YOUR GOVERNMENT IN ACTION
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January 10, 2008
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"Can you wiretap me now? Good!"
Posted by: Lairbo | January 10, 2008 at 06:12 PM
"can you hear them now?"
"no?, well pay up, deadbeats!"
Posted by: insomniac | January 10, 2008 at 06:13 PM
Can't they just reverse the charges?
Posted by: CJrun | January 10, 2008 at 06:23 PM
For real?! And I thought the tanking dollar was the only American tragedy.
Posted by: Rosie | January 10, 2008 at 06:33 PM
Can you pay me now?
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | January 10, 2008 at 06:38 PM
It's good to know how on the ball the FBI is(n't)!
Posted by: Nolita | January 10, 2008 at 06:39 PM
If I've said it once, I've said it a million times.
"Illegally wiretap American citizens, and you're going to step on a few toes."
Apparently, the FBI is getting it's just desserts.
I kind of like the American Civil Liberties Union's stand on this.
Paraphrasing: "There are no good guys, both parties (the government and the phone companies) are complete and total scumbags."
Big prother is listening to you....
Posted by: Psycho Joe | January 10, 2008 at 06:55 PM
Why won't they do the smart thing and spring for the Unlimited AnyTap™ Minutes plan? It has only two years-to-life commitment, and comes with free ankle transmitters.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | January 10, 2008 at 06:56 PM
Ya just gotta luv the American Bureaucracy! Just wait until they get to handle the Health Care for all of us.
So FBI Special Agent A W-b-h shows up at the local telecom to submit a wiretap request, will she need to show a credit card?
One can only imagine the following...
*FBI Wiretap 1/10/2008*
Aboo Abad "Have you the new address of our Supreme Leader?."
Booha NotSoBad "Yep, just came over the secure network."
Aboo Abad, "Ok what is the new address?"
Booha NotSoBad, "It's 12115 South Ma"bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Operator, "I'm sorry, this line has been temporarily disconnected."
*End FBI wiretap*
Posted by: igloo | January 10, 2008 at 07:01 PM
Couldn't they just sell off J. Edgar Hoover's old lady's underwear collection (couldn't spell lengeree ) to pay the bill?
Jus' wondrin' and feelin' mighty sexy.
Posted by: Boy George | January 10, 2008 at 07:02 PM
OMG,
I should have read the story lead.
Sorry judi for the
placerispagerisinfringement.Posted by: igloo | January 10, 2008 at 07:03 PM
If I were the language police, I'd be much more concerned with Boy George.
However, I will have to slap you with a fine for static infringement.
Give me 500$ now, please.
Posted by: Psycho Joe | January 10, 2008 at 07:08 PM
Meanie,
500$ not too hard to raise. Now $500. will be more difficult.
Posted by: igloo | January 10, 2008 at 07:25 PM
Hahahahaha! I'm watching Wheel of Fortune and Pat Sajak just made a "more cowbell" joke!
Posted by: DeskDiva | January 10, 2008 at 07:35 PM
As I said, I'm not the language police.
Now fork it over.
By the way, does anyone think this is terribly funny other than me?
Big Brother can't pay his bills?
You gotta laugh at the irony here.
This is 1984 all over again.
8>
Posted by: Psycho Joe | January 10, 2008 at 07:36 PM
Hide me! It's the phone cops!
Posted by: Dr. Johnny Fever | January 10, 2008 at 07:55 PM
LOL Johnny!
Posted by: GungaDan | January 10, 2008 at 07:57 PM
66K for a phone bill?
Verizon offers a plan where you can make all the local and long distance calls you want for about 50 bucks a month,
obviously the FBI hasn't heard of that plan....
Posted by: Laura Vona | January 10, 2008 at 08:09 PM
DD!!!
How could I have forgot Dr. Fever and the phone police. One of the truly great episodes (two part) of that great WKRP SItcom set in Cincinnati.
*Igloo hits remote for tvland chanel to check for reruns.*
Posted by: igloo | January 10, 2008 at 08:10 PM
No kidding, iggy. I LOVED that show from Herb Tarlek's white patent leather loafers all the way up. Too funny. I haven't seen a show that funny in a long, long time.
Posted by: DeskDiva | January 10, 2008 at 08:14 PM
"As God is my witness, I thought that the bills were paid."
Posted by: Clean Hands | January 10, 2008 at 08:19 PM
I've posted this before, but I can't help myself. When I think of the FBI, I automatically think of this.
Posted by: Just Ducky | January 10, 2008 at 08:27 PM
Hi, Ducky!! :-)
As soon as I heard the first voice, I KNEW it was the Clapper Caper. LOL!
Posted by: DeskDiva | January 10, 2008 at 08:28 PM
*flaps hello @ Diva*
Posted by: Just Ducky | January 10, 2008 at 08:29 PM
I cannot cop to cozening the copper clappers from the closet and Clara Cooper couldn't claim to catch me!
Posted by: Claude Cooper | January 10, 2008 at 08:32 PM
Clara's club foot kept her from collaring you, Claude.
Posted by: Just Ducky | January 10, 2008 at 08:36 PM
Crap! I couldn't conceive that copper could comprehend that I cleaned them out of clappers. Cornered!
