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However original can be seen in the comments section of this article:<br><a href=\"http://www.washingtonindependent.com/367\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.washingtonindependent.com/367</a> 1/the-reform-candidate<br><br><br>Dear friends,<br><br>So many people have asked me about what I know about Sarah Palin in the <br>last 2 days that I decided to write something up . . .<br><br>Basically, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have only 2 things in <br>common: their gender and their good looks. :)<br><br>You have my permission to forward this to your friends/email contacts <br>with my name and email address attached, but please do not post it on <br>any websites, as there are too many kooks out there . . .<br><br>Thanks,<br>Anne<br><br>ABOUT SARAH PALIN<br><br>I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992. <br>Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a <br>first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her <br>father was my child's favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a <br>first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more <br>City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the <br>residents of the city.<br><br>She is enormously popular; in every way she's like the most popular <br>girl in middle school. Even men who think she is a poor choice and <br>won't vote for her can't quit smiling when talking about her because <br>she is a \"babe\".<br><br>It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret. She <br>kept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her children and parents <br>for seven months.<br><br>She is \"pro-life\". She recently gave birth to a Down's syndrome baby. <br>There is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby.<br><br>She is energetic and hardworking. She regularly worked out at the gym.<br><br>She is savvy. She doesn't take positions; she just \"puts things out <br>there\" and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit.<br><br>Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a <br>champion snowmobile racer. Todd Palin's kind of job is highly <br>sought-after because of the schedule and high pay. He arranges his <br>work schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or <br>so in summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their <br>major source of income. Nor has her life-style ever been anything <br>like that of native Alaskans.<br><br>Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters.<br><br><br><br><br><br>She's smart.<br><br>Her experience is as mayor of a city with a population of about 5,000 <br>(at the time), and less than 2 years as governor of a state with about <br>670,000 residents.<br><br>During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running <br>this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been <br>pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had <br>gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had <br>given rise to a recall campaign.<br><br>Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a \"fiscal conservative\". During her 6 <br>years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over <br>33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the <br>City increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation <br>(1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a <br>regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she <br>promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they <br>benefited residents.<br><br>The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration <br>weren't enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed <br>money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it <br>with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage <br>the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said <br>she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a <br>new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a <br>multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece <br>of property that the City didn't even have clear title to, that was <br>still in litigation 7 yrs later--to the delight of the lawyers <br>involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the <br>community but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it <br>would be. She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that <br>could have been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing.<br><br>While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office <br>redecorated more than once.<br><br>These are small numbers, but Wasilla is a very small city.<br><br>As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget surplus <br>in Alaska. Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will <br>make us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she <br>proposed distribution of this surplus to every individual in the state.<br><br>In this time of record state revenues and budget surpluses, she <br>recommended that the state borrow/bond for road projects, even while <br>she proposed distribution of surplus state revenues: spend today's <br>surplus, borrow for needs.<br><br>She's not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideas <br>or compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren't generated by <br>her or her staff. Ideas weren't evaluated on their merits, but on the <br>basis of who proposed them.<br><br>While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected <br>City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from <br>the library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City residents <br>rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin's <br>attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew <br>her termination letter. People who fought her attempt to oust the <br>Librarian are on her enemies list to this day.<br><br>Sarah complained about the \"old boy's club\" when she first ran for <br>Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of \"old boys\". Palin <br>fired most of the experienced staff she inherited. At the City and as <br>Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people, <br>creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally <br>grateful and fiercely loyal--loyal to the point of abusing their power <br>to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the <br>case of pressuring the State's top cop (see below).<br><br>As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla's Police Chief because he \"intimidated\" <br>her, she told the press. As Governor, her recent firing of Alaska's top <br>cop has the ring of familiarity about it. He served at her pleasure <br>and she had every legal right to fire him, but it's pretty clear that <br>an important factor in her decision to fire him was because he wouldn't <br>fire her sister's ex-husband, a State Trooper. Under investigation <br>for abuse of power, she has had to admit that more than 2 dozen <br>contacts were made between her staff and family to the person that she <br>later fired, pressuring him to fire her ex-brother-in-law. She tried to <br>replace the man she fired with a man who she knew had been reprimanded <br>for sexual harassment; when this caused a public furor, she withdrew <br>her support.<br><br>She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in <br>help. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town <br>introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council <br>became one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor. She <br>abruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn't <br>like the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness.<br><br>Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything <br>publicly about her.<br><br>When then-Governor Murkowski was handing out political plums, Sarah got <br>the best, Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission: one <br>of the few jobs not in Juneau and one of the best paid. She had no <br>background in oil & gas issues. Within months of scoring this great <br>job which paid $122,400/yr, she was complaining in the press about the <br>high salary. I was told that she hated that job: the commute, the <br>structured hours, the work. Sarah became aware that a member of this <br>Commission (who was also the State Chair of the Republican Party) <br>engaged in unethical behavior on the job. In a gutsy move which some <br>undoubtedly cautioned her could be political suicide, Sarah solved all <br>her problems in one fell swoop: got out of the job she hated and <br>garnered gobs of media attention as the patron saint of ethics and as a <br>gutsy fighter against the \"old boys' club\" when she dramatically quit, <br>exposing this man's ethics violations (for which he was fined).<br><br>As Mayor, she had her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork from <br>Senator Ted Stevens. Lately, she has castigated his pork-barrel <br>politics and publicly humiliated him. She only opposed the \"bridge to <br>nowhere\" after it became clear that it would be unwise not to.<br><br>As Governor, she gave the Legislature no direction and budget <br>guidelines, then made a big grandstand display of line-item vetoing <br>projects, calling them pork. Public outcry and further legislative <br>action restored most of these projects--which had been vetoed simply <br>because she was not aware of their importance--but with the unobservant <br>she had gained a reputation as \"anti-pork\".<br><br>She is solidly Republican: no political maverick. The State party <br>leaders hate her because she has bit them in the back and humiliated <br>them. Other members of the party object to her self-description as a <br>fiscal conservative.<br><br>Around Wasilla there are people who went to high school with Sarah. <br>They call her \"Sarah Barracuda\" because of her unbridled ambition and <br>predatory ruthlessness. Before she became so powerful, very ugly <br>stories circulated around town about shenanigans she pulled to be made <br>point guard on the high school basketball team. When Sarah's <br>mother-in-law, a highly respected member of the community and <br>experienced manager, ran for Mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her.<br><br>As Governor, she stepped outside of the box and put together of package <br>of legislation known as \"AGIA\" that forced the oil companies to march <br>to the beat of her drum.<br><br>Like most Alaskans, she favors drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife <br>Refuge. She has questioned if the loss of sea ice is linked to <br>global warming. She campaigned \"as a private citizen\" against a state <br>initiaitive that would have either a) protected salmon streams from <br>pollution from mines, or b) tied up in the courts all mining in the <br>state (depending on who you listen to). She has pushed the State's <br>lawsuit against the Dept. of the Interior's decision to list polar <br>bears as threatened species.<br><br>McCain is the oldest person to ever run for President; Sarah will be a <br>heartbeat away from being President.<br><br>There has to be literally millions of Americans who are more <br>knowledgeable and experienced than she.<br><br>However, there's a lot of people who have underestimated her and are <br>regretting it.<br><br>CLAIM VS FACT<br>*\"Hockey mom\": true for a few years<br>*\"PTA mom\": true years ago when her first-born was in elementary <br>school, not since<br>*\"NRA supporter\": absolutely true<br>*social conservative: mixed. Opposes gay marriage, BUT vetoed a bill <br>that would have denied benefits to employees in same-sex relationships <br>(said she did this because it was unconsitutional).<br>*pro-creationism: mixed. Supports it, BUT did nothing as Governor to <br>promote it.<br>*\"Pro-life\": mixed. Knowingly gave birth to a Down's syndrome baby <br>BUT declined to call a special legislative session on some pro-life <br>legislation<br>*\"Experienced\": Some high schools have more students than Wasilla has <br>residents. Many cities have more residents than the state of Alaska. <br>No legislative experience other than City Council. Little hands-on <br>supervisory or managerial experience; needed help of a city <br>administrator to run town of about 5,000.<br>*political maverick: not at all<br>*gutsy: absolutely!<br>*open & transparent: ??? Good at keeping secrets. Not good at <br>explaining actions.<br>*has a developed philosophy of public policy: no<br>*\"a Greenie\": no. Turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores <br>and disconnected parking lots. Is pro-drilling off-shore and in ANWR.<br>*fiscal conservative: not by my definition!<br>*pro-infrastructure: No. Promoted a sports complex and park in a city <br>without a sewage treatment plant or storm drainage system. Built <br>streets to early 20th century standards.<br>*pro-tax relief: Lowered taxes for businesses, increased tax burden on <br>residents<br>*pro-small government: No. Oversaw greatest expansion of city <br>government in Wasilla's history.<br>*pro-labor/pro-union. No. Just because her husband works union <br>doesn't make her pro-labor. I have seen nothing to support any claim <br>that she is pro-labor/pro-union.<br><br>WHY AM I WRITING THIS?<br><br>First, I have long believed in the importance of being an informed <br>voter. I am a voter registrar. For 10 years I put on student voting <br>programs in the schools. If you google my name (Anne, last name redacted <br>Alaska), you will find references to my participation in local <br>government, education, and PTA/parent organizations.<br><br>Secondly, I've always operated in the belief that \"Bad things happen <br>when good people stay silent\". Few people know as much as I do because <br>few have gone to as many City Council meetings.