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Another report is coming out Friday that will show even more job loses are coming...lots more!<br><br>The people who actually make this country work saw this coming when it looked like Obama could beat Hillary, and they started bailing then. More bailed when Obama beat McCain. The slower employers are just starting to bail, and bailing takes time. Gov't jobs will be the last to go, but I expect that to start happening a lot sooner than previously predicted.<br><br>Like I said, this is just the beginning...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_12:50:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Karmi", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6874356, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6870544": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LMAO...Tavis truly is a legend in his own mind.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:06:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6868519, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6870547": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And that Steele is the Bama of the week. LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:06:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869921, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6876249": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Agree the perception of of  how Steele is being handled will matter to moderates, independents and POC.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_13:28:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6873636, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6870552": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Its a coordinated effort by the corporate media to stop President Obama's plans for helping the 95% of us.If you think its bad now wait for the health care debate.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:06:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6867718, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6875165": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ted Kennedy to receive knighthood <br><br><a href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7922703.stm\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7922703.stm</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_12:48:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 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}, "6871075": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "NO, even cpac agrees -- everyone blames Bush. <br>Take responsibility for Bush I, II and Reagan's massive deficit spending or STFU.<br><br>That's ideology with no emperichal evidence, that's not only foolish in any discipline (save religion) in this case  it's neo-Hooverism.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:27:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6870892, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6873636": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Most employees get at least 90 days probation.   How long has he been in his position Piepiepie? <br><br>I don't care for Steele but it will take more than the 30+ days for Steele to do anything substantial especially without the support of any of the folks that elected him to the position.<br><br>Anyway - let us agree to disagree on this point.  I am sure that the way they boot him out will play a role in whether the Republican party sees any increase in votes from minorities.<br><br> Republicans Deserting Steele<br> \"Not Good\" ... \"Erratic\" ... \"No Discipline\" ... <br>FBI Investigating Steele's 2006 Campaign Expenditures <br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/politics/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/politics/</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_12:04:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6873347, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6868519": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "did you hear Tavis Smiley trying to say Barack started talking about Accountability because of him? that mufucka really thinks hes something special.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_08:40:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "allamr18", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 23, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6868120, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6869551": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No, I am not making that argument, but I am pointing to the 'out' that the Obama administration has given itself with the careful choice of the phrase 'create or save'.<br><br>If there is any economic recovery, there can be no doubt that the administration will be given all the credit. BUT, IF the unemployment rate remains high, Obama and his team will use the vague 'jobs saved' formula to convince the American people that the economy wouold have been worse without the plan. Oh, the hilarity of THAT argument.<br><br>Yes, we will have to keep a 'wait and see' attitude until all 3 components of Obama's plan are revealed in detail.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:37:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869388, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6874888": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Author Of Bush Torture Memos Regrets Style, Not Content<br><br>In an interview yesterday with the Orange County Register, picked up by Jason Leopold at The Public Record, John Yoo says he doesn\u2019t regret the substance of any of his memos written at the Office of Legal Counsel \u2013  you know, the ones that allowed the administration to conclude that waterboarding wasn\u2019t torture, that the Bill of Rights did not apply to military actions inside the United States, and that it\u2019s okay to suspend free speech in wartime.<br><br>No, he just regrets that he wasn\u2019t a little more \u201cpolished\u201d.<br><br>\u201cThese memos I wrote were not for public consumption,\u201d said Yoo, who\u2019s now a visiting professor at Chapman University School of Law in Orange County \u2014 I guess things got a little hot at Berkeley, where students are calling for his dismissal and prosecution. \u201cThey lack a certain polish, I think \u2013 would have been better to explain government policy rather than try to give unvarnished, straight-talk legal advice. I certainly would have done that differently.\u201d<br><br><a href=\"http://washingtonindependent.com/32307/yoo-regrets-not-being-more-polished\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://washingtonindependent.com/32307/yoo-regr...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_12:38:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 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}, "6873138": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Why should they give Steele more of a shot than any white dude making the same mistakes? <br><br>I think that's where we differ. The RNC chose the \"shiny object,\" and now they have to deal with it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:46:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6873032, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871325": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "See my reply below. These idiots at Wall Street are now trying to hide behind charities, non-profits  and college endowments for their foolishness.  These entities are victims of the Wall Srteet greed. You guys should be ashamed of yourselves.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:37:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "Micheline", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871019, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6869559": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Eh, possibly -- my guess is it will be a mixed bag regionally. <br><br>Foreclosures are really a regional thing so some areas are going to stablize on that front faster than others. <br><br>Also, the stimulus is already going to show positive affects per most non-ideologue economists.<br><br>Your boy Bobby Jindal is already showing himself a hypocrite:<br><br>Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal brought most of his Cabinet here Monday afternoon to offer moral and tangible support to a group of 500 desperate Pilgrim's Pride contract growers and employees whose livelihoods are at risk following the company's decision to idle its northeastern Louisiana and southern Arkansas operations.<br><br>...<br><br>Jindal said that the state would apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance from the federal government, which would expand unemployment benefits to employees and provide benefits to growers who aren't eligible for unemployment benefits. The state was recently granted Trade Adjustment Assistance for International Paper workers who lost their jobs when IP closed its Bastrop paper mill late last year.<br><br><a href=\"http://thenewsstar.com/article/20090303/NEWS01/903030308\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://thenewsstar.com/article/20090303/NEWS01/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:38:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869404, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6870585": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The \"spoiled children\" investors include the Harvard endowment fund, public employee retirement funds (other than federal govt),  the about to retire baby boomers, private sector company retirement funds, charities, scholarship funds, etc... .  Investors are not \"spoiled children\", they are just scared shitless about their futures.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:08:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "mon_dieu_ishmael", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869636, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6877242": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://uk.reuters.com/article/industryNews/idUKTRE5227BG20090303\" rel=\"nofollow\">Genachowski named to head FCC</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_14:09:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 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}, "6876732": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thank you, ma'am.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_13:49:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6873432, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871614": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Anybody who makes references to Duran Duran and Bruce Campbell in their commentary is alright with me (LOL).  Thanks for the link.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:50:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871247, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6874182": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "thanks for the link.  It isn't there now so I will check back later.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_12:23:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6873016, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6868553": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Tavis often lets his ego get in the way of facts.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_08:42:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 14, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6868519, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871115": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm sorry, but I do not see George Will as a hack.<br><br>Do you disagree with his assertion that liberalism is more concerned with providing equal opportunity than it is with individual freedom?<br><br>I understand the reason why AIG is 'too big too fail\" but I question the ability of the government to stop its failure.<br><br>Again, I am not advocating 'no regulation' but IMO Obama's agenda is overreaching.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:28:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6870918, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6878477": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Jay Cost is clearly not a political strategist and knows not what he speaks.<br><br>Obama is in the White House because he is a consumate politiician. He knows full well that political opponents who command the airwaves have to be neutralized and Obama is doing that very effectively.<br><br>Cost needs to sit down shut up and watch Obama continue to wage battle against the failed policies, ideologies and pontificating leadership of the past 8 years.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_14:56:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6877930, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6879314": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'd like Sanaa Lathan, Nia Long or Kerry Washington", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_15:27:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6878734, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6869347": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "perhaps the person taking the photo set up the shot ((?))", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:28:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "IWordsmith", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6868276, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6869589": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "agreed. Whatever audience Tavis has Obama can reach directly.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:39:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869409, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6867545": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "All that shit is really inside baseball -- average people dont really care.<br><br>However, the WH is cutting down enemies like a Grim Reaper in a field of Rye..<br><br>first read / msnbc<br>\"*** Backflips for Rush: Rush Limbaugh might not be the \u201cvoice and intellectual force\u201d behind the Republican Party, as Rahm Emanuel asserted on Sunday. But this has become increasingly true: When Limbaugh says jump, Republican officials quickly respond, \u201cHow high?\u201d First, Georgia Rep. Phil Gingrey (R) criticized Limbaugh back in January, but then immediately called into to apologize after receiving a slew of complaints from Rush listeners. \"I regret and apologize for the fact that my comments have offended and upset my fellow conservatives,\u201d Gingrey told Limbaugh. Now, after RNC chair Michael Steele told CNN over the weekend that Limbaugh is an entertainer who can be \u201cugly\u201d and \u201cincendiary\u201d -- and after Limbaugh gladly returned the fire -- the chairman called Limbaugh to smooth things over. \u201cMy intent was not to go after Rush,\u201d Steele told Politico. \u201cI have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh. I was maybe a little bit inarticulate\u2026 There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership.\u201d Of course, there is now an open invitation for some ambitious Republican to become the first to have the guts to stand up to Rush.\"<br><br>No Rs can get on TV without being met by a Razor -- do you like Rush Limpbrain?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_07:29:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6867062, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6875226": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama moves to overhaul federal contracting system, reversing Bush administration policy<br><br>Obama joined Republican Sen. John McCain, his presidential campaign rival, and other congressional figures to announce an executive memorandum that commits his administration to a new set of marching orders for awarding contracts. Obama said \"the days of giving government contractors a blank check are over\" and said changes could save up to $40 billion a year.<br><br><br><a href=\"http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-obama-waste%2C0%2C5826180.story\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-a...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_12:51:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6873179": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Here's the video. LOL<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/04/michael-steele-gets-repea_n_171750.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/04/michae...</a>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:47:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869193, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6872264": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's fun really, b/c the person has talking poins that are easily smacked the fuck down.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:14:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871362, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6869599": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well the stimulus is both a recovery and <b>stabilization</b> plan.<br><br>Sigh", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:39:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Micheline", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869551, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6874209": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "while conveniently forgetting that they are ALL Rush Limpballs \"butt boys\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_12:25:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6872902, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871654": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Do not feed this Troll. It is a verbal skunk. The stench remains on you for days. This stench will drive you mad.<br>Troll has ticket for Trifling Train and goes elsewhere when not fed.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:51:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871393, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6874726": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  <b>MARCH 4, 2009   -DAY 44-  Of His First 100 DAYS!</b>    :&gt;)       :&gt;)<br><br>1.   HIS SCHEDULE:    <b>Wednesday Mar. 4, 2009</b><br>All Times Eastern<br><br>Joe Biden attends Prime Minister Gordon Brown\u2019s address to the joint session of Congress.<br><br><b>Biden hosts a reception for members of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Attorney General Eric Holder is also in attendance.</b><br><br>Biden meets with former Secretaries of State James Baker and Warren Christopher.<br>8:00 AM\t<br>9:00 AM\t<br>9:30 AM\t<br><br>OMB Director Peter Orszag attends a full committee meeting on the FY2010 budget.<br><br>President Barack Obama receives his daily briefing. Biden is also in attendance.<br><b>10:00 AM\t<br><br>Obama delivers remarks at the White House.</b><br>10:45 AM\t<br><br>Obama receives his daily economic briefing. Biden is also in attendance.<br>11:00 AM\t<br>11:15 AM\t<br><br>Obama meets with senior advisers.<br>11:30 AM\t<br><br>Robert Gibbs holds his daily press briefing. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano are also in attendance.<br>12:00 PM\t<br>1:00 PM\t<br>2:00 PM\t<br>3:00 PM\t<br>4:00 PM\t<br>5:00 PM\t<br>6:00 PM\t<br>7:00 PM\t<br><b>7:30 PM\t<br><br>Barack and Michelle Obama host dinner with the Congressional Committee Chairs. Joe and Jill Biden are also in attendance.</b><br>8:00 PM\t<br><br>2.  <a href=\"http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0309/first_ladies_90700e95-051b-4623-83e1-b293e46161a7.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">First ladies   -  Michelle meets Sarah Brown</a><br><br><i>While President Obama discussed the global economy with Prime Minister Gordon Brown Tuesday afternoon, Michelle ...<br><br>... Obama met separately with her British counterpart, Sarah Brown.<br><br>Her office declined to provide details, but released a photo.</i><br><br>3.  <a href=\"http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0309/a_f11ba54d-31a0-4c91-85b1-778d9cced084.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Prime minister hits the Hill</a><br><br><i>PM Brown heads to the Hill today to deliver a speech the White House will be watching. The Guardian calls Brown\u2019s speech<br><br>to Congress on reforming the banking system \u201cpossibly the most important of his political life\u201d and says Obama will be paying attention \u201cto see if Brown could act as a significant ally in the battle to persuade the international stockmarkets that European politicians have answers to the collapse of confidence.\u201d<br>VP Biden will attend the address, where Brown will call on lawmakers to \u201cseize the moment when the whole of the world wants to work with America. </i><br><br><b>[NOTE:  His address was EXCELLENT!!  He stated that England is DOING soma the SAME things as PRESIDENT OBAMA - - STIMULUS PACKAGE (to create JOBS),    RESTRUCTURING BANKS & addressing ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br>I'll try 2 post it when available!  :&gt;)]</b><br><br>4.  <a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20090304/eu-britain-us-kennedy/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>Britain to give Sen. Kennedy honorary knighthood</b></a><br><br><i><br><br>LONDON \u2014 He won't be allowed to call himself Sir Ted, but U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy is being awarded an honorary knighthood from Britain.<br><br>The government said Wednesday the Massachusetts senator is being recognized for services to U.S.-U.K. relations and to Northern Ireland.<br><br>Prime Minister Gordon Brown will announce the honor Wednesday when he addresses a joint session of Congress in Washington. Knighthoods are bestowed by Queen Elizabeth II but recipients are selected by the government or an advisory committee.<br><br>Kennedy, scion of an Irish-American political dynasty, is known in Britain for his involvement in the long process that led to Northern Ireland's 1998 Good Friday peace accord.<br><br>The 77-year-old brother of the late President John F. Kennedy has served in the Senate since 1962. He is being treated for a brain tumor.<br><br>Other Americans to receive honorary knighthoods include Microsoft chief Bill Gates, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and filmmaker Steven Spielberg. Unlike British knights, they are not entitled to use the honorific \"Sir\" or \"Dame\" before their names.</i><br><br><b>[NOTE:  What a GRACIOUS GESTURE!   :&gt;)     Praying 4 Senator Kennedy.]</b><br><br><b>ADDING VIDEO:</b>   <a href=\"http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1243705446/bclid1201016315/bctid14715549001\" rel=\"nofollow\">SIR EDWARD KENNEDY (according to Prime Minister Brown)</a><br><br>5.  <a href=\"http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0309/crackdown_on_waste_1a015b61-4ea4-487c-818e-26ebb3d79ae9.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Crackdown on waste - - Aims to save $40B</a><br><br><i>Takeaway from President Obama\u2019s morning announcement: The White House wants to look fiscally disciplined even as it runs ...<br><br>up an unprecedented deficit. The President sounded annoyed with the \"chatter on cable\" suggesting he hasn't trimmed expenses.<br><br>Obama: \"I want to make sure everybody catches this...My budget reduces discretionary spending for non-defense programs, as a share of the economy, by 10 percent over the next decade.\"</i><br><br>6.  <a href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/StrongMiddleClass/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>MIDDLE CLASS TASK FORCE (web site)  - - The Vice President of the United States</b></a><br><br><b>A STRONG MIDDLE CLASS = A STRONG AMERICA</b><br><br>7.  <a href=\"http://www.daylife.com/photo/0bPuegJ1HU2uV/Barack_Obama\" rel=\"nofollow\">U.S. President Barack Obama (L) makes remarks on his plan to reform the system of defense contracting as Senator John McCain (R-AZ) listens in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, March 4, 2009.</a><br><br><b>[NOTE:  HAH!!   :&gt;)  mcancient is in the BACKGROUND!!  HE LOST!!  (BADLY) :&gt;)]</b><br><br>8.  <a href=\"http://www.daylife.com/photo/0bZC9X1bQJ2J9/Barack_Obama\" rel=\"nofollow\">Another SWAGGA PIC!  :&gt;)</a>    :&gt;)      :&gt;)<br><br>THAT'S  ALL  FOR   NOW!!    ENJOY  YOUR DAY!     :&gt;) <br><br><b>P.S.</b>    <a href=\"http://www.c-span.org/Watch/watch.aspx?ProgramId=HP-A-40948\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pres. Obama Remarks on Budget Reform  3-4-09</a></b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_12:34:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 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}, "6870634": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sure it is. You can see, NOT one republican will say Rush is wrong. They will dance around the issue of condemning Rush better than Michael Jackson.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:11:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869699, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6869613": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The market DID get us into this mess, with a huge helping hand from the deregulation of the Bush Administration. If people had more restraint, perhaps we wouldn't be in this situation, and now they  are all so \"concerned\" that Obama is actually trying to fix things by doing something other than bowing to their feet. In fact, I was <a href=\"http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1051673317&play=1\" rel=\"nofollow\">watching an interview with Peter Orszag</a> where the anchors were claiming Wall St. is upset because the regulations are coming. <br><br>And your last couple of sentences are confusing. So it's not the market's fault, it's the people who are in the market? That doesn't make sense. The argument for Obama haters/opposition is \"let the market sort it out,\" but the market's inability to \"sort it out\" is what got us into this mess. They had their period of no-regulation, and it seems like you agree there needs to be regulations.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:40:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 21, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869434, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6868595": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "zzzzzzz", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_08:44:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "allamr18", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6868284, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6869620": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'd say that was the market working in the \"Ayn Rand\" style --- no regulation. <br>Conservatives believed markets could regulate themselves.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:40:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869434, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871157": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Not only the economy, take responsibility for Bush sublimating the constitution itself with these newly released OLC memos.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:30:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6870892, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6867062": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/moving_america_news/7359\" rel=\"nofollow\"> President Obama met with the Congressional Black Caucus last week</a> sounds like it went well. <br><br>Also, am I the only one that thinks 24 hour news channels need to go, or at least be restricted to only talking about politics for an hour? It just seems they don't really do much to really educate people or advance the dialogue on issues. Lately CNBC has been particularly annoying. They talk isht about the White House, then when the White House responds, they whine about the White House responding. Then the \"pundits\" get on TV and ask why Gibbs keeps talking about them, and they fail to mention that their \"journalistic\" colleagues are the ones that keep ASKING Gibbs about it, and I'm quite sure they'd be complaining if Gibbs decided not to answer the questions.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_06:41:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 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}, "6875775": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So it was the entire month of January then.  Thanks for answering my question.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_13:11:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6875245, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6877312": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's Alicia Keys as Michelle Obama.<br><a href=\"http://www.dlisted.com/node/30979/images/glamoursluts7.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dlisted.com/node/30979/images/glamou...</a><br><br>Paula Patton as Billie Holiday<br><a href=\"http://www.dlisted.com/node/30979/images/glamoursluts11.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dlisted.com/node/30979/images/glamou...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_14:13:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Shazza", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6869123": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No problem, zackboston! Do you have a link for your own program so we can learn more about that too?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:17:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "claudia_m", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6867954, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6869636": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "True but you have to admit that investors are acting like spoiled children.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:41:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Micheline", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 12, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869434, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6868617": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/29506332#29506332\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/29506...</a><br>Steele shuckin and jivin LOL...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_08:45:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6868459, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6875786": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That article sheds a lot of light onto Bush's reason for being!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_13:12:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6875226, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871691": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "First, Obama cannot create jobs.<br><br>In fact, Obama is planning on letting the private sector create 95% of the new jobs.<br><br>Sencondly, as most important (even Obama said this!) CONFIDENCE IS KEY!<br><br>What business man in going to feel confident enough NOW to expand his business and hire more employees? Banks are not lending even to the most credit worthy businesses. Consumers are not spending, so where is the demand for new goods and services?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:54:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6868314, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871362": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "RobM is calling Coserv1 a troll.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:38:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Micheline", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871217, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6868930": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The market is not the economy.Wall street is nothing more than Vegas in New York.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:07:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6868284, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6875279": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "AFTERNOON THREAD IS UP!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_12:53:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 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}, "6871697": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You are not a Troll. You are suffering from its verbal stench which disorients you from your goal. Please post this warning.<br><br>Do not feed this Troll. it is a verbal skunk. The stench remains on you for days. This stench will drive you mad.<br>Troll has ticket for Trifling Train and goes elsewhere when not fed", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:54:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871217, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871186": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Remember I am just the messenger here<br>Why Tavis is a Genius<br>What black intellectuals owe the rest of us.<br><a href=\"http://www.theroot.com/views/why-tavis-genius\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.theroot.com/views/why-tavis-genius</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:30:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 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}, "6869187": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree, Val. It's good to see that smart folks are asking critical questions about this latest \"outrage.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:20:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "claudia_m", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6868276, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6876308": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And, he shouldn't. There are plenty of Black journalists that would appreciate the interview with the President AND who haven't disrespected the First Lady. WHEN the President is finished with that list of Black journalists, then MAYBE Tavis can get an interview - in 2015.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_13:31:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6868915, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6869653": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Generally speaking, the stock market will reflect the economic conditions of an economy. If an economy is growing then output will be increasing and most firms should be experiencing increased profitability. This higher profit makes the company shares more attractive - they can give bigger dividends to shareholders.<br><br>If the economy is forecast to enter into a recession, then stock markets will generally fall. This is because a recession means lower profits, less dividends and even the prospect of firms going bankrupt, which would be disastrous for shareholders.<br><br>However, in a recession, stock markets can sometimes increase, why is this? Often this is because stock markets are forward looking. The stock market has probablyh already priced in the effect of the recession and now the stock market is anticipitating a recovery. For example, stock markets in 2007 and 2008 performed badly in anticipation of a US recession.<br><br>And looking further int the future, they are now reacting with no confidence in the administration. <br><br>As further details of a foreclosure mitigation plan and a financial stability plan are revealed, the market will also respond.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:42:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6868930, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6868120": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The TJMS is clowning Michael \"BBQ\" Steele. LOL. They said he gets invited to BBQ's and asks what to bring and the host tells him \"just bring yourself.\" LOL!<br><br>Then Tom tried to call him the leader of the Republican Party and J & Sybil said \"No he's not\" LOL<br><br>Poor guy, I think the RNC will be getting rid of him soon", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_08:12:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 60, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6867611": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "M.C. Steal Moe Bling  is a fool. I seriously believe he though RNC chairman was running an organization where he would have some ability to do what HE wanted..<br><br><br>Steele, who has been traveling aggressively since taking the job, says the vacancies at the top of his organization are by design. He said he\u2019s re-examining the whole structure with an eye to streamlining it and will have most of his team in place by the end of March, after he begins implementing reports from transition teams that are planning the party\u2019s own first 100 days.<br><br>\u201cI know some folks in Washington feel that they\u2019re kind of on the outside of this \u2014 that they don\u2019t have the day-to-day blow by blow of what I\u2019m doing,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s exactly how I like it. I want to be about the business of putting in place a good infrastructure that will enable me to go out and build a better brand, stronger brand, for the GOP. And I won\u2019t get there by tattle-telling every day what I\u2019m doing.\u201d  <br><br><a href=\"http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19588.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19588...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_07:34:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 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}, "6869664": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well we are a little all over the place, but you can download an info guide at the tech center website:  <br><a href=\"http://www.tech-center-enlightentcity.tv\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.tech-center-enlightentcity.tv</a>.<br><br>or there is a general entry with some links for photos on our pilot wiki here:<br><a href=\"http://l2ttl2.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/learn-2-teach-project-exposition-august-15-2008/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://l2ttl2.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/learn-2-...</a><br><br>or there is a pretty good article here from last summer's south end news:<br><a href=\"http://www.mysouthend.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=79136\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.mysouthend.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=...</a><br><br>thanks for asking!  we reached over 600 youth last summer and got them making their own inventions with emerging science and technology!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:42:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "zackboston", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869123, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871203": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Agree about Clinton, but problems were known as far back as 2005 and Bush did nothing.  If Clinton were to get the same information, he would have done something about it. That is the difference between Bush and Clinton.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:32:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "Micheline", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6870429, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871607": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Do not feed this Troll. it is a verbal skunk. The stench remains on you for days. This stench will drive you mad. <br>Troll has ticket for Trifling Train and goes elsewhere when not fed.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:49:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871325, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6873253": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I believe you are missing my point.  I get that and I agree with you.  If you look at my posts on Steele - you would know I agree with you.<br><br>However, the reason they elected Steele was to say they were open to other groups.  How they handle this is important and the perception will reflect that the Republican party is the party of Joe the Plumber and \"Real America\" only.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:50:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6873138, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871206": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm not understanding where all of the uncertainty is coming from. What exactly are they looking for? I think the administration has been pretty open about what the stimulus is supposed to do and how it's supposed to work. You think the market is acting like this because it's afraid of regulations that probably won't even be rolled out for a long time?<br><br>To me the stimulus appears to be doing exactly what the administration said it would do at this point, and that's create jobs.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:32:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6870760, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6872744": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That April 1 date is looking better and better. :-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:32:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869921, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6867626": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Literary Obama has a new post that may be of interest to JJP folks:<br><br><a href=\"http://literaryobama.com/2009/03/03/about-that-barnes-noble-book-display/\" rel=\"nofollow\">About That Barnes & Noble Book Display...