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"ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Did anybody ever notice all the homeless people living in the bushes right inside the locks proper, and under the train trestles across the channel? <br><br> Look in just about any dense thicket of tangled brush and you'll see evidence or prior inhabitation, if not the inhabitant themselves. Sometimes they block the entry way to their warrens with a shopping cart full of junk.<br><br>And how about the bum caches in Wallingford, right on the post office grounds? Huge tarps in the bushes covering up bum hoards of junk , clothes, etc.<br><br>Or heading down Southbound 99, in that massive greenbelt off on the right of Queen Anne, the place has massive tarp structures and is a shooting gallery. Made the mistake of walking down the park trail and interrupted two gentlemen shooting up what I assumed was black tar heroin, wow... never again.<br><br><br>These people were there before the economy crashed, all long term bums, so I don't think we can blame the econ for a lot of this problem.<br><br>The city is pretty tolerant of this type of activity and it's associated criminality (violence, drugs, theft, etc)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-08_22:54:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "b199207ce4e92bc9a34b7f704100f2b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7871848": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Trizzle -<br><br>What this about Heroin in Bergen Park? I am not doubting you, but if this is true, let us know how you know and what info you have. I know full well the Crack and Meth explosion, but I have not heard much about heroin aside from some of those people who live behind Sip and Ship in the so called Meth house.<br><br>I wonder how long it will take before this Meth/Crack/Heroin epidemic works it's way through Ballard High School. <br><br>Maybe, it's already there.... <br><br>It's a matter of time before we see track marks on our teenagers arms and start hearing of overdose deaths at High School Parties at Golden Gardens this summer. <br><br>These pro drug dealers target teens first for sales and prostitution to pay for the additcions they create. Your daughter could be the next they take from Ballard High/Bergen Park/Chai House and out on to Aurora Ave to become a prostitute. It happens every day in Seattle and is a big business. Some are murdered and never heard from again.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_15:25:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7939870": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm sure YOU have a spare room or two, or even the couch, take a few into YOUR home, provide some \"HOPE\" . Practice what YOU preach.  Seattle and Ballard already have services, no need to set more up, too many \"services\" now.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-07_12:15:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mymble", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7871792, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8099026": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"There are mental health facilities all over downtown\"<br><br>Yes and you should use them. You sound like you are paranoid schizophrenic", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-12_14:45:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "d00a57726bc4af1bfc0ed9d03e4f5f26", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7871777, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7945957": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Everybody pays sales tax, buddy.  Congratulations on owning property, I'm sorry it's so taxing.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-07_15:39:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "1854993eda88c291e013ca0d982e3df4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7871754, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7871753": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Awe c'mon, they're just the Boy Scouts earning a merit badge in camping!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_16:50:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "38df258b1e71db40d9411c476a8c0664", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871754": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's illegal to camp there. It's also illegal to live in Bergen Park. What's this 48 hours crap?<br><br>Summer is coming. Is there a plan to get the meth heads out of Bergen Park, or are we supposed just put up with it as they multiply and keep our traps shut?<br><br>It looks like they have claimed The Chai House as the official Meth Head tranisient headquarters, which is fine. At least they are all over in one spot. But, can they at least stay inside the damn place, not be out in the park? And, maybe keep all the backpacks and bikes off the sidewalks in frount of the Chai House, some some of us can at least get by? The hackey sack is annoying enough, but the meth heads are not something we need to navigate through on a sidewalk paid for by the taxpayers. For Christs Sake, grow up.<br><br>There is a retirement home on the same block and same side as The Chai House. Some of the older folks in wheelchairs would like to use the sidewalk. You mind?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_17:39:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7871755": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh boy...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_17:56:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "3e8c76ff26b2d981ff43bea1d5c8a311", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871756": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "BHO. You really need to learn how to express yourself. Don't hold back next post. Not clear exactly just where ya stand on this one.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_17:56:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "38df258b1e71db40d9411c476a8c0664", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871757": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A tent with a view and off street parking!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_18:11:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "845af3cf8dc0c8a51c18f546cbe594f1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871758": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Welcome to the echo chamber.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_18:45:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "50a375851ec3f33f48b3b687ad84cb25", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871759": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "you'd think the exhaust from all the cars parking in and out of there would be bothersome, and dangerous...I was suprised when I saw them too..and not sure why the 48 hr deal either..but there must be some reason..", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_18:53:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "6e9e3cb74171f48bd9e7eea4cdbdc425", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871760": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Happy campers.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_19:47:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "01252508f6a7b74a42189fafd9a0780e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871761": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They are camped out for the free Monday lunch. <br><br>Then, Wednesday and Thursday we will have the food bank influx of transients aka \"sweet old ladies\". <br><br>Then, Friday we have the whole downtown Ballard area and Bergen Park flooded with meth heads and panhandlers for the free lunch at St. Lukes. <br><br>We also have the Bergen Park Meth/Crack/Booze party on the first, when the welfare checks come in this week. That will last two or three days.  That will be a joint Chai House/Friends of Bergen Park event.<br><br>To top it off, we have the Car Campground for Meth, sex offenders and Crack heads, still scheduled to open in the St. Lukes parking lot, right next to the new library for summer. <br><br>Finally, we have the secretive Maniac Shelter at Calgary opening, for the kiddies in the neighborhood park.<br><br>And, we still have no Seattle Police foot or bike patrols or answers from Officer Haag.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_21:06:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871762": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I mean, we have an Army of Meth and Crack dealers on parade, all day and all night, marching from Bergen Park/The Chai House Pay Phone to the 7-11 pay phone and back. <br><br>Selling Crack/Meth and everything else under the sun to pedestrians up and down those sidewalks, while panhandling along the way. You mean to tell me, the Seattle Police refuse to even enforce that law (No meth/crack selling) or make a single arrest to set an example? Just one?<br><br>The Seattle Police can\u2019t figure out to bug the pay phone in frount of the Chai House, when it was right on the frount page of the Ballard News Tribune, that it\u2019s used mostly for drug deals? <br><br>Then, we have meth heads camping on Shilshole and Officer Haag practically offers to fluff up thier pillows for them and tell them a bedtime story, rather than take them in?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_21:23:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871763": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "BHO, have you given this information to the SPD? Your reconnaissance would be much valued. Even your suggestions for police strategy and tactics would be of help.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_22:12:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "b88bd3dcb203da1c4ebe0d257476022f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871764": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jesus put those unsaved wretches in those tents, and he put those tents in sinful Ballard.  It is the Lord's will that those who cannot earn a respectable upper middle class salary should be cast out and scorned.  The Seattle Police well know the wrath of God is mighty, and they know better than to move anyone from the spot He has chosen to lay them down upon.<br><br>Cease your blasphemous whining, Ballard, and pray the market turns around so you can sell your house and move to a gated Christian community and be among the saved, far, far away from the sick and the poor and the unclothed!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_22:12:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "7fbd15e146e7f40a6e3c5ea3c2115ed9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871765": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "48 hours to stop committing crimes?<br><br>The new SPD catch &amp; release program!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_22:23:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "116b5e2cea113984c46f643d527a290a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871766": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "BHO:<br>You are such a simple-minded person, fitting the entire homeless population into one box, all the same. If you only realized how completely stupid you sound. <br>The homeless are no different than any other population on the planet. Some good, some not so much, some addicted, yet many who are not. Many are just struggling to survive in these hard times and yes for various reasons, some have been on the street for years. Do you personally know any homeless people? I do and not all of them are the criminal evil-doers you post about here.<br>In this economy, just about everyone is a few paychecks, if not closer to homelessness. I'm thinking the problem is only going to get worse here in Ballard and all over the city, though perhaps not in some of the wealthier areas or at least not right away.<br>You've mentioned before that the food bank and meal programs should move somewhere like Medina. I don't think Medina needs a food bank or soup kitchen, but Ballard does. There are a lot of people here who need help. Perhaps you'd be happier in Medina.I'm sure they have a blog too where you can relate your stories of the evil homeless people that ruined your life.  Real estate is cheap now.  Check it out. <br>I don't know about the rest of you here, but I am so sick of BHO and his endless tirade that does nothing to help the situation.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_22:27:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdfbbfdae1382ef6c3358011b453b930", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7871767": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No, go to the U District and Downtown where they have more soup kitchens and shelters than you can imagine or visit in a lifetime. Plus, churches and state and federal agencies to help you. This is a family neighborhood. It was never designed to solve homelessness. It was a dumb experiment that has backfired.  There is more help than you can ever want, if you would simply go get it. It's not here, I assure you. This is not the neighborhood for that. It's a family neighborhood. Get a clue. Go downtown, go to the welfare office and speak to a social worker. It's very simple.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_22:48:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871768": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "phishstu - Give the info to the cops? Its on the frount page to the damn newspaper!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_22:49:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871769": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Church Neighbor - We get it by now. You are a schill for the Ballard Food Bank or actually work there. Take your propaganda elsewhere. Nobody with a broken window or stolen car gives a rats ass any more about the food bank. Plain enough?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_22:54:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871770": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "BHO and others:<br><br>A week or so ago, someone posted a comment that contained all the appropriate phone and email contact information for the Seattle Police Department's North Precinct command, including Officer Devlin Haag's supervising Sargent. <br><br>Aside from slamming the CPT officer (Haag) in this forum, have you had any constructive conversations with the SPD management ?  If you haven't then you're just \"some troll on a blog\" to them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_22:57:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "629c3363224e783be0165156b3b4ca25", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871771": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"The homeless are no different than any other population on the planet.\"<br><br>Well, except for one whopper of a difference\u2014they screwed up so badly and planned so poorly for life that they are homeless.<br><br>\"just about everyone is a few paychecks\"<br><br>Total myth.<br><br>\"There are a lot of people here who need help\"<br><br>No, there's many COMING here for help because some of our knuckleheaded neighbors put out the welcome matt for moochers. Big difference. See the pigeon feeding analogy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_23:02:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "6f3150b79353033da0da15481a4b145e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871772": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I won't disclose anything about my contact with the police. Let's just say, I am doing my part.  I would strongly suggest those email addresses to others. But, I am pretty fed up with these obvious things that a simple chat by a couple of officers could end. Like, simply going over the men sleeping in Bergen Park, and saying it's against the law, and if you do it again, you will be arrested. Try the same thing with the drug dealers outside 7 11 every night. They need me to tell them that? Ok, I admit, officer Haag is taking the brunt of the frustration. I will refrain from that from now on. But, I am the only person in Ballard, bothered by swimming in meth heads, crazy people and panhandlers, every day of my life? Come on... Just cut off the food supply.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_23:06:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871773": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Interesting approach that seems to be working. Maybe housing should be the first thing we address? While under a roof, an addiction might be easier to conquer?<br><br><a href=\"http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008957119_webalcoholics01m.html?syndication=rss\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_23:06:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdfbbfdae1382ef6c3358011b453b930", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871774": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So yes, I apologise to Officer Haag", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_23:10:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871775": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "BHO:<br>I think you are over ruffling your feathers. A lot of people see you as a joke.<br>I don't work for the Ballard Food Bank, but support them with financial and other donations regularly. I believe in their work  and have volunteered there. Lots of people in Ballard and beyond support the Ballard Food Bank. They've been here for years and done lots of good work. Why do you feel the need to bash them?<br>I was stating my opinion as someone who knows some homeless people. You clearly do not, as you only see them as faceless, evil people who should be wiped off the planet.<br>So sad to hear your endless heartless bantering. One can only hope you might be in need someday. Then you might get a clue.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_23:17:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdfbbfdae1382ef6c3358011b453b930", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871776": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "BHO:<br>and maybe you should do us all a favor and take yourself elsewhere. Ballard is progressing and looking for solutions. You clearly are not.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_23:22:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdfbbfdae1382ef6c3358011b453b930", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871777": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Donate to NW Harvest and soup kitchens in neighborhoods with adequate Police and services for the homeless. Since when do when need to compete for homeless people? Let the neighborhoods designed for that do their jobs. <br><br>There are mental health facilities all over downtown, free food, needle exchanges, methadone clinics and every other program we dont have and nobody but a few want in Ballard. This is not that type of neighborhood and this is not a competition to see which neighborhood and feed the most homeless. What is this sudden Ballard fixation on homeless? It's like you people are trying to recruit them or something.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_23:25:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7871778": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Um Church Lady, I aint going nowhere. You wack jobs moved into my neighborhood. Not the other way around...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_23:26:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871779": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Bark More:<br>No need to dignify that with a response...read the news...Look at stats...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_23:28:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdfbbfdae1382ef6c3358011b453b930", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871780": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CHURCHNEIGHBOR aka also neighbor of the proposed shelter", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_23:32:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdfbbfdae1382ef6c3358011b453b930", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871781": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "BHO\": You are going to be out numbered by the many homeless here soon...What will you do when they are camping in your yard?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_23:33:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdfbbfdae1382ef6c3358011b453b930", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871782": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Church Lady, what make you think the business owners of Ballard want to play mental health case worker with your homeless friends, or break up their fights inside their businesses? Don't you feel these people could benefit from professionals downtown, mental health case workers, needle exchanges and rehabs? Why don't you go feed them there? Too lazy to take the bus downtown?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_23:34:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871783": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Medina is calling you...Lots of cheap really right-winged self absorbed neighborhoods there", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_23:36:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdfbbfdae1382ef6c3358011b453b930", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871784": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great, the only spokesperson the food bank has put on here, turns out to be a fruit cake. Just great...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_23:37:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871785": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Look at stats\"<br><br>What stats? You gave none.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_23:44:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ea74ec2c6268ae0b2896187d4070275", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871786": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "All you naysayers, please listen to BHO.  He has a handicapped placard obtained by dubious means and is serious about his business.  Although he is not gainfully employed, he wants to keep us all safe and garner a little love in the process.  So quit being haters and lets all organize a benefit at the Chai House on his behalf.  I now know where he drinks and would be happy to organize a community \"come to jesus\" event on his behalf.  Love people, its all about love.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_23:47:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "3282b4f7df6177410dc33b6776088d8f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871787": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "BHO: No. Nobody wants to put up with people who cause problems.  You have an idea that all homeless are bad and blame everything negative that happens in Ballard has to to with a homeless person. I happen to live in an area with neighbors with teens that tag and do drugs. Does that make me think all teens are bad? I think not. I am smarter and more progressive than that.<br>I have worked in social services for years and the answer is not to send your neighborhood problems to another area. Those areas have problems too that they need to deal with.<br>Ballard has a problem with homelessness, as do many other areas in the city. Sending it away is not an answer. <br>The answer is to set up services for these people in this area to get services like jobs, housing (perhaps some of our condos go to low income housing), mental health services, drug/alcohol services etc.<br>Like it or not, the homeless aren't leaving or going to another area. Other areas are satuarated with thier own homeless population, just like Ballard. BHO:You just want this problem to go away....Earth to BHO...The homeless are here, as in other areas of the city. Sending them away isn't going to work. We have to find solutions. <br>Shooting them or sending them away are not viable answers. Other areas are also saturated.<br>If this doesn't sink into your tiny brain...MOVE TO MEDINA!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-31_23:58:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdfbbfdae1382ef6c3358011b453b930", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871788": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I will stand up for BHO here.  I am sick of this neighborhood being infested by bums.  I don't like walking to Safeway and having to worry about bums selling drugs in the bushes.  I don't like what I see in Bergen Park.<br><br>But what troubles me most is the bum camper colony that seems to be growing daily.  In the last year, there have been two murders within a 6-block radius of my house.  You can check the MyBallard archives if you want more details.  The long and short of it is that both murders were bums living in campers, by bums living in campers (one over some sort of malt beverage).  <br><br>While I agree that some of BHO's comments are a little blunt, some of you should hear yourselves.  You almost make it sound like you relish in these people's homelessness and give them 100% of the benefit of the doubt.  Sorry, I don't.  I subscribe to the broken windows theory, that when we see these things on a daily basis, more crime is around the corner.<br><br>I enjoy living in Ballard, but something has to be done about the homeless problem.  Out of misguided \"kindness\" a lot of you look the other way, but for me it's a concern when I can't fully enjoy my neighborhood because there may be some methed-out bum in a trailer a block away that might try and attack me when I run by.  Tolerating a few tents here and there, and the neighborhood continues a rapid decline because we're telling people, \"we think it's fine what you're doing, keep it up\".  And then it multiplies.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_00:07:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "3d9a773f28421f48673cc3422948c9fc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7871789": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What's WRONG with NOT wanting homeless crackheads in OUR neighborhood? They are not OUR homless...they are universally here from other places.  Provide services, and they will come. <br><br>Condos ? Oh, that's a great concept...I'm sure someone who threw down 350K a year ago wants to share his buildling with homeless crack heads. Or that owners of said buildings might think that's a viable option. <br><br>I say we quit making it attractive to be here, and they will leave. <br><br>\"Medina is calling you\u2026Lots of cheap really right-winged self absorbed neighborhoods there.\"<br>Cheap? Medina? What color is the atmosphere on your home planet? <br><br>I'm sick of my tax dollars supporting these people, and I'm sick of the rising crime, car prowls, drug dealers, and the homeless.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_00:12:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "247c99243b8edde0efe9157e45dd6380", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871790": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm with BHO. There are, and have been, many many agencies for these people. Giving to off-ramp greeters has gottne them/us where? What the heck ever happened to the teach a man to fish idea? There are hand-ups, then there are hand-outs. There are safety-nets, then there are hammocks. Seems to me this tolerance crap is outta hand. Thanks again guilty white liberals, for nothing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_00:18:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "38df258b1e71db40d9411c476a8c0664", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871791": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "BHO: <br>Please quit presenting me as a spokeperson for the food bank.The problem with you is you assume and you know what they say about that....<br> I volunteered at BFB last year and know them to be a really good organization. Additionally, I am a person with an MSW who has worked with the homeless population for over 20 years. People like you are more a problem than the people I have served all these years, for you are clueless. <br>I am challenging you and your warped beliefs and am simply only a resident here in Ballard", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_00:19:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdfbbfdae1382ef6c3358011b453b930", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871792": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You  guys need to think of setting up services to help these people get on track. They aren't going to leave. You will see changes if you can provide hope.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_00:24:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdfbbfdae1382ef6c3358011b453b930", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7871793": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ryan, this isn't Bellevue. We deal with these issues as a community, not as a posse.  I care, about you, the \"bums\" and every other human being.  There is no trash.  If you want to fully enjoy your community on your own terms, move to a neighborhood with covenants and terms that you can deal with.  If you want to impose your will on the rest of Ballard, you are in the wrong place.  That methed-out bum living in the trailer has every much right to existence as you do.  None of us likes being the victim of crime, but I don't see how you are helping the situation.  There are no absolutes no matter how much you wish it to be so.  I'm not you and you are not me.  Can we address the issues behind the crime or should we just lock everyone up and throw away the key? Simple solution, huh?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_00:27:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "3282b4f7df6177410dc33b6776088d8f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871794": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's perfectly reasonable to give them at least 48 hours to move.  They're not hurting anyone.  I walk around Ballard every day and is nothing like the MyBallard nutters describe.  It's sort of interesting to see that so many people live in fear.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_00:30:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "50a375851ec3f33f48b3b687ad84cb25", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871795": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.startribune.com/nation/42223082.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.startribune.com/nation/42223082.html</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_00:43:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdfbbfdae1382ef6c3358011b453b930", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871796": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "BHO, so the evidence seems clear. What can we do about this?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_00:50:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "b88bd3dcb203da1c4ebe0d257476022f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871797": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm not suggesting more \"giving\", but agengies in this area that will help address the homeless people's problems such as housing, medical help, and yes addictions. There aren't any agencies that direct these people for help in this area. We need that in Ballard, with our ever increasing homeless population. If we would provide the services here, the area would begin to clean up.Wishing them away won't help.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_00:57:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdfbbfdae1382ef6c3358011b453b930", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871798": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'd be open to setting up a community meeting to talk about his issue. Anyone open to that?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_01:04:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdfbbfdae1382ef6c3358011b453b930", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871799": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"perhaps some of our condos go to low income housing\"<br><br>How do you plan on getting them from their rightful owners, gun point?<br><br>\"answer is to set up services for these people in this area to get services like jobs, housing\"<br><br>Ah yes, feed the pigeons, then complain about pigeon sh*t everywhere. Great idea.<br><br>\"Other areas are also saturated.\"<br><br>Queen Anne, Wallingford, Magnolia, even Fremont and have no where near as many homeless. But they didn't put out the welcome matt. I have no problem helping homeless who can prove they are from Ballard. All the migrants from Belltown and Pike place running from the crackdowns? No way.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_01:10:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ea74ec2c6268ae0b2896187d4070275", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871800": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "define resaonable...?