		var header = 'Link to this comment';
		var body = '<strong>You are anchored to</strong>:<br />' + document.location.protocol + '//' + document.location.host + document.location.pathname + document.location.search + '#comment-' + post_id;

		this.popModal(body, header, post_id);
	};

	this.login = function(header, body) {
		var h = header || 'Login or Register';
		var b = body || '';
		b += Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: 'dsq-popup-login'});
		b += '</iframe>'; // HACK: Sometimes there is something funky with the IFRAME SRC that causes no end tag
		this.popModal(b, h, null, true, 'dsq-popup-login');
	};

	this.blacklist = function(id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		var title = 'Add to Blacklist';
		var message = ' \
		Adding this person to the blacklist will block him or her from commenting on this site. Check the following types that you would like to add to the blacklist:'
		+ (userData['registered'] ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-username" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-username"><strong>Username</strong>: ' + userData['username'] + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ (_meta.email ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-email" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-email"><strong>Email address</strong>: ' + _meta.email + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ '<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
			<input id="dsq-blacklist-ip" type="checkbox" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-blacklist-ip-warning\').style.display=\'block\'"> \
			<label for="dsq-blacklist-ip"><strong>IP address</strong>: ' + _meta.ip + '</label> \
		</div> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p id="dsq-blacklist-ip-warning" style="display:none">	\
				Note: Blocking this person\'s IP address may also unintentionally prevent others, who share his/her IP address, from commenting on this site. \
				This may include people who are sharing the same computer, living in the same house, or using the same Internet provider. Only block an IP address as a last resort. \
			</p> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p style="text-align:center"><button onclick="Dsq.Post.blockUser(' + id + '); this.disabled=true; this.innerHTML=\'Just one moment...\'">Add to Blacklist</button></p> \
		';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
	};

	this.remoteAccountSettings = function() {
		var body = '';
		// Set up IFrame.
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/_auth/embed/remote_settings/';
		var attributes = {id: 'dsq-popup-account-settings'};
		if (typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}

		body = Dsq.Templates._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
		this.popModal(body, 'Account Settings', null, true, 'dsq-popup-account-settings');
	};

	this.popModal = function(message, title, post_id, use_listener, extra_classes) {
		var container = document.createElement('div');
		var header, body;

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);

		if(typeof(title) == 'undefined') { title = ''; }
		if(typeof(use_listener) == 'undefined') { use_listener = true; }

		if(post_id) {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message-' + post_id;
		} else {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message';
		}

		header = title;
		body = message;

		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupModal(header, body);
		Dsq.Popup.initPopup(container, post_id, 'message', extra_classes);
		if(use_listener) {
			Dsq.Popup.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', Dsq.Popup._closePopup);
		}
	};

	this.popAlert = this.popModal;

	this.loading = function(post_id) {
		var title = Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
		var body = '<div style="text-align:center; padding: 5px 0 10px 0"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif" alt="" /></div>'
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
	};

	this.lightbox = function(message, title, post_id) {
		// Wraps Dsq.Popup.popModal

		var overlay = document.createElement('div');
		overlay.id = 'dsq-overlay';
		overlay.className = 'dsq-overlay';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(overlay);
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, post_id, false, 'dsq-lightbox');
	};

	this.popProfile = function(post_id, userKey) {
		var post = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id];
		if (post && post.has_been_anonymized) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('This message was anonymized by its previous owner.', 'Anonymized', post_id);
			return;
		}

		if(post_id) {
			userKey = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id].user_key;	
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][userKey];
		var elId = 'dsq-popup-profile-' + userKey;
		var container = document.createElement('div');

		if(this.activePopup.el) {
			this._closePopup(null, true);
			if(this.activePopup.linkClicked) {
				this.activePopup.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		container.id = elId;
		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupProfile(userKey);

		this.initPopup(container, post_id, 'profile');
		this.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._closePopup);

		if(!this.profileCache[userKey]) {
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/embed/profile.js'
				+ '?username=' + userKey
				+ '&anon=' + (userData['registered'] ? 0 : 1)
				+ '&f=' + Dsq.jsonData['request'].forum);
		} else {
			this.updateProfile(userKey);
		}
	};

	this._closePopup = function(e, force) {
		var activePopup = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el;
		var id = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id;
		var link = 'dsq-avatar-' + id; // HACK: Specific to profile toggle target

		// HACK: This event should be gone if there is no active popup.
		if(!activePopup) {
			return;
		}
		if(force || !Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, activePopup.id)) {
			// TODO: This is breaking iE?
			if(Dsq.Popup.popupListener) {
				Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Popup.popupListener);
			}
			
			// Kill overlay
			var overlay = Dsq.$('dsq-overlay');
			if(overlay) { Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(overlay); }
			
			try {
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(activePopup);
			} catch(e) {
				// HACK: IE6 throws an error when using deleteNode() with a node containing a <table> in the html.
				activePopup.parentNode.removeChild(activePopup);
			}
			Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {};
		}

		if(!force && Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Popup.activePopup.linkClicked = true;
		}

	};

	this.initPopup = function(popup, post_id, type, extra_classes) {
		popup.className = 'dsq-popup dsq-popup-' + type + ' ' + (extra_classes ? extra_classes : '');
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6 || Dsq.Utils.ie7) {
			// HACK: We can't modify the body before it's ready, so we need
			//       to use an IE-safe "DOMReady" workaround before loading
			//       our popup.
			Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(function() {Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup); });
		} else {
			Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup);
		}

		popup.style.display = 'block';

		var xPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[0] - popup.offsetWidth) / 2;
		var yPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[1] - popup.offsetHeight) / 2;

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
			yPos += Dsq.Utils.getScrollPos()[1];
		}

		popup.style.left = xPos + 'px';
		popup.style.top = yPos + 'px';

		Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {
			'el' : popup,
			'id' : post_id,
			'type': type,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};
	};

	this.isClicked = function(e, id) {
		var t = e.target || e.srcElement;
		while(t && t.parentNode) {
			if(t.id == id) {
				return true;
			}

			t = t.parentNode;
		}
		return false;
	};
};
// Dsq.Popup

/**
 * Dsq.Templates
 */
Dsq.Templates = new function() {
	/*
	 * Counter keeping track of the number of posts iterated over.
	 */
	this.postLoopCounter = 0;
	this.filters = {};
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-post-add';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-post-add';

	this.registerTemplate = function(name, func) {
		this['$$_' + name] = func;

		if(typeof DsqLocal.Filters != 'undefined'
		&& typeof DsqLocal.Filters[name] == 'function') {
			// Push filters to this.filters to unify code.
			this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
			this.filters[name].push(DsqLocal.Filters[name]);
		}

		this[name] = function() {
			var ret;

			if(typeof DsqLocal.Templates != 'undefined'
			&& typeof DsqLocal.Templates[name] == 'function') {
				ret = DsqLocal.Templates[name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(ret === undefined) {
				ret = this['$$_' + name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(this.filters[name]) {
				var args = [ret];

				args.push.apply(args, arguments);
				for(var i = 0; i < this.filters[name].length; i++) {
					ret = this.filters[name][i].apply(this, args);
				}
			}

			return ret;
		};
	};

	this.registerFilter = function(name, func) {
		this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
		this.filters[name].push(func);
	};

	/**
	 * Dsq.Templates.Filters
	 */
	this.Filters = new function() {
		this.commentContainer = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var classes = [];
			if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page > 1) {
				classes.push('dsq-append');
			}

			//
			// Extra classes used for custom themes
			//

			if(_meta.depth) {
				classes.push('dsq-comment-child', 'dsq-depth-' + _meta.depth, 'dsq-parent-is-' + _meta.parent_post_id);
			}


			//

			if(_meta.author_is_creator) {
				// TODO: We need to deprecate the "special" class since it is not properly prefixed.
				classes.push('special', 'dsq-special');
			}
			if(_meta.author_is_moderator) {
				classes.push('dsq-moderator');
			}
			classes.push(['dsq-odd', 'dsq-even'][Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter % 2]);

			s = s.substring(0, s.lastIndexOf('>'));
			return s + ' class="dsq-comment ' + classes.join(' ') + '" style="margin-left:' + _meta.depth*30 + 'px">';
		};

		this.commentContent = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			if (_meta.killed) {
				return '<em>Comment removed.</em>';
			} else if (!_meta.approved) {
				return '<em>This comment was flagged for review.</em>';
			}

			s = s.replace(Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE, Dsq.MediaPostHandler);
			return s;
		};
	};

	//
	// Thread
	//
	// TODO: These need to be stripped of all Django template tags.