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_07:35:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "claudia_m", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6872236": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dude, you are CONFUSING AIG with the MEGA BANKS.<br><br>AIG is already nationalized (the U.S. has 80% ownership), they are busy under-winding AIG's assets right now.<br><br>The \"bad bank\" is already going on by creating TERMS for PUBLIC and PRIVATE investment vehicles of capital managed by private directors.<br><br>The idea is to transition in a way that does not destroy what little public equity is left in these banks... since you are a supposed conservative I would think you'd be in favor of both, and bother to read the latest in the WSJ.<br><br>but, you are coming off like an obstructionist who is going to oppose all WH plans regardless of ideology.<br><br>(the WH solution is more \"conservative\" than what you are proposing).<br><br>LOL hilarious.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:14:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871889, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6877357": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And Chanel Iman as Althea Gibson<br><a href=\"http://www.dlisted.com/node/30979/images/glamoursluts13.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dlisted.com/node/30979/images/glamou...</a><br><br>Come to think of it, this would've worked in the Black History section!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_14:15:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "Shazza", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 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}, "6872751": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "91 / 168 people voted for Steele -- that's it. Steele is busy over-stepping his bounds and got pimp-slapped by someone with actual influence in the party. Steele is not a popularly elected official with his own base.<br><br>Mike Duncan got smacked about just like Steele and blamed for the 2008 losses by Rs.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:33:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6872521, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871217": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "are you calling me a troll?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:33:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6870985, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6875826": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Gotcha!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_13:13:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871575, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6870985": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You can not feed this troll.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:22:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869613, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6868340": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "flagged for posting when you know it is bogus.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_08:27:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6868284, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6877370": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Amen", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_14:15:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6873331, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6872253": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The problem is that you cannot separate those groups<br><br>Really? Because the Madoff investors seriously beg to differ. They are victims, Madoff and his crew are NOT.<br><br>You are full of shit.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:14:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871748, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6873793": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Co-sign", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_12:11:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Micheline", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6873331, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6869699": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Nah, in fairness Rush is the leader all Republicans -- black, white, asian, jewish, christian bow at his feet.<br><br>Not just Steele.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:43:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869440, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871748": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The problem is that you cannot separate those groups, They are interconnected. You cannot see one group 'punished' as you seem to desire, without it effecting even the smallest investor.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:56:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871149, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6867655": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "One last thing... the Obama WH / DNC is \"post-partisan\" but not weak -- as shown they are busy going on offense to marginalize the GOP and GOP leaders further", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_07:37:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 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}, "6873800": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL. Tavis seems a lot like M.C. Steal Moe Bling these days...<br><br>He doesn't quite understand his role.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_12:10:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6873573, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6869193": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The Morning Ho's were clowning Steele too.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:21:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6868120, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6873802": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Please read:<br><br><br>Shovels hit the ground' on stimulus project, Obama says<br><br>    * Story Highlights<br>    * New highway resurfacing project in Maryland is expected to support 60 jobs<br>    * President Obama: Highway spending will create or save 150,000 jobs by end of 2010<br>    * Another 200 construction projects to be launched in next few weeks<br>    * Investing in roads will save lives, Obama says<br><br><a href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/03/stimulus/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/03/stimulus...</a><br><br><br><br> (CNN) -- President Obama said Tuesday that the country already is \"seeing shovels hit the ground\" on the first infrastructure repair project funded through the Transportation Department's share of the $787 billion stimulus bill.<br><br>Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said, \"The work begins today in Montgomery County, Maryland, where a work crew is starting on a project to resurface Maryland State Highway 650 -- a very busy road that has not been fully repaired in 17 years.\"<br><br>The resurfacing contract is going to a Pennsylvania-based family-owned company, American Infrastructure, LaHood said.<br><br>He said the project will support 60 jobs. \"And that's how we're going to get the country back on its feet,\" LaHood added.<br><br>Mark Compton, director of government affairs for American Infrastructure, said his company received $2.1 million in federal funds, by way of the Maryland State Highway Administration.<br><br>The money will be used to repave and add safety features to a stretch of the highway.<br><br>Compton said the cash infusion is the \"catalyst\" to create 60 jobs, including bringing back some laid-off employees.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_12:11:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871957, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6876364": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm glad you haven't forgotten about it either. THAT, to me IS Tavis' ultimate sin, and the one that broke the Black folks' back of the TJMS show. Remember, we were ' eh' about Obama. We have never, as a community, had any middle of the road feelings about The First Lady. When he disrespected her, folks went ' Hell to the naw' and showed Tavis the door.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_13:33:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6873815, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6870735": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "How can limpy treat Steele any worse than the folks at JJP?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:15:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "mon_dieu_ishmael", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869489, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6885584": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "RAOTFLMAO.  Well said Miranda.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_19:41:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6877017, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6873815": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The point is good BUT...it'll never happen, know why?<br><br>Cause Tavis did something way worse in Barack's mind than diss him...he dissed MICHELLE!!<br><br>Who Obama offered to send in his place and when Tavis showed his ass about that...Obama wrote him off in perpetuity.<br><br>Say what you want about me, Obama has said, but don't mess with my wife!<br><br>Tavis can fuggggetaboutit!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_12:12:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869263, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871247": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The Political Decline of the White Male?<br><a href=\"http://www.theroot.com/views/political-decline-white-male\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.theroot.com/views/political-decline-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:34:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 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}, "6867676": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com/2009/03/you-got-to-love-this-by-david-plouffe.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">You got to love this, by David Plouffe, Obama's Campaign Manager</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_07:39:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "icebergslim", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6876386": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Myth:  :&gt;)       :&gt;)<br><br>Could B.  BUT - - I'm thinkin' that he's doin' some PREPARATION WORK that isn't posted.<br><br>O.K.  I gotta \"bounce!\"   :&gt;)    C   U'ALL   L8R!     :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_13:34:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6876150, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6869302": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Israel is determined to tell the US what it's interest are. US interest are not the same as Israel's. US foreign policy is made in Washington DC not Tel Aviv.<br><a href=\"http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/03/israel_is_cross/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:26:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6867687": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "They are trying to claim Rush isn't in charge, but all of the facts suggest otherwise. . . <br><br>as far as Cramer/Santelli go, I have problems taking people who don't seem to have \"indoor\" voices seriously.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_07:41:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6867545, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6870760": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No. This is unture, Wall Street will adapt to the rules of the game, once they know what the rules are. It is the UNCERTAINTY about the rules that are driving the market down.<br><br>With the stimulus plan in place, and the details of the mortgage plan coming out today, the pieces of the puzzle are falling into place. The markets are taking the details of the 'stimulus' plan into account an reacting negatively to the plan, as well as other events.  Soon (?) we will hear the details of the plan to stabilize the financial sector, the market will digest it and try to anticipate the outcome.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:14:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869613, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6877930": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2009/03/the_immature_white_house_1.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Immature White House</a> - A must read!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_14:35:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "Karmi", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 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}, "6869227": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They don't care about Steele.<br>Rush Limbaugh is the leader of the GOP.<br>YEEE, HAWWW!<br>Hillbilly heroin for everybody!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:23:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6868445, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6867699": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The Next $1 Trillion Bailout? Public Pension Funds<br><a href=\"http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=alwTE0Z5.1EA&refer=home\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_07:42:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 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}, "6869236": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "He did an interview with Tavis before he ran, I don't think he'd bother with Tavis as President though after what he did last year at the State of the Black Union.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:23:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6868915, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6869081": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "But measuring the numbers of jobs saved as a result of the economic recovery package promises to be an elusive task.<br><br><br>Stimulus: Now for the hard part<br><a href=\"http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/17/news/economy/obama_stimulus_meas_success/index.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/17/news/economy/ob...</a><br><br>\"It will be difficult to gauge the economic benefit of stimulus since we won't know ... how the economy would have performed without stimulus. Indeed I expect the economy to lose another 3 million jobs with stimulus but over 4 million without it,\" said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's <a href=\"http://Economy.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Economy.com</a>, whose research was relied upon by lawmakers to make the case for the economic recovery package.<br><br>As for gauging how many jobs are created, economists say they will keep an eye on a number of measures.<br><br>Lakshman Achuthan, managing director the Economic Cycle Research Institute, said starting later this year he will look to what his group calls its Leading Employment Index as one gauge of stimulus effectiveness. The index is a composite of factors, including the number of initial jobless claims and hours in the average work week, as well as how many industries are adding jobs. As of January, the index was still falling, Achuthan said.<br><br>Another question Zandi said he will look at is to see whether job losses have begun to lessen by October or November.<br><br>\"A key benchmark will be this fall. If stimulus is working as expected then monthly job losses should be closer to 250,000 per month, down from over 500,000 currently,\" Zandi said.<br><br>The ability to create or save jobs will depend in great part on business confidence. That's why, in addition to employment measures, Rich Yamarone, director of economic research at Argus Research, will keep an eye on small business confidence measures such as those put out by the National Federation of Independent Business.<br><br>Another sign of whether the rescue is working: Discretionary spending for activities like casino gambling and dining out, Yamarone said.<br><br>\"When consumers start to feel better about their personal situation and employment prospects, they pick up the pace of spending - that usually extends to the discretionary items as well,\" Yamarone said.<br><br>Ultimately, even if every indicator of success for stimulus was tangible and could be measured with flawless precision, it will still be hard to issue a final verdict on whether the package has worked because its success is dependent on the success of other recovery efforts, such as the program for stemming foreclosures that Obama is expected to lay out on Wednesday.<br><br>\"Stimulus by itself will not work well,\" Zandi said. \"A financial stability plan and a foreclosure mitigation plan must also be implemented.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:15:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6868950, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6872823": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You mean Tavis \"I'm Relevent; it says so in my book!\" Smiley?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:35:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6870544, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6873337": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Most people do not even care what the situation is. Ask someone whom has been falsely imprisoned what kind of hell their  life becomes. It doesn't matter that you settled w/ the police for a million dollars when he employment apllication says have you ever been arrested you go to the out pile.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:54:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871892, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6869756": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That's what I thought, but I figured I'd get verification. LOL. <br><br>They're on the \"sure, Obama's only been there for like 6 weeks, but now this is all his fault!\" kick today, so I didn't watch. <br><br>One of my fav. lines from the TJMS this morning is \"Steele will have ot change his last name to aluminum\"  lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:46:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869512, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6873292": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm sorry, Rush:<br>Now you too can grovel like a Republican!<br><br><a href=\"http://www.dccc.org/content/sorry\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dccc.org/content/sorry</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:52:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 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}, "6867710": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Is anyone else here familiar with the blog, <a href=\"http://coloronline.blogspot.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Color Online</a>? Their mission is \u201cthe promotion, empowerment, and political awakening of young women\u201d through literature by women and people of color. <br><br>I've written a post about it to help spread the word. They are collecting books for a library for young women in the Detroit area and other good works, so I hope you'll check it out: <a href=\"http://thebottomofheaven.com/2009/03/03/bookmark-this-color-online/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bookmark This: Color Online</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_07:43:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "claudia_m", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6873347": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "NO, I'm not missing your point.<br><br>They should treat Steele like anyone else and get rid of his ass, if he doesn't get results. If they let Steele be uneffective it will be worse.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:53:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6873253, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6868950": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "How stimulus will help your state<br>Obama administration economists estimate the stimulus bill will create or save 3.5 million jobs. <br><a href=\"http://money.cnn.com/news/storysupplement/economy/stimulus_jobs/index.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://money.cnn.com/news/storysupplement/econo...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:08:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6867718": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Cramer is an idiot, I'm sure his democratic friends are calling him and telling him to shut the fuck up... this is a guy who CRIED ON AIR when Eliot Spitzer resigned after spending 80K USD on whores.<br><br>Cramer told people to go out and buy Bear Sterns before it went bankrupt along with AIG. <br><br>Santelli too -- they both are fucking cheerleaders not analysts.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_07:44:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6867687, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6872839": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "really?  How timely.  Will go searching for that video.  Would love to hear his assessment.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:35:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869440, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6868232": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They can put that in the second stimulus.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_08:19:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "Micheline", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6867699, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871860": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes you can.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:59:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Micheline", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871748, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6869773": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "well when we have been giving them billions upon billions of dollars to do whatever theyve wanted to palestine (and palestine is not helping either) and the influence they have on american politics i dont blame them", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:46:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "allamr18", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869302, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6869263": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No, Justice58! I have to disagree! I think Obama would neutralize Tavis Smiley's babbling by sitting down with him. Remember when Fox News had that ridiculous \"Obama Clock\" that attracted so much attention until Obama actually showed up on the network and held his own? I'd like to see Tavis say all this stuff directly to O, and watch him squirm a bit. \"You know we're going to hold you accountable Mr. President, yuck yuck yuck....\"in love\"...aw, I'm just kidding...wow, I can't believe you're here!\" LOL.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:25:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "claudia_m", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6868996, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6945559": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Incompetence, malevolence, or both? <br><a href=\"http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/03/05/incompetence-malevolence-or-both-or-why-obamas-policies-are-pink-not-green-with-a-coda-on-my-new-favorite-section-of-the-us-constitution/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/03/05...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-06_10:57:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 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}, "6873369": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Piepiepie:     LOL!!    :&gt;)<br><br>YEP!  on the <b>91 VOTES!</b>      :&gt;)<br><br>Annnnnd, as I've stated B  4,  THEY  R probably in HIDING and HOPIN' nobody tells their NAMES!!     :&gt;)        :&gt;)<br><br>The <b>MAN-O'_STEELE</b>  is probably  ***lookin' around*** goin'  <b>WHERE MY PEEPS???</b>  :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:54:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6872751, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6875933": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Co-sign", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_13:18:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6872552, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6875379": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Found this CHART:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29303759/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Comparison of FIRST 100 DAYS with other presidents</a><br><br>President OBAMA is DOING VERY WELL!!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_12:56:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 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}, "6869794": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Miranda<br><br>To my knowledge this is not mandatory DNA analysis taken at all current crime scene's. Where it is taken, the police often go back and examine cases where the MO is the same or close. If they have DNA evidence in old cases they will run it against the DNA database. they have convicted a number of people for old crimes this way.<br><br>In this case the man is convicted of a crime and wants to go in reverse. He wants the DNA database examined to prove he didn't do the crime. The case is being argued against doing it on expense grounds and legal maneuvering for on going cases. <br><br>it is simply a matter of what is good for the goose is good for the gander. If the Supreme Court says you are not entitled it should be legislated to do so. Yes, some people may have their convictions overturned because there was no DNA to match them to the case but usually the other evidence is good. For cases going forward it will stop the railroading of many innocent victims whom suffer from the public's desire for  revenge and the politicians goal of doing \"something\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:47:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6872355": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "OK, M.C. Steal Moe Bling \"get jiggy\" with your sematics.<br><br>Fed has a 200B consumer / small business credit vehicle that just opened.<br><br>go read.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:19:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871691, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6870918": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Dude. Using a conservative hack to define Liberalism is just about as disingenous as you can get. Beyond that, George Will consistently makes up evidence in his columns to support his opinion.<br><br>2.) Free markets (which aren't \"free\" in a strict sense anywhere) were the domain of a Randite (Greenspan) and the same in the SEC -- these guys were smart guys -- they just did NOT believe in regulation, and thus did NOT enforce regulation on the books AND gutted regulation.<br><br>AIG debacle is not just a problem of AIG it is all the counter-parties. It's the EXTERNALITIES involved in letting AIG fail, AIG failing would push all the people who held derivative positions against AIG to also fail. <br><br>That's the problem with libertarian influence on business thoery-- it's too difficult to rely on the \"morality\" of individuals to reduce externalitalities -- the incentives are rarely aligned with the firms they represent. Thus, an individual will behave rationalionaly in their interest against the interest of their firm.<br><br>Clearly you don't have much understanding of what you are talking about.<br><br>I'm not going to waste my time responding to the rest of your foolishness.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:21:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6870588, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6870310": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great link - the pension plans all have rosy income projections that none can actually meet.  Many of the public pension plans are modeled on UAW type contracts - 30 years and out, pension payments indexed to inflation, lifetime health benefits, etc.. .  Per the article - the stock market decline has caused the retirement funds to loose upto 25% of their total value (much like Harvard's endowment).  And by law the taxpayers are on the hook to insure all public pensions.  Some smaller local govt. s that I am aware of have eliminated pension plans in favor of partially employee self funded pensions to try and reduce public liablity.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:57:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "mon_dieu_ishmael", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6867699, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6873895": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Republican Party:<br><br>\"We're for fiscal responsibility...since November 4, 2008.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_12:14:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 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}, "6869800": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LMAO!!!!! I didn't hear that line! Soooo funny.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:47:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "claudia_m", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869756, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6872361": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "He's talking about Conserv1<br><br>Conserv1 is the troll.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:18:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871217, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6869290": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL @ \"Morning Ho's\" - I haven't heard that one before.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:25:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "claudia_m", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869193, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6869554": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Point Taken!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:38:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869263, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871343": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No empirical evidence? <br><br>How does opposing school choice assure a better quality of education when that opposition allows failing schools to remain funded and poor teachers to remain employed?<br><br>How does opposing nuclear power production and domestic drilling provide us with inexpensive and abundant supplies of energy?<br><br>Bush was not a fiscal conservative, and contrary to the revisionist history promoted by the Dems regarding Reagan, in 1981, Reagan forced through Congress not only his famed, historic tax cuts, but also a package of budget cuts close to 5% of the federal budget -- equivalent to roughly $150 billion today. In constant dollars, nondefense discretionary spending declined by 14.4% from 1981 to 1982, and by 16.8% from 1981 to 1983. Moreover, in constant dollars, this nondefense discretionary spending never returned to its 1981 level for the rest of Reagan's two terms. By 1988, this spending was still down 14.4% from its 1981 level in constant dollars.<br><br>Even with the Reagan defense buildup, which helped win the Cold War, total federal spending declined to 21.2% of GDP in 1989 from 23.5% of GDP in 1983. That's a real reduction of 10% in the size of government relative to the economy.<br><br>Obama's stimulus plan is the greatest increase in government spending in the history of the planet.<br><br>Meanwhile, the Fed is furiously reinflating, sowing more havoc down the line. <br><br>Obama is still promising future increases in tax rates by letting the Bush tax cuts lapse, because for ideological reasons he thinks even current rates are too low. <br><br>And instead of deregulating for more energy production, he is still promising massive increases in regulatory barriers -- through global warming cap-and-trade legislation -- to increased production from proven energy sources to serve an extreme environmentalist ideology that will in fact be a tax on every American consumer.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:38:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871075, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6869298": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "word? Tavis is shameful man... he needs to try to contain his ego given his moderate skills.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:26:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869236, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6868276": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "We know the photo is real.  There is no question that someone took the photo -- the issue comes in when I personally question who put the book with the monkey on the cover within the display because I don't think it was Barnes and Noble.  Maybe the person taking the photo did it to start something.  . . . This issue brings the same feeling as when the woman carved the backward B in her face and said a black Obama supporter did it.  <br><br>That is how I feel about it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_08:23:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6867626, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6870326": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Okay, LMAO@ <a href=\"http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/04/steele-my-personal-opinion-doesnt-matter-in-this-only-limbaughs-does/\" rel=\"nofollow\">this</a>:<br><br><blockquote>Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) issued the following statement: \"I\u2019m sorry Limbaugh called for harsh sentences for drug addicts while he was a drug addict. I\u2019m also sorry that he\u2019s bent on seeing America fail. And I\u2019m sorry that Limbaugh is one sorry excuse for a human being.\u201d</blockquote><br><br>THAT is how you apologize Michael \"BBQ\" Steele. <br><br>Oh, and if you go to that link, you can see Michael Steele saying that his opinions don't matter.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:58:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 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}, "6870771": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "More threats to US interests:<br><a href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7919050.stm\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7919050.stm</a><br><br>As to anyone whom is afraid of being called an antisemite remember we are disagreeing w/ the actions of a state. A democratic state where within the rhetoric of disagreement is much sharper and higher. Read the English versions of Israel's papers:<br><a href=\"http://www.jpost.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.jpost.com/</a><br><a href=\"http://www.haaretz.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.haaretz.com/</a><br><a href=\"http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/nodeView.asp?fid=942\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/nodeView...</a><br><a href=\"http://chareidi.shemayisrael.com/subscribe/subscribeYN.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://chareidi.shemayisrael.com/subscribe/subs...</a>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:16:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869773, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6870329": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Exactly, along with the massive AIG bailout -- which is really a bailout for all the investment bank counter-parties<br>goldman, merril, jp morgan, morgan stanley etc...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:58:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869613, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6873914": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah, that was shameful as well especially given Michelle's level of achievement.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_12:14:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6873815, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6868284": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123604419092515347.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Obama Economy</a> - \"<i>...after five weeks in office, it's become clear that Mr. Obama's policies are slowing, if not stopping, what would otherwise be the normal process of economic recovery. The market has notably plunged since Mr. Obama introduced his budget last week, and that should be no surprise. The document was a declaration of hostility toward capitalists across the economy.</i>\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_08:23:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Karmi", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 63, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6878525": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "VERY niiiiiice.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_14:58:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6877312, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6874162": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090304/bs_nm/us_usa_economy_4\" rel=\"nofollow\">U.S. private sector bleeds jobs, services slump deepens</a> - \"<i>The private sector cut 697,000 jobs versus 614,000 in January, according to an ADP Employer Services report that suggested <b>hefty employment declines are on the way</b> in the government's more comprehensive payrolls data on Friday ... \"We are still sinking. There is no sign of a bottom.\" The service sector represents about 80 percent of U.S. economic activity.</i>\"<br><br>This is just the beginning...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_12:24:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "Karmi", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6874434": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Catholic church is in big trouble.\"Te Vatican is warning poeple not to value virtual friends over real humans. <br>The whole point of the church is to have a virtual friend!\" from comment sections <br><a href=\"http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5838378.ece\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_12:31:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 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}, "6874422": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "whiterosebuddy - cosigning.  I surprised myself by thinking - ban him already.  But that would squelch the freedom JJP brings to the blogs by allowing everyone to post their views.  Including Conserv and Karmi.<br><br>So I satisfy myself by flagging them when the bullcrap level gets to high.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_12:30:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6874073, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6872902": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The Republicans are ridiculing Steele.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:38:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869440, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6873416": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "MsKitty:   LOL!     :&gt;)    GOOD ONE!!    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:56:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6870544, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6879049": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Last week he called Burris Kazoo from the Flintstones and then the Brown Hornet.<br><br>I almost crashed the car.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_15:19:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "vulcan_girl", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869921, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6872375": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Some of the details of the new 75 billion govt. home refinance plan.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.treas.gov/initiatives/eesa/homeowner-affordability-plan/ExecutiveSummary.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.treas.gov/initiatives/eesa/homeowner...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:19:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "mon_dieu_ishmael", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 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}, "6871889": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Look, EVERY SINGLE RATIONAL ECONOMIC OBSERVER  agrees that the toxic assets held by AIG and disseminated throughout the financial sector need to be dealt with. Whether we set up a situation similar to the Resolution Trust or some sort of 'bad bank' these bad assets need to be dealt with.