From the “you just can’t make this stuff up department“, something so outrageously stupid, you wonder how the Navy Admiral being interviewed by congressman Hank Johnson (D) GA kept himself from busting out laughing.
It should be an April fools joke, but isn’t. Watch the video below.
h/t to Bruce F.
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Do these people get paid by the minute?
[snip – OTT]
If Guam is ready to tip over and capsize, LA is really in trouble.
That was an elected official.
The man has no more concept of reality than does a child.
Oh my… that is stunning.
Can he be made a Global Warming Tzar?
A most unfortunate faux-pas on Congressman Johnson’s part. But, on Rush Limbaugh’s radio program he admonished everyone that Congressman Johnson is suffering from a very serious medical issue which is apparently affecting his cognitive abilities quite a bit. That was before he played the audio of the incident.
“We don’t anticipate that.”
Wonderful!
And we Brits think that we have dumb politicians.
Astounding. Now, I have to worry about islands capsizing.
Well I completely understand I have for years been telling people that if we don’t stop increasing nothern hemisphere populations soon we are going to become top heavy and the entire world is going to flip over!
And it would teach us right! Because we would all fall off because we have not adapted to living upside down like the Austrailians!
Depressing
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/03/depressing.html
……….it seemed as if we had the warmists on the run.
……..a more realistic appraisal might suggest that we have not even dented the underlying agenda.
Miliband is paving the way to get the Kyoto treaty protocols back on track for agreement in Mexico later this year, as part of an international treaty. And he wants to pull in developing countries into the treaty maw, with them offering some “commitments” of their own – more cosmetic than real – in order to cement in the developed (or “Annex 1”) countries into the deal.
This move comes alongside a meeting between Gordon Brown and “billionaire financier” George Soros, Obama’s economic adviser Larry Summers, economist Lord Nicholas Stern and other finance ministers. In parallel, they were working on stitching up the financial package which is so central to the real agenda.
Their headline goal is to raise $30bn (£20bn) a year immediately and $100bn a year by 2020, ostensibly “to enable developing countries to adapt to climate change.”
Whatever mechanisms are eventually agreed, however, of one thing there can be absolute certainty. Very little of the money allocated to this cause will ever reach its stated destination. As with the current aid programme, most of it will be soaked up by banks, finance houses, investors and brokers, in fees and commissions. Huge amounts will line the pockets of governments in the recipient countries, and NGOs will grow fat and rich.
Britain brandishes olive branch to restart global climate change talks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/31/ed-miliband-restart-climate-change-talks
Unbelievable ineptitude. Thanks, Georgia.
Catastrophic Environmental Scare Tactics for Political Gain 101
Lesson number 1: Research the issue to gain credibility.
I’m speechless.
And these people are making our laws.
And I thought all the stupid politicians we in Westminster
Being from the UK I do not know this gentleman.
However, from his ridiculous comments and his very slow, laboured, speech I can only assume one of 3 explanations:
1) He is trying to inject some humour. Total fail!
2) He is an idiot.
3) He has had too large a liquid lunch.
4) He is very ill. I very much hope this is not the case. If it is, I feel very sorry for him.
If it is any of the others, I feel very sorry for GA!
Sorry, typo, that should read were
Just to be fair, I found this on Digg:
http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-gallowa …
Henry Johnson:
“I wasn’t suggesting that the island of Guam would literally tip over,” said Johnson. “I was using a metaphor to say that with the addition of 8,000 Marines and their dependents – an additional 80,000 people during peak construction to the port on the tiny island with a population of 180,000 – could be a tipping point which would adversely affect the island’s fragile ecosystem and over burden its already overstressed infrastructure.
“Having traveled to Guam last year, I saw firsthand how this beautiful – but vulnerable island – is already overburdened, and I was simply voicing my concerns that the addition of that many people could tip the delicate balance and do harm to Guam.”
He apparently is a deadpan.
REPLY: comparing his language during the session to what is written above suggests he didn’t write it, but that a more knowledgeable aide in damage control mode did. – Anthony
This has simply got to be a joke!
Is the black gentleman drunk as hell, or what? How do people like that get elected over there?
He is clearly qualified to be Obama’s science advisor.
Put me down as one of the ones hoping that this is a function of some illness or medication problem (in which case I wish him a speedy recovery). Or that he drank lunch and lost count (in which case I wish him a speedy recovery).
If it’s much else, alas I must wish him a speedy recall.
Yikes.
M
I had to check his quals on his web page. Of course he was a judge… this makes me feel better for those he sentenced:
Prior to his election to Congress, Rep. Johnson served twelve (12) years as a DeKalb County magistrate judge, five (5) years as a county commissioner and three (3) years as chair of the DeKalb County Budget Committee.
Rep. Johnson practiced civil and criminal law in DeKalb County for twenty-seven (27) years. A staunch supporter of public education, he is a graduate of the District of Columbia Public Schools, Clark College in Atlanta and the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University. Rep. Johnson is married to Attorney Mereda Davis Johnson and has two children.
Shouldn’t he have just told him “Generally sir, Islands are connected at the bottom, so no I don’t think it will capsize.”
Or am I not in on the joke after the guy spent like five minutes trying to describe the shape of Guam. Cheez maybe he was drunk.
This idiot seems to think that land is floating on the sea and will sink if something too heavy (like too may people) live on it, I cannot believe this is not a joke, sorry it has to be!!!!