	this.authPost = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			return '';
		}
		var result = [];
		result = result.concat([
				'<div id="dsq-auth"',
						Dsq.jsonData.integration.reply_position ? 'class="dsq-auth-bottom"' : '',
						'>',
					'<div class="dsq-by">',
						'<a href="http://disqus.com" target="_blank">',
							(Dsq.jsonData.integration.disqus_logo ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/by-disqus.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">') :
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/dsq-button-120x19.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">')
							),
						'</a>',
					'</div>',
					'<div class="dsq-auth-header">',
						'<h3 id="dsq-add-new-comment" class="dsq-h3-addcomment">',
								Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT,
						'</h3>',
						'<div id="dsq-login">',
						(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
								? '<p class="dsq-login-message" id="dsq-login-message">You are commenting as a <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. You may select one to log into:</p>'
								: '')
		]);
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			result = result.concat([
							Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
								'<a id="dsq-login-toggle" href="%(disqus_url)s%(login_url)s?next=article:%(thread_id)s" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsq-profile-btn.png" title="%(log_into)s" alt="%(log_into)s"/></a>',
								{login_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGIN, thread_id: Dsq.jsonData.thread.id, log_into: Dsq.Strings.LOG_INTO_DISQUS}
								),
							'&nbsp; ',
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ?
								'<div id="dsq-fbc-login" onlogin="DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin()" size="medium" background="light" length="short" style="display:inline; margin-right:7px"></div>' :
								''
							),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-twitter-login" class="dsq-twitter-login" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect();" style="display:inline; cursor: pointer"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/twitter-signin-short.png" style="margin-right:7px" /></div>', {}) : ''),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-openid-login" class="dsq-openid-login" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL();" style="display:inline; cursor:pointer;"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/openid-login-button.png"/></div>', {}
								) : '')
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
						'</div>', // dsq-login
					'</div>', // dsq-auth-header
					'<div id="dsq-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated" ',
						Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated ? 'style="display:block"' : '',
						'>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-pic">',
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">' +
																			'<img class="dsq-post-avatar" src="%(avatar_url)s" alt="" /></a>',
																			{avatar_url: Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR,
																			url: (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
																					 ? Dsq.jsonData.request.url
																					 : Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE) }),
						'</div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>', {url:Dsq.jsonData.request.url})
										  )
										: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(profile_url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>')
											)
									),
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">',
									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsqicon12.png" alt="%(logged_in_as)s"/>&nbsp',
											{logged_in_as: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username)})
										: ''),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="%(logout_from_disqus)s">',
											{logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN, logout_from_disqus: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('DISQUS')})
										: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'twitter')
												? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using Twitter (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
												 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
												: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'openid')
													 ? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using OpenID (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
													 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
													 : ''
													)
											)
									),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote ? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('<span class="logo-disqus">DISQUS</span>') : ''),
									'</a>',
								'</li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
		]);
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect) {
			result = result.concat([
					'<div id="dsq-fbc-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated">',
						'<div id="dsq-fbc-profilepic" class="dsq-authenticated-pic" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.ProfilePic" size="square" facebook-logo="true"></div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									'Logged in as <span id="dsq-fbc-name" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.Name" linked="true" useyou="false"></span>',
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">using Facebook Connect <a href="#" onclick="javascript:DisqusFbcParentController.logout();return false;">(Logout)</a></li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
				'</div>', // dsq-auth
				'<div id="dsq-toolbar-items">',
				'</div>'
		]);
		result = result.concat([
					//
					//
					//
				((!Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) ?
					// Needs to be translated:
					('<p id="dsq-no-anon-msg">Required: Please log into <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> ' +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? 'or connect with Facebook ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? 'or sign in with Twitter ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? 'or sign in using OpenID ' : '') +
					Dsq.Utils.interpolate('to comment on <strong>%(forum_name)s</strong>.</p>')) :
					''
				),
				'<div id="dsq-post-add"></div>',
				'<div style="margin:10px 0">',
				((Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media) ?
						'<a href="#" id="dsq-media-link" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, false, \'media\'); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.USE_MEDIA + ' <small>&#9660;</small></a>' :
						''),
				'</div>'
		]);
		return result.join('');
	};


	this.header = function() {

		var html = '\<h3 id="dsq-comments-count" class="dsq-h3-commentcount">\
	 <span id="dsq-num-posts">136</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/thursday_open_thread_85/latest.rss"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png"></a>\
	 </span>\
	 </h3>\
	 <div id="dsq-options" style="margin:15px 0">\
	 <span class="dsq-item-sort">\
	 Sort by\
	 <select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);">\
	 <option value="hot" selected="selected">Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" >Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/thursday_open_thread_85/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 <p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:24775043" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p>\
	 </div>\
		';

		

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

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

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.authPost();
		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		

		return html;
	};

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

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

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

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

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/thursday_open_thread_85/trackback/';
		}

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

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

		return html;
	}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '	<p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:24775043" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p> \n';
	};

	//
	// Post
	//

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
				<div id="dsq-points-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-likedtxt">'
				+ (_meta.points
					? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.'
					: '')
				+ '</div>'
				+ '<ul class="dsq-comment-options dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.votable
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first dsq-rate" id="dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id + '">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Like</a>'
						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-report' + (!_meta.votable ? ' dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '"><a href="#" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">Report</a></li> \
				</ul> \
				<ul class="dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first"><a href="#" id="dsq-reply-link-' + post_id +'" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(this, ' + post_id +'); return false;">Reply</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<li id="dsq-edit-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-edit-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="' + (!_meta.can_reply ? 'dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-more-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-more-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'more\'); return false">More <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media
					? '<li id="dsq-media-el-' + post_id +'" style="display:none"><a id="dsq-media-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'media\'); return false">Use Media <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
				+ '<div id="dsq-reply-bar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar" style="display:none"> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-items-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-items"> \
						</div> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-auth"> \
							 \
								 \
									<a href="#" class="dsq-help dsq-reply-req-opt" title="You must log into an account in order to comment on Jack and Jill Politics" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Required:</a> \
								 \
								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
								<a id="dsq-reply-login-' + post_id + '" href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:24775043" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</a> \
								 \
									&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img class="fb_login_image" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/fbconnect/login-buttons/connect_light_small_short.gif" alt="Facebook Connect"/> \
									<a href="#" onclick="FB.Connect.requireSession(DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin); return false;">Connect</a> \
								 \
								&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/twitter-signin-icon.png" alt="" /> \
									<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false">Sign-in</a> \
								 \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Iframes
	//

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

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

		var default_params = {
			// TODO: These should be moved to Dsq.jsonData.
			'f'				: 'jackandjillpolitics',
			't'				: 'thursday_open_thread_85',
			// Do we need encodeURIComponent here?
			'ifrs'			: encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css),
			'to_redirect'	: encodeURIComponent(window.location),
			'cbp'			: disqus_callback_params,
			'ff'			: Dsq.Thread.ff,
			'fc'			: Dsq.Thread.fc,
			'ac'			: Dsq.Thread.ac,
			'default_text'	: disqus_default_text
		};

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

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

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

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

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

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

	//
	// Menus
	//

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

	//
	// Popups
	//

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

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

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

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

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

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

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

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

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

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

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

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

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

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

		bodyHtml = message;

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

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

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

	//
	// Actions
	//

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

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

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

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

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);

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

	//
	// Media
	//

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

	//
	// Callbacks
	//

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		if(!openedMenu) {
			return;
		}

