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He's the Keynote Speaker at the Las Vegas Tea Party, just five minutes from his home.  While, at the very same time, he's speaking in Orange County.  Who would have thought?!  Someone who has more powers than Obama?  Seriously, folks, Wayne will be at the Las Vegas event, and this is an error.  You may call me or Wayne, or email us for verification, or to get CONFIRMED speaking reservations.  www [dot] RootForAmerica [dot] com  866 622-7823", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_12:17:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "52e961a92d85b94399d75eeeee7cb564", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8209041": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's not about talking negatively, it's about trying to get you to state what it is exactly you're opposed to. If you all knew what you were protesting, it would go a long way towards making you look a little less silly. And if you had some actual policies to object to, maybe something could be done about it. But to protest just for the sake of protesting (which is what you're doing if you can't give specifics) is not going to get you very far. Maybe it's silly of some of us to try to point this out to you, or try to understand your concerns better, but so be it.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_16:45:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "88c1eb6fd5733d9525d559aec9c471d8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8197562, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8201618": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The sleeping giant is a joke.  He has not been sleeping he is just confused.  After mindlessly following the worst President in history, the one that wreaked havoc on the Constitution, created an illegal war that killed over 4000 good US men and women not to mention innocent foreign deaths, spyed on us, tortured humans,  gave tax breaks to the rich, and whose financial policies were the straw that broke the camels back, the giant doesn't know what to do.  He's just frustrated so he's kicking the ground and blaming everyone else for his sore toe.<br><br>Republicans, Conservatives and the Religious right deserve each other.  They are acting true to form.  \"If I don't get to continue eating ALL the ice cream I'm going to scream.\"<br><br>I would like to see an interview of the protesters.  I bet we would see as many opinions as people asked.<br><br>This is not a tea party it is a 3T party e.g., a \"terrible twos tantrum\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_13:40:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "Hawaiianstyle", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8202772": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Jesus - that's a bit of s stretch. Can you tell me what exactly are you protesting and how come you were fine with the last 8 years of the idiot-in-chief ?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_14:16:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "c7db6d912b03bbd3e8c6bfdc88d04f26", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8202146, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8209685": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "When you take back your nation, will you bother to stop the trillion-dollar a year pro-Bush American war machine that has bases in 130 foreign countries and is responsible for:<br><br>2 million dead Vietnamese<br>1 million dead Iraqis<br>over 1 million dead Indonesians (by the US-supported Indonesian Army)<br>200,000 dead in tiny Guatemala?<br><br>Why is it only a waste of money to FEED ni**er babies, but never a waste of money to KILL ni**er babies?  Your bunch only hates government when it reduces inequality, never when it increases it.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_17:09:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "4396bfd5eea85b47d9620204100ddbdf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8200224, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8202646": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Which of these qualify as \"socialism\"?:<br>1. Largest middle-class tax cut in history<br>2. Raising the top marginal rate for those making over 250k to 39.6%, where it was under Clinton, which is more than 10% below where during most of Reagan's Presidency (and 50% below where it was under Ike---where the top marginal rate was 91%)<br>3. The Bush bank bailouts, which Obama has continued<br>4. The government passing a plan to build roads, repair the electric grid, etc, partially b/c our infrastructure needs a massive overhaul, and partially to try to stimulate an economy that collapsed during the Bush years<br><br>Or something else?<br><br>It seems like you guys are so upset that you got crushed in two consecutive elections that you're throwing a temper tantrum and inviting everyone to come watch.<br><br>Also, the US Constitution has no provision for a recalling the President.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_14:12:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "SamR", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8191552, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8209303": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I can't get anyone to tell me what exactly they are protesting. It's very frustrating.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_16:54:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "88c1eb6fd5733d9525d559aec9c471d8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8202646, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8191640": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Republican Party has hijacked the tea party concept from the Ron Paul supporters. They are the ones who were protesting when protesting wasn't cool. Oh yeah, they raised 6 million dollars in one day during a tea party in 2007. The fringe and crazy people are the ones who want to bomb everyone and kill. Look at the rumblings about Somalia. A group of thugs committed a crime and now the neothugs want to bomb Somalia, and they have the nerve to call RP supporters crazy? lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_09:23:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "eec8eae8d812e26dad720a6d5cd88e8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8202799": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Funny isn't it", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_14:17:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "c7db6d912b03bbd3e8c6bfdc88d04f26", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8202525, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8212764": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "from socialism dummy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_19:11:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "d9c5ac42b76cf7dbe755398a18720658", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8208792, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8195485": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "NEW TAX DAY ANTHEM<br>See \u201cGoin\u2019 to the C.P.A. (The Tax Song)\u201d at <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Groi6Ziio\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Groi6Ziio</a><br><br> See more parodies at <a href=\"http://parodyandson.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://parodyandson.blogspot.com</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_10:09:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "1faffffc89aff42114531921d481d6fe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8197406": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Weird", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_11:25:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "c7db6d912b03bbd3e8c6bfdc88d04f26", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8210719": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The answer to your question is another question:<br><br>Why did the militia movement want to repeal the 13th Amendment?<br><br>Now they had their claims about why, but consider who in practice would actually have lost their right to vote without the 13th Amendment.  More power to \"good\" Americans - just like the good Americans at these rallies.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_17:49:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "4396bfd5eea85b47d9620204100ddbdf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8209303, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8200224": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It is time for us to take back OUR Nation. i am sick of politicians trying to grab face time and putting their slime hands on everything we do. These are our TEA parties. We are supposed to be telling these politicians to shut up and listen to us for a change. Instead they are busting their way into the events like they are entitled. <br>SCREW THEM!!! This is our Nation not Theirs! TAKE BACK AMERICA!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_12:53:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "06ec9a63b783a5662a173747b18491a5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8208939": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes, they are incapable of coming up with specifics. I have yet to hear any of them tell me which financial policies in particular they are objecting to, or which of their \"God given Liberties\" have been taken away (or are going to be taken away). Some of them can't even tell me what they are protesting against, except to say \"the stuff the government is doing.\" <br><br>I'm all for a good protest. But seriously, I like to at least know what I'm protesting.