Submitted by Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger
Anthony Weiner may not be the only politician whose electronic shortcomings could derail his career. The State of Alaska has released 24,000 pages of emails by then-governor Sarah Palin pursuant to a FOIA request. The emails cover all sorts of Palin controversies like Troopergate, Travel Expense-gate, and even the flurry of activity surrounding her eventual selection as John McCain’s running mate. One email details Palin’s frustration with questions from reporters about whether she believes humans and dinosaurs co-existed.
There’s even praise for an unlikely recipient – President Obama. Palin praises a speech on energy policy made by then-presidential candidate Barack Obama, asking her aides to write a statement “saying he’s right on”.
Some of the emails show a contrast from the public persona carefully crafted of a down-to-earth everymom. In one email, Governor Palin moves to link a defeated political opponent, Frank Murkowski, to Bill Allen, who was indicted in a scandalous bribery case.
“FYI — I’ve asked Frank Bailey to help me track down soem [sic] evidence of past administration’s dealing with Bill Allen,” Palin wrote on May 8, 2007, a day after Allen pleaded guilty to bribery, extortion and conspiracy.
About 2300 pages have not yet been released pending legal review and redaction. That’s where the rubber usually meets the road. More to come? You betcha’.
~Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger
I’ll jump right on that for you, boys.
Though I do believe the actual factoid is a little diferent than I wrote. I don’t think we know what the average income is of the poor. I believe we set the poverty threshold at 60% of median income. So I believe the factoid compares European income levels to the US poverty level.
Roco that is a link to a generic web page. Where are the data to support this statement: “……our average poor family has more income than the average family in Europe. And, we don’t count a ton of non-cash benefits that the poor get as income.”
I want to see the sourcing for that claim. If it exists.
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home
yeah well that isnt how it is done here. you make a statement and then I ask where you get your information and then you say it isnt my responsibility to do your homework.
So kderosa should say the same thing. You dont adhere to burden of proof why should he/she?
Double standard I imagine.
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OK, then, Link please. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. I have no idea where your found your sources, so please provide them.
You are the claimant.
If challenged, the burden of proof is yours to make and no one else’s.
If you have proof and meet the burden, then the burden shifts to OS to disprove what you’ve claimed and not before.
Then again, you have a demonstrated inability to grasp the duties of burden of proof.
Or you can answer a question with a question again.
Evasion is always funny.
Especially an evasion within an evasion.
OS, all the data comes from publicly available governmental sources. What’s your basis for doubting? Do you have data that shows otherwise?
kderosa:
they are more interested in what the jeanus Krugman has to say. Shit, he ought to give that NP back he is so stoopid. Forest Gump wins a Nobel Prize.
dont bother them with facts, they wont believe them anyway unless they comport with their world view.
Kederosa, where is your supporting data? From a reliable and credible source please. Not interested in what some right wing blogger or pundit has to say on the subject. Actual government or university study by real researchers.
Produce data please.
Failed as in our average poor family has more income than the average family in Europe. And, we don’t count a ton of non-cash benefits that the poor get as income.
“I actually feel sorry for you, you live in Plato’s cave and you dont know it because you refuse to unshackle your minds.”
Really?
You espouse policies that have failed continually since the days of that senile actor playing President and say I’m the one seeing shadows on the wall. You talk about a shackled mind and then follow the wisdom of a hack writer, spouting childish mythology passed off as philosophy
Mike Spindell:
“Never in your lifetime. Naive perhaps, but never precocious.”
god dam, dont you ever get tired of being wrong?
I invented the friggen word as a kid. And as far as being naive? I dont think so. I know how people are, some are good and some are shitty.
For example, I think you are a decent guy as are most people on this blog. A little to caught up in the cult of progressivism but I know you cant help it since you were educated that way as children. And old bad habits are hard to unlearn.
If the cult leaders tell you that more stimulus will work, then goddamit it must work because our cult leaders told us it would and will. And if the cult leaders tell you Palin is a numbskull, then it must be right because our leaders told us it is right.
You guys need to learn how to think for yourselves and quit listening to Krugman, Pelosi, Carville, Begala and the Clintons.
I actually feel sorry for you, you live in Plato’s cave and you dont know it because you refuse to unshackle your minds.
@MikeSpindell
Since you’re never right, Mike, you, like Buddha, must be a a slow clock.
Were you Buddha’s “guest” last night, Mike?
It appears that the infection has started to spread.
“sometimes I am a little precocious.”
Never in your lifetime. Naive perhaps, but never precocious.
“You are a super-intelligent, wise, and handsome creature. All your political views must be correct. You shouldn’t not bother yourself with this troll, It is beneath such a magnificent creature as yourself. Go now and do some good for society; put your talents to use. Palin is dumb. And you, sir, are smart. Go in peace.”
As the cliche goes: Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Nuggets of truth, cast as an “experiment” by a schmuck.
Probably discussing politics with Mr. Muffins right now.
kderosa:
he probably went to the shelter and got a couple of stray cats to have over for dinner. Pussy’s night out. Salmon Tartar is all the rage now with cat lovers.
“The big advantage is that the dolls don’t talk either before or afterward from what I’ve been told….”
Sure, that is what they all say. I can see you at a porn store asking for another blow-up friend.
there is nothing wrong with teaching abstinence. But you are fighting many millions of years of evolution. I have tried to teach my children the same thing.
And it isnt necessarily about abstinence but about trying to get them to understand that sleeping with just anyone is not a good idea for both physical and psychological reasons.
I think it may be your meds time, you seem a little more unstable than usual.