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who have already proven they have no intention of facts getting in the way of their slanderous accusations.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_19:06:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "2677cfe51917150bc86cc09aaf018a88", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12767799, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12761106": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I tell you what.  I could explain that letter to you, if you do this for me.  A Hawaiian Newspaper held a notice of Birth for Barack H. Obama II on the day after he was born which it noted Aug, 4. 1961.  That's when the paper was published.  How is that one giant lie?  Now, it seems to me, that were you believing that Obama wasn't born in the U.S., it would require massive coordination between Illinois and Hawaiian state governments (for a period of 40 years), congressional approval from BOTH sides of the aisle, not to mention Hillary, John McCain, John Edwards and other campaigners not saying anything about it.  That's how far you have to prove of a conspiracy and you are NOWHERE NEAR there.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_14:51:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "09abee0156a435c4fa557eabb25f96d6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12819733": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Why explain anything to an idiot such as you?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_12:19:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "86311f71479893a7e1f991e2b09eeca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12766039, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12769559": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I suggest that you ought to rent the film Natural Born Killers, because it's as relevant here as your masturbatory crypto-legal effusions.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_18:38:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "de0015663a4305362c52394ffbab78ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12769193, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12771227": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Vattel, since you are unaware, was a European philosopher who composed a treatise. That treatise was NEVER adopted into US Law, NEVER. Consequently, that treatise is NOT controlling law here in the USA. <br><br>Further, the correct spelling of \"Shakespear\" is \"Shakespeare\"...and the correct quote is \"The lady doth protest too much, methinks.\" from Hamlet Act 3, scene 2, 222\u2013230.<br><br>If you are a lawyer, I pity your clients as you demonstrate here in your posts neither an ability to research nor any attention to detail whatsoever.<br><br>It was the intent of the Founders that the people retain the power to elect the President, and it was a power left to the people to determine the candidate's eligibility for that position (notice that both the House and the Senate are designated to check qualifications of their own members, yet no one is designated to check qualifications of the Pres). It is absolutely not a power of the Judiciary branch, and, therefore none of these cases will ever be heard. Please familiarize yourself with a concept called the \"separation of powers\"--the Founders were rather fond of it. Then familiarize yourself with something called the \"political question doctrine\" maybe you will learn something.<br><br>I also challenge you to read the US Constitution again, as you have clearly not understood it, and the Federalist Papers, especially this one, <a href=\"http://www.foundingfathers.info/federalistpapers/fedindex.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.foundingfathers.info/federalistpaper...</a><br><br>Good day, sir.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_19:05:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "3e24162881f7b765b3e12e294a54aaba", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12769193, "depth": 3, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12769693": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Civility troll demands civility.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_18:40:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "3e4b1073893dd25c12828412baf5ff69", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12769193, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12898209": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ultimately the usurper Obama(Soetoro) will be imprisoned, hanged or deported. I just pray it will be soon.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-18_22:57:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "RedGraham", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 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}, "12767650": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sounds like the only way you'll be satisfied is if Obama mailed his original BC to every man, woman, and child in America... they could take turns passing it around.<br><br>Of course with with 305,000,000 people in the US, that would only take about 836,000 years...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_17:45:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e5c7eede846dc700c6ff6d4a5dafdb3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12766078, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12760484": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Another day, another \"birther\" story, and Weigel still has not explained why <a href=\"http://24ahead.com/obamas-birth-hospital-covers-letter-he-sent-kapiolani-neil-a\" rel=\"nofollow\">Obama's \"birth hospital\" is (literally) covering up a letter he sent them</a>. They've still got the video of a U.S. Rep. reading the letter on the same page, but the letter itself is \"commented out\" so it won't be shown in browsers.<br><br>No, really. It's hilarious, see the page <a href=\"http://www.kapiolanigift.org/centennial.aspx?id=1728&terms=obama\" rel=\"nofollow\">here</a>. Then, choose 'View Source' in your browser and do a find for <i>very special congratulatory message</i>. They've got the letter from Obama in the page, but they added in HTML comments so it won't appear in browsers. They added those comments <b>after</b> WND wrote about this, and there's a screengrab of the original page at WND.<br><br>If BHO isn't hiding anything, why do so many people have to keep lying for him and covering up for him?<br><br>Let's see some real reporting from Weigel for a change.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_14:36:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "LonewackoDotCom", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 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}, "12762149": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "1. The ads weren't the next day.<br>2. The ads only included the address of his parents and didn't indicate in which hospital or even which city he was born.<br>3. No one has ever presented conclusive evidence that the ads could have only come from the state of HI and would only indicate a HI birth.<br>4. In case of a custody battle, it would have been in the family's best interest to present him as a U.S. citizen.<br>5. Most of your post is a garden of logical fallacies which I don't have the time to discuss since the other four should be enough.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_15:16:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "LonewackoDotCom", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12761106, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12783528": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I see Redshirt and Redwolf_5 have taken their toys and gone home.<br><br>Wise move. You were both embarrassing yourselves terribly.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_19:53:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "3e24162881f7b765b3e12e294a54aaba", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 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}, "12769193": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The rudeness of your posts suggests that you are neither educated, nor well read.  Also, as one of Shakespear's characters said- \"me thinks he protests to much.\"  Your are correct in your rants on the birth cirtificate issue.  The birth certificate is a \"Red Herring.\"  <br><br>If you have not yet read the constitution, read it.  Then, re-read the Constitutional qualifications for President.  Notice the term of art-- Naturan Born Citizen. (Words have meaning)  That term is, by definition both legal and common, different then the term citizen.<br><br>If you are having trouble understanding the difference, then go to Vattel's Law Of Nations- a legal resource publication in print before, during and after the Constitution was ratified; also, go read the relevant Federalist papers that explain the intent of those whom drafted, signed and ratified the Constitution.<br><br>I suggest that you do these things before you attempt another post.  If and when you do attempt to post, try being civil.