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They say such things to appeal to baser human instincts and to get ratings...that's it. There's no truth in their discussions...just twisted facts.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_10:09:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "f763edc80364a4b5470fec3080874f7e", "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}, "8765575": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The DHS did not declare the health emergency, HHS did.  Napolitano said as much at the briefing.  The acting secretary at HHS is a hold over from the Bush administration.  Who knows why he wasn't at the briefing.  It was a hallmark of the  Bush years to be absent in a time of crisis, maybe he is just falling back on old habbits..<br><br>Get a clue.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_00:44:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "27f4b1e7e1aa27a3a17471398e684f67", "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}, "8799148": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah America should kill all the illegal immigrants, because this nation wasn't built by immigrants.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_01:06:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "08d8f76e7d0538e1bb3ad95592a6362b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8776784, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8773390": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<I>Why is Planned Parenthood and other abortion advocates not giving the public the following info about women who have had abortions - like the suicide rate that is so high? how about reporting all of the other psychological problems that happen after one does this to themselves as well as an unborn child?</I><br><br>Do you have any evidence of any of this, or are you just making it up?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_09:18:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "c71157e50e36ba7a23747b86025a066b", "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": 8770522, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8774893": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!<br><br>Anonymous sources in the Family Research Council confirm that after exhaustive laboratory analysis of  recorded excerpts from Obama's speeches during campaign 2008, when the speeches are played backwards, the words \"yes we can\" are heard as hail Satan.<br><br>When the anonyous source was asked how he obtained this important new information, he said Bigfoot told him.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_10:16:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "a84cc7cfc09f2c87ac92ba6e3231da33", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8777104": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Since it is not we Obama voters who spent the past eight years equating protest with treason, rest assured that your right to question authority will be zealously protected, unlike the previous administration that spent its free time looking for loopholes in the 4th amendment. <br><br>Incidentally, the immigration angle really has little relationship to the flu cases discovered to date.  Many of the cases in this country have been found in American citizens and college students rerturning from a spring break vacation in Mexico. <br><br>However you want to parse the facts of the rescue by the SEALS, we all know that the people who are bending themselves into logical pretzels claiming that the President deserves no credit at all, would be among the first to lay 100% of the blame at his feet if  the situation had ended with the loss of American lives.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_11:32:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "a84cc7cfc09f2c87ac92ba6e3231da33", "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": 8776784, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8780433": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The World Health Organization is not a part of the U.S. government.  They have issued alerts indicating that they're concerned that swine flu could be a new pandemic.  In Mexico, the President of that country has closed *all* the schools because of fears of a far greater outbreak.<br><br>If you want, you can choose to believe that the U.S. government is playing up the fear angle, but I don't really see how that tracks.  Please realize that whatever is going on is qualitatively different from and quantitatively greater than all the hub-bub over bird flu or SARS.<br><br>-- <br>Furry cows moo and decompress.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_13:16:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "WyrdestGeek", "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}, "8778260": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "proves that what should concern conservative women is getting married, getting pregnant, staying home and changing nappies !", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_12:12:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "b4402ffa224a6f9a870d0b75cb9ebfcc", "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}, "8768623": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And this is the Party of Dwight Eisenhower?<br>He would be disgusted by the Wingnuts who have taken over this once great Party.<br>The promotion of craziness from the Wendy Wrights of the World is destroying what remnants of intelligence, decency and sensibility survive within today's Republican Party.<br>Perhaps Ms Wright just needs a long vacation.<br>May I suggest Mexico City?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_05:01:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "wbramh", "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}, "8876317": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't think Sebelius or Obama have the brains to get that creative.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-30_16:50:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "f7e49d621a136ddb52bd180d28908db5", "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}, "8873118": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "can someone e-mail me on the swine flu symptoms?my e-mail is <a href=\"mailto:knikkillovesyou@yahoo.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">knikkillovesyou@yahoo.com</a> please and thank you...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-30_15:11:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "42bf5aef2d31056d90e2fdb35eee7840", "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}, "8880288": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The Obama Administation IS playing politics with the Swine Flu.<br>Why has the Mexican US border not been shut down to prevent more infected Mexicans from spreading the virus nation wide?<br>Why has the Obama administration forbid the border patrol from wearing face masks to cut down on exposure to the virus?<br><br>HISPANIC VOTES, THAT'S WHY.<br><br>They don't want to offend the Hispanic vote with medical masks and they don't want to close the border and make Hispanics mad.<br><br>Its all about Democrat POWER.<br><br>The Hispanic vote is more important to Democrats than the lives of millions of Americans potentionally infected with swine flu.<br><br>The Obama administation claims the barn door is already open, so why close the border.<br><br>What kind of fuzzy math is that?  Lets say 50 infected people got into the states, so we don't bother closing the door and just let 1000's of more infected Mexicans in to spread it all over the country????<br><br>Its all about VOTES.<br>The Democrats don't care if millions become  sick and thousands die.<br>All that matters is they don't offend the Hispanic vote.<br><br>Also, if there is a major outbreak, what better way to ram socialized medicine down America's throat?<br><br>The Democrats never waste a crisis to further their agenda.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-30_19:19:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "5afae5a4733f939bc26aefbb5272e929", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8768677": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"If there's a hint......it almost defies imagination.\" Nice. You're the one hinting at it......and once again, the crazy right-wingers defy imagination.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_05:07:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "875af67e6d9efa64f381ff5921bc4e1a", "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}, "8765736": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Someone is confusing Bush administration tactics with Obama administration tactics.  It is not hard to imagine an administration that invented a war to get their way also inventing a fake health crisis.  But Obama, on the other hand is *not* using a real health crisis to further his political goals.  In fact, it is the opposite.  150 people have died and Obama hasn't brought up the nomination at all.  Instead, he is more concerned with the threat Americans are facing. <br><br>The contrast between Bush and Obama could not be more stark.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_00:55:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "981e21d40b2f20cb74aee8a9479ab621", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8783146": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is bullshit", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_14:38:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "83004354e31fe2d2b62a6f850fd56847", "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}, "8782252": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If the President will not nominate another candidate for HHS, one who does not have the ethical problems or the political entanglements that Gov. Sebelius has, but simply insists, \"The swine flu is here, so the Senate must confirm my nominee,\" then the allegation that the swine flu is being used to rush through an otherwise unacceptable nominee to HHS is quite credible.<br><br>If and when the President nominates a more trustworthy nominee, then we will have a director of HHS, If the swine flu makes that imperative, then the President should find a more acceptable nominee; he is the one who is delaying the process, not the US Senate, which is charged with the responsibility of examining presidential nominees before they are confirmed.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_14:10:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "63bbf53c294c1c0e376549ccc4156b20", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8770989": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh for the goddess' sake.  Go suck some laetrile and call me in the morning.  Republicans are so fearful...  Obama will take your guns!  Gay people will destroy your marriage!  Black helicopters are watching you!<br><br>It is PITIFUL.