Sen. Ted "Tubes" Stevens Is Indicted 553
Many readers are letting us know about the indictment of Sen. Ted Stevens on seven counts of making false statements on his financial disclosure forms. We discussed the raid on the senator's house a while back. Everyone's favorite technologically challenged senator is the longest-serving Republican in the history of the upper house. An Alaskan paper gives deep background on the probe that has ensnared Stevens and a number of other Alaska political figures.
tee-hee (Score:5, Funny)
There's a joke here about federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison and clogged tubes but I'm just going to savor the indictment instead.
Down the tubes.. (Score:5, Funny)
It's a house, that you can add things to...apparently for free.
Well, there goes another political career... (Score:5, Funny)
Guess I'll have to cancel the trip... (Score:4, Funny)
AHHH No more bridges to no where. I think I am going to cry. I wanted to visit that uninhabitabed ice berg in alaska.
Re:tee-hee (Score:5, Funny)
Tubes Stevens = Ranking member of the Science cte. (Score:3, Funny)
Yep. crazy.
Re:tee-hee (Score:5, Funny)
At the moment it's only his finances that are being probed.
Tubes dance mix (Score:5, Funny)
Enjoy:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_cZC67wXUTs [youtube.com]
Re:Series of Tubes (Score:2, Funny)
You are absolutely right.
He also was correct when he said people were clogging the tubes and keeping him from receiving the internets being sent to him.
Re:Well, there goes another political career... (Score:3, Funny)
I dunno about down the career down the drain...The man is like 82...it's more like a forced retirement, with a free retirement home security package!
Re:And watch the "discussion" devolve... (Score:2, Funny)
There's two parties?? When did that happen?
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Re:tee-hee (Score:5, Funny)
the senator will be learning a new line;
You've got Male!
Re:tee-hee (Score:1, Funny)
You forgot to mention that you have a client there and that he said the trick is to either kick someone's ass the first day or become someone's bitch.
Re:Guess I'll have to cancel the trip... (Score:4, Funny)
Don't straw man me - I never said bridges to nowhere weren't pork. You and I are 100% on the same page there. But my questions remain unanswered - what do we do about national parks, interstate trails & parks, the D.C.?
And our own disagreement brings another question to mind: how do we see determine which projects are legitimate expenses for government and which are "simply a luxury?" Maybe we should choose some group of people to represent us and vote on it...
Re:tee-hee (Score:5, Funny)
Re:tee-hee (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Series of Tubes (Score:5, Funny)
He's an 80+ year old Senator
Age is not an automatic criteria for cluelessness
You ignored the part about him being a Senator
Re:Series of Tubes (Score:5, Funny)
You also call a computer a "box", but I doubt anyone would think a shoebox can serve the same purpose, or would compare it with one when it comes to getting math problems solved.
Jargon doesn't have to be accurate. It rarely is. How often do you have to search for your data that you put on a "heap" (provided you can code, that is)? How often do you kick your system while you "boot" it? Ever tried to bend or even fold a 3.5" "floppy disc"? Have you ever made out with a port because it's got a female connector? Do you have to keep your cat away from your "mouse"? Ever unlocked your door with something you got from a "keyboard"?
The audience is encouraged to come up with worse jargon abuse.
MOD PARENT UP! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:tee-hee (Score:5, Funny)
His first name is "The" and his last name is "People".
Aww, aren't you cute. You actually believe that, don't you. That's just precious.
Uh-oh, "hypocrisy" (Score:5, Funny)
There is nothing particularly hypocritical in denouncing, what you think is an awful idea, while milking it for as long as it is forced upon you anyway.
Can we blame him? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:tee-hee (Score:1, Funny)
Unsolicited male in his tubes?
So that's why he was so adamant about closing the anal log hole.
Re:Nobody (Score:5, Funny)
McCain and Stevens have been opposing each other on key issues...
Ah yes, the Geritol "Tastes great/Less Filling" debate.
Here's hoping it pushes Alaska over the edge (Score:3, Funny)
Re:As a lifelong Alaskan... (Score:3, Funny)
As a fellow Alaskan, and newly-registered Democrat, I will bet you real dollars that the scenario you described doesn't happen. Alaskans would sooner vote for Kim Il Sung than for a Democrat. Weren't you in the state for Lisa Murkowski's election? I'm just sayin'.