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I read the posts here and sometimes I admit I do feel provoked.  But you have to admit, a lot of people generalize on this board about white people.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_14:07:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "jonster", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4486037, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4485130": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And I won't relate to you my horror stories which didn't happen to \"acquaintances\" but to me, family members, friends -- for no reason.  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Just saying.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_13:20:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "jonster", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4484846, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4486159": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "God Bless You!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_14:07:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "7acec36f3ac1c3ce26f5070a275439fa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4485130, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4484625": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "whiterosebuddy:   ***humbly****     Thank you very much.  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_12:56:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 14, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4482665, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4483605": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "There would be no proof that was the reason. Plus, the schools can always point out that hiring of coaches is very subjective - its not just based on winning track records..and we're talking about the SEC, the granddaddy of the \"we got our own rules\" Div I conferences. They would laugh at such a lawsuit.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_12:08:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4483265, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4493850": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thank you Monie.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_17:42:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4484984, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4517039": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Aw, shucks - you guys inspire me to write the truth, so I tell it like it is.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_02:14:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4516035, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4482589": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Nope, DJ<br>That penalizes AA athletes. What needs to happen is that alumni and fans need to boycott the school.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_11:14:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4480611, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4487199": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"What unnerves and confuses me is that we as white people will always be victims of black on white crime.\"<br><br>.....Um, yeah. If it is black ON white crime, then the logic goes that white people would be the victim. WTF are you trying to say?<br><br>WTF does Greys Anatomy have to do w/ a Mexican getting killed by a group of black dudes? I can't follow you. Care to step back and try again?<br><br>Your comment sounds retarded like this:<br><br>I'm glad that Barack Obama is president and says \"white-positive\" things but I've never seen a group of people gripe so much about being called racists while refusing to look at their behavior and how it affects people of color.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_15:01:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "CarolinagirlinGA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4484484, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4525094": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Caligirl, I must disagree, too many black people helped in the public lynching due to a lack of collective bravery. Its a fact.<br><br>For some it was simply trying to get Obama into the White House by any means necessary and for others, it was mere fear of repudiation. <br><br>However which ever reason, it happened. There is enough evidence to support my belief that is shared by many others in the community, too many black people were central in aiding the ignorance and fear of whites. <br><br>I am not saying all or even most but I am saying too many for my comfort.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_13:11:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4515098, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4483114": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Actually, I thought about them, too, especially Ty Willingham, whom Notre Dame flat out dogged, and he was replaced with a white coach bringing a losing record with him, too.<br><br>I mentioned Auburn because they interviewed a Black coach with a winning record and rejected him in favor of a white guy about to be fired from Iowa State for losing too much.  I knew the guy Auburn fired was a white guy - but they had a chance to show progress in the South and their racism was too inherent to allow it with Turner Gill.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_11:44:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4477518, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4495404": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Thanks for the thoughtful post.  You are right, of course.  I don't know you personally and I do appreciate you taking the time to fill me in.  Your Dad sounds like a wonderful and wise man.  I hate what happened to him.  And I understand how a child would feel.  It would infuriate him.  I had a similar Dad.  When I was five, I repeated the N word in a rhyme after I heard on the playground (Eenie Meenie).  My Dad stopped the car to explain to me why I could never use the word again.  Believe me, I understood the premise of robbing someone's dignity with words at an early age and I do not like when it's done to me.  I was raised in an affluent area where the .05% black population had second homes on Martha's Vineyard and in Sag Harbor.  It was only when I moved into New York City that I began to have personal experiences that have affected me and my viewpoints in a negative way.  I know you feel I am obsessed with the crimes of black people and it in a way you are right.  It has, as I said, affected me and my family personally.  However, I worded things wrong.  I know the truth just as you do, and I have said so in other posts, that I am speaking generally.  It is true, however, that if you look at the crime statistics, the cities in the USA with the highest population of black people have the highest crime rates, from 1-10.  This is a sophisticated message board, written by people who are far more accomplished and intelligent than I.  It's amazing what we've all accomplished as far as civil rights goes in the past generation alone, culminating in the election of President Obama.  However, I still see the same defensive, angry attitude and lectures.  I am not one to be shouted down as you can see.  Nor one to shrink from a fight (I learned in the schoolyard that bullies fold easily when confronted).  But I just want to make one thing clear.  I do not put all black people into a \"criminal\" class, a ridiculous notion, but I cannot by virtue of the statistics, deny that the criminal element in the black \"community\" is much higher than in any other group.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_18:00:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "jonster", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4490602, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4477874": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "But whites not only get a second chance, there could be more and more if they are perceived as unique enough. <br><br>I just spent some time watching Grey's from the beginning to this season. I was in a house where I couldn't figure out their tv system and found Greys on line. <br><br>Isiah was awesome. And Grey's pretty much sucks without him and Addison. <br><br>Back on topic, he was rail roaded out of there. I hope he can overcome it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_04:10:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 13, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4495921": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Me too.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_18:26:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4485392, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4512307": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Exhibit Number Two:  John Walker Lindh, The American Taliban<br><br><a href=\"http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/12/18/Release_sought_for_American_Taliban/UPI-56501229612616/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/12/18/Release_...</a><br><br>I know he hasn't been \"forgiven\" per se, but I seriously doubt we'd even be entertaining this notion if his name was \"Jamal Johnson\"?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_20:02:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "ac2f03d4d3d50ef0393076faa047b8af", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4482612": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "My understanding is that the reason these AA coaches weren't hired is because they have white wives.  That type of couple is not a role model in the south for the booster club, fans or families.  If those men had had a black wife they would have the job.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_11:15:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4479198, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4523573": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CPL,<br><br><br>I am getting a crown royal bag imagery from the rolled up towel.....? it looked like a crown royal bag stuffed full of quarters.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_11:06:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4523328, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4485176": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>And I won't relate to you my horror stories which didn't happen to \"acquaintances\" but to me, family members, friends -- for no reason.</i><br><br>And you're not playing the victim? Okay then.<br><br>Think what you like.  Honestly don't  care.<br><br>Happy holidays.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_13:22:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4485130, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4495931": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes, it is a sad result of white supremacy. Blacks too have taken part in this travesty.<br><br>Look at how Jeremiah A Wright was treated, case closed.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_18:27:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4483202, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4495560": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Rhondacoca, in that sentence the first word should be spelled \"You're.\"  Thanks for the suggestion.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_18:08:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "jonster", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4495423, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4511294": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_19:08:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "7acec36f3ac1c3ce26f5070a275439fa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4495660, "depth": 14, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4495423": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Your intellectually delayed and lack a sense of worldliness and knowledge.<br><br>Please take a basic sociology class.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_18:00:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4485130, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4495429": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Who's they?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_18:01:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "jonster", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4495093, "depth": 12, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4483681": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No it doesn't penalize the students. What he's saying is, if Auburn won't consider an AA head coach on a team that is 65% AA, then those students should think about that and consider Alabama State or Alabama A&M. The perception is that, if we're talking about a blue-chip prospect, they believe their best shot is a school like Auburn where they get more exposure. However in reality, pro scouts find gems no matter where they are.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_12:12:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4482589, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4511308": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CPL, YOU GO GIRL!!!!  \"We aint' no where near tired yet\"<br><br>I'm so grateful you wrote the post too.  It's given me an opportunity to remember how things are and how we always have the power to bring change in any situation.   POST- RACIAL MY ASS!<br><br><br>I think the biggest insult  to POC in 2008  regarding the white, entitled , and unqualified was the selection of Sarah Palin to the Republican ticket as VPOTUS.<br><br>That pick was glaring, daring, and outrageously wrong on so many levels.  And the MSM aided and abetted that ignorance.  I'm still cringing; just thinking that bitch could've  actually gotten the job.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_19:08:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4495859, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4483150": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "WORD, cause that's how I roll.<br><br>And I always ask why the white guy gets another chance, but not ME?  <br><br>They gasp like a fish out of water because I've backed them into a corner with their own racism...either their going to be honest, or do everything they can not to get labeled a \"racist\".<br><br>Which is what I can't understand if they really are \"racists\" but don't want the label.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_11:46:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4477439, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4483663": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Word. The flip side is that when folks like O'Neal or Ken Chenault  get in these positions, they tend to not make racial waves because mr. Charlie is watching...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_12:11:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "dcf2c9ce3819616f8ba0ca48c54519c4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4479478, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4487760": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "They would laugh until a District Court ruled them to be bigots and award the victims a boatload of money for being discriminated against.<br><br>In EEO, money talks and when being a bigot is going to cost an organization major cheddar, they will toss the bigot out on his ass.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_15:29:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4483605, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4495953": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "WE don't have any \"unqualified\" - that's the problem.  We are an intelligent race and most of the technology people enjoy today have roots during ancient Egyptian times.  Archeology teaches us that our race came from one of the most civilized nations on Earth - until the white man decided we had to be SAVAGES with bones sticking through our noses, Effed-Up Afros and shyt.<br><br>I refuse to believe any person of color or ethnicity is unqualified, because every ethnic race has contributed SOMETHING to man's progress, even if the White Man doesn't want to admit it.<br><br>Hell, some White Men don't even like to admit that their women are ahead of them in the game in terms of technology and innovation, so they smash them down just like they do US.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_18:28:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4486613, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4515491": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<blockquote><i>However, I am the last person who would ever defend that Uncle Tom named Stanley O'Neal.</i></blockquote><br><br>I really do not want to defend Stanley O'Neal but I don't think he deserves to be called an Uncle Tom. It is really an unfair characterization. He is who he is and he has been who he is for a long time. That does not make him an Uncle Tom. <br><br>I don't think Mother Merrill was taking a turn for the worse when O'Neal took over. The culture of the organization needed to be changed and it was underperforming relative to its size and rivals but the company  was not on the verge of tanking.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_23:34:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "PTCruiser", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4496012, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4495448": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Correction, you mean to say \"you're creepy\"  - not \"your.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_18:02:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "jonster", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4495299, "depth": 12, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4489823": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Rorysmomma, thanks for the best laugh of the day...God Bless You.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_16:54:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "jonster", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4486613, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4517136": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I know...and it sounds<i> really painful</i>.  LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_02:23:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4489677, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4480611": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The only way hiring practices for NCAA Football will change is if A.A student athletes refuse scholarships to the major schools and go to the schools that hire A.A coaches.The reality is if your goal is to play professionally the NFL will find you even if you play for little sisters of the poor in bumf*ck South Dakota.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_10:11:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4479198, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4485221": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "My God, you're an idiot.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_13:24:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4485130, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4478567": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "When can a black guy eff up and get a second chance? Well, if he's a conservative, he can eff up and get another chance.  Look at Clarence's vulgar behavior at the EEOC.  He went on to become a Supreme Court justice.  Claude Allen can steal from Wal-Mart and get a second chance in the form of probation and an expunged record.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_05:54:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "8ff6eefc58992a6dd7608039bf8caecf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4484712": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "For the record, I wasn't referring to the PE with my comment, or his selection of Rick Warren.  <br><br>The inaugural celebration belongs to President Obama, and if he wants Warren and Lowrey, that's good enough for me. <br><br>The \"how could you??!\" mindset works both ways as in Warren could have always declined.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_13:02:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "ac2f03d4d3d50ef0393076faa047b8af", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4482848, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4482665": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Green Lady, that is a great story of how to stand up and defend excellence.<br><br>You weren't in need of a second chance. Your excellence was being diminished.<br><br>And how you handled that unwarranted challenge was superb.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_11:18:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 15, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4477913, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4525674": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "CPL:  <br><br>I'm sure.  <i> STN </i> - just like, \"BLAME THE NIG\" is old game.   <br><br>As for the \"sistah\" dounds like another one protecting massa house by keeping her path clear. Feel me?  <br><br>If you are healthy and don't kids, you GOT this ;-) <br>In the meantime, volunteer some time in with a church or food bank to help you through this patch.  It's amazing how rewarding it is to HELP OTHERS while you're in a storm.  <br><br>Remember: THIS TOO SHALL PASS!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_13:33:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "ac2f03d4d3d50ef0393076faa047b8af", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4523262, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4495981": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If you say so, LOL. <br><br>You know, for the brand of crap you're peddling to be effective, we have to buy it. We're not.<br><br>Some of you may have seen this already, but if you want to see every silly-ass trick this guy has in his bag in advance, read over this:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.theunapologeticmexican.org/glosario.html#magikattax\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.theunapologeticmexican.org/glosario....</a><br><br>I hope he sticks around long enough to get to the \"Scarem-Carom\" That'll be fun to watch.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_18:30:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "c87fa9ab975275187368e74f6f34d3d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4495641, "depth": 15, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4484206": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well, because they choose not to take political issues does not mean we should use them as pawns to leverage Civil Rights. Their choosing to sell their talents to the highest bidder is an individual choice, for activitists to hold them hostage for their political goals is entirely unjust.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_12:37:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4483851, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4488381": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"My God, you're an idiot.\"<br><br>-Miranda, I concur.<br><br>I'm sorry, Jonster, saying your comment was retarded was insulting to retarded people. My apologies to retarded people.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_15:58:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "CarolinagirlinGA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4487914, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4477552": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't know about that. <br><br>I admit that I thought Barack's \"electability\" was irreparably damaged when his bitter remarks were made public. <br><br>I was wrong.<br><br>He got a second chance. He won Pennsylvania by 11 points on his way to the presidency.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_03:14:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4477518, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4484723": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CPL:     \"WHYCOME\"????     Indeed!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_13:01:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4483150, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4495477": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Rhonda,<br><br>How did you do it???????? How did you read my mind? I so feel you on the dropped stapler meeting! In fact, I think they are meeting about mine now! :-)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_18:04:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "7acec36f3ac1c3ce26f5070a275439fa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4490670, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4484201": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If the ratings keep looking like they look, they gonna have to eat crow and bring him back or the show will be canceled.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_12:37:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4482705, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4479609": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Of course we don't really know what was said just what certain racist white gay men claimed he said! And Shonda was forced to drop him from her show. And I haven't watched it since and let them know why. I also love to bring this little incident up every time I respond to some white gay ally decrying Prop 8.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_08:43:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4478081, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4485401": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "We know. But some folks don't like PEO and are looking for the slightest thing to say, \"SEE? I told you so!\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_13:32:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4484712, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4489343": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm sorry too.  You seem slow.  What era are you from.  Using the word \"Retarded\" is considered ignorant.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_16:34:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "jonster", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4488381, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4478081": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Isaiah Washington WAS Grey's Anatomy.  That show has been a shell of itself since he was forced out.  I do wish he had sense enough to know that as a Black man, he wasn't going to get away with what he said.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_04:45:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4477874, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4483202": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Denise, you make a point, but I can also make the point that if some Black people are in charge, they lead the charge in refusing second chances, as well.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_11:49:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4482848, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4483236": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Corrected in the post - was typing too fast.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_11:50:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4478377, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4483718": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "We as black people will always be victims of a double standard. We have become weary of constantly fighting for the upper hand. But I do believe there are still enough of us to carry on the fight through faith and by the Grace of God. <br>I too stopped watching Grey's Anatomy when they ditched Isaiah. And now the gay actor is begging to be let out of his contract. I really do stand by \"You reap what you sow.\" <br>I love that old spiritual \"The wicked shall cease from troubling, the weary shall be at rest.\" Serves them right.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_12:14:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "151ed69d59543e36fc74c6a460a475a8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 68, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4483265": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "But, WhiteRoseBuddy, who these guys are married to should have nothing to do with the fact they bring a winning track record to these schools.  And if those brothas believe that, they need to start suing the schools for discrimination in civil court - that's where that shyt would be proven or refuted.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_11:52:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4482612, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4479627": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Forget about racist people understanding - there needs to be consequences. Certain ethnic/religious groups have standards of behavior that others outside that group are expected to adhere to or face a bashing. Black people need to set their own.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_08:45:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4477679, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4496012": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Umm...PT Cruiser. My family has three generations of Merill Lynch employees-traders, brokers, financial advisors you name it and from the inside, we know better,. Merril was taking a turn for the worst when O'Neal was appointed. My father jokes about it everyday. However, I am the last person who would ever defend that Uncle Tom named Stanley O'Neal.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_18:32:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4479478, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4483213": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Go head, GLH!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_11:50:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7acec36f3ac1c3ce26f5070a275439fa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4477913, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4488335": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks for sharing! What a blessing!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_15:55:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "7acec36f3ac1c3ce26f5070a275439fa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4487466, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4482705": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "EXACTLY!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_11:21:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4479609, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4511854": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "BAM! Aint' THAT the truth!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_19:38:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4496383, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4522646": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow CPL, those sound like my experiences not only in my various work enviornments but also school enviornments. Great post and response!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_11:24:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4495859, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4489367": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "People like Jonster think those shootings were justified or worse yet...just innocent mistakes that could happen to anybody.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_16:34:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4487092, "depth": 6, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4484254": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Adding it to my repertoire as we speak.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_12:41:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4483329, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4495523": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL, exactly true to type. I'm not going to play that game, Goober. You can take \"they\" to inculde anyone you want. I can't even begin to give a damn.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_18:06:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "c87fa9ab975275187368e74f6f34d3d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4495429, "depth": 13, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4485284": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CPL:  Well!   Well!   Well!  A STUDY was done!  I had ta look at the DATE, 'cause seems as if NOTHING has changed since I read a previous STUDY in -er     -um   the 1900's [pick any year.    :&gt;)]<br><br><a href=\"http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/12/18/study-prejudice-could-cost-a-black-worker-thousands/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Study: Prejudice could cost a black worker thousands</a><br><br><i><b>A recent study in the Journal of Political Economy sheds light on the role racial prejudice plays in the wage gap between whites and blacks in the U.S.</b><br><br><b>Prejudice accounts for approximately one-quarter of the racial wage gap, costing a black worker up to $115,000 over a lifetime depending upon where he or she lives, according to study authors Kerwin Kofi Charles from the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago and Jonathan Guryan from Chicago\u2019s Booth School of Business.</b><br><br>Educational inequality, differences in workers\u2019 skill levels and other forms of discrimination likely account for the rest of the gap, the authors say.<br><br>Charles and Guryan used statistical models to test the extent to which wage gaps in each U.S. state vary according to levels of prejudice. Levels of prejudice were determined by a series of surveys conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. In the surveys, white people were asked their views on issues like interracial marriage, whites-only private clubs, neighborhood segregation and whether or not they would vote for a black president.<br><br>The result was a fairly robust correlation between wage gaps and prejudice.<br><br>\u201cThough prejudice explains only a minority\u2014albeit a significant one\u2014of the black-white wage gap, the costs borne by blacks \u2026 are large,\u201d the researchers write. \u201cConsider an 18-year-old black male choosing between two states\u2026. Our estimates imply that if he lives in Florida rather than Massachusetts \u2026 the net present value of his [lifetime] earnings will be about $34,000 smaller. If he lives in Mississippi rather than Wisconsin \u2026 his discounted earnings are about $115,000 smaller.\u201d<br><br>The researchers found that wage gaps vary significantly according to the level of prejudice reported by the least prejudiced people in each state. Where the least prejudiced people hold more prejudice, wage gaps are higher.<br><br>Why are the least prejudiced people the ones that determine wage gaps?<br><br>In his seminal 1957 work The Economics of Discrimination, Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker offered an answer. He theorized that the least prejudiced should be the ones who determine black wages because they are most likely to employ black people. The most prejudiced would either refuse to hire blacks, or pay them so little that blacks would naturally gravitate to less prejudiced employers.<br><br>Charles and Guryan\u2019s study is the first to offer empirical support for Becker\u2019s model. Not only did they find that the least prejudiced have a strong influence on wage gaps, levels of prejudice among the average and most prejudiced have no influence whatsoever.<br><br>\u201cThis is precisely as the Becker model predicts,\u201d the researchers write.</i><br><br>[I decided to print the whole article.]<br><br>IMHO, as the economic picture worsens, these \"studies\"  will require less rigor in documentation.  Just add up the columns of the following elements:<br>ETHNICITY --------------JOB TITLE---------SALARY<br><br>Annnnnnnnnd, there ya go!    O.K. It may NOT be quite this simple, BUT close.   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_13:28:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4485286": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I am talking about murder, violent crime, hate crimes.  Citizen on Citizen.  I am not talking about frat boys and drugs or Sean Amadou or Abner.  I know you don't want to hear it or confess it exists, and most white people won't say it.  It is what explains, in part, the racial divide on the white side of the fence.  We are not all bigots as you would make us out to be.  But some of us are tired of the crime.  And the whine.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_13:28:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "jonster", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 33, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4484984, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4495533": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And that is what trips me out about this so-called jokester of a poster, Jonster.  Our family members have been victims of hate crimes, perpetrated by white folks,  And yet he feels the need to tell US about black crime.<br><br>He/she wants to come here with generalizations, all in an effort to try to call us racist... and yet furthur offend us by claiming that black people are part of a \"criminal class.'<br><br>Well guess what, through his/her own reasoning, he/she must be part of the \"pedophilia class\" since according to FBI statistics, most pedophiles are white and/or  male.<br><br>But again, I don't deal simply with generalizations.<br><br>My mother taught me better than that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_18:06:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4495260, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4487965": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You make valid points. This is a political blog that we read. We feel a kinship here. The next steps we need to be thinking about is organizing around legislation and making plans for maximizing all available resources.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_14:39:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4482762, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4483248": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ty Willingham is why I root against sorry behind Notre Dame today.? Maybe Barack will help dispell the myth of the Great White Hope.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_10:51:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4483114, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4487345": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Lewevelyn:  HEY!   :&gt;)   Sorry that I couldn't find a youtube.<br><br>BUT - - here's the author:   Dr. Jessy Dixon:<br><br><a href=\"http://jessydixon.com/index/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3&Itemid=10\" rel=\"nofollow\">About Jessy (Dr. Dixon) Bio</a><br><br><i>Jessy Dixon now Dr. Jessy Dixon as of June 13, 2006, received his degree for Doctor of Divinity from Faith Theological Seminary and Christian College, Tampa Florida, an accomplishment he wears proudly as he travels around the world.<br><br>When attending a live performance, watching Jessy Dixon on the Bill Gaither Homecoming videos, listening to his CDs, seeing him on television, or hearing Jessy Dixon on the radio you are participating in an unique and unforgettable performance. <b>An Award Winning songwriter, Jessy's has written such songs as, \"I Love To Praise His Name,\" \"He's The Best Thing\u2026 To Happen To Me,\"<u> \"The Wicked Shall Cease Their Troubling,\"</u> </b>\"He Has Done Great Things For Me,\" \"I Know What Prayer Can Do,\" The Day You Set Me Free,\" \"There is No Failure In God,\" \"We Give You Praise,\" \"You Bring The Sun Out,\" \"The Failure Is Not In God It's In Me,\" \"Give God The Glory,\" \"I'll Be Alright,\" \"I Expect To See Him,\" \"Hold On A Little While Longer,\" \"I'm Satisfied,\" \"It's Alright Now,\" \"Lord Prepare Me To Be A Sanctuary,\" \"I Will Praise You Lord,\" with Randy Scruggs and John Thompson etc.</i><br><br>AGAIN, SORRY!    :&gt;)      :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_15:08:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4483718, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4676274": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It means a Black person gets a second chance if he's willing to be an Uncle Ruckus and engage in major buck dancing and ass-kissing to the point of selling out.<br><br>And that's what DL has done.  He hasn't been funny in ten years and he knows his shelf life has expired, so he's reduced to defending saltines like Don Imus in order to get a TV gig like CNN.  Even Roland Martin could do a better job with that show because Roland has a true knowledge of politics and he's also comical with a sharp wit that DL wishes HE HAD.<br><br>It's not the same second chance that Dog or Imus got - they essentially were rewarded for being bigots when they should be permanently UNEMPLOYED, and the media equivalent of TYPHOID MARY.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-28_10:15:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4670506, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4482739": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "OOOO, now you sound like MLK.<br>When he was trying to get the Civil Rights Act passed, white Southerners would tell him 'you can't legislate what is in peoples hearts'<br><br>Martin replied....the law may not be able to change people's hearts but it can restrain the heartless'", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_11:23:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4479627, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4487350": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"Ahem...um...is this post also some sort of read between the lines code for \"Let's not be so hard on our President-elect for his Cabinet choices, white staff, Rick Warren, not using the bully pulpit for much, going along with a war/the TARP trough/etc. because he's not going to get a second chance for eff-ing up so cut him slack for being 'cautious and moderate?'\"<br><br>I'll answer this for you. No. If it was, she would have said it. The last post that was criticizing Obama about the choices he has made so far has mostly come from CPL. Please get over yourself and stop trying to make people into Kool-Aid drinkers b/c they don't see things your way.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_15:08:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "CarolinagirlinGA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4483786, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4522682": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"Anywho, I didn't want to do the assignment anymore so I called the agency and told them that I would like the following week to be my last...\"<br><br>Some folk can't wrap their brain around the notion that some folk - yes, even black women - need to temp for FLEXIBILITY,  not a round of <b>  'SQUEEZE THE N*GGER\" </b> <br><br>They definitely don't like it when &lt;<i> your </i> pimp game is five steps ahead of theirs  - meaning you got OTHA options and are just waiting to play your hand.  LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_11:26:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "ac2f03d4d3d50ef0393076faa047b8af", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4521936, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4516027": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Please get over yourself and stop trying to make people into Kool-Aid drinkers b/c they don't see things your way.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_00:21:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "CarolinagirlinGA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4501343, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4485309": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Think what you like. Honestly don't care.<br><br>Of course you don't.  I'm an idiot and a racist.  My opinion doesn't matter.<br><br>Happy holidays.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_13:28:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "jonster", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4485176, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4477629": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Point taken.  I think we have John Mccain's choice of Sarah Palin to thank for that.  LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_03:25:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4477552, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4516035": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "CPL,<br><br>this post so rocks in so many way. You speak the truth.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_00:22:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4495557": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"I do not put all black people into a \"criminal\" class, a ridiculous notion, but I cannot by virtue of the statistics, deny that the criminal element in the black \"community\" is much higher than in any other group.\"<br><br>Its obvious that you are not as intelligent and that you chose to do exactly what we must fight on a regular basis by shrinking our humanity to the actions of others.<br><br>If we cannot take you up on what white people do why do you feel that you can sit here in front of law-abiding and educated blacks and talk about black being the \"criminal class\" which you did.<br><br><br>Also, there are reasons behind everything and it is obvious that your knowledge of basic sociology and root causes of social issues is soarly lacking.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_18:08:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4495404, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4487367": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Stereotyping has unfortunately always been a part business because it helps the white men keep their own people of choice at influential or high positions. I am not trying to be racist toward white men, but even sociologists have seen through collected data that white men desire to stay dominant in our society over women and minorities. All this racism and fight for power is still taking place-but will it continue after Obama has officially taken office? We have an article that surrounds a similar issue concerning race-\"Taxed for being black\" at <a href=\"http://theloop21.com/news/taxed-for-being-black\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://theloop21.com/news/taxed-for-being-black</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_15:09:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "f275bce8da7aebbfbda5ace9438cab40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4515016": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL !", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_23:01:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "99bcec632769e483ead5faa515e84132", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4513540, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4477641": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes. But his performance at the DNC in Denver was so good, it forced McCain to go rogue.<br><br>I guess all I'm saying is that we have to DEMAND our second chances not just in the material face of bullshit, but also spiritually.<br><br>We must make it happen by both will and faith.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_03:28:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4477629, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4482762": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I agree.  