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_18:29:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Redshirt", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12767096, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12858666": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So, Cook joined in with Orly, consenting to be a plaintiff in one of her eligibility suits in Feb 09. Then in May 09, three months later, he volunteers to deploy KNOWING he will question the order. Then in June he gets orders to deploy, waits an entire month till he has less than a week left till deployment and then challenges the orders, forcing some other soldier to go in his damn place at a moment's notice. What a POS. He should never have volunteered, this was a political stunt that resulted in another soldier being deployed with no notice. What a Blue Falcon this guy is...<br><br><a href=\"http://www.examiner.com/x-12278-Louisville-Independent-Examiner%7Ey2009m7d17-Which-one-is-lying--Major-Stefan-F-Cook-USAR-or-Orly-Taitz\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.examiner.com/x-12278-Louisville-Inde...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_21:56:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "3e24162881f7b765b3e12e294a54aaba", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 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}, "12778311": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "My opinion: Obama is not producing the \"Long Certificate\" just so that the birthers can continue to make a big case out of it and make fools of themselves. Most American citizens laugh at the birthers and their tinfoil helmets and the lengths they will go to try and discredit any reasonable argument.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_19:31:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "chas_in_mn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12756327, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12800045": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Me farteth, me thinketh.  Hark, the sound resounds!  The odor is not only but deadly but vile~!  Here in this enclosed, this  elevator room!<br>Even those who read of it recoil in revolution! Their olfactory senses and memory smack of past such injustices!<br>Hark!  I hear another one!  But truly VILE!<br>Oh, but would the elevator reach the next floor, and the freedom of fresh air!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_00:49:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "rickahyatt", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 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}, "12767799": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Maybe Obama hasn't supplied his BC (beyond posting it on the web, that is) because the courts have not defined how, or to whom he should submit it?<br><br>I guess you think he should carry it on him at all times, and be prepared to fork it over to anybody that demands it?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_17:49:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e5c7eede846dc700c6ff6d4a5dafdb3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12761966, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12892474": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>For those of you whom are not legally trained...</i><br><br>Uh oh. Another graduate of  Regent University law school.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-18_19:56:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Pug", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12761966, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12849098": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dave,<br><br>Why won't you just drink the Kool-Aid? I injected it into my dick with Rush Limbaugh's used syringes, but you don't have to. Afterwards, we can make sweet love, and I'll sleep in the wet spot.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_18:17:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "61db359d043ea7d10c8a9249b643b5a5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 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}, "12764478": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Birfer - <br><br>Specific to your item #2, how many other of the birth announcements for that day (or week, month, year, decade) show what hospital or city other children were born in?<br><br>Hmmm?  Here, I'll make it easy for your because your web search capabilities seem to be limited to birfer sites, FR and WND:<br><br><a href=\"http://whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/ObamaBirthStarBulletin.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/ObamaBirth...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_16:13:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "e8be1c37e94aca795ab29ade09afcd09", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12762149, "depth": 2, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12757059": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Orly Taitz has not yet spoken to WorldNetDaily about how this is a huge victory for her cause.\"<br><br>Zing!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_13:15:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "c1969ed4fcab6a8579b30798d3cae951", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 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}, "13100612": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "actually you should be able to get a real copy at your county courthouse (i did for my passport in Springfield), but it doesn't change the fact that Hawaii does things differently and can (based on the ninth amendment...i think that is the one).", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-22_03:44:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "1f5f32e4cec68748e3099248c9e566a1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12799452, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12766151": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Out of a hundred or so BHO cultists you might find somene who's at least slightly smart.</i><br><br>And would still be light years ahead of the birthers, who collectively form a black hole from which no rational thought can escape.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_16:55:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "7b8e9953e98d7a0e78f0e22d241da51e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12766039, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12771146": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Make up some more crazy stuff!  Pleeeeaze?  Was there a crop circle in Africa where baby Obama came out of the meteorite, only to be picked up by missionaries and placed with a good White family in the midwest?  Oh wait, that's Superman.<br>So who was the awesome evil genius who plotted to put fake birth announcements in the paper so baby Obama could begin his evil plot for world domination from the comfort of his own Hawaiian baby crib?  OMG Obama is the black Stewie Griffin!!1!!!?!  I will no longer consider you 24 behind now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_19:04:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Swami_Binkinanda", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12766039, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12765261": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "&lt;&lt;&lt;all this for a small piece of paper we'd all need to show in almost any state just it get a driver's license.&gt;&gt;&gt;<br><br>Hey moron, the COLB IS what constitutes enough evidence to get a drivers license.<br><br>&lt;&lt;<I also agree that this now opens the door for more military folks to make similar arguemnents even if they dont believe it>&gt;&gt;<br><br>Seeing as how a gutless traitor like Cook is abusing the legal system because he is shitting himself at the concept of having to do his duty, whats your point?</I>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_16:31:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "2677cfe51917150bc86cc09aaf018a88", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12764415, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12761424": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Difficult to reason with someone who's got their ears plugged.<br>And this was never about proof; just denial and stringing along some kind of \"controversy.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_14:58:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "strangely_enough", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12761106, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12849237": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dismissed...birfers are getting wildly familiar with that word! And I am sure will be hearing it in every one of these cases they file in the future.<br><br>DISMISSED!<br><br>Bwahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahhahaahahahahahahahahahahaha<br><br>No learning curve whatsoever...soooo sad.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_18:22:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "3e24162881f7b765b3e12e294a54aaba", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 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}, "12766039": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You should have had a smart friend explain this to you. My point is that, for the reasons listed, none of those announcements are proof that those children were born in HI. None of the announcements list a birth place; no one has provided a \"chain of custody\" (so to speak) showing where the announcements could have come from.