<br><br>Imust agree with Nordic Woman post #37<br><br>\"What\u2019s WRONG with NOT wanting homeless crackheads in OUR neighborhood? They are not OUR homless\u2026they are universally here from other places. Provide services, and they will come.\"<br><br>we have become to easy on it all..to actually camp in parking space area shows they are not afraid to be booted out anytime soon..and we have proved that to be true..nice tents where did they get them? <br><br>#44 Churchneighbor...we provide services more will come..pretty simple", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_01:14:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "6e9e3cb74171f48bd9e7eea4cdbdc425", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871801": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "typo...I meant this not his in my last post. Didn't want to start a riot.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_01:14:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdfbbfdae1382ef6c3358011b453b930", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871802": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How can a homeless person prove where they are from?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_01:16:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdfbbfdae1382ef6c3358011b453b930", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871803": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Last paycheck(not), last address (they obviously moved)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_01:17:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdfbbfdae1382ef6c3358011b453b930", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871804": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "THT - what has this community done about the bum problem?  Doesn't seem like much to me.  More and more bums coming to Ballard all the time, and more campers parked in people's neighborhoods.<br><br>Nice try pulling the \"move to Bellevue\" card.  Just keep your head in the sand and say there's not a problem, I'm sure that will help things.  Two \"methed-out bums living in trailers\" have committed murders in my neighborhood over the past year.  I don't think that's something that my neighborhood should tolerate.  You may desire to out of some fake sense of \"tolerance\" and \"loving everyone\", but you are naive and conveniently ignore the truth.  This city, including Ballard, has to get this issue under control.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_01:19:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "3d9a773f28421f48673cc3422948c9fc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7871805": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The homeless are here and no services, except the food bank and a few free lunches are here. They aren't going anywhere. Other areas are also full of homeless. Like it or not, we have to be creative and provide services in our community that will help these people move on.It is the reality we are faced with.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_01:22:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdfbbfdae1382ef6c3358011b453b930", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871806": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "BALLARD IS THE ONE OF THE HOT POTATOES OF THE HOMELESS POPULATION!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_01:24:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdfbbfdae1382ef6c3358011b453b930", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871807": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "We are going to be part of the solution or we can continue to be part of the problem. Saying it isn't so or it's not our problem is a joke. It's here. Let's figure it out.<br>As I said wishing it away isn't going to work nor is officier friendly.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_01:26:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdfbbfdae1382ef6c3358011b453b930", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871808": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Community meeting anybody? BHO where are you?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_01:29:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdfbbfdae1382ef6c3358011b453b930", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871809": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"How can a homeless person prove where they are from?\"<br><br>Bills, old rental contracts. Very simple especially since you seem to to think so many of these folks are recently homeless, the paper work would fit into a wallet. <br><br>If you can't even keep a single  scrap of paper to show where you lived last, you are not homeless, you are a bum.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_01:35:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ea74ec2c6268ae0b2896187d4070275", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871810": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Stupid Hippie:<br>School yourself on low income housing options.<br>There is funding such as section 8 housing and other forms that will allow an owner to get current market rent and still allow a low income person to live in a dwelling. The renter pays 1/3 of their income. Lots of street people have an income,yet nowhere to live. This would not be a meth house, but people who want to work out of their current circumstances.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_01:40:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdfbbfdae1382ef6c3358011b453b930", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871811": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So you want us the tax payer to pay the high rents so bums can live in top end Ballard condos? How about this, I'm woilling to pay for a room on  a work farm in  Eastern Washington. Full room and board in exchange for  work.<br><br>You think the condo owners will allow these people to live in their $250-400K properties in Ballard?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_01:43:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ea74ec2c6268ae0b2896187d4070275", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871812": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Stupid Hippie:<br>Good Name for yourself. Lots of homeless have nothing left in their wallet, much less a wallet.<br>Are you a real hippie. I think not.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_01:44:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdfbbfdae1382ef6c3358011b453b930", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871813": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And all this time I thought Ballard was a progressive community...Give them a blog and they become like Rush Limbaughs...scary...so scary...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_01:49:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdfbbfdae1382ef6c3358011b453b930", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871814": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Lots of homeless have nothing left in their wallet, much less a wallet.\"<br><br>Then they are not homeless, they are bums  who simply don't care enough to take care of themselves and simply want a handout. I hope your door is open to them.<br><br>\"I thought Ballard was a progressive community\"<br><br>Moderate/conservative Democrat, voted that way all my life. However, I'm not a fool. And since when is everyone in Ballard supposed to think the same? I know you far left wack jobs wish it were so, which is why you are no different from Rush and his yahoo followers.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_01:53:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ea74ec2c6268ae0b2896187d4070275", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871815": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "if i recall correctly from my high school language classes, churchneighbor is french for black helicopter operations, no?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_02:15:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "3e8c76ff26b2d981ff43bea1d5c8a311", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871816": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Why not have section 8 pay for homeless in all the vacant condos around here. God knows nobody else will. Look at all the vacancies...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_02:18:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdfbbfdae1382ef6c3358011b453b930", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871817": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Doc: are you stoned?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_02:19:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdfbbfdae1382ef6c3358011b453b930", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871818": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Stupid Hippie: You chose a good name for yourself...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_02:24:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdfbbfdae1382ef6c3358011b453b930", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871819": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Why not call it a night, churchneighbor? The blog will be here in the morning.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_02:25:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "cf976f66c8c78d305e8944a3468449ed", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871820": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "churchneighbor is a moron. I live by the same church and I want the scum out of my neighborhood. I'm inclined to include churchneighbor in that category.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_02:43:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "f9b0137cb32be76e5a171bff7ce98da7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871821": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Why SHOULD condo owners accept Section 8 housing???  Oh, yeah, I've seen what happens when you get Section 8 housing in a neighborhood and it isn't pretty. <br><br>Yah sure, you betcha, all the condo owners who threw down $400K to live in a nice condo want derelicts and drug addicts living next door.<br><br>I am sick of the con artists, panhandlers, drug addicts, shoplifters, and just plain crazy people moving HERE. Where, exactly, is it written that we, the residents of Ballard, are under ANY obligation to entice more of these people here by providing services to them?<br><br>It is interesting that the Downtown Merchants Association has a program to discourage people giving money, because there are 30 (thirty) places downtown where the homeless can get food. <a href=\"http://www.givesmartseattle.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.givesmartseattle.org/</a><br><br>Don't be so guillable...you think the $$ these people get from the state or from the naive goes to food? It goes to drugs. And where there are drugs, there is crime.<br><br>Time to clean up Ballard and get the bums OUT.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_02:53:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "247c99243b8edde0efe9157e45dd6380", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7871822": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "we can be part of the solution..if the number of homeles was something we coudl actually control and help...Ballard is a small community..and we can onlky do so much with what we have...so far we have become a magnet to more than we can handle..and it is hard to seperate the people who need a \"leg up\" from those who are here because they have drug, alcohol or unregistered sex offender\" we need a filer and a number we can actually make a differnce with..lets be resonable..at least set the bar high...can you imagine the satisfaction we would feel if we actually made a diference with those that will respond instead of just use us for free food and high tolerance for bad behavior?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_03:10:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "6e9e3cb74171f48bd9e7eea4cdbdc425", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7871823": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm incensed.<br>Sorry, HBO, but I've been out and about.<br>churchneighbor, pack up your tent, you are not welcome here.<br>I thank the members of this community who expect responsible behavior of themselves, and there-for, of others. THAT'S COMMUNITY.<br>I am a proud member of HBO, and will forever be.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_03:26:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "chopper_74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7871824": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "oh, the 48 hour clock has past on this issue, get 'er done.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_03:29:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "chopper_74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7871825": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Mr. Haag, if you please.<br>Get these tents out of Ballard. If the law is lost, then we are lost, sir.<br>Chopper out...and about", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_03:38:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "chopper_74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7871826": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Pink Whirlybird Operations here,<br><br>*panting*<br><br>Sorry i'm late to the party, got some great meth off some dude outside 7-11 and been high for 3 days!<br><br>What's up?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_04:29:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "d2ce77c920e64419a67f370e918454a1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871827": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This information was entered by a fellow poster - Hope it is ok to post it here with proper credit given to the poster: <br><br>\"...take action and contact the Captain of the Seattle Police Department\u2019s North Precinct, which has responsiblity for Ballard. His name is Capt. Mike Washburn, and his email is: <a href=\"mailto:michael.washburn@seattle.gov\" rel=\"nofollow\">michael.washburn@seattle.gov</a>. The main contact phone for the precinct is (206) 684-0850<br><br>Ask him to set up a meeting with you and other concerned residents and business owners to talk about your concerns and their plans to address them. Don\u2019t let them push you off on Neil Hansen, the Crime Prevention guy\u2026he\u2019s totally worthless and powerless.<br><br>You have also referenced another SPD Officer on here, Devlin Haag. Officer Haag is the Community Policing Team officer assigned solely to Ballard/Crown Hill. His email is <a href=\"mailto:devlin.haag@seattle.gov\" rel=\"nofollow\">devlin.haag@seattle.gov</a> . His Sargeant on The North Precinct CPT team is Sgt. Dianne Newsom - (206) 684-0794. or <a href=\"mailto:dianne.newsom@seattle.gov\" rel=\"nofollow\">dianne.newsom@seattle.gov</a><br><br>There\u2019s an interesting description of the CPT objectives on the SPD website. Not sure how based in reality it is, but it reads as follows:<br><br>WHAT DO CPT OFFICERS DO?<br><br>\u201cWhile patrol officers assigned to a certain beat and sector are usually very familiar with the area they patrol, CPT Officers go one step further. CPT officers do not respond to 911 calls for service and are instead assigned a specific area to focus on long-term, often chronic problems. They patrol many times a day, checking and re-checking known \u201chot spots\u201d.<br><br>It is their job to know the residents in troubled apartments, to recognize by sight, the \u201cregulars\u201d who congregate on the corner, and to understand the ongoing problems and concerns of neighbors and businesses. Residents and business owners get to know and trust the officers, making it easier to work together to resolve and prevent problems. CPT is about understanding ongoing issues that go back weeks and months and taking steps to prevent problems before they arise. The officers are a unique and invaluable resource in the communities they serve. \u201d<br><br>And finally, if you are concerned about what happens to the people who actually do get arrested, you should voice your concerns about quick release back onto the streets to:<br><br>Ed McKenna, the Police Department\u2019s North Precinct liaison from the City Attorney\u2019s Office, can be reached at 206-684-7765 or edward.mckenna@seattle.gov.\"<br><br>Posted by REGULAR March 18, 2009", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_04:46:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "48276f202989554f60ffa08b56ffe39a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7871828": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "imho, being a Ballard liberal doesn't mean allowing illegal camping or ignoring meth use in our neighborhoods. If you see illegal activity, call the police (you can't expect them to read the Ballard Tribune or these comments), and more calls are better. Organizing community meetings makes sense too -- because community groups have had more success than anything else at actually lowering crime and vandalism than any other method. And look out for your neighbor wouldya? I can't wait to see the tee-shirts for the neighborhood watch patrols.<br><br>Food banks exist in many communities without increasing crime in them, and existed in Ballard some time before recent crime sprees, so I think a stronger case would need to be made to support the contention that the food bank is part of the crime problem.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_05:54:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "0797ebfa86a814ad1f4825b7c2b56e62", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7871829": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's like Night Of The Living Dead on Market Street, there are so many Meth Head Zombies and they are multiplying like coachroaches by the day. Break ins, car thefts, assualts of police... where does it end?<br><br>The cops know, but probably expect us as a neighborhood to do something. Setting up this \"Crystal Campground\" right by the new library and the needle exchange in Bergen park must be stopped, at any and all costs. You want crack heads and pimps, reading to your kids in the library?<br><br>I would like to walk the streets without being up to my knees in Meth Heads and Panhandlers. Is that a crime?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_08:08:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871830": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Nobody in Ballard actaully listens to Rush do they? I hear a lot about him here. Is Chris Matthews or the bomb thrower Oberdork good for America? Tell me just how giving the house away is a good thing? People here WERE born with a \"D\" by their names. They ARE getting what they deserve. Were there poor people before Republicans? Can we tax ourselves into prosperity? Tell me when the last time we saw an\"R\" person on any ballot in the 36th district? This state is a 1 party state. We have become Bizerkley North. 20 years ago my yuppy neighbors had the die yuppy scum stickers on their VW vans. Today they have nannies, maid services, 3-4-5 cars, and their kids drive to Ballard High. Times are tough aren't they. Hypocrites.  If you're willing to \"sacrifice a little freedom for some sort of security\" you deserve neither. Keep on a pulling that \"D\" lever comrades. At least then you'll feel good about these schlubs permeating our once fair region. Keep handing 'em your $$ at off-ramps. This really gives 'em a signal doesn't it. Like turning off your lights for an hour does. Warm and fuzzy in Ballard", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_10:35:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "38df258b1e71db40d9411c476a8c0664", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871831": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree with BHO and others, at least they are out there doing something about it and not sitting there blogging 'what should we do about the homeless'.  I work for King County Public Health and know for a fact there are plenty of services out there for those needing help - and those services are not located in neighborhoods for a reason!  You don't put a needle exchange program next to a school.  <br><br>I know there have been many threads regarding homeless shelters/soup kitchens but this is different - the number of tents and campers or people obviously living out of their cars has become riduculous!  If I can't pitch my tent in Golden Gardens this summer and do some free camping in a beautiful place then neither should they!<br><br>My point is that these people are not taking advantage of the services that are out there to them.  There is plenty of low income section 8 housing available, if it isn't in the neighborhood of your choice you have no right to just set up camp on the street.  It brings an old saying to mind......", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_10:46:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "94793ad7979edf4bad5f70ebf8924969", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871832": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "#76 you said:<br>There is plenty of low income section 8 housing available, if it isn\u2019t in the neighborhood of your choice .........<br><br>This is good news!<br><br>Tell us more...I have always heard about years long waiting lists - but that is here in Seattle and King Co - where is this federal subsidized housing (sec 8) available", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_11:15:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "hopefulpoet", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7871833": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Why not have section 8 pay for homeless in all the vacant condos around here\"<br><br>How do you plan on getting the owners to cooperate with their private property, at gun point?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_11:15:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ea74ec2c6268ae0b2896187d4070275", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871834": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Anybody see this article in the Seattle Times on Sat. ? The Saturday Soup Kitchen in the University district is closing after 25 years so they're sending their diners to Ballard.<br><br>In the Times words ...<br>In the church social hall, while people lined the room waiting for the kitchen partition to open, Metzger handed out an information sheet about another feeding program, Saturday Soup, in Ballard.<br><br>Full article -<br><a href=\"http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008942281_soupkitchen29m.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_11:33:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "198eee9b998ecb3103a849a74970dfd5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871835": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sorry if this pops up twice but the 1st time I submitted it I don't think it went.<br><br>Anybody see this article in the Times on Saturday ?<br>Seattle's Saturday Kitchen closes its doors after 25 years<br>Guess where they are sending them...<br>In the church social hall, while people lined the room waiting for the kitchen partition to open, Metzger handed out an information sheet about another feeding program, Saturday Soup, in Ballard.<br><br>Full article<br><a href=\"http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008942281_soupkitchen29m.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_11:39:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "198eee9b998ecb3103a849a74970dfd5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871836": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@2<br><br>Why do you care so much if people are playing hackey sack or standing on the sidewalk outside the Chai House?  Good God, lighten the hell up.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_11:57:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "9af9da9476e4da70149e28db47f281f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871837": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It has been asked -<br>How do you plan on getting the owners to cooperate with their private property, at gun point?<br><br>The income from the subsidy is the enticment - it goes to the land-lord - no guns needed.  The tenant is responsible for 30% - so even if the tenant fails to pay his or her portion, the landlord still gets 70% of market rate rental income.  Sometimes the subsidy is attached to an arrangement that the tenant is recieving services from a local provider(shelter plus care).  Then the landlord has comfort knowing that if issues arise, there are \"people\" to take care of it - the tenant has \"people\" to aid and assist in housing stability and another non-profit gets funds in order to pay case managers/housing support staff.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_12:08:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6aea4fc89ec50cfcc740aaf3211865e0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871838": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"But, I am the only person in Ballard, bothered by swimming in meth heads, crazy people and panhandlers, every day of my life\"<br><br>Talk about exaggerating.  It's not this bad at all.  You act as if every ten feet someone begs for change or plunges a needle into their arm.  It's really not that bad.  You sound like a fool.<br><br>Ballard isn't a family neighborhood.  It's a neighborhood with families and plenty of singles.  None of my friends have kids and I don't want them.  Does that mean we should move?  Myballard isn't representative of Ballard...thankfully.  <br><br>I do enjoy the hypocrisy of you calling someone a \"wack job\" though.  Thanks for that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_12:11:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "9af9da9476e4da70149e28db47f281f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871839": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"You guys need to think of setting up services to help these people get on track.\"<br><br>They don't want to get back on track. Ask them. I did. They're here for the free lunch.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_12:31:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "fecfbaef23e94f357007dae7cd88f565", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871840": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Crown Hill, do you seriously think condo owners are going to house the drug addicts, alcoholics and bums we see up and down market street every day?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_12:44:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "6f3150b79353033da0da15481a4b145e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871841": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hi Barkmore,<br>I response to your question - no I don't seriously think that condo owners are going to house the homeless.    The question I was responding to asked what sort of incentives would cause a landlord to involve his property with a federal subsidy program.   I was disputing the fact that it need be at gun point.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_13:01:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "6aea4fc89ec50cfcc740aaf3211865e0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871842": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The original proposition here though was to house them in Ballard's empty condos.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_13:04:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "6f3150b79353033da0da15481a4b145e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871843": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thank you Barkmore for the update - Well, that is an interesting proposition.    I must have missed that proposal as I scanned through the comments.     Seems like a throw away type suggestion- I doubt that anyone would take that proposition seriously.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_13:16:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "6aea4fc89ec50cfcc740aaf3211865e0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871844": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Seems like empty condos are the problem of developer.....I don't like the idea of federal subsidies to take toxic assets off books.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_13:18:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "6aea4fc89ec50cfcc740aaf3211865e0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871845": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I am with extremophile. Being liberal doesn't mean let whoever want to take a shit in the park. BHO- I am a democrat, because in this BS two party system, that is my only choice. But I don't give money at off ramps, or to pan handlers. I am all for helping the homeless, who want help, and are just in dire straits. I am NOT for helping addicts who do not want the help, and I for one, am sick of the drug den that ballard has become. Please, call the cops! Everytime!! The calls are a record of activity, and when they continue and we aren't seeing results, someone will be accountable. <br>Also most of the drugging going on in Ballard is not Meth. It is heroin. These guys are definately not meth heads. Maybe the guys breaking in to all of the businesses are meth heads, the Bergen Park guys are on heroin.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_13:35:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "8dca3c9feaf2eb28cccb2cbc7b251f84", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871846": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes, thrown away twice by a member of Ballard's easily confused far left:<br><br>churchneighbor: perhaps some of our condos go to low income housing<br><br>churchneighbor: Why not have section 8 pay for homeless in all the vacant condos", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_13:35:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "6f3150b79353033da0da15481a4b145e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871847": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The condos are hardly an issue here.<br><br>The questions are where are these people comeing from, why are they coming here, and how did they end up as homeless? <br><br>General answers to these points will help greatly.<br><br>It is my suspicion that had we the answers to these, there would be a lot less charity and tolerance for them in Ballard.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_14:02:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "fb7e2cc12d62a2543f32d9e04c905c2c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7939944": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If every church member took 2 homeless people into their home, problem solved (?) You may want to screen them first, just a thought.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-07_12:18:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mymble", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7871766, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7871849": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah BHO- addiction is so attractive, our young ones will be just falling into the whole thing - how can we save them?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_15:55:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "hopefulpoet", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7871850": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Heilsa,All!<br>Looks like,the haters are fueled up to-day with the righteous indignation of some-one faceing an I.R.S. deadline:<br>\"They come,on April 15th,dear,to take away our gold;<br>Tax men,un-moved by plea or tear;<br>It makes your blood run cold!<br>(chorus):<br>Oh,Income tax,it breaks our backs,and never more,green we see;<br>A sea of red in instead,from sea to shineing sea!!<br>(c) A.F.Gaines,submitted by A.E.Newman..<br>But,seriously,folks:<br>All things considered:<br>I think you haters of Indigents,(A.K.A.\"Bums\")are going to love the Regan-Villes,Apple-Mary's,and falling stock-brokers;(don't forget the ex-celebrity stock-pickers)vending \"roast-rat-on-a-stick\"(C)Tm. that will magicly fill the urban zones of Amerikka(ie,Bollard{sic})by,say,next year.<br>All the rants about evil 'homeless'drug sellers ignores this point:<br>Most of the \"methedrine'dealers are selling to the ex-military,thrown-aways that make up,oh,33% of the indigent,by my own estimate.<br>If you look at some stories about Army,A.F.,etc.training,like after ww2 in japan,korea,you might note that most druggies,speeders included,started takeing stimulants in military training scenes,officially.<br>Good ol'Pentagon is world's largest whole-saler/transporter of opiates:<br>heroin,morphine,codeine,etc.<br>If you doubt me,look at these books:<br>\"The Poppy is also a Flower\"<br>\"Along the Opium Trail\"<br>\"The Politics of Heroin in S.E.Asisa\"<br>\"The Great Heroin Coup\"<br>\"Dark Alliance\"<br>And,note that,under the Osama Bin Regan campaign brand in Afghanistan,Opiod poppy growing was outlawed.