“She’s Got Mail!” and We Can’t Have It.
Finally we have an update in the email saga. Seems like the Governor’s office isn’t ready, after four months, to turn them over. Here’s a press release from the Alaska Democratic Party:
The Alaska Democratic Party (ADP) has objected to a request from Governor Sarah Palin’s Office for another two months or more of additional time to release official emails sent and received by Governor Palin in 2007 and 2008.
The Alaska Democratic Party’s request for the Governor’s emails about specified topics already has been pending more than four months, since Sept. 22, 2008. The latest request from Linda Perez, Palin’s Administrative Director, to Attorney General Talis Colberg asks for an additional extension until March 31. Perez’s letter of Jan. 28 says that she will ask for yet another further extension “once I have an estimate of the additional time necessary to provide the records.” Under the Public Records Act, public records are supposed to be provided within 10 working days of being requested, or as soon as practicable.
“Governor Palin’s campaign promises to conduct the State’s business in a transparent and open manner appear meaningless,” said Alaska Democratic Party Chair Patti Higgins. “These repeated delays are excessive and unwarranted. There is obvious obfuscation going on here. Sarah Palin is proving herself to be anti-transparent about her own communications and activities.”
An email from David Jones, Senior Assistant Attorney General, to Perez dated Jan. 28 states that “we have made little progress” in preparing public records for release. His email indicated that new software was obtained that was supposed to enable the Department of Law to number, review and redact the records electronically, but the department has not been able to use the new software. “The records are not yet available to us in a form that will permit us to number, review and as necessary, redact them,” Jones wrote.
It appears that the Office of the Governor and the Attorney General have lumped in the ADP’s straightforward request with more complex requests from other entities involving private mailboxes, and thus the State has not dealt with the ADP’s request in compliance with the statute and regulations. Just because the State is not able to fulfill other requests without an extensive search does not mean that the State is relieved of the obligation to provide accessible records in a timely manner to the ADP.
The state informed the ADP in earlier correspondence that its request would require a search of the state mailboxes of 51 separate individuals. Complying with the ADP’s records request requires searching only the email of Governor Sarah Palin, Higgins said.
The emails sought could have been identified with simple search commands, and the records sought should have been produced by now, Higgins said.
“We trust that the Attorney General will not make another biased decision for the benefit of the Governor, but rather will act to protect the interests of Alaskans who have a legal right to obtain public records,” Higgins said.
Which emails are they looking for? Here’s the intriguing list:
• All those between Palin and state Rep. John Coghill, R-North Pole, or between Palin and state Sen. Fred Dyson, R-Eagle River, with the words “abortion” or “AGIA,” which is short for the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act;
• All e-mails from Palin containing the following words: babysitter, childcare, McCain, Obama, Democrat, Huckabee, Wal-Mart, Eskimo, Natives, Kuwait, passport, Ruedrich, or Kopp;
• All e-mails between Palin and her husband, Todd, with any of the following words: vote, veto, budget, oil, Monegan, or Wooten; and
• All e-mails between Palin and her sister, Molly McCann, with the words Wooten or Monegan.
For more details check out the article in today’s Anchorage Daily News.
I’ve been reading about this today. Just how long does it take to get these emails? Methinks there is some serious foot-dragging going on. And yes, that list is very intriguing.
why am I not surprised? They are not just anti-transparent, they are also incompetent. What a load of crap.
Send those bs requests for extension to KO.
You guys are being totally unfair here.
Do you know how much evidence they have to shred?
That takes time you know. A lot of time!
Have you NO compassion for criminals?
Andrew Halcro has an interesting email pertaining to Valley Dairies too. He’s promising more revelations on Monday.
And apparently Alaska lawmakers are questioning Gov Winky’s focus!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20090131/palin-returns/
Something might be hitting the fan.
Sounds like obstruction to me. How many delays before the interested parties give up?
And when will someone slap Sarah’s hand for using commercial e-mail accounts to conduct state business, anyway?
And what about “The Dude” being included in the e-mail addressees? Will that change? Add my name if it doesn’t! I want to see what’s going on too!
Now, now- it takes a long time to hand copy all those emails, doncha know *wink*
• All e-mails between Palin and her husband, Todd, with any of the following words: vote, veto, budget, oil, Monegan, or Wooten; and
• All e-mails between Palin and her sister, Molly McCann, with the words Wooten or Monegan.
These are the ones I’d like to read- since, I think, it’s illegal to use private email to conduct public business. And good luck getting AG Codpiece to uphold AK law, instead of holding SP’s hand (there, there- don’t worry, I won’t let those mean Dems bother you).
Look over there! its a flying moose. Lunchtime. We’ll get back to those e-mail requests when the next moose flies. WTF! This should take HOURS …NOT MONTHS. If they need help I am sure there are a few local computer whiz kids that can assist for free. Please. Subpoenea all of the hard drives of the users in this mess and unless they have been re-formatted 6-7 times, all of the data is still there.
We all keep hoping that something may finally be hitting the fan but think about this for a moment. Who has Sarah been pallin’ around with this weekend in DC?