<br><br>To date, that has not been done, and until something is, the government is throwing money at the problem, NOT solving it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:01:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871393, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871892": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I am sitting here trying to understand why there is even a question of should DNA testing be done to prove either guilt or innocence...its hard to believe that there are people who would allow a person to be put in prison or worse, executed - because they didn't want to pay for the testing or because of fear for their win/loss ratios or whatever completely unjustified reason they would use.<br><br>What the hell kind of justice system is that? I don't see how anyone could look at the faces of the men who have been released after spending over half their lives in prison for a crime they DID NOT COMMIT after DNA proved they were not the guilty party. Costs? That's the reason they want to throw out there? the Cost? I really can't wrap my head around that kind of callous attitude regarding human lives, even though I guess I should be used to it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:00:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869794, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6882645": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You know both Hawaii's senators are asian right?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_17:27:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6873331, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6873432": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Admiral:    LOL!     :&gt;)    GOOD ONE!!    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:57:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6872823, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6877017": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Don't you wonder about the mental state of peope life Conserv1 and Karmi? Exactly what kind of deep-seeded emptiness is there in their lives, that is SO vast,  that they would actually enjoy posting on a site where they only serve as complete antagonists? What kind of personality flaw must one have to actually enjoy being assholes just for the sake of being one? What exactly didn't their parents do in order to spark such a need to actually BE disliked? Its almost as if they need attention, ANY attention, but don't have the necessary social skills to understand how to be liked, so they automatically assume that the only way to get attention is to be DISliked.  Isn't that sad? That's so very very sad. <br><br>Things that make you go hmmmmmmm", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_13:59:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mirandalynn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6874422, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6868314": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That's the WSJ. I take anything they have to say about Obama with a grain of salt. Obama is concentrating on creating JOBS, not making investors feel good about themselves, and I guess investors are used to having their feelings being considered above all others. <br><br>The whole \"let the market sort it out\" crap is what got us into this mess.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_08:26:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 47, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6868284, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871901": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ill have to disagree with you mainly because reagan cut taxes when taxes were high, you cant cut taxes after youve already cut them, and the current problem is more than just the american economy like it was under reagan and we now have more banks and larger banks than reagan had. what reagan did worked for that time period i wont discredit that but its a different time now.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:01:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "allamr18", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871521, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871393": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "George Will is the definition of a partisan Hack, someone who writes from a specific position in a non-scholarly fashion for a specific ideology.<br><br>I absolutely disagree about his self-serving drivel.<br><br>Pumping money into AIG is not about AIG. It is about saving the entire market from the risk of being on the right side of a contract; yet, losing money b/c the other party went under. If you don't understand how that could provide systemic market failure -- jeez I'd stop writing about economic issues.<br><br>EVERY SINGLE RATIONAL ECONOMIC OBSERVER agrees about ensuring these banking institutions don't \"fail.\" You understand bank receivership is the role of the FDIC right? jeebus you are wasting my time.<br><br>Obama has NOT even proposed banking regulation yet. Further, Glass-stegall and before that ensuring S&Ls could not invest beyond restricted securities worked extremely well from 1930s -- 1980s. It took 8 years for S&Ls to fail and 8 years for Mega-banks to fail.<br><br>You are living in a fantasy world, not based in emphirical evidence.<br><br>I'm wasting my time go read up, you are trying to make this an ideological issue , when MOST economists, lawyers, enforcement agencies agree your AYN RAND perscriptions failed.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:39:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871115, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6873442": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Piepiepie.<br><br>Give it up. We supposedly know nothing about the market or economics. hehehe<br>I recall busting my old school (literally--Princeton pals who were in charge at rating firms/agencies for tlooked like payola. They came with the same ol' bull babble about how no one understood economics, the market. And of course this mythical Adam Smith invisible hand stuff.  Well, well...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:58:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "ChrisChambers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6872010, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871395": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Just keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better. Whatever floats your boat! But the truth is the American people have faith in President Obama & the Democratic Party to fix what Bush #ucked up. Check out the President's approval rating.  Woo Hoo!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:39:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869404, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871185": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You fraud!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:31:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869653, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6870588": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think that it is inaccurate to characterize this argument in terms of all or nothing. No regulation got us into this mess vs. strict regulation and more government interevntion will get us out.<br><br>Clearly, the bailouts of AIG and the automakers have not been able to stop the failure of these businesses.<br><br>The true debate right now is what is the proper role of government in the economy and the private sector. Clearly responsible government regulation helps to protect the public interest but excessive regulation can hinder or harm our businesses and our economy.<br><br>The financial crisis had led to a growing cynicism about business and the administration has seized upon and IMO, exploited it to enact an agenda that will increase the size and scope of the federal government and centralize power in Washington.<br><br>Americans who are economically stressed are looking to the government for unprecedented levels of support to bring us out of our collective and individual hardship.<br><br>I feel this is a mistake. I have more faith in freedom and in  individuals, in their ability to succeed, in their desire to overcome obstacles and achieve their goals than I do in the power of the government to assure equality of opportunity.<br><br>This is what I see to be the main difference between conservatism and liberalism.<br><br>Conservative columnist George Will defines modern liberalism in this way:<br><br>\"Liberalism's goal of achieving greater equality of condition leads to a larger scope for interventionist government to circumscribe the market's role in allocating wealth and opportunity. Liberalism increasingly seeks to deliver equality in the form of equal dependence of more and more people for more and more things on government.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:09:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869620, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6870892": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "We can run around in circles all day pointing fingers at one side or the other. The question is, will this plan work, and the truth is NO ONE KNOWS.<br><br>Conservatives, like myself,  who are skeptical of big government intervention in all sectors of our economy and the effects of massive deficit spending on economic stimulation are leery.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:20:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6870329, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6877501": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You.Got.Busted.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br><br>rotflmao!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_14:20:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871575, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6872154": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "By looking at their actions. That's how.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:11:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Micheline", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6872002, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6874174": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Bernie Made-off  is a sociopath: <a href=\"http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/04/madoff200904\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/200...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_12:24:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 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}, "6869908": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "thats fair enough however id just like to make this point. The reagan administration inherited a mess from carter and it took 18 months before the recession under reagan ended. so i would ask for you to give this administration the same amount of time he had to deal with that mess.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:52:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "allamr18", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869551, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6873979": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yep, Plouffe is ON message.<br><br>If more Obama supporters just stick to the message we can stuff theseGOP jerks in a box and let them suffocate. We will need a 16 wheeler for the party leader.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_12:16:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6867676, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6872959": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://supportburris.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Roland Burris launches U.S. Senate reelection website.</a><br><br>It was created January 8, and last updated the day Burris was sworn in, January 15.<br><br>Delusional...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:40:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "blksista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 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}, "6872555": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "We did not elect Steele to his position and 99.9% of us are not Republicans so . . . your point is what exactly?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:26:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6870735, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6873476": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Do not feed the Troll. You know its here by berbal stench. When fed it omits verbal more which will drive you mad. Troll has ticket for Trifling Train. It will board if not fed.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:59:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6872154, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6867846": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You know what is really hillarious about Rush @ CPAC...<br><br>He was like a third-rate dictator giving a 20 minute talk that lasted 2 hrs -- of ranting and raving -- while his devoted followers gave standing ovations when prompted for fear of being reported on.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_07:52:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 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}, "6869383": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Say it louder!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:29:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869302, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6869384": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Who are the Morning Ho's?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:30:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869193, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6873482": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL...YOU ARE SO BUSTED!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:59:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871575, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6873483": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Precisely. That was my question to.<br><br>The DOJ for the Obama administration, however, is arguing the position Rob delineated.<br><br>What the hell does it matter if convictions are overturned due to DNA exoneration? The key is that it was the same with fingerprints, no?  If another person's fingerprints were on the gun..then the person who was charged was typically found not guilty.<br><br>So, I do not get this double standard.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_12:00:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871892, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6869388": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "so basically your saying that if we get out of this skid we cant say the stimulus helped but lets say we get sunk lower you will say the stimulus hurt. o the hilarity of that argument. and i think the foreclosure plan is coming out today and the financial plan is coming out next week", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:30:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "allamr18", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869081, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6872461": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree with your initial assessment.  <br><br>Give Tavis nothing.   Who cares.  Let him run the clock.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:23:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869554, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871149": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "When I am talking about investors I am talking about Wall Street, ie., the Kramers, financiers and the like. I am not talking about the employment retirement funds, charities, etc.  The former with the help of regulators not doing their jobs caused this mess while the latter are its victims.  We should not lump these two groups into one because it is highly inaccurate.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:29:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "Micheline", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6870585, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6868372": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL .... He really shot himself in the foot... Everyone now has an excuse to say he is not the leader, just a flunky...<br><br>DL Hugley should send Steele a fruit basket.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_08:30:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6868120, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871957": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes, the market is reacting to the lack of a plan.<br><br>The stimulus is only one part of the 3 parts Obama is proposing.<br><br>The most important component, which is stabilizing the financial sector, has yet to be revealed.<br><br>Third, If the stimulus has created one new job, I have yet to hear about it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:04:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871206, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6876059": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Tavis is a LOOSER of his own kind.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_13:22:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6870544, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6869404": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"It's the economy, stupid.\"<br><br>The 2010 elections will be a referendum on the 'stimulus plan.'", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:31:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6867655, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6870429": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The deregulation was proposed by Clinton's flunky Rubin and passed into law before Bush came into office.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:02:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "mon_dieu_ishmael", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869613, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6869409": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Eh, I don't think Tavis has as big of an audience as FAUX News, Obama can continue to ignore him. Obama can, and does, call the TJMS if he has something to say to Black Folk. :o)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:31:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869263, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6872049": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "1.) It's not \"school choice\" when budgeting vouchers decreasing the school district's overall budget.<br><br>I'm all for funded vouchers outside of the existing school budget. <br><br>\"School Choice\" is a talking point strawman to the elmination of public schools -- another massively successful liberal project.<br><br>2.) Reagan, Bush I and  Bush II could have proposed new nuclear plants they did not.<br>That's a strawman, as the U.S. is massively behind in the technology, the plants are very expensive, and how do we protect the EXISTING plants from the \"terrorists?\"<br><br>3.) Domestic drilling? all for it... that's NOT the choke point -- it is oil refineries -- given the \"free market\" the oligopoly of oil companies have zero economic interest in building more refinires --- <br><br>I'm catching a trend on your talking points -- LOL.<br><br>4.) what was the net? Reagan also incr. taxes... MASSIVE incr. in debt.<br><br>5.) The late 70s OIL SHOCK did USSR in along with Gorbachev (the first college educated P.M of USSR). Go read a cold war book.<br><br>Beyond that Massive military spending is NOT CONSERVATIVE!<br><br>6.) Absolutely the Recovery Plan is massive investment. with support from both conservative and liberal economists.<br><br>7.) The Fed under Bush appointed Bernake IS NOT CONTROLLED by the WH.<br>It's a seperate organization that is NOT under control of any branch of government -- this is macro econ 101 -- more proof you don't know WTF you are talking about you are just spouting talking points.<br><br>8.) Emperichally the \"bush tax cuts\" were UNFUNDED, via your own neo-classical economics that should have told people not to count on the tax cuts being permanent.<br><br>9.) More deregulation? again basic economics CAP and TRADE provides an accounting for the public good -- the environment again basic economics. Again, even a neo-classical economist would agree pollution is a negative-externality that has to be made \"neutral\" to the public.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:07:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871343, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6868424": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Karmi<br><br>You know damn well that is bullsh%t!  Will you stop it already?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_08:33:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6868284, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6873501": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "RobM:<br><br>I keep using - - <a href=\"http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f399/myfask/258Troll_spray.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">THIS!!</a>    :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>Somehow it's NOT quite workin'!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:59:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871654, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6873010": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And a referendum on the \"No, No- Republicans\"", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:42:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869404, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6868915": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I get the feeling Obama really doesn't like Tavis, and isn't going to give the fucker an interview ever.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:06:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 13, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6868553, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6870965": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Stop cutting and pasting from CNBC / CNN money without sourcing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:23:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869653, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871747": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "More ignorance on Tax policy in MSM; hat tip eschaton <a href=\"http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200903030013?show=1\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200903030013...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:54:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 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}, "6873016": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It was on the TJMS, maybe you can catch it on the replay (on now) at <a href=\"http://blackamericaweb.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">blackamericaweb.com</a> or check in a few hours, and they might have it up on the \"if you missed it\" section.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:43:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6872839, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6874356": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Is that for the entire month of January, or just the last 11 1/2 days?  Because if memory serves, George W. Bush was still steering the ship until noon on January 20th. <br><br>If you're gonna spread blame, do it equally because you're not fooling anyone.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_12:30:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6874162, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6869434": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The market did not get us into this mess. A deliberate policy of no regulation for some Wall Street Activities(CDS and the Commodity Modernization Act of 2000) and nonfeasance(i.e., the deliberate non enforcement of regulations) on the part of the Bush Administration since 2001 in the financial regulatory area.<br><br>the market is nothing more than human actors in the economy. We regulate ourselves because history has told us we will act w/ nothing but naked self interest if allowed to so. When we withdraw the restraint shit like this happens.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:32:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 44, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6868314, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6869440": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Al Sharpton was saying that this morning. That the way the Republicans aren't sticking up for Steele in this situtation demonstrates how they would treat African Americans as a whole when it comes to the issues we face.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:32:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 19, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6868445, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871019": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You seem to think that it is childish to lament the loss of over 3 TRILLION dollars of personal wealth. <br><br>College and retirement funds that individuals worked hard to save and invest so that the would not be dependent on the government for assistance have vanished. Families caring for elderly parents have seen nest eggs set aside for their care disappear.<br><br>Would you prefer to have all individuals competing for a government bailout?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:25:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869636, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6872002": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Explain how.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:06:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871860, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6869921": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Huggie Lowdown also said Michael Steele looked like Chuck E Cheese.  LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:54:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869800, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6873032": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I understand all that.  But they elected him.  <br><br>They elected him because they wanted to show minorities/blacks how open the Republican party is to all groups.  Didn't matter if Steele was qualified or not. (Kinda like the Clinton/Palin decision).<br><br>Well they made their bed and now folks like me are curious to see how they are going to handle this.  Their actions will only confirm what most folks already know and what DL Hughley said the other day regarding Republicans and their \"outreach\" to minorities.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:43:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6872751, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6872521": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "this isn't about Rush Piepiepie.<br><br>This is about the Republican party and their lack of support for someone they chose to elect.<br><br>Rush to me is a great storyline but he is not relevant.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:25:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869699, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6872010": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/economics/relationship-between-stock-market-and-economy/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/economics/rel...</a><br>Relationship Between Stock Market and Economy<br>May 30th, 2008 | economics - <br><br>You are fucking busted you poser.<br><br>You see there is this tool, it is called \"the google...\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:06:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871575, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6872523": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "conservatism is fine, Conserv1 uses more talking poitns that he/she does not understand.<br><br>It's hilarious really.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:25:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871548, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6872528": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It hit me later, when I was reading an interview Mr. Limbaugh did last year for the London Telegraph at his radio studio in Florida, that he is to politics what Richard Pryor was to comedy \u2013 an entertainer on the edge who is willing go into the political unknown. \"That Cracker's Crazy\", a play on Pryor's famous comedy album \"That Nigger's Crazy\" leaped into my head. If you watch Limbaugh's facial expressions while he's speaking, you quickly see that he has the comedian's instinct for satirical irony, a distinction that some of his listening audience is not always so quick to recognize.<br><br>Rush Limbaugh is well on his way to becoming another in a long line of men, like George Wallace, Barry Goldwater, or Eugene McCarthy, who reach an apogee as a social change agent and then harden in place, their stances becoming more anachronistic by the day as the winds of change inevitably blow society in another direction until they turned into caricatures of their former selves.<br><br><a href=\"http://simplifythepositive.blogspot.com/2009/03/rush-magic-ego.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rush The Magic Ego</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:24:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "BrownManATL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 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}, "6875959": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well said, and great points! The <a href=\"http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=^DJI&t=1y\" rel=\"nofollow\">DOW</a> charts says it all. It has lost 6000 points since May '08. It dropped as Obama moved ahead of Hillary, and hasn't stopped dropping since it looked like Obama would beat McCain. I can see the DOW getting to 4000 this year...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_13:19:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Karmi", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869653, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6870486": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Till republicans get over their infatuation with ignorance you will continue to lose.The people believe that Democrats have their economic interest at heart and they know it will take time to fix what republicans broke.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:04:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869404, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6874073": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I was so disappointed to open this thread and find over a third of the posts from the troll Conser1<br><br>very disappointing...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_12:19:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6873331": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Delusional is being too kind.  <br><br>I want a black senator, an asian senator, and more latinos  because America is a melting pot but I will be damned if some self-serving pompous negro who has a \"monument to me\" makes it harder for our fellow people of color to rise to one of the most powerful branches in government because this fool is making us look bad.<br><br>Come 2010, I want Roland gone. I do not want to see anyone come to this man's defense.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:53:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "blueberry", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6872959, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6868445": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I am not sure if the repubs realize it or not but they set themselves up with this one.  If they get rid of Steele it will only ensure that the republican party gets NO minority support.  Everybody is watching how the Repubs handle this situation.  The repubs recognize that in order to win elections they have to reach outside their base and to other groups.  <br><br>If they dump Steele this will only confirm that unless you accept the fact that you are only allowed to serve food at the Republican table and not sit down to partake of the meal -- the message is clear that there is no room for minorities in the republican party.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_08:36:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 21, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6868120, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871575": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Not cutting and pasting, just a basic knowledge of the stock market.<br><br>Hope you learned something.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:47:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6870965, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871521": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sure, but I reserve my right to remain skeptical.<br><br>I would be more optimistic if I felt that Obama had looked to Reagan's economic policies during that period rather than FDRs. <br><br>Obama needs to achieve a rather 'rosy scenario' for his plan to reduce the deficit to succeed.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:46:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869908, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6873060": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=12439&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=22533&tx_ttnews[backPid]=12387&cHash=933307a56f\" rel=\"nofollow\">ACORN unveils \"staying home\" campaign in eight cities to fight foreclosures.</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:44:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "blksista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 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}, "6873573": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "We have a faculty reception w/him at Georgetown this evening. We were told not to get too controversial w/our questions. You heard me. This is supposed to be a university. Of course, the other prima donna, ME Dyson, will likely lovey dovey up to him and the gab fest will begin. <br>I plan on asking him a simple question. Wish me luck", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_12:03:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "ChrisChambers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6872823, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6945767": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I do not think that engaging Rush is a winning strategy for the administration.<br><br>Already this sideshow is being equated to 'fiddling while Rome burns.\"<br><a href=\"http://www.investors.com/editorial/cartoon.asp\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.investors.com/editorial/cartoon.asp</a><br><br>The market is trending ever downward as Geithner is flying solo at Treasury with no clear plan in place for stabilizing the financial sector.<br><br>And what was promised to be the \"smoothest transition ever\"  is stumbling.<br><br>The rebuttal that critics do not know what they are talking about and should sit down and shut up because they supported Bush is wearing thin as more and more supporters of Obama are scratching their heads and asking themselves \"WTF'?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-06_11:07:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Conserv1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6878477, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6872552": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"Wall Street will adapt to the rules of the game, once they know what the rules are.\"<br><br>-The new rule is:<br><br>Instead of looking for the government to bail you out, you mofo's need to pay the government back.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_11:26:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6870760, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6868459": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "DL did set it up when he called Rush the leader of the republican party. It has been down hill for Michael Steele since then.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_08:36:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6868372, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871122": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "well unfortunately that is what happens when you allow an unqualified intellectually uncurious person to run the country.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:29:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6870585, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6870525": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Okay, so blame Clinton AND Bush. If Bush wanted regulation, he had 8 years to get it through, 6 of which the Republicans had control of the Congress as well. <br><br>:o)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:05:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Muzikal203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6870429, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6869489": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I heard that this morning, too. And I thought Sharpton raised a good point. We should watch and learn when it comes to how the Republicans are treating Steele - I liked what he said about Steele being the \"Trojan Horse\" with Limbaugh inside...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_09:34:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "claudia_m", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6869440, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6867954": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "great resource claudia_m.  just sent out an email to about 60 youth involved in our learn2teachteach2learn program and all the volunteer staff and community organization staff telling them about this.  thanks so much. . .", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_08:00:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "zackboston", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6867710, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6876150": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hey GreenLady, I've noticed that Mr. President is not an \"early\" person.  Is that because he likes to see our first kids off to school or does he exercise with Michelle in the early hours?  Either one, he must be really enjoying the new digs!<br>Another White House Par-tay! They love hob-nobbing and showing off Michelle's shoulders.  I ain't mad at girlfriend though, reported today that her \"arm numbers\" I mean approval numbers are up.  You go girl!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_13:25:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mythe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6874726, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6875640": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Talk to me when the DOW drops below 6000...", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_13:06:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "Karmi", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6868930, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871380": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Will Conserv1 comment on this?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:39:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Micheline", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871247, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6871548": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If it's about facts, he won't!  He specializes in lies.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_10:47:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6871380, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "6876842": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "good point, good point... I have a short memory today...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-04_13:53:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "claudia_m", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "9 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 6876364, "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": "13012437", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": -2531788716627440899}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "wednesday_open_thread_16", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 215, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 13012437, "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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};

