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FBI, IRS Raid Home of Sen. Ted Stevens

Posted by kdawson on from the longest-serving-republican dept.

A while back we discussed the corruption investigation aimed at Alaska Sen. Ted "series of tubes" Stevens. A number of readers sent us word that the home of Sen. Stevens was raided earlier today by agents of the FBI and the IRS. The focus of the raid was a remodeling project at Stevens's home and the involvement of VECO, an oil company.

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  1. Power corrupts by The+AtomicPunk · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... so vote for Ron Paul, who will help reduce the government's power. :)

  2. That's why its called Prison... by tjstork · · Score: -1, Troll

    Jeez, what do you want in Prison, Club Med? I'm still wondering why convicts get more than 1000 calories a day.

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  3. Republicans by Doc+Ruby · · Score: -1, Troll

    Republican. From a state with a primarily oil economy.

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    1. Re:Republicans by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Troll

      Thanks for the Republican attempt at humor. That's perceptive of me, too, right?

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    2. Re:Republicans by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Troll

      How does a (yet another) Republican getting caught show "both sides" are corrupt? Unless of course you're a Republican, in which case everything bad about Republicans is true of everyone, and nothing good is true of anyone else.

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    3. Re:Republicans by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Troll

      So a single current corrupt Democrat, actually from several years ago, who hasn't been shown to be part of any conspiracy with any other Democrats, is how this Republican getting caught in a Republican conspiracy along with the endless ranks of other current Republican conspiracies shows "Democrats are just as bad"?

      I know Republicans (and the independents who love them) skipped math class to score coke, but you do know that 0.1 < 1 + 5 + 2 + 1, right? Just because there are two sides to the comparison doesn't make them equal.

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    4. Re:Republicans by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Troll

      Anonymous Republican Coward doesn't know that 0.1 < 1 + 5 + 2 + 1 . Redundican.

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  4. Re:mod this shit down by HomelessInLaJolla · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah. There's no proof the FBI actually raided dude's house, either.

    Oh look. You managed to get the mods to mod the original post down. Aren't you special.

    Who gives a shit? You go back live under your rock.

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  5. When will /. turn on Dianne Feinstein? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You know, the Senator who was forced to resign from the Military Appropriations Subcommittee because she was caught red-handed steering billions of dollars of work to a company or two that her husband owns?

    Oh, wait. Senator Feinstein has a "D" after her name. So the brain-damaged /. sheep give her a pass. Just like the Washington Post did.

    But oh, boy, let any politician with the dreaded "R" after their name even get accused of anything, and the /. dopes jump all over it.

    I just want to know one thing - what party did that guy with bribe money in his freezer belong to?

  6. Re:News for Nerds? by the+not-troll · · Score: 0, Troll
    Well, as the GP doesn't seem to enumerate the scandals, let me:

    1. He was involved in the scandal of being accused of having claimed to have invented the internet - which no self-respecting Republican would ever do.
    2. He was involved in the scandal of being associated with a president who had a blow job - which is something no Republican would ever do.
    3. He was involved in the scandal of talking of the scam that is global warming, which does take so little courage due to being a majority position that 90% of the USians don't believe in it, just to spite those arrogant scientists - which is something no Republican would ever do.
    4. He was involved in the scandal of being consistently hypocritical by e.g. flying with a private jet to his talks about protecting the environment, and doesn't ever stand up to his ethical faults - which is something no Republican would ever do.
    5. He was involved in the scandal of making phone calls from his official residence - which is something no Republican would ever do.
    6. He was involved in the scandal of taking drugs - which is something no Republican would ever do.


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  7. Re:Conspiracy nutjob Ron Paul was Re:Power corrupt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    the media spins him as some psycho conspiracy nut

    Government can only get so big, and so deeply entangled in mass media, before mass media transforms into a front-end for government propaganda.

    Ever notice how, even though the US government has been slaughtering innocent Iraqi civilians on a regular basis for the past 5 years, the media almost never reports on it?