Well I declare.

If I were looking for a good idea for a comic series about dumb, dumber and dumbest, I guess this would be it!

Has to be true. Nobody could make this stuff up!

Bill Allen, former chief executive of VECO Corporation, an Alaska-based oil pipeline service and construction company, walked happily through the halls of congress handing out hundred dollar bills.

“In one exchange the FBI captured by wiretap:
Allen handed a sexual potency pill and a sleeping pill to Pete Kott, former Republican speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives ... who later phoned, confused and upset, after mixing them up.”

I’ll just bet he was confused and mixed up!
Dang! Slept through the whole thing!

“Not all the indictments rose from oil money.”

Former representative Tom Anderson got five years for taking money from a consultant for a company hoping to build a prison in Alaska. Do people pay bribes to build prisons?

Apparently in Alaska, people pay bribes for everything. Turns out the prison was an FBI scam.

Andersons only other brush with the law came when his girlfriend, a fellow legislator, summoned police as they fought over bowling scores.”

Bowling scores!

“Pete Kott, crowed as he described beating back a tax bill opposed by oil companies. “I had to cheat, steal, beg, borrow and lie,” Kott said. “Exxon’s happy. BP’s happy. I’ll sell my soul to the devil.”

Apparently the devils going rate is pretty low!

Bribes totaling $400,000, went to public officials.  But some residents expressed dismay at the puny size of individual transactions.

Former Rep. Vic Kohring was convicted of taking around $2,000!

“The fact of the matter is, we all want to bribe a politician,” said Mr. Whitekeys, an Anchorage entertainer whose long-running political cabaret is called the Whale Fat Follies. “We all thought it’d take a Mercedes or a Porsche. Nobody knew you could buy a politician for the cost of a used riding lawn mower.”

Like I said, nobody could make this stuff up!

i spend too many hours of my day reading internet crap.  i didn’t see one single link to this story anywhere,and it took several minutes to find it at washington post. it’s odd how often this happens,i find a single story i am interested in,and it appears nowhere else. yet idiotic crap stories about mindless celebrities are inescapable.

How quaint, a good old fashioned political corruption scandal.

I guess it’ll get talked about a lot, kinda like the weather. Unlike the weather however we could actually be doing something about this, like making it mandatory for politicians to wear a audio/video wire that is hard-wired to the Internet.

Remember, these people work for us, just like the teller who works for the manager of corner store. By the way, did you ever notice how the surveillance cameras are always aimed at the till?

Think about it.