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"sharing": {}, "sort": 2, "forum": "washingtonindependent", "is_initial_load": true, "is_authenticated": false, "timestamp": "2009-12-02_09:13:18", "remote_domain": "", "page": 1, "is_moderator": false, "display_username": "", "points": null, "subscribe_on_post": 2, "moderator_can_edit": false, "is_remote": false, "is_verified": false, "missing_perm": null}, "realtime_paused": false, "posts": {"9053699": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Carry on. Carry onf", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-06_09:28:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "9b893a0ddec1fa5ec7d6e00fa38fd4a8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 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}, "9550597": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Bachmann is not a convert. She doesn't even understand his economic theories.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-19_17:06:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "8ccba840a15bbf487891deefdde72cd2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 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}, "9063944": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't see very many Ron Paul signs in my area, but I agree that Paul supporters have no reason to not keep their signs/bumper stickers. Heck, I've still got my Kerry bumper sticker. I think the common point is that neither of us (Paul/Kerry) were at all embarrassed post-2004. And, perhaps, post-2008. What I don't see very many of anymore are Bush/Cheney bumper stickers.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-06_13:49:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "8445fe02b9af13a614ece95111795751", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 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}, "9073289": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "i have changed my thinking from that of republican to libertarian..ron paul is very powerful in his reasoning and more republicans should readily listen to what he has to say.  but i think like the democrats, the republicans aren't fighting for what the people want but fighting for themselves for power against the democrats. they are still playing the politician game and personally i am fed up, as are alot of conservative americans. we are watching our country fall to socialism. the republicans humorously are fighting amongst themselves with steele at the helm.  i'm sorry i ever joined the rnc. i hope they will realize ron paul is the man to listen to and next time show the support to him that we the people wanted. ron paul speaks softly but carries the wisdom that this country needs. maybe it's time to listen.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-06_18:55:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "emma563", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9109004": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "She's an idiot.<br><br>'Whos the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?'", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-07_18:04:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "8e46290ad57c433e1ac234eb49eaa860", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 9061522, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9799949": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ron Paul is the only honest man in Washington.  Regardless if you don't agree with everything he says (and who does?), you have to respect his sincerity and his long record of refusing to play games.  I'll vote for an honest man I don't agree with more than I would vote for a liar I do agree with.  At least I know where Ron Paul stands.  <br><br>Where were you other supporters during the GOP primary last year?  I switched my voter registration to Republican just to throw my vote in for Dr. Paul.  I'm back to independent now.  To me there is no difference between the Democrats and Republicans anymore.  They are at the exact same spot on the political spectrum and both full of BS.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-22_13:10:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "e55a3c77e490401a01cfff8f49983431", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 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}, "9087503": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Whole world Needs Ron Paul to be succesfull", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-07_04:58:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "5248ed3b0264fb7267d394468bece9ae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 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}, "9061522": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "More power to Rep. Michele Bachmann... we need people like her, young, dynamic and obviously willing to study, learn and adjust.<br><br>R3VOLUTION!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-06_12:45:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "b9b713566fa20a54dff6c20dba7891cf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 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}, "9139731": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "When are the people in Congress going to wake up at the fury so many of us are feeling.They will not listen to us. What will it take before we take the Country back?We are losing it so fast with this Administration,and the dems and republicans with no spine going merrily on their way.If you worked ,tried to save forget it the\"truly deserving\"are getting the result of our labor. I resent the whole damn lot of them.People like Geitner have more power than they should have.Where is the Constitution in all of this?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-08_16:47:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "762876d53416c411cbe62a951f8dd805", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 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}, "9049177": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ron Paul 2012!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-06_03:36:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "jameswhite1", "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}, "9303194": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No, he's not playing, and it's not a game. His sincerity is reflected in his voting record, and the truth of his message is what attracts attention.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-13_20:57:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "3132a7432b4a091e5ca01665907e3bad", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 9108974, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9060719": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dear Mr. Editor: May 6 ,2009<br>The Republican Party Needs People Like Representative Ron Paul , Rep. Tx. , and Senator Richard C. Shelby ,Rep. Ala. to represent the best and vital interest of America.....<br>This is obvious , because yesterday , May. 5 , 2009 , The Wall Street Journal , carried an Article on page<br>A4 , by Jon Hilsenrath , titled , \"GOP SEnator Critizes New York Fed Chairman\".<br>This article quoted , Sen. Shelby , ranking Republican On The Senate Banking Committee , who called<br>Stephen Friedman , actions as Chairman Of The New York Federal Reserve Bank and A Director Of<br>Goldman Sachs , with Stock Manipulations , \"DEEPLY DISTURBING\".....Wow , What A Revalation !<br>Shades of Rep. Ron Paul ..... perhaps our Republican Leadership is finally waking up ?<br>Sincerely,<br>Dr. Esteban \"STEVE\" Taracido , B.B.A., D.Econ<br>Executive Director<br>Westchester Business Development Organization , P.O.Box 295, New Rochelle,N.Y. 10804<br>Tele: 914-457-4830 E-Mail: <a href=\"mailto:taracido@optonline.net\" rel=\"nofollow\">taracido@optonline.net</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-06_12:19:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "stevegt", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 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}, "9146141": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have as well. I think the republican party is losing more people to the libertarianism than they are to the Democratic party.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-08_21:47:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "a5ddb5f7a57d818d4f70a3596fb52c58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 9073289, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9051294": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The reason Ron was excluded from the debates by the Republican Party last year was because he made them look like the fools they are with their Keynesian economic theories. I remember someone telling me they wouldn't vote for Ron during the primaries because \"he couldn't win.\" So they all voted for McCain (who could win?). Now we have an openly socialist government. They aren't even trying to hide it anymore and even Hannity is saying the \"conspiracy nuts\" were right all along. Yes, folks, there is a day of reckoning with all of this and it is now. Which way will you go America? The reason these Republicans, and a few Democrats are beginning to understand this is because they know the present system has fallen and can't get up. Thank you, Congressman Ron Paul, for your courage over the years.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-06_07:23:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "be0493538bd911338c76280f64be1e80", "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": 3, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9052832": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ron Paul and the Gold standard are the same in one.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-06_08:48:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "2caafbea2fd3c0e40619b711219ffcde", "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}, "9063847": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I suggest Mr. T not place to much faith in Michele Bachman as any kind of standard bearer/spokesperson/talking head for Dr. Paul and/or the Republican party. I'm sure she'd try to be a faithful parrot of whatever she learns, but given her nature she'll just screw it up.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-06_13:46:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "8445fe02b9af13a614ece95111795751", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 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}, "10644783": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ron Paul Republicans are springing up everywhere. Heck, there are even Ron Paul democrats, and tons of Ron Paul independents.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-09_03:59:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "5f2ae242da3a6010d1e970b42bb3a6c6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "9052818": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "When Ron Paul won the Nevada Straw poll, Anderson Cooper was live with coverage.<br><br>After almost two hours of coverage by Mr. Cooper, at the end, dont ya know Anderson NEVER even announced the winner!<br><br>Ron Paul is my congressman.  I would trust him with my life and my checkbook.<br>If you ever want to put a candidate through a good litmus test, find out who their campaign attorneys are.<br>Hillary had Mark Penn, Obama had Pentagon lawyers...<br>Paul had constitutional professors such as Bruce Fine and others...The attorneys will tell you all you need to know.<br>Ron Paul is truth.<br>His middle name is Ernest, for God's sake!<br>;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-06_08:47:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "1f9fcaac8d2ca43afa7e2054847e389f", "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": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9082808": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have been a long time supporter or Ron Paul and voted for him in the last election. We desparately need a man of his caliber in Washington. He is RIGHT :ON?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-07_00:00:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "7f273daf1dc4e8ea6bfee13133864aaf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 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}, "9518267": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dr. Paul's well articulated, common sense ideas are the USA's last chance to save itself. We will either collectively wake up in time to salvage what's left of our Constitutional freedoms and the value of our dollar by taking back our country and monetary system or we'll likely break apart - just like the fall of Rome and the Soviet Empire. The only difference is that in today's world, the fall will be much faster as everything now happens in Internet time.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-18_20:16:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "9e799a9dac721aa0f688485101f48446", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 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}, "9057213": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Follow-the-money. Do you remember one of the primary lessons from the 1976 film All the President's Men? If you want to uncover corruption and find its source you simply \"Follow-the-Money.\" Mr. Paul is right on target with HR 1207. He knows that our economic system is corrupted with counterfeit money, so lets go straight to the source. <br><br>I have not come across a better analysis of the opportunity that Ron Paul now has for 2012 than that of Howard Katz. He writes:<br><br>\"What has happened over the past half year is that the forces of statism in this country HAVE BLUNDERED BADLY AND GIVEN US A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY (pun intended). The New Deal was based on the ideology of robbing from the poor to give to the rich. Sad to say the concept of robbing did not immediately repel all Americans, and the Government was given the new function of redistributing the wealth (a fancy name for robbing).<br><br>But when George Bush and Henry Paulson devised a plan to bail out Goldman Sachs and others, they were not as sophisticated as F.D.R. F.D.R. intended to rob from the poor and give to the rich. He actually did rob from the poor and gave to the rich. But he convinced the nation that he was doing just the opposite. He robbed the rich via tax policy, let them escape most of this via loopholes and then gave them back a lot more via stock market (and other) profits caused by the Fed\u2019s easy credit and paper money.<br><br>By comparison, Bush/Paulson openly admitted that they were robbing from the common man to give to a group of large banks and Wall Streeters. The important thing from our point of view is that THIS POLICY HAS NEVER BEEN TESTED AT THE POLLS.\"<br><br>If you find this analysis of interest, then please see Howard Katz's complete Open Letter to Ron Paul:<br><a href=\"http://thegoldbugnet.blogspot.com/2009/05/open-letter-to-ron-paul.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://thegoldbugnet.blogspot.com/2009/05/open-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-06_10:33:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "4be9c39a16daeadb0087aa94aafbc941", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 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}, "9094207": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "With loyal supporters like you Ron Paul folk...there's hope for the US of A yet !! <br>I have always had faith in the good people of America to make the right choice. Freedom and Liberty for all!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-07_11:20:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "eca8aea3aa9e772839fa06b9be867e19", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 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}, "9058881": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I am now supporting Ron Paul and am asking people to start voting out bad Republicans like Lindsey Graham who says that Ron Paul is not the leader of the party, but John McCain.  Is this man on crack?  Does he not understand what they have done to our party!??!!?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-06_11:31:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "24efc12a6c6b9413a4826e76023547c0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9112386": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "funfastandwin:  Why is Ron Paul a nut?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-07_20:40:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "13c8e2be6f574071c24690c22ce2a15b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 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}, "9049533": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "the first ever Dave Weigel article that actually isnt a smear of Ron Paul or a hitpiece<br>bravo", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-06_04:17:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "9362ee6b92aab363ef9a8632bda7232b", "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}, "9263300": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"ended quietly\"<br><br>lol<br><br>Thats only because you get all of your information from the TV.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-12_20:52:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "8960cae505ea52cda4b93fc8fc48e2e7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 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}, "9052989": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You have to understand - Ron Paul is not going to save the republican party.  Both parties are a bunch of bunk and controlled by the very same people who control the federal reserve and the banksters - the illuminati.  Ron Paul is only in the system so he can use it against itself.  Ron Paul may just end up saving America (the country - not the United Stated of America, Inc.) and the rest of the world in the process.