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• • Sarah Palin found guilty and faces Indictment!!!

  • Kids, today we're going to talk about why it is important to do more than just skim the headlines on an issue, because it seems most of you don't understand this whole issue with Palin and this ethics probe.

    The Alaska Legislative Council hired a guy to look into the whole issue around the firing of former Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan. This guy, Mr. Branchflower, was hired *before* Palin was named to run on McCain's ticket, BTW. And, as we all remember, everyone was surprised when she was selected so it's extremely doubtful that the Alaska Legislative Council knew Palin was going to be selected by McCain back in July.

    The guy deposed (that's talked to in a formal setting, with your conversation recorded) several people, accessed a lot of emails, and basically did the whole private eye/investigative thing, then made a report of his findings.

    The report had four (4) findings.

    1. Palin acted in an unethical manner in regards to Alaskan ethics laws for employees of the executive branch.

    2. Palin did not break the law in firing Monegan.

    3. Some stuff regarding the trooper which none of us care about.

    4. That the investigator didn't get emails from Palin and other key people even though he asked for it in writting two months prior to the date he finished the report.

    The big story is not over #2. There was never really any doubt that the governor had the right to fire Monegan for any reason she wanted, or for no reason at all. The issue is over #1, which is about her actions and inactions that led up to the firing, NOT the firing itself.

    Also, people have incorrectly stated that Palin fired Monegan because Monegan refused to fire Trooper Michael Wooten. In reality, the matter of Wooten's offenses and punishment had been closed during the previous administration and Monegan was forbidden by law to either re-open the case (unless new evidence were provided) or even talk about it. That was the bone of contention. Plus, Monegan shot himself in the foot later and lost the confidence of Palin.

    I didn't read the whole report. It's over 100 pages long. But I did read a good chunk of it, particularly the areas around the *reasons* behind the findings that Branchflower submitted. I also got a pretty good idea about the sequence of events that led up to Monegan being fired.

    Anyway, not to rehash the whole story, but whether or not Wooten should've been fired for the things he did is not my call to make. It wasn't Monegan's call to make, either. It was Colonal Grimes, who was in charge of the Alaskan State Troopers at the time, whose call it was, and I would assume she had to follow legal guidelines for how severe she could punish Wooten. You can blame unions if you want, but an agreement is an agreement, and failing to abide by it can have severe legal ramifications, particularly for a government agency.

    Anyway, if you want to discuss Palin's role in this, you should at least get a better understanding of what actually took place and who was in charge of what, and what limits they were under at the time.

  • Posted: 10/11/08 2:03 AM
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• • The USA Will Enter a Depression ... Yes, the D Word.

  • There is one BIG difference between our situation now and that in 1929: the US Federal Government had little, if any, debt. That's right. None or almost none. Today, the national debt is over $10 trillion, and we're going to add to it while simultaneously US production (and the GDP that's associated with it) is going to decrease. This was not the case in 1929.

  • Posted: 10/11/08 1:36 AM
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• • If You Support Obama, You are in Good Company...

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    Originally posted by SioBabble
    
     
    You sound just like a diehard Leninist who claims Communism has never actually been tried.
    Randism is garbage.

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    The point is not whether or not Randism is garbage, but that we've never tried anything close to it on a federal level (and probably not on any other level) in the United States. If we haven't tried it, then you can't blame it for the ills currently gripping the nation.

  • Posted: 10/10/08 2:13 PM
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• • If You Support Obama, You are in Good Company...

  • I love how people blame some sort of libertarian ideology for why we are in our current straits, yet we haven't followed any such policy in decades, if ever. Maybe if Barry Goldwater had been elected president... but he wasn't. You have to go back to someone like Jefferson to get anything close to Ayn Rand... and really, I don't think Jefferson was all that much like Rand either.

    Yeah, just pick something you really hate and blame it even if there isn't any evidence to back up your claim.

  • Posted: 10/10/08 3:21 AM
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• • What's behind your username?

  • Tuor, son of Huor, is, like Finwe, a character from JRR Tolkien's 'The Silmarillion'.

    I could go into his whole story, but I'll spare you that. Instead I'll just say that if I could be anyone in Tolkien's world (Arda), I'd want to be Tuor. And, if I couldn't be him, I wouldn't mind hanging out with him. I guess in a way he's an inspirational character for me and I've used his name as my nom de plume for a long time now.

  • Posted: 10/10/08 3:20 AM
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