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_16:42:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "88c1eb6fd5733d9525d559aec9c471d8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8201974, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8209186": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If you're looking for even MORE irony in all of this, there are now warnings being sent out that protesters should not, under any circumstances, sign anything or provide their contact information to anyone, because ACORN will be sending out spies to find out who the dissidents are. So they may end up getting all of these people together in one place in order to get potential donor lists, and have everyone so paranoid (of a non-profit housing agency, no less) that they can't even collect names. It's really going to be entertaining to watch.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_16:51:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "88c1eb6fd5733d9525d559aec9c471d8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8196423, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8207519": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree! People have become so use to government bullying and have forgotten that these people work for us; not the other way around.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_15:54:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "824bb3dbcb9cf9f088123181c987a597", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8205078, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8209223": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What does \"unconstitutional spending\" mean?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_16:52:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "88c1eb6fd5733d9525d559aec9c471d8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8195587, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8208813": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If they do know, they're ignoring it.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_16:38:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "88c1eb6fd5733d9525d559aec9c471d8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8202525, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8197422": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You're a nut", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_11:26:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "c7db6d912b03bbd3e8c6bfdc88d04f26", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8191552, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8209071": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I really wish someone could answer that for me, Polaris. I'm trying to understand.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_16:46:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "88c1eb6fd5733d9525d559aec9c471d8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8197622, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8202824": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wait a sec. Who are you calling perverted ?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_14:18:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "c7db6d912b03bbd3e8c6bfdc88d04f26", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8202525, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8208792": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm not exactly sure what you're protesting. Could you be specific? I've heard a lot of people (including Beck & co.) like you say that we need to do something to save our country, but I'm just not sure what I'm supposed to be saving it from. Educate me, please.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_16:37:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "88c1eb6fd5733d9525d559aec9c471d8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8205078, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8215091": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "you now .you voted for it.the black caucus just got back from CUBA .Loved CASTRO.THE DEMS started slavery.Consevatists ended it.You are the next slave.But we will save you again.YOU CANT KILL THIS COUNTRY", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_20:52:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "d9c5ac42b76cf7dbe755398a18720658", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8213141, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8202525": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Maybe someone has asked this before, but do any of these people know what the term \"tea bagging\" means? Liberals laugh every time they see people gleefully wave one of these signs in front of a camera. Next time, somebody should conduct a Wikipedia search to make sure the name of their movement isn't slang for some perverted sex act.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_14:08:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "35f673c56e11bd6cc34920e14d4395ec", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8222262": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Polaris - \"Jesus - that's a bit of a stretch.\"<br><br>how so?<br><br>to summarize my point again, while it may be a problem for the organizers of the Tea Parties to keep fringe elements , this dilemma wasn't shared by \"mainstream\" progressives who actively attached themselves to events organized by fringe elements. <br><br>i'll put it a third way, to clear up your confusion: you cannot compare the two aptly except as opposites. the tea parties are being organized by mainstream elements (as progressives seem to want to make a \"scandal\" of) and they may attract fringies. the astroturf  \"antiwar\" rallies progressives participated in were organized by fringies and \"mainstream\" progressives chose to associate themselves with them. <br><br>you tell me which part of that was a stretch. in the meantime, here's what that means: let a million snapshots of immigration nutters and angry bald dudes insinuating themselves amongst the crowds at the tea party demonstrations proliferate on the lefty blogs. they could never be assembled into a case for culpability similar to what conservative bloggers were able to make against progressives with their snapshots of hamas flags,  hate literature and lit effigies of u.s. troops and officials taken from those demonstrations.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-15_04:24:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "11ffaf9af0e62f4f6536f69f83883c1e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8202772, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8208823": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Because the whole concept is full of it.  The principle objection to the Tea tax in the colonial times was that such taxes were being levied without the colonies being represented in Parliament, able to decide what would come of the revenues.<br><br>That's Taxation Without Representation.<br><br>But these fools are taking up this banner in a day and age where not only are they represented, but they are being taxed less than they were under their favorite President, Ronald Reagan.<br><br>And this silent majority thing?  How convenient it is, to have a silent majority which need not evidence itself by visible measures like polls and elections.  Anything to not have to realize that this isn't a Center-Right nation anymore, or worse that Republicans as a party were merely being tried out by a skeptical public.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_16:38:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "b59161f3560fa42681c13953bf774298", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8197562, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8200760": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Perhaps I'll ask you. You seem to be associated with this event. I'm curious and I shouldn't be judgemental.<br><br>What exactly is being protested here ? We've just enacted the largest tax cut in history where everybody except the very rich gets more money to spend. <br><br>I've seen clips of people claiming they'll stop paying taxes and others are going to burn books (about science no less) and I find that sad and not a little scary.<br><br>It's ironic that the same people seemed fine with 8-year tragedy of the Bush presidency (no tea bags there).", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_13:11:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "c7db6d912b03bbd3e8c6bfdc88d04f26", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8199021, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8197562": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "the tea parties are truly hurting the liberals. otherwise, why would they talk so negatively about them!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_11:30:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "2a332133c8d6f799a76340e6ec81c54e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8203318": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Evidence of the grassroots nature of the movement is well documented by \"Peeling Back the Layers of the Tax Day Tea Party\" at <a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/14/719839/-Peeling-Back-the-Layers-of-the-Tax-Day-Tea-Party\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/14/719839/...</a>  Oh, and watching Faux Noise will help your understanding.<br><br>AstroTurf, indeed.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_14:33:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "vtcc73", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8191552": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The country is going in the wrong directiion and moving into sociallism.  I do not support any of the current policies.<br><br>We are experiencing Liberal Fascism.  Recall Obama and the Democratic Congress.