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) -- Agents from the FBI and Internal Revenue Service on Monday searched the home of U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, an official said.

Investigators arrived at the Republican senator's home in Girdwood shortly before 2:30 p.m. Alaska time, said Dave Heller, FBI assistant special agent.

Heller said he could not comment on the nature of the investigation.

The Justice Department has been looking into the seven-term senator's relationship with a wealthy contractor as part of a public corruption investigation


Source (http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/30/lawmaker.raid.ap/index.html)

Isolated incident? Part of a systematic scheme of corruption? Discuss

Innocent until proven guilty. This senator got caught, and he pays the price. Other senators and likewise employed individuals shouldn't be judged based on the actions of one.

However, given the government's current track record, I'd assume they're all corrupt. :)

I can't stand Ted Stevens. I'm glad his house was raided. I hope his crimes and corruption have finally caught up with him, and he is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Someone I know in RL will be giddy at this news.

Utterly biased OP? Discuss.

how, precisely, is it biased? The bulk of the thread is copied word for word from CNN. Is there any part of the thread that is embellished or otherwise untrue?

Utterly biased OP? Discuss.

Funny, raid an ordinary citizen's place - yes, they can talk about details.
Raid a politicians place, and you can't talk about it.

Yes, please, throw this ignorant, corrupt pile in jail. And tell him to take his series of tubes with him!

Source (http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/30/lawmaker.raid.ap/index.html)

Isolated incident? Part of a systematic scheme of corruption? Discuss
Scheme of corruption that runs in both parties. Though, Stevens was the likeliest candidate I've seen in a while for "undisclosed earning".
Utterly biased OP? Discuss.

No. More of a knee-jerk reaction on your part, I think.

Contractor? I'd have thunk he got his loot from the telecoms.

Source (http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/30/lawmaker.raid.ap/index.html)

Isolated incident? Part of a systematic scheme of corruption? Discuss

Well, it's his fault he's stupid. "Series of tubes", anyone?

Damn you for getting it first.

Maybe he'll be arrested and stuff and have to resign, the jerkoff.

Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, I got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.

[...] They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

Scheme of corruption that runs in both parties. Though, Stevens was the likeliest candidate I've seen in a while for "undisclosed earning".


Don't forget what a vile little man he is.

Damn you for getting it first.

Maybe he'll be arrested and stuff and have to resign, the jerkoff.I'll never understand how a rep can stand up and deliver such utterly disjointed babble, without getting rushed off by paramedics. I mean, you'd think the guy was suffering week long dehydration or something. Not one fucking sentence made sense, not even the syntax.

But no, Zombie Ted gets to continue making decisions, possibly affecting the whole world, despite being so far gone he'd probably fail to be considered of sound mind in a courtroom.

US politics never ceases to amaze, unfortunately.

Shocking. Shocking, I tell you! And it's not like the Dems are any better, they just seem to be able to cover their tracks better. A wise man once said, "Unless you can drink their booze,smoke their cigars, sleep with their women and still vote against them in the morning, you don't deserve to be a politician."

points and laughs :confused:

or some thing

Damn you for getting it first.

Maybe he'll be arrested and stuff and have to resign, the jerkoff.

The Congress will do the samething they are doing for a certain LA Congressman.

I hope it's for downloading porn - that would be closure.

I really hope they had a warrant to do that raid, and that no property was damaged. Ted Stevens after all does have rights against unlawful search and seizure, just like any other American.

...

I hope they found his internet. I'm expecting a huge room with lots of tubes. :D

Source (http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/30/lawmaker.raid.ap/index.html)

Isolated incident? Part of a systematic scheme of corruption? Discuss

Wahahaha!!!!!

:D :D :D

Yup, that prick had it coming, oh yes, oh yes.

Ted "The Hulk" Stevens might end up Ted "The Bitch" Stevens. And his son, too.
:)

I can't stand Ted Stevens. I'm glad his house was raided. I hope his crimes and corruption have finally caught up with him, and he is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Someone I know in RL will be giddy at this news.Besides me?

Don't forget what a vile little man he is.

I second that with a seal of blood.

I'll never understand how a rep can stand up and deliver such utterly disjointed babble, without getting rushed off by paramedics. I mean, you'd think the guy was suffering week long dehydration or something. Not one fucking sentence made sense, not even the syntax.

But no, Zombie Ted gets to continue making decisions, possibly affecting the whole world, despite being so far gone he'd probably fail to be considered of sound mind in a courtroom.
And here's the rub.
He made public statements about how Alaskans should keep the republicans in office, because he couldn't promise any money to anyone in our state if "the democrats" got in control ... funny thing being, he was already out of his position as head of appropriations when he was campaigning for them. Not funny thing being, anyway.
And when he lost that position and was still bitching about how screwed up our government is for not allowing drilling in ANWR, he went on his tirade about how he'd been working on it for so long that he was clinically depressed over not getting it done. Almost immediately, a staff member or two took him aside from the mic (yes, the MIC) and informed him that it wasn't very clever to start making your constituents doubt your soundness of mind while you still steer projects and literally millions and/or billions of dollars into things that have somewhat of your legacy attached to them. Then, when pressed, he corrected himself somewhat and admitted that he hadn't ACTUALLY undergone any treatment whatsoever for "clinical depression", and he hadn't, of course, even been diagnosed with it. It was just another of his pathetic pleas to peoples' insecurities. Just like his fucking Hulk tie he wears when he gets his panties knotted and feels like taking everyone on, and talking about "tubes" and such .... perhaps he meant his colon.

