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Alaska Must Release Palin E-mails By May
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."
News for nerds, stuff that matters.
Oh, no! They have only until May 31st to deliver 25,000 pages of e-mails to the metaphorical shredder? What ever will they do?!? /humor
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..
vos nescitis quicquam, nec cogitatis quia expedit nobis ut unus moriatur homo pro populo et non tota gens pereat.
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.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
It's all lolcats and forwarded emails from people who swore they received checks from Microsoft, sprinkled with the occasional note to the president (at the time) somewhere along the lines of,
"Do you like me? Check one:
-Yes
-No
-Maybe"
"You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake."...Tyler Durden
Can't they just get them from Wikileaks?
Overwhelmed? They really must try to come up with better BS than that. Even princess half-term can spout off more believable nonsense.
I am becoming gerund, destroyer of verbs.
Openleaks! To! The! Rescue!
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.
Imagination drew in bold strokes, instantly serving hopes and fears, while knowledge advanced by slow increments...
Just add a colon and it becomes a more interesting story..."Alaska Must Release Palin: E-mails by May"
So the kid who guesses her security questions with answers that were guessable based on her Wikipedia profile gets hard time for posting her private emails online (not to mention that she used her private account for some work emails as well allegedly), all the while Palin Inc. LTD LLC is taking its sweet time releasing the actual campaign emails because I'm guessing (this is pure speculation) that there is content in there that the GOP is afraid the Palinites won't cherish dearly.
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.
'We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.' RPF
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.
As in preparing explanations for the questionable, illegal activity she was up to. Or, outright scrubbing the logs where possible.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
What can really happen if she doesn't release the emails?
Thought these were already public thanks to a now-incarcerated /b/tard.
You might read that subject line and go "wait, that's totally impossible! A populist is someone who believes in power of the people for the people and a plutocrat is someone who believes in the power of the rich and wealthy, and those two just can't really mix". Except that they can. I would guess that Palin thinks she should be the rich and wealthy of the 'people' so she can then be more powerful, all of course 'for' those same people while being a part of them. The pretext for this sort of situation would be that she is the one most qualified to wield the power for the people and hence deserves much of the wealth.
This is why she scares me. Because she thinks she's qualified to be that person, the Plutocrat amongst Populists, the Ideology Transcender, and I simply do not agree. Disclaimer: I live in Alaska.
I do not respond to cowards. Especially anonymous ones.
What consequences does the state of Alaska face if they aren't published by that date?
Volumes of emails huh? 900 huh? Apparently Alaska doesn't have copy/paste functionality yet.
I mean, if it were any more, the whole Alaskan infrastructure would need to switch from punch cards to Microsoft Access.
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?
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
Hey... the front page used to show the number of comments posted to a story, which was useful for deciding if something (that I'd probably otherwise skip) might have some interesting comments to read. Now there's just the "Read the comments" link... Is there any way to get the # of comments back?
Is it just me, or in the "new layout" are comments seriously hidden if their parent isn't within the current threshold, but the child is? This comment contains a +5 child, but since it is under a troll-rated parent, I can't see it when browsing on a 5-2 threshold range. How does this stuff even make it to deployment?
'We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.' RPF
I know that /. is full of cynical and borderline paranoids, but really. Think about this for a second...
/., don't be so quick to see a conspiracy, when idiocy and ineptitude are so much more likely.
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
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
As a friend mentioned during a FOIA discussion, it's easy to do a Meat-space Denial of Service on a public entity by requesting "all of X" records, and forcing them to go through and redact. It's even worse when they ask for "all of X" where X is a department in NASA with highly trained people, like engineers or scientists. And they have to redact it instead of letting some bureaucrat decide what should be included. Just imagine a case like this where everyone and their mother did a FOIA request. It's a DMsDoS!
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'!
In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice; in practice there is.
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.
Looks to me like this is correct, and this would be a major and unnannounced change to slashdot
I'm a dreamer, the world is my playpen. But hey, I'm a serious person, I can't dream all the time.
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 sympathetic people (who understand ineptitude...) there are hardly any consequences for unintentional acts. Kill somebody with a DWI and you get extra punishment simply because it otherwise you could kill people easily by just getting a little drunk (well some people would have trouble at that level while others are minimally impacted by the DWI alcohol levels.) Seems to me that similar measures should be applied in other areas.
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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.
A treasure trove of retardedness this will be.
On second thought, I apologize to retarded people.
Poor Progressives!
