Reminds me of a joke from one of my Russian history profs who, when making such jokes, seemed always to give the tsars his own native Yiddish accent:

Messenger: Tsar Nicholas! Tsar Nicholas! The Poles are revolting!

Nich !: You’re telling me?

How could we ever forget Poland?

But Edwards comes across as genuine, passionate, and positively stuffed with ideas. Guess I’ll be caucusing for him.

That being said, I always dug on the Safety Dance. I thought that guy was teh hawt, despite his crazy demeanor. Hell, probably because of it. I’ve always been attracted to good looking lunatics.

GOP advocate targeted in Abramoff probe
By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer Wed Apr 4, 2:45 PM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/abramoff_federici;_ylt=AoXLb89A7qT8EZ5TRhp5Lj4DW7oF

WASHINGTON – The head of a Republican environmental advocacy group has been told officially by federal investigators that she is a target for criminal prosecution in the Jack Abramoff corruption probe.

Italia Federici, who co-founded the group with former Interior Secretary Gale Norton and conservative GOP activist Grover Norquist, was told by the Justice Department she faces up to five charges in the influence-peddling scandal that has produced convictions against one lawmaker, two senior Bush administration officials and several congressional aides.

While running the advocacy group, the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy, Federici was involved in a romantic relationship with J. Steven Griles, who was deputy interior secretary during President Bush’s first term. Griles last month became the highest-ranking Bush administration official convicted in the lobbying scandal when he pleaded guilty to a felony charge of obstructing justice by lying to the Senate Indian Affairs Committee in 2005.

…Investigators have been looking at the hundreds of thousands of dollars that Federici’s environmental advocacy council received from Abramoff’s Indian tribal clients and from energy and mining companies, including some of Griles’ former clients.

Federal prosecutors told Federici in a confidential letter dated Jan. 19 that they are considering bringing charges of fraud, impeding the
Internal Revenue Service, tax evasion, obstructing the Senate committee and testifying falsely to the committee and its investigators. The letter was first reported by Legal Times.

“The investigation is focused on the allegedly illegal manner in which you operated the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy, commonly known as CREA,” the letter says. “The government has also received information that you may have assisted others in depriving the American public of the honest services of at least one administration official.”

Well yeah, but just due to their morphology. :Lemme help out, here.

116. Crucifying Rhesus Monkeys – Oh, ok, go ahead.

Fixed!

mikey

The Beavis and Butthead where they watch the Safety Dance has been deleted from teh yoo+00bz. (Thanks for nothing, google.)

Anyways...

This is from teh awesome Skippy’s List at http://www.skippyslist.com/skippylist.html , which I wandered across while following one of the wikipedia links above. Skippy’s List made me laugh a lot, which is always nice on a sleety Wednesday. If S,N! ever gets tired of the Seinfeld quotes, you guys should consider asking Skippy for permission to use his list. Especially the following item, which could be considered the S,N! motto:

116. Crucifying mice – bad idea.

Oh, who am I kidding.

Heh. Indeed.

FRY: (whispers to That Guy) Hey, buddy… I’m from the same time as you. Remember that song, Safety Dance?

THAT GUY: Sure do! We can dance!
(starts humming ‘The Safety Dance’ and Fry follows)

FRY: Y’know, that dance wasn’t as safe as they said it was.

THAT GUY: I tell you; Two go-go 80′s Reaganauts like us… we could rule this world!

FRY: No question!

THAT GUY: If only someone would give us a shot.

FRY: They’re scared of our raw power. Oh, but if you want a job, I could beg everyone at the company where I work.

THAT GUY: Awesome. Awesome to the max!

http://tehl4m3.blogspot.com/

I’m nothing if not a bubbling cauldron of useless pop culture references.

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cucuracha said,

April 4, 2007 at 19:04

You know Ole Glenn Livid would much prefer to get up-ah to something like the Tubes or the Fixx.

He’s definitely a Fixx fan, especially Red Skies At Night