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."
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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..
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According to TFA there are rules allowing certain messages to remain private, so some of the censorship will be legal, but I imagine that they'll just stamp a big red "privileged" restriction on anything that's too embarrassing to Palin.
My thoughts exactly.
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Hopefully, they are busy converting all the emails to PDF, then drawing black boxes over all the redacted content.
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Which probably explains why it's taking so long. Would YOU know where to get 25,000 pages worth of red ink?
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I could make a very tasteless Iraq joke now, but I'll refrain.
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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
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Policy solution: (Score:2)
1) All government emails are released regardless; except security issues which are DELAYED x years
2) All private emails are recorded solely for litigation and archival purposes.
3) use private emails for government business is prohibited and punishable by mandatory JAIL TIME upon completion of the job. Yes, I think every gov should spend a week in jail for their mistakes... but the number grows rapidly as the infraction count gets higher!
Idiocy and ineptitude are the easiest defense and with so many sympath
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Of course, we are talking about Alaska and judging by the debatable competence of the governor in question, one could speculate about the abilities at all levels of the state government.
Oh, common. There are elected officials every bit as inept throughout the country. There just aren't many in the limelight.
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I'm not doubting you, but short of personal information of citizens (which shouldn't be in any emails anyway) could you give an example of something "sensitive" that the governor of Alaska might be "privy" to?
And if the governor of a state is so foolish as to put such information in an email, wouldn't you want to at least know that she had done so?
I say, turn the whole thing over to some journalists at the Alaskan Sentinal or something and
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I'm not doubting you, but short of personal information of citizens (which shouldn't be in any emails anyway) could you give an example of something "sensitive" that the governor of Alaska might be "privy" to?
Oh, easy. Much of the oil infrastructure up there could be tempting to terrorists. There may easily be other security and/or terrorism issues local to Alaska that the governor would be privy to. (Ports, gubernatorial security procedures, etc.) Use your imagination.
And if the governor of a state is so foolish as to put such information in an email, wouldn't you want to at least know that she had done so?
Not necessarily. Let's say she had an email discussion between herself and someone in charge of a sensitive matter. The email may never have left government computers at all. She could easily have responded with sensitive information that h
Re:Really? (Score:4, Informative)
It seems like it's worked out really well. I still haven't heard of anyone being killed because of anything wikileaks has published. But it's possible something happened that I didn't hear about, but with the frenzy over wikileaks, you'd think it would have hit the news if something like that had happened.
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I don't really see what can be taking this long other than censoring them;
Are you kidding? Do you know how long it takes to print 25,000 pages of emails, even without paper jams? That's at least ten boxes of tractor feed. Plus it needs to be separated and edged.
They didn't say HOW they wanted them delivered. Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!
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I was guessing it would be etched into ice sheets and then delivered to south cali for examination.
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How easy is it for a government official to get away with erasing documents of this nature?
Do what Bush did and arrange for a conversion from Lotus to Exchange or vice versa and let the inconvenient bits get dropped on the floor in the process.
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How easy is it for a government official to get away with erasing documents of this nature?
Do what Bush did and arrange for a conversion from Lotus to Exchange or vice versa and let the inconvenient bits get dropped on the floor in the process.
Or, just do what Palin did and use non-audited email accounts like yahoo or hotmail for government business too.
Fortunately alaskan sunshine laws [motherjones.com] don't have enough lumens to shine on those and aren't strong enough to make using them illegal either.
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I'll save everyone the trouble (Score:4, Funny)
"Do you like me? Check one:
-Yes
-No
-Maybe"
Alt Source (Score:5, Funny)
Can't they just get them from Wikileaks?
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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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sadly, no she can't.
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Dun da da da duuuuuuun! (Score:2)
Would actually make a great soft-pitch, first at-bat for the start-up. Would be refreshing to see what these celebrity politicians really say and think... You know, without the cameras and the scripts.
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No, not the punctuation mark, like so: "Alaska Must Release Palin's Colon, Emails by May" Not sure what we'd do with Palin's colon, but I imagine we could find some use for it.
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The popular Australian phrase "bugger that for a joke" comes to mind.
Ignore her. She doesn't have any Republican or Koch money behind her anymore and they were really the only things that make her more noticable than possibly well over a thousand others. Being former governor of Alaska is no longer a political asset considering what happened during the short period she was governor.