<br><br>Third, I am just a housewife. I don't have a job she can bump me out <br>of. I don't belong to any organization that she can hurt. But, I am no <br>fool; she is immensely popular here, and it is likely that this will <br>cost me somehow in the future: that's life.<br><br>Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the 100 <br>or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against Sarah's <br>attempt at censorship.<br><br>Fifth, I looked around and realized that everybody else was afraid to <br>say anything because they were somehow vulnerable.<br><br>CAVEATS<br>I am not a statistician. I developed the numbers for the increase in <br>spending & taxation 2 years ago (when Palin was running for Governor) <br>from information supplied to me by the Finance Director of the City of <br>Wasilla, and I can't recall exactly what I adjusted for: did I adjust <br>for inflation? for population increases? Right now, it is impossible <br>for a private person to get any info out of City Hall--they are <br>swamped. So I can't verify my numbers.<br><br>You may have noticed that there are various numbers circulating for the <br>population of Wasilla, ranging from my \"about 5,000\", up to 9,000. The <br>day Palin's selection was announced a city official told me that the <br>current population is about 7,000. The official 2000 census count was <br>5,460. I have used about 5,000 because Palin was Mayor from 1996 to <br>2002, and the city was growing rapidly in the mid-90's.<br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br>Tags: Sarah Palin, VP, Wasilla, Mayor (all tags)<br><br>  Display:  ThreadedMinimalNestedFlatFlat Unthreaded   <br> <br>Permalink :: 29 Comments :: Post a Comment  <br><br><br><br><br>   Re: About Sarah Palin by Wasilla Resident (2.00 / 5) <br><br><br>Tips and Recs for just the facts, which are damning enough<br><br> <br>Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.  <br>by jsfox on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 12:49:23 PM EST <br> <br><br><br>Re: About Sarah Palin by Wasilla Resident (none / 0) <br><br><br>According the Coast To Coast AM, Palin fired her own chef, while stating, \"we don't need a chef. My family can cook their own food.\"<br><br> <br> <br>by Check077 on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 02:59:27 PM EST <br>[ Parent ]  <br><br><br>Good Piece BUT (none / 0) <br><br><br>the author's name appears in the body, contrary to the request at the top, so you may want to edit that out.<br><br> <br> <br>by JJE on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 12:53:03 PM EST <br> <br><br><br>Re: Good Piece BUT (none / 0) <br><br><br>Thanks for the catch. Done.<br><br> <br>Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.  <br>by jsfox on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 12:58:06 PM EST <br>[ Parent ]  <br><br><br>Re: About Sarah Palin by Wasilla Resident (none / 0) <br><br><br>Does anyone know what books she wanted removed from the libary?<br><br>Are we talking Harry Potter type of objection, cause of witchcraft?<br><br>That is probably good info to have, we can give up on trying to convince the Republic Base about Palin, they are positively orgasmic.<br><br>But, if we can paint her as just another Right Wing religous nut in a attractive package, that can hurt her with independents.<br><br> <br>\"Well the danger on the rocks is surely past... Still I remain tied to the mast\"...Don Fagen, Poet and Piano Player  <br>by WashStateBlue on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 12:58:44 PM EST <br> <br><br><br>Re: About Sarah Palin by Wasilla Resident (2.00 / 1) <br><br><br>Time Mag has tried to talk to the Liberian, but so far she's not responded.<br><br>However, I agree what books did she tried to have removed would be a bit telling.<br><br>Frankly anybody who tries to get books banned scares the hell out of me.<br><br> <br>Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.  <br>by jsfox on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 01:05:20 PM EST <br>[ Parent ]  <br><br><br>The more I hear (2.00 / 1) <br><br><br>the more I agree with the tag line, \"More of the Same.\" She fits rights in with the Bush/Cheney mentality, even moreso than McCain.<br><br> <br> <br>by Lolis on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 12:59:00 PM EST <br> <br><br><br>Re: The more I hear (2.00 / 1) <br><br><br>We should refer to them as McCainlin.<br><br> <br>\"In the primary you should vote with your heart, but in the general, you should vote with your head\" Hillary's husband <br>by venician on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 02:06:29 PM EST <br>[ Parent ]  <br><br><br>She sounds like (none / 0) <br><br><br>george bush!<br><br> <br>Washington Woman <br><a href=\"http://theocracywatch.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">theocracywatch.org</a> <br>EENR Blog <br>by kevin22262 on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 02:11:35 PM EST <br> <br><br>This matches a pattern (none / 0) <br><br><br>and Anne does turn up in Alaska in just the context she states, so I believe this is 100% authentic.<br><br>The entire narrative of this matches the bits and pieces that have been coming together over the past few days.  The McCain team missed all these details because the super-secret vetting process involved only talking to Palin and a tiny number of her loyalists, who not surprisingly supported her own personal perspective.<br><br>Interesting, indeed.<br><br>-chris<br><br> <br>\"Because after an eight-year hiatus it is vital to have a president who leads the country instead of lassoing, roping and branding it.\" Shaun Appleby <br>by chrisblask on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 02:14:24 PM EST <br> <br><br>from Politico (none / 0) <br><br><br>I am copying this comment that tickled me <br><br>*******<br>8 scandles in 24 hours! <br><br><br>The news that Palin once backed the Bridge to Nowhere went national. <br><br>It emerged that Palin has links to the bizarro Alaska Independence Party, which harbors the goal of seceding from the union that McCain and Palin seek to lead. <br><br>The news broke that as governor, Palin relied on an earmark system she now opposes. Taken along with the Bridge to Nowhere stuff, this threatens to undercut her reformist image, something that was key to her selection as McCain's Veep candidate. <br><br>The news broke that Palin's 17-year-old daughter became pregnant out of wedlock at a time when the conservative base had finally started rallying behind McCain's candidacy. <br><br>Barely moments after McCain advisers put out word that McCain had known of Bristol Palin's pregnancy, the Anchorage Daily News revealed that Palin's own spokesperson hadn't known about it only two days ago. <br><br>A senior McCain adviser at the Republican convention was forced into the rather embarrassing position of arguing that McCain had known about the pregnancy \"last week\" -- without saying what day last week he knew about it. <br><br>It came out that Republican lawyers are up in Alaska vetting Palin -- now, more than 72 hours after it was announced that she'd been picked. <br><br>Palin lawyered up in relation to the trooper-gate probe in Alaska -- a move that ensures far more serious attention to the story from the major news orgs.<br><br> <br>PUMA: Particularly Undeveloped Mental Ability <br>by wellinformed on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 03:47:20 PM EST <br> <br><br><br>Re: from Politico (none / 0) <br><br><br>ok they spelled scandal wrong<br><br> <br>PUMA: Particularly Undeveloped Mental Ability <br>by wellinformed on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 03:48:15 PM EST <br>[ Parent ]  <br><br><br>Re: from Politico (2.00 / 2) <br><br><br>Oh, I thought maybe it was some ceremonial fire stick you light to celebrate the scandals?<br><br>You know, one \"Scandle\" lit for each scandal noted!<br><br> <br>\"Well the danger on the rocks is surely past... Still I remain tied to the mast\"...Don Fagen, Poet and Piano Player  <br>by WashStateBlue on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 04:47:21 PM EST <br>[ Parent ]  <br><br><br>Re: from Politico (none / 0) <br><br><br>Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.<br><br> <br>\"In the primary you should vote with your heart, but in the general, you should vote with your head\" Hillary's husband <br>by venician on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 05:59:42 PM EST <br>[ Parent ]  <br><br><br>I see my other skeptical comment was troll-rated. (1.00 / 1) <br><br><br>Try this one.  Anne describes herself this way:<br>\"...it is likely that this will<br>cost me somehow in the future: that's life.<br><br>Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the 100<br>or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against Sarah's<br>attempt at censorship.<br><br>Fifth, I looked around and realized that everybody else was afraid to<br>say anything because they were somehow vulnerable.\"<br><br>Anne feels as if this public figure hates her - in particular - and is out to 'cost her..in the future.'  Good description of an enemy.<br><br>Anne states she personally is a target who is 'vulnerable' to ... something.  Seems to me she could be making more out of her position in little Wasilla to gain 15 mins of fame.  Maybe a bit paranoid, to boot.<br><br>Can somebody bring in a grain of salt, please?<br><br> <br> <br>by lizpolaris on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 05:44:13 PM EST <br> <br><br>What's odd... (2.00 / 1) <br><br><br>After all of these so-called \"facts\", the author says Palin is \"immensely popular here\".  Let's see, she has supposedly bitten every hand that's fed her, and other than being \"gutsy\" and smart, I'm hard-pressed to find why anyone there would be enamored with her, given what the author has said. It really doesn't wash.  Something's missing.  Good looks only take you so far, so I'm not buying that.  <br><br>Obviously this person has their own view of Palin.  I think it's a real stretch to say these things are all \"facts\", though.  Until corroborated, it's just heresay.<br><br>I know that's not what people here want to hear, but hey, I actually care about facts.  There's enough smearing going on in politics (on both sides) to be very skeptical of the latest info coming down the pike.  <br><br> <br> <br>by DaTruth on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 05:50:54 PM EST <br> <br><br><br>The Anne in question (none / 0) <br><br><br>who is named elsewhere, shows up in as a witness in Alaskan legislature here, is searchable near Wasilla AK in whitepages, shows up discussing school funding here and in other places.<br><br>And I just spoke to her on the phone (on another call, asked to call her back in a few but she did get my email).<br><br>Real person, real persepctive.<br><br> <br>\"Because after an eight-year hiatus it is vital to have a president who leads the country instead of lassoing, roping and branding it.\" Shaun Appleby <br>by chrisblask on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 06:04:14 PM EST <br>[ Parent ]  <br><br><br><br>You are not logged in.<br>In order to post a comment, you must be logged in. 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Whether you're a Hippie, Dog Lover, Elvis Impersonator, or most anything in between, Democratic Stuff<br>has a button for you!<br>With nearly a thousand buttons in stock, you're sure to find one that<br>shows your support for Barack Obama, no matter who you are...<br>Read more...standard ad info <br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br>Home | Privacy Policy | Contact Us | About MyDD", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-03_21:17:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "59ed092e4296917fef44970acb4a32a4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "2256029": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Spoke to a man from Wasilla earlier tonight who said that Palin fired the entire city staff, which is within her power to do as executive however indiscriminately, and that the Library Director \"refused\" to go.  He said she returned to graduate school, so there's another director there now.  He also said that she had the new staff \"swear loyalty oaths\".  Might be interesting to talk to get a few of these people who did swear oaths to her to corroborate.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-10_00:14:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "Presidentless", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "2107936": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Please get this info to Mary Ellen Emmons.<br><br>Dear Ms. Emmons,<br><br>I am always interested when I hear of books being censored from libraries. Please have the washington Independent get you my email address so we can communicate. Thanks. And do any of the commenters know which books Sarah wanted removed?<br><br>thanks", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-04_12:09:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "a35a3e040aa2664d85780d31309136cf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "2031398": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So,<br>Strong Anti-choice + Pro-censorship + Loyalty Test -&gt; Sarah Palin = Monica Goodling II ?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-03_12:19:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "DHamon", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "2029992": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Are you the same individual as yesterday posting under a different name? If not, please go back and read Laura McGann's older posts. You can see she is a true journalist with educated readers following her investigations. You can pull this crap but it isn't working. Why don't you spend your time reading the constitution and making up for the Civics class you obviously slept through or didn't get thanks to George Bush.