The American people have awakened and rejected you and your Progressive, Utopian, elitist, nanny-state agendas. The psychotic rants from the Left are already LOL-worthy, but I expect them to attain Cosmic Joke status once either Palin or Bachman becomes the first woman POTUS in 2012 as is quite likely.
You can rant all you want. Nobody is listening to the Progressive propaganda anymore. 100 years of Progressive policies are responsible for the economic and social problems today, and people have finally awakened to that fact.
The Progressive movement in the US is effectively dead. It's proponents are just too blind to realize it yet.
So any word on that birth certificate?
...those work related emails Anon uncovered in her private email box? Slap on the wrist? Anything?
Essentially just a back door way to avoid FOIA requests.
c'mon Alaska! there has to be someone who can send this to Julien Assange pronto.
there's no place like ~
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 running mate, no bloody idea, maybe he didn't even have one.....
Remember the old saying, "Any publicity is good publicity" well because the constant Palin hate the Liberals have make her into a superstar. If there had been a couple instances Palin Hatin' that occurred after the election and then let it die down we would be saying "Palin Who?". Even if the right brought her up here popularity would be where Newt Grinich's popularity would be and that is the crapper.
Of course the Left's Hatred of her is irrational and the Right's love of her while being just as irrational has a perfect partner in the whole irrationality of an intense Love/Hate relationship. Which is why she is so damned popular. If either side would simply "drop it" this paradigm would collapse and she would sink into obscurity where she belongs. Instead the left tends to make her their version of the devil even though most on the left don't believe in God, the Devil or Bob the Builder. And the right makes her into their version of Jesus in pumps holding a pump shotgun.
When people in the middle start seeing these completely overstated attacks they react how someone would to seeing someone bullied, they either feel pity for her, or they feel contempt for her. After a while of peeling off people in the middle to both sides and her popularity as either a target or a martyr starts snowballing. It doesn't help that she is an attention whore.
What is the worst thing that can happen to an attention whore? Ignore them.... They will go away... Eventually, of course the more attention you give them early on the longer and harder it is to ignore them so they will go away.
I can't blame the backwards Republitards for liking her because she is the cleaned up version of inbred hillbilly folk.
But the Democrats should know better and hold themselves to a higher standard when it comes to hating her and simply be dismissive and ignore her like the inconsequential fool she is.
If by some sorta Beverly Hillbilly Miracle she gets elected President in 2012, I guess we can either Blame the Mayans for their doomsday prophecy or the dumb ass celebrity obsessed media of the left who have been feeding her attention ever since the day after the last election.
Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...
Why not just hire the kid that got into Palin's emails before???
FragHARD or don't frag at all
Not choosing a side... but it seems that Palin gets different media scrutiny due to her conservative political stances. She can get attacked for the slightest comment (be it correct or incorrect), while a liberal politician can get away with, say, mistaking Afghanistan with Iraq... the State Department choosing songs that sing of American defeat in Korea, waiting weeks to react to the BP Oil Spill, etc, with barely a comment. I find this coordinated "steering" of the news by a willing media transparent, tiresome, and alarming.
I find the selective outrage of the left-leaning media disturbing. Honestly, at this point, when I see a story like this involving Palin, my first thought is immediately "Smear Job."
A *former* candidate for VICE president, *former* governor has to release her private emails because there's a suspicion that she might have conducted government business on them.
A *sitting* PRESIDENT however, needs no more than "someone" claiming that they've *seen* his birth certificate to satisfy the presidential requirement of citizenship by birth, despite his own grandmother asserting he was born in another country.
Nope, no double standard. Please carry on.
-Styopa
Make sure to give all Republican party members one of those ChromeOS laptops without the capslock key in future.
To prevent this day from getting worse, I'll just read ERROR as GOOD TH
Ah, that's different. The last one I saw had said "FEMALE" before it had been doctored. (Maybe it was a Republican ploy? I don't know.)
This one was clearly made using a computer, and not a typewriter. (examine the font; also, they didn't have Laser printers in 1961.) It doesn't mean that he wasn't born in Hawaii, but it isn't the original certification of live birth. That's not a big deal. Many people get replacement birth certificates. What I think people ought to have concentrated on are the registrar's records.
I think both sides of this topic are generally off base.
I won't join Slashcott. OTOH, If Beta goes live, I just won't be back until it's fixed. Sorry Dice.