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_09:19:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "d327bbd8e086fe4cf8d7a70691fef83e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8200517": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The TEA party concept (in today's terms) was conceived by highly educated Libertarians. The original intention of the TEA parties was to show our discomfort with the Federal Government slowly but surely gaining more power then ever before in our history and thereby eroding our God given Liberties. Taxes are just one way the Government manifests is power seeking agenda on us all. <br>It is so sad to see how blind Americans have become to this. Republicans and Democrats laugh at us at how stupid we look by sitting here and letting them dictate how our lives should be run. Then they get up on the podiums and talk about accountability and responsibility. How much longer are we going to fall for their incessant deceitfulness?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_13:03:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "06ec9a63b783a5662a173747b18491a5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8200264, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8196423": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So let's get this straight.  Go to a teabagging to protest your tax dollars are being wasted, and then get solicited for donations by politicians who have been wasting your money for the past eight years so they can waste it on another election bid.  How stupid are these people?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_10:48:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "104a692d4da07c83975249b32e812344", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8200264": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Our home received a robocall on Friday urging us to go to a \"tea party\" April 15 if we were \"concerned about what is happening in this country.\"  (We somehow got onto a Republican mailing list 3+ years ago around the time we moved homes -- I think they may just target geographically.)   The speaker was a male, sounded young (as in, under 25) and not polished or educated.  <br><br>I didn't know real grass roots organizing involved random robocalls.  I am happy if FreedomWorks is wasting what's left of its money on us.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_12:54:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "aa402ca0326efce5e4b0234ca75b11dc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8202146": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"Some Tea Party organizers are discovering what liberals discovered in the anti-Iraq War protests of 2002 through 2008 and fretting about how to avoid fringe activists from taking over the events.\"<br><br>Except, in the case of the astroturf \"antiwar\" demonstrations, \"liberals\" were participating in events organized by \"the fringe\". <br><br>And by \"the fringe\" we mean International ANSWER, the \"antiwar\" front group for the doctrinally Stalinist Workers World Party, and spearheaded by Ramsey Clark, Saddam Hussein's attorney.<br><br>Who, in an earlier time, was Attorney General to LBJ.<br><br>Progressives have never experienced a \"problem\" with disassociating themselves with \"fringe elements\". Even \"moderate\" progressives are unperturbed by the prospect of rubbing elbows with people with real blood on their hands, betraying no self awareness as they demand \"peace\" from the U.S. in unison with someone waving the war flag of Hamas. <br><br>And when their associations with \"the fringe\" threatens their standing with the broader public, they campaign to rehabilitate our attitude toward \"the fringe\" - as we saw with the Maoist terrorists, William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_13:56:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "11ffaf9af0e62f4f6536f69f83883c1e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8198095": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's an interesting way to attract people to your \"grass roots\" movement - accuse them for voting irresponsibly.  This whole teabag thing is an absolute joke.  Trying to draw a parallel to Rosa Parks and MLK when you're essentially protesting GWB's tax rates is more than a bit indulgent, but it goes a long way to prove that this is not a real movement but a dog and pony show by a frustrated minority trying to find someone who will listen.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_11:46:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "b15f9d11d40e4986fcb9d82cedfa9841", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8204369": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hempler's party of rightwing nutjobs lost big time in November.<br><br>His \"silent majority\" now knows that the GOP is the party of losers and nutjobs.<br><br>And, now Hempler illustrates his ignorance of both the US Constitution, as well as the meaning of fascism.<br><br>Luckily, the GOP and its rightwing neocons idiots have become a toxic brand to the majority of Americans.<br><br>It will be fun to watch Hempler and his ilk go teabag themselves.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_15:04:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "4a56a66257bbe1028176f01536b5a11c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8191552, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8215639": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You are an imbecilic lunatic", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_21:17:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "7dec15c59c2a2aa20e8db9a0b7a457ca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8215091, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8200666": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Can someone please explain to me why FreedomWorks' Brendan Steinhauser (quoted above in this article) is sending letters to the racist Vanguard News Network?<br><br><a href=\"http://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/letters/12804letters.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/letters/1280...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_13:08:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "f0d54a7a4f611452a120d09acbc1ec65", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8203746": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have serious doubts as to whether Eric Odom's involvement is purely as an \"interested citizen\" and devoid of financial motive.  <a href=\"http://damnedliberal.com/blog//blog1.php/2009/04/09/tea-party-odom\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://damnedliberal.com/blog//blog1.php/2009/0...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_14:47:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "91372a94d15e49ca43efed5334f7a3aa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8196461": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The 'Atlanta Tea Party' was organized by Freedomworks:<br><a href=\"http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/bstein80/atlanta-tea-party-protest\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/bstein80/atlan...</a><br><br>And promoted on FOX Business Network...<br><br>\"In the weeks since [the Atlanta Tea Party], Pye saw a burgeoning movement\" being co-opted...doesn't this imply that Freedomworks organization pre-dated the movement? This is the TEXTBOOK DEFINITION of astroturfing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_10:49:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "39de4f9cbd2154c3556970dd94cd67c6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8209265": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "In what way? What policies are you talking about? How exactly are we moving into fascism? I truly do not understand. Please educate me!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_16:53:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "88c1eb6fd5733d9525d559aec9c471d8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8191552, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8197622": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I can talk negatively about anything that's stupid whether it hurts me or not. After the largest tax cut in modern times, what exactly is being protested here ?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_11:32:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "c7db6d912b03bbd3e8c6bfdc88d04f26", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8197562, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8213141": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Again, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about.   Please, for the edification of all of us poor feeble people who aren't you, tell us, what is socialism?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-14_19:27:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "96b85cc238ebc0f229ea16d76c5d71a8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8212764, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 1, "reply_position": false, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "15735604", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "34441", "hash": -321891449201349935}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "tea_party_activists_tax_day_events_will_attract_8216silent_majority8217", "paginate": true, "num_pages": 3, "num_posts": 50, "per_page": 50, "total_posts": 109, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 15735604, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": false, "forum_facebook_key": "", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": false, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
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	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL = function(total, num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comment", {num:num, total:total});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comments", {num:num, total:total});
		}
	};