But my point was, too often we as Black people get pissed shortly after an incident and then after the initial storm has passed, we remain silent. When I said that people need to understand, I was saying make our voices heard loud and clear at all times, let them know old wounds are still raw and fresh and we want accountability.......too often we let the media, with their short term attention span, dictate our response.  Essentially if the media ain't replaying the same story, We aren't listening.  Some things only catch our attention we they are sensationalized.  And when controversy is out of sight, it is out of mind----and that's not acceptable.<br><br>Let me tell you something ,when Michael Savage insulted children with Autism, I got pissed.  I never listened to his garbage anyway.  I wrote e-mails but you see the fucker still has a job.  What I do know is that if he ever makes an appeareance in my vicinity, I WILL protest and picket his ass in person.  He should have been fired---but life is unfair....and unfortunately, I as one individual, neither all powerful or rich does not have the power to kick his ass to the curb alone.  And that is the harsh reality.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_11:24:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4479627, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4482764": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Very good point., Craig.  He also got a second chance on Wright..cause they beat that GodDAMN America! drum forEVER.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_11:24:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4477552, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4487885": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "WOW! Spirit, WAY TO GO!<br><br>But I bet Mr. Wetsch will have some one to set him up and help his ass get back on his feet when he gets out of the joint.  Book It.  Despite the notoriety of the case - because that's how the system rolls.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_15:35:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4487466, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4489677": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "CPL, and if their money is right, they can have that flower refreshed and rejuvinated for 7 grand.  So no one will be the wiser.... Except for the several thousand served.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_16:48:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4487725, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4513144": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes, GreenLadyHere, and MAY THE BLESSINGS BE!!  :-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_20:54:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4495754, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4489942": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"Oz\" was one of my favorite shows, so my mind just went to a very dark place;  a scene which involved a turned out prag, a kinky biker inmate, and literal interpretation of the term \"spooning\" LOL.  Here's hoping your ex-boss got some of that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_16:59:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4489545, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4513497": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LMAO at your temping story!  I had one temp assignment where it was \"indefinite,\" meaning open-ended, meaning \"forever.\"  If you stayed until the end of the assignment, that could be for 3 months or 3 years.<br><br>Anywho, I didn't want to do the assignment anymore so I called the agency and told them that I would like the following week to be my last.  The conversation went like this...<br><br>COORDINATOR: You HAVE to finish the assignment.  You HAVE to stay until the end.<br><br>ME: Um, it's an indefinite assignment.  That could be forever.<br><br>COORDINATOR:  Well, you have to finish it, or else we'll just be forced to put you on \"do not rehire\" status.<br><br>ME: Ok.<br><br>COORDINATOR:  What do you MEAN, Ok?<br><br>ME: You said if I don't finish the indefinite assignment, you'll put me on \"do not rehire status.\"  That's ok with me.<br><br>COORDINATOR: (choking, sputtering) Well what are WE supposed to do now?<br><br>ME: I don't know.  That's your problem.  *click*<br><br>You could totally tell some of those temp coordinators and on-site managers thought the black temps were the 'welfare to work\" people who were desperate for their crumb of a job.  Temps get pimped, if they aren't smart about it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_21:16:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4495859, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4496079": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "White Rose Buddy,<br><br>I have seen more interracial couples in two days in the South than my lifetime in New York?<br><br>Virginia takes the cake.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_18:36:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4484159, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4517084": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Town, you keep strking more than BATMAN!  ROFL<br><br>BAM! POW! RIGHT IN THE KISSER!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_02:19:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4513540, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4477661": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Agreed.  His DNC performance was phenomenal.  I knew it was over when he said Enough!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_03:31:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4477641, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4479198": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And Tuberville will be hired for a head coaching job in Division I AGAIN, bank it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_07:55:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 20, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4478377, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4511525": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "EVENING THREAD IS UP", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_19:20:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4487904": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This post is da truth! Even we as not so famous can relate to it. I know I've had that happen to me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_15:36:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Ladyvenoms", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4482273": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I know that....you know that.....for some reason though, the perception is that you must go to a Div I school...and then when they show the names of the schools of half the starters in the NFL, they came from Div II & III schools....yet the perception exists.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_10:54:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4480611, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4515581": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CPL that is a valid point.?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_22:43:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4495953, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4515559": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Dubya also said mission accomplished......", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_22:42:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4490139, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4527565": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "one more thing. <br><br>I know that some of what has been described is just plain old-fashioned BULLYING and POWER PLAYS from which no one is immune. No argument there. <br><br>However, the difference for black folk is when the conduct is an institutional characteristic -- as in, it's the way MOST black folk are treated in an industry or organization.  The other difference is when the objective is to keep a person - as a member of a class (you know, as many y'all as possible) - in a position of economic inferiority.   <br><br>Got it?  Good.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_14:42:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "ac2f03d4d3d50ef0393076faa047b8af", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4525795, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4487914": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"WTF does Greys Anatomy have to do w/ a Mexican getting killed by a group of black dudes? I can't follow you. Care to step back and try again?<br><br>Your comment sounds retarded like this...\"<br><br>HA HA HA HA HA HA.  Waggles head, puts hand on hip, and does the chin jut.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_15:36:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "jonster", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4487199, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4484846": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'll pass your greetings along to my acquaintance and his two sons, whose wife and mother was randomly shot in the head by a white guy while sitting in her car two Christmases ago because he thought black people were evil.<br><br>You wanted to go there.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_13:08:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 16, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4484484, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4477679": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I agree with  Craig...demand a second chance.<br><br>Isaiah Washington's use of a gay slur is a prime example of that. I am not making excuses for him but he took a beating in the press, went to rehab, and was fired----- and one prominent gay entertainment blogger bashed the shyt out of him for a while.<br><br>Jerry Lewis, uses the same slur at his telethon in 2007, and then again in 2008----and what do we hear----*crickets*<br><br>It is wrong, these double standards we live with...but if we let it slide under the radar and forget about it the next day...it will continue to happen.<br><br>As far as Imus, even Coach Stringer said on Oprah that she felt during their meeting that she didn't think Imus understood why her and the  team was hurt---\"he just didn't get it\" though she felt his wife Deidre did.  <br><br>This is another example you can't always expect others outside the scope of YOUR reality to understand your perspective.  We must teach them--and that includes loud and clearly saying, I am tired of these double standards we are often faced with....and the hypocrisy others put forth.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_03:34:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4482800": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Green Lady, your story is one I always advise people thinking about filing an EEO complaint.  Leave emotion out and document their asses up the yang.<br><br>I left my job at the Fed for similar reasons.  When your boss is subverting the EEO laws to protect HER boss, and you discover it - she tries to have you fired; only I pulled out a black binder of a journal and documented incidents I'd kept on her ass for the past year.<br><br>I resigned because the management wouldn't find me another position in the Agency.  I took a good chunk of severance with me as well.  And no, this wasn't a Government Agency, because if it were, I'd had appellate rights, and I would have exhausted them - not to mention I would have requested a Merit Systems Protection Board judicial hearing where everyone's shyt would have been exposed.<br><br>The Fed makes its own rules.  So I left.  But it would have been worse if I hadn't documented her ass and refuted every lie she told on me.<br><br>Annnd, its worse cause homegirl who did that to me while protecting her white boss, is....you guessed it; A SISTA.<br><br>Not only do we NOT get second chances, we also have to deal with House Negroes working for the Man, and will act like Unca Ruckus in making damned sure you don't expose their shyt involving protecting \"the Man\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_11:25:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4477913, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4483325": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "But they won't do that, so I think DJ has a valid point.  If the kids decide to go to Stanford, Harvard, Cal....the NFL will find their asses.<br><br>Hell, the NFL starts tracking these kids while they're still in HIGH SCHOOL, so they could find them just like McGarrett always found Big Chicken or Wo Fat.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_11:54:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4482589, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4485365": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>I'm an idiot and a racist. My opinion doesn't matter.<br></i><br><br>You said it, I didn't.<br><br>Now I really am done with this. Bye.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_13:30:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4485309, "depth": 6, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4495607": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "But if you stop focusing on the color of the skin and shift it to the circumstances of their existence, you may not be so preoccupied with black crime but crime of poverty, lack of education, lack of good role models, lack of choice, lack of knowing other ways of living, lack of self respect and self love.<br><br>You see that, then you will recognize the same crime phenom around the world and will understand how much the race of the person comes into importance.<br><br>Peace out", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_18:10:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4495404, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4495613": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That would be \"sorely\" lacking, not soarly.  And you're right.  Never took sociology classes.  But I read a lot.  Does that count?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_18:11:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "jonster", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4495557, "depth": 12, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4489982": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Can you please take your hood and nonsense over to Stormfront?!  maybe you'll get the applause over there that you're hoping for here.<br><br>Better yet, stop the first Black man you see on the street and tell him what you just told me, you know that he is part of the criminal class...Lemme know how it turns out.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_17:00:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 23, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4489631, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4486613": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "tHE REAL QUESTION IS.... When will our unqualified be offered the same oppotunities that their unqualified are?  I see you brownie.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_14:30:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4482304": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And that's why everytime someone asks me about GA I told them that I stopped watching when they canned the \"black dude.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_10:57:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "f9aaa8acc43fd7620185ff90cef3c05a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4478081, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4483329": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "WORD, cause that's how I roll.<br><br>And I always ask why the white guy gets another chance, but not ME? <br><br><br>I like it! :-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_11:53:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "7acec36f3ac1c3ce26f5070a275439fa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4483150, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4513540": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well, if you stop going into the black neighborhoods to get your drugs and your tricks you wouldn't be assaulted by black people on the way home, would you?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_21:20:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4484484, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4490198": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CPL, yes, he probably does have some one to set him up and help his ass get back on this feet.\\ when he get out.<br><br>But as I shared with MsKitty, right now he could very well be on his knees, and you know what they say when you go to the \"pokey\" pun intended :-)) don't drop anything!  and that is how the system rolls too. <br><br>And I agree with  you, Craig, and h&fs, we can create our own system.  Demand answers to questions of fairness. <br><br>We know how to adapt and fight, we've had to do it all our lives, these folks who think they are getting something for nothing because they are white are only fooling themselves.  <br><br>We grow, learn how to survive and thrive under whatever circumstances life throws at us.  I don't like racism, sexism, ageism, chronism, nepitism........They are all labels and  folks hide behind  labels to explain ugly and hurtful behaviors.   <br><br>It's the behavior they need to be called out on, because while the color of the skin may be different, the color of the benjamins is the same. Paying for the consequences of one's behaviors cost either in coin, service, or pain.<br><br>At the end of the day. it will still be up to me to steer my own ship", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_17:09:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4487885, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4515713": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And he didn't have enough common sense to stay down after the first shoe was thrown at him!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_23:52:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4515559, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4483786": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ahem...um...is this post also some sort of read between the lines code for \"Let's not be so hard on our President-elect for his Cabinet choices, white staff, Rick Warren, not using the bully pulpit for much, going along with a war/the TARP trough/etc. because he's not going to get a second chance for eff-ing up so cut him slack for being 'cautious and moderate?'\" Just checking. <br><br>Might be that 5 mil folk streaming past my windows the windows weekend of 1/18-1/20 or sleeping on my floor will really be marching in the DC cold (yeah it's cold here in jan. as you you)  to save their jobs/homes, get debt relief and health care, rather than pray w/Rick Warren.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_12:17:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "dcf2c9ce3819616f8ba0ca48c54519c4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4484652": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CPL:   EXAMPLE, AGAIN of \"ONE of them FORCES!\"   **shakin' my head!** :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_12:59:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4482912, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4483851": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Read 40 Million Dollar Slaves and just look around you. AA athletes are often the biggest not-get-involved, just gimme the $$$ uncle Toms out there. So yes, they are not the answer, though not for the reason you give, whiterosebuddy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_12:20:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "dcf2c9ce3819616f8ba0ca48c54519c4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4482589, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4487725": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Those \"Southern Flowers of Womanhood\" know more tricks than the $20 ho on the street.  LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_15:28:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4484159, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4485392": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "MsKitty:   <b>HEAD BOW</b> for the family and you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_13:32:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4485052, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4512529": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jamal would have gotten pumped full of potassium chloride by now and be somewhere in an unmarked grave.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_20:17:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4512307, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4670506": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "DL Hughley  not only said what Imus said but agreed with him. After that DL  gets his on show on CNN. Hows that for second chances?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-27_18:19:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "a7f6132e84a949066e9bf8a4a1648c37", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4524820": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lmao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_12:59:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4513540, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4512534": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow, your learning.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_20:18:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4495702, "depth": 13, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4496151": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "MsKitty<br><br> I am so sorry to hear that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_18:41:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4485052, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4495641": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Racist!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_18:12:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "jonster", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4495523, "depth": 14, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4515098": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "jeremiah wright was not maligned by black people.   that whole episode was primarily a result of white ignorance and fear.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_23:08:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "99bcec632769e483ead5faa515e84132", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4495931, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4483906": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It has probably changed to another school now, but thru the year 2000, the school that had produced the most NFL players in the history of the league was Grambling.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_12:23:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4483325, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4490525": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Word, MsKitty, Actually, I recently got word that he's not doing so well in the pokey.  Awwww, damn shame :-)))<br><br>Honestly, when I think about all that $$$$ he robbed from the elderly.  I don't want to say the facility. In my book, he stole the comfort and needs of the elderly to enrich himself and his family.  <br><br>I hope he's getting all the second, thirds,...... helpings of the SPOONING in the POKEY!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_17:27:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4489942, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4482848": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I won't challenge your assertion that whites generally get second (third, fourth...) chances to redeem themselves - both personally AND professionally (Robert Downey, Jr  anyone??) -  but it's important to point out that their redeemers are not always white.  <br><br>I know you haven't made this claim, but I think it's important to clarify this.  <br><br>Marinate on this for a minute.  I'm out!  LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_11:28:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "ac2f03d4d3d50ef0393076faa047b8af", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4490532": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"Like I always say, if you can't run with the dogs, don't piss with the puppies.\"<br><br>Yeah....we'll just have to take your word for it...mmkay??", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_17:27:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 12, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4490209, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4482694": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Lily,<br>How did you find all the old shows.  I sooo need to do the same. I quit following when the writer's strike happen and haven't been able to pick back up.<br><br>I would love to do what you have...now, had you purchased the prior seasons or what?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_11:21:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4477874, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4517161": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What really bothers me, Miranda, is how the kids get pimped - they make big money for those schools, but we see these kids shoplifting in Dillard's because the school is only shelling out scholorship money.<br><br>If they had to start paying those kids a real stipend, and I mean in the neighborhood of $60K annually while they're in school, ALL of the DIVISION schools' football programs would go in the tank.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_02:26:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4511550, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4487466": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "GreenLady, thanks for sharing your experience and wisdom. <br><br>Four years ago, I was working in a Long Term Nursing Care facility as an Assistant Director of Nursing.  I had earned the position through seniority and my work record.<br><br>I was the only black nurse in the facility with a MS degree and qualifications to apply for it.<br><br>The Director of Nursing, a white male, approached me and asked me to develop a comprehensive plan to help the 2 nursing units that I was responsible for run more efficiently.  And so I developed the plan, submitted it, and got thunderous praise for the plan and budget.  <br><br>Two months went by and I didn't hear back from him, so I arranged a follow up meeting.  He told me that he'd run the plan by the facility Board of Directors and things looked promising.    Mean while the units were in need of me implementing those plans.  <br><br>The delay continued and he grew distant and cold towards me.  Staff morale plummeted; family members and patients were feeling the sting of less than stellar standards of care.  I couldn't figure out why he was turning on me.  Something didn't feel right.<br><br>A month later, I went into work and got a very strong signal to resign and leave the premises by 2 p.m. that day.  <br><br> I mean, I couldn't make up what I'm about to share with you.<br><br>I got direct inner guidance to call the Director of Nursing, the administrator, the director of Human resources and the CEO of the facility.  I left them a voice message asking them to meet with me a 12 noon in the board room.<br><br>They all agreed to meet with me, and there I was a 12 noon sitting in the board room on one side of the huge, long, brown  table,  facing 4 white men on the other side.  Surprisingly, I felt relaxed and calm<br><br>The words flowed seamlessly from me.  \"I want to thank you all for giving me the opportunity to work for your fine establishment.  Because I can no longer work under the conditions I'm being asked to work, effective today I'm resigning my post as Assistant Director of Nursing.\u201d  I requested 2 month severance pay. My position called for at least a 30 day notice of resignation, and a month\u2019s severance and I had the gull to resign immediately and ask for 2 months pay.<br><br>To my surprise, they all agreed.  I couldn\u2019t believe what I was hearing.  They told me to come back by 1 p.m. and they\u2019d have the papers ready for me to sign.  I went back to my office to clean out my desk and files.  I signed the papers at 1 p.m., and picked up my check for 2 months pay (A hefty sum too)   The Director of Nursing even wrote me a glowing recommendation. By 2 p.m. I was driving out of the parking lot.   I couldn\u2019t believe what had just happened.  There was no job waiting in the wings.  When I got home there was a voice message from a friend.  He said there was nursing job fair the following week, and the pay was comparable.  I went to the fair and got a job.  It was magical.    I took two months to process the turn of events.  But I had this sense that something still wasn\u2019t finished at that nursing facility.<br><br>Two months later, my husband and I came home from an outing, and he turned on the TV news.   The first thing I heard was:   \u201cNURSING HOME DIRECTOR CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLING 1.5 MILLION DOLLARS IN HIS 8 YEAR TENURE!!!!!!  There on the big screen was a picture of the home, and the large booming voice of the newscaster, but not surprises here.  There was no picture of the WHITE perpetrator of the crime.<br><br>I was right in sensing that something was amiss.  My plans didn\u2019t get approved and implemented because they required funds.  The budget I\u2019d projected was well thought out and fair.  But the big boss had his hand in the cookie canister, and had set up a fake PO box, wrote check request and sent invoices with names of businesses that didn\u2019t\u2019 exist to the facility accounting department.   <br><br>The facility administrator finally woke up and smelled the coffee, and it wasn\u2019t Starbucks either.   The facility units continued to suffer after I left.  Cheap linens and supplies was a tip off. He got his nose out of his ass and started investigating.   Families complained relentlessly about the poor care and the staffing shortages.  The light finally did come in and the big roach got squashed.  <br><br>I know this man set me up to fail for his personal, greedy gains.  The blessing in this whole thing was that I\u2019d gotten a direct warning to get the hell out of dodge before the shake down, and I followed the guidance step by step.  Was I afraid to take the bold steps to remove myself? <br><br> Initially, I was, and had a sense that I\u2019d failed to deliver, but my instincts cease to fail me when I follow through.  I was able to avoid the media frenzy that day when the police came in to that facility and booked the roach on charges of embezzling 1.5 million dollars from the ELDERLY!!!!  I\u2019m so grateful I had no ties to the money schemes and so there was nothing to incriminate me.<br><br>We never saw another  TV news broadcast of the event.  The Star Tribune wrote an article about it.  A small blurb on the front page and the remainder of it buried on page 15 and of course no photo of the perp.<br><br>The White guy committed a White collar crime and got 42 months in the pokey.<br><br>Here\u2019s the write up on him from a historical site for the city of St. Louis Park, MN.   <a href=\"http://www.slphistory.org/history/police.asp\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.slphistory.org/history/police.asp</a><br><br>1997<br>Nursing director Mark E. Wetsch was convicted of misappropriating nearly $1.4 million from Shalom Home West from 1997 to 2005. <br><br>2005 <br>Shalom Home Nursing Director Mark E. Wetsch was sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison for stealing $1.4 million from the facility from 1997 to 2005. He used the money for home improvements, vacations, four vehicles, three snowmobiles, a private running coach, private school tuition, tickets to sporting events, and things: he sold a pool table, kayaks, skis, watches, and golf clubs to pay restitution. <br><br>It is important to note that one year after he was charged and jailed, I went back for a visit to the facility and the administrator had moved on, and nursing units had implemented the plans I had written. Does it matter that it happened after I left. No.  What matters is that the units are running and the care is being provided.<br><br>I wanted to share this experience because for me, it proves that following my intuition and rejecting fear and power, empowered me to move forward, take full responsibility for my destiny and accept the next big gift that presents itself.  <br><br>I know that I had the spiritual protection and believe that ultimately the Law of Cause and Effect is the rule of the day.  I didn\u2019t fuck up, he did, and he\u2019s paying for it.  He tried to use me in his scheme by not helping me, but he failed!<br><br>The media definitely portrays white and black crimes differently.  Blacks are more likely to get their photos smeared across the TV and newspapers than whites and by white and black journalist too.<br><br>but we already know that we see it every day.<br><br>Here are two links regarding this issue:<br><br><a href=\"http://law.jrank.org/pages/1578/Mass-Media-Crime-Journalism.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://law.jrank.org/pages/1578/Mass-Media-Crim...</a><br><br><a href=\"http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimemedia/lecture3.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimemedia/lectu...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_15:15:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 13, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4484625, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4489515": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "YouTube. Bangseventh has almost everyone on her channel. Here's the last one I watched but go to the right and click on her subscribe and you will be able to start at the first episode.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0APa-nWu2Y\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0APa-nWu2Y</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_16:42:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4482694, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4495660": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Thank you Jonster because being a part of the criminal class has been detrimental to my basic grammar skills.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_18:13:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4495448, "depth": 13, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4495149": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"murder, violent crime, hate crimes\"<br><br>Yes because black have never been the victims of murder, violent crimes or hate crimes over the last 400 years...oh ummm ok.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_17:46:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4485286, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4483888": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Folks like Stanley O'Neal and Ken Chenault don't pursue these positions in order to make racial waves. Their ascension to these positions are noticed because of their race but that comes with the territory.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_12:22:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "PTCruiser", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4483663, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4484490": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Against Race Politics:  Hope I've been helpful.  Thank you.  :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_12:50:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4483213, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4511550": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "CPL....Serious Div I schools have entirely too much money coming in from their football programs to give a damn. ESPECIALLY SEC schools...Alabama, Georgia, Florida....they. do. not. care. The boosters are very powerful. I knew from jump Auburn wasn't going to hire a black coach and new Sylvester Croom, who SHOULD have been hired at Alabama, would never last at Miss State. NEVER. Why did Miss State hire Croom? Because they were going thru NCAA recruiting violations and were put on probation. That seriously hampered their program. NOBODY else wanted the job. Now that they are off probation...buh-bye Croom.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_19:22:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4487760, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4496191": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Lilytiger, I believe in redemption..no doubt.<br><br>But you are right, some people are just hateful---PERIOD.<br><br>I was always told  that \"your enemy will be made your foot stool\" and what goes around, comes back around.  Idiots like Savage will face their karma----you can bet on it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_18:43:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4489611, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4523328": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Dubya also pretended to fly that aircraft carrier and even dressed up like a fighter pilot trying to fit his uniform to indicate his \"endowments\" which were probably a rolled up towel he put in his shorts.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_11:55:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4515559, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4490562": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "THANK YOU!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_17:28:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4489515, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4489611": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That man, savage, didn't make a pact with the devil, he is the devil.<br><br>Spews everywhere and people eat it up.<br><br>Remind me again about the feeling of brotherhood and goodwill for all after the election, please.<br><br>please....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_16:46:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4482762, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4517189": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That's got to be the Fred Hammond joint - \"Jesus be a Fence\"<br><br>Start in \"A\" Flat....LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_02:29:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4495754, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4485448": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jonester, unfortunately these folks feed the violent crime.  If we are all working, and the economy is good, the crime rate goes down.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_13:34:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4485286, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4489545": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sure you right, MsKitty, but  right now he could very well be on his knees, and you know what they say when you go to the \"pokey\" pun intended :-))  don't drop anything!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_16:43:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4488627, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4484940": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I am so sorry to hear that Ms Kitty, I know it was two years ago, but my deepest condolences. That's horrible and of course I never heard about that in the media.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_13:12:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "noelani", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4484846, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4525795": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "sorry for the more than usual typos... I'm in a rush.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_13:34:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "ac2f03d4d3d50ef0393076faa047b8af", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4525674, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4495702": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think you are right.  It's more of a \"socio-economic class\" thing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_18:15:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "jonster", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4495607, "depth": 12, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4487514": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thank you carolinagirl!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_15:17:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4487350, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4489564": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obviously you don't know that calling someone retarded is an insult to the developmentally delayed.......", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_16:43:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4489343, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4523357": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "He only did what the white guys have done.  And it's been verified that Merrill Lynch was on the slide when O'Neal was appointed, so I stand by my original comment in the post.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_11:56:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4484693, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4501343": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "A hallmark of Kool Aid poisoning is an emotional knee jerk response. You then are the one who needs to get over yourself, Carolina girl. I'm just looking at a bigger picture, because I indeed see too many folks muting dissent or even discussion points on what our President-elect is doing or should do precisely b/c of reations like yours. Plus, down the line, if Barack running into some problems due to miscalcuion, I bet this \"he's not ebeing allowed to fail\" or leeway argument will be paraded out. Then I wil search this blog's archive and we can have this conversation again. LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_18:54:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "dcf2c9ce3819616f8ba0ca48c54519c4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4487350, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4482912": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That's just IT; if Isaiah Washington was a white guy, all he would have had to do was apologize.  IF that had been McDreamy calling his cast mate a \"fag\", Patrick Dempsey would have had to apologize and all would have been well, but they fired Isaiah Washington for essentially doing what Mel Gibson did.<br><br>Mel Gibson is still welcomed in Hollywood, even among the Jews he denigrated with that rant and then said he wasn't responsible because he was drunk.<br><br>The consolation that Washington feels is that Grey's Anatomy hasn't been shyt since he and Kate Walsh left the show, and McDreamy can't save it by himself.  And when Katherine Heigl mouthed off about not being nominated for an Emmy because she felt the writers gave her nothing to work with, they began drafting up plans to kill her character off the show, but her fans kicked in and demanded she be kept on.<br><br>And doesn't a sista produce Grey's Anatomy?  Why didn't she step in to save Isaiah Washington when he was being railroaded out the door? &lt;&lt;&lt;eyebrows raised&gt;&gt;&gt;", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_11:32:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4478081, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4528482": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "GreenLadyHere, HANDS RAISED  1-10.  Let the remediation begin.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_15:13:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4526447, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4517219": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Let's be honest, Monie.<br><br>You and I both know Deirdre Imus is waiting for her Crypt-Keeper husband to kick the can so she can get all his shyt.  There is no other reason she would stay married to this old, stale Saltine.  LOL", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_02:33:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4477679, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4526948": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "merrill's so called slide was because it was not issuing CDswaps, CDO's and oither deriatives relative to its peers. Stan came from that side and built it up issuing this paper. His mistake was he kept to much of it on the books instead of just issuing it as he was trying to keep the earnings up to increase his credit power(the smartness of this is another subject; I'm on he was a dumbass for keeping it on the books) to issue more.<br>he was severely hated by the brokerage side because that was \"Mother Merrill\" the build of assets by the brokers; they would n't even give you a broker w/o $250k net worth freeand clear-no houses,boats,  Renoirs or Honeycutts.<br>He acheived the American Dream he walked w/ the cash.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_14:13:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4523357, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4484457": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "MsKitty:  Thank you.  ABSOLUTELY!   :&gt;)<br><br>Oh!  BTW, for that 2nd term, since I was at the District/Central Office, HE had ta come to me for certain questions.  Annnnnnd, he had to attend meetings that I CHAIRED!!   :&gt;)      :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>Was \"red in the face\" during the entire meeting(s)!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)   Something about, \"what goes around, comes around!\"    :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>I guess. . . . .   :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_12:49:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4483506, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4490602": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Evidently, YOU don't think I know about other races shortcomings....including white people's shyt.<br><br>Let me tell you something...in 1970, my late father, who was in his late teens at the time, and in a rural part of Virginia, hitchhiked a ride with two white men who offered him a ride.<br><br>These same white men, pulled a weapon on my father, disparaged him by calling him the n-word repeatedly, and my father  actually fought his way out and jumped out of a moving car.  And when he reported this crime, the white sheriff basically dismissed his account, and essentially disregarded the criminal act that was committed.<br><br>I was first told this account at the age of 8....and it wasn't told to me to make me distrust white people.....but ALL strange people---to never be trusting of strangers.  But the bigger issue is that it is not only black people who commit crimes and make others feel  unsafe.<br><br>Right now, i live in a area that is predominantly white and I was warned that while violent crimes were not that much of a concern(shootings were lower than some areas),other crimes were...and I have never seen as many registered sex offenders/predators in my life...and yes the majority of them are white males.<br><br>Am I going to sit here and say all white men are of the pedophile class....even though that has been my experience here.  