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I suppose that's the main thing.  I worked by butt of this year, and paid tens of thousands in taxes, and it goes towards bonuses for people like you?  Hell no, if your company isn't doing well, then it needs to go bankrupt.  If your division is actually profitable, then it is one of the few good assets left, and needs to be sold to the highest bidder.  Me working hard to keep parts of your company afloat so that your buddies can buy a new Mercedes is BS.  Sorry, but that is the definition of socialism, and it pisses me off.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_14:45:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "4afcd663781364b0eaa90aac3c12ae51", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5757917, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5758858": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ouch!  Central economic planning has never worked, dude!  I do agree with prosecution of fraud, however!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_14:53:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "4afcd663781364b0eaa90aac3c12ae51", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5749022, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5749003": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Get a clue", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_13:03:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "b6f77485e309ed4abcc96ad4a18e6960", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5748847, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5806094": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If that top agency trader is so good, then he can carry his non-bonus-getting rear end to another financial institution and see if he fares any better over there.<br><br>Otherwise, cry me a river.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-03_08:30:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "Porkchopicus_of_Borg", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "10 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5749808, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5758467": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Steve...it's not the profit of these companies that is financing the bonuses...Bank of America has been bailed out by the American people...and people around  the world \"chipping in\" as recession and loses are setting their nasty fingerprints. A bonus should be received for creating good healthy results and it should be financed by the company and not by the hard work of the people bailing out that company! It's by the way, in my opinion, totally misplaced and arrogant to postulate that people in Bank of America are working harder than the \"average Joe\"...you guys are producing NOTHING and are merely moving money around - you have clearly demonstrated that even this is too big a task. Start taking responsibility for the mess we are in...it will bring more respect!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_14:30:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "a5f3340bc192f7a02962260ec777d834", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5757917, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5758959": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How can anyone feel sorry for anyone who can afford to own and drive a Maserati?  This is especially true for those who are under 50, or is it 40 or even 30 years of age.  What a bunch of spoiled rotten brats.  There seems to be no limit to the wealth of so many at such a young age who work on Wall Street.  The problem is clearly not just with the upper echelon executives but with the whole range of workers and traders no matter what their age. So let's not just focus on the top but the bottom as well.  When it comes to Wall Street the top are merely the tip of the iceberg so to speak.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_14:57:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "5063077853f1e295c8a5616d7038e06b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5758036, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5749022": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "We need to give these egregious scum just what they're asking for.  Nationalize the banks, seize the assets of every corporate exec making over 500,000/year, run the banks as public utilities for the common good and redistribute the wealth back to the people who actually created it:  The workers!  Then, criminal swindlers like B. Maddof et al should be swiftly tried and imprisoned, not only for fraud, but for crimes against humanity!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_13:04:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "efaf7e7c40e78d0d263c5cee3b028399", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5749024": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "swindle and spin", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_13:04:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "38bcfd3efa06ffa021b226eb45871374", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5758755": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm not a socialist but anyone that rakes in the kinds of money that wall street has been doing is grossly overpiad regardless of what function they have including CEO's.  To me the there has to be relevance to payscales between professions; who deserves more a heart surgeon whose skills are used to save lives or someone who has by chance latched on to a field where every year because their companies have made enormous amounts of money theeir bonuses get bigger.<br><br>As a shareholder I deserves to get paid hndsomely because I've risked my hardearned money.  The company workers [regardless of position should be paid a decent compensation] otherwise, if they  feel that they are not being compensated according to their worth, go out and start your own comapny with your money and make whatever you are capable of.  When you risk your own money no one will ever be lamenting of what you make.  I dare say that they would not be making a lot of the types of decisions that they make with our money.<br><br>Even at a fraction of what they are being bonused at would be excellent compensation in my opinion if they want to deal with other peoples money.... otherwise go out and use your own.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_14:48:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "60e26be7b4b64db18b233465a21c6812", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5757348": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's right Fred!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_13:28:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "f5adeb760b92fcc8cc31105e666f1a10", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5757281, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5758504": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Rich, I thought your comments were OK until your last sentence where you threatened to shoot John Thain.  This basically discredits your entire comment and raises other questions as well.  What do you mean about the behavior of American housewives as \"an awesome Al Queda recruiting tool\"?  Surely you don't think that whatever negatives you perceive of American culture is unique to American culture.  I wonder how many different young women in Iraq you had sex with.  You even make me wonder if you don't have leanings to Al Queda yourself.  What makes you think that any behavior by any American except perhaps a serial or a mass murderer is even remotely as bad as that of any Al Queda operative?  Who's side are you really on?  I trust you simply misspoke and that you really are proud of your Country, the United States of America, and the Uniform you wear to represent the best of it.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_14:32:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "5063077853f1e295c8a5616d7038e06b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5757804, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5748911": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Isn't it funny that Wall Street wasn't sympathizing with the average worker as pensions became a thing of the past?  Did companies ever say they had to keep offering pensions to keep their best workers?  How about the rising cost of insurance and diminishing coverage?  There is no competition to retain good workers.  If every business cuts out the same perks, where else can the workers go?  The system by which company executives have slowly screwed the common worker over the last 25 years has finally trickled up to them.  I have no sympathy for them, just as they haven't had any.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_12:57:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "8f93b0ddfcf1fb999917fc86af4a8787", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5749808": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hearing the media elite debate this topic is so friggin' hypocritical that I'm in stitches. Former overpriced market cap giants like the NYT and GE-parent of CNBC-have seen their share prices break as hard as investment banks. Brian Williams of NBC is the 2nd or 3rd highest paid employee at GE. Chris Mathews (4.8m) and Olberman (4mil) entertain less than a million viewers a night. And I'd LOVE to know how much NBC pays top producers of prime time programming. Yet the media is a WATCHDOG over the bonus pool of traders and staff at other publicly traded corporations. <br><br>A top agency trader at a million a year is a hell of a lot more valuable and harder to replace than a bunch of TelePrompter reading clowns who get a \"tingle up their legs\" at the empty rhetoric of some half ass Chicago lawyer turned Messiah.......", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_13:13:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "37d9076ed3be29825bdc32e4e99c0e6f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5755700": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's not just the CEO's. The problem is with the incestuos nature of the large corps. The boards of directors for all those companies are intertwined. I used to pay attention to my proxy info back when I had actual stocks and what I realized is that the chairman of company A would be a board member of company B and the chairman of B would be on the boarde of C and so on around in circles. They were also all CEO's of one or the other and would regularly vote to increase the bonuses for each other. Let's just usher them all over to the unemployment line and find brand new talent. High school kids would do a better job than these swindlers.<br><br>By the way, the reason you haven't seen more investigative reporting in the big media is because they are owned and controlled by these same big corps. Thank goodness the light of day is shining on these evil demons in spite of that!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_13:22:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "f5adeb760b92fcc8cc31105e666f1a10", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5758901": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Cumulative damages of 9.11 terrorist attacks, $20 billion. That's approximately a years of bonuses for the Wall Street locals. Cumulative damages of 2008 financial meltdown, +$3 trillion. Who are the terrorists?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_14:55:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "620e61baa6d43df0382e1fe8c1bb95bd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5758137": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Don't hate the player hate the game.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_14:09:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "fa4d1a239b66b2298cb46d33b05a317b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5758523": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well said...I completely agree...amazing that the American people is even ready to discuss whether these people should be paid bonuses...the discussion should be on whether money should be returned or some leaders should be punished!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_14:34:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "a5f3340bc192f7a02962260ec777d834", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5758428, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5757629": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Bonuses used to be performance based.  These people did not perform.  Since they need to be bailed out from the government (us) to stay afloat, they can give up their bonus.  \"Retain Talent\"?  That talent has crushed the majority of this country's small investor's money.  It was \"socialism\" when they begged for the money.  That need started the slippery sloap.  THEY started that slippery sloap because they FAILED and they can begin to live like the rest of us.  If you accept, ask for, beg for my money to help you stay afloat, I get a say in how it's spent.  They ruined their own little game and they DO NOT get to blame Obama or anyone else.  They made this bed and I'm all for making them sleep in it.  The ride is over!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_13:42:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "b6235c78f64b229f7af1a9f454b24e6e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5759038": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I call B.S. on that; when the player is trying to protect the game, it's high time to hate the player!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_15:02:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "7607a0140da6630c147bac1bc1bf5561", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5758137, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5760191": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Arthur, perhaps Chris needs some help in the form of anger management before and not after he returns to civilian life from serving in Iraq.  I am sure you are well aware of the anger and post traumatic violence problems many of our GI's suffer when returning home from War.  Just like it is wrong and even a punishable crime to even speak that you want to kill the President of the United States I think it is wrong for anyone, especially a GI,  to espouse their dislike, distrust or disapproval of anyone by even suggesting, and especially in writing,  that they would aim their rifle at that person.  I simply, as you have put it, objected to Chris' inappropriate use of language both in his sentence on the lack of morality of the American Housewife and in his last sentence \"Perhaps I should have my rifle sights set on the center of mass of John Thain\".  <br><br>I can tell you that eight descendent lines of my family have been in this country since 1635 and have fought in every war without ever threatening to shoot a fellow citizen, except in the Civil War, no matter how much he or she was despised.  Let's exhibit a little more class and civility.  <br><br>And by the way, I apologize for my remark on Chris'  sexual activity in Iraq.  I don't know Chris.  In fact, I really know nothing about him.   It really had nothing to do with his point about the excessive greed and even immorality of some American financial executives.       <br><br>I just thought he shouldn't have said anything about the morality of the American Housewife.  It was a sexist remark.  What about the morality of the American Husband, or the morality of the American Teenager or, for that matter, the morality of the American GI?  We could go on and on.  And what about the morality of Al Queda?<br><br>Incidentally, I happen to agree with Obama that the recent bonuses received by Wall Street executives whose companies received government bailout money is not  only shameful but unacceptable.  In fact, I think they should all return every penny in bonus money received.  As for those who worked for companies who received no government money, it is none of our business about the who, what, why, when and where of their bonuses.  It is as simple as that.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_16:11:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "5063077853f1e295c8a5616d7038e06b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5758969, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5757890": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Frank... 'media elite'... nice buzz word, haven't heard that before.  You're a cliche, just like the clowns who's rhetoric you can only regurgitate.  You forgot to add 'liberal bias' somewhere in your comment...here's a nickel, go find an original thought.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_13:56:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "26f0ff88fd4f128e321245360eab8064", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5758147": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_14:09:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "463ce8974496844903a32d6b4febfe60", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5758603": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's funny how these Wall Street guys don't mind the socialist bailout, but talk about their bonuses that come from our tax dollars, and all of the sudden the CRITICISM is socialist?!?!?!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_14:38:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "4afcd663781364b0eaa90aac3c12ae51", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5748982": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I've got an idea. If you don't agree with the bonuses a company pays out, don't do business with that company.  Why isn't there any effort on the part of the media, to investigate the more than 100M in salary and bonuses Mr. Raines accepted while working as the head of Fannie May? He was also cooking the books so he and his associates would make their numbers and receive bonuses.  Sound familiar?<br>Where's the stories about our new treasury secretary who signed for money given to him by his employer for payment of taxes, then didn't pay them.  