Joanne98
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Mon Jul-30-07 06:51 PM
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Wikipedia Ted Stevens already UPDATED! That was FAST! |
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Edited on Mon Jul-30-07 06:51 PM by Joanne98
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Stevens Ethical issues In December 2003, the Los Angeles Times reported that the Stevens had taken advantage of lax Senate rules to use his political influence to earn a large amount of his personal wealth. <36>
In late May 2007, the Anchorage Daily News reported that The FBI and a federal grand jury were investigating an "extensive" remodeling project at Stevens' home in Girdwood. The remodeling work, which more than doubled the size of the modest home (public records show that the home is now 2471 square feet and valued at about $441,000-which means that it was less than 1200 square feet and less than $200,000 in value before the remodel) occurred in the summer and fall of 2000, was organized by Veco, an oil-field service company that has long been a strong lobbying presence in Juneau. Earlier in May, two top Veco executives pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy, bribery and tax charges. <37> In June, the Anchorage Daily News reported that a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., heard evidence in May about the expansion of Stevens' Girdwood home and other matters connecting Stevens to Veco.<38> In mid-June, FBI agents questioned several aides who work for Stevens as part of the investigation.<39> In July, Washingtonian magazine reported that Stevens had hired "Washington’s most powerful and expensive lawyer", Brendan Sullivan Jr., in response to the investigation.<40> Stevens' Alaska home was raided by the FBI and IRS on July 30, 2007.
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Mon Jul-30-07 06:54 PM
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1. I wonder what "conserva-pedia" has to say? I don't have the stomach to |
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Mon Jul-30-07 07:04 PM
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3. Most likely it says... |
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"On July 30, 2007, the Democrat controlled FBI illegally searched god-fearing, flag-loving Ted Stevens home in hopes of stealing all the "W" keys from their keyboards and planting evidence to indict and railroad the upstanding Senator. This was part of a larger plan by the Democrat FBI to repeal the second amendment, surrender to the terrorists, force all schools to make homosexuality mandatory, and burn flags while having abortions!"
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JTG of the PRB
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Mon Jul-30-07 07:17 PM
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5. Conservapedia cracks me up. |
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They describe Keith Olbermann as a "liberal Democrat political commentator and activist." They only have two segments in his description - "Keith Olbermann 24 controversy," and "Olbermann sees conspiracies."
Come on. They can do better than THAT, can't they? Can Keith Olbermann really be THAT great, that they can only criticize him twice?
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JTG of the PRB
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Mon Jul-30-07 06:57 PM
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2. Have you ever seen/heard what Stephen Colbert has done to Wikipedia in the past? |
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I was watching an episode a few months back and he joked about being able to say that Albert Einstein was a goat farmer and that oxygen was poisonous - and then remarked that the Wikipedia pages would reflect that any second.
I checked those two pages on Wikipedia, and within 30 seconds of Colbert saying that, the pages had been altered, a new message reading simply COLBERT = GOD.
So it's easy to change it.
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Mon Jul-30-07 07:12 PM
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4. But people clean that stuff up... |
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Wikipedia proves that mankind is basically good!
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Mon Jul-30-07 07:18 PM
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Edited on Mon Jul-30-07 07:18 PM by jtg33
I'm just saying, it's very easy to change. If things are changed inappropriately, they can be changed back just as quickly.
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