The consequences of Palin's Guilty Findings in regard to the Ethics Statute Violation is yet to be realized.

Palin violated Executive Branch Ethics Act (click here). She has complicated the 'disposition' of any firing of her former Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan.



The findings of the investigation aren't really that she is guilt free of breaking Alaskan statute, but, is indeed guilty of breaking the Ethics Laws governing her ELECTED position as Governor. The Public Safety Commissioner is NOT a political appointment as a cabinet officer would be.

There are definitive consequences to Palin's Ethics Violation. It raises the question, "Does Walter Monegan get his job back?"

It raises the question, "Is there impeachment of Palin that follows this investigation?"

It raises the question, "Is any action against Trooper Wooten considered 'null and void' due to the fact Walter Monegan was facing undue pressure from the Governor of Alaska?"

Basically, how much of the proceedings againt Wooten and Monegan is considered tainted and appealable due to the indiscretions of Palin?

Troopergate for Palin is not small issue. It points to abuse of power for personal satisfaction as a superior authority. If her actions are inappropriate it compromises her personally as well as The State of Alaska opening the possibilty of lawsuits by Wooten and Monegan.

How much has to be returned to these two men? Rank, status, retirement, benefits and possibly monetary considerations for pain and suffering. Due to the 'high profile' of this investigation, both Wooten and Monegan may no longer have viable career paths.

There was a lot of damage done by Alaskan Governor Palin. Who pays? The Alaskan Taxpayer?

I want to see all the e-mails from Sarah Palin, both official and personal regarding the prevention of classifying The Polar Bear in Alaska

Bush administration to Gov. Palin: Beluga whale in Alaska is endangered
Alaska's Gov. Sarah Palin has questioned scientific evidence that the beluga whale population in the waters near Anchorage is declining. In fact last summer she urged the federal government not to list the whale as endangered, citing concerns of what a listing might do to the Cook Inlet economy.
But today the U.S. Government replied with a decisive counter, declaring the beluga whales in Alaska's Cook Inlet an endangered species. The findings by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration trigger a rigorous regimen to protect the whales, dwindled to an estimated 375 from their 1995 high of 653.
The decision by NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service could trump a decision by the U.S. Interior Department to make oil leases available on Cook Inlet, where energy analysts see an estimated $1.38 billion worth of resources.
"In spite of protections already in place, Cook Inlet beluga whales are not recovering," said James Balsiger, NOAA's acting assistant administrator. The agency added that oil and gas exploration had hindered the whale's existence.
As the Associated Press noted, this is the second run-in Palin has had with the Bush administration over the Endangered Species Act. Earlier, the governor, now Republican vice presidential candidate, had asked the courts to overturn an Interior Department decision declaring polar bears threatened.
-- Johanna Neuman

Just a reminder to all those that have lost their way in the last eight years. Come HOME !!! We've been waiting for you.

The last couple of days it would seem The New York Times has found God.

...Based on the information that has come to light so far, the charges appear to be wildly overblown — and intended to hobble Acorn’s efforts....

Let's hope that trend continues at The New York Times. It's been a real bitch since that moron started work there...what's his name? Oh, yeah, Powell...Michael Powell.

Liberate The New York Times.

We are all pulling for you.

Has everyone watched and LISTENED to Michael Moore's Slacker Tour? In that film appears Viggo Mortensen stating that citizens of great democracies should be issued voter registrations automatically (along with their filing of drivers' license and/or draft status).

In the USA, every college student is required to file a draft form in order to receive financial assistance. Right or wrong, it goes on. There is no reason why any form where Americans come in contact with 'the system' doesn't require voter registration.

The New York Times very diplomatically evaded the finger pointing on this exploitation of a 'real issue' spun to defame a Presidential Candidate. The finger points directly at the inflammatory CNN and in this case Drew Griffin. It is irresponsible journalism, biased and exaggerated to cause harm to the character of a candidate. At this point with 'the truth' being known it is debateable at to whom the candidate slated for damage actually is.

HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, ha, ha, ah it feels so good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JERKS !

...But for all of the McCain campaign’s manufactured fury about vote theft (and similar claims from the Republican Party over the years) there is virtually no evidence — anywhere in the country, going back many elections — of people showing up at the polls and voting when they are not entitled to.

Meanwhile, Republicans aren’t saying anything about another more serious voter-registration scandal: the fact that about one-third of eligible voters are not registered. The racial gaps are significant and particularly disturbing. According to a study by Project Vote, a voting-rights group, in 2006, 71 percent of eligible whites were registered, compared with 61 percent of blacks, 54 percent of Latinos and 49 percent of Asian-Americans.

Much of the blame for this lies with overly restrictive registration rules. Earlier this year, the League of Women Voters halted its registration drive in Florida after the state imposed onerous new requirements....

Well. I won't exactly call it a 'surge,' but if it makes everyone feel better for a day or so, ..., what the heck, you know?

Up in NYC, down in Asia, up in Europe, down in South America, bonds down, commodities up.

I guess Hanks, 14,000 is still a long gone artificially dreamscape.

The NY exchange isn't over 9000 yet, right? Didn't think so.

I was wondering how much of 'hit (as in damage)' the entire dynamics of global exchanges took. I haven't had a chance to do a very rough guesstimate to the sustained losses of all exchanges over the past year. Someone needs to do that. There are plenty of financial experts across the media spectrum. I would advocate every one of them to perform their OWN assessment of the Paulson tumble after achieving an artifical 14,000.

What is troubling to me, is that so much of the 'appearance' of improvement can be masked by a 24 hour market loop the size of the circumference of Earth, especially when improvements are relatively small increments (easily within a margin of error to really matter).

While I understand that confidence plays into the markets, what exists in that 'concept' of confidence is that 'artificial' confidence is okay.

What is part of the chronic rollercoaster of the markets in the year 2008, especially since the recent tumbles, is this 'idea' that confidence will be 'restored' through all these huge money manipulations. That entire mess, I believe, isn't restoring confidence because it isn't real, so much as desperate. What is strongly skeptical is that 'the current bottomless pit' of the markets is sincerely that.


A Filipino investor takes a break from monitoring activities at the Philippine Stock Exchange. The Philippine Stock Exchange index fell 116.04 points, or 5.2 percent, to 2,122.37. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Aaron Favila

TORONTO - The Toronto stock market finished modestly lower Thursday, after a late-day rally that saw investors buy beaten up energy stocks despite a big drop in oil prices below the US$70 mark for the first time in more than a year.
New York markets also pulled off a comeback late in the day as investors examined mixed economic and earnings data for clues about the health of the economy.
Toronto's S&P/TSX composite surged about 100 points, dropped well over 500 points and finished the session down 53.88 points to 9,269.97, after an energy-sector rout sent the main index down 632 points on Wednesday....