I don't need to fuckin generalize like that.  What does it solve?<br><br>Because any person OF ANY COLOR AT ANY TIME is capable of violating another person and commiting a crime.<br><br>It just so happens you are obsessed with the the crime of black people...well, if you are that damn concerned., mentor a young black person, give an unemployed black person a job, eradicate poverty in poorer neighborhoods... be a crime-fighting superhero who magically appears to stop crime.......and then maybe you discuss this with intelligence.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_17:30:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4490209, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4522349": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL.  Ironic self-indictment, applauded by a loyal coterie of cheerleaders.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_11:10:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "jonster", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4513540, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4484693": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You are wrong about Stan. Youcan complain his name isn't being bandied about like Chuck Prince at Citegoup or Dick Fuld at Lehman whom does have a site dedicated to his pride. but Stan walked away w/ $179,000,000 in cold hard cash.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_13:01:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "RobM", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4526447": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "CPL:  ***shakin' my head***   <br><br>I'm believin' that we could conduct our own \"JJP STUDY\" - ON COMMON/SHARED EXPERIENCES OF Discrimination.<br><br>As I read through this threadI noted that many of us have stated, somewhere in our posts, - - \"THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME!\"  :&gt;)<br><br>Here is a simple way to get some DATA:  Present up to a certain number of SCENARIOS [e.g., 10], and ASK US to ***raise our hand** IFFF we had that/similar experience.<br><br>From what I've seen here, I'll \"BETCHA\" that the DATA will show that WE ALL have had COMMON EXPERIENCES!  [That would be 100%!   :&gt;)]  Cain't REFUTE the IMPLICATIONS of the DATA annnnnnnnd, of  NEXT STEPS for REMEDIATION! <br>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - <br><br><i>plus I'll head to the classroom as a sub teacher in January, </i><br><br>Yaaaaaaaa!  :&gt;)         :&gt;)      :&gt;)    I keep praying for your situation!!  This is ONE STEP FORWARD!!  :&gt;)  Yaaaaaaaa!!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)  Thank you LAWD!!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_13:51:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4495859, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4484984": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Please Jonster, none of this hate crime is acceptable.  But please don't forget that in Long Island this year, young white men also killed a Latino immigrant and there have been other cases in places like Pennsylvania where immigrants have died at the hands of white people.<br><br>By the way, do you feel any sympathy for the unarmed men who faced tragedy like Sean Bell, Amadou Diallo, or Abner Louima at the hands of the NYPD.  Men who were found devoid of weapons but dealt with the harshest example of force.  Since you are so good on statistics, name me one white unarmed citizen who was gunned down with 41 or 50 bullets.   I can tell you know you will have a hard time.<br><br>And by the way, how do you feel when a group of white fraternity students in San Diego openly post messages detailing their drug trafficking, are caught with over $100,000 worth of drugs, and are connected to the overdosing death of a college students-----and yet their punishment is probation and diversion programs.  You know as well as I know, had they been Black, Hispanic, or any other, these students would have been serving mandatory 25 year sentences as first offenders.<br><br>So please don't give us that crap.  Why don't you study the swindling of money through all these high-powered executives and investors who are wreaking havoc in our financial worlds, engaging in the worst \"White-collar\" crime.  HINT---The majority of them ain't black.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_13:13:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 36, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4484484, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4484159": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I agree it shouldn't..in a perfect world.  However, in a Southern world, where you have families participating in sports they do not want to promote the idea of their southern flowerers of womanhood needing to marry a black man to be in a powerful position or to marry athletes...even though they frequently do so...it is NOT an image they want to promote by implicitly condoning it by hiring a coach with a white wife.<br><br>This is not something provable in court. Rather, it is community mores and standards. When alumni and booster clubs make the difference in terms of monies raised, what they want to project to the society will prevail.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_12:35:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4483265, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4486890": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"I am not talking about..... Sean Amadou or Abner.\"<br><br>Yeah, b/c THOSE aren't examplese of murder or violent crimes. *SMH*", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_14:47:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "CarolinagirlinGA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 27, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4485286, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4483457": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't buy that Shonda was \"forced\" to drop Isaish from the show.<br><br>That's an example of a sista watching out for her own ass - if Shonda made Grey's Anatomy - she could have done like the Wayans did when the brass took over \"In Living Color\" and tried to make it the \"Jim Carrey Show\".  If that show truly rose or fell on her talent, she should have exercised her power and threatened to withdraw it.  She didn't.<br><br>Keenan and his siblings left \"In Living Color\". Because of PRINCIPAL of not allowing themselves to be punked by the white guys for whom they were making money. And how long did it stay on the air after they left?<br><br>Plus, as doofus as the Wayans' pictures have been, they are having the last laugh...ALL THE WAY TO THE DAMN BANK, and on THEIR OWN TERMS. White Producers are begging Keenan to produce movies - same thing for Tyler Perry, and Spike Lee jump started it when he called Bill Cosby, Janet Jackson and Michael Jordan to get the money he needed to finish making \"Malcolm X\".<br><br>These guys told White Hollywood they didn't need their asses, and now White Hollywood begs these guys to make movies, because they demanded to be treated as the white producers who make sucky movies but still get hired to produce or direct.<br><br>And you're right about the racist white gay man - he just announced HE'S leaving the show this year.  He got his way, but the show went in the toilet as a result.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_12:00:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4479609, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4484484": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What unnerves and confuses me is that we as white people will always be victims of black on white crime.  We have become weary of constantly fighting for our right to get home safely.  But I do believe there are still enough of us to carry on through faith and by the grace of the NYPD.  (There are 8,220,196 people in NYC and 860,571 in Detroit, which has 1/10th the population of New York yet almost four times the violent crime.) I never watched Grey's Anatomy but I hope that Mexican guy a group of black thugs killed in Manhattan last week because he \"looked gay\" kind of makes up for it and helps you to feel a little better.  I'm glad Obama is president and saying gay-positive things.  But I have never seen a \"community\" of people who mewl so much about discrimination while refusing to even look inward at the reasons why people are weary of these blanket charges of racism.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_12:50:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "jonster", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 66, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4483718, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4511622": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes they are.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_19:24:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4495093, "depth": 12, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4483463": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ABSOLUTELY!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_12:01:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "bb90730b238bd2c1f318bc1437a3fc1e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4483202, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4495754": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "spirit:    <i>I know that I had the spiritual protection . . . </i><br><br>First:  <i>Chorus:<br>Jesus be a fence all around me everyday<br>Jesus I want you to protect me as I travel along the way<br>I know you can(yes Lord)<br>I know you will (yes Lord)<br>Fight my battle(yes Lord)<br>If I just keep still (yes lord)<br>Lord be a fence all around me everyday<br><br>Repeat Chorus<br><br>Verse:<br>This is my prayer Lord that I pray each and every day<br>That you would guide my footsteps lest I stumble and stray<br>Lord, I need you to direct me all the way long<br>Oh Lord be a fence all around me everyday<br>Come help me say, Jesus...<br><br>Repeat Chorus</i><br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mg2xkvVj0c&feature=related\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jesus be a fence</a><br><br>AAAAA-MAN!!  ***hands in the air***    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_18:19:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4487466, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4485515": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Although I didn't really need to say it, did I?  LOL.  It's obvious to everyone here, I know?  I must be an idiot because Miss Kitty says I am (even tho I am a cat lover myself and we have that connection).  As far as being a racist?  I would say no more than most people here.  I am hurt from personal experience related to black peole.  Many people here are hurt from personal experience related to white people.  But I also know that there is good and bad in everyone and in every so-called \"community.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_13:37:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "jonster", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4485365, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4490637": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Its simply amazing that the HUGE drug ring by those white college students at San Diego State received the bare minimum in news coverage....and after being caught virtually red-handed, they all got away with probation and diversionary programs...even though illegal weapons were confiscated, they crossed state lines, thousands of dollars in drugs recovered, a student DIED.....but they all got probation and diversionary programs...not ONE will spend even a minute in a cell. Justice my azz.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_17:33:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4484984, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4482921": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"It wasn't hard to let him go,\" Rhimes told TV Guide at the TCA's last July. \"It was a decision that was a long time coming, and it felt like it was the right decision for all of us.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_11:33:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "jonster", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4479609, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4495761": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Glad to help!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_18:18:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "jonster", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4495660, "depth": 14, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4486037": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "FIrst off, let me make one thing clear.  I DID NOT AT ALL SAY ALL WHITE PEOPLE ARE BIGOTS.  So please do not insinuate or put any words into my mouth that I did not type.  That is very offensive and LOW of you to start with.  And it seems to me that subconsciously you are struggling with that notion, since YOU brought it up.<br><br>Secondly, i will be the first to say I am saddened at the violence in the lack community...but I also know America in general is a violent nation.<br><br>Here is alink to some statistics:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov.bjs/homicide/race.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov.bjs/homicide/race.htm</a><br><br>As you can see, and what is generally understood is that most Black people are killed at the hands of other black people----so maybe, as a white person you don't have much to worry about.  Now if you have children, what you might want to think about is the high percentage of white students commiting mass murders in schools---since it seems we had an abundance of those in recent years.   And let's not forget that the typical serial killer is a white man who often goes years without being caught.<br><br>Oh, I forgot.....you'd rather bash black people....white people never commit heinous crimes, rob or steal. &lt;/snark&gt;", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_14:03:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4485286, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4477828": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And that is why grey's is sucky now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_04:00:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4477679, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4533145": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "spirit:  LOL!    :&gt;)     :&gt;)  You KNOW that you're right!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_19:38:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4528482, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4490139": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "But...but...Dubya said he was doing a heckofva job.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_17:08:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4486613, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4495260": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And now for my story, In 1982, my uncle who had just migrated to the country was beaten to near death by whites in the Bronx because he was on the wrong side of town.<br><br>The crime was denied and covered up because two of the men involved were sons of the policeman. <br><br>The NYPD has always been shady in that manner.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_17:52:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4490602, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4490653": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hmmmm, maybe I'll stay.  Miranda, you and I, we've got a thing going, eh?  I would miss you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_17:33:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "jonster", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4490532, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4489631": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You seem to know me very well.  What you don't seem to want to speak to is the fact that, out of all the minorities that make up this great nation, black people have unfortunately acquired the reputation of forming our \"criminal class.\"  Why?  That's all I'm asking.  You can throw all the white on black crime back at me but it doesn't change anything.  The invisible elephant is still sitting in the living room, unacknowledged.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_16:46:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "jonster", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 24, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4487092, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4482700": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Welllllll...I have to disagree.  Surely there are politicians who are both, er, melanin-challenged (ha!) and Black who have bounced back from political scandals.  According to this study:  <br><br><a href=\"http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-9705817_ITM\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_02...</a><br><br>Since the 1940s there have been a number of prominent elected officials who have been able to redeem their standing in the black community after involvement in scandals. By the 1990s, it appeared that one of the cultural differences between black and white Americans was that the former were far more willing to forgive politicians who had previously been accused of misbehavior. <br><br>Such differences between blacks and whites were not always as pronounced as they had become by the 1990s. <br><br>[In the study] I focus upon six elected officials and their support among African Americans in the midst of allegations (some proven) of wrongdoing. Two of the officials, Marion Barry and Edward Brooke, had a significant number of white constituents, therefore I compared their electoral support among whites with their support among blacks, both before and after the scandals they were involved in. This shows the difference between the two racial groups. <br><br>Elected Officials Who Made \"Comebacks\" In the Black Community <br><br>The November 1994 elections in the U.S. showed how differently black voters and white voters treat fallen public officials. In that election, two very well-known individuals were trying to salvage their political careers in the midst of scandals. One was U.S. Representative Dan Rostenkowski (D-IL), the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and the other was Marion Barry, the former Mayor of Washington, D.C. Rostenkowski was under a 17-count criminal indictment for misuse of the congressional franking privilege, fraud, and witness tampering.   In Washington, D.C., Marion Barry was fighting to return to the mayor's office, an office he had left 4 years earlier while under indictment for use of illegal narcotics, after having been videotaped using cocaine. Barry was subsequently convicted of a misdemeanor drug charge and sentenced to 6 months in prison. Upon his return from prison in 1992, he won a seat on the D.C. City Council, and in 1994 he was running for the mayor's office. When the votes were counted, Rostenkowski, a 36-year incumbent, was defeated in his re-election bid, while Barry was returned to the mayor's office. <br><br>A key difference between the two politicians' constituencies is that Rostenkowski's district was less than 2 percent black, while the District of Columbia was 65 percent black.  It was the support of D.C's black majority that made possible the comeback of Marion Barry. In this race, the tendency of blacks to forgive errant politicians was clearly seen. In the 1994 Democratic primary Barry's principal opponents were two other black Democrats (thus controlling for race and partisanship). In those precincts that were overwhelmingly white, Barry received only 3.81 percent of the vote, while in the overwhelmingly black precincts Barry received 68.6 percent of the vote.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_11:21:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "jonster", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4523940": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Word, Town.  WE'VE GOT TO KNOW OUR OWN WORTH/VALUE.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_12:22:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4521936, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4625829": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Brilliant post.<br><br>One story I am fond of retelling is that in the beginning, the BBC expected \"Doctor Who\" (one of its most successful series ever) to be a failure.   As a result, they gave the Producer's job to Verity Lambert - one of the first women to make it to television producer  (wanting her to fail), and the Director's job for first serial was given to the first Asian ever to qualify as a BBC television Director (also, expecting and wanting him to fail).   Fortunately, both of them knocked the ball out of the park, proving the BBC's executives wrong on every count.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-25_09:34:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "b35c8ae388616b40612386efbe0ef477", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4484518": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "HUH?? I dont understand, if the goal is to win and to get the players to win what difference who marries whom matters.I bet my last dollar if AA athletes didn't go to these schools then this would be a non issue.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_12:51:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "djchefron", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4482612, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4485020": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<b>\"but it's important to point out that their redeemers are not always white. \"</b><br><br>I would love to take this quote emboss it, frame it and put it on my wall.<br><br>I think that's a huge point to make. Some of us are always looking for validation from Whites and I to be fair we don't always realize that we are (myself included). Give us more representation, give us this, give us that ... but the truth is ... we don't need the validation, but I understand the overall picture too.<br><br>It's a complicated subject to explain, but I think most of us \"get it.\"", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_13:15:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "noelani", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4482848, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4511148": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Of course the CPL is no cult member. But at times you all can be cult-ish. <br>For real, the folks at Jonestown weren't all willing imbibers. Jones had henchmen leveling guns at folks. So perhas this term's inapt as well as cliche. Accurate only when folks coerce or set a tone were dissent from conventional wisdom is attacked. Oops...hey we're back to square one. <br>Just messin with ya.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_19:00:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "dcf2c9ce3819616f8ba0ca48c54519c4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4490738, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4490670": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "OMG CPL...I was just heading over her to pose this same question in the open thread. It has been on my mind all day with regards to various things that have played themselves out recently.<br><br>1. Why must black people always be perfect and hold higher moral ground than all others?<br><br>2. Why is it that if we make a mistake or simply are disliked for our views, we never get fair treatement, a second chance or the benefit of the doubt?<br><br>3. Why is it that our emotions are always exaggerated and deem represensible however when those same actions and emotions are acted out by whites or others....they are viewed differently?<br><br>I was just telling a friend of mine on the phone...if I dropped a stapler at work, there would have to be an immediate meeting in regards to the matter.<br><br>Anyways, I didn't even read your post but I just had to comment after reading the first line because I cannot believe we were thinking the same thing today.<br><br>Alright now that I got that off my chest, I will read it now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_17:34:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 20, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4483506": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I love it.  The power of a paper trail can never be underestimated.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_12:02:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4477913, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4488627": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You definitely have some guardian angels looking out for you, and good to see that Mr. Shady got his.  Unfortunately, I have to agree with CPL that he'll no doubt land on his feet :-(", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_16:08:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4487466, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4487092": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Exactly carolinagirl.  i forgot to address that in my response.<br><br>Jonster doesn't want to focus on those murders because they were committed by those who carried out their transgressions behind the shield of a badge, supposedly in the name of justice.<br><br>People like Jonster  can't even wrap their head around  those injustices...which is also part of the problem.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_14:57:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 26, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4486890, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4527030": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CPL:   LOL!    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_14:16:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4523464, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4485052": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It happened in the Atlantic City area, so other than the Philly media it didn't get much play.  I knew the victim since we were kids (she was a couple of years ahead of me in school), and when she was shot she had just come from a movie theatre to buy tickets for a surprise date with her husband later that night.  Definitely a tragedy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_13:17:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4484940, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4495093": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "They're all pathetically the same, aren't they, Miranda?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_17:43:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "c87fa9ab975275187368e74f6f34d3d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4490653, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4533185": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Town!    Town!    Town!!   LOL!     :&gt;)     :&gt;)  TRUTH!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_19:40:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4513497, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4495299": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "ewww...your creepy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_17:54:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4490653, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4523464": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yup, and groovin'...for da Lawd!<br><br>LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_12:01:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4517325, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4517325": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "CPL:   LOL!    :&gt;)        :&gt;)     TWISTED!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Very \"PUNNY!\"  :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>But, since you REQUESTED the version by Mr. Hammond, \"here it is\":<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce7LQfY0d30\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fred Hammond & RFC - Jesus Be a Fence Around Me - 2000</a><br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdPeS2fr4f8&feature=related\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jesus be a fence</a><br><br>CPL:  Are you  ***clappin'***?    :&gt;)      :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_02:49:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4517189, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4521936": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "They want desperation so they can charge the client company $20/hr for your services but break you off $7/hr.  And give the white temp sitting next to you doing the exact same thing $9/hr.  <br><br>If they didn't want to deal with your ass, they would purposely (IMO) offer you crappy assignments that they knew you wouldn't take, and if you complained about not getting any assignments they would claim they offered you stuff but you \"just didn't want to work.\"  Like my friend who lived in the Northern Neck, which is about an hour from Richmond to the east, and the temp company called her up and wanted to send her to Crozet for a 6 hour assignment for $6.50/hr.  Crozet is about an hour away to the west of Richmond, so she would have been driving 2 hours one way to work a 6 hour gig for $6.50/hr.  When you take taxes out she would have gotten about $30 and most of that would have gone to gas.  It wasn't worth it and she told them so.<br><br>But then when she complained about them not giving her any assignments, they came back with \"We tried to place you but you didn't want to work.\"<br><br>And some advice to any aspiring temp out there:  NEVER accept lower than what you want because if you do, the temp company will NEVER offer you what you want.  If you tell them upfront you won't accept less than $12/hr but then turn around and accept $7/hr, they will NEVER offer you a $7/hr gig because you've shown them you'll sell yourself short.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_10:50:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4521557, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4489891": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "my bad", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_16:57:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4489686, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4484564": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CPL:      <i>A SISTA.</i><br><br>Tooooo many forces to fight!!  -huh??  ***shakin' my head****<br><br>But, I'm believin' that as WE share strategies, We can EMPOWER others!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_12:54:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4482800, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4477518": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Craig you are right, but it ain't likely to happen.....  CPL you forgot about ty willingham and charlie weiss....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_03:10:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "rorysmomma", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4489686": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "eh wha?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_16:48:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "jonster", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4489564, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4477913": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "CPL:  GREAT QUESTION!  :&gt;)<br><br>While WE can give it our \"BEST SHOT\", I would love to hear ONE person who is \"melanin-challenged\" OPINE on this issue.  'cause WE ain't makin' the <b>\"1 \"eff\"-up - - - 1 fire\" RULE!!</b>    :&gt;)<br><br>However, I will share a situation that I had, waaaaay back in the day, when a principal was attempting to fire me after 1 semester of service as an associate principal.<br><br>Near the end of the term, he called me into his office for an \"EVALUATION\" of MY PERFORMANCE.  B4 I came to this site, I had served 8 years as an Associate Princ.,Acting Princ., Counselor, Assistant Supt./Personnel-Human Resources on other sites.<br><br>Soooo, he gave me a \"list\" of 6 \"areas\"/Incidents\" of concern - - at this low level:  <i>\"standing too long in a campus area with one group of students on 10/5 and 11/18.\"</i>  NOTE: There were 90 SCHOOL DAYS in the term.  :&gt;)    Well, the others were \"DOWN HILL\" from this HIGH LEVEL.  :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>When he got finished, he axed IFFF I had any questions or statements.  HAH!   :&gt;)<br><br>Well, I took out MY EVALUATION OF HIS PERFORMANCE AS A SUPERVISOR!!!   :&gt;)<br><br>AFTER SHARING MY 20+ OBSERVATIONS, including HOW I BELIEVE that I was being evaluated using DIFFERENT STANDARDS than those being used for the OTHER \"melanin-Challenged\" Associate Principals [INCLUDING DATES/TIMES annnnnd PLACES], I axed HIM IFFF he had any questions!!   :&gt;)<br><br>Annnnnnd, as I was leaving HIS OFFICE, I notified him that I would be sharing all o' dis information with the Superintendent of the District!<br><br>And so I did!   Annnnnnnd, I requested the \"OPEN SEAT\" that a person had vacated - - - AT THE DISTRICT OFFICE!   :&gt;)<br><br>I GOT IT!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)  Annnnnd, he was terminated at the end of the second term!<br><br><b>THE END!</b><br><br>NOW, can errybody use this model.   NO!  BUT, you can have a greater chance for redress of your grievances IFFF you DOCUMENT the DOCUMENTER. IMHO<br><br>But, to your question:   ***shakin' my head*** 'cause I know that an answer is NOT simple.  Your EXAMPLES demonstrate that.<br><br>Another point would be that as we increase our \"ownership\" in the corporate world, we may have better chances for \"REMEDIATION PLANS\" rather than TERMINATION.<br><br>But these economic conditions make \"strategizing\" difficult!   Whew!!  Deep Breaths!!!:&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_04:16:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 22, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4528603": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And, congrats on the subbing job.  GO GET'EM TEACH!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_15:19:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4526447, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4495837": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I am not black. I don't feel like I am being victimized at all by any member of this board. Not one. I come here because I am allowed to share and allowed to get to know all the thinking that goes on with the starting point of being black. I have always thought I was free from racism. I have learned so much here and my esteem has increased in quantum levels by reading here. By my noticing that, it has made me face the fact that I didn't hold the AA experience in the highest regard. That was painful but necessary to note. <br><br>Read the posts and blogs. If you do so with an open mind and heart you will come to realize that the foundation of humanity is much broader and stronger than you ever knew. Our pains are the same, our joys, too. It will change from pc fuzzy language of \"brotherhood for all\" to being the Truth in your soul. So relax and see if there is any ownership in some of the posts written. The people here are not afraid to take ownership of their own, either. Being real and accountable is scary and strange but it is the way to real community, real connection.<br><br>This might be one of the best places on the web for putting into action unity for all of us.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_18:22:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4485130, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4490209": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "LOL.  Bringing up black crime on a black message board means I must be insulted, shut down, kicked out and made a member of the KKK?  Do you think I am not aware that we are about to swear in a Black President for whom I voted?  Do you believe I am unaware of the entire spectrum of all minorities, the good, the bad and the ugly?  I am not.  Okay, I'll take my contrarian attitude somewhere else.  No apologies, though.  <br><br>Like I always say, if you can't run with the dogs, don't piss with the puppies.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_17:10:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "jonster", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 22, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4489982, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4495842": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No it should not be. <br><br>I know that you feel you can come here and talk down to those who you feel are below you. However I will let you know that you have come to the wrong place. <br><br>Now as I said before, go take a basic sociology class, we are not here to educate you. Stop with the victimhood! You are in charge of you own destiny, go get enlightened.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_18:23:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4495560, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4483046": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Which is EXACTLY my point - when Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, SR., began their protests to get Imus off the air, I was like \"SO? What's going to really happen when the protests are over?\"<br><br>No one said shyt when Imus resurfaced six months later - in the interval, that jackass threatened MSNBC with a damned lawsuit to GET PAID.. and they paid his ass off to the tune of $20 million dollars left on his contract, even though he was in CLEAR VIOLATION OF THE STANDARDS in it.<br><br>Consequences are what happens to people like Lenny Bruce or Fatty Arbuckle - even though they were INNOCENT of the charges, their asses were blacklisted and never worked again in their lives.  The guilty should be blacklisted for at least five to ten years - long enough for the public to forget about their asses.<br><br>Michael Savage wouldn't get away with the insults and seditious acts he encourages on the air in the name of \"Free Speech\".  Funny how these Effers become Constitutional legal experts when its THEIR asses on the line....but if Obama restores that Fairness Doctrine, and if we start boycotting the advertisers buying air time for these SOBs, you will see how long they will tolerate the bullshyt on the airwaves.<br><br>Jesse and Al are past their shelf life - they make noise and get paid to shut up - the Corporations know when their being extorted, but because it's such as small price to pay, they pay it - otherwise Don Imus would have been off the air for the next five years.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_11:40:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4482762, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4487843": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "OK but with Grey's and Private Practice on the line and of course being much bigger shows AND her being the only BW in that position I can see why she was being protective. And TR isn't the only weasel involved. I always thought he and Heigel had plotted to cause maximum problems that even Dempsey wouldn't do to get frontburner status. Traitors the whole lot of them!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_14:33:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4483457, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4484074": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Right!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_12:32:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "whiterosebuddy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4483888, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4521557": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Town, they love it when folks act desperate.<br><br>Even though my financial situation is DIRE, I still trust God to see me through, and so I bounced.  These SOBs want desperation, so they can treat the employee like runaway slaves and when I acted like Denzel did in \"Glory\" - the management got to sputtering just like your coordinator did.<br><br>I mean, I needed the money, but that didn't mean I needed to take shyt off their asses.  I've even had to clown them about my paycheck - I signed up for Direct Deposit - these MoFos want me to pick it up in person cause they don't know when they would get around to mailing it.<br><br>So I dropped another dime to the Department of Labor.  Now they'll be getting that New Year's visit after CHRISTMAS.<br><br>Oh, I'll go pick up my check - but homegirl better just hand it to me or get bitch-slapped if she says jack.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_10:27:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4513497, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4486397": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I cannot speak for every individaul here....only myself.<br><br>But what I will say is this....You accused me of calling white people bigots, when clearly that was not the case. And I am offended.<br><br>So the real question is....Are you wishing to be provoked---are you reading into the things that are not actually there, grasping for straws?   Maybe your whole goal here is to feed preconceived thoughts..and that's your business.  But please do not accuse \"Monie\" of accusing another entire group of people of being racist....I didn't write. it.......and really you DON'T know me like that. <br><br>Because believe me, if I wanted to be offensive, and narrow-minded  I could be.  I choose not to.<br><br>My mother taught me better than that. <br><br> And that is why I have lived my whole life judging  ALL people on what they present to me...but also forgiving when it is necessary.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_14:18:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Monie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4486152, "depth": 6, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4490738": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Exactly, CPL is NO kool-aid drinker.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_17:37:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4487350, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4495859": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Actually, I wrote this post because I was working on a temp job which was little more than a plantation.  The sistas who were acting like hood rats were patted on the head by Missy Anne - the intelligent sistas who could speak English in an intelligent fashion; discuss politics and the economy - we were automatically considered to be a damned \"threat\" by the hood rats and the Missy Annes supervising us.<br><br>We had a white guy on our line who was too \"delicate\" to do real work, and I saw how they kept moving him around when he screwed up - but any person of color screwing up; they were told to clock out, collect their last check on Friday and don't bother to return.<br><br>This white guy was holding me up on the line - and I got blamed for the slow process. When I objected, I got a write-up saying I had an attitude problem - code speak for \"Uppity Negro Bitch\".<br><br>So I walked out, called Corporate, told them I was quitting and why.  They wanted to put me on \"do not rehire\" status, which, unless I violated company policy, is against Federal and Commonwealth Labor Law.  I asked for an upper management official, who happened to be a sista. I told her what the deal was, and she pulled my record, told me \"I'm processing you out so if you choose to come back, your record is clean.  We've had a lot of problems in that facility, and I think I know who you were working for, because she tends to have problems with educated sistas.\"<br><br>W--T-F?  In 2008, we still have Missy Annes who think we're Kizzy and that we should be happy if they smile at our ass.  All I could think of was how they kept moving that white guy around because he couldn't handle the mail volume, while the brothas and sistas were worked like mules with no rest breaks, which was another violation of Federal and State Labor Laws.<br><br>I had to bounce or else I was going to get charged with assault.  It was that simple.<br><br>And other opportunities have come my way - plus I'll head to the classroom as a sub teacher in January, so I have more peace in biting the bullet rather than calling them on their shyt until I had evidence.<br><br>I've dropped dime to the Department of Labor.  They'll be getting a \"visit\" in the New Year.<br><br>That's what inspired me to write this post.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_18:23:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 18, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4490670, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4523262": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Denise:<br><br>\"SQUEEZE THE N*GGER\" was exactly how I was feeling.<br><br>And there was one sista who was always in Missy's face to see about being kept on after Christmas - when the word in the facility was that you didn't beg them to keep you on - you have to wait to be INVITED BACK.<br><br>This was the sista who covered for the white boy, but ratted out my ass when she knew damned well it was the white boy's fault.  I swear it was like dealing with a crack addict, working with that sista.<br><br>And she's doing all that but I already know they've placed her in \"do not rehire\" status as a result of her begging for a job there after Christmas.<br><br>True plantation culture and the Blacks buy it hook, line and two sinkers.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-19_11:52:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4522682, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4479478": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<blockquote><i>Why is Stan O\u2019Neal getting the blame for the failure of Merrill Lynch?  Wasn\u2019t it in a financial shythole when he was appointed CEO?</i></blockquote><br><br>Are you joking? Stanley O'Neal is getting the blame for the failure of Merrill Lynch because it was precisely under his watch and at his expressed direction that Merrill Lynch aggressively pursued the investment practices that led to the firm's demise. Who else do you believe should get the blame? I enjoy reading your pieces but you can do better than trying to attribute Mr. O'Neal's forced resignation to racism.  BTW, the firm was not in a shythole when he took over the helm. It was not as profitable as its rivals but it was far from sinking under a mountain of debts that it could not pay off.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_08:30:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "PTCruiser", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4478377": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Tommy Tuberville, the coach Auburn fired, is white.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-18_05:30:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "1eadb71d1e82e64e6f136d45d9251723", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 22, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4496383": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Girl, temp agencies often function like modern day slave auctions.  <br><br>Far too often, they cater to needs of the racist/ bully/ sociopath \"client\" who no one else in the company wants to work with.  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	/* */ this.jsonData.cookie_messages = {"user_created": null, "post_has_profile": null, "post_twitter": null, "post_not_approved": null}; this.jsonData.session = {"url": null, "name": null, "email": null}; /* */

