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You may remember Ted Stevens as the lap dog of AT&T.  Well, it looks like the feds are looking into some of his “activities”.  Maybe this ass-clown will finally have to leave office.

Federal law enforcement agents are currently searching the Girdwood home of Alaska U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens.

“All I can say is that agents from the FBI and IRS are currently conducting a search at that residence,” said Dave Heller, the assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s Anchorage office. The search began earlier this afternoon, he said. It’s the only such search warrant currently being served, he said. 

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A court in Belgium has ruled that an Internet Service Provider bears the responsibility for stopping illegal file-sharing on its network. Although the ruling was made in Belgium, it relies on the E.U. copyright directive and may set precedent for the entire Union according to IFPI, an organization that represents the recording industry world wide.
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The suit was brought by a group representing Belgian authors an composers (SABAM) against ISP Scarlet, formerly Tiscali. In 2004, the SABAM received an injuction against the ISP, which assigned an expert whose investigation provided 11 ways to prevent infringement across the network. The judge agreed and Scarlet has 6 months to enact anti-piracy measure or face fines of up to $4,300 per day.

In every political race, local and national, you end up with crazy candidates who never expect to (or are not expected to) win but they provide an interesting news story or two.  The presidential race apparently includes Jonathon Albert “The Impaler” Sharkey, an ordained Satanic dark priest and former board member of Hillborough, New Jersey’s County Executive Republican Committee, who promises to perform same-sex marriages at White House at least once a month and to impale criminals and terrorists, but not law-abiding American citizens.

Gene Amondson — 64, running for the second time for the Prohibition party, Amondson has spent the past 20 years dressing up as the Grim Reaper with a whiskey bottle in one hand and a scythe in the other to preach the ills of liquor. Also a wood carver, oil painter, pie baker, children’s book author and professional impersonator of 1900s evangelical anti-booze preacher Billy Sunday.

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Jackson Kirk Grimes — 56, a single pagan with a GED who once portrayed Hitler on “Star Trek,” this director of the United Fascist Union (which promotes the economic theories and political ideologies of Benito Mussolini and Saddam Hussein) and two-time presidential candidate promises to abolish paper money and create a global government if elected.

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This is a bizarre communist propaganda video showing how Stalin would of been greeted in Berlin right after the war if he had ever been to Berlin and if we were in an odd communist alternative reality.  I think I may have spotted a Chinese solder waving an Italian flag in the crowd storming the plane.

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I think it was just shocking.  Maybe we should send Clinton over there to give Ahmadinejad a talk about morals while in office.

Iran’s president has come under fire from a conservative newspaper after he publicly kissed the hand of a woman who used to be his school teacher. 

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