These days she's nothing but your Pauline Hanson. Just like Pauline she stirred up s
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Wasn't the original the British 'bugger that for a lark'?
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Nah, it's gotta be all blocked up with caribou meat by now, I'd stay away.
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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.
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It's the State of Alaska, not Palin's political supporters. While there probably are a couple of Palinites left in the state, most Alaskans would just as soon use her for wolf bait. She's an embarrassment for a state that has a long line of political embarrassments.
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Huh? (Score:2)
Palin the Populist Plutocrat (Score:2)
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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.
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2 How does overspending on flights relate to hypocrisy?
3 It isn't in the constitution that the capital have bathrooms but it does, this falls under "necessary and proper". Congress is empowered to do things not explicitly listed in order to exercise one of their enumerated powers, this is called implied powers.
4 Do you have any point at all or was this just an excuse to insult someone o
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Consequence of failure? (Score:2)
Commenting System or User Fail (Score:2)
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Well, as the author of the post you cite...
It's not a big deal. If the OP in the thread was a troll (I don't think it was... I think the writer of that post was trying to make a
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If the parent to my post wasn't visible, then there's no reason to display my post.
Suppose you made +5 Funny riposte to a -1 Troll. I'd want to see it.
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Comment system fail (Score:2)
Its not just you. The +5 child post is only visible if the parent is not abbreviated. I want to see ALL posts, with low-rated posted abbreviated, as per my comment settings. I've tried to be open to change, but I am really starting to dislike the recent 'upgrade'!
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Yup, I agree, the new code is really broken in a lot of ways, though it's hard to tell whether it's bugs, or simply bad design.
I actually really liked the immediately previous incarnation of slashdot -- it was much nicer than "traditional" slashdot, because many things like expanding comments were dynamic and didn't require jumping to a new page (which I used to hate about the traditional code), but also seemed to be reasonably solid and well thought-out. This new slashdot is basically a regression in alm
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I'm just an artist so I am unsure how hard it is to code, but this is the only web site I visit that consistently displays wrong in IE, Firefox, AND Opera. Nerds need to fix shit.
It's not that difficult, but programming tends to attract people who can focus intently on one thing to the detriment of everything else. It's actually something of a requirement for certain projects. Unfortunately this almost always leads to tunnel vision and loss of the "big picture", which is what you're seeing here. Someone is working out a cool or novel approach (at least in their view) and doesn't have the perspective or management to ask if it is, in fact, working.
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Imagine if folded responses suppressed quoted text.
MsDoS (Score:2)
or read them on Wikileaks next week (Score:2)
The Palin Trap (Score:2)
I think it is funny how whenever Palin's name is mentioned both the left and the right start barking like crazy rabid dogs..
Of course if the Left didn't hiss like vampires hiss at people holding crucifixes and would just ignore her inane ramblings the right wouldn't be so fired up about her and we would all remember he like we Remember the the GOP VP candidate in 1996, I don't even remember who was the Republican Vice President Candidate in 1996, I remember the Old Geezer Bob Dole the viagra dude, but his r
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I actually feel sorry for her. Were we better people she would have quietly sunk to an anonymous level of middle management that matched her talents a long time ago.
Why so hard??? (Score:2)
Palin (Score:4, Funny)
Make sure to give all Republican party members one of those ChromeOS laptops without the capslock key in future.
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Yea because seeing the gov's email admins not being able to export 25,000 pages of email ( probably less than 25,000 emails ) isnt news worthy?
I can understand if some info has to be redacted or filtered for confidential info but that is quite a long time to be sitting on someones task list.
Also who picks up the tab for having this data made available?
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.
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I am just personally tired both of Sarah Palin and of the left's hatred of her that borders on psychotic. She is a mediocre politician who would never be talked about if McCain didn't make a mistake of choosing her as his running mate.
Having said that, all the vitriol about her just doesn't make sense to me. Whenever I ask a liberal, who at the mention of the name starts foaming at the mouth and screaming something like "greedy, selfish, uneducated, calculating, egotistical nightmare" why exactly they hate
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It could be that strong women engender more hatred. Or it could be that she really is a "greedy, selfish, uneducated, calculating, egotistical nightmare." She certainly seems greedy, look at her spending of campaign money. Selfish? Surely she has demonstrated that. Uneducated? By her own words, obviously so. Calculating? Okay, every politician is that. An egotistical nightmare? Look at this very story and tell me she isn't!