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-06_08:56:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "d4c4c758c9f95e5c935671bd1bae6a9b", "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": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9058890": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Go Ron Paul!!! Been there with you since the beginning of the 08 election and i am amazed at how you have woken up this country!! i was afraid you would dissapear into obscurity again but you are more powerful then ever. liberty brings us together!<br><br>thank you Washington Independent for an amazing, motivating article!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-06_11:31:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "b4da77ed9777fbedada12e6f95f04a88", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9049164": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I must say that our family backed Mitt Romney during the republican primaries and we should of listened to my daughter and her boyfriend. We listened to what the news stations and the republican party stated about Ron Paul. Our daughter and friends showed us exactly what was going on in the selection and elections of the republican party. We would of never found the information about all the candidates without the Internet and our daughter We all now know understand how the political party forces their candidate upon the people to chose. We were sad that John McCain was the nominee, considering what we found out about him with the help of yes, the younger generation. We are mortified by the actions of the republican party  and how they dictate what they want for the conservative people need.  From now on, we will be supporting Ron Paul and anything that has to do with the republican party, we will be investigating and researching prior to making judgment.<br><br>And for my daughter and her boyfriend: Yes young pups can teach old dogs new tricks and the internet searching.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-06_03:33:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "95f70b91a0151ab51aad2a6e117466f2", "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}, "9057869": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Have known Ron Paul for twenty years. A fellow Misesian and an honest man. Touche, Ron.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-06_11:00:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "d3c90b04cd9b031de298610aef69cdfb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 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}, "9321741": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Mitt  Romney/Ron Paul 2012!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-14_06:09:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "efa8c7df154f0dd9124142c71eec33b1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 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}, "9064149": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ron Paul and Michelle Bachman seem like polar opposites in the party. Isnt Bachman the same person that said members of congress should be investigated for anti americanism because they weren't conservatives?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-06_13:55:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "edbbabf6b64cb458bb738e40d1491cc8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 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}, "9563094": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I like Ron Paul,  but I don't agree with all of his libertarian theories.   I would vote for him due to his honesty and consistency, his opposition to USA imperialism and the yearly shakedown to fund Egypt , Jordan and especially Israel through loans from China.    I'd vote for him in a heartbeat just to really shake up the current political system.    Yes we need the Federal Reserve audited but not by any group or organization with ties to US Treasury or Wall Street or to the financiers that run it.    An outside auditing agency from Asia or Japan might be more appropriate.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-19_23:22:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "anaveragejoe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 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}, "9048791": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "As a Texan and as a true Conservative I have always shared about 99% of Ron Paul's views on the restoration of our Constitutional rights, a sound economic policy, a less intrusive federal government, and a belief that the Neo-con and the Christian right have completely hijacked the Republican party.<br>Republicans bottom line have been the biggest hypocrites over these last 25 years. I mean who are these bureaucrats to tell me how to live my life? That's where the Republicans have gone completely off base. They act like they want small government and less intrusiveness in citizens lives but then they have the gall to tell the citizens what they can or cannot do in their own homes/bedrooms, etc. Then they get a bunch of chickenhawk p***ies who want to intervene in every god-d**n situation across the globe. And these a-holes then have the b**ls to say that we are unpatriotic because we don't support some HOAX some BOOGYMAN? They have the right to tell us we are against our country because we hate with every bone in our body the enactment of the Patriot Act? Haha the Republicans need to stop listening to these idiots like Rush L., Ann Coulter, S. Hannity, G. Beck (FAKE NEOCON Conservatives) and start listening to Ron Paul, the most sensible common sense patriot in our Congress. Also I recommend to everyone to check out Aaron Russo' \"from freedom to facism\" video which is an excellent portrayal of what this country has become and is becoming due to our criminal syndicate Federal Reserve, our ILLEGAL income taxes, and basically the complete HIJACKING of our civil liberties. <br>Real conservatives and I mean REAL conservatives need to kick these jokers (Limbaugh, Colter, Jeb Bush, etc. OUT OF existence). Bottom line....Ron Paul is an inspiration and one of the true modern day patriots remaining in this country.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-06_02:55:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "967a83fc9ca4b272ba200e8a64d80095", "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": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9071065": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Our founding fathers are looking down from heaven on you Dr. Paul. They are very pleased with You!<br>God bless you sir!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-06_17:41:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "7d2130b21fd6d5bd09958fef1875bb01", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9790682": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't know where she was, but I know where I was - protesting every move the criminal Bush administration made, from 9/12 on! In '08 I donated the legal max to Ron Paul's campaign, and worked as a volunteer locally. What else would you expect us to do? I say better late than never. It's going to take a lot of hard work to take back our country, and we need all the help we can get.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-22_09:35:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "5f469071e3cf15985bb562c2ecfda737", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 9139731, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9076571": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Speaking of duel citizen officials, take a peek of the video at the following URL:  <br><a href=\"http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=shumer%2520video%2520obama&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=shumer%20...</a><br><br>Also, you might find some insight in the book \"The holocaust Industry\" by Normaqn G. Finkelstein.<br><br>And one more thing; might you be interested in the cause and cure of the Union State Sovereignty conflagration.  I can tell you that any number of State resolutions won't cut the mustard.   The problem was created by the Governors and they are the ones, and maybe the only ones, with the authority and means to correct the problem.   I have a manuscript that covers the issue from a legal/technical point of view.  A copy is yours for the asking.   Cheers,", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-06_20:25:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "poor_clyde", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 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}, "9077726": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 2048 4096...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-06_21:19:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "fe70cc8bed4dce9efee9e133d795427e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 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}, "9104352": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I love it, go GOP!  Get into bed with a nut like Ron Paul.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-07_15:27:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "runfastandwin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 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}, "9214049": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "All of this should be common sense. I am no one special and I predicted both the dot-com crash (that was EXACTLY like the 1920's), and the property / bank / economic crash we are in now. I don't know all the answers but the government owning businesses scares me a lot. Our government was set up by the founding fathers to NEVER own private businesses. It is supposed to BE a self-sustaining \"business\" in the world economy with other nations. My father said the beginning of the end was the \"temporary\" federal income tax way back in the early 1900's. He was right. The federal government has been taking more and more ever since. The founding fathers decided on a small central government for many very good reasons. Two quotes: \"A government big enough to give you everything is big enough to take everything.\" ( I think that wasThomas Jefferson ), and \"Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.\" (I was told that was Albert Einstein but it doesn't matter - it is true weather you like it or not and is a blueprint to run your personal life all the way up to how to run a government.) One last thing. In a conversation with someone they told me it was George W. Bush's fault for doing nothing and not having the proper regulations in place. I told him I felt Bush had to shoulder some of the blame, but a vast majority of the blame comes from personal responsibility. In my opinion he was simply saying it is OK to steal when no one is looking. I haven't heard anyone that has been held responsible for theft or obviously wrong business practices say they didn't know it was bad. I hear a lot of \"everyone was doing it\", or \"I had to do it to keep up.\" Or they simply have no remorse - they are just upset they were caught. Madoff continued to steal while he was on \"house arrest\" - what the hell kind of judge lets this man go home? I'm sure he continues to steal from prison. There just isn't enough public shame for the callous and shabby treatment of the very workers who make ALL the successes of businesses possible at the expense of the greed and self-serving of the people in the positions of power. And you KNOW what I am talking about. If you don't, I can't believe you read this far!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-11_15:22:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "42a0c91305d60e4fc0c6820ed2d261e5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 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}, "9049194": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How much longer until the GOP realizes Ron Paul is their only chance to get out of this mess(which Mr. Paul warned them about during the debates)<br>He's got the integrity, the record, the intelligence, the know how, the transparency, the experience, the honesty, the money raising capabilites, a youthful energized informed following, who will work hard and be creative for his message. Who else in the GOP can say this for themselves?<br>Drown in your misery Republicans for marginalizing and mistreating the only man who looked out for you and warned you and as been speaking the hard truths for DECADES while you just chant and drool over empty and ignorant figures like Sarah Palin.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-06_03:37:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "8c4933d37ad0a2ef5d9810b772043841", "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": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9060715": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Why, why do so many (most, Democrat & Republican) keep calling the U inted States a \"Democracy? Such Ignorance! Such stupidity! Look at the etomology of words with \"emo-something or other\" in their spelling. For instance, Demo-cracy = \"demoncrazy\", \"demonstrate\"= act without sane restraint & logic (as do the Demons of the Satanic spirit world), \"democrat\" = demonically erratic, etc. What is wrong with our leaders in this nation (both Republican, to the lesser, & Democrat, to the extreme! Where are we headed? (I think you know Dr. Paul. I only hope you can educate enough of the ignorant Republican masses to understand that this IS NOT a Democracy. It is a CONSTITUNIAL REPUBLIC NOT A SATANICALLY LED \"DEMNON INFECTED, OUT OF CONTROL, MOBOCRACY\". To those with \"ears-to-hear\", \"-nuff said.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-06_12:19:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "37a33eb5653a1820d639ad1f6499d7dd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 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}, "9054026": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Excellent article. Thank you!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-06_09:41:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "John101", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 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}, "9061741": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ever notice that Nobody ever took the Ron Paul signs down?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-06_12:52:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "56362ea732837d56db77a80fe291b875", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 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}, "9108974": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And you think Ron Paul isn't playing the 'politician game'?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-07_18:02:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "8e46290ad57c433e1ac234eb49eaa860", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 9073289, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10564975": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A victory for the Ron Paul wing of the Republican party!<br><br>Ron Paul Republicans are springing up everywhere.  Heck, there are even Ron Paul democrats, and tons of Ron Paul independents. <br><br>You would think Ron Paul could just start his own party =)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-06_11:57:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "07f64314c913376ba3e8e04a96fdf7cb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "9133325": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Michele Bachmann is trying to find a way to save her political seat and draw a chair at the big table. She has been using propaganda techniques to get air time and to build a following. Now, she is trying to add something to her political persona. She is smart enough to learn the all the lessons of the Palin experience. She is trying to become a real player in the GOP, which ever faction ends up being the GOP. I think there is no doubt that a woman will be on the GOP ticket in 2012. It just a matter of who is will be. Can you say Bush/Bachmann?<br><br>I will keep an open mind on Ron Paul's ideas, unitl I put more study into them at least. 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I pray God will help us to \"clean house.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-06_06:08:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "a4e1a0c2e1fdd6d16c8f483e1dc4effb", "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}, "9150460": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Now you are wondering where is our constitution? Where were you over the last 8 years? You're pathetic.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-09_02:01:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "8e46290ad57c433e1ac234eb49eaa860", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 9139731, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9146109": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Doubt you'll see this again, I live in MN and get all the Bachmann press. What she said was that the media should be more critical of congress and report on people if they hold un-American views. She wasn't calling for another HUAC. They aren't polar opposites, Bachmann is much tougher on social issues however. 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Dsq.FmtStrings = new function() {
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Dsq.CommentsHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
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Dsq.PostBodyHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
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Dsq.MediaPostHandler = function(str, args, offset, s) {
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Dsq.$ = function(element) { return document.getElementById(element); };
Dsq.$b = document.body || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];