<br>After the USSR broke off with Bin Regan's policy,opium returned to the Afghani farms.<br>So,to msake a short story long,maybe the N.S.A./Army Human Intel Agency/Dea network still off-loads opioids,cocaine,methamphetamine,mdma from various satrap states(ie,israel,mexico,canada,etc)and markets through:<br>\"Da Cuz\",Black Gangster Deciples\",Kruds(Bloods&amp;Kripplers=\"Freeway Rick Ross,etc.),\"Da Family\"(not Manson's)etc.<br>Most street dealers are liscenced by different feddie agencies as auxillary police,and cannot be arrested.<br>The ones in Bollard come on #75 buses from apartments in Northgate.<br>Some commute from Belleview,Bothell,etc.<br>Any-one can observe this,just as I do.<br>No \"street\"dealer is homeless,or uses a pay phone.<br>Most use Blackberries.<br>Haters out there,I know who you are,also.<br>Watchbird is still singing to me.<br>\"Phantom\"<br>I can't wait to start an \"Indigent University\"and \"Beggar's Guild\",appoint Suthi honorary Faculty Chair'Emeritus',for Life...<br>Haters,etc,write:[randiO088(at)aim.com]", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_15:55:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "114ab6eee7f6f608274f594866a1218f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871851": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Maybe Geeky Sweedes should go under cover as Meth Heads for a day at Bergen Park and post the findings here.  Or, pretend to be buyers outside 7 11 and report how many offers they get for Crack/Meth/Heroin.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_15:56:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871852": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Phantom is right<br><br>Lots of these street dealers have those ear piece phones, and come and go. The transients buy the stuff, but lots of these guys selling are well dressed and clean looking. The 711 type sellers are the bottom of the barrel dealers, but plenty of high tech dealers are on the march every day. Walk around yourselves. They are easy to spot.<br><br>Probably because they know they wont get arrested. I mean, when was the last time someone heard of a drug arrest in Ballard? 1972?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_16:05:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871853": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Are these folks really homeless because times are tough for them, or do they just want to \"live off the grid\".  <br><br>Does that 48 hour timeframe inculde intervention by the city in any capacity, to find out what the deal is?   <br><br>I camped illegally in Washington State before.  I got caught and wasn't even given 48 minutes to move.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_16:13:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "6236689a7150253654ca2cda9a0dc50b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871854": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Folks, relax.  Meth and heroin are part of natures way of weeding out the weakest from the gene pool.  Hooray for population control, time our poor planet started getting a break. :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_16:17:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "8f631f7526c705950fd36c011e98cbe9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871855": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Yeah BHO- addiction is so attractive, our young ones will be just falling into the whole thing - how can we save them?\"<br><br>You can't.  They're going to do drugs if they want.  Nothing you can do about it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_17:06:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "9af9da9476e4da70149e28db47f281f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871856": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"These pro drug dealers target teens first for sales and prostitution to pay for the additcions they create. Your daughter could be the next they take from Ballard High/Bergen Park/Chai House and out on to Aurora Ave to become a prostitute.\"<br><br>HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!<br><br>You're frickin' nuts, man.  You're life must suck, if you're always this paranoid and scared.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_17:08:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "9af9da9476e4da70149e28db47f281f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871857": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Your,\" not \"you're\" in the second sentence.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_17:09:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "9af9da9476e4da70149e28db47f281f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871858": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Also, BHO, you refer to a crack and meth explosion.  I haven't heard drug use is up.  Do you have any documentation or articles you could link?<br><br>Or are you just making it up?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_17:10:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "9af9da9476e4da70149e28db47f281f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871859": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "and don't forget the new heroin epidemic that is about to give us a bunch of OD teenagers.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_17:12:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "6aea4fc89ec50cfcc740aaf3211865e0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871860": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "the paranoia in here is impressive", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_17:52:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "8aefa2f013fa3762f3ea57b6aa270dde", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871861": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yada yada yada.  I LOVE the stench of the internet on a rainy afternoon.   <br><br>\u201cwhy do you have to have them in our neighborhood\u201d  The problem is it\u2019s not yours.  You don\u2019t own it, only a tiny portion.  I walk through other neighborhoods where I do not live and that is my right and it is the right of all to walk through the public streets of Ballard.  You have the right to keep anyone you choose off your tiny portion and please do so.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_18:10:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "60b0fb9c94c383c89c88b1b6b5adee08", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871862": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"You have the right to keep anyone you choose off your tiny portion and please do so.\"<br><br>Actually, that the transient population is up, we have a right to be concenerd. <br><br>I wonder if it is up in other neighborhoods?  Are they focusing on Ballard, and if so why?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_18:46:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "fb7e2cc12d62a2543f32d9e04c905c2c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871863": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://Silence.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Silence.com</a> writes -<br><br> \"Why do you care so much if people are playing hackey sack or standing on the sidewalk outside the Chai House?\"<br><br>The reason is that the sidewalk is not a play ground or jungle gym. The same reason we are not supposed have people riding skateboards up and down the sidewalks, or the endless Meth Head bike parade up and down the sidewalks we deal with all day. You can actually get hit by a bike on the sidewalk in Ballard. It's absurd.<br><br>Some people actually need to use the sidewalk outside the Chai House to get to the new complex for the elderly a block down and should not have to fight their way through a bunch of 30 somethings who think they are in grade school, playing games, doing drugs, having story hour with the winos and writing on the sidewalks with chalk. Not to mention the cloud of smoke which is supposed to be 25 feet from the door, which it is not. It's childish? Ok?<br><br>Does that sidewalk belong to the Chai house or those paying taxes? I know you're actually \"Hippy Tea Girl\" who claimed<br><br> \"We don't want to be part of your world.\" <br><br>Well fine, go live in a bus out in the woods and act 12 when you're actually 30. But, it's a business district not a school yard for a pre school.<br><br>People need to conduct business, walk to stores, make deliveries and all sorts of other reason that sidewalks exist. <br><br>Most normal people cross that street to avoid the entire area, which is unfair to those still inside \"normal society\". You might \"Not want to be part of our world\", but if you want to turn the center of Ballard into Burning Man, people will insist you remember it's not. <br><br>Most people were raised with manners and don't need to be taught this at age 30. (Not to mention, would probably have jobs by that age)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_19:23:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871864": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Silence.kit writes<br><br>\"Ballard isn\u2019t a family neighborhood. It\u2019s a neighborhood. None of my friends have kids and I don\u2019t want them.\"<br><br>If you're 30 and would rather play hackeysack while on Meth or draw things in chalk all over Bergen Park, than raise a family, you might wanna check out the U District. Nothing personal, but this is actually a family neighborhood. The U District caters to your type much more and offers more free lunches.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_19:29:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871865": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Silence.kit<br><br> \"I haven\u2019t heard drug use is up\". <br><br>In \"your world\" I'm sure it's not up and is all par for the course. I assume you would the the drug use levels higher in fact. <br><br>In our world, it's up dramatically. Higher than our comfort level out here in \"Our world\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_19:42:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871866": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have lived in Ballard for ten years now and in Seattle for all 34 years of my life.  Ballard, by far, has the worse \"homeless\" problem of any Seattle area outlying neighborhood.  It is getting sick!  The Ballard homeless are a bunch of rude, obnoxius, inconsiderate leeches on our society.  They all collect a SS check of somesort and a good number of them collect their Alaska state check as well as their Native check.  They are not broke they just choose to spend their money on booze, crack, meth and heroin.  They're complete low lifes who are only raoming the streets of Ballard because they can.  Nobody in Ballard is doing anything to get rid of these people from our neighborhood.  Other neighborhoods have found ways to keep them out...why can't we.  Because we're a bunch of bleeding hearts who think 'those poor souls - they need help'.  Come on be real.  They don't want help, they want booze, crack, heroin and meth and a place or community that allows them to be vagrant.  It's obvious that the cops don't care.  Unless we start calling 911 everytime we see this crowd doing something illegal - loitering is illegal - they'll stay.  Why wouldn't they.  We need to stand up as a community and make Ballard as uncomfortable for them as they have made it for us.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_19:53:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "78dc317af4e7bf5424d407a0489cade7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7871867": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes, but with people with a pro drug agenda like Silence.Kit and her friends, who don't want this a family neighborhood, it's not going to be easy. They envision a new U District and will stop at nothing, until we have the same issues, like sidewalks full of sitting teenagers harrassing people for spare change, playing hackey sack, and riding skateboards all over the sidewalks. A playground essentially.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_20:03:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871868": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Try telling Silence.kit that. She wants this to be a new home for all the teenagers who sit on University Way sidewalks in the U District, asking for spare change. This is not even a family neighborhood accourding to her circle of friends.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_20:08:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871869": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "BHO,<br><br>Pull.<br>The.<br>Stick.<br>Out.<br>Of.<br>Your.<br>Ass.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_20:21:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "9af9da9476e4da70149e28db47f281f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871870": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Once again\u2026I live in downtown Ballard.  I do not see armies of meth addicts and sidewalks taken over by drug dealers.   I have never even been asked for spare change here.  I have been asked downtown and I said sorry, no and I survived.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_20:34:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "60b0fb9c94c383c89c88b1b6b5adee08", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871871": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Silence.kit - That is obviously your way of saying \"put up with us and keep your traps shut\".  Thanks for solving the problem.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_20:59:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871872": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree with Tippy and BHO. The societal leeches, substance abusers and mental cases need to be dealt with. They do not belong living on our streets and making our parks unusable and disgusting, causing problems for the actual residents who pay taxes and who are responsible citizens. The people who are homeless due to economic situations but who want to work need to be helped with food and shelter until they can find jobs and stable living situations. Frankly, the above mentioned dregs should be shipped out to a very remote location where they can detoxify, do basic farm or ranch work in exchange for room and board and live their lives far far away from big cities that allow this type of behavior and laziness to exist. Get these folks to a place where they are forced to live a clean life, do some work and not have their lives run by their addictions.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_21:02:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "ebdd00962de5f1425749c0ed9f75a7fb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871873": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Look at the response of Silence.kit from The Chai House. All we are trying to do is make the sidewalk and Bergen Park passable for tax payers and not have endless games, chalk all over and other nonsense. This is exactly the sense of entitlement that is creating a backlash. There are too many people in Ballard for this selfish attitude these days. The place is not one big playground. Do we really need these spolied brats and transients?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_21:11:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871874": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I had a wonderful drive home today. I saw them all! The hacky sacking hippies in Bergen Place, the meth whores in front of the Golden City Lounge and the elderly homeless woman...What a way to top off the work day.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_21:19:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "8843a350163da2fd30b18e3e95d1846f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7871875": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sacramento CA is rounding these people up and putting them into camps. They were living in a so called tent city, but are being taken to places run by the government, like it or not. Food, medicine, mental health, drug treatment the works. Seattle and other cities will probably be forced to follow that model soon.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-01_23:19:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871876": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Unreal", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-02_00:00:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871877": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sacramento has announced they will be rounding them up and putting them into a government camps. Tent Cities are sprouting up like Opium plants. So, they are rounding them up and giving them the mental health treatment and re-education some need, even if it's against their will. (At the tax payer expense of course). But, it looks like Seattle will have to follow that model soon. What else can we do?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-02_00:07:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871878": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Stop misquoting me BHO, I said \"Ballard isn\u2019t a family neighborhood. It\u2019s a neighborhood with families and plenty of singles.\"  Put the entire sentence in. <br><br>Last time I checked People's Pub wasn't a family restaurant.  Nor are many of the businesses along Market and Ballard Ave.  There may be families in Ballard, but it's not a family neighborhood.  Maybe you'd like Edmonds better, but than you wouldn't have any evidence to support your delusions.  <br><br>Also, I'm pretty sure your world is plagued with mental illness so I'm not sure I'd want to live there.   For some reason, you like to make it sound like Ballard is very dangerous, and like people playing hacky sack on a sidewalk is a big deal.<br><br>Look, I just can't believe your pissed that people play hackey sack.  I've actually never seen it on the sidewalk, only at the Bergen PARK.  Imagine that, people playing hackey sack in a park.  If silly little hippie kids want to play hackey sack, who cares?  It's not affecting your day at all yet you act like it is.  Would you even go to the Chai House?  Probably not.  You may not believe this, but I don't hang out there either.  I know it's only one of two ways in your head(us or them), but I haven't been to the chai house in months and even then it was to get...chai.  Notice how there are benches outside.  It seems natural that people would congregate there, right?  <br><br>You presume so much about me, incorrectly I might add.<br><br>The drug explosion?  Well, I noticed you didn't have any sources to link, so I just assume it's all in your head and you're making it up, which is something you like to do.  <br><br>Sorry, not a big fan of the u-district.  I like the theaters and a couple restaurants, but that's about it.  I'm going to stay here for at least a little while longer.  <br><br>And I have no idea what you're talking about with this \"sense of entitlement\" nonsense.   Once again something you made up with very little proof.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-02_11:26:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "9af9da9476e4da70149e28db47f281f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871879": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yesterday while at work I read all your comments (not much going on at work) and some I agreed with, some I didn't...but when I got home imagine my surprise when I looked out my apartment window to find I have a new neighbor!!!!!  A TENT!!!!!!  It's parked smack dab in the center of a vacant lot that sits in front of my apartment building.  You all probably know the lot...on 57th across from Wiggens.  Being on the third floor, whoever lives in this tent doesn't have a birds eye view into my place....but close enough.  He's got a pretty awesome set up.   Residential street, greenery all around, a little table of which he uses to place his shopping cart and tallboys on.  You know I have been praying they don't build townhouses in this lot because then it would be bye bye natural light.....so I guess I should count my blessings that it's going to become a tent city instead.   I know, slight exaggeration, but with St. Lukes on the corner equipped with a homeless parking lot, the night time library crowd, and the appearance of my new neighbor, walking home alone at night is becoming a thing of the past...and is causing my tolerance to weaken.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-02_12:08:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "1ecd15ead2096c733d6ef2827963fd2a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871880": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "See? They are spreading like locust....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-02_12:47:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871881": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Silence.kit writes -<br><br>\"Last time I checked People\u2019s Pub wasn\u2019t a family restaurant\"<br><br>Nobody was talking about Peoples Pub. We were talking about Bergen Park and yes, that park is not a night club, a meth house, a shelter, school yard or anything else some are trying to make it. <br><br>It's a park to honor the founders of our neighborhood and teach people about the history of Ballard. At least show respect to that much? Or, is respect just for us \"Mentally ill\" people. (Mentally ill is your \"code\" for wanting drug addicts and prowlers, out of here)<br><br>I can see you playing hackey sack and playing with chalk at a veterans memorial too, right?  My God, why is this so hard to figure out, and who in heck raised people like this. There are just some things you don't do in a civilized society. What's so hard to figure out. (I won't even get into how I feel about grown men groveling for spare change or a cigarrete on a sidewalk...)<br><br>You go to Golden City with your hackey posse and let those of us who don't want to have our kids being solicited by Meth Heads and transients, go to Bergen Park. (After we get the Meth Dealers and transients out of there)<br><br>Same with your shelters, food banks and soup kitchens. <br><br>Put them where you guys can Hackey Sack, shoot up, get drunk and sleep on benches til your blue in the face and get them off streets that are FAMILY streets full of kids. <br><br>Let the parents decide if and when they want their kids exposed to the harsh realities of tranisients and addiction. Some people, would like to shelter their kids from ugliness in the world, until they are old enough to understand it fully. Not everyone wants to explain what Meth Heads are to a 5 year old. OK?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-02_18:33:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871882": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Nobody was talking about Peoples Pub.\"<br><br>*sigh*<br><br>You referred to Ballard as a family neighborhood.  I listed one establishment among many on that very street that aren't for families.  Unless you want to buy little Black Helicopter Operations  a pint, chances are you won't be taking the family there for fried pickles.   So once again, Ballard isn't a \"family neighborhood\" because it's full of establishments that aren't for families.  Obviously, it has places that are family friendly as well.<br><br>I think you need to learn reading comprehension, BHO.<br><br>You really just miss the point entirely and then go on accusing me of things I refuted in the post you're responding to.  <br><br>\"There are just some things you don\u2019t do in a civilized society.\"<br><br>...like play hackey sack...what?<br><br>Keep making stuff up big guy.  It's what you do.  <br><br>\"Not everyone wants to explain what Meth Heads are to a 5 year old. OK?\"<br><br>Ooooh, someday you might have to explain what SEX is.  Scary, I know.  All part of being a parent.  Here, I'll help.  Imagine this, if you will...<br><br>Little BHO - Daddy, I always here you talking about meth heads and then you yell at the computer...  What's a meth head?<br><br>BHO - Well Buddy, it's someone that is addicted to a drug called Crystal Meth, which is very, very bad for you.  It's rots your teeth and all sorts of nasty stuff.  We don't want that, do we?<br><br>Little BHO - Nope.  Nope, we don't.<br><br>It's that easy!<br><br>Lastly, I've never been offered drugs in Ballard.  Not once.  Several times in the u-district, though.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-02_19:07:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "9af9da9476e4da70149e28db47f281f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871883": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Black Heli might represent one extreme, but silence.kit seems to embrace the other. The reality? Well, since I'm throwing stones I'll qualify that it's at least my perception:<br>1. There are more homeless and transients hanging out in Ballard.<br>2. Crime is up as noted around here with the rash of burglaries and car prowls.<br>Are these two things related? I'd guess that perhaps tangentially they are as some of the people caught haven't been homeless, but have been involved in the drug scene that many of the homeless are. Some of the car prowl and brute force crime can be reasonably attributed to the homeless, like the smashed liquor store window where only one bottle was stolen. The other arrests show that the perps were not homeless at all, but career criminals who had burglarized dozens of times.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-02_19:10:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "fec52287d82ab7ebf714b1b88fca6baa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871884": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The food bank. Despite what BHO says, it's not the problem here. If you want to talk about the soup kitchen attracting homeless or making it easier for them to stay in Ballard, that's a debate we can have, but the Ballard Food Bank is something very different with a different clientele. It's a good service for some of our older neighbors and some of neighbors who are going through a rough patch and trying to keep from becoming homeless.<br>Please Black Heli, stop painting everything with the same broad brush. If you want to rail against the soup kitchen, do so, but stop confusing it with the food bank. Two different things.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-02_19:15:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "fec52287d82ab7ebf714b1b88fca6baa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871885": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Whats your proof that the food bank is not serving people from outside Ballard, people who are high or drunk, convicted felons,  or registered sex offenders, who are taking buses into Ballard for free food, then back out again every week. <br><br>Everyone is so upset about Calgarys screening process, but the food banks brings in WAY more people nobody knows. Why are you speaking for them anyway?<br><br>They can't come on here like professionals, or contact Geeky Sweedes to clarify the procedure at the food bank? I am not so convinced these people are all safe, who they are attracting to a neighborhood full of kids. <br><br>Have them proove to me they are and I will stop questioning the food bank. It should be rather easy. Show me the written procedures they use to screen people. It's the least they can do...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-02_19:31:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871886": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The comments are like dealing with a backed up sewer in the basement...you have to wade through a ton of crap before you can even get a look at the problem.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-02_21:00:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "fec52287d82ab7ebf714b1b88fca6baa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871887": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Black Heli, You are way too quick on the trigger and way to quick to paint anyone who doesn't agree with you 100% as your mortal enemy. Believe it or not I actually agree with you about 82.3%, but not 100%.<br>I don't think that the food bank is serving only the annointed saints and angels, but to accuse them of creating a homeless problem and demanding them to cater to your whims is about as far fetched as demanding that McDonald's do background checks on it's customers too.<br>The Food Bank is not housing these people. It is not inviting them from other neighborhoods. Are some of the people taking the handout not deserving of it? Maybe. But that's the reality of everything. There's probably someone driving down the street right now who hasn't paid his taxes, does that mean we tear up the pavement until everyone can prove they're worthy?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-02_21:07:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "fec52287d82ab7ebf714b1b88fca6baa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871888": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Right, that is the point. At least Calgary houses them. These people many times hang around downtown Ballard eating the things they got at the food bank in Bergen Park and live in the woods in Ballard. I have seen them first hand and I am just saying that is we are worried about the Calgary Shelter being full of psychos, than why not the food bank and the car campground. Plus, all the new shelters, soup kitchen and other things forced on us. Why should I have to worry about who their customers are. Why is it even legal for people top be living outside in a residential neighborhood. This is absurd.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_07:20:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871889": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Plus, all these people living in RV's? Where do you think they get their food once a week? The Food Bank.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_07:29:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7871890": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Mymble was right to wonder where the tents would show up next.  One of them moved to the vacant lot at 57th &amp; 20th - mentioned by Jenna.  I notified SPD about the new location.  <br><br>Does this mean that the tents can stay in one place for a few days, then get a 48 hour eviction notice from SPD.  Guess that means they will only have to move twice a week or so to be \"legal\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_23:41:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "1e0399a5b62c421de619aa8045b67caf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7871891": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sorta like the rv's I suppose. Move around if the cops ask you, from street to street.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_02:03:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 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}, "7940028": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I wish I had 48 hours to move my car once  parking enforcement has marked the tire:)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-07_12:22:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Mymble", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7995220": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Here's a new slogan for Ballard:<br><br>BALLARD - A Place For Bums...<br><br>Transient Living- Now on Every Street!<br><br>Campers and Tents Welcome, old Junky Car Live-ins too!<br><br>Alcoholic fueled Violence? Just Head Under the Ballard Bridge and Join In the Beatings!<br><br>So many more, we're doing T's next.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-08_22:45:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "fd5452441104627c137db24e0c8c492d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": null, "theme": 2, "reply_position": false, "disqus_logo": true}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "15119310", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "108022", "hash": -1196005646246323327}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "tents_along_shilshole_ave", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 146, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 15119310, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "29ac93bcc80e20dc00554a7b3e9cc874", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": false, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
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 */
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://disqus.com/forums/myballard/tents_along_shilshole_ave/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/myballard/_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">146</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://disqus.com/forums/myballard/tents_along_shilshole_ave/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://disqus.com/forums/myballard/tents_along_shilshole_ave/">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">\
	 </div>\
		';

