Former Pennsylvania state Sen. Vincent Fumo was sentenced to 55 months in federal prison yesterday after being found guilty of almost 140 counts of scamming the public out of public funds to support his lavish lifestyle. U.S. District Judge Ronald Buckwalter said Fumo's long career of public service moved him to impose a far lighter sentence than guidelines recommended.
COMMENTS:
Who has ever heard of this dude, let alone what he was charged with or the fact that he got off with what amounts to a slap on the wrist? Two bits say he’s a close personal friend or financial supporter of the President.
TODAY’S QUERIES & ANSWERS
Q. If General Motors is going to sell cars on E-Bay, how can you get them serviced? (Becky – Shasta Lake City, CA)
A. Just scan your car up into a .PDF file and email it to E-Bay and they’ll take care of the rest.
Q. I thought they only had Czars in Russia. How come every time I turn on the news, I hear there is another new Czar in Washington, D.C.? (Yolanda – Plains, GA)
A. My advice to you is to learn how to drink vodka.
Q. I hear they are getting rid of the color coded system for terror alerts. How come? (Ed – Kanab, UT)
A. They’re not getting rid of it altogether. They’re going to change it in order to confuse the public. They figure as long as we don’t know what we’re doing, we’ll all be just like them.
TODAY’S QUOTE:
"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty." -- John Adams, 1772
TODAY’S VIDEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_4fSvT9q_I
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