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

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

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

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





Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN = '4f0bfca82e06c976a1efdd7c783a5fd0';
Dsq.COMMENTS_RE = /(<li.*?id="?dsq-comment-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/li>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_RE = /(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-header-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/div>)\s*(<div.*?class="?dsq-comment-body"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_BODY_RE = /\s*(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-message-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
// HACK: Safari ends with "-->" while other browsers end with "--&gt;" as expected.
Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE = /&lt;!--\[(.*?)\]--(?:>|&gt;)/gim;



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

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

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

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

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

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


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


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

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


/**
 * Dsq.Urls: URL paths
 */
Dsq.Urls = new function() {
	this.LOGIN = '/profile/login/';
	this.LOGOUT = '/logout/';
	this.REPLY = 'http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/tea_party_activists_tax_day_events_will_attract_8216silent_majority8217/reply.html';
	this.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE = '/AnonymousUser/';
	this.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR = 'http://media.disqus.com/images/noavatar92.png';
};
// Dsq.Urls

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		return [windowWidth, windowHeight];
	}

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

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

		return [scrollWidth, scrollTop];
	}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

				form.appendChild(input);
			}
		}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		return params;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	};

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

};
// Dsq.Utils

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);

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

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

		header = title;
		body = message;

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

	this.popAlert = this.popModal;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	};

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

		popup.style.display = 'block';

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

			return ret;
		};
	};

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

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

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

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


			//

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


	this.header = function() {

		var html = '\<h3 id="dsq-comments-count" class="dsq-h3-commentcount">\
	 Showing <span id="dsq-num-posts">50</span> of <span id="dsq-total-posts">109</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/tea_party_activists_tax_day_events_will_attract_8216silent_majority8217/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" selected="selected">Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" >Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/tea_party_activists_tax_day_events_will_attract_8216silent_majority8217/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
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		return html;
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	this.pagination = function() {
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		if (!Dsq.jsonData.thread.paginate) { return ''; }

		//
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		// 		while append_paginator does it all in JavaScript.
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		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages > 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.page < Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages) {
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		if(trackbacks.length) {
			html += '<ul id="dsq-references">'
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				html += '<li><cite><a href="' + trackback.author_url + '" rel="nofollow">' + trackback.author_name + '</a></cite> \
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			html = '<h3 class="dsq-h3-trackbacks">Trackbacks</h3>' + html;
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				limit = source.length;
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			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
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		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
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		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
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		return element;
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		var container = link.parentNode;
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		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
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				container.innerHTML += el;
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		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>';
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	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
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			return;
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		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
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		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
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		var item = '<li class="dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
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		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'">';
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			item += '<a target="_blank" href="#" onclick="return false;">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
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			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar32.png"/>';
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			+ '</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>')
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			var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
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					item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
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					if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
						item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
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			return '';
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		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
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			if (item) {
				html += item;
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		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>';
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	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '';
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	//
	// 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;
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	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> \
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			return html;
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			+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
				? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '</a>'
			+ '</div> \
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				: '')
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"> \
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	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		return '';
	}

	this.postBody = function(post_id) {
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		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		return ''
			+ (_meta.edited
				? '<p class="dsq-editedtxt">(Edited by a moderator)</p>'
				: '')
			;
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	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
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		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"> \
							 \
								 \
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					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
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	//

	this._makeAttributes = function(attributes) {
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		// 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'				: 'tea_party_activists_tax_day_events_will_attract_8216silent_majority8217',
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			'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
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		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/tea_party_activists_tax_day_events_will_attract_8216silent_majority8217/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='	+ 'tea_party_activists_tax_day_events_will_attract_8216silent_majority8217'
			+ '&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='	+ 'tea_party_activists_tax_day_events_will_attract_8216silent_majority8217'
			+ '&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='		+ 'tea_party_activists_tax_day_events_will_attract_8216silent_majority8217'
				+ '&email=' 	+ encodeURIComponent(email));