We're now at the height of hipocracy", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_13:01:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "b6f77485e309ed4abcc96ad4a18e6960", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5757766": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I love the irony of these people throwing \"socialist\" around. Many of them would not even have a lob right now if it were not for the Tarp. It's funny that they think it's ok  to take billions in tax payer money, but if you try to make them act in a responsible fashion all of a sudden socialist is a bad word. If these people think that they are so indispensable, let them join the thousands that were canned from the financial sector over the last little while. Then when they are cashing their unemployment cheques they can grumble about the socialist  government that issued them. Hey wall street, time for a reality check!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_13:50:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "44e7bc27d9b42ec112e8366ba6815683", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5759176": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Destroying the middle class starts in the wallet... <br><br>Calling Obama a socialist in this climate smacks of someone who believes they are part of some sort of monarchy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_15:11:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "8dfa2b578b245364b8d615f1b8b21eb9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5759179": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "We are still not hearing both sides of the issue. What is a \"bonus\" and how does it relate to their work? Are these \"bonuses\" commissions on the work they have achieved? And if so, are they proportionate to the work they have achieved or not? What do they make yearly without the \"bonuses\"? We need this explained better. Using broad-strokes here is about labeling the entire salary system with one word. <br><br>Thom Simmons<br>Kapiti Coast", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_15:11:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "a03732e6002e1f7b69d48c5823029c36", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5758412": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Socialist may be to light a description", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_14:26:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "7df2be284dc6ca11a9ba63489e5586f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5758797": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I hear virtually no statements of responsibility from these 'talented' bankers and investment people for the failures in their business resulting in the need for taxpayer insured/funded bailout funds.<br><br>Indeed, I observe statements indicating a sense of entitlement to these bonuses and other perks in spite of the burden placed on the taxpayers.  This seems to be conveyed with some degree of impunity.<br><br>Let us note that this $18B+, if spread amongst the entire population of the U.S. equates to $70+ for every man, woman & child in the U.S.  Tell me now how many 'needy', 'talented' bankers & investment personnel this was actually disbursed amongst.  some comments to address this may help the large number of middle class taxpayers who are funding your businesses, thereby preventing the possibility of insolvency.<br><br>Help the average taxpayer understand in more quantitative terms your \"need\"; terms that they can understand.<br><br>I say that if you \"need\" the money of the taxpayers, then it'll be on the terms that they want, and if you don't like it, then you can walk.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_14:50:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "3adb23fc596c4ce113c728944684ad14", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5757648": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't think the main issue is with people making a lot of money. I believe the main issue is that there were companies that begged for TARP money, claiming their company will not survive without it, then turns around and gives out bonuses to their employees. Why do these folks who work for companies that got saved by bailout money not think it's \"socialism\" to receive help money from the government, but quickly call it \"socialism\" when people question why they are receiving bonuses for a job crappily done?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_13:43:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "e772fbbab28c1a47551cf1e8b45bd2c8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5749808, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5758163": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "THIS ARTICLE IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! RETENTION? WHY WOULD WE WANT TO RETAIN PEOPLE THAT CRASHED OUR ECONOMY?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_14:10:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "463ce8974496844903a32d6b4febfe60", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5758036": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You can only eat yourself for so long before you die...I spent time in areas where the auto industry was huge...they fired everyone to get costs down and to make more money, then complained when nobody bought their stuff, boo hoo big business...hire people again and we'll be able to afford to buy your stuff. That means stop living for Wall Street. Maybe making millions instead of billions will be the way to go for the new company that picks up where you killed yourself. Looks like the bottom line is pretty long.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_14:03:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "501e5c8eba3e7fb5709896247d48a44c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5749003, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5758428": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "As a former prosecutor, and defense attorney, I am wondering why some sharp federal U. S. Attorney\u2019s office does not consider the fact that accepting a very large amount of money fraudulently or based on false pretenses, is a crime.  These folks are getting paid exorbitant amounts of money, being paid twice, or more, for not doing what they were already paid to do.  Where I come from accepting payment for services not performed is fraud.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_14:27:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "245d68ad696c53cad474b2a8f34eb8a1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5757917": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "People are missing out on the fact that  several people/ units of these organizations are very profitable. To say that nobody deserves bonuses is ridiculas and flat out wrong. I work for a divison of bank of america, we work way harder and longer than the \"average joe\" and we were very profitable last year..... why should we lose out on bonuses? Broad Strokes is a bad idea and defets the point of this country... if this is Obama's I did of \"change\" let's change the colors of our flag to red and gold.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_13:57:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "05c432d67fb4c8ec62a8cd46b59c5585", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5758814": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "it gets even more incestuous when you include the government.  The same people making the rules one day, are working for the corporations the next.  Both our new and previous heads of the Treasury came from Goldman Sachs, so do they run both the Republican and Democratic parties?  Government is a revolving door, where you make rules that benefit your future profession!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_14:51:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "4afcd663781364b0eaa90aac3c12ae51", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5755700, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5757281": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Socialism - everyone getting the same pay regardless of productivity<br>  (we don't want that)<br>Imperialism - the few closest to the money getting vast sums and the majority getting little or none<br>  (this is what we currently have on Wall Street)<br>Capitalism - everyone getting paid based on how well they perform<br>  (this is what we want)<br>Big bonuses are ok if the employees are well paid, the shareholders are well paid, and the net profits are substantial.  If any one of thes is not the case, then bonuses are not in order because a poor job was done.  No excuses.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_13:25:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "dcfe1140fce77526cf51c9917a619784", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5749095": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "the bonus's confirm socialism as it was tax payer money that provided it, for the bonus receivers to say otherwise is hypocritical.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_13:05:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "a4baf9178cd1594b165e76b6827b6b40", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5758057": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It is NOT the profitiablity and yes many in the actual companies work very very very hard and are very worthy it is the FAT cats at the top who take huge huge huge salaries and rip everyone else off. the very idea of such huge profits is aberrant not to say obscene. And using slang words from idiots like that Coulter idiot and attacking ppl for speaking their minds is a sad example of the copy cat syndrome created by the hate mongering media figures who lead the \"conservative\" elite far rampant right. Lets stay focused on the evil that the top execs have done and continue to do even now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_14:04:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "804d83c7f00cbc302cfc1890029e5b7e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5749738": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Socialism reared its ugly head first when these morons accepted government money in the first place.  You people sold your soul to the government, and now you're appalled by the fact that they now claim ownership of it.  <br><br>In a real capitalist world you fools would have been routed out and fired long ago.  Better hurry up and pay the man back before the Bank of America becomes the Gosbank of America Komrades!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_13:12:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "fa36d61524307079e1cec189c96bcb81", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5757804": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The moment the \"industry\" (if you could call it that -which is a stretch as what do they actually produce?) took government money the whole equation became socialist -which nullifies any further protest.  These self-appointed 'masters of the universe' . The antics of Bernie Madoff, John Thain, the Enron clowns,  Dennis Koslowski and hundreds like them are inexcusable -they are the equivalent of watching The Real Housewives of Orange County, New York or Atlanta - All of this behavior and excess is an awesome Al Qaeda recruiting tool. They see this crap and total lack of any moral compass as representative of American culture and then no wonder they want to destroy us. I'm saying this as a person who has been in Iraq fighting the war. Perhaps I should have my rifle sights set at center of mass of John Thain.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_13:52:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "79c2ae999fc4bfe98c0ee64e19581573", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5757677": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Where's the bread line?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_13:45:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "828275de7565451e46c6a6374a6f3916", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5748847": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Amen!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_12:54:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "c12k", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5758547": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "PREZ BHO best be willing to start paying taxes on all of his benefits i.e. Our public housing, Our furnished transportation, Our SS protection, Our house keepers, Our chefs, Our grounds keepers and the list goes on and on if he wants workers to stop getting bonuses. Better yet he should just start paying for his benefits. Also, Civil Servants must stop getting their bonuses as well. This is BHO \"Change and Hope\", Don't do as I do do as I say.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_14:35:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "6c5c48c9a0bdc5b802a805e68fa2c9a3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5758581": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What about teachers working in \"under performing\" schools with families that have many social problems. These teachers definitely work longer and harder under intense stress. How unappreciatie and abusive to them then toat the same time have workers in other sectors to run amock unchecked and unquestioned as to how they compensqate themselves in such an avaricious, ambitiously opportunistic and greedy way  . They do not receive any overtime pay or bonus pay of any sort. How is it that bankers and money investors have become so prestigious and absurdly, absurdly, absurdly compensated! It is misplaced values and", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_14:37:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "bc548f67e032783161e5c56f381956dc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5757917, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5757558": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree.  Besides, what's wrong with socialism--whatever that is?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_13:38:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "5888e24acebb97d2ee1db3d9eb547dee", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5749022, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "5758969": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Doug,<br>I would, frankly, be more concerned with your rhetoric not Rich's.  Rich speaks as someone who is capable of independent thought.  You seem to echo a whole ideology that is only capable of blind obedience. ie; \"if Americans do it, it must be good and right\".   Greed, while not exclusively American, is certainly not something to emulate and when the politics of the 21st century are haves vs the have nots, the \"have nots\" are going to use the unbridled greed of the \"haves\"  to recruit people to thier side.  Lastly, your entire diatribe is discredited when you make reference to whether or not someone who, presumably, served our country, mine and yours, honorably by saying he had sex with the civilians he encountered.  This last statement makes me wonder about the simplistic level your thinking must operate on.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_14:58:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Arthur1017", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5748859": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thank goodess for your clarity and direct article. The Wall Street pirates deserve to be hung, drawn and quartered for their incredible greed, arrogance and what they have done to our economy and nation by betraying our trust, floating massive ponzzie schemes in the name of speculation and dragging down the heritage of our fathers and grandfathers, mothers and grandmothers. Hooray for the time of truth, and may the last one please turn out the lights and get the heck out of our lives.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_12:55:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "804d83c7f00cbc302cfc1890029e5b7e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5758314": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What kind of BRAIN drain is at stake here? We are talking about leaders that have had no or little control over their organizations and as such have brought them to the brink of bankruptcy! Maybe it's about time to make a severe changeover among these executives that have become so highly paid that it has only created distance to the reality of the companies they are supposed to lead? How much knowledge and skills is needed to lose billions and billions of dollars? I vote for draining out these so-called leaders (especially the ones that wont accept lower remuneration) and replace them with ones that will accept a reasonable remuneration and will demonstrate a real motivation to work with their organization in solving the core problems. It has been proven that people who in 1 year make enough money to live comfortably the rest of their lifetime, either cannot find enough motivation or have been chosen for other reasons than their competencies!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_14:20:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "a5f3340bc192f7a02962260ec777d834", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 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}, "5757694": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You Go Ernie!  I'll vote for that!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-01_13:46:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "b6235c78f64b229f7af1a9f454b24e6e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "10 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 5749022, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 1, "reply_position": false, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "10934923", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "34441", "hash": 1666755478450366303}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "wall_street_uses_the_8220s8221_word_to_denounce_criticizing_its_bonuses_socialism", "paginate": true, "num_pages": 3, "num_posts": 50, "per_page": 50, "total_posts": 124, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 10934923, "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"};
	/* */ this.jsonData.cookie_messages = {"user_created": null, "post_has_profile": null, "post_twitter": null, "post_not_approved": null}; this.jsonData.session = {"url": null, "name": null, "email": null}; /* */