		
			html = Dsq.Templates.authPost() + html;
		

		
		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.reactions();

		

		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://disqus.com/forums/myballard/tents_along_shilshole_ave/trackback/';
		}

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

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

		return html;
	}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '';
	};

	//
	// 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 are commenting as a Guest. You may choose to log into an existing DISQUS Profile, your Facebook, Twitter or OpenID account to comment on My Ballard" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Optional:</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:15119310" 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> \
								 \
								 \
								 \
							 \
						</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'				: 'myballard',
			't'				: 'tents_along_shilshole_ave',
			// 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/myballard/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/myballard/tents_along_shilshole_ave/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/myballard/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'tents_along_shilshole_ave'
			+ '&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/myballard/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'tents_along_shilshole_ave'
			+ '&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/myballard/subscribe.js'
				+'?status=' 	+ status
				+ '&slug='		+ 'tents_along_shilshole_ave'
				+ '&email=' 	+ encodeURIComponent(email));

		} else if(!email) {
			// If anonymous user and no email has been provided yet, prompt for email

			var title = 'Subscribe to this comment thread';
			var message = ' \
				New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox! \
				<div class="dsq-subscribe-submit"> \
					<p><strong>Enter your email address below.</strong></p> \
					<input type="text" id="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
					<button onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1, Dsq.$(\'dsq-subscribe-email\').value)">Subscribe</button> \
				</div> \
			';

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

	this.showSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return;
		}

		/* The form has to be re-designed when more options will come out. */
		var html = 'Automatically close comments after <input size="3" id="dsq-thread-days-alive" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.days_alive + '" type="text" /> days. Existing comments will still be displayed.<br /><br />(Using 0 days will disable this feature)<br /><br />'
								 + '<button onclick="Dsq.Thread.updateDaysAlive();" class="dsq-button-small"><span>Save</span></button>'
								 + '<span id="dsq-thread-settings-status" class="dsq-options-status"></span>';
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Settings');
	};

	this.updateDaysAlive = function() {
		var days = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-days-alive').value;
		var status = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-settings-status');
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/myballard/update_days_alive.js', {days:days,thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
		status.innerHTML = 'Saved!';
		window.setTimeout(function() { status.innerHTML = ''; }, 1000);
	};
};
// Dsq.Thread

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

	// Private
	var handlers = {};
	var getHandlers = function(event) {
		if (handlers[event] === undefined) {
			handlers[event] = [];
		}
		return handlers[event];
	};

	// Public
	// Value keys : postId, node, xtype
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED = 1;
	// Value keys : postId, opened
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED = 2;
	obj.fire = function(event, opt_value) {
		if (!event) {
			throw new Error('Unknown event');
		}
		var value = opt_value || {};
		for (var i=0; i<getHandlers(event).length; i++) {
			getHandlers(event)[i](value);
		}
	};
	obj.addHandler = function(event, callback) {
		getHandlers(event).push(callback);
	};

	return obj;
}();

/**
 * Dsq.Realtime
 */
Dsq.Realtime = new function() {
	var initialized = false;
	var interval = null;
	var last_checked = Dsq.jsonData.request.timestamp;
	var new_posts = [];
	var ongoing_request = false;
	var prev_script = null;

	function updateNewPostCount() {
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-alert').style.display = new_posts.length ? 'block' : 'none';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-queued').innerHTML = new_posts.length
		+ ' new '
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, 'comment', 'comments')
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, ' was', ' were')
		+ ' just posted.';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.SHOW + ')';
	}

	function insertNewPosts() {
		var post_id = null;
		var after_id = Dsq.$('dsq-sort-select').value === 'oldest' ? -1 : null;

		for (var i=0; i<new_posts.length; i++) {
			post_id = new_posts[i];
			Dsq.Post.insert(after_id, post_id, Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id].message);
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		}
		new_posts = [];
	}

	this.enableInterval = function() {
		interval = setInterval(Dsq.Realtime.check, Dsq.jsonData.context.realtime_speed);
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.ENABLED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.PAUSE + ')';
	}

	this.disableInterval = function() {
		if (interval) {
			clearInterval(interval);
			interval = null;
		}
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.PAUSED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.RESUME + ')';
	}

	this.toggleInterval = function() {
		if (!interval) {
			Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
		} else {
			Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
		}
		return false;
	}

	this.initialize = function() {
		if (!initialized) {
			initialized = true;
			Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').onclick = this.toggleInterval;
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').onclick = this.show;
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
			if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.realtime_paused) {
				Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
			} else {
				Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
			}
		}
	}

	this.show = function() {
		insertNewPosts();
		updateNewPostCount();
		return false;
	}

	this.check = function() {
		if (!ongoing_request && Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			if (prev_script) {
				prev_script.parentNode.removeChild(prev_script);
			}
			ongoing_request = true;
			prev_script = Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/15119310/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/myballard/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/myballard/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;
		});
	})();
}