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	this.report = function(id, confirmed) {
		if(confirmed) {
			Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/thursday_open_thread_85/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='	+ 'thursday_open_thread_85'
			+ '&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='	+ 'thursday_open_thread_85'
			+ '&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='		+ 'thursday_open_thread_85'
				+ '&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/24775043/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>';
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12376035" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12376035" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12376035">goldenstar</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12376035" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12376035" class="dsq-comment-message">OMG! Who is this Steven A. Smith, journalist? He\'s on MSNBC and is calling the Obama administration inept because of the employment numbers increasing. He\'s black and where has he been the past 25 years?<br><br>He\'s been a sportswriter/sportscaster but this ain\'t no ballgame.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12376464" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12376464" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12376464">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12376464" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12376464" class="dsq-comment-message">Wishful thinking:<br><br>I wish his azz was one of the unemployed after he left ESPN<br><br>It is a straight conspiracy...you mean to tell me they could not have found ANYBODY else to be a commentator other than this loud-mouth mofo....<br><br>That\'s it, I\'m writing somebody today....all these great minds on JJP alone could wipe the floor with some of these folks they are giving a microphone to these days....please, someone call a black political blogger like now already ....and then I thought about it....they would rather keep Black commentators "Palinized"....they ain\'t ready for knowledgeable Black folks talking about politics the way it should be discussed....they are still in shock over Obama getting elected</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12382293" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12382293">Miranda</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12382293" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12382293" class="dsq-comment-message">Preach.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12376426" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12376426">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12376426" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12376426" class="dsq-comment-message">Black opposition to Obama is lucrative. <br><br>C.R.E.A.M.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12376498" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12376498" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12376498">Monie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12376498" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12376498" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes....whoring to a whole \'nother level....dollar, dollar bill y\'all.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12376501" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12376501">Shazza</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12376501" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12376501" class="dsq-comment-message">There it is!!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12377437" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12377437">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12377437" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12377437" class="dsq-comment-message">Keep saying that, Sepia!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12382515" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12382515" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12382515">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12382515" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12382515" class="dsq-comment-message">um, haven\'t I been complaining about this for awhile now? All the Black folks I CAN\'T SEE on tv, but this CLOWN is everywhere!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12382631" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12382631" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12382631">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12382631" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12382631" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL..he\'s the new lil wayne of political shows.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12382807" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12382807">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12382807" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12382807" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12385295" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12385295" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12385295">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12385295" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12385295" class="dsq-comment-message">EWWWWW!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12388457" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12388457" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12388457">Admiral_Komack</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12388457" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12388457" class="dsq-comment-message">Um...that\'s why he\'s on TV...\'cause he\'s a CLOWN</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12411060" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12411060" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12411060" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12411060" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12411060" class="dsq-comment-message">you mean, "Screamin\' A" Smith, don\'t you?<br><br>Any man dating a woman known as "Superhead" has long lost my respect as a journalist or anything else.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12382142" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12382142" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12382142">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12382142" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12382142" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>OMG! Who is this Steven A. Smith, journalist?</i><br><br><br>Another black boot-licking hanky head that MSNBC has bought! <br><br><b>Saaaaaaaaa&gt;&gt;lap</b></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12380855">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12380855" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12380855" class="dsq-comment-message">Smith has always been a joke going back to his days at the Inky.  But he\'s a know-it-all loudmouth, which is the only qualification you need these days to be a pundit.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12380899" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12380899" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12380899">moja31</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12380899" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12380899" class="dsq-comment-message">they really will put <em>anybody</em> on the air to talk shit about obama huh? what the hell does stephen a. smith know about economics?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12384057">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12384057" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12384057" class="dsq-comment-message">Bout as much as he knows about anything else, which aint damn much.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12387178">NMP1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12387178" class="dsq-comment-message">Anyone who has been part of the J&J family for more than 6 months knows that in November I effectively proclaimed myself the last of the Obamicans in that I would not criticize him--until there was real reason.  I\'ve refused to join the chorus of "oh know he didn\'t" everytime he makes a decision that doesn\'t fully comport with our pro-Black or "progressive" ideals.  All that said, listening to Colin Powell\'s recent comments expressing concern about the President\'s seeming lack of focus on the economy and now Joe Klein expressing similar concerns, I have to admit the tape on mouth is starting to lose its adhesive.  Both of these men admire the President and still support him, even believe he can be one of the greatest presidents, if not the greatest, so please save the criticism that they are out to get him.  They are giving him damn good advice that he would be smart to listen to.<br><br>It\'s not that I\'ve lost faith in the President.  I  HAVE  NOT!!!  But he\'s not giving me reason to trust he has an effective plan in place to deal with this economic crisis.  Point blank, he doesn\'t look like he\'s on his grind.  He\'s clearly trying to distract himself from the economy by immersing himself in foreign affairs when he doesn\'t have to.  Secretary Clinton and his foreign policy team are more than capable.  I still believe that most Americans are willing to give the President time to get us out of this mess, that he didn\'t create, but we need to see him with his sleeves rolled-up and head in the books so-to-speak.  As the kids like to say, where\'s the hustle?<br><br>This trip abroad could not have come at a worse time, on the heals of a worse than expected jobs report and Vice President Biden not being able to keep his fuckin\' mouth shut (I\'m taking bets he won\'t be on the ticket in 2012).  This should be his last trip of the year.  His focus should be exclusively on domestic matters.  <br><br>He\'s allowed the GOP to gain real traction on deficit spending criticism, and he\'s losing control of the health care debate.  He\'s allowed Rahm and Biden, two creatures of Congress, to persuade him to give Congress too much control of his signature policies.  It\'s time for the President to take control of this shit!  <br><br>Joe Klein sums it up best...<br><br>"Barack Obama has been President for six months now, and we are beginning to learn a few things about how he does business. The most surprising of these is that he is a vehement traditionalist, a small-c conservative, despite his opponents\' best efforts to paint him as a radical. In foreign policy, this has meant a return to traditional diplomatic devices — treaties, alliances, negotiation, a global strategic vision — after the ad hoc, go-it-alone bellicosity of his predecessor. No less a high priest than Henry Kissinger recently called Obama a "chess player," which is high praise in the world of diplomacy. In domestic policy, however, it has meant an undue respect for the institution of Congress, a sclerotic body badly in need of creative leadership. This is leading Obama into trouble."</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12394829" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12394829" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12394829" href="http://www.WEESeeYou.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Webb</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12394829" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12394829" class="dsq-comment-message">Et tu, NMP1?<br><br>I feel the anxiety too; I wish there was a secret bullet/pill for the mess the country is in right now.  But the analogy of the US government being a cruise liner and not a speedboat remains.<br><br>I totally agree:  PBO is a "chess player," whereas the last president played Tic-Tac-Toe for 8-years-straight. Chess takes time and strategy.  <b>But the real problem is that the country is still "use" to playing Tic-Tac-Toe, expecting quick results in Iraq, New Orleans, and now the broader economy.</b>  <br><br>The American people are still use to being sold lies again and again, and buying the bullshyt.  <br><br>Instant gratification got us here.  Instant gratification will NOT get us out of here.  We need an enduring economy borne of innovation and discovery.  We need industries that cannot be wiped-out-overnight, and guess what, it\'s going to take more than six months to build these industries.  We\'re not going to wake up tomorrow morning and see electric vehicles all over the place.<br><br>Lastly, we live in a global economy.  When America hurts, the world hurts.  The Age of Unilateralism and America-Going-It-Alone ended on 1/19/2009.  President Obama must engage on foreign issues so that when (if) things get better, we will be able to focus on selling our shyt abroad.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12399592" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12399592" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12399592">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12399592" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12399592" class="dsq-comment-message">Love ya, Webb!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12394155" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12394155" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12394155">Nardwilly</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12394155" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12394155" class="dsq-comment-message">You do, of course, realize the G8 part of the trip was scheduled and is necessary for PORUS to attend.  Also the trip to Russia included signing an historic agreement to reduce the number of nuclear weapons.  I eceived a e-mail form OFA yesterday to press my congressman and Senator for health care reform with a "robust public option."  So he has not turned it over to Biden.  Have you done your aprt by calling your Senators?  I believe your premise is wrong and Joe Lein is a writer, with no elected office on his resume.  He may not know waht he is talking about.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12396236">RonnieB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12396236" class="dsq-comment-message">NMP, I\'m one who believes that short-term inaction can sometimes have long-term consequences.  I am one who has long said that President Obama--my political hero--arrived at the White House and began to conduct Washington\'s business.  But I hired him to arrive at the White House and <i>handle that bizniss!</i><br><br>Consumers, middle-class families, and small businesses are sliding into the abyss.  But Wall Street and Madison Ave. needed bail outs (so that they can quickly return to corruption as usual) and they got them.    Public transit and infrastructure crumble by the day.  And a second tidal wave of foreclosures--this time it\'s the folks with *good* credit--is on its way.  <br><br>From time to time, the President is going to have add a little pimp to his game.  And instead of sitting politely at the chess table, turn that muthafka over and put a hurtin\' on all the cheaters.<br><br>There are times when we\'ll need our President to be a gentleman AND a gangsta.  Because sometimes, short-term inaction has long-term consequences.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12399726" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12399726" href="http://www.WEESeeYou.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Webb</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12399726" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12399726" class="dsq-comment-message">You\'re accusing PBO of "short-term inaction?"  