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-03_10:29:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "ca8172b2961b2670f3660ffa54233686", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2029644, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2031023": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Could you upload a copy of the article for us to read?Thanks for this.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-03_11:51:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "jessamyn", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "2104496": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "For god's sake people!<br><br>I work in recruiting and I have to tell you.  That *does* sound like a standard question that a responsible overseer would ask a librarian at a first interview.  Did you know that there are list of standard questions to ask pertaining to profession that are developed by HR professionals??", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-04_10:07:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "susanmarie8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "2029366": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If we've learned anything over the years, it's this:  do not anger the librarians.  You think I'm kidding?  Librarians are on the front lines of our First Amendment rights, and they take this role very seriously.  When librarians found out that Michael Moore's publisher was sitting on one of his early books, they lobbied the publisher and forced the book to be released.  That's just one small example of their strength.<br><br>If the librarians find out about this, she will be in trouble.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-03_09:38:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "fc56f750ddec76bdbb273c1e07bb170a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "2029372": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You can ascribe all the virtues you wish to this woman (\"take-charge, strong, courageous,\" etc.), but the fact is that, as an American, she is dangerous and her short career is filled with the kind of red flags that should make that clear to any thinking American.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-03_09:39:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "e14fe6b925e6f349f0c7207ebe61ec4b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "2031296": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If you bothered to keep up with the story, you would know that most people involved in Palin's character assassinations prefer not to discuss their run ins with her in fear of further retributions...she'll still governor and can make their lives miserable", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-03_12:11:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "76f1e9e6d5db28470412701144107212", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2029644, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2030112": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great confirmation!!   <br>Keep vetting!<br>and in the meantime..<br>Now..... go find Emmons!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-03_10:39:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Fireshadow", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "2250698": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "McCain and Palin - Part of the Bush League.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-09_16:08:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "fab7a206bac65bce88b2de21d34b0ecd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "2029644": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Where is the story??   What day in December of 1996??   Any quotes from the article??  Any quotes from the library director??  Have not seen one quote from the librarian in the news.  Not a very believable article!!!!  How about a link so we can see for ourselves??", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-03_10:03:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "8ff032fd29d4aa00d2262f53b319ce46", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "2137422": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I would like to reiterate Budger083's questions.  Where is the story?  And yes, I did go back and look through the older postings.  All I have been able to uncover is that Palin questioned the librarian about censorship.  Were there certain titles she wanted removed?  I want details.  I've heard over and over that Palin promotes censorship, but I haven't found one piece of credible evidence that shows this to be true.  <br><br>And the Constitution does allow us to question what we hear or read.  Apparently you need a brush up of the Constitution.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-04_22:38:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "0d3b04d3633f861e1a8e9f18eaf95090", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2029992, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2290896": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I wounder when the population who is of age to vote will get their head out of the sand. Do they not see what censorship has already done to our freedoms? We cannot protest without being isolated or brutalized. I've had enough of the Bush /Cheny era. We do not need more of the same.No matter who is elected will cave in to <br>coporate interests, and wage more wars to uphold Coporate interests. More young men will be sacrificed upon the Corporate altar. We are one people,one world. Nature works in harmony. Why don't we, as a people and as a world.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-11_15:55:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "fe76fcfe76cd28f428afe88851c9aad9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "2042580": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A letter from someone who has known Sarah Palin since 1992<br><br>Anne is from Wasilla, Alaska.<br><br>I found this on the Washington Post comment board and have posted it exactly as I found it.<br><br>Amazing Letter From a Local Wasillian Who Knows Sarah Palin Well.<br><br>From: <a href=\"http://www.washingtonindependent.com/3671/the-reform-candidate\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.washingtonindependent.com/3671/the-r...</a><br>Submitted by Michael Wrightson on Sept 1, 2008<br><br>A note to all by {the Author}<br><br>Dear friends,<br><br>So many people have asked me about what I know about Sarah Palin in the<br>last 2 days that I decided to write something up . . .<br><br>Basically, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have only 2 things in<br>common: their gender and their good looks.<br><br>You have my permission to forward this to your friends/email contacts<br>with my name and email address attached, but please do not post it on<br>any websites, as there are too many kooks out there . . .<br><br>[ This was already posted on Washington Independent comments area,<br>with a controllable hotmail account, and was obviously meant by the<br>author to be read. ]<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Anne<br><br>ABOUT SARAH PALIN<br><br>I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992.<br>Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a<br>first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her<br>father was my child\u2019s favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a<br>first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more<br>City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the<br>residents of the city.<br><br>She is enormously popular; in every way she\u2019s like the most popular<br>girl in middle school. Even men who think she is a poor choice and<br>won\u2019t vote for her can\u2019t quit smiling when talking about her because<br>she is a \u201cbabe\u201d.<br><br>It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret. She<br>kept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her children and parents<br>for seven months.<br><br>She is \u201cpro-life\u201d. She recently gave birth to a Down\u2019s syndrome baby.<br>There is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby.<br><br>She is energetic and hardworking. She regularly worked out at the gym.<br><br>She is savvy. She doesn\u2019t take positions; she just \u201cputs things out<br>there\u201d and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit.<br><br>Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a<br>champion snowmobile racer. Todd Palin\u2019s kind of job is highly<br>sought-after because of the schedule and high pay. He arranges his<br>work schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or<br>so in summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their<br>major source of income. Nor has her life-style ever been anything<br>like that of native Alaskans.<br><br>Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters.<br><br>She\u2019s smart.<br><br>Her experience is as mayor of a city with a population of about 5,000<br>(at the time), and less than 2 years as governor of a state with about<br>670,000 residents.<br><br>During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running<br>this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been<br>pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had<br>gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had<br>given rise to a recall campaign.<br><br>Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a \u201cfiscal conservative\u201d. During her 6<br>years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over<br>33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the<br>City increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation<br>(1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a<br>regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she<br>promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they<br>benefited residents.<br><br>The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration<br>weren\u2019t enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed<br>money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it<br>with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage<br>the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said<br>she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a<br>new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a<br>multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece<br>of property that the City didn\u2019t even have clear title to, that was<br>still in litigation 7 yrs later\u2013to the delight of the lawyers<br>involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the<br>community but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it<br>would be. She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that<br>could have been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing.<br><br>While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office<br>redecorated more than once.<br><br>These are small numbers, but Wasilla is a very small city.<br><br>As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget surplus<br>in Alaska. Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will<br>make us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she<br>proposed distribution of this surplus to every individual in the state.<br><br>In this time of record state revenues and budget surpluses, she<br>recommended that the state borrow/bond for road projects, even while<br>she proposed distribution of surplus state revenues: spend today\u2019s<br>surplus, borrow for needs.<br><br>She\u2019s not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideas<br>or compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren\u2019t generated by<br>her or her staff. Ideas weren\u2019t evaluated on their merits, but on the<br>basis of who proposed them.<br><br>While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected<br>City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from<br>the library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City residents<br>rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin\u2019s<br>attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew<br>her termination letter. People who fought her attempt to oust the<br>Librarian are on her enemies list to this day.<br><br>Sarah complained about the \u201cold boy\u2019s club\u201d when she first ran for<br>Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of \u201cold boys\u201d. Palin<br>fired most of the experienced staff she inherited. At the City and as<br>Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people,<br>creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally<br>grateful and fiercely loyal\u2013loyal to the point of abusing their power<br>to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the<br>case of pressuring the State\u2019s top cop (see below).<br><br>As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla\u2019s Police Chief because he \u201cintimidated\u201d<br>her, she told the press. As Governor, her recent firing of Alaska\u2019s top<br>cop has the ring of familiarity about it. He served at her pleasure<br>and she had every legal right to fire him, but it\u2019s pretty clear that<br>an important factor in her decision to fire him was because he wouldn\u2019t<br>fire her sister\u2019s ex-husband, a State Trooper. Under investigation<br>for abuse of power, she has had to admit that more than 2 dozen<br>contacts were made between her staff and family to the person that she<br>later fired, pressuring him to fire her ex-brother-in-law. She tried to<br>replace the man she fired with a man who she knew had been reprimanded<br>for sexual harassment; when this caused a public furor, she withdrew<br>her support.