(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-7871890">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871890" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871890" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871890">Underpants Gnome</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871890" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871890" class="dsq-comment-message">Mymble was right to wonder where the tents would show up next.  One of them moved to the vacant lot at 57th &amp; 20th - mentioned by Jenna.  I notified SPD about the new location.  <br><br>Does this mean that the tents can stay in one place for a few days, then get a 48 hour eviction notice from SPD.  Guess that means they will only have to move twice a week or so to be "legal".</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-7871874">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871874" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871874" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871874">Barney Rubble</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871874" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871874" class="dsq-comment-message">I had a wonderful drive home today. I saw them all! The hacky sacking hippies in Bergen Place, the meth whores in front of the Golden City Lounge and the elderly homeless woman...What a way to top off the work day.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-7871866">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871866" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871866" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871866">Tippy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871866" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871866" class="dsq-comment-message">I have lived in Ballard for ten years now and in Seattle for all 34 years of my life.  Ballard, by far, has the worse "homeless" problem of any Seattle area outlying neighborhood.  It is getting sick!  The Ballard homeless are a bunch of rude, obnoxius, inconsiderate leeches on our society.  They all collect a SS check of somesort and a good number of them collect their Alaska state check as well as their Native check.  They are not broke they just choose to spend their money on booze, crack, meth and heroin.  They\'re complete low lifes who are only raoming the streets of Ballard because they can.  Nobody in Ballard is doing anything to get rid of these people from our neighborhood.  Other neighborhoods have found ways to keep them out...why can\'t we.  Because we\'re a bunch of bleeding hearts who think \'those poor souls - they need help\'.  Come on be real.  They don\'t want help, they want booze, crack, heroin and meth and a place or community that allows them to be vagrant.  It\'s obvious that the cops don\'t care.  Unless we start calling 911 everytime we see this crowd doing something illegal - loitering is illegal - they\'ll stay.  Why wouldn\'t they.  We need to stand up as a community and make Ballard as uncomfortable for them as they have made it for us.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871828" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871828" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871828">extremophile</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871828" class="dsq-comment-message">imho, being a Ballard liberal doesn\'t mean allowing illegal camping or ignoring meth use in our neighborhoods. If you see illegal activity, call the police (you can\'t expect them to read the Ballard Tribune or these comments), and more calls are better. Organizing community meetings makes sense too -- because community groups have had more success than anything else at actually lowering crime and vandalism than any other method. And look out for your neighbor wouldya? I can\'t wait to see the tee-shirts for the neighborhood watch patrols.<br><br>Food banks exist in many communities without increasing crime in them, and existed in Ballard some time before recent crime sprees, so I think a stronger case would need to be made to support the contention that the food bank is part of the crime problem.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871827">HAPPY</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871827" class="dsq-comment-message">This information was entered by a fellow poster - Hope it is ok to post it here with proper credit given to the poster: <br><br>"...take action and contact the Captain of the Seattle Police Department’s North Precinct, which has responsiblity for Ballard. His name is Capt. Mike Washburn, and his email is: <a href="mailto:michael.washburn@seattle.gov" rel="nofollow">michael.washburn@seattle.gov</a>. The main contact phone for the precinct is (206) 684-0850<br><br>Ask him to set up a meeting with you and other concerned residents and business owners to talk about your concerns and their plans to address them. Don’t let them push you off on Neil Hansen, the Crime Prevention guy…he’s totally worthless and powerless.<br><br>You have also referenced another SPD Officer on here, Devlin Haag. Officer Haag is the Community Policing Team officer assigned solely to Ballard/Crown Hill. His email is <a href="mailto:devlin.haag@seattle.gov" rel="nofollow">devlin.haag@seattle.gov</a> . His Sargeant on The North Precinct CPT team is Sgt. Dianne Newsom - (206) 684-0794. or <a href="mailto:dianne.newsom@seattle.gov" rel="nofollow">dianne.newsom@seattle.gov</a><br><br>There’s an interesting description of the CPT objectives on the SPD website. Not sure how based in reality it is, but it reads as follows:<br><br>WHAT DO CPT OFFICERS DO?<br><br>“While patrol officers assigned to a certain beat and sector are usually very familiar with the area they patrol, CPT Officers go one step further. CPT officers do not respond to 911 calls for service and are instead assigned a specific area to focus on long-term, often chronic problems. They patrol many times a day, checking and re-checking known “hot spots”.<br><br>It is their job to know the residents in troubled apartments, to recognize by sight, the “regulars” who congregate on the corner, and to understand the ongoing problems and concerns of neighbors and businesses. Residents and business owners get to know and trust the officers, making it easier to work together to resolve and prevent problems. CPT is about understanding ongoing issues that go back weeks and months and taking steps to prevent problems before they arise. The officers are a unique and invaluable resource in the communities they serve. ”<br><br>And finally, if you are concerned about what happens to the people who actually do get arrested, you should voice your concerns about quick release back onto the streets to:<br><br>Ed McKenna, the Police Department’s North Precinct liaison from the City Attorney’s Office, can be reached at 206-684-7765 or edward.mckenna@seattle.gov."<br><br>Posted by REGULAR March 18, 2009</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871822" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871822">e/c</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871822" class="dsq-comment-message">we can be part of the solution..if the number of homeles was something we coudl actually control and help...Ballard is a small community..and we can onlky do so much with what we have...so far we have become a magnet to more than we can handle..and it is hard to seperate the people who need a "leg up" from those who are here because they have drug, alcohol or unregistered sex offender" we need a filer and a number we can actually make a differnce with..lets be resonable..at least set the bar high...can you imagine the satisfaction we would feel if we actually made a diference with those that will respond instead of just use us for free food and high tolerance for bad behavior?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871824" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871824">chopper_74</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871824" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871824" class="dsq-comment-message">oh, the 48 hour clock has past on this issue, get \'er done.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871825" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871825" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871825">chopper_74</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871825" class="dsq-comment-message">Mr. Haag, if you please.<br>Get these tents out of Ballard. If the law is lost, then we are lost, sir.<br>Chopper out...and about</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871821" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871821" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871821">Nordic Woman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871821" class="dsq-comment-message">Why SHOULD condo owners accept Section 8 housing???  Oh, yeah, I\'ve seen what happens when you get Section 8 housing in a neighborhood and it isn\'t pretty. <br><br>Yah sure, you betcha, all the condo owners who threw down $400K to live in a nice condo want derelicts and drug addicts living next door.<br><br>I am sick of the con artists, panhandlers, drug addicts, shoplifters, and just plain crazy people moving HERE. Where, exactly, is it written that we, the residents of Ballard, are under ANY obligation to entice more of these people here by providing services to them?<br><br>It is interesting that the Downtown Merchants Association has a program to discourage people giving money, because there are 30 (thirty) places downtown where the homeless can get food. <a href="http://www.givesmartseattle.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.givesmartseattle.org/</a><br><br>Don\'t be so guillable...you think the $$ these people get from the state or from the naive goes to food? It goes to drugs. And where there are drugs, there is crime.<br><br>Time to clean up Ballard and get the bums OUT.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871804" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871804" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871804">Ryan</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871804" class="dsq-comment-message">THT - what has this community done about the bum problem?  Doesn\'t seem like much to me.  More and more bums coming to Ballard all the time, and more campers parked in people\'s neighborhoods.<br><br>Nice try pulling the "move to Bellevue" card.  Just keep your head in the sand and say there\'s not a problem, I\'m sure that will help things.  Two "methed-out bums living in trailers" have committed murders in my neighborhood over the past year.  I don\'t think that\'s something that my neighborhood should tolerate.  You may desire to out of some fake sense of "tolerance" and "loving everyone", but you are naive and conveniently ignore the truth.  This city, including Ballard, has to get this issue under control.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871788" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871788" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871788">Ryan</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871788" class="dsq-comment-message">I will stand up for BHO here.  I am sick of this neighborhood being infested by bums.  I don\'t like walking to Safeway and having to worry about bums selling drugs in the bushes.  I don\'t like what I see in Bergen Park.<br><br>But what troubles me most is the bum camper colony that seems to be growing daily.  In the last year, there have been two murders within a 6-block radius of my house.  You can check the MyBallard archives if you want more details.  The long and short of it is that both murders were bums living in campers, by bums living in campers (one over some sort of malt beverage).  <br><br>While I agree that some of BHO\'s comments are a little blunt, some of you should hear yourselves.  You almost make it sound like you relish in these people\'s homelessness and give them 100% of the benefit of the doubt.  Sorry, I don\'t.  I subscribe to the broken windows theory, that when we see these things on a daily basis, more crime is around the corner.<br><br>I enjoy living in Ballard, but something has to be done about the homeless problem.  Out of misguided "kindness" a lot of you look the other way, but for me it\'s a concern when I can\'t fully enjoy my neighborhood because there may be some methed-out bum in a trailer a block away that might try and attack me when I run by.  Tolerating a few tents here and there, and the neighborhood continues a rapid decline because we\'re telling people, "we think it\'s fine what you\'re doing, keep it up".  And then it multiplies.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871753" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871753">Goofy Norwegian</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871753" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871753" class="dsq-comment-message">Awe c\'mon, they\'re just the Boy Scouts earning a merit badge in camping!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871754" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871754" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871754">Black Helicopter Operations</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871754" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s illegal to camp there. It\'s also illegal to live in Bergen Park. What\'s this 48 hours crap?<br><br>Summer is coming. Is there a plan to get the meth heads out of Bergen Park, or are we supposed just put up with it as they multiply and keep our traps shut?<br><br>It looks like they have claimed The Chai House as the official Meth Head tranisient headquarters, which is fine. At least they are all over in one spot. But, can they at least stay inside the damn place, not be out in the park? And, maybe keep all the backpacks and bikes off the sidewalks in frount of the Chai House, some some of us can at least get by? The hackey sack is annoying enough, but the meth heads are not something we need to navigate through on a sidewalk paid for by the taxpayers. For Christs Sake, grow up.<br><br>There is a retirement home on the same block and same side as The Chai House. Some of the older folks in wheelchairs would like to use the sidewalk. You mind?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7945957">Leo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7945957" class="dsq-comment-message">Everybody pays sales tax, buddy.  Congratulations on owning property, I\'m sorry it\'s so taxing.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871755" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871755" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871755">I heart controversy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871755" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871755" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh boy...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871756" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871756">Goofy Norwegian</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871756" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871756" class="dsq-comment-message">BHO. You really need to learn how to express yourself. Don\'t hold back next post. Not clear exactly just where ya stand on this one.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871757" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871757">jm</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871757" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871757" class="dsq-comment-message">A tent with a view and off street parking!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871758" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871758">elenchos</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871758" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871758" class="dsq-comment-message">Welcome to the echo chamber.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871759" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871759">e/c</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871759" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871759" class="dsq-comment-message">you\'d think the exhaust from all the cars parking in and out of there would be bothersome, and dangerous...I was suprised when I saw them too..and not sure why the 48 hr deal either..but there must be some reason..</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871760">Vagrant</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871760" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871760" class="dsq-comment-message">Happy campers.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871761" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871761" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871761">Black Helicopter Operations</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871761" class="dsq-comment-message">They are camped out for the free Monday lunch. <br><br>Then, Wednesday and Thursday we will have the food bank influx of transients aka "sweet old ladies". <br><br>Then, Friday we have the whole downtown Ballard area and Bergen Park flooded with meth heads and panhandlers for the free lunch at St. Lukes. <br><br>We also have the Bergen Park Meth/Crack/Booze party on the first, when the welfare checks come in this week. That will last two or three days.  That will be a joint Chai House/Friends of Bergen Park event.<br><br>To top it off, we have the Car Campground for Meth, sex offenders and Crack heads, still scheduled to open in the St. Lukes parking lot, right next to the new library for summer. <br><br>Finally, we have the secretive Maniac Shelter at Calgary opening, for the kiddies in the neighborhood park.<br><br>And, we still have no Seattle Police foot or bike patrols or answers from Officer Haag.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871762" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871762">Black Helicopter Operations</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871762" class="dsq-comment-message">I mean, we have an Army of Meth and Crack dealers on parade, all day and all night, marching from Bergen Park/The Chai House Pay Phone to the 7-11 pay phone and back. <br><br>Selling Crack/Meth and everything else under the sun to pedestrians up and down those sidewalks, while panhandling along the way. You mean to tell me, the Seattle Police refuse to even enforce that law (No meth/crack selling) or make a single arrest to set an example? Just one?<br><br>The Seattle Police can’t figure out to bug the pay phone in frount of the Chai House, when it was right on the frount page of the Ballard News Tribune, that it’s used mostly for drug deals? <br><br>Then, we have meth heads camping on Shilshole and Officer Haag practically offers to fluff up thier pillows for them and tell them a bedtime story, rather than take them in?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871763">phishstu</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871763" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871763" class="dsq-comment-message">BHO, have you given this information to the SPD? Your reconnaissance would be much valued. Even your suggestions for police strategy and tactics would be of help.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871764" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871764" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871764">Ayn Rand</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871764" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871764" class="dsq-comment-message">Jesus put those unsaved wretches in those tents, and he put those tents in sinful Ballard.  It is the Lord\'s will that those who cannot earn a respectable upper middle class salary should be cast out and scorned.  The Seattle Police well know the wrath of God is mighty, and they know better than to move anyone from the spot He has chosen to lay them down upon.<br><br>Cease your blasphemous whining, Ballard, and pray the market turns around so you can sell your house and move to a gated Christian community and be among the saved, far, far away from the sick and the poor and the unclothed!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871765">TTTCOTTH</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871765" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871765" class="dsq-comment-message">48 hours to stop committing crimes?<br><br>The new SPD catch &amp; release program!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871766" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871766" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871766">churchneighbor</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871766" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871766" class="dsq-comment-message">BHO:<br>You are such a simple-minded person, fitting the entire homeless population into one box, all the same. If you only realized how completely stupid you sound. <br>The homeless are no different than any other population on the planet. Some good, some not so much, some addicted, yet many who are not. Many are just struggling to survive in these hard times and yes for various reasons, some have been on the street for years. Do you personally know any homeless people? I do and not all of them are the criminal evil-doers you post about here.<br>In this economy, just about everyone is a few paychecks, if not closer to homelessness. I\'m thinking the problem is only going to get worse here in Ballard and all over the city, though perhaps not in some of the wealthier areas or at least not right away.<br>You\'ve mentioned before that the food bank and meal programs should move somewhere like Medina. I don\'t think Medina needs a food bank or soup kitchen, but Ballard does. There are a lot of people here who need help. Perhaps you\'d be happier in Medina.I\'m sure they have a blog too where you can relate your stories of the evil homeless people that ruined your life.  Real estate is cheap now.  Check it out. <br>I don\'t know about the rest of you here, but I am so sick of BHO and his endless tirade that does nothing to help the situation.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7939944">Mymble</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7939944" class="dsq-comment-message">If every church member took 2 homeless people into their home, problem solved (?) You may want to screen them first, just a thought.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871767" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871767">Black Helicopter Operations</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871767" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871767" class="dsq-comment-message">No, go to the U District and Downtown where they have more soup kitchens and shelters than you can imagine or visit in a lifetime. Plus, churches and state and federal agencies to help you. This is a family neighborhood. It was never designed to solve homelessness. It was a dumb experiment that has backfired.  There is more help than you can ever want, if you would simply go get it. It\'s not here, I assure you. This is not the neighborhood for that. It\'s a family neighborhood. Get a clue. Go downtown, go to the welfare office and speak to a social worker. It\'s very simple.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871768" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871768">Black Helicopter Operations</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871768" class="dsq-comment-message">phishstu - Give the info to the cops? Its on the frount page to the damn newspaper!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871769" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871769" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871769">Black Helicopter Operations</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871769" class="dsq-comment-message">Church Neighbor - We get it by now. You are a schill for the Ballard Food Bank or actually work there. Take your propaganda elsewhere. Nobody with a broken window or stolen car gives a rats ass any more about the food bank. Plain enough?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871770" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871770" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871770">Wondering</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871770" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871770" class="dsq-comment-message">BHO and others:<br><br>A week or so ago, someone posted a comment that contained all the appropriate phone and email contact information for the Seattle Police Department\'s North Precinct command, including Officer Devlin Haag\'s supervising Sargent. <br><br>Aside from slamming the CPT officer (Haag) in this forum, have you had any constructive conversations with the SPD management ?  If you haven\'t then you\'re just "some troll on a blog" to them.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871771" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871771">Bark more, Wag less</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871771" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871771" class="dsq-comment-message">"The homeless are no different than any other population on the planet."<br><br>Well, except for one whopper of a difference—they screwed up so badly and planned so poorly for life that they are homeless.<br><br>"just about everyone is a few paychecks"<br><br>Total myth.<br><br>"There are a lot of people here who need help"<br><br>No, there\'s many COMING here for help because some of our knuckleheaded neighbors put out the welcome matt for moochers. Big difference. See the pigeon feeding analogy.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871772" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871772" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871772">Black Helicopter Operations</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871772" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871772" class="dsq-comment-message">I won\'t disclose anything about my contact with the police. Let\'s just say, I am doing my part.  I would strongly suggest those email addresses to others. But, I am pretty fed up with these obvious things that a simple chat by a couple of officers could end. Like, simply going over the men sleeping in Bergen Park, and saying it\'s against the law, and if you do it again, you will be arrested. Try the same thing with the drug dealers outside 7 11 every night. They need me to tell them that? Ok, I admit, officer Haag is taking the brunt of the frustration. I will refrain from that from now on. But, I am the only person in Ballard, bothered by swimming in meth heads, crazy people and panhandlers, every day of my life? Come on... Just cut off the food supply.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871773" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871773">churchneighbor</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871773" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871773" class="dsq-comment-message">Interesting approach that seems to be working. Maybe housing should be the first thing we address? While under a roof, an addiction might be easier to conquer?<br><br><a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008957119_webalcoholics01m.html?syndication=rss" rel="nofollow">http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871774" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871774">Black Helicopter Operations</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871774" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871774" class="dsq-comment-message">So yes, I apologise to Officer Haag</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871775" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871775" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871775">churchneighbor</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871775" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871775" class="dsq-comment-message">BHO:<br>I think you are over ruffling your feathers. A lot of people see you as a joke.<br>I don\'t work for the Ballard Food Bank, but support them with financial and other donations regularly. I believe in their work  and have volunteered there. Lots of people in Ballard and beyond support the Ballard Food Bank. They\'ve been here for years and done lots of good work. Why do you feel the need to bash them?<br>I was stating my opinion as someone who knows some homeless people. You clearly do not, as you only see them as faceless, evil people who should be wiped off the planet.<br>So sad to hear your endless heartless bantering. One can only hope you might be in need someday. Then you might get a clue.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871776" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871776">churchneighbor</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871776" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871776" class="dsq-comment-message">BHO:<br>and maybe you should do us all a favor and take yourself elsewhere. Ballard is progressing and looking for solutions. You clearly are not.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871777" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871777" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871777">Black Helicopter Operations</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871777" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871777" class="dsq-comment-message">Donate to NW Harvest and soup kitchens in neighborhoods with adequate Police and services for the homeless. Since when do when need to compete for homeless people? Let the neighborhoods designed for that do their jobs. <br><br>There are mental health facilities all over downtown, free food, needle exchanges, methadone clinics and every other program we dont have and nobody but a few want in Ballard. This is not that type of neighborhood and this is not a competition to see which neighborhood and feed the most homeless. What is this sudden Ballard fixation on homeless? It\'s like you people are trying to recruit them or something.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8099026" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8099026">Conspiracy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8099026" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8099026" class="dsq-comment-message">"There are mental health facilities all over downtown"<br><br>Yes and you should use them. You sound like you are paranoid schizophrenic</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871778" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871778" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871778">Black Helicopter Operations</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871778" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871778" class="dsq-comment-message">Um Church Lady, I aint going nowhere. You wack jobs moved into my neighborhood. Not the other way around...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871779" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871779" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871779">churchneighbor</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871779" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871779" class="dsq-comment-message">Bark More:<br>No need to dignify that with a response...read the news...Look at stats...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871780" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871780" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871780">churchneighbor</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871780" class="dsq-comment-message">CHURCHNEIGHBOR aka also neighbor of the proposed shelter</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871781" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871781" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871781">churchneighbor</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871781" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871781" class="dsq-comment-message">BHO": You are going to be out numbered by the many homeless here soon...What will you do when they are camping in your yard?