Alaska's lone Congressman Don Young actually suggested that the holocaust could have been prevented if only the Jews had guns.

Courtesy of Think Progress: 

At an Alaska Municipal League (AML) meeting in Juneau last Thursday, Young was asked what should be done to prevent school shootings. “What can municipalities do? 

What can the federal government do to stop the massacre of children in our schools?” asked Dimitri Shein, a Democratic candidate running for Young’s seat. 

Young responded by arguing that teachers should be armed. He then invoked the Holocaust to argue that making sure everyone had guns was the best solution. 

“How many millions of people were shot and killed because they were unarmed? Fifty million in Russia, because their citizens weren’t armed,” Young said. 

“How many Jews were put into the ovens because they were unarmed?”The comment is anti-Semitic, outrageous, and incredibly stupid, but just in case you need a debunking: That is not why or how the Holocaust happened.

Holy shit is this a stupid argument. 

This fantasy that armed individuals can overcome a country's military has been disproved time and time again.

You only have to look to the resistance fighters in Afghanistan and Iraq to realize that.

I sometimes get criticized for picking on Texas, and other states in the South.

I ridicule states like Texas, Florida, Georgia, and others because they are fucked up and deserving of ridicule. 

But that in no way means that I consider Alaska any less fucked up, or any less deserving of ridicule.

And until we finally get rid of this dinosaur and replace him with somebody who actually wants to move our state forward, we deserve every bit of ridicule directed our way.

Don Young is now the longest serving Congressman in America, to the Alaska people's everlasting shame.

Courtesy of ADN: 

U.S. Rep. Don Young has become the longest-serving member of the House of Representatives with the resignation Tuesday of Rep. John Conyers of Michigan amid harassment claims. 

Young was first elected in an Alaska special election in 1973 — the year Secretariat won horse racing's Triple Crown and the movie "The Exorcist" was released. 

Young was also named Monday to the House-Senate conference committee charged with resolving the differences between the federal tax overhaul plans passed by each chamber.

Alaskans discovered a long time ago that the secret to keeping federal money flowing into the state was to keep legislators in office for decades while they gained seniority and influence.

That is why they rarely vote a sitting Senator or Congressman out of office.

Unfortunately the trade off has been that truly corrupt, and despicable, folks have long represented us in Washington, and no matter what they do they know they will always be returned to office.

The fact is that Young will likely remain our lone Congressman until his health fades, or death comes a knockin'.

And don't even consider the idea that a sex scandal will take him down.

Young represents the state with the most rapes and sexual assaults per capita.

If anything he would only seem to more closely represent his constituents.

Alaska Rep. Don Young once held a knife to the throat of former Speaker of House John Boehner. Not even remotely surprised.

This can be found almost hidden in a rather expansive article on Boehner courtesy of Politico:

Boehner never accepted an earmark in Congress—and he enjoyed railing against those who did. His heckling once provoked Don Young, an Alaskan himself, to pin Boehner against a wall inside the House chamber and hold a 10-inch knife to his throat. Boehner says he stared Young in the eyes and said, “Fuck you.” (Young says this account is “mostly true,” but notes that the two became good friends, with Boehner later serving as his best man.)

I talked with my pal Dennis Zaki about this anecdote last night and we both agreed that this will only help Young politically in Alaska, as most Republicans up here do not really like John Boehner, and a lot of old timers likely see nothing wrong with using a knife to help negotiate a deal.

(I've certainly had my share of knives pulled on me.)

The article also contains other interesting nuggets, including the fact that Boehner had this to say about Congressmen Jason Chaffetz and  Jim Jordan:  

“Fuck Jordan. Fuck Chaffetz. They’re both assholes.”

You know that is the kind of talk which might actually get some Alaskans to change their negative opinion of ole John Boehner. 

Alaska Congressman Don Young forced to apologize after saying something sexist and mean to a female colleague.

Courtesy of MSN: 

Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) was forced to apologize on Thursday after he lashed out at Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) in unusually personal terms during House floor debate late in the evening. 

During consideration of a government spending package for 2018, Young was offering an amendment regarding wildlife management on national preserves in his state of Alaska. 

After Jayapal, a liberal freshman representing Seattle, spoke in opposition to his amendment, Young snapped that she "doesn't know a damn thing what she's talking about." 