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	this.check = function() {
		if (!ongoing_request && Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			if (prev_script) {
				prev_script.parentNode.removeChild(prev_script);
			}
			ongoing_request = true;
			prev_script = Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/15735604/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

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

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

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

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

}();

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	return obj;
}();


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









(function() {
	//
	// Load theme.  This overrides the base templates with template functions
	// from the respective themes.
	//
	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		var theme = 'narcissus';
		// HACK: Set variable on window to use post message.
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8191552" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8191552">Larry A. Hempler</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8191552" class="dsq-comment-message">The country is going in the wrong directiion and moving into sociallism.  I do not support any of the current policies.<br><br>We are experiencing Liberal Fascism.  Recall Obama and the Democratic Congress.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8197422" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8197422">Polaris</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8197422" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8197422" class="dsq-comment-message">You\'re a nut</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8202646" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8202646">SamR</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8202646" class="dsq-comment-message">Which of these qualify as "socialism"?:<br>1. Largest middle-class tax cut in history<br>2. Raising the top marginal rate for those making over 250k to 39.6%, where it was under Clinton, which is more than 10% below where during most of Reagan\'s Presidency (and 50% below where it was under Ike---where the top marginal rate was 91%)<br>3. The Bush bank bailouts, which Obama has continued<br>4. The government passing a plan to build roads, repair the electric grid, etc, partially b/c our infrastructure needs a massive overhaul, and partially to try to stimulate an economy that collapsed during the Bush years<br><br>Or something else?<br><br>It seems like you guys are so upset that you got crushed in two consecutive elections that you\'re throwing a temper tantrum and inviting everyone to come watch.<br><br>Also, the US Constitution has no provision for a recalling the President.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8209303" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8209303">Sarah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8209303" class="dsq-comment-message">I can\'t get anyone to tell me what exactly they are protesting. It\'s very frustrating.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8210719" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8210719">super390</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8210719" class="dsq-comment-message">The answer to your question is another question:<br><br>Why did the militia movement want to repeal the 13th Amendment?<br><br>Now they had their claims about why, but consider who in practice would actually have lost their right to vote without the 13th Amendment.  More power to "good" Americans - just like the good Americans at these rallies.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8204369" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8204369">Continuum</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8204369" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8204369" class="dsq-comment-message">Hempler\'s party of rightwing nutjobs lost big time in November.<br><br>His "silent majority" now knows that the GOP is the party of losers and nutjobs.<br><br>And, now Hempler illustrates his ignorance of both the US Constitution, as well as the meaning of fascism.<br><br>Luckily, the GOP and its rightwing neocons idiots have become a toxic brand to the majority of Americans.<br><br>It will be fun to watch Hempler and his ilk go teabag themselves.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8209265" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8209265" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8209265">Sarah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8209265" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8209265" class="dsq-comment-message">In what way? What policies are you talking about? How exactly are we moving into fascism? I truly do not understand. Please educate me!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8191640" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8191640">CD</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8191640" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8191640" class="dsq-comment-message">The Republican Party has hijacked the tea party concept from the Ron Paul supporters. They are the ones who were protesting when protesting wasn\'t cool. Oh yeah, they raised 6 million dollars in one day during a tea party in 2007. The fringe and crazy people are the ones who want to bomb everyone and kill. Look at the rumblings about Somalia. A group of thugs committed a crime and now the neothugs want to bomb Somalia, and they have the nerve to call RP supporters crazy? lol</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8195464" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8195464">CranialRectalLoopback</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8195464" class="dsq-comment-message">Since they\'ve chosen to remain ignorant, I have no problem with them remaining silent as well.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8195485" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8195485" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8195485">Bruce</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8195485" class="dsq-comment-message">NEW TAX DAY ANTHEM<br>See “Goin’ to the C.P.A. (The Tax Song)” at <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Groi6Ziio" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Groi6Ziio</a><br><br> See more parodies at <a href="http://parodyandson.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://parodyandson.blogspot.com</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8195587" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8195587">Gmartine</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8195587" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8195587" class="dsq-comment-message">Ron Paul has always voted against raising taxes and against unconstiutional spending.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8209223" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8209223" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8209223">Sarah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8209223" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8209223" class="dsq-comment-message">What does "unconstitutional spending" mean?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8196423" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8196423" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8196423">rupert</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8196423" class="dsq-comment-message">So let\'s get this straight.  Go to a teabagging to protest your tax dollars are being wasted, and then get solicited for donations by politicians who have been wasting your money for the past eight years so they can waste it on another election bid.  How stupid are these people?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8209186">Sarah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8209186" class="dsq-comment-message">If you\'re looking for even MORE irony in all of this, there are now warnings being sent out that protesters should not, under any circumstances, sign anything or provide their contact information to anyone, because ACORN will be sending out spies to find out who the dissidents are. So they may end up getting all of these people together in one place in order to get potential donor lists, and have everyone so paranoid (of a non-profit housing agency, no less) that they can\'t even collect names. It\'s really going to be entertaining to watch.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8196461" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8196461" href="http://www.freerepublic.