<br><br>She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in<br>help. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town<br>introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council<br>became one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor. She<br>abruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn\u2019t<br>like the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness.<br><br>Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything<br>publicly about her.<br><br>When then-Governor Murkowski was handing out political plums, Sarah got<br>the best, Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission: one<br>of the few jobs not in Juneau and one of the best paid. She had no<br>background in oil & gas issues. Within months of scoring this great<br>job which paid $122,400/yr, she was complaining in the press about the<br>high salary. I was told that she hated that job: the commute, the<br>structured hours, the work. Sarah became aware that a member of this<br>Commission (who was also the State Chair of the Republican Party)<br>engaged in unethical behavior on the job. In a gutsy move which some<br>undoubtedly cautioned her could be political suicide, Sarah solved all<br>her problems in one fell swoop: got out of the job she hated and<br>garnered gobs of media attention as the patron saint of ethics and as a<br>gutsy fighter against the \u201cold boys\u2019 club\u201d when she dramatically quit,<br>exposing this man\u2019s ethics violations (for which he was fined).<br><br>As Mayor, she had her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork from<br>Senator Ted Stevens. Lately, she has castigated his pork-barrel<br>politics and publicly humiliated him. She only opposed the \u201cbridge to<br>nowhere\u201d after it became clear that it would be unwise not to.<br><br>As Governor, she gave the Legislature no direction and budget<br>guidelines, then made a big grandstand display of line-item vetoing<br>projects, calling them pork. Public outcry and further legislative<br>action restored most of these projects\u2013which had been vetoed simply<br>because she was not aware of their importance\u2013but with the unobservant<br>she had gained a reputation as \u201canti-pork\u201d.<br><br>She is solidly Republican: no political maverick. The State party<br>leaders hate her because she has bit them in the back and humiliated<br>them. Other members of the party object to her self-description as a<br>fiscal conservative.<br><br>Around Wasilla there are people who went to high school with Sarah.<br>They call her \u201cSarah Barracuda\u201d because of her unbridled ambition and<br>predatory ruthlessness. Before she became so powerful, very ugly<br>stories circulated around town about shenanigans she pulled to be made<br>point guard on the high school basketball team. When Sarah\u2019s<br>mother-in-law, a highly respected member of the community and<br>experienced manager, ran for Mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her.<br><br>As Governor, she stepped outside of the box and put together of package<br>of legislation known as \u201cAGIA\u201d that forced the oil companies to march<br>to the beat of her drum.<br><br>Like most Alaskans, she favors drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife<br>Refuge. She has questioned if the loss of sea ice is linked to<br>global warming. She campaigned \u201cas a private citizen\u201d against a state<br>initiaitive that would have either a) protected salmon streams from<br>pollution from mines, or b) tied up in the courts all mining in the<br>state (depending on who you listen to). She has pushed the State\u2019s<br>lawsuit against the Dept. of the Interior\u2019s decision to list polar<br>bears as threatened species.<br><br>McCain is the oldest person to ever run for President; Sarah will be a<br>heartbeat away from being President.<br><br>There has to be literally millions of Americans who are more<br>knowledgeable and experienced than she.<br><br>However, there\u2019s a lot of people who have underestimated her and are<br>regretting it.<br><br>CLAIM VS FACT<br>\u2022\u201cHockey mom\u201d: true for a few years<br>\u2022\u201cPTA mom\u201d: true years ago when her first-born was in elementary<br>school, not since<br>\u2022\u201cNRA supporter\u201d: absolutely true<br>\u2022social conservative: mixed. Opposes gay marriage, BUT vetoed a bill<br>that would have denied benefits to employees in same-sex relationships<br>(said she did this because it was unconsitutional).<br>\u2022pro-creationism: mixed. Supports it, BUT did nothing as Governor to<br>promote it.<br>\u2022\u201cPro-life\u201d: mixed. Knowingly gave birth to a Down\u2019s syndrome baby<br>BUT declined to call a special legislative session on some pro-life<br>legislation<br>\u2022\u201cExperienced\u201d: Some high schools have more students than Wasilla has<br>residents. Many cities have more residents than the state of Alaska.<br>No legislative experience other than City Council. Little hands-on<br>supervisory or managerial experience; needed help of a city<br>administrator to run town of about 5,000.<br>\u2022political maverick: not at all<br>\u2022gutsy: absolutely!<br>\u2022open & transparent: ??? Good at keeping secrets. Not good at<br>explaining actions.<br>\u2022has a developed philosophy of public policy: no<br>\u2022\u201da Greenie\u201d: no. Turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores<br>and disconnected parking lots. Is pro-drilling off-shore and in ANWR.<br>\u2022fiscal conservative: not by my definition!<br>\u2022pro-infrastructure: No. Promoted a sports complex and park in a city<br>without a sewage treatment plant or storm drainage system. Built<br>streets to early 20th century standards.<br>\u2022pro-tax relief: Lowered taxes for businesses, increased tax burden on<br>residents<br>\u2022pro-small government: No. Oversaw greatest expansion of city<br>government in Wasilla\u2019s history.<br>\u2022pro-labor/pro-union. No. Just because her husband works union<br>doesn\u2019t make her pro-labor. I have seen nothing to support any claim<br>that she is pro-labor/pro-union.<br><br>WHY AM I WRITING THIS?<br><br>First, I have long believed in the importance of being an informed<br>voter. I am a voter registrar. For 10 years I put on student voting<br>programs in the schools. If you google my name (Anne Kilkenny +<br>Alaska), you will find references to my participation in local<br>government, education, and PTA/parent organizations.<br><br>Secondly, I\u2019ve always operated in the belief that \u201cBad things happen<br>when good people stay silent\u201d. Few people know as much as I do because<br>few have gone to as many City Council meetings.<br><br>Third, I am just a housewife. I don\u2019t have a job she can bump me out<br>of. I don\u2019t belong to any organization that she can hurt. But, I am no<br>fool; she is immensely popular here, and it is likely that this will<br>cost me somehow in the future: that\u2019s life.<br><br>Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the 100<br>or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against Sarah\u2019s<br>attempt at censorship.<br><br>Fifth, I looked around and realized that everybody else was afraid to<br>say anything because they were somehow vulnerable.<br><br>CAVEATS<br>I am not a statistician. I developed the numbers for the increase in<br>spending & taxation 2 years ago (when Palin was running for Governor)<br>from information supplied to me by the Finance Director of the City of<br>Wasilla, and I can\u2019t recall exactly what I adjusted for: did I adjust<br>for inflation? for population increases? Right now, it is impossible<br>for a private person to get any info out of City Hall\u2013they are<br>swamped. So I can\u2019t verify my numbers.<br><br>You may have noticed that there are various numbers circulating for the<br>population of Wasilla, ranging from my \u201cabout 5,000\u2033, up to 9,000. The<br>day Palin\u2019s selection was announced a city official told me that the<br>current population is about 7,000. The official 2000 census count was<br>5,460. I have used about 5,000 because Palin was Mayor from 1996 to<br>2002, and the city was growing rapidly in the mid-90\u2019s.<br><br><br>August 31, 2008", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-09-03_16:14:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "eb6ef15d17c633c6a0b9443878b36a8a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year 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}, "2095191": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Didn't Craig Ferguson think that Palin was a Naughty Alaskan Librarian?<br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh-lW2opLyQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh-lW2opLyQ</a><br>:-) <br><br>Seriously, does a democratic society require the existence of pornography, which degrades both the person in the photos/video as well as the viewer?  The First Amendment is about protecting political criticism, not about allowing the degradation of (mostly) women and children.   Perhaps we need a better version of democracy.<br><a href=\"http://www.theage.com.au/news/Opinion/Why-we-need-a-better-version-of-democracy/2004/11/11/1100131127754.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.theage.com.au/news/Opinion/Why-we-ne...</a><br><br>I don't know the details of the discussions between Palin and Emmons, nor do I know what either was thinking.  But it seems clear to me that a public library should not only adhere to community standards, it should be a beacon to objective truth.  It should NOT be an \"adult\" bookstore. <br><br>Laura, you're a good looking woman - I'm sure that you would be paid well to have sex with a stranger in front of a camera.  Would you do it?  (hopefully your answer is no).  Why not?<br><br>I'll tell you why--it's because you are a person, whose purpose in life is to love and be loved.  You are not an object to be used.  Nor will you be happy if you use other people as objects.<br><br>So why are you attacking Palin?<br><br>I've seen some purported lists of books that Palin supposedly did not want in the library.  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Has she been seen anywhere near the convention floor? Will she and McCain spend the rest of the campaign in self imposed cones of silence, only raising their heads when they are sure of being in a controlled environment peopled with their friends? What happened to the \"town hall\" dare to Obama? Why can't McCain even agree to go on Larry King Live? When has Larry King been known to ask tough questions? Wasn't Palin tapped for her skills as a salesperson and marketer? Is she even out there selling? 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I feel I have been as informed as anyone can be in this political fight. Putting all party politics on the side , I still want to hear about issues and what the canidates plan to try to institute for the benifit of the American people. Sadly meny seem to be leaning to the GOP over one issue and have used that sole issue as their soap box since Roe vs Wade. Abortion. Our need for a competant leadership far outweights this one issue and all the rehtortic that is given to it is unjust and unncessary. It is high time we American's demand to move on to issues that are prevelent\u00a0 to here and now such as the gobal warming, lack of jobs and our energy situation and elect people who have the forsightedness to bring us to those issues. 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			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">25</span> of <span id="dsq-total-posts">25</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/palin_to_wasilla_librarian_are_you_ok_with_censorship/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/palin_to_wasilla_librarian_are_you_ok_with_censorship/">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/palin_to_wasilla_librarian_are_you_ok_with_censorship/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:4086622" 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'				: 'palin_to_wasilla_librarian_are_you_ok_with_censorship',
			// 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/palin_to_wasilla_librarian_are_you_ok_with_censorship/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='	+ 'palin_to_wasilla_librarian_are_you_ok_with_censorship'
			+ '&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='	+ 'palin_to_wasilla_librarian_are_you_ok_with_censorship'
			+ '&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='		+ 'palin_to_wasilla_librarian_are_you_ok_with_censorship'
				+ '&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);
			}