	
	this.curPageId = 'dsq-comments';

	this.frames = {};
};

var disqus_popup_reference = null;

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



/**
 * Dsq.Strings: UI strings
 */
Dsq.Strings = new function() {
	this.ADD_NEW_COMMENT = "Add New Comment";
	this.LOG_INTO_DISQUS = "Log into DISQUS";
	this.USE_MEDIA = "Use Media";
	this.LOGOUT = "Logout";
	this.SHARING_OPTIONS = "Sharing options";
	this.SHARE_ON = "Share on";
	this.TWEET_THIS_COMMENT = "Tweet this comment";
	this.SHARE_ON_NEWSFEED = "Share on news feed";
	this.SEND_UPDATE_TO_YAHOO = "Send update to Yahoo!";
	this.REBLOG_ON = "Reblog on";
	this.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS = "Configure options";
	this.POST_AS = "Post as";
	this.SORT_BY = "Sort by";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe by email";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS = "Subscribe by RSS";
	this.POPULAR_NOW = "Popular now";
	this.BEST_RATING = "Best Rating";
	this.NEWEST_FIRST = "Newest first";
	this.OLDEST_FIRST = "Oldest first";
	this.HIGHLIGHTED = "Highlighted";
	this.UNSUBSCRIBE = "Unsubscribe";
	this.REQUIRED = "Required";
	this.OPTIONAL = "Optional";
	this.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A = "You are commenting as a";
	this.LOGIN_BELOW = "Login below";
	this.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT = "Please login below to comment.";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe to all comments by email";
	this.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS = "Do not subscribe to comments";
	this.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS = "Real-time updating is";
	this.ENABLED = "enabled";
	this.PAUSED = "paused";
	this.PAUSE = "Pause";
	this.RESUME = "Resume";
	this.SHOW = "Show";
	this.JUST_NOW = "Just now";
	this.REPLY = "Reply";
	this.EDIT = "Edit";
	this.FLAG = "Flag";
	this.MODERATE = "Moderate";
	this.CANCEL = "Cancel";
	this.REPLYING_TO = "Replying to";
	this.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS = "Report missing reactions";
	this.POST_A_COMMENT = "Post a comment";
	this.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT = "Flag inappropriate comment";
	this.FLAGGED = "Flagged";
	this.NO = "No";
	this.YES = "Yes";
	this.NEVER_MIND = "Never mind";
	this.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR = "Are you sure you would like to report this comment to a moderator";
	this.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION = "This will flag comments for moderators to take action";
	this.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN = "To rate, please log in";
	this.JUST_A_MOMENT = "Just a moment...";
	this.GUEST = "Guest";
	this.NAME = "Name";
	this.EMAIL = "Email";
  this.WEBSITE = "Website";
  this.SETTINGS = "Settings";
  this.MODERATOR_OPTIONS = "Moderator options: ";
  this.MODERATE_OPTIONS = "Moderate Options";

  // Thread moderator actions
  this.CLOSE_THREAD = "Close thread";
  this.OPEN_THREAD = "Open thread";
  this.REMOVE_THREAD = "Remove thread";
  this.RESTORE_THREAD = "Restore thread";
  this.ACTIONS = "Actions";
};
// Dsq.Strings

/**
 * Dsq.FmtStrings: functions that return interpolated UI strings
 */
Dsq.FmtStrings = new function() {
	// Seems we have to use named interpolation for Django to translate. Investigate more.
	this.LOGGED_IN_AS = function(username) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate('Logged in as %(username)s', {username:username});
	};

	this.LOGOUT_FROM = function(disqus) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate('Logout from %(disqus)s', {disqus:disqus});
	};

	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL = function(total, num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comment", {num:num, total:total});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comments", {num:num, total:total});
		}
	};

	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION = function(num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comment", {num:num});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comments", {num:num});
		}
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s comment'
				: '%(num)s comments'
			), {num:num});
	};

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

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





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



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

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

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

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

};

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

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

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

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

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

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

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

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

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

				this._accumMsg = '';

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

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

	if (packetNum === 0) {

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

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

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

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

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

	this._lastSeqno++;

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

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

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

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

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

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


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

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

	var listener = function(e) {

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


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

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

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

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



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


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

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

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

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

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

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

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

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

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

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

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

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

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

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


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



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


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


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

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

	this.packetHandler = null;


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


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

			that._ready = true;
		};

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

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







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

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

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

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


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

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

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


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

		if (msg.username) {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=jackandjillpolitics' +
		'&t=when_will_8220we8221_be_able_to_eff_up_and_get_another_chance' +
		'&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/when_will_8220we8221_be_able_to_eff_up_and_get_another_chance/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>';
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showModeratorActions(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</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 <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : '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='	+ 'when_will_8220we8221_be_able_to_eff_up_and_get_another_chance'
			+ '&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/when_will_8220we8221_be_able_to_eff_up_and_get_another_chance/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">220</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/when_will_8220we8221_be_able_to_eff_up_and_get_another_chance/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/when_will_8220we8221_be_able_to_eff_up_and_get_another_chance/">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:8542564" 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/when_will_8220we8221_be_able_to_eff_up_and_get_another_chance/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 <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : '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:8542564" 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:8542564" 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'				: 'when_will_8220we8221_be_able_to_eff_up_and_get_another_chance',
			// 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/when_will_8220we8221_be_able_to_eff_up_and_get_another_chance/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='	+ 'when_will_8220we8221_be_able_to_eff_up_and_get_another_chance'
			+ '&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='	+ 'when_will_8220we8221_be_able_to_eff_up_and_get_another_chance'
			+ '&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='		+ 'when_will_8220we8221_be_able_to_eff_up_and_get_another_chance'
				+ '&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.showModeratorActions = function() {
      if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
          return;
      }

      var html = '<div class="dsq-moderate-options"><table><tr>' +
                 '<td>' + Dsq.Strings.ACTIONS + '</td><td><ul>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleClosed(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.closed ? Dsq.Strings.OPEN_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.CLOSE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleKilled(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.killed ? Dsq.Strings.RESTORE_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.REMOVE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '</ul></td></tr></table></div>' +
              '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate-threads/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
      Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, Dsq.Strings.MODERATE_OPTIONS);
  };

	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);
	};

  this.toggleClosed = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/toggle_thread_closed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };

  this.toggleKilled = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/toggle_thread_killed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };
};
// 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/8542564/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

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

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

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

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

}();

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();


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





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

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

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

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

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

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





(function() {
	//
	// Load theme.  This overrides the base templates with template functions
	// from the respective themes.
	//
	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		var theme = 'narcissus';
		// HACK: Set variable on window to use post message.
		window.disqus_use_postmessage = true;

		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Themes[theme]) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Templates[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Post) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Post[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
	}

	//
	// Register templates.  This must be done after all themes are loaded.
	//
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('authPost', Dsq.Templates.authPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('header', Dsq.Templates.header);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('footer', Dsq.Templates.footer);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('trackbacks', Dsq.Templates.trackbacks);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('reactions', Dsq.Templates.reactions);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('prependPost', Dsq.Templates.prependPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('appendPost', Dsq.Templates.appendPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postPrependHeader', Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postAppendHeader', Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('preBody', Dsq.Templates.preBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBody', Dsq.Templates.postBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postFooter', Dsq.Templates.postFooter);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('_popupGeneric', Dsq.Templates._popupGeneric);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('voted', Dsq.Templates.voted);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('popupProfile', Dsq.Templates.popupProfile);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBox', Dsq.Templates.postBox);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('pagination', Dsq.Templates.pagination);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postComment_onSuccess', Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess);

})();

