Sarah Palin Wikipedia edits--fast and furious
Sarah Palin's life has been abuzz since she was officially selected as John McCain's running mate on Friday. Her Wikipedia page has, likewise, been awash with activity.
After well over a thousand edits were made to her page that day, the Wikipedia editors raised the page's protection level to restrict who can make changes, according to the San Jose Mercury News.
Sarah Palin
(Credit: Alaska governor's office)Meanwhile, The Washington Post reported evidence via Cyveillance that in the days and hours before Friday's announcement, Palin's page was being edited more frequently than those of other potential vice presidential candidates. A clue, perhaps?
Her page was specifically garnering the attention of someone identified as "Young Trigg," who made numerous edits deemed favorable by a Wikipedia editor.
There has already been much speculation as to who "Young Trigg" may be, especially considering Palin's youngest child is named Trig.
Wikipedia does have specific rules regarding conflict of interest.
However, all it will take to solve the mystery is for someone to track down the identity of "Young Trigg."
On a related note, Palin is trending No. 3 and No. 4 on Twitter at the moment.
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Natalie Weinstein is an associate editor who works out of Austin, Texas. She spent a decade as a reporter and editor in the newspaper industry before joining the CNET News staff in 2000. E-mail Natalie. 
I don't like either candidate, so everyone can keep the comments about bias to themselves.
You all know I'm right.
I like her.
From where I'm looking, she's just another self-serving politician that gets brought into the mix to serve the interests of other societal parasites. On top of that, I wonder how she will be able to take care of a special needs infant and be 2nd in command of the worlds most powerful country. Family values indeed.
I don't like her.
Her judgement is suspect: She was in Texas when she says her water broke a month early in her pregnancy with Trig. She stayed and gave a speech, then flew 9 hours, then drove past 2 hospitals with neonatal intensive care units to get to a hospital way out in the boonys where she was mayor years back. A woman on her 5th pregnancy, who knew her child was Down's syndrome, took major chances with that baby's life. Definitely not VP material.
She is going to get shredded into tiny little pieces.
No one with a brain is going to vote for this extreme fundamentalist, hunting wolves with a helicopter, literally in bed with the oil companies, anti-woman, anti-science, anti-thinking psychopath.
Campaigning with a special needs infant(DS children have serious immune system problems) shows her and McSames serious lack of judgment.
I am still on the fence with Obama, but the republican offering is beyond scary.
Real question you should be asking is, how does being a "community organiser" (like Obambi has), for the most corrupt political machine in this country(the Democratic Party political machine in Chicago), qualify anyone to be the presiden of these United States?
Governor Palin on the other hand, is the governor of the biggest state by far in this country. Shga menages more of the country's natural resoucres , national parks, and oil resources than anyone else. Not to dealing regularly with the Russian goverment, which actualy shares a border with Alaska.
When did Obambi ever have any daelings with the Russian goverment?
Yep, McCain took a risk taking her on, but she'll be the underdog in the VP debates. If she does anything more than hold her own against Biden then she'll win the debate hands down. The angry and stupid backlash against her on the dailykos shows you how scared the liberal elites are of this woman.
I also like her.
I like her.
I don't value an incompetent VP who has very little knowledge of science.
You'd prefer that she kills her baby, like most of you abortion loving Democrats do every day , no?
Like how Obambi went out there and voted for against a bill that would stop abortion survivors from getting killed?
The Dems keep screaming about being "pro-choice", yet when teh Governor of a state makes her choice against killing babes, and FOR the life of er baby, the Dems start screaming.
FACT: The Democratic Part is NOT pro-choice. The Democratic Party is PRO-abortion.
Palin: Univeristy of Idaho Journalism grad, city council hockey mom turned governor. (It's really that thin)
Obama is a Harvard law grad who spent 6 years in the Illinois senate and two in the U.S. senate. He has authored and co-authored many bills that are now law both in the Illinois senate and U.S. senate. All one has to do is some research if one really cares. Most notable is The Obama/Feingold bill aka The 2007 Ethics Reform Law not to mention various health care reform bills.
I hope people can see through this Palin selection as the political stunt it is. I'm not saying she is a bad woman (aside from apparently being under investigation for corruption herself) and that she hasn't made any achievements, but I seriously doubt she can lead America or the rest of the free world.
Governor Sarah Palin, also happens to be the Governor of the biggest state in theese United States, and manages more of our natural resources and oil, national parks and than anyone else.
"Obama is a Harvard law grad who spent 6 years in the Illinois senate and two in the U.S. senate"
The only thing of note, that Obambi has done in his life is attend Harvard on affirmative action programs, after which his resume is the thinnest in American history of anyone that has stood for president.
Obambi being a "community organise" in the corrupt Chicago Democrati Party machine , followed by spendinga measely 153 days in the US Senate (with ano achievements) doesn't qualify anyone to be president.
God Bless you
As to standing up to the oil companies: She is in bed with them. Drill drill drill, kill kill kill.
Why are people trying to spin this thing like Palin has more experience than all the rest of them? That's a lie. Please name anything specific that she has done other than the vague "has more executive experience" line. If that's the case any govorner in the country should be president and we should just pick one out of a hat.
