Re: [ga] ICANN staff researching my political stance onObama? hahaha

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Karl and all,

  I can't immagine why any ICANN employee or staff member
would want of feel a need to research George or anyone else
that has no interest in working for ICANN and ICANN wouldn't
want to hire anyway.  As to Georges or anyone elses interest
political or otherwise in the President-elect Obama, why not just
ask the guy?

  BTW, I did not vote for Obama, but our members strived mightely
to get him elected, but was not their first choice.  Yet I disagree
to a degree with your evaluation of Obama, and do not know now
how well he will perform as president.  After all he hasn't even taken
office yet.  My sense of the President-elect is that he is a thoughtful
and down to earth fellow with a centrist view overall.  I hope he
governes that way.  I do know Rham E. and a Tom D. a bit.  I
am however not a fan of Hilliary Clinton and am of the belief she
is not a good choice as Secretary of State, but am willing to give
her a chance regardless.

  On the whole, as an independant, I find both major political parties
largely and recently ( over the past 30 years ) irresponsible.  I also
have never had, and do not have now, any political loyalties and hope
to remain in that frame of mind.  A pox of both their houses, I often
say and think.

"Karl E. Peters" wrote:

>      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.    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 and knowing anyone's stand on political officials. Are they under
> contract to research for someone else? THAT would be interesting!-Karl
> E. Peters
>
>      -------- Original Message --------
>      Subject: [ga] ICANN staff researching my political stance on
>      Obama?
>      hahaha
>      From: George Kirikos <gkirikos@xxxxxxxxx>
>      Date: Fri, January 09, 2009 5:15 pm
>      To: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>      Hi folks,
>
>      I found this amusing log entry on my webserver logs:
>
>      192.0.39.151 - - [09/Jan/2009:15:37:51 -0500] "GET /
>      HTTP/1.1" 200 6654
>      
> "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=george+kirikos+obama&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=";
>
>      "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5)
>
>      Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5"
>
>      I guess the ICANN staffer at 192.0.39.151:
>
>      http://whois.domaintools.com/192.0.39.151
>
>      wlan39-151.mdr.icann.org
>
>      wonders how I feel about Obama? There weren't any real
>      matches (just
>      pages that had headings for other articles, or quotes of my
>      articles,
>      with stuff like Jeff Williams and a signature about Obama
>      from him, not
>      me). But if you really want to know, you just had to ask! He
>      seems like
>      a nice guy, and hopefully will turnaround the US economy,
>      although
>      raising taxes might not be the best approach. He's got a lot
>      of smart
>      people around him, like Warren Buffett, so hopefully they'll
>      steer him
>      in the right direction. Is this the "dirt" you were looking
>      for? Next
>      time use an anonymous proxy, moron.
>
>      It's a sign of bloated staff at ICANN, when they have such
>      free time to
>      try to research the political beliefs of people who are
>      genuinely
>      trying to improve policies (people who are not even from the
>      USA! next
>      thing you'll know, they'll be analyzing my views on Prime
>      Minister
>      Harper!), instead of spending their time improving their
>      work.
>
>      How many others who posted negatively about new gTLDs are
>      being
>      researched by ICANN staff? Are they researching DOC, NTIA
>      and DOJ
>      staffers, to attempt to undermine their comments in
>      Washington, D.C.?
>      ICANN does pay for lobbying in Washington, if you read their
>      Form 990.
>      $240,000 in 2006-2007, according to page 16 of the PDF at:
>
>      http://www.icann.org/en/financials/tax/us/fy-2007-form-990
>      pdf
>
>      Are they researching employees of Microsoft who were against
>      new gTLDs
>      to know how they feel about Obama? And staff at other large
>      companies?
>
>      I'm honoured to be considered such a "threat" to ICANN, that
>      they care
>      so much to attempt to analyze my thoughts on Obama. Kieren
>      would have
>      you believe my opinion doesn't count for anything, but it
>      sure does
>      seem to matter to someone at ICANN....
>
>      Sincerely,
>
>      George Kirikos
>      http://www.leap.com/
>
>
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