Dsq.container.className = "clearfix";
Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4485284">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4485284" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4485284" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4485284">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4485284" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4485284" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL:  Well!   Well!   Well!  A STUDY was done!  I had ta look at the DATE, \'cause seems as if NOTHING has changed since I read a previous STUDY in -er     -um   the 1900\'s [pick any year.    :&gt;)]<br><br><a href="http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2008/12/18/study-prejudice-could-cost-a-black-worker-thousands/" rel="nofollow">Study: Prejudice could cost a black worker thousands</a><br><br><i><b>A recent study in the Journal of Political Economy sheds light on the role racial prejudice plays in the wage gap between whites and blacks in the U.S.</b><br><br><b>Prejudice accounts for approximately one-quarter of the racial wage gap, costing a black worker up to $115,000 over a lifetime depending upon where he or she lives, according to study authors Kerwin Kofi Charles from the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago and Jonathan Guryan from Chicago’s Booth School of Business.</b><br><br>Educational inequality, differences in workers’ skill levels and other forms of discrimination likely account for the rest of the gap, the authors say.<br><br>Charles and Guryan used statistical models to test the extent to which wage gaps in each U.S. state vary according to levels of prejudice. Levels of prejudice were determined by a series of surveys conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. In the surveys, white people were asked their views on issues like interracial marriage, whites-only private clubs, neighborhood segregation and whether or not they would vote for a black president.<br><br>The result was a fairly robust correlation between wage gaps and prejudice.<br><br>“Though prejudice explains only a minority—albeit a significant one—of the black-white wage gap, the costs borne by blacks … are large,” the researchers write. “Consider an 18-year-old black male choosing between two states…. Our estimates imply that if he lives in Florida rather than Massachusetts … the net present value of his [lifetime] earnings will be about $34,000 smaller. If he lives in Mississippi rather than Wisconsin … his discounted earnings are about $115,000 smaller.”<br><br>The researchers found that wage gaps vary significantly according to the level of prejudice reported by the least prejudiced people in each state. Where the least prejudiced people hold more prejudice, wage gaps are higher.<br><br>Why are the least prejudiced people the ones that determine wage gaps?<br><br>In his seminal 1957 work The Economics of Discrimination, Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker offered an answer. He theorized that the least prejudiced should be the ones who determine black wages because they are most likely to employ black people. The most prejudiced would either refuse to hire blacks, or pay them so little that blacks would naturally gravitate to less prejudiced employers.<br><br>Charles and Guryan’s study is the first to offer empirical support for Becker’s model. Not only did they find that the least prejudiced have a strong influence on wage gaps, levels of prejudice among the average and most prejudiced have no influence whatsoever.<br><br>“This is precisely as the Becker model predicts,” the researchers write.</i><br><br>[I decided to print the whole article.]<br><br>IMHO, as the economic picture worsens, these "studies"  will require less rigor in documentation.  Just add up the columns of the following elements:<br>ETHNICITY --------------JOB TITLE---------SALARY<br><br>Annnnnnnnnd, there ya go!    O.K. It may NOT be quite this simple, BUT close.   :&gt;)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4483718">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4483718" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4483718" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4483718">Lewevelyn</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4483718" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4483718" class="dsq-comment-message">We as black people will always be victims of a double standard. We have become weary of constantly fighting for the upper hand. But I do believe there are still enough of us to carry on the fight through faith and by the Grace of God. <br>I too stopped watching Grey\'s Anatomy when they ditched Isaiah. And now the gay actor is begging to be let out of his contract. I really do stand by "You reap what you sow." <br>I love that old spiritual "The wicked shall cease from troubling, the weary shall be at rest." Serves them right.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4487345">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4487345" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4487345" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4487345">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4487345" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4487345" class="dsq-comment-message">Lewevelyn:  HEY!   :&gt;)   Sorry that I couldn\'t find a youtube.<br><br>BUT - - here\'s the author:   Dr. Jessy Dixon:<br><br><a href="http://jessydixon.com/index/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3&Itemid=10" rel="nofollow">About Jessy (Dr. Dixon) Bio</a><br><br><i>Jessy Dixon now Dr. Jessy Dixon as of June 13, 2006, received his degree for Doctor of Divinity from Faith Theological Seminary and Christian College, Tampa Florida, an accomplishment he wears proudly as he travels around the world.<br><br>When attending a live performance, watching Jessy Dixon on the Bill Gaither Homecoming videos, listening to his CDs, seeing him on television, or hearing Jessy Dixon on the radio you are participating in an unique and unforgettable performance. <b>An Award Winning songwriter, Jessy\'s has written such songs as, "I Love To Praise His Name," "He\'s The Best Thing… To Happen To Me,"<u> "The Wicked Shall Cease Their Troubling,"</u> </b>"He Has Done Great Things For Me," "I Know What Prayer Can Do," The Day You Set Me Free," "There is No Failure In God," "We Give You Praise," "You Bring The Sun Out," "The Failure Is Not In God It\'s In Me," "Give God The Glory," "I\'ll Be Alright," "I Expect To See Him," "Hold On A Little While Longer," "I\'m Satisfied," "It\'s Alright Now," "Lord Prepare Me To Be A Sanctuary," "I Will Praise You Lord," with Randy Scruggs and John Thompson etc.</i><br><br>AGAIN, SORRY!    :&gt;)      :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4484484">jonster</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4484484" class="dsq-comment-message">What unnerves and confuses me is that we as white people will always be victims of black on white crime.  We have become weary of constantly fighting for our right to get home safely.  But I do believe there are still enough of us to carry on through faith and by the grace of the NYPD.  (There are 8,220,196 people in NYC and 860,571 in Detroit, which has 1/10th the population of New York yet almost four times the violent crime.) I never watched Grey\'s Anatomy but I hope that Mexican guy a group of black thugs killed in Manhattan last week because he "looked gay" kind of makes up for it and helps you to feel a little better.  I\'m glad Obama is president and saying gay-positive things.  But I have never seen a "community" of people who mewl so much about discrimination while refusing to even look inward at the reasons why people are weary of these blanket charges of racism.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4484984">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4484984" class="dsq-comment-message">Please Jonster, none of this hate crime is acceptable.  But please don\'t forget that in Long Island this year, young white men also killed a Latino immigrant and there have been other cases in places like Pennsylvania where immigrants have died at the hands of white people.<br><br>By the way, do you feel any sympathy for the unarmed men who faced tragedy like Sean Bell, Amadou Diallo, or Abner Louima at the hands of the NYPD.  Men who were found devoid of weapons but dealt with the harshest example of force.  Since you are so good on statistics, name me one white unarmed citizen who was gunned down with 41 or 50 bullets.   I can tell you know you will have a hard time.<br><br>And by the way, how do you feel when a group of white fraternity students in San Diego openly post messages detailing their drug trafficking, are caught with over $100,000 worth of drugs, and are connected to the overdosing death of a college students-----and yet their punishment is probation and diversion programs.  You know as well as I know, had they been Black, Hispanic, or any other, these students would have been serving mandatory 25 year sentences as first offenders.<br><br>So please don\'t give us that crap.  Why don\'t you study the swindling of money through all these high-powered executives and investors who are wreaking havoc in our financial worlds, engaging in the worst "White-collar" crime.  HINT---The majority of them ain\'t black.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4490637" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4490637">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4490637" class="dsq-comment-message">Its simply amazing that the HUGE drug ring by those white college students at San Diego State received the bare minimum in news coverage....and after being caught virtually red-handed, they all got away with probation and diversionary programs...even though illegal weapons were confiscated, they crossed state lines, thousands of dollars in drugs recovered, a student DIED.....but they all got probation and diversionary programs...not ONE will spend even a minute in a cell. Justice my azz.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4493850" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4493850" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4493850" class="dsq-comment-message">Thank you Monie.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4485286" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4485286">jonster</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4485286" class="dsq-comment-message">I am talking about murder, violent crime, hate crimes.  Citizen on Citizen.  I am not talking about frat boys and drugs or Sean Amadou or Abner.  I know you don\'t want to hear it or confess it exists, and most white people won\'t say it.  It is what explains, in part, the racial divide on the white side of the fence.  We are not all bigots as you would make us out to be.  But some of us are tired of the crime.  And the whine.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4486037" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4486037">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4486037" class="dsq-comment-message">FIrst off, let me make one thing clear.  I DID NOT AT ALL SAY ALL WHITE PEOPLE ARE BIGOTS.  So please do not insinuate or put any words into my mouth that I did not type.  That is very offensive and LOW of you to start with.  And it seems to me that subconsciously you are struggling with that notion, since YOU brought it up.<br><br>Secondly, i will be the first to say I am saddened at the violence in the lack community...but I also know America in general is a violent nation.<br><br>Here is alink to some statistics:<br><br><a href="http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov.bjs/homicide/race.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov.bjs/homicide/race.htm</a><br><br>As you can see, and what is generally understood is that most Black people are killed at the hands of other black people----so maybe, as a white person you don\'t have much to worry about.  Now if you have children, what you might want to think about is the high percentage of white students commiting mass murders in schools---since it seems we had an abundance of those in recent years.   And let\'s not forget that the typical serial killer is a white man who often goes years without being caught.<br><br>Oh, I forgot.....you\'d rather bash black people....white people never commit heinous crimes, rob or steal. &lt;/snark&gt;</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4486152" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4486152">jonster</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4486152" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4486152" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t mean to bash black people.  I read the posts here and sometimes I admit I do feel provoked.  But you have to admit, a lot of people generalize on this board about white people.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4486397" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4486397">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4486397" class="dsq-comment-message">I cannot speak for every individaul here....only myself.<br><br>But what I will say is this....You accused me of calling white people bigots, when clearly that was not the case. And I am offended.<br><br>So the real question is....Are you wishing to be provoked---are you reading into the things that are not actually there, grasping for straws?   Maybe your whole goal here is to feed preconceived thoughts..and that\'s your business.  But please do not accuse "Monie" of accusing another entire group of people of being racist....I didn\'t write. it.......and really you DON\'T know me like that. <br><br>Because believe me, if I wanted to be offensive, and narrow-minded  I could be.  I choose not to.<br><br>My mother taught me better than that. <br><br> And that is why I have lived my whole life judging  ALL people on what they present to me...but also forgiving when it is necessary.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4485448" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4485448">rorysmomma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4485448" class="dsq-comment-message">Jonester, unfortunately these folks feed the violent crime.  If we are all working, and the economy is good, the crime rate goes down.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4486890" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4486890">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4486890" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4486890" class="dsq-comment-message">"I am not talking about..... Sean Amadou or Abner."<br><br>Yeah, b/c THOSE aren\'t examplese of murder or violent crimes. *SMH*</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4487092" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4487092">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4487092" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4487092" class="dsq-comment-message">Exactly carolinagirl.  i forgot to address that in my response.<br><br>Jonster doesn\'t want to focus on those murders because they were committed by those who carried out their transgressions behind the shield of a badge, supposedly in the name of justice.<br><br>People like Jonster  can\'t even wrap their head around  those injustices...which is also part of the problem.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4489367" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4489367">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4489367" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4489367" class="dsq-comment-message">People like Jonster think those shootings were justified or worse yet...just innocent mistakes that could happen to anybody.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4489631" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4489631">jonster</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4489631" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4489631" class="dsq-comment-message">You seem to know me very well.  What you don\'t seem to want to speak to is the fact that, out of all the minorities that make up this great nation, black people have unfortunately acquired the reputation of forming our "criminal class."  Why?  That\'s all I\'m asking.  You can throw all the white on black crime back at me but it doesn\'t change anything.  The invisible elephant is still sitting in the living room, unacknowledged.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4489982" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4489982" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4489982">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4489982" class="dsq-comment-message">Can you please take your hood and nonsense over to Stormfront?!  maybe you\'ll get the applause over there that you\'re hoping for here.<br><br>Better yet, stop the first Black man you see on the street and tell him what you just told me, you know that he is part of the criminal class...Lemme know how it turns out.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4490209" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4490209" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4490209">jonster</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4490209" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4490209" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL.  Bringing up black crime on a black message board means I must be insulted, shut down, kicked out and made a member of the KKK?  Do you think I am not aware that we are about to swear in a Black President for whom I voted?  Do you believe I am unaware of the entire spectrum of all minorities, the good, the bad and the ugly?  I am not.  Okay, I\'ll take my contrarian attitude somewhere else.  No apologies, though.  <br><br>Like I always say, if you can\'t run with the dogs, don\'t piss with the puppies.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4490532" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4490532" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4490532">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4490532" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4490532" class="dsq-comment-message">"Like I always say, if you can\'t run with the dogs, don\'t piss with the puppies."<br><br>Yeah....we\'ll just have to take your word for it...mmkay??</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4490653" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4490653">jonster</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4490653" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4490653" class="dsq-comment-message">Hmmmm, maybe I\'ll stay.  Miranda, you and I, we\'ve got a thing going, eh?  I would miss you.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4495093" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4495093" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4495093">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4495093" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4495093" class="dsq-comment-message">They\'re all pathetically the same, aren\'t they, Miranda?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4511622" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4511622" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4511622">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4511622" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4511622" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes they are.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4495429" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4495429" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4495429">jonster</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4495429" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4495429" class="dsq-comment-message">Who\'s they?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4495523" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4495523" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4495523">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4495523" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4495523" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL, exactly true to type. I\'m not going to play that game, Goober. You can take "they" to inculde anyone you want. I can\'t even begin to give a damn.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4495641" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4495641" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4495641">jonster</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4495641" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4495641" class="dsq-comment-message">Racist!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4495981" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4495981">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4495981" class="dsq-comment-message">If you say so, LOL. <br><br>You know, for the brand of crap you\'re peddling to be effective, we have to buy it. We\'re not.<br><br>Some of you may have seen this already, but if you want to see every silly-ass trick this guy has in his bag in advance, read over this:<br><br><a href="http://www.theunapologeticmexican.org/glosario.html#magikattax" rel="nofollow">http://www.theunapologeticmexican.org/glosario....</a><br><br>I hope he sticks around long enough to get to the "Scarem-Carom" That\'ll be fun to watch.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4495299" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4495299" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4495299" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4495299" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4495299" class="dsq-comment-message">ewww...your creepy.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4495448" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4495448">jonster</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4495448" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4495448" class="dsq-comment-message">Correction, you mean to say "you\'re creepy"  - not "your."</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4495660" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4495660" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4495660" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4495660" class="dsq-comment-message">Thank you Jonster because being a part of the criminal class has been detrimental to my basic grammar skills.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4511294" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4511294" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4511294">Against Race Politics</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4511294" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4511294" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4495761" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4495761">jonster</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4495761" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4495761" class="dsq-comment-message">Glad to help!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4490602" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4490602">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4490602" class="dsq-comment-message">Evidently, YOU don\'t think I know about other races shortcomings....including white people\'s shyt.<br><br>Let me tell you something...in 1970, my late father, who was in his late teens at the time, and in a rural part of Virginia, hitchhiked a ride with two white men who offered him a ride.<br><br>These same white men, pulled a weapon on my father, disparaged him by calling him the n-word repeatedly, and my father  actually fought his way out and jumped out of a moving car.  And when he reported this crime, the white sheriff basically dismissed his account, and essentially disregarded the criminal act that was committed.<br><br>I was first told this account at the age of 8....and it wasn\'t told to me to make me distrust white people.....but ALL strange people---to never be trusting of strangers.  But the bigger issue is that it is not only black people who commit crimes and make others feel  unsafe.<br><br>Right now, i live in a area that is predominantly white and I was warned that while violent crimes were not that much of a concern(shootings were lower than some areas),other crimes were...and I have never seen as many registered sex offenders/predators in my life...and yes the majority of them are white males.<br><br>Am I going to sit here and say all white men are of the pedophile class....even though that has been my experience here.  I don\'t need to fuckin generalize like that.  What does it solve?<br><br>Because any person OF ANY COLOR AT ANY TIME is capable of violating another person and commiting a crime.<br><br>It just so happens you are obsessed with the the crime of black people...well, if you are that damn concerned., mentor a young black person, give an unemployed black person a job, eradicate poverty in poorer neighborhoods... be a crime-fighting superhero who magically appears to stop crime.......and then maybe you discuss this with intelligence.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4495260" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4495260" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4495260" class="dsq-comment-message">And now for my story, In 1982, my uncle who had just migrated to the country was beaten to near death by whites in the Bronx because he was on the wrong side of town.<br><br>The crime was denied and covered up because two of the men involved were sons of the policeman. <br><br>The NYPD has always been shady in that manner.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4495533">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4495533" class="dsq-comment-message">And that is what trips me out about this so-called jokester of a poster, Jonster.  Our family members have been victims of hate crimes, perpetrated by white folks,  And yet he feels the need to tell US about black crime.<br><br>He/she wants to come here with generalizations, all in an effort to try to call us racist... and yet furthur offend us by claiming that black people are part of a "criminal class.\'<br><br>Well guess what, through his/her own reasoning, he/she must be part of the "pedophilia class" since according to FBI statistics, most pedophiles are white and/or  male.<br><br>But again, I don\'t deal simply with generalizations.<br><br>My mother taught me better than that.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4495404">jonster</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4495404" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks for the thoughtful post.  You are right, of course.  I don\'t know you personally and I do appreciate you taking the time to fill me in.  Your Dad sounds like a wonderful and wise man.  I hate what happened to him.  And I understand how a child would feel.  It would infuriate him.  I had a similar Dad.  When I was five, I repeated the N word in a rhyme after I heard on the playground (Eenie Meenie).  My Dad stopped the car to explain to me why I could never use the word again.  Believe me, I understood the premise of robbing someone\'s dignity with words at an early age and I do not like when it\'s done to me.  I was raised in an affluent area where the .05% black population had second homes on Martha\'s Vineyard and in Sag Harbor.  It was only when I moved into New York City that I began to have personal experiences that have affected me and my viewpoints in a negative way.  I know you feel I am obsessed with the crimes of black people and it in a way you are right.  It has, as I said, affected me and my family personally.  However, I worded things wrong.  I know the truth just as you do, and I have said so in other posts, that I am speaking generally.  It is true, however, that if you look at the crime statistics, the cities in the USA with the highest population of black people have the highest crime rates, from 1-10.  This is a sophisticated message board, written by people who are far more accomplished and intelligent than I.  It\'s amazing what we\'ve all accomplished as far as civil rights goes in the past generation alone, culminating in the election of President Obama.  However, I still see the same defensive, angry attitude and lectures.  I am not one to be shouted down as you can see.  Nor one to shrink from a fight (I learned in the schoolyard that bullies fold easily when confronted).  But I just want to make one thing clear.  I do not put all black people into a "criminal" class, a ridiculous notion, but I cannot by virtue of the statistics, deny that the criminal element in the black "community" is much higher than in any other group.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4495557" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4495557" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4495557" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4495557" class="dsq-comment-message">"I do not put all black people into a "criminal" class, a ridiculous notion, but I cannot by virtue of the statistics, deny that the criminal element in the black "community" is much higher than in any other group."<br><br>Its obvious that you are not as intelligent and that you chose to do exactly what we must fight on a regular basis by shrinking our humanity to the actions of others.<br><br>If we cannot take you up on what white people do why do you feel that you can sit here in front of law-abiding and educated blacks and talk about black being the "criminal class" which you did.<br><br><br>Also, there are reasons behind everything and it is obvious that your knowledge of basic sociology and root causes of social issues is soarly lacking.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4495613">jonster</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4495613" class="dsq-comment-message">That would be "sorely" lacking, not soarly.  And you\'re right.  Never took sociology classes.  But I read a lot.  Does that count?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4495607" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4495607" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4495607">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4495607" class="dsq-comment-message">But if you stop focusing on the color of the skin and shift it to the circumstances of their existence, you may not be so preoccupied with black crime but crime of poverty, lack of education, lack of good role models, lack of choice, lack of knowing other ways of living, lack of self respect and self love.<br><br>You see that, then you will recognize the same crime phenom around the world and will understand how much the race of the person comes into importance.<br><br>Peace out</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4495702">jonster</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4495702" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4495702" class="dsq-comment-message">I think you are right.  It\'s more of a "socio-economic class" thing.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4512534" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4512534" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4512534" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4512534" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow, your learning.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4495149" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4495149" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4495149" class="dsq-comment-message">"murder, violent crime, hate crimes"<br><br>Yes because black have never been the victims of murder, violent crimes or hate crimes over the last 400 years...oh ummm ok.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4484846">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4484846" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ll pass your greetings along to my acquaintance and his two sons, whose wife and mother was randomly shot in the head by a white guy while sitting in her car two Christmases ago because he thought black people were evil.<br><br>You wanted to go there.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4484940" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4484940" href="http://getbad.net/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Noelani</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4484940" class="dsq-comment-message">I am so sorry to hear that Ms Kitty, I know it was two years ago, but my deepest condolences. That\'s horrible and of course I never heard about that in the media.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4485052">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4485052" class="dsq-comment-message">It happened in the Atlantic City area, so other than the Philly media it didn\'t get much play.  I knew the victim since we were kids (she was a couple of years ahead of me in school), and when she was shot she had just come from a movie theatre to buy tickets for a surprise date with her husband later that night.  Definitely a tragedy.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4485392">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4485392" class="dsq-comment-message">MsKitty:   <b>HEAD BOW</b> for the family and you.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4495921">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4495921" class="dsq-comment-message">Me too.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4496151">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4496151" class="dsq-comment-message">MsKitty<br><br> I am so sorry to hear that.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4485130">jonster</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4485130" class="dsq-comment-message">And I won\'t relate to you my horror stories which didn\'t happen to "acquaintances" but to me, family members, friends -- for no reason.  Just saying, I come on here sometimes and see everyone marinating in their victimhood, marking everyone a racist who doesn\'t march in lockstep with your beliefs and experience, including me, yet totally overlooking your own participation in your destiny.   Take a look at South Africa.  I fought for apartheid.  Take a look the horror in Africa.  Take a look at the top 10 cities with the highest crime rates in America.  Just saying.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4485176">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4485176" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4485176" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>And I won\'t relate to you my horror stories which didn\'t happen to "acquaintances" but to me, family members, friends -- for no reason.</i><br><br>And you\'re not playing the victim? Okay then.<br><br>Think what you like.  Honestly don\'t  care.<br><br>Happy holidays.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4485309" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4485309">jonster</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4485309" class="dsq-comment-message">Think what you like. Honestly don\'t care.<br><br>Of course you don\'t.  I\'m an idiot and a racist.  My opinion doesn\'t matter.<br><br>Happy holidays.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4485365" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4485365">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4485365" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4485365" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>I\'m an idiot and a racist. My opinion doesn\'t matter.<br></i><br><br>You said it, I didn\'t.<br><br>Now I really am done with this. Bye.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4485515">jonster</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4485515" class="dsq-comment-message">Although I didn\'t really need to say it, did I?  LOL.  It\'s obvious to everyone here, I know?  I must be an idiot because Miss Kitty says I am (even tho I am a cat lover myself and we have that connection).  As far as being a racist?  I would say no more than most people here.  I am hurt from personal experience related to black peole.  Many people here are hurt from personal experience related to white people.  But I also know that there is good and bad in everyone and in every so-called "community."</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4485221">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4485221" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4485221" class="dsq-comment-message">My God, you\'re an idiot.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4486159" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4486159">Against Race Politics</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4486159" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4486159" class="dsq-comment-message">God Bless You!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4495423" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4495423" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4495423" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4495423" class="dsq-comment-message">Your intellectually delayed and lack a sense of worldliness and knowledge.<br><br>Please take a basic sociology class.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4495560">jonster</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4495560" class="dsq-comment-message">Rhondacoca, in that sentence the first word should be spelled "You\'re."  Thanks for the suggestion.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4495842" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4495842" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4495842" class="dsq-comment-message">No it should not be. <br><br>I know that you feel you can come here and talk down to those who you feel are below you. However I will let you know that you have come to the wrong place. <br><br>Now as I said before, go take a basic sociology class, we are not here to educate you. Stop with the victimhood! You are in charge of you own destiny, go get enlightened.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4495837" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4495837">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4495837" class="dsq-comment-message">I am not black. I don\'t feel like I am being victimized at all by any member of this board. Not one. I come here because I am allowed to share and allowed to get to know all the thinking that goes on with the starting point of being black. I have always thought I was free from racism. I have learned so much here and my esteem has increased in quantum levels by reading here. By my noticing that, it has made me face the fact that I didn\'t hold the AA experience in the highest regard. That was painful but necessary to note. <br><br>Read the posts and blogs. If you do so with an open mind and heart you will come to realize that the foundation of humanity is much broader and stronger than you ever knew. Our pains are the same, our joys, too. It will change from pc fuzzy language of "brotherhood for all" to being the Truth in your soul. So relax and see if there is any ownership in some of the posts written. The people here are not afraid to take ownership of their own, either. Being real and accountable is scary and strange but it is the way to real community, real connection.<br><br>This might be one of the best places on the web for putting into action unity for all of us.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4487199">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4487199" class="dsq-comment-message">"What unnerves and confuses me is that we as white people will always be victims of black on white crime."<br><br>.....Um, yeah. If it is black ON white crime, then the logic goes that white people would be the victim. WTF are you trying to say?<br><br>WTF does Greys Anatomy have to do w/ a Mexican getting killed by a group of black dudes? I can\'t follow you. Care to step back and try again?<br><br>Your comment sounds retarded like this:<br><br>I\'m glad that Barack Obama is president and says "white-positive" things but I\'ve never seen a group of people gripe so much about being called racists while refusing to look at their behavior and how it affects people of color.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4487914">jonster</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4487914" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4487914" class="dsq-comment-message">"WTF does Greys Anatomy have to do w/ a Mexican getting killed by a group of black dudes? I can\'t follow you. Care to step back and try again?<br><br>Your comment sounds retarded like this..."<br><br>HA HA HA HA HA HA.  Waggles head, puts hand on hip, and does the chin jut.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4488381">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4488381" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4488381" class="dsq-comment-message">"My God, you\'re an idiot."<br><br>-Miranda, I concur.<br><br>I\'m sorry, Jonster, saying your comment was retarded was insulting to retarded people. My apologies to retarded people.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4489343" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4489343" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4489343">jonster</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4489343" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4489343" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m sorry too.  You seem slow.  What era are you from.  Using the word "Retarded" is considered ignorant.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4489564" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4489564" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4489564">rorysmomma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4489564" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4489564" class="dsq-comment-message">Obviously you don\'t know that calling someone retarded is an insult to the developmentally delayed.......</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4489686" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4489686" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4489686">jonster</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4489686" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4489686" class="dsq-comment-message">eh wha?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4489891" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4489891" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4489891">rorysmomma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4489891" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4489891" class="dsq-comment-message">my bad</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4513540" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4513540" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4513540">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4513540" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4513540" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, if you stop going into the black neighborhoods to get your drugs and your tricks you wouldn\'t be assaulted by black people on the way home, would you?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4515016" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4515016" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4515016">caligirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4515016" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4515016" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL !</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4517084" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4517084" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4517084" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4517084" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4517084" class="dsq-comment-message">Town, you keep strking more than BATMAN!  ROFL<br><br>BAM! POW! RIGHT IN THE KISSER!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4522349" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4522349" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4522349">jonster</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4522349" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4522349" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL.  Ironic self-indictment, applauded by a loyal coterie of cheerleaders.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4524820" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4524820" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4524820" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4524820" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4524820" class="dsq-comment-message">lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lmao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4482848" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4482848" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4482848">Denise</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4482848" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4482848" class="dsq-comment-message">I won\'t challenge your assertion that whites generally get second (third, fourth...) chances to redeem themselves - both personally AND professionally (Robert Downey, Jr  anyone??) -  but it\'s important to point out that their redeemers are not always white.  <br><br>I know you haven\'t made this claim, but I think it\'s important to clarify this.  <br><br>Marinate on this for a minute.  I\'m out!  LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4483202" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4483202" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4483202" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4483202" class="dsq-comment-message">Denise, you make a point, but I can also make the point that if some Black people are in charge, they lead the charge in refusing second chances, as well.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4483463" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4483463" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4483463">Denise</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4483463" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4483463" class="dsq-comment-message">ABSOLUTELY!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4495931" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4495931" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4495931" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4495931" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, it is a sad result of white supremacy. Blacks too have taken part in this travesty.<br><br>Look at how Jeremiah A Wright was treated, case closed.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4515098" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4515098">caligirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4515098" class="dsq-comment-message">jeremiah wright was not maligned by black people.   that whole episode was primarily a result of white ignorance and fear.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4525094" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4525094" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4525094" class="dsq-comment-message">Caligirl, I must disagree, too many black people helped in the public lynching due to a lack of collective bravery. Its a fact.