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2507375" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2507375">Anti-McCain/Palin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2507375" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2507375" class="dsq-comment-message">Emperor Palin</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2290896" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2290896">Robert</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2290896" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2290896" class="dsq-comment-message">I wounder when the population who is of age to vote will get their head out of the sand. Do they not see what censorship has already done to our freedoms? We cannot protest without being isolated or brutalized. I\'ve had enough of the Bush /Cheny era. We do not need more of the same.No matter who is elected will cave in to <br>coporate interests, and wage more wars to uphold Coporate interests. More young men will be sacrificed upon the Corporate altar. We are one people,one world. Nature works in harmony. Why don\'t we, as a people and as a world.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2272119" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2272119">kdid</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2272119" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2272119" class="dsq-comment-message">I have just read all the information and all links and comments on this sight as well as have been watching all that the news has had and both conventions. I feel I have been as informed as anyone can be in this political fight. Putting all party politics on the side , I still want to hear about issues and what the canidates plan to try to institute for the benifit of the American people. Sadly meny seem to be leaning to the GOP over one issue and have used that sole issue as their soap box since Roe vs Wade. Abortion. Our need for a competant leadership far outweights this one issue and all the rehtortic that is given to it is unjust and unncessary. It is high time we American\'s demand to move on to issues that are prevelent  to here and now such as the gobal warming, lack of jobs and our energy situation and elect people who have the forsightedness to bring us to those issues. Ignoring all the other personal issues Palin has going on and looking at just her attemps at governing, she does not display hope to me and as meny have stated the health of McCain leaves much to wonder and to seriously realize that she could be placed in the leadership role. This election is very important to the future of this country and those who take it lightly may be selling it down the drain. Thank You all for this forum and vote with caution.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2256029" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2256029">Presidentless</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2256029" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2256029" class="dsq-comment-message">Spoke to a man from Wasilla earlier tonight who said that Palin fired the entire city staff, which is within her power to do as executive however indiscriminately, and that the Library Director "refused" to go.  He said she returned to graduate school, so there\'s another director there now.  He also said that she had the new staff "swear loyalty oaths".  Might be interesting to talk to get a few of these people who did swear oaths to her to corroborate.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2250698">Latina</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2250698" class="dsq-comment-message">McCain and Palin - Part of the Bush League.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2107936">Bev</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2107936" class="dsq-comment-message">Please get this info to Mary Ellen Emmons.<br><br>Dear Ms. Emmons,<br><br>I am always interested when I hear of books being censored from libraries. Please have the washington Independent get you my email address so we can communicate. Thanks. And do any of the commenters know which books Sarah wanted removed?<br><br>thanks</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2104496">susanmarie8</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2104496" class="dsq-comment-message">For god\'s sake people!<br><br>I work in recruiting and I have to tell you.  That *does* sound like a standard question that a responsible overseer would ask a librarian at a first interview.  Did you know that there are list of standard questions to ask pertaining to profession that are developed by HR professionals??</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2095770">Heather</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2095770" class="dsq-comment-message">About Sarah Palin by Wasilla Resident <br>by jsfox, Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 12:28:03 PM EST<br><br>Full name and email address of writer withheld at writers request. However original can be seen in the comments section of this article:<br><a href="http://www.washingtonindependent.com/367" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonindependent.com/367</a> 1/the-reform-candidate<br><br><br>Dear friends,<br><br>So many people have asked me about what I know about Sarah Palin in the <br>last 2 days that I decided to write something up . . .<br><br>Basically, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have only 2 things in <br>common: their gender and their good looks. :)<br><br>You have my permission to forward this to your friends/email contacts <br>with my name and email address attached, but please do not post it on <br>any websites, as there are too many kooks out there . . .<br><br>Thanks,<br>Anne<br><br>ABOUT SARAH PALIN<br><br>I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992. <br>Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a <br>first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her <br>father was my child\'s favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a <br>first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more <br>City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the <br>residents of the city.<br><br>She is enormously popular; in every way she\'s like the most popular <br>girl in middle school. Even men who think she is a poor choice and <br>won\'t vote for her can\'t quit smiling when talking about her because <br>she is a "babe".<br><br>It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret. She <br>kept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her children and parents <br>for seven months.<br><br>She is "pro-life". She recently gave birth to a Down\'s syndrome baby. <br>There is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby.<br><br>She is energetic and hardworking. She regularly worked out at the gym.<br><br>She is savvy. She doesn\'t take positions; she just "puts things out <br>there" and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit.<br><br>Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a <br>champion snowmobile racer. Todd Palin\'s kind of job is highly <br>sought-after because of the schedule and high pay. He arranges his <br>work schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or <br>so in summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their <br>major source of income. Nor has her life-style ever been anything <br>like that of native Alaskans.<br><br>Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters.<br><br><br><br><br><br>She\'s smart.<br><br>Her experience is as mayor of a city with a population of about 5,000 <br>(at the time), and less than 2 years as governor of a state with about <br>670,000 residents.<br><br>During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running <br>this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been <br>pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had <br>gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had <br>given rise to a recall campaign.<br><br>Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a "fiscal conservative". During her 6 <br>years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over <br>33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the <br>City increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation <br>(1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a <br>regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she <br>promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they <br>benefited residents.<br><br>The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration <br>weren\'t enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed <br>money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it <br>with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage <br>the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said <br>she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a <br>new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a <br>multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece <br>of property that the City didn\'t even have clear title to, that was <br>still in litigation 7 yrs later--to the delight of the lawyers <br>involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the <br>community but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it <br>would be. She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that <br>could have been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing.<br><br>While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office <br>redecorated more than once.<br><br>These are small numbers, but Wasilla is a very small city.<br><br>As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget surplus <br>in Alaska. Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will <br>make us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she <br>proposed distribution of this surplus to every individual in the state.<br><br>In this time of record state revenues and budget surpluses, she <br>recommended that the state borrow/bond for road projects, even while <br>she proposed distribution of surplus state revenues: spend today\'s <br>surplus, borrow for needs.<br><br>She\'s not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideas <br>or compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren\'t generated by <br>her or her staff. Ideas weren\'t evaluated on their merits, but on the <br>basis of who proposed them.<br><br>While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected <br>City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from <br>the library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City residents <br>rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin\'s <br>attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew <br>her termination letter. People who fought her attempt to oust the <br>Librarian are on her enemies list to this day.<br><br>Sarah complained about the "old boy\'s club" when she first ran for <br>Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of "old boys". Palin <br>fired most of the experienced staff she inherited. At the City and as <br>Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people, <br>creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally <br>grateful and fiercely loyal--loyal to the point of abusing their power <br>to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the <br>case of pressuring the State\'s top cop (see below).<br><br>As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla\'s Police Chief because he "intimidated" <br>her, she told the press. As Governor, her recent firing of Alaska\'s top <br>cop has the ring of familiarity about it. He served at her pleasure <br>and she had every legal right to fire him, but it\'s pretty clear that <br>an important factor in her decision to fire him was because he wouldn\'t <br>fire her sister\'s ex-husband, a State Trooper. Under investigation <br>for abuse of power, she has had to admit that more than 2 dozen <br>contacts were made between her staff and family to the person that she <br>later fired, pressuring him to fire her ex-brother-in-law. She tried to <br>replace the man she fired with a man who she knew had been reprimanded <br>for sexual harassment; when this caused a public furor, she withdrew <br>her support.<br><br>She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in <br>help. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town <br>introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council <br>became one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor. She <br>abruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn\'t <br>like the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness.<br><br>Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything <br>publicly about her.<br><br>When then-Governor Murkowski was handing out political plums, Sarah got <br>the best, Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission: one <br>of the few jobs not in Juneau and one of the best paid. She had no <br>background in oil & gas issues. Within months of scoring this great <br>job which paid $122,400/yr, she was complaining in the press about the <br>high salary. I was told that she hated that job: the commute, the <br>structured hours, the work. Sarah became aware that a member of this <br>Commission (who was also the State Chair of the Republican Party) <br>engaged in unethical behavior on the job. In a gutsy move which some <br>undoubtedly cautioned her could be political suicide, Sarah solved all <br>her problems in one fell swoop: got out of the job she hated and <br>garnered gobs of media attention as the patron saint of ethics and as a <br>gutsy fighter against the "old boys\' club" when she dramatically quit, <br>exposing this man\'s ethics violations (for which he was fined).<br><br>As Mayor, she had her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork from <br>Senator Ted Stevens. Lately, she has castigated his pork-barrel <br>politics and publicly humiliated him. She only opposed the "bridge to <br>nowhere" after it became clear that it would be unwise not to.<br><br>As Governor, she gave the Legislature no direction and budget <br>guidelines, then made a big grandstand display of line-item vetoing <br>projects, calling them pork. Public outcry and further legislative <br>action restored most of these projects--which had been vetoed simply <br>because she was not aware of their importance--but with the unobservant <br>she had gained a reputation as "anti-pork".<br><br>She is solidly Republican: no political maverick. The State party <br>leaders hate her because she has bit them in the back and humiliated <br>them. Other members of the party object to her self-description as a <br>fiscal conservative.