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871782" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871782" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871782">Black Helicopter Operations</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871782" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871782" class="dsq-comment-message">Church Lady, what make you think the business owners of Ballard want to play mental health case worker with your homeless friends, or break up their fights inside their businesses? Don\'t you feel these people could benefit from professionals downtown, mental health case workers, needle exchanges and rehabs? Why don\'t you go feed them there? Too lazy to take the bus downtown?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871783" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871783">churchneighbor</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871783" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871783" class="dsq-comment-message">Medina is calling you...Lots of cheap really right-winged self absorbed neighborhoods there</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871784" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871784" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871784">Black Helicopter Operations</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871784" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871784" class="dsq-comment-message">Great, the only spokesperson the food bank has put on here, turns out to be a fruit cake. Just great...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871785" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871785">Stupid Hippie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871785" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871785" class="dsq-comment-message">"Look at stats"<br><br>What stats? You gave none.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871786" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871786" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871786">Tinfoil Helmet Taliban</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871786" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871786" class="dsq-comment-message">All you naysayers, please listen to BHO.  He has a handicapped placard obtained by dubious means and is serious about his business.  Although he is not gainfully employed, he wants to keep us all safe and garner a little love in the process.  So quit being haters and lets all organize a benefit at the Chai House on his behalf.  I now know where he drinks and would be happy to organize a community "come to jesus" event on his behalf.  Love people, its all about love.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871787" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871787">churchneighbor</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871787" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871787" class="dsq-comment-message">BHO: No. Nobody wants to put up with people who cause problems.  You have an idea that all homeless are bad and blame everything negative that happens in Ballard has to to with a homeless person. I happen to live in an area with neighbors with teens that tag and do drugs. Does that make me think all teens are bad? I think not. I am smarter and more progressive than that.<br>I have worked in social services for years and the answer is not to send your neighborhood problems to another area. Those areas have problems too that they need to deal with.<br>Ballard has a problem with homelessness, as do many other areas in the city. Sending it away is not an answer. <br>The answer is to set up services for these people in this area to get services like jobs, housing (perhaps some of our condos go to low income housing), mental health services, drug/alcohol services etc.<br>Like it or not, the homeless aren\'t leaving or going to another area. Other areas are satuarated with thier own homeless population, just like Ballard. BHO:You just want this problem to go away....Earth to BHO...The homeless are here, as in other areas of the city. Sending them away isn\'t going to work. We have to find solutions. <br>Shooting them or sending them away are not viable answers. Other areas are also saturated.<br>If this doesn\'t sink into your tiny brain...MOVE TO MEDINA!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871789" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871789">Nordic Woman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871789" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871789" class="dsq-comment-message">What\'s WRONG with NOT wanting homeless crackheads in OUR neighborhood? They are not OUR homless...they are universally here from other places.  Provide services, and they will come. <br><br>Condos ? Oh, that\'s a great concept...I\'m sure someone who threw down 350K a year ago wants to share his buildling with homeless crack heads. Or that owners of said buildings might think that\'s a viable option. <br><br>I say we quit making it attractive to be here, and they will leave. <br><br>"Medina is calling you…Lots of cheap really right-winged self absorbed neighborhoods there."<br>Cheap? Medina? What color is the atmosphere on your home planet? <br><br>I\'m sick of my tax dollars supporting these people, and I\'m sick of the rising crime, car prowls, drug dealers, and the homeless.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871790" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871790" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871790">Goofy Norwegian</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871790" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871790" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m with BHO. There are, and have been, many many agencies for these people. Giving to off-ramp greeters has gottne them/us where? What the heck ever happened to the teach a man to fish idea? There are hand-ups, then there are hand-outs. There are safety-nets, then there are hammocks. Seems to me this tolerance crap is outta hand. Thanks again guilty white liberals, for nothing.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871791" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871791">churchneighbor</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871791" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871791" class="dsq-comment-message">BHO: <br>Please quit presenting me as a spokeperson for the food bank.The problem with you is you assume and you know what they say about that....<br> I volunteered at BFB last year and know them to be a really good organization. Additionally, I am a person with an MSW who has worked with the homeless population for over 20 years. People like you are more a problem than the people I have served all these years, for you are clueless. <br>I am challenging you and your warped beliefs and am simply only a resident here in Ballard</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871792" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871792" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871792">churchneighbor</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871792" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871792" class="dsq-comment-message">You  guys need to think of setting up services to help these people get on track. They aren\'t going to leave. You will see changes if you can provide hope.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7939870" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7939870" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7939870">Mymble</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7939870" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7939870" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m sure YOU have a spare room or two, or even the couch, take a few into YOUR home, provide some "HOPE" . Practice what YOU preach.  Seattle and Ballard already have services, no need to set more up, too many "services" now.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871793" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871793" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871793">Tinfoil Helmet Taliban</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871793" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871793" class="dsq-comment-message">Ryan, this isn\'t Bellevue. We deal with these issues as a community, not as a posse.  I care, about you, the "bums" and every other human being.  There is no trash.  If you want to fully enjoy your community on your own terms, move to a neighborhood with covenants and terms that you can deal with.  If you want to impose your will on the rest of Ballard, you are in the wrong place.  That methed-out bum living in the trailer has every much right to existence as you do.  None of us likes being the victim of crime, but I don\'t see how you are helping the situation.  There are no absolutes no matter how much you wish it to be so.  I\'m not you and you are not me.  Can we address the issues behind the crime or should we just lock everyone up and throw away the key? Simple solution, huh?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871794" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871794" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871794">elenchos</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871794" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871794" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s perfectly reasonable to give them at least 48 hours to move.  They\'re not hurting anyone.  I walk around Ballard every day and is nothing like the MyBallard nutters describe.  It\'s sort of interesting to see that so many people live in fear.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871795" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871795">churchneighbor</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871795" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871795" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.startribune.com/nation/42223082.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.startribune.com/nation/42223082.html</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871796" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871796" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871796">phishstu</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871796" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871796" class="dsq-comment-message">BHO, so the evidence seems clear. What can we do about this?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871797">churchneighbor</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871797" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m not suggesting more "giving", but agengies in this area that will help address the homeless people\'s problems such as housing, medical help, and yes addictions. There aren\'t any agencies that direct these people for help in this area. We need that in Ballard, with our ever increasing homeless population. If we would provide the services here, the area would begin to clean up.Wishing them away won\'t help.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871798">churchneighbor</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871798" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871798" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'d be open to setting up a community meeting to talk about his issue. Anyone open to that?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871799" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871799">Stupid Hippie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871799" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871799" class="dsq-comment-message">"perhaps some of our condos go to low income housing"<br><br>How do you plan on getting them from their rightful owners, gun point?<br><br>"answer is to set up services for these people in this area to get services like jobs, housing"<br><br>Ah yes, feed the pigeons, then complain about pigeon sh*t everywhere. Great idea.<br><br>"Other areas are also saturated."<br><br>Queen Anne, Wallingford, Magnolia, even Fremont and have no where near as many homeless. But they didn\'t put out the welcome matt. I have no problem helping homeless who can prove they are from Ballard. All the migrants from Belltown and Pike place running from the crackdowns? No way.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871800" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871800">e/c</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871800" class="dsq-comment-message">define resaonable...?<br><br>Imust agree with Nordic Woman post #37<br><br>"What’s WRONG with NOT wanting homeless crackheads in OUR neighborhood? They are not OUR homless…they are universally here from other places. Provide services, and they will come."<br><br>we have become to easy on it all..to actually camp in parking space area shows they are not afraid to be booted out anytime soon..and we have proved that to be true..nice tents where did they get them? <br><br>#44 Churchneighbor...we provide services more will come..pretty simple</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871801">churchneighbor</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871801" class="dsq-comment-message">typo...I meant this not his in my last post. Didn\'t want to start a riot.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871802" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871802">churchneighbor</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871802" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871802" class="dsq-comment-message">How can a homeless person prove where they are from?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871803" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871803" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871803">churchneighbor</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871803" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871803" class="dsq-comment-message">Last paycheck(not), last address (they obviously moved)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871805" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871805">churchneighbor</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871805" class="dsq-comment-message">The homeless are here and no services, except the food bank and a few free lunches are here. They aren\'t going anywhere. Other areas are also full of homeless. Like it or not, we have to be creative and provide services in our community that will help these people move on.It is the reality we are faced with.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871806">churchneighbor</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871806" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871806" class="dsq-comment-message">BALLARD IS THE ONE OF THE HOT POTATOES OF THE HOMELESS POPULATION!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871807" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871807" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871807">churchneighbor</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871807" class="dsq-comment-message">We are going to be part of the solution or we can continue to be part of the problem. Saying it isn\'t so or it\'s not our problem is a joke. It\'s here. Let\'s figure it out.<br>As I said wishing it away isn\'t going to work nor is officier friendly.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871808">churchneighbor</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871808" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871808" class="dsq-comment-message">Community meeting anybody? BHO where are you?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871809">Stupid Hippie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871809" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871809" class="dsq-comment-message">"How can a homeless person prove where they are from?"<br><br>Bills, old rental contracts. Very simple especially since you seem to to think so many of these folks are recently homeless, the paper work would fit into a wallet. <br><br>If you can\'t even keep a single  scrap of paper to show where you lived last, you are not homeless, you are a bum.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871810">churchneighbor</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871810" class="dsq-comment-message">Stupid Hippie:<br>School yourself on low income housing options.<br>There is funding such as section 8 housing and other forms that will allow an owner to get current market rent and still allow a low income person to live in a dwelling. The renter pays 1/3 of their income. Lots of street people have an income,yet nowhere to live. This would not be a meth house, but people who want to work out of their current circumstances.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871811">Stupid Hippie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871811" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871811" class="dsq-comment-message">So you want us the tax payer to pay the high rents so bums can live in top end Ballard condos? How about this, I\'m woilling to pay for a room on  a work farm in  Eastern Washington. Full room and board in exchange for  work.<br><br>You think the condo owners will allow these people to live in their $250-400K properties in Ballard?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871812" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871812">churchneighbor</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871812" class="dsq-comment-message">Stupid Hippie:<br>Good Name for yourself. Lots of homeless have nothing left in their wallet, much less a wallet.<br>Are you a real hippie. I think not.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871813">churchneighbor</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871813" class="dsq-comment-message">And all this time I thought Ballard was a progressive community...Give them a blog and they become like Rush Limbaughs...scary...so scary...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871814">Stupid Hippie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871814" class="dsq-comment-message">"Lots of homeless have nothing left in their wallet, much less a wallet."<br><br>Then they are not homeless, they are bums  who simply don\'t care enough to take care of themselves and simply want a handout. I hope your door is open to them.<br><br>"I thought Ballard was a progressive community"<br><br>Moderate/conservative Democrat, voted that way all my life. However, I\'m not a fool. And since when is everyone in Ballard supposed to think the same? I know you far left wack jobs wish it were so, which is why you are no different from Rush and his yahoo followers.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871815">Doc</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871815" class="dsq-comment-message">if i recall correctly from my high school language classes, churchneighbor is french for black helicopter operations, no?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871816">churchneighbor</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871816" class="dsq-comment-message">Why not have section 8 pay for homeless in all the vacant condos around here. God knows nobody else will. Look at all the vacancies...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871817">churchneighbor</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871817" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871817" class="dsq-comment-message">Doc: are you stoned?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871818">churchneighbor</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871818" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871818" class="dsq-comment-message">Stupid Hippie: You chose a good name for yourself...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871819" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871819">North Beach Slacker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871819" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871819" class="dsq-comment-message">Why not call it a night, churchneighbor? The blog will be here in the morning.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871820">NoHoBo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871820" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871820" class="dsq-comment-message">churchneighbor is a moron. I live by the same church and I want the scum out of my neighborhood. I\'m inclined to include churchneighbor in that category.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871823">chopper_74</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871823" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m incensed.<br>Sorry, HBO, but I\'ve been out and about.<br>churchneighbor, pack up your tent, you are not welcome here.<br>I thank the members of this community who expect responsible behavior of themselves, and there-for, of others. THAT\'S COMMUNITY.<br>I am a proud member of HBO, and will forever be.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871826">Captain Sleestak</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871826" class="dsq-comment-message">Pink Whirlybird Operations here,<br><br>*panting*<br><br>Sorry i\'m late to the party, got some great meth off some dude outside 7-11 and been high for 3 days!<br><br>What\'s up?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871829" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871829" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871829">Black Helicopter Operations</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871829" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s like Night Of The Living Dead on Market Street, there are so many Meth Head Zombies and they are multiplying like coachroaches by the day. Break ins, car thefts, assualts of police... where does it end?<br><br>The cops know, but probably expect us as a neighborhood to do something. Setting up this "Crystal Campground" right by the new library and the needle exchange in Bergen park must be stopped, at any and all costs. You want crack heads and pimps, reading to your kids in the library?<br><br>I would like to walk the streets without being up to my knees in Meth Heads and Panhandlers. Is that a crime?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871830" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871830">Goofy Norwegian</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871830" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871830" class="dsq-comment-message">Nobody in Ballard actaully listens to Rush do they? I hear a lot about him here. Is Chris Matthews or the bomb thrower Oberdork good for America? Tell me just how giving the house away is a good thing? People here WERE born with a "D" by their names. They ARE getting what they deserve. Were there poor people before Republicans? Can we tax ourselves into prosperity? Tell me when the last time we saw an"R" person on any ballot in the 36th district? This state is a 1 party state. We have become Bizerkley North. 20 years ago my yuppy neighbors had the die yuppy scum stickers on their VW vans. Today they have nannies, maid services, 3-4-5 cars, and their kids drive to Ballard High. Times are tough aren\'t they. Hypocrites.  If you\'re willing to "sacrifice a little freedom for some sort of security" you deserve neither. Keep on a pulling that "D" lever comrades. At least then you\'ll feel good about these schlubs permeating our once fair region. Keep handing \'em your $$ at off-ramps. This really gives \'em a signal doesn\'t it. Like turning off your lights for an hour does. Warm and fuzzy in Ballard</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871831" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871831">mcburns</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871831" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with BHO and others, at least they are out there doing something about it and not sitting there blogging \'what should we do about the homeless\'.  I work for King County Public Health and know for a fact there are plenty of services out there for those needing help - and those services are not located in neighborhoods for a reason!  You don\'t put a needle exchange program next to a school.  <br><br>I know there have been many threads regarding homeless shelters/soup kitchens but this is different - the number of tents and campers or people obviously living out of their cars has become riduculous!  If I can\'t pitch my tent in Golden Gardens this summer and do some free camping in a beautiful place then neither should they!<br><br>My point is that these people are not taking advantage of the services that are out there to them.  There is plenty of low income section 8 housing available, if it isn\'t in the neighborhood of your choice you have no right to just set up camp on the street.  It brings an old saying to mind......</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871832">hopefulpoet</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871832" class="dsq-comment-message">#76 you said:<br>There is plenty of low income section 8 housing available, if it isn’t in the neighborhood of your choice .........<br><br>This is good news!<br><br>Tell us more...I have always heard about years long waiting lists - but that is here in Seattle and King Co - where is this federal subsidized housing (sec 8) available</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871833">Stupid Hippie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871833" class="dsq-comment-message">"Why not have section 8 pay for homeless in all the vacant condos around here"<br><br>How do you plan on getting the owners to cooperate with their private property, at gun point?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871834">Long Timer</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871834" class="dsq-comment-message">Anybody see this article in the Seattle Times on Sat. ? The Saturday Soup Kitchen in the University district is closing after 25 years so they\'re sending their diners to Ballard.<br><br>In the Times words ...<br>In the church social hall, while people lined the room waiting for the kitchen partition to open, Metzger handed out an information sheet about another feeding program, Saturday Soup, in Ballard.<br><br>Full article -<br><a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008942281_soupkitchen29m.html" rel="nofollow">http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871835">Long Timer</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871835" class="dsq-comment-message">Sorry if this pops up twice but the 1st time I submitted it I don\'t think it went.<br><br>Anybody see this article in the Times on Saturday ?<br>Seattle\'s Saturday Kitchen closes its doors after 25 years<br>Guess where they are sending them...<br>In the church social hall, while people lined the room waiting for the kitchen partition to open, Metzger handed out an information sheet about another feeding program, Saturday Soup, in Ballard.<br><br>Full article<br><a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008942281_soupkitchen29m.html" rel="nofollow">http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871836">silence.kit</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871836" class="dsq-comment-message">@2<br><br>Why do you care so much if people are playing hackey sack or standing on the sidewalk outside the Chai House?  Good God, lighten the hell up.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871837">Crown Hill</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871837" class="dsq-comment-message">It has been asked -<br>How do you plan on getting the owners to cooperate with their private property, at gun point?<br><br>The income from the subsidy is the enticment - it goes to the land-lord - no guns needed.  The tenant is responsible for 30% - so even if the tenant fails to pay his or her portion, the landlord still gets 70% of market rate rental income.  Sometimes the subsidy is attached to an arrangement that the tenant is recieving services from a local provider(shelter plus care).  Then the landlord has comfort knowing that if issues arise, there are "people" to take care of it - the tenant has "people" to aid and assist in housing stability and another non-profit gets funds in order to pay case managers/housing support staff.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871838">silence.kit</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871838" class="dsq-comment-message">"But, I am the only person in Ballard, bothered by swimming in meth heads, crazy people and panhandlers, every day of my life"<br><br>Talk about exaggerating.  It\'s not this bad at all.  You act as if every ten feet someone begs for change or plunges a needle into their arm.  It\'s really not that bad.  You sound like a fool.<br><br>Ballard isn\'t a family neighborhood.  It\'s a neighborhood with families and plenty of singles.  None of my friends have kids and I don\'t want them.  Does that mean we should move?  Myballard isn\'t representative of Ballard...thankfully.  <br><br>I do enjoy the hypocrisy of you calling someone a "wack job" though.  Thanks for that.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871839">xteve</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871839" class="dsq-comment-message">"You guys need to think of setting up services to help these people get on track."<br><br>They don\'t want to get back on track. Ask them. I did. They\'re here for the free lunch.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871840">Bark more, Wag less</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871840" class="dsq-comment-message">Crown Hill, do you seriously think condo owners are going to house the drug addicts, alcoholics and bums we see up and down market street every day?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871841">Crown Hill</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871841" class="dsq-comment-message">Hi Barkmore,<br>I response to your question - no I don\'t seriously think that condo owners are going to house the homeless.    The question I was responding to asked what sort of incentives would cause a landlord to involve his property with a federal subsidy program.   I was disputing the fact that it need be at gun point.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871842">Bark more, Wag less</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871842" class="dsq-comment-message">The original proposition here though was to house them in Ballard\'s empty condos.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871843">Crown Hill</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871843" class="dsq-comment-message">Thank you Barkmore for the update - Well, that is an interesting proposition.    I must have missed that proposal as I scanned through the comments.     Seems like a throw away type suggestion- I doubt that anyone would take that proposition seriously.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871844">Crown Hill</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871844" class="dsq-comment-message">Seems like empty condos are the problem of developer.....I don\'t like the idea of federal subsidies to take toxic assets off books.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871845">trizzle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871845" class="dsq-comment-message">I am with extremophile. Being liberal doesn\'t mean let whoever want to take a shit in the park. BHO- I am a democrat, because in this BS two party system, that is my only choice. But I don\'t give money at off ramps, or to pan handlers. I am all for helping the homeless, who want help, and are just in dire straits. I am NOT for helping addicts who do not want the help, and I for one, am sick of the drug den that ballard has become. Please, call the cops! Everytime!! The calls are a record of activity, and when they continue and we aren\'t seeing results, someone will be accountable. <br>Also most of the drugging going on in Ballard is not Meth. It is heroin. These guys are definately not meth heads. Maybe the guys breaking in to all of the businesses are meth heads, the Bergen Park guys are on heroin.