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.
The Dem’s should convince him to retire, after all, he’s in a safe Dem district and hepatitis-C is not a good thing.
Remember, he replaced Cynthia McKinney who asked NASA to drive a Mars lunar rover to one of the American flags placed by one of the Apollo missions.
wow!
I had to look it up, but
Los Angles has a population density of about 2500/sq mi
NYC: 27,440/sq mi
Guam: about 833. I used a 200,000 population/240 sq mi.
If I were he, which I’m not, I would be more concerned about NYC falling onto Washington DC.
yikes. No wonder thay don’t read the bills they pass.
Is this guy a real congressman? Anyone here from GA who has this guy as their person?
He has an extremely advanced case of Hep C, but I suspect there’s more involved. He also fears that another manned mission to the moon will send it out of orbit, that drilling in ANWR will mean “heavy drilling equipment will cause the poles to shift and Kansas City will end up as the new North Pole” and excessive use of his staffers’ office microwave will cause “the oxygen in the oven to interact with the atmosphere, making it overheat and burn away.”
His Democrat cohorts, fully-aware of his condition, nevertheless saw fit to *place* him in front of the cameras.
Has it come down to this? Exposing someone who should be under a doctor’s care to ridicule merely to get an environmental sound bite?
Has Georgia legalised cannabis?
As George Carlin said: BS in BS out. That´s all.
anthony, u will love this:
Bishop Hill: Blimey. Peter Webster’s comments in the Der Spiegel article are
quite something, aren’t they?
While amateur climatologist McIntyre spent years begging in vain for the raw
data, Webster eventually managed to convince Jones to send them to him. He
is the only scientist to date who has been given access to the data. “To be
honest, I’m shocked by the sloppy documentation,” Webster told SPIEGEL:
— Unnoticed by the public, Webster has spent several months searching for
inconsistencies in the Jones curve. For example, it has been known for some
time that there are noticeable jumps in ocean temperature readings. The
reason for the inconsistencies is that, beginning in the 1940s, water
temperature was no longer measured in buckets filled with seawater, but at
the intake valves for the water used to cool ship engines.
But when he analyzed Jones’s data, Webster discovered suspiciously similar
jumps in temperature — but on land. “Water buckets can’t explain this,”
says Webster.
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2010/4/1/der-spiegel.html
Sounds like he was either,
*very drunk
*doing drugs
* quite ill and on medication
If any of these applied why did his aides let the proceedings continue?
Tip over? Ocean acidification will dissolve Guam long before
it tips over.
Please, this is the same congressman that every msm outlet was covering during the Joe Wilson “You lie!” episode. They were more than happy to have him slander anyone who didn’t agree with Obama as a klansmen.
If it was ok to quote him in January it’s ok to quote him in March. Goose, gander and all that.
The tipping point has already happened. The weight of the thousands of delegates at the Copenhagen conference and their fleets of cars caused a shift in the Earths axis, exacerbated by Global Warming.
Agreed that the tipping over of Guam is a real concern, but it might just take the extra 5 thousand marines and their families. However one extra person could be the last straw in this situation and were Al Gore to land there on his private jet, we may lose Guam to the sea.
The only consolation would be that Al Gore would go with it. With congressmen of that caliber and intelligence God help America.
I accept that the Congressman is suffering the effects of treatment for his condition and this treatment has the side effects stated.
What I do not accept is that a lawmaker is active in the house and voting on legislation in his current state, which is obviously impaired by the said treatments.
Well as any 8th grade high school Geography student knows, all islands; that is any island at all, has a width; that is; from shore to shore, as the Congressman so eloquenly and painstakingly describes it, at its narrowest point is zero; well at least as close to zero as can be represented in our quantum mechanical world.
I suppose it is possible mathematically to have an island that has a discontinuous perimeter, that might permit disappearance of that perimeter at some value greater than zero width from shore to shore; but that would only be a theoretical model of an island; and I have not heard of anyone discovering such a real place.
At least I am quite sure that the Island of Guam; from shore to shore, at its narrowest is zero distance.
I don’t even know whether Georgia has any islands, that the Congressman can go and see, to familiarize himself with the concept and general geometrical properties of small islands.
I do know that Australia is too big to be an island; so they call it a Continent; which has something to do with not wetting your pants.
So nowhere in Australia does the width from shore to shore ever go to zero like it does on islands.
And Australians are not known for wetting their pants; although they have been known to put the fear of that into some other not so nice people.
I think we here in the US need to do a little revamping of Congress. Term limits are probably a good idea and maybe a mandatory retirement age. We also need to think about recall elections and other means to get people who are seriously ill or otherwise unable to serve effectively out of office without waiting for an election. I can understand the argument that you may not want this to be political. You don;t want recall to be so easy that there is no consistent leadership in Congress. But there must be some mechanism to remove people from office who cannot do their job effectively.
this is a prime example why people should not be voted in based solely on what party they claim but instead what his intelligence and beliefs are
My father-in-law suffers from Hepatatis C. He also has primary liver cancer (caused by Hep C) which is thankfully in remission right now. He also went through interferon treatment few years back. While being affected pretty badly, his brain functions just fine. Steve Jobs had liver translant recently and he is pretty sharp.
If congressman’s liver functions so badly as to make him believe that island can capsize, he should not be in Congress. He should not be operating heavy machinery or driving. He should be at home, in the hospital anywhere else but not in the place where his vote could be affecting everyone in this country and fair amount of people outside of it.
Here’s a another non-april-fools joke, US will spend like their great grand children’s great grand children’s time to pay off the chinese debt alone. And all because the Obama administration refuse to face the reality of a nine-year-war spending, without having paid off the former war-debt. Added to that rules three economic downturns, one more worse than the former.
I’m thinking the internal market wont be able to pay for everything, after all it still hasn’t been able to do so. And a cap’n’trade program that mostly directed at the internal market wont do much, just look at EU, which countries’ debts have increased.
I understand that the honorable gentleman suffers from hepatitis C, a disease that affects mental function. He is more to be pitied than censured.
Is “Guam tipping over” goofier than “earth burning up from plant food”? I’m pretty sure I could chop down a few Guam trees (do they have any?), study their growth rings, apply “sophisticated statistical manipulations” and make a pretty good case that Guam has tipped over several times in the past. Not just anyone can perform such an analysis. Distinguishing “regular trees” from “tipping over” trees is a delicate art.
In the Netherlands we have a socialist congresslady who said the eartquake of Haiti was caused bij global warming.
Didn’t see that coming. Wow….. just… wow.
Congressman Hank Johnson had to be trying to make a joke. No one is that ignorant. If he was serious, then his district would have to have a majority of voters just as ignorant as Mr. Johnson appeared to be.
Regardless of his circumstances, he clearly is not suited for office.
Unfortunately his incompetence is not unusual in congress.
Time to replace most (all?) of them
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That’d better be a joke, or else someone will have to inform the citizens of Georgia that sending their State Idiot to Congress is not funny.