<br><br>Around Wasilla there are people who went to high school with Sarah. <br>They call her "Sarah Barracuda" because of her unbridled ambition and <br>predatory ruthlessness. Before she became so powerful, very ugly <br>stories circulated around town about shenanigans she pulled to be made <br>point guard on the high school basketball team. When Sarah\'s <br>mother-in-law, a highly respected member of the community and <br>experienced manager, ran for Mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her.<br><br>As Governor, she stepped outside of the box and put together of package <br>of legislation known as "AGIA" that forced the oil companies to march <br>to the beat of her drum.<br><br>Like most Alaskans, she favors drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife <br>Refuge. She has questioned if the loss of sea ice is linked to <br>global warming. She campaigned "as a private citizen" against a state <br>initiaitive that would have either a) protected salmon streams from <br>pollution from mines, or b) tied up in the courts all mining in the <br>state (depending on who you listen to). She has pushed the State\'s <br>lawsuit against the Dept. of the Interior\'s decision to list polar <br>bears as threatened species.<br><br>McCain is the oldest person to ever run for President; Sarah will be a <br>heartbeat away from being President.<br><br>There has to be literally millions of Americans who are more <br>knowledgeable and experienced than she.<br><br>However, there\'s a lot of people who have underestimated her and are <br>regretting it.<br><br>CLAIM VS FACT<br>*"Hockey mom": true for a few years<br>*"PTA mom": true years ago when her first-born was in elementary <br>school, not since<br>*"NRA supporter": absolutely true<br>*social conservative: mixed. Opposes gay marriage, BUT vetoed a bill <br>that would have denied benefits to employees in same-sex relationships <br>(said she did this because it was unconsitutional).<br>*pro-creationism: mixed. Supports it, BUT did nothing as Governor to <br>promote it.<br>*"Pro-life": mixed. Knowingly gave birth to a Down\'s syndrome baby <br>BUT declined to call a special legislative session on some pro-life <br>legislation<br>*"Experienced": Some high schools have more students than Wasilla has <br>residents. Many cities have more residents than the state of Alaska. <br>No legislative experience other than City Council. Little hands-on <br>supervisory or managerial experience; needed help of a city <br>administrator to run town of about 5,000.<br>*political maverick: not at all<br>*gutsy: absolutely!<br>*open & transparent: ??? Good at keeping secrets. Not good at <br>explaining actions.<br>*has a developed philosophy of public policy: no<br>*"a Greenie": no. Turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores <br>and disconnected parking lots. Is pro-drilling off-shore and in ANWR.<br>*fiscal conservative: not by my definition!<br>*pro-infrastructure: No. Promoted a sports complex and park in a city <br>without a sewage treatment plant or storm drainage system. Built <br>streets to early 20th century standards.<br>*pro-tax relief: Lowered taxes for businesses, increased tax burden on <br>residents<br>*pro-small government: No. Oversaw greatest expansion of city <br>government in Wasilla\'s history.<br>*pro-labor/pro-union. No. Just because her husband works union <br>doesn\'t make her pro-labor. I have seen nothing to support any claim <br>that she is pro-labor/pro-union.<br><br>WHY AM I WRITING THIS?<br><br>First, I have long believed in the importance of being an informed <br>voter. I am a voter registrar. For 10 years I put on student voting <br>programs in the schools. If you google my name (Anne, last name redacted <br>Alaska), you will find references to my participation in local <br>government, education, and PTA/parent organizations.<br><br>Secondly, I\'ve always operated in the belief that "Bad things happen <br>when good people stay silent". Few people know as much as I do because <br>few have gone to as many City Council meetings.<br><br>Third, I am just a housewife. I don\'t have a job she can bump me out <br>of. I don\'t belong to any organization that she can hurt. But, I am no <br>fool; she is immensely popular here, and it is likely that this will <br>cost me somehow in the future: that\'s life.<br><br>Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the 100 <br>or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against Sarah\'s <br>attempt at censorship.<br><br>Fifth, I looked around and realized that everybody else was afraid to <br>say anything because they were somehow vulnerable.<br><br>CAVEATS<br>I am not a statistician. I developed the numbers for the increase in <br>spending & taxation 2 years ago (when Palin was running for Governor) <br>from information supplied to me by the Finance Director of the City of <br>Wasilla, and I can\'t recall exactly what I adjusted for: did I adjust <br>for inflation? for population increases? Right now, it is impossible <br>for a private person to get any info out of City Hall--they are <br>swamped. So I can\'t verify my numbers.<br><br>You may have noticed that there are various numbers circulating for the <br>population of Wasilla, ranging from my "about 5,000", up to 9,000. The <br>day Palin\'s selection was announced a city official told me that the <br>current population is about 7,000. The official 2000 census count was <br>5,460. I have used about 5,000 because Palin was Mayor from 1996 to <br>2002, and the city was growing rapidly in the mid-90\'s.<br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br>Tags: Sarah Palin, VP, Wasilla, Mayor (all tags)<br><br>  Display:  ThreadedMinimalNestedFlatFlat Unthreaded   <br> <br>Permalink :: 29 Comments :: Post a Comment  <br><br><br><br><br>   Re: About Sarah Palin by Wasilla Resident (2.00 / 5) <br><br><br>Tips and Recs for just the facts, which are damning enough<br><br> <br>Faced with the choice between changing one\'s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.  <br>by jsfox on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 12:49:23 PM EST <br> <br><br><br>Re: About Sarah Palin by Wasilla Resident (none / 0) <br><br><br>According the Coast To Coast AM, Palin fired her own chef, while stating, "we don\'t need a chef. My family can cook their own food."<br><br> <br> <br>by Check077 on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 02:59:27 PM EST <br>[ Parent ]  <br><br><br>Good Piece BUT (none / 0) <br><br><br>the author\'s name appears in the body, contrary to the request at the top, so you may want to edit that out.<br><br> <br> <br>by JJE on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 12:53:03 PM EST <br> <br><br><br>Re: Good Piece BUT (none / 0) <br><br><br>Thanks for the catch. Done.<br><br> <br>Faced with the choice between changing one\'s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.  <br>by jsfox on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 12:58:06 PM EST <br>[ Parent ]  <br><br><br>Re: About Sarah Palin by Wasilla Resident (none / 0) <br><br><br>Does anyone know what books she wanted removed from the libary?<br><br>Are we talking Harry Potter type of objection, cause of witchcraft?<br><br>That is probably good info to have, we can give up on trying to convince the Republic Base about Palin, they are positively orgasmic.<br><br>But, if we can paint her as just another Right Wing religous nut in a attractive package, that can hurt her with independents.<br><br> <br>"Well the danger on the rocks is surely past... Still I remain tied to the mast"...Don Fagen, Poet and Piano Player  <br>by WashStateBlue on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 12:58:44 PM EST <br> <br><br><br>Re: About Sarah Palin by Wasilla Resident (2.00 / 1) <br><br><br>Time Mag has tried to talk to the Liberian, but so far she\'s not responded.<br><br>However, I agree what books did she tried to have removed would be a bit telling.<br><br>Frankly anybody who tries to get books banned scares the hell out of me.<br><br> <br>Faced with the choice between changing one\'s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.  <br>by jsfox on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 01:05:20 PM EST <br>[ Parent ]  <br><br><br>The more I hear (2.00 / 1) <br><br><br>the more I agree with the tag line, "More of the Same." She fits rights in with the Bush/Cheney mentality, even moreso than McCain.<br><br> <br> <br>by Lolis on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 12:59:00 PM EST <br> <br><br><br>Re: The more I hear (2.00 / 1) <br><br><br>We should refer to them as McCainlin.<br><br> <br>"In the primary you should vote with your heart, but in the general, you should vote with your head" Hillary\'s husband <br>by venician on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 02:06:29 PM EST <br>[ Parent ]  <br><br><br>She sounds like (none / 0) <br><br><br>george bush!<br><br> <br>Washington Woman <br><a href="http://theocracywatch.org" rel="nofollow">theocracywatch.org</a> <br>EENR Blog <br>by kevin22262 on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 02:11:35 PM EST <br> <br><br>This matches a pattern (none / 0) <br><br><br>and Anne does turn up in Alaska in just the context she states, so I believe this is 100% authentic.<br><br>The entire narrative of this matches the bits and pieces that have been coming together over the past few days.  The McCain team missed all these details because the super-secret vetting process involved only talking to Palin and a tiny number of her loyalists, who not surprisingly supported her own personal perspective.<br><br>Interesting, indeed.<br><br>-chris<br><br> <br>"Because after an eight-year hiatus it is vital to have a president who leads the country instead of lassoing, roping and branding it." Shaun Appleby <br>by chrisblask on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 02:14:24 PM EST <br> <br><br>from Politico (none / 0) <br><br><br>I am copying this comment that tickled me <br><br>*******<br>8 scandles in 24 hours! <br><br><br>The news that Palin once backed the Bridge to Nowhere went national. <br><br>It emerged that Palin has links to the bizarro Alaska Independence Party, which harbors the goal of seceding from the union that McCain and Palin seek to lead. <br><br>The news broke that as governor, Palin relied on an earmark system she now opposes. Taken along with the Bridge to Nowhere stuff, this threatens to undercut her reformist image, something that was key to her selection as McCain\'s Veep candidate. <br><br>The news broke that Palin\'s 17-year-old daughter became pregnant out of wedlock at a time when the conservative base had finally started rallying behind McCain\'s candidacy. <br><br>Barely moments after McCain advisers put out word that McCain had known of Bristol Palin\'s pregnancy, the Anchorage Daily News revealed that Palin\'s own spokesperson hadn\'t known about it only two days ago. <br><br>A senior McCain adviser at the Republican convention was forced into the rather embarrassing position of arguing that McCain had known about the pregnancy "last week" -- without saying what day last week he knew about it. <br><br>It came out that Republican lawyers are up in Alaska vetting Palin -- now, more than 72 hours after it was announced that she\'d been picked. <br><br>Palin lawyered up in relation to the trooper-gate probe in Alaska -- a move that ensures far more serious attention to the story from the major news orgs.<br><br> <br>PUMA: Particularly Undeveloped Mental Ability <br>by wellinformed on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 03:47:20 PM EST <br> <br><br><br>Re: from Politico (none / 0) <br><br><br>ok they spelled scandal wrong<br><br> <br>PUMA: Particularly Undeveloped Mental Ability <br>by wellinformed on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 03:48:15 PM EST <br>[ Parent ]  <br><br><br>Re: from Politico (2.00 / 2) <br><br><br>Oh, I thought maybe it was some ceremonial fire stick you light to celebrate the scandals?<br><br>You know, one "Scandle" lit for each scandal noted!<br><br> <br>"Well the danger on the rocks is surely past... Still I remain tied to the mast"...Don Fagen, Poet and Piano Player  <br>by WashStateBlue on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 04:47:21 PM EST <br>[ Parent ]  <br><br><br>Re: from Politico (none / 0) <br><br><br>Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.<br><br> <br>"In the primary you should vote with your heart, but in the general, you should vote with your head" Hillary\'s husband <br>by venician on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 05:59:42 PM EST <br>[ Parent ]  <br><br><br>I see my other skeptical comment was troll-rated. (1.00 / 1) <br><br><br>Try this one.  Anne describes herself this way:<br>"...it is likely that this will<br>cost me somehow in the future: that\'s life.<br><br>Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the 100<br>or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against Sarah\'s<br>attempt at censorship.<br><br>Fifth, I looked around and realized that everybody else was afraid to<br>say anything because they were somehow vulnerable."<br><br>Anne feels as if this public figure hates her - in particular - and is out to \'cost her..in the future.\'  Good description of an enemy.<br><br>Anne states she personally is a target who is \'vulnerable\' to ... something.  Seems to me she could be making more out of her position in little Wasilla to gain 15 mins of fame.  Maybe a bit paranoid, to boot.<br><br>Can somebody bring in a grain of salt, please?<br><br> <br> <br>by lizpolaris on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 05:44:13 PM EST <br> <br><br>What\'s odd... (2.00 / 1) <br><br><br>After all of these so-called "facts", the author says Palin is "immensely popular here".  Let\'s see, she has supposedly bitten every hand that\'s fed her, and other than being "gutsy" and smart, I\'m hard-pressed to find why anyone there would be enamored with her, given what the author has said. It really doesn\'t wash.  