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Cheers", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-07_10:21:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "27bd5878c9fd202172c7c6a0b860290b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "7980686": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Is there, like, any evidence whatsoever that Obama plans on taking away peoples' guns??<br><br>Democrats gave up that fight a decade ago. There are too many blue state hunters. Obama knows it would be political suicide to go near that.<br><br>Amazing how the NRA and right wing noise machines can manipulate these idiots. Also amazing that they were nowhere to be found when the last president was spying on Americans, and snatching American citizens off the street and holding them indefinitely without charge. Where were the \"Constitutionalist\" militias then?<br><br>What posers.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-08_13:55:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0bce2ed4f114c741a9c953b9b2c0b020", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7981075": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Please give an example from this Congressional session of any lawmaker (or Obama himself) making any kind of move to take away peoples' guns.<br><br>Because last I checked, Dems gave this up years ago.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-08_14:08:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "0bce2ed4f114c741a9c953b9b2c0b020", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7937793, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7974830": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ya sure. Nobody else is an asswipe racist. Everyone else just loves shooting so much they are willing to put up with one without calling him out or telling him to STFU because he's an embarrassment.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-08_10:01:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "b7676c77acc17e00a0a4b8a48f97cf51", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7974205, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7955868": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm not selling guns... but I do have a lot of \"Impeach Obama\" stickers for sale... check out <a href=\"http://www.UpYoursObama.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.UpYoursObama.com</a> - Thanks for visiting!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-07_18:45:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "b4cb01d39273f75783ebd1806a9ab2cb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "7954077": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "President Obama has provided proof of his birth, and the state of Hawaii has also confirmed that they have the information.<br><br>You simply choose not to believe it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-07_17:28:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "280f6280e664950f4288453a712a4193", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7944116, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7987616": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This man said is so succinctly...<br>I will repost it so you can read it to yourself whilst looking in the mirror!<br><br><br><br>    <br><br>RoadScholar <br><br><br><br>Where, for the love of God, does it say ANYWHERE in this article that all gun owners are nuts?<br>So... you base your mistrust of the media based on what you mistakenly think the articles say?<br><br>Today's syllogism:<br><br>Not all gun owners are nuts,<br>but a lot of nuts are gun owners.<br><br>To clarify:<br>Anyone who thinks Obama is an illegal alien is nuts.<br>Anybody who thinks the cop-killings in NY was a set-up, is nuts.<br>The people who told the shooter Obama plans to take away his guns, are nuts.<br>Anyone who thinks Obama is going to set up 're-education camps' is nuts.<br>Anyone who predicts an Obama dictatorship is nuts.<br><br>There are lots of sane gun owners, but apparently few attended this rally.<br><br>Anyone advocating the violent overthrow of the US Government because of Obama<br>is worse than nuts; he is a traitor to America, and should be considered a terrorist.<br><br>Clear?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-08_16:48:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "fireblazes", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7957110, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7954722": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The guy with the backpack  \"The last person on earth will carry an assault rifle\" might want to read Jared Diamond's \"Collapse\".  And ponder Ghandi:  \"An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth makes the whole world blind and toothless.\"<br><br>I personally have to cite the members of my (very liberal) denomination in the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, who disarmed the gunman that opened fire at a service one morning last summer. Within seconds of his first shot, they jumped and stopped him. They were unarmed. Only 2 people died.<br><br>Non-violence can work. Problem is when people are not well enough informed to know what is and is not a threat to their lives. When they have been misinformed by fear mongering so much that they can't use simple deductive or inductive reasoning. (The US Secret Service can't figure out that Obama is not a citizen? Their work would be SO much easier and safer if it were so).<br><br>The backpack assertion makes me think of a Lily Tomlin comment years ago.<br><br>\"The problem with winning the rat race is, it makes you a rat.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-07_17:54:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "992eaa12105ae14c857be2b463030d0e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "7931171": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Little men, little dicks, small minds and BIG talk.<br><br>And, not a one of them stepping forward and rising up... chickenshit chickenhawks the likes of  Bush/Cheney/Gingrich/LimpBalls/Beck/Savage/Hannity/et al.<br><br>PA-thetic.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-07_02:24:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "852fded40f03950928e2b9243b7632d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "7967089": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "YIKES!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-07_23:57:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c6714a706402fbfc7e0aa79d9be0d3c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7980074": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "WOW.  Just....WOW.<br><br>These far-right wingnuts haven't the first clue about anything going on in Washington.  All they know is the hatred and willful ignorance  Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Ann Coulter force-feed them every day over the airwaves.<br><br>Sad...scary, yet sad.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-08_13:31:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "024873022f5ba16479922faa918c7951", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7952814": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"'There\u2019s a black man in the White House,' he said. 'What else do you need to know?'\u201d<br><br>Would somebody please enlighten me why some of these kinds of people automatically default to racism when frustrated? It's so ridiculously predictable, and doesn't contribute any class to their cause.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-07_16:35:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "cca02d42bcdb9f360da3c41e4fcf63c3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7937162, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7979123": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Mind you, that's \"DEMOCRATIC PARTY,\" as they're the only ones who seem to believe in the Constitution of the United States.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-08_12:52:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "d8c6e1adf9d7034c1f7ea9ed75cf4860", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7944116": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Weigel's getting hilarious: every pseudo paper's alternative to Max Blumenthal.