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_08:30:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "0444be18cd50cf5ebb5d6e6b34e41e76", "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}, "8770606": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You too are a kook. Ya think the mexican government agreed to have people die in their capital city for Sebelius? Or maybe some Americans sent by the Obama administration send some clandestine types to plant the virus in Mexico City, New York, California, and other cities? How about the international World Health Organization? That lists the US at the bottom of health among industrialized nations. You think they agreed to raise the Pandemic threat level to help Sebelius pass cloture? <br><br>May you should look at your bible where it's says that Christians are not going to be able to change this world, only the second coming will. Then maybe you'll realize your efforts are futile.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_08:07:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "a1e45a11b6b933128390d92b86bf339b", "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}, "8774192": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Clearly this is the first stage of Obama\u2019s sinister plot! His dastardly minions of ACORN operatives\u2014as per Bill Ayer\u2019s manifesto!\u2014have finally been unleashed to sow panic and fear among the God loving patriots of this once glorious land. WAKE UP PEOPLE. Unravel yourself from that Snuggie blanket, crank up the ol\u2019 mobility scooter (didn\u2019t even pay a dime for it, b.t.w.) and head for the Wall Mart for more ammo. Don\u2019t stand by idly while the swarthy hordes of ONE WORLD ORDER, SHARIA LAW loving COMMU-FACSISTS implement their ANTI-CRIST machinations. We must surround them as they have surrounded us! And when they surround us again we will surround them again\u2026<br><br>Take that, you perverts and hippies!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_09:51:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "3319a8efda63fadf9f583ec31f21900b", "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}, "8764465": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "When I was a kid back in the 50s and 60s, the John Birch Society represented the kooky radical right wing of conservatism, and the vast majority of Republicans sensibly shied away from them, especially elected GOP politicians. How things change\u2014now the 21st century version of the Birchers are the driving force in the Republican Party, and the Republicans, elected or not, who have the courage to openly criticize them are too tiny in number to be meaningful.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-27_23:45:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "f5901701b15a5187dbff6084dc03b9c5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8820152": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Seriously pathetic.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_14:44:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "ebe83be58ff4a8db53bfe4476c1fa854", "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}, "8769209": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Some people think that Wendy Wright is descended from swine.  I want to be skeptical,  but, really, there\u2019s too much of a basis in that argument to easily dismiss it.<br><br>CAn anybody debunk this vicious rumor?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_06:08:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "dad0c1ab8a17af4c22b5f1d3f07ac02a", "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}, "8828477": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Next, we'll manufacture a connection between Al Qaeda and Sadam Hussein to justify a long and costly war and trampling on civil liberties.  Oh, wait, you guys already did that.<br><br>Nixon also faked the moon landing because he wanted to make JFK look good.<br><br>(You people are crazy.)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_18:11:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "150ef15b370625392b2385195e3ca5b4", "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}, "8784842": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"I am thoroughly surprised that the author of this articlke failed to mentioned how easily the flu got into the US.\"<br><br>It came in with tourists, you moron. Plenty of people cross the border every day for legal reasons.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_15:29:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "d1f0d8918fa0ef227a17a90ad5073ccf", "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": 8776784, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8769996": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Psychologists call it 'projection'", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_07:22:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "226e05deb52fb84a6af86201c540ac46", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8765736, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9030606": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah, the mean democrats...<br>Luckily, the republicans are better people. Mr. Bush did not send soldiers to Irak, unless he was absolutely sure that they possess mass destruction weapons. So we are looking forward to the next pepublican president.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-05_18:18:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "8218bfa136b65717de21fd4237e60aa8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8880288, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8784079": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "60 Fillbuster free votes in the Senate. Something tells me going too far right is not a good thing.....I believe in checks and balances, but the rightwingers are shooting themselves in the foot with their behavior.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_15:06:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "577eb41124ac79d61d8c7ae7a2665028", "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}, "8779472": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Why are the republicans more concerned about politics than our health?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_12:47:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "b87dee1b15c865f9e0f1f495f18ae49c", "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}, "8771064": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hear hear!  It seems like the laetrile suckers, Brother John Birchers, survivalists and black helicopter people have become all that the Republican Party is.  Why?  What happened to these people?<br><br>The koookiness was always a background app, but now it's the entire OS.<br><br>Weird.  <br><br>You know that it's bad when McCain starts being a torture apologist.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_08:35:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "0444be18cd50cf5ebb5d6e6b34e41e76", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8764465, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8778322": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hi<br><br>To put this in perspective, there is a very interesting video on U-Tube which everyone should see.  Not very good quality but if you can see through the fuzz, you'll learn information that will shock you.   <br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLT0_xMeLjI&feature=related\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLT0_xMeLjI&feat...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_12:14:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "ddccecd00c823a8fb0cce15b1b5544fb", "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}, "8953171": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Right Wing terrorists started (planted) Swine Flu in Mexico to try to force Obama to close the border.  It didn't work.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-03_11:18:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "cf3549136a975f0cc626a1d3e9a19574", "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": 8880288, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8764500": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "See, this is what I was going to ask you about at the reception: where you'd find new sources of craziness (now that you've staked out the right-wing insanity beat) after the birthers and the tea parties. I should have known it wouldn't be hard.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-27_23:46:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "1bb87b070a8aaeb2765749cc52ee91b1", "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}, "8782030": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There are many ex governors and others with experience in public management. If Gov. Sebelius is not able to pass Congressional scrutiny, it is very easy for the President to nominate another candidate.<br><br>To say that she is the \"only person in America\" who can do this job and therefore must be confirmed, regardless of any questions about her record or her abilities, is irrational and illogical.<br><br>Democrat Senator Charles Schumer always said that the Senate is not to be a \"rubber stamp\" for presidential nominees; unfortunately, that applies to Gov. Sebelius as well as everyone else.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_14:03:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "63bbf53c294c1c0e376549ccc4156b20", "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}, "8780247": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Moran? Like Erin Moran, the girl who played Joanie Cunningham on Happy Days? I heard she lost her mind in Christ, and now believes all of her fellow cast members are evil. I fail to see what she has to do with any of this, you MORON!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_13:11:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "e18b215ff0b9ed6dbfc52a8f7b41a517", "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": 8777340, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8778840": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow!  It's always just all about them, isn't it?  Twenty people in Mexico had to die just so that they could make one of their idiotic allegations?  I don't think so.  Utterly absurd.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_12:29:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e8804d5e534ea0b5f79e09aca7cde86", "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}, "8770522": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sebulous is not concerned about women, nor the unborn future taxpayers of our country.  Why is Planned Parenthood and other abortion advocates not giving the public the following info about women who have had abortions - like the suicide rate that is so high? how about reporting all of the other psychological problems that happen after one does this to themselves as well as an unborn child? Pro-Abortion advocates don't seem to be stupid - but rather educated women - so why don't they look deeper, and be glad they were not aborted themselves?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_08:01:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "9b2b098f4a81ff94964bcd7b5742b0f3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8785245": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Governor Sibelius is a fine candidate for the job.  