<br><br>What BHO cultists should do is pool their resources. Out of a hundred or so BHO cultists you might find somene who's at least slightly smart.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_16:52:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "LonewackoDotCom", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12764478, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12769371": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "24AheadDotCom has only seen *pictures* of the earth from space, so he's not convinced that the planet is round.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_18:32:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "de0015663a4305362c52394ffbab78ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12766078, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12799452": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So I went to the county clerk's office last week to get my Birth certificate and what they handed me was a \"Certificate of live birth\" with the seal of the state of Illinois. When I asked why it wasn't a birth certificate she replied \"those are only given by the hospital as a showy thing and aren't official\". So the reality is the birthers are just plain delusional. Now can we move on to something that really matters like the fact that BHO is expanding on Bush's wiretapping and executive privileges?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_00:21:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "matt51937", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 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}, "12796218": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Agreed. And hopefully to bankrupt them too.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_21:54:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bcb68936eca68ffda90ed462e08bf86", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12778311, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12757087": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "One thing for sure, this is NOT good for John McCain :-)<br><br>Thanks for your coverage of this mess, Dave.  Along with the freeper loons, you have some good people following you now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_13:16:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "e8be1c37e94aca795ab29ade09afcd09", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 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}, "13100667": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They wont get any whistle blower protections unless the judges are more daft than all the birfers combined. If you initiate a lawsuit against your employer or against a 3rd party through your employer, you get fired...No passing go, no collecting $200, just out on your bum. Even if it was possible, they would have to sue every inch of the DoD just to get any kind of info that supports his claim to whistle blower status. Not gonna happen, especially not in war time.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-22_03:48:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "1f5f32e4cec68748e3099248c9e566a1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12764415, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12770661": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Did the flying saucer people help?  Was it the Reptilians or the Grays?  Were the Masons in on it as well, or just the Illuminati, the Bilderbergers, the Elders of Zion, and the KGB?  What are the voices saying to you RIGHT NOW???1!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_19:01:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Swami_Binkinanda", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12762149, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12796390": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Good smackdown!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_22:01:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bcb68936eca68ffda90ed462e08bf86", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12771227, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12756327": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Cue 24AheadDotCom with one of his trademark \"Weigel is being intellectually dishonest\" rants...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_12:57:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "b2095605e5c9b5857f1246168377a11b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12892524": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Good demonstration of why clowns like you will never be convinced.  You will always come up with another stupid list like the one above, stupid being the key word.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-18_19:59:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "Pug", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12762149, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12761966": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "For those of you whom are not legally trained, the dismissal, along withe the judge's statement as reported, speaks volumes.  The fact that the order of deployment was immediately revoked by the Army after the suit was filed, is addressed directly by the curt statement quoted above.  Read between the lines.<br><br>The Law Suit, revoked Order and Order of Dismissal confirms that any Active Duty Military person can become a plaintiff in this type of case. Any order given, by definition, is an order that flows directly from the Commander and Chief.  Under the UCMJ, the issue of legality of any order, as well as, the legitimacy of the one issuing the order, is always an issue that is ripe;  notice how quickly someopne acted to foil the plaintiff's legitimately seeking the protection of the Court.  Just how far up the chain of command did this act of Obstruction of Justice originate?<br><br>Obamma, will shortly be forced to prove his legitimacy.  This question has now  gone byond the point of being a political issue, it is now a matter of National Security.  I, for one, hope that he is legitimatley in the office; however, his actions to date, or more specifically his refusal to provide conclusive proof of his constitutional legitimacy, has caused the controversy to rise to a dangerous level.<br><br>It is now time for Obamma to put up of pack up.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_15:12:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Redshirt", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12764015": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"For those of you whom are not legally trained, the dismissal, along withe the judge's statement as reported, speaks volumes. The fact that the order of deployment was immediately revoked by the Army after the suit was filed, is addressed directly by the curt statement quoted above. Read between the lines.\"<br><br>I am guessing this statement implies you ARE legally trained? In which case, counselor, your \"legal analysis\" of this issue evidences that you are an idiot, go back to law school. None of these cases will EVER get anywhere, and if even they got to a discovery stage, the birfers have not a shred of admissible evidence to call the COLB (a self-authenticating document under FRE 902 and prima facie evidence) into question. Again, you, counselor, are an idiot of the highest order. I pity your clients, if you indeed have any.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_16:01:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "3e24162881f7b765b3e12e294a54aaba", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12800238": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Don't be too hard on the birfers.  There are also people who believe the earth is flat and refuse to go to Afghanistan because then they would fall off the edge.  There isn't a whole lot of difference in the truth content between the two groups' basic premises.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_00:58:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "792c3fdd2a88056c2f83ce82a7590245", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 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}, "12763378": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Boy you really are an ignorant fool.  Cook is nothing more than a cowardly traitor who was shitting himself at having to actually fight for our country and  he requested that the orders be revoked, which was his right as HE HAD REQUESTED THE DEPLOYMENT.<br><br>&lt;&lt;&lt;This question has now gone byond the point of being a political issue,&gt;&gt;&gt;<br><br>Its never been a political issue.  Its been quite humorous to watch you cross burning thugs lose what passes for your sanity at the concept of having a president who isn't a white male.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_15:46:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "2677cfe51917150bc86cc09aaf018a88", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12761966, "depth": 1, "points": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12780531": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Actually, Cook planned this for the purpose of filing the law suit. He requested deployment to Afghanistan in May, the orders came through in June, and he filed his lawsuit in July. The orders were revoked because he can ask to have them revoked up to the day of his deployment. He's using his status as a reserve officer to involve the military in a political stunt. Hopefully, this will get him a court martial. He deserves it.