Well, only the finest examples of obfuscation and spin in the whole of our great country!
A dinner with Fred Malek and his cronies last night (Fri) and the Alfalfa Club members tonight (Sat).
A very different Sarah Palin may return to Alaska this Sunday.
Some of the people she is “pallin around with” this weekend were able to assist Bush in explaining away the lack of Iraqi WMD’s that were the root cause of us going to war against Iraq.
Pregnancygate, Troopergate, housegate, broken-water-gate, ignoring-hungry-and-cold-Alaskans- gate? Some of the string pullers and political insiders that she is dining with this weekend would have to consider these offenses “small time” problems and would be able to give her advice on how to “spin them to her benefit” in under a minute. All while stuffing their faces with gourmet delights and sipping vintage wines.
The more she insinuates herself into these groups of elite political insiders, the more they will help her to “wash these things right out of her hair”. She is spending the weekend with some of the best “spinmeisters” in the business. (okay, I made up a word)
She is spending the weekend with some of the same Washington Insider Elites that she took pride in not being part of during her campaign. Now she is happy to be breaking bread with them? Of course she is because now, with her PAC formation showing her willingness to raise money for the cause, they will entertain her and give her pointers on how to become EXACTLY THE TYPE OF PERSON THAT SHE USED TO FIND SO DISTASTEFUL!
All I can say is this. Let us like-minded people keep up the pressure on her and her obfuscations. A Pajama Clad Blogger (Adam Brickley) helped to get the ball rolling for her, perhaps another segment of the “Jammie Coalition” can at least slow the momentum a bit
Wasn’t the ISP ordered to save all of these emails? It would take them less than 1 hour to send them on to interested parties i.e. the ADP.
She’s not going to give those up – what are they going to do? Subpoena her?
I think Palin and her staff must have been talking to Limbaugh. It’s totally illogical, but you wouldn’t want to operate Alaska like a Banana Republic with volcanoes now would you? You got that wrong! While some nations are infamous for lacking transparency, in America, we still expect it. What is Track fighting for anyway?
Limbaugh: I Fear That Obama’s FOIA Order Makes It Easier To Hold Bush To Account: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLh8HSDFD_w
Yeah, good idea Lance the Boil, that’ll work (snark).
Let me see the AK runs till March, right? No kidding she doesn’t want folks in her own party getting this stuff….well, lets see what, we the few -codpiece does now…
I meant the AK Legis. naturally…
They cannot produce the records because of software?? Whatever happened to printing out the documents, reviewing them, bates stamping them if necessary, and then producing anything not directly subject to the attorney-client or some other legitimate form of privilege? These people are just delaying and hoping that the requestors either give up or the documents become unavailable.
Someone ought to just go down to a courthouse and make a filing. Gosh… you want to get these people moving? Get a judge involved.
Paula CochranNo Gravatar (14:39:17) :
You guys are being totally unfair here.
Do you know how much evidence they have to shred?
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Must admit you have a point here, especially considering that dick cheney ended up in a wheelchair after lugging all of his boxes of documents to the shredder. Anyone know how Colberg or Palin’s back is holding up? Or is this why Todd Palin has been mia for so long?
The scariest thing about Winky is that she really thinks Alaskans will believe her lies and excuses, no matter how far fetched, i.e. ‘new software’ needed to provide the emails.
Just like Palin believes ‘the real America’ thinks she is intelligent and coherent enough to be president.
The Alaska Disasta is truly delusional. Also.
UK Lady (15:25:52) :
Wasn’t the ISP ordered to save all of these emails? It would take them less than 1 hour to send them on to interested parties i.e. the ADP.
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It’s my unerstanding (from Mother Jones who ordered, and was charged a whopping 10k fee for emails) that the Palin admin has to not only get and print the emails but then has to have them read by the legal wizerd who can deleter (big black marker) anything that legally, can be kept confidential.
Define legal? Legal to Palin and her cronies.
So, don’t expect a whole hell of a lot.
“Governor Palin’s campaign promises to conduct the State’s business in a transparent and open manner appear meaningless.”
Every single ‘promise’ on SarahPac is meaningless. Her erstwhile mission to ‘reform’ Washington DC was meaningless. Palin is no more anxious for an open government than was the paranoid and secretive Dick Cheney.
Besides, she’s always made every effort to leave no fingerprints-by using her own personal email account. In her official emails to Monegan, she very cleverly avoided asking directly for Wooten’s dismissal, as did her employees in the tape-recorded call to the Troopers Office.
Perhaps a dishonest politician can never be too careful.
The scariest thing about Winky is that she really thinks Alaskans will believe her lies and excuses, —————but will they???? What is her pop score? Who in Alaska IS supporting her. Now that’s the scary thought. Are there enough Alaskans who like her to vote her back in?
Or is this why Todd Palin has been mia for so long?
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Maybe they’re making him take literacy classes? Palin in the am, Todd in the pm?
I work for a Fortune 500 company. If my boss wants to run an e-mail check on ME it takes 20 minutes.
Why are people complaining that this will cost the state millions of dollars, and X amount of government time?