Perhaps people despise her because they feel that her brand of political discourse is
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.
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Well, greedy, selfish and egotistical more or less amount to the same thing, looking at her own self interests above anything else. I am not really sure about the evidence that this is the case with her to an unusual degree, but it might be. The same is true about most politicians, actually people in general. Same with calculating. Uneducated. Well, we all know there are many successful people without much formal education. The first thing I look for in a politician is where they stand on issues, how they h
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.
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What cracks me up is how often conservative viewpoints are modded up right alongside a post complaining of slashdot bias against conservatives.
Actually, it's not just alongside. Surprisingly often it is the post complaining of Slashdot bias against conservatives that gets modded up.
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Persecution complexes and other paranoid delusions are rarely rational.
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Actually I'm surprised Sarah used a public e-mail account while the Gov of Alaska...I would have thought she would have subscribed to the George W. Bush school of...wait did Bush go to school?
There were mentions that much of the govt business was indeed being done over private email accounts. And now all this scrubbing is just pointing more towards apparent destroying evidence of wrongdoing. Which is now even worse.
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This must be news on Slashdot. If it was for a predominant democrat. it would be less newsworthy. As probably just some crazy propaganda from Fox News.
Hmm... those slashdotters who are not biased, that's obviously not true for. Those of us who are biased think we have good reasons for said bias, and don't really care.
Yes, I dislike Palin already and most republicans. I don't know of a single democrat I'd want as president less than her. I make no apologies for that. She'd be a terrible president in my opinion. But that's beside the point in this case. What's the fucking holdup? The only e-mails to be released are the non-privileged ones:
""records t
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Do you really think that no elected officials are idiots? What faith you have in government! Do you think that a movement of morons can not be lead by a moron? Why not? History holds plenty of examples of the dumb leading the stupid.
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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"?
Yeah, pretty much. Plenty of stupid people vote you know. Half the populace has an IQ less then 100.
I'm sorry if that sounds elitist, but anyone that would willingly want to put her in a place of political power is a bigger idiot then she is.
And WHY have I decided that she's an idiot?
Well, from every instance I've seen of her on television, most of her political decisions, and from a judgment of the crowd that supports her, both the general populace and individuals I've met and chatted with.
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And WHY have I decided that she's an idiot?
I don't think Palin is an idiot. She may not be Nobel prize material but she has latched on to a fairly common gimmick for right wing politicians who want to appeal to stupid voters. Her stupid act is just a way of saying I'm just a normal person like you.
Two examples from my own country are Pauline Hanson [wikipedia.org] and Joh Bjelke-Petersen [wikipedia.org]. Its not a coincidence that both are from Queensland.
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Intelligence has nothing to do with whether you can lead people. You have to be able to tell people what they want to hear. If, during an election, you
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I've seen bigger idiots become heads of whole countries, so yes, I'd deem that entirely possible. All it takes is the right people wanting the idiot in the hot seat and presto, you're in.
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Not much of a Green Acres fan, is he?
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Probably liked Mr Ed.
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Well, Bachman was looking into the cameras of the group that sponsored her, the Tea Party. Let's not even talk about where she was looking, it distracts from the stupid that came out of her mouth. And Palin had her own gaffe, she had no idea what "sputnik moment" meant, and attributed the collapse of the Soviet Union to sputnik. Seriously. She thought "sputnik moment" refereed to the launching of sputnik, rather than our response to the launching of sputnik. And she thought that launching it was what bankru
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The only person stupider than her is Michele Bachmann, who isn't even bright enough to look into the network cameras
You deserve your Troll rating just for this comment. Michele Bachmann looked into the appropriate camera. Just because CNN/MSNBC didn't pony up for a feed off that camera doesn't mean she's dumb.
http://www.startribune.com/politics/blogs/114802314.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUnciaec8O7EyUsl [startribune.com]
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
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I think Republicans in general are cool...
I don't, and I'm registered with them. They're just generally better than the other bad choices out there.
... and "don't afraid of anything"...
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... but the Teabagger Base (use your fundament, baby) is odious, despicable, and one misfired suicide bomber from being American Taliban.
You've bought the media rhetoric. "The tea party" often refers to "The Tea Party Express", a minor offshoot of the larger movement, and one that has been annexed as an extension to the Republican party. Most of the "hate" that you see is either painstakingly sought out by the media, or fabricated by allies to the Democratic Party.
