Sen. Ted Stevens asked to be excused periodically from his corruption trial in order to address the current financial meltdown.
Stevens is on trial for accepting $250,000 in home repairs and other undeclared goodies from a major corporation in exchange for legislative favors for said corporation. Now, he's asking to be excused from his corruption trial to help draft a multi-billion dollar corporate give-away.
The judge says Stevens can skip out from time to time, but he won't tell the jury where the Senator is going.
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Hulk smash trial!
Oh my. That HAS to be an old picture. heh.
Thanks Lindsay, and Good Morn to ya.
Ted’s good at using other people’s money, I hear tell he hates to open his own wallet
Lindsay!
Max Blumenthal says “Hi!” He’s staying with the ET family, investigating Sarah Palin’s roots in the local
Evangelicalhate community.So $t Ted has to be able to interrupt his destiny to fuck up ours?
Seriously, the poor old f*** is probably confused as .. he can be .. Allst he been doin’ wuz bidness per oozeual.
So $t Ted has to be able to interrupt his destiny to fuck up ours?
poor guy has to rush around, tryin’ to save his ass in two different venues…
The judge says Stevens can skip out from time to time, but he won’t tell the jury where the Senator is going.
Too bad the judge doesn’t have any sense of irony.
“No!!” would have been an appropriate response.
Maybe he’s a juror in the other Alaskagate. How can you tell McCain’s real age?…you count his lipstick rings.
The Stevens trial witness list holds the potential of ending up grabbing media attention when Bambi Tyree is called to the stand. She was VECO chief Bill Allen’s under-age mistress at the time of the remodeling. What are the odds they tried out Ted’s new bedroom loft with some coke and amyl nitrate?
Here’s the entire witness list.
o/t. Good news/bad news. Polls are even in Florida. But it’s Florida.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com.....2909.story
Seriously, the poor old f*** is probably confused as .. he can be
can he be Obama’s debate practice stand-in for McCain ?
OT but worth letting you all know about brigade deployed here under our leader for domestic operations:
http://www.armytimes.com/news/.....d_090708w/
I had a terrible time finding the link as buried in comments unrelated to the Democracy Now headline news from yesterday. Also, not sure it’s still in the 22 Sept headlines. Anyway, while we’re all watching the bright shiny object of the week, things are really getting interesting behind the scenes and may make all the “chatter” moot.
Another one that disturbs me is that the Pentagon notified Congress about the sale of 1,000 bunker buster bombs to Israel last week. That’s the 30 days notice {on a weekend over the janitor’s transom} that’s required if Congress wants to get involved, i.e. pretend to stop the sale. wink, wink.
I am one discouraged cookie…. ^..^
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OT: The FEC gave the McCain-Palin 2008 Inc. $84.1 million in federal funds.
http://www.fec.gov/press/press.....cert.shtml
Sorry if this has been mentioned previously.
Ted just wants to be certain with all that money up for grabs that he gets his share, after all he has legal bills to pay.
Good post, Lindsay.
Oh, great! Stevens can’t seem to handle his own finances without handouts that are of questionable legitimacy (I’m being magnanimous due to the fact that one is innocent until proven guilty and so far there he is only on trial,) yet he wants to be free to help write policy dealing with multi-billions of dollars of our money.
Comment #66 is interesting .. Democratic Underground message board.
kj
Laura Flanders has another GRITtv installment across the hall!
GRITtv Live at Noon: Is the Bailout the Only Way Out?
Edward, tell Max I said “hi” back. I can’t wait to see what he digs up. Maybe I should interview him for the Silo when he returns to the lower 48.
I’ve been listening to Paulson and Bernanke. The bottom line is that Paulson believes that in order to “save the economy”…”credit” must be available to all businesses and people in the US (and overseas investors)…and that the assets that they want to take control of would be artifically sold at a “blue sky” “hold til maturity” rate that they will in effect, make up..
Gawd. He’s saying that what is needed is to lend businesses and people…money they need, because they don’t have it….
That is the whole damn problem. Our economy is based on zero. It is based on nothing….credit..is just giving you money that you don’t have based on a made up value, and then someone else makes money off of it by charging interest on the invented value…but there is never a bottomline of value. This is so screwed up.
Give America more “blue sky”….Perhaps it is the only way to keep the scam going, but for Goddess’s sake…there is nothing backing the so called credit. It is good money after bad…what a friggin’ mess.
I’ll gladly pay you on Tuesday for a hamburger today.
Unf’ingbelievable.
Blue Texan is at the Mothership with:
McCain To Put Palin On Chopper, “Raise Hell” In Washington