You\'re just being euphemistic, right?  You\'re really saying that the President is "slacking" in a nice, corporate way.<br><br>Short-term inaction = slackin = slowful = Sleep\'N\'Eat...what an interesting way to describe an African-American male. <br><br>As far as i\'m concerned, Barack Obama is the Hardest-Working Man(Person) in American Politics that i\'ve ever seen.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12387691">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12387691" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12387691" class="dsq-comment-message">this makes a lot of sense, and I hear you.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12410637" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12410637" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12410637" class="dsq-comment-message">Now y\'all know how I feel when I have to point out shyt like this.<br><br>Too much of anything leads to IMBALANCE.<br><br>We don\'t call him out or challenge him - business as usual.<br><br>We challenge - HE RESPONDS.  And that should be what we want most of all.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12388098">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12388098" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12388098" class="dsq-comment-message">Those last two lines sum it up WELL.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12388342" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12388342">Lisa M</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12388342" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12388342" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m right there with you.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12388417" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12388417">Micheline</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12388417" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12388417" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama gets more animated about foreign policy than he does about economic policy. I saw this during the primaries. If you compared his proposed plan in dealing with the economic crisis to that of HRC and John Edwards, one would have noticed that Obama\'s was the least ambitious. Both Hillary and Edwards proposed a foreclosure moratorium for one year and a freeze  on interest rates. If Obama had done this at the beginning of his Presidency then the foreclosure crisis would have been abated and would have contributed to the  increase in the unemployment numbers.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12401050" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12401050" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12401050">MoObama</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12401050" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12401050" class="dsq-comment-message">I believe your anxiety stems from a bombardment of negativity. The talking heads, (legitimate or not) are giving you pause as to the effectiveness and capability of the president to lead this country.  No president, (and a Black one) in our lifetime has encountered such a governmental and economic disaster.   The president is doing well under the circumstances; he has an excellent team of people working with him.  If the American people will pull together and demand the lower government cooperate by taking the stimulus money and using it as it was intended people will begin to see and feel some relief.  I don’t expect the president to work on the economy only; GWB left America in bad standing through the world. I tell you NMP1,I don’t feel stressed and upset with Obama as I was with GWB.   Maybe I am naïve, but I think we are in good hands.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12388920" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12388920">Lisa M</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12388920" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t recall what has happened the last few times when PBO has left the country but it seems that the media goes into hyper drive with domestic issues when he does. And then when he\'s at home, the media whips up foreign policy problems. The frenzy just feels a little manufactured to me. <br><br>This could very well be a coincidence but recently all the reporting was that Obama is bailing on the public option and then they ask him and he states otherwise and then people (except for Ed-go Ed!!) move on.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12375947">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12375947" class="dsq-comment-message">Sessions Uses Sotomayor as a Pawn in His Lifelong Crusade Against Civil Rights<br>In 1986, an ambitious young United States Attorney named Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III was denied a seat on the federal bench because of his own deep seeded hostility to the very notion of civil rights. As a federal prosecutor, Sessions conducted a tenuous criminal investigation into voting rights advocates that registered African-Americans to vote-an investigation that culminated in an unsuccessful prosecution against a former aide to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He once quipped that he "used to think [the KKK] were OK" until he found out some of them were "pot smokers;" and he routinely referred to an African-American attorney who worked for him as "boy"--even once warning that attorney to "be careful what you say to white folks" after Sessions overheard him chastising a white secretary.<br>Read More<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-millhiser/sessions-uses-sotomayor-a_b_228482.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-millhiser/ses...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12374464" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12374464">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12374464" class="dsq-comment-message">Bill Clinton on the GOP hypocrisy about healthcare costs:<br><br>Taking the stage to a roaring applause, Clinton said that he found current Republican complaints about Obama\'s economic policies, specifically the stimulus package, to be "fastidious" and "hilarious."<br><br>"The members of the other party say they are not for the stimulus, or health care reform, or fighting climate change because it costs money and they really would hate to put that debt on our grandchildren," he said. "In the last eight years I saw the surplus I left, which would have taken you out of debt, even with the 2001 recession, by 2013... I saw it blown away and the debt doubled. And in the 12 years before I became president they quadrupled the debt."<br><br>"These same people," he added, "it didn\'t bother them a bit to put a burden on our grandchildren to pay for a millionaire\'s tax cut. But if we are helping some poor person go to work, or helping some young person go to college, that is unacceptable... I\'m not saying we don\'t have to worry about the debt. We do. It is a problem. But it is a problem that will have to be addressed after the economy grows again and we start generating revenues."<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/08/bill-clinton-obama-will-s_n_228287.html" rel="nofollow">www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/08/bill-clinton-...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12373856" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12373856">miss_opinion</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12373856" class="dsq-comment-message">Bury the Never Ending Myth of Jackson as Child Molester<br><br>Websites, blogs and chatrooms pulsed with garish cracks about it. Legions of commentators and news reporters snuck it in every chance they got. More than a few of Michael Jackson\'s fervent admirers and supporters made a dismissive reference to it. Even President Barack Obama in a cautious acknowledgment of Jackson\'s towering contributions to American music and artistry still made reference to the "tragedy" in Jackson\'s life which was a subtle nod to it. And New York Congressman Pete King skipped the niceties and flatly said it.<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/earl-ofari-hutchinson/bury-the-never-ending-myt_b_228307.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/earl-ofari-hutchi...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12374191" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12374191">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12374191" class="dsq-comment-message">Gotta give it to Earl. He\'s on point with this one. I hope Bob Herbert reads it. <br><br>It\'s interesting that when you ask people why they think MJ is a child molester, they can never give specifics. It\'s always some bullshyte generalization of court details like Herbert saying, <i>"One case of alleged pedophilia against Jackson, the details of which would make your hair stand on end..."</i>. <br><br>Instead of asking why MJ settled, they need to ask that question of the parents who accused him of molesting their children.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12376636" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12376636" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12376636">Shazza</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12376636" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12376636" class="dsq-comment-message">EXACTLY! I always said if it were MY child, there\'d be no amount of money I\'d settle for. Not to mention why a civil suit? Why not a criminal charge?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12389042" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12389042" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12389042">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12389042" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12389042" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'d settle for nothing less than, at <br>minimum, putting a bullet in someone\'s ass.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12411244" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12411244" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12411244" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12411244" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12411244" class="dsq-comment-message">I always said if he was innocent, he should have told that kid\'s parents he would see their asses in court.<br><br>No parent who has a child who was a vic of child molestation, will be willing to put their child through the ordeal of a public trial unless they were DAMNED SURE the perp was caught.<br><br>Mike was asexual - I don\'t think he had any interest in men or women.<br><br>I also believe that during his supposed childhood, Papa Joe had those boys performing in some serious dives - strip clubs, juke joints - how do we know some pedophile didn\'t get a hold of Mike and molested HIM back then?<br><br>I agree - after the first allegation, it was like homeboy up and died right there, in 1993.  He physically died on June 25th - but his spirit was long gone.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12381136" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12381136" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12381136">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12381136" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12381136" class="dsq-comment-message">Mike didn\'t help his own case when he admitting to sharing his bed with young boys AFTER the first case.  I do not believe MJ ever molested a child; I think MJ was asexual and didn\'t have sexual interest in anyone, let alone a child.  BUT it\'s not healthy for adults to be hanging around children like that.  It didn\'t help when family members like LaToya were telling the press that he was guilty.<br><br>Again, I don\'t believe he ever harmed a hair on a child but whoever was helping him with PR didn\'t do him any favors by letting him do that interview with Martin Bashir, which led to the 2nd set of charges.  I believe it was over for MJ after that trial.  IMO he died then, not on June 25.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12395627" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12395627">TyrenM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12395627" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t think he hurt any kids either Town. But, as Ice Cube said "You musta split your wig, to let mJ babysit your kids. They need to throw the momma in jail. That n old as hell."</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12375053" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12375053" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12375053">goldenstar</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12375053" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12375053" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, there are tragedies in MJ\'s life w/o all the accusations. I\'m not so sure that BO was referring to the charges. To me, it\'s open-ended. And, knowing how careful and cautious BO is, it just may include the abusive childhood and press hounding that he faced.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12376208" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12376208" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12376208">eclecticbrotha</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12376208" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12376208" class="dsq-comment-message">The biggest tragedy of MJ\'s life is he never <em><strong>had</strong></em> a childhood.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12375971" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12375971" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12375971">Guns3000</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12375971" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12375971" class="dsq-comment-message">Part of the reason why people think Michael he was a child molester because he openly he admitted that he slept with young children.  That is unacceptable.  My mother used to tell me as black man I need to keep myself out of situations where I\'m perceived that I\'m doing wrong because people are going to assume I\'m doing wrong.  Mike was the greatest entertainer that ever lived and I\'m not going to yell child molester but the fact that he slept with young children and didn\'t realize or didn\'t care how that would be perceived is shocking.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12376460" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12376460" href="http://blackdiamond2008.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ASmith</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12376460" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12376460" class="dsq-comment-message">When MJ admitted that on national television, my opinion that he really did see the world through the lens of a 10 yr old strengthened. Any middle-aged man, of any race, that doesn\'t know that saying you share your bed with little boys will be recieved as a sexual thing and thus shouldn\'t be said doesn\'t get it. MJ didn\'t get it, but I dont\' think he ever touched a boy inappropriately.  There was nothing about him, otherwise, that suggested he might.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12382457" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12382457" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12382457">jelana</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12382457" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12382457" class="dsq-comment-message">These are my thoughts exactly!  After all, a true pedophile would never make a statement such as this.