He then questioned Jayapal's motives by accusing her of parroting talking points from a special interest group, rather than expressing her true opinion. 

"What you said was really nonsense. It was written by an interest group, not yourself. Maybe your staff is affiliated with the Humane Society or some other group. And I'm disappointed," Young said. 

Young, 84, proceeded to address his 51-year-old colleague as a "young lady." 

"You may not know me, young lady. But I'm deeply disturbed," Young said.

As it turned out Young picked on the wrong "young lady" and Jaypal demanded that he withdraw his remarks, which after some consideration he did.

And that is quite a victory for Rep. Jaypal, because Don Young NEVER apologizes or takes back an insult, no matter how ignorant.

I guess Jaypal should consider herself lucky that at least Young did not twist her arm.

I keep hoping that at 84 Don Young will finally do Alaska a favor and retire, but I think he actually plans to die in office.

The Republican health care bill would hurt Alaska more than any other state. Of course it would.

Courtesy of ADN:  

Rep. Don Young voted for a one-size-fits-all health care bill last week that would harm Alaska more than any other state. 

The bill contains much smaller tax credits than the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, and makes no geographic allowance for high-cost states like Alaska. 

The increase in Alaska would be $12,599 for average out-of-pocket health care costs in the individual health care market, an analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities said. 

"Alaska policymakers would likely see waiving protections for people with pre-existing conditions as their only option to stabilize Alaska's market, even though it would put coverage even further out of reach for Alaskans who have the most serious health needs, who could face premium surcharges of tens of thousands of dollars," wrote senior fellow Aviva Aron-Dine of the research institute.

Of course our one and only Congressman, Don Young, voted for the House bill.

However he assures his constituents that they should not worry because the Senate version will be much better. 

Which makes one wonder why, if he knew the House bill was so flawed, did he vote for it?

Young has already let it be known that he is running again in 2018 despite being older than dirt.

And there is, unfortunately, a strong chance that he will win again.

Because yes, Alaskans are indeed THAT stupid.

Donald Trump signs executive order to expand drilling in the Arctic. Because saving the planet is for pussies.

MOMENTS AGO: @POTUS signs executive order to review offshore oil and gas exploration locations. pic.twitter.com/VNPDEyL01K

— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 28, 2017

Courtesy of ADN: 

Surrounded by members of Alaska's congressional delegation, President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order that directs the Interior Department to rethink some of President Barack Obama's regulations and decrees that put large swaths of the Arctic Ocean off limits to oil drilling. 

The order requires Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to review previously issued five-year development plans for offshore oil and natural gas leases and regulations governing oil, gas and renewable energy leasing in waters of the Arctic and Atlantic. 

The new move holds potentially big changes for Alaska: reopening the option of future Arctic Ocean drilling, a reversal of the Obama-era approach that sought to limit and eventually ban offshore drilling there. 

The executive order only outright rescinds one of Obama's orders, pertaining to the Bering Sea, issued on December 9, 2016. Actions related to the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas from 2015 and 2016 are modified, rather than rescinded, confirming status as a marine sanctuary, but not barring leasing and drilling. In all cases, the Interior Department will have to rework its five-year plan for oil and gas leasing — an effort that will take up to two years. The Interior Department will also review oil and gas regulations for offshore drilling, though the outcome is undetermined.

Oh I think the outcome is clearly determined and that we know the review is just a formality and that the Republicans will start raping the Alaska coastline just as soon as their drill bit Viagra kicks in.

Along with pen recipient Lisa Murkowski you can also see Rep. Don Young skulking in the background. 

I am not sure why Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan was not included, because if Alaska Republicans can agree on anything it is that drilling giant holes all over the state is job one.

I swear the more executive orders this tangerine colored shitgibbon signs that more desperately I miss President Obama.

Obama tried so very hard to protect us, this planet, and our future. And it seems with every stroke of the pen this POS brings us that much closer to disaster.

This new GOP health care bill screws Alaskans royally.

Courtesy of TPM:

This is the average difference in credits in 2020 for people buying insurance in marketplaces/exchanges under Obamacare and Ryan/GOP/Trumpcare. The big difference illustrated here is that in addition to making it dramatically harder to buy insurance, Trumpcare doesn't factor in how costs vary from state to state. 

So if you're from Alaska, you're screwed bigly - and pretty much everywhere else too, but a bit less.