var disqus_popup_reference = null;

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



/**
 * Dsq.Strings: UI strings
 */
Dsq.Strings = new function() {
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	this.JUST_NOW = "Just now";
	this.REPLY = "Reply";
	this.EDIT = "Edit";
	this.FLAG = "Flag";
	this.MODERATE = "Moderate";
	this.CANCEL = "Cancel";
	this.REPLYING_TO = "Replying to";
	this.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS = "Report missing reactions";
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	this.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION = "This will flag comments for moderators to take action";
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	this.JUST_A_MOMENT = "Just a moment...";
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	this.NAME = "Name";
	this.EMAIL = "Email";
  this.WEBSITE = "Website";
  this.SETTINGS = "Settings";
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};
// Dsq.Strings

/**
 * Dsq.FmtStrings: functions that return interpolated UI strings
 */
Dsq.FmtStrings = new function() {
	// Seems we have to use named interpolation for Django to translate. Investigate more.
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			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comment", {num:num});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comments", {num:num});
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	this.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s comment'
				: '%(num)s comments'
			), {num:num});
	};

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

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





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



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

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	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() {
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		var hashIndex = this.reader.location.href.indexOf('#');
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		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);

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			this._accumMsg += data;
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			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);
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	return {
		flags: flags,
		seqno: seqno,
		data: data
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};

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;
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			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=wednesday_open_thread_16' +
		'&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/wednesday_open_thread_16/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='	+ 'wednesday_open_thread_16'
			+ '&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/wednesday_open_thread_16/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">215</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/wednesday_open_thread_16/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/wednesday_open_thread_16/">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:13012437" 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/wednesday_open_thread_16/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:13012437" 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:13012437" 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'				: 'wednesday_open_thread_16',
			// 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/wednesday_open_thread_16/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='	+ 'wednesday_open_thread_16'
			+ '&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='	+ 'wednesday_open_thread_16'
			+ '&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='		+ 'wednesday_open_thread_16'
				+ '&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/13012437/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

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

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

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

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

}();

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();


