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RE: [ga] ICANN staff researching my political stance on Obama? hahaha

  • To: "George Kirikos" <gkirikos@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: RE: [ga] ICANN staff researching my political stance on Obama? hahaha
  • From: "Karl E. Peters" <tlda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:47:44 -0700

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<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;My hearty congratulations to you on reaching such 
a position of respect!!! (Maybe not honor, but certainly respect!) No one would 
have to do any research to know where I stand on Obama! Even if he does prove 
he is constitutionally allowed to take office, something he insists in not 
necessary, I have a hard time respecting someone with such low regard for the 
constitution of the country he proposes to lead, often remarking that he feels 
it is more like guidelines and not really law.&nbsp;</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Anyone at ICANN wanting to know more, just let me 
know!!! I could go on for a while! In exchange, I would like to know why they 
care... They have no personal (legal) benefit from digging for&nbsp;and knowing 
anyone's stand on political officials. Are they under contract to research for 
someone else?&nbsp;THAT would be interesting!</div>
<div>-Karl E. Peters</div>
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<div   >-------- Original Message --------<BR>Subject: [ga] ICANN staff 
researching my political stance on Obama?<BR>hahaha<BR>From: George Kirikos 
&lt;gkirikos@xxxxxxxxx&gt;<BR>Date: Fri, January 09, 2009 5:15 pm<BR>To: 
ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<BR><BR><BR>Hi folks,<BR><BR>I found this amusing log entry on 
my webserver logs:<BR><BR>192.0.39.151 - - [09/Jan/2009:15:37:51 -0500] "GET / 
HTTP/1.1" 200 6654<BR>"<a 
href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=george+kirikos+obama&amp;btnG=Google+Search&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=";
 target=_blank 
mce_href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=george+kirikos+obama&amp;btnG=Google+Search&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=";>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=george+kirikos+obama&amp;btnG=Google+Search&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=</a>"<BR>"Mozilla/5.0
 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5)<BR>Gecko/2008120122 
Firefox/3.0.5"<BR><BR>I guess the ICANN staffer at 192.0.39.151:<BR><BR><a 
href="http://whois.domaintools.com/192.0.39.151"; target=_blank 
mce_href="http://whois.domaintools.com/192.0.39.151";>http://whois.domaintools.com/192.0.39.151</a><BR><BR>wlan39-151.mdr.icann.org<BR><BR>wonders
 how I feel about Obama? There weren't any real matches (just<BR>pages that had 
headings for other articles, or quotes of my articles,<BR>with stuff like Jeff 
Williams and a signature about Obama from him, not<BR>me). But if you really 
want to know, you just had to ask! He seems like<BR>a nice guy, and hopefully 
will turnaround the US economy, although<BR>raising taxes might not be the best 
approach. He's got a lot of smart<BR>people around him, like Warren Buffett, so 
hopefully they'll steer him<BR>in the right direction. Is this the "dirt" you 
were looking for? Next<BR>time use an anonymous proxy, moron.<BR><BR>It's a 
sign of bloated staff at ICANN, when they have such free time to<BR>try to 
research the political beliefs of people who are genuinely<BR>trying to improve 
policies (people who are not even from the USA! next<BR>thing you'll know, 
they'll be analyzing my views on Prime Minister<BR>Harper!), instead of 
spending their time improving their work.<BR><BR>How many others who posted 
negatively about new gTLDs are being<BR>researched by ICANN staff? Are they 
researching DOC, NTIA and DOJ<BR>staffers, to attempt to undermine their 
comments in Washington, D.C.?<BR>ICANN does pay for lobbying in Washington, if 
you read their Form 990.<BR>$240,000 in 2006-2007, according to page 16 of the 
PDF at:<BR><BR><a 
href="http://www.icann.org/en/financials/tax/us/fy-2007-form-990.pdf"; 
target=_blank 
mce_href="http://www.icann.org/en/financials/tax/us/fy-2007-form-990.pdf";>http://www.icann.org/en/financials/tax/us/fy-2007-form-990.pdf</a><BR><BR>Are
 they researching employees of Microsoft who were against new gTLDs<BR>to know 
how they feel about Obama? And staff at other large companies?<BR><BR>I'm 
honoured to be considered such a "threat" to ICANN, that they care<BR>so much 
to attempt to analyze my thoughts on Obama. Kieren would have<BR>you believe my 
opinion doesn't count for anything, but it sure does<BR>seem to matter to 
someone at ICANN....<BR><BR>Sincerely,<BR><BR>George Kirikos<BR><a 
href="http://www.leap.com/"; target=_blank 
mce_href="http://www.leap.com/";>http://www.leap.com/</a><BR><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></span></body></html>



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