/**
 * Dsq.Debug: Logging functions.
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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() {
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/**
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Dsq.Validators = new function() {
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			return true;
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			return "Please enter a valid email to comment.";
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};

/**
 * Dsq.Utils: Generic utility functions.
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Dsq.Utils = new function() {
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	this.execOnReady = function(func) {
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			var container = Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-content');
		}

		for(i = 0; i < iframes.length; i++) {
			if (container) {
				iframes[i].style.width = container.offsetWidth;
			}
		}
	};

	this.getElementsByClassName = function(oElm, strTagName, strClassName) {
	/* Credit: Jonathan Snook [http://www.snook.ca/jonathan], Robert Nyman [http://www.robertnyman.com] */
		var arrElements = (strTagName == "*" && oElm.all)? oElm.all : oElm.getElementsByTagName(strTagName);
		var arrReturnElements = new Array();
		strClassName = strClassName.replace(/\-/g, "\\-");
		var oRegExp = new RegExp("(^|\\s)" + strClassName + "(\\s|$)");
		var oElement;
		for(var i = 0; i < arrElements.length; i++) {
			oElement = arrElements[i];
			if(oRegExp.test(oElement.className)) {
				arrReturnElements.push(oElement);
			}
		}
		return (arrReturnElements);
	};

	this.postToUrl = function(url, post_data, opt_redirect) {
		var form = document.createElement('form');
		var iframe_container = document.createElement('div');
		var id = 'dsq-temp-iframe-' + (new Date()).getTime();

		form.method = 'POST';
		form.action = url;
		if (!opt_redirect) {
			form.target = id;
		}
		iframe_container.innerHTML = '<iframe style="display:none" name="' + id + '" id="' + id + '"></iframe>';

		for(var key in post_data) {
			if(post_data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var input = document.createElement('input');
				input.name = key;
				input.type = 'hidden';
				input.value = post_data[key];

				form.appendChild(input);
			}
		}

		Dsq.$b.appendChild(iframe_container);
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(form);
		form.submit();
	};

	// Strips integer id from id of element in the form ('some-id-###')
	this.extractId = function(e) {
		var chunks = e.id.split('-');
		if(chunks.length <= 1) {
			return 0;
		} else {
			return parseInt(chunks[chunks.length-1]);
		}
	};

	this.getStyle = function(el, styleProp) {
		if(el.currentStyle) {
			var y = el.currentStyle[styleProp];
		} else if(window.getComputedStyle) {
			var y = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, null).getPropertyValue(styleProp);
		}

		if(y == 'transparent' || y == '') {
			this.getStyle(el.parentNode, styleProp);
		} else {
			return y;
		}
	};

	this.execScript = function(url, append_qs, container) {
		var script = document.createElement('script');
		append_qs = typeof append_qs == 'undefined' ? true : append_qs;
		container = container || Dsq.container;

		if(append_qs) {
			var j = (url.indexOf('?') >= 0) ? '&' : '?';
			url += j + (new Date()).getTime();
		}
		script.type = 'text/javascript';
		script.charset = 'UTF-8';
		script.src = url;
		container.appendChild(script);
		return script;
	};

	this.pluralize = function(num, singular, plural) {
		return (num != 1) ? plural || 's' : singular || '';
	};

	this.getRequestParams = function(queryString /* optional */) {
		var pairs, tuple;
		var params = {};

		queryString = queryString || window.location.search.substring(1);
		pairs = queryString.split('&');

		for (var i = 0, pair; pair = pairs[i]; i++) {
			tuple = pair.split('=');
			params[tuple[0]] = (tuple[1] || true);
		}

		return params;
	};

	this.addCssRule = function(selector, styleText, index) {
		var stylesheet;
		index = index || 0;

		if(!this._styleSheet) {
			var styleEl = document.createElement('style');
			document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(styleEl);
			this._styleSheet = styleEl.sheet;
			if(!this._styleSheet) {
				// IE does not like our newly created stylesheet.
				this._styleSheet = document.styleSheets[document.styleSheets.length-1];
			}
		}
		stylesheet = this._styleSheet;

		if(stylesheet.insertRule) {
			var ruleText = selector + ' { ' + styleText + ' }';
			if(index == -1) {
				index = stylesheet.cssRules.length;
			}
			stylesheet.insertRule(ruleText, index);
		} else if(stylesheet.addRule) {
			stylesheet.addRule(selector, styleText, index);
		}
	};

	this.forEachIn = function(obj, callback) {
		for(var key in obj) {
			if(obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				callback(key, obj[key]);
			}
		}
	};

	this._interpolateGlobalContext = {
		// values that get used a lot and are global to the request
		'profile_url': Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE,