	
	this.curPageId = 'dsq-comments';

	this.frames = {};
};

var disqus_popup_reference = null;

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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





Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN = '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/wall_street_uses_the_8220s8221_word_to_denounce_criticizing_its_bonuses_socialism/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">124</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/wall_street_uses_the_8220s8221_word_to_denounce_criticizing_its_bonuses_socialism/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/wall_street_uses_the_8220s8221_word_to_denounce_criticizing_its_bonuses_socialism/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 </div>\
		';

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

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

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

		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		

		return html;
	};

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

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

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

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

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/wall_street_uses_the_8220s8221_word_to_denounce_criticizing_its_bonuses_socialism/trackback/';
		}

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

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

		return html;
	}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	//
	// Post
	//

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
				<div id="dsq-points-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-likedtxt">'
				+ (_meta.points
					? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.'
					: '')
				+ '</div>'
				+ '<ul class="dsq-comment-options dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.votable
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first dsq-rate" id="dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id + '">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Like</a>'
						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-report' + (!_meta.votable ? ' dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '"><a href="#" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">Report</a></li> \
				</ul> \
				<ul class="dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first"><a href="#" id="dsq-reply-link-' + post_id +'" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(this, ' + post_id +'); return false;">Reply</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<li id="dsq-edit-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-edit-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="' + (!_meta.can_reply ? 'dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-more-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-more-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'more\'); return false">More <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media
					? '<li id="dsq-media-el-' + post_id +'" style="display:none"><a id="dsq-media-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'media\'); return false">Use Media <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
				+ '<div id="dsq-reply-bar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar" style="display:none"> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-items-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-items"> \
						</div> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-auth"> \
							 \
								 \
								 	<a href="#" class="dsq-help dsq-reply-req-opt" title="You are commenting as a Guest. You may choose to log into an existing DISQUS Profile, your Facebook, Twitter or OpenID account to comment on The Washington Independent" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Optional:</a> \
								 \
								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
								<a id="dsq-reply-login-' + post_id + '" href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:10934923" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</a> \
								 \
								 \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Iframes
	//

