Alaska Must Release Palin E-mails By May 211
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from msnbc.com:
"The state of Alaska has until May 31 to release about 25,000 pages of e-mails from former Gov. Sarah Palin and senior members of her administration, the state attorney general declared Wednesday. ... the delays in dealing with public records from the Palin administration will have stretched out longer than the Palin administration itself. She was governor for 966 days. By May 31, the request from msnbc.com for the official records will be 986 days old. State regulations usually require records to be made available within 10 days, but state officials said they were overwhelmed by the volume of the e-mails."
Oh, no! (Score:3, Insightful)
Seriously, though, any chance that they're poking through those e-mails more and reading them more carefully than they did when they were originally written/read, and "shredding" those e-mails which make Sarah Palin look like even more air-headed? Either way, I highly doubt the lengthy delay in release of these records is due to anything other than a PR spring cleaning for her almighty. As it stands, they should be able to suppress quite a bit of them, anyway.
How easy is it for a government official to get away with erasing documents of this nature? I would like to assume there are adequate data-retention policies in place to make this exceedingly difficult, but who knows..
Overwhelmed? (Score:4, Insightful)
Overwhelmed? They really must try to come up with better BS than that. Even princess half-term can spout off more believable nonsense.
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Irony (Score:4, Insightful)
I hope she runs for office, and is put to shame at the ballot box. I am so sick of hearing about this washed up nobody anti-intellectual and her following of people who have been fleeced by her PR handlers into thinking she actually has the mental cahones of more than a donut.
Re:As we don't like republicans. (Score:5, Insightful)
Your attempt to derail the conversation with "B-b-b-ut this is biased against Republicans" has nothing to do with the FACT that this is about Sarah Palin's governance of Alaska, and potential misuse of government communications channels. It has nothing to do with whether people on slashdot lean right or left. So drop your silly persecution complex, it adds nothing to the conversation other than the idea that conservatives have no possibly valid points other than how much they are discriminated against.
And FWIW, I see conservative viewpoints, when expressed clearly, modded up all the time here on slashdot. I see the same of liberal viewpoints. What cracks me up is how often conservative viewpoints are modded up right alongside a post complaining of slashdot bias against conservatives.
Let's face it... Palin is a divisive subject, but given her power as a public figure, she's worthy of discussion -- for what she has to say, for what she has done, and for what impact she has on the American political scene. I believe she's a greedy, selfish, uneducated, calculating, egotistical nightmare... but I don't let that get in the way of my recognition of her importance as a topic of discussion in general.
Re:As we don't like republicans. (Score:1, Insightful)
you are aware that Palin was completely corrupt and is a total idiot right? DO you really think someone who received a communications degree after transferring universities 5 times and thinks a baby gate can keep boys out of her daughter's room is smart?
Do you really think someone who gets to be Governor of one of the states in the US and become the de facto leader of a multi-million person movement is "a total idiot"? Are YOU really that downright fucking stupid?
No wait - hold that. Please don't fuck. We don't need morons like you reproducing.
I may not agree with Sarah Palin, but I don't subscribe for one moment the arrogant, imbecilic, and self-serving belief that she's stupid. One would have to be as dumb as a post to think that.
Really? (Score:5, Insightful)
There there is probably one state IT guy that this got dumped on. Being that he is a state employee in IT, he probably has plenty of other shit to do, and picking through 25k email is a huge time sink. It will need to be evaluated, because a Governor could be, in theory, privy to sensitive material. So, he will probably catch hell if a missed sensitive e-mail goes out, especially in light of the whole wiki leaks thing.
In addition, there is probably a clause that says personal mail doesn't have to be released, and so he has to pick through this idiot woman's mad rambling about pointless shit that shouldn't be on a state mail server anyway. I don't envy the people who have to pick through all the e-mail that is out there when information requests come in.
But in general
Re:As we don't like republicans. (Score:4, Insightful)
What galls me is that people are stupid and mentally lazy. Stupid and lazy enough to fall for her schtick. I know it shouldn't bother me that a lot of people are idiots; for some reason it just irritates the crap out of me.
