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Ted Stevens and Sean O'Keefe In Plane Crash

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the end-of-the-tubes dept.

necro81 writes "The NY Times is reporting that former Senator Ted Stevens was aboard a small plane with eight others that crashed in remote southwest Alaska Monday night. Some news outlets are reporting that he died, along with at least four others. Meanwhile, the North American CEO of aerospace firm EADS and former NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe was was also reported in the crash. Rescue crews from the Alaska Air National Guard reached the site about ten hours after the initial crash."

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  1. GOOD RIDDENCE OL TEDDY BOY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So my account is on the verge of excellent karma. I'm modded from 1 to 2 and go to excellent. I am then modded up to 5 (no funny involved) and modded down to 4, and my karma goes to good. Modded back to 5, it is STILL at good. What is the deal here?
     
    So I feel like trolling to waste some modpoints. Good riddence, Ted Stevens, you douche of a political hack! I can't stand crooks.
     
    Captcha: infamous

    1. Re:GOOD RIDDENCE OL TEDDY BOY by HungryHobo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      slashdot weights downmods higher than upmods?

      It's bolocks anyway.
      A +5 is easy to get.

      The only ones I'm happy with are the posts which get both troll/overrated and insightful/informative mods.

      If nobody's disagreeing it's not really worth saying.

    2. Re:GOOD RIDDENCE OL TEDDY BOY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Happened three times: last week, yesterday, and today. I basically have five posts that were +5, and after the first post at +5, I had excellent karma. Either commander "pink" taco is picking on me, or they have *REALLY* messed up karma here. As a result, I'm kinda stuck with replying to the FP to keep it above terrible/bad/neutral just because someone disagrees with me or funny/overrated-es me.

  2. I helped jack off the horse by Rakshasa+Taisab · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Please don't capitalize words like 'plane crash' unless you're talking about a movie or something.

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    - These characters were randomly selected.
  3. Re:he JUST died by shiftless · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    amen and praise Jesus. that's all I can add to this epic and 100% true rant