Look we're Alaskans, we are quite used to paying exorbitant prices for just about EVERYTHING.  But this at least twice as much as everybody else in the country.

And if that were not bad enough, and trust me from an Alaskan standpoint it is, the new bill also depletes Medicaid at an accelerated pace.

Once again courtesy of TPM:

By repealing a payroll tax on high earners that provided a critical additional revenue stream for the Medicare trust fund, the GOP's proposed American Health Care Act would speed up the fund’s exhaustion by as many as three to four years, according to estimates from health care policy experts. 

“It’s clear, simple and undeniable that this bill would aversely affect the solvency of Medicare,” Paul Van De Water, a Medicare expert at the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities told TPM. 

So even though Alaskans are already getting screwed, older Alaskans will get screwed even harder.

Not that the Republicans give two shits because they have long been dedicated to undermining every social program available to help those Americans in need.

So has this had any impact on support for this bill from Alaska's representatives?

Well Don Young has been largely silent on the issue, while Dan Sullivan has expressed an interest in keeping parts of Obamacare in place, but has not spoken publicly about his bill in particular.

Lisa Murkowski however HAS spoken about the bill and seems to be trapped between a rock and a hard place: 

Murkowski is not yet giving the house GOP leadership's plan her stamp of approval. 

“It's kind of premature to say I’m there or not there,” she said. 

She's one of four senators who sent a letter to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell expressing their concerns about the future of Medicaid. 

“We wanted to just make very clear that we want to be there for our constituents who have received the benefit of Medicaid expansion. Pulling the rug out from under those vulnerable populations is not really the direction we want to go,” explained the senator. 

Murkowski is troubled by parts of the new plan that would give the same tax credits to patients no matter what state they're from. 

“Our costs in alaska are higher than anywhere else in the country,” Murkowski noted.

I don't really see how any of these three can sign onto this bill and then be secure in their chances for reelection.  

There political opponents are sure to use a vote in favor of this bill to paint the three Republicans as heartless, cruel, and disconnected from the needs of their constituents.

But then again being heartless and cruel has certainly never cost Don Young very many votes. 

Don Young helps launch the "House Cannabis Caucus" that is focused on keeping the federal government from interfering in state pro-marijuana laws.

Courtesy of ADN: 

Alaska's sole congressman, Don Young, on Thursday co-launched the House Cannabis Caucus with three other lawmakers, vowing to pursue changes to banking and other federal laws that stand between states and autonomy over the marijuana industry. 

Young joined with Reps. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., and Jared Polis, D-Colo., to say they formed the coalition to focus on advancing legislation to put managing marijuana squarely in the hands of states. 

Alaska, Oregon, Colorado and California are among the eight states and the District of Columbia that have legalized marijuana for adult recreational use. Forty-four states have legalized varying forms of medicinal marijuana. 

Young said he helped launch the caucus as a conservative Republican who believes deeply in states' rights. 

"Alaska voted to legalize it — pretty large margin — and I believe in states' rights and the federal government should stay out of it, period," he said Thursday.

Gee, just when you think you know a guy.

I have to admit that I would have pegged Don Young as the LAST guy to defend Alaska's pot legalization laws.

However that seems to be because I was not paying attention to his pro-marijuana bills from the past.

Damn it finally happened. I am actually in agreement with Don Young.

I may have to go lie down.

But don't worry, I still think he's a crook.

New poll shows that Alaskans are pretty happy with their elected officials, but REALLY do not like Sarah Palin.

Courtesy of Alaska Dispatch:  

New polling shows that Alaskans are generally happy with their current elected officials; that U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who is up for reelection this year, has an edge over two potential primary opponents; and that most Alaskans just don't like former Gov. Sarah Palin. 

A look back at quarterly polls since 2010 by Alaska Survey Research shows a trend of generally positive views held by Alaskans about their congressional delegation and Gov. Bill Walker, though Rep. Don Young’s support has waned a bit over time. 

The article goes on to say that most Alaskans consider themselves moderate, while just over thirty percent consider themselves conservative, and about twenty percent self identify as progressives.

The poll also shows why it is very unlikely that Lisa Murkowski is going anyplace soon:

Nearly half of self-identified voters polled in March said they have a “very positive” or “somewhat positive” view of Murkowski, compared to 26.7 percent who had a somewhat or very negative view about her. Less than five percent of those polled weren’t sure who she is and 19.5 percent had a neutral view of her. 