<br><br>As to Obama's birth certificate, well, people have been refusing to believe their own lying eyes since the beginning of time. Gullible? Obtuse? Biased? Stupid? Yes, yes, yes, and oh, yes.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_19:40:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "278cf71de2606a798b565362a783d944", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12763378, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12769652": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Civility troll demands civility.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_18:39:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "3e4b1073893dd25c12828412baf5ff69", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12769193, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12799861": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Bye, bye The Great 0, bye, bye, bye", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_00:42:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "rickahyatt", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 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}, "12892406": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"The only COLB we have isn't even a COLB, it's a \"picture\"...?  So Obama has an obligation to provide you with an original birth certificate?  He is required to prove to you personally that he was born in the USA?  I don't think so.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-18_19:53:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Pug", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12766078, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12767096": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wow, you really are not a lawyer, are you? The 11th Circuit applies a three part test in order to determine if a case is \"capable or repetition, yet evading review\". This case meets not one of those standards. Also, Cook is not privy to whistleblower protections as he has not brought a claim under the specific whistleblower laws (yup, there are specific laws, and there is a process by which one brings claims and becomes privy to those protections, a process Cook has not availed himself of, likely because his crappy lawyer doesn't know about those laws.).<br><br>The Keyes case will also be dismissed. Orly has proven herself wholly incapable of comprehending or following the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. She has yet to even accomplish proper service on the original defendants (she also just added new defendants), which is simply the very FIRST step in a lawsuit (serving the party you are suing)--she cannot even get that much right even with instructions from the Judge. The case has now been given to a Federal Magistrate Judge to sort-out the procedural mess Orly has created by her absolute inability or refusal to follow the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_17:25:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "3e24162881f7b765b3e12e294a54aaba", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12764415, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12860154": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "see Orly get smacked down for yourself on CNN, video available here:<br><br><a href=\"http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907170043\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907170043</a><br><br>Comedy GOLD!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_23:10:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "3e24162881f7b765b3e12e294a54aaba", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 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}, "12764415": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think the case will get the \"mootness\" issues adressed on appeal. read here for info: <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mootness\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mootness</a><br>Its up to the 11US Circuit Ct now. they could \"punt\" also knowing ist unlikely the US S ct would ever grant cert. This was expected, but it does NOT end the case AND Ms. Taitz has the Alan Keyes case still pending in Calif fed ct. the US attys there have less than 60 days to answer her pleading. all files available here: <a href=\"http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/blog1/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/blog1/</a> <br>she has other claims in Cook's case now such as 1st amendment/whistleblower-retailiation issues. <br>I also agree that this now opens the door for more military folks to make similar arguemnents even if they dont believe it. all this for a small piece of paper we'd all need to show in almost any state just it get a driver's license.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_16:11:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "f191225443cebc646ddef306f6b86f70", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 14, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12766078": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What COLB? The only COLB we have isn't even a COLB: it's a *picture* on a webpage of a COLB. And, one of BHO's sites with that picture was recently taken offline.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_16:53:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "LonewackoDotCom", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12765261, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12771711": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Why haven't you posted your medical records on the internet for the world to see?  I think this is one of those counter counter counter counter conspiracies, where YOU'RE the power mad black Islamic Christian atheist constitutional lawyer slash Dr. Evil and you are constantly putting out these stories because you are trying to confuse the world so YOU can be dictator of the week.  I have totally figured out your plot, now you have to go to your secret lair and tell your henchpersons to begin the unfathomable PLAN 9.5 FROM OUTER SPACE!!!!!!!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_19:08:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Swami_Binkinanda", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12760484, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 1, "reply_position": false, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "25744164", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "34441", "hash": 8295332251028357953}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "8216birther_soldier8217_lawsuit_dismissed", "paginate": true, "num_pages": 2, "num_posts": 50, "per_page": 50, "total_posts": 52, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 25744164, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": false, "forum_facebook_key": "", "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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// HACK: Safari ends with "-->" while other browsers end with "--&gt;" as expected.
Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE = /&lt;!--\[(.*?)\]--(?:>|&gt;)/gim;



// TODO: It might be faster to use string methods to find all <li (...) </li> blocks and pass to Dsq.PostHandler manually.
Dsq.CommentsHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_post = Dsq.Templates.prependPost(post_id);
	var append_post = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(post_id);

	content = content.replace(Dsq.POST_RE, Dsq.PostHandler);
	Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter++;
	head = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContainer(post_id, head);
	return prepend_post + head + content + tail + append_post;
};

Dsq.PostHandler = function(str, h_head, post_id, h_content, h_tail, b_head, b_content, b_tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_header = Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader(post_id);
	var append_header = Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader(post_id);
	var prepend_body = Dsq.Templates.preBody(post_id);
	var append_body = Dsq.Templates.postBody(post_id);
	var append_footer = Dsq.Templates.postFooter(post_id);

	b_content = b_content.replace(Dsq.POST_BODY_RE, Dsq.PostBodyHandler);
	return h_head + prepend_header + h_content + append_header + h_tail + b_head + prepend_body + b_content + append_body + b_tail + append_footer;
};

Dsq.PostBodyHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	content = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContent(post_id, content);
	return head + content + tail;
};

Dsq.MediaPostHandler = function(str, args, offset, s) {
	args = args.split(' ');
	if(args[0] == 'seesmic') {
		return '<br />' + Dsq.Templates.mediaSeesmic(args[1], args[2]);
	}
	return '';
};


/**
 * Shorcuts
 */
Dsq.$ = function(element) { return document.getElementById(element); };
Dsq.$b = document.body || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];


/**
 * Dsq.Debug: Logging functions.