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

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

		var default_params = {
			// TODO: These should be moved to Dsq.jsonData.
			'f'				: 'washingtonindependent',
			't'				: 'wall_street_uses_the_8220s8221_word_to_denounce_criticizing_its_bonuses_socialism',
			// Do we need encodeURIComponent here?
			'ifrs'			: encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css),
			'to_redirect'	: encodeURIComponent(window.location),
			'cbp'			: disqus_callback_params,
			'ff'			: Dsq.Thread.ff,
			'fc'			: Dsq.Thread.fc,
			'ac'			: Dsq.Thread.ac,
			'default_text'	: disqus_default_text
		};

		base_url += '?' + (new Date()).getTime();
		// Add params to default_params.
		if(params) {
			for(var key in params) {
				if(params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					default_params[key] = encodeURIComponent(params[key]);
				}
			}
		}
		// Build querystring.
		for(var key in default_params) {
			if(default_params[key] && default_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				base_url += '&' + key + '=' + default_params[key];
			}
		}

		return [
			'<iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0"',
			(' allowtransparency="true" src="' + base_url + '"'),
			this._makeAttributes(attributes),
			'</iframe>'].join('');
	};

	this.frameLogin = function(opt_attributes) {
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/login.html';
		var attributes = opt_attributes || {};
		attributes['class'] = 'dsq-post-login';

		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameReply = function(post_id, extra_params, attributes) {
		// Returns the HTML for a reply iframe. Called by Dsq.Iframes.setReplyIframeToContainer
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY;
		var params = {
			'def_email'		: disqus_def_email,
			'def_name'		: disqus_def_name
		};
		if(extra_params) {
			for(var key in extra_params) {
				if(extra_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					params[key] = extra_params[key];
				}
			}
		}
		if(_meta) {
			params['parent_post'] = post_id;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			params['per_page'] = disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			attributes['class'] += '-authenticated';
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameEdit = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/edit.html';
		var params = {
			'p' : post_id
		};
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, {'class': 'dsq-post-edit', 'name': 'dsq-edit_' + post_id + '-frame'});
	};

	//
	// Menus
	//

	this.menuMore = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: "Remove post" button should hide menu.
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')">Link</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Profile</a></li>'
	+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
		? '	<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>' + (_meta.email ? '<li class="dsq-admin-email">' + _meta.email + '</li>' : '')
		+ '	<li class="dsq-admin-ip">' + _meta.ip + '</li> \
			<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>'
		+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
			? ' <li class="dsq-admin-edit"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
			: '')
		+ ' <li class="dsq-remove"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Remove Comment</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-report-spam"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-block-user"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li>'
		: '');
	};

	this.menuMedia = function(post_id) {
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(this, ' + post_id + ', \'seesmic\'); return false;">Record video</a></li> \
		';
	};

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

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

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

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


		var menu = '<li class="dsq-drop-showlnk"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Expand &#8663;</a></li>';
		var pointsMessage = '';
		if (userData['registered']) {
			pointsMessage = 'with ' + userData['points'] + ' points (more points are better).';
		}

		if (userData['is_remote']) {
			var domain = userData['remote_domain_name'];
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' is a ' + domain + ' user ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
			menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-' + domain.toLowerCase() + '">' + domain + '</span></li>';
		} else if (userData['registered']) {
			if (userData['verified']) {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a verified commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span></li>';
			} else {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a registered, but unverified, commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span></li>';
			}
		} else {
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has not claimed this commenter profile." onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()"><span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span></li>';
		}

		menu += _includeServices();
		return menu;
	};

	//
	// Popups
	//

	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-top"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-body" class="clearfix"> \
				<div class="dsq-popup-body-padding"> \
					<div class="dsq-popup-header"> \
						<a class="dsq-close-link" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/modal-close.png" alt="" /></a>'
						+ content['header']
					+ '</div>'
					+ content['body']
					+ '<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
				</div> <!-- padding --> \
			</div> <!-- body --> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-bottom"></div> \
		</div> \
		';
	};

	this.popupProfile = function(user_key) {
		var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(user_key, null);
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var html = '';
			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == 0
					? '<h4>Connections</h4><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li> \
					<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" title="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" /> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>'
				+ (i+1 == userServices.length ? '</ul>' : '');
			}
			return html;
		};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<table> \
				<tr> \
					<td> \
						<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><img class="dsq-popup-profile-avatar" src="' + userData['avatar'] + '" alt="" /></a> \
					</td> \
					<td> \
						<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user"> \
							<h3>' + userData['display_name'] + '</h3> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats" id="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + user_key + '">Loading...</div> \
						</div> \
					</td> \
				</tr> \
			</table> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-state"> \
				This is a&nbsp;<span class="'
					+ (userData['registered']
						? (userData['verified']
							? ' dsq-badge-verified'
							: (userData['is_remote']
								? ' dsq-badge-' + userData['remote_domain_name'].toLowerCase()
								: ' dsq-badge-registered')
							)
							: ' dsq-badge-guest') + '">'
			+ (userData['registered']
				? (userData['verified']
					? 'Verified'
					: (userData['is_remote']
						 ? userData['remote_domain_name']
						 : 'Registered')
					)
				: 'Guest')
			+ '</span>&nbsp;commenter profile.'
			+ '&nbsp;<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><strong>View more comments </strong></a>'
			+ (!userData['points']
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice">If this is you, <a href="http://disqus.com/profile" target="_blank">claim it now</a> to manage your comments.</p>'
				: '')
			+ ((userData['registered'] && !userData['verified'] && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username == userData['username'])) && !userData['is_remote'])
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice"><strong>Alert</strong>: You have not verified this account. <a href="http://disqus.com/verify">Verify it now.</a></p>'
				: '')
			+ '</div> \
			<div id="dsq-profile-status-' + user_key + '" class="dsq-popup-profile-status" style="display:none"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-snapshot"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td> \
							<div id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Most active sites</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
						<td>'
							+ _includeServices()
							+ '<div id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Moderator of</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupReblog = function() {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<cite><span>Reblog this comment</span></cite> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div id="dsq-reblog-form" class="dsq-reblog-form"> \
			</div> \
		';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupModal = function(title, message) {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<h3>' + title + '</h3> \
		';

		bodyHtml = message;

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.alertContent = function(name, post_id) {
		var alert = {
			'post_not_approved': {
				'title': 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator',
				'message': 'Thanks for posting. Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.'
			},
			'post_has_profile': {
				'title': 'Use your existing commenter profile',
				'message': 'You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> commenter profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a>'
			}
		};
		return alert[name] || false;
	};

	//
	// Actions
	//

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {
		// Update number of points
		Dsq.$('dsq-points-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.';

		// Update link text
		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.';
		}
	};

	this.subscribed = function(status) {
		var title, message;

		if(status) {
			title = 'Subscribed!';
			message = 'You have subscribed to this comment thread. New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox, where you may read and respond by email.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">Unsubscribe</a> \
			';
		} else {
			title = 'Unsubscribed';
			message = 'You have unsubscribed to this comment thread. New comments will no longer be sent to your email inbox.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a> \
			';
		}

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);

	};
	
	this.highlighted = function() {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('This comment has been highlighted.', 'Highlighted comment');
	};

	//
	// Media
	//

	this.mediaSeesmic = function(id, thumb) {
		return ' \
			<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_preview" class="dsq-seesmic-preview"><a href="http://www.seesmic.com/video/' + id + '" target="_blank" class="see_link">&nbsp;</a> \
				<div style="display:block;width:160px; height:120px; border:none; background-image:url(http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/' + thumb + ')"> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_hide" class="seePlayOverlay" style="display:none;"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',false)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/stopOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_show" class="seePlayOverlay"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',true)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/playOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; border:none; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			<div id="' + id + '_content" style="display:block; width:100%; padding-top:5px"></div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Callbacks
	//