However Don Young might finally find himself in dangerous waters as his positives and negatives are both at 37%, and his negatives have been drifting down for some time now.

Of course none of these results are anywhere near as bad as the poll numbers tracked fro Sarah Palin.

Alaskans polled last month didn’t think too highly of former Gov. Sarah Palin: 

56.4 percent had a negative opinion of her. Just 23.8 percent of those polled said they had a positive opinion of her -- only 7.9 percent “very positive.” 

Compared to quarterly polling in which Alaska Survey Research asked about Palin in 2010 and 2011, her negative ratings have stayed high -- around 50 percent, and her positive ratings have dropped from a high of around 42 percent. In 2010 and 2011, zero people polled said they didn’t know who she is -- a figure that rose to 2.2 percent in the latest poll. 

This is why Alaskans simply laugh whenever some dimwit from out of state suggests that Palin might run for office up here. 

Even SHE is not dumb enough to think that she would have a snowball's chance in Hell of actually winning an election. Certainly not up here at least.

So to sum up it appears that we are stuck with Murkowski for the time being, Don Young is on shaky ground, and Sarah Palin is dead in the water.

Alaska Congressman for life Don Young has a new challenger.

Courtesy of KTUU:  

Former journalist and non-profit executive Steve Lindbeck announced today that he’s running as a Democrat to unseat Young, saying it’s time for change. 

“He’s been there a long time and as Alaskans we owe him a lot of respect for 43 years of service but things do change. The way things worked before may not work in the future. We’ve got to look ahead,” Lindbeck told Channel 2. 

“Maybe it’s time for a fresh face,” he said.

Actually it is well past time for a "fresh face."

The question is will this Lindbeck fellow be it, or will he be crushed in defeat like so many who have gone before him?

Don Young is 83 years old and yet if he wants to be reelected, which he does, it is quite likely that he will be. Remember the Republican party still holds the reins of power in this state.

I know, I know, I'm cynical. But I have seen this movie play out so many times before it is all but impossible not to predict the ending.

Alaska's one and only Congressman (God aren't we proud) suggests that if elected Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders would control "everything" we do.

Courtesy of Think Progress:

Young told WFQD on Wednesday that he initially supported Jeb Bush because he knew his “old man” and now prefers John Kasich. But, Young says, Kasich has no chance of winning because he has no “charisma” and people “don’t think anymore.” 

Still, Young is seeking to rally Republicans around whoever is the nominee, calling this “the most crucial election” for Alaska and the nation. Why? Because Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton will seek to have the government “control everything you do.” 

Everything? Yes, everything. Young goes on to earnestly explain that Sanders or Clinton would mandate “when to get up, what to eat, what you are thinking, what school you are going to go to and what you are going to believe.”

When ever anybody asks me if Alaska's elections are rigged, I always respond with "Have you heard about Congressman Don Young?"

There really is no other way to explain how he is still in office, since I have yet to meet one person who will admit to voting for him.

But do you know what? Young has already filed to run in 2016, and there is little doubt that he will easily win again.

Feel free to pity us.

Ladies and gentleman Alaska's lone Congressman.

tremendous Don Young cameo: pic.twitter.com/zmePTEN5ka #McCarthy

— Jason Rano (@jayrano) October 8, 2015

I have actually spoken to Don Young once in person, he is just as much of an asshole face to face.

Don't bother asking me why we don't vote him out of office, I have been trying to figure that out for the last thirty plus years.

Alaska's sole Congressman has a solution to the homeless problem, wolves.

"Got wolves?"

Courtesy of CBS News:  

Alaska Rep. Don Young has settled on a novel solution to the problem of homelessness: wolves. Young, a long-serving Republican with a history of odd commentary, discussed the idea during an exchange on Thursday with Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, who was testifying before the House Natural Resources Committee about her department's budget. 

Young has been pushing for the Interior Department to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list, and during the hearing, he ridiculed a letter sent by 79 lawmakers to Jewell urging her to protect the gray wolf population. "How many of you have got wolves in your district?" 

Young asked the other lawmakers on the panel. "None. Not one." 

"They haven't got a damn wolf in their whole district," he added. "I'd like to introduce them in your district. If I introduced them in your district, you wouldn't have a homeless problem anymore."