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Chas Freeman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8196461" class="dsq-comment-message">The \'Atlanta Tea Party\' was organized by Freedomworks:<br><a href="http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/bstein80/atlanta-tea-party-protest" rel="nofollow">http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/bstein80/atlan...</a><br><br>And promoted on FOX Business Network...<br><br>"In the weeks since [the Atlanta Tea Party], Pye saw a burgeoning movement" being co-opted...doesn\'t this imply that Freedomworks organization pre-dated the movement? This is the TEXTBOOK DEFINITION of astroturfing.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8196494">Palin&#39;s Kids are All Named </span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8196494" class="dsq-comment-message">I see the Angry Old White Guy Party (a.k.a. the GOOP) is at it again: The biggest assortment of crybabies, whiners, losers, chuckleheads and anger-management candidates you\'ll ever see!  These dinosaurs are dying off fast (average age of an extremist right-wing radio listener: 67), and no one is coming along to replace them.  There\'s nothing wrong with the Angry Old white Guy Party that a few million funerals (all due to natural causes, of course) won\'t cure.  Buh-bye, chumps.  Have fun Tea Bagging each other!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8197406">Polaris</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8197406" class="dsq-comment-message">Weird</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8197562" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8197562">tanpile</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8197562" class="dsq-comment-message">the tea parties are truly hurting the liberals. otherwise, why would they talk so negatively about them!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8197622" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8197622" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8197622">Polaris</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8197622" class="dsq-comment-message">I can talk negatively about anything that\'s stupid whether it hurts me or not. After the largest tax cut in modern times, what exactly is being protested here ?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8209071" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8209071" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8209071">Sarah</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8209071" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8209071" class="dsq-comment-message">I really wish someone could answer that for me, Polaris. I\'m trying to understand.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8208823" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8208823" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8208823">Stephen Daugherty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8208823" class="dsq-comment-message">Because the whole concept is full of it.  The principle objection to the Tea tax in the colonial times was that such taxes were being levied without the colonies being represented in Parliament, able to decide what would come of the revenues.<br><br>That\'s Taxation Without Representation.<br><br>But these fools are taking up this banner in a day and age where not only are they represented, but they are being taxed less than they were under their favorite President, Ronald Reagan.<br><br>And this silent majority thing?  How convenient it is, to have a silent majority which need not evidence itself by visible measures like polls and elections.  Anything to not have to realize that this isn\'t a Center-Right nation anymore, or worse that Republicans as a party were merely being tried out by a skeptical public.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8209041" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8209041">Sarah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8209041" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s not about talking negatively, it\'s about trying to get you to state what it is exactly you\'re opposed to. If you all knew what you were protesting, it would go a long way towards making you look a little less silly. And if you had some actual policies to object to, maybe something could be done about it. But to protest just for the sake of protesting (which is what you\'re doing if you can\'t give specifics) is not going to get you very far. Maybe it\'s silly of some of us to try to point this out to you, or try to understand your concerns better, but so be it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8198095">Kevin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8198095" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s an interesting way to attract people to your "grass roots" movement - accuse them for voting irresponsibly.  This whole teabag thing is an absolute joke.  Trying to draw a parallel to Rosa Parks and MLK when you\'re essentially protesting GWB\'s tax rates is more than a bit indulgent, but it goes a long way to prove that this is not a real movement but a dog and pony show by a frustrated minority trying to find someone who will listen.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8199021" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8199021" href="http://www.GetBruce.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Bruce Cohen</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8199021" class="dsq-comment-message">Wayne Root has Super Powers!  He\'s the Keynote Speaker at the Las Vegas Tea Party, just five minutes from his home.  While, at the very same time, he\'s speaking in Orange County.  Who would have thought?!  Someone who has more powers than Obama?  Seriously, folks, Wayne will be at the Las Vegas event, and this is an error.  You may call me or Wayne, or email us for verification, or to get CONFIRMED speaking reservations.  www [dot] RootForAmerica [dot] com  866 622-7823</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8200760" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8200760" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8200760">Polaris</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8200760" class="dsq-comment-message">Perhaps I\'ll ask you. You seem to be associated with this event. I\'m curious and I shouldn\'t be judgemental.<br><br>What exactly is being protested here ? We\'ve just enacted the largest tax cut in history where everybody except the very rich gets more money to spend. <br><br>I\'ve seen clips of people claiming they\'ll stop paying taxes and others are going to burn books (about science no less) and I find that sad and not a little scary.<br><br>It\'s ironic that the same people seemed fine with 8-year tragedy of the Bush presidency (no tea bags there).</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8200224" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8200224" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8200224">AJA</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8200224" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8200224" class="dsq-comment-message">It is time for us to take back OUR Nation. i am sick of politicians trying to grab face time and putting their slime hands on everything we do. These are our TEA parties. We are supposed to be telling these politicians to shut up and listen to us for a change. Instead they are busting their way into the events like they are entitled. <br>SCREW THEM!!! This is our Nation not Theirs! TAKE BACK AMERICA!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8209685" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8209685" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8209685">super390</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8209685" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8209685" class="dsq-comment-message">When you take back your nation, will you bother to stop the trillion-dollar a year pro-Bush American war machine that has bases in 130 foreign countries and is responsible for:<br><br>2 million dead Vietnamese<br>1 million dead Iraqis<br>over 1 million dead Indonesians (by the US-supported Indonesian Army)<br>200,000 dead in tiny Guatemala?<br><br>Why is it only a waste of money to FEED ni**er babies, but never a waste of money to KILL ni**er babies?  Your bunch only hates government when it reduces inequality, never when it increases it.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8200264" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8200264" href="http://www.blueoregon.