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871846">Bark more, Wag less</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871846" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, thrown away twice by a member of Ballard\'s easily confused far left:<br><br>churchneighbor: perhaps some of our condos go to low income housing<br><br>churchneighbor: Why not have section 8 pay for homeless in all the vacant condos</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871847">Edog</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871847" class="dsq-comment-message">The condos are hardly an issue here.<br><br>The questions are where are these people comeing from, why are they coming here, and how did they end up as homeless? <br><br>General answers to these points will help greatly.<br><br>It is my suspicion that had we the answers to these, there would be a lot less charity and tolerance for them in Ballard.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871848" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871848">Black Helicopter Operations</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871848" class="dsq-comment-message">Trizzle -<br><br>What this about Heroin in Bergen Park? I am not doubting you, but if this is true, let us know how you know and what info you have. I know full well the Crack and Meth explosion, but I have not heard much about heroin aside from some of those people who live behind Sip and Ship in the so called Meth house.<br><br>I wonder how long it will take before this Meth/Crack/Heroin epidemic works it\'s way through Ballard High School. <br><br>Maybe, it\'s already there.... <br><br>It\'s a matter of time before we see track marks on our teenagers arms and start hearing of overdose deaths at High School Parties at Golden Gardens this summer. <br><br>These pro drug dealers target teens first for sales and prostitution to pay for the additcions they create. Your daughter could be the next they take from Ballard High/Bergen Park/Chai House and out on to Aurora Ave to become a prostitute. It happens every day in Seattle and is a big business. Some are murdered and never heard from again.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871849">hopefulpoet</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871849" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah BHO- addiction is so attractive, our young ones will be just falling into the whole thing - how can we save them?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871850">Phantom Blut One</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871850" class="dsq-comment-message">Heilsa,All!<br>Looks like,the haters are fueled up to-day with the righteous indignation of some-one faceing an I.R.S. deadline:<br>"They come,on April 15th,dear,to take away our gold;<br>Tax men,un-moved by plea or tear;<br>It makes your blood run cold!<br>(chorus):<br>Oh,Income tax,it breaks our backs,and never more,green we see;<br>A sea of red in instead,from sea to shineing sea!!<br>(c) A.F.Gaines,submitted by A.E.Newman..<br>But,seriously,folks:<br>All things considered:<br>I think you haters of Indigents,(A.K.A."Bums")are going to love the Regan-Villes,Apple-Mary\'s,and falling stock-brokers;(don\'t forget the ex-celebrity stock-pickers)vending "roast-rat-on-a-stick"(C)Tm. that will magicly fill the urban zones of Amerikka(ie,Bollard{sic})by,say,next year.<br>All the rants about evil \'homeless\'drug sellers ignores this point:<br>Most of the "methedrine\'dealers are selling to the ex-military,thrown-aways that make up,oh,33% of the indigent,by my own estimate.<br>If you look at some stories about Army,A.F.,etc.training,like after ww2 in japan,korea,you might note that most druggies,speeders included,started takeing stimulants in military training scenes,officially.<br>Good ol\'Pentagon is world\'s largest whole-saler/transporter of opiates:<br>heroin,morphine,codeine,etc.<br>If you doubt me,look at these books:<br>"The Poppy is also a Flower"<br>"Along the Opium Trail"<br>"The Politics of Heroin in S.E.Asisa"<br>"The Great Heroin Coup"<br>"Dark Alliance"<br>And,note that,under the Osama Bin Regan campaign brand in Afghanistan,Opiod poppy growing was outlawed.<br>After the USSR broke off with Bin Regan\'s policy,opium returned to the Afghani farms.<br>So,to msake a short story long,maybe the N.S.A./Army Human Intel Agency/Dea network still off-loads opioids,cocaine,methamphetamine,mdma from various satrap states(ie,israel,mexico,canada,etc)and markets through:<br>"Da Cuz",Black Gangster Deciples",Kruds(Bloods&amp;Kripplers="Freeway Rick Ross,etc.),"Da Family"(not Manson\'s)etc.<br>Most street dealers are liscenced by different feddie agencies as auxillary police,and cannot be arrested.<br>The ones in Bollard come on #75 buses from apartments in Northgate.<br>Some commute from Belleview,Bothell,etc.<br>Any-one can observe this,just as I do.<br>No "street"dealer is homeless,or uses a pay phone.<br>Most use Blackberries.<br>Haters out there,I know who you are,also.<br>Watchbird is still singing to me.<br>"Phantom"<br>I can\'t wait to start an "Indigent University"and "Beggar\'s Guild",appoint Suthi honorary Faculty Chair\'Emeritus\',for Life...<br>Haters,etc,write:[randiO088(at)aim.com]</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871851">Black Helicopter Operations</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871851" class="dsq-comment-message">Maybe Geeky Sweedes should go under cover as Meth Heads for a day at Bergen Park and post the findings here.  Or, pretend to be buyers outside 7 11 and report how many offers they get for Crack/Meth/Heroin.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871852">Black Helicopter Operations</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871852" class="dsq-comment-message">Phantom is right<br><br>Lots of these street dealers have those ear piece phones, and come and go. The transients buy the stuff, but lots of these guys selling are well dressed and clean looking. The 711 type sellers are the bottom of the barrel dealers, but plenty of high tech dealers are on the march every day. Walk around yourselves. They are easy to spot.<br><br>Probably because they know they wont get arrested. I mean, when was the last time someone heard of a drug arrest in Ballard? 1972?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871853">mary</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871853" class="dsq-comment-message">Are these folks really homeless because times are tough for them, or do they just want to "live off the grid".  <br><br>Does that 48 hour timeframe inculde intervention by the city in any capacity, to find out what the deal is?   <br><br>I camped illegally in Washington State before.  I got caught and wasn\'t even given 48 minutes to move.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871854">Hang &#39;em High</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871854" class="dsq-comment-message">Folks, relax.  Meth and heroin are part of natures way of weeding out the weakest from the gene pool.  Hooray for population control, time our poor planet started getting a break. :)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871855">silence.kit</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871855" class="dsq-comment-message">"Yeah BHO- addiction is so attractive, our young ones will be just falling into the whole thing - how can we save them?"<br><br>You can\'t.  They\'re going to do drugs if they want.  Nothing you can do about it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871856">silence.kit</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871856" class="dsq-comment-message">"These pro drug dealers target teens first for sales and prostitution to pay for the additcions they create. Your daughter could be the next they take from Ballard High/Bergen Park/Chai House and out on to Aurora Ave to become a prostitute."<br><br>HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!<br><br>You\'re frickin\' nuts, man.  You\'re life must suck, if you\'re always this paranoid and scared.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871857">silence.kit</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871857" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871857" class="dsq-comment-message">"Your," not "you\'re" in the second sentence.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871858">silence.kit</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871858" class="dsq-comment-message">Also, BHO, you refer to a crack and meth explosion.  I haven\'t heard drug use is up.  Do you have any documentation or articles you could link?<br><br>Or are you just making it up?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871859">Crown Hill</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871859" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871859" class="dsq-comment-message">and don\'t forget the new heroin epidemic that is about to give us a bunch of OD teenagers.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871860">Roadkill</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871860" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871860" class="dsq-comment-message">the paranoia in here is impressive</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871861">Maria</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871861" class="dsq-comment-message">Yada yada yada.  I LOVE the stench of the internet on a rainy afternoon.   <br><br>“why do you have to have them in our neighborhood”  The problem is it’s not yours.  You don’t own it, only a tiny portion.  I walk through other neighborhoods where I do not live and that is my right and it is the right of all to walk through the public streets of Ballard.  You have the right to keep anyone you choose off your tiny portion and please do so.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871862">Edog</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871862" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871862" class="dsq-comment-message">"You have the right to keep anyone you choose off your tiny portion and please do so."<br><br>Actually, that the transient population is up, we have a right to be concenerd. <br><br>I wonder if it is up in other neighborhoods?  Are they focusing on Ballard, and if so why?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871863">Black Helicopter Operations</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871863" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://Silence.com" rel="nofollow">Silence.com</a> writes -<br><br> "Why do you care so much if people are playing hackey sack or standing on the sidewalk outside the Chai House?"<br><br>The reason is that the sidewalk is not a play ground or jungle gym. The same reason we are not supposed have people riding skateboards up and down the sidewalks, or the endless Meth Head bike parade up and down the sidewalks we deal with all day. You can actually get hit by a bike on the sidewalk in Ballard. It\'s absurd.<br><br>Some people actually need to use the sidewalk outside the Chai House to get to the new complex for the elderly a block down and should not have to fight their way through a bunch of 30 somethings who think they are in grade school, playing games, doing drugs, having story hour with the winos and writing on the sidewalks with chalk. Not to mention the cloud of smoke which is supposed to be 25 feet from the door, which it is not. It\'s childish? Ok?<br><br>Does that sidewalk belong to the Chai house or those paying taxes? I know you\'re actually "Hippy Tea Girl" who claimed<br><br> "We don\'t want to be part of your world." <br><br>Well fine, go live in a bus out in the woods and act 12 when you\'re actually 30. But, it\'s a business district not a school yard for a pre school.<br><br>People need to conduct business, walk to stores, make deliveries and all sorts of other reason that sidewalks exist. <br><br>Most normal people cross that street to avoid the entire area, which is unfair to those still inside "normal society". You might "Not want to be part of our world", but if you want to turn the center of Ballard into Burning Man, people will insist you remember it\'s not. <br><br>Most people were raised with manners and don\'t need to be taught this at age 30. (Not to mention, would probably have jobs by that age)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871864" class="dsq-comment-message">Silence.kit writes<br><br>"Ballard isn’t a family neighborhood. It’s a neighborhood. None of my friends have kids and I don’t want them."<br><br>If you\'re 30 and would rather play hackeysack while on Meth or draw things in chalk all over Bergen Park, than raise a family, you might wanna check out the U District. Nothing personal, but this is actually a family neighborhood. The U District caters to your type much more and offers more free lunches.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871865" class="dsq-comment-message">Silence.kit<br><br> "I haven’t heard drug use is up". <br><br>In "your world" I\'m sure it\'s not up and is all par for the course. I assume you would the the drug use levels higher in fact. <br><br>In our world, it\'s up dramatically. Higher than our comfort level out here in "Our world".</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871867" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, but with people with a pro drug agenda like Silence.Kit and her friends, who don\'t want this a family neighborhood, it\'s not going to be easy. They envision a new U District and will stop at nothing, until we have the same issues, like sidewalks full of sitting teenagers harrassing people for spare change, playing hackey sack, and riding skateboards all over the sidewalks. A playground essentially.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871868" class="dsq-comment-message">Try telling Silence.kit that. She wants this to be a new home for all the teenagers who sit on University Way sidewalks in the U District, asking for spare change. This is not even a family neighborhood accourding to her circle of friends.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871869" class="dsq-comment-message">BHO,<br><br>Pull.<br>The.<br>Stick.<br>Out.<br>Of.<br>Your.<br>Ass.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871870" class="dsq-comment-message">Once again…I live in downtown Ballard.  I do not see armies of meth addicts and sidewalks taken over by drug dealers.   I have never even been asked for spare change here.  I have been asked downtown and I said sorry, no and I survived.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871871" class="dsq-comment-message">Silence.kit - That is obviously your way of saying "put up with us and keep your traps shut".  Thanks for solving the problem.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871872">Brewhaha</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871872" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with Tippy and BHO. The societal leeches, substance abusers and mental cases need to be dealt with. They do not belong living on our streets and making our parks unusable and disgusting, causing problems for the actual residents who pay taxes and who are responsible citizens. The people who are homeless due to economic situations but who want to work need to be helped with food and shelter until they can find jobs and stable living situations. Frankly, the above mentioned dregs should be shipped out to a very remote location where they can detoxify, do basic farm or ranch work in exchange for room and board and live their lives far far away from big cities that allow this type of behavior and laziness to exist. Get these folks to a place where they are forced to live a clean life, do some work and not have their lives run by their addictions.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871873" class="dsq-comment-message">Look at the response of Silence.kit from The Chai House. All we are trying to do is make the sidewalk and Bergen Park passable for tax payers and not have endless games, chalk all over and other nonsense. This is exactly the sense of entitlement that is creating a backlash. There are too many people in Ballard for this selfish attitude these days. The place is not one big playground. Do we really need these spolied brats and transients?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871875" class="dsq-comment-message">Sacramento CA is rounding these people up and putting them into camps. They were living in a so called tent city, but are being taken to places run by the government, like it or not. Food, medicine, mental health, drug treatment the works. Seattle and other cities will probably be forced to follow that model soon.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871876" class="dsq-comment-message">Unreal</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871877" class="dsq-comment-message">Sacramento has announced they will be rounding them up and putting them into a government camps. Tent Cities are sprouting up like Opium plants. So, they are rounding them up and giving them the mental health treatment and re-education some need, even if it\'s against their will. (At the tax payer expense of course). But, it looks like Seattle will have to follow that model soon. What else can we do?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871878" class="dsq-comment-message">Stop misquoting me BHO, I said "Ballard isn’t a family neighborhood. It’s a neighborhood with families and plenty of singles."  Put the entire sentence in. <br><br>Last time I checked People\'s Pub wasn\'t a family restaurant.  Nor are many of the businesses along Market and Ballard Ave.  There may be families in Ballard, but it\'s not a family neighborhood.  Maybe you\'d like Edmonds better, but than you wouldn\'t have any evidence to support your delusions.  <br><br>Also, I\'m pretty sure your world is plagued with mental illness so I\'m not sure I\'d want to live there.   For some reason, you like to make it sound like Ballard is very dangerous, and like people playing hacky sack on a sidewalk is a big deal.<br><br>Look, I just can\'t believe your pissed that people play hackey sack.  I\'ve actually never seen it on the sidewalk, only at the Bergen PARK.  Imagine that, people playing hackey sack in a park.  If silly little hippie kids want to play hackey sack, who cares?  It\'s not affecting your day at all yet you act like it is.  Would you even go to the Chai House?  Probably not.  You may not believe this, but I don\'t hang out there either.  I know it\'s only one of two ways in your head(us or them), but I haven\'t been to the chai house in months and even then it was to get...chai.  Notice how there are benches outside.  It seems natural that people would congregate there, right?  <br><br>You presume so much about me, incorrectly I might add.<br><br>The drug explosion?  Well, I noticed you didn\'t have any sources to link, so I just assume it\'s all in your head and you\'re making it up, which is something you like to do.  <br><br>Sorry, not a big fan of the u-district.  I like the theaters and a couple restaurants, but that\'s about it.  I\'m going to stay here for at least a little while longer.  <br><br>And I have no idea what you\'re talking about with this "sense of entitlement" nonsense.   Once again something you made up with very little proof.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871879" class="dsq-comment-message">Yesterday while at work I read all your comments (not much going on at work) and some I agreed with, some I didn\'t...but when I got home imagine my surprise when I looked out my apartment window to find I have a new neighbor!!!!!  A TENT!!!!!!  It\'s parked smack dab in the center of a vacant lot that sits in front of my apartment building.  You all probably know the lot...on 57th across from Wiggens.  Being on the third floor, whoever lives in this tent doesn\'t have a birds eye view into my place....but close enough.  He\'s got a pretty awesome set up.   Residential street, greenery all around, a little table of which he uses to place his shopping cart and tallboys on.  You know I have been praying they don\'t build townhouses in this lot because then it would be bye bye natural light.....so I guess I should count my blessings that it\'s going to become a tent city instead.   I know, slight exaggeration, but with St. Lukes on the corner equipped with a homeless parking lot, the night time library crowd, and the appearance of my new neighbor, walking home alone at night is becoming a thing of the past...and is causing my tolerance to weaken.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871880" class="dsq-comment-message">See? They are spreading like locust....</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871881" class="dsq-comment-message">Silence.kit writes -<br><br>"Last time I checked People’s Pub wasn’t a family restaurant"<br><br>Nobody was talking about Peoples Pub. We were talking about Bergen Park and yes, that park is not a night club, a meth house, a shelter, school yard or anything else some are trying to make it. <br><br>It\'s a park to honor the founders of our neighborhood and teach people about the history of Ballard. At least show respect to that much? Or, is respect just for us "Mentally ill" people. (Mentally ill is your "code" for wanting drug addicts and prowlers, out of here)<br><br>I can see you playing hackey sack and playing with chalk at a veterans memorial too, right?  My God, why is this so hard to figure out, and who in heck raised people like this. There are just some things you don\'t do in a civilized society. What\'s so hard to figure out. (I won\'t even get into how I feel about grown men groveling for spare change or a cigarrete on a sidewalk...)<br><br>You go to Golden City with your hackey posse and let those of us who don\'t want to have our kids being solicited by Meth Heads and transients, go to Bergen Park. (After we get the Meth Dealers and transients out of there)<br><br>Same with your shelters, food banks and soup kitchens. <br><br>Put them where you guys can Hackey Sack, shoot up, get drunk and sleep on benches til your blue in the face and get them off streets that are FAMILY streets full of kids. <br><br>Let the parents decide if and when they want their kids exposed to the harsh realities of tranisients and addiction. Some people, would like to shelter their kids from ugliness in the world, until they are old enough to understand it fully. Not everyone wants to explain what Meth Heads are to a 5 year old. OK?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871882" class="dsq-comment-message">"Nobody was talking about Peoples Pub."<br><br>*sigh*<br><br>You referred to Ballard as a family neighborhood.  I listed one establishment among many on that very street that aren\'t for families.  Unless you want to buy little Black Helicopter Operations  a pint, chances are you won\'t be taking the family there for fried pickles.   So once again, Ballard isn\'t a "family neighborhood" because it\'s full of establishments that aren\'t for families.  Obviously, it has places that are family friendly as well.<br><br>I think you need to learn reading comprehension, BHO.<br><br>You really just miss the point entirely and then go on accusing me of things I refuted in the post you\'re responding to.  <br><br>"There are just some things you don’t do in a civilized society."<br><br>...like play hackey sack...what?<br><br>Keep making stuff up big guy.  It\'s what you do.  <br><br>"Not everyone wants to explain what Meth Heads are to a 5 year old. OK?"<br><br>Ooooh, someday you might have to explain what SEX is.  Scary, I know.  All part of being a parent.  Here, I\'ll help.  Imagine this, if you will...<br><br>Little BHO - Daddy, I always here you talking about meth heads and then you yell at the computer...  What\'s a meth head?<br><br>BHO - Well Buddy, it\'s someone that is addicted to a drug called Crystal Meth, which is very, very bad for you.  It\'s rots your teeth and all sorts of nasty stuff.  We don\'t want that, do we?<br><br>Little BHO - Nope.  Nope, we don\'t.<br><br>It\'s that easy!<br><br>Lastly, I\'ve never been offered drugs in Ballard.  Not once.  Several times in the u-district, though.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871883" class="dsq-comment-message">Black Heli might represent one extreme, but silence.kit seems to embrace the other. The reality? Well, since I\'m throwing stones I\'ll qualify that it\'s at least my perception:<br>1. There are more homeless and transients hanging out in Ballard.<br>2. Crime is up as noted around here with the rash of burglaries and car prowls.<br>Are these two things related? I\'d guess that perhaps tangentially they are as some of the people caught haven\'t been homeless, but have been involved in the drug scene that many of the homeless are. Some of the car prowl and brute force crime can be reasonably attributed to the homeless, like the smashed liquor store window where only one bottle was stolen. The other arrests show that the perps were not homeless at all, but career criminals who had burglarized dozens of times.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871884" class="dsq-comment-message">The food bank. Despite what BHO says, it\'s not the problem here. If you want to talk about the soup kitchen attracting homeless or making it easier for them to stay in Ballard, that\'s a debate we can have, but the Ballard Food Bank is something very different with a different clientele. It\'s a good service for some of our older neighbors and some of neighbors who are going through a rough patch and trying to keep from becoming homeless.<br>Please Black Heli, stop painting everything with the same broad brush. If you want to rail against the soup kitchen, do so, but stop confusing it with the food bank. Two different things.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871885" class="dsq-comment-message">Whats your proof that the food bank is not serving people from outside Ballard, people who are high or drunk, convicted felons,  or registered sex offenders, who are taking buses into Ballard for free food, then back out again every week. <br><br>Everyone is so upset about Calgarys screening process, but the food banks brings in WAY more people nobody knows. Why are you speaking for them anyway?<br><br>They can\'t come on here like professionals, or contact Geeky Sweedes to clarify the procedure at the food bank? I am not so convinced these people are all safe, who they are attracting to a neighborhood full of kids. <br><br>Have them proove to me they are and I will stop questioning the food bank. It should be rather easy. Show me the written procedures they use to screen people. It\'s the least they can do...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871886" class="dsq-comment-message">The comments are like dealing with a backed up sewer in the basement...you have to wade through a ton of crap before you can even get a look at the problem.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871887" class="dsq-comment-message">Black Heli, You are way too quick on the trigger and way to quick to paint anyone who doesn\'t agree with you 100% as your mortal enemy. Believe it or not I actually agree with you about 82.3%, but not 100%.<br>I don\'t think that the food bank is serving only the annointed saints and angels, but to accuse them of creating a homeless problem and demanding them to cater to your whims is about as far fetched as demanding that McDonald\'s do background checks on it\'s customers too.<br>The Food Bank is not housing these people. It is not inviting them from other neighborhoods. Are some of the people taking the handout not deserving of it? Maybe. But that\'s the reality of everything. There\'s probably someone driving down the street right now who hasn\'t paid his taxes, does that mean we tear up the pavement until everyone can prove they\'re worthy?</div>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871888" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871888" class="dsq-comment-message">Right, that is the point. At least Calgary houses them. These people many times hang around downtown Ballard eating the things they got at the food bank in Bergen Park and live in the woods in Ballard. I have seen them first hand and I am just saying that is we are worried about the Calgary Shelter being full of psychos, than why not the food bank and the car campground. Plus, all the new shelters, soup kitchen and other things forced on us. Why should I have to worry about who their customers are. Why is it even legal for people top be living outside in a residential neighborhood. This is absurd.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-7871889">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871889" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871889" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871889">Black Helicopter Operations</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871889" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871889" class="dsq-comment-message">Plus, all these people living in RV\'s? Where do you think they get their food once a week? The Food Bank.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-7871891">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7871891" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7871891" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7871891">Black Helicopter Operations</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7871891" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7871891" class="dsq-comment-message">Sorta like the rv\'s I suppose. Move around if the cops ask you, from street to street.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-7940028">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7940028" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7940028" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7940028">Mymble</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7940028" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7940028" class="dsq-comment-message">I wish I had 48 hours to move my car once  parking enforcement has marked the tire:)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-7995220">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7995220" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7995220" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7995220">Will Bakefor</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7995220" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7995220" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s a new slogan for Ballard:<br><br>BALLARD - A Place For Bums...<br><br>Transient Living- Now on Every Street!<br><br>Campers and Tents Welcome, old Junky Car Live-ins too!<br><br>Alcoholic fueled Violence? Just Head Under the Ballard Bridge and Join In the Beatings!<br><br>So many more, we\'re doing T\'s next.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-7995441">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7995441" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7995441" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7995441">Operation Hover Above</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7995441" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7995441" class="dsq-comment-message">Did anybody ever notice all the homeless people living in the bushes right inside the locks proper, and under the train trestles across the channel? <br><br> Look in just about any dense thicket of tangled brush and you\'ll see evidence or prior inhabitation, if not the inhabitant themselves. Sometimes they block the entry way to their warrens with a shopping cart full of junk.<br><br>And how about the bum caches in Wallingford, right on the post office grounds? Huge tarps in the bushes covering up bum hoards of junk , clothes, etc.<br><br>Or heading down Southbound 99, in that massive greenbelt off on the right of Queen Anne, the place has massive tarp structures and is a shooting gallery. Made the mistake of walking down the park trail and interrupted two gentlemen shooting up what I assumed was black tar heroin, wow... never again.<br><br><br>These people were there before the economy crashed, all long term bums, so I don\'t think we can blame the econ for a lot of this problem.<br><br>The city is pretty tolerant of this type of activity and it\'s associated criminality (violence, drugs, theft, etc)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 </ul>\
';