Palin: Univeristy of Idaho Journalism grad, city council hockey mom turned governor. (It's really that thin)"
Yes, but she qualifications that are more important to McCain's base:
1. Creationist
2. Anti-Choice, including victims of rape and incest
3. Opposes same sex marriage, opposes other rights for same sex couples
4. Supports oil drilling in ANWAR
5. Roman Catholic apostate who became a Pentecostalist. I guess she hasn't read far enough into the Bible to get to I Timothy 2:11-15 :)
I am not saying that is is a bad person, but she can't hold a candle to Obama, Biden, or even McCain.
So do most of the American population, who have consiustently opposed the abomination oif same sex marriages.
Every single state that has had same sex marriages on the ballot has voted AGAINST same sex marriages, even super liberal Oregon. This is one war you loony left crazies are not going to win, but hey, keep bringing it on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKsSYE4gfck
When you put the Obama Resume up against the Palin Resume, Sarah Palin is more qualified to be President of the U.S.
Obama is but a 2-bit "community organiser", who was aspawned by the most corrupt political machine in the country, the notorious Chicago Democratoc Party political machine.
I am not voting for a guy (Obama), who's poltical career was launched by the most notorious domestic terrorist this country has ever known, Bill Ayers.
Meanwhile, according to Joseph Biden, Obama is the "first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-01-31-biden-2008_x.htm
'nuff said.
If I want to vote for a guy that steals speeches from Neil Kinnock (Joe Biden), I'll go to Britain and vote for Kinnock.
Obama - poor and disadvantaged background
Palin- upper middle class or rich with major Alaska connections in her family
Obama - undergraduate degree in a serious major from Columbia University
Palin - journalism major from the Univ of Idaho
Obama - honors grad from Harvard Law School - editor of Harvard Law Review
Palin - no graduate education. failed sportscaster on small town TV.
Obama - gave up money to help poor in Chicago
Palin - having babies
Obama - State Senator in one of our most populous and diverse states
Palin - soccer mom and major of tiny town in Alaska
Obama - US Senator from Illinois - immediately on national stage in spite of opposition from his party
Palin - Gov of one of a tiny state that is not representative of the US population
Obama - Dem candidate in spite of racism and opposition by Dem's most powerful
Palin - VP candidate because she is anti-abortion and looks good on TV.
So, who is best qualified to lead the free world??
It doesn't make sense to be sending a massive $700 Billion every year to terrorist nations like Iran and Venezualla, when we could be spending that money in this country and creating jobs with it.
Obambi, Pelosi and the rest of the arrogant, demented loony left, are out of touch with mainstream America.
then taking 5 or 10 years to get oil out of alaska, taking into consideration the amount of additional oil the U.S. is expected to need in 5 or ten years... that 15 bil barrels of oil in the ANWR should last us what ? 10 days ? Yep... real good move there.
Then consider that every place the oil companies drill or transport oil becomes contaminated, ( Mississippi river, the oil sheen seen even in Google earth at every port oil is transferred in or out of, the Exxon Valdez ) the environmental damage does not outweigh the benefits of drilling. Not to mention that oil prices will continue to go up and up, regardless of how much more drilling ensues. And regardless of how much the oil companies have brainwashed you.
Oil prices do not go down in the long term. Especially as more and more demand squeezes fewer and fewer resources. The U.S. uses 24% of the worlds oil supplies, yet has only 3% of oil resources in Total.
And consider that the only thing we are doing is buying more and more oil from countries that really do not like us. But they will take more of our money for their oil.
Good choice of economics and national security there.
The answer is to get OFF of OIL.
NOW.
Drilling anywhere for another 10 days worth of oil, give or take any amount, is NOT the answer.
@ Perry_Clease :"Gov Palin....Opposes same sex marriage,"
So do most of the American population, who have consiustently opposed the abomination oif same sex marriages.
Every single state that has had same sex marriages on the ballot has voted AGAINST same sex marriages, even super liberal Oregon. This is one war you loony left crazies are not going to win, but hey, keep bringing it on."
So what? At one time most of the people opposed miscegenation
California, where I am a resident, is voting on same sex marriage this November. The polls show that it will probably pass.
53% of CA now approves of equal rights for gays. That includes marriage.
@ Perry_Clease , The majority of the American population now strongly support both offshore drlling, and drilling in the tiny 2000 acres of ANWR(out of the 20 million acres that is ANWR), that contains up to 15 billion barrels of oil that is vital to our national security interests.
It doesn't make sense to be sending a massive $700 Billion every year to terrorist nations like Iran and Venezualla, when we could be spending that money in this country and creating jobs with it.
Obambi, Pelosi and the rest of the arrogant, demented loony left, are out of touch with mainstream America."
Take up the matter of toadying up to petrodictators with your boy Bush and the rest of the conservatives.
Tiny little ANWAR is just the thin edge of the wedge. If there is so little oil there why bother?
All of that aside, my original post was why McCain chose the Palin, it sure as hell wasn't to get progressive over to the conservative side.
