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Hearing set on default in Obama eligibility case <br><br><a href=\"http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2009/07/its-real-hearing-set-on-default-in.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2009/07/its-r...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_22:59:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "AristotleTheHun", "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}, "12597635": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "One more time:<br><br>All it would take to prove a forgery would be for the State of Hawaii to compare it to their records.<br><br>The Republican run state of hawaii.<br><br>The Republican run state of hawaii officials that have been hounded by birther about this very issue for the past year.<br><br>Certainly the very conservative, Republican state Attorney General would be able to instigate an investigation.<br><br>I wonder why he isn't a birther also?<br><br>How come none of the conservatives republicans in Hawaii's government are birthers either?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_15:29:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "alferd", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12600070": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You are confused, That is all it takes to be a US citizen. <br><br>To be a natural born citizen you must be born to two US citizen parents.<br> <br>Why did the framers make it a requirment for the President to be a natural born citizen?<br><br>I'll tell you, They feared someone with foreign influence gaining control of our Government. Being born with split loyalties is a prime example.<br><br>How would they of defined the term?<br><br>See Vattel's Law of Nations.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_15:54:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "thalightguy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 16, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12597021, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12604168": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama seems to disagree with you.<br><br>During the election, then Senator Obama published a statement at his website which said that his birth status was \u201cgoverned\u201d by the British Nationality Act of 1948.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_17:34:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "thalightguy", "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": 12602455, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12719497": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Here's everything you need to know about why they got it wrong.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.14thamendment.us/articles/anchor_babies_unconstitutionality.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.14thamendment.us/articles/anchor_bab...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-15_20:10:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "thalightguy", "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": 12717814, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12602455": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "----\"How can someone with a birthright to another Country be considered a natural born citizen.\"----<br><br>That birthright, as you call it is based on the laws of a foreign country, not U.S. laws.<br><br>We do not let the laws of a foreign country trump our laws.  What are you, un-American?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_16:44:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "alferd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12601680, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12657422": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Just show us the F@CKING original and shut the F@CK up about it!  All you blithering monkey chatter is getting tiresome.  If Obama is legitimate, why doesn't he prove it.  One criminal case under some law he signs will be his undoing.  Anyone charged with a crime has a right to have any document produced in court which might tend to prove their innocence.  Especially if the person who signed the law was not legally able to sign it into law.  End of story.  This will be how it ends.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-14_19:23:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "Randwulf", "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": 12597635, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12650166": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "We'd explain the difference betwen <i>jus soli</i> and <i>jus sanguinis</i> to you, but you're clearly too dumb to understand that <a href=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4b/BornInTheUSA.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">Springsteen-Americans</a> are natural-born citizens.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-14_16:19:30", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12619727, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12600081": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "---\"I want to make it clear that I haven't looked into the NBC issue,\"------<br><br>Oh, BS.<br><br>This is your hobby.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_15:54:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "alferd", "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": 12596602, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12646163": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It all comes down to the missing Birth Certificate and all college records on Obama. He was a moslem. He was an Indonesian.  He was named Barry Soetoro. His real father was a Kenyan-Arab. His adoptive father was an Indonesian-Moslem. Obama was likely born in Kenya but may have been born a dual-citizen regardless. If he has nothing to hide why is he hiding it? The COLB posted online does not exist in paper form(unless you print it off your computer). It was actually made from Obama's younger half-sisters Hawaiian COLB which was scanned, and altered and hence the document number has been blocked out.  Half-sister Maya Soetoro was born in Indonesia but somehow obtained a Hawaiian COLB.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-14_15:01:12", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12618478": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That joke was first told by Rush Limbaugh and I hope he gave proper credit.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-14_01:04:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "GregNH", "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}, "12635421": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I particularly like these parts from the WND article.<br><br>-----------<br>While no attorneys appeared on Obama's behalf, several members of the U.S. Attorney's office in California were in attendance, and sought to intervene on behalf of Obama over his actions before becoming president. <br><br>--and--<br><br>Complicating the situation is Obama's decision to spend sums estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to avoid releasing a state birth certificate that would put to rest all of the questions.<br>-----------------<br><br>The Stupid, IT BURNS.<br><br>LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-14_10:21:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "alferd", "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}, "12635296": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It looks like Orly screwed the pooch again.<br><br>----------------<br>At a previous hearing, Carter had ruled that Taitz had not properly served the case on Obama. In Monday's hearing, both Taitz and DeJute tried to prematurely argue the merits of the case. Carter, a former marine, told both parties that the case could easily be tied up for months or another year on procedural technicalities. A better approach would be for Taitz just to file the paperwork so that the case could proceed without more delays, the judge said.<br>----------------", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-14_10:18:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "alferd", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12612131": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Please get this straight: <br><br>Hawaiian officials have not validated AKA OBAMA\u2019s place of birth. What they have said is that they \u201chave the original document\u201d on file. They haven\u2019t offered a clue as to what information is in that document nor have they said what kind of birth certificate is on file; a conventional birth certificate issued by a hospital with a doctor\u2019s signature or the kind of birth certificate issued by Hawaii on the basis of an affidavit?  The Hawaiian officials are not part of a cover-up.  They can not legally validate what is on that document without a court order or permission from \u201cour\u201d Chicago con-man. <br><br>Laws of the Territory of Hawaii ACT 96 To Provide For The Issuance Of Certificates Of Hawaiian Birth was in effect from 1911 until 1972 and allowed someone who was born outside the Hawaiian Islands to be registered as though he were born in Hawaii. Under that law, someone simply would have presented herself to the Hawaiian authorities and declared that the child was born in Hawaii. The person could have sworn under oath and presented witnesses and other evidence. If the authorities accepted it, that was the end of it. All a person had to do was file a false statement and Hawaii took them at their word.<br><br>One could not just say \"My kid was born in Des Moines but I want him to have a Hawaiian birth record\".  But if you lied no investigation was conducted to validate your claim and the Hawaiian birth record was issued no questions asked.<br><br>Knowledge of this practice was wide spread and there are probably thousands of people who obtained Hawaiian birth records between 1911 and 1972 through the process of affidavits and witnesses rather than hospitals and delivery doctors.<br><br>One high profile example of the Hawaiian birth certificate policy is the former Emperor of China.  Sun Yat-sen was born on 12 November 1866 to a peasant family in the village of Cuiheng, China, but by 1904 he had a Hawaiian birth certificate and was officially a citizen of the United States.  