Maybe the emails will tell where Sarah hid Obamas birth Certificate? Or who REALLY was reponsible for the rescession, housing bubble burst AND most importantly WHO REALLY SHOT the CARIBOU!! LETS ALL IGNORE THE THIRD GOVERNMENT TO FALL TO MUSLIM EXTREMISTS SINCE B. HUSSEIN OBAMA BECAME "the first immigrant MUSLIM president" "Big Ears McChicken Legs" (AKA Obama) said his experience running a bussiness was his "Campaign".....I'd call it more of a reign of terror than a business. Sarah Palins family has several businesses, she has been a Community Prganizer (not a real job) Councilman, Mayor, Governor, Board Member, Vice Presidential Candidate, Fishery Owner, and Mom. Obama on the other hand, know one really knows where he went to school, or grew up. He "worked" for Tony Rezko (known criminal) was friends with Jeremy Ayers.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke
Oh silly me. They are not done trashing palain from 08.
Would be nice to see any type of dirt on Obama.
"Overwhelmed"???
Nearly 1,000 days to release 25,000 emails... The state can't get it's act together enough to ready 25 emails per day for release???
I call Shenanigans!!!
The media and the panic of crowds. The media blew the whole thing WAY out of proportion because there was little else to talk about, which paniced people too stupid to realize that nothing that effected them was really happening. The only reason the stock market effects anyone outside of New York and the wealthy is because people get scared, otherwise it means almost nothing. The recession didn't exist until the media told us it did and that it was scary and the worst since yesterday ... Then they managed to find some douche bags living in a tent city because they were too fucking stupid to move out of California or go to McDonalds and respond to the now hiring signs.
Mostly over paid idiots. Some of the over paid idiots worked at banks and lenders, allowing loans to be processed that even a 4 year old wouldn't have known not to allow. Some of the over paid idiots were the ones that paid 5 times more than a home was worth because it was in some expensive subdivision only to find out a year later that no one living there could afford their mortgages and oh yea ... its not worth what you paid for it so good luck selling it.
I did but it was 20 years ago, and we made sure to use all of the animal. No waste.
I don't really know if you're being funny or not, and I can't tell if you're for or against Obama since I can't figure out if you're being sarcastic but ... I could give a fuck what religion a country is really. I have a few muslim associates and you know what? They are just as likely to be nut jobs as the people I went to church with growing up. Religion doesn't define you as a fanatic, while its a common them for people to be religion fanatics, they aren't mutually inclusive. Fanatics are fanatics regardless of religion, and all religions have them, that includes the religion of 'science' ... where people get so fanatical about science that they actually get violent at people who are religious ... which is pretty common on slashdot.
Yes yes, but I was in clubs in high school that had more people in it than she had under her at any given point in time. Doesn't make her good or bad, but it just shows how meaningless that statement is. I've had a few jobs myself and the reason I don't have a couple of those jobs is because I sucked at them. Just naming jobs people have says nothing about the person unless you say they've only have ever had one job or they've had a new job every week of their life, in which case you can make a few safe bets about them but other than that, your list doesn't mean shit either way.
I used to work as a clerk in a store for one of my friends mom.
Turns out she was selling cocaine and pot right in front of me without me noticing, and the last time I saw her she was in a hurry out the door to deal with a family emergency ... which translated too ... she had to drive across town, severally beat a man, then throw him off a bridge to his death for somet
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Sounds like you grew up like the show "Weeds", wow din't know people were like that for real. We REALLY need a Border fence and a mote on the north and south borders. And Border guards that can shoot a dealer in the butt and not go to the Federal Slam, while the Dealer gets citizenship and a get out of jail free card. It isn't so much judging Obama, as there really is NOTHING to judge. He has LOCKED all information pertaining to his Birth, Dual Citizenship, travel while growing up, High School, where he went to College and who paid for it, and much of his private life, including why he has multiple social security numbers. Did you know that people in Iowa at a company which handles student loans were jailed for reading his information last year?? Look it up, really happened. Old adage to finding crime.....follow the money. If you do that with Barry, you find Anton "Tony" Rezko, Jeremy Ayers, and a host of other "baddies" that frankly WOULD throw you off a bridge (I live in Illinois trust me!) Sarah Palin on the other hand is not from the "lower 48" and does into share the criminal tendencies of the people in Organized Crime (AKA Politics). She should have been the top of the Republican ticket in 2008 (McCain dragged the party down) and she would have whooped Barry's butt!!! That is what the MEDIA and LIBS fear, this woman is like much of America, the 75% that are REALLY REALLY REALLY pissed off at the way the idiots in charge are ruining this country! This is only going to change if and when the government of this country starts listening to the people who pay the bills (no not the Chinese) the American People! 2012 is a coming, and the wave is building.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke