Ok, I made that last part up, but I really hope it’s true. 

Michelle Malkin gets the story behind the hack, and it is absolutely fascinating (and frightening at the same) time, to say the least.

The offending alleged hacker was a guy called rubico, and he wrote to an anonymous board that was ground zero for this madness, explaining his actions and how he did it:

In the past couple days news had come to light about palin using a yahoo mail account, it was in news stories and such, a thread was started full of newf&*s trying to do something that would not get this off the ground, for the next 2 hours the acct was locked from password recovery presumably from all this bullsh%^ spamming.

after the password recovery was reenabled, it took seriously 45 mins on wikipedia and google to find the info, Birthday? 15 seconds on wikipedia, zip code? well she had always been from wasilla, and it only has 2 zip codes (thanks online postal service!)

the second was somewhat harder, the question was “where did you meet your spouse?” did some research, and apparently she had eloped with mister palin after college, if youll look on some of the screensh*&ts that I took and other fellow anon have so graciously put on photobucket you will see the google search for “palin eloped” or some such in one of the tabs.

I found out later though more research that they met at high school, so I did variations of that, high, high school, eventually hit on “Wasilla high” I promptly changed the password to popcorn and took a cold shower…

Seriously, that’s all it took.  Request Yahoo to send you password recovery, answer the personal questions right, and presto you can change the password and get access.  If the “hacker” has enough personal information about you, he can successfully answer the questions and bypass Yahoo’s fluffy security measures and do God only knows what to your account.  So really, the guy wasn’t even a hacker, just a clever, (albeit at the same time monumentally stupid) prankster who is now probably getting his face  phonebook-bashed in by the Secret Service even as we speak.

But the beautiful thing is, after all that, he found… nothing.

I read though the emails… ALL OF THEM… before I posted, and what I concluded was anticlimactic, there was nothing there, nothing incriminating, nothing that would derail her campaign as I had hoped, all I saw was personal stuff, some clerical stuff from when she was governor…. And pictures of her family

I then started a topic on /b/, peeps asked for pics or gtfo and I obliged, then it started to get big

Yeah, no kidding.  Dumbass.

Of course, this doesn’t stop the Palin Bigots from having a field day and questioning her intelligence because she uses Yahoo Mail for personal use and getting off on having her daughter’s cell and voicemail and whatnot.  Well dudes, I use Yahoo too, (in fact two Yahoo accounts), so um, F^&* you?

And really, I can’t imagine the courage it must have taken to go after somebody’s children and family like that.  Really now, you anonymous liberals are just a beacon of unparalleled bravery and valor.  Don’t agree with a woman’s politics?  Let’s attack the kids!  That’ll show them stupid hick Christians who didn’t have the sense to have abortions when they should have gotten them!

God I hate moonbat DailyKos sucking liberals.

Update: The “Hacker?”

God he even LOOKS like a dumbass. 

I recently came across a post from a blogger asking readers why everyone thought Schmuckabee (uhh, I mean Huckabee) was a conservative in name only. After contemplating the question for a minute or two, I wrote a somewhat lengthy comment that I thought was eloquent, to the point and profoundly expressed how I felt about the man. It took me over an hour to write, but once I get into my groove it’s hard to stop.

So what happens? Neigh on 60 comments go by without anyone mentioning a thing I said.

As the Cookie Monster might so aptly say:

Great, some of my best writing of the week, and it ends up on somebody else’s blog. Ah well, that’s enough of that then. I mean if my writing is going to be ignored and unappreciated, then gosh darnit all, it better be on my own turf, you feel me?

Anyway, here’s a copy of the comment I made on that site, highlighting my own personal case for why Huckabee should not be nominated (and no I’m not linking to the weenie’s site because his PR6 blog gets enough backlinks and traffic, thank you very much):

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I think Huckabee’s biggest problem is his take on immigration. He seems to think it’s the function of the U.S. government to coddle illegal immigrants in the same manner that Bush does. He also seems to show little concern for border security, and does not support using the military to help stem the tide of illegal immigration. At least in this regard, he’s just another Bush.