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Selene</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8200264" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8200264" class="dsq-comment-message">Our home received a robocall on Friday urging us to go to a "tea party" April 15 if we were "concerned about what is happening in this country."  (We somehow got onto a Republican mailing list 3+ years ago around the time we moved homes -- I think they may just target geographically.)   The speaker was a male, sounded young (as in, under 25) and not polished or educated.  <br><br>I didn\'t know real grass roots organizing involved random robocalls.  I am happy if FreedomWorks is wasting what\'s left of its money on us.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8200517">AJA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8200517" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8200517" class="dsq-comment-message">The TEA party concept (in today\'s terms) was conceived by highly educated Libertarians. The original intention of the TEA parties was to show our discomfort with the Federal Government slowly but surely gaining more power then ever before in our history and thereby eroding our God given Liberties. Taxes are just one way the Government manifests is power seeking agenda on us all. <br>It is so sad to see how blind Americans have become to this. Republicans and Democrats laugh at us at how stupid we look by sitting here and letting them dictate how our lives should be run. Then they get up on the podiums and talk about accountability and responsibility. How much longer are we going to fall for their incessant deceitfulness?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8201974">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8201974" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8201974" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8201974">Polaris</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8201974" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8201974" class="dsq-comment-message">OMG - is the tea party movement completely incapable of coming up with specifics ? Unless you\'re very rich, your taxes have just gone down !  What exactly are you protesting and how come you were fine with the last 8 years of the idiot-in-chief ?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8208939">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8208939" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8208939" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8208939">Sarah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8208939" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8208939" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, they are incapable of coming up with specifics. I have yet to hear any of them tell me which financial policies in particular they are objecting to, or which of their "God given Liberties" have been taken away (or are going to be taken away). Some of them can\'t even tell me what they are protesting against, except to say "the stuff the government is doing." <br><br>I\'m all for a good protest. But seriously, I like to at least know what I\'m protesting.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8200666">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8200666" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8200666" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8200666">Portso</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8200666" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8200666" class="dsq-comment-message">Can someone please explain to me why FreedomWorks\' Brendan Steinhauser (quoted above in this article) is sending letters to the racist Vanguard News Network?<br><br><a href="http://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/letters/12804letters.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/letters/1280...</a></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8201618">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8201618" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8201618" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8201618">Hawaiianstyle</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8201618" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8201618" class="dsq-comment-message">The sleeping giant is a joke.  He has not been sleeping he is just confused.  After mindlessly following the worst President in history, the one that wreaked havoc on the Constitution, created an illegal war that killed over 4000 good US men and women not to mention innocent foreign deaths, spyed on us, tortured humans,  gave tax breaks to the rich, and whose financial policies were the straw that broke the camels back, the giant doesn\'t know what to do.  He\'s just frustrated so he\'s kicking the ground and blaming everyone else for his sore toe.<br><br>Republicans, Conservatives and the Religious right deserve each other.  They are acting true to form.  "If I don\'t get to continue eating ALL the ice cream I\'m going to scream."<br><br>I would like to see an interview of the protesters.  I bet we would see as many opinions as people asked.<br><br>This is not a tea party it is a 3T party e.g., a "terrible twos tantrum".</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8202146">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8202146" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8202146" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8202146">jummy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8202146" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8202146" class="dsq-comment-message">"Some Tea Party organizers are discovering what liberals discovered in the anti-Iraq War protests of 2002 through 2008 and fretting about how to avoid fringe activists from taking over the events."<br><br>Except, in the case of the astroturf "antiwar" demonstrations, "liberals" were participating in events organized by "the fringe". <br><br>And by "the fringe" we mean International ANSWER, the "antiwar" front group for the doctrinally Stalinist Workers World Party, and spearheaded by Ramsey Clark, Saddam Hussein\'s attorney.<br><br>Who, in an earlier time, was Attorney General to LBJ.<br><br>Progressives have never experienced a "problem" with disassociating themselves with "fringe elements". Even "moderate" progressives are unperturbed by the prospect of rubbing elbows with people with real blood on their hands, betraying no self awareness as they demand "peace" from the U.S. in unison with someone waving the war flag of Hamas. <br><br>And when their associations with "the fringe" threatens their standing with the broader public, they campaign to rehabilitate our attitude toward "the fringe" - as we saw with the Maoist terrorists, William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8202772">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8202772" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8202772" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8202772">Polaris</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8202772" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8202772" class="dsq-comment-message">Jesus - that\'s a bit of s stretch. Can you tell me what exactly are you protesting and how come you were fine with the last 8 years of the idiot-in-chief ?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8222262">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8222262" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8222262" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8222262">jummy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8222262" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8222262" class="dsq-comment-message">Polaris - "Jesus - that\'s a bit of a stretch."<br><br>how so?<br><br>to summarize my point again, while it may be a problem for the organizers of the Tea Parties to keep fringe elements , this dilemma wasn\'t shared by "mainstream" progressives who actively attached themselves to events organized by fringe elements. <br><br>i\'ll put it a third way, to clear up your confusion: you cannot compare the two aptly except as opposites. the tea parties are being organized by mainstream elements (as progressives seem to want to make a "scandal" of) and they may attract fringies. the astroturf  "antiwar" rallies progressives participated in were organized by fringies and "mainstream" progressives chose to associate themselves with them. <br><br>you tell me which part of that was a stretch. in the meantime, here\'s what that means: let a million snapshots of immigration nutters and angry bald dudes insinuating themselves amongst the crowds at the tea party demonstrations proliferate on the lefty blogs. they could never be assembled into a case for culpability similar to what conservative bloggers were able to make against progressives with their snapshots of hamas flags,  hate literature and lit effigies of u.s. troops and officials taken from those demonstrations.