I swear we elect politicians in Alaska based simply on how embarrassing they might be to the state. 

You know I really hate to argue with the Congressman, but we have wolves in Alaska. Including some that venture into the Anchorage bowl itself where most of our homeless congregate.

And yet we have a homeless population that is ranked among the top ten highest in America.

Not that it needed to be said, but his "solution" is both ridiculous and inhumane. Sort of like Don Young himself.

By the way I am not even sure that Young knows what he is saying anymore. I think he is more than likely suffering from some form of dementia or Alzheimer's. 

Not that that is any excuse.

Congressman Young "apologizes" to the Alaska Federation of Natives, and then promptly ruins it by assaulting a native woman who confronted him afterward.

So after making some incredibly insensitive remarks during an appearance at Wasilla High, where he essentially told an audience of students still mourning the loss of their friend to suicide that "suicide shows a lack of support from friends and family," Don Young tried to make nice with the the Alaska natives, whose communities have been ripped apart by the epidemic of suicide, by kind of sort of apologizing.

However one native Alaskan in attendance did not hear that apology, so she decided to talk to her Congressman in person.

Here is how that went.

Courtesy of TPM: 

Gloria Poullard approached Young to ask him about a profane speech he gave last week at Wasilla High School, in which the congressman offended students by arguing that suicide was caused by a lack of support from friends and family. 

"You know, it really put a hamper on my faith in you because my elders voted for you, and this is my state, I'm an Alaska native," Poullard said to Young, according to video of the exchange from local TV station KTUU. "How do you feel within yourself, what possessed you to even make a comment like that? My nephew just committed suicide." 

Young shushed her and shook her hand, to which Poullard responded "You don't tell me to shush." 

"Hey, I lost a nephew," he said. "I know what it feels like and I gotta ask myself, did I support him enough? Did I? I don't know." 

"Don't you get angry with me, don't even squeeze my hand," Poullard said. Young then released her hand and walked away.

Earlier I reminded you that Lisa Murkowski's successful write in campaign would probably have failed if not for the support of the AFN.

And a whole lot of Young's support comes from his ties to the Alaska native community.

I am not native but I am guessing that getting in their face and squeezing their hand until it hurts is not going to help him to gain back their confidence.  

Hey if you want somebody to talk about "bull sex" and blame suicide on the victim's friends and family. Then Alaska's Rep. Don Young is your man.

"And that's how gay sex works. Buncha perverts."

Courtesy of TPM:  

The Alaska Dispatch News reported that students and staff at Wasilla High School said U.S. Rep. Don Young (R-AK) "acted in a disrespectful and sometimes offensive manner to some students, used profanity and started talking about bull sex when confronted with a question about same-sex marriage" during his 60-minute appearance. 

When one student asked Young why he thought same-sex marriage was so bad, the congressman responded: “You can’t have marriage with two men. What do you get with two bulls?” according to Wasilla Principal Amy Spargo.  (Apparently Young answered "bullshit" to that last question.)

Witnesses told the Dispatch News that Young's comments on suicide also stunned the assembly, as students and staff were mourning the loss of a Wasilla student who took his own life last week. Young mentioned alcohol and depression and said that suicide shows a lack of support from friends and family, according to the witnesses. 

"When I heard 'a lack of support from family' and I heard 'a lack of support from friends,' I felt the oxygen go out of the room, but I gasped as well," Spargo told the newspaper. "It just isn't true in these situations. It's just such a hurtful thing to say."

Apparently Young's office realized that the fossil had once again made a giant fool of himself so they issued a half assed apology:

 “Congressman Young was very serious and forthright when discussing the issue of suicide, in part because of the high number of tragedies that affect Alaskan youth. He discussed what he believes are leading causes of youth suicide in our state and shared some suggestions for helping family members and friends who are dealing with suicidal thoughts,” spokesman Matt Shuckerow wrote in an email. “In no way did Congressman Young mean to upset anyone with his well-intentioned message. In light of the tragic events affecting the Wasilla High School community, he should have taken a much more sensitive approach.”

According to the Dispatch Young also said that one of the students who challenged him in the discussion needed "to learn some respect."

I imagine that when that young man is in the presence of somebody deserving respect he will do just that.

MSNBC's Chris Hayes "Did Alaska Congressman Don Young kill a guy?"