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12381339" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12381339" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12381339" href="http://www.ilivetoshop.typepad.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ruthdfw</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12381339" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12381339" class="dsq-comment-message">I think perhaps more than anything those statements showed how out of touch he was with the increasing sexualization of our society and children.<br><br>Also I hear someone say that he thought of himself as Peter Pan figure.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12374101" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12374101">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12374101" class="dsq-comment-message">This is horrible.  Tasering needs to be ban.<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/08/new-mexico-teen-girl-tase_n_228280.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/08/new-me...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12373819" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12373819">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12373819" class="dsq-comment-message">Good Morning.Your Thursday jam.Enjoy<br>Energy To Burn-B.T. Express<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOsMvUsgDPw" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOsMvUsgDPw</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12374703" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12374703">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12374703" class="dsq-comment-message">thanks</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12380954" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12380954">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12380954" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12380954" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s right, I\'m dancing in my chair.  Got one hand in the air whilst I type with the other (LOL).<br><br>You\'re really spoiling us.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12374039" class="dsq-comment-message">Isn\'t the Federal Reserve Bank a private entity?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12376141" class="dsq-comment-message">OK I have to admit I thought about a tattoo for a while. Went to a place with my BFF (who has like 5) but once confronted with the selection, there was nothing I could commit to PERMANENTLY marking onto my body. However, I think this is pretty cool-looking:<br><a href="http://www.mediatakeout.com/2009/33992-another_michael_jackson_tat_this_time_its_willie_from_day_26.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.mediatakeout.com/2009/33992-another_...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12378335" class="dsq-comment-message">If News Corp. is doing this oversees, there\'s no telling what they\'re doing in the U.S.!<br><br><i>Inquiry Begun on Hacking Cases at Murdoch Papers<br><br>By JOHN F. BURNS and ALAN COWELL<br>Published: July 9, 2009<br><br>LONDON — Britain’s most senior police officer said Thursday he had ordered a preliminary inquiry into reports by The Guardian newspaper that Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper subsidiary paid about $1.6 million to settle court cases involving allegations that its reporters worked with private investigators to hack into the cellphone messages of numerous public figures.<br><br>Among those whose cellphones were tapped or hacked into were the former deputy prime minister and at least one other cabinet minister, The Guardian reported.<br><br>The Guardian’s report was denied by Mr. Murdoch, whose News Corporation owns the Fox Broadcasting Company in the United States as well as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post. Bloomberg News quoted Mr. Murdoch as saying on Wednesday that he was not aware of any payments made to settle legal cases in which the company’s reporters in Britain might have been involved in criminal activity.<br><br>“If that had happened, I would know about it,” he said.<br><br>On Thursday, Sir Paul Stephenson, the head of Scotland Yard, said he had assigned an assistant commissioner, John Yates, to “establish the facts” about the case “and look into the detail,” according to the Press Association news agency, quoting Sky News, which is also part of Mr. Murdoch’s media empire.<br><br>“I think we have got a track record of doing exactly what we are supposed to do,” Mr. Stephenson was quoted as saying. “If we need to investigate, we will investigate. We will do the right thing and do what we have to do to investigate crime wherever it exists.”<br><br>Mr. Yates is a senior officer named in April as the head of counterterrorism at Scotland Yard. He achieved prominence earlier when he conducted a lengthy, but inconclusive, inquiry into allegations that the ruling Labor party traded honors for political donations.<br><br>The Guardian report could not be independently verified. The newspaper cited an unnamed “senior source” at Scotland Yard as saying that staff members at News International, the Murdoch subsidiary that owns four major newspapers in Britain, including The Times of London, The Sunday Times and two tabloids, The News of the World and The Sun, had used private investigators to hack into “thousands” of cellphones to obtain confidential personal data, including tax records, social security files, bank statements and itemized telephone bills. It cited another source “with knowledge of the police findings” as saying that the investigators had tapped “two or three thousand” cellphones.<br><br>The Guardian article, citing those sources, said that the targets of the hacking included John Prescott, who was deputy to former Prime Minister Tony Blair, and a cabinet member, Tessa Jowell, as well as lawmakers from all three of Britain’s major political parties. Accessing stored phone messages covertly is illegal in Britain, except for the police or intelligence agencies acting with a warrant.<br><br>“I find it staggering that there could be a list known to the police of people who had their phone tapped,” said Mr. Prescott on Thursday. “I’m named as one of them. For such a criminal act not to be reported to me, and for action not to be taken against the people who have done it, reflects very badly on the police and I want to know their answer.”<br><br>The Guardian said Scotland Yard files also showed that the newspapers had used private investigators to approach government agencies, banks, phone companies and other agencies that, the paper said, were conned into handing over confidential information on politicians, actors, athletes, musicians and television presenters, all of whom are named in the files. The Guardian said the files named 31 reporters working for The News of the World and The Sun in connection with the operation.<br><br>In the past few months, Britain has been rocked by scandals related to the use of expense accounts by members of Parliament, but The Guardian did not explain how or if the information it obtained was used, or if it had any relation to the scandals.<br><br>The Guardian article caused an immediate uproar, with demands from politicians and others for the government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown to order a police investigation and to explain why earlier police inquiries had not resulted in any action against the Murdoch-owned papers.<br><br>Simon Hughes, a prominent lawmaker for the Liberal Democrats, an opposition party, who was among those named by the paper as having had their cellphone messages tapped, said that if The Guardian’s story was accurate, those responsible should be “severely punished.” He told the BBC that The Guardian’s revelations amounted to “a very big warning bell” of the damage that could be done by exploiting the possibilities of “the new data-centered age.”<br><br>The Guardian cited no sources for its claim that News International, the Murdoch subsidiary, had paid £1 million, about $1.6 million, in damages and legal costs to three people involved in professional soccer in Britain, including about $1.1 million to Gordon Taylor, chief executive of the Professional Footballers’ Association.<br><br>The Guardian said the financial settlements in Britain were accompanied by clauses that prevented the people receiving the money from speaking about the cases. Such confidentiality clauses are common in many settlements. It said the settlements arose from disclosures that emerged from a trial of two private investigators working for the Murdoch-owned News of the World who served brief prison terms after being convicted in 2007 for hacking into cellphone messages.<br><br>One of the men convicted, Clive Goodman, was found to have accessed more than 600 messages on cellphones used by members of the royal family. The other man, Glenn Mulcaire, a former professional soccer player, admitted that he had hacked into the cellphone of Mr. Taylor, head of the soccer association, as well as those of the model Elle Macpherson and Max Clifford, a public relations agent.<br><br>In documents submitted to the High Court in London during the trial of Mr. Goodman and Mr. Mulcaire, executives of News International said The News of the World’s editors and reporters had not been involved in any way in the phone tapping.<br><br>But the controversy stirred by The Guardian could reach into the highest ranks of Mr. Murdoch’s empire. Several senior executives at News International or The News of the World were named by The Guardian as having denied knowledge of the tapping during the Goodman-Mulcaire trials.<br><br>John F. Burns reported from London and Alan Cowell from Paris.<br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/world/europe/10britain.html?hp" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/world/europe/...</a><br></i></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12378371" class="dsq-comment-message">By Robin Givhan<br>Washington Post Staff Writer <br>Thursday, July 9, 2009 <br><br>ROME, July 8 -- First lady Michelle Obama has a singular designation during her short stay in Italy while the president attends the G8 Summit in L\'Aquila. She is the "spouse." <br><br>This designation comes with advantages such as an outdoor luncheon catered by renowned chef Heinz Beck and served at a table draped in ivory tulle on a terrace overlooking one of the world\'s most ancient cities. It means a private tour of the Capitoline Museums with their paintings and bronzes and the famous sculpture of Romulus and Remus -- symbols of Rome -- being suckled by a wolf. It includes having an advance staff that has taste-tested the variety of gelati the city has to offer so that her daughters will not have to suffer through any unpalatable sweets. (They chose well. Sasha and Malia Obama visited Giolitti, one of the best ice cream parlors in Rome.) And a G8 spouse never ever has to sit in traffic. <br><br>But "spouse" also means moving through the day as an object, as an emblem to be photographed and studied. It means politely making small talk and deftly avoiding the Italian imbroglio of the day: the head of state\'s operatic marital discord. Since the summit began Wednesday, the luncheon -- the G8 spouses luncheon -- was the first big outing for the wives, along with several other female Italian officials. It was hosted by another spouse -- the wife of the mayor of Rome, Isabella Rauti Alemanno. <br><br>Afterward they posed for a group portrait. They gathered, mingling and chatting, in one of the museum\'s atria -- a location ostensibly chosen so they could view the statue of Marcus Aurelius on horseback. But none of the women really seemed to notice that three-story sculpture in the room. They also didn\'t react to the two stooped elderly guardsmen who flanked the grand equestrian monument, even though they were dressed in gold velvet britches and cranberry-colored military coats adorned with gold braid and epaulets. The real purpose of the moment was the group portrait. It would mark the occasion but it also had the women lined up in a single, shoulder-to-shoulder row as if they were awaiting Bert Parks to announce Miss Congeniality. <br><br>There is more<br><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/08/AR2009070804092.html?wpisrc=newsletter" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12382199" class="dsq-comment-message">The theme of this article is "Look, Michelle knows how to act."</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12378947" class="dsq-comment-message">Murdoch papers paid £1m to gag phone-hacking victims<br>News of the World bugging led to £700,000 payout to PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor <br>Nick Davies <br>guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 8 July 2009 17.33 BST <br>Article history<br><br>News International has always maintained it had no knowledge of phone hacking by anybody acting on its behalf.<br>Murdoch told Bloomberg news last night that he knew nothing about the payments. "If that had happened I would know about it," he said.<br>A private investigator who had worked for News Group, Glenn Mulcaire, was also jailed in January 2007. He admitted hacking into the phones of five other targets, including the chief executive of the Professional Footballers\' Association, Gordon Taylor. Among the phones he hacked were those of the Lib Dem MP Simon Hughes, celebrity PR Max Clifford, model Elle MacPherson and football agent Sky Andrew. <br><br>News Group denied all knowledge of the hacking, but Taylor last year sued them on the basis that they must have known about it.<br>In documents initially submitted to the high court, News Group executives said the company had not been involved in any way in Mulcaire\'s hacking of Taylor\'s phone. They denied keeping any recording or notes of intercepted messages. But, at the request of Taylor\'s lawyers, the court ordered the production of detailed evidence from Scotland Yard\'s inquiry in the Goodman case, and from an inquiry by the Information Commissioner\'s office into journalists who dishonestly obtain confidential personal records.<br><br><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/08/murdoch-papers-phone-hacking" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/08/mur...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12380640" class="dsq-comment-message">House Resolution Would Memorialize Jackson <br>It\'ll be interesting to see how the votes shake out on a House resolution offered by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) to honor Michael Jackson.<br><br>Speaking today at the pop icon\'s funeral, Jackson Lee (who is no relation to the late singer) held up a copy of her resolution and said it will be debated on the House floor. The measure will hail Jackson as "an American legend, a musical icon and a world humanitarian," she said.<br><br>The lengthy resolution, which includes 44 separate "whereas" clauses, chronicles Jackson\'s career and accomplishments from his days as a baby-faced member of the "Jackson 5" to his rise as the "King of Pop" with such explosive hits as "Thriller," "Billie Jean" and "Beat It."<br><br>The measure also notes some of Jackson\'s more obscure humanitarian work, including these clauses:<br><br>Whereas in December 1991, Michael\'s office MJJ Productions donated more than 200 turkey dinners to needy families in Los Angeles; <br><br>Whereas, on April 9, 1984, David Smithee, a 14-year-old boy suffering from cystic fibroses was invited to Michael\'s home, in response to a dying request to meet Michael. David passed away 7 weeks later;<br><br>Whereas on December 1993, in conjunction with the Gorbachev Foundation, Michael Jackson airlifted 60,000 doses of children\'s vaccines to Tblisi, Georgia;<br><br>Whereas in 1994, Michael donated $500,000 to Elizabeth Taylor\'s AIDS Foundation.