The wording on Sun Yat-sen\u2019s Hawaiian birth certificate reveals that at age 18 he \u201cmade application for a Certificate of Birth. And that it appears from his affidavit and the evidence submitted by witnesses that he was born in the Hawaiian Islands.\u201d  Appears?  It also appears that AKA Obama was born in Hawaii.  Does the AKA Obama birth certificate on file with the State of Hawaii have language similar to the birth certificate of SunYat-sen?<br><br>The only way to know where AKA OBAMA was actually born is to view AKA OBAMA's original birth certificate on file in Hawaii to see what kind of birth certificate it is, and to examine what corroborating evidence supports what it says about AKA OBAMA's alleged place of birth. If the birth was in a hospital, as AKA OBAMA has maintained, such evidence would be the name of the hospital and the name and signature of the doctor who delivered him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_20:40:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "AristotleTheHun", "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}, "12607601": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Has \"Alferd\" ever written anything that wasn't full of lies? Who is Alferd, anyway? I only have time to post the occasional comment, but for him this seems like a full-time job. Is he Weigel using an assumed name? Does he work for the BHO admin in some way? Why is he constantly spreading disinfo about this issue?<br><br>In the current case, I'm not claiming that BHO was born in Kenya, Hawaii, Ice Station Zebra, or the Moon. I'm only claiming that no definitive proof has yet been offered of where he was born. That's backed up by <a href=\"http://24ahead.com/s/obama-citizenship\" rel=\"nofollow\">the facts of the matter</a>.<br><br>And, Weigel still hasn't explained why <a href=\"http://24ahead.com/obamas-birth-hospital-covers-letter-he-sent-kapiolani-neil-a\" rel=\"nofollow\">BHO's \"birth hospital\" is literally covering up a letter he sent them</a>. He still hasn't explained why <a href=\"http://24ahead.com/barack-obama-gives-differing-accounts-which-hospital-he-was-\" rel=\"nofollow\">BHO, Snopes and Wikipedia can't get their stories straight on which hospital it was</a>.<br><br>Why, Weigel? Let's see you do some real reporting for once.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_18:07:41", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12601207, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12824872": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You guys are the laughingstock of the nation. Congratulations, Neanderthals.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_14:20:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdeville", "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}, "12706083": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Anchor babies are not natural born citizens, they shouldn't even be citizens.<br><br>Look at the Congressional Globe for the 39th Congress to find the exact meaning for \"subject to the jurisdiction thereof\".<br><br>But of course in Wong Kim Ark they pulled a Sotomayor and legislated from the bench.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-15_13:26:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "thalightguy", "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": 12650166, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12657451": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Monkeys eat crickets.  Don't they?  You'd better go get your supper.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-14_19:24:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Randwulf", "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": 12602493, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12596141": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It does not matter were he was born, he can never be natural born citizen.<br><br>His father was Kenyan and never  became a US citizen.<br><br>He has a birthright to Kenya/Great Britain.<br><br>Our Forefathers where very clear that they did not want anyone with anykind of foreign allegiance to become President hence the Natural Born Citizen clause.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_14:45:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "thalightguy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 27, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12597021": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "President Obama was born in Hawaii.  That is all it takes to be a natural born U.S. citizen.<br><br>Too bad, You lose.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_15:10:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "alferd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 19, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12596141, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12657078": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "US Attorneys, OH MY!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-14_19:10:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Randwulf", "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": 12635421, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12611772": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So, you are saying that British laws determine who is eligible for president in the U.S.?<br><br>I thought that is why we fought a revolution.  <br><br>The laws of a foreign state have no bearing on the the U.S.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_20:24:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "alferd", "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": 12604168, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12597693": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Also, what makes any of you think that another state would not accept this as legitimate?<br><br><a href=\"http://www.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/birth_certificate_2.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/birth_ce...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_15:30:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "alferd", "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}, "12635455": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "for the third time<br><br>All it would take to prove a forgery would be for the State of Hawaii to compare it to their records.<br><br>The Republican run state of hawaii.<br><br>The Republican run state of hawaii officials that have been hounded by birther about this very issue for the past year.<br><br>Certainly the very conservative, Republican state Attorney General would be able to instigate an investigation.<br><br>I wonder why he isn't a birther also?<br><br>How come none of the conservatives republicans in Hawaii's government are birthers either?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-14_10:22:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "alferd", "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}, "12651202": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And your name is red, so you must be a communist.  <br><br>LOL", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-14_16:44:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "alferd", "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": 12646163, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12878134": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Who cares? <br><br>It will not matter how many birth certificates he produces (the state of Hawaii has) or how many hospitals confirm (the hospital did) or how many newspapers announced the birth (two did). <br><br>They have nothing on this man, he is pure as the driven snow, so they harp on this. They will not accept any proof, no matter how air-tight.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-18_09:56:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "LemonMeringue", "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}, "13295686": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Where do you get the idea that he's produced his original birth certificate. He has provided only the short form we still don't know who delivered him and we don't know the hospital he was born at. When he was running for the presidency the newspapers said he was born at Queen's Memorial Hospital. Now it comes out it was Kapolani Hospital but they won't confirm or deny it. Then the address they give as their home address can't be substantiated by the neighbor that has lived there since the 1950\"s. There hasn't been any proof", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-24_18:53:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "mannix1962", "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": 12878134, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "13236426": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's a pilot term, duh. <br>to screw the pooch (third-person singular simple present screws the pooch, present participle screwing the pooch, simple past and past participle screwed the pooch)<br><br>   1. to screw up; to fail in dramatic and ignominious fashion<br><br>[edit] Synonyms<br><br>    * crash and burn<br>    * f&ck up<br>    * drop the ball", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-23_18:19:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "AcaciaJules", "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": 12657116, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12613879": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have not persoanlly vetted this yet because it has just been announced:<br><br>BREAKING NEWS!  <br>Monday, July 13, 2009 in the Federal Court Building, Santa Ana, CA.<br><br>Former Marine Judge David Carter says he will hold an expeditious trial to hear Obama's eligibility to be POTUS and CINC - on the MERITS!  <br><br>'DISCOVERY' is here!<br>Judge Carter stated that if Obama isn't Constitutionally qualifed he needs to leave the White House.<br><br><br><br><br>Today, July 13 2009, Dr Orly Taitz was at the Federal Court building in<br>Santa Ana CA, before Judge David Carter, in Keyes v Obama.<br><br><br>\"At the hearing today at the Federal Court building in Santa Ana, Judge Carter said the following:<br>1.  There will be a trial.<br>2.  It will be heard on the merits.<br>3.  Nothing will be dismissed on proceedural issues.<br>4.  The trial will be expeditious, and the judge pledged to give case priority.