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





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

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

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

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

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

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





(function() {
	//
	// Load theme.  This overrides the base templates with template functions
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6875165">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6875165" class="dsq-comment-message">Ted Kennedy to receive knighthood <br><br><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7922703.stm" rel="nofollow">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7922703.stm</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6875226">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6875226" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama moves to overhaul federal contracting system, reversing Bush administration policy<br><br>Obama joined Republican Sen. John McCain, his presidential campaign rival, and other congressional figures to announce an executive memorandum that commits his administration to a new set of marching orders for awarding contracts. Obama said "the days of giving government contractors a blank check are over" and said changes could save up to $40 billion a year.<br><br><br><a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-obama-waste%2C0%2C5826180.story" rel="nofollow">http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-a...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6875786">Myth</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6875786" class="dsq-comment-message">That article sheds a lot of light onto Bush\'s reason for being!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6873895" class="dsq-comment-message">The Republican Party:<br><br>"We\'re for fiscal responsibility...since November 4, 2008."</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6874073" class="dsq-comment-message">I was so disappointed to open this thread and find over a third of the posts from the troll Conser1<br><br>very disappointing...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6874422">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6874422" class="dsq-comment-message">whiterosebuddy - cosigning.  I surprised myself by thinking - ban him already.  But that would squelch the freedom JJP brings to the blogs by allowing everyone to post their views.  Including Conserv and Karmi.<br><br>So I satisfy myself by flagging them when the bullcrap level gets to high.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6877017">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6877017" class="dsq-comment-message">Don\'t you wonder about the mental state of peope life Conserv1 and Karmi? Exactly what kind of deep-seeded emptiness is there in their lives, that is SO vast,  that they would actually enjoy posting on a site where they only serve as complete antagonists? What kind of personality flaw must one have to actually enjoy being assholes just for the sake of being one? What exactly didn\'t their parents do in order to spark such a need to actually BE disliked? Its almost as if they need attention, ANY attention, but don\'t have the necessary social skills to understand how to be liked, so they automatically assume that the only way to get attention is to be DISliked.  Isn\'t that sad? That\'s so very very sad. <br><br>Things that make you go hmmmmmmm</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6885584">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6885584" class="dsq-comment-message">RAOTFLMAO.  Well said Miranda.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6872528" href="http://www.brownmanthinkinghard.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Brown Man</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6872528" class="dsq-comment-message">It hit me later, when I was reading an interview Mr. Limbaugh did last year for the London Telegraph at his radio studio in Florida, that he is to politics what Richard Pryor was to comedy – an entertainer on the edge who is willing go into the political unknown. "That Cracker\'s Crazy", a play on Pryor\'s famous comedy album "That Nigger\'s Crazy" leaped into my head. If you watch Limbaugh\'s facial expressions while he\'s speaking, you quickly see that he has the comedian\'s instinct for satirical irony, a distinction that some of his listening audience is not always so quick to recognize.<br><br>Rush Limbaugh is well on his way to becoming another in a long line of men, like George Wallace, Barry Goldwater, or Eugene McCarthy, who reach an apogee as a social change agent and then harden in place, their stances becoming more anachronistic by the day as the winds of change inevitably blow society in another direction until they turned into caricatures of their former selves.<br><br><a href="http://simplifythepositive.blogspot.com/2009/03/rush-magic-ego.html" rel="nofollow">Rush The Magic Ego</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6870326" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6870326" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay, LMAO@ <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/04/steele-my-personal-opinion-doesnt-matter-in-this-only-limbaughs-does/" rel="nofollow">this</a>:<br><br><blockquote>Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) issued the following statement: "I’m sorry Limbaugh called for harsh sentences for drug addicts while he was a drug addict. I’m also sorry that he’s bent on seeing America fail. And I’m sorry that Limbaugh is one sorry excuse for a human being.”</blockquote><br><br>THAT is how you apologize Michael "BBQ" Steele. <br><br>Oh, and if you go to that link, you can see Michael Steele saying that his opinions don\'t matter.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6867062" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6867062" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/moving_america_news/7359" rel="nofollow"> President Obama met with the Congressional Black Caucus last week</a> sounds like it went well. <br><br>Also, am I the only one that thinks 24 hour news channels need to go, or at least be restricted to only talking about politics for an hour? It just seems they don\'t really do much to really educate people or advance the dialogue on issues. Lately CNBC has been particularly annoying. They talk isht about the White House, then when the White House responds, they whine about the White House responding. Then the "pundits" get on TV and ask why Gibbs keeps talking about them, and they fail to mention that their "journalistic" colleagues are the ones that keep ASKING Gibbs about it, and I\'m quite sure they\'d be complaining if Gibbs decided not to answer the questions.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6867545" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6867545" class="dsq-comment-message">All that shit is really inside baseball -- average people dont really care.<br><br>However, the WH is cutting down enemies like a Grim Reaper in a field of Rye..<br><br>first read / msnbc<br>"*** Backflips for Rush: Rush Limbaugh might not be the “voice and intellectual force” behind the Republican Party, as Rahm Emanuel asserted on Sunday. But this has become increasingly true: When Limbaugh says jump, Republican officials quickly respond, “How high?” First, Georgia Rep. Phil Gingrey (R) criticized Limbaugh back in January, but then immediately called into to apologize after receiving a slew of complaints from Rush listeners. "I regret and apologize for the fact that my comments have offended and upset my fellow conservatives,” Gingrey told Limbaugh. Now, after RNC chair Michael Steele told CNN over the weekend that Limbaugh is an entertainer who can be “ugly” and “incendiary” -- and after Limbaugh gladly returned the fire -- the chairman called Limbaugh to smooth things over. “My intent was not to go after Rush,” Steele told Politico. “I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh. I was maybe a little bit inarticulate… There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership.” Of course, there is now an open invitation for some ambitious Republican to become the first to have the guts to stand up to Rush."<br><br>No Rs can get on TV without being met by a Razor -- do you like Rush Limpbrain?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6867687" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6867687" class="dsq-comment-message">They are trying to claim Rush isn\'t in charge, but all of the facts suggest otherwise. . . <br><br>as far as Cramer/Santelli go, I have problems taking people who don\'t seem to have "indoor" voices seriously.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6867718" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6867718" class="dsq-comment-message">Cramer is an idiot, I\'m sure his democratic friends are calling him and telling him to shut the fuck up... this is a guy who CRIED ON AIR when Eliot Spitzer resigned after spending 80K USD on whores.<br><br>Cramer told people to go out and buy Bear Sterns before it went bankrupt along with AIG. <br><br>Santelli too -- they both are fucking cheerleaders not analysts.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6870552">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6870552" class="dsq-comment-message">Its a coordinated effort by the corporate media to stop President Obama\'s plans for helping the 95% of us.If you think its bad now wait for the health care debate.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6867611" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6867611" class="dsq-comment-message">M.C. Steal Moe Bling  is a fool. I seriously believe he though RNC chairman was running an organization where he would have some ability to do what HE wanted..<br><br><br>Steele, who has been traveling aggressively since taking the job, says the vacancies at the top of his organization are by design. He said he’s re-examining the whole structure with an eye to streamlining it and will have most of his team in place by the end of March, after he begins implementing reports from transition teams that are planning the party’s own first 100 days.<br><br>“I know some folks in Washington feel that they’re kind of on the outside of this — that they don’t have the day-to-day blow by blow of what I’m doing,” he said. “And that’s exactly how I like it. I want to be about the business of putting in place a good infrastructure that will enable me to go out and build a better brand, stronger brand, for the GOP. And I won’t get there by tattle-telling every day what I’m doing.”  <br><br><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19588.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19588...</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6867626" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6867626" class="dsq-comment-message">Literary Obama has a new post that may be of interest to JJP folks:<br><br><a href="http://literaryobama.com/2009/03/03/about-that-barnes-noble-book-display/" rel="nofollow">About That Barnes & Noble Book Display...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6868276">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6868276" class="dsq-comment-message">We know the photo is real.  There is no question that someone took the photo -- the issue comes in when I personally question who put the book with the monkey on the cover within the display because I don\'t think it was Barnes and Noble.  Maybe the person taking the photo did it to start something.  . . . This issue brings the same feeling as when the woman carved the backward B in her face and said a black Obama supporter did it.  <br><br>That is how I feel about it.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869187" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6869187" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869187" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree, Val. It\'s good to see that smart folks are asking critical questions about this latest "outrage."</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6869347" href="http://leftistmoon.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WordSmith</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869347" class="dsq-comment-message">perhaps the person taking the photo set up the shot ((?))</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6867655" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6867655" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6867655" class="dsq-comment-message">One last thing... the Obama WH / DNC is "post-partisan" but not weak -- as shown they are busy going on offense to marginalize the GOP and GOP leaders further</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6869404">Conserv1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869404" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869404" class="dsq-comment-message">"It\'s the economy, stupid."<br><br>The 2010 elections will be a referendum on the \'stimulus plan.\'</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6869559" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869559" class="dsq-comment-message">Eh, possibly -- my guess is it will be a mixed bag regionally. <br><br>Foreclosures are really a regional thing so some areas are going to stablize on that front faster than others. <br><br>Also, the stimulus is already going to show positive affects per most non-ideologue economists.<br><br>Your boy Bobby Jindal is already showing himself a hypocrite:<br><br>Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal brought most of his Cabinet here Monday afternoon to offer moral and tangible support to a group of 500 desperate Pilgrim\'s Pride contract growers and employees whose livelihoods are at risk following the company\'s decision to idle its northeastern Louisiana and southern Arkansas operations.<br><br>...<br><br>Jindal said that the state would apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance from the federal government, which would expand unemployment benefits to employees and provide benefits to growers who aren\'t eligible for unemployment benefits. The state was recently granted Trade Adjustment Assistance for International Paper workers who lost their jobs when IP closed its Bastrop paper mill late last year.<br><br><a href="http://thenewsstar.com/article/20090303/NEWS01/903030308" rel="nofollow">http://thenewsstar.com/article/20090303/NEWS01/...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6870486">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6870486" class="dsq-comment-message">Till republicans get over their infatuation with ignorance you will continue to lose.The people believe that Democrats have their economic interest at heart and they know it will take time to fix what republicans broke.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6871395">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871395" class="dsq-comment-message">Just keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better. Whatever floats your boat! But the truth is the American people have faith in President Obama & the Democratic Party to fix what Bush #ucked up. Check out the President\'s approval rating.  Woo Hoo!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6873010" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6873010">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6873010" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6873010" class="dsq-comment-message">And a referendum on the "No, No- Republicans"</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6867676" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6867676" href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">icebergslim</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6867676" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6867676" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com/2009/03/you-got-to-love-this-by-david-plouffe.html" rel="nofollow">You got to love this, by David Plouffe, Obama\'s Campaign Manager</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6873979">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6873979" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6873979" class="dsq-comment-message">Yep, Plouffe is ON message.<br><br>If more Obama supporters just stick to the message we can stuff theseGOP jerks in a box and let them suffocate. We will need a 16 wheeler for the party leader.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6867699" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6867699">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6867699" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6867699" class="dsq-comment-message">The Next $1 Trillion Bailout? Public Pension Funds<br><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=alwTE0Z5.1EA&refer=home" rel="nofollow">http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6868232" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6868232">Micheline</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6868232" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6868232" class="dsq-comment-message">They can put that in the second stimulus.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6870310" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6870310">mon_dieu_ishmael</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6870310" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6870310" class="dsq-comment-message">Great link - the pension plans all have rosy income projections that none can actually meet.  Many of the public pension plans are modeled on UAW type contracts - 30 years and out, pension payments indexed to inflation, lifetime health benefits, etc.. .  Per the article - the stock market decline has caused the retirement funds to loose upto 25% of their total value (much like Harvard\'s endowment).  And by law the taxpayers are on the hook to insure all public pensions.  Some smaller local govt. s that I am aware of have eliminated pension plans in favor of partially employee self funded pensions to try and reduce public liablity.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6867710" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6867710" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6867710" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6867710" class="dsq-comment-message">Is anyone else here familiar with the blog, <a href="http://coloronline.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Color Online</a>? Their mission is “the promotion, empowerment, and political awakening of young women” through literature by women and people of color. <br><br>I\'ve written a post about it to help spread the word. They are collecting books for a library for young women in the Detroit area and other good works, so I hope you\'ll check it out: <a href="http://thebottomofheaven.com/2009/03/03/bookmark-this-color-online/" rel="nofollow">Bookmark This: Color Online</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6867954" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6867954">zackboston</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6867954" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6867954" class="dsq-comment-message">great resource claudia_m.  just sent out an email to about 60 youth involved in our learn2teachteach2learn program and all the volunteer staff and community organization staff telling them about this.  thanks so much. . .</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6869123" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869123" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6869123" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869123" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869123" class="dsq-comment-message">No problem, zackboston! Do you have a link for your own program so we can learn more about that too?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6869664" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869664" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6869664">zackboston</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869664" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869664" class="dsq-comment-message">Well we are a little all over the place, but you can download an info guide at the tech center website:  <br><a href="http://www.tech-center-enlightentcity.tv" rel="nofollow">www.tech-center-enlightentcity.tv</a>.<br><br>or there is a general entry with some links for photos on our pilot wiki here:<br><a href="http://l2ttl2.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/learn-2-teach-project-exposition-august-15-2008/" rel="nofollow">http://l2ttl2.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/learn-2-...</a><br><br>or there is a pretty good article here from last summer\'s south end news:<br><a href="http://www.mysouthend.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=79136" rel="nofollow">http://www.mysouthend.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=...</a><br><br>thanks for asking!  we reached over 600 youth last summer and got them making their own inventions with emerging science and technology!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6867846" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6867846" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6867846" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6867846" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6867846" class="dsq-comment-message">You know what is really hillarious about Rush @ CPAC...<br><br>He was like a third-rate dictator giving a 20 minute talk that lasted 2 hrs -- of ranting and raving -- while his devoted followers gave standing ovations when prompted for fear of being reported on.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6868120" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6868120" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6868120" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6868120" class="dsq-comment-message">The TJMS is clowning Michael "BBQ" Steele. LOL. They said he gets invited to BBQ\'s and asks what to bring and the host tells him "just bring yourself." LOL!<br><br>Then Tom tried to call him the leader of the Republican Party and J & Sybil said "No he\'s not" LOL<br><br>Poor guy, I think the RNC will be getting rid of him soon</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6868372" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6868372" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6868372" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6868372" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6868372" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL .... He really shot himself in the foot... Everyone now has an excuse to say he is not the leader, just a flunky...<br><br>DL Hugley should send Steele a fruit basket.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6868459" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6868459" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6868459">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6868459" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6868459" class="dsq-comment-message">DL did set it up when he called Rush the leader of the republican party. It has been down hill for Michael Steele since then.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6868617" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6868617" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6868617" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6868617" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/29506332#29506332" rel="nofollow">http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/29506...</a><br>Steele shuckin and jivin LOL...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6868445" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6868445" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6868445">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6868445" class="dsq-comment-message">I am not sure if the repubs realize it or not but they set themselves up with this one.  If they get rid of Steele it will only ensure that the republican party gets NO minority support.  Everybody is watching how the Repubs handle this situation.  The repubs recognize that in order to win elections they have to reach outside their base and to other groups.  <br><br>If they dump Steele this will only confirm that unless you accept the fact that you are only allowed to serve food at the Republican table and not sit down to partake of the meal -- the message is clear that there is no room for minorities in the republican party.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6869227" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869227" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6869227">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869227" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869227" class="dsq-comment-message">They don\'t care about Steele.<br>Rush Limbaugh is the leader of the GOP.<br>YEEE, HAWWW!<br>Hillbilly heroin for everybody!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6869440" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869440" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6869440" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869440" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869440" class="dsq-comment-message">Al Sharpton was saying that this morning. That the way the Republicans aren\'t sticking up for Steele in this situtation demonstrates how they would treat African Americans as a whole when it comes to the issues we face.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6869489" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869489" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6869489" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869489" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869489" class="dsq-comment-message">I heard that this morning, too. And I thought Sharpton raised a good point. We should watch and learn when it comes to how the Republicans are treating Steele - I liked what he said about Steele being the "Trojan Horse" with Limbaugh inside...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6870735" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6870735" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6870735">mon_dieu_ishmael</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6870735" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6870735" class="dsq-comment-message">How can limpy treat Steele any worse than the folks at JJP?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6872555" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6872555" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6872555">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6872555" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6872555" class="dsq-comment-message">We did not elect Steele to his position and 99.9% of us are not Republicans so . . . your point is what exactly?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6869699" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869699" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6869699" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869699" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869699" class="dsq-comment-message">Nah, in fairness Rush is the leader all Republicans -- black, white, asian, jewish, christian bow at his feet.<br><br>Not just Steele.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6870634" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6870634" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6870634">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6870634" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6870634" class="dsq-comment-message">Sure it is. You can see, NOT one republican will say Rush is wrong. They will dance around the issue of condemning Rush better than Michael Jackson.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6872521" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6872521" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6872521">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6872521" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6872521" class="dsq-comment-message">this isn\'t about Rush Piepiepie.<br><br>This is about the Republican party and their lack of support for someone they chose to elect.<br><br>Rush to me is a great storyline but he is not relevant.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6872751" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6872751" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6872751" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6872751" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6872751" class="dsq-comment-message">91 / 168 people voted for Steele -- that\'s it. Steele is busy over-stepping his bounds and got pimp-slapped by someone with actual influence in the party. Steele is not a popularly elected official with his own base.<br><br>Mike Duncan got smacked about just like Steele and blamed for the 2008 losses by Rs.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6873032" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6873032" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6873032">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6873032" class="dsq-comment-message">I understand all that.  But they elected him.  <br><br>They elected him because they wanted to show minorities/blacks how open the Republican party is to all groups.  Didn\'t matter if Steele was qualified or not. (Kinda like the Clinton/Palin decision).<br><br>Well they made their bed and now folks like me are curious to see how they are going to handle this.  Their actions will only confirm what most folks already know and what DL Hughley said the other day regarding Republicans and their "outreach" to minorities.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6873138" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6873138" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6873138" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6873138" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6873138" class="dsq-comment-message">Why should they give Steele more of a shot than any white dude making the same mistakes? <br><br>I think that\'s where we differ. The RNC chose the "shiny object," and now they have to deal with it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6873253" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6873253" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6873253">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6873253" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6873253" class="dsq-comment-message">I believe you are missing my point.  I get that and I agree with you.  If you look at my posts on Steele - you would know I agree with you.<br><br>However, the reason they elected Steele was to say they were open to other groups.  How they handle this is important and the perception will reflect that the Republican party is the party of Joe the Plumber and "Real America" only.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6873347" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6873347" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6873347" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6873347" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6873347" class="dsq-comment-message">NO, I\'m not missing your point.<br><br>They should treat Steele like anyone else and get rid of his ass, if he doesn\'t get results. If they let Steele be uneffective it will be worse.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6873636" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6873636" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6873636">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6873636" class="dsq-comment-message">Most employees get at least 90 days probation.   How long has he been in his position Piepiepie? <br><br>I don\'t care for Steele but it will take more than the 30+ days for Steele to do anything substantial especially without the support of any of the folks that elected him to the position.<br><br>Anyway - let us agree to disagree on this point.  I am sure that the way they boot him out will play a role in whether the Republican party sees any increase in votes from minorities.<br><br> Republicans Deserting Steele<br> "Not Good" ... "Erratic" ... "No Discipline" ... <br>FBI Investigating Steele\'s 2006 Campaign Expenditures <br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/politics/" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/politics/</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6876249" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6876249">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6876249" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6876249" class="dsq-comment-message">Agree the perception of of  how Steele is being handled will matter to moderates, independents and POC.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-6873369">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6873369" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6873369" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6873369">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6873369" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6873369" class="dsq-comment-message">Piepiepie:     LOL!!    :&gt;)<br><br>YEP!  on the <b>91 VOTES!</b>      :&gt;)<br><br>Annnnnd, as I\'ve stated B  4,  THEY  R probably in HIDING and HOPIN\' nobody tells their NAMES!!     :&gt;)        :&gt;)<br><br>The <b>MAN-O\'_STEELE</b>  is probably  ***lookin\' around*** goin\'  <b>WHERE MY PEEPS???</b>  :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-6872839">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6872839" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6872839" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6872839">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6872839" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6872839" class="dsq-comment-message">really?  How timely.  Will go searching for that video.  