<br><br>Jackson Lee\'s resolution goes on at great length to list many other of Jackson\'s good deeds before finally concluding:<br><br>Whereas we today mourn with and send our condolences to the children that Michael Jackson left behind: Prince Michael, Paris Michael, and Prince Michael II and his mother, father, brothers, and sisters: Now, therefore, be it<br><br>Resolved, That the House of Representatives--<br><br>(1) recognizes Michael Jackson as a global humanitarian and a noted leader in the fight against worldwide hunger and medical crises; and<br><br>(2) celebrates Michael Jackson as an accomplished contributor to the worlds of arts and entertainment, scientific advances in the treatment of HIV/AIDS, and global food security.<br><br>As of this afternoon, the resolution did not yet appear on the House floor schedule. But rest assured that when it does come before the House for debate, Congresswoman Jackson Lee will ask for a recorded vote. And we fully expect Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), who this week lambasted Michael Jackson as a "pervert," a "child molester" and a "pedophile," will happily lead the Nay column.<br><br>"We would vote against it," King\'s spokesman, Kevin Fogarty, told us today.<br><br><a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2009/07/house_resolution_would_jackson.html?wprss=sleuth" rel="nofollow">http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2009/07...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12381217" class="dsq-comment-message">I could see a vote on a Michael Jackson tribute becoming a hot potato or southern legislators in particular.  even though many of their constitutents R MJ fans.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12381979" class="dsq-comment-message">i see all kinds of bullshit posturing coming out of this one, there was already some talking head chatter about it right after the memorial . <br>the wingnuts are already up in arms, and their favorite congress people will accordingly pretend that they don\'t vote on these kinds of resolutions all the time, and feign their offense very loudly. democrats will be afraid to appear to endorse the oft referred to "more tragic elements of his life," and most of the CBC will probably defend the resolution (except those who feel he hated being black). <br>somewhere along the way, Al & Jesse will be called up by the networks for a comment, and obviously they\'ll comply. and on and on, you can fill in the rest.<br>i hope it doesn\'t happen this way, but i won\'t hold my breath. our elected officials just can\'t help themselves; anything that can get blown up into some opportunity ripe for posturing, will.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12383680" class="dsq-comment-message">If I\'m not mistaken, Nancy Pelosi stated today at press conference, she didn\'t think there needs to be a resolution!  So here we go...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12386307" class="dsq-comment-message">but obviously all the other symbolic resolutions that the house passes on a daily basis are definitely <em>needed.</em><br>like i said below: <br>"democrats will be afraid to appear to endorse the oft referred to \'tragic \'elements of his life." <br>Ms. Nancy is just the first in what will be a long line of posturing fools, because this is the kind of story that the media eats up. shortly they\'ll be asking the president for his opinion on what the house should do; you know, because he\'s black.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12388630" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m waiting to see who will be the first numbnut to ask about it in the  press briefings with Gibbs.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12386586" class="dsq-comment-message">Bingo!, moja31.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12388595" class="dsq-comment-message">You Nailed it, Moja!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12388940" class="dsq-comment-message">In other words - she\'ll just DO IT.  No need to go thru all the red tape, then?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12410988" class="dsq-comment-message">See, THIS SHYT is why I have to stay on the CBC\'s ass!  Sheila Jackson-Lee, one of the WORST members of the CBC, can never be found for meaningful shyt - but she can take her wanna-be diva ass and expend what lil\' capital the CBC has on shyt like this.<br><br>I love Mike, and will miss him dearly, but the reality is, she could be beating down for universal health care, fix ish still left by Katrina, and help audit the damned Federal Reserve...but NOOOOOOOOOOO, she wastes time on resolutions.<br><br>SMH....</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12380875" class="dsq-comment-message">Racism, discrimination widespread inside HFD?<br>07:54 AM CDT on Thursday, July 9, 2009<br>Jeff McShan and Jeremy Desel / 11 News - 4 Raw Videos <br><br>HOUSTON -- Just one day after racist and sexist graffiti was found written outside the women\'s quarters at Fire Station 54, an emotional Fire Chief Phil Boriskie addressed another racist incident. <br><br>It happened just before 7 a.m. Wednesday. <br><br>“I am mad as hell,” said Chief Boriskie. “The good men and women of the Houston Fire Department don’t deserve this.” <br><br>The racist message, which included the "n" word, was broadcast over the firefighters’ radio system and lasted seven to eight seconds. <br><br>HFD strongly believes someone from the outside is responsible. They think someone hacked into their frequency, <br><br>“We have referred this to the OIG for a complete investigation,” Fire Chief Boriskie said. <br><br>Whether the message originated from the outside or not, several women, who either currently work for the fire department or have since retired, say they are not surprised by the recent incidents. <br><br>“I mean, let’s be real. I didn’t come in with a blind eye to where I was working. I am at a place where it is a majority of white males,” said veteran female firefighter Vantrece Williams. <br><br>Williams says she\'s been harassed, but nothing was ever done about it. Mainly because she says many firefighters won’t speak out when they witness something bad taking place. <br><br>“If we want to continue being on TV with the negative images, then we just continue to be quiet,” said Williams. <br><br>11 News heard allegations of women firefighters being groped by their male co-workers, and an allegation of a male firefighter masturbating over a female co-worker while she was trying to sleep in her bed. <br><br>“You see it. It gets to the point, because nothing happens, that you have to pick your battles,” said Williams.<br><br><br><a href="http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou090708_mp_racism-inside-hfd.20b25d62.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou0907...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12383541" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12383541" class="dsq-comment-message">Lord Have Mercy!  This is maddening. How long, Lord?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12384498" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12384498" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12384498">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12384498" class="dsq-comment-message">Sheer psychopaths.  And I don\'t believe for one minute someone hacked into their system.  Broadcasting "nigger\' was intentional.<br><br>It\'s disgusting, jacking off on female peers while they are sleeping.<br><br>Fire Chief Boriskie better do more than "get mad" and Williams needs to take legal action against the department for these demeaning and racially charged acts.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12385777" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12385777" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12385777" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12385777" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12385777" class="dsq-comment-message">Yu\'ll understand that regardless the behavior - the racism and misogyny go hand-in-hand.<br><br>Of course that \'broadcasting\' was intentional.  Someone breaking into their frequency.  I don\'t know, Kenneth, whaddya think?  Shall we USE that fucking excuse no matter how lame it sounds?<br><br>.<br>.<br><br>Kenneth says, \'yes.\'</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12385962" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12385962" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12385962">TAG60</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12385962" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12385962" class="dsq-comment-message">one of the many pearls of wisdom comment on the article.<br><br><br>JMAN 2 hours ago wrote:<br><br>Why don\'t the black people quit looking for special treatment, quit having kids that you have no intention of fathering and quit acting so ghetto, quit being racist against all other races but your own. Then maybe we can move to the next step of ending racism. You don\'t hear all the other races whinning about racism all the time. Even though there seems to be more racist blacks then whites or any other skin color. I can\'t tell you how many times I have heard white men reffered to as pecker woods or white boys but we just laugh it off and realize your ignorance. We don\'t run to the media and other outlets saying blacks are racist against whites. I believe reverse racism is the new racism. How many whites do you see creating white only TV stations, unions, affirmative action, ect...Obama is proof that whites are no longer a racist race. More white people voted for him then black people. The only person you can change is yourself.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12387169" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12387169" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12387169">Miranda</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12387169" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12387169" class="dsq-comment-message">This is a standard post from the numbnuts. I\'ve seen this exact post on many a forum. It doesnt matter what the article or column is about, this is the standard post you get from the wingnuts. The article could be about astronomers discovering a new star and you\'ll get this post in their somewhere.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12388442" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12388442" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12388442">Plantsmantx</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12388442" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12388442" class="dsq-comment-message">It is a standard post, yes. I\'ve seen it on many a forum too...including this one:<br><br>"More of the damn same. Drop out of high school. Have kids you can\'t afford. Call each other nigga. Rob a liquor store. Go to jail. Get out and go back to to selling drugs. And then have the nerve to ask the President to do something for you. How about doing something for yourself? Too many blacks in America have a welfare mentality. Those stories have happened to people across America no matter the color. Stop looking for a handout."<br><br>TAG60\'s quote adds the "Anti-black racism won\'t go away until blacks stop complaining about it" meme.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12389049" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12389049" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12389049">Miranda</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12389049" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12389049" class="dsq-comment-message">And sometimes they get creative and add something like "listen to Bill Cosby!"...(but what they really mean by that is listen to Heathcliff Huxtable because you know, they like him)...or they\'ll throw in a dig at Al, Jesse or Farrakhan..or maybe all three.<br><br>There must be a form file somewhere and they just copy and paste this stuff.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12400113" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12400113" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12400113">Plantsmantx</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12400113" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12400113" class="dsq-comment-message">Some of them say that because they perceive Cosby as flogging black people on behalf of whites. I\'ve run into a few people online who\'ve pulled the "Cosby card", and I directed them to Coates\' Atlantic profile-the one in which Cosby exclaims "This is how we lost to the white man!!" They couldn\'t handle it. They said it was a lie, and he didn\'t actually say such a thing.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12394066" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12394066" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12394066">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12394066" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12394066" class="dsq-comment-message">Pat BuKKKlanan spews this drivel on MSNBC everytime the word "racism\' is mentioned.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12399570" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12399570" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12399570">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12399570" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12399570" class="dsq-comment-message">He damn sure does...each and everytime.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12387127" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12387127" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12387127">danadevin74</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12387127" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12387127" class="dsq-comment-message">a mind is a terrible thing to waste</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12386796" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12386796" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12386796">Plantsmantx</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12386796" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12386796" class="dsq-comment-message">That reads very much like the "pearls of wisdom" we see from one or two people on this blog.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12388833" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12388833" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12388833">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12388833" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12388833" class="dsq-comment-message">The "standard comment" is classic Pat BucKKKlanan speak.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12388976" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12388976" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12388976">Shazza</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12388976" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12388976" class="dsq-comment-message">This was posted on the Philly paper website commenting on the pool story:<br>if you want people opinins of blacks to change. then you should change how you behave. get and education and take respocibility for your actions if you want people opinins of blacks to change. then you should change how you behave. get and education and take respocibility for your actions <br><br>I\'m sure ANY of those kids could spell better than this douchebag.