Just curious
So David Kernell, 20, of Knoxville, Tenn., has been charged with hacking into Sarah Palin’s private e-mail account hosted on Yahoo.com. He’s pleaded not guilty, and is scheduled for trial in December. If convicted, he could get five years in prison, $250,000 in fines and three years of a supervised release.
Just curious: How much time will Palin get for using that very same e-mail account to circumvent Alaska state public records laws?
So poor Sheldon Adelson, chairman of Las Vegas Sands Inc., has lost $13 billion in the financial crisis, dropping from the third richest American on the Forbes list to No. 15. Now, while this alone is not sufficient proof of the existence of a just God, it surely is powerful circumstantial evidence.
Just curious: Which is worse, a billionaire losing a few of his billions, or the working poor wondering if they’ll have a job and food next week? If it’s the latter, shouldn’t we be reading more about them? Here’s a handy little phrase to keep things in perspective in these tumultuous times: Never feel sorry for a man who (still) owns a plane.
So, a group of Republican lawmakers made a last-ditch attempt to stall the release of a report into Palin’s firing of her public safety commissioner following the governor’s push to fire Alaska state trooper (who was involved in a bitter custody dispute with Palin’s sister). The Republicans contended the investigation was partisan.
Just curious: If the investigation was begun with a bi-partisan vote, welcomed even by Palin herself (she said, “hold me accountable”), carried on with bi-partisan support and concluded with a bi-partisan vote to release the report, doesn’t that undercut the entire “partisan” argument? And in fact, if the entire opposition to the investigation comes from a single party, isn’t that partisan?
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