<br><br>1. Weigel and some of the \"Birthers\" make the same mistake, claiming that they know where BHO was born. In actual fact, BHO has never provided definitive proof of where he was born. Saying that BHO was born outside the U.S. is not the same as saying that you don't know where BHO was born because he hasn't provided definitive proof, even if <a href=\"http://24ahead.com/what-dave-weigel-doesnt-want-you-see\" rel=\"nofollow\">Weigel isn't smart enough nor enough of a reporter</a> to be able to tell the difference between those statements.<br><br>2. The issue of <a href=\"http://24ahead.com/glenn-beck-popular-mechanics-debunk-fema-camps\" rel=\"nofollow\">FEMA camps</a> is briefly discussed at the link. It shouldn't come as much of a surprise that someone writing for a Soros/Rockefeller funded pseudo paper would try to mislead about that issue.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-07_14:35:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "LonewackoDotCom", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7980949": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If eight years of Clinton didn't take our guns, nothing will. The scare stories about losing guns are planted by the gun manufacturers to increase sales. Profiteering off the paranoid extremists who so joyfully swallow it up hook, line, and sinker.<br>Besides, it was Bush who had the National Guard confiscating peoples' guns in N'Orleans after Katrina.<br>Such ass-clowns.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-08_14:04:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "728dc1bdc10462f1c93be4532a7ff2f1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7954107": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Why do people on the right employ veiled death threats when arguing this issue?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-07_17:28:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "280f6280e664950f4288453a712a4193", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7937162, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7959306": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Classy URL.  Ass.<br><br>Was Bush Derangement Syndrome this hyperbolic?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-07_21:20:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "825c8b51110b0a6846785cd91e01e091", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7955868, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7954494": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Weigel believes what BHO says, despite not having definitive proof and despite FactCheck et al blatantly lying about this issue.<br><br>Let me try to explain this in as \"easy to understand\" a fashion as possible. I'm not saying BHO was born in one specific place, I'm only saying that - despite what you've heard - he has not provided definitive proof of where he was born. It's hacks like Weigel who are wrong: they claim he was born in HI despite not having definitive proof. Hacks like Weigel are going on faith, not on facts. Weigel and his editors are simply BHO cultists who'll believe anything he says.<br><br>See my extensive coverage of this issue <a href=\"http://24ahead.com/s/obama-citizenship\" rel=\"nofollow\">here</a>.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-07_17:45:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "LonewackoDotCom", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7954077, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7979968": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Unbelievable ignorance. What is wrong with the south? I would be willing to bet that not one of these idiots is aware good ol' G.W. Bush was born in New Haven, CT- a well known blue state. I think there is direct inverse relationship between IQ and the number of guns somebody owns. I have no problem with guns- I own a few, but they are locked in a safe and I have no worries Obama is going to rip them out of my \"cold, dead hands\". The funniest part is, do these right-wing rednecks really think anyone wants them leading a revolt? They'd declare a cease-fire everytime there was a NASCAR race.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-08_13:26:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d8ed1331864424606edfb0c990ba7b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7986464": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Mr. Hyatt, there are excellent anti-psychotic medications available nowadays.<br><br>You should check into it.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-08_16:09:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "RoadScholar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7966345, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7979078": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What a bunch of whiney facists, these folks are.  Talk about childish.  Another good reason to support more funding for education.   As these folks show, ignorance is NOT a virtue.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-08_12:51:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "bee2013b70159b311dbb2bf1bdf4baf6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8016842": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"non violence can work\"......uhhhhh when your members \"jumped and stopped him\", was that not violence?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_16:25:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "b6477df581540b2f70cb7c3cbd570083", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7954722, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7981004": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Southerners have an ethnic memory of what it was like to have the army of the United States move through their counties killing their young men, burning their homes and leaving them to starve.  It is a memory not shared by the rest of the country and leaves those who are not part of it to muse about what seems like an irrational fear of the government.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-08_14:06:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "70b455bdbdcb985fc8db0fbefa8f1562", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "7987278": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Where, for the love of God, does it say ANYWHERE in this article that all gun owners are nuts?<br>So... you base your mistrust of the media based on what you mistakenly think the articles say?<br><br>Today's syllogism:<br><br>Not all gun owners are nuts,<br>but a lot of nuts are gun owners.<br><br>To clarify:<br>Anyone who thinks Obama is an illegal alien is nuts.<br>Anybody who thinks the cop-killings in NY was a set-up, is nuts.<br>The people who told the shooter Obama plans to take away his guns, are nuts.<br>Anyone who thinks Obama is going to set up 're-education camps' is nuts.<br>Anyone who predicts an Obama dictatorship is nuts.<br><br>There are lots of sane gun owners, but apparently few attended this rally.<br><br>Anyone advocating the violent overthrow of the US Government because of Obama <br>is worse than nuts; he is a traitor to America, and should be considered a terrorist.<br><br>Clear?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-08_16:37:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "RoadScholar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7937793, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7981008": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wow, and to think, dozens of state and federal judges, including a GOP-heavy Supreme Court, haven't seen what is so plainly obvious. Or is their constant dismissal of these \"birth\" lawsuits part of the conspiracy too?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-08_14:07:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "0bce2ed4f114c741a9c953b9b2c0b020", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7957110, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7969873": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The Director of Health for the State of Hawai\u2018i, issued a <a href=\"http://hawaii.gov/health/about/pr/2008/08-93.