Would love to hear his assessment.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-6873016">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6873016" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6873016" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6873016" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6873016" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6873016" class="dsq-comment-message">It was on the TJMS, maybe you can catch it on the replay (on now) at <a href="http://blackamericaweb.com" rel="nofollow">blackamericaweb.com</a> or check in a few hours, and they might have it up on the "if you missed it" section.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-6874182">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6874182" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6874182" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6874182">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6874182" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6874182" class="dsq-comment-message">thanks for the link.  It isn\'t there now so I will check back later.</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-6872902">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6872902" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6872902" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6872902">Admiral_Komack</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6872902" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6872902" class="dsq-comment-message">The Republicans are ridiculing Steele.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-6874209">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6874209" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6874209" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6874209">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6874209" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6874209" class="dsq-comment-message">while conveniently forgetting that they are ALL Rush Limpballs "butt boys".</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-6868519">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6868519" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6868519" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6868519">allamr18</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6868519" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6868519" class="dsq-comment-message">did you hear Tavis Smiley trying to say Barack started talking about Accountability because of him? that mufucka really thinks hes something special.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-6868553">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6868553" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6868553" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6868553" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6868553" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6868553" class="dsq-comment-message">Tavis often lets his ego get in the way of facts.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-6868915">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6868915" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6868915" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6868915" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6868915" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6868915" class="dsq-comment-message">I get the feeling Obama really doesn\'t like Tavis, and isn\'t going to give the fucker an interview ever.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-6868996">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6868996" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6868996" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6868996">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6868996" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6868996" class="dsq-comment-message">I hope not!  Tavis is an attention seeker. Give him nothing.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-6869263">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6869263" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869263" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6869263" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869263" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869263" class="dsq-comment-message">No, Justice58! I have to disagree! I think Obama would neutralize Tavis Smiley\'s babbling by sitting down with him. Remember when Fox News had that ridiculous "Obama Clock" that attracted so much attention until Obama actually showed up on the network and held his own? I\'d like to see Tavis say all this stuff directly to O, and watch him squirm a bit. "You know we\'re going to hold you accountable Mr. President, yuck yuck yuck...."in love"...aw, I\'m just kidding...wow, I can\'t believe you\'re here!" LOL.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-6869409">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6869409" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869409" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6869409" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869409" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869409" class="dsq-comment-message">Eh, I don\'t think Tavis has as big of an audience as FAUX News, Obama can continue to ignore him. Obama can, and does, call the TJMS if he has something to say to Black Folk. :o)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-6869589">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6869589" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869589" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6869589" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869589" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869589" class="dsq-comment-message">agreed. Whatever audience Tavis has Obama can reach directly.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-6869554">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6869554" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869554" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6869554">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869554" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869554" class="dsq-comment-message">Point Taken!</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-6872461">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6872461" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6872461" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6872461">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6872461" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6872461" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with your initial assessment.  <br><br>Give Tavis nothing.   Who cares.  Let him run the clock.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-6873815">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6873815" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6873815" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6873815">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6873815" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6873815" class="dsq-comment-message">The point is good BUT...it\'ll never happen, know why?<br><br>Cause Tavis did something way worse in Barack\'s mind than diss him...he dissed MICHELLE!!<br><br>Who Obama offered to send in his place and when Tavis showed his ass about that...Obama wrote him off in perpetuity.<br><br>Say what you want about me, Obama has said, but don\'t mess with my wife!<br><br>Tavis can fuggggetaboutit!!</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-6873914">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6873914" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6873914" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6873914" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6873914" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6873914" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, that was shameful as well especially given Michelle\'s level of achievement.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-6876364">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6876364" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6876364" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6876364">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6876364" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6876364" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m glad you haven\'t forgotten about it either. THAT, to me IS Tavis\' ultimate sin, and the one that broke the Black folks\' back of the TJMS show. Remember, we were \' eh\' about Obama. We have never, as a community, had any middle of the road feelings about The First Lady. When he disrespected her, folks went \' Hell to the naw\' and showed Tavis the door.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-6876842">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6876842" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6876842" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6876842" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6876842" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6876842" class="dsq-comment-message">good point, good point... I have a short memory today...</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-6869236">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6869236" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869236" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6869236" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869236" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869236" class="dsq-comment-message">He did an interview with Tavis before he ran, I don\'t think he\'d bother with Tavis as President though after what he did last year at the State of the Black Union.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-6869298">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6869298" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869298" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6869298" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869298" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869298" class="dsq-comment-message">word? Tavis is shameful man... he needs to try to contain his ego given his moderate skills.</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-6876308">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6876308" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6876308" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6876308">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6876308" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6876308" class="dsq-comment-message">And, he shouldn\'t. There are plenty of Black journalists that would appreciate the interview with the President AND who haven\'t disrespected the First Lady. WHEN the President is finished with that list of Black journalists, then MAYBE Tavis can get an interview - in 2015.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-6870544">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6870544" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6870544" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6870544">MsKitty</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6870544" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6870544" class="dsq-comment-message">LMAO...Tavis truly is a legend in his own mind.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-6872823">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6872823" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6872823" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6872823">Admiral_Komack</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6872823" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6872823" class="dsq-comment-message">You mean Tavis "I\'m Relevent; it says so in my book!" Smiley?</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-6873432">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6873432" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6873432" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6873432">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6873432" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6873432" class="dsq-comment-message">Admiral:    LOL!     :&gt;)    GOOD ONE!!    :&gt;)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-6876732">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6876732" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6876732" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6876732">Admiral_Komack</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6876732" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6876732" class="dsq-comment-message">Thank you, ma\'am.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-6873573">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6873573" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6873573" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6873573">ChrisChambers</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6873573" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6873573" class="dsq-comment-message">We have a faculty reception w/him at Georgetown this evening. We were told not to get too controversial w/our questions. You heard me. This is supposed to be a university. Of course, the other prima donna, ME Dyson, will likely lovey dovey up to him and the gab fest will begin. <br>I plan on asking him a simple question. Wish me luck</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-6873800">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6873800" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6873800" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6873800" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6873800" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6873800" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL. Tavis seems a lot like M.C. Steal Moe Bling these days...<br><br>He doesn\'t quite understand his role.</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-6873416">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6873416" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6873416" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6873416">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6873416" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6873416" class="dsq-comment-message">MsKitty:   LOL!     :&gt;)    GOOD ONE!!    :&gt;)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-6876059">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6876059" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6876059" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6876059">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6876059" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6876059" class="dsq-comment-message">Tavis is a LOOSER of his own kind.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-6869193">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6869193" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869193" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6869193">Admiral_Komack</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869193" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869193" class="dsq-comment-message">The Morning Ho\'s were clowning Steele too.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-6869290">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6869290" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869290" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6869290" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869290" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869290" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL @ "Morning Ho\'s" - I haven\'t heard that one before.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-6869384">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6869384" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869384" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6869384" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869384" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869384" class="dsq-comment-message">Who are the Morning Ho\'s?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-6869512">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6869512" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869512" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6869512" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869512" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869512" class="dsq-comment-message">"Morning Joe" on MSNBC</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-6869756">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6869756" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869756" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6869756" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869756" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869756" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s what I thought, but I figured I\'d get verification. LOL. <br><br>They\'re on the "sure, Obama\'s only been there for like 6 weeks, but now this is all his fault!" kick today, so I didn\'t watch. <br><br>One of my fav. lines from the TJMS this morning is "Steele will have ot change his last name to aluminum"  lol</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-6869800">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6869800" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869800" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6869800" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869800" class="dsq-comment-message">LMAO!!!!! I didn\'t hear that line! Soooo funny.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869921" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6869921">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869921" class="dsq-comment-message">Huggie Lowdown also said Michael Steele looked like Chuck E Cheese.  LOL</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6870547" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6870547" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6870547" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6870547" class="dsq-comment-message">And that Steele is the Bama of the week. LOL</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6872744">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6872744" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6872744" class="dsq-comment-message">That April 1 date is looking better and better. :-)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6879049" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6879049">vulcan_girl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6879049" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6879049" class="dsq-comment-message">Last week he called Burris Kazoo from the Flintstones and then the Brown Hornet.<br><br>I almost crashed the car.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6873179" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6873179" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6873179" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6873179" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6873179" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s the video. LOL<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/04/michael-steele-gets-repea_n_171750.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/04/michae...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6868950" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6868950">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6868950" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6868950" class="dsq-comment-message">How stimulus will help your state<br>Obama administration economists estimate the stimulus bill will create or save 3.5 million jobs. <br><a href="http://money.cnn.com/news/storysupplement/economy/stimulus_jobs/index.htm" rel="nofollow">http://money.cnn.com/news/storysupplement/econo...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869081" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6869081">Conserv1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869081" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869081" class="dsq-comment-message">But measuring the numbers of jobs saved as a result of the economic recovery package promises to be an elusive task.<br><br><br>Stimulus: Now for the hard part<br><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/17/news/economy/obama_stimulus_meas_success/index.htm" rel="nofollow">http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/17/news/economy/ob...</a><br><br>"It will be difficult to gauge the economic benefit of stimulus since we won\'t know ... how the economy would have performed without stimulus. Indeed I expect the economy to lose another 3 million jobs with stimulus but over 4 million without it," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody\'s <a href="http://Economy.com" rel="nofollow">Economy.com</a>, whose research was relied upon by lawmakers to make the case for the economic recovery package.<br><br>As for gauging how many jobs are created, economists say they will keep an eye on a number of measures.<br><br>Lakshman Achuthan, managing director the Economic Cycle Research Institute, said starting later this year he will look to what his group calls its Leading Employment Index as one gauge of stimulus effectiveness. The index is a composite of factors, including the number of initial jobless claims and hours in the average work week, as well as how many industries are adding jobs. As of January, the index was still falling, Achuthan said.<br><br>Another question Zandi said he will look at is to see whether job losses have begun to lessen by October or November.<br><br>"A key benchmark will be this fall. If stimulus is working as expected then monthly job losses should be closer to 250,000 per month, down from over 500,000 currently," Zandi said.<br><br>The ability to create or save jobs will depend in great part on business confidence. That\'s why, in addition to employment measures, Rich Yamarone, director of economic research at Argus Research, will keep an eye on small business confidence measures such as those put out by the National Federation of Independent Business.<br><br>Another sign of whether the rescue is working: Discretionary spending for activities like casino gambling and dining out, Yamarone said.<br><br>"When consumers start to feel better about their personal situation and employment prospects, they pick up the pace of spending - that usually extends to the discretionary items as well," Yamarone said.<br><br>Ultimately, even if every indicator of success for stimulus was tangible and could be measured with flawless precision, it will still be hard to issue a final verdict on whether the package has worked because its success is dependent on the success of other recovery efforts, such as the program for stemming foreclosures that Obama is expected to lay out on Wednesday.<br><br>"Stimulus by itself will not work well," Zandi said. "A financial stability plan and a foreclosure mitigation plan must also be implemented.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869388" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6869388">allamr18</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869388" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869388" class="dsq-comment-message">so basically your saying that if we get out of this skid we cant say the stimulus helped but lets say we get sunk lower you will say the stimulus hurt. o the hilarity of that argument. and i think the foreclosure plan is coming out today and the financial plan is coming out next week</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869551" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6869551">Conserv1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869551" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869551" class="dsq-comment-message">No, I am not making that argument, but I am pointing to the \'out\' that the Obama administration has given itself with the careful choice of the phrase \'create or save\'.<br><br>If there is any economic recovery, there can be no doubt that the administration will be given all the credit. BUT, IF the unemployment rate remains high, Obama and his team will use the vague \'jobs saved\' formula to convince the American people that the economy wouold have been worse without the plan. Oh, the hilarity of THAT argument.<br><br>Yes, we will have to keep a \'wait and see\' attitude until all 3 components of Obama\'s plan are revealed in detail.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869599" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6869599">Micheline</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869599" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869599" class="dsq-comment-message">Well the stimulus is both a recovery and <b>stabilization</b> plan.<br><br>Sigh</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869908" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6869908">allamr18</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869908" class="dsq-comment-message">thats fair enough however id just like to make this point. The reagan administration inherited a mess from carter and it took 18 months before the recession under reagan ended. so i would ask for you to give this administration the same amount of time he had to deal with that mess.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871521" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6871521">Conserv1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871521" class="dsq-comment-message">Sure, but I reserve my right to remain skeptical.<br><br>I would be more optimistic if I felt that Obama had looked to Reagan\'s economic policies during that period rather than FDRs. <br><br>Obama needs to achieve a rather \'rosy scenario\' for his plan to reduce the deficit to succeed.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871901" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6871901">allamr18</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871901" class="dsq-comment-message">ill have to disagree with you mainly because reagan cut taxes when taxes were high, you cant cut taxes after youve already cut them, and the current problem is more than just the american economy like it was under reagan and we now have more banks and larger banks than reagan had. what reagan did worked for that time period i wont discredit that but its a different time now.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869302" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6869302">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869302" class="dsq-comment-message">Israel is determined to tell the US what it\'s interest are. US interest are not the same as Israel\'s. US foreign policy is made in Washington DC not Tel Aviv.<br><a href="http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/03/israel_is_cross/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869383" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6869383">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869383" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869383" class="dsq-comment-message">Say it louder!!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869773" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6869773">allamr18</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869773" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869773" class="dsq-comment-message">well when we have been giving them billions upon billions of dollars to do whatever theyve wanted to palestine (and palestine is not helping either) and the influence they have on american politics i dont blame them</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6870771" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6870771">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6870771" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6870771" class="dsq-comment-message">More threats to US interests:<br><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7919050.stm" rel="nofollow">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7919050.stm</a><br><br>As to anyone whom is afraid of being called an antisemite remember we are disagreeing w/ the actions of a state. A democratic state where within the rhetoric of disagreement is much sharper and higher. Read the English versions of Israel\'s papers:<br><a href="http://www.jpost.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.jpost.com/</a><br><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.haaretz.com/</a><br><a href="http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/nodeView.asp?fid=942" rel="nofollow">http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/nodeView...</a><br><a href="http://chareidi.shemayisrael.com/subscribe/subscribeYN.html" rel="nofollow">http://chareidi.shemayisrael.com/subscribe/subs...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869794" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6869794">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869794" class="dsq-comment-message">Miranda<br><br>To my knowledge this is not mandatory DNA analysis taken at all current crime scene\'s. Where it is taken, the police often go back and examine cases where the MO is the same or close. If they have DNA evidence in old cases they will run it against the DNA database. they have convicted a number of people for old crimes this way.<br><br>In this case the man is convicted of a crime and wants to go in reverse. He wants the DNA database examined to prove he didn\'t do the crime. The case is being argued against doing it on expense grounds and legal maneuvering for on going cases. <br><br>it is simply a matter of what is good for the goose is good for the gander. If the Supreme Court says you are not entitled it should be legislated to do so. Yes, some people may have their convictions overturned because there was no DNA to match them to the case but usually the other evidence is good. For cases going forward it will stop the railroading of many innocent victims whom suffer from the public\'s desire for  revenge and the politicians goal of doing "something"</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871892" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6871892">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871892" class="dsq-comment-message">I am sitting here trying to understand why there is even a question of should DNA testing be done to prove either guilt or innocence...its hard to believe that there are people who would allow a person to be put in prison or worse, executed - because they didn\'t want to pay for the testing or because of fear for their win/loss ratios or whatever completely unjustified reason they would use.<br><br>What the hell kind of justice system is that? I don\'t see how anyone could look at the faces of the men who have been released after spending over half their lives in prison for a crime they DID NOT COMMIT after DNA proved they were not the guilty party. Costs? That\'s the reason they want to throw out there? the Cost? I really can\'t wrap my head around that kind of callous attitude regarding human lives, even though I guess I should be used to it.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6873337" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6873337">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6873337" class="dsq-comment-message">Most people do not even care what the situation is. Ask someone whom has been falsely imprisoned what kind of hell their  life becomes. It doesn\'t matter that you settled w/ the police for a million dollars when he employment apllication says have you ever been arrested you go to the out pile.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6873483" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6873483">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6873483" class="dsq-comment-message">Precisely. That was my question to.<br><br>The DOJ for the Obama administration, however, is arguing the position Rob delineated.<br><br>What the hell does it matter if convictions are overturned due to DNA exoneration? The key is that it was the same with fingerprints, no?  If another person\'s fingerprints were on the gun..then the person who was charged was typically found not guilty.<br><br>So, I do not get this double standard.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871186" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6871186">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6871186" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871186" class="dsq-comment-message">Remember I am just the messenger here<br>Why Tavis is a Genius<br>What black intellectuals owe the rest of us.<br><a href="http://www.theroot.com/views/why-tavis-genius" rel="nofollow">http://www.theroot.com/views/why-tavis-genius</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871247" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6871247">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6871247" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871247" class="dsq-comment-message">The Political Decline of the White Male?<br><a href="http://www.theroot.com/views/political-decline-white-male" rel="nofollow">http://www.theroot.com/views/political-decline-...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871380" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6871380">Micheline</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6871380" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871380" class="dsq-comment-message">Will Conserv1 comment on this?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6871548" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871548" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6871548">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6871548" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871548" class="dsq-comment-message">If it\'s about facts, he won\'t!  He specializes in lies.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6872523" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6872523" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6872523" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6872523" class="dsq-comment-message">conservatism is fine, Conserv1 uses more talking poitns that he/she does not understand.