I realize Sarah is using personal accounts, but she should be forced to turn them over. The people of Alaska have the right to know what’s in those e-mails.
I say the FBI should storm her office and her home with court orders, confiscate her computers, while she sits it out in jail for obstuction awaiting her trial for ethics violations. She would be a flight risk since she can see Russia from her house. She needs a reality check. I hope to see her title stripped away so fast her head will spin…kinda like when she was exorcised. “They” ought to do to her what they did to Blago…impeach and prevent any future office holding. But I kinda feel sorry for Blago…at least he’s articulate and did some GOOD for the people of Illinois. I know, I know…somebody in Alaska is going to get their feelings hurt, as if I’m the only one criticizing your governor. sorry.
obstruction (sp)…I get so flustered typing about this slippery woman.
A Pal for Palin?
Does the famed legal mind President Obama has picked to be his regulatory czar really have a “radical animal-rights agenda”? And if so, is that the real reason an industry front group called the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) has launched a campaign against him?
Cass Sunstein, a renowned Harvard law professor who once taught with Obama at the University of Chicago, has been tapped to run the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). The agency, little known to the public but highly influential in the executive branch, oversees all of the federal government’s current and newly created regulations. If confirmed as the head of the agency, Sunstein will supervise the implementation of much of Obama’s consumer safety, health, and environmental agenda. Because regulations in these fields are often opposed by big business, Sunstein will play a huge role in managing the Obama administration’s relationship with industry.
http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2009/01/cass-sunstein-animal-rights-radical.html
Paula Cochran (16:05:32) :
We all seem to be going round in circles with this one. The emails that the Dud was cc’d on cannot be considered non viewable, if he as a non elected person can view them, so can everbody else.
Public Records?
On his first day in office, President Obama put former president Bush on notice. His administration just released an executive order that will make it difficult for Bush to shield his White House records–and those of former Vice President Dick Cheney–from public scrutiny by invoking the doctrine of executive privilege. Shortly after taking office, Bush handed down his own executive order, amending the Presidential Records Act to give current and past presidents, along with their heirs, veto power over the release of presidential records, which are considered the property of the American people.
>>> Now, these are federal records -different and obviosuly, some new, laws. But, as I encouraged before. call te ACLU of AK, see if they can help get pblic record to the PUBLIC.
The ACLU -I think, is going to start and all out war over WAR CRIMES.
What fun
You can be sure that if the e-mails were flattering to Palin, her henchman Colberg would have produced them right away.
The fact that they have produced NONE of them so far speaks volumes for both their effort and their intent.
And remember- the DOL people and Linda Perez- serve at her pleasure and have already given bad legal advice re the troopergate subpoenas, backdated travel reports reflecting gifts that the governor should be responsible for filing, and so on.
UK Lady (16:18:47) :
Paula Cochran (16:05:32) :
We all seem to be going round in circles with this one. The emails that the Dud was cc’d on cannot be considered non viewable, if he as a non elected person can view them, so can everbody else.
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But they will doodle, dawdle, delay, and make excuses until they are FORCED to hand them over. Someone must raise a whole lot of legal (and public -media filled) hell.
Lainey
I like the way you think, and yes Blago is articulate, very, very, very articulate, can you imagine him in a conversation with SP? The mind boggles!
UK Lady…Blago would blow Palin out of the water with his conversation skills. Hmmm, I like it. But, no, I couldn’t get my head around that one. ; )
CNN reporting on Palins dc visit…
By Alexander Mooney
CNN
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sarah Palin has firmly remained in the media spotlight since her bid for the vice presidency ended four months ago, but the Alaska governor embraced a decidedly lower profile when she travels to the nation’s capital this weekend.
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin speaks at the meeting of the National Governor’s Association in December.
The former Republican vice presidential candidate scheduled a busy itinerary of closed-door events and face time with congressional Democrats and Republicans.
She also announced earlier this week she’s making the 4,500-mile trek from Alaska to Washington primarily to attend the Alfalfa Club Dinner Saturday night — an annual closed-door roast of the nation’s political elite.
But it’s what’s missing from Palin’s schedule that is causing more than a few heads to turn. In a city that is ground-zero for national political journalists, Palin has not scheduled a single media interview or indicated she will hold a press conference.
“She has requested we do not schedule any interviews for her,” said Bill McAllister, Palin’s communications director. Instead, McAllister said, Palin is traveling to Washington to lobby senators to approve certain infrastructure projects for Alaska in the economic stimulus package.
The move is an unusual one for the high-profile governor, especially one believed to have presidential ambitions, on a visit to Washington, a city where most politicians come to gain a piece of the media spotlight rather than avoid it.
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The decision to avoid cameras also appears to be a marked departure from Palin’s media strategy over the nearly 90 days since the presidential campaign ended. In that time, she granted a number of sit-down interviews with prominent television hosts, magazines and conservative journalists.
Political analysts noted that Palin appeared to adopt a largely adversarial relationship with the national media; using her interviews to criticize what she perceived as unequal and unfair coverage over the course of the presidential campaign.
Analysts speculated that a media-bashing strategy could be an attempt to drum up support from the rank-and-file conservatives with whom she was popular during the campaign.
