Slog - Comments on More on 'Uncle Ted's Unexcellent Adventure' http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/more_on_uncle_teds_unexcellent_adventure Senator Ted Stevens—he of the Incredible Hulk tie!—has been indicted on seven counts relating to a recent corruption probe into his ties to Alaskan oil services company VECO. Details are still coming, but the early word from CBS News was as follows: A federal grand jury in Washington has handed up the indictment against Stevens -- which the Justice Department is set to announce very shortly. Stevens faces seven counts of false statements involving VECO, the oil services company in Alaska, and the renovations done on his home. Stevens has been the subject of a wide-ranging investigation -- and with... Copyright 2008 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:40:01 -0800 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:47:51 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Dougsf Surprised there wasn't an announcement about charges being filed against his son, as well. Not sure what they're waiting for. Maybe being handled by a different agency?

]]> Dougsf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/more_on_uncle_teds_unexcellent_adventure#c1087203 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/more_on_uncle_teds_unexcellent_adventure#c1087203 2008 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:46:19 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Didn't Ted Stevens record a spoken word video of him singing the lyrics to Lucy In The Sky With Diamond Bridges To Nowhere?

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/more_on_uncle_teds_unexcellent_adventure#c1087304 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/more_on_uncle_teds_unexcellent_adventure#c1087304 2008 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:20:25 -0800 Comment by Fnarf "I sent an internet the other day" is almost as good as "series of tubes".

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/more_on_uncle_teds_unexcellent_adventure#c1087310 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/more_on_uncle_teds_unexcellent_adventure#c1087310 2008 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:23:16 -0800 Comment by Oh that Oh joy!

Now let's not waste another megabyte of bandwidth on this pond scum.

]]> Oh that http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/more_on_uncle_teds_unexcellent_adventure#c1087361 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/more_on_uncle_teds_unexcellent_adventure#c1087361 2008 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:46:51 -0800 Comment by six shooter No one brought home to bacon like Ted.

]]> six shooter http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/more_on_uncle_teds_unexcellent_adventure#c1087397 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/more_on_uncle_teds_unexcellent_adventure#c1087397 2008 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:11:57 -0800 Comment by AK Rob Uncle Ted's "palatial estate" in Girdwood is not much more than a typical lower middle class house. Before the work doubling its size, it was little more than a cabin like shack at the base of a ski slope. FYI the entire town of Girdwood is at the base of the ski slope, and is full of hippies, greenies, and liberals. It is full of the weirdest people in Alaska.

That may sound like something to people in Seattle, but it really is not.

Remember Seattle, the main reason you exist is because of the Jones Act and its restrictions on shipping.

Uncle Ted is one of those Republicans that are pro-choice, pro-arts, pro-NPR that make it difficult to hate all of them. He is surfer and a skier. He is a genuinely nice person.

Remember also that over 70% of Alaska is locked up in parks for you in the lower 48. If 70 % of Washington State was locked away from you might feel a bit more justified in going for more pork.

The bridges “to nowhere” were actually from the largest and fourth largest cities in Alaska. The bridges would have connected them to land that was available for development. Something that is very hard to find up here. They were bridges “from somewhere.”

]]> AK Rob http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/more_on_uncle_teds_unexcellent_adventure#c1087430 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/more_on_uncle_teds_unexcellent_adventure#c1087430 2008 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:30:04 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi @6,

There's a little problem with your argument. Most Alaskans fancy themselves libertarians as they slop up huge amounts of pork from the government. Whether huge amounts of land in Alaska is off limits is irrelevant to Alaskans' rank hypocrisy.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/more_on_uncle_teds_unexcellent_adventure#c1087457 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/more_on_uncle_teds_unexcellent_adventure#c1087457 2008 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:56:18 -0800 Comment by Fnarf @6, right on, Rob. You keep on dreaming about how rough and tumble you are up there in the woods, and how the man down here is keeping you down, but we all know that you live in the biggest welfare state of all. If it wasn't for massive government largesse, there wouldn't be anybody living in your state at all.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/more_on_uncle_teds_unexcellent_adventure#c1087461 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/more_on_uncle_teds_unexcellent_adventure#c1087461 2008 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:57:59 -0800 Comment by PC Realclear has Obama down by about 6 points in Alaska. Obama said he will go to Hawaii soon.

Why not add Alaska, hit the 50 states theme, and make huge speech for change in Anchorage denouncing the lobbyists and corruption and tying it all to GOP, start calling for a 60-D Senate, etc.

Just campaigning in Alaska is newsworthy and would get a media bump.

Oh and Mr. Alaska: Alaskans at least have 2 senators. DC folks got none. So stop stop stop your crying.

]]> PC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/more_on_uncle_teds_unexcellent_adventure#c1087498 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/more_on_uncle_teds_unexcellent_adventure#c1087498 2008 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:26:07 -0800 Comment by herbert browne What is so cool about "indicted" is that it always reminds me of a non-existent word- indickted- which is what's happening to ted.
Alaska' other Senator is Senator because she has a Senator name: Murkowsky (which means "Senator" in Alaskan). If her name was "Patty Smith" she wouldn't be Senator (even if she were really cool).
^..^

]]> herbert browne http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/more_on_uncle_teds_unexcellent_adventure#c1087623 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/more_on_uncle_teds_unexcellent_adventure#c1087623 2008 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:43:06 -0800 Comment by Alaska guy I'm no fan of "Uncle Ted" (as he's called here), but @6 got it right- his house in Girdwood is hardly a palace. Its pretty dumpy by Girdwood standards (which is saying a lot). He's the king of shady deals, but it would be pretty ironic if they finally get him for his house.

And BTW, the "bridges to nowhere" guy is Don Young, our not-so-beloved representative.

]]> Alaska guy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/more_on_uncle_teds_unexcellent_adventure#c1087655 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/more_on_uncle_teds_unexcellent_adventure#c1087655 2008 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:47:51 -0800