Click pompous ass to play video

Let me first say that I think I may have squealed out loud when I heard Chris Hayes say those words in the headline. However I think I deserve a pass on that as I have been waiting all week for this story to make it to cable news.

As you watch the segment you can see that neither Hayes, nor Young's opponent Forrest Dunbar, take any of this very seriously, but MSNBC also includes a kind of "best of Don Young" portion as well which as we Alaskans know all too well is anything but good for the Congressman.

Now I am hoping that this inspires other news outlets to really go after Young on this issue.

Because don't forget folks we really only have three choices here.

1. Either Don Young is a senile old coot who just says crazy shit.
2. Don Young is a habitual liar who says crazy shit.
3. Or Don Young is a murderer, who does crazy shit. 

And NONE of those are good for Don Young.

However getting him to admit any one of them IS good for Alaska. 

Speaking of stories finally getting national attention, somebody finally noticed that Don Young claimed to have killed a man.

Courtesy of TPM:

It is suddenly a bit of an open question whether the last person to touch Rep. Don Young (R-AK) somehow ended up dead. 

Earlier this month, according to the Alaska Dispatch News, Young's Democratic challenger Forrest Dunbar said that he had put his hand on Young's arm backstage while they were talking before a debate. 

“He freaked out. There is no other way to describe it," Dunbar told ADN. “He kind of snarled at me and said, ‘Don’t you ever touch me. Don’t ever touch me. The last guy who touched me ended up on the ground dead.'" 

A radio station employee who was backstage confirmed to ADN that she heard Young, 81, saying "something about the last guy who touched me, blah, blah" to Dunbar, who is 30. 

So what's up with that?

Well Roll Call wondered the same thing, so they asked him:  

He’s flouted ethics rules. Twisted a staffer’s arm. Even allegedly threatened a life, telling his Democratic challenger this fall that the last person to touch him “ended up on the ground dead” — a fact he told CQ Roll Call there was “some truth” to.

Okay enough is enough. If this old son-of-a-bitch is going to openly admit to committing murder and law enforcement both in Alaska and Washington D.C. do nothing about it what does that say about justice in this country?

How hard is it for the state troopers, the D.C. police, or the FBI to walk up to this old fossil and simply ask him #Whodidyoukill?

First interview with Congressman Don Young after he threatened his Democratic challenger fails to ask him the most important question. #Whodidyoukill?

"The last guy who touched me ended up on the ground dead."

As all of you know I am obsessed with discovering who our lone Congressman has killed, and where he hid the bodies, ever since that fisheries debate in Kodiak, during which he said the following:

"Don’t you ever touch me. Don’t ever touch me. The last guy who touched me ended up on the ground dead.” 

So I was really excited to learn that Young had recently been interviewed by KTUU reporter Grace Jang. As far as I know this was the first interview with Young since the incident, but sadly Jang did not directly ask him about it.

However she did ask about Young's history with that kind of behavior:

Grace Jang: Your challenger mentioned a few incidents, like the staffer’s arm and the racial slur and the antics on the (House) floor. You responded to that. Can you tell us again what you said? 

Young: I said, ‘That’s me.’ I make no bones about it. I don’t want to be touched. I’ve never been touched unexpectedly by anybody. That was my immediate response. I was trained that way. He’s too young to know that. He’s never been in the military. And I’ve been that way. That’s who I am. I’m Don Young. I’m an Alaskan congressman, and I’ll always be the Alaskan congressman until they decide not to vote for me. But I’ll continue being Don Young. I’m not going to change because somebody wants me to change.

Jesus he even talks about himself in the third person.  As if there was any doubt as to his arrogance.

And the son-of-a-bitch has no plans to retire either. Just listen to this:

Grace Jang: You’re 81 years old. How much longer can you do this? 

Young: I feel good. Physically, I’m in great shape. I go well, and I do what I have to do. There will be a time when if I can’t do it physically, I won’t do it. I’ve got a commitment to my daughters. And if I know I can’t walk, I’m staggering around, I’ll probably not do it. I know that time will come. Right now, though, I’m tearin’ ‘em up and making little pieces out of them. So I’m having a good time.

"Tearin' em up and making little pieces out of them." That is exactly what he is doing to the reputation of Alaskans. 

I am under no illusions that Young will lose this next election, but dammit he certainly should.