		'disqus_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url,
		'media_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url,
		'request_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.username,
		'request_display_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username,
		'forum_name': Dsq.jsonData.forum.name
	};

	this.renderFromContextStack = function(key, contexts) {
		// Returns the first instance of `key` in the array of objects `contexts` or else ''
		for (var i=0; i<contexts.length; i++) {
			if (contexts[i][key] !== undefined) {
				return String(contexts[i][key]);
			}
		}
		throw new Error('key ' + key + ' not found in context');
	};

	var that = this;
	this.interpolate = function(fmt, opt_localContext) {
		// Interpolate `fmt` named-format string with an assumed global context.
		// Based on `interpolate` in django.views.i18n
		var contextStack = [opt_localContext || {}, that._interpolateGlobalContext];
		return fmt.replace(/%\(\w+\)s/g, function(match){
			return that.renderFromContextStack(match.slice(2,-2), contextStack);
		});
	};

	this.stripTags = function(s) {
		// Removes HTML tags from `s`
		return s.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/g,"");

	};

	this.assert = function(b) {
		if (!b) {
			throw new Error('Assertion error.');
		}
	};

};
// Dsq.Utils

/**
 * Dsq.Popup: Popup helper functions.
 */
Dsq.Popup = new function() {
	this.timeHide = new Array();
	this.timeShow = new Array();
	this.activePopup = {};
	this.profileCache = {};
	this.statusCache = {};

	this.showTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the hide timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeHide[post_id]);

		// start the timer
		if(!Dsq.Popup.profileIsOn && !Dsq.Thread.adminIsOn) {
			this.timeShow[post_id] = setTimeout("Dsq.Popup.popProfile(\"" + post_id + "\")", 400);
		}
	};

	this.hideTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the show timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeShow[post_id]);
	};

	this.updateProfile = function(username) {
		// Callback from /embed/profile.js
		if (this.statusCache[username]) {
			var statusEl = Dsq.$('dsq-profile-status-' + username);
			statusEl.innerHTML = this.statusCache[username];
			statusEl.style.display = 'block';
		}

		if (this.profileCache[username]) {
			var _cache = this.profileCache[username];

			var _genhtml = function(text) { return '<span><big>' + text + '</big></span>'; };
			var _no_comments = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS(_cache.comments_count));
			var _no_likes = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_LIKES(_cache.likes_count));
			var _no_points = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_POINTS(_cache.points));

			var statsEl = Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + username);
			statsEl.innerHTML = '';

			if (Dsq.jsonData.users[username].registered) {
				statsEl.innerHTML = _no_comments + _no_likes;
			}
			statsEl.innerHTML += _no_points;

			var activeSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.active_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.active_sites[i];
				activeSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (activeSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = activeSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = 'This site.';
			}

			var moderatedSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.moderated_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.moderated_sites[i];
				moderatedSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (moderatedSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + username).innerHTML = moderatedSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + username).innerHTML = '';
			}
		}

		// Reposition popup after full HTML is rendered
		if(Dsq.Popup.activePopup && Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el) {
			Dsq.Popup.initPopup(Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.type);
		}

	};

	this.showCookieMsgs = function() {
		var title = '';
		var message = '';
		var numAlerts = 0;

		Dsq.Utils.forEachIn(Dsq.jsonData.cookie_messages, function(k, v) {
			if (!v) return;

			switch(k) {
				// Cookie: Twitter
				case 'post_twitter':
					if (v === 'error') {
						title = 'Twitter Error!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-error">Oops, we couldn\'t tweet this comment. Please check your <a href="http://disqus.com/account/services">account settings</a>.</li>';
					} else {
						var _msg = v.split(':');
						title = 'Tweeted!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-success">Your comment was successfully tweeted. <a href="http://twitter.com/' + _msg[0] + '/status/' + _msg[1] + '">Click here to view the tweet</a>.</li>';
					}
					break;
				// Cookie: Unapproved Post
				case 'post_not_approved':
					title = 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-not-approved">Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.</li>';
					break;
				// Cookie: Profile Found
				case 'post_has_profile':
					title = 'Use your existing commenter profile';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-has-profile">You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a></li>';
					break;
				case 'user_created':
					var _data = v.split(':');
					title = 'Profile created!';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-user-created">You have just created a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, the best way to claim, manage, and track your comments all over the web. \
					<br /><br />A confirmation is being sent to <strong>' + _data[1] + '</strong>. Please check for this email in order to verify your profile. \
					<ul class="dsq-list-tick"> \
						<li>Your username is <strong>' + _data[0] +'</strong>. <a href="http://disqus.com/people/' + _data[0] + '/" target="_blank">Click here to view your public profile</a>.</li> \
						<li>Be sure to set your profile picture, as well as connect your <span class="dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> and <span class="dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> accounts. <a href="http://disqus.com/account/" target="_blank">Click here for account settings</a>.</li> \
					</ul> \
					</li>'
					break;
				default:
					break;
			}
			numAlerts++;
		});

		if(numAlerts > 1) {
			message = '<ul class="dsq-list-bluebullet">' + message;
			message += '</ul>';
			title = 'Thanks for posting!';
		}
		if(numAlerts > 0) {
			if(typeof(disqus_cookie_msgs) == 'function') {
				disqus_cookie_msgs(message, title);
			} else {
				Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
			}
		}
	};

	this.helpBadges = function(post_id) {
		var html = ' \
			<ul class="dsq-popup-help"> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile with a confirmed email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, but has not yet confirmed his or her email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span> is not logged in with any account and has not claimed his or her comments.</li> \
				<li class="dsq-help-otheraccts">Other accounts</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> is using his or her Facebook profile via Facebook Connect.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> is using his or her Twitter profile via Twitter Sign-in.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-openid">OpenID</span> is using his or her OpenID.</li> \
			</ul> \
		';

		this.popModal(html, 'Help: Types of Commenters', post_id);
		return;
	};

	this.permalink = function(post_id) {
		var header = 'Link to this comment';
		var body = '<strong>You are anchored to</strong>:<br />' + document.location.protocol + '//' + document.location.host + document.location.pathname + document.location.search + '#comment-' + post_id;

		this.popModal(body, header, post_id);
	};

	this.login = function(header, body) {
		var h = header || 'Login or Register';
		var b = body || '';
		b += Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: 'dsq-popup-login'});
		b += '</iframe>'; // HACK: Sometimes there is something funky with the IFRAME SRC that causes no end tag
		this.popModal(b, h, null, true, 'dsq-popup-login');
	};

	this.blacklist = function(id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		var title = 'Add to Blacklist';
		var message = ' \
		Adding this person to the blacklist will block him or her from commenting on this site. Check the following types that you would like to add to the blacklist:'
		+ (userData['registered'] ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-username" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-username"><strong>Username</strong>: ' + userData['username'] + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ (_meta.email ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-email" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-email"><strong>Email address</strong>: ' + _meta.email + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ '<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
			<input id="dsq-blacklist-ip" type="checkbox" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-blacklist-ip-warning\').style.display=\'block\'"> \
			<label for="dsq-blacklist-ip"><strong>IP address</strong>: ' + _meta.ip + '</label> \
		</div> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p id="dsq-blacklist-ip-warning" style="display:none">	\
				Note: Blocking this person\'s IP address may also unintentionally prevent others, who share his/her IP address, from commenting on this site. \
				This may include people who are sharing the same computer, living in the same house, or using the same Internet provider. Only block an IP address as a last resort. \
			</p> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p style="text-align:center"><button onclick="Dsq.Post.blockUser(' + id + '); this.disabled=true; this.innerHTML=\'Just one moment...\'">Add to Blacklist</button></p> \
		';

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

	this.remoteAccountSettings = function() {
		var body = '';
		// Set up IFrame.
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/_auth/embed/remote_settings/';
		var attributes = {id: 'dsq-popup-account-settings'};
		if (typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}

		body = Dsq.Templates._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
		this.popModal(body, 'Account Settings', null, true, 'dsq-popup-account-settings');
	};

	this.popModal = function(message, title, post_id, use_listener, extra_classes) {
		var container = document.createElement('div');
		var header, body;

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);

		if(typeof(title) == 'undefined') { title = ''; }
		if(typeof(use_listener) == 'undefined') { use_listener = true; }

		if(post_id) {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message-' + post_id;
		} else {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message';
		}

		header = title;
		body = message;

		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupModal(header, body);
		Dsq.Popup.initPopup(container, post_id, 'message', extra_classes);
		if(use_listener) {
			Dsq.Popup.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', Dsq.Popup._closePopup);
		}
	};

	this.popAlert = this.popModal;

	this.loading = function(post_id) {
		var title = Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
		var body = '<div style="text-align:center; padding: 5px 0 10px 0"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif" alt="" /></div>'
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
	};

	this.lightbox = function(message, title, post_id) {
		// Wraps Dsq.Popup.popModal

		var overlay = document.createElement('div');
		overlay.id = 'dsq-overlay';
		overlay.className = 'dsq-overlay';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(overlay);
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, post_id, false, 'dsq-lightbox');
	};

	this.popProfile = function(post_id, userKey) {
		var post = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id];
		if (post && post.has_been_anonymized) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('This message was anonymized by its previous owner.', 'Anonymized', post_id);
			return;
		}

		if(post_id) {
			userKey = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id].user_key;	
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][userKey];
		var elId = 'dsq-popup-profile-' + userKey;
		var container = document.createElement('div');

		if(this.activePopup.el) {
			this._closePopup(null, true);
			if(this.activePopup.linkClicked) {
				this.activePopup.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		container.id = elId;
		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupProfile(userKey);

		this.initPopup(container, post_id, 'profile');
		this.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._closePopup);

		if(!this.profileCache[userKey]) {
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/embed/profile.js'
				+ '?username=' + userKey
				+ '&anon=' + (userData['registered'] ? 0 : 1)
				+ '&f=' + Dsq.jsonData['request'].forum);
		} else {
			this.updateProfile(userKey);
		}
	};

	this._closePopup = function(e, force) {
		var activePopup = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el;
		var id = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id;
		var link = 'dsq-avatar-' + id; // HACK: Specific to profile toggle target