<br>5.  Being a former Marine he realizes the importance of having a Constitutionally qualified POTUS/CINC.<br>6.  Judge Carter stated that if Obama isn't Constitutionally qualifed he needs to leave the White House.<br><br>\"The DOJ will be involved with the case also....  I wasn't clear if they <br>would be trying to get to the truth or they would just be blindly representing Obama.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_22:03:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "AristotleTheHun", "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}, "12657484": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How much does Acorn pay you to make an ass of yourself daily?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-14_19:25:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Randwulf", "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": 12600081, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12619727": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "At birth you had citizenship to whatever Country your parents where from. I'm sorry to tell you that you only qualify as a citizen and not a natural born citizen.<br><br>I have a niece and nephew who's father is from Canada he's only here on a work permit and these kids are not natural born either.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-14_02:03:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "thalightguy", "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": 12619244, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12601680": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hmm, US Supreme Court Justice Scalia seems to disagree with you. He has referred to Vattel's Law of Nations as a legal text book.<br><br>see  District of Columbia Et Al. v. Heller.  <br><br><br>The U.S. Constitution does not define the term one way or the other.<br><br>You have to look into the reasoning into why the Framers made it a requirment for the President to be a natural born citizen. <br><br>To be a Senator or a Congressman you only have to be a citizen but to be the President you must be a natural born citizen. Why?<br><br>How can someone with a birthright to another Country be considered a natural born citizen.  This would undermind the framers intent. <br><br>A natural born citizen must only have allegiance to the US.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_16:24:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "thalightguy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 14, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12600535, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12613587": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Can you please show me where the LEGITIMATE Hawaiian birth certificate is? And if it has been produced, why has Obama spent almost $1 million on attorney fees to keep it from being made public?<br><br>\"I have nothing to hide but I'm hiding it anyway.\"<br><br>A useful tool in evaluating things that are not known with certainty is Occam\u2019s razor. When multiple competing hypotheses are equal in other respects, the principle recommends selecting the hypothesis that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest entities. It is in this sense that Occam's razor is usually understood. I condense this to the simple question: what is most likely?  <br><br>For example, which is most likely;<br>(a) AKA OBAMA is hiding documents that are innocuous? <br>(b) AKA OBAMA is hiding documents that are damaging? <br><br>What we know with certainty is that AKA OBAMA is not practicing the virtue of full disclosure. \u201c The biggest question, and the biggest reason for asking more questions, is the fact Obama has enlisted law firms across the nation to battle every attempt to access, among other documents, his birth, schooling, immigration or passport records.\u201d New Jersey attorney Mario Apuzzo", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_21:53:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "AristotleTheHun", "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": 12602714, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12613460": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "On April 10 of last year, two senators, both Democrats, Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Claire McCaskill of Missouri, introduced a resolution into upper house expressing a sense of the Senate that McCain was indeed a \"natural born citizen.\"<br><br>It's interesting what Leahy had to say on the subject: \"Because he was born to American citizens, there is no doubt in my mind that Senator McCain is a natural born citizen. I expect that this will be a unanimous resolution of the U.S. Senate.\"<br><br>And, indeed it was. It was also, interestingly, the only such hearing held by the Congress on the subject of \"natural born citizenship\" and its application to the 2008 presidential race. Why was that interesting? Because everyone involved in this process knew \u2013 or should have known \u2013 that the life story told by Barack Obama would raise far more doubts about his eligibility than McCain's.<br><br>Notice Leahy did not say one parent citizen would qualify a child for \"natural born citizenship.\" He indicted it would take two to tango.<br><br>He did so again at a Judiciary Committee hearing April 3, when he asked then-Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, a former federal judge, if he had any doubts about McCain's eligibility to serve as president.<br><br>\"My assumption and my understanding is that if you are born of American parents, you are naturally a natural-born American citizen,\" Chertoff responded \u2013 again underlining the fact that both parents would need to be citizens.<br><br>And what did Leahy say to that? \"That is mine, too.\"<br><br>By the way, Obama voted for this resolution, so he obviously agrees with the definition of what constitutes a \"natural born citizen\" \u2013 the offspring of two U.S. citizens.<br><br>Now, I don't know who Barack Obama's parents are, because I have never seen his birth certificate. All I've seen is a facsimile of a \"certification of live birth\" on the Internet. That document, even if genuine, proves nothing about Obama's birth in Hawaii or who his parents were. Hawaii had a very slipshod practice in 1961 of issuing these documents to babies born outside the country and listing parents who may not have been the parents at all.<br><br>But I do know who Barack Obama claims his parents were. According to him, neither one of them was an American citizen able to confer natural born citizenship on a child. One, Barack Obama Sr., was a foreign national from Kenya, and the other, Stanley Ann Dunham, was too young to have qualified under the law for bestowing that privilege on her son, even if the father had been a citizen and even in the unlikely event Obama was actually born in Hawaii!<br><br>So, if we are to take Obama at his word, he is not a natural born citizen and not eligible to serve as president.<br><a href=\"http://themunz.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-obama-wants-to-hide-birth_16.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://themunz.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-obama-w...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_21:46:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "AristotleTheHun", "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": 12597021, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12600535": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Vattel's law of nations is a book of philosophy.  I'm talking about the law of the land, the  U.S. Constitution.<br><br>The definition of the term \"Natural born\" as it is used in the U.S. Constitution is based on the historic common law usage of the term.  which is quite simple and as \"Plain language\" as it can be.<br><br>\"Natural born\"  means innate at birth.  Thus if you are born a U.S. citizen, then you are a natural born U.S. citizen.  <br><br>This definition of the term is still in use today.  For instance, when we speak of someone as being a \"natural born\" athlete we say this based on their innate talents, not the fact that their parents were athletes also.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_16:02:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "alferd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 15, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12600070, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "13242200": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well, in that case your f@cked up bastards have done all three.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-23_21:21:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "Randwulf", "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": 13236426, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12602714": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I looked at your website for your so called evidence.  <br><br>It reads like a geocities/tripod website from the mid-90's with tiki torches and all. Between all the banners, ads, and pictures of Anne Coulter, it's really hard to see what the heck your proof for anything is. <br><br>It's as if, your website is an internet version of the National Treasure film series.  You click on one link, and you're deeper in the labyrinth, clicking on another link, is like pulling a book from the bookshelf, that takes you deeper into the lair.<br><br>I wonder when was the last time 24aheaddotcom and thalightguy made love to a real live woman?  <br><br>Have you guys heard of Occam's razor?  Like, we don't need to go back to 1776 here.  He's born on American soil, Hawaii, thus, he's a Natural Born U.S. citizen. He's not the subject of the queen.  If his father was a Kenyan diplomat, that could change things, but, his father wasn't a diplomat, and his mother was a US citizen at his birth, so none of this matters.  Now, get out of the basement, it's a sunny day.  <br><br>OR, try World of Warcraft.  That's a much more fun, and less harmful way to detach from reality.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_16:50:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "nattyb", "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": 12596602, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12728975": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Like I said, good luck with that challenge.