skippy the bush kangaroo

Monday, July 30, 2007

seizure self

in gop seizure news, chief justice roberts was taken to the hospital after a "benign seizure" today. cnn:

chief justice john roberts suffered a seizure monday, causing him to fall while at his summer home off the coast of maine, the supreme court said.

roberts has "fully recovered from the incident," and a neurological evaluation "revealed no cause for concern," the supreme court said in a statement.

doctors called the incident a "benign idiopathic seizure," similar to one suffered by the chief justice in 1993, the court statement said. an idiopathic seizure is one with no identifiable physiological cause.
at least his seizure was benign, which is more than we can say for his rulings.

in other repubblican seizure news, we are waiting to see what the irs takes from sen. ted stevens' house in alaska. anchorage daily news:

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.

shortly before 3 p.m., a number of federal agents could be seen outside the house, along with a half-dozen government suvs. others were inside. it couldn't immediately be determined what, if anything, was being taken from the house. agents at the house wouldn't answer questions…

federal investigators and grand juries looking into public corruption in alaska have been asking questions about a 2000 remodeling project that more than doubled the size of the girdwood house -- particularly the involvment of the oil field services firm veco. three contractors who worked on the project told the daily news that their records had been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury, and others connected with the work and with stevens had been interviewed.

one of the contractors who worked on the job said he was hired by veco ceo bill allen for the job, and while his bills were paid by stevens and his wife, catherine, invoices were reviewed first by veco.

allen and a veco vice president pleaded guilty in may to bribery, extortion and other charges connected with paying off state legislators.

two weeks ago, stevens told reporters that money for the remodeling came out of his own pocket.

"as a practical matter, i will tell you. we paid every bill that was given to us," stevens told reporters. "every bill that was sent to us has been paid, personally, with our own money, and that's all there is to it. it's our own money."
of course he says it's his own money. most gop senators believe the us treasury is their bank account.

and finally, the hardly-ever-right wing blogs just might have a seizure when they find out that their golden candidate to save the party, fred "fire the lesbians" thompson, raised squat in campaign funds last quarter. politico:

fred thompson plans to announce tuesday that his committee to test the waters for a republican presidential campaign raised slightly more than $3 million in june, substantially less than some backers had hoped, according to republican sources…

many republicans had seen the “law & order” actor and former u.s. senator from tennessee as a potential savior in a tough election cycle…

but many republicans have turned queasy as thompson has ousted part of his original brain trust and repeatedly delayed his official announcement, which is now planned for shortly after labor day, in the first two weeks of september.

some are already saying a prospective thompson run is a flop.
altho it can't possibly be as big a flop as law & order: trial by jury.

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Justice Scalia was heard to comment, "I was nowhere near the place when the alleged incident occurred."
commented by Blogger George, 6:32 PM PDT  
the DOJ tipped Stevens off beforehand--unbelievable (or all too believable, i should say) -- Justice Department Tips Off Senator Stevens Before Searching His Home! -- http://www.isthatlegal.org/archives/2007/07/justice_departm.html
commented by Blogger amberglow, 4:10 PM PDT  

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