The tea party movement is nothing more than a loose coalition of g
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Seriously, what's the problem with running a search on the 'From:'?
At 986 days we're talking about processing at a rate of twenty-five emails a day.
foreach (string s in ToFromFieldCollection) { (if s == "Sarah Palin")
{PointAndLaugh();}
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Needless to say the programmer has been promoted for his hilarity. It is either that, or she sends each email one letter at a time, which wouldn't surprise me at this rate.
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Palin is an elite. The laws do not apply to elites in the same way they apply to the rest of us. For example, http://blogs.forbes.com/halahtouryalai/2010/11/08/wall-street-broker-escapes-felony-hit-and-run-charge/ [forbes.com]
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As far as I'm concerned, on day 11 they should have gotten a court warrant and just taken all the records, there is no reason to give anyone any extension of a legal obligation
State "sunshine" laws usually have a very short "normal" response time (the 10 days indicated for Alasks is fairly typical of the one's I've seen), they also fairly usually allow the response given within that 10 days to be either the requested documents or an explanation of the justification of the delay in releasing the documentation, along with an expected date of release. Some (as Alaska's apparently do, from TFA) require some official to approve extensions, others make the extensions essentially automa
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There are exceptions for when e-mail may have sensitive records. Not everything that goes into e-mail is a record accessible to the public. For example, e-mail regarding personnel issues, health records, or ongoing litigation may be subject to redaction or withholding. That can provide a reasonable reason to extend beyond ten days. However, anything much beyond a month, even for many thousands of records, is not generally considered acceptable. (I'm not saying that this kind of information is the case
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For example, e-mail regarding personnel issues, health records, or ongoing litigation may be subject to redaction or withholding.
Don't care. On Day 11, release everything to the public. If anyone is harmed by the release of private data, they can sue the public official who failed to meet her legal obligations. It's not like she didn't know she was going to have to release these documents, she had all the time in the world, starting from day one of her term to redact them.
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What can really happen if she doesn't release the emails?
Using the pronoun "she" to refer to the State of Alaska is somewhat unusual.
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visibility of ALL public government officials emails starting with Boehner and Pelosi. I dont care that much about crap from Alaska, but I do want to read what the people holding the real puppet strings are emailing about. Does MSNBC have the sack for that?
Here you go:
Dear [Redacted],
Thank you for [Redacted] my [Redacted]. I [Redacted] [Redacted] [Redacted] toothpaste in my [Redacted] while you [Redacted] on a cherry [Redacted] Episcopalian [Redacted] extension cord [Redacted] wetness [Redacted] with a parking ticket.
Thank you, [Redacted]
That's the quality you get with any FOIA request, and why it's taking so long for Palin's emails. I guarantee they're forcing people to meet for a couple hours of overtime once a week and argue whether the word "is
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Under the same law, how about we ask for visibility of ALL public government officials emails starting with Boehner and Pelosi.
Because the "same law" would be an Alaska state law that only applies to agencies and officials of the State of Alaska, and neither Boehner nor Pelosi (at least not the Boehner and Pelosi I would think you are referring to) are employed by any agency of the State of Alaska.
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The psychotic rants from Sarah Palin are already LOL-worthy
Now, when you calm down and come out of left-vs-right land, do realize that the vast majority of politicos suckle the tit of the corporations and do not work for you. Not left-or-right, just a collective them screwing you. The 'poor-progressives' are no worse than the 'evil-neocons'. They are the same turd, one wrapped in handouts and sunshine paper, while the other is wrapped in American flags and chest-thumping. But still turds.
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The Crazy Left hypothesized that she must have had ANOTHER secret e-mail address. ("She's Sarah Palin. Of course she's doing something wrong.")
The "hacker" was sentenced to a year in jail.
The "hacker's" father, Mike Kernell, D-93rd District, Tennessee House of Representatives, was re-elected in 2008 and 2010.
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Tough luck.
He's no Bill Clinton so it's not on display.
He'll keep it zipped and keep hiding "evidence".
I'm making fun of the people your statement reminds me of partly because it's all pointless and Bush should have shown you that nobody is going to be able to get rid of an incumbent president even if their own party see them as a massive liability. Also if there was anything in it we would have seen Hil