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12398354" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12398354" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12398354">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12398354" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12398354" class="dsq-comment-message">Perfect. But then, that person really doesn\'t have to know how to spell, does he/she?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12399615" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12399615" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12399615">Miranda</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12399615" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12399615" class="dsq-comment-message">sad, but true.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12381115" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12381115">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12381115" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12381115" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>President Bill Clinton set to join Phi Beta Sigma<br>July 9, 12:36 AM<br><br>The men of Phi Beta Sigma are hosting their National Conclave this week in New Orleans, Louisiana.<br><br>According to sources in New Orleans yesterday the men of this brotherhood voted on several members to be inducted into the fraternity at a later date.<br><br>One of those men is former President Bill Clinton and the other is Rev. Al Sharpton.<br><br>Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity has not confirmed this information as of yet but sources in New Orleans who wish to remain anonymous have confirmed that this order of business has been voted on and both men will be inducted later this year.<br><br>Similarly last year it was said that Michelle Obama would be initiated into Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc, the country\'s first and oldest black greek lettered sorority. No official word was ever made public as to wether or not First Lady Michelle Obama ever became a member of the organization.<br><br>If Bill Clinton is inducted into Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. he will be the first former President of the United States to become a member of a historically black greek lettered organization. Congratulations to former President Bill Clinton and the brotherhood of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity.<br><br><a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-4839-Philadelphia-HipHop-Music-Examiner%7Ey2009m7d9-President-Bill-Clinton-set-to-join-Phi-Beta-Sigma" rel="nofollow">http://www.examiner.com/x-4839-Philadelphia-Hip...</a><br></i></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12381197" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12381197" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12381197">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12381197" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12381197" class="dsq-comment-message">Why not the Q Dogs?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12382201" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12382201" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12382201">MsKitty</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12382201" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12382201" class="dsq-comment-message">I see Bubba more as a Kappa.  I\'m not sure of their national reputation, but when I went to Rutgers back in the day the Kappas were considered the "pretty boy/playa" fraternity (LOL).</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12382411" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12382411" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12382411">Sepia</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12382411" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12382411" class="dsq-comment-message">I see Bill Clinton as a white privileged asshole who used black folks for 8+ years, who doesn\'t deserve the time of day from black folks. After the crap he pulled last year, I don\'t know why any black organization would want to honor him.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12383919" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12383919" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12383919" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12383919" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12383919" class="dsq-comment-message">He\'s white they are weak-willed still seeking a white man\'s approval.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12410807" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12410807" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12410807" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12410807" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12410807" class="dsq-comment-message">Guess he feels by joining a Black Frat, he\'ll get back his honorary Negro Card.<br><br>I THINK NOT.  &lt;&lt;&lt;side eye&gt;&gt;&gt;</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12383925" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12383925">danadevin74</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12383925" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12383925" class="dsq-comment-message">yes<br>and that first black president stuff really irked me<br>they didn\'t give him that title because of anything positive</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12408963" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12408963" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12408963" href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Kesha-Shadwick/596212145" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Kesha Shadwick</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12408963" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12408963" class="dsq-comment-message">I was scratching my head saying the same thing when I was reading this. I just don\'t get it!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12384214" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12384214" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12384214">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12384214" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12384214" class="dsq-comment-message">Keep on telling it, Sepia.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12385064" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12385064" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12385064">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12385064" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12385064" class="dsq-comment-message">I just shared this with a friend who\'s a Zeta...she\'s not happy.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12394117" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12394117" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12394117">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12394117" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12394117" class="dsq-comment-message">Go Sepia!<br><br>Lay it down!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12381586" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12381586" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12381586" href="http://www.ilivetoshop.typepad.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ruthdfw</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12381586" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12381586" class="dsq-comment-message">Melissa Harris-Lacewell\'s column wonderfully describes the tradition of Black Funerals while looking back on the service held for MJ.<br><br>"African-American death rituals have long been celebratory as well as mournful. As a marginal people whose collective identity is rooted in struggle, death is celebrated as a release from pain, inequality and torment. As a deeply religious people, death is celebrated as an opportunity for reunion with God."<br><br>It really is a must read.<br><br><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-oped0709jacksonjul09%2C0%2C6884986.story#" rel="nofollow">http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12381943" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12381943" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12381943">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12381943" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12381943" class="dsq-comment-message">Rep. Peter King On "O\'Reilly" - Stands By MJ Comments<br>Invokes Bob Herbert’s NT Times article to back up his point.<br><br>Of course BillO tells King he’s not a racist, and of course King pulls his Catholicism card<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tOt2XSFkOU" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tOt2XSFkOU</a><br><br>Al Sharpton on "O\'Reilly" - Peter King "Reckless, Irresponsible"<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXX3yxmfUQs" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXX3yxmfUQs</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12382244" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12382244" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12382244">Sepia</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12382244" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12382244" class="dsq-comment-message"><i><br>Invokes Bob Herbert’s NT Times article to back up his point.</i><br><br>Not surprised. This is what <i>they</i> do: Use a black person\'s comment(s) to justify their racist rants, as if that black person is the authority of all things black.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12383867" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12383867" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12383867">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12383867" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12383867" class="dsq-comment-message">wellz naw sepia, you\'s know mister bill need ta tell us\'n who\'s ta like, who\'s ta not like, who\'s bad, who\'s guud, cuz we\'s cant be trussed wit no stuff like dat. we\'s dont know no betta. mister bill knows whuts guud fo us.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12384270" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12384270">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12384270" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12384270" class="dsq-comment-message">GIMME MY MUTHAPHUCKING ICE TEA, BIOTCH!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12385077" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12385077">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12385077" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12385077" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL!  BillO the PSCYHO!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12388324" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12388324" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12388324">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12388324" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12388324" class="dsq-comment-message">BWA HA HA HA HA</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12385014" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12385014" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12385014">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12385014" class="dsq-comment-message">That is exactly what these coons get paid to do.<br><br>Yet Bob Herbert was quick to come to Joan Walsh\'s defense when Dick Armey<br>dissed her.<br><br><a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0109/Armey_scolded_for_sexist_crack_on_MSNBC.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0109/...</a><br><br>Now, wasn\'t Bob so gallant comimg to the white damsel\'s side.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12382165" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12382165" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12382165">moja31</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12382165" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12382165" class="dsq-comment-message">well if BillO tells you you\'re not a racist, then it\'s <em>obviously</em> settled.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12385616" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12385616" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12385616" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12385616" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12385616" class="dsq-comment-message">In other words - some of my best friends are black (see Bob Herbert as proof).</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12382728" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12382728">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12382728" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12382728" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow.<br><br><i>Barbara Walters\' Spy Cam at Jackson Memorial<br><br>Posted Jul 8th 2009 1:05PM by TMZ Staff<br><br>If everyone were to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge, Barbara Walters would too.<br><br>During last night\'s "20/20" Michael Jackson special, Walters showcased footage shot by an ABC producer sitting next to her at the memorial. The video captures Katherine Jackson and Michael\'s kids two rows in front of Barbara watching the service -- despite the fact that tickets to the event clearly state "no camera/video/recording."<br><br>Barbara Walters\' Spy Cam at Jackson Memorial Click to view!An ABC source tells us Barbara\'s producer decided to shoot video because "once inside the Staples Center it was quite obvious to our producer that plenty of people were shooting video."<br><br>Calls to AEG (which threw the event) were not returned.<br><br><a href="http://www.tmz.com/2009/07/08/barbara-walters-spy-cam-at-jackson-memorial/%3C/i" rel="nofollow">http://www.tmz.com/2009/07/08/barbara-walters-s...</a>&gt;</i></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12383653" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12383653">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12383653" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12383653" class="dsq-comment-message">Um, maybe those people were the networks and news agencies providing a live feed so people around the world could see the funeral.<br><br>Of course, I\'m not surprised Baba Wawa would disrespect a black funeral since she found no problem with disrespecting a black family by boasting about her affair with Sen. Brooke.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12383417" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12383417">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12383417" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12383417" class="dsq-comment-message">What was the producer hoping to get? Did he think he was going to catch lil Paris whispering in Mama Katherine\'s ear that she doesnt know who this "Michael Jackson" person is? What?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12383754" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12383754">danadevin74</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12383754" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12383754" class="dsq-comment-message">no respect what so ever<br>anything to get a damn story<br>she should have just kept her old azz at the memorial service<br>she ain\'t got long until hers comes</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12384043" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12384043" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12384043">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12384043" class="dsq-comment-message">Not an ounce of respect. That old witch. <b>Saaaaaa&gt;&gt;lap</b><br><br>She wanted to capture on video anything that would give juicy gossip about those little white kids with black folks.