<br><br>Just because you and a bunch of other cranks think the Supreme Court got it wrong 111 years ago doesn't make your lies about natural-born citizens true.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_02:01:59", "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": 12719497, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12657116": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"It looks like Orly screwed the pooch again.\"<br><br>Sexist.  Xenophobe.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-14_19:12:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Randwulf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12635296, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12657245": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well, I think he is a British subject, or an Indonesian citizen, Kenyan born, and an illegal alien who needs to be deported after serving time in a federal incarceration facility for defrauding the American public.  Oh, did I leave out the part about failing to properly register for the draft and attending Occidental as a foreign student receiving US taxpayer money?  How careless of me.<br><br>HERE COME DE JUDGE!!! HERE COME DE JUDGE!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-14_19:17:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Randwulf", "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": 12601207, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12878174": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Once again, Kansas makes me ashamed to live in Kansas.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-18_09:58:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "LemonMeringue", "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}, "12619244": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So in other words, you're telling me that even though I was born in New Jersey and have spent my entire life of 34 years as a US citizen...since my parents are both non-citizens, then I'm NOT a natural born citizen? Ever heard of first-generation AMERICANS?? <br>You apparently have no clue what the term \"natural born citizen\" means.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-14_01:23:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "21092284d259296a2f4fdbf7cbeb59e2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12596141, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12642158": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Afturd said:<br><br>\"All it would take to prove a forgery would be for the State of Hawaii to compare it to their records.\"<br><br>Perfect Alf!  That is a great idea.  And then they can post a comparison or the \" factcheck\" forgery and whatever is really in the vault.  Then we can all know the truth.  And then you can go GET A JOB!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-14_13:16:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Randwulf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12651121": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So, Randwulf, why haven't they done so if it is a fake.<br><br>Certainly with every birther calling them and hounding them for months about this nonsense, they would be duty bound to look into it.  <br><br>What's your explanation for why they haven't done anything about this clear violation of state law?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-14_16:42:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "alferd", "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": 12642158, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12650003": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>By the way, Obama voted for this resolution, so he obviously agrees with the definition of what constitutes a \"natural born citizen\" \u2013 the offspring of two U.S. citizens.</i><br><br>By the way, that's some quality dumbass logic. For your next trick, argue that because cats have cats for parents, dogs aren't animals.<br><br>McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone. The Zone's status as part of the United States was ambiguous. That's what Chertoff and Leahy were talking about. <br><br>If you're born outside the U.S to American parents, then your citizenship descends from them. If you're born in the U.S., then your citizenship comes from being born in the U.S. If you were never naturalized, then you're natural-born.<br><br>Since the legal distinction is meaningless outside the office of the presidency, and since no-one born outside the U.S. has been elected President, the Supreme Court has never ruled on it. <br><br>Birfers are funny.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-14_16:15:53", "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": 12613460, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12717814": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You're declaring Wong Kim Ark judicial activism? Good luck with that challenge: it's only been on the books for 111 years, so Scalia might give you a crack at it if you ask nicely.<br><br>Until then, you're just plain wrong, and repeating your lies a thousand times doesn't make them true. You'll have to find another country (and another set of parents) that fits your opinion about where natural-born citizenship comes from, because the U.S. isn't one of them.<br><br>Birfers are so dumb.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-15_19:02:32", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12706083, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12601207": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "OK, as usual we have two sets of goalposts here.<br><br>One group of birthers claims that he was born in Kenya and ignores all evidence to the contrary.  <br><br>The other group acknowledges that he was born in Hawaii but claims that he is not a natural born citizen because his father was not a citizen.  <br><br>Both groups are bat guano crazy.<br><br>Then of course there is the third group that bounces between either claim as it suits them.  When they lose an argument based on one set of goalposts, they switch to the other.  when they start to lose on that one, they switch back again, ad idiotem.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_16:13:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "alferd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12657017": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I can't tell you why anyone commits a particular crime.  I can't tell you why Hawaiian officials do or don't do anything.  All I'm saying is that if they have a real \"Born in Hawaii USA\" birth certificate for Obama and it states the hospital name and attending physicians name, they need to confirm that and they need to produce it.  If someone is \"monkeying\" around with these documents, then someone needs to be charged with whatever crime is applicable but if Obama wants to put this thing away and never hear about it again, he had better produce a real long form certificate.  If he can't do that, well, then,.........CHECKMATE!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-14_19:08:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "Randwulf", "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": 12651121, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12596602": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I want to make it clear that I haven't looked into the NBC issue, and my interest in this is because people like Weigel keep lying and misleading about this issue.<br><br>For a recent example, <a href=\"http://24ahead.com/barack-obama-gives-differing-accounts-which-hospital-he-was-\" rel=\"nofollow\">Snopes, Wikipedia, and even Obama himself can't get their story straight on which hospital he was born in</a>. You'd think that those who claim to know for a fact that he was born in HI wouldn't name one hospital and then later on change their minds and name a completely different hospital.<br><br>It would be hilarious if not for the fact that MSM lies aren't funny at all.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-13_14:59:18", "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": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12602493": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm waiting for a birther to answer my questions here . . . 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	this.frames = {};
};

var disqus_popup_reference = null;

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



/**
 * Dsq.Strings: UI strings
 */
Dsq.Strings = new function() {
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	this.LOG_INTO_DISQUS = "Log into DISQUS";
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	this.EDIT = "Edit";
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/**
 * Dsq.FmtStrings: functions that return interpolated UI strings
 */
Dsq.FmtStrings = new function() {
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			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comments", {num:num});
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	this.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS = function(num) {
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				: '%(num)s comments'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_LIKES = function(num) {
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			(num == 1
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				: '%(num)s likes'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_POINTS = function(num) {
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			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s point'
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};
// Dsq.FmtStrings





Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN = '21bc467119200cb06806902fa8e2f5b0';
Dsq.COMMENTS_RE = /(<li.*?id="?dsq-comment-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/li>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_RE = /(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-header-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/div>)\s*(<div.*?class="?dsq-comment-body"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_BODY_RE = /\s*(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-message-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
// HACK: Safari ends with "-->" while other browsers end with "--&gt;" as expected.
Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE = /&lt;!--\[(.*?)\]--(?:>|&gt;)/gim;



// 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) {
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};

Dsq.PostHandler = function(str, h_head, post_id, h_content, h_tail, b_head, b_content, b_tail, offset, s) {
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};

Dsq.PostBodyHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
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};

Dsq.MediaPostHandler = function(str, args, offset, s) {
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};


/**
 * 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/an_obama_birther_for_kansas_secretary_of_state/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">78</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/an_obama_birther_for_kansas_secretary_of_state/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" >Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" selected="selected">Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/an_obama_birther_for_kansas_secretary_of_state/">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/an_obama_birther_for_kansas_secretary_of_state/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:25265861" 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'				: 'an_obama_birther_for_kansas_secretary_of_state',
			// 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/an_obama_birther_for_kansas_secretary_of_state/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='	+ 'an_obama_birther_for_kansas_secretary_of_state'
			+ '&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='	+ 'an_obama_birther_for_kansas_secretary_of_state'
			+ '&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='		+ 'an_obama_birther_for_kansas_secretary_of_state'
				+ '&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/25265861/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-12878174">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12878174" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12878174" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12878174">LemonMeringue</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12878174" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12878174" class="dsq-comment-message">Once again, Kansas makes me ashamed to live in Kansas.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12878134">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12878134" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12878134" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12878134">LemonMeringue</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12878134" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12878134" class="dsq-comment-message">Who cares? <br><br>It will not matter how many birth certificates he produces (the state of Hawaii has) or how many hospitals confirm (the hospital did) or how many newspapers announced the birth (two did). <br><br>They have nothing on this man, he is pure as the driven snow, so they harp on this. They will not accept any proof, no matter how air-tight.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-13295686">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-13295686" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-13295686" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-13295686">mannix1962</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-13295686" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-13295686" class="dsq-comment-message">Where do you get the idea that he\'s produced his original birth certificate. He has provided only the short form we still don\'t know who delivered him and we don\'t know the hospital he was born at. When he was running for the presidency the newspapers said he was born at Queen\'s Memorial Hospital. Now it comes out it was Kapolani Hospital but they won\'t confirm or deny it. Then the address they give as their home address can\'t be substantiated by the neighbor that has lived there since the 1950"s. There hasn\'t been any proof</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12824872">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12824872" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12824872" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12824872">cdeville</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12824872" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12824872" class="dsq-comment-message">You guys are the laughingstock of the nation. Congratulations, Neanderthals.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12646163">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12646163" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12646163" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12646163">RedGraham</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12646163" class="dsq-comment-message">It all comes down to the missing Birth Certificate and all college records on Obama. He was a moslem. He was an Indonesian.  He was named Barry Soetoro. His real father was a Kenyan-Arab. His adoptive father was an Indonesian-Moslem. Obama was likely born in Kenya but may have been born a dual-citizen regardless. If he has nothing to hide why is he hiding it? The COLB posted online does not exist in paper form(unless you print it off your computer). It was actually made from Obama\'s younger half-sisters Hawaiian COLB which was scanned, and altered and hence the document number has been blocked out.  Half-sister Maya Soetoro was born in Indonesia but somehow obtained a Hawaiian COLB.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12651202" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12651202">alferd</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12651202" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12651202" class="dsq-comment-message">And your name is red, so you must be a communist.  <br><br>LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12642158" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12642158" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12642158">Randwulf</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12642158" class="dsq-comment-message">Afturd said:<br><br>"All it would take to prove a forgery would be for the State of Hawaii to compare it to their records."<br><br>Perfect Alf!  That is a great idea.  And then they can post a comparison or the " factcheck" forgery and whatever is really in the vault.  Then we can all know the truth.  And then you can go GET A JOB!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12651121" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12651121">alferd</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12651121" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12651121" class="dsq-comment-message">So, Randwulf, why haven\'t they done so if it is a fake.<br><br>Certainly with every birther calling them and hounding them for months about this nonsense, they would be duty bound to look into it.  <br><br>What\'s your explanation for why they haven\'t done anything about this clear violation of state law?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12657017" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12657017" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12657017">Randwulf</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12657017" class="dsq-comment-message">I can\'t tell you why anyone commits a particular crime.  I can\'t tell you why Hawaiian officials do or don\'t do anything.  All I\'m saying is that if they have a real "Born in Hawaii USA" birth certificate for Obama and it states the hospital name and attending physicians name, they need to confirm that and they need to produce it.  If someone is "monkeying" around with these documents, then someone needs to be charged with whatever crime is applicable but if Obama wants to put this thing away and never hear about it again, he had better produce a real long form certificate.  If he can\'t do that, well, then,.........CHECKMATE!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12635455" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12635455">alferd</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12635455" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12635455" class="dsq-comment-message">for the third time<br><br>All it would take to prove a forgery would be for the State of Hawaii to compare it to their records.<br><br>The Republican run state of hawaii.<br><br>The Republican run state of hawaii officials that have been hounded by birther about this very issue for the past year.<br><br>Certainly the very conservative, Republican state Attorney General would be able to instigate an investigation.<br><br>I wonder why he isn\'t a birther also?<br><br>How come none of the conservatives republicans in Hawaii\'s government are birthers either?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12635421" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12635421">alferd</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12635421" class="dsq-comment-message">I particularly like these parts from the WND article.<br><br>-----------<br>While no attorneys appeared on Obama\'s behalf, several members of the U.S. Attorney\'s office in California were in attendance, and sought to intervene on behalf of Obama over his actions before becoming president. <br><br>--and--<br><br>Complicating the situation is Obama\'s decision to spend sums estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to avoid releasing a state birth certificate that would put to rest all of the questions.<br>-----------------<br><br>The Stupid, IT BURNS.<br><br>LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12657078" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12657078" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12657078">Randwulf</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12657078" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12657078" class="dsq-comment-message">US Attorneys, OH MY!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12635296" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12635296">alferd</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12635296" class="dsq-comment-message">It looks like Orly screwed the pooch again.<br><br>----------------<br>At a previous hearing, Carter had ruled that Taitz had not properly served the case on Obama. In Monday\'s hearing, both Taitz and DeJute tried to prematurely argue the merits of the case. Carter, a former marine, told both parties that the case could easily be tied up for months or another year on procedural technicalities. A better approach would be for Taitz just to file the paperwork so that the case could proceed without more delays, the judge said.<br>----------------</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12657116" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12657116" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12657116">Randwulf</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12657116" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12657116" class="dsq-comment-message">"It looks like Orly screwed the pooch again."<br><br>Sexist.  Xenophobe.