		// HACK: This event should be gone if there is no active popup.
		if(!activePopup) {
			return;
		}
		if(force || !Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, activePopup.id)) {
			// TODO: This is breaking iE?
			if(Dsq.Popup.popupListener) {
				Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Popup.popupListener);
			}
			
			// Kill overlay
			var overlay = Dsq.$('dsq-overlay');
			if(overlay) { Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(overlay); }
			
			try {
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(activePopup);
			} catch(e) {
				// HACK: IE6 throws an error when using deleteNode() with a node containing a <table> in the html.
				activePopup.parentNode.removeChild(activePopup);
			}
			Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {};
		}

		if(!force && Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Popup.activePopup.linkClicked = true;
		}

	};

	this.initPopup = function(popup, post_id, type, extra_classes) {
		popup.className = 'dsq-popup dsq-popup-' + type + ' ' + (extra_classes ? extra_classes : '');
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6 || Dsq.Utils.ie7) {
			// HACK: We can't modify the body before it's ready, so we need
			//       to use an IE-safe "DOMReady" workaround before loading
			//       our popup.
			Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(function() {Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup); });
		} else {
			Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup);
		}

		popup.style.display = 'block';

		var xPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[0] - popup.offsetWidth) / 2;
		var yPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[1] - popup.offsetHeight) / 2;

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
			yPos += Dsq.Utils.getScrollPos()[1];
		}

		popup.style.left = xPos + 'px';
		popup.style.top = yPos + 'px';

		Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {
			'el' : popup,
			'id' : post_id,
			'type': type,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};
	};

	this.isClicked = function(e, id) {
		var t = e.target || e.srcElement;
		while(t && t.parentNode) {
			if(t.id == id) {
				return true;
			}

			t = t.parentNode;
		}
		return false;
	};
};
// Dsq.Popup

/**
 * Dsq.Templates
 */
Dsq.Templates = new function() {
	/*
	 * Counter keeping track of the number of posts iterated over.
	 */
	this.postLoopCounter = 0;
	this.filters = {};
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-post-add';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-post-add';

	this.registerTemplate = function(name, func) {
		this['$$_' + name] = func;

		if(typeof DsqLocal.Filters != 'undefined'
		&& typeof DsqLocal.Filters[name] == 'function') {
			// Push filters to this.filters to unify code.
			this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
			this.filters[name].push(DsqLocal.Filters[name]);
		}

		this[name] = function() {
			var ret;

			if(typeof DsqLocal.Templates != 'undefined'
			&& typeof DsqLocal.Templates[name] == 'function') {
				ret = DsqLocal.Templates[name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(ret === undefined) {
				ret = this['$$_' + name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(this.filters[name]) {
				var args = [ret];

				args.push.apply(args, arguments);
				for(var i = 0; i < this.filters[name].length; i++) {
					ret = this.filters[name][i].apply(this, args);
				}
			}

			return ret;
		};
	};

	this.registerFilter = function(name, func) {
		this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
		this.filters[name].push(func);
	};

	/**
	 * Dsq.Templates.Filters
	 */
	this.Filters = new function() {
		this.commentContainer = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var classes = [];
			if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page > 1) {
				classes.push('dsq-append');
			}

			//
			// Extra classes used for custom themes
			//

			if(_meta.depth) {
				classes.push('dsq-comment-child', 'dsq-depth-' + _meta.depth, 'dsq-parent-is-' + _meta.parent_post_id);
			}


			//

			if(_meta.author_is_creator) {
				// TODO: We need to deprecate the "special" class since it is not properly prefixed.
				classes.push('special', 'dsq-special');
			}
			if(_meta.author_is_moderator) {
				classes.push('dsq-moderator');
			}
			classes.push(['dsq-odd', 'dsq-even'][Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter % 2]);

			s = s.substring(0, s.lastIndexOf('>'));
			return s + ' class="dsq-comment ' + classes.join(' ') + '" style="margin-left:' + _meta.depth*30 + 'px">';
		};

		this.commentContent = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			if (_meta.killed) {
				return '<em>Comment removed.</em>';
			} else if (!_meta.approved) {
				return '<em>This comment was flagged for review.</em>';
			}

			s = s.replace(Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE, Dsq.MediaPostHandler);
			return s;
		};
	};

	//
	// Thread
	//
	// TODO: These need to be stripped of all Django template tags.

	this.authPost = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			return '';
		}
		var result = [];
		result = result.concat([
				'<div id="dsq-auth"',
						Dsq.jsonData.integration.reply_position ? 'class="dsq-auth-bottom"' : '',
						'>',
					'<div class="dsq-by">',
						'<a href="http://disqus.com" target="_blank">',
							(Dsq.jsonData.integration.disqus_logo ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/by-disqus.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">') :
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/dsq-button-120x19.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">')
							),
						'</a>',
					'</div>',
					'<div class="dsq-auth-header">',
						'<h3 id="dsq-add-new-comment" class="dsq-h3-addcomment">',
								Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT,
						'</h3>',
						'<div id="dsq-login">',
						(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
								? '<p class="dsq-login-message" id="dsq-login-message">You are commenting as a <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. You may log into:</p>'
								: '')
		]);
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			result = result.concat([
							Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
								'<a id="dsq-login-toggle" href="%(disqus_url)s%(login_url)s?next=article:%(thread_id)s" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsq-profile-btn.png" title="%(log_into)s" alt="%(log_into)s"/></a>',
								{login_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGIN, thread_id: Dsq.jsonData.thread.id, log_into: Dsq.Strings.LOG_INTO_DISQUS}
								),
							'&nbsp; ',
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ?
								'<div id="dsq-fbc-login" onlogin="DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin()" size="medium" background="light" length="short" style="display:inline; margin-right:7px"></div>' :
								''
							),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-twitter-login" class="dsq-twitter-login" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect();" style="display:inline; cursor: pointer"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/twitter-signin-short.png" style="margin-right:7px" /></div>', {}) : ''),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-openid-login" class="dsq-openid-login" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL();" style="display:inline; cursor:pointer;"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/openid-login-button.png"/></div>', {}
								) : '')
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
						'</div>', // dsq-login
					'</div>', // dsq-auth-header
					'<div id="dsq-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated" ',
						Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated ? 'style="display:block"' : '',
						'>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-pic">',
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">' +
																			'<img class="dsq-post-avatar" src="%(avatar_url)s" alt="" /></a>',
																			{avatar_url: Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR,
																			url: (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
																					 ? Dsq.jsonData.request.url
																					 : Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE) }),
						'</div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>', {url:Dsq.jsonData.request.url})
										  )
										: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(profile_url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>')
											)
									),
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">',
									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsqicon12.png" alt="%(logged_in_as)s"/>&nbsp',
											{logged_in_as: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username)})
										: ''),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="%(logout_from_disqus)s">',
											{logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN, logout_from_disqus: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('DISQUS')})
										: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'twitter')
												? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using Twitter (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
												 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
												: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'openid')
													 ? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using OpenID (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
													 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
													 : ''
													)
											)
									),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote ? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('<span class="logo-disqus">DISQUS</span>') : ''),
									'</a>',
								'</li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
		]);
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect) {
			result = result.concat([
					'<div id="dsq-fbc-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated">',
						'<div id="dsq-fbc-profilepic" class="dsq-authenticated-pic" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.ProfilePic" size="square" facebook-logo="true"></div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									'Logged in as <span id="dsq-fbc-name" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.Name" linked="true" useyou="false"></span>',
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">using Facebook Connect <a href="#" onclick="javascript:DisqusFbcParentController.logout();return false;">(Logout)</a></li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
				'</div>', // dsq-auth
				'<div id="dsq-toolbar-items">',
				'</div>'
		]);
		result = result.concat([
					//
					//
					//
				((!Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) ?
					// Needs to be translated:
					('<p id="dsq-no-anon-msg">Required: Please log into <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> ' +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? 'or connect with Facebook ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? 'or sign in with Twitter ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? 'or sign in using OpenID ' : '') +
					Dsq.Utils.interpolate('to comment on <strong>%(forum_name)s</strong>.</p>')) :
					''
				),
				'<div id="dsq-post-add"></div>',
				'<div style="margin:10px 0">',
				((Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media) ?
						'<a href="#" id="dsq-media-link" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, false, \'media\'); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.USE_MEDIA + ' <small>&#9660;</small></a>' :
						''),
				'</div>'
		]);
		return result.join('');
	};


	this.header = function() {

		var html = '\<h3 id="dsq-comments-count" class="dsq-h3-commentcount">\
	 Showing <span id="dsq-num-posts">50</span> of <span id="dsq-total-posts">172</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/bachmann_and_paul/latest.rss"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png"></a>\
	 </span>\
	 </h3>\
	 <div id="dsq-options" style="margin:15px 0">\
	 <span class="dsq-item-sort">\
	 Sort by\
	 <select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);">\
	 <option value="hot" >Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" selected="selected">Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/bachmann_and_paul/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 </div>\
		';