And if reporters would simply start demanding to know who it was that he supposedly killed, or at least make him admit that he lied about that, this might actually be the election that sees him forced to step down.

And THAT would be good news for Alaskans indeed.

Investigating Don Young's apparent murder spree.

So as most of you know Alaska's sole congressman , Don Young, recently told his Democratic challenger that, "The last guy who touched me ended up on the ground dead."

I think a lot of people took this to be mere rhetoric, from an old coot, who likes to talk tough.

But I am not so sure.

After all this was the last person that we know of to touch Don Young.


So here's my question. Has anybody seen this guy since?

Because I sure haven't.

I seriously think that this needs to be investigated more thoroughly.

After all I live in a state where killing people, and hiding their bodies, is almost a cottage industry.

This place is huge and there is no telling just how many people Don Young may have murdered and hidden away in the remote corners of the state. And let's face it, the guy has a history of losing his temper for really no good reason.

That is why I have reached out to Don Young on Twitter to ask for clarification.

@repdonyoung Recently you bragged to Forrest Dunbar that you recently killed a man. So here is my question #Whodidyoukill
— Gryphen 2009 (@Gryphen2009) October 5, 2014

And just in case he does not think I am being serious.

@repdonyoung I would like an answer to that last tweet.
— Gryphen 2009 (@Gryphen2009) October 5, 2014

Because I am.

@repdonyoung No seriously if you fail to respond to my tweets that is like an admission of guilt #WHodidyoukill
— Gryphen 2009 (@Gryphen2009) October 5, 2014

As an Alaskan I cannot simply sit idly by while this maniac gets away with murder.

I would like to suggest that every reporter who gets the chance to interview this lunatic to ask him to clarify his statements.

Until that happens I suggest that those of you on Twitter simply ask him for a response using the hashtag #Whodidyoukill. After all we cannot have a confessed murder in Congress now can we?

Alaska's lone Congressman Don Young is still just bullying his way through life.

So as I mentioned before there was a fisheries debate in Kodiak on Wednesday night. 

Not only were the Senate candidates there, but so were the candidates running for Congress, including Alaskan fossil Don Young and Democratic challenger Forrest Dunbar.

And it was during this debate that this happened:  

Forrest Dunbar alluded to that backstage moment in an onstage remark: “Immaturity was the thing you said behind the curtain there, Congressman Young.” 

“Tell me what I said,” challenged Young, 81. 

“Very nice,” replied Dunbar, 30, before turning the discussion back to the issues. So what happened before the debate? 

Dunbar, reached Friday and pressed about the encounter, said the two were walking near each other backstage when Young said angrily, “You're not from Cordova any more than I’m from Fort Yukon. I had you looked into.” 

Dunbar, raised in that Southcentral Alaska town after his family moved there from Eagle in the Interior when he was a child, said he tried politely responding to Young. Young grew up in California and moved to Alaska as a young man, not long after serving in the U.S. Army in the mid-1950s. 

Dunbar said he was puzzled and in a friendly gesture touched Young on his arm lightly and asked: “What are you talking about?” Then: 

“He freaked out,” said Dunbar. “There is no other way to describe it. 

“He kind of snarled at me and said, ‘Don’t you ever touch me. Don’t ever touch me. The last guy who touched me ended up on the ground dead,’” said Dunbar. 

Before walking away from the congressman, Dunbar said he waved his hand in a dismissive gesture, saying, “Whatever, man.” 

Young replied, according to Dunbar, with a taunting, swishing motion of his own hand: “Oh, you got a sweet swing. You got a sweet swing.”

Now apparently part of this encounter was witnessed by a third party, but seriously is there really any doubt that Young would make comments such as these?

After all it was only two months ago that we saw this exchange happen.

And let's not forget that back in 2007 when the Congressman said this to a fellow House member: 

"If we continue this we'll be called biting one another, very much like the mink in my state that kill their own," Young said. "There is always another day when those who bite will be killed, too. And I'm very good at that." 

Don Young is a blowhard and a bully and it is well past time that his bovine ass be put out to pasture.

I recently watched a local show on politics and found myself really quite impressed with Forrest Dunbar. I really cannot say that he has much of a chance against Young, especially since polling shows him trailing by 15%, but in my estimation he would make quite an impressive representative for my state.

And after all who could really be worse than freaking Don Young?