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8202525">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8202525" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8202525" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8202525">Nonny Mouse</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8202525" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8202525" class="dsq-comment-message">Maybe someone has asked this before, but do any of these people know what the term "tea bagging" means? Liberals laugh every time they see people gleefully wave one of these signs in front of a camera. Next time, somebody should conduct a Wikipedia search to make sure the name of their movement isn\'t slang for some perverted sex act.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8202799">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8202799" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8202799" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8202799">Polaris</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8202799" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8202799" class="dsq-comment-message">Funny isn\'t it</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8202824">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8202824" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8202824" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8202824">Polaris</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8202824" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8202824" class="dsq-comment-message">Wait a sec. Who are you calling perverted ?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8208813">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8208813" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8208813" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8208813">Sarah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8208813" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8208813" class="dsq-comment-message">If they do know, they\'re ignoring it.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8203318">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8203318" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8203318" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8203318">vtcc73</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8203318" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8203318" class="dsq-comment-message">Evidence of the grassroots nature of the movement is well documented by "Peeling Back the Layers of the Tax Day Tea Party" at <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/14/719839/-Peeling-Back-the-Layers-of-the-Tax-Day-Tea-Party" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/14/719839/...</a>  Oh, and watching Faux Noise will help your understanding.<br><br>AstroTurf, indeed.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8203746">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8203746" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8203746" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8203746" href="http://www.DamnedLiberal.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">DamnedLiberal</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8203746" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8203746" class="dsq-comment-message">I have serious doubts as to whether Eric Odom\'s involvement is purely as an "interested citizen" and devoid of financial motive.  <a href="http://damnedliberal.com/blog//blog1.php/2009/04/09/tea-party-odom" rel="nofollow">http://damnedliberal.com/blog//blog1.php/2009/0...</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8204719">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8204719" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8204719" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8204719">jerry curran</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8204719" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8204719" class="dsq-comment-message">im bringing an old shoe tommorow to symbolically throw at this admin. and their out of control, egotistical and reckless spending that could put this great country at risk. jerry curran louisville,ky.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8205078">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8205078" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8205078" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8205078">jerry curran</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8205078" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8205078" class="dsq-comment-message">i just read some of the comments here and i feel like im back in 1939 where people in europe didn\'t even realize they had a problem.just idiotic ranting and appeasement as their countries slowly slipped away from them as they mumbled to themselves theres no problem we\'ll just keep giving in till we have no more country.you silly fools you\'re throwing america away and you don\'t even realise it.how sad. why dont you stand up with us tommorow like your ancesters and fight for this great country before it becomes france.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8207519">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8207519" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8207519" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8207519">Clint</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8207519" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8207519" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree! People have become so use to government bullying and have forgotten that these people work for us; not the other way around.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8208792">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8208792" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8208792" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8208792">Sarah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8208792" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8208792" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m not exactly sure what you\'re protesting. Could you be specific? I\'ve heard a lot of people (including Beck & co.) like you say that we need to do something to save our country, but I\'m just not sure what I\'m supposed to be saving it from. Educate me, please.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8212764">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8212764" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8212764" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8212764">imright</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8212764" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8212764" class="dsq-comment-message">from socialism dummy.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8213141">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8213141" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8213141" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8213141">jammy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8213141" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8213141" class="dsq-comment-message">Again, you clearly have no idea what you\'re talking about.   Please, for the edification of all of us poor feeble people who aren\'t you, tell us, what is socialism?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8215091">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8215091" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8215091" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8215091">imright</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8215091" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8215091" class="dsq-comment-message">you now .you voted for it.the black caucus just got back from CUBA .Loved CASTRO.THE DEMS started slavery.Consevatists ended it.You are the next slave.But we will save you again.YOU CANT KILL THIS COUNTRY</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8215639" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8215639" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8215639">bibbo</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8215639" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8215639" class="dsq-comment-message">You are an imbecilic lunatic</div>\
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	 </li>\
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