	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(parent_post_id) {
		// Increment post count
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');
		
		if (num_posts) { 
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) { 
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
	};
};
// Dsq.Templates


/**
 * Dsq.Post
 */
Dsq.Post = new function() {
	this.openedMenu = {};
	this.menuEventListener = null;
	this.stateReplyToggled = {};
	this.stateEditToggled = {};
	this.stateRecordLink = {};

	/**
	 * Inserts a new post into the document.
	 *
	 * @param after_id {Number}	Insert a post before specified id.  If after_id
	 *							evaluates to false, then post in the front.  If
	 *							after_id is -1, post at the end.
	 */
	this.insert = function(after_id, id, message, author) {
		// Skeleton template from thread_posts.html.
		var skeleton = ' \
			<li id="dsq-comment-%(id)s"> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-header-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-header"> \
					<cite id="dsq-cite-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-cite"> \
						<a id="dsq-author-user-%(id)s" href="%(author_url)s" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">%(author_name)s</a> \
					</cite> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-body-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-body"> \
					<div id="dsq-comment-message-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-message">%(message)s</div> \
				</div> \
			</li> \
		';
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var _user_meta = Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key];
		var markup = Dsq.Utils.interpolate(skeleton, {
			id: id,
			message: message,
			author_url: _user_meta.blog,
			author_name: _user_meta.display_name
		});
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		markup = markup.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
		div.innerHTML = markup;

		if (after_id === -1) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').appendChild(div);
		} else if (!after_id) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').insertBefore(div, Dsq.$('dsq-comments').firstChild);
		} else if (Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + after_id)) {
			// Get next node after "after_id", so we can insert before it.
			// If "after_id" is the last comment, the target node is the
			// last node.
			
			// var append_post_id = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(after_id).replace('<div id="','').replace('"></div>', '');
			var append_post_id = 'dsq-append-post-' + after_id;
			var node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			while (node = node.nextSibling) {
				if (!node || node.nodeType == 1) { // 1 == Node.ELEMENT_NODE
					break;
				}
			}
			if (!node) {
				node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			}
			node.parentNode.insertBefore(div, node);
		}
	};

	this.incrementPostCount = function() {
		
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');

		if (num_posts) {
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) {
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
	}
	
	this.outlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className += ' dsq-comment-outline';
		setTimeout("(function () { Dsq.Post.clearOutlineComment(" + post_id + ") })()", 3000);
	};
	
	this.clearOutlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className.replace('dsq-comment-outline', '');
	};

	this.showMenu = function(el, id, name) {
		var anchorPos = Dsq.Utils.findPos(el);
		var menu = document.createElement('ul');

		if(this.openedMenu) {
			if(this.openedMenu.linkClicked) {
				this.openedMenu.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		switch(name) {
			case 'more':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMore(id);
				break;
			case 'media':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMedia(id);
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}

		// Add menu to document body
		menu.id = 'dsq-menu-' + id;
		menu.className = 'dsq-menu';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(menu);

		// Position and show
		anchorPos[1] += 15;
		menu.style.left = anchorPos[0] + 'px';
		menu.style.top = anchorPos[1] + 'px';
		menu.style.display = 'block';

		// Set global reference
		this.openedMenu = {
			'el' : menu,
			'id' : id,
			'name' : name,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};

		// Set listener
		this.menuEventListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._hideMenu);
	};

	this._hideMenu = function(e) {
		var el = e.target || e.srcElement;
		var openedMenu = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el;
		var id = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.id;

		if(!id) {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link';
		} else {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link-' + id;
		}

		if(!openedMenu) {
			return;
		}

		if(!Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, openedMenu.id)) {
			openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Post.menuEventListener);
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(openedMenu);

		} else {
			// Hide the menu if a link was clicked inside the menu.  We can't
			// completely remove the menu until the onclick event on the link
			// fires, but the menuEventListener will prevent multiple menus
			// from polluting the DOM.
			if(el && typeof el.href != 'undefined') {
				openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el = null;
			}
		}

		if(Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Post.openedMenu.linkClicked = true;
		}
	};


	this.getUserServices = function(user_key, id) {
		if(!user_key && id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
			user_key = _meta.user_key;
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var userServices = [];

		// Keep a full list of supported services. This is the order they will display in the drop-profile.
		// Each service must have a corresponding case in _buildServiceUrl()
		var supportedServices = ['blog', 'twitter', 'facebook', 'tumblr'];

		function _buildServiceUrl(serviceName) {
			var data = userData[serviceName];
			var services = {
				blog:		function(d) { return d; },
				twitter:	function(d) { return d; },
				facebook:	function(d) { return d; },
				tumblr:		function(d) { return 'http://' + d + '.tumblr.com'; }
			};
			return services[serviceName](data);
		}

		for(var i = 0; i < supportedServices.length; i++) {
			if(userData[supportedServices[i]]) {
				var serviceUrl = _buildServiceUrl(supportedServices[i]);
				userServices.push({'name' : supportedServices[i], 'url' : serviceUrl});
			}
		}
		return userServices;
	}

	this.dropProfile = function(id) {
		var dp = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-profile-' + id);

		// IE6 needs JS to display/hide. All other browsers use CSS.
		if(dp) {
			if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) dp.style.display = (dp.style.display == 'inline') ? 'none' : 'inline';
			return false;
		} else {
			dp = document.createElement('ul');
		}

		dp.id = 'dsq-drop-profile-' + id;
		dp.className = 'dsq-drop-profile';

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) { dp.style.display = 'inline'; }

		var container = Dsq.$('dsq-header-avatar-' + id);
		dp.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.dropProfile(id);
		container.appendChild(dp);
	};

	this.dropProfileMore = function(el, id) {
		var hiddenItems = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-hidden-' + id);

		hiddenItems.style.display = 'inline';
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
	};

	this._updateReplyLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "reply / cancel" links based on state.
		var displayDict = {};

		if(id) {
			if(this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				el.innerHTML = 'Cancel';
				displayDict['media'] = 'inline';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'none';
			} else {
				el.innerHTML = 'Reply';
				displayDict['media'] = 'none';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'inline';
			}
		}

		for(var key in displayDict) {
			if(displayDict.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var	linkEl = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-el-' + id),
					spacer = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-spacer-' + id);

				if(linkEl) {
					linkEl.style.display = displayDict[key];
					if(spacer) spacer.style.display = displayDict[key];
				}
			}
		}
	};

	this._updateMediaLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "use media / cancel" links based on state.
		var appendId = (id) ? ('-' + id) : '';
		var link = Dsq.$('dsq-media-link' + appendId);

		if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			link.innerHTML = 'Cancel Media';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(link, id); return false; };
		} else {
			link.innerHTML = 'Use Media <small>&#9660;</small>';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.showMenu(link, id, 'media'); return false; };
		}
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(el, id) {
		// Create reply IFrame
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			if (!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				// Create IFrame if it doesn't exist.
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-frame-' + id), id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].init();
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].setState(id, _meta.depth);
				}
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
			}
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			if(!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				// Reply toolbar
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id), id);
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Iframes.hideAllInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id));
				if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
					// HACK: Cancel media before canceling self.
					this.toggleMediaReply(Dsq.$('dsq-media-link-' + id), id);
				}
			}
		}

		this.stateReplyToggled[id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[id];
		this._updateReplyLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-reply-' + id); }

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[id]
		});
	};

	this.toggleMediaReply = function(el, id, xtype) {
		id = id || 0;
		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(!this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id, {xtype:xtype}, 'dsq-post-video');
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id);
		}
		this.stateRecordLink[id] = !this.stateRecordLink[id];
		this._updateMediaLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};

	this.edit = function(el, id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.frameEdit(id);
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-comment-message-' + id); }
	};

    this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
                Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
            }

            Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/vote.js'
                + '?post_id='    + id
                + '&vote='        + vote);