Palin was in the national headlines to such an extent that she faced criticism from some members of her own party, both publicly and privately, who said she was overexposing herself and potentially endangering her chances of being a credible presidential candidate in 2012 should she decide to run, analysts said.
“When she’s out in public still, at this point, she might do more damage than good, both for the GOP and for herself,” said Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University.
Instead, many Republicans said, Palin should retreat from the national spotlight and work on quietly strengthening her resume as a state executive while slowly building credibility among the Republican elite behind the scenes.
“She needs to demonstrate growth as a politician, as a political leader,” Alex Castellanos, a Republican strategist and CNN contributor, said as Palin dominated the headlines. “You can’t do that if you keep staying in front of us day after day after day as the same person.”
By all outward accounts, it’s a message Palin has heard loud and clear.
Read More:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/30/palin.dc/
Paula Cochran (16:05:32) :
Define legal? Legal to Palin and her cronies.
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I picture them for the last several months scratching their heads every day trying to come up with half a dozen or so reasons for redacting 99% of the data that would stand up in court.
Sarah Palin is a weasel-ass lying sack of shit. She knows that we know it. She is postponing the inevitable on the e-mails.Look what happened to the Detroit mayor.He thought he was erasing all evidence – and the prosecutor was able to have the computer and cell phone records retrieved from 4 years back.The cover-up is ALWAYS worse.The bitch is goin’ DOWN !!
austintx…oohhh, this possibility is bringing a hopeful smile to my face, and I totally agree with your first sentence.
austintx (16:39:12) :
Sarah Palin is a weasel-ass lying sack of shit.
Is that a nice way to talk about the best looking grandma in all of Wasilla?
austintx….
I dare to dream! That woman has got to go.
There is an old saying I heard (Chinese I think), ‘by the time a person reaches the age of fifty, they have the face they deserve’.
When I look at everyone I know it seems to ring very true, for good or bad.
Doesn’t bode well for Granny Sarah does it?!
UK Lady…Palin has two (faces)
UK Lady (15:25:52) :
Wasn’t the ISP ordered to save all of these emails? It would take them less than 1 hour to send them on to interested parties i.e. the ADP.
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I think this is a challenge to ALL the hackers out there. Once the contents are made public the bell will be rung.
@Lainey (17:05:02) :
You are right, and they’ll both look crap in five years.
The word of the day is “Redact”. A big shout out to the third graders at Gladyswood elementary. You’ll get extra credit for remembering this word.
“His email indicated that new software was obtained that was supposed to enable the Department of Law to number, review and redact the records electronically, but the department has not been able to use the new software. ”
WTF?
I’ve been in IT for 15 years. This is NOT HARD unless you want to “fix” the results. Restore the Outlook PST files and the 51 mailboxes to a Virtual Machine running MS Exchange and do a friggin search for the keywords.
SP is quite transparent. We can see right thru her.
I bet that kid who hacked her email could handle the job in a few hours.
I believe this is the list of emails that Andrea(sp?) got that alerted her to the fact that Todd was in the loop. Note that everything is listed for each email: date, author, recipients, time sent, subject, and that they all have “Executive Privilege”. Everything, that is, except the content of the email itself.
I guess “Executive Privilege” is another way of saying, “We can read it but you can’t, nah, nah, nahhhh!”
http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2008/09/PalinFOIArequest.pdf
Really ,though,if I had to guess what is taking so long,I bet they are looking for legal arguments to cover as many redactions as possible,and legal arguments to explain anything they can’t find an excuse to redact.
LaineyNo Gravatar (16:14:21) :
I say the FBI should storm her office and her home with court orders, confiscate her computers, while she sits it out in jail for obstuction awaiting her trial for ethics violations. She would be a flight risk since she can see Russia from her house. She needs a reality check. I hope to see her title stripped away so fast her head will spin…kinda like when she was exorcised. “They” ought to do to her what they did to Blago…impeach and prevent any future office holding.
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YES!!!!!!! THE FEDS! ONE DOWN(BLAGO) ONE TO GO BARBIE!
And I hope they Roast her ASS at this dinner tonight….make her the National joke…!
UK Lady…lol
sjk from the belly of the plane…re: …unless you want to “fix” the results.
BINGO! so true
crystalwolf a.k.a. caligrl…absolutely! (between me and you, she already IS the national joke) …somebody tell Rush. heehee
This Talis Blatherer Codpiece, did he get his idea from Georgie Bush? lol.
As for the obstruction of justice emails — one only needs to whip up a search warrant to the ISP and their hard drives [they have to keep records of everything-by law], not the sender’s or receiver’s email hard drives and we’ll see about Justice. Or should that be the Quebecois comedians Les Justiciers Masqués [you remember Pranking Palin?]. Don’t make me call them and have them make another phone call to Sarahp — this time from Talis Codpiece about an important issue…. of sorts. lol.
What a nest of snakes ur ‘law’ and ‘order’ is there in Alaska. Shite, codpieces I tell ya.
