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CNN: Palin to step down as Governor

post from DemConWatch on 03 July 2009 03:34:17 PM. © DemConWatch

Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) has told associates she will not be running for re-election. Details to follow.

There are also rumors on the net that she may be stepping down in a few weeks. This is very unconfirmed.

Update 330 PM: Alaska's KTVA says on their website:

WASILLA, Alaska - At an 11:00 a.m. press conference today, Governor Sarah Palin announced that she would not seek a second term as governor. The governor continued, saying that by the end of the month she would resign from the governorship.

Nothing on the national news networks or news sites confirming the upcoming resignation.

Update 3:32: CNN is now saying she IS stepping down.

Update 3:37 PM:

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WGWJP What Gun Would Jesus Pack

post from BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash on 03 July 2009 03:33:28 PM. © BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash

BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY

Packin? Pistols for God and Country: NRA Christians stake claim on patriotism and the America

By Bill Berkowitz
If you don?t quite get that for many in this country that the connection between guns and God is as American as burgers and fries, baseball and beer, and July 4th and fireworks, you should have been at the New Bethel Church in Louisville, Kentucky, on Saturday, June 27, where Pastor Ken Pagano welcomed more than 200 people ? most of them packing guns (albeit unloaded) -- to an event called the ?Open Carry Celebration.?

According to the New Bethel Church website, the ?Open Carry Celebration? was held on a Saturday instead of a Sunday, so that it was clear that it was ?not a church worship service, where the focus is on Jesus and our responsibility to Him. Rather,? Pagano, a former Marine weapons instructor, pointed out, ?this is merely a church-hosted event, similar to any other event that any other church may do to celebrate their heritage.?

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Sarah Bails on Governorship

post from Taylor Marsh on 03 July 2009 03:33:15 PM. © Taylor Marsh

–updated– Sarah Palin is not only not seeking re-election, but she’s stepping down as governor at the end of July, not finishing her first term. This is the latest wacky turn for Sarah Palin whose explosive entrance on to the national[...]

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People Feeding Seagulls At Restaurant Should Be
Fed To Giant Pre-Historic Terror Bird

post from Texas Liberal on 03 July 2009 03:32:57 PM. © Texas Liberal

Two days ago I was in Galveston, Texas. I had lunch at a restaurant on the Seawall. The restaurant had two floors and I was eating out on the upstairs balcony.There was a couple with a small child also out on the balcony. The couple was feeding french fries to seagulls. The seagulls were flying around and the couple [...]

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BREAKING: Sarah Palin to Resign; Alaska Governor
Stepping Down in A Few Weeks

post from Firedoglake on 03 July 2009 03:30:44 PM. © Firedoglake

You Won?t Have Sarah Palin to Kick Around Anymore. . . or. . . and also.[...]

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WTF

post from Talking Points Memo on 03 July 2009 03:26:00 PM. © Talking Points Memo

At first, the reports were contradictory. But now we've seen multiple reports that Sarah Palin plans to resign her office as governor of Alaska at some point in the very near future. Initially reports suggested only that she wouldn't run again;[...]

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The Day in 100 Seconds: The 4th, Fantastic!

post from Talking Points Memo on 03 July 2009 03:22:00 PM. © Talking Points Memo

Full-size video at TPMtv.com.[...]

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Holiday Weekend News Dump: NSA To Monitor Private
Networks

I've been following this issue for a while and was pretty surprised to conclude that the government doesn't have much choice. The way data travels means the entire country's far too vulnerable to cyberattacks, and they don't really have many effective options that don't to some degree compromise our privacy. The question is, who can we trust with that kind of power? We need a robust public debate over that very issue, but since they dumped this on the last day before a three-day weekend, I'm guessing not so much:

The Obama administration will proceed with a Bush-era plan to use National Security Agency assistance in screening government computer traffic on private-sector networks, with AT&T as the likely test site, according to three current and former government officials.
President Obama said in May that government efforts to protect computer systems from attack would not involve "monitoring private sector networks or Internet traffic" and Department of Homeland Security officials say that the new program will only scrutinize data going to or from government systems.
But the program has provoked debate within DHS, the current and former officials said, because of uncertainty over whether private data can be shielded from unauthorized scrutiny, how much of a role NSA should play and whether the agency's involvement in warrantless wiretapping under the Bush administration would draw controversy.
[...] Under a classified pilot program approved during the Bush administration, NSA data and hardware would be used to protect the networks of some civilian government agencies. Part of an initiative known as Einstein 3, the pilot called for telecommunications companies to route the Internet traffic of civilian government agencies through a monitoring box that would search for and block malicious computer codes.
AT&T, the world's largest telecommunications firm, was the Bush administration's choice to participate in the test, which has been delayed for months as the Obama administration determines what elements of the Bush plan to preserve, former government officials said. The pilot was to have been launched in February.
"To be clear, Einstein 3 development is proceeding," DHS spokeswoman Amy Kudwa said. "We are moving forward in a way that protects privacy and civil liberties."
[...] The program is the most controversial element of the $17 billion cybersecurity initiative that the Bush administration launched in January 2008. Einstein 3 is crucial, advocates say, in an era in which hackers have compromised computer systems at the Commerce and State departments, and have siphoned off sensitive military jet data from a defense contractor.

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Howie Kurtzs Latest Story: Weymouth Defends Posts
Pay-to-Play Scheme

Katharine Weymouth stands by the principle of bringing the key players on a policy fight together in her living room--for a price. After all, "everyone does it."[...]

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http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/07/03/howie-kurtzs-latest-story-weymouth-d
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Thomas Nast and the American Political Cartoon

Howard Zinn, the famed radical historian, wrote in his book Artists In Times Of War:So the word[...]

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