 */

Dsq.Debug = new function() {this.log=function(s){};this.profile=function(f){if(typeof f == 'function')return f();else return eval(f);};};


/**
 * Dsq.Urls: URL paths
 */
Dsq.Urls = new function() {
	this.LOGIN = '/profile/login/';
	this.LOGOUT = '/logout/';
	this.REPLY = 'http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/8216birther_soldier8217_lawsuit_dismissed/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/washingtonindependent/_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 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">\
	 Showing <span id="dsq-num-posts">50</span> of <span id="dsq-total-posts">52</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/8216birther_soldier8217_lawsuit_dismissed/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/washingtonindependent/8216birther_soldier8217_lawsuit_dismissed/">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/washingtonindependent/8216birther_soldier8217_lawsuit_dismissed/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 The Washington Independent" 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:25744164" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</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'				: 'washingtonindependent',
			't'				: '8216birther_soldier8217_lawsuit_dismissed',
			// 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/washingtonindependent/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/washingtonindependent/8216birther_soldier8217_lawsuit_dismissed/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/washingtonindependent/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ '8216birther_soldier8217_lawsuit_dismissed'
			+ '&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/washingtonindependent/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ '8216birther_soldier8217_lawsuit_dismissed'
			+ '&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/washingtonindependent/subscribe.js'
				+'?status=' 	+ status
				+ '&slug='		+ '8216birther_soldier8217_lawsuit_dismissed'
				+ '&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/washingtonindependent/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/25744164/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/washingtonindependent/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/washingtonindependent/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-12764015">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12764015" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12764015" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12764015">birferlawyersshouldbedisbarred</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12764015" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12764015" class="dsq-comment-message">"For those of you whom are not legally trained, the dismissal, along withe the judge\'s statement as reported, speaks volumes. The fact that the order of deployment was immediately revoked by the Army after the suit was filed, is addressed directly by the curt statement quoted above. Read between the lines."<br><br>I am guessing this statement implies you ARE legally trained? In which case, counselor, your "legal analysis" of this issue evidences that you are an idiot, go back to law school. None of these cases will EVER get anywhere, and if even they got to a discovery stage, the birfers have not a shred of admissible evidence to call the COLB (a self-authenticating document under FRE 902 and prima facie evidence) into question. Again, you, counselor, are an idiot of the highest order. I pity your clients, if you indeed have any.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12761106" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12761106" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12761106">Chris</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12761106" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12761106" class="dsq-comment-message">I tell you what.  I could explain that letter to you, if you do this for me.  A Hawaiian Newspaper held a notice of Birth for Barack H. Obama II on the day after he was born which it noted Aug, 4. 1961.  That\'s when the paper was published.  How is that one giant lie?  Now, it seems to me, that were you believing that Obama wasn\'t born in the U.S., it would require massive coordination between Illinois and Hawaiian state governments (for a period of 40 years), congressional approval from BOTH sides of the aisle, not to mention Hillary, John McCain, John Edwards and other campaigners not saying anything about it.  That\'s how far you have to prove of a conspiracy and you are NOWHERE NEAR there.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12761424" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12761424" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12761424">strangely_enough</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12761424" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12761424" class="dsq-comment-message">Difficult to reason with someone who\'s got their ears plugged.<br>And this was never about proof; just denial and stringing along some kind of "controversy."</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12762149">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12762149" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12762149" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12762149" href="http://24Ahead.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">24AheadDotCom</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12762149" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12762149" class="dsq-comment-message">1. The ads weren\'t the next day.<br>2. The ads only included the address of his parents and didn\'t indicate in which hospital or even which city he was born.<br>3. No one has ever presented conclusive evidence that the ads could have only come from the state of HI and would only indicate a HI birth.<br>4. In case of a custody battle, it would have been in the family\'s best interest to present him as a U.S. citizen.<br>5. Most of your post is a garden of logical fallacies which I don\'t have the time to discuss since the other four should be enough.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12764478" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12764478" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12764478">gimmeabreak</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12764478" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12764478" class="dsq-comment-message">Birfer - <br><br>Specific to your item #2, how many other of the birth announcements for that day (or week, month, year, decade) show what hospital or city other children were born in?<br><br>Hmmm?  Here, I\'ll make it easy for your because your web search capabilities seem to be limited to birfer sites, FR and WND:<br><br><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/ObamaBirthStarBulletin.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/ObamaBirth...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12766039" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12766039" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12766039" href="http://24Ahead.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">24AheadDotCom</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12766039" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12766039" class="dsq-comment-message">You should have had a smart friend explain this to you. My point is that, for the reasons listed, none of those announcements are proof that those children were born in HI. None of the announcements list a birth place; no one has provided a "chain of custody" (so to speak) showing where the announcements could have come from.<br><br>What BHO cultists should do is pool their resources. Out of a hundred or so BHO cultists you might find somene who\'s at least slightly smart.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12766151" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12766151" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12766151">mantis</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12766151" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12766151" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Out of a hundred or so BHO cultists you might find somene who\'s at least slightly smart.</i><br><br>And would still be light years ahead of the birthers, who collectively form a black hole from which no rational thought can escape.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12771146" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12771146" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12771146">Swami_Binkinanda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12771146" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12771146" class="dsq-comment-message">Make up some more crazy stuff!  Pleeeeaze?  Was there a crop circle in Africa where baby Obama came out of the meteorite, only to be picked up by missionaries and placed with a good White family in the midwest?  Oh wait, that\'s Superman.<br>So who was the awesome evil genius who plotted to put fake birth announcements in the paper so baby Obama could begin his evil plot for world domination from the comfort of his own Hawaiian baby crib?  OMG Obama is the black Stewie Griffin!!1!!!?!  I will no longer consider you 24 behind now.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12819733" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12819733" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12819733">calvin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12819733" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12819733" class="dsq-comment-message">Why explain anything to an idiot such as you?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12770661" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12770661" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12770661">Swami_Binkinanda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12770661" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12770661" class="dsq-comment-message">Did the flying saucer people help?  Was it the Reptilians or the Grays?  Were the Masons in on it as well, or just the Illuminati, the Bilderbergers, the Elders of Zion, and the KGB?  What are the voices saying to you RIGHT NOW???1!!!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12892524" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12892524" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12892524">Pug</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12892524" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12892524" class="dsq-comment-message">Good demonstration of why clowns like you will never be convinced.  