AKPetMom brings up a very important point. “Some of the string pullers and political insiders that she is dining with this weekend would have to consider these offenses [Pregnancygate, Troopergate, housegate, broken-water-gate, ignoring-hungry-and-cold-Alaskans- gate] “small time” problems and would be able to give her advice on how to “spin them to her benefit” in under a minute.”
WhoTF is Sarahp pallin’ around with inF’ndeedy. What did your Mom tell you? Be aware whom you’re pallin’ around with.
“She is spending the weekend with some of the same Washington Insider Elites that she took pride in not being part of during her campaign.” Damn straight[edge] huh? She’s one hot air buffoon [a la Codpiece].
I’m only repeating what BigPete stated, “Governor Palin’s campaign promises to conduct the State’s business in a transparent and open manner appear meaningless.”
Every single ‘promise’ on SarahPac is meaningless. Her erstwhile mission to ‘reform’ Washington DC was meaningless. Palin is no more anxious for an open government than was the paranoid and secretive Dick Cheney.”
austintx, damn right./
oi, AKM, can we make do without the advertising for No’Gravatar’ [when I copy&paste, specifically]? They can piss off, k? Unless they are paying you, then I apologize in advance and stand down.
As for that pissant ADN — they are rather irrelevant in this day and age, frankly. You’re doing more reporting than that rag. I’m fine with no more links to them, fuggemall, as one member stated once [beauties!], they’re too tied to their corporate ‘donors’ [ie: advertisers et al]. Why should we be letting them know WTH is going on. I don’t know. They hold no ‘power’ in my mind [and I'm over a 1/2 c old!] HA! Neigh, think of the yutes. They aren’t getting their information from pissant print, believe it. In the memorable words of Mudpuppy Wannabe‘s 15 yr old neighbour, buddy…oh…my…god… — Perfect.
While we’re at it, can we have a ‘preview’ pony prior to ‘submit comment’ posting. [ Hello, Snosked] This way, all links can be checked as well as all quotes, italics and bold etc? Pretty puhlease with maple sugar on top?
megwitch
The TN police will have the Yahoo accounts (there were two) as evidence. The trial has been postponed until May.
The hacker changed her password to “popcorn”
and posted it on a web forum. You would think that somewhere there must be copies of those emails. Well, I would. 
Maybe someone should consult the nerd underground. I’m not a nerd (but I’m not hip, either – I scored 15), so it can’t be me.
UK Lady (16:59:18) :
There is an old saying I heard (Chinese I think), ‘by the time a person reaches the age of fifty, they have the face they deserve’.
When I look at everyone I know it seems to ring very true, for good or bad.
Doesn’t bode well for Granny Sarah does it?!
UK Lady, maybe there is portrait of Sarah somewhere that is growing uglier and more evil by the second – Oscar Wilde would have had a field day with someone like her!!
Here is your annoying governor polluting the airwaves in Canada. She’s a real piece of work, isn’t she? She’d sell her own mother to get ‘airtime’. There are names for women like that, usually found working streets late at night.
http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/videos.html?id=985520644
Time for an impeachment yet?
Here’s a snarky little thought about the reason for the delay in releasing the emails. Maybe,,,,,,,,,just maybe they are waiting for a convenient computer crash that would delete all the emails.
I haven’t read all the post yet, maybe someone already stated this, but does’t it sound like the wait until the end of March, is to wait until Alaskan Legislation sesson is over so she can put off any hearings on the emails until next sesson?
If house-gate ever pops,that would be the Feds,and they for sure will dig thru the e-mails to see about correspondence between Todd and his “contractor buddies” and the vendors for the rink (remember the windows and railing?) They won’t be cherry picking either.You’ve seen it before…..they come at the crack of dawn and take the computers.Except for Google- everyone else marches lock-step with the Feds,especially Yahoo.Sarah Palin is on borrowed time on this e-mail fiasco.
There’s some pretty danged funny comments over at Conservative4Palin.com, where they are alternately panting over Palin’s black long sheath worn to the Alfalfa Club doings (there’s a YouTube up on her entrance), and castigating Fox News (yes!!) for reporting that she’s lobbying GOP senators to vote yes on Obama’s stimulus package.
They’re a little taken aback by this stance by Palin (which is logical, I suppose, ’cause if the package goes down to defeat, Alaska gets NOTHING) because it, to them, is counter to her “fiscal conservative” image.
Some of these pro-Palin web sites and blogs are in an alternate universe.
Palin’s horoscope (2/11/64) courtesy cbc-linked by AlaskaDisasta
“You may feel stuck in the mire, but this situation won’t last much longer. Although Mercury is turning direct now, it will still take the messenger planet a couple of weeks to return to your sign — which could seem like forever. It’s crucial that you don’t try to move things along faster than reality allows, or you can wear yourself out. Remember to be patient, for you’ll need all your energy as things turn around in the coming weeks.”
Basically…..the e-mails can wait.