Something\'s missing.  Good looks only take you so far, so I\'m not buying that.  <br><br>Obviously this person has their own view of Palin.  I think it\'s a real stretch to say these things are all "facts", though.  Until corroborated, it\'s just heresay.<br><br>I know that\'s not what people here want to hear, but hey, I actually care about facts.  There\'s enough smearing going on in politics (on both sides) to be very skeptical of the latest info coming down the pike.  <br><br> <br> <br>by DaTruth on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 05:50:54 PM EST <br> <br><br><br>The Anne in question (none / 0) <br><br><br>who is named elsewhere, shows up in as a witness in Alaskan legislature here, is searchable near Wasilla AK in whitepages, shows up discussing school funding here and in other places.<br><br>And I just spoke to her on the phone (on another call, asked to call her back in a few but she did get my email).<br><br>Real person, real persepctive.<br><br> <br>"Because after an eight-year hiatus it is vital to have a president who leads the country instead of lassoing, roping and branding it." Shaun Appleby <br>by chrisblask on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 06:04:14 PM EST <br>[ Parent ]  <br><br><br><br>You are not logged in.<br>In order to post a comment, you must be logged in. 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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2095191" class="dsq-comment-message">Didn\'t Craig Ferguson think that Palin was a Naughty Alaskan Librarian?<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh-lW2opLyQ" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh-lW2opLyQ</a><br>:-) <br><br>Seriously, does a democratic society require the existence of pornography, which degrades both the person in the photos/video as well as the viewer?  The First Amendment is about protecting political criticism, not about allowing the degradation of (mostly) women and children.   Perhaps we need a better version of democracy.<br><a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Opinion/Why-we-need-a-better-version-of-democracy/2004/11/11/1100131127754.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.theage.com.au/news/Opinion/Why-we-ne...</a><br><br>I don\'t know the details of the discussions between Palin and Emmons, nor do I know what either was thinking.  But it seems clear to me that a public library should not only adhere to community standards, it should be a beacon to objective truth.  It should NOT be an "adult" bookstore. <br><br>Laura, you\'re a good looking woman - I\'m sure that you would be paid well to have sex with a stranger in front of a camera.  Would you do it?  (hopefully your answer is no).  Why not?<br><br>I\'ll tell you why--it\'s because you are a person, whose purpose in life is to love and be loved.  You are not an object to be used.  Nor will you be happy if you use other people as objects.<br><br>So why are you attacking Palin?<br><br>I\'ve seen some purported lists of books that Palin supposedly did not want in the library.  Some of them are destructive in the same way that pornography is destructive; the same way that fraud and yelling "Fire" in a crowded theater are destructive, only in more subtle ways.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2042580" class="dsq-comment-message">A letter from someone who has known Sarah Palin since 1992<br><br>Anne is from Wasilla, Alaska.<br><br>I found this on the Washington Post comment board and have posted it exactly as I found it.<br><br>Amazing Letter From a Local Wasillian Who Knows Sarah Palin Well.<br><br>From: <a href="http://www.washingtonindependent.com/3671/the-reform-candidate" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonindependent.com/3671/the-r...</a><br>Submitted by Michael Wrightson on Sept 1, 2008<br><br>A note to all by {the Author}<br><br>Dear friends,<br><br>So many people have asked me about what I know about Sarah Palin in the<br>last 2 days that I decided to write something up . . .<br><br>Basically, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have only 2 things in<br>common: their gender and their good looks.<br><br>You have my permission to forward this to your friends/email contacts<br>with my name and email address attached, but please do not post it on<br>any websites, as there are too many kooks out there . . .<br><br>[ This was already posted on Washington Independent comments area,<br>with a controllable hotmail account, and was obviously meant by the<br>author to be read. ]<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Anne<br><br>ABOUT SARAH PALIN<br><br>I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992.<br>Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a<br>first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her<br>father was my child’s favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a<br>first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more<br>City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the<br>residents of the city.<br><br>She is enormously popular; in every way she’s like the most popular<br>girl in middle school. Even men who think she is a poor choice and<br>won’t vote for her can’t quit smiling when talking about her because<br>she is a “babe”.<br><br>It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret. She<br>kept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her children and parents<br>for seven months.<br><br>She is “pro-life”. She recently gave birth to a Down’s syndrome baby.<br>There is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby.<br><br>She is energetic and hardworking. She regularly worked out at the gym.<br><br>She is savvy. She doesn’t take positions; she just “puts things out<br>there” and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit.<br><br>Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a<br>champion snowmobile racer. Todd Palin’s kind of job is highly<br>sought-after because of the schedule and high pay. He arranges his<br>work schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or<br>so in summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their<br>major source of income. Nor has her life-style ever been anything<br>like that of native Alaskans.<br><br>Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters.<br><br>She’s smart.<br><br>Her experience is as mayor of a city with a population of about 5,000<br>(at the time), and less than 2 years as governor of a state with about<br>670,000 residents.<br><br>During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running<br>this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been<br>pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had<br>gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had<br>given rise to a recall campaign.<br><br>Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a “fiscal conservative”. During her 6<br>years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over<br>33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the<br>City increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation<br>(1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a<br>regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she<br>promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they<br>benefited residents.<br><br>The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration<br>weren’t enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed<br>money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it<br>with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage<br>the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said<br>she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a<br>new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a<br>multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece<br>of property that the City didn’t even have clear title to, that was<br>still in litigation 7 yrs later–to the delight of the lawyers<br>involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the<br>community but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it<br>would be. She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that<br>could have been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing.<br><br>While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office<br>redecorated more than once.<br><br>These are small numbers, but Wasilla is a very small city.<br><br>As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget surplus<br>in Alaska. Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will<br>make us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she<br>proposed distribution of this surplus to every individual in the state.<br><br>In this time of record state revenues and budget surpluses, she<br>recommended that the state borrow/bond for road projects, even while<br>she proposed distribution of surplus state revenues: spend today’s<br>surplus, borrow for needs.<br><br>She’s not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideas<br>or compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren’t generated by<br>her or her staff. Ideas weren’t evaluated on their merits, but on the<br>basis of who proposed them.<br><br>While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected<br>City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from<br>the library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City residents<br>rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin’s<br>attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew<br>her termination letter. People who fought her attempt to oust the<br>Librarian are on her enemies list to this day.<br><br>Sarah complained about the “old boy’s club” when she first ran for<br>Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of “old boys”. Palin<br>fired most of the experienced staff she inherited. At the City and as<br>Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people,<br>creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally<br>grateful and fiercely loyal–loyal to the point of abusing their power<br>to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the<br>case of pressuring the State’s top cop (see below).<br><br>As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla’s Police Chief because he “intimidated”<br>her, she told the press. As Governor, her recent firing of Alaska’s top<br>cop has the ring of familiarity about it. He served at her pleasure<br>and she had every legal right to fire him, but it’s pretty clear that<br>an important factor in her decision to fire him was because he wouldn’t<br>fire her sister’s ex-husband, a State Trooper. Under investigation<br>for abuse of power, she has had to admit that more than 2 dozen<br>contacts were made between her staff and family to the person that she<br>later fired, pressuring him to fire her ex-brother-in-law. She tried to<br>replace the man she fired with a man who she knew had been reprimanded<br>for sexual harassment; when this caused a public furor, she withdrew<br>her support.<br><br>She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in<br>help. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town<br>introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council<br>became one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor. She<br>abruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn’t<br>like the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness.<br><br>Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything<br>publicly about her.<br><br>When then-Governor Murkowski was handing out political plums, Sarah got<br>the best, Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission: one<br>of the few jobs not in Juneau and one of the best paid. She had no<br>background in oil & gas issues. Within months of scoring this great<br>job which paid $122,400/yr, she was complaining in the press about the<br>high salary. I was told that she hated that job: the commute, the<br>structured hours, the work. Sarah became aware that a member of this<br>Commission (who was also the State Chair of the Republican Party)<br>engaged in unethical behavior on the job. In a gutsy move which some<br>undoubtedly cautioned her could be political suicide, Sarah solved all<br>her problems in one fell swoop: got out of the job she hated and<br>garnered gobs of media attention as the patron saint of ethics and as a<br>gutsy fighter against the “old boys’ club” when she dramatically quit,<br>exposing this man’s ethics violations (for which he was fined).<br><br>As Mayor, she had her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork from<br>Senator Ted Stevens. Lately, she has castigated his pork-barrel<br>politics and publicly humiliated him. She only opposed the “bridge to<br>nowhere” after it became clear that it would be unwise not to.<br><br>As Governor, she gave the Legislature no direction and budget<br>guidelines, then made a big grandstand display of line-item vetoing<br>projects, calling them pork. Public outcry and further legislative<br>action restored most of these projects–which had been vetoed simply<br>because she was not aware of their importance–but with the unobservant<br>she had gained a reputation as “anti-pork”.<br><br>She is solidly Republican: no political maverick. The State party<br>leaders hate her because she has bit them in the back and humiliated<br>them. Other members of the party object to her self-description as a<br>fiscal conservative.<br><br>Around Wasilla there are people who went to high school with Sarah.<br>They call her “Sarah Barracuda” because of her unbridled ambition and<br>predatory ruthlessness. Before she became so powerful, very ugly<br>stories circulated around town about shenanigans she pulled to be made<br>point guard on the high school basketball team. When Sarah’s<br>mother-in-law, a highly respected member of the community and<br>experienced manager, ran for Mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her.