You will always come up with another stupid list like the one above, stupid being the key word.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12761966" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12761966" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12761966">Redshirt</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12761966" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12761966" class="dsq-comment-message">For those of you whom are not legally trained, the dismissal, along withe the judge\'s statement as reported, speaks volumes.  The fact that the order of deployment was immediately revoked by the Army after the suit was filed, is addressed directly by the curt statement quoted above.  Read between the lines.<br><br>The Law Suit, revoked Order and Order of Dismissal confirms that any Active Duty Military person can become a plaintiff in this type of case. Any order given, by definition, is an order that flows directly from the Commander and Chief.  Under the UCMJ, the issue of legality of any order, as well as, the legitimacy of the one issuing the order, is always an issue that is ripe;  notice how quickly someopne acted to foil the plaintiff\'s legitimately seeking the protection of the Court.  Just how far up the chain of command did this act of Obstruction of Justice originate?<br><br>Obamma, will shortly be forced to prove his legitimacy.  This question has now  gone byond the point of being a political issue, it is now a matter of National Security.  I, for one, hope that he is legitimatley in the office; however, his actions to date, or more specifically his refusal to provide conclusive proof of his constitutional legitimacy, has caused the controversy to rise to a dangerous level.<br><br>It is now time for Obamma to put up of pack up.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12763378">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12763378" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12763378" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12763378" href="http://electioncorrection.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Matt Taylor</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12763378" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12763378" class="dsq-comment-message">Boy you really are an ignorant fool.  Cook is nothing more than a cowardly traitor who was shitting himself at having to actually fight for our country and  he requested that the orders be revoked, which was his right as HE HAD REQUESTED THE DEPLOYMENT.<br><br>&lt;&lt;&lt;This question has now gone byond the point of being a political issue,&gt;&gt;&gt;<br><br>Its never been a political issue.  Its been quite humorous to watch you cross burning thugs lose what passes for your sanity at the concept of having a president who isn\'t a white male.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12780531">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12780531" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12780531" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12780531">c mac</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12780531" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12780531" class="dsq-comment-message">Actually, Cook planned this for the purpose of filing the law suit. He requested deployment to Afghanistan in May, the orders came through in June, and he filed his lawsuit in July. The orders were revoked because he can ask to have them revoked up to the day of his deployment. He\'s using his status as a reserve officer to involve the military in a political stunt. Hopefully, this will get him a court martial. He deserves it.<br><br>As to Obama\'s birth certificate, well, people have been refusing to believe their own lying eyes since the beginning of time. Gullible? Obtuse? Biased? Stupid? Yes, yes, yes, and oh, yes.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12767799" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12767799" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12767799">Reverend Mikey</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12767799" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12767799" class="dsq-comment-message">Maybe Obama hasn\'t supplied his BC (beyond posting it on the web, that is) because the courts have not defined how, or to whom he should submit it?<br><br>I guess you think he should carry it on him at all times, and be prepared to fork it over to anybody that demands it?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12771343">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12771343" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12771343" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12771343" href="http://electioncorrection.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Matt Taylor</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12771343" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12771343" class="dsq-comment-message">Or more likely WHY he should give into the demands of these racist idiots who have already proven they have no intention of facts getting in the way of their slanderous accusations.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12892474" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12892474" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12892474">Pug</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12892474" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12892474" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>For those of you whom are not legally trained...</i><br><br>Uh oh. Another graduate of  Regent University law school.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12756327">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12756327" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12756327" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12756327">Lava Lee Pyre</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12756327" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12756327" class="dsq-comment-message">Cue 24AheadDotCom with one of his trademark "Weigel is being intellectually dishonest" rants...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12778311" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12778311" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12778311">chas_in_mn</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12778311" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12778311" class="dsq-comment-message">My opinion: Obama is not producing the "Long Certificate" just so that the birthers can continue to make a big case out of it and make fools of themselves. Most American citizens laugh at the birthers and their tinfoil helmets and the lengths they will go to try and discredit any reasonable argument.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12796218" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12796218" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12796218">lkt</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12796218" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12796218" class="dsq-comment-message">Agreed. And hopefully to bankrupt them too.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12757087" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12757087" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12757087">gimmeabreak</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12757087" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12757087" class="dsq-comment-message">One thing for sure, this is NOT good for John McCain :-)<br><br>Thanks for your coverage of this mess, Dave.  Along with the freeper loons, you have some good people following you now.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12757059" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12757059" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12757059">Bob</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12757059" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12757059" class="dsq-comment-message">"Orly Taitz has not yet spoken to WorldNetDaily about how this is a huge victory for her cause."<br><br>Zing!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12760484">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12760484" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12760484" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12760484" href="http://24Ahead.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">24AheadDotCom</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12760484" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12760484" class="dsq-comment-message">Another day, another "birther" story, and Weigel still has not explained why <a href="http://24ahead.com/obamas-birth-hospital-covers-letter-he-sent-kapiolani-neil-a" rel="nofollow">Obama\'s "birth hospital" is (literally) covering up a letter he sent them</a>. They\'ve still got the video of a U.S. Rep. reading the letter on the same page, but the letter itself is "commented out" so it won\'t be shown in browsers.<br><br>No, really. It\'s hilarious, see the page <a href="http://www.kapiolanigift.org/centennial.aspx?id=1728&terms=obama" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Then, choose \'View Source\' in your browser and do a find for <i>very special congratulatory message</i>. They\'ve got the letter from Obama in the page, but they added in HTML comments so it won\'t appear in browsers. They added those comments <b>after</b> WND wrote about this, and there\'s a screengrab of the original page at WND.<br><br>If BHO isn\'t hiding anything, why do so many people have to keep lying for him and covering up for him?<br><br>Let\'s see some real reporting from Weigel for a change.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12771711">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12771711" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12771711" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12771711">Swami_Binkinanda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12771711" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12771711" class="dsq-comment-message">Why haven\'t you posted your medical records on the internet for the world to see?  I think this is one of those counter counter counter counter conspiracies, where YOU\'RE the power mad black Islamic Christian atheist constitutional lawyer slash Dr. Evil and you are constantly putting out these stories because you are trying to confuse the world so YOU can be dictator of the week.  