I think SP better start checking for listening devices…that’s what got Gov Blago. I suspect that her and Dud are already in serious paranoid mode. The feds probably lured her to DC so that they cab plant all the bugs in her house and office. *Snicker*
Oops–”can”
I’m retired from a state agency in California. Several years ago my immediate supervisor was (wrongly) accused of using our state computer to dig up dirt on an adversary. HIS immediate supervisor was ordered to impound the computer and deliver it to the IT guy at our district office, who removed the hard drive and turned it over to the forensic geeks at HQ in Sacramento. It took them 4 weeks to find nothing untoward on the rig, but meanwhile we were without the computer. I had to drive 140 miles round-trip every day to the next available state computer in order to input the daily accounting of payroll and materiel usage as required by state law. Management didn’t blink, they didn’t care–they HAD to comply to a citizen’s FOIA request!
So what’s the hold up?
So correct me if I’m wrong, but weren’t the Feds = FBI people that went after ex Gov. Blagojevich, sent after him during the Bush administration? The same admin that included all the elite Repubs that SP is now attempting to get in lock step with, for some reason wanted Blag out of there. Do we know why?
If this be so, then how soon can we Dems hope to get some Obama kids into the right FBI spots to take this also almost a Gov out of AK? Turn about is fair play, in the fields around here..wishing you the same up your way.
…I’m hoping the Feds are already on to her and at this stage putting the final touches on the investigation…
Peaceful Granny – karma and the law of averages are powerful forces……..throw in a little revenge and the future for Sarah ain’t so hot !!
Just read this fabulously funny rant on who Michael Steele really is (a placeholder) and his relationship to Sarah Palin (he’s holding HER place).
“The Sarah Problem; a Matter of Tradition”.
Hope and karma are great, but I’m pretty sure someone actually has to make a complaint or give and order to get the FBI to move. Until I see it in writing that SP is under investigation, I wouldn’t count on it. It’s the “surely someone is doing it” thing. Where everyone assumes it’s being done, and low and behold nada….that’s exactly how the Bush’s of the world get away with it, not only did they have the deck stacked, they held most of the cards, and we could complain all we liked, but not a darn thing really got done about it.
The supper bowl is always a big distraction when it comes to fleshing the public. The Repubs have always slipped in dirty sheets during the annual supper bowl, especially during a election year. There is something appealing about drinking lots of beer, getting off on people hitting each other, starting wars and padding defense spending during the build up of are SB. I hate to say it, but its kind of the American way. Hit them hard and take them out of the game…..
Just think of all the conflicts in Europe over thousands of years. Like Germany and England during the WW2. Now they routinely have peaceful International Foot Ball matches. (soccer) There is a civil nature in Europe for the most part. Its total OK to play a international friendly and end up with a tie, and thats totally cool between boths sides. They both get a point. There doesn’t have to be a winner all the time.
In the USA we have a mind set of, winners and losers. We think that because we are the supper power on the planet, we can steam roll other countries into submission. Largely reinforced with the Supper Bowl, Supper Power mind set. When I was traveling in Europe having many political discussion about the US, it became clear to me that other countries felt like we had a big stick ready to wack them, if they didn’t agree with are might.
In Asia there is a saying that goes like this, “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down!”
Do you really think tricky dicky hurt his back? He got to fade away from the public with the sympathy vote. Kind of like Black Water, they get to come home now. How manny Billions did they get? Poor Dicky.
SP got out of town in a perfect time to get away from any questions regarding are AG, I mean St. Crisin’s. Timely. Would be kind of important to question SP about the actions of are AG. Did she put pressure on are AG, would she dare. You Betya!!
THe emails might shed some import truths about about Trig, Trip, Track, and Todd. There is surely a story or 2 buried from public view.
My guess is we will never see those emails. As long as SP over powers the opposition with her big mouth and big stick management style, she will stay in charge. Most people like to fallow a leader, even if this one wrong and is a self proclaimed political pro.
OT
From the LATIMES comment board:
Does Palin really think that wearing a wolf-fur collar is attractive? Then on the other hand this is the woman who thinks that shooting wolves from helicopters is “sportsmen-like” and that giving interviews with a turkey being slaughtered in the background is good PR. It’s nice that she was concerned about Alaskan veterans. It would also be nice if she was a bit more responsive to the Alaskan natives in the Yukon area who are now needing food drops to survive because they can’t afford both heat and food. Read it on http://www.themudflats.net
Posted by: Alexandra | January 30, 2009 at 06:10 AM
Posted that because I thought it was cool, just reading a post and boom, villages and mudflats come up. Way to go. Palins getin around…mudflats too.
They say she wore a black evening gown. Guess we’ll have to wait to find out if it was black wolf pup or black bear, but we know it was black.
Blago was under investigation for quite a while. The feds take their time and make sure they have ya. Sarah, ya shoulda BLINKED!
But I guess blind ambition precludes that normal relfex.
It should take no more than 5 minutes to get these mails off the servers.
Redaction depends on the amount of e-mails, but I’d say less than a week unless they are hiding something.
This absolutely stinks of cover-up, and the AG better be careful or he’ll be rooming with Blago-ya-bitch again.
mdnstun -on ADN- is totally freakin out over Palin. Boy am I having fun!
They’re probably too busy openig love letters from dorks who keep her calender by the toilet and talking over requests from FOX and the 700 Club (I mean the 666 Club).