She is untrustworthy only to the partisan ideologues who think that anyone who is pro choice on abortion is an \"extremist\".<br><br>Leave it to right wingers to concoct some sinister conspiracy.  It is how they conducted the entire 2008 campaign. You would think that the results of that election would have taught them a lesson.  Clearly it did not.  These accusations are about as \"credible\" as the claims about 09/11 being an inside job.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_15:42:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "a84cc7cfc09f2c87ac92ba6e3231da33", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8782252, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8769887": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Reminds me of the old Peggy Nooners classic, \"...it would be irresponsible not to speculate...\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_07:13:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "bc336aa793119db773c18b2336a19cca", "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}, "8776784": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Interesting viewpoint. It is sick how many comments here entirley focus on the democrat-republican divide. Bush violated the US constitution with the patriot act among others and was responsible for many bad choices. obama is merely continuing that legacy. This is not about republicans nor is it about democrats, it is about America!<br><br>I am thoroughly surprised that the author of this articlke failed to mentioned how easily the flu got into the US. While the news reports tightened security at formal borders, we have almost no formal border with mexico. Why is there not a defendable border with mexico? Build a real border and defend it. When illegals can merely walk across, they bring with them more illegals, terrorists, drugs and disease. IIllegals should be deported or executed. The border should have been built under bush's watch. It wasn't. obama should build it, but instead he is going to make every criminal illegal a US citizen.<br><br>Someone made a comment about obama ordering the execution of the pirates. Check your facts. Obama over rode the captain of the bainbridge's authority to make a decision. obama prohibited the use of force of ANY kind as long as hostage negotitations were taking place. SEALs were not allowed in the water. When captain phillips jumped overboard, no action was taken to defend him, per obama's orders. Did you(yes you reading this) ever question why nothing was done when captain phillips risked his life by jumping overboard and swimming towards the massive US ship. It was not until Saturday that obama allowed the captain of the bainbridge to use his judgement on force. It was the captain of the bainbridge who authorized the appropriate use of force against the pirates, not obama. <br><br>Question authority, while it is still legal.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_11:20:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "0c7b750a03b0d47f0abb7923c8189d02", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8771176": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Just want to give big shout out to the moron Greg Garrison at WIBC, Indianapolis.  Hey Greg, is this going to be something else you are wrong about?  You were wrong about Obama (\"I don't see any way he can be elected.\"), wrong about global warming, you said America didn't torture, and then you started being an apologist for torture...<br><br>Talk radio is at the heart of this Republican craziness.  Get rid of it.<br><br>Republican talk radio is like the flu.  Silent but deadly.  Except, um, of course it isn't um, silent.  Republican talk radio.  It's like the flu.  Except when it isn't.  Maybe Greg Garrison at WIBC is just a carrier?<br><br>\"The King is a fink!  Galoop galoop galoop!\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_08:41:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "0444be18cd50cf5ebb5d6e6b34e41e76", "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}, "8777340": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Get a brain MORAN! Unless you don\u2019t mind being forcibly removed to a FEMA camp, you will desist\u2014PRONTO\u2014with the chatter  about heretofore unrevealed alliances with ursine/human/animal/hybrids. In other words, ixnay with the igfootbay chatter, you dumbass.<br><br>PS:  Although I can personally vouch for the cheese, I don\u2019t know too much about the government issued trailers. Let me know how that works out for you and yours, will you, cuz I\u2019ve been thinking about trading up.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_11:40:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "3319a8efda63fadf9f583ec31f21900b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8774893, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8774636": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I read all your comments and I just one think to said, I know  and I study \"COMMUNIST\"  AND WHAT WE HAVE NOW AND WHAT ALL OF YOU WILL SEE IN THE FUTURE IS NOTHING MORE OR NOTHING LESS THAN A COMMUNIST WITH A MASK SO GOOD TO ALL OF YOU AND GOD BLESS US AND ALWAYS LOOK AFTER US.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_10:08:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "b9cd733d7535da873b0977d1a6252947", "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}, "8798034": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I can't tell if some of you people are posing as morons to make fun of right wing nuts, or you really are just that stupid.<br><br>If it is the latter, may God help us...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_23:59:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "67c72f2fc44de0a20902833b8668ee23", "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}, "8784495": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yet another political machination of the Obama camp.  I dare not ask \"what next?\" because that would definitely be borrowing trouble!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_15:19:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "afed0c06816519ee6a5d4488b7a6c48b", "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}, "8862163": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Could Wendy Wright be serious?  I bet the stupid fly-over of New York by Air Force 1 was a plot by Obama to re-ignite the war in Iraq and to take everyone's mind off Bush.  Oh wait, that would have been a good thing in Wendy's little mind.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-30_10:14:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "0dc885c40a8281b2fbf1afc5d8afb06f", "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}, "8779509": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well said Bigduke.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_12:48:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "b87dee1b15c865f9e0f1f495f18ae49c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8776852, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8817400": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Obviously she has no clue of politics and the history of politics in America, or world wide for that matter.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_13:22:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "297d52866158647e5f5e70cf95d8da66", "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}, "8776852": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You see this a lot lately with conservatives.   The manipulation of the terror alert level has been well documented.   This was frankly normal every day business under the Bush administration.   It is only human nature for conservatives to now assume that Obama is playing the same games.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-28_11:23:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "40cfb3b8c92fca91bf2e9910b5a04852", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "20533628": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If pregnant woman get swine flu, the virus can compromise the lung development of the child. Pregnant women need to be careful especially if they have young children in school. They should decontaminate their children when they get home from school: change clothes, wash hands and good food. Another great source of swine flu info in <a href=\"http://swineflureader.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://swineflureader.com</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-10-19_16:34:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "sethkane68", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 month 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}, "8818261": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No they never have any evidence of their misleading and false statements about a womens right to chose.  It is the law of the land and has been for decades now.  Real science and historical evidence shows that even if abortion is illegal, women will still get them in unsafe and unsanitary ways.  <br><br>That the only way to reduce the number of abortions is through education about and easy access to all forms of birth control.  What Carole wants is more WHITE babies, right?  She wants to be every womens moral judge and jury combined.  Stay out of my private life Carole, you are not going to make any life decisions for me, ever.  And dont tell me you do any good whatsoever for the women of this country.<br><br>Planned Parenthood does more good for women in America than all of the anti abortion groups combined.  What Carole is cannot be called pro-life, they are pro-fetus and care nothing about the lives of women or children in this nation.  If they did care they would realize that Planned Parenthood is an excellent organization that helps women and children everyday.  <br><br>If the right wing is so concerned about 'abortion' then they should also be for single payer health care, money for education, Head Start, universal daycare and other programs to help children AFTER they are born.<br><br>think about that Carole.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_13:49:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "shanobama", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8770522, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 1, "reply_position": false, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "16801032", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "34441", "hash": -6746560252757099723}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "concerned_women_asking_about_swine_flu_panic", "paginate": true, "num_pages": 3, "num_posts": 50, "per_page": 50, "total_posts": 135, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 16801032, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": false, "forum_facebook_key": "", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": false, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
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	this.curPageId = 'dsq-comments';