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-13236426" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-13236426">AcaciaJules</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-13236426" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-13236426" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s a pilot term, duh. <br>to screw the pooch (third-person singular simple present screws the pooch, present participle screwing the pooch, simple past and past participle screwed the pooch)<br><br>   1. to screw up; to fail in dramatic and ignominious fashion<br><br>[edit] Synonyms<br><br>    * crash and burn<br>    * f&ck up<br>    * drop the ball</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-13242200" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-13242200" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-13242200">Randwulf</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-13242200" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-13242200" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, in that case your f@cked up bastards have done all three.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12618478" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12618478" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12618478">GregNH</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12618478" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12618478" class="dsq-comment-message">That joke was first told by Rush Limbaugh and I hope he gave proper credit.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12615296" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12615296" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12615296">AristotleTheHun</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12615296" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12615296" class="dsq-comment-message">IT\'S REAL! Hearing set on default in Obama eligibility case <br><br><a href="http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2009/07/its-real-hearing-set-on-default-in.html" rel="nofollow">http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2009/07/its-r...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12613879" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12613879" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12613879">AristotleTheHun</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12613879" class="dsq-comment-message">I have not persoanlly vetted this yet because it has just been announced:<br><br>BREAKING NEWS!  <br>Monday, July 13, 2009 in the Federal Court Building, Santa Ana, CA.<br><br>Former Marine Judge David Carter says he will hold an expeditious trial to hear Obama\'s eligibility to be POTUS and CINC - on the MERITS!  <br><br>\'DISCOVERY\' is here!<br>Judge Carter stated that if Obama isn\'t Constitutionally qualifed he needs to leave the White House.<br><br><br><br><br>Today, July 13 2009, Dr Orly Taitz was at the Federal Court building in<br>Santa Ana CA, before Judge David Carter, in Keyes v Obama.<br><br><br>"At the hearing today at the Federal Court building in Santa Ana, Judge Carter said the following:<br>1.  There will be a trial.<br>2.  It will be heard on the merits.<br>3.  Nothing will be dismissed on proceedural issues.<br>4.  The trial will be expeditious, and the judge pledged to give case priority.<br>5.  Being a former Marine he realizes the importance of having a Constitutionally qualified POTUS/CINC.<br>6.  Judge Carter stated that if Obama isn\'t Constitutionally qualifed he needs to leave the White House.<br><br>"The DOJ will be involved with the case also....  I wasn\'t clear if they <br>would be trying to get to the truth or they would just be blindly representing Obama.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12612131" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12612131">AristotleTheHun</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12612131" class="dsq-comment-message">Please get this straight: <br><br>Hawaiian officials have not validated AKA OBAMA’s place of birth. What they have said is that they “have the original document” on file. They haven’t offered a clue as to what information is in that document nor have they said what kind of birth certificate is on file; a conventional birth certificate issued by a hospital with a doctor’s signature or the kind of birth certificate issued by Hawaii on the basis of an affidavit?  The Hawaiian officials are not part of a cover-up.  They can not legally validate what is on that document without a court order or permission from “our” Chicago con-man. <br><br>Laws of the Territory of Hawaii ACT 96 To Provide For The Issuance Of Certificates Of Hawaiian Birth was in effect from 1911 until 1972 and allowed someone who was born outside the Hawaiian Islands to be registered as though he were born in Hawaii. Under that law, someone simply would have presented herself to the Hawaiian authorities and declared that the child was born in Hawaii. The person could have sworn under oath and presented witnesses and other evidence. If the authorities accepted it, that was the end of it. All a person had to do was file a false statement and Hawaii took them at their word.<br><br>One could not just say "My kid was born in Des Moines but I want him to have a Hawaiian birth record".  But if you lied no investigation was conducted to validate your claim and the Hawaiian birth record was issued no questions asked.<br><br>Knowledge of this practice was wide spread and there are probably thousands of people who obtained Hawaiian birth records between 1911 and 1972 through the process of affidavits and witnesses rather than hospitals and delivery doctors.<br><br>One high profile example of the Hawaiian birth certificate policy is the former Emperor of China.  Sun Yat-sen was born on 12 November 1866 to a peasant family in the village of Cuiheng, China, but by 1904 he had a Hawaiian birth certificate and was officially a citizen of the United States.  The wording on Sun Yat-sen’s Hawaiian birth certificate reveals that at age 18 he “made application for a Certificate of Birth. And that it appears from his affidavit and the evidence submitted by witnesses that he was born in the Hawaiian Islands.”  Appears?  It also appears that AKA Obama was born in Hawaii.  Does the AKA Obama birth certificate on file with the State of Hawaii have language similar to the birth certificate of SunYat-sen?<br><br>The only way to know where AKA OBAMA was actually born is to view AKA OBAMA\'s original birth certificate on file in Hawaii to see what kind of birth certificate it is, and to examine what corroborating evidence supports what it says about AKA OBAMA\'s alleged place of birth. If the birth was in a hospital, as AKA OBAMA has maintained, such evidence would be the name of the hospital and the name and signature of the doctor who delivered him.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12601207" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12601207">alferd</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12601207" class="dsq-comment-message">OK, as usual we have two sets of goalposts here.<br><br>One group of birthers claims that he was born in Kenya and ignores all evidence to the contrary.  <br><br>The other group acknowledges that he was born in Hawaii but claims that he is not a natural born citizen because his father was not a citizen.  <br><br>Both groups are bat guano crazy.<br><br>Then of course there is the third group that bounces between either claim as it suits them.  When they lose an argument based on one set of goalposts, they switch to the other.  when they start to lose on that one, they switch back again, ad idiotem.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12657245" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12657245">Randwulf</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12657245" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, I think he is a British subject, or an Indonesian citizen, Kenyan born, and an illegal alien who needs to be deported after serving time in a federal incarceration facility for defrauding the American public.  Oh, did I leave out the part about failing to properly register for the draft and attending Occidental as a foreign student receiving US taxpayer money?  How careless of me.<br><br>HERE COME DE JUDGE!!! HERE COME DE JUDGE!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12607601" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12607601" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12607601" href="http://24Ahead.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">24AheadDotCom</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12607601" class="dsq-comment-message">Has "Alferd" ever written anything that wasn\'t full of lies? Who is Alferd, anyway? I only have time to post the occasional comment, but for him this seems like a full-time job. Is he Weigel using an assumed name? Does he work for the BHO admin in some way? Why is he constantly spreading disinfo about this issue?<br><br>In the current case, I\'m not claiming that BHO was born in Kenya, Hawaii, Ice Station Zebra, or the Moon. I\'m only claiming that no definitive proof has yet been offered of where he was born. That\'s backed up by <a href="http://24ahead.com/s/obama-citizenship" rel="nofollow">the facts of the matter</a>.<br><br>And, Weigel still hasn\'t explained why <a href="http://24ahead.com/obamas-birth-hospital-covers-letter-he-sent-kapiolani-neil-a" rel="nofollow">BHO\'s "birth hospital" is literally covering up a letter he sent them</a>. He still hasn\'t explained why <a href="http://24ahead.com/barack-obama-gives-differing-accounts-which-hospital-he-was-" rel="nofollow">BHO, Snopes and Wikipedia can\'t get their stories straight on which hospital it was</a>.<br><br>Why, Weigel? Let\'s see you do some real reporting for once.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12597693" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12597693">alferd</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12597693" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12597693" class="dsq-comment-message">Also, what makes any of you think that another state would not accept this as legitimate?<br><br><a href="http://www.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/birth_certificate_2.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/birth_ce...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12597635" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12597635">alferd</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12597635" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12597635" class="dsq-comment-message">One more time:<br><br>All it would take to prove a forgery would be for the State of Hawaii to compare it to their records.<br><br>The Republican run state of hawaii.<br><br>The Republican run state of hawaii officials that have been hounded by birther about this very issue for the past year.<br><br>Certainly the very conservative, Republican state Attorney General would be able to instigate an investigation.<br><br>I wonder why he isn\'t a birther also?<br><br>How come none of the conservatives republicans in Hawaii\'s government are birthers either?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12657422" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12657422" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12657422">Randwulf</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12657422" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12657422" class="dsq-comment-message">Just show us the F@CKING original and shut the F@CK up about it!  All you blithering monkey chatter is getting tiresome.  If Obama is legitimate, why doesn\'t he prove it.  One criminal case under some law he signs will be his undoing.  Anyone charged with a crime has a right to have any document produced in court which might tend to prove their innocence.  Especially if the person who signed the law was not legally able to sign it into law.  End of story.  This will be how it ends.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12602493" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12602493" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12602493">alferd</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12602493" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12602493" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m waiting for a birther to answer my questions here . . . (crickets)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12657451" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12657451" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12657451">Randwulf</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12657451" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12657451" class="dsq-comment-message">Monkeys eat crickets.  Don\'t they?  You\'d better go get your supper.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12596602" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12596602" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12596602" href="http://24Ahead.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">24AheadDotCom</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12596602" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12596602" class="dsq-comment-message">I want to make it clear that I haven\'t looked into the NBC issue, and my interest in this is because people like Weigel keep lying and misleading about this issue.<br><br>For a recent example, <a href="http://24ahead.com/barack-obama-gives-differing-accounts-which-hospital-he-was-" rel="nofollow">Snopes, Wikipedia, and even Obama himself can\'t get their story straight on which hospital he was born in</a>. You\'d think that those who claim to know for a fact that he was born in HI wouldn\'t name one hospital and then later on change their minds and name a completely different hospital.<br><br>It would be hilarious if not for the fact that MSM lies aren\'t funny at all.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12602714" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12602714">nattyb</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12602714" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12602714" class="dsq-comment-message">I looked at your website for your so called evidence.  <br><br>It reads like a geocities/tripod website from the mid-90\'s with tiki torches and all. Between all the banners, ads, and pictures of Anne Coulter, it\'s really hard to see what the heck your proof for anything is. <br><br>It\'s as if, your website is an internet version of the National Treasure film series.  You click on one link, and you\'re deeper in the labyrinth, clicking on another link, is like pulling a book from the bookshelf, that takes you deeper into the lair.<br><br>I wonder when was the last time 24aheaddotcom and thalightguy made love to a real live woman?  <br><br>Have you guys heard of Occam\'s razor?  Like, we don\'t need to go back to 1776 here.  He\'s born on American soil, Hawaii, thus, he\'s a Natural Born U.S. citizen. He\'s not the subject of the queen.  If his father was a Kenyan diplomat, that could change things, but, his father wasn\'t a diplomat, and his mother was a US citizen at his birth, so none of this matters.  Now, get out of the basement, it\'s a sunny day.  <br><br>OR, try World of Warcraft.  That\'s a much more fun, and less harmful way to detach from reality.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12613587" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12613587" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12613587">AristotleTheHun</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12613587" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12613587" class="dsq-comment-message">Can you please show me where the LEGITIMATE Hawaiian birth certificate is? And if it has been produced, why has Obama spent almost $1 million on attorney fees to keep it from being made public?<br><br>"I have nothing to hide but I\'m hiding it anyway."<br><br>A useful tool in evaluating things that are not known with certainty is Occam’s razor. When multiple competing hypotheses are equal in other respects, the principle recommends selecting the hypothesis that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest entities. It is in this sense that Occam\'s razor is usually understood. I condense this to the simple question: what is most likely?  <br><br>For example, which is most likely;<br>(a) AKA OBAMA is hiding documents that are innocuous? <br>(b) AKA OBAMA is hiding documents that are damaging? <br><br>What we know with certainty is that AKA OBAMA is not practicing the virtue of full disclosure. “ The biggest question, and the biggest reason for asking more questions, is the fact Obama has enlisted law firms across the nation to battle every attempt to access, among other documents, his birth, schooling, immigration or passport records.” New Jersey attorney Mario Apuzzo</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12600081" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12600081" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12600081">alferd</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12600081" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12600081" class="dsq-comment-message">---"I want to make it clear that I haven\'t looked into the NBC issue,"------<br><br>Oh, BS.<br><br>This is your hobby.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12657484" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12657484" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12657484">Randwulf</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12657484" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12657484" class="dsq-comment-message">How much does Acorn pay you to make an ass of yourself daily?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12596141" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12596141" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12596141">thalightguy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12596141" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12596141" class="dsq-comment-message">It does not matter were he was born, he can never be natural born citizen.<br><br>His father was Kenyan and never  became a US citizen.<br><br>He has a birthright to Kenya/Great Britain.<br><br>Our Forefathers where very clear that they did not want anyone with anykind of foreign allegiance to become President hence the Natural Born Citizen clause.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12619244" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12619244" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12619244" href="http://www.effectualdesigns.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Chima</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12619244" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12619244" class="dsq-comment-message">So in other words, you\'re telling me that even though I was born in New Jersey and have spent my entire life of 34 years as a US citizen...since my parents are both non-citizens, then I\'m NOT a natural born citizen? Ever heard of first-generation AMERICANS?? <br>You apparently have no clue what the term "natural born citizen" means.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12619727">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12619727" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12619727" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12619727">thalightguy</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12619727" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12619727" class="dsq-comment-message">At birth you had citizenship to whatever Country your parents where from. I\'m sorry to tell you that you only qualify as a citizen and not a natural born citizen.<br><br>I have a niece and nephew who\'s father is from Canada he\'s only here on a work permit and these kids are not natural born either.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12650166">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12650166" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12650166" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12650166">luther blissett</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12650166" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12650166" class="dsq-comment-message">We\'d explain the difference betwen <i>jus soli</i> and <i>jus sanguinis</i> to you, but you\'re clearly too dumb to understand that <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4b/BornInTheUSA.jpg" rel="nofollow">Springsteen-Americans</a> are natural-born citizens.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12706083">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12706083" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12706083" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12706083">thalightguy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12706083" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12706083" class="dsq-comment-message">Anchor babies are not natural born citizens, they shouldn\'t even be citizens.<br><br>Look at the Congressional Globe for the 39th Congress to find the exact meaning for "subject to the jurisdiction thereof".<br><br>But of course in Wong Kim Ark they pulled a Sotomayor and legislated from the bench.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12717814">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12717814" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12717814" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12717814">luther blissett</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12717814" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12717814" class="dsq-comment-message">You\'re declaring Wong Kim Ark judicial activism? Good luck with that challenge: it\'s only been on the books for 111 years, so Scalia might give you a crack at it if you ask nicely.<br><br>Until then, you\'re just plain wrong, and repeating your lies a thousand times doesn\'t make them true. You\'ll have to find another country (and another set of parents) that fits your opinion about where natural-born citizenship comes from, because the U.S. isn\'t one of them.<br><br>Birfers are so dumb.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12719497">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12719497" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12719497" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12719497">thalightguy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12719497" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12719497" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s everything you need to know about why they got it wrong.