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

		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) { 
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-alert-message dsq-upgrade-message"> \
				<strong>Disqus upgrade available.</strong> Hi ' + Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username + ', this message is being displayed to you because you are a moderator of this site. <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-upgrade-message\').style.display=\'block\';this.style.display=\'none\';return false">Click here for details.</a> \
				<div style="display:none; margin-top:10px;" id="dsq-upgrade-message"> \
					A new theme is available with added features. <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/settings/' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url + '/?p=customize">To change your theme, click here</a> and choose the theme Narcissus. \
					If you do not upgrade, you are missing out on features such as: real-time commenting, new sign-in integrations, and an upgrade interface. \
					<strong>This message will automatically go away in one week.</strong> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			' + html; 
		}
		return html;
	};

	this.footer = function() {
		var html = Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		

		return html;
	};

	this.pagination = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) { Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = ''; }
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.thread.paginate) { return ''; }

		//
		// TODO: num_paginator still uses the template tag for pagination, 
		// 		while append_paginator does it all in JavaScript.
		//		This should all be in JavaScript.
		//

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages > 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.page < Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages) {
			html = ' \<a class="dsq-paginate-append-text" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this); return false">Show more comments...</a>\
	 <button class="dsq-button-small dsq-paginate-append-button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this);">Load more comments</button>\
			';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = html;
			return '';
		} else {
			return '<div id="dsq-pagination" class="dsq-pagination">' + html + '</div>';
		}
	};

	this.trackbacks = function() {
		var html = '';

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/bachmann_and_paul/trackback/';
		}

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

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

		return html;
	}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	//
	// Post
	//

	this.prependPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="comment-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-comment-reply-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-header-avatar" id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
				<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
				? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '</a>'
			+ '</div> \
		';
	};

	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];

		return ''
			+ (_meta.author_is_moderator
				? '<img class="dsq-mod-star" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/bullet-star.png" title="Moderator" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"> \
				<a id="dsq-time-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-time" href="#comment-' + post_id + '" title="Permalink">' + _meta.date + '</a> \
			</span>';
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		return '';
	}

	this.postBody = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Deprecate flagging conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		return ''
			+ (_meta.edited
				? '<p class="dsq-editedtxt">(Edited by a moderator)</p>'
				: '')
			;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Use media should be conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed) { return ''; }

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
				<div id="dsq-points-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-likedtxt">'
				+ (_meta.points
					? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.'
					: '')
				+ '</div>'
				+ '<ul class="dsq-comment-options dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.votable
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first dsq-rate" id="dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id + '">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Like</a>'
						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-report' + (!_meta.votable ? ' dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '"><a href="#" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">Report</a></li> \
				</ul> \
				<ul class="dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first"><a href="#" id="dsq-reply-link-' + post_id +'" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(this, ' + post_id +'); return false;">Reply</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<li id="dsq-edit-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-edit-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="' + (!_meta.can_reply ? 'dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-more-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-more-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'more\'); return false">More <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media
					? '<li id="dsq-media-el-' + post_id +'" style="display:none"><a id="dsq-media-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'media\'); return false">Use Media <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
				+ '<div id="dsq-reply-bar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar" style="display:none"> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-items-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-items"> \
						</div> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-auth"> \
							 \
								 \
								 	<a href="#" class="dsq-help dsq-reply-req-opt" title="You are commenting as a Guest. You may choose to log into an existing DISQUS Profile, your Facebook, Twitter or OpenID account to comment on The Washington Independent" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Optional:</a> \
								 \
								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
								<a id="dsq-reply-login-' + post_id + '" href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:17335409" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</a> \
								 \
								 \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Iframes
	//

	this._makeAttributes = function(attributes) {
		// Makes a tag attributes string out of an object.
		// Caller is responsible for making sure nothing needs to be escaped.
		var result = [];
		for (key in attributes) {
			result.push(' ' + key + '="' + attributes[key] + '"');
		}
		result = result.join('');
		return result;
	};

	this._frameGeneric = function(base_url, params, attributes) {
		if(typeof(disqus_callback_params) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_callback_params = '';
		}

		var default_params = {
			// TODO: These should be moved to Dsq.jsonData.
			'f'				: 'washingtonindependent',
			't'				: 'bachmann_and_paul',
			// 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/bachmann_and_paul/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='	+ 'bachmann_and_paul'
			+ '&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='	+ 'bachmann_and_paul'
			+ '&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='		+ 'bachmann_and_paul'
				+ '&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();
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			Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
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		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();
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				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/17335409/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];
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				}
			}
		}

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

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

}();

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();


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









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

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

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

})();

