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Congressman Yucks It Up On House Floor Amid Naming Of Post Office For Fallen Soldier
dailycaller.com ^ | june 18, 2014 | betsy rothstein

Posted on 06/21/2014 11:25:21 PM PDT by lowbridge

On Tuesday, The Daily Caller‘s Mirror blog reported that Alaskan Republican Rep. Don Young was clowning around on the House floor during the naming of a post office. He stuck his fingers in his ears and made funny faces, much like Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble on The Flintstones. Post office namings, as you might imagine, are not terribly exciting legislative moments in Washington.

But this one actually meant something.

Rep. Scott Garrett (R-N.J.) sponsored the bill to honor a fallen solder.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: 113th; alaska; donyoung; fallen; newjersey; scottgarrett
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To: GOPsterinMA; NFHale; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; sickoflibs; Clintonfatigued; Perdogg; KC_Lion
I must admit I was pleasantly surprised to see Gary Oldman's comments. My rule of thumb is always assume a Hollywood celeb is a moonbat Obama loving socialist unless proven otherwise (which is why I wasn't surprised to find out that Philip Seymour Hoffman was a leftie after he OD'ed, though I had no idea of his political leanings before then).

Good news for me, as the next movie I'm planning to see in theaters in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, starring Oldman.

61 posted on 06/24/2014 6:37:30 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Looking at the weather lately, I could really use some 'global warming' right now!)
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Damn dirty apes, I didn’t see the first one, is the audience supposed to sympathize with the apes and root for them to enslave humanity like in the original movies?

I was positive Oldman was lib, guess I was mistaken.

He’s a terrific actor.


62 posted on 06/24/2014 9:39:33 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: Impy

I’ve known Oldman has been on the right since he publicly blasting a film he was in, “The Contender”, back in 2000 as leftist propaganda.


63 posted on 06/24/2014 10:18:04 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I hate that movie.


64 posted on 06/24/2014 10:47:35 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: Impy

It’s more palatable watching it as the knee-slapping comedy that it is. It’s a premier example of how left-wingers think government/politics is supposed to work.


65 posted on 06/24/2014 10:56:35 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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Yes, pleasantly surprised. I do think that some of the Hollweirdos “go along” with the Obama rump swabbing just to stay employed though. What %? No idea, but I’d say less than 20% anyway. At the end of the day, who doesn’t want to keep what they work for?

These “Planet of the Apes” remakes are just too GCI for me. I grew up watching the originals (played as repeats) and like most things, those are the standard.


66 posted on 06/25/2014 5:49:50 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA
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To: NFHale; Impy; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; sickoflibs; Clintonfatigued; Perdogg; Bender2

Speaking of Nicholson/The Shining/Tuco:

Eli’s wife, Anne Jackson, played the nurse that visited Danny and Wendy in the home before they took off for The Overlook...


67 posted on 06/25/2014 5:57:24 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA
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To: GOPsterinMA

RE The Shining:

Still on my favorites list... although I liked the book better.

“Might I suggest....She needs to be.... corrected, sir....”

Chilling stuff!!!


68 posted on 06/25/2014 6:13:41 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale

Never read the book. Loved Delbert Grady!


69 posted on 06/25/2014 6:16:08 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA
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To: GOPsterinMA

I was big into King’s early novels - Salem’s Lot; The Stand; It!, The Shining... also Robert McKimmon and Dean Koontz as well.

Too bad King is a raving lefty. Won’t buy his stuff now.

“Grady”... caught cabin fever, murdered the whole family...


70 posted on 06/25/2014 6:25:39 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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I know right!!!! I sure as hell would not want a POST OFFICE named after me. A post office is place that provides patronage jobs to scumbag democrats, where people have to wait in line, bored to tears.

A landfill would more of an honor.

It seems appropriate to me, since the USPS is one of the largest employers of American veterans.

71 posted on 06/25/2014 7:26:25 AM PDT by Route797
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RE:”Damn dirty apes, I didn’t see the first one, is the audience supposed to sympathize with the apes and root for them to enslave humanity like in the original movies?”

This lists them all :Planet of the Apes (franchise)

The remake Planet of the Apes 2001 sucked.

I think you are talking about the newest remake ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ 2011 (prior to this 2014 movie) reminded me of a King Kong remake.
I only saw it because it was on HBO.

It had impressive special effects but with a script and acting that both really suck. I wouldn't pay to see it.

The original 1968 had few special effects but it has a pretty darn good script, but each sequel made in the 1970s was worse than the rest prior set before it.

The idea of a bunch of apes taking over is pretty dumb anyway,

72 posted on 06/25/2014 11:18:35 AM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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Someone, please primary him!


73 posted on 06/25/2014 3:15:33 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The War on Drugs is Big Government statism)
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I think you are talking about the newest remake ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ 2011

Yes. Didn't see that one, this new one is a sequel to that one.

I did see the 2001 Tim Burton one. The ending made no damn sense.

74 posted on 06/25/2014 8:05:28 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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RE:”I did see the 2001 Tim Burton one. The ending made no damn sense”

The 1968er I probably seen 100X, and has no real special effects.

The 2001 version I wouldn't watch a second time for free.

Come on :
Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Maurice Evans, Kim Hunter, James Whitmore, James Daly, and Linda Harrison.
vs
Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Clarke Duncan, Paul Giamatti, and Estella Warren.

Kids today are used to such crap.

75 posted on 06/25/2014 8:18:16 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: Route797

Their unions are forces of evil.


76 posted on 06/25/2014 8:20:13 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Filling is closed in Alaska. He has 3 nobody challengers with no money. As I said, Alaska conservatives have no excuse for letting him off the hook.


77 posted on 06/25/2014 8:22:40 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: sickoflibs

Roth is a good actor. Marky Mark OTOH.....

I saw all the originals on the Sci-Fi channel.


78 posted on 06/25/2014 8:25:31 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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Recall the last scenes with Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Maurice Evans and Kim Hunter near the cave, when DR Zaus ordered the blowing up of the historical artifacts so the other apes never find out about them.

Zaus says “Man is evil and will destroy everything he comes across, he will make a desert of his home and yours” (isn't that the libs/illegals moving to where we live doing that?),
then Charlton Heston with the babe on a horse coming across the statue of liberty,’Damn you all to hell, you blew it up,.....”

I still love to watch the first ~ 20 minutes before they are captured, Heston's lines as Taylor are classic.
He rubs into one of the others “Everything you knew and loved are long dead”

When I was a teen I read the book too.
I never would of after these newer movies.

In those days acting and script mattered.

79 posted on 06/25/2014 8:41:30 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: sickoflibs

Complete crap. But they think it’s good, they’ve been programmed/it’s all they know.


80 posted on 06/26/2014 5:36:15 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA
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