I have totally figured out your plot, now you have to go to your secret lair and tell your henchpersons to begin the unfathomable PLAN 9.5 FROM OUTER SPACE!!!!!!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12764415" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12764415" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12764415">RedWolf_5</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12764415" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12764415" class="dsq-comment-message">I think the case will get the "mootness" issues adressed on appeal. read here for info: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mootness" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mootness</a><br>Its up to the 11US Circuit Ct now. they could "punt" also knowing ist unlikely the US S ct would ever grant cert. This was expected, but it does NOT end the case AND Ms. Taitz has the Alan Keyes case still pending in Calif fed ct. the US attys there have less than 60 days to answer her pleading. all files available here: <a href="http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/blog1/" rel="nofollow">http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/blog1/</a> <br>she has other claims in Cook\'s case now such as 1st amendment/whistleblower-retailiation issues. <br>I also agree that this now opens the door for more military folks to make similar arguemnents even if they dont believe it. all this for a small piece of paper we\'d all need to show in almost any state just it get a driver\'s license.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12767096">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12767096" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12767096" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12767096">birferlawyersshouldbedisbarred</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12767096" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12767096" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow, you really are not a lawyer, are you? The 11th Circuit applies a three part test in order to determine if a case is "capable or repetition, yet evading review". This case meets not one of those standards. Also, Cook is not privy to whistleblower protections as he has not brought a claim under the specific whistleblower laws (yup, there are specific laws, and there is a process by which one brings claims and becomes privy to those protections, a process Cook has not availed himself of, likely because his crappy lawyer doesn\'t know about those laws.).<br><br>The Keyes case will also be dismissed. Orly has proven herself wholly incapable of comprehending or following the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. She has yet to even accomplish proper service on the original defendants (she also just added new defendants), which is simply the very FIRST step in a lawsuit (serving the party you are suing)--she cannot even get that much right even with instructions from the Judge. The case has now been given to a Federal Magistrate Judge to sort-out the procedural mess Orly has created by her absolute inability or refusal to follow the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12769193" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12769193" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12769193">Redshirt</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12769193" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12769193" class="dsq-comment-message">The rudeness of your posts suggests that you are neither educated, nor well read.  Also, as one of Shakespear\'s characters said- "me thinks he protests to much."  Your are correct in your rants on the birth cirtificate issue.  The birth certificate is a "Red Herring."  <br><br>If you have not yet read the constitution, read it.  Then, re-read the Constitutional qualifications for President.  Notice the term of art-- Naturan Born Citizen. (Words have meaning)  That term is, by definition both legal and common, different then the term citizen.<br><br>If you are having trouble understanding the difference, then go to Vattel\'s Law Of Nations- a legal resource publication in print before, during and after the Constitution was ratified; also, go read the relevant Federalist papers that explain the intent of those whom drafted, signed and ratified the Constitution.<br><br>I suggest that you do these things before you attempt another post.  If and when you do attempt to post, try being civil.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12771227" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12771227" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12771227">birferlawyersshouldbedisbarred</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12771227" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12771227" class="dsq-comment-message">Vattel, since you are unaware, was a European philosopher who composed a treatise. That treatise was NEVER adopted into US Law, NEVER. Consequently, that treatise is NOT controlling law here in the USA. <br><br>Further, the correct spelling of "Shakespear" is "Shakespeare"...and the correct quote is "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." from Hamlet Act 3, scene 2, 222–230.<br><br>If you are a lawyer, I pity your clients as you demonstrate here in your posts neither an ability to research nor any attention to detail whatsoever.<br><br>It was the intent of the Founders that the people retain the power to elect the President, and it was a power left to the people to determine the candidate\'s eligibility for that position (notice that both the House and the Senate are designated to check qualifications of their own members, yet no one is designated to check qualifications of the Pres). It is absolutely not a power of the Judiciary branch, and, therefore none of these cases will ever be heard. Please familiarize yourself with a concept called the "separation of powers"--the Founders were rather fond of it. Then familiarize yourself with something called the "political question doctrine" maybe you will learn something.<br><br>I also challenge you to read the US Constitution again, as you have clearly not understood it, and the Federalist Papers, especially this one, <a href="http://www.foundingfathers.info/federalistpapers/fedindex.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.foundingfathers.info/federalistpaper...</a><br><br>Good day, sir.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12796390">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12796390" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12796390" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12796390">lkt</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12796390" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12796390" class="dsq-comment-message">Good smackdown!</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12769559">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12769559" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12769559" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12769559">birfers&#39;r&#39;dumb</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12769559" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12769559" class="dsq-comment-message">I suggest that you ought to rent the film Natural Born Killers, because it\'s as relevant here as your masturbatory crypto-legal effusions.</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12769652">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12769652" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12769652" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12769652">MM</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12769652" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12769652" class="dsq-comment-message">Civility troll demands civility.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12769671">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12769671" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12769671" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12769671">MM</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12769671" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12769671" class="dsq-comment-message">Civility troll demands civility.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12769693">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12769693" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12769693" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12769693">MM</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12769693" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12769693" class="dsq-comment-message">Civility troll demands civility.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12765261">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12765261" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12765261" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12765261" href="http://electioncorrection.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Matt Taylor</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12765261" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12765261" class="dsq-comment-message">&lt;&lt;&lt;all this for a small piece of paper we\'d all need to show in almost any state just it get a driver\'s license.&gt;&gt;&gt;<br><br>Hey moron, the COLB IS what constitutes enough evidence to get a drivers license.<br><br>&lt;&lt;<I also agree that this now opens the door for more military folks to make similar arguemnents even if they dont believe it>&gt;&gt;<br><br>Seeing as how a gutless traitor like Cook is abusing the legal system because he is shitting himself at the concept of having to do his duty, whats your point?</I></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12766078">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12766078" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12766078" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12766078" href="http://24Ahead.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">24AheadDotCom</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12766078" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12766078" class="dsq-comment-message">What COLB? The only COLB we have isn\'t even a COLB: it\'s a *picture* on a webpage of a COLB. And, one of BHO\'s sites with that picture was recently taken offline.