	this.frames = {};
};

var disqus_popup_reference = null;

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



/**
 * Dsq.Strings: UI strings
 */
Dsq.Strings = new function() {
	this.ADD_NEW_COMMENT = "Add New Comment";
	this.LOG_INTO_DISQUS = "Log into DISQUS";
	this.USE_MEDIA = "Use Media";
	this.LOGOUT = "Logout";
	this.SHARING_OPTIONS = "Sharing options";
	this.SHARE_ON = "Share on";
	this.TWEET_THIS_COMMENT = "Tweet this comment";
	this.SHARE_ON_NEWSFEED = "Share on news feed";
	this.SEND_UPDATE_TO_YAHOO = "Send update to Yahoo!";
	this.REBLOG_ON = "Reblog on";
	this.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS = "Configure options";
	this.POST_AS = "Post as";
	this.SORT_BY = "Sort by";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe by email";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS = "Subscribe by RSS";
	this.POPULAR_NOW = "Popular now";
	this.BEST_RATING = "Best Rating";
	this.NEWEST_FIRST = "Newest first";
	this.OLDEST_FIRST = "Oldest first";
	this.HIGHLIGHTED = "Highlighted";
	this.UNSUBSCRIBE = "Unsubscribe";
	this.REQUIRED = "Required";
	this.OPTIONAL = "Optional";
	this.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A = "You are commenting as a";
	this.LOGIN_BELOW = "Login below";
	this.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT = "Please login below to comment.";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe to all comments by email";
	this.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS = "Do not subscribe to comments";
	this.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS = "Real-time updating is";
	this.ENABLED = "enabled";
	this.PAUSED = "paused";
	this.PAUSE = "Pause";
	this.RESUME = "Resume";
	this.SHOW = "Show";
	this.JUST_NOW = "Just now";
	this.REPLY = "Reply";
	this.EDIT = "Edit";
	this.FLAG = "Flag";
	this.MODERATE = "Moderate";
	this.CANCEL = "Cancel";
	this.REPLYING_TO = "Replying to";
	this.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS = "Report missing reactions";
	this.POST_A_COMMENT = "Post a comment";
	this.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT = "Flag inappropriate comment";
	this.FLAGGED = "Flagged";
	this.NO = "No";
	this.YES = "Yes";
	this.NEVER_MIND = "Never mind";
	this.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR = "Are you sure you would like to report this comment to a moderator";
	this.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION = "This will flag comments for moderators to take action";
	this.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN = "To rate, please log in";
	this.JUST_A_MOMENT = "Just a moment...";
	this.GUEST = "Guest";
	this.NAME = "Name";
	this.EMAIL = "Email";
  this.WEBSITE = "Website";
  this.SETTINGS = "Settings";
  this.MODERATOR_OPTIONS = "Moderator options: ";
};
// Dsq.Strings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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





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



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

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

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

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

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

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


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


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

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


/**
 * Dsq.Urls: URL paths
 */
Dsq.Urls = new function() {
	this.LOGIN = '/profile/login/';
	this.LOGOUT = '/logout/';
	this.REPLY = 'http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/concerned_women_asking_about_swine_flu_panic/reply.html';
	this.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE = '/AnonymousUser/';
	this.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR = 'http://media.disqus.com/images/noavatar92.png';
};
// Dsq.Urls

/**
 * Dsq.Validators: Validation for form fields
 */
Dsq.Validators = new function() {
	this.VALID_EMAIL_RE = /^[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*\@(([a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*)+\.[a-z]{2,}|([0-9]+\.){3}[0-9]+)$/i;
	this.name = function(name) {
		var error = false;

		if(typeof Dsq.Templates.placeholder !== 'undefined' &&
		   name == Dsq.Templates.placeholder.name) {
			error = true;
		}
		if(name.length <= 1) {
			error = true;
		}

		if(error) {
			return "Please enter a name to comment.";
		} else {
			return true;
		}
	};
	this.email = function(addr) {
		if(Dsq.Validators.VALID_EMAIL_RE.test(addr)) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please enter a valid email to comment.";
		}
	};
	this.url = function(addr) {
		if(!addr || addr.indexOf('.') != -1) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please check your website URL (this field is optional).";
		}
	};

	this.validate = function(bulk_validation, failure_callback) {
		failure_callback = failure_callback || function(e){ alert(e); };

		for(var i = 0; i < bulk_validation.length; i++) {
			v = bulk_validation[i];
			ret = v.validator(v.value);
			if(ret !== true) {
				failure_callback(ret);
				return false;
			}
		}
		return true;
	};
};

/**
 * Dsq.Utils: Generic utility functions.
 */
Dsq.Utils = new function() {
	this.ie = /msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent);
	this.ie7 = (document.all && !window.opera && window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true : false;
	this.ie6 = (!window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true: false;
	this.webkit = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('AppleWebKit/') >= 0;
	this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = {};
	this._styleSheet = null;

	this.gebiFromElement = function(el, id, tag) {
		// This only method only helps IE.
		if(!this.ie) {
			return Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var cacheKey = el.id + '-' + tag;
			tag = tag || 'div';
			if(typeof this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] != 'undefined') {
				collection = this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey];
			} else {
				collection = el.getElementsByTagName(tag);
				this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] = collection;
			}

			for(var i = 0; i < collection.length; i++) {
				if(collection[i].id == id) {
					return collection[i];
				}
			}
			return null;
		}
	};

	this.execOnReady = function(func) {
		var node = document.createElement('document:ready');
		try {
			node.doScroll('left');
			func();
			node = null;
		} catch(err) {
			setTimeout(function() { Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(func); }, 10);
		}
	};


