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Forums - General - It Looks Like Ted Stevens Still Won His Seat

Its not final yet, but he is ahead by a percentage point with 99% reporting.  There is talk that he will have to step down anyways and they will have to hold a special election.

But damn is it surprising that Alaska would elect a convicted Republican Senator over a Democrat.  Sounds like my hometown.



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

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Eh, a corrupt guy who agrees with you is still better as a representative then an honest man who disagrees with everything you believe in.


I just wonder why nobody ran against him. Did charges not come till after the primary season?

 

He got bribes from Oil guys...and for wanting to get elaborate building contracts for his state.  Not exactly that bad for people who get paid for Oil guys drilling in their state and well could use elaborate construction jobs...

 

and REALLY what is that 3K a year each Alaskian gets anyway if not a bribe from the Oil Companies?



Kasz216 said:

Eh, a corrupt guy who agrees with you is still better as a representative then an honest man who disagrees with everything you believe in.


I just wonder why nobody ran against him. Did charges not come till after the primary season?

 

He got bribes from Oil guys...and for wanting to get elaborate building contracts for his state.  Not exactly that bad for people who get paid for Oil guys drilling in their state and well could use elaborate construction jobs...

 

and REALLY what is that 3K a year each Alaskian gets anyway if not a bribe from the Oil Companies?

 

I don't see how the $3,000+ check the Alaskians get is that much different from the stimulus check that most Americans got a couple months ago ... The most obvious difference between the two is that Alaska didn't go further into debt to pay for these checks.



HappySqurriel said:
Kasz216 said:

Eh, a corrupt guy who agrees with you is still better as a representative then an honest man who disagrees with everything you believe in.


I just wonder why nobody ran against him. Did charges not come till after the primary season?

 

He got bribes from Oil guys...and for wanting to get elaborate building contracts for his state.  Not exactly that bad for people who get paid for Oil guys drilling in their state and well could use elaborate construction jobs...

 

and REALLY what is that 3K a year each Alaskian gets anyway if not a bribe from the Oil Companies?

 

I don't see how the $3,000+ check the Alaskians get is that much different from the stimulus check that most Americans got a couple months ago ... The most obvious difference between the two is that Alaska didn't go further into debt to pay for these checks.

The Stimulus checks are advances on taxes... people actually i believe pay those back... and even if they don't it's based on taxes paid...

While i believe anyone in Alaska gets the 3,000K regardles of if they even pay that in taxes.  Just live there for a year and you get 3,200 K.

Well more or less depending how the Alaskian Oil Business is going.

 



3000 check by taxing oil companies. That's the most socialist state in the nation!!!



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Even Republicans love socialism when it means you get a check in the mail.



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

*joins Alaska Independence Party*



It's not socialism. Many of the world's jurisdictions operate under a system where when you buy property, you buy the use of the surface (and its depths to a certain extent) for your purposes, but the rights to exploit minerals (and oil or natural gaz) is a separate contract (Land claim) because the State (used in a very broad sense) has rights on them.

The State can decide to form government-owned corporations and use the profits (which would be socialistic) or give out or sell the rights to a private entity who would better be able to exploit the deposits in exchange for royalties (such as in Alaska).

What the State then does with the royalty money will determine if it is socialistic. If they give it back to the people in equal shares, it is not very socialistic IMO. If you give it in unequal shares where poorer people receive a greater stake or invest in high quality infrastructure (schools, Universities, research, hospitals) that will benefit all citizens, that is socialist. The latter (infrastructure) is my prefered solution.



Well, this just proves what I've suspected since August: Alaska is retarded.

My bet is that he gets pardoned by Bush.

But I wish they'd just dump him into some giant tubes.