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">press statement</a> on October 31, 2008 containing the following:<br><br><i>Therefore, I as Director of Health for the State of Hawai\u2018i, along with the Registrar of Vital Statistics who has statutory authority to oversee and maintain these type of vital records, have personally seen and verified that the Hawai\u2018i State Department of Health has Sen. Obama\u2019s original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures.</i><br><br>It doesn't really matter what 24AheadDotCom believes to be true about President Obama's birth because it is demonstrably false.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-08_02:58:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "6c46fef0225d9ec5a130b72966e711bd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7944116, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7971027": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If you are going to be a conspiracy theory nut job, at least get the fake name right.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-08_04:57:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "25d758fc0215e2a129376c4bac52606a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7966345, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7986004": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "How disturbing that southerners, five generations removed from the Civil War, are still being taught by their families- and their society to keep the wounds of that conflict open and festering. This sort of obsession can never be `satisfied' through redress by the supposed offender - they must learn to let go, and move on.<br><br>I used to think that it was only the backward peoples of the Middle East and elsewhere who were incapable of living in the present because of their obsessive wallowing in their (often one-side) recall of the `wrongs' of the past - but I see I was mistaken. <br><br>What makes this type of southerner any different from the Sunnis who hate the Shia, or the Islamists who hate the Jews?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-08_15:52:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "222dfb5643a826b645e5c103608a2759", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7981004, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7979861": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'd like to remind Uncle Daddy at the gun show that Islamic terrorists took control of jetliners and successfully hit three American buildings on 9/11 with nothing but box cutters.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-08_13:22:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "7cbc0390c86676b9c123b7f094b5a6ce", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7971031": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Who said I was visiting?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-08_04:58:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "25d758fc0215e2a129376c4bac52606a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7955868, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7939930": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Bob, Weigel went to the show and reported what the attendees were saying, selling, and doing.  He never said they were crazy, or nuts, or made value judgments at all.  Its all left to the reader.  <br><br>So I'm not sure why you think this justifies distrust of the media.  Do you think that Weigel was lying about what he saw and heard, even though he quoted people by name?  Should he have not gone because its unfair to accurately quote the gun show attendees?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-07_12:17:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "SamR", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7937793, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7932253": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jeez!  Put beards on all of these podunks and make them shed 50 pounds and we'll have the official al Qaeda recruiting video - English version.<br><br>Extremism is for ignorant losers no matter which side of the world you live on.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-07_03:50:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "34f0a76dd966259a32e74ded64a6b422", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7931171, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7936606": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Amazing.  These people listen to Limbaugh and Hannity and Beck and Savage and the rest of the right-wing echo chamber.  Because of this, they think there is some unnamed and unknown threat to their gun rights.  Fact is, not one authorized representative of the Obama administration has ever indicated that they are seeking any amendment to any gun law.  And for good reason -- it would be political suicide.<br><br>Did the author of this article happen to mention this fact to any of the people he interviewed?  I would have been curious to know their reaction.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-07_09:55:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "b64edbacf24b211a2d26bb1862a57a27", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "7935329": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You know, that guy who shot three police officers in Pittsburgh's Stanton Heights area had the same mentality. He said he was worried Obama was going to take all of his guns. He even had a flak jacket he wore while he was firing rounds at the SWAT team I pay for.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-07_08:35:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "ajm8127", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7938914": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No,Brent - these people are more than happy to stay insulated in their private fact-free bubbles.<br><br>Folly loves company.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-07_11:37:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "478b25023c825de94ca776339edd6ced", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7936606, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7980746": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ROFL! Awesome.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-08_13:58:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "0bce2ed4f114c741a9c953b9b2c0b020", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7979135, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7979135": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"Alan, a registered nurse from Illinois, asks whether last week\u2019s massacre in Binghamton, N.Y. was a set-up. 'How many government shooters or special ops teams,' he asks, 'how many guys were in there killing people just so they could make gun owners look bad?'\u201d <br><br>Or maybe that's just what they want you to believe. And maybe the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot is actually a set-up and the government is just using it to identify all of the far-right whack-jobs who are in perpetual fear of someone taking their guns away and will stockpile automatic weapons and make bombs so they can defend themselves against anyone who wants to take their guns and bombs away. Did you ever think of that, Alan?<br><br>Or maybe everything you see is a set-up and everyone you know is part of the conspiracy against you, Alan. You'll never know, will you.<br><br>Actually, the talk about people's guns being taken away that comes up every time a Democrat is in the White House (and they still haven't been taken away, yet) is a conspiracy by the gun manufacturers and gun dealers. And business has never been better for them. Well done, patsies.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-08_12:53:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "892ec7e1d8412c61302e632c60dbd822", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "7974205": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Typical David Weigel, mouthpiece for the Democrat Party USA and the Barack Obama administration.  The Washington Independent hired him a couple months ago to add \"diversity of opinion,\" supposedly cause he was alleged to be a \"libertarian.\"  But all he's produced since are cynical hit pieces on the right, like this one.  <br><br>Wake up people!  Weigel comes from Reason Magazine, which has been taken over in recent years by notoriously hard Left Republican-haters, just about all of whom (Editors including Weigel) admitted last Fall to be supporters of Obama.  <br><br>Do you all need any more proof than this hit piece on the Right?  One asswipe Racist shows up to a gun show, and he makes it the centerpiece of his story.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-08_09:35:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "dc4555359da052d7766b48219a0fefa2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 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}, "7938545": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How's the temperature in your part of the universe, Bob?  You're obviously not down here on earth in the real world..", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-07_11:21:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "478b25023c825de94ca776339edd6ced", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7937793, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7986675": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yeah.. the Supremes who halted the recount in 2000 and installed Bush just plain snoozed on Obama being ineligible by birth.<br><br>Right.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-08_16:16:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "RoadScholar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7981008, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8021492": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Has his original birth certificate on hand??? From where Kenya? <br>Why spend $800,000.00 to keep from releasing a $10.00 birth certificate.<br>What about him being adopted by Lolo Soeroto and going to school and being a citizen of Indonesia? Have you seen his school record? <a href=\"http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/13056.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/...</a><br><br>What about him saying he went to Pakistan when he was 20? Borders were closed to US Citizens! Indonesian Passport got him there?<br><br>What about his social security number that begins with 042? conneticut issued and he never lived or worked there! The number he uses was issued to someone who if they were still alive would have been 119 years old! seems his grandmother worked in probate court and had access to socials of deceased individuals.<br>What about his forged Selective Service document? Obviously a forgery!<br>He is  a citizen of Indonesia.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_19:44:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "7414e53bb7181819b068bb3256a234c1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7969873, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7971061": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'll get much better ino at <a href=\"http://www.yourobamaupdate.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.yourobamaupdate.com</a>.  You can stay with the conspiracy nut sites.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-08_05:01:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "25d758fc0215e2a129376c4bac52606a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7944116, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7957110": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The \"proof\" he's offered so far wouldn't stand up in Kindergarten court. For instance, try and find a lawyer who'll say that a picture of a cert on a website is equivalent to the cert itself.<br><br>All the \"proof\" that's so far been offered is discussed at the link above and the pages it links to, and there are serious problems with all the forms of \"proof\" so far offered.<br><br>Click the link to read all the details. For just one example, FactCheck silently re-compressed and removed camera data from the pictures that they'd posted.<br><br>How about another? The two HI newspaper ads don't indicate where BHO was born, they only contain the supposed address of his parents.<br><br>And, so on. Look, if you want to take BHO at his word, I'm fine with that. It's when people say they're going on facts - rather than faith - that I point out that they're liars.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-07_19:50:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "LonewackoDotCom", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7955202, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7946107": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sigh.  Makes us liberal, law-abiding gun-owners look bad.  The difference between these guys and the anti-G20 nuts is a matter of firepower -- which is significant, don't get me wrong -- but the psychology is the same.<br><br>Also...<br><br>\"...pistols and <b>clips</b>...\"<br><br>It's <b>magazines</b>, dangnabit!  Come on, take the opportunity to learn a little and clean up your terminology, Mr. Weigel!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-07_15:43:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "825c8b51110b0a6846785cd91e01e091", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7979004": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow, a convention of the Retarded Gun Nuts of the United States.  I wonder if the whole gaggle of pistol-packing dimwits could collectively reach triple digits on an IQ test?  <br><br>Clowns with guns.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-08_12:47:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "6d71e661e14a5725db03118a8797d0aa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8012031": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Actually, with Alito and Roberts, and the loss of the moderate O'Connor, it's a MUCH more right wing court than the one that appointed W. Look for this court to appoint Coleman from MN to the Senate in a few months, since he couldn't succeed at the ballot box<br><br>And yet! 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	this.LOGOUT = "Logout";
	this.SHARING_OPTIONS = "Sharing options";
	this.SHARE_ON = "Share on";
	this.TWEET_THIS_COMMENT = "Tweet this comment";
	this.SHARE_ON_NEWSFEED = "Share on news feed";
	this.SEND_UPDATE_TO_YAHOO = "Send update to Yahoo!";
	this.REBLOG_ON = "Reblog on";
	this.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS = "Configure options";
	this.POST_AS = "Post as";
	this.SORT_BY = "Sort by";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe by email";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS = "Subscribe by RSS";
	this.POPULAR_NOW = "Popular now";
	this.BEST_RATING = "Best Rating";
	this.NEWEST_FIRST = "Newest first";
	this.OLDEST_FIRST = "Oldest first";
	this.HIGHLIGHTED = "Highlighted";
	this.UNSUBSCRIBE = "Unsubscribe";
	this.REQUIRED = "Required";
	this.OPTIONAL = "Optional";
	this.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A = "You are commenting as a";
	this.LOGIN_BELOW = "Login below";
	this.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT = "Please login below to comment.";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe to all comments by email";
	this.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS = "Do not subscribe to comments";
	this.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS = "Real-time updating is";
	this.ENABLED = "enabled";
	this.PAUSED = "paused";
	this.PAUSE = "Pause";
	this.RESUME = "Resume";
	this.SHOW = "Show";
	this.JUST_NOW = "Just now";
	this.REPLY = "Reply";
	this.EDIT = "Edit";
	this.FLAG = "Flag";
	this.MODERATE = "Moderate";
	this.CANCEL = "Cancel";
	this.REPLYING_TO = "Replying to";
	this.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS = "Report missing reactions";
	this.POST_A_COMMENT = "Post a comment";
	this.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT = "Flag inappropriate comment";
	this.FLAGGED = "Flagged";
	this.NO = "No";
	this.YES = "Yes";
	this.NEVER_MIND = "Never mind";
	this.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR = "Are you sure you would like to report this comment to a moderator";
	this.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION = "This will flag comments for moderators to take action";
	this.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN = "To rate, please log in";
	this.JUST_A_MOMENT = "Just a moment...";
	this.GUEST = "Guest";
	this.NAME = "Name";
	this.EMAIL = "Email";
  this.WEBSITE = "Website";
  this.SETTINGS = "Settings";
  this.MODERATOR_OPTIONS = "Moderator options: ";
};
// Dsq.Strings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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





Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN = '4f0bfca82e06c976a1efdd7c783a5fd0';
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) {
	var prepend_post = Dsq.Templates.prependPost(post_id);
	var append_post = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(post_id);

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

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

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

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

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


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


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

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


/**
 * Dsq.Urls: URL paths
 */
Dsq.Urls = new function() {
	this.LOGIN = '/profile/login/';
	this.LOGOUT = '/logout/';
	this.REPLY = 'http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/at_gun_show_conservatives_panic_about_obama/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>',
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					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? 'or sign in using OpenID ' : '') +
					Dsq.Utils.interpolate('to comment on <strong>%(forum_name)s</strong>.</p>')) :
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				'<div id="dsq-post-add"></div>',
				'<div style="margin:10px 0">',
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				'</div>'
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	 <span class="dsq-item-sort">\
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	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
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	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
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			html = ' \
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				<div style="display:none; margin-top:10px;" id="dsq-upgrade-message"> \
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				</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>\
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		}
		
		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;
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			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/at_gun_show_conservatives_panic_about_obama/trackback/';
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		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;
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		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>';
			}
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		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() {
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			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 ' \
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			+ (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> \
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								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
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						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
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	//
	// 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'				: 'at_gun_show_conservatives_panic_about_obama',
			// 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/at_gun_show_conservatives_panic_about_obama/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='	+ 'at_gun_show_conservatives_panic_about_obama'
			+ '&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='	+ 'at_gun_show_conservatives_panic_about_obama'
			+ '&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='		+ 'at_gun_show_conservatives_panic_about_obama'
				+ '&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/15251638/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);
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7931171" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7931171" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7931171">Kenneth E. Tucker</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7931171" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7931171" class="dsq-comment-message">Little men, little dicks, small minds and BIG talk.<br><br>And, not a one of them stepping forward and rising up... chickenshit chickenhawks the likes of  Bush/Cheney/Gingrich/LimpBalls/Beck/Savage/Hannity/et al.<br><br>PA-thetic.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7932253" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7932253" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7932253">Brian</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7932253" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7932253" class="dsq-comment-message">Jeez!  Put beards on all of these podunks and make them shed 50 pounds and we\'ll have the official al Qaeda recruiting video - English version.<br><br>Extremism is for ignorant losers no matter which side of the world you live on.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7935329" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7935329" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7935329">ajm8127</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7935329" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7935329" class="dsq-comment-message">You know, that guy who shot three police officers in Pittsburgh\'s Stanton Heights area had the same mentality. He said he was worried Obama was going to take all of his guns. He even had a flak jacket he wore while he was firing rounds at the SWAT team I pay for.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7936606" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7936606" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7936606">Brent</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7936606" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7936606" class="dsq-comment-message">Amazing.  These people listen to Limbaugh and Hannity and Beck and Savage and the rest of the right-wing echo chamber.  Because of this, they think there is some unnamed and unknown threat to their gun rights.  Fact is, not one authorized representative of the Obama administration has ever indicated that they are seeking any amendment to any gun law.  And for good reason -- it would be political suicide.<br><br>Did the author of this article happen to mention this fact to any of the people he interviewed?  I would have been curious to know their reaction.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7938914">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7938914" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7938914" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7938914">Conservatives embody ignorance</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7938914" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7938914" class="dsq-comment-message">No,Brent - these people are more than happy to stay insulated in their private fact-free bubbles.<br><br>Folly loves company.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7937162" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7937162" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7937162">John</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7937162" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7937162" class="dsq-comment-message">The people who are calling, the above mentioned, "crazies" and "right wing fringe lunatics" need to step back and asess their situations.  Any incident that takes place over the next few years could ignite anything from riots to a marching mob.  Do you want to be left out in the cold with no assault rifles or ammo or food?  If these people are stocking up, and you can bet their are the good and the bad, then don\'t you think it\'s time you prepare.  4 dead in Ohio!  Hippies ought to remember that!  There will be more in the future, but this time, people aren\'t going to take it lightly.  If you aren\'t prepared then you deserve what you get.  If you are prepared and nothing happens then no harm done and your previous purchases have stimulated your local economy.  Cheers</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7952814" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7952814" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7952814">jane</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7952814" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7952814" class="dsq-comment-message">"\'There’s a black man in the White House,\' he said. \'What else do you need to know?\'”<br><br>Would somebody please enlighten me why some of these kinds of people automatically default to racism when frustrated? It\'s so ridiculously predictable, and doesn\'t contribute any class to their cause.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7954107">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7954107" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7954107" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7954107">The Rest of America</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7954107" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7954107" class="dsq-comment-message">Why do people on the right employ veiled death threats when arguing this issue?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7937793" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7937793" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7937793">Bob Libertad</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7937793" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7937793" class="dsq-comment-message">So gun owners are all nuts according to this article.; And you question the distrust of the Media! A lot of Obama supproters in both houses of Congress want to get rid or private ownership of guns. I applaud all these 2nd amendment rights people.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7938545">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7938545" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7938545" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7938545">Conservatives embody ignorance</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7938545" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7938545" class="dsq-comment-message">How\'s the temperature in your part of the universe, Bob?  You\'re obviously not down here on earth in the real world..</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7939930" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7939930" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7939930">SamR</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7939930" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7939930" class="dsq-comment-message">Bob, Weigel went to the show and reported what the attendees were saying, selling, and doing.  He never said they were crazy, or nuts, or made value judgments at all.  Its all left to the reader.  <br><br>So I\'m not sure why you think this justifies distrust of the media.  