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Ted Stevens: Down The Toobz
firedoglake.com - 7/29/2008
Ted Stevens: Down The Toobz
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Ted Stevens has been indicted : Sen Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, has been indicted on corruption charges, CBS News has learned. The FBI, working with an Alaska oil contractor, secretly taped telephone calls with Sen. Ted Stevens as part of a public corruption sting it was reported late last year, according to people close to the investigation. The secret recordings suggest the Justice ...

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baked alaska
skippy the bush kangaroo — ... man who got pork for his pet project, the bridge to nowhere, a $223 million transportation project which connected ketchikan, a tiny alaskan town to gravina, a tiny alaskan island. the 2005 repubbblican congress defeated a concurrent measure to help hurricane-ravaged new orleans in favor of this bridge. readers of this space also recognize sen. stevens as a staunch opponent of net neutrality, the man who described the web as "a series of tubes." (thanks to firedoglake and memeorandum for the links!)

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