<br><br>For some it was simply trying to get Obama into the White House by any means necessary and for others, it was mere fear of repudiation. <br><br>However which ever reason, it happened. There is enough evidence to support my belief that is shared by many others in the community, too many black people were central in aiding the ignorance and fear of whites. <br><br>I am not saying all or even most but I am saying too many for my comfort.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4484712" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4484712">Denise</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4484712" class="dsq-comment-message">For the record, I wasn\'t referring to the PE with my comment, or his selection of Rick Warren.  <br><br>The inaugural celebration belongs to President Obama, and if he wants Warren and Lowrey, that\'s good enough for me. <br><br>The "how could you??!" mindset works both ways as in Warren could have always declined.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4485401" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4485401">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4485401" class="dsq-comment-message">We know. But some folks don\'t like PEO and are looking for the slightest thing to say, "SEE? I told you so!".</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4485020" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4485020" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4485020" href="http://getbad.net/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Noelani</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4485020" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>"but it\'s important to point out that their redeemers are not always white. "</b><br><br>I would love to take this quote emboss it, frame it and put it on my wall.<br><br>I think that\'s a huge point to make. Some of us are always looking for validation from Whites and I to be fair we don\'t always realize that we are (myself included). Give us more representation, give us this, give us that ... but the truth is ... we don\'t need the validation, but I understand the overall picture too.<br><br>It\'s a complicated subject to explain, but I think most of us "get it."</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4479478" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4479478">PTCruiser</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4479478" class="dsq-comment-message"><blockquote><i>Why is Stan O’Neal getting the blame for the failure of Merrill Lynch?  Wasn’t it in a financial shythole when he was appointed CEO?</i></blockquote><br><br>Are you joking? Stanley O\'Neal is getting the blame for the failure of Merrill Lynch because it was precisely under his watch and at his expressed direction that Merrill Lynch aggressively pursued the investment practices that led to the firm\'s demise. Who else do you believe should get the blame? I enjoy reading your pieces but you can do better than trying to attribute Mr. O\'Neal\'s forced resignation to racism.  BTW, the firm was not in a shythole when he took over the helm. It was not as profitable as its rivals but it was far from sinking under a mountain of debts that it could not pay off.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4483663" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4483663" href="http://www.natturnersrevenge.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">chris chambers</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4483663" class="dsq-comment-message">Word. The flip side is that when folks like O\'Neal or Ken Chenault  get in these positions, they tend to not make racial waves because mr. Charlie is watching...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4483888" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4483888">PTCruiser</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4483888" class="dsq-comment-message">Folks like Stanley O\'Neal and Ken Chenault don\'t pursue these positions in order to make racial waves. Their ascension to these positions are noticed because of their race but that comes with the territory.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4484074" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4484074" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4484074">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4484074" class="dsq-comment-message">Right!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4496012" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4496012" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4496012" class="dsq-comment-message">Umm...PT Cruiser. My family has three generations of Merill Lynch employees-traders, brokers, financial advisors you name it and from the inside, we know better,. Merril was taking a turn for the worst when O\'Neal was appointed. My father jokes about it everyday. However, I am the last person who would ever defend that Uncle Tom named Stanley O\'Neal.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4515491" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4515491">PTCruiser</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4515491" class="dsq-comment-message"><blockquote><i>However, I am the last person who would ever defend that Uncle Tom named Stanley O\'Neal.</i></blockquote><br><br>I really do not want to defend Stanley O\'Neal but I don\'t think he deserves to be called an Uncle Tom. It is really an unfair characterization. He is who he is and he has been who he is for a long time. That does not make him an Uncle Tom. <br><br>I don\'t think Mother Merrill was taking a turn for the worse when O\'Neal took over. The culture of the organization needed to be changed and it was underperforming relative to its size and rivals but the company  was not on the verge of tanking.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4478567" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4478567" href="http://rateyourjob-rateyourboss.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rater</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4478567" class="dsq-comment-message">When can a black guy eff up and get a second chance? Well, if he\'s a conservative, he can eff up and get another chance.  Look at Clarence\'s vulgar behavior at the EEOC.  He went on to become a Supreme Court justice.  Claude Allen can steal from Wal-Mart and get a second chance in the form of probation and an expunged record.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4477913" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4477913">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4477913" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL:  GREAT QUESTION!  :&gt;)<br><br>While WE can give it our "BEST SHOT", I would love to hear ONE person who is "melanin-challenged" OPINE on this issue.  \'cause WE ain\'t makin\' the <b>"1 "eff"-up - - - 1 fire" RULE!!</b>    :&gt;)<br><br>However, I will share a situation that I had, waaaaay back in the day, when a principal was attempting to fire me after 1 semester of service as an associate principal.<br><br>Near the end of the term, he called me into his office for an "EVALUATION" of MY PERFORMANCE.  B4 I came to this site, I had served 8 years as an Associate Princ.,Acting Princ., Counselor, Assistant Supt./Personnel-Human Resources on other sites.<br><br>Soooo, he gave me a "list" of 6 "areas"/Incidents" of concern - - at this low level:  <i>"standing too long in a campus area with one group of students on 10/5 and 11/18."</i>  NOTE: There were 90 SCHOOL DAYS in the term.  :&gt;)    Well, the others were "DOWN HILL" from this HIGH LEVEL.  :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>When he got finished, he axed IFFF I had any questions or statements.  HAH!   :&gt;)<br><br>Well, I took out MY EVALUATION OF HIS PERFORMANCE AS A SUPERVISOR!!!   :&gt;)<br><br>AFTER SHARING MY 20+ OBSERVATIONS, including HOW I BELIEVE that I was being evaluated using DIFFERENT STANDARDS than those being used for the OTHER "melanin-Challenged" Associate Principals [INCLUDING DATES/TIMES annnnnd PLACES], I axed HIM IFFF he had any questions!!   :&gt;)<br><br>Annnnnnd, as I was leaving HIS OFFICE, I notified him that I would be sharing all o\' dis information with the Superintendent of the District!<br><br>And so I did!   Annnnnnnd, I requested the "OPEN SEAT" that a person had vacated - - - AT THE DISTRICT OFFICE!   :&gt;)<br><br>I GOT IT!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)  Annnnnd, he was terminated at the end of the second term!<br><br><b>THE END!</b><br><br>NOW, can errybody use this model.   NO!  BUT, you can have a greater chance for redress of your grievances IFFF you DOCUMENT the DOCUMENTER. IMHO<br><br>But, to your question:   ***shakin\' my head*** \'cause I know that an answer is NOT simple.  Your EXAMPLES demonstrate that.<br><br>Another point would be that as we increase our "ownership" in the corporate world, we may have better chances for "REMEDIATION PLANS" rather than TERMINATION.<br><br>But these economic conditions make "strategizing" difficult!   Whew!!  Deep Breaths!!!:&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4482665" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4482665">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4482665" class="dsq-comment-message">Green Lady, that is a great story of how to stand up and defend excellence.<br><br>You weren\'t in need of a second chance. Your excellence was being diminished.<br><br>And how you handled that unwarranted challenge was superb.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4484625" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4484625">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4484625" class="dsq-comment-message">whiterosebuddy:   ***humbly****     Thank you very much.  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4487466" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4487466">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4487466" class="dsq-comment-message">GreenLady, thanks for sharing your experience and wisdom. <br><br>Four years ago, I was working in a Long Term Nursing Care facility as an Assistant Director of Nursing.  I had earned the position through seniority and my work record.<br><br>I was the only black nurse in the facility with a MS degree and qualifications to apply for it.<br><br>The Director of Nursing, a white male, approached me and asked me to develop a comprehensive plan to help the 2 nursing units that I was responsible for run more efficiently.  And so I developed the plan, submitted it, and got thunderous praise for the plan and budget.  <br><br>Two months went by and I didn\'t hear back from him, so I arranged a follow up meeting.  He told me that he\'d run the plan by the facility Board of Directors and things looked promising.    Mean while the units were in need of me implementing those plans.  <br><br>The delay continued and he grew distant and cold towards me.  Staff morale plummeted; family members and patients were feeling the sting of less than stellar standards of care.  I couldn\'t figure out why he was turning on me.  Something didn\'t feel right.<br><br>A month later, I went into work and got a very strong signal to resign and leave the premises by 2 p.m. that day.  <br><br> I mean, I couldn\'t make up what I\'m about to share with you.<br><br>I got direct inner guidance to call the Director of Nursing, the administrator, the director of Human resources and the CEO of the facility.  I left them a voice message asking them to meet with me a 12 noon in the board room.<br><br>They all agreed to meet with me, and there I was a 12 noon sitting in the board room on one side of the huge, long, brown  table,  facing 4 white men on the other side.  Surprisingly, I felt relaxed and calm<br><br>The words flowed seamlessly from me.  "I want to thank you all for giving me the opportunity to work for your fine establishment.  Because I can no longer work under the conditions I\'m being asked to work, effective today I\'m resigning my post as Assistant Director of Nursing.”  I requested 2 month severance pay. My position called for at least a 30 day notice of resignation, and a month’s severance and I had the gull to resign immediately and ask for 2 months pay.<br><br>To my surprise, they all agreed.  I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.  They told me to come back by 1 p.m. and they’d have the papers ready for me to sign.  I went back to my office to clean out my desk and files.  I signed the papers at 1 p.m., and picked up my check for 2 months pay (A hefty sum too)   The Director of Nursing even wrote me a glowing recommendation. By 2 p.m. I was driving out of the parking lot.   I couldn’t believe what had just happened.  There was no job waiting in the wings.  When I got home there was a voice message from a friend.  He said there was nursing job fair the following week, and the pay was comparable.  I went to the fair and got a job.  It was magical.    I took two months to process the turn of events.  But I had this sense that something still wasn’t finished at that nursing facility.<br><br>Two months later, my husband and I came home from an outing, and he turned on the TV news.   The first thing I heard was:   “NURSING HOME DIRECTOR CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLING 1.5 MILLION DOLLARS IN HIS 8 YEAR TENURE!!!!!!  There on the big screen was a picture of the home, and the large booming voice of the newscaster, but not surprises here.  There was no picture of the WHITE perpetrator of the crime.<br><br>I was right in sensing that something was amiss.  My plans didn’t get approved and implemented because they required funds.  The budget I’d projected was well thought out and fair.  But the big boss had his hand in the cookie canister, and had set up a fake PO box, wrote check request and sent invoices with names of businesses that didn’t’ exist to the facility accounting department.   <br><br>The facility administrator finally woke up and smelled the coffee, and it wasn’t Starbucks either.   The facility units continued to suffer after I left.  Cheap linens and supplies was a tip off. He got his nose out of his ass and started investigating.   Families complained relentlessly about the poor care and the staffing shortages.  The light finally did come in and the big roach got squashed.  <br><br>I know this man set me up to fail for his personal, greedy gains.  The blessing in this whole thing was that I’d gotten a direct warning to get the hell out of dodge before the shake down, and I followed the guidance step by step.  Was I afraid to take the bold steps to remove myself? <br><br> Initially, I was, and had a sense that I’d failed to deliver, but my instincts cease to fail me when I follow through.  I was able to avoid the media frenzy that day when the police came in to that facility and booked the roach on charges of embezzling 1.5 million dollars from the ELDERLY!!!!  I’m so grateful I had no ties to the money schemes and so there was nothing to incriminate me.<br><br>We never saw another  TV news broadcast of the event.  The Star Tribune wrote an article about it.  A small blurb on the front page and the remainder of it buried on page 15 and of course no photo of the perp.<br><br>The White guy committed a White collar crime and got 42 months in the pokey.<br><br>Here’s the write up on him from a historical site for the city of St. Louis Park, MN.   <a href="http://www.slphistory.org/history/police.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.slphistory.org/history/police.asp</a><br><br>1997<br>Nursing director Mark E. Wetsch was convicted of misappropriating nearly $1.4 million from Shalom Home West from 1997 to 2005. <br><br>2005 <br>Shalom Home Nursing Director Mark E. Wetsch was sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison for stealing $1.4 million from the facility from 1997 to 2005. He used the money for home improvements, vacations, four vehicles, three snowmobiles, a private running coach, private school tuition, tickets to sporting events, and things: he sold a pool table, kayaks, skis, watches, and golf clubs to pay restitution. <br><br>It is important to note that one year after he was charged and jailed, I went back for a visit to the facility and the administrator had moved on, and nursing units had implemented the plans I had written. Does it matter that it happened after I left. No.  What matters is that the units are running and the care is being provided.<br><br>I wanted to share this experience because for me, it proves that following my intuition and rejecting fear and power, empowered me to move forward, take full responsibility for my destiny and accept the next big gift that presents itself.  <br><br>I know that I had the spiritual protection and believe that ultimately the Law of Cause and Effect is the rule of the day.  I didn’t fuck up, he did, and he’s paying for it.  He tried to use me in his scheme by not helping me, but he failed!<br><br>The media definitely portrays white and black crimes differently.  Blacks are more likely to get their photos smeared across the TV and newspapers than whites and by white and black journalist too.<br><br>but we already know that we see it every day.<br><br>Here are two links regarding this issue:<br><br><a href="http://law.jrank.org/pages/1578/Mass-Media-Crime-Journalism.html" rel="nofollow">http://law.jrank.org/pages/1578/Mass-Media-Crim...</a><br><br><a href="http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimemedia/lecture3.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimemedia/lectu...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4487885" class="dsq-comment-message">WOW! Spirit, WAY TO GO!<br><br>But I bet Mr. Wetsch will have some one to set him up and help his ass get back on his feet when he gets out of the joint.  Book It.  Despite the notoriety of the case - because that\'s how the system rolls.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4490198" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL, yes, he probably does have some one to set him up and help his ass get back on this feet.\\ when he get out.<br><br>But as I shared with MsKitty, right now he could very well be on his knees, and you know what they say when you go to the "pokey" pun intended :-)) don\'t drop anything!  and that is how the system rolls too. <br><br>And I agree with  you, Craig, and h&fs, we can create our own system.  Demand answers to questions of fairness. <br><br>We know how to adapt and fight, we\'ve had to do it all our lives, these folks who think they are getting something for nothing because they are white are only fooling themselves.  <br><br>We grow, learn how to survive and thrive under whatever circumstances life throws at us.  I don\'t like racism, sexism, ageism, chronism, nepitism........They are all labels and  folks hide behind  labels to explain ugly and hurtful behaviors.   <br><br>It\'s the behavior they need to be called out on, because while the color of the skin may be different, the color of the benjamins is the same. Paying for the consequences of one\'s behaviors cost either in coin, service, or pain.<br><br>At the end of the day. it will still be up to me to steer my own ship</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4488335" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks for sharing! What a blessing!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4488627" class="dsq-comment-message">You definitely have some guardian angels looking out for you, and good to see that Mr. Shady got his.  Unfortunately, I have to agree with CPL that he\'ll no doubt land on his feet :-(</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4489545" class="dsq-comment-message">Sure you right, MsKitty, but  right now he could very well be on his knees, and you know what they say when you go to the "pokey" pun intended :-))  don\'t drop anything!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4489942" class="dsq-comment-message">"Oz" was one of my favorite shows, so my mind just went to a very dark place;  a scene which involved a turned out prag, a kinky biker inmate, and literal interpretation of the term "spooning" LOL.  Here\'s hoping your ex-boss got some of that.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4490525" class="dsq-comment-message">Word, MsKitty, Actually, I recently got word that he\'s not doing so well in the pokey.  Awwww, damn shame :-)))<br><br>Honestly, when I think about all that $$$$ he robbed from the elderly.  I don\'t want to say the facility. In my book, he stole the comfort and needs of the elderly to enrich himself and his family.  <br><br>I hope he\'s getting all the second, thirds,...... helpings of the SPOONING in the POKEY!!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4495754" class="dsq-comment-message">spirit:    <i>I know that I had the spiritual protection . . . </i><br><br>First:  <i>Chorus:<br>Jesus be a fence all around me everyday<br>Jesus I want you to protect me as I travel along the way<br>I know you can(yes Lord)<br>I know you will (yes Lord)<br>Fight my battle(yes Lord)<br>If I just keep still (yes lord)<br>Lord be a fence all around me everyday<br><br>Repeat Chorus<br><br>Verse:<br>This is my prayer Lord that I pray each and every day<br>That you would guide my footsteps lest I stumble and stray<br>Lord, I need you to direct me all the way long<br>Oh Lord be a fence all around me everyday<br>Come help me say, Jesus...<br><br>Repeat Chorus</i><br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mg2xkvVj0c&feature=related" rel="nofollow">Jesus be a fence</a><br><br>AAAAA-MAN!!  ***hands in the air***    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4513144" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, GreenLadyHere, and MAY THE BLESSINGS BE!!  :-)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4517189" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4517189" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s got to be the Fred Hammond joint - "Jesus be a Fence"<br><br>Start in "A" Flat....LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4517325" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL:   LOL!    :&gt;)        :&gt;)     TWISTED!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>Very "PUNNY!"  :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>But, since you REQUESTED the version by Mr. Hammond, "here it is":<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce7LQfY0d30" rel="nofollow">Fred Hammond & RFC - Jesus Be a Fence Around Me - 2000</a><br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdPeS2fr4f8&feature=related" rel="nofollow">Jesus be a fence</a><br><br>CPL:  Are you  ***clappin\'***?    :&gt;)      :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4523464" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4523464" class="dsq-comment-message">Yup, and groovin\'...for da Lawd!<br><br>LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4527030" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL:   LOL!    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4482800" class="dsq-comment-message">Green Lady, your story is one I always advise people thinking about filing an EEO complaint.  Leave emotion out and document their asses up the yang.<br><br>I left my job at the Fed for similar reasons.  When your boss is subverting the EEO laws to protect HER boss, and you discover it - she tries to have you fired; only I pulled out a black binder of a journal and documented incidents I\'d kept on her ass for the past year.<br><br>I resigned because the management wouldn\'t find me another position in the Agency.  I took a good chunk of severance with me as well.  And no, this wasn\'t a Government Agency, because if it were, I\'d had appellate rights, and I would have exhausted them - not to mention I would have requested a Merit Systems Protection Board judicial hearing where everyone\'s shyt would have been exposed.<br><br>The Fed makes its own rules.  So I left.  But it would have been worse if I hadn\'t documented her ass and refuted every lie she told on me.<br><br>Annnd, its worse cause homegirl who did that to me while protecting her white boss, is....you guessed it; A SISTA.<br><br>Not only do we NOT get second chances, we also have to deal with House Negroes working for the Man, and will act like Unca Ruckus in making damned sure you don\'t expose their shyt involving protecting "the Man".</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4484564" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL:      <i>A SISTA.</i><br><br>Tooooo many forces to fight!!  -huh??  ***shakin\' my head****<br><br>But, I\'m believin\' that as WE share strategies, We can EMPOWER others!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4484490" class="dsq-comment-message">Against Race Politics:  Hope I\'ve been helpful.  Thank you.  :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4483506" class="dsq-comment-message">I love it.  The power of a paper trail can never be underestimated.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4484457" class="dsq-comment-message">MsKitty:  Thank you.  ABSOLUTELY!   :&gt;)<br><br>Oh!  BTW, for that 2nd term, since I was at the District/Central Office, HE had ta come to me for certain questions.  Annnnnnd, he had to attend meetings that I CHAIRED!!   :&gt;)      :&gt;)     :&gt;)<br><br>Was "red in the face" during the entire meeting(s)!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)   Something about, "what goes around, comes around!"    :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>I guess. . . . .   :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4477679" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with  Craig...demand a second chance.<br><br>Isaiah Washington\'s use of a gay slur is a prime example of that. I am not making excuses for him but he took a beating in the press, went to rehab, and was fired----- and one prominent gay entertainment blogger bashed the shyt out of him for a while.<br><br>Jerry Lewis, uses the same slur at his telethon in 2007, and then again in 2008----and what do we hear----*crickets*<br><br>It is wrong, these double standards we live with...but if we let it slide under the radar and forget about it the next day...it will continue to happen.<br><br>As far as Imus, even Coach Stringer said on Oprah that she felt during their meeting that she didn\'t think Imus understood why her and the  team was hurt---"he just didn\'t get it" though she felt his wife Deidre did.  <br><br>This is another example you can\'t always expect others outside the scope of YOUR reality to understand your perspective.  We must teach them--and that includes loud and clearly saying, I am tired of these double standards we are often faced with....and the hypocrisy others put forth.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4479627" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4479627" class="dsq-comment-message">Forget about racist people understanding - there needs to be consequences. Certain ethnic/religious groups have standards of behavior that others outside that group are expected to adhere to or face a bashing. Black people need to set their own.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4482739" class="dsq-comment-message">OOOO, now you sound like MLK.<br>When he was trying to get the Civil Rights Act passed, white Southerners would tell him \'you can\'t legislate what is in peoples hearts\'<br><br>Martin replied....the law may not be able to change people\'s hearts but it can restrain the heartless\'</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4482762">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4482762" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree.  But my point was, too often we as Black people get pissed shortly after an incident and then after the initial storm has passed, we remain silent. When I said that people need to understand, I was saying make our voices heard loud and clear at all times, let them know old wounds are still raw and fresh and we want accountability.......too often we let the media, with their short term attention span, dictate our response.  Essentially if the media ain\'t replaying the same story, We aren\'t listening.  Some things only catch our attention we they are sensationalized.  And when controversy is out of sight, it is out of mind----and that\'s not acceptable.<br><br>Let me tell you something ,when Michael Savage insulted children with Autism, I got pissed.  I never listened to his garbage anyway.  I wrote e-mails but you see the fucker still has a job.  What I do know is that if he ever makes an appeareance in my vicinity, I WILL protest and picket his ass in person.  He should have been fired---but life is unfair....and unfortunately, I as one individual, neither all powerful or rich does not have the power to kick his ass to the curb alone.  And that is the harsh reality.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4483046" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4483046" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4483046" class="dsq-comment-message">Which is EXACTLY my point - when Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, SR., began their protests to get Imus off the air, I was like "SO? What\'s going to really happen when the protests are over?"<br><br>No one said shyt when Imus resurfaced six months later - in the interval, that jackass threatened MSNBC with a damned lawsuit to GET PAID.. and they paid his ass off to the tune of $20 million dollars left on his contract, even though he was in CLEAR VIOLATION OF THE STANDARDS in it.<br><br>Consequences are what happens to people like Lenny Bruce or Fatty Arbuckle - even though they were INNOCENT of the charges, their asses were blacklisted and never worked again in their lives.  The guilty should be blacklisted for at least five to ten years - long enough for the public to forget about their asses.<br><br>Michael Savage wouldn\'t get away with the insults and seditious acts he encourages on the air in the name of "Free Speech".  Funny how these Effers become Constitutional legal experts when its THEIR asses on the line....but if Obama restores that Fairness Doctrine, and if we start boycotting the advertisers buying air time for these SOBs, you will see how long they will tolerate the bullshyt on the airwaves.<br><br>Jesse and Al are past their shelf life - they make noise and get paid to shut up - the Corporations know when their being extorted, but because it\'s such as small price to pay, they pay it - otherwise Don Imus would have been off the air for the next five years.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4487965" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4487965" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4487965" class="dsq-comment-message">You make valid points. This is a political blog that we read. We feel a kinship here. The next steps we need to be thinking about is organizing around legislation and making plans for maximizing all available resources.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4489611" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4489611">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4489611" class="dsq-comment-message">That man, savage, didn\'t make a pact with the devil, he is the devil.<br><br>Spews everywhere and people eat it up.<br><br>Remind me again about the feeling of brotherhood and goodwill for all after the election, please.<br><br>please....</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4496191" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4496191">Monie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4496191" class="dsq-comment-message">Lilytiger, I believe in redemption..no doubt.<br><br>But you are right, some people are just hateful---PERIOD.<br><br>I was always told  that "your enemy will be made your foot stool" and what goes around, comes back around.  Idiots like Savage will face their karma----you can bet on it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4477828">rorysmomma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4477828" class="dsq-comment-message">And that is why grey\'s is sucky now.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4517219" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4517219" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4517219" class="dsq-comment-message">Let\'s be honest, Monie.<br><br>You and I both know Deirdre Imus is waiting for her Crypt-Keeper husband to kick the can so she can get all his shyt.  There is no other reason she would stay married to this old, stale Saltine.  LOL</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4477874" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4477874">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4477874" class="dsq-comment-message">But whites not only get a second chance, there could be more and more if they are perceived as unique enough. <br><br>I just spent some time watching Grey\'s from the beginning to this season. I was in a house where I couldn\'t figure out their tv system and found Greys on line. <br><br>Isiah was awesome. And Grey\'s pretty much sucks without him and Addison. <br><br>Back on topic, he was rail roaded out of there. I hope he can overcome it.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4478081" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4478081">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4478081" class="dsq-comment-message">Isaiah Washington WAS Grey\'s Anatomy.  That show has been a shell of itself since he was forced out.  I do wish he had sense enough to know that as a Black man, he wasn\'t going to get away with what he said.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4482912" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4482912" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4482912" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s just IT; if Isaiah Washington was a white guy, all he would have had to do was apologize.  IF that had been McDreamy calling his cast mate a "fag", Patrick Dempsey would have had to apologize and all would have been well, but they fired Isaiah Washington for essentially doing what Mel Gibson did.<br><br>Mel Gibson is still welcomed in Hollywood, even among the Jews he denigrated with that rant and then said he wasn\'t responsible because he was drunk.<br><br>The consolation that Washington feels is that Grey\'s Anatomy hasn\'t been shyt since he and Kate Walsh left the show, and McDreamy can\'t save it by himself.  And when Katherine Heigl mouthed off about not being nominated for an Emmy because she felt the writers gave her nothing to work with, they began drafting up plans to kill her character off the show, but her fans kicked in and demanded she be kept on.<br><br>And doesn\'t a sista produce Grey\'s Anatomy?  Why didn\'t she step in to save Isaiah Washington when he was being railroaded out the door? &lt;&lt;&lt;eyebrows raised&gt;&gt;&gt;</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4484652">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4484652" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL:   EXAMPLE, AGAIN of "ONE of them FORCES!"   **shakin\' my head!** :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4482304">AM2k6</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4482304" class="dsq-comment-message">And that\'s why everytime someone asks me about GA I told them that I stopped watching when they canned the "black dude."</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4479609" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4479609" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4479609" class="dsq-comment-message">Of course we don\'t really know what was said just what certain racist white gay men claimed he said! And Shonda was forced to drop him from her show. And I haven\'t watched it since and let them know why. I also love to bring this little incident up every time I respond to some white gay ally decrying Prop 8.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4482705">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4482705" class="dsq-comment-message">EXACTLY!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4484201">rorysmomma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4484201" class="dsq-comment-message">If the ratings keep looking like they look, they gonna have to eat crow and bring him back or the show will be canceled.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4483457" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4483457" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4483457" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t buy that Shonda was "forced" to drop Isaish from the show.<br><br>That\'s an example of a sista watching out for her own ass - if Shonda made Grey\'s Anatomy - she could have done like the Wayans did when the brass took over "In Living Color" and tried to make it the "Jim Carrey Show".  If that show truly rose or fell on her talent, she should have exercised her power and threatened to withdraw it.  She didn\'t.<br><br>Keenan and his siblings left "In Living Color". Because of PRINCIPAL of not allowing themselves to be punked by the white guys for whom they were making money. And how long did it stay on the air after they left?<br><br>Plus, as doofus as the Wayans\' pictures have been, they are having the last laugh...ALL THE WAY TO THE DAMN BANK, and on THEIR OWN TERMS. White Producers are begging Keenan to produce movies - same thing for Tyler Perry, and Spike Lee jump started it when he called Bill Cosby, Janet Jackson and Michael Jordan to get the money he needed to finish making "Malcolm X".<br><br>These guys told White Hollywood they didn\'t need their asses, and now White Hollywood begs these guys to make movies, because they demanded to be treated as the white producers who make sucky movies but still get hired to produce or direct.<br><br>And you\'re right about the racist white gay man - he just announced HE\'S leaving the show this year.  He got his way, but the show went in the toilet as a result.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4487843" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4487843" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4487843" class="dsq-comment-message">OK but with Grey\'s and Private Practice on the line and of course being much bigger shows AND her being the only BW in that position I can see why she was being protective. And TR isn\'t the only weasel involved. I always thought he and Heigel had plotted to cause maximum problems that even Dempsey wouldn\'t do to get frontburner status. Traitors the whole lot of them!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4482921">jonster</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4482921" class="dsq-comment-message">"It wasn\'t hard to let him go," Rhimes told TV Guide at the TCA\'s last July. "It was a decision that was a long time coming, and it felt like it was the right decision for all of us."</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4482694">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4482694" class="dsq-comment-message">Lily,<br>How did you find all the old shows.  I sooo need to do the same. I quit following when the writer\'s strike happen and haven\'t been able to pick back up.<br><br>I would love to do what you have...now, had you purchased the prior seasons or what?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4489515">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4489515" class="dsq-comment-message">YouTube. Bangseventh has almost everyone on her channel. Here\'s the last one I watched but go to the right and click on her subscribe and you will be able to start at the first episode.<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0APa-nWu2Y" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0APa-nWu2Y</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4490562">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4490562" class="dsq-comment-message">THANK YOU!!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4477439" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4477439" class="dsq-comment-message">I think we have to DEMAND that second chance, whether it\'s offered or not.<br><br>And refuse to take no for an answer.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4483150" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4483150" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4483150" class="dsq-comment-message">WORD, cause that\'s how I roll.<br><br>And I always ask why the white guy gets another chance, but not ME?  <br><br>They gasp like a fish out of water because I\'ve backed them into a corner with their own racism...either their going to be honest, or do everything they can not to get labeled a "racist".<br><br>Which is what I can\'t understand if they really are "racists" but don\'t want the label.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4483329" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4483329">Against Race Politics</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4483329" class="dsq-comment-message">WORD, cause that\'s how I roll.<br><br>And I always ask why the white guy gets another chance, but not ME? <br><br><br>I like it! :-)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4484254">rorysmomma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4484254" class="dsq-comment-message">Adding it to my repertoire as we speak.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4484723">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4484723" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL:     "WHYCOME"????     Indeed!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4477518">rorysmomma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4477518" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig you are right, but it ain\'t likely to happen.....  CPL you forgot about ty willingham and charlie weiss....</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4477552" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4477552" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t know about that. <br><br>I admit that I thought Barack\'s "electability" was irreparably damaged when his bitter remarks were made public. <br><br>I was wrong.<br><br>He got a second chance. He won Pennsylvania by 11 points on his way to the presidency.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4482764">whiterosebuddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4482764" class="dsq-comment-message">Very good point., Craig.  He also got a second chance on Wright..cause they beat that GodDAMN America! drum forEVER.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4477629">rorysmomma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4477629" class="dsq-comment-message">Point taken.  I think we have John Mccain\'s choice of Sarah Palin to thank for that.  LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4477641" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4477641" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4477641" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4477641" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4477641" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes. But his performance at the DNC in Denver was so good, it forced McCain to go rogue.<br><br>I guess all I\'m saying is that we have to DEMAND our second chances not just in the material face of bullshit, but also spiritually.<br><br>We must make it happen by both will and faith.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4477661" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4477661" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4477661">rorysmomma</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4477661" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4477661" class="dsq-comment-message">Agreed.  His DNC performance was phenomenal.  I knew it was over when he said Enough!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4483114" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4483114" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4483114" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4483114" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4483114" class="dsq-comment-message">Actually, I thought about them, too, especially Ty Willingham, whom Notre Dame flat out dogged, and he was replaced with a white coach bringing a losing record with him, too.<br><br>I mentioned Auburn because they interviewed a Black coach with a winning record and rejected him in favor of a white guy about to be fired from Iowa State for losing too much.  I knew the guy Auburn fired was a white guy - but they had a chance to show progress in the South and their racism was too inherent to allow it with Turner Gill.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4483248" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4483248" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4483248">rorysmomma</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4483248" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4483248" class="dsq-comment-message">Ty Willingham is why I root against sorry behind Notre Dame today.? Maybe Barack will help dispell the myth of the Great White Hope.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4478377" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4478377" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4478377">Andrew</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4478377" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4478377" class="dsq-comment-message">Tommy Tuberville, the coach Auburn fired, is white.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4479198" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4479198" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4479198">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4479198" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4479198" class="dsq-comment-message">And Tuberville will be hired for a head coaching job in Division I AGAIN, bank it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4482612" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4482612" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4482612">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4482612" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4482612" class="dsq-comment-message">My understanding is that the reason these AA coaches weren\'t hired is because they have white wives.  That type of couple is not a role model in the south for the booster club, fans or families.  If those men had had a black wife they would have the job.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4484518" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4484518" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4484518">djchefron</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4484518" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4484518" class="dsq-comment-message">HUH?? I dont understand, if the goal is to win and to get the players to win what difference who marries whom matters.I bet my last dollar if AA athletes didn\'t go to these schools then this would be a non issue.