(function() {
	
	





Dsq.Debug.profile(function() {
	if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page == 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.is_initial_load) {
		Dsq.container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.header() + Dsq.container.innerHTML + Dsq.Templates.footer();
	}
	Dsq.$(Dsq.curPageId).innerHTML = Dsq.$(Dsq.curPageId).innerHTML.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
}); // Dsq.Debug.Profile

// HACK: Resetting cache because we're done with.
Dsq.Utils.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = null;


	
	
	var dsq_styleEl = document.getElementById(disqus_container_id);
	var dsq_anchorEl = document.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
	
	Dsq.Thread.fc = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_styleEl, 'color');
	if(dsq_anchorEl) { Dsq.Thread.ac = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_anchorEl, 'color'); }
	Dsq.Thread.ff = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_styleEl, (Dsq.Utils.ie || window.opera ? 'fontFamily' : 'font-family'));
	// For Safari / Opera: strip quotes.
	Dsq.Thread.ff = Dsq.Thread.ff.replace(/['"]/g, '');
	Dsq.Thread.fc = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.fc);
	Dsq.Thread.ac = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.ac);
	Dsq.Thread.ff = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.ff);

	
	
	
	if(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer)) {
		// TODO: Check to see if theme uses postmessage.
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.textareaContainer));
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].init(function() {
				// Use fallback iframe
				Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer).innerHTML = '';
				var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer), null, {theme: theme});
				// if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
			});
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-post-add'));
		}
	}

	
	

	
	if(document.location.hash != '') {
		document.location.hash = document.location.hash.substring(1);
	}

	Dsq.Popup.showCookieMsgs();

	
	if(document.location.search != '' && location.hash != '#disqus_thread') {
		var reply_id = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams().dsq;
		if(reply_id) { document.location.hash = 'comment-' + reply_id; }
	}

	
	if((typeof OB_Script != 'undefined') && (typeof OB_versionNum != 'undefined')) {
		if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox") != -1) {
			if(window.frames['dsq-reply-frame']) {
				window.frames['dsq-reply-frame'].location = Dsq.Urls.REPLY + (new Date()).getTime() + '&f=myballard&t=tents_along_shilshole_ave&to_redirect=' + encodeURIComponent(window.location) + '&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
			}
		}
	}

	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			Dsq.Realtime.initialize();
		}
	}

	



	window.ExecuteWhen = (function () {
	var obj = {}
	
	// Private
	var running = false;
	var timer = null;
	var pending = [];
	var startTimer = function() {
		running = true;
		timer = setInterval(obj.heartBeat, 100);
	};
	var stopTimer = function() {
		running = false;
		clearInterval(timer);
	};
	
	// Public
	obj.add = function (condition, code) {
		pending.push([condition,code]);
		this.heartBeat(); //!
		if (!running) {
			startTimer();
		}
	};
	obj.heartBeat = function() {
		if (!pending.length) {
			stopTimer();
		}
		var newPending = [];
		for (var i=0; i<pending.length; i++) {
			var cond = pending[i][0];
			var code = pending[i][1];
			// FIXME: if cond or code throw an error, they never get removed from pending
			if (cond()){
				code();
			}
			else {
				newPending.push([cond, code]);
			}
		}
		pending = newPending;
	};
	return obj;
})();

// also used in embed_thread.js:
window.fbIsReady = function () {return window.FB && FB.init;};
// NOTE: This script gets executed again without threadEl
//       set when we are loaded again as the fbc_receiver.
//       In this case, we don't need the hidden container.

if(!window.FB || !FB.init) {
	if(window.Dsq && Dsq.container) {
		// container is not present when init.js is loaded from an xd-receiver iframe; in this case,
		// we don't need the FB_HiddenContainer anyway.
		var fbDiv = document.createElement('div');
		fbDiv.id = "FB_HiddenContainer";	// Required or else FeatureLoader will execute a document.write.
		fbDiv.style.position = 'absolute';	// This is intentionally not setting display to none as this breaks
		fbDiv.style.top = '-10000px';		// Flash in Safari.
		fbDiv.style.left = '-10000px';
		fbDiv.style.width = '0px';
		fbDiv.style.height = '0px';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(fbDiv);
	}
	var fbJS = document.createElement('script');
	fbJS.type = "text/javascript";
	fbJS.src = "http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php";
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(fbJS);

	ExecuteWhen.add(window.fbIsReady,
		function () {
			// HACK: This is a workaround FBC's single domain limitation by
			//		 allowing sites to create multiple forums with different
			//		 Facebook API keys.  This must be used in conjunction with
			//		 disqus_facebook_forum (see authenticateFacebook).
			var facebook_api_key = '29ac93bcc80e20dc00554a7b3e9cc874';
			if (typeof disqus_facebook_api_key != 'undefined') {
				facebook_api_key = disqus_facebook_api_key;
			}

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


	
		Dsq.Debug.log('Loading fbc');
		window.DisqusFbcParentController = (function (){
	var obj = {};
	
	// Private
	var rpcServer = null;
	var initted = false;
	var onInit = [];
	var user = null;
	var defaultRpcClient = null;
	var receiverUrl = "http://disqus.com/facebook-connect/xd_receiver.htm";
	var loginNode = document.getElementById('dsq-fbc-login');
	var authenticatedNode = document.getElementById('dsq-fbc-authenticated');
	var fbName = document.getElementById('dsq-fbc-name');
	var fbPic = document.getElementById('dsq-fbc-profilepic');
	var iframes = { 
		// Map of rpcServerName -> (rpcClient, iframeDomNode) pairs
		// Main Disqus iframe is added by init()
	};
	var makeRpcServerName = function(opt_postId) {
		// this method should be identical here and in iframeController factored out 
		if (opt_postId === undefined) {
			return 'disqusIframeFbcRpcServer';
		} else {
			return 'disqusIframeFbcRpcServer-' + opt_postId;
		}
	};
	var makeRpcClientName = function(opt_postId) {
		if (opt_postId === undefined) {
			return 'disqusParentFbcRpcClient';
		} else {
			return 'disqusParentFbcRpcClient-' + opt_postId;
		}
	};
	var updateFrame = function(rpcServerName) {
		var rpcClient = iframes[rpcServerName][0];
		var iframeNode = iframes[rpcServerName][1];
		rpcClient.send('setConnected', user);
		iframeNode.className = user ? 'dsq-post-reply-authenticated' : 'dsq-post-reply';
	};
	var setUser = function(userNow) {
		user = userNow;
		// pass null user data to signify logout
		var rpcServerName = null;
		for (rpcServerName in iframes) {
			updateFrame(rpcServerName);
		}
	};
	var createRpcClient = function(frameNode, opt_postId) {
		// Creates an XdRpcClient for communication with the iframe frameNode with parent comment 
		// equal to opt_postId. If this argument is undefined, creates a client for communicating with 
		// the main Disqus iframe. The XdRpcClient and frameNode are added to the "iframes" array.
		//
		// Returns the rpcServerName that the client is accessing. This name is also the index into
		// the "iframes" array.
		var ifName = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeName(opt_postId);
		var rpcServerName = makeRpcServerName(opt_postId);
		var rpcClientName = makeRpcClientName(opt_postId);
		var endpoint = new FB.XdComm.EndPoint(ifName, FB.XdComm.PageRelation.child, receiverUrl);
		var rpcClient = new FB.XdComm.XdRpcClient(rpcServerName, rpcClientName, endpoint, receiverUrl);
		iframes[rpcServerName] = [rpcClient, frameNode];
		if (window.isMashable) {
			// TODO: does this belong here?
			// Right now only Mashable needs this, because only they have a Connect button
			// inside the iframe, and that's the only iframe-> server communication
			rpcClient.send('createRpcClient', FB.XdComm.Server.singleton.get_receiverUrl());
		}
		return rpcServerName;
	};
	var postToNewsfeed = function(opt_result) {
		// Argument opt_result is an object containing values of the fb_connect_newsfeed cookies. 
		// These are `postId`, the id of the comment just posted, and `url`, the shortened link to it
		if (!opt_result) {
			return;
		}
		var activeComment = Dsq.Thread.getActiveCommentId();
		if (activeComment != opt_result.postId) {
			return;
		}
		var comment = Dsq.jsonData.posts[activeComment];
		params = {
			'site_name': Dsq.jsonData.forum.name,
			'comment_url': opt_result.url,
			'message': Dsq.Utils.stripTags(comment.message)
			};
		FB.Connect.showFeedDialog(83035958976, params, null, null, null, FB.RequireConnect.require);
	};
	var requireSession = function() {
		// Used when the iframe wants to initiate an FB Connect session
		FB.Connect.requireSession(obj.onLogin);
	};
	
	var onCreateReplyIframe = function(value) {
		if (value.xtype) {
			return;
		}
		var postId = value['postId'];
		if (!postId) {
			// We handle the main iframe separately, so in case somehow this gets called, skip it
			return;
		}
		var frameNode = value['node'];
		var rpcServerName = createRpcClient(frameNode, postId);
		updateFrame(rpcServerName);
		if(user && postId) {
			var node = document.getElementById('dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + postId);
			if (node) { // Not present in Mashable
				node.style.display = 'none';
			}
		}
	};

	// Public
	obj.onLogin = function() {
		// This is triggered either when the user connects or when they're already connected on visit
		var dsqReplyAuth = Dsq.Utils.getElementsByClassName(document, 'div', 'dsq-reply-bar-auth');
		var noAnonMsg = document.getElementById('dsq-no-anon-msg');
		
		if(noAnonMsg) { noAnonMsg.style.display = 'none'; }
		loginNode.style.display = 'none';
		for(var i=0; i<dsqReplyAuth.length; i++) {
			dsqReplyAuth[i].style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		authenticatedNode.style.display='block';
		FB.XFBML.Host.addElement(new FB.XFBML.ProfilePic(Dsq.$('dsq-fbc-profilepic')));
		FB.XFBML.Host.addElement(new FB.XFBML.Name(Dsq.$('dsq-fbc-name')));
		FB.Connect.getSignedPublicSessionData(setUser);
		
		if(document.getElementById('dsq-login-message')) {
			document.getElementById('dsq-login-message').style.display = 'none';
		}

		
		if(typeof(fbcLoginCallback) == 'function') {
			fbcLoginCallback();
		}
	};
	obj.logout = function() {
		var dsqReplyAuth = Dsq.Utils.getElementsByClassName(document, 'div', 'dsq-reply-bar-auth');
		var noAnonMsg = document.getElementById('dsq-no-anon-msg');
		
		FB.Connect.logout();
		if (!window.isMashable) {
			loginNode.style.display='inline';
		}
		
		if(noAnonMsg) { noAnonMsg.style.display = 'block'; }
		
		for(var i=0; i<dsqReplyAuth.length; i++) {
			dsqReplyAuth[i].style.display = 'block';
		}
		
		authenticatedNode.style.display='none';
		// Passing null user data to signify logout
		setUser(null);
		
		if(document.getElementById('dsq-login-message')) {
			document.getElementById('dsq-login-message').style.display = 'block';
		}
		
		if(typeof(fbcLogoutCallback) == 'function') {
			fbcLogoutCallback();
		}

		return false;
	 };
	obj.ensureInit = function(callback) {
		// If the controller hasn't already been initted, will wait until it has been before calling
		// callback; otherwise, calls it immediately. Does not attempt to call init.
		if (initted) {
			callback();
		} else {
			onInit.push(callback);
		}
	};
	obj.init = function() {
		// This method should be called after the FB scripts have loaded, FB.init has been called, 
		// and XdComm loaded.
		if (initted) {
			// I think this double init is caused by a bug with FB.ensureInit
			return;
		}
		var frameNode = Dsq.$(Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeId());
		var rpcServerName = createRpcClient(frameNode);
		defaultRpcClient = iframes[rpcServerName][0];
		if (!window.isMashable) {
			FB.XFBML.Host.addElement(new FB.XFBML.LoginButton(loginNode));
		}
		Dsq.Events.addHandler(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED, onCreateReplyIframe);
		if (Dsq.Thread.getActiveCommentId()) {
			// If there's a highlighted comment, we may have just posted, so check the cookie
			// to see if we should post to newsfeed.
			defaultRpcClient.send('queryNewsfeed', null, postToNewsfeed);
		}
		if (window.isMashable) {
			// Right now only Mashable needs this, because only they have a Connect button
			// inside the iframe, and that's the only iframe-> server communication
			var exportedMethods = {
				requireSession : {'method': requireSession}
			};
			rpcServer = new FB.XdComm.XdRpcServer('disqusParentFbcRpcServer', exportedMethods);

		}
		initted = true;
		for (var i=0; i<onInit.length; i++) {
			onInit[i]();
		}
	};

	return obj;
})();

		ExecuteWhen.add(window.fbIsReady,
			function() {
				FB.ensureInit(function () {
					DisqusFbcParentController.init();
					FB.Connect.ifUserConnected(DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin);
				});
			});
	


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');
}

})();




