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All of the Above

Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Joe Connelly offers a Don Young (R-AK) quiz for readers (what better way to celebrate Thanksgiving?). A sample:

7) A man renowned for his temper, Young has during 35 years in Congress:

a) Waved an oosik, the penis bone of a walrus, at the first woman head of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at a hearing.

b) Loudly argued, during a hearing on trapping and animal cruelty, that leg-hold traps are neither painful nor dangerous -- and put his hand into a trap.

c) Reacted to the effort by a Republican colleague to cut one of his pet projects by yelling across the House floor: "There's always another day when those who fight will be killed, too, and I am very good at that."

d) All of the above.


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Wow, he's one scary dude. What I don't understand is how he is allowed to get away with that kind of behavior without being censured.

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That oosik might come back to haunt him after he meets his new cellmate Bubba.

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only alaska could send a man to congress like don young. other states would not send him to clean their congressman's office

sad

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And how about the time during an address to an assembly of high school students in Fairbanks he referred to gays as b***-f******? In the uproar following the event, he said "they've heard that before." He eventually did apologize, but I don't think he ever understood why it was a problem.

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He borrowed the oosik from Larry Craig

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It's clear that Wooly Mammoths like Don Young and Ted Stevens are used to old-fashioned, face to face combat. Clearly, they are sinking into the tarpit of history, as the Internet Aboriginals overwhelm them with digital rocks and spears.

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PBS's "Now" ran a story this week on the corrupt bastard's club/Veco/Alaska politicians which included some of the FBI surveillance tapes and videos. I just caught the end of it, but it's online at:

http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/347/index.html

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