Dsq.container.className = "clearfix";
Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-10644783">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10644783" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10644783" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-10644783" href="http://www.grafabrik.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">web tasarımı</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10644783" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10644783" class="dsq-comment-message">Ron Paul Republicans are springing up everywhere. Heck, there are even Ron Paul democrats, and tons of Ron Paul independents.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-10564975">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10564975" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10564975" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10564975">samba</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10564975" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10564975" class="dsq-comment-message">A victory for the Ron Paul wing of the Republican party!<br><br>Ron Paul Republicans are springing up everywhere.  Heck, there are even Ron Paul democrats, and tons of Ron Paul independents. <br><br>You would think Ron Paul could just start his own party =)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9799949">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9799949" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9799949" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9799949">MyTwoCents</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9799949" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9799949" class="dsq-comment-message">Ron Paul is the only honest man in Washington.  Regardless if you don\'t agree with everything he says (and who does?), you have to respect his sincerity and his long record of refusing to play games.  I\'ll vote for an honest man I don\'t agree with more than I would vote for a liar I do agree with.  At least I know where Ron Paul stands.  <br><br>Where were you other supporters during the GOP primary last year?  I switched my voter registration to Republican just to throw my vote in for Dr. Paul.  I\'m back to independent now.  To me there is no difference between the Democrats and Republicans anymore.  They are at the exact same spot on the political spectrum and both full of BS.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9563094">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9563094" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9563094" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9563094">anaveragejoe</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9563094" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9563094" class="dsq-comment-message">I like Ron Paul,  but I don\'t agree with all of his libertarian theories.   I would vote for him due to his honesty and consistency, his opposition to USA imperialism and the yearly shakedown to fund Egypt , Jordan and especially Israel through loans from China.    I\'d vote for him in a heartbeat just to really shake up the current political system.    Yes we need the Federal Reserve audited but not by any group or organization with ties to US Treasury or Wall Street or to the financiers that run it.    An outside auditing agency from Asia or Japan might be more appropriate.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9550597">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9550597" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9550597" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9550597">GTFOOH</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9550597" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9550597" class="dsq-comment-message">Bachmann is not a convert. She doesn\'t even understand his economic theories.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9518267">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9518267" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9518267" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9518267">Realist</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9518267" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9518267" class="dsq-comment-message">Dr. Paul\'s well articulated, common sense ideas are the USA\'s last chance to save itself. We will either collectively wake up in time to salvage what\'s left of our Constitutional freedoms and the value of our dollar by taking back our country and monetary system or we\'ll likely break apart - just like the fall of Rome and the Soviet Empire. The only difference is that in today\'s world, the fall will be much faster as everything now happens in Internet time.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9321741">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9321741" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9321741" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9321741">Lance</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9321741" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9321741" class="dsq-comment-message">Mitt  Romney/Ron Paul 2012!!!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9263300">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9263300" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9263300" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9263300">Phillip Marler</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9263300" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9263300" class="dsq-comment-message">"ended quietly"<br><br>lol<br><br>Thats only because you get all of your information from the TV.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9214049">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9214049" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9214049" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9214049">Jim Theuer</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9214049" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9214049" class="dsq-comment-message">All of this should be common sense. I am no one special and I predicted both the dot-com crash (that was EXACTLY like the 1920\'s), and the property / bank / economic crash we are in now. I don\'t know all the answers but the government owning businesses scares me a lot. Our government was set up by the founding fathers to NEVER own private businesses. It is supposed to BE a self-sustaining "business" in the world economy with other nations. My father said the beginning of the end was the "temporary" federal income tax way back in the early 1900\'s. He was right. The federal government has been taking more and more ever since. The founding fathers decided on a small central government for many very good reasons. Two quotes: "A government big enough to give you everything is big enough to take everything." ( I think that wasThomas Jefferson ), and "Those who don\'t learn from history are doomed to repeat it." (I was told that was Albert Einstein but it doesn\'t matter - it is true weather you like it or not and is a blueprint to run your personal life all the way up to how to run a government.) One last thing. In a conversation with someone they told me it was George W. Bush\'s fault for doing nothing and not having the proper regulations in place. I told him I felt Bush had to shoulder some of the blame, but a vast majority of the blame comes from personal responsibility. In my opinion he was simply saying it is OK to steal when no one is looking. I haven\'t heard anyone that has been held responsible for theft or obviously wrong business practices say they didn\'t know it was bad. I hear a lot of "everyone was doing it", or "I had to do it to keep up." Or they simply have no remorse - they are just upset they were caught. Madoff continued to steal while he was on "house arrest" - what the hell kind of judge lets this man go home? I\'m sure he continues to steal from prison. There just isn\'t enough public shame for the callous and shabby treatment of the very workers who make ALL the successes of businesses possible at the expense of the greed and self-serving of the people in the positions of power. And you KNOW what I am talking about. If you don\'t, I can\'t believe you read this far!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9139731">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9139731" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9139731" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9139731">Therese Kelly</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9139731" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9139731" class="dsq-comment-message">When are the people in Congress going to wake up at the fury so many of us are feeling.They will not listen to us. What will it take before we take the Country back?We are losing it so fast with this Administration,and the dems and republicans with no spine going merrily on their way.If you worked ,tried to save forget it the"truly deserving"are getting the result of our labor. I resent the whole damn lot of them.People like Geitner have more power than they should have.Where is the Constitution in all of this?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9790682">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9790682" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9790682" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9790682">Thomas</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9790682" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9790682" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t know where she was, but I know where I was - protesting every move the criminal Bush administration made, from 9/12 on! In \'08 I donated the legal max to Ron Paul\'s campaign, and worked as a volunteer locally. What else would you expect us to do? I say better late than never. It\'s going to take a lot of hard work to take back our country, and we need all the help we can get.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9150460">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9150460" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9150460" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9150460">deener</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9150460" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9150460" class="dsq-comment-message">Now you are wondering where is our constitution? Where were you over the last 8 years? You\'re pathetic.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9112386">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9112386" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9112386" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9112386">WarIsARacket</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9112386" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9112386" class="dsq-comment-message">funfastandwin:  Why is Ron Paul a nut?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9104352">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9104352" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9104352" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9104352">runfastandwin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9104352" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9104352" class="dsq-comment-message">I love it, go GOP!  Get into bed with a nut like Ron Paul.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9094207" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9094207" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9094207">Glyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9094207" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9094207" class="dsq-comment-message">With loyal supporters like you Ron Paul folk...there\'s hope for the US of A yet !! <br>I have always had faith in the good people of America to make the right choice. Freedom and Liberty for all!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9087503" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9087503" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9087503">Adrian Peirson</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9087503" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9087503" class="dsq-comment-message">The Whole world Needs Ron Paul to be succesfull</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9082808" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9082808" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9082808">William Byrne</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9082808" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9082808" class="dsq-comment-message">I have been a long time supporter or Ron Paul and voted for him in the last election. We desparately need a man of his caliber in Washington. He is RIGHT :ON?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9077726">Newtty G</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9077726" class="dsq-comment-message">1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 2048 4096...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9076571">poor_clyde</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9076571" class="dsq-comment-message">Speaking of duel citizen officials, take a peek of the video at the following URL:  <br><a href="http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=shumer%2520video%2520obama&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#" rel="nofollow">http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=shumer%20...</a><br><br>Also, you might find some insight in the book "The holocaust Industry" by Normaqn G. Finkelstein.<br><br>And one more thing; might you be interested in the cause and cure of the Union State Sovereignty conflagration.  I can tell you that any number of State resolutions won\'t cut the mustard.   The problem was created by the Governors and they are the ones, and maybe the only ones, with the authority and means to correct the problem.   I have a manuscript that covers the issue from a legal/technical point of view.  A copy is yours for the asking.   Cheers,</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9073289" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9073289" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9073289">emma563</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9073289" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9073289" class="dsq-comment-message">i have changed my thinking from that of republican to libertarian..ron paul is very powerful in his reasoning and more republicans should readily listen to what he has to say.  but i think like the democrats, the republicans aren\'t fighting for what the people want but fighting for themselves for power against the democrats. they are still playing the politician game and personally i am fed up, as are alot of conservative americans. we are watching our country fall to socialism. the republicans humorously are fighting amongst themselves with steele at the helm.  i\'m sorry i ever joined the rnc. i hope they will realize ron paul is the man to listen to and next time show the support to him that we the people wanted. ron paul speaks softly but carries the wisdom that this country needs. maybe it\'s time to listen.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9146141" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9146141" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9146141">Camden</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9146141" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9146141" class="dsq-comment-message">I have as well. I think the republican party is losing more people to the libertarianism than they are to the Democratic party.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9108974" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9108974" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9108974">deener</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9108974" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9108974" class="dsq-comment-message">And you think Ron Paul isn\'t playing the \'politician game\'?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9303194" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9303194" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9303194">whodat</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9303194" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9303194" class="dsq-comment-message">No, he\'s not playing, and it\'s not a game. His sincerity is reflected in his voting record, and the truth of his message is what attracts attention.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9071065" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9071065" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9071065">Tom</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9071065" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9071065" class="dsq-comment-message">Our founding fathers are looking down from heaven on you Dr. Paul. They are very pleased with You!<br>God bless you sir!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9064149" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9064149" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9064149">morgino</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9064149" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9064149" class="dsq-comment-message">Ron Paul and Michelle Bachman seem like polar opposites in the party. Isnt Bachman the same person that said members of congress should be investigated for anti americanism because they weren\'t conservatives?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9146109" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9146109" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9146109">Camden</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9146109" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9146109" class="dsq-comment-message">Doubt you\'ll see this again, I live in MN and get all the Bachmann press. What she said was that the media should be more critical of congress and report on people if they hold un-American views. She wasn\'t calling for another HUAC. They aren\'t polar opposites, Bachmann is much tougher on social issues however. Hopefully with her studying under Ron Paul she can open up to freedom in all issues, at least at the federal level.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9063944" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9063944" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9063944">Don</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9063944" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9063944" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t see very many Ron Paul signs in my area, but I agree that Paul supporters have no reason to not keep their signs/bumper stickers. Heck, I\'ve still got my Kerry bumper sticker. I think the common point is that neither of us (Paul/Kerry) were at all embarrassed post-2004. And, perhaps, post-2008. What I don\'t see very many of anymore are Bush/Cheney bumper stickers.