	// Courtesy of http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html
	this.createCookie = function(name,value,days) {
		if (days) {
			var date = new Date();
			date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
			var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
		}
		else var expires = "";
		document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
	};

	this.readCookie = function(name) {
		var nameEQ = name + "=";
		var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
		for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
			var c = ca[i];
			while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
			if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.eraseCookie = function(name) {
		Dsq.Utils.createCookie(name,"",-1);
	};

	this.deleteNode = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			this.deleteChildren(node);
			if(typeof node.outerHTML != 'undefined') { node.outerHTML = ''; }
			else if(node.parentNode) { node.parentNode.removeChild(node); }
			delete node;
		}
	};

	this.deleteChildren = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			for(var x = node.childNodes.length-1; x >= 0; x--) {
				var childNode = node.childNodes[x];
				if(childNode.hasChildNodes()) { this.deleteChildren(childNode); }
				if(typeof childNode.outerHTML != 'undefined') { childNode.outerHTML = ''; }
				else node.removeChild(childNode);
				delete childNode;
			}
		}
	};

	this.findPos = function(obj) {
		var curleft = 0;
		var curtop = 0;
		if (obj.offsetParent) {
			do {
				curleft += obj.offsetLeft;
				curtop += obj.offsetTop;
			} while (obj = obj.offsetParent);
		}
		return [curleft,curtop];
	};

	this.getWindowSize = function() {
		var windowWidth = -1;
		var windowHeight = -1;

		if(typeof(window.innerWidth) == 'number') { //Non-IE
			windowWidth = window.innerWidth;
			windowHeight = window.innerHeight;
		} else if(document.documentElement) { // IE 6+ in 'standards compliant mode'
			windowWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth;
			windowHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight || document.body.clientHeight;
		}

		return [windowWidth, windowHeight];
	}

	this.getScrollPos = function() {
		var scrollWidth, scrollTop;

		if(document.documentElement && (document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.documentElement.scrollWidth)) {
			scrollWidth = document.documentElement.scrollWidth;
			// IE is weird here.  If no doctype is provided, document.body.scrollTop is 0,
			// otherwise document.documentElement.scrollTop is 0.
			scrollTop = document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.body.scrollTop;
		} else if(document.body.scrollTop && document.body.scrollWidth) {
			scrollWidth = document.body.scrollWidth;
			scrollTop = document.body.scrollTop;
		}

		return [scrollWidth, scrollTop];
	}

	this.addEventListener = function(instance, eventName, listener) {
		var listenerFn = listener;
		if (instance.addEventListener) {
			instance.addEventListener(eventName, listenerFn, false);
		} else if (instance.attachEvent) {
			listenerFn = function() {
				listener(window.event);
			};
			instance.attachEvent("on" + eventName, listenerFn);
		} else {
			throw new Error("Event registration not supported");
		}
		return {
			instance: instance,
			name: eventName,
			listener: listenerFn
		};
	};

	this.removeEventListener = function(event) {
		var instance = event.instance;
		if (instance.removeEventListener) {
			instance.removeEventListener(event.name, event.listener, false);
		} else if (instance.detachEvent) {
			instance.detachEvent("on" + event.name, event.listener);
		}
	};

	this.fixIframesIE = function(id) {
		var disqusThread = Dsq.$(disqus_container_id);
		var iframes = disqusThread.getElementsByTagName('iframe');

		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-content');
		}

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

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

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

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

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

				form.appendChild(input);
			}
		}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		return params;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	};

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

};
// Dsq.Utils

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);

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

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

		header = title;
		body = message;

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

	this.popAlert = this.popModal;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	};

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

		popup.style.display = 'block';

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

			return ret;
		};
	};

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

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

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

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


			//

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


	this.header = function() {

		var html = '\<h3 id="dsq-comments-count" class="dsq-h3-commentcount">\
	 Showing <span id="dsq-num-posts">50</span> of <span id="dsq-total-posts">135</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/concerned_women_asking_about_swine_flu_panic/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/concerned_women_asking_about_swine_flu_panic/">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/concerned_women_asking_about_swine_flu_panic/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:16801032" 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'				: 'concerned_women_asking_about_swine_flu_panic',
			// 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/concerned_women_asking_about_swine_flu_panic/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='	+ 'concerned_women_asking_about_swine_flu_panic'
			+ '&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='	+ 'concerned_women_asking_about_swine_flu_panic'
			+ '&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='		+ 'concerned_women_asking_about_swine_flu_panic'
				+ '&email=' 	+ encodeURIComponent(email));

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	this.check = function() {
		if (!ongoing_request && Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			if (prev_script) {
				prev_script.parentNode.removeChild(prev_script);
			}
			ongoing_request = true;
			prev_script = Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/16801032/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

	this.update = function(timestamp, posts, users) {
		ongoing_request = false;
		last_checked = timestamp;

		if (users) {
			for (var user_id in users) {
				if (users.hasOwnProperty(user_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id] = users[user_id];
					}
				}
			}
		}

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

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

}();

