I apologize to all and sundry for any inconvenience, but on this extremely busy day — it was extremely busy before I got called in to that craziness regarding the governor — my e-mail suddenly stopped working, at exactly 4:30 p.m.
After finishing my day’s work about an hour ago, I started trying everything I could think of to restore it, but no luck. I’ll have to try to get some help tomorrow (which promises to be just as busy).
Again, sorry for the inconvenience. It’s pretty inconvenient to me, too. I’m probably missing out on some paying work because of this, but what are you going to do?
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My nephew’s (Ben Fenner) number is 727-8530. He does IT work for several law firms. He may be able to help.
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Oh boy, I’ll call him right now… I’m’ sure he’ll appreciate you posting his personal number online. The last thing an IT guy wants is his relatives and friends referring him to come work on your computer.
brad, wish you were still at the state
so why did the state hold the knowledge of an affair of our commander in chief for the past 7 months
any thoughts?
thanks
Don’t know that The State actually had that knowledge. Having the e-mails and KNOWING so you can publish are different things. But as I said on previous post, I don’t know what happened on that.
Thanks, Kathryn, but I got some help last night, and it seems to be working. But 6 or 7 hours of e-mails seem to be permanently missing…
In this day of the new media, it’s nice to see that a newspaper can do some old fashion shoeleather journalism. Nice job, State.
The State newspaper. which everyone thought had hit bottom, showed us how to sink even lower.
The media is having a feeding frenzy over this. I guess professionalism has left the journalism trade, it’s all about shock journalism now. If you are a subscriber to The State, call and cancel your subscription… they’ll try to talk you out of it or put you on a different plan, stand your ground and tell them you’re done with their supermarket tabloid publication and they’ll reluctantly offer you a refund of your remaining balance. The Customer Service rep (sounded like a call center in India) acted like I was taking the refund out of her personal account.
All I can say is if Sanford resigns (which I don’t think he’ll do), get ready for Gov. Andre’ Bauer… because we elected him into office and we will get what we deserve.
The explanation in the paper this morning made sense. Efforts to confirm the e-mails had been unsuccessful until yesterday.
Ask yourself this: if the paper had confirmed the e-mails to editors’ satisfaction and run them, would you have believed before this week? And would you have considered it relevant to publish such details about the gov’s private life?
As a reader, I’m not sure I could answer either of those questions affirmatively…
Meanwhile, REAL NEWS
Health Care Reform is Part of Reparations for Slavery
At least that’s what Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina thinks. Newsbusters has the transcript from an interview with Chris Matthews:
JAMES CLYBURN: Well, I think that Congressman Cohen’s resolution that was unanimously passed by the House offered an apology, but it went into talking about how we ought to go about rectifying some of the current effects of that past discrimination. And that’s what we’re doing today as we roll out this working draft of our health care bill.
. . . .
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Yeah, I think reparations make sense. I just wonder if we’re ever going to figure out how to do it. Mr. Clyburn, do you have a clear sense of what’s the appropriate, if you were the
president right now and had the congress 100% behind you, what would you do?
CLYBURN: What I would do is exactly what we’re attempting to do with this legislation, energy legislation, health legislation. I would look at ways that we can programatically and with new policy, address these inequities and make concerted efforts to do things that would make up for them and eliminate the disparities. That’s what I would do. We’re talking about addressing inequities, disparities that exist in the health care in our communities. That’s the kind of thing that we ought to be doing.
I’m all for reparations for slavery. Let’s round up everyone alive who was a slave owner and garnish their wages.
Lee, you mean Real OLD News. That conversation happened several days ago on MSNBC’s Hardball. I watched it live.
How come you didn’t quote the part where Clyburn goes out of his way to say that “reparations” does NOT mean cutting checks for people?
Is the Sanford story really news at all? How many times are we going to read a newspaper headline about a family values Republican getting caught in a sex scandal. There was Foley, Craig, Vitter, McCain and Ensign just to name a few. Geez this is like watching a TV ad for the millionth time. How much more discredited can a political party get? And yet some will continue to drone on about how the dems should reach across the aisle to gain bipartisan support for some piece of legislation. I say BAH! The Dems just need to get on with governing just as they were elected to do and to Hell with the Republicans. They have no credibility, popular support or common sense. Let’s get the 60 votes necessary to break filibusters and stop worrying about the 40 senators who represent about 15% of the population. The sooner we do that the sooner the country will move forward again.
Bud – The Democrats are just jealous because when they get caught with their pants down it’s usually with a member of the same sex.
Republicans only make up 15% of the population??? Where, Hawaii and San Francisco?
An interesting chain of events:
– last December, somebody had or obtained access to the governor’s e-mail account. Apparently it was his “official” one, meaning that it was surely a secretary, aid or security person. That somebody then sent those incriminating e-mails to the State paper, anonymously.
– someone alerted Sanford’s two biggest rivals within his own party, Jakie Knotts and Andre Bauer, that he was going off w/o his security people , and without his wife, who was at their home in Charleston. Again, surely a secretary, aid or security person.
– someone anonymously alerted the State that he was coming back from Argentina via the Atlanta airport and that there was a state vehicle waiting for thim there (as well as an aid or staffer.) Again, surely a secretary, aid or security person.
– if he does in fact resign, Andre becomes governor, a fact that would surely please both Andre and Jakie, as well as any secretary, aid or security person who might miraculouly get a promotion under the new governor. Especially any security person who loves Jakie since he used to be a cop.
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Another thing, and I’m sure someone will correct me if I’m wrong. If these e-mails were sent on his state provided e-mail account, and someone accessed them through means other than the Freedom of Information Act, isn’t this still a felony? I do not believe you can just access people’s government e-mail accounts without going through the proper channels.
Sanford’s people need to be talking to the IT Staff at the Statehouse, especially those who were working around the time the e-mails were taken.
I suspect, that Sanford’s lawyers are way ahead of me on this, and that there will be a case built around the e-mail messages if they were accessed by any other means than the FOI act.
Clyburn and Obama have said on other occasions that reparations does include cutting checks to black people, in addition to giving them free healthcare, low-interest mortgages, and free college tuition.