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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.
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.
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
Well, we don't like Democrats either, by-and-large. If it was a prominent Democrat whose office had been spending years scrubbing emails subject to a state equivalent of FOIA, it would be news also.
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.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
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.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
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();}
}
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.
'We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.' RPF
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 her so much, I never get a satisfying answer. She misspoke a bunch of times but so has Obama and don't get me started on Biden. She is very conservative but there are plenty of male politicians who are more conservative than her and are not hated so much. It seems to be a pattern that any woman with strong political beliefs, particularly on conservative side, tends to bring out really deep hatred in both women and men who disagree with her politically.
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
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.
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 that are not privileged" refers to the process, as allowed by law, for the state to withhold records, or parts of records, if release would violate privacy of individuals or meet other exemptions in the public records law. " She was the governor of Alaska. She doesn't have to scrub nuclear launch codes or the names of operatives in Afghanistan. As TFA says, this has been delayed longer than she was actually governor.
Either there's something in there that they don't want released, or someone is pointlessly impeding the public's right to open government. True I might care less if a democrat I trusted did it, but that doesn't change anything besides my interest level in the story. This is still unacceptable no matter what party she is.
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!
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 bankrupted them, so having another "sputnik moment" would be a bad thing.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
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.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
I don't know, I still think its a big deal, because if it is as I suspected above, downmodding one parent with 100 children could hide a handful of +3 to +5 insightful comments for no reason other than their parent was rated unworthy. That seems like a design flaw to me, and good and final reason to not obsessively press F5 on this site any more.
'We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.' RPF
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.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
Why not just hire the kid that got into Palin's emails before???
FragHARD or don't frag at all
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 and Joh Bjelke-Petersen. Its not a coincidence that both are from Queensland.
http://michaelsmith.id.au
"The reason, it appears, is that Bachmann delivered her speech to TeaPartyHD's camera"
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
1 [citation needed] If you must copy and paste from your favorite right wing talking points blog please show your work
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 on the other side you don't like? Free speech and all that so feel free but it is annoying to see posts like this that are not only off topic but fail to make any point at all.
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"...
???
... 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 groups that believe in lower taxes and cutting government waste. In other words, people fed up with politicians (mostly Republicans, in this case) never, ever delivering on campaign promises. I think most voters can empathize with that.
Oh, and any rally will bring out the loonies. They always do. You'll see it again among all parties when the presidential election comes full swing. (Well, you might or might not see it in the media. That will depend on the popular narrative at the time.)
I won't join Slashcott. OTOH, If Beta goes live, I just won't be back until it's fixed. Sorry Dice.
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
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
I don't think it's an act. Now, some of her mannerisms and terminology she uses could be with that whole "appealing to common folk" shtick in mind, but her overall platform, policies, and knee-jerk twitter reactions paint her as an idiot tried and true. A lot of people thought that Bush was simply putting on an act, that he wasn't really that much of an imbecile. But I don't buy that either.