Even though Ted Stevens (”Tube”) (R-AK) got his $233 milliion dollar “bridge to nowhere” (see nowhere here), he’s still holding a grudge against Tom Coburn (R-OK) for challenging him about it. Tube took a break from trying to sell-out the Internet and placed an indefinite hold on Coburn’s bill, the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (S2590), which would publish a public database of every company who has received federal funding–an effort to expose pork barrel earmarks. The Tube is probably just a bit worried about how many bogus earmarks might get exposed if such a database existed.
Just to give you a sense of how snarky Tubey really is, during the debate over the bridge, according to a Washington Post article, Tube threw a fit and whined,
I will put the Senate on notice — and I don’t kid people — if the Senate decides to discriminate against our state and take money only from our state, I will resign from this body.”
Alas, Senate members got a little misty-eyed at the idea of the Senate without the Tube and gave him his bridge, contributing even more to the greedy state of Alaska, which receives $1.89 in federal help for every tax dollar they sent to Washington.
[UPDATE] Now why did Tube hold up that bill? Wait, I think I better put this in the comedy section. Ted Stevens is concerned about the cost (which is $15 million over the next 4 years (PDF).
Stevens “wanted to make sure that this wasn’t going to be a huge cost to the taxpayer and that it achieves the goal which the bill is meant to achieve” - spokesperson for Tube Stevens
I’m sure Stevens could barely get the words out without laughing and choking on all the pork in his craw. The guy who got over $200 million to build a Golden Gate sized bridge over a little canal of a waterway to an island with 50 people on it is concerned about cost. Perhaps politicians lie so much because they actually think they can get away with stuff like this.
Video of Morgan Spurlock playing on the Actual Reality Pictures / FX show 30 Days. What happens to an apolitical slacker when he spends 30 days with Stephen Colbert? Classic work! A perfect bunch of Friday Laughs.
Don’t forget next Wednesday’s finale of 30 Days when Spurlock goes to jail for 30 days. It’s on FX, Wednesday, August 30th at 10PM E/P.
[UPDATE] So that whiny bitch, Stephen Colbert got his corporate cronies at Viacom to boot this video off of YouTube. Now it no longer appears here. I guess we’ll just have to use mega-network Comedy Central’s lovely website to watch the clips they select for us. What a joke. Look, Comedy Central, your show The Colbert Report would not have achieved its current level of popularity without US.
I’m not sure what they’re investigating, but the FBI probably isn’t looking too hard for the person who defaced Lieberman’s website. The hacker has already been found.
We tried to contact the attacker who disclosed that he indeed attacked Senator Joe Lieberman’s website and defaced it, but being a Turkish guy, he really didn’t have a clue about who Senator Joe Lieberman was. Being Muslim we asked him if his attack was anyway politically motivated and the answer was: “I did it just for fun”.
Being also asked if he was the coordinator of the Denial of Service attacks which have been effecting Senator Joe Lieberman’s site he declared that what he did was just to deface the site, then moving to the next target. ”
Did you get that last bit? The hacker admitted to defacing the site, but simply moved on to the next vulnerable site in his list. As I reported before, this was no Denial of Service attack.
I can vouch for the risks that unpatched sites running Joomla! run. After an automated scan of my server’s pages on August 20th looking for mentions of Joomla! and the ext_calendar module (both terms would be found in that article), a computer based in Turkey attempted to load a hack onto my system. Fortunately, I’m not running Joomla!, and it certainly backs up the story that this was simply a random incident and Lieberman’s site was defaced along with probably hundreds or thousands of others that day.
Even though Ted Stevens (”Tube”) (R-AK) got his $233 milliion dollar “bridge to nowhere” (see nowhere here), he’s still holding a grudge against Tom Coburn (R-OK) for challenging him about it. Tube took a break from trying to sell-out the Internet and placed an indefinite hold on Coburn’s bill, the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (S2590), which would publish a public database of every company who has received federal funding–an effort to expose pork barrel earmarks. The Tube is probably just a bit worried about how many bogus earmarks might get exposed if such a database existed.
I’m not sure what they’re investigating, but the FBI probably isn’t looking too hard for the person who defaced Lieberman’s website. The hacker has already been found.