FBI, IRS Raid Home of Sen. Ted Stevens

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.

You explain technology to the masses...

[Anonymous Coward]

...and this is the thanks you get.

Hey Ted

[Cracked Pottery]

Just think of a men's Federal prison as a bunch of tubes.

Taxes

[Saint Stephen]

People in Alaksa don't pay taxes. The government PAYS people that live in Alaksa to live there. I'm moving to Alaksa, along with all the other losers.

I don't think I'll make it as far as Alaksa. Probably stop in British Columbia.

He's the victim.

[a_nonamiss]

You can't blame Ted Stevens here. If his understanding of federal corruption laws is anything like his understanding of Net Neutrality, he probably thought all those free upgrades to his house were perfectly legal.

/sarcasm

Conspiracy nutjob Ron Paul was Re:Power corrupts

[rubies]

Ron Paul? And hand power to the conspiracy nuts? That sounds like a great idea.

It's not a truck! ...

[boster]

... It's a series of frauds!

Re:You explain technology to the masses...

[Vulva R. Thompson, P]

Yeah, a perfectly good career down the tubes.

Burn in hell, Joe Sixpack.

Re:Taxes

[Anonymous Coward]

The government doesn't "pay" us to live here (I live in Juneau, Alaska). The people receive a portion of the proceeds from the exploitation of our primary natural resource, oil; which is only fair, considering it's our resource.

But as an Inuit, don't you get upset that the other Americans call it "their" resource?

Re:The same man...

[Frumious Wombat]

Hey! Confusion is a quite relevant state.

Re:Please don't joke about prison ass-rape.

[arashi no garou]

Prison sex is just like other forms of rape: It's reprehensible, it's disgusting, it's downright wrong...but you can joke about it! Just ask George Carlin. Paraphrased from his "Parental Advisory - Explicit Lyrics" album:

Lots of groups in this country want to tell you how to talk...Tell you what you can't talk about. Well, sometimes they'll say, well you can talk about something but you can't joke about it. Say you can't joke about something because it's not funny. Comedians run into that shit all the time. Like rape. They'll say, "You can't joke about rape. Rape's not funny." I say, "Fuck you, I think it's hilarious. How do you like that?" I can prove to you that rape is funny. Picture Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd. See! Hey, why do you think they call him "Porky," eh? I know what you're going to say. "Elmer was asking for it. Elmer was coming on to Porky. Porky couldn't help himself, he got a hard-on, he got horny, he lost control, he went out of his mind!"

Re:That's why its called Prison...

[forkazoo]

...soooo, a guy who steals a tv should be ass-raped for it?

As long as anybody who gets raped also gets a free TV, that's logical.

Re:That's why its called Prison...

[xENoLocO]

Good to see a fellow time warner subscriber online...

Re:The same man...

[Dragonslicer]

It's actually Congress that is in charge of determining the federal budget, not the president!!

You must be old here.

Re:The same man...

[Hijacked Public]

The obvious answer here is: Because they have a corrupt senator working for them.

Nice to know it is cheaper to buy a corrupt senator than a bridge. Supply and demand comes to our rescue again.

Re:The same man...

[Anonymous Coward]

Fewer than half a million people moved to the West Coast during the emigration period from about 1840-1860.

But there were already laods of wetbacks, chinks and the like there already.

Re:Please don't joke about prison ass-rape.

[teh_chrizzle]

prison sodomy is actually not very funny at all

of course not, unless it happens to a clown.