<br><br>It\'s hilarious really.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6871614">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871614" class="dsq-comment-message">Anybody who makes references to Duran Duran and Bruce Campbell in their commentary is alright with me (LOL).  Thanks for the link.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6871747" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871747" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6871747">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6871747" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871747" class="dsq-comment-message">More ignorance on Tax policy in MSM; hat tip eschaton <a href="http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200903030013?show=1" rel="nofollow">http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200903030013...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6872375" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6872375">mon_dieu_ishmael</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6872375" class="dsq-comment-message">Some of the details of the new 75 billion govt. home refinance plan.<br><br><a href="http://www.treas.gov/initiatives/eesa/homeowner-affordability-plan/ExecutiveSummary.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.treas.gov/initiatives/eesa/homeowner...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6872959" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6872959" href="http://thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blksista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6872959" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://supportburris.com/" rel="nofollow">Roland Burris launches U.S. Senate reelection website.</a><br><br>It was created January 8, and last updated the day Burris was sworn in, January 15.<br><br>Delusional...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6873331">Liza</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6873331" class="dsq-comment-message">Delusional is being too kind.  <br><br>I want a black senator, an asian senator, and more latinos  because America is a melting pot but I will be damned if some self-serving pompous negro who has a "monument to me" makes it harder for our fellow people of color to rise to one of the most powerful branches in government because this fool is making us look bad.<br><br>Come 2010, I want Roland gone. I do not want to see anyone come to this man\'s defense.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6873793">Micheline</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6873793" class="dsq-comment-message">Co-sign</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6877370">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6877370" class="dsq-comment-message">Amen</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6882645" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6882645" class="dsq-comment-message">You know both Hawaii\'s senators are asian right?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6873060" href="http://thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blksista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6873060" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=12439&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=22533&tx_ttnews[backPid]=12387&cHash=933307a56f" rel="nofollow">ACORN unveils "staying home" campaign in eight cities to fight foreclosures.</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6873292">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6873292" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m sorry, Rush:<br>Now you too can grovel like a Republican!<br><br><a href="http://www.dccc.org/content/sorry" rel="nofollow">http://www.dccc.org/content/sorry</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6874174">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6874174" class="dsq-comment-message">Bernie Made-off  is a sociopath: <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/04/madoff200904" rel="nofollow">http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/200...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6874434">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6874434" class="dsq-comment-message">The Catholic church is in big trouble."Te Vatican is warning poeple not to value virtual friends over real humans. <br>The whole point of the church is to have a virtual friend!" from comment sections <br><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5838378.ece" rel="nofollow">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6874726">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6874726" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  <b>MARCH 4, 2009   -DAY 44-  Of His First 100 DAYS!</b>    :&gt;)       :&gt;)<br><br>1.   HIS SCHEDULE:    <b>Wednesday Mar. 4, 2009</b><br>All Times Eastern<br><br>Joe Biden attends Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s address to the joint session of Congress.<br><br><b>Biden hosts a reception for members of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Attorney General Eric Holder is also in attendance.</b><br><br>Biden meets with former Secretaries of State James Baker and Warren Christopher.<br>8:00 AM	<br>9:00 AM	<br>9:30 AM	<br><br>OMB Director Peter Orszag attends a full committee meeting on the FY2010 budget.<br><br>President Barack Obama receives his daily briefing. Biden is also in attendance.<br><b>10:00 AM	<br><br>Obama delivers remarks at the White House.</b><br>10:45 AM	<br><br>Obama receives his daily economic briefing. Biden is also in attendance.<br>11:00 AM	<br>11:15 AM	<br><br>Obama meets with senior advisers.<br>11:30 AM	<br><br>Robert Gibbs holds his daily press briefing. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano are also in attendance.<br>12:00 PM	<br>1:00 PM	<br>2:00 PM	<br>3:00 PM	<br>4:00 PM	<br>5:00 PM	<br>6:00 PM	<br>7:00 PM	<br><b>7:30 PM	<br><br>Barack and Michelle Obama host dinner with the Congressional Committee Chairs. Joe and Jill Biden are also in attendance.</b><br>8:00 PM	<br><br>2.  <a href="http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0309/first_ladies_90700e95-051b-4623-83e1-b293e46161a7.html" rel="nofollow">First ladies   -  Michelle meets Sarah Brown</a><br><br><i>While President Obama discussed the global economy with Prime Minister Gordon Brown Tuesday afternoon, Michelle ...<br><br>... Obama met separately with her British counterpart, Sarah Brown.<br><br>Her office declined to provide details, but released a photo.</i><br><br>3.  <a href="http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0309/a_f11ba54d-31a0-4c91-85b1-778d9cced084.html" rel="nofollow">Prime minister hits the Hill</a><br><br><i>PM Brown heads to the Hill today to deliver a speech the White House will be watching. The Guardian calls Brown’s speech<br><br>to Congress on reforming the banking system “possibly the most important of his political life” and says Obama will be paying attention “to see if Brown could act as a significant ally in the battle to persuade the international stockmarkets that European politicians have answers to the collapse of confidence.”<br>VP Biden will attend the address, where Brown will call on lawmakers to “seize the moment when the whole of the world wants to work with America. </i><br><br><b>[NOTE:  His address was EXCELLENT!!  He stated that England is DOING soma the SAME things as PRESIDENT OBAMA - - STIMULUS PACKAGE (to create JOBS),    RESTRUCTURING BANKS & addressing ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br>I\'ll try 2 post it when available!  :&gt;)]</b><br><br>4.  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20090304/eu-britain-us-kennedy/" rel="nofollow"><b>Britain to give Sen. Kennedy honorary knighthood</b></a><br><br><i><br><br>LONDON — He won\'t be allowed to call himself Sir Ted, but U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy is being awarded an honorary knighthood from Britain.<br><br>The government said Wednesday the Massachusetts senator is being recognized for services to U.S.-U.K. relations and to Northern Ireland.<br><br>Prime Minister Gordon Brown will announce the honor Wednesday when he addresses a joint session of Congress in Washington. Knighthoods are bestowed by Queen Elizabeth II but recipients are selected by the government or an advisory committee.<br><br>Kennedy, scion of an Irish-American political dynasty, is known in Britain for his involvement in the long process that led to Northern Ireland\'s 1998 Good Friday peace accord.<br><br>The 77-year-old brother of the late President John F. Kennedy has served in the Senate since 1962. He is being treated for a brain tumor.<br><br>Other Americans to receive honorary knighthoods include Microsoft chief Bill Gates, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and filmmaker Steven Spielberg. Unlike British knights, they are not entitled to use the honorific "Sir" or "Dame" before their names.</i><br><br><b>[NOTE:  What a GRACIOUS GESTURE!   :&gt;)     Praying 4 Senator Kennedy.]</b><br><br><b>ADDING VIDEO:</b>   <a href="http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1243705446/bclid1201016315/bctid14715549001" rel="nofollow">SIR EDWARD KENNEDY (according to Prime Minister Brown)</a><br><br>5.  <a href="http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0309/crackdown_on_waste_1a015b61-4ea4-487c-818e-26ebb3d79ae9.html" rel="nofollow">Crackdown on waste - - Aims to save $40B</a><br><br><i>Takeaway from President Obama’s morning announcement: The White House wants to look fiscally disciplined even as it runs ...<br><br>up an unprecedented deficit. The President sounded annoyed with the "chatter on cable" suggesting he hasn\'t trimmed expenses.<br><br>Obama: "I want to make sure everybody catches this...My budget reduces discretionary spending for non-defense programs, as a share of the economy, by 10 percent over the next decade."</i><br><br>6.  <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/StrongMiddleClass/" rel="nofollow"><b>MIDDLE CLASS TASK FORCE (web site)  - - The Vice President of the United States</b></a><br><br><b>A STRONG MIDDLE CLASS = A STRONG AMERICA</b><br><br>7.  <a href="http://www.daylife.com/photo/0bPuegJ1HU2uV/Barack_Obama" rel="nofollow">U.S. President Barack Obama (L) makes remarks on his plan to reform the system of defense contracting as Senator John McCain (R-AZ) listens in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, March 4, 2009.</a><br><br><b>[NOTE:  HAH!!   :&gt;)  mcancient is in the BACKGROUND!!  HE LOST!!  (BADLY) :&gt;)]</b><br><br>8.  <a href="http://www.daylife.com/photo/0bZC9X1bQJ2J9/Barack_Obama" rel="nofollow">Another SWAGGA PIC!  :&gt;)</a>    :&gt;)      :&gt;)<br><br>THAT\'S  ALL  FOR   NOW!!    ENJOY  YOUR DAY!     :&gt;) <br><br><b>P.S.</b>    <a href="http://www.c-span.org/Watch/watch.aspx?ProgramId=HP-A-40948" rel="nofollow">Pres. Obama Remarks on Budget Reform  3-4-09</a></b></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6876150">Myth</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6876150" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey GreenLady, I\'ve noticed that Mr. President is not an "early" person.  Is that because he likes to see our first kids off to school or does he exercise with Michelle in the early hours?  Either one, he must be really enjoying the new digs!<br>Another White House Par-tay! They love hob-nobbing and showing off Michelle\'s shoulders.  I ain\'t mad at girlfriend though, reported today that her "arm numbers" I mean approval numbers are up.  You go girl!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6876386">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6876386" class="dsq-comment-message">Myth:  :&gt;)       :&gt;)<br><br>Could B.  BUT - - I\'m thinkin\' that he\'s doin\' some PREPARATION WORK that isn\'t posted.<br><br>O.K.  I gotta "bounce!"   :&gt;)    C   U\'ALL   L8R!     :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6874888">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6874888" class="dsq-comment-message">Author Of Bush Torture Memos Regrets Style, Not Content<br><br>In an interview yesterday with the Orange County Register, picked up by Jason Leopold at The Public Record, John Yoo says he doesn’t regret the substance of any of his memos written at the Office of Legal Counsel –  you know, the ones that allowed the administration to conclude that waterboarding wasn’t torture, that the Bill of Rights did not apply to military actions inside the United States, and that it’s okay to suspend free speech in wartime.<br><br>No, he just regrets that he wasn’t a little more “polished”.<br><br>“These memos I wrote were not for public consumption,” said Yoo, who’s now a visiting professor at Chapman University School of Law in Orange County — I guess things got a little hot at Berkeley, where students are calling for his dismissal and prosecution. “They lack a certain polish, I think – would have been better to explain government policy rather than try to give unvarnished, straight-talk legal advice. I certainly would have done that differently.”<br><br><a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/32307/yoo-regrets-not-being-more-polished" rel="nofollow">http://washingtonindependent.com/32307/yoo-regr...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6875279">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6875279" class="dsq-comment-message">AFTERNOON THREAD IS UP!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6875379">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6875379" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Found this CHART:<br><br><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29303759/" rel="nofollow">Comparison of FIRST 100 DAYS with other presidents</a><br><br>President OBAMA is DOING VERY WELL!!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6875476">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6875476" class="dsq-comment-message">i think someone else posted this earlier this week but not sure so . . . <br><br>Government Relations News <br>President Obama Includes Funding for Autism in his FY 2010 Budget Proposal<br><br>   Washington, DC (February 26, 2009) - Today President Barack Obama unveiled a Fiscal Year 2010 budget proposal that includes $211 million for the Combating Autism Act (CAA). This is the first year since the passage of the CAA that direct funding for autism has been included in the President\'s budget proposal. Passed in 2006, the CAA authorized $920 million in federal funding over 5 years to fight autism through biomedical and environmental research, surveillance, awareness and early identification. <br><br><a href="http://www.autismspeaks.org/government_affairs/index.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.autismspeaks.org/government_affairs/...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6877242">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6877242" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/industryNews/idUKTRE5227BG20090303" rel="nofollow">Genachowski named to head FCC</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6877312">Shazza</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6877312" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s Alicia Keys as Michelle Obama.<br><a href="http://www.dlisted.com/node/30979/images/glamoursluts7.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.dlisted.com/node/30979/images/glamou...</a><br><br>Paula Patton as Billie Holiday<br><a href="http://www.dlisted.com/node/30979/images/glamoursluts11.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.dlisted.com/node/30979/images/glamou...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6878525">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6878525" class="dsq-comment-message">VERY niiiiiice.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6878734">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6878734" class="dsq-comment-message">If a biopic was done of FLOTUS, I\'d like to see Kimberly Elise as MichelleObama.<br><br><a href="http://www.paff.org/home/files/pressroom/photos/Opening%2520Night/Kimberly%2520Elise.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.paff.org/home/files/pressroom/photos...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6879314">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6879314" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'d like Sanaa Lathan, Nia Long or Kerry Washington</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6877357">Shazza</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6877357" class="dsq-comment-message">And Chanel Iman as Althea Gibson<br><a href="http://www.dlisted.com/node/30979/images/glamoursluts13.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.dlisted.com/node/30979/images/glamou...</a><br><br>Come to think of it, this would\'ve worked in the Black History section!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6945559">Conserv1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6945559" class="dsq-comment-message">Incompetence, malevolence, or both? <br><a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/03/05/incompetence-malevolence-or-both-or-why-obamas-policies-are-pink-not-green-with-a-coda-on-my-new-favorite-section-of-the-us-constitution/" rel="nofollow">http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/03/05...</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6877930" href="http://swamphermit.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Karmi</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6877930" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2009/03/the_immature_white_house_1.html" rel="nofollow">The Immature White House</a> - A must read!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6878477">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6878477" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6878477" class="dsq-comment-message">Jay Cost is clearly not a political strategist and knows not what he speaks.<br><br>Obama is in the White House because he is a consumate politiician. He knows full well that political opponents who command the airwaves have to be neutralized and Obama is doing that very effectively.<br><br>Cost needs to sit down shut up and watch Obama continue to wage battle against the failed policies, ideologies and pontificating leadership of the past 8 years.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6945767" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6945767">Conserv1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6945767" class="dsq-comment-message">I do not think that engaging Rush is a winning strategy for the administration.<br><br>Already this sideshow is being equated to \'fiddling while Rome burns."<br><a href="http://www.investors.com/editorial/cartoon.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.investors.com/editorial/cartoon.asp</a><br><br>The market is trending ever downward as Geithner is flying solo at Treasury with no clear plan in place for stabilizing the financial sector.<br><br>And what was promised to be the "smoothest transition ever"  is stumbling.<br><br>The rebuttal that critics do not know what they are talking about and should sit down and shut up because they supported Bush is wearing thin as more and more supporters of Obama are scratching their heads and asking themselves "WTF\'?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6868284" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6868284" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6868284" href="http://swamphermit.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Karmi</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6868284" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6868284" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123604419092515347.html" rel="nofollow">The Obama Economy</a> - "<i>...after five weeks in office, it\'s become clear that Mr. Obama\'s policies are slowing, if not stopping, what would otherwise be the normal process of economic recovery. The market has notably plunged since Mr. Obama introduced his budget last week, and that should be no surprise. The document was a declaration of hostility toward capitalists across the economy.</i>"</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6868314" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6868314" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6868314" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6868314" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s the WSJ. I take anything they have to say about Obama with a grain of salt. Obama is concentrating on creating JOBS, not making investors feel good about themselves, and I guess investors are used to having their feelings being considered above all others. <br><br>The whole "let the market sort it out" crap is what got us into this mess.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6869434" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869434" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6869434">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869434" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869434" class="dsq-comment-message">The market did not get us into this mess. A deliberate policy of no regulation for some Wall Street Activities(CDS and the Commodity Modernization Act of 2000) and nonfeasance(i.e., the deliberate non enforcement of regulations) on the part of the Bush Administration since 2001 in the financial regulatory area.<br><br>the market is nothing more than human actors in the economy. We regulate ourselves because history has told us we will act w/ nothing but naked self interest if allowed to so. When we withdraw the restraint shit like this happens.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6869613" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869613" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6869613" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869613" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869613" class="dsq-comment-message">The market DID get us into this mess, with a huge helping hand from the deregulation of the Bush Administration. If people had more restraint, perhaps we wouldn\'t be in this situation, and now they  are all so "concerned" that Obama is actually trying to fix things by doing something other than bowing to their feet. In fact, I was <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1051673317&play=1" rel="nofollow">watching an interview with Peter Orszag</a> where the anchors were claiming Wall St. is upset because the regulations are coming. <br><br>And your last couple of sentences are confusing. So it\'s not the market\'s fault, it\'s the people who are in the market? That doesn\'t make sense. The argument for Obama haters/opposition is "let the market sort it out," but the market\'s inability to "sort it out" is what got us into this mess. They had their period of no-regulation, and it seems like you agree there needs to be regulations.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6870329" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6870329" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6870329" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6870329" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6870329" class="dsq-comment-message">Exactly, along with the massive AIG bailout -- which is really a bailout for all the investment bank counter-parties<br>goldman, merril, jp morgan, morgan stanley etc...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6870892" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6870892" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6870892">Conserv1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6870892" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6870892" class="dsq-comment-message">We can run around in circles all day pointing fingers at one side or the other. The question is, will this plan work, and the truth is NO ONE KNOWS.<br><br>Conservatives, like myself,  who are skeptical of big government intervention in all sectors of our economy and the effects of massive deficit spending on economic stimulation are leery.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6871075" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871075" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6871075" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6871075" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871075" class="dsq-comment-message">NO, even cpac agrees -- everyone blames Bush. <br>Take responsibility for Bush I, II and Reagan\'s massive deficit spending or STFU.<br><br>That\'s ideology with no emperichal evidence, that\'s not only foolish in any discipline (save religion) in this case  it\'s neo-Hooverism.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6871343" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871343" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6871343">Conserv1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6871343" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871343" class="dsq-comment-message">No empirical evidence? <br><br>How does opposing school choice assure a better quality of education when that opposition allows failing schools to remain funded and poor teachers to remain employed?<br><br>How does opposing nuclear power production and domestic drilling provide us with inexpensive and abundant supplies of energy?<br><br>Bush was not a fiscal conservative, and contrary to the revisionist history promoted by the Dems regarding Reagan, in 1981, Reagan forced through Congress not only his famed, historic tax cuts, but also a package of budget cuts close to 5% of the federal budget -- equivalent to roughly $150 billion today. In constant dollars, nondefense discretionary spending declined by 14.4% from 1981 to 1982, and by 16.8% from 1981 to 1983. Moreover, in constant dollars, this nondefense discretionary spending never returned to its 1981 level for the rest of Reagan\'s two terms. By 1988, this spending was still down 14.4% from its 1981 level in constant dollars.<br><br>Even with the Reagan defense buildup, which helped win the Cold War, total federal spending declined to 21.2% of GDP in 1989 from 23.5% of GDP in 1983. That\'s a real reduction of 10% in the size of government relative to the economy.<br><br>Obama\'s stimulus plan is the greatest increase in government spending in the history of the planet.<br><br>Meanwhile, the Fed is furiously reinflating, sowing more havoc down the line. <br><br>Obama is still promising future increases in tax rates by letting the Bush tax cuts lapse, because for ideological reasons he thinks even current rates are too low. <br><br>And instead of deregulating for more energy production, he is still promising massive increases in regulatory barriers -- through global warming cap-and-trade legislation -- to increased production from proven energy sources to serve an extreme environmentalist ideology that will in fact be a tax on every American consumer.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6872049" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6872049" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6872049" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6872049" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6872049" class="dsq-comment-message">1.) It\'s not "school choice" when budgeting vouchers decreasing the school district\'s overall budget.<br><br>I\'m all for funded vouchers outside of the existing school budget. <br><br>"School Choice" is a talking point strawman to the elmination of public schools -- another massively successful liberal project.<br><br>2.) Reagan, Bush I and  Bush II could have proposed new nuclear plants they did not.<br>That\'s a strawman, as the U.S. is massively behind in the technology, the plants are very expensive, and how do we protect the EXISTING plants from the "terrorists?"<br><br>3.) Domestic drilling? all for it... that\'s NOT the choke point -- it is oil refineries -- given the "free market" the oligopoly of oil companies have zero economic interest in building more refinires --- <br><br>I\'m catching a trend on your talking points -- LOL.<br><br>4.) what was the net? Reagan also incr. taxes... MASSIVE incr. in debt.<br><br>5.) The late 70s OIL SHOCK did USSR in along with Gorbachev (the first college educated P.M of USSR). Go read a cold war book.<br><br>Beyond that Massive military spending is NOT CONSERVATIVE!<br><br>6.) Absolutely the Recovery Plan is massive investment. with support from both conservative and liberal economists.<br><br>7.) The Fed under Bush appointed Bernake IS NOT CONTROLLED by the WH.<br>It\'s a seperate organization that is NOT under control of any branch of government -- this is macro econ 101 -- more proof you don\'t know WTF you are talking about you are just spouting talking points.<br><br>8.) Emperichally the "bush tax cuts" were UNFUNDED, via your own neo-classical economics that should have told people not to count on the tax cuts being permanent.<br><br>9.) More deregulation? again basic economics CAP and TRADE provides an accounting for the public good -- the environment again basic economics. Again, even a neo-classical economist would agree pollution is a negative-externality that has to be made "neutral" to the public.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6871157" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871157" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6871157" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6871157" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871157" class="dsq-comment-message">Not only the economy, take responsibility for Bush sublimating the constitution itself with these newly released OLC memos.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6870429" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6870429" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6870429">mon_dieu_ishmael</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6870429" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6870429" class="dsq-comment-message">The deregulation was proposed by Clinton\'s flunky Rubin and passed into law before Bush came into office.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6870525" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6870525" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6870525" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6870525" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6870525" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay, so blame Clinton AND Bush. If Bush wanted regulation, he had 8 years to get it through, 6 of which the Republicans had control of the Congress as well. <br><br>:o)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6871203" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871203" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6871203">Micheline</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6871203" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871203" class="dsq-comment-message">Agree about Clinton, but problems were known as far back as 2005 and Bush did nothing.  If Clinton were to get the same information, he would have done something about it. That is the difference between Bush and Clinton.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6870760" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6870760" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6870760">Conserv1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6870760" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6870760" class="dsq-comment-message">No. This is unture, Wall Street will adapt to the rules of the game, once they know what the rules are. It is the UNCERTAINTY about the rules that are driving the market down.<br><br>With the stimulus plan in place, and the details of the mortgage plan coming out today, the pieces of the puzzle are falling into place. The markets are taking the details of the \'stimulus\' plan into account an reacting negatively to the plan, as well as other events.  Soon (?) we will hear the details of the plan to stabilize the financial sector, the market will digest it and try to anticipate the outcome.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6871206" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871206" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6871206" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6871206" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871206" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m not understanding where all of the uncertainty is coming from. What exactly are they looking for? I think the administration has been pretty open about what the stimulus is supposed to do and how it\'s supposed to work. You think the market is acting like this because it\'s afraid of regulations that probably won\'t even be rolled out for a long time?<br><br>To me the stimulus appears to be doing exactly what the administration said it would do at this point, and that\'s create jobs.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6871957" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871957" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6871957">Conserv1</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6871957" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871957" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, the market is reacting to the lack of a plan.<br><br>The stimulus is only one part of the 3 parts Obama is proposing.<br><br>The most important component, which is stabilizing the financial sector, has yet to be revealed.<br><br>Third, If the stimulus has created one new job, I have yet to hear about it.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6873802" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6873802">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6873802" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6873802" class="dsq-comment-message">Please read:<br><br><br>Shovels hit the ground\' on stimulus project, Obama says<br><br>    * Story Highlights<br>    * New highway resurfacing project in Maryland is expected to support 60 jobs<br>    * President Obama: Highway spending will create or save 150,000 jobs by end of 2010<br>    * Another 200 construction projects to be launched in next few weeks<br>    * Investing in roads will save lives, Obama says<br><br><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/03/stimulus/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/03/stimulus...