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9063847" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9063847">Don</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9063847" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9063847" class="dsq-comment-message">I suggest Mr. T not place to much faith in Michele Bachman as any kind of standard bearer/spokesperson/talking head for Dr. Paul and/or the Republican party. I\'m sure she\'d try to be a faithful parrot of whatever she learns, but given her nature she\'ll just screw it up.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9061741" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9061741" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9061741">brutlstrudl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9061741" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9061741" class="dsq-comment-message">Ever notice that Nobody ever took the Ron Paul signs down?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9061522" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9061522" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9061522">Mr. T</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9061522" class="dsq-comment-message">More power to Rep. Michele Bachmann... we need people like her, young, dynamic and obviously willing to study, learn and adjust.<br><br>R3VOLUTION!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9133325" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9133325" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9133325">o4tuna</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9133325" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9133325" class="dsq-comment-message">Michele Bachmann is trying to find a way to save her political seat and draw a chair at the big table. She has been using propaganda techniques to get air time and to build a following. Now, she is trying to add something to her political persona. She is smart enough to learn the all the lessons of the Palin experience. She is trying to become a real player in the GOP, which ever faction ends up being the GOP. I think there is no doubt that a woman will be on the GOP ticket in 2012. It just a matter of who is will be. Can you say Bush/Bachmann?<br><br>I will keep an open mind on Ron Paul\'s ideas, unitl I put more study into them at least. However, Michele Bachmann is just a political opportunist.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9109004" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9109004">deener</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9109004" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9109004" class="dsq-comment-message">She\'s an idiot.<br><br>\'Whos the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?\'</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9060719" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9060719" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9060719">stevegt</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9060719" class="dsq-comment-message">Dear Mr. Editor: May 6 ,2009<br>The Republican Party Needs People Like Representative Ron Paul , Rep. Tx. , and Senator Richard C. Shelby ,Rep. Ala. to represent the best and vital interest of America.....<br>This is obvious , because yesterday , May. 5 , 2009 , The Wall Street Journal , carried an Article on page<br>A4 , by Jon Hilsenrath , titled , "GOP SEnator Critizes New York Fed Chairman".<br>This article quoted , Sen. Shelby , ranking Republican On The Senate Banking Committee , who called<br>Stephen Friedman , actions as Chairman Of The New York Federal Reserve Bank and A Director Of<br>Goldman Sachs , with Stock Manipulations , "DEEPLY DISTURBING".....Wow , What A Revalation !<br>Shades of Rep. Ron Paul ..... perhaps our Republican Leadership is finally waking up ?<br>Sincerely,<br>Dr. Esteban "STEVE" Taracido , B.B.A., D.Econ<br>Executive Director<br>Westchester Business Development Organization , P.O.Box 295, New Rochelle,N.Y. 10804<br>Tele: 914-457-4830 E-Mail: <a href="mailto:taracido@optonline.net" rel="nofollow">taracido@optonline.net</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9060715" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9060715" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9060715">carl tarver</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9060715" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9060715" class="dsq-comment-message">Why, why do so many (most, Democrat & Republican) keep calling the U inted States a "Democracy? Such Ignorance! Such stupidity! Look at the etomology of words with "emo-something or other" in their spelling. For instance, Demo-cracy = "demoncrazy", "demonstrate"= act without sane restraint & logic (as do the Demons of the Satanic spirit world), "democrat" = demonically erratic, etc. What is wrong with our leaders in this nation (both Republican, to the lesser, & Democrat, to the extreme! Where are we headed? (I think you know Dr. Paul. I only hope you can educate enough of the ignorant Republican masses to understand that this IS NOT a Democracy. It is a CONSTITUNIAL REPUBLIC NOT A SATANICALLY LED "DEMNON INFECTED, OUT OF CONTROL, MOBOCRACY". To those with "ears-to-hear", "-nuff said.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9058890" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9058890" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9058890">matt</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9058890" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9058890" class="dsq-comment-message">Go Ron Paul!!! Been there with you since the beginning of the 08 election and i am amazed at how you have woken up this country!! i was afraid you would dissapear into obscurity again but you are more powerful then ever. liberty brings us together!<br><br>thank you Washington Independent for an amazing, motivating article!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9058881" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9058881" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9058881">Malcolm</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9058881" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9058881" class="dsq-comment-message">I am now supporting Ron Paul and am asking people to start voting out bad Republicans like Lindsey Graham who says that Ron Paul is not the leader of the party, but John McCain.  Is this man on crack?  Does he not understand what they have done to our party!??!!?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9057869" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9057869" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9057869">Walter Frantz</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9057869" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9057869" class="dsq-comment-message">Have known Ron Paul for twenty years. A fellow Misesian and an honest man. Touche, Ron.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9057213" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9057213" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9057213">ÄtlasHugged</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9057213" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9057213" class="dsq-comment-message">Follow-the-money. Do you remember one of the primary lessons from the 1976 film All the President\'s Men? If you want to uncover corruption and find its source you simply "Follow-the-Money." Mr. Paul is right on target with HR 1207. He knows that our economic system is corrupted with counterfeit money, so lets go straight to the source. <br><br>I have not come across a better analysis of the opportunity that Ron Paul now has for 2012 than that of Howard Katz. He writes:<br><br>"What has happened over the past half year is that the forces of statism in this country HAVE BLUNDERED BADLY AND GIVEN US A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY (pun intended). The New Deal was based on the ideology of robbing from the poor to give to the rich. Sad to say the concept of robbing did not immediately repel all Americans, and the Government was given the new function of redistributing the wealth (a fancy name for robbing).<br><br>But when George Bush and Henry Paulson devised a plan to bail out Goldman Sachs and others, they were not as sophisticated as F.D.R. F.D.R. intended to rob from the poor and give to the rich. He actually did rob from the poor and gave to the rich. But he convinced the nation that he was doing just the opposite. He robbed the rich via tax policy, let them escape most of this via loopholes and then gave them back a lot more via stock market (and other) profits caused by the Fed’s easy credit and paper money.<br><br>By comparison, Bush/Paulson openly admitted that they were robbing from the common man to give to a group of large banks and Wall Streeters. The important thing from our point of view is that THIS POLICY HAS NEVER BEEN TESTED AT THE POLLS."<br><br>If you find this analysis of interest, then please see Howard Katz\'s complete Open Letter to Ron Paul:<br><a href="http://thegoldbugnet.blogspot.com/2009/05/open-letter-to-ron-paul.html" rel="nofollow">http://thegoldbugnet.blogspot.com/2009/05/open-...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9054026" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9054026" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9054026">John101</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9054026" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9054026" class="dsq-comment-message">Excellent article. Thank you!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9053699" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9053699" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9053699">RicHARD AULICINO</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9053699" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9053699" class="dsq-comment-message">Carry on. Carry onf</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9052989" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9052989" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9052989" href="http://www.truthjusticeand.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mike</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9052989" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9052989" class="dsq-comment-message">You have to understand - Ron Paul is not going to save the republican party.  Both parties are a bunch of bunk and controlled by the very same people who control the federal reserve and the banksters - the illuminati.  Ron Paul is only in the system so he can use it against itself.  Ron Paul may just end up saving America (the country - not the United Stated of America, Inc.) and the rest of the world in the process.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9052832" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9052832" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9052832">Michael Nolan</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9052832" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9052832" class="dsq-comment-message">Ron Paul and the Gold standard are the same in one.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9052818" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9052818" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9052818">Gordon</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9052818" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9052818" class="dsq-comment-message">When Ron Paul won the Nevada Straw poll, Anderson Cooper was live with coverage.<br><br>After almost two hours of coverage by Mr. Cooper, at the end, dont ya know Anderson NEVER even announced the winner!<br><br>Ron Paul is my congressman.  I would trust him with my life and my checkbook.<br>If you ever want to put a candidate through a good litmus test, find out who their campaign attorneys are.<br>Hillary had Mark Penn, Obama had Pentagon lawyers...<br>Paul had constitutional professors such as Bruce Fine and others...The attorneys will tell you all you need to know.<br>Ron Paul is truth.<br>His middle name is Ernest, for God\'s sake!<br>;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9051294" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9051294">Michael</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9051294" class="dsq-comment-message">The reason Ron was excluded from the debates by the Republican Party last year was because he made them look like the fools they are with their Keynesian economic theories. I remember someone telling me they wouldn\'t vote for Ron during the primaries because "he couldn\'t win." So they all voted for McCain (who could win?). Now we have an openly socialist government. They aren\'t even trying to hide it anymore and even Hannity is saying the "conspiracy nuts" were right all along. Yes, folks, there is a day of reckoning with all of this and it is now. Which way will you go America? The reason these Republicans, and a few Democrats are beginning to understand this is because they know the present system has fallen and can\'t get up. Thank you, Congressman Ron Paul, for your courage over the years.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9050486" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9050486" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9050486">Howard &quot;Steve &quot; Rose</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9050486" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9050486" class="dsq-comment-message">As a MO farmboy who was drafted during the Korean war, I proudly served my country; and I believed in my government.  Now I am old and confused by what has happened to my world and my leaders.  I pray God will help us to "clean house."</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9049533" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9049533" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9049533">kwame</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9049533" class="dsq-comment-message">the first ever Dave Weigel article that actually isnt a smear of Ron Paul or a hitpiece<br>bravo</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9049194" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9049194" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9049194">Ignacio Pena</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9049194" class="dsq-comment-message">How much longer until the GOP realizes Ron Paul is their only chance to get out of this mess(which Mr. Paul warned them about during the debates)<br>He\'s got the integrity, the record, the intelligence, the know how, the transparency, the experience, the honesty, the money raising capabilites, a youthful energized informed following, who will work hard and be creative for his message. Who else in the GOP can say this for themselves?<br>Drown in your misery Republicans for marginalizing and mistreating the only man who looked out for you and warned you and as been speaking the hard truths for DECADES while you just chant and drool over empty and ignorant figures like Sarah Palin.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9049177" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9049177" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9049177">jameswhite1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9049177" class="dsq-comment-message">Ron Paul 2012!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9049164" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9049164" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9049164">Florence</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9049164" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9049164" class="dsq-comment-message">I must say that our family backed Mitt Romney during the republican primaries and we should of listened to my daughter and her boyfriend. We listened to what the news stations and the republican party stated about Ron Paul. Our daughter and friends showed us exactly what was going on in the selection and elections of the republican party. We would of never found the information about all the candidates without the Internet and our daughter We all now know understand how the political party forces their candidate upon the people to chose. We were sad that John McCain was the nominee, considering what we found out about him with the help of yes, the younger generation. We are mortified by the actions of the republican party  and how they dictate what they want for the conservative people need.  From now on, we will be supporting Ron Paul and anything that has to do with the republican party, we will be investigating and researching prior to making judgment.<br><br>And for my daughter and her boyfriend: Yes young pups can teach old dogs new tricks and the internet searching.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9048791">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9048791" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9048791" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9048791">Benjamin</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9048791" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9048791" class="dsq-comment-message">As a Texan and as a true Conservative I have always shared about 99% of Ron Paul\'s views on the restoration of our Constitutional rights, a sound economic policy, a less intrusive federal government, and a belief that the Neo-con and the Christian right have completely hijacked the Republican party.<br>Republicans bottom line have been the biggest hypocrites over these last 25 years. I mean who are these bureaucrats to tell me how to live my life? That\'s where the Republicans have gone completely off base. They act like they want small government and less intrusiveness in citizens lives but then they have the gall to tell the citizens what they can or cannot do in their own homes/bedrooms, etc. Then they get a bunch of chickenhawk p***ies who want to intervene in every god-d**n situation across the globe. And these a-holes then have the b**ls to say that we are unpatriotic because we don\'t support some HOAX some BOOGYMAN? They have the right to tell us we are against our country because we hate with every bone in our body the enactment of the Patriot Act? Haha the Republicans need to stop listening to these idiots like Rush L., Ann Coulter, S. Hannity, G. Beck (FAKE NEOCON Conservatives) and start listening to Ron Paul, the most sensible common sense patriot in our Congress. Also I recommend to everyone to check out Aaron Russo\' "from freedom to facism" video which is an excellent portrayal of what this country has become and is becoming due to our criminal syndicate Federal Reserve, our ILLEGAL income taxes, and basically the complete HIJACKING of our civil liberties. <br>Real conservatives and I mean REAL conservatives need to kick these jokers (Limbaugh, Colter, Jeb Bush, etc. OUT OF existence). Bottom line....Ron Paul is an inspiration and one of the true modern day patriots remaining in this country.</div>\
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