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

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

	// Public
	obj.makeReplyIframeId = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var id = 'dsq-post-add-iframe';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			id += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			id += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return id;
	};
	obj.makeLoginIframeId = function(opt_postId) {
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Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-20533628">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-20533628" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-20533628" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-20533628" href="http://www.swineflureader.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Seth Kane</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-20533628" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-20533628" class="dsq-comment-message">If pregnant woman get swine flu, the virus can compromise the lung development of the child. Pregnant women need to be careful especially if they have young children in school. They should decontaminate their children when they get home from school: change clothes, wash hands and good food. Another great source of swine flu info in <a href="http://swineflureader.com" rel="nofollow">http://swineflureader.com</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8880288">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8880288" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8880288" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8880288">flupolictics</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8880288" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8880288" class="dsq-comment-message">The Obama Administation IS playing politics with the Swine Flu.<br>Why has the Mexican US border not been shut down to prevent more infected Mexicans from spreading the virus nation wide?<br>Why has the Obama administration forbid the border patrol from wearing face masks to cut down on exposure to the virus?<br><br>HISPANIC VOTES, THAT\'S WHY.<br><br>They don\'t want to offend the Hispanic vote with medical masks and they don\'t want to close the border and make Hispanics mad.<br><br>Its all about Democrat POWER.<br><br>The Hispanic vote is more important to Democrats than the lives of millions of Americans potentionally infected with swine flu.<br><br>The Obama administation claims the barn door is already open, so why close the border.<br><br>What kind of fuzzy math is that?  Lets say 50 infected people got into the states, so we don\'t bother closing the door and just let 1000\'s of more infected Mexicans in to spread it all over the country????<br><br>Its all about VOTES.<br>The Democrats don\'t care if millions become  sick and thousands die.<br>All that matters is they don\'t offend the Hispanic vote.<br><br>Also, if there is a major outbreak, what better way to ram socialized medicine down America\'s throat?<br><br>The Democrats never waste a crisis to further their agenda.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9030606">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9030606" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9030606" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9030606">Ralph</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9030606" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9030606" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, the mean democrats...<br>Luckily, the republicans are better people. Mr. Bush did not send soldiers to Irak, unless he was absolutely sure that they possess mass destruction weapons. So we are looking forward to the next pepublican president.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8953171">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8953171" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8953171" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8953171">Joe</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8953171" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8953171" class="dsq-comment-message">Right Wing terrorists started (planted) Swine Flu in Mexico to try to force Obama to close the border.  It didn\'t work.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8876317">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8876317" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8876317" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8876317">Anonymous</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8876317" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8876317" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t think Sebelius or Obama have the brains to get that creative.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8873118">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8873118" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8873118" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8873118">Nicole</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8873118" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8873118" class="dsq-comment-message">can someone e-mail me on the swine flu symptoms?my e-mail is <a href="mailto:knikkillovesyou@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow">knikkillovesyou@yahoo.com</a> please and thank you...</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8862163">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8862163" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8862163" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8862163">Calidris</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8862163" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8862163" class="dsq-comment-message">Could Wendy Wright be serious?  I bet the stupid fly-over of New York by Air Force 1 was a plot by Obama to re-ignite the war in Iraq and to take everyone\'s mind off Bush.  Oh wait, that would have been a good thing in Wendy\'s little mind.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8828477">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8828477" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8828477" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8828477">vast left wing conspiracy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8828477" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8828477" class="dsq-comment-message">Next, we\'ll manufacture a connection between Al Qaeda and Sadam Hussein to justify a long and costly war and trampling on civil liberties.  Oh, wait, you guys already did that.<br><br>Nixon also faked the moon landing because he wanted to make JFK look good.<br><br>(You people are crazy.)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8820152">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8820152" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8820152" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8820152">Willy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8820152" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8820152" class="dsq-comment-message">Seriously pathetic.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8817400">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8817400" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8817400" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8817400">Don</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8817400" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8817400" class="dsq-comment-message">Obviously she has no clue of politics and the history of politics in America, or world wide for that matter.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8798034">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8798034" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8798034" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8798034">DonEx</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8798034" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8798034" class="dsq-comment-message">I can\'t tell if some of you people are posing as morons to make fun of right wing nuts, or you really are just that stupid.<br><br>If it is the latter, may God help us...</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8784495">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8784495" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8784495" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8784495">anonymous</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8784495" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8784495" class="dsq-comment-message">Yet another political machination of the Obama camp.  I dare not ask "what next?" because that would definitely be borrowing trouble!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8784079">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8784079" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8784079" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8784079">T bag</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8784079" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8784079" class="dsq-comment-message">60 Fillbuster free votes in the Senate. Something tells me going too far right is not a good thing.....I believe in checks and balances, but the rightwingers are shooting themselves in the foot with their behavior.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8783146">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8783146" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8783146" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8783146">anonymous</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8783146" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8783146" class="dsq-comment-message">This is bullshit</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8782252">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8782252" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8782252" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8782252">njreader101</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8782252" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8782252" class="dsq-comment-message">If the President will not nominate another candidate for HHS, one who does not have the ethical problems or the political entanglements that Gov. Sebelius has, but simply insists, "The swine flu is here, so the Senate must confirm my nominee," then the allegation that the swine flu is being used to rush through an otherwise unacceptable nominee to HHS is quite credible.<br><br>If and when the President nominates a more trustworthy nominee, then we will have a director of HHS, If the swine flu makes that imperative, then the President should find a more acceptable nominee; he is the one who is delaying the process, not the US Senate, which is charged with the responsibility of examining presidential nominees before they are confirmed.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8785245">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8785245" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8785245" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8785245">anthony</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8785245" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8785245" class="dsq-comment-message">Governor Sibelius is a fine candidate for the job.  She is untrustworthy only to the partisan ideologues who think that anyone who is pro choice on abortion is an "extremist".<br><br>Leave it to right wingers to concoct some sinister conspiracy.  It is how they conducted the entire 2008 campaign. You would think that the results of that election would have taught them a lesson.  Clearly it did not.  These accusations are about as "credible" as the claims about 09/11 being an inside job.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8782030">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8782030" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8782030" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8782030">njreader101</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8782030" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8782030" class="dsq-comment-message">There are many ex governors and others with experience in public management. If Gov. Sebelius is not able to pass Congressional scrutiny, it is very easy for the President to nominate another candidate.<br><br>To say that she is the "only person in America" who can do this job and therefore must be confirmed, regardless of any questions about her record or her abilities, is irrational and illogical.