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  1. Re:I've looked. Check Gawker on "Anonymous" Hacks Palin's Private Email · · Score: 1

    Who says that any of the correspondence that she conducted needed any kind of security? If they are a matter of public record anyway, why should it matter? You do not know what type of exchange was occurring and whether it was sensitive or merely routine.

  2. Re:I've looked. Check Gawker on "Anonymous" Hacks Palin's Private Email · · Score: 1
    Perhaps I'm missing something here. You're saying that the presence of gov't email addresses in her contact list are indicators of unethical behavior because it appears that she is hiding emails -- correct? But, if she is sending emails to them, then the emails are going into the public record, because they are going to an official server. And any emails that she receives from those contacts at those addresses will also be preserved. So, there is no issue of "hiding" an email trail that can be inferred from the presence of official addresses in her contact list.

    Perhaps, she found it convenient to have web-based email capabilities, just like everyone else in the world.

  3. Re:feels silly on Sarah Palin's Stance On Technology Issues · · Score: 1

    We're getting off-topic from the original point about why Sarah Palin went after Obama and I have validated my point. Since, I doubt that anyone else is reading this and I'm pretty sure that neither of us is going to sway the other, I'll say good-bye.

  4. Re:feels silly on Sarah Palin's Stance On Technology Issues · · Score: 1
    Anderson Cooper specifically asked about her mayoral AND gubernatorial experience.

    As to Wasilly -- this was certainly a prepared comment. He cited the number of city employees and the annual budget, but you're telling me that he didn't know the correct name of the town AND the name he chose just happens to jive with the impression that he was trying to give - that of trivializing her small town experience. Riigghhtt.

    Furthermore, to equate the running of a town with running a campaign is completely misleading. The two experiences are almost the inverse of each other. When you are a mayor, you are the servant of the people. Your job is to keep things running for the people.

    On the other hand, when you are at the top of a high-profile campaign, everyone (and I really mean everyone) is there to serve you. Everyone else in the campaign is working to make you happy and to look good. In effect, it is very similar to being a movie star.

  5. Re:feels silly on Sarah Palin's Stance On Technology Issues · · Score: 1

    Here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxUCfdfRnP8&feature=related Notice how he completely ignores her gubernatorial experience.

  6. Re:feels silly on Sarah Palin's Stance On Technology Issues · · Score: 2

    Palin mocked his community organizer gig after he dissed her qualifications (when asked) by completely downplaying her mayoral experience, calling the town Wa-silly, and absolutely ignoring the part of the question that referred to her gubernatorial experience.

  7. Re:Amazing! on Oldest Skeleton In New World Discovered · · Score: 1

    She didn't. Paula Jones did. While he was Governor of Arkansas. He was questioned on his affair with Lewinsky as it helped establish a pattern of sexual coercion of subordinates. This is the crux of sexual harassment issues - a man (usually), in a position of power over an employee, requesting sexual favors. Because of the ability of the superior to control the career of the subordinate, it is difficult to determine if the sex is really consensual. Bill Clinton had numerous complaints about him trying to force himself onto women who worked for him, or owed their livelihood to him.

  8. Re:Amazing! on Oldest Skeleton In New World Discovered · · Score: 1

    It was a case of sexual harassment. U.S. society had previously decided that sexual harassment is a problem that needed to be addressed. Clinton's perjury affected the plaintiff's ability to seek justice in her claim.

  9. Re:Amazing! on Oldest Skeleton In New World Discovered · · Score: 1
    "AND, the Congress will realize that there are better things to do than to impeach a President over a blowjob."

    How about perjury and obstruction of justice?

  10. They got it backwards on Nuclear Decay May Vary With Earth-Sun Distance · · Score: 1

    The decay rates of silicon-32 and radium-226 are stable - it's the cesium clocks used to measure the effect that are affected. I'm just saying ...