Do you think that Weigel was lying about what he saw and heard, even though he quoted people by name?  Should he have not gone because its unfair to accurately quote the gun show attendees?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7981075">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7981075" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7981075" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7981075">Harper</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7981075" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7981075" class="dsq-comment-message">Please give an example from this Congressional session of any lawmaker (or Obama himself) making any kind of move to take away peoples\' guns.<br><br>Because last I checked, Dems gave this up years ago.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7987278">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7987278" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7987278" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7987278">RoadScholar</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7987278" class="dsq-comment-message">Where, for the love of God, does it say ANYWHERE in this article that all gun owners are nuts?<br>So... you base your mistrust of the media based on what you mistakenly think the articles say?<br><br>Today\'s syllogism:<br><br>Not all gun owners are nuts,<br>but a lot of nuts are gun owners.<br><br>To clarify:<br>Anyone who thinks Obama is an illegal alien is nuts.<br>Anybody who thinks the cop-killings in NY was a set-up, is nuts.<br>The people who told the shooter Obama plans to take away his guns, are nuts.<br>Anyone who thinks Obama is going to set up \'re-education camps\' is nuts.<br>Anyone who predicts an Obama dictatorship is nuts.<br><br>There are lots of sane gun owners, but apparently few attended this rally.<br><br>Anyone advocating the violent overthrow of the US Government because of Obama <br>is worse than nuts; he is a traitor to America, and should be considered a terrorist.<br><br>Clear?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7944116" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-7944116" href="http://24Ahead.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">24AheadDotCom</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7944116" class="dsq-comment-message">Weigel\'s getting hilarious: every pseudo paper\'s alternative to Max Blumenthal.<br><br>1. Weigel and some of the "Birthers" make the same mistake, claiming that they know where BHO was born. In actual fact, BHO has never provided definitive proof of where he was born. Saying that BHO was born outside the U.S. is not the same as saying that you don\'t know where BHO was born because he hasn\'t provided definitive proof, even if <a href="http://24ahead.com/what-dave-weigel-doesnt-want-you-see" rel="nofollow">Weigel isn\'t smart enough nor enough of a reporter</a> to be able to tell the difference between those statements.<br><br>2. The issue of <a href="http://24ahead.com/glenn-beck-popular-mechanics-debunk-fema-camps" rel="nofollow">FEMA camps</a> is briefly discussed at the link. It shouldn\'t come as much of a surprise that someone writing for a Soros/Rockefeller funded pseudo paper would try to mislead about that issue.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7954077">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7954077" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7954077" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7954077">The Rest of America</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7954077" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7954077" class="dsq-comment-message">President Obama has provided proof of his birth, and the state of Hawaii has also confirmed that they have the information.<br><br>You simply choose not to believe it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7954494" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7954494" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-7954494" href="http://24Ahead.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">24AheadDotCom</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7954494" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7954494" class="dsq-comment-message">Weigel believes what BHO says, despite not having definitive proof and despite FactCheck et al blatantly lying about this issue.<br><br>Let me try to explain this in as "easy to understand" a fashion as possible. I\'m not saying BHO was born in one specific place, I\'m only saying that - despite what you\'ve heard - he has not provided definitive proof of where he was born. It\'s hacks like Weigel who are wrong: they claim he was born in HI despite not having definitive proof. Hacks like Weigel are going on faith, not on facts. Weigel and his editors are simply BHO cultists who\'ll believe anything he says.<br><br>See my extensive coverage of this issue <a href="http://24ahead.com/s/obama-citizenship" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7955202">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7955202" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7955202" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7955202">The Rest of America</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7955202" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7955202" class="dsq-comment-message">Again, he HAS provided definitive proof. You simply choose not to believe it.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7957110">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7957110" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7957110" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-7957110" href="http://24Ahead.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">24AheadDotCom</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7957110" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7957110" class="dsq-comment-message">The "proof" he\'s offered so far wouldn\'t stand up in Kindergarten court. For instance, try and find a lawyer who\'ll say that a picture of a cert on a website is equivalent to the cert itself.<br><br>All the "proof" that\'s so far been offered is discussed at the link above and the pages it links to, and there are serious problems with all the forms of "proof" so far offered.<br><br>Click the link to read all the details. For just one example, FactCheck silently re-compressed and removed camera data from the pictures that they\'d posted.<br><br>How about another? The two HI newspaper ads don\'t indicate where BHO was born, they only contain the supposed address of his parents.<br><br>And, so on. Look, if you want to take BHO at his word, I\'m fine with that. It\'s when people say they\'re going on facts - rather than faith - that I point out that they\'re liars.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7981008">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7981008" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7981008" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7981008">Harper</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7981008" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7981008" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow, and to think, dozens of state and federal judges, including a GOP-heavy Supreme Court, haven\'t seen what is so plainly obvious. Or is their constant dismissal of these "birth" lawsuits part of the conspiracy too?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7986675">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7986675" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7986675" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7986675">RoadScholar</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7986675" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7986675" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah.. the Supremes who halted the recount in 2000 and installed Bush just plain snoozed on Obama being ineligible by birth.<br><br>Right.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8012031">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8012031" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8012031" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8012031">Harper</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8012031" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8012031" class="dsq-comment-message">Actually, with Alito and Roberts, and the loss of the moderate O\'Connor, it\'s a MUCH more right wing court than the one that appointed W. Look for this court to appoint Coleman from MN to the Senate in a few months, since he couldn\'t succeed at the ballot box<br><br>And yet! They decided inexplicably to ignore (indeed, dismiss with not a little bit of scorn) the obviously overwhelming evidence that Obama is not a citizen.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7987616" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7987616" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7987616">Fireblazes(cheetohsandcatfood)</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7987616" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7987616" class="dsq-comment-message">This man said is so succinctly...<br>I will repost it so you can read it to yourself whilst looking in the mirror!<br><br><br><br>    <br><br>RoadScholar <br><br><br><br>Where, for the love of God, does it say ANYWHERE in this article that all gun owners are nuts?<br>So... you base your mistrust of the media based on what you mistakenly think the articles say?<br><br>Today\'s syllogism:<br><br>Not all gun owners are nuts,<br>but a lot of nuts are gun owners.<br><br>To clarify:<br>Anyone who thinks Obama is an illegal alien is nuts.<br>Anybody who thinks the cop-killings in NY was a set-up, is nuts.<br>The people who told the shooter Obama plans to take away his guns, are nuts.<br>Anyone who thinks Obama is going to set up \'re-education camps\' is nuts.<br>Anyone who predicts an Obama dictatorship is nuts.<br><br>There are lots of sane gun owners, but apparently few attended this rally.<br><br>Anyone advocating the violent overthrow of the US Government because of Obama<br>is worse than nuts; he is a traitor to America, and should be considered a terrorist.<br><br>Clear?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7969873">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7969873" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7969873" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7969873">ndm</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7969873" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7969873" class="dsq-comment-message">The Director of Health for the State of Hawai‘i, issued a <a href="http://hawaii.gov/health/about/pr/2008/08-93.pdf" rel="nofollow">press statement</a> on October 31, 2008 containing the following:<br><br><i>Therefore, I as Director of Health for the State of Hawai‘i, along with the Registrar of Vital Statistics who has statutory authority to oversee and maintain these type of vital records, have personally seen and verified that the Hawai‘i State Department of Health has Sen. Obama’s original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures.</i><br><br>It doesn\'t really matter what 24AheadDotCom believes to be true about President Obama\'s birth because it is demonstrably false.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8021492" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8021492" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8021492">John</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8021492" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8021492" class="dsq-comment-message">Has his original birth certificate on hand??? From where Kenya? <br>Why spend $800,000.00 to keep from releasing a $10.00 birth certificate.<br>What about him being adopted by Lolo Soeroto and going to school and being a citizen of Indonesia? Have you seen his school record? <a href="http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/13056.htm" rel="nofollow">http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/...</a><br><br>What about him saying he went to Pakistan when he was 20? Borders were closed to US Citizens! Indonesian Passport got him there?<br><br>What about his social security number that begins with 042? conneticut issued and he never lived or worked there! The number he uses was issued to someone who if they were still alive would have been 119 years old! seems his grandmother worked in probate court and had access to socials of deceased individuals.<br>What about his forged Selective Service document? Obviously a forgery!<br>He is  a citizen of Indonesia.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7971061">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7971061" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7971061" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7971061">Grae</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7971061" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7971061" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ll get much better ino at <a href="http://www.yourobamaupdate.com" rel="nofollow">www.yourobamaupdate.com</a>.  You can stay with the conspiracy nut sites.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7946107" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7946107" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-7946107" href="http://jamesfelliott.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">James F. Elliott</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7946107" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7946107" class="dsq-comment-message">Sigh.  Makes us liberal, law-abiding gun-owners look bad.  The difference between these guys and the anti-G20 nuts is a matter of firepower -- which is significant, don\'t get me wrong -- but the psychology is the same.<br><br>Also...<br><br>"...pistols and <b>clips</b>..."<br><br>It\'s <b>magazines</b>, dangnabit!  Come on, take the opportunity to learn a little and clean up your terminology, Mr. Weigel!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7954722" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7954722" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7954722">Ginny in CO</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7954722" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7954722" class="dsq-comment-message">The guy with the backpack  "The last person on earth will carry an assault rifle" might want to read Jared Diamond\'s "Collapse".  And ponder Ghandi:  "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth makes the whole world blind and toothless."<br><br>I personally have to cite the members of my (very liberal) denomination in the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, who disarmed the gunman that opened fire at a service one morning last summer. Within seconds of his first shot, they jumped and stopped him. They were unarmed. Only 2 people died.<br><br>Non-violence can work. Problem is when people are not well enough informed to know what is and is not a threat to their lives. When they have been misinformed by fear mongering so much that they can\'t use simple deductive or inductive reasoning. (The US Secret Service can\'t figure out that Obama is not a citizen? Their work would be SO much easier and safer if it were so).<br><br>The backpack assertion makes me think of a Lily Tomlin comment years ago.<br><br>"The problem with winning the rat race is, it makes you a rat."</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8016842" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8016842" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8016842">Gordon in TX</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8016842" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8016842" class="dsq-comment-message">"non violence can work"......uhhhhh when your members "jumped and stopped him", was that not violence?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7955868">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7955868" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7955868" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-7955868" href="http://www.UpYoursObama.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Fred</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7955868" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7955868" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m not selling guns... but I do have a lot of "Impeach Obama" stickers for sale... check out <a href="http://www.UpYoursObama.com" rel="nofollow">www.UpYoursObama.com</a> - Thanks for visiting!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7959306">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7959306" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7959306" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-7959306" href="http://jamesfelliott.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">James F. Elliott</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7959306" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7959306" class="dsq-comment-message">Classy URL.  Ass.<br><br>Was Bush Derangement Syndrome this hyperbolic?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7971031" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7971031" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7971031">Grae</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7971031" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7971031" class="dsq-comment-message">Who said I was visiting?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7966345">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7966345" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7966345" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7966345">rickahyatt</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7966345" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7966345" class="dsq-comment-message">If you\'d like some VERY INTERESTING INFORMATION ABOUT OBAMA and his having been counter-run as an Enemy Manchurian Candidate since 1977 by the CIA, go to <a href="http://www.rickhyatt.freeservers.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.rickhyatt.freeservers.com</a>.<br>THEN you\'ll be able to breathe a sigh of relief...<br>MY LIFE IN ESPIONAGE website by Rick A Hyatt with PROOF!<br>Just  think on it - How do you lure all of the moles out of the woodwork before a major war long planned by the Enemy?  Just Hoist a Barry Soetono from the Flagpole & see who salutes!</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-7971027">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7971027" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7971027" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7971027">Grae</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7971027" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7971027" class="dsq-comment-message">If you are going to be a conspiracy theory nut job, at least get the fake name right.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7986464">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7986464" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7986464" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7986464">RoadScholar</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7986464" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7986464" class="dsq-comment-message">Mr. Hyatt, there are excellent anti-psychotic medications available nowadays.<br><br>You should check into it.</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7967089">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7967089" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7967089" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7967089">Leslie                     </span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7967089" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7967089" class="dsq-comment-message">YIKES!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7974205">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7974205" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7974205" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-7974205" href="http://www.libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Eric Dondero</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7974205" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7974205" class="dsq-comment-message">Typical David Weigel, mouthpiece for the Democrat Party USA and the Barack Obama administration.  The Washington Independent hired him a couple months ago to add "diversity of opinion," supposedly cause he was alleged to be a "libertarian."  But all he\'s produced since are cynical hit pieces on the right, like this one.  <br><br>Wake up people!  Weigel comes from Reason Magazine, which has been taken over in recent years by notoriously hard Left Republican-haters, just about all of whom (Editors including Weigel) admitted last Fall to be supporters of Obama.  <br><br>Do you all need any more proof than this hit piece on the Right?  One asswipe Racist shows up to a gun show, and he makes it the centerpiece of his story.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7974830">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7974830" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7974830" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7974830">Aatos</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7974830" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7974830" class="dsq-comment-message">Ya sure. Nobody else is an asswipe racist. Everyone else just loves shooting so much they are willing to put up with one without calling him out or telling him to STFU because he\'s an embarrassment.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7979004">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7979004" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7979004" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7979004">Dennis</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7979004" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7979004" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow, a convention of the Retarded Gun Nuts of the United States.  I wonder if the whole gaggle of pistol-packing dimwits could collectively reach triple digits on an IQ test?  <br><br>Clowns with guns.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7979078">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7979078" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7979078" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7979078">Grant</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7979078" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7979078" class="dsq-comment-message">What a bunch of whiney facists, these folks are.  Talk about childish.  Another good reason to support more funding for education.   As these folks show, ignorance is NOT a virtue.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7979123">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7979123" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7979123" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7979123">Franklin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7979123" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7979123" class="dsq-comment-message">Mind you, that\'s "DEMOCRATIC PARTY," as they\'re the only ones who seem to believe in the Constitution of the United States.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7979135">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7979135" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7979135" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7979135">chimpale</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7979135" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7979135" class="dsq-comment-message">"Alan, a registered nurse from Illinois, asks whether last week’s massacre in Binghamton, N.Y. was a set-up. \'How many government shooters or special ops teams,\' he asks, \'how many guys were in there killing people just so they could make gun owners look bad?\'” <br><br>Or maybe that\'s just what they want you to believe. And maybe the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot is actually a set-up and the government is just using it to identify all of the far-right whack-jobs who are in perpetual fear of someone taking their guns away and will stockpile automatic weapons and make bombs so they can defend themselves against anyone who wants to take their guns and bombs away. Did you ever think of that, Alan?<br><br>Or maybe everything you see is a set-up and everyone you know is part of the conspiracy against you, Alan. You\'ll never know, will you.<br><br>Actually, the talk about people\'s guns being taken away that comes up every time a Democrat is in the White House (and they still haven\'t been taken away, yet) is a conspiracy by the gun manufacturers and gun dealers. And business has never been better for them. Well done, patsies.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7980746">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7980746" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7980746" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7980746">Harper</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7980746" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7980746" class="dsq-comment-message">ROFL! Awesome.</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7979527">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7979527" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7979527" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7979527">Dennis</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7979527" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7979527" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh, and a big reason ammo seems in short supply, at least some types of ammo, is because ill-informed, paranoid whack jobs like these cretins keep BUYING IT UP!  It\'s all based upon that well-known Marxist maxim called \'supply and demand\'.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-7979861">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7979861" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7979861" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7979861">curlyfester</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7979861" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7979861" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'d like to remind Uncle Daddy at the gun show that Islamic terrorists took control of jetliners and successfully hit three American buildings on 9/11 with nothing but box cutters.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7979968">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7979968" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7979968" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7979968">Chris</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7979968" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7979968" class="dsq-comment-message">Unbelievable ignorance. What is wrong with the south? I would be willing to bet that not one of these idiots is aware good ol\' G.W. Bush was born in New Haven, CT- a well known blue state. I think there is direct inverse relationship between IQ and the number of guns somebody owns. I have no problem with guns- I own a few, but they are locked in a safe and I have no worries Obama is going to rip them out of my "cold, dead hands". The funniest part is, do these right-wing rednecks really think anyone wants them leading a revolt? They\'d declare a cease-fire everytime there was a NASCAR race.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7980074">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7980074" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7980074" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7980074">Roland</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7980074" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7980074" class="dsq-comment-message">WOW.  Just....WOW.<br><br>These far-right wingnuts haven\'t the first clue about anything going on in Washington.  All they know is the hatred and willful ignorance  Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Ann Coulter force-feed them every day over the airwaves.<br><br>Sad...scary, yet sad.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-7980686">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7980686" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7980686" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7980686">Harper</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7980686" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7980686" class="dsq-comment-message">Is there, like, any evidence whatsoever that Obama plans on taking away peoples\' guns??<br><br>Democrats gave up that fight a decade ago. There are too many blue state hunters. Obama knows it would be political suicide to go near that.<br><br>Amazing how the NRA and right wing noise machines can manipulate these idiots. Also amazing that they were nowhere to be found when the last president was spying on Americans, and snatching American citizens off the street and holding them indefinitely without charge. Where were the "Constitutionalist" militias then?<br><br>What posers.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7980949">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7980949" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7980949" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7980949">R Noble, Gun-Toting Democrat</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7980949" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7980949" class="dsq-comment-message">If eight years of Clinton didn\'t take our guns, nothing will. The scare stories about losing guns are planted by the gun manufacturers to increase sales. Profiteering off the paranoid extremists who so joyfully swallow it up hook, line, and sinker.<br>Besides, it was Bush who had the National Guard confiscating peoples\' guns in N\'Orleans after Katrina.<br>Such ass-clowns.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7981004">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7981004" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7981004" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7981004">Darrell Cloud</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7981004" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7981004" class="dsq-comment-message">Southerners have an ethnic memory of what it was like to have the army of the United States move through their counties killing their young men, burning their homes and leaving them to starve.  It is a memory not shared by the rest of the country and leaves those who are not part of it to muse about what seems like an irrational fear of the government.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7986004">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7986004" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7986004" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7986004">nedclark</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7986004" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7986004" class="dsq-comment-message">How disturbing that southerners, five generations removed from the Civil War, are still being taught by their families- and their society to keep the wounds of that conflict open and festering. This sort of obsession can never be `satisfied\' through redress by the supposed offender - they must learn to let go, and move on.<br><br>I used to think that it was only the backward peoples of the Middle East and elsewhere who were incapable of living in the present because of their obsessive wallowing in their (often one-side) recall of the `wrongs\' of the past - but I see I was mistaken. <br><br>What makes this type of southerner any different from the Sunnis who hate the Shia, or the Islamists who hate the Jews?</div>\
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				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer), null, {theme: theme});
				// if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
			});
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-post-add'));
		}
	}

	
	

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

	Dsq.Popup.showCookieMsgs();

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

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

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

	




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

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

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

})();