Fuck him, and fuck his arsehole son.

I had a thread about it some time back.

Besides me?

Yes. I know RL people who have had the 'pleasure' of dealing with him too. Words can't begin...

Anyway, a good day. :)

Yes. I know RL people who have had the 'pleasure' of dealing with him too. Words can't begin...

Anyway, a good day. :)
Although it's not a HUGE surprise here, since this is a libertarian/republican state, i occasional hear celebratory gunfire outside.
At least, i think that's what it is. Or maybe neighbors stepping on cockroaches.

I'm really sad about this. Ted Stevens was terrific entertainment.

We was curropt for years and looted the taxpayer for pork projects, and Teddy Stevens caught thank god it was coming to get him sometime. Next, one probadly be some uppity Democrat hahaha, and the fillth goes both ways.:rolleyes:

I'm really sad about this. Ted Stevens was terrific entertainment.

Like the ol' Coot-Off?
:D

It's more entertaining if you don't have to deal with his consequences.

For example, he doesn't even have the common decency to garrotte himself with a serpentine belt BEFORE having our international airport named after him.

We was curropt for years and looted the taxpayer for pork projects, and Teddy Stevens caught thank god it was coming to get him sometime. Next, one probadly be some uppity Democrat hahaha, and the fillth goes both ways.:rolleyes:

I'm in ur govment, curropting ur pork projects.

I'm in ur govment, curropting ur pork projects.

Hey, where's the cat image that comes with that text?













Oh, right .... white image.

Like the ol' Coot-Off?
:D

It's more entertaining if you don't have to deal with his consequences.

For example, he doesn't even have the common decency to garrotte himself with a serpentine belt BEFORE having our international airport named after him.

Oh, he's a U.S. Senator. Everyone has to deal with his consequences. Get rid of him, and we'll likely be dealing with the same consequences from some guy who's not half as much fun.

(But yeah, the crazy old man had it coming.)

how, precisely, is it biased? The bulk of the thread is copied word for word from CNN. Is there any part of the thread that is embellished or otherwise untrue?

It is biased because it is from CNN.

It is biased because it is from CNN.

Oh yeah, as well as ...:
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/0-2&fp=46b00598ba0b5b03&ei=eQ-wRoX1G5-6qwOX-tH4Bw&url=http%3A//www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/31/ap3973668.html&cid=1118738646
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/2-0&fp=46b00598ba0b5b03&ei=eQ-wRoX1G5-6qwOX-tH4Bw&url=http%3A//blog.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2007/07/stevens_raid_may_boost_ethics.html&cid=1118638168
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/0-3&fp=46b00598ba0b5b03&ei=eQ-wRoX1G5-6qwOX-tH4Bw&url=http%3A//www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml%3Fxml%3D/news/2007/08/01/wsenator101.xml&cid=1118738646

Better yet:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0707/5194.html
There's never exactly a convenient time to have one's house raided by federal agents. But for Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) the impolitic timing Tuesday was exquisite: One day after the feds rummaged through his property on a corruption probe, he threatened to try to kill an ethics reform package.

Cracking down on private gifts to lawmakers, Stevens warned colleagues, would make it more expensive for him to travel the vast interior of Alaska on private jets.

Biased, eh? All of 'em?
Even his own statements and actions?

Yeah fuck him, and fuck his asshole son.

It is biased because it is from CNN.

I think we all know that CNN is center-right, but I think that's the American equivalent of center... at least within the standard deviation.

well my father is not a wise man, but he did come up with this gem.

"The only thing that can lick its own ass better than a dog is a senator."

Shocking. Shocking, I tell you! And it's not like the Dems are any better, they just seem to be able to cover their tracks better. A wise man once said, "Unless you can drink their booze,smoke their cigars, sleep with their women and still vote against them in the morning, you don't deserve to be a politician."
I think it's more likely that the Democrats haven't had much in the way of opportunity to be corrupt in the last 12 years. The Republicans, especially in the House, were very effective at shutting the Democrats out of the action--like with the K Street Project. I'm not saying that Democrats are more ethical than Republicans--just that their chances for larceny have been fewer in recent years, and so they look cleaner for the moment. Partisan as I am, I don't expect it to last.

It is biased because it is from CNN.
I can translate it to FOX News language if you like.

I can translate it to FOX News language if you like.

Ted Stevens (D-Alaska)

Done. ;)

Ted Stevens (D-Alaska)

Done. ;)

I remember reading about Foley and caught that in a FN vid.