<br><br><a href="http://www.14thamendment.us/articles/anchor_babies_unconstitutionality.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.14thamendment.us/articles/anchor_bab...</a></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12728975">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12728975" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12728975" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12728975">luther blissett</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12728975" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12728975" class="dsq-comment-message">Like I said, good luck with that challenge.<br><br>Just because you and a bunch of other cranks think the Supreme Court got it wrong 111 years ago doesn\'t make your lies about natural-born citizens true.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12597021">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12597021" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12597021" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12597021">alferd</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12597021" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12597021" class="dsq-comment-message">President Obama was born in Hawaii.  That is all it takes to be a natural born U.S. citizen.<br><br>Too bad, You lose.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12613460">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12613460" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12613460" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12613460">AristotleTheHun</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12613460" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12613460" class="dsq-comment-message">On April 10 of last year, two senators, both Democrats, Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Claire McCaskill of Missouri, introduced a resolution into upper house expressing a sense of the Senate that McCain was indeed a "natural born citizen."<br><br>It\'s interesting what Leahy had to say on the subject: "Because he was born to American citizens, there is no doubt in my mind that Senator McCain is a natural born citizen. I expect that this will be a unanimous resolution of the U.S. Senate."<br><br>And, indeed it was. It was also, interestingly, the only such hearing held by the Congress on the subject of "natural born citizenship" and its application to the 2008 presidential race. Why was that interesting? Because everyone involved in this process knew – or should have known – that the life story told by Barack Obama would raise far more doubts about his eligibility than McCain\'s.<br><br>Notice Leahy did not say one parent citizen would qualify a child for "natural born citizenship." He indicted it would take two to tango.<br><br>He did so again at a Judiciary Committee hearing April 3, when he asked then-Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, a former federal judge, if he had any doubts about McCain\'s eligibility to serve as president.<br><br>"My assumption and my understanding is that if you are born of American parents, you are naturally a natural-born American citizen," Chertoff responded – again underlining the fact that both parents would need to be citizens.<br><br>And what did Leahy say to that? "That is mine, too."<br><br>By the way, Obama voted for this resolution, so he obviously agrees with the definition of what constitutes a "natural born citizen" – the offspring of two U.S. citizens.<br><br>Now, I don\'t know who Barack Obama\'s parents are, because I have never seen his birth certificate. All I\'ve seen is a facsimile of a "certification of live birth" on the Internet. That document, even if genuine, proves nothing about Obama\'s birth in Hawaii or who his parents were. Hawaii had a very slipshod practice in 1961 of issuing these documents to babies born outside the country and listing parents who may not have been the parents at all.<br><br>But I do know who Barack Obama claims his parents were. According to him, neither one of them was an American citizen able to confer natural born citizenship on a child. One, Barack Obama Sr., was a foreign national from Kenya, and the other, Stanley Ann Dunham, was too young to have qualified under the law for bestowing that privilege on her son, even if the father had been a citizen and even in the unlikely event Obama was actually born in Hawaii!<br><br>So, if we are to take Obama at his word, he is not a natural born citizen and not eligible to serve as president.<br><a href="http://themunz.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-obama-wants-to-hide-birth_16.html" rel="nofollow">http://themunz.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-obama-w...</a></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12650003">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12650003" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12650003" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12650003">luther blissett</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12650003" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12650003" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>By the way, Obama voted for this resolution, so he obviously agrees with the definition of what constitutes a "natural born citizen" – the offspring of two U.S. citizens.</i><br><br>By the way, that\'s some quality dumbass logic. For your next trick, argue that because cats have cats for parents, dogs aren\'t animals.<br><br>McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone. The Zone\'s status as part of the United States was ambiguous. That\'s what Chertoff and Leahy were talking about. <br><br>If you\'re born outside the U.S to American parents, then your citizenship descends from them. If you\'re born in the U.S., then your citizenship comes from being born in the U.S. If you were never naturalized, then you\'re natural-born.<br><br>Since the legal distinction is meaningless outside the office of the presidency, and since no-one born outside the U.S. has been elected President, the Supreme Court has never ruled on it. <br><br>Birfers are funny.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12600070">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12600070" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12600070" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12600070">thalightguy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12600070" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12600070" class="dsq-comment-message">You are confused, That is all it takes to be a US citizen. <br><br>To be a natural born citizen you must be born to two US citizen parents.<br> <br>Why did the framers make it a requirment for the President to be a natural born citizen?<br><br>I\'ll tell you, They feared someone with foreign influence gaining control of our Government. Being born with split loyalties is a prime example.<br><br>How would they of defined the term?<br><br>See Vattel\'s Law of Nations.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12600535">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12600535" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12600535" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12600535">alferd</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12600535" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12600535" class="dsq-comment-message">Vattel\'s law of nations is a book of philosophy.  I\'m talking about the law of the land, the  U.S. Constitution.<br><br>The definition of the term "Natural born" as it is used in the U.S. Constitution is based on the historic common law usage of the term.  which is quite simple and as "Plain language" as it can be.<br><br>"Natural born"  means innate at birth.  Thus if you are born a U.S. citizen, then you are a natural born U.S. citizen.  <br><br>This definition of the term is still in use today.  For instance, when we speak of someone as being a "natural born" athlete we say this based on their innate talents, not the fact that their parents were athletes also.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12601680">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12601680" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12601680" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12601680">thalightguy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12601680" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12601680" class="dsq-comment-message">Hmm, US Supreme Court Justice Scalia seems to disagree with you. He has referred to Vattel\'s Law of Nations as a legal text book.<br><br>see  District of Columbia Et Al. v. Heller.  <br><br><br>The U.S. Constitution does not define the term one way or the other.<br><br>You have to look into the reasoning into why the Framers made it a requirment for the President to be a natural born citizen. <br><br>To be a Senator or a Congressman you only have to be a citizen but to be the President you must be a natural born citizen. Why?<br><br>How can someone with a birthright to another Country be considered a natural born citizen.  This would undermind the framers intent. <br><br>A natural born citizen must only have allegiance to the US.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12602455">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12602455" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12602455" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12602455">alferd</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12602455" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12602455" class="dsq-comment-message">----"How can someone with a birthright to another Country be considered a natural born citizen."----<br><br>That birthright, as you call it is based on the laws of a foreign country, not U.S. laws.<br><br>We do not let the laws of a foreign country trump our laws.  What are you, un-American?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12604168">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12604168" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12604168" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12604168">thalightguy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12604168" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12604168" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama seems to disagree with you.<br><br>During the election, then Senator Obama published a statement at his website which said that his birth status was “governed” by the British Nationality Act of 1948.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12611772" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12611772" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12611772">alferd</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12611772" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12611772" class="dsq-comment-message">So, you are saying that British laws determine who is eligible for president in the U.S.?<br><br>I thought that is why we fought a revolution.  <br><br>The laws of a foreign state have no bearing on the the U.S.</div>\
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