		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login(Dsq.Strings.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN);
		}
    };

	this.report = function(id, confirmed) {
		if(confirmed) {
			Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/wall_street_uses_the_8220s8221_word_to_denounce_criticizing_its_bonuses_socialism/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='	+ 'wall_street_uses_the_8220s8221_word_to_denounce_criticizing_its_bonuses_socialism'
			+ '&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='	+ 'wall_street_uses_the_8220s8221_word_to_denounce_criticizing_its_bonuses_socialism'
			+ '&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='		+ 'wall_street_uses_the_8220s8221_word_to_denounce_criticizing_its_bonuses_socialism'
				+ '&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/10934923/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);
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<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5748847">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5748847" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5748847" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5748847">c12k</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5748847" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5748847" class="dsq-comment-message">Amen!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5749003">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5749003" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5749003" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5749003">Rub</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5749003" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5749003" class="dsq-comment-message">Get a clue</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5758036">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5758036" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5758036" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5758036">DGC</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5758036" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5758036" class="dsq-comment-message">You can only eat yourself for so long before you die...I spent time in areas where the auto industry was huge...they fired everyone to get costs down and to make more money, then complained when nobody bought their stuff, boo hoo big business...hire people again and we\'ll be able to afford to buy your stuff. That means stop living for Wall Street. Maybe making millions instead of billions will be the way to go for the new company that picks up where you killed yourself. Looks like the bottom line is pretty long.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5758959">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5758959" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5758959" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5758959">Douglas</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5758959" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5758959" class="dsq-comment-message">How can anyone feel sorry for anyone who can afford to own and drive a Maserati?  This is especially true for those who are under 50, or is it 40 or even 30 years of age.  What a bunch of spoiled rotten brats.  There seems to be no limit to the wealth of so many at such a young age who work on Wall Street.  The problem is clearly not just with the upper echelon executives but with the whole range of workers and traders no matter what their age. So let\'s not just focus on the top but the bottom as well.  When it comes to Wall Street the top are merely the tip of the iceberg so to speak.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5748859">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5748859" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5748859" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5748859">Chris Gerlach</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5748859" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5748859" class="dsq-comment-message">Thank goodess for your clarity and direct article. The Wall Street pirates deserve to be hung, drawn and quartered for their incredible greed, arrogance and what they have done to our economy and nation by betraying our trust, floating massive ponzzie schemes in the name of speculation and dragging down the heritage of our fathers and grandfathers, mothers and grandmothers. Hooray for the time of truth, and may the last one please turn out the lights and get the heck out of our lives.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5748911">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5748911" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5748911" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5748911">Dave</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5748911" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5748911" class="dsq-comment-message">Isn\'t it funny that Wall Street wasn\'t sympathizing with the average worker as pensions became a thing of the past?  Did companies ever say they had to keep offering pensions to keep their best workers?  How about the rising cost of insurance and diminishing coverage?  There is no competition to retain good workers.  If every business cuts out the same perks, where else can the workers go?  The system by which company executives have slowly screwed the common worker over the last 25 years has finally trickled up to them.  I have no sympathy for them, just as they haven\'t had any.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5748982">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5748982" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5748982" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5748982">Rub</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5748982" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5748982" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve got an idea. If you don\'t agree with the bonuses a company pays out, don\'t do business with that company.  Why isn\'t there any effort on the part of the media, to investigate the more than 100M in salary and bonuses Mr. Raines accepted while working as the head of Fannie May? He was also cooking the books so he and his associates would make their numbers and receive bonuses.  Sound familiar?<br>Where\'s the stories about our new treasury secretary who signed for money given to him by his employer for payment of taxes, then didn\'t pay them.  We\'re now at the height of hipocracy</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5749022">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5749022" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5749022" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5749022">ernie medeiros</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5749022" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5749022" class="dsq-comment-message">We need to give these egregious scum just what they\'re asking for.  Nationalize the banks, seize the assets of every corporate exec making over 500,000/year, run the banks as public utilities for the common good and redistribute the wealth back to the people who actually created it:  The workers!  Then, criminal swindlers like B. Maddof et al should be swiftly tried and imprisoned, not only for fraud, but for crimes against humanity!!!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5757558">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5757558" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5757558" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5757558">Joseph</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5757558" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5757558" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree.  Besides, what\'s wrong with socialism--whatever that is?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5757694">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5757694" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5757694" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5757694">Karen</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5757694" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5757694" class="dsq-comment-message">You Go Ernie!  I\'ll vote for that!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5758858">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5758858" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5758858" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5758858">john</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5758858" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5758858" class="dsq-comment-message">Ouch!  Central economic planning has never worked, dude!  I do agree with prosecution of fraud, however!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5749024">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5749024" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5749024" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5749024">markie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5749024" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5749024" class="dsq-comment-message">swindle and spin</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5749095">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5749095" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5749095" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5749095">john</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5749095" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5749095" class="dsq-comment-message">the bonus\'s confirm socialism as it was tax payer money that provided it, for the bonus receivers to say otherwise is hypocritical.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5749738">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5749738" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5749738" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5749738">Rob</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5749738" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5749738" class="dsq-comment-message">Socialism reared its ugly head first when these morons accepted government money in the first place.  You people sold your soul to the government, and now you\'re appalled by the fact that they now claim ownership of it.  <br><br>In a real capitalist world you fools would have been routed out and fired long ago.  Better hurry up and pay the man back before the Bank of America becomes the Gosbank of America Komrades!</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5749808">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5749808" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5749808" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5749808">frank</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5749808" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5749808" class="dsq-comment-message">Hearing the media elite debate this topic is so friggin\' hypocritical that I\'m in stitches. Former overpriced market cap giants like the NYT and GE-parent of CNBC-have seen their share prices break as hard as investment banks. Brian Williams of NBC is the 2nd or 3rd highest paid employee at GE. Chris Mathews (4.8m) and Olberman (4mil) entertain less than a million viewers a night. And I\'d LOVE to know how much NBC pays top producers of prime time programming. Yet the media is a WATCHDOG over the bonus pool of traders and staff at other publicly traded corporations. <br><br>A top agency trader at a million a year is a hell of a lot more valuable and harder to replace than a bunch of TelePrompter reading clowns who get a "tingle up their legs" at the empty rhetoric of some half ass Chicago lawyer turned Messiah.......</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5757648">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5757648" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5757648" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5757648">John</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5757648" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5757648" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t think the main issue is with people making a lot of money. I believe the main issue is that there were companies that begged for TARP money, claiming their company will not survive without it, then turns around and gives out bonuses to their employees. Why do these folks who work for companies that got saved by bailout money not think it\'s "socialism" to receive help money from the government, but quickly call it "socialism" when people question why they are receiving bonuses for a job crappily done?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5806094">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5806094" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5806094" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5806094">Porkchopicus_of_Borg</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5806094" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5806094" class="dsq-comment-message">If that top agency trader is so good, then he can carry his non-bonus-getting rear end to another financial institution and see if he fares any better over there.<br><br>Otherwise, cry me a river.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5750019">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5750019" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5750019" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5750019">rene</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5750019" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5750019" class="dsq-comment-message">i agree with ernie but only would add the term vultures as adjective for wall street execs</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5755700">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5755700" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5755700" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5755700">bob</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5755700" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5755700" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s not just the CEO\'s. The problem is with the incestuos nature of the large corps. The boards of directors for all those companies are intertwined. I used to pay attention to my proxy info back when I had actual stocks and what I realized is that the chairman of company A would be a board member of company B and the chairman of B would be on the boarde of C and so on around in circles. They were also all CEO\'s of one or the other and would regularly vote to increase the bonuses for each other. Let\'s just usher them all over to the unemployment line and find brand new talent. High school kids would do a better job than these swindlers.