<br><br>As Governor, she stepped outside of the box and put together of package<br>of legislation known as “AGIA” that forced the oil companies to march<br>to the beat of her drum.<br><br>Like most Alaskans, she favors drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife<br>Refuge. She has questioned if the loss of sea ice is linked to<br>global warming. She campaigned “as a private citizen” against a state<br>initiaitive that would have either a) protected salmon streams from<br>pollution from mines, or b) tied up in the courts all mining in the<br>state (depending on who you listen to). She has pushed the State’s<br>lawsuit against the Dept. of the Interior’s decision to list polar<br>bears as threatened species.<br><br>McCain is the oldest person to ever run for President; Sarah will be a<br>heartbeat away from being President.<br><br>There has to be literally millions of Americans who are more<br>knowledgeable and experienced than she.<br><br>However, there’s a lot of people who have underestimated her and are<br>regretting it.<br><br>CLAIM VS FACT<br>•“Hockey mom”: true for a few years<br>•“PTA mom”: true years ago when her first-born was in elementary<br>school, not since<br>•“NRA supporter”: absolutely true<br>•social conservative: mixed. Opposes gay marriage, BUT vetoed a bill<br>that would have denied benefits to employees in same-sex relationships<br>(said she did this because it was unconsitutional).<br>•pro-creationism: mixed. Supports it, BUT did nothing as Governor to<br>promote it.<br>•“Pro-life”: mixed. Knowingly gave birth to a Down’s syndrome baby<br>BUT declined to call a special legislative session on some pro-life<br>legislation<br>•“Experienced”: Some high schools have more students than Wasilla has<br>residents. Many cities have more residents than the state of Alaska.<br>No legislative experience other than City Council. Little hands-on<br>supervisory or managerial experience; needed help of a city<br>administrator to run town of about 5,000.<br>•political maverick: not at all<br>•gutsy: absolutely!<br>•open & transparent: ??? Good at keeping secrets. Not good at<br>explaining actions.<br>•has a developed philosophy of public policy: no<br>•”a Greenie”: no. Turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores<br>and disconnected parking lots. Is pro-drilling off-shore and in ANWR.<br>•fiscal conservative: not by my definition!<br>•pro-infrastructure: No. Promoted a sports complex and park in a city<br>without a sewage treatment plant or storm drainage system. Built<br>streets to early 20th century standards.<br>•pro-tax relief: Lowered taxes for businesses, increased tax burden on<br>residents<br>•pro-small government: No. Oversaw greatest expansion of city<br>government in Wasilla’s history.<br>•pro-labor/pro-union. No. Just because her husband works union<br>doesn’t make her pro-labor. I have seen nothing to support any claim<br>that she is pro-labor/pro-union.<br><br>WHY AM I WRITING THIS?<br><br>First, I have long believed in the importance of being an informed<br>voter. I am a voter registrar. For 10 years I put on student voting<br>programs in the schools. If you google my name (Anne Kilkenny +<br>Alaska), you will find references to my participation in local<br>government, education, and PTA/parent organizations.<br><br>Secondly, I’ve always operated in the belief that “Bad things happen<br>when good people stay silent”. Few people know as much as I do because<br>few have gone to as many City Council meetings.<br><br>Third, I am just a housewife. I don’t have a job she can bump me out<br>of. I don’t belong to any organization that she can hurt. But, I am no<br>fool; she is immensely popular here, and it is likely that this will<br>cost me somehow in the future: that’s life.<br><br>Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the 100<br>or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against Sarah’s<br>attempt at censorship.<br><br>Fifth, I looked around and realized that everybody else was afraid to<br>say anything because they were somehow vulnerable.<br><br>CAVEATS<br>I am not a statistician. I developed the numbers for the increase in<br>spending & taxation 2 years ago (when Palin was running for Governor)<br>from information supplied to me by the Finance Director of the City of<br>Wasilla, and I can’t recall exactly what I adjusted for: did I adjust<br>for inflation? for population increases? Right now, it is impossible<br>for a private person to get any info out of City Hall–they are<br>swamped. So I can’t verify my numbers.<br><br>You may have noticed that there are various numbers circulating for the<br>population of Wasilla, ranging from my “about 5,000″, up to 9,000. The<br>day Palin’s selection was announced a city official told me that the<br>current population is about 7,000. The official 2000 census count was<br>5,460. I have used about 5,000 because Palin was Mayor from 1996 to<br>2002, and the city was growing rapidly in the mid-90’s.<br><br><br>August 31, 2008</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2032024" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2032024" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2032024">bookburningiscool</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2032024" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2032024" class="dsq-comment-message">how do we find out which books she wanted to ban from the library?  seems like it should be easy if someone contacts the librarian.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2031398" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2031398" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2031398">DHamon</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2031398" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2031398" class="dsq-comment-message">So,<br>Strong Anti-choice + Pro-censorship + Loyalty Test -&gt; Sarah Palin = Monica Goodling II ?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2031023" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2031023" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2031023">jessamyn</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2031023" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2031023" class="dsq-comment-message">Could you upload a copy of the article for us to read?Thanks for this.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2030112" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2030112" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2030112">Fireshadow</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2030112" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2030112" class="dsq-comment-message">Great confirmation!!   <br>Keep vetting!<br>and in the meantime..<br>Now..... go find Emmons!!!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-2029644">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2029644" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2029644" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2029644">Budger083</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2029644" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2029644" class="dsq-comment-message">Where is the story??   What day in December of 1996??   Any quotes from the article??  Any quotes from the library director??  Have not seen one quote from the librarian in the news.  Not a very believable article!!!!  How about a link so we can see for ourselves??</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2031296" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2031296" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2031296">Moad Dib</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2031296" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2031296" class="dsq-comment-message">If you bothered to keep up with the story, you would know that most people involved in Palin\'s character assassinations prefer not to discuss their run ins with her in fear of further retributions...she\'ll still governor and can make their lives miserable</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2029992" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2029992" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2029992">furysmom</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2029992" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2029992" class="dsq-comment-message">Are you the same individual as yesterday posting under a different name? If not, please go back and read Laura McGann\'s older posts. You can see she is a true journalist with educated readers following her investigations. You can pull this crap but it isn\'t working. Why don\'t you spend your time reading the constitution and making up for the Civics class you obviously slept through or didn\'t get thanks to George Bush.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2137422" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2137422" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2137422">maryn</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2137422" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2137422" class="dsq-comment-message">I would like to reiterate Budger083\'s questions.  Where is the story?  And yes, I did go back and look through the older postings.  All I have been able to uncover is that Palin questioned the librarian about censorship.  Were there certain titles she wanted removed?  I want details.  I\'ve heard over and over that Palin promotes censorship, but I haven\'t found one piece of credible evidence that shows this to be true.  <br><br>And the Constitution does allow us to question what we hear or read.  Apparently you need a brush up of the Constitution.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2029430" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2029430" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2029430">MrBlifil</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2029430" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2029430" class="dsq-comment-message">Where is Sarah? Has she been seen anywhere near the convention floor? Will she and McCain spend the rest of the campaign in self imposed cones of silence, only raising their heads when they are sure of being in a controlled environment peopled with their friends? What happened to the "town hall" dare to Obama? Why can\'t McCain even agree to go on Larry King Live? When has Larry King been known to ask tough questions? Wasn\'t Palin tapped for her skills as a salesperson and marketer? Is she even out there selling? If not, what exactly was the point of her nomination, especially since the campaign is telling us that they knew about her family situation and not only were fine with it, they imagined the American public would find it uncontroversial as well.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2029372" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2029372" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2029372">Tom Parks</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2029372" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2029372" class="dsq-comment-message">You can ascribe all the virtues you wish to this woman ("take-charge, strong, courageous," etc.), but the fact is that, as an American, she is dangerous and her short career is filled with the kind of red flags that should make that clear to any thinking American.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2029366" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2029366" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2029366">ExurbanMom</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2029366" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2029366" class="dsq-comment-message">If we\'ve learned anything over the years, it\'s this:  do not anger the librarians.  You think I\'m kidding?  Librarians are on the front lines of our First Amendment rights, and they take this role very seriously.  When librarians found out that Michael Moore\'s publisher was sitting on one of his early books, they lobbied the publisher and forced the book to be released.  That\'s just one small example of their strength.<br><br>If the librarians find out about this, she will be in trouble.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2030613" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2030613" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2030613" href="http://www.AnEclecticMind.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Maria</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2030613" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2030613" class="dsq-comment-message">"LIbrarians are on the front lines of our First Amendment Rights..."<br><br>Well said! Thanks!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2028559" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2028559" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2028559">KSC</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2028559" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2028559" class="dsq-comment-message">*Toe* the line, as in put your toe on the line I have drawn.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2296034" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2296034">Toby</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2296034" class="dsq-comment-message">Do your best to do in Sarah....<br><br>I love it when the Left is afraid...very afraid!!!</div>\
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	// HACK: We don't know if the callback wraps our container, which may
	// possibly result in a new DOM element.
	Dsq.container = document.getElementById('dsq-content');
}

})();