Posted by: Claude Cooper | January 10, 2008 at 08:39 PM
Claude, ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.
Posted by: Just Ducky | January 10, 2008 at 08:42 PM
And you know when they caught me? Christmas, of course!
Posted by: Claude Cooper | January 10, 2008 at 08:43 PM
Crikey!
Posted by: Just Ducky | January 10, 2008 at 08:44 PM
WOW!!
Within 45 minutes two Geezer classics. This is a great blog.
Full of Geezers; but a great blog nonetheless.
Posted by: igloo | January 10, 2008 at 08:44 PM
Geezers got game, iggy.
Posted by: Just Ducky | January 10, 2008 at 08:48 PM
We don't remember to change our names, but we got game.
Posted by: Just Ducky | January 10, 2008 at 08:49 PM
John Donne's contemporary (or close to it)?
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | January 10, 2008 at 08:50 PM
Keith Olbermann was just talking about this. About how the phone companies stepped all over the Constitution to give the government the info they wanted, but when the bills weren't paid, that was it.
He said, "Saved by capitalism and free enterprise".
I think it was funnier when he said it.
Posted by: Eleanor | January 10, 2008 at 08:54 PM
LOL Meanie!
Posted by: Just Ducky | January 10, 2008 at 08:55 PM
Eleanor, how funny. But, apparently, free enterprise isn't exactly...free, IYCMD. ;-)
Posted by: Just Ducky | January 10, 2008 at 08:58 PM
Ahh..it's the old.."reach out and tap someone and not have enough money to pay for it" plan.
and YAY! there's a new Grey's Anatomy on TV!
Posted by: Siouxie | January 10, 2008 at 09:06 PM
Tapping? I had nothing to do with any tapping!
Posted by: Just Ducky | January 10, 2008 at 09:08 PM
Senator, maybe you should try a wider
stancearea network.Posted by: Siouxie | January 10, 2008 at 09:18 PM
Maybe we should hold a fundraiser to help the FBI pay their bills.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 10, 2008 at 10:12 PM
Ooh, Annie, you could bake some of those wonderful super-sized M&M cookies! That should raise enough to pay off the national debt.
Posted by: Just Ducky | January 10, 2008 at 10:19 PM
A bake sale benefitting the FBI? Sounds intriguing. Hmmm...
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 10, 2008 at 10:23 PM
Sorry, can't go to the bake sale, as I'll be callin' BINGO for the CIA.
Posted by: Wyo Cowboy | January 10, 2008 at 10:29 PM
I don't know, Ducky - sounds like a half-b....OK. I just can't bring myself to say it. ;-)
Posted by: DeskDiva | January 10, 2008 at 10:29 PM
Wyooooooooo -
c0wpie b1ng0?
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 10, 2008 at 10:37 PM
I had to write it that way - apparently properly spelled, it was [email protected] Which may explain the taste of [email protected]
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 10, 2008 at 10:38 PM
Thank you for that, Diva.
Wyoooooo!
There was a cowboy had a game, and Bingo was its name, oh...
C-I-A-Needs-Dough
C-I-A-Needs-Dough
C-I-A-Needs-Dough
And Bingo was his game, oh.
Posted by: Just Ducky | January 10, 2008 at 10:40 PM
There was a blogger had a song and Ducky was her name-o.
D-U-C-K-Y
D-U-C-K-Y
D-U-C-K-Y
and parody was her game-o!
Posted by: DeskDiva | January 10, 2008 at 10:58 PM
and here's the prize we're playin' for.
Posted by: Wyo Cowboy | January 11, 2008 at 12:05 AM
*raises eyebrow*
Posted by: DeskDiva | January 11, 2008 at 12:13 AM
it's ok, diva, Christians have s3x too.
Posted by: Wyo Cowboy | January 11, 2008 at 12:15 AM
*flaps back in for just a moment*
Wyo, you take your bingo seriously! At least, I think that's what you're referring to with "the prize," right?
Bedtime for me! Y'all have sweet dreams!
Posted by: Just Ducky | January 11, 2008 at 12:21 AM
Sheesh - the way SOME guys are, you'd think they're ALL made of candy.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 11, 2008 at 12:38 AM
[email protected] [email protected], wonderful [email protected]! *rolls eyes*
Posted by: Nurse Tammy | January 11, 2008 at 06:38 AM
Sheesh - the way SOME guys are, you'd think they're ALL made of candy.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | 12:38 AM on January 11, 2008
I'll take a couple of Good and Plenty™s and a Mr. Goodbar™, por favor.
Good mornin'!!
Posted by: Siouxie | January 11, 2008 at 07:39 AM
Mornin', Sioux and fellow blogsters.
Sorry, Sioux, all that's available right now is this.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | January 11, 2008 at 08:12 AM
Whew! Ducky posted the Clapper Caper and I spent the rest of the evening stuck on YouTube. Man, I love the Smothers Brothers.
Posted by: gjd | January 11, 2008 at 08:16 AM
LOL Meanie! I used to LOVE those! The one with almonds.
Posted by: Siouxie | January 11, 2008 at 08:37 AM
Dave:
Please, please, please put this in the "Year in Review" next December.
Posted by: Cheesewiz | January 11, 2008 at 01:03 PM