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12769371">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12769371" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12769371" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12769371">birfers&#39;r&#39;dumb</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12769371" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12769371" class="dsq-comment-message">24AheadDotCom has only seen *pictures* of the earth from space, so he\'s not convinced that the planet is round.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12767650">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12767650" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12767650" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12767650">Reverend Mikey</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12767650" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12767650" class="dsq-comment-message">Sounds like the only way you\'ll be satisfied is if Obama mailed his original BC to every man, woman, and child in America... they could take turns passing it around.<br><br>Of course with with 305,000,000 people in the US, that would only take about 836,000 years...</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12892406">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12892406" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12892406" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12892406">Pug</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12892406" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12892406" class="dsq-comment-message">"The only COLB we have isn\'t even a COLB, it\'s a "picture"...?  So Obama has an obligation to provide you with an original birth certificate?  He is required to prove to you personally that he was born in the USA?  I don\'t think so.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-13100667">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-13100667" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-13100667" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-13100667">Chris</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-13100667" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-13100667" class="dsq-comment-message">They wont get any whistle blower protections unless the judges are more daft than all the birfers combined. If you initiate a lawsuit against your employer or against a 3rd party through your employer, you get fired...No passing go, no collecting $200, just out on your bum. Even if it was possible, they would have to sue every inch of the DoD just to get any kind of info that supports his claim to whistle blower status. Not gonna happen, especially not in war time.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12783528">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12783528" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12783528" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12783528">birferlawyersshouldbedisbarred</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12783528" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12783528" class="dsq-comment-message">I see Redshirt and Redwolf_5 have taken their toys and gone home.<br><br>Wise move. You were both embarrassing yourselves terribly.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12799452">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12799452" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12799452" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12799452">matt51937</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12799452" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12799452" class="dsq-comment-message">So I went to the county clerk\'s office last week to get my Birth certificate and what they handed me was a "Certificate of live birth" with the seal of the state of Illinois. When I asked why it wasn\'t a birth certificate she replied "those are only given by the hospital as a showy thing and aren\'t official". So the reality is the birthers are just plain delusional. Now can we move on to something that really matters like the fact that BHO is expanding on Bush\'s wiretapping and executive privileges?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-13100612">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-13100612" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-13100612" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-13100612">Chris</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-13100612" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-13100612" class="dsq-comment-message">actually you should be able to get a real copy at your county courthouse (i did for my passport in Springfield), but it doesn\'t change the fact that Hawaii does things differently and can (based on the ninth amendment...i think that is the one).</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12799861">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12799861" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12799861" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12799861">rickahyatt</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12799861" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12799861" class="dsq-comment-message">Bye, bye The Great 0, bye, bye, bye</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12800045">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12800045" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12800045" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12800045">rickahyatt</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12800045" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12800045" class="dsq-comment-message">Me farteth, me thinketh.  Hark, the sound resounds!  The odor is not only but deadly but vile~!  Here in this enclosed, this  elevator room!<br>Even those who read of it recoil in revolution! Their olfactory senses and memory smack of past such injustices!<br>Hark!  I hear another one!  But truly VILE!<br>Oh, but would the elevator reach the next floor, and the freedom of fresh air!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12800238">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12800238" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12800238" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12800238">Texas Aggie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12800238" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12800238" class="dsq-comment-message">Don\'t be too hard on the birfers.  There are also people who believe the earth is flat and refuse to go to Afghanistan because then they would fall off the edge.  There isn\'t a whole lot of difference in the truth content between the two groups\' basic premises.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12849098">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12849098" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12849098" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12849098">24DickHeadDotCom</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12849098" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12849098" class="dsq-comment-message">Dave,<br><br>Why won\'t you just drink the Kool-Aid? I injected it into my dick with Rush Limbaugh\'s used syringes, but you don\'t have to. Afterwards, we can make sweet love, and I\'ll sleep in the wet spot.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12849237">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12849237" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12849237" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12849237">disbar_the_birfer_lawyers</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12849237" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12849237" class="dsq-comment-message">Dismissed...birfers are getting wildly familiar with that word! And I am sure will be hearing it in every one of these cases they file in the future.<br><br>DISMISSED!<br><br>Bwahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahhahaahahahahahahahahahahaha<br><br>No learning curve whatsoever...soooo sad.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12858666">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12858666" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12858666" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12858666">disbar_the_birfer_lawyers</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12858666" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12858666" class="dsq-comment-message">So, Cook joined in with Orly, consenting to be a plaintiff in one of her eligibility suits in Feb 09. Then in May 09, three months later, he volunteers to deploy KNOWING he will question the order. Then in June he gets orders to deploy, waits an entire month till he has less than a week left till deployment and then challenges the orders, forcing some other soldier to go in his damn place at a moment\'s notice. What a POS. He should never have volunteered, this was a political stunt that resulted in another soldier being deployed with no notice. What a Blue Falcon this guy is...<br><br><a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-12278-Louisville-Independent-Examiner%7Ey2009m7d17-Which-one-is-lying--Major-Stefan-F-Cook-USAR-or-Orly-Taitz" rel="nofollow">http://www.examiner.com/x-12278-Louisville-Inde...</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12860154">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12860154" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12860154" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12860154">disbar_the_birfer_lawyers</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12860154" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12860154" class="dsq-comment-message">see Orly get smacked down for yourself on CNN, video available here:<br><br><a href="http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907170043" rel="nofollow">http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907170043</a><br><br>Comedy GOLD!!!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12898209">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12898209" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12898209" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12898209">RedGraham</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12898209" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12898209" class="dsq-comment-message">Ultimately the usurper Obama(Soetoro) will be imprisoned, hanged or deported. I just pray it will be soon.</div>\
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	 </li>\
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