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4483265" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4483265" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4483265" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4483265" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4483265" class="dsq-comment-message">But, WhiteRoseBuddy, who these guys are married to should have nothing to do with the fact they bring a winning track record to these schools.  And if those brothas believe that, they need to start suing the schools for discrimination in civil court - that\'s where that shyt would be proven or refuted.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4483605" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4483605" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4483605">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4483605" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4483605" class="dsq-comment-message">There would be no proof that was the reason. Plus, the schools can always point out that hiring of coaches is very subjective - its not just based on winning track records..and we\'re talking about the SEC, the granddaddy of the "we got our own rules" Div I conferences. They would laugh at such a lawsuit.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4487760" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4487760" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4487760" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4487760" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4487760" class="dsq-comment-message">They would laugh until a District Court ruled them to be bigots and award the victims a boatload of money for being discriminated against.<br><br>In EEO, money talks and when being a bigot is going to cost an organization major cheddar, they will toss the bigot out on his ass.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4511550" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4511550" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4511550">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4511550" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4511550" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL....Serious Div I schools have entirely too much money coming in from their football programs to give a damn. ESPECIALLY SEC schools...Alabama, Georgia, Florida....they. do. not. care. The boosters are very powerful. I knew from jump Auburn wasn\'t going to hire a black coach and new Sylvester Croom, who SHOULD have been hired at Alabama, would never last at Miss State. NEVER. Why did Miss State hire Croom? Because they were going thru NCAA recruiting violations and were put on probation. That seriously hampered their program. NOBODY else wanted the job. Now that they are off probation...buh-bye Croom.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4517161" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4517161" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4517161" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4517161" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4517161" class="dsq-comment-message">What really bothers me, Miranda, is how the kids get pimped - they make big money for those schools, but we see these kids shoplifting in Dillard\'s because the school is only shelling out scholorship money.<br><br>If they had to start paying those kids a real stipend, and I mean in the neighborhood of $60K annually while they\'re in school, ALL of the DIVISION schools\' football programs would go in the tank.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4484159" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4484159" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4484159">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4484159" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4484159" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree it shouldn\'t..in a perfect world.  However, in a Southern world, where you have families participating in sports they do not want to promote the idea of their southern flowerers of womanhood needing to marry a black man to be in a powerful position or to marry athletes...even though they frequently do so...it is NOT an image they want to promote by implicitly condoning it by hiring a coach with a white wife.<br><br>This is not something provable in court. Rather, it is community mores and standards. When alumni and booster clubs make the difference in terms of monies raised, what they want to project to the society will prevail.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4487725" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4487725" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4487725" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4487725" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4487725" class="dsq-comment-message">Those "Southern Flowers of Womanhood" know more tricks than the $20 ho on the street.  LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4489677" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4489677" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4489677">rorysmomma</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4489677" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4489677" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL, and if their money is right, they can have that flower refreshed and rejuvinated for 7 grand.  So no one will be the wiser.... Except for the several thousand served.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4517136" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4517136" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4517136" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4517136" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4517136" class="dsq-comment-message">I know...and it sounds<i> really painful</i>.  LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4496079" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4496079" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4496079" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4496079" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4496079" class="dsq-comment-message">White Rose Buddy,<br><br>I have seen more interracial couples in two days in the South than my lifetime in New York?<br><br>Virginia takes the cake.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4480611" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4480611" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4480611">djchefron</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4480611" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4480611" class="dsq-comment-message">The only way hiring practices for NCAA Football will change is if A.A student athletes refuse scholarships to the major schools and go to the schools that hire A.A coaches.The reality is if your goal is to play professionally the NFL will find you even if you play for little sisters of the poor in bumf*ck South Dakota.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4482273">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4482273" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4482273" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4482273">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4482273" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4482273" class="dsq-comment-message">I know that....you know that.....for some reason though, the perception is that you must go to a Div I school...and then when they show the names of the schools of half the starters in the NFL, they came from Div II & III schools....yet the perception exists.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4482589" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4482589" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4482589">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4482589" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4482589" class="dsq-comment-message">Nope, DJ<br>That penalizes AA athletes. What needs to happen is that alumni and fans need to boycott the school.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4483325" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4483325" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4483325" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4483325" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4483325" class="dsq-comment-message">But they won\'t do that, so I think DJ has a valid point.  If the kids decide to go to Stanford, Harvard, Cal....the NFL will find their asses.<br><br>Hell, the NFL starts tracking these kids while they\'re still in HIGH SCHOOL, so they could find them just like McGarrett always found Big Chicken or Wo Fat.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4483906">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4483906" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4483906" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4483906">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4483906" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4483906" class="dsq-comment-message">It has probably changed to another school now, but thru the year 2000, the school that had produced the most NFL players in the history of the league was Grambling.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4483681" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4483681" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4483681">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4483681" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4483681" class="dsq-comment-message">No it doesn\'t penalize the students. What he\'s saying is, if Auburn won\'t consider an AA head coach on a team that is 65% AA, then those students should think about that and consider Alabama State or Alabama A&M. The perception is that, if we\'re talking about a blue-chip prospect, they believe their best shot is a school like Auburn where they get more exposure. However in reality, pro scouts find gems no matter where they are.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4483851">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4483851" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4483851" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4483851" href="http://www.natturnersrevenge.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">chris chambers</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4483851" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4483851" class="dsq-comment-message">Read 40 Million Dollar Slaves and just look around you. AA athletes are often the biggest not-get-involved, just gimme the $$$ uncle Toms out there. So yes, they are not the answer, though not for the reason you give, whiterosebuddy.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4484206" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4484206" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4484206">whiterosebuddy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4484206" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4484206" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, because they choose not to take political issues does not mean we should use them as pawns to leverage Civil Rights. Their choosing to sell their talents to the highest bidder is an individual choice, for activitists to hold them hostage for their political goals is entirely unjust.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4483236" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4483236" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4483236" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4483236" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4483236" class="dsq-comment-message">Corrected in the post - was typing too fast.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4484693" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4484693" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4484693">RobM</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4484693" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4484693" class="dsq-comment-message">You are wrong about Stan. Youcan complain his name isn\'t being bandied about like Chuck Prince at Citegoup or Dick Fuld at Lehman whom does have a site dedicated to his pride. but Stan walked away w/ $179,000,000 in cold hard cash.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4523357" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4523357" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4523357" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4523357" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4523357" class="dsq-comment-message">He only did what the white guys have done.  And it\'s been verified that Merrill Lynch was on the slide when O\'Neal was appointed, so I stand by my original comment in the post.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4526948" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4526948" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4526948">RobM</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4526948" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4526948" class="dsq-comment-message">merrill\'s so called slide was because it was not issuing CDswaps, CDO\'s and oither deriatives relative to its peers. Stan came from that side and built it up issuing this paper. His mistake was he kept to much of it on the books instead of just issuing it as he was trying to keep the earnings up to increase his credit power(the smartness of this is another subject; I\'m on he was a dumbass for keeping it on the books) to issue more.<br>he was severely hated by the brokerage side because that was "Mother Merrill" the build of assets by the brokers; they would n\'t even give you a broker w/o $250k net worth freeand clear-no houses,boats,  Renoirs or Honeycutts.<br>He acheived the American Dream he walked w/ the cash.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4486613" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4486613" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4486613">rorysmomma</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4486613" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4486613" class="dsq-comment-message">tHE REAL QUESTION IS.... When will our unqualified be offered the same oppotunities that their unqualified are?  I see you brownie.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4490139" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4490139" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4490139">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4490139" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4490139" class="dsq-comment-message">But...but...Dubya said he was doing a heckofva job.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4515559" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4515559" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4515559">rorysmomma</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4515559" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4515559" class="dsq-comment-message">Dubya also said mission accomplished......</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4515713">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4515713" class="dsq-comment-message">And he didn\'t have enough common sense to stay down after the first shoe was thrown at him!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4523328" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4523328" class="dsq-comment-message">Dubya also pretended to fly that aircraft carrier and even dressed up like a fighter pilot trying to fit his uniform to indicate his "endowments" which were probably a rolled up towel he put in his shorts.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4523573">rorysmomma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4523573" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL,<br><br><br>I am getting a crown royal bag imagery from the rolled up towel.....? it looked like a crown royal bag stuffed full of quarters.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4495953" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4495953" class="dsq-comment-message">WE don\'t have any "unqualified" - that\'s the problem.  We are an intelligent race and most of the technology people enjoy today have roots during ancient Egyptian times.  Archeology teaches us that our race came from one of the most civilized nations on Earth - until the white man decided we had to be SAVAGES with bones sticking through our noses, Effed-Up Afros and shyt.<br><br>I refuse to believe any person of color or ethnicity is unqualified, because every ethnic race has contributed SOMETHING to man\'s progress, even if the White Man doesn\'t want to admit it.<br><br>Hell, some White Men don\'t even like to admit that their women are ahead of them in the game in terms of technology and innovation, so they smash them down just like they do US.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4515581">rorysmomma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4515581" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL that is a valid point.?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4489823">jonster</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4489823" class="dsq-comment-message">Rorysmomma, thanks for the best laugh of the day...God Bless You.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4487367" href="http://www.theloop21.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Annie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4487367" class="dsq-comment-message">Stereotyping has unfortunately always been a part business because it helps the white men keep their own people of choice at influential or high positions. I am not trying to be racist toward white men, but even sociologists have seen through collected data that white men desire to stay dominant in our society over women and minorities. All this racism and fight for power is still taking place-but will it continue after Obama has officially taken office? We have an article that surrounds a similar issue concerning race-"Taxed for being black" at <a href="http://theloop21.com/news/taxed-for-being-black" rel="nofollow">http://theloop21.com/news/taxed-for-being-black</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4487904" href="http://ladyvenoms.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ladyvenoms</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4487904" class="dsq-comment-message">This post is da truth! Even we as not so famous can relate to it. I know I\'ve had that happen to me.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4490670" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4490670" class="dsq-comment-message">OMG CPL...I was just heading over her to pose this same question in the open thread. It has been on my mind all day with regards to various things that have played themselves out recently.<br><br>1. Why must black people always be perfect and hold higher moral ground than all others?<br><br>2. Why is it that if we make a mistake or simply are disliked for our views, we never get fair treatement, a second chance or the benefit of the doubt?<br><br>3. Why is it that our emotions are always exaggerated and deem represensible however when those same actions and emotions are acted out by whites or others....they are viewed differently?<br><br>I was just telling a friend of mine on the phone...if I dropped a stapler at work, there would have to be an immediate meeting in regards to the matter.<br><br>Anyways, I didn\'t even read your post but I just had to comment after reading the first line because I cannot believe we were thinking the same thing today.<br><br>Alright now that I got that off my chest, I will read it now.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4495859" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4495859" class="dsq-comment-message">Actually, I wrote this post because I was working on a temp job which was little more than a plantation.  The sistas who were acting like hood rats were patted on the head by Missy Anne - the intelligent sistas who could speak English in an intelligent fashion; discuss politics and the economy - we were automatically considered to be a damned "threat" by the hood rats and the Missy Annes supervising us.<br><br>We had a white guy on our line who was too "delicate" to do real work, and I saw how they kept moving him around when he screwed up - but any person of color screwing up; they were told to clock out, collect their last check on Friday and don\'t bother to return.<br><br>This white guy was holding me up on the line - and I got blamed for the slow process. When I objected, I got a write-up saying I had an attitude problem - code speak for "Uppity Negro Bitch".<br><br>So I walked out, called Corporate, told them I was quitting and why.  They wanted to put me on "do not rehire" status, which, unless I violated company policy, is against Federal and Commonwealth Labor Law.  I asked for an upper management official, who happened to be a sista. I told her what the deal was, and she pulled my record, told me "I\'m processing you out so if you choose to come back, your record is clean.  We\'ve had a lot of problems in that facility, and I think I know who you were working for, because she tends to have problems with educated sistas."<br><br>W--T-F?  In 2008, we still have Missy Annes who think we\'re Kizzy and that we should be happy if they smile at our ass.  All I could think of was how they kept moving that white guy around because he couldn\'t handle the mail volume, while the brothas and sistas were worked like mules with no rest breaks, which was another violation of Federal and State Labor Laws.<br><br>I had to bounce or else I was going to get charged with assault.  It was that simple.<br><br>And other opportunities have come my way - plus I\'ll head to the classroom as a sub teacher in January, so I have more peace in biting the bullet rather than calling them on their shyt until I had evidence.<br><br>I\'ve dropped dime to the Department of Labor.  They\'ll be getting a "visit" in the New Year.<br><br>That\'s what inspired me to write this post.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4511308">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4511308" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL, YOU GO GIRL!!!!  "We aint\' no where near tired yet"<br><br>I\'m so grateful you wrote the post too.  It\'s given me an opportunity to remember how things are and how we always have the power to bring change in any situation.   POST- RACIAL MY ASS!<br><br><br>I think the biggest insult  to POC in 2008  regarding the white, entitled , and unqualified was the selection of Sarah Palin to the Republican ticket as VPOTUS.<br><br>That pick was glaring, daring, and outrageously wrong on so many levels.  And the MSM aided and abetted that ignorance.  I\'m still cringing; just thinking that bitch could\'ve  actually gotten the job.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4496383">Denise</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4496383" class="dsq-comment-message">Girl, temp agencies often function like modern day slave auctions.  <br><br>Far too often, they cater to needs of the racist/ bully/ sociopath "client" who no one else in the company wants to work with.  LOL</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4511854">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4511854" class="dsq-comment-message">BAM! Aint\' THAT the truth!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4513497">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4513497" class="dsq-comment-message">LMAO at your temping story!  I had one temp assignment where it was "indefinite," meaning open-ended, meaning "forever."  If you stayed until the end of the assignment, that could be for 3 months or 3 years.<br><br>Anywho, I didn\'t want to do the assignment anymore so I called the agency and told them that I would like the following week to be my last.  The conversation went like this...<br><br>COORDINATOR: You HAVE to finish the assignment.  You HAVE to stay until the end.<br><br>ME: Um, it\'s an indefinite assignment.  That could be forever.<br><br>COORDINATOR:  Well, you have to finish it, or else we\'ll just be forced to put you on "do not rehire" status.<br><br>ME: Ok.<br><br>COORDINATOR:  What do you MEAN, Ok?<br><br>ME: You said if I don\'t finish the indefinite assignment, you\'ll put me on "do not rehire status."  That\'s ok with me.<br><br>COORDINATOR: (choking, sputtering) Well what are WE supposed to do now?<br><br>ME: I don\'t know.  That\'s your problem.  *click*<br><br>You could totally tell some of those temp coordinators and on-site managers thought the black temps were the \'welfare to work" people who were desperate for their crumb of a job.  Temps get pimped, if they aren\'t smart about it.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4521557" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4521557" class="dsq-comment-message">Town, they love it when folks act desperate.<br><br>Even though my financial situation is DIRE, I still trust God to see me through, and so I bounced.  These SOBs want desperation, so they can treat the employee like runaway slaves and when I acted like Denzel did in "Glory" - the management got to sputtering just like your coordinator did.<br><br>I mean, I needed the money, but that didn\'t mean I needed to take shyt off their asses.  I\'ve even had to clown them about my paycheck - I signed up for Direct Deposit - these MoFos want me to pick it up in person cause they don\'t know when they would get around to mailing it.<br><br>So I dropped another dime to the Department of Labor.  Now they\'ll be getting that New Year\'s visit after CHRISTMAS.<br><br>Oh, I\'ll go pick up my check - but homegirl better just hand it to me or get bitch-slapped if she says jack.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4521936">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4521936" class="dsq-comment-message">They want desperation so they can charge the client company $20/hr for your services but break you off $7/hr.  And give the white temp sitting next to you doing the exact same thing $9/hr.  <br><br>If they didn\'t want to deal with your ass, they would purposely (IMO) offer you crappy assignments that they knew you wouldn\'t take, and if you complained about not getting any assignments they would claim they offered you stuff but you "just didn\'t want to work."  Like my friend who lived in the Northern Neck, which is about an hour from Richmond to the east, and the temp company called her up and wanted to send her to Crozet for a 6 hour assignment for $6.50/hr.  Crozet is about an hour away to the west of Richmond, so she would have been driving 2 hours one way to work a 6 hour gig for $6.50/hr.  When you take taxes out she would have gotten about $30 and most of that would have gone to gas.  It wasn\'t worth it and she told them so.<br><br>But then when she complained about them not giving her any assignments, they came back with "We tried to place you but you didn\'t want to work."<br><br>And some advice to any aspiring temp out there:  NEVER accept lower than what you want because if you do, the temp company will NEVER offer you what you want.  If you tell them upfront you won\'t accept less than $12/hr but then turn around and accept $7/hr, they will NEVER offer you a $7/hr gig because you\'ve shown them you\'ll sell yourself short.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4522682">Denise</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4522682" class="dsq-comment-message">"Anywho, I didn\'t want to do the assignment anymore so I called the agency and told them that I would like the following week to be my last..."<br><br>Some folk can\'t wrap their brain around the notion that some folk - yes, even black women - need to temp for FLEXIBILITY,  not a round of <b>  \'SQUEEZE THE N*GGER" </b> <br><br>They definitely don\'t like it when &lt;<i> your </i> pimp game is five steps ahead of theirs  - meaning you got OTHA options and are just waiting to play your hand.  LOL</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4523262" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4523262" class="dsq-comment-message">Denise:<br><br>"SQUEEZE THE N*GGER" was exactly how I was feeling.<br><br>And there was one sista who was always in Missy\'s face to see about being kept on after Christmas - when the word in the facility was that you didn\'t beg them to keep you on - you have to wait to be INVITED BACK.<br><br>This was the sista who covered for the white boy, but ratted out my ass when she knew damned well it was the white boy\'s fault.  I swear it was like dealing with a crack addict, working with that sista.<br><br>And she\'s doing all that but I already know they\'ve placed her in "do not rehire" status as a result of her begging for a job there after Christmas.<br><br>True plantation culture and the Blacks buy it hook, line and two sinkers.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4525674">Denise</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4525674" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL:  <br><br>I\'m sure.  <i> STN </i> - just like, "BLAME THE NIG" is old game.   <br><br>As for the "sistah" dounds like another one protecting massa house by keeping her path clear. Feel me?  <br><br>If you are healthy and don\'t kids, you GOT this ;-) <br>In the meantime, volunteer some time in with a church or food bank to help you through this patch.  It\'s amazing how rewarding it is to HELP OTHERS while you\'re in a storm.  <br><br>Remember: THIS TOO SHALL PASS!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4525795">Denise</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4525795" class="dsq-comment-message">sorry for the more than usual typos... I\'m in a rush.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4527565" class="dsq-comment-message">one more thing. <br><br>I know that some of what has been described is just plain old-fashioned BULLYING and POWER PLAYS from which no one is immune. No argument there. <br><br>However, the difference for black folk is when the conduct is an institutional characteristic -- as in, it\'s the way MOST black folk are treated in an industry or organization.  The other difference is when the objective is to keep a person - as a member of a class (you know, as many y\'all as possible) - in a position of economic inferiority.   <br><br>Got it?  Good.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4523940">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4523940" class="dsq-comment-message">Word, Town.  WE\'VE GOT TO KNOW OUR OWN WORTH/VALUE.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4533185" class="dsq-comment-message">Town!    Town!    Town!!   LOL!     :&gt;)     :&gt;)  TRUTH!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4522646" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4522646" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow CPL, those sound like my experiences not only in my various work enviornments but also school enviornments. Great post and response!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4526447" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL:  ***shakin\' my head***   <br><br>I\'m believin\' that we could conduct our own "JJP STUDY" - ON COMMON/SHARED EXPERIENCES OF Discrimination.<br><br>As I read through this threadI noted that many of us have stated, somewhere in our posts, - - "THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME!"  :&gt;)<br><br>Here is a simple way to get some DATA:  Present up to a certain number of SCENARIOS [e.g., 10], and ASK US to ***raise our hand** IFFF we had that/similar experience.<br><br>From what I\'ve seen here, I\'ll "BETCHA" that the DATA will show that WE ALL have had COMMON EXPERIENCES!  [That would be 100%!   :&gt;)]  Cain\'t REFUTE the IMPLICATIONS of the DATA annnnnnnnd, of  NEXT STEPS for REMEDIATION! <br>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - <br><br><i>plus I\'ll head to the classroom as a sub teacher in January, </i><br><br>Yaaaaaaaa!  :&gt;)         :&gt;)      :&gt;)    I keep praying for your situation!!  This is ONE STEP FORWARD!!  :&gt;)  Yaaaaaaaa!!    :&gt;)    :&gt;)  Thank you LAWD!!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4528482" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4528482">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4528482" class="dsq-comment-message">GreenLadyHere, HANDS RAISED  1-10.  Let the remediation begin.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4533145" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4533145">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4533145" class="dsq-comment-message">spirit:  LOL!    :&gt;)     :&gt;)  You KNOW that you\'re right!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4528603" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4528603" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4528603">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4528603" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4528603" class="dsq-comment-message">And, congrats on the subbing job.  GO GET\'EM TEACH!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4495477" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4495477" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4495477">Against Race Politics</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4495477" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4495477" class="dsq-comment-message">Rhonda,<br><br>How did you do it???????? How did you read my mind? I so feel you on the dropped stapler meeting! In fact, I think they are meeting about mine now! :-)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4511525" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4511525" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4511525">rikyrah</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4511525" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4511525" class="dsq-comment-message">EVENING THREAD IS UP</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4512307">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4512307" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4512307" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4512307">Denise</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4512307" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4512307" class="dsq-comment-message">Exhibit Number Two:  John Walker Lindh, The American Taliban<br><br><a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/12/18/Release_sought_for_American_Taliban/UPI-56501229612616/" rel="nofollow">http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/12/18/Release_...</a><br><br>I know he hasn\'t been "forgiven" per se, but I seriously doubt we\'d even be entertaining this notion if his name was "Jamal Johnson"?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4512529">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4512529" class="dsq-comment-message">Jamal would have gotten pumped full of potassium chloride by now and be somewhere in an unmarked grave.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4516035">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4516035" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL,<br><br>this post so rocks in so many way. You speak the truth.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4517039" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4517039" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4517039" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4517039" class="dsq-comment-message">Aw, shucks - you guys inspire me to write the truth, so I tell it like it is.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4625829" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4625829" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4625829" href="http://afemanistview.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">SnowdropExplodes</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4625829" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4625829" class="dsq-comment-message">Brilliant post.<br><br>One story I am fond of retelling is that in the beginning, the BBC expected "Doctor Who" (one of its most successful series ever) to be a failure.   As a result, they gave the Producer\'s job to Verity Lambert - one of the first women to make it to television producer  (wanting her to fail), and the Director\'s job for first serial was given to the first Asian ever to qualify as a BBC television Director (also, expecting and wanting him to fail).   Fortunately, both of them knocked the ball out of the park, proving the BBC\'s executives wrong on every count.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4670506">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4670506" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4670506" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4670506">South Park Conservatives</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4670506" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4670506" class="dsq-comment-message">DL Hughley  not only said what Imus said but agreed with him. After that DL  gets his on show on CNN. Hows that for second chances?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4676274">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4676274" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4676274" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4676274" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4676274" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4676274" class="dsq-comment-message">It means a Black person gets a second chance if he\'s willing to be an Uncle Ruckus and engage in major buck dancing and ass-kissing to the point of selling out.<br><br>And that\'s what DL has done.  He hasn\'t been funny in ten years and he knows his shelf life has expired, so he\'s reduced to defending saltines like Don Imus in order to get a TV gig like CNN.  Even Roland Martin could do a better job with that show because Roland has a true knowledge of politics and he\'s also comical with a sharp wit that DL wishes HE HAD.<br><br>It\'s not the same second chance that Dog or Imus got - they essentially were rewarded for being bigots when they should be permanently UNEMPLOYED, and the media equivalent of TYPHOID MARY.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4483786" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4483786" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4483786" href="http://www.natturnersrevenge.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">chris chambers</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4483786" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4483786" class="dsq-comment-message">Ahem...um...is this post also some sort of read between the lines code for "Let\'s not be so hard on our President-elect for his Cabinet choices, white staff, Rick Warren, not using the bully pulpit for much, going along with a war/the TARP trough/etc. because he\'s not going to get a second chance for eff-ing up so cut him slack for being \'cautious and moderate?\'" Just checking. <br><br>Might be that 5 mil folk streaming past my windows the windows weekend of 1/18-1/20 or sleeping on my floor will really be marching in the DC cold (yeah it\'s cold here in jan. as you you)  to save their jobs/homes, get debt relief and health care, rather than pray w/Rick Warren.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4487350" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4487350" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4487350">carolinagirl</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4487350" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4487350" class="dsq-comment-message">"Ahem...um...is this post also some sort of read between the lines code for "Let\'s not be so hard on our President-elect for his Cabinet choices, white staff, Rick Warren, not using the bully pulpit for much, going along with a war/the TARP trough/etc. because he\'s not going to get a second chance for eff-ing up so cut him slack for being \'cautious and moderate?\'"<br><br>I\'ll answer this for you. No. If it was, she would have said it. The last post that was criticizing Obama about the choices he has made so far has mostly come from CPL. Please get over yourself and stop trying to make people into Kool-Aid drinkers b/c they don\'t see things your way.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4487514" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4487514" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4487514">Sepia</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4487514" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4487514" class="dsq-comment-message">Thank you carolinagirl!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4490738" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4490738" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4490738" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4490738" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4490738" class="dsq-comment-message">Exactly, CPL is NO kool-aid drinker.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4511148" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4511148" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4511148" href="http://www.natturnersrevenge.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">chris chambers</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4511148" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4511148" class="dsq-comment-message">Of course the CPL is no cult member. But at times you all can be cult-ish. <br>For real, the folks at Jonestown weren\'t all willing imbibers. Jones had henchmen leveling guns at folks. So perhas this term\'s inapt as well as cliche. Accurate only when folks coerce or set a tone were dissent from conventional wisdom is attacked. Oops...hey we\'re back to square one. <br>Just messin with ya.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4501343" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4501343" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4501343" href="http://www.natturnersrevenge.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">chris chambers</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4501343" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4501343" class="dsq-comment-message">A hallmark of Kool Aid poisoning is an emotional knee jerk response. You then are the one who needs to get over yourself, Carolina girl. I\'m just looking at a bigger picture, because I indeed see too many folks muting dissent or even discussion points on what our President-elect is doing or should do precisely b/c of reations like yours. Plus, down the line, if Barack running into some problems due to miscalcuion, I bet this "he\'s not ebeing allowed to fail" or leeway argument will be paraded out. Then I wil search this blog\'s archive and we can have this conversation again. LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4516027" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4516027" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4516027">carolinagirl</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4516027" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4516027" class="dsq-comment-message">Please get over yourself and stop trying to make people into Kool-Aid drinkers b/c they don\'t see things your way.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4482700" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4482700" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4482700">jonster</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4482700" class="dsq-comment-message">Welllllll...I have to disagree.  Surely there are politicians who are both, er, melanin-challenged (ha!) and Black who have bounced back from political scandals.  According to this study:  <br><br><a href="http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-9705817_ITM" rel="nofollow">http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_02...</a><br><br>Since the 1940s there have been a number of prominent elected officials who have been able to redeem their standing in the black community after involvement in scandals. By the 1990s, it appeared that one of the cultural differences between black and white Americans was that the former were far more willing to forgive politicians who had previously been accused of misbehavior. <br><br>Such differences between blacks and whites were not always as pronounced as they had become by the 1990s. <br><br>[In the study] I focus upon six elected officials and their support among African Americans in the midst of allegations (some proven) of wrongdoing. Two of the officials, Marion Barry and Edward Brooke, had a significant number of white constituents, therefore I compared their electoral support among whites with their support among blacks, both before and after the scandals they were involved in. This shows the difference between the two racial groups. <br><br>Elected Officials Who Made "Comebacks" In the Black Community <br><br>The November 1994 elections in the U.S. showed how differently black voters and white voters treat fallen public officials. In that election, two very well-known individuals were trying to salvage their political careers in the midst of scandals. One was U.S. Representative Dan Rostenkowski (D-IL), the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and the other was Marion Barry, the former Mayor of Washington, D.C. Rostenkowski was under a 17-count criminal indictment for misuse of the congressional franking privilege, fraud, and witness tampering.   In Washington, D.C., Marion Barry was fighting to return to the mayor\'s office, an office he had left 4 years earlier while under indictment for use of illegal narcotics, after having been videotaped using cocaine. Barry was subsequently convicted of a misdemeanor drug charge and sentenced to 6 months in prison. Upon his return from prison in 1992, he won a seat on the D.C. City Council, and in 1994 he was running for the mayor\'s office. When the votes were counted, Rostenkowski, a 36-year incumbent, was defeated in his re-election bid, while Barry was returned to the mayor\'s office. <br><br>A key difference between the two politicians\' constituencies is that Rostenkowski\'s district was less than 2 percent black, while the District of Columbia was 65 percent black.  It was the support of D.C\'s black majority that made possible the comeback of Marion Barry. In this race, the tendency of blacks to forgive errant politicians was clearly seen. In the 1994 Democratic primary Barry\'s principal opponents were two other black Democrats (thus controlling for race and partisanship). In those precincts that were overwhelmingly white, Barry received only 3.81 percent of the vote, while in the overwhelmingly black precincts Barry received 68.6 percent of the vote.</div>\
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			//		 Facebook API keys.  This must be used in conjunction with
			//		 disqus_facebook_forum (see authenticateFacebook).
			var facebook_api_key = 'bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d';
			if (typeof disqus_facebook_api_key != 'undefined') {
				facebook_api_key = disqus_facebook_api_key;
			}

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


	


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

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

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

})();