</a><br><br><br><br> (CNN) -- President Obama said Tuesday that the country already is "seeing shovels hit the ground" on the first infrastructure repair project funded through the Transportation Department\'s share of the $787 billion stimulus bill.<br><br>Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said, "The work begins today in Montgomery County, Maryland, where a work crew is starting on a project to resurface Maryland State Highway 650 -- a very busy road that has not been fully repaired in 17 years."<br><br>The resurfacing contract is going to a Pennsylvania-based family-owned company, American Infrastructure, LaHood said.<br><br>He said the project will support 60 jobs. "And that\'s how we\'re going to get the country back on its feet," LaHood added.<br><br>Mark Compton, director of government affairs for American Infrastructure, said his company received $2.1 million in federal funds, by way of the Maryland State Highway Administration.<br><br>The money will be used to repave and add safety features to a stretch of the highway.<br><br>Compton said the cash infusion is the "catalyst" to create 60 jobs, including bringing back some laid-off employees.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6872552" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6872552" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6872552">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6872552" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6872552" class="dsq-comment-message">"Wall Street will adapt to the rules of the game, once they know what the rules are."<br><br>-The new rule is:<br><br>Instead of looking for the government to bail you out, you mofo\'s need to pay the government back.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6875933" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6875933" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6875933">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6875933" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6875933" class="dsq-comment-message">Co-sign</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6870985" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6870985" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6870985">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6870985" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6870985" class="dsq-comment-message">You can not feed this troll.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6871217" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871217" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6871217" href="http://muzikalthoughts.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Muzikal203</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6871217" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871217" class="dsq-comment-message">are you calling me a troll?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6871362" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871362" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6871362">Micheline</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6871362" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871362" class="dsq-comment-message">RobM is calling Coserv1 a troll.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6872264" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6872264" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6872264" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6872264" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6872264" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s fun really, b/c the person has talking poins that are easily smacked the fuck down.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6871697" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871697" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6871697">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6871697" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871697" class="dsq-comment-message">You are not a Troll. You are suffering from its verbal stench which disorients you from your goal. Please post this warning.<br><br>Do not feed this Troll. it is a verbal skunk. The stench remains on you for days. This stench will drive you mad.<br>Troll has ticket for Trifling Train and goes elsewhere when not fed</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6872361" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6872361" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6872361">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6872361" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6872361" class="dsq-comment-message">He\'s talking about Conserv1<br><br>Conserv1 is the troll.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6869620" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869620" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6869620" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869620" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869620" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'d say that was the market working in the "Ayn Rand" style --- no regulation. <br>Conservatives believed markets could regulate themselves.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6870588" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6870588">Conserv1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6870588" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6870588" class="dsq-comment-message">I think that it is inaccurate to characterize this argument in terms of all or nothing. No regulation got us into this mess vs. strict regulation and more government interevntion will get us out.<br><br>Clearly, the bailouts of AIG and the automakers have not been able to stop the failure of these businesses.<br><br>The true debate right now is what is the proper role of government in the economy and the private sector. Clearly responsible government regulation helps to protect the public interest but excessive regulation can hinder or harm our businesses and our economy.<br><br>The financial crisis had led to a growing cynicism about business and the administration has seized upon and IMO, exploited it to enact an agenda that will increase the size and scope of the federal government and centralize power in Washington.<br><br>Americans who are economically stressed are looking to the government for unprecedented levels of support to bring us out of our collective and individual hardship.<br><br>I feel this is a mistake. I have more faith in freedom and in  individuals, in their ability to succeed, in their desire to overcome obstacles and achieve their goals than I do in the power of the government to assure equality of opportunity.<br><br>This is what I see to be the main difference between conservatism and liberalism.<br><br>Conservative columnist George Will defines modern liberalism in this way:<br><br>"Liberalism\'s goal of achieving greater equality of condition leads to a larger scope for interventionist government to circumscribe the market\'s role in allocating wealth and opportunity. Liberalism increasingly seeks to deliver equality in the form of equal dependence of more and more people for more and more things on government."</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6870918" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6870918" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6870918" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6870918" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6870918" class="dsq-comment-message">Dude. Using a conservative hack to define Liberalism is just about as disingenous as you can get. Beyond that, George Will consistently makes up evidence in his columns to support his opinion.<br><br>2.) Free markets (which aren\'t "free" in a strict sense anywhere) were the domain of a Randite (Greenspan) and the same in the SEC -- these guys were smart guys -- they just did NOT believe in regulation, and thus did NOT enforce regulation on the books AND gutted regulation.<br><br>AIG debacle is not just a problem of AIG it is all the counter-parties. It\'s the EXTERNALITIES involved in letting AIG fail, AIG failing would push all the people who held derivative positions against AIG to also fail. <br><br>That\'s the problem with libertarian influence on business thoery-- it\'s too difficult to rely on the "morality" of individuals to reduce externalitalities -- the incentives are rarely aligned with the firms they represent. Thus, an individual will behave rationalionaly in their interest against the interest of their firm.<br><br>Clearly you don\'t have much understanding of what you are talking about.<br><br>I\'m not going to waste my time responding to the rest of your foolishness.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871115" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6871115">Conserv1</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6871115" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871115" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m sorry, but I do not see George Will as a hack.<br><br>Do you disagree with his assertion that liberalism is more concerned with providing equal opportunity than it is with individual freedom?<br><br>I understand the reason why AIG is \'too big too fail" but I question the ability of the government to stop its failure.<br><br>Again, I am not advocating \'no regulation\' but IMO Obama\'s agenda is overreaching.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6871393" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871393" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6871393" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6871393" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871393" class="dsq-comment-message">George Will is the definition of a partisan Hack, someone who writes from a specific position in a non-scholarly fashion for a specific ideology.<br><br>I absolutely disagree about his self-serving drivel.<br><br>Pumping money into AIG is not about AIG. It is about saving the entire market from the risk of being on the right side of a contract; yet, losing money b/c the other party went under. If you don\'t understand how that could provide systemic market failure -- jeez I\'d stop writing about economic issues.<br><br>EVERY SINGLE RATIONAL ECONOMIC OBSERVER agrees about ensuring these banking institutions don\'t "fail." You understand bank receivership is the role of the FDIC right? jeebus you are wasting my time.<br><br>Obama has NOT even proposed banking regulation yet. Further, Glass-stegall and before that ensuring S&Ls could not invest beyond restricted securities worked extremely well from 1930s -- 1980s. It took 8 years for S&Ls to fail and 8 years for Mega-banks to fail.<br><br>You are living in a fantasy world, not based in emphirical evidence.<br><br>I\'m wasting my time go read up, you are trying to make this an ideological issue , when MOST economists, lawyers, enforcement agencies agree your AYN RAND perscriptions failed.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6871654" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871654" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6871654">RobM</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6871654" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871654" class="dsq-comment-message">Do not feed this Troll. It is a verbal skunk. The stench remains on you for days. This stench will drive you mad.<br>Troll has ticket for Trifling Train and goes elsewhere when not fed.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6873501" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6873501" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6873501">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6873501" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6873501" class="dsq-comment-message">RobM:<br><br>I keep using - - <a href="http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f399/myfask/258Troll_spray.jpg" rel="nofollow">THIS!!</a>    :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>Somehow it\'s NOT quite workin\'!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6871889" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871889" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6871889">Conserv1</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6871889" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871889" class="dsq-comment-message">Look, EVERY SINGLE RATIONAL ECONOMIC OBSERVER  agrees that the toxic assets held by AIG and disseminated throughout the financial sector need to be dealt with. Whether we set up a situation similar to the Resolution Trust or some sort of \'bad bank\' these bad assets need to be dealt with.<br><br>To date, that has not been done, and until something is, the government is throwing money at the problem, NOT solving it.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-6872236">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6872236" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6872236" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6872236" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6872236" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6872236" class="dsq-comment-message">Dude, you are CONFUSING AIG with the MEGA BANKS.<br><br>AIG is already nationalized (the U.S. has 80% ownership), they are busy under-winding AIG\'s assets right now.<br><br>The "bad bank" is already going on by creating TERMS for PUBLIC and PRIVATE investment vehicles of capital managed by private directors.<br><br>The idea is to transition in a way that does not destroy what little public equity is left in these banks... since you are a supposed conservative I would think you\'d be in favor of both, and bother to read the latest in the WSJ.<br><br>but, you are coming off like an obstructionist who is going to oppose all WH plans regardless of ideology.<br><br>(the WH solution is more "conservative" than what you are proposing).<br><br>LOL hilarious.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6869636" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869636" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6869636">Micheline</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869636" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869636" class="dsq-comment-message">True but you have to admit that investors are acting like spoiled children.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6870585" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6870585" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6870585">mon_dieu_ishmael</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6870585" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6870585" class="dsq-comment-message">The "spoiled children" investors include the Harvard endowment fund, public employee retirement funds (other than federal govt),  the about to retire baby boomers, private sector company retirement funds, charities, scholarship funds, etc... .  Investors are not "spoiled children", they are just scared shitless about their futures.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-6871122">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6871122" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871122" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6871122">rorysmomma</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6871122" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871122" class="dsq-comment-message">well unfortunately that is what happens when you allow an unqualified intellectually uncurious person to run the country.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6871149" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871149" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6871149">Micheline</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6871149" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871149" class="dsq-comment-message">When I am talking about investors I am talking about Wall Street, ie., the Kramers, financiers and the like. I am not talking about the employment retirement funds, charities, etc.  The former with the help of regulators not doing their jobs caused this mess while the latter are its victims.  We should not lump these two groups into one because it is highly inaccurate.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-6871748">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6871748" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871748" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6871748">Conserv1</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6871748" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871748" class="dsq-comment-message">The problem is that you cannot separate those groups, They are interconnected. You cannot see one group \'punished\' as you seem to desire, without it effecting even the smallest investor.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6871860" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871860" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6871860">Micheline</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6871860" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871860" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes you can.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-6872002">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6872002" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6872002" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6872002">Conserv1</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6872002" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6872002" class="dsq-comment-message">Explain how.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-6872154">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6872154" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6872154" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6872154">Micheline</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6872154" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6872154" class="dsq-comment-message">By looking at their actions. That\'s how.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6873476" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6873476" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6873476">RobM</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6873476" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6873476" class="dsq-comment-message">Do not feed the Troll. You know its here by berbal stench. When fed it omits verbal more which will drive you mad. Troll has ticket for Trifling Train. It will board if not fed.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-6872253">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6872253" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6872253" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6872253">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6872253" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6872253" class="dsq-comment-message">The problem is that you cannot separate those groups<br><br>Really? Because the Madoff investors seriously beg to differ. They are victims, Madoff and his crew are NOT.<br><br>You are full of shit.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6871019" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871019" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6871019">Conserv1</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6871019" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871019" class="dsq-comment-message">You seem to think that it is childish to lament the loss of over 3 TRILLION dollars of personal wealth. <br><br>College and retirement funds that individuals worked hard to save and invest so that the would not be dependent on the government for assistance have vanished. Families caring for elderly parents have seen nest eggs set aside for their care disappear.<br><br>Would you prefer to have all individuals competing for a government bailout?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6871325" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871325" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6871325">Micheline</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6871325" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871325" class="dsq-comment-message">See my reply below. These idiots at Wall Street are now trying to hide behind charities, non-profits  and college endowments for their foolishness.  These entities are victims of the Wall Srteet greed. You guys should be ashamed of yourselves.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6871607" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871607" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6871607">RobM</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6871607" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871607" class="dsq-comment-message">Do not feed this Troll. it is a verbal skunk. The stench remains on you for days. This stench will drive you mad. <br>Troll has ticket for Trifling Train and goes elsewhere when not fed.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6871691" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871691" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6871691">Conserv1</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6871691" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871691" class="dsq-comment-message">First, Obama cannot create jobs.<br><br>In fact, Obama is planning on letting the private sector create 95% of the new jobs.<br><br>Sencondly, as most important (even Obama said this!) CONFIDENCE IS KEY!<br><br>What business man in going to feel confident enough NOW to expand his business and hire more employees? Banks are not lending even to the most credit worthy businesses. Consumers are not spending, so where is the demand for new goods and services?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6872355" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6872355" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6872355" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6872355" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6872355" class="dsq-comment-message">OK, M.C. Steal Moe Bling "get jiggy" with your sematics.<br><br>Fed has a 200B consumer / small business credit vehicle that just opened.<br><br>go read.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6868340" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6868340" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6868340">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6868340" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6868340" class="dsq-comment-message">flagged for posting when you know it is bogus.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6868424" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6868424" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6868424">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6868424" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6868424" class="dsq-comment-message">Karmi<br><br>You know damn well that is bullsh%t!  Will you stop it already?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6868595" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6868595" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6868595">allamr18</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6868595" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6868595" class="dsq-comment-message">zzzzzzz</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6868930" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6868930" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6868930">djchefron</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6868930" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6868930" class="dsq-comment-message">The market is not the economy.Wall street is nothing more than Vegas in New York.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6869653" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6869653" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6869653">Conserv1</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6869653" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6869653" class="dsq-comment-message">Generally speaking, the stock market will reflect the economic conditions of an economy. If an economy is growing then output will be increasing and most firms should be experiencing increased profitability. This higher profit makes the company shares more attractive - they can give bigger dividends to shareholders.<br><br>If the economy is forecast to enter into a recession, then stock markets will generally fall. This is because a recession means lower profits, less dividends and even the prospect of firms going bankrupt, which would be disastrous for shareholders.<br><br>However, in a recession, stock markets can sometimes increase, why is this? Often this is because stock markets are forward looking. The stock market has probablyh already priced in the effect of the recession and now the stock market is anticipitating a recovery. For example, stock markets in 2007 and 2008 performed badly in anticipation of a US recession.<br><br>And looking further int the future, they are now reacting with no confidence in the administration. <br><br>As further details of a foreclosure mitigation plan and a financial stability plan are revealed, the market will also respond.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6870965" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6870965" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6870965" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6870965" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6870965" class="dsq-comment-message">Stop cutting and pasting from CNBC / CNN money without sourcing.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6871575" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871575" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6871575">Conserv1</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6871575" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871575" class="dsq-comment-message">Not cutting and pasting, just a basic knowledge of the stock market.<br><br>Hope you learned something.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6872010" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6872010" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6872010" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6872010" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6872010" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/economics/relationship-between-stock-market-and-economy/" rel="nofollow">http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/economics/rel...</a><br>Relationship Between Stock Market and Economy<br>May 30th, 2008 | economics - <br><br>You are fucking busted you poser.<br><br>You see there is this tool, it is called "the google..."</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-6873442">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6873442" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6873442" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6873442">ChrisChambers</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6873442" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6873442" class="dsq-comment-message">Piepiepie.<br><br>Give it up. We supposedly know nothing about the market or economics. hehehe<br>I recall busting my old school (literally--Princeton pals who were in charge at rating firms/agencies for tlooked like payola. They came with the same ol\' bull babble about how no one understood economics, the market. And of course this mythical Adam Smith invisible hand stuff.  Well, well...</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-6873482">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6873482" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6873482" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6873482">Monie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6873482" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6873482" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL...YOU ARE SO BUSTED!!!</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-6875826">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6875826" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6875826" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6875826">spirit_55z</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6875826" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6875826" class="dsq-comment-message">Gotcha!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-6877501">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6877501" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6877501" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6877501">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6877501" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6877501" class="dsq-comment-message">You.Got.Busted.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br><br>rotflmao!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-6871185">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6871185" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6871185" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6871185">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6871185" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6871185" class="dsq-comment-message">You fraud!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-6875959">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6875959" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6875959" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6875959" href="http://swamphermit.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Karmi</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6875959" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6875959" class="dsq-comment-message">Well said, and great points! The <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=^DJI&t=1y" rel="nofollow">DOW</a> charts says it all. It has lost 6000 points since May \'08. It dropped as Obama moved ahead of Hillary, and hasn\'t stopped dropping since it looked like Obama would beat McCain. I can see the DOW getting to 4000 this year...</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-6875640">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6875640" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6875640" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6875640" href="http://swamphermit.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Karmi</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6875640" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6875640" class="dsq-comment-message">Talk to me when the DOW drops below 6000...</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-6874162">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6874162" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6874162" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6874162" href="http://swamphermit.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Karmi</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6874162" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6874162" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090304/bs_nm/us_usa_economy_4" rel="nofollow">U.S. private sector bleeds jobs, services slump deepens</a> - "<i>The private sector cut 697,000 jobs versus 614,000 in January, according to an ADP Employer Services report that suggested <b>hefty employment declines are on the way</b> in the government\'s more comprehensive payrolls data on Friday ... "We are still sinking. There is no sign of a bottom." The service sector represents about 80 percent of U.S. economic activity.</i>"<br><br>This is just the beginning...</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-6874356">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6874356" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6874356" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6874356">MsKitty</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6874356" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6874356" class="dsq-comment-message">Is that for the entire month of January, or just the last 11 1/2 days?  Because if memory serves, George W. Bush was still steering the ship until noon on January 20th. <br><br>If you\'re gonna spread blame, do it equally because you\'re not fooling anyone.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-6875245">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6875245" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6875245" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-6875245" href="http://swamphermit.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Karmi</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6875245" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6875245" class="dsq-comment-message">697,000 jobs lost in Feb. 614,000 lost in Jan. Another report is coming out Friday that will show even more job loses are coming...lots more!<br><br>The people who actually make this country work saw this coming when it looked like Obama could beat Hillary, and they started bailing then. More bailed when Obama beat McCain. The slower employers are just starting to bail, and bailing takes time. Gov\'t jobs will be the last to go, but I expect that to start happening a lot sooner than previously predicted.<br><br>Like I said, this is just the beginning...</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-6875775">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-6875775" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-6875775" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-6875775">MsKitty</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-6875775" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-6875775" class="dsq-comment-message">So it was the entire month of January then.  Thanks for answering my question.</div>\
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	 </li>\
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