<br><br>Democrat Senator Charles Schumer always said that the Senate is not to be a "rubber stamp" for presidential nominees; unfortunately, that applies to Gov. Sebelius as well as everyone else.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8780433">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8780433" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8780433" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8780433">WyrdestGeek</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8780433" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8780433" class="dsq-comment-message">The World Health Organization is not a part of the U.S. government.  They have issued alerts indicating that they\'re concerned that swine flu could be a new pandemic.  In Mexico, the President of that country has closed *all* the schools because of fears of a far greater outbreak.<br><br>If you want, you can choose to believe that the U.S. government is playing up the fear angle, but I don\'t really see how that tracks.  Please realize that whatever is going on is qualitatively different from and quantitatively greater than all the hub-bub over bird flu or SARS.<br><br>-- <br>Furry cows moo and decompress.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8779472">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8779472" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8779472" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8779472">ramona</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8779472" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8779472" class="dsq-comment-message">Why are the republicans more concerned about politics than our health?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8778840">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8778840" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8778840" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8778840">MEM</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8778840" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8778840" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow!  It\'s always just all about them, isn\'t it?  Twenty people in Mexico had to die just so that they could make one of their idiotic allegations?  I don\'t think so.  Utterly absurd.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8778322" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8778322" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8778322">Geoffrey Turner</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8778322" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8778322" class="dsq-comment-message">Hi<br><br>To put this in perspective, there is a very interesting video on U-Tube which everyone should see.  Not very good quality but if you can see through the fuzz, you\'ll learn information that will shock you.   <br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLT0_xMeLjI&feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLT0_xMeLjI&feat...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8778260" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8778260" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8778260">chris</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8778260" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8778260" class="dsq-comment-message">proves that what should concern conservative women is getting married, getting pregnant, staying home and changing nappies !</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8776852" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8776852" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8776852">Bigduke</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8776852" class="dsq-comment-message">You see this a lot lately with conservatives.   The manipulation of the terror alert level has been well documented.   This was frankly normal every day business under the Bush administration.   It is only human nature for conservatives to now assume that Obama is playing the same games.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8779509" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8779509" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8779509">ramona</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8779509" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8779509" class="dsq-comment-message">Well said Bigduke.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8776784" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8776784" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8776784">Michael from New Hampshire</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8776784" class="dsq-comment-message">Interesting viewpoint. It is sick how many comments here entirley focus on the democrat-republican divide. Bush violated the US constitution with the patriot act among others and was responsible for many bad choices. obama is merely continuing that legacy. This is not about republicans nor is it about democrats, it is about America!<br><br>I am thoroughly surprised that the author of this articlke failed to mentioned how easily the flu got into the US. While the news reports tightened security at formal borders, we have almost no formal border with mexico. Why is there not a defendable border with mexico? Build a real border and defend it. When illegals can merely walk across, they bring with them more illegals, terrorists, drugs and disease. IIllegals should be deported or executed. The border should have been built under bush\'s watch. It wasn\'t. obama should build it, but instead he is going to make every criminal illegal a US citizen.<br><br>Someone made a comment about obama ordering the execution of the pirates. Check your facts. Obama over rode the captain of the bainbridge\'s authority to make a decision. obama prohibited the use of force of ANY kind as long as hostage negotitations were taking place. SEALs were not allowed in the water. When captain phillips jumped overboard, no action was taken to defend him, per obama\'s orders. Did you(yes you reading this) ever question why nothing was done when captain phillips risked his life by jumping overboard and swimming towards the massive US ship. It was not until Saturday that obama allowed the captain of the bainbridge to use his judgement on force. It was the captain of the bainbridge who authorized the appropriate use of force against the pirates, not obama. <br><br>Question authority, while it is still legal.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8799148" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8799148">sigh</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8799148" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8799148" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah America should kill all the illegal immigrants, because this nation wasn\'t built by immigrants.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8784842" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8784842" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8784842">Jon H</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8784842" class="dsq-comment-message">"I am thoroughly surprised that the author of this articlke failed to mentioned how easily the flu got into the US."<br><br>It came in with tourists, you moron. Plenty of people cross the border every day for legal reasons.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8777104" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8777104" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8777104">anthony</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8777104" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8777104" class="dsq-comment-message">Since it is not we Obama voters who spent the past eight years equating protest with treason, rest assured that your right to question authority will be zealously protected, unlike the previous administration that spent its free time looking for loopholes in the 4th amendment. <br><br>Incidentally, the immigration angle really has little relationship to the flu cases discovered to date.  Many of the cases in this country have been found in American citizens and college students rerturning from a spring break vacation in Mexico. <br><br>However you want to parse the facts of the rescue by the SEALS, we all know that the people who are bending themselves into logical pretzels claiming that the President deserves no credit at all, would be among the first to lay 100% of the blame at his feet if  the situation had ended with the loss of American lives.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8774893" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8774893">anthony</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8774893" class="dsq-comment-message">BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!<br><br>Anonymous sources in the Family Research Council confirm that after exhaustive laboratory analysis of  recorded excerpts from Obama\'s speeches during campaign 2008, when the speeches are played backwards, the words "yes we can" are heard as hail Satan.<br><br>When the anonyous source was asked how he obtained this important new information, he said Bigfoot told him.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8777340" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8777340" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8777340">Youkids Getoffmylawn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8777340" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8777340" class="dsq-comment-message">Get a brain MORAN! Unless you don’t mind being forcibly removed to a FEMA camp, you will desist—PRONTO—with the chatter  about heretofore unrevealed alliances with ursine/human/animal/hybrids. In other words, ixnay with the igfootbay chatter, you dumbass.<br><br>PS:  Although I can personally vouch for the cheese, I don’t know too much about the government issued trailers. Let me know how that works out for you and yours, will you, cuz I’ve been thinking about trading up.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8780247" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8780247" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8780247">Sean</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8780247" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8780247" class="dsq-comment-message">Moran? Like Erin Moran, the girl who played Joanie Cunningham on Happy Days? I heard she lost her mind in Christ, and now believes all of her fellow cast members are evil. I fail to see what she has to do with any of this, you MORON!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8774657" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8774657" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8774657">Nise Brown</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8774657" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8774657" class="dsq-comment-message">What a load of horse hockey...I can\'t believe that adults would even believe the "talk shows". They say such things to appeal to baser human instincts and to get ratings...that\'s it. There\'s no truth in their discussions...just twisted facts.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8774636" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8774636">BITO</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8774636" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8774636" class="dsq-comment-message">I read all your comments and I just one think to said, I know  and I study "COMMUNIST"  AND WHAT WE HAVE NOW AND WHAT ALL OF YOU WILL SEE IN THE FUTURE IS NOTHING MORE OR NOTHING LESS THAN A COMMUNIST WITH A MASK SO GOOD TO ALL OF YOU AND GOD BLESS US AND ALWAYS LOOK AFTER US.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8774192" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8774192">Youkids Getoffmylawn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8774192" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8774192" class="dsq-comment-message">Clearly this is the first stage of Obama’s sinister plot! His dastardly minions of ACORN operatives—as per Bill Ayer’s manifesto!—have finally been unleashed to sow panic and fear among the God loving patriots of this once glorious land. WAKE UP PEOPLE. Unravel yourself from that Snuggie blanket, crank up the ol’ mobility scooter (didn’t even pay a dime for it, b.t.w.) and head for the Wall Mart for more ammo. Don’t stand by idly while the swarthy hordes of ONE WORLD ORDER, SHARIA LAW loving COMMU-FACSISTS implement their ANTI-CRIST machinations. We must surround them as they have surrounded us! And when they surround us again we will surround them again…<br><br>Take that, you perverts and hippies!