Naaaah
I think its you that had better take up your anti-American talking point with your leader, Bill Ayers. The same Bill Ayers that bombed the Pentagon, the capitol Buildings, and various court houses. The same Bill Ayers that launched your messiah, Obambi's political career.
@ Perry_Clease :"Tiny little ANWAR is just the thin edge of the wedge. If there is so little oil there why bother?"
English comprehension. Learn to read dude.
The actual land area that wil be drilled is only 2000 acres, out of total of 20 milion acres for the whole of ANWR, yes.
That is tiny, and its not gonna affect the huge ANWR is any way.
Good thing tho is, that 2000 acres of ANWR has proven oil reserves of a massive 15 billion barrels of oil(over $1.5 Trillion dollars worth of oil at least), enough to produce over 1 million barrels of oil a day for the next 30 years at least.
That is money we could be keeping in this country instead of sending it to our enemies. But thanks to the Demiocratic Party, obambi and Pelolsi, we are being forced to get that oil from Obabmbi's Islamic terrorist pals in iran instead.
So what?
At the time when the masses opposed miscegenation, they sure as heck didn't vote for goverments that supported miscegenation. The goverment is there to do what the people who put them in power want, not to carry out the diktats of tiny minority of axtreme left wing nuts.
Further, even the black radicals of the civil rights movement of the 60's, have protested vehemently agianst this patetic, weasely attempt by the homosexual mafia, to somehow try and equate homosexuality with the civil rights movement of the 60's. Its utter rubbish."
@ Perry_Clease : "California, where I am a resident, is voting on same sex marriage this November. The polls show that it will probably pass. "
FACT: So far, EVERY SINGLE gay marriage ballot proposal, in every single state in the Union, where's its been put on ballot, has FAiLED woefully.
Americans by the millions have rejected gay marriage out of hand.
I have very little doubt, if this person is in office, we are in for a lot more problems than what Bush and Cheney had done to America. Cheney is smart. Palin is a dumb nut who has limited science knowledge. A creationist believer who goes around preaching the greatness of Creationism and when confront with questions about the science of birth, she has very little knowledge beyond her so many babies she gave birth to. I trust the work of academic excellence who documented hundreds of millions of birth than from one person's personal encounter of life -- Palin.
To Palin who lack quantum mechanic education should read up on the idea of quantum entanglement. It is not whether God exist or not exist. It is God exist and does not exist. That's what so stupid about Palin and the Conservative, they don't have a good education to understand science has progressed to the point that we can answer both ways to the same question that forces one answer.
Of course, I wouldn't blame her and the mass she tries to persuade because most of them are ignorant who wouldn't spend a year to learn quantum mechanic. Stupidity is plentiful and it is dangerous when we have an advanced society with stupid people in power. It will ruin advanced society, just like how Bush has ruined for US.
At least those who believed the earth was flat could be excused of their ignorance because of their limited knowledge of the world at that time. How can pro-abortion advocates continue to claim superiority in science, when they get the most simple question dead wrong?
For that there is no excuse! While quantum mechanics is quite impressive albeit difficult to observe for the average person, every pregnancy offers a chance for easy observation of life and ultimately truth concerning one scientific question. The issue is not solely scientific, but inevitably evokes the moral concerns involved.
When faced with the moral truth many despair at the thought that our culture is daily murdering its young, so we pretend it isn't so, and try to suspend scientific truth by rationalizing something that can not be rationalized or justified. Our rationalizations do not make us any less cupable as a people.
- by Kwasiowusu August 31, 2008 9:29 PM PDT
- @humanssssss : "There's a mis-characterization of facts spew by Conservative who forgot to mention that Alaska is the largest state but with closest to the fewest population of any state"
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- by crazynexus September 1, 2008 8:31 AM PDT
- Kwasiowusu: Stop being a shill and spinning facts.
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Showing 1 of 3 pages (94 Comments)Nope.
Its the Democratic Paty that is doing the mischaracterization here.
FACT: Alaska IS the biggest state by far in this country. No "buts" or "if'" about it.
Further, Alaska does NOT have the smallest population in this country.
Further, Alska currently has more of the vital oil reserves that this country needs than any othet state in the union, if yoiu add in the huge reserves at ANWR to the already considerable amounts of oil Alaska produces and tramsports through the alsakan pipeline.
Plus Alaska has the biggest nature rserves by far in this country. ANWR alone is bigger than plenty of states in mainland America.
Who is the Governor that is effectively managing all these huge resources? Governor Sarah Palin.
Sarah Plain has vastly more executive experience, of actually running a goverment, than Obambi has ever had in his life. it's not even close.
Alaska doesn't have the smallest population in the US, that is true. Wyoming, N. Dakota, and Vermont have smaller. Look at the population DENSITY though. Alaska has 0.45 people per square mile, whereas Vermont has 26 per square mile.
And as for the oil, stop listening to Republicans and oil companies. ANWR, according to the EIA, would do little to decrease dependence on foreign oil. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4542853/ Go read the study! At peak production in 2025, it'll produce roughly 800,000 barrels per day. US currently consumes 21 million per day. Not exactly a major dent now, is it?