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Maybe we should indict them all on corruption charges and try with a fresh batchOriginally posted by Wiglaf
This is because the FBI is a bunch of nerds who don't like their internets being dicked off as a series of tubes on national TV...this kind of retaliation belongs on a fourth grade playground. Can anyone really honestly say that it matters if Veco bought a few votes? Corruption is inherent to every political system, may the best capitalist win. If you think every other senator isn't being sucked off by every corporation every day in one gigantic nerd gangbang then you haven't opened a civics textbook lately.
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Only if the guilty
are executed by slow torture as an example to the fresh batch first.Originally posted by Victor Galis
Maybe we should indict them all on corruption charges and try with a fresh batch.
“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
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Alaskans have an existential crisis now that they face the possibility of not having free money all the time: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=topnews"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Clearly they're not very good at this if the indictment of a single politician will shut off the free money tap.Originally posted by Asher
Alaskans have an existential crisis now that they face the possibility of not having free money all the time: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=topnews"The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."
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From that article:Originally posted by Asher
Alaskans have an existential crisis now that they face the possibility of not having free money all the time: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=topnews
"There's no good that will come of this," said Jim Whitaker, a Republican who left the state legislature to combat the corrupt oil services company whose taint threatens to bring down Stevens.
Color me surprised that another Republican from Alaska facing corruption charges doesn't like the idea of indicting corrupt politicians.
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Wow, I missed the "series of tubes" thing entirely. After catching on to it today and reading this beauty on Wikipedia:
"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 [Tuesday]. 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 that 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."
Well, after that beautiful speech, I say we need to preserve Ted Stevens as a national treasure. Not that he should keep his Senate job--not with the power to cast votes, anyway. Perhaps he could remain a sort of honorary schlep who delivers inspiring speeches but doesn't do anything?Comment
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He just requested a trial a month and a half before the election (which, I'm sure, will exonerate him).
That ought to make for decent tv.
The Republicans are so ****ed.
Five Senate seats are already in the bag.
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You need to WATCH and LISTEN to the delivery of the speech. It makes it way better.Originally posted by Elok
Wow, I missed the "series of tubes" thing entirely. After catching on to it today and reading this beauty on Wikipedia:
"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 [Tuesday]. 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 that 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."
Well, after that beautiful speech, I say we need to preserve Ted Stevens as a national treasure. Not that he should keep his Senate job--not with the power to cast votes, anyway. Perhaps he could remain a sort of honorary schlep who delivers inspiring speeches but doesn't do anything?"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Did you read the sentence you postedOriginally posted by Oerdin
From that article:
Color me surprised that another Republican from Alaska facing corruption charges doesn't like the idea of indicting corrupt politicians.
He left office to FIGHT oil company-related corruption... 
There's also at least one democrat in that article with the same comment, essentially...<Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
I like your SNOOPY POSTER! - While you Wait quote.Comment
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Alas, my computer lacks sound and our connection still isn't much better than dial-up. I'll add that to my big wish list.Comment
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"To fight oil company corruption" while not in office? Also that one Democrat is probably saying the same thing, I.E. "Sure he's corrupt but we all are".Originally posted by snoopy369
Did you read the sentence you posted He left office to FIGHT oil company-related corruption...
There's also at least one democrat in that article with the same comment, essentially...
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Yu have obviously not been to Alaska.Originally posted by Ramo
Five Senate seats are already in the bag.
Our other congress person is republican Lisa Murkowski... appointed via loophole by her father, governor Murkowski. When she finally came up for an actual election 2 years later, she still beat the democratic candidate by a large margin.Comment
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Brain damaged people who keep voting for the same party no matter what they do.
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Oerdin, did you read that article Asher posted? Ted Stevens is responsible for like a fifth of the Alaskan economy from all the unwarranted cash he brings home to the ice-ball. From their perspective, taking a massive home improvement, etc. is insignificant compared to his bringing home the bacon. I bet whoever replaces Stevens as the GOP candidate runs on an "I will abuse the hell out of my office for you" platform.Comment
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