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12384647" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12384647">danadevin74</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12384647" class="dsq-comment-message">and thats the main thing <br>they don\'t wan\'t those kids <br>with black folks<br><br>trying to find something to talk about<br>but those kids will be fine<br>they had a father who loved them<br>and they have a family who love them<br>and if them kids wasn\'t comfortable <br>with the Jackson family <br>you would have noticed it</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12388136" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12388136">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12388136" class="dsq-comment-message">I hope that old witch caught Prince Michael laying his head on Janet\'s shoulder as she was holding Paris in her arms....but I am sure Barbara Wawa won\'t show that.... that would look like the kids love the Jacksons.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12384274" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12384274">Shazza</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12384274" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12384274" class="dsq-comment-message">Except when she gets hers, only ABC will care.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12383557">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12383557" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12383557" class="dsq-comment-message">Just triflin.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12384006" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12384006" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12384006" class="dsq-comment-message">Today\'s Conversation:<br>Cinderella - Guerrilla Training Manual for African-American Women <a href="http://tinyurl.com/lkuvm5" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/lkuvm5</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12395013">TyrenM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12395013" class="dsq-comment-message">H  & F<br>Thanks for the article. I\'m always looking through various media for idea on raising, uplifting, empowering etc. my daughter. Don\'t recall if you\'ve been part of the various bruhahas here with Lisa/Blackwomenblowthetrumpet or not, irrelevant. Just thinking that this article was along those lines of reclaiming yourself, actualization etc. Does this make sense? Hope so. Thanks again</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12418298" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12418298" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12418298" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12418298" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks. We all don\'t agree all agree on certain key issues but uplifting black women and girls is what I\'m trying to do!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12470188" href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Blackwomen-Blowthetrumpet/1314242676" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Blackwomen Blowthetrumpet</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12470188" class="dsq-comment-message">@TyrenM<br><br>I am not sure what you are referring to when you mention "various bruhahas here with Lisa/Blackwomenblowthetrumpet" but allow me to offer the facts....<br><br>There HAVE NOT been "various bruhahas".  Allow me to offer the true FACTS for those who are reading and who may erroneously think that your "various bruhahas" remark is based on fact...<br><br>I offered comments on the ONE post "Our Kind of People Are Speaking Again" ONLY when WordSmith was "claiming" (DECEITFULLY) that my blog bashes Michelle Obama. This is completely false.<br><br>WordSmith then attempted to produce "proof" for the audience.<br>Even THAT step was deceitful because it only PROVED that my comments on the Obamas are constructive and thought-provoking and it also PROVED that quality writing and quality discussion is occurring at my blog forum.<br><br>It is quite revealing that when WordSmith CLAIMED TO BE seeking facts and truth.... she did not bother to tell the audience that there were TWO posts at my forum about Michelle Obama...<br><br>She did not bother to provide any excerpts of THOSE TWO posts and yet the discussion was about Michelle Obama?  Sooo interesting.<br><br>If a person CLAIMS to seek truth and want to give the facts then that person will offer the posts that were ABOUT MICHELLE... rather than choosing excerpts to reinforce deceptive perceptions!<br><br>I called out that scam. I also presented links to the two posts that were actually ABOUT Michelle... since the audience seemed soooo deeply interested in what I had written about Michelle. <br><br>It was interesting thought that no one was visiting my forum to read the post that were about Michelle. This reveals that they really WERE NOT deeply interested in the evidence.<br><br>I should mention, TyrenM, that CORRECTING erroneous information about my blog forum IN ONE DISCUSSION here at JJP constitutes "various bruhahas here" ...but you are certainly entitled to state your own perspectives.<br><br>I am entitled to offer the facts.<br><br>My forum focuses on The Four Stages of Self-actualization For Black Women and insists upon collective introspection.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12513156">TyrenM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12513156" class="dsq-comment-message">Dear Lisa,<br>Good afternoon. My reply to heartsandflowers was regarding uplifting of black women/girls. Being the father of a young black daughter, I constantly seek out ideas along those lines. That\'s where you come in. My post wasn\'t about revisiting the day long back and forth with Wordsmith etal, it was about listing your blog as what I believe to be along the lines of places that are about empowering, uplifting black women. <br>Since you monitor computers at BWBBT, you know I visit (or try to) weekly. Since you don\'t allow male commentors except your chosen, I can\'t speak to you directly. Your blog, your choice.<br>My using brouhahas in the plural offend you, typo. My bad. In the year I\'ve been reading JJP and BWBBT, i\'ve seen others who disagree with you. Again that\'s not what my post was about. It was intended to list BWBBT as an educational place to think (OK, in my mind) think, reflect, see how my choices affect my daughter and change myself for the better. You state its not for me. For women. I get that. I take what I need and leave the rest. Thank you and keep on keepin on.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12384858" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12384858">TAG60</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12384858" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12384858" class="dsq-comment-message">is this old news?<br><br>    On Wednesday, Shay—a 38-year-old Army veteran, mother, and event planner from Louisiana who has been endorsed by her governor, Bobby Jindal—was holding court on her Facebook page, initiating a political conversation by posting that “WalMart just signed a death warrant” by “endorsing Obama’s healthcare plan.” At 1:52, a friend named listed as Eric S. Piker, but whose personal page says his actual name is Eric Pike, wrote “It’s the government making us commies... can’t even smoke in my damn car... whats next they going to issue toilet paper once a month... tell us how to wipe our asses...”<br><br>    Two minutes later, Piker posted again saying “Obama Bin Lauden [sic] is the new terrorist... Muslim is on there side [sic]... need to take this country back from all of these mad coons... and illegals.”<br><br>    Eight minutes after that, at 2:02, Shay weighed in on Piker’s comments: “You tell em Eric! lol.”<br><br><a href="http://www.tdbimg.com/files/2009/07/05/img-article---avlon-audra-shay-facebook-03_233200859004.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.tdbimg.com/files/2009/07/05/img-arti...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12385549" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12385549">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12385549" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12385549" class="dsq-comment-message">When will these idiots learn not to post their racism on Facebook for all the world to see?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12385614" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12385614" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12385614">danadevin74</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12385614" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12385614" class="dsq-comment-message">will the repubs  ever learn that technology is not their friend?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12388427" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12388427" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12388427">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12388427" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12388427" class="dsq-comment-message">perxactly.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12388128" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12388128">moja31</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12388128" class="dsq-comment-message">probably about the same time they learn to stop being racist...never. if you\'re a racist idiot, you\'re probably just generally an idiot; i\'m not sure how much these folks <em>can</em> learn.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12385671" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12385671" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12385671">TAG60</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12385671" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12385671" class="dsq-comment-message">they aren\'t so smart.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12387054" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12387054">TAG60</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12387054" class="dsq-comment-message">ok really...this is becoming quite ridiculous. I don\'t know whether to laugh or throw something.<br>Did you know the reason why Americans are not pure is because they keep marrying other species and ethnics. Peep the vid...courtesy of those great minds at FOX<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqbL9-HzxH4&eurl=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.naijaryders.com%252Fforums%252F229437-americans-marry-other-species-ethnics.html&feature=player_embedded" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqbL9-HzxH4&eurl...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12388847" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12388847" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12388847">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12388847" class="dsq-comment-message">What is the other "species" that Americans marry? <br><br>Gawd he is stupid....damn damn DAYUM...he is just SIMPLE.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12393948" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12393948">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12393948" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12393948" class="dsq-comment-message">Well you know you got women up in the Northeast taking bubble baths and drinking champagne with their pet chimps.  Maybe that\'s what he means???</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12398749" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12398749">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12398749" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12398749" class="dsq-comment-message">*dead*</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12400326" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12400326">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12400326" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12400326" class="dsq-comment-message">BWA HA HA HA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12388876" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12388876">danadevin74</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12388876" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12388876" class="dsq-comment-message">Americans = White<br><br> Other Species = Minority<br><br> and i thought all us Humans were one species<br>see if it wasn\'t for Fox  we wouldn\'t know these things</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12387249" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12387249" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12387249">TAG60</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12387249" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12387249" class="dsq-comment-message">here is the transcript.<br><br><a href="http://www.mediamatter.org/mmtv/200907080028" rel="nofollow">http://www.mediamatter.org/mmtv/200907080028</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12389155">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12389155" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12389155" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12389155">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12389155" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12389155" class="dsq-comment-message">AFTERNOON OPEN THREAD IS UP!!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12389830">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12389830" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12389830" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12389830">Shazza</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12389830" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12389830" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow over 30 million people watched MJ\'s Homegoing!<br><a href="http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/entertainment/gossip/10780" rel="nofollow">http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/ente...</a><br><br>Of course they just had to add 2 million more watched Princess Di\'s but come on-over 30 MILLION!!!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12395727">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12395727" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12395727" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12395727" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12395727" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12395727" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m willing to be that more than that actually watched, you also have to remember there were some people listening on the radio, and then all of the people gathered in their local town squares watching.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12395687">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12395687" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12395687" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12395687">moja31</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12395687" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12395687" class="dsq-comment-message">it\'s a different time; folks weren\'t watching livestreams  or TIVOing in \'97. no doubt millions more watched it.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 </ul>\
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