It's not that I think conservatives are idiots because of their political views. Surely it must be possible to have conservative views without being an idiot. It just seems that the willfully ignorant followers of demagogues are just too legion for this nation to withstand.
Another reason I get irritated by Palin and her ilk is because I believe I have the ability to do EXACTLY what they do. And that I could be very successful at it. But I can't do it, because I believe it is immoral. So I guess the real reason I despise Palin et al is because I think they made an immoral personal choice to exploit others, and are therefore, to a certain extent, evil. And deep down, I'd like to believe that the good should win. Yeah, it's an idealistic hope... which is why I've turned into a cynic. I hate Palin, Bush, Reagan's puppetmasters, et al for turning me into one.
And that, my friend, is the end of the navel-gazing I'll do tonight.
Re:As we don't like republicans. (Score:4, Insightful)
Because I believe she's not qualified to be a good leader of people. Because she's a demagogue out to serve her own ends.
She is very conservative but there are plenty of male politicians who are more conservative than her and are not hated so much.
It has nothing to do with how conservative she is. It has to do with her immorality. Please see my post below (in response to a post by Spun) for a little more info on why I feel the way I do about her.
The fact that so many people fawn over her is why people who don't like her need to react strongly. She is an abhorrence on the idea of a well-qualified statesman serving their country for what is best for that country.
Re:Palin the Populist Plutocrat (Score:2, Insightful)
I used to live in Alaska. I still can't believe half the people up there were stupid enough to vote for this dizzy bitch. Please tell me you weren't one of them! My biggest complaint about Sarah and all the other "conservatives" is that they seem constitutionally incapable of recognizing their own hypocrisy... they've adopted self-delusion as a lifestyle, and it fits them well.
You mean like Nancy Pelosi's travel expense:
* Speaker Pelosi used Air Force aircraft to travel back to her district at an average cost of $28,210.51 per flight. The average cost of an international CODEL is $228,563.33. Of the 103 Pelosi-led congressional delegations (CODEL), 31 trips included members of the House Speaker’s family.
* One CODEL traveling from Washington, DC, through Tel Aviv, Israel to Baghdad, Iraq May 15-20, 2008, “to discuss matters of mutual concern with government leaders” included members of Congress and their spouses and cost $17,931 per hour in aircraft alone. Purchases for the CODEL included: Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Bailey’s Irish Crème, Maker’s Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewars scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniels whiskey, Corona beer and several bottles of wine.
* According to a “Memo for Record” from a March 29—April 7, 2007, CODEL that involved a stop in Israel, “CODEL could only bring Kosher items into the Hotel. Kosher alcohol for mixing beverages in the Delegation room was purchased on the local economy i.e. Bourbon, Whiskey, Scotch, Vodka, Gin, Triple Sec, Tequila, etc.”
* The Department of Defense advanced a CODEL of 56 members of Congress and staff $60,000 to travel to Louisiana and Mississippi July 19-22, 2008, to “view flood relief advances from Hurricane Katrina.” The three-day trip cost the U.S. Air Force $65,505.46, exceeding authorized funding by $5,505.46.
Oh wait. She's a lib so it doesn't count, right? I'm sure it's in the Constitution somewhere that the Speaker of the House can spend thousands on hard liquor while traveling abroad.
Re:As we don't like republicans. (Score:4, Insightful)
That's straight from the article itself. Instead of an "address the nation" speech, it was "address my base" speech. Like I already said. It's not up to the networks to use the candidate's personal camera. That's how it's done. She should have been looking into the network cameras *like everybody else does.*
Her M.O. is not to be inclusive. Her M.O. is appeal to the gullible to extract as much cash as she can out of her "base." And her base is pretty stupid if they bought into a single word she said. The amount of stupidity that came out of her mouth is astounding for such a public figure. I live here in the Northeast where History is in my back yard. The insult to my intelligence that she perpetrated deserves all the scorn and ridicule I can dish up. Because she is that misinformed.
And don't even get me started on how the Tea Baggers and Far Right say that this is a "Christian" country, when the fucking Touro Synagogue is 20 miles from me. No. The far right and the Tea Baggers are FUCKING STUPID at best.
Burning Karma because I am mad at what these idiots have done to my country.
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BMO