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8771176" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8771176" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8771176">Dana Kincaid</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8771176" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8771176" class="dsq-comment-message">Just want to give big shout out to the moron Greg Garrison at WIBC, Indianapolis.  Hey Greg, is this going to be something else you are wrong about?  You were wrong about Obama ("I don\'t see any way he can be elected."), wrong about global warming, you said America didn\'t torture, and then you started being an apologist for torture...<br><br>Talk radio is at the heart of this Republican craziness.  Get rid of it.<br><br>Republican talk radio is like the flu.  Silent but deadly.  Except, um, of course it isn\'t um, silent.  Republican talk radio.  It\'s like the flu.  Except when it isn\'t.  Maybe Greg Garrison at WIBC is just a carrier?<br><br>"The King is a fink!  Galoop galoop galoop!"</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8770989" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8770989" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8770989">Dana Kincaid</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8770989" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8770989" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh for the goddess\' sake.  Go suck some laetrile and call me in the morning.  Republicans are so fearful...  Obama will take your guns!  Gay people will destroy your marriage!  Black helicopters are watching you!<br><br>It is PITIFUL.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8770606" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8770606" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8770606">Jake</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8770606" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8770606" class="dsq-comment-message">You too are a kook. Ya think the mexican government agreed to have people die in their capital city for Sebelius? Or maybe some Americans sent by the Obama administration send some clandestine types to plant the virus in Mexico City, New York, California, and other cities? How about the international World Health Organization? That lists the US at the bottom of health among industrialized nations. You think they agreed to raise the Pandemic threat level to help Sebelius pass cloture? <br><br>May you should look at your bible where it\'s says that Christians are not going to be able to change this world, only the second coming will. Then maybe you\'ll realize your efforts are futile.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8770522" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8770522" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8770522">Carole</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8770522" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8770522" class="dsq-comment-message">Sebulous is not concerned about women, nor the unborn future taxpayers of our country.  Why is Planned Parenthood and other abortion advocates not giving the public the following info about women who have had abortions - like the suicide rate that is so high? how about reporting all of the other psychological problems that happen after one does this to themselves as well as an unborn child? Pro-Abortion advocates don\'t seem to be stupid - but rather educated women - so why don\'t they look deeper, and be glad they were not aborted themselves?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8818261" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8818261" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8818261">shanobama</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8818261" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8818261" class="dsq-comment-message">No they never have any evidence of their misleading and false statements about a womens right to chose.  It is the law of the land and has been for decades now.  Real science and historical evidence shows that even if abortion is illegal, women will still get them in unsafe and unsanitary ways.  <br><br>That the only way to reduce the number of abortions is through education about and easy access to all forms of birth control.  What Carole wants is more WHITE babies, right?  She wants to be every womens moral judge and jury combined.  Stay out of my private life Carole, you are not going to make any life decisions for me, ever.  And dont tell me you do any good whatsoever for the women of this country.<br><br>Planned Parenthood does more good for women in America than all of the anti abortion groups combined.  What Carole is cannot be called pro-life, they are pro-fetus and care nothing about the lives of women or children in this nation.  If they did care they would realize that Planned Parenthood is an excellent organization that helps women and children everyday.  <br><br>If the right wing is so concerned about \'abortion\' then they should also be for single payer health care, money for education, Head Start, universal daycare and other programs to help children AFTER they are born.<br><br>think about that Carole.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8773390" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8773390">Cyrus</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8773390" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8773390" class="dsq-comment-message"><I>Why is Planned Parenthood and other abortion advocates not giving the public the following info about women who have had abortions - like the suicide rate that is so high? how about reporting all of the other psychological problems that happen after one does this to themselves as well as an unborn child?</I><br><br>Do you have any evidence of any of this, or are you just making it up?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8769887" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8769887" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8769887">Jamey</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8769887" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8769887" class="dsq-comment-message">Reminds me of the old Peggy Nooners classic, "...it would be irresponsible not to speculate..."</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8769209" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8769209" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8769209">howLong</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8769209" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8769209" class="dsq-comment-message">Some people think that Wendy Wright is descended from swine.  I want to be skeptical,  but, really, there’s too much of a basis in that argument to easily dismiss it.<br><br>CAn anybody debunk this vicious rumor?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8768677" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8768677" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8768677">James C</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8768677" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8768677" class="dsq-comment-message">"If there\'s a hint......it almost defies imagination." Nice. You\'re the one hinting at it......and once again, the crazy right-wingers defy imagination.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8768623" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8768623" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8768623">wbramh</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8768623" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8768623" class="dsq-comment-message">And this is the Party of Dwight Eisenhower?<br>He would be disgusted by the Wingnuts who have taken over this once great Party.<br>The promotion of craziness from the Wendy Wrights of the World is destroying what remnants of intelligence, decency and sensibility survive within today\'s Republican Party.<br>Perhaps Ms Wright just needs a long vacation.<br>May I suggest Mexico City?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8765736" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8765736" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8765736">Patrick</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8765736" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8765736" class="dsq-comment-message">Someone is confusing Bush administration tactics with Obama administration tactics.  It is not hard to imagine an administration that invented a war to get their way also inventing a fake health crisis.  But Obama, on the other hand is *not* using a real health crisis to further his political goals.  In fact, it is the opposite.  150 people have died and Obama hasn\'t brought up the nomination at all.  Instead, he is more concerned with the threat Americans are facing. <br><br>The contrast between Bush and Obama could not be more stark.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8769996" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8769996" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8769996">dc</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8769996" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8769996" class="dsq-comment-message">Psychologists call it \'projection\'</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8765575" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8765575" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8765575">Whatever</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8765575" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8765575" class="dsq-comment-message">The DHS did not declare the health emergency, HHS did.  Napolitano said as much at the briefing.  The acting secretary at HHS is a hold over from the Bush administration.  Who knows why he wasn\'t at the briefing.  It was a hallmark of the  Bush years to be absent in a time of crisis, maybe he is just falling back on old habbits..<br><br>Get a clue.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8764500" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8764500" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8764500" href="http://dcdl.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">KCinDC</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8764500" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8764500" class="dsq-comment-message">See, this is what I was going to ask you about at the reception: where you\'d find new sources of craziness (now that you\'ve staked out the right-wing insanity beat) after the birthers and the tea parties. I should have known it wouldn\'t be hard.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8764465" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8764465" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8764465">bluestatedon</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8764465" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8764465" class="dsq-comment-message">When I was a kid back in the 50s and 60s, the John Birch Society represented the kooky radical right wing of conservatism, and the vast majority of Republicans sensibly shied away from them, especially elected GOP politicians. How things change—now the 21st century version of the Birchers are the driving force in the Republican Party, and the Republicans, elected or not, who have the courage to openly criticize them are too tiny in number to be meaningful.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8771064">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8771064" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8771064" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8771064">Dana Kincaid</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8771064" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8771064" class="dsq-comment-message">Hear hear!  It seems like the laetrile suckers, Brother John Birchers, survivalists and black helicopter people have become all that the Republican Party is.  Why?  What happened to these people?<br><br>The koookiness was always a background app, but now it\'s the entire OS.<br><br>Weird.  <br><br>You know that it\'s bad when McCain starts being a torture apologist.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 </ul>\
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// HACK: Resetting cache because we're done with.
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