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.
I haven’t seen anything this comical since Cheech and Chong.
Be gentle, guys. He may be a fool, but he is our fool!
Bob in Atlanta
This seat has been the fool’s seat for more than twenty years – before him it was Cynthia McKinney’s. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_McKinney) She has been described as the cutest little communist in Congress. Cynthia went to Cuba to help harvest sugar cane while a US Congressman. She also hit a Capitol protective officer for doing his job and verifying here credentials.
Jim B in Canada (11:35:23) : “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!”
First sin. You can’t spell “Australia”.
Second sin. It is the Northern Hemisphere that is inverted, if you use the correct stellar reference frame. The flying fox or fruit bat, which migrated here from north ofthe Equator, hangs upside down because it has not re-adapated yet.
Punishment: May you chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny down.
I was in Guam in May 1975 with the medical volunteers of Australian Society for Intercountry Aid, the sole non-US contributors to Operation New Life. The US Navy operated a splendidly built and splendidly administered Tent City at Orote Point housing around (mostly Vietnamese) 140,000 refugees. (Readers who were involved in Operation New Life please email me darby@tpg.com.au). My recollection is that C-141s transporting more refugees from Subic Bay were required to use low tyre pressures to avoid upsetting the Island of Guam’s stability when they landed at Agana. This was of course near the centre of gravity of the island which may have helped. Probably that was the reason for siting the airbase there.
It reminds me of another video, of Congresswoman Maxine Waters questioning Fed Chairman Bernanke. He had to back up and explain simple basic facts to her. He was quite patient – as one would be with a 6-year-old. (Somebody should start a collection of these.)
I think we can also assume that the Navy Admiral knows a bit about the size, shape, and location of Guam.
“…Johnson, who is on his third round of treatment with interferon,…”
“… began an experimental regimen of daily doses of the drug interferon …”
Would that be covered for one of us under Obama’s new Health Care Regime?
He definitely said “tip over and capsize”.
But of course that’s just plain silly. What it would do, is sink.
Claude Harvey: “Is “Guam tipping over” goofier than “earth burning up from plant food”?”
Certainly not. But it is on a par with Al Gore’s jaw-dropping assertion that the temperature of the Earth’s interior is “several million degrees”.
Geoff : “May you chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny down.”
Good grief – what would my didgeree do?