<br><br>By the way, the reason you haven\'t seen more investigative reporting in the big media is because they are owned and controlled by these same big corps. Thank goodness the light of day is shining on these evil demons in spite of that!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5758814">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5758814" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5758814" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5758814">john</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5758814" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5758814" class="dsq-comment-message">it gets even more incestuous when you include the government.  The same people making the rules one day, are working for the corporations the next.  Both our new and previous heads of the Treasury came from Goldman Sachs, so do they run both the Republican and Democratic parties?  Government is a revolving door, where you make rules that benefit your future profession!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-5757281">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5757281" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5757281" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5757281">Fred</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5757281" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5757281" class="dsq-comment-message">Socialism - everyone getting the same pay regardless of productivity<br>  (we don\'t want that)<br>Imperialism - the few closest to the money getting vast sums and the majority getting little or none<br>  (this is what we currently have on Wall Street)<br>Capitalism - everyone getting paid based on how well they perform<br>  (this is what we want)<br>Big bonuses are ok if the employees are well paid, the shareholders are well paid, and the net profits are substantial.  If any one of thes is not the case, then bonuses are not in order because a poor job was done.  No excuses.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5757348" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5757348" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5757348">bob</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5757348" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5757348" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s right Fred!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-5757629">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5757629" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5757629" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5757629">Karen</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5757629" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5757629" class="dsq-comment-message">Bonuses used to be performance based.  These people did not perform.  Since they need to be bailed out from the government (us) to stay afloat, they can give up their bonus.  "Retain Talent"?  That talent has crushed the majority of this country\'s small investor\'s money.  It was "socialism" when they begged for the money.  That need started the slippery sloap.  THEY started that slippery sloap because they FAILED and they can begin to live like the rest of us.  If you accept, ask for, beg for my money to help you stay afloat, I get a say in how it\'s spent.  They ruined their own little game and they DO NOT get to blame Obama or anyone else.  They made this bed and I\'m all for making them sleep in it.  The ride is over!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-5757677">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5757677" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5757677" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5757677">The Truth</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5757677" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5757677" class="dsq-comment-message">Where\'s the bread line?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-5757766">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5757766" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5757766" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5757766">Darren</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5757766" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5757766" class="dsq-comment-message">I love the irony of these people throwing "socialist" around. Many of them would not even have a lob right now if it were not for the Tarp. It\'s funny that they think it\'s ok  to take billions in tax payer money, but if you try to make them act in a responsible fashion all of a sudden socialist is a bad word. If these people think that they are so indispensable, let them join the thousands that were canned from the financial sector over the last little while. Then when they are cashing their unemployment cheques they can grumble about the socialist  government that issued them. Hey wall street, time for a reality check!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-5757804">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5757804" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5757804" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5757804">Rich</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5757804" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5757804" class="dsq-comment-message">The moment the "industry" (if you could call it that -which is a stretch as what do they actually produce?) took government money the whole equation became socialist -which nullifies any further protest.  These self-appointed \'masters of the universe\' . The antics of Bernie Madoff, John Thain, the Enron clowns,  Dennis Koslowski and hundreds like them are inexcusable -they are the equivalent of watching The Real Housewives of Orange County, New York or Atlanta - All of this behavior and excess is an awesome Al Qaeda recruiting tool. They see this crap and total lack of any moral compass as representative of American culture and then no wonder they want to destroy us. I\'m saying this as a person who has been in Iraq fighting the war. Perhaps I should have my rifle sights set at center of mass of John Thain.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-5758504">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5758504" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5758504" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5758504">Douglas</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5758504" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5758504" class="dsq-comment-message">Rich, I thought your comments were OK until your last sentence where you threatened to shoot John Thain.  This basically discredits your entire comment and raises other questions as well.  What do you mean about the behavior of American housewives as "an awesome Al Queda recruiting tool"?  Surely you don\'t think that whatever negatives you perceive of American culture is unique to American culture.  I wonder how many different young women in Iraq you had sex with.  You even make me wonder if you don\'t have leanings to Al Queda yourself.  What makes you think that any behavior by any American except perhaps a serial or a mass murderer is even remotely as bad as that of any Al Queda operative?  Who\'s side are you really on?  I trust you simply misspoke and that you really are proud of your Country, the United States of America, and the Uniform you wear to represent the best of it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5757890" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5757890" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5757890">William</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5757890" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5757890" class="dsq-comment-message">Frank... \'media elite\'... nice buzz word, haven\'t heard that before.  You\'re a cliche, just like the clowns who\'s rhetoric you can only regurgitate.  You forgot to add \'liberal bias\' somewhere in your comment...here\'s a nickel, go find an original thought.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-5757917">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5757917" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5757917" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5757917">Steve</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5757917" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5757917" class="dsq-comment-message">People are missing out on the fact that  several people/ units of these organizations are very profitable. To say that nobody deserves bonuses is ridiculas and flat out wrong. I work for a divison of bank of america, we work way harder and longer than the "average joe" and we were very profitable last year..... why should we lose out on bonuses? Broad Strokes is a bad idea and defets the point of this country... if this is Obama\'s I did of "change" let\'s change the colors of our flag to red and gold.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-5758467">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5758467" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5758467" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5758467">Torben</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5758467" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5758467" class="dsq-comment-message">Steve...it\'s not the profit of these companies that is financing the bonuses...Bank of America has been bailed out by the American people...and people around  the world "chipping in" as recession and loses are setting their nasty fingerprints. A bonus should be received for creating good healthy results and it should be financed by the company and not by the hard work of the people bailing out that company! It\'s by the way, in my opinion, totally misplaced and arrogant to postulate that people in Bank of America are working harder than the "average Joe"...you guys are producing NOTHING and are merely moving money around - you have clearly demonstrated that even this is too big a task. Start taking responsibility for the mess we are in...it will bring more respect!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-5758581">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5758581" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5758581" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5758581">asad</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5758581" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5758581" class="dsq-comment-message">What about teachers working in "under performing" schools with families that have many social problems. These teachers definitely work longer and harder under intense stress. How unappreciatie and abusive to them then toat the same time have workers in other sectors to run amock unchecked and unquestioned as to how they compensqate themselves in such an avaricious, ambitiously opportunistic and greedy way  . They do not receive any overtime pay or bonus pay of any sort. How is it that bankers and money investors have become so prestigious and absurdly, absurdly, absurdly compensated! It is misplaced values and</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-5758700">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5758700" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5758700" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5758700">john</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5758700" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5758700" class="dsq-comment-message">That may be, but if your company as a whole is down, it doesn\'t matter what your division did, the company as a whole is not profitable, and I don\'t want to pay you a bonus.  I suppose that\'s the main thing.  I worked by butt of this year, and paid tens of thousands in taxes, and it goes towards bonuses for people like you?  Hell no, if your company isn\'t doing well, then it needs to go bankrupt.  If your division is actually profitable, then it is one of the few good assets left, and needs to be sold to the highest bidder.  Me working hard to keep parts of your company afloat so that your buddies can buy a new Mercedes is BS.  Sorry, but that is the definition of socialism, and it pisses me off.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-5758057">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5758057" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5758057" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5758057">Chris Gerlach</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5758057" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5758057" class="dsq-comment-message">It is NOT the profitiablity and yes many in the actual companies work very very very hard and are very worthy it is the FAT cats at the top who take huge huge huge salaries and rip everyone else off. the very idea of such huge profits is aberrant not to say obscene. And using slang words from idiots like that Coulter idiot and attacking ppl for speaking their minds is a sad example of the copy cat syndrome created by the hate mongering media figures who lead the "conservative" elite far rampant right. Lets stay focused on the evil that the top execs have done and continue to do even now.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-5758137">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5758137" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5758137" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5758137">Jamal</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5758137" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5758137" class="dsq-comment-message">Don\'t hate the player hate the game.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5759038" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5759038" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5759038">Sillyfatbastard</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5759038" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5759038" class="dsq-comment-message">I call B.S. on that; when the player is trying to protect the game, it\'s high time to hate the player!