He also needs to stop wearing his Christianity on his sleeve. We’re not voting for a Christian leader here, we’re voting for a political one, and his mannerisms suggest that he seems to think Jesus Christ Himself sent him to win the Presidency. Attributing his current success to God might be to him an act of humility and a nod to divine providence, but to the rest of us it comes across as arrogant and closed minded. It’s akin to Pat Robertson proudly projecting a Bush landslide victory based on what God “laid on his heart.” How many of us though can really presume to know the mind of God?

This also creates an environment where he could easily accuse anyone of disagreeing with his policies as either being un-Christian or racist, if he hasn’t done so already. He also has a tendency to shoot from the hip without considering all the facts at hand (such as his initial support in lifting the Cuban embargo.)

Ultimately, I think what turns many conservatives off about Huckabee is not so much that some feel he’s the GOP version of Jimmy Carter, but also that he’s a Bush clone. His conservative principles may be sound but are still largely untested in several key areas, appearing a mile wide but only an inch deep, and where he vaults into enacting or supporting policies suspiciously liberal in nature, this is explained away by him having to be a pragmatist. Well Bush was a pragmatist too, and when it came time for him to put his own proclaimed conservatism to the test, he failed miserably.

While Huckabee might seek to limit government in some fashion in accordance to conservatism, it also seems to clear that he wants to expand it as well, and in accordance with nothing more than his own personal Christian beliefs. He wants to take back this nation for Christ? No, what he should be fighting for is taking back this nation for the PEOPLE. That takes a political mind which understands that government, in order for it to serve the people’s interest, must first learn to get out of their way. It recognizes that the government’s function is to enforce the law, not promote Christian charity. Huckabee’s heart might be in the right place, but his mind isn’t.

I say all this by the way as a conservative Evangelical Christian who believes Huckabee does not qualify to be our President.

I’m in a slightly better mood today…. no I’m not. Ah well.

I signed up for Facebook after getting an email from them indicating that open registration was now allowed. As much as I hate social networking sites, (especially Myspace), Facebook though seemed far more sophisticated to me, sporting a MUCH cleaner look than that other networking site that shall not be named again. So I figured what the hay, and made the plunge. There are many networks and groups you can join, so I decided to try my local network to see if there were any likeminded hot looking girls that I could discreetly add to my list of friends.

There were plenty of them in my area… that is, of course, until I filtered the results. You can filter results in different ways, including political affiliations, so the first thing I did was filter the results to show only “very conservative” girls.

No matches. NONE. Good God.

So I tried just “conservative” and got back 11 hits… out of what had to be well over 1000 girls in the same network. Man did I pick the wrong political ideology to follow. It’s not that I have anything against liberals (other than the fact that I can’t stand them), but I do think whoever I hook up with ought to be on the same wavelength that I’m on, or at least understand where I’m coming from.

To be sure, there have been many times where I wished I had been a liberal atheist instead. My goodness, I’d have so many options I wouldn’t know where to begin. I’ve thought of pretending, but I can’t do it without looking transparent. It’d be obvious that I didn’t believe the liberal nonsense I’d be spouting, just so I could impress some girl. Hell I can’t even stomach saying the name “Clinton” without spitting. It’s just not who I am. And unfortunately for me, just by being who I truly am, that is, a conservative Christian, the dating pool has been reduced to a mere puddle.

As if to reinforce this point, last night I took the profile test for eHarmony… again. I don’t know why I keep going back to them, other than that I must be a real glutton for punishment, but having nothing else to do I wanted to see if I could finally get a personality profile that for once might be accurate. I answered the questions as best as I could, and got back a profile that wasn’t totally off the mark (but not much close to it either). I did think it was VERY accurate however when it described those ideal qualities that would make a match perfect for me.

After I finished the test, eHarmony did a search for matches…

“We have found no matches for you at this time.”

Yep, somebody up there is definitely having a lot of fun at my expense. If only I had a large family, then I could simply do what all the other red state Christians do: just marry a cousin of mine.