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Got this in my mail box today:

Dear American:

I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.

I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you.

I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s. This transactin is 100% safe.

This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the funds as quickly as possible. We can not directly transfer these funds in the names of our close friends because we are constantly under surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred.

Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may speedily transfer your commision for this transaction. After I receive that information I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the funds.

Yours Faithfully Minister of Treasury Paulson

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$5 says someone's fallen for it already.

You mean besides George Bush?
"Oh man! I'm reliable. *And* trustworthy!"

*snort* Thanks for providing me with a morning laugh. Now how am I going to get this Diet Coke out of my keyboard?

My G-Bu impression is still too much tainted by my impression of Jon Stewart impersonating G-Bu. But it's getting better. (Just in time for him to get quietly escorted to the door.)

Random thing--your acting is really good on the PSAs! Thanks for doing it!!

Thanks for the words! (: **hugs**
Victory! Victory in November!

Dude, I can't even think of it as "victory." I just think of it as "please, please don't piss on my peeps."

I just forwarded this to Tony's family :)

Thanks