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-5758147">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5758147" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5758147" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5758147">BRYAN</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5758147" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5758147" class="dsq-comment-message">ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-5758163">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5758163" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5758163" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5758163">BRYAN</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5758163" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5758163" class="dsq-comment-message">THIS ARTICLE IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! RETENTION? WHY WOULD WE WANT TO RETAIN PEOPLE THAT CRASHED OUR ECONOMY?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-5758314">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5758314" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5758314" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5758314">Torben</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5758314" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5758314" class="dsq-comment-message">What kind of BRAIN drain is at stake here? We are talking about leaders that have had no or little control over their organizations and as such have brought them to the brink of bankruptcy! Maybe it\'s about time to make a severe changeover among these executives that have become so highly paid that it has only created distance to the reality of the companies they are supposed to lead? How much knowledge and skills is needed to lose billions and billions of dollars? I vote for draining out these so-called leaders (especially the ones that wont accept lower remuneration) and replace them with ones that will accept a reasonable remuneration and will demonstrate a real motivation to work with their organization in solving the core problems. It has been proven that people who in 1 year make enough money to live comfortably the rest of their lifetime, either cannot find enough motivation or have been chosen for other reasons than their competencies!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-5758412">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5758412" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5758412" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5758412">deming</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5758412" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5758412" class="dsq-comment-message">Socialist may be to light a description</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-5758428">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5758428" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5758428" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5758428">Carl Schmidt</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5758428" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5758428" class="dsq-comment-message">As a former prosecutor, and defense attorney, I am wondering why some sharp federal U. S. Attorney’s office does not consider the fact that accepting a very large amount of money fraudulently or based on false pretenses, is a crime.  These folks are getting paid exorbitant amounts of money, being paid twice, or more, for not doing what they were already paid to do.  Where I come from accepting payment for services not performed is fraud.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-5758523">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5758523" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5758523" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5758523">Torben</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5758523" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5758523" class="dsq-comment-message">Well said...I completely agree...amazing that the American people is even ready to discuss whether these people should be paid bonuses...the discussion should be on whether money should be returned or some leaders should be punished!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-5758547">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5758547" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5758547" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5758547">Quandary</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5758547" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5758547" class="dsq-comment-message">PREZ BHO best be willing to start paying taxes on all of his benefits i.e. Our public housing, Our furnished transportation, Our SS protection, Our house keepers, Our chefs, Our grounds keepers and the list goes on and on if he wants workers to stop getting bonuses. Better yet he should just start paying for his benefits. Also, Civil Servants must stop getting their bonuses as well. This is BHO "Change and Hope", Don\'t do as I do do as I say.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-5758603">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5758603" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5758603" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5758603">john</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5758603" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5758603" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s funny how these Wall Street guys don\'t mind the socialist bailout, but talk about their bonuses that come from our tax dollars, and all of the sudden the CRITICISM is socialist?!?!?!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-5758755">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5758755" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5758755" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5758755">Lou</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5758755" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5758755" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m not a socialist but anyone that rakes in the kinds of money that wall street has been doing is grossly overpiad regardless of what function they have including CEO\'s.  To me the there has to be relevance to payscales between professions; who deserves more a heart surgeon whose skills are used to save lives or someone who has by chance latched on to a field where every year because their companies have made enormous amounts of money theeir bonuses get bigger.<br><br>As a shareholder I deserves to get paid hndsomely because I\'ve risked my hardearned money.  The company workers [regardless of position should be paid a decent compensation] otherwise, if they  feel that they are not being compensated according to their worth, go out and start your own comapny with your money and make whatever you are capable of.  When you risk your own money no one will ever be lamenting of what you make.  I dare say that they would not be making a lot of the types of decisions that they make with our money.<br><br>Even at a fraction of what they are being bonused at would be excellent compensation in my opinion if they want to deal with other peoples money.... otherwise go out and use your own.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-5758797">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5758797" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5758797" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5758797">David</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5758797" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5758797" class="dsq-comment-message">I hear virtually no statements of responsibility from these \'talented\' bankers and investment people for the failures in their business resulting in the need for taxpayer insured/funded bailout funds.<br><br>Indeed, I observe statements indicating a sense of entitlement to these bonuses and other perks in spite of the burden placed on the taxpayers.  This seems to be conveyed with some degree of impunity.<br><br>Let us note that this $18B+, if spread amongst the entire population of the U.S. equates to $70+ for every man, woman & child in the U.S.  Tell me now how many \'needy\', \'talented\' bankers & investment personnel this was actually disbursed amongst.  some comments to address this may help the large number of middle class taxpayers who are funding your businesses, thereby preventing the possibility of insolvency.<br><br>Help the average taxpayer understand in more quantitative terms your "need"; terms that they can understand.<br><br>I say that if you "need" the money of the taxpayers, then it\'ll be on the terms that they want, and if you don\'t like it, then you can walk.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-5758901">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5758901" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5758901" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5758901">gupiwc</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5758901" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5758901" class="dsq-comment-message">Cumulative damages of 9.11 terrorist attacks, $20 billion. That\'s approximately a years of bonuses for the Wall Street locals. Cumulative damages of 2008 financial meltdown, +$3 trillion. Who are the terrorists?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-5758969">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5758969" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5758969" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5758969">Arthur1017</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5758969" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5758969" class="dsq-comment-message">Doug,<br>I would, frankly, be more concerned with your rhetoric not Rich\'s.  Rich speaks as someone who is capable of independent thought.  You seem to echo a whole ideology that is only capable of blind obedience. ie; "if Americans do it, it must be good and right".   Greed, while not exclusively American, is certainly not something to emulate and when the politics of the 21st century are haves vs the have nots, the "have nots" are going to use the unbridled greed of the "haves"  to recruit people to thier side.  Lastly, your entire diatribe is discredited when you make reference to whether or not someone who, presumably, served our country, mine and yours, honorably by saying he had sex with the civilians he encountered.  This last statement makes me wonder about the simplistic level your thinking must operate on.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-5760191">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-5760191" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-5760191" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5760191">Douglas</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-5760191" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5760191" class="dsq-comment-message">Arthur, perhaps Chris needs some help in the form of anger management before and not after he returns to civilian life from serving in Iraq.  I am sure you are well aware of the anger and post traumatic violence problems many of our GI\'s suffer when returning home from War.  Just like it is wrong and even a punishable crime to even speak that you want to kill the President of the United States I think it is wrong for anyone, especially a GI,  to espouse their dislike, distrust or disapproval of anyone by even suggesting, and especially in writing,  that they would aim their rifle at that person.  I simply, as you have put it, objected to Chris\' inappropriate use of language both in his sentence on the lack of morality of the American Housewife and in his last sentence "Perhaps I should have my rifle sights set on the center of mass of John Thain".  <br><br>I can tell you that eight descendent lines of my family have been in this country since 1635 and have fought in every war without ever threatening to shoot a fellow citizen, except in the Civil War, no matter how much he or she was despised.  Let\'s exhibit a little more class and civility.  <br><br>And by the way, I apologize for my remark on Chris\'  sexual activity in Iraq.  I don\'t know Chris.  In fact, I really know nothing about him.   It really had nothing to do with his point about the excessive greed and even immorality of some American financial executives.       <br><br>I just thought he shouldn\'t have said anything about the morality of the American Housewife.  It was a sexist remark.  What about the morality of the American Husband, or the morality of the American Teenager or, for that matter, the morality of the American GI?  We could go on and on.  And what about the morality of Al Queda?<br><br>Incidentally, I happen to agree with Obama that the recent bonuses received by Wall Street executives whose companies received government bailout money is not  only shameful but unacceptable.  In fact, I think they should all return every penny in bonus money received.  As for those who worked for companies who received no government money, it is none of our business about the who, what, why, when and where of their bonuses.  It is as simple as that.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5759176">fah Q</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5759176" class="dsq-comment-message">Destroying the middle class starts in the wallet... <br><br>Calling Obama a socialist in this climate smacks of someone who believes they are part of some sort of monarchy.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-5759179">Thomas Simmons</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-5759179" class="dsq-comment-message">We are still not hearing both sides of the issue. What is a "bonus" and how does it relate to their work? Are these "bonuses" commissions on the work they have achieved? And if so, are they proportionate to the work they have achieved or not? What do they make yearly without the "bonuses"? We need this explained better. Using broad-strokes here is about labeling the entire salary system with one word. <br><br>Thom Simmons<br>Kapiti Coast</div>\
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