She also says she doesn’t have a publisher for a book deal, and laughs off media reports that such a deal could bring her $11 million………
Yeah, me too.
I never thought there’d be a book I thought should be burned. Go figure.
Did anyone notice the ad for “Shred Alaska” onsite document shredding service to the right of the end of the article?
Yeah I noticed the shred Alaska ads on ADA. When people said, why are you trashing Palin? I would say, hey, it says right there, “Shred Alaska.” LOL! Just following instructions.
Oops. Looks like mdntsun reported me to ADN, they’re blocking my comments! . Wonder if I will lose my new name? Damn. Every time. Palin lovers are taking me down weekly!
From Frank Rich’s op ed Herbert Hoover lives
Not to be left out, the party’s great white hope, Sarah Palin, unveiled a new political action committee last week with a Web site also promising “fresh ideas.” But as the liberal blogger Markos Moulitsas Zúniga observed, the site invites visitors to make donations and read Palin hagiography while offering no links to any ideas, fresh or otherwise.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/opinion/01rich.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
Well she arrived at the dinner in all her glory. Looks like she was racing to get the banquet room.
http://www.necn.com/Boston/Politics/2009/01/31/Palin-attends-Alfalfa-Club/1233449521.html
Here’s Palin filming her Super Bowl commercial:
http://www.thesarahpalinblog.com/2009/01/sneak-peek-at-sarah-palins-super-bowl.html
Note: Read em THREE, yes 3 days. Aid is there. Where’s Sarah?
Declaring that Kentucky is in the middle of its “biggest natural disaster ever,” the governor sent National Guard troops door-to-door Saturday to assist people in need three days after an ice storm brought down power lines. Nearly half a million customers — including at least six shelters — are without electricity. full story
Nearby states come to Kentucky’s aid
Looks like she left the entourage of kids at home. Back to the real world with you, lady!
Paula, that is absolutely true–we are in KY and had 2 inches of ice on everything, then snow on top of that. We lost three huge trees on our property and our front walk was blocked. This morning we heard chainsaws and looked out the front window, and the National Guard was all over the neighborhood cleaning up. Pretty amazing, and BOY they are fast.
I was just tremendously grateful that they were at home in the USA at a time when we needed their help.
What, no corsage?
Has anyone or any group filed in court, to compel the Palin Administration to release the requested emails?
The dress is booooooring. Obviously sequins & spangles are out at a serious dinner, but something besides black, straight & tight would be better — how many other women there would have worn something nearly identical? Uhm, most of them! And I hate hate hate that hairdo with the hair implant that you tease the ponytail over. So tacky. Ick.
@el from Saskatchewan
In the video was that Meg Staphelton with her? Did you notice how fast she was moving up the stairs. She left the poor old guys and Meg in the dust. She had to stop two times to see if they were behind her.
My thoughts exactly, SMR-
Who are the guys herding her up the stairs?
@SMR (21:28:25) :
Given she’s so ill-prepared for socialising with the DC elite you would think she would at least give herself the advantages of a gorgeous gown, a very elegant hairstyle, and a firmly-shut mouth. But, no …..
In my opinion, Palin has been (hopefully one day, a ‘has been’) and always will be JUST a beauty pageant contestant…she is obviously satisfied with staying in the same place emotionally…for her, that is enough…she thinks that looks alone will advance her towards her goals. “I wish for world peace” “look at me, look at me, I’m a governor” “my people must like me” yada yada yada. It’s not even that she’s particularly good looking…she just has those old repubs falling down around her in their school boy giddiness, stroking her already huge ego. She can and will only excel in her hypocrisy.
She did look like she was dressed for the prom…but again, she has no skills, no sense. Gee, can you tell I admire her?
@mt
SP is no more christian than I am a nun. :O
I despise those so-called bible thumping Christians who no sooner you look away would pleasure in stabbing you in the back…NEVER practicing what they preach (pretend). I’m positive God would not approve of these kind of “Christians”. Funny thing how “these kind” gravitate towards politics. hmmm
@mt
the same thing keeps happening to me, I have to try a couple of times. Anyways, I found this article dated 7/16/07. http://www.weeklystandard.com/content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/&51orcjq.asp?pg=1 The last paragraph on the first page is interesting. I don’t go to ADN much anymore, since they started editing the comment section. Just isn’t fun anymore.
I’ll give it another try.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/851orcjq.asp?pg=1
@ Lainey, LOL!
It isnt that I am against any religion, I just dont like hypcrites, and she seems like one, I am sure there are some good people in christian churches who are real and compassionate.
But, this is already old fast all these old men in the republican party falling over her.
And whats up with the addresses listed on that site for people to send gifts to her and her family?
OT, I think. One website, palinpics4truth, has been shut down because of physical threats. So much for freedom of speech.
sandra
@mt
no no…I agree. I’m not against any religion either, but don’t use it to hide behind, right?
She will continue to act with malice and do unscrupulous things as long as nobody stops her, because I feel that’s just the kind of person she is…to the core. Kinda like beauty contestants sabotaging each other…clawing their way for the win. Usually, over time, you can come to know the different facets of one’s personality even if you only know them through TV…well, newsflash…Palin is NOT multi-faceted…we ALL figured that out. wink wink Palin, you’re busted!
I cannot wait for her impeachment trial…I’ll buy tickets to attend. : D
Yeah, I cannot wait for that either.
I hope they get the emails soon, and I forgot to comment to mommom
That kid didnt hack it, he just figured out her code to get in, so they didnt press charges on him for hacking.
palinpics4truth, has been shut down because of physical threats. So much for freedom of speech.
sandra
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Yah, I just saw that.
The whole place is gone, email acct, all of it.
Wouldnt that be…censorship?
Anyone know what the post/comments were today?
…something got someone going while SP was in DC with ‘private’ people.
…nuther coincidence?
mustangNo Gravatar (00:15:29) :
palinpics4truth, has been shut down because of physical threats. So much for freedom of speech.
sandra
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Yah, I just saw that.
The whole place is gone, email acct, all of it.
Wouldnt that be…censorship?
Anyone know what the post/comments were today?
…something got someone going while SP was in DC with ‘private’ people.
…nuther coincidence?
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I saw it earlier this eve. She had more posts about Bristol and the EB. She did post a anonn. threat that was directed at her. Well, I hope she turns everything, over to the FBI! I really think she was on to something, and like Where is TRIP? If you go to people lookup,Bristol or Levi, Trip does not show up. She has all the logs of what computers came to her blog, IP numbers everything. It must of been a whopper to close her down. I am very sad to see, but considering how that “Family” rolls, I’m not surprised about threats, now there is “pixelgate”!!!! Morgan you Rock! Hope to see back soon.
I forgot to add, at people lookup Trig does not pop up either. All the rest of the kids but not him.
Hey Morgan! (..if you are reading…)
Thanks a lot for your work…
Sooner or later truth will prevail…
Redact ?!?!?! R U kiddin me ?!?!?!?! These aren’t documents pertaining to Area 51, nor do they have National Security implications. They should not be redacting anything.
Maybe it’s ALL the references to “coffee” that they want to redact !
WTF? PP4T is gone? Morgan, PLEASE take a CCW class.
Everyone, I just want to thank you for your support. I am hopeful that one day I will be able to blog again. Please don’t worry about me, just keep being beacons for truth!
The power of the pixel. foh shizzle!
Am I mad? YOU BETCHA!
Morgan???
Why did your site shut down?
Was it your decision due to time or was it due to some other reason???
Morgan, I hope you take all your info and and start writing a “who done it” true crime mystery type book. You could easily get 11k for such a book.
I will be the first to buy it!
Seriously, you must of been getting very,very close to the truth. And please call the FBI. None of the police in Alaska will do anything. they are controlled by Barbie. Even the Leg. is, with the exception of a few brave ones. Go to the Feds or Alaska’s DOJ Attorney General.
Morgan, download everything you’ve compiled and store it in a safe place. Research “safe places” and make sure you put your information in a place no one would think of, and tell only a person you’d trust with your life.
Whoever threatened you may not be done with you.
God bless your efforts, and I’m very sad to see you’ve been chased offline by Sarah’s evil minions.
KJ
I don’t understand this redaction, where it concerns the Dems’ in the legislature.
Since the Dems ARE the Government, are not they privy to all contents of the e-mails?
Then there are the e-mails sent to Todd, if he , as an ordinary citizen can receive them, shouldn’t the rest of the populace have the same privilege? How can you redact anything sent to him?
Should not the legislature have all the e-mails they requested immediatley and the-mails sent to Todd simply be made public knowledge?
OT…but interesting;
The Note: Palin stiffs the House Republicans
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/01/palin-stiffs-th.html
Excerpt;
Asked why Palin told the Republicans she could not leave Alaska this weekend, Palin spokesman Bill McAllister offered this non-responsive answer:
“My understanding is that the governor has not scheduled any partisan events on her current trip to D.C.,” McAllister told ABC News.
A little OT…but interesting, Palin did like McCain did to Letterman;
The Note: Palin stiffs the House Republicans
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/01/palin-stiffs-th.html
Excerpt;
Asked why Palin told the Republicans she could not leave Alaska this weekend, Palin spokesman Bill McAllister offered this non-responsive answer:
“My understanding is that the governor has not scheduled any partisan events on her current trip to D.C.,” McAllister told ABC News.
Hi Morgan, good to hear from you.
They forgot one key word: trooper. Using the names Wooten & Monegan will limit the results.
Somehow, I don’t think that Flailin’ & Todd would be using the proper names of those who they think are the enemy, nor that they would even be able to spell them properly…
Palin as mayor stated that she would do whatever she wanted to do until a court told her not to.
The Democratic needs to take it to the next level, i.e. judicial.
The voters need to take it to the next level i.e. over the heads of the legislators who obviously are not going to do anything either.
Time to stop going for help to those that have no interest in helping.
FBI? Department of Justice?
We need some knowledgeable in the legalities of these issues to help figure out what can be done now.
Whatever, it is time to stop “looking for love in all the wrong places !”