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| Rep. Hank Johnson: Guam could 'tip over and capsize' |
| 2010-04-01 |
| Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) is afraid that the U.S. Territory of Guam is going to "tip over and capsize" due to overpopulation. Fergawdsake, Joe! What're you doing out there? Johnson expressed his worries during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on the defense budget Friday. Addressing Adm. Robert Willard, who commands the Navy's Pacific Fleet, Johnson made a tippy motion with his hands and said sternly, "My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize." Willard paused and said: "We don't anticipate that." ...you friggin moron. Like other islands, Guam is attached to the sea floor, which makes it extremely unlikely that it will tip over, even if there are lots and lots of people on it. Geez. Thanks for clearing that up. I was worried... Guam is 30 miles long and up to 9 miles wide in certain spots, with a population of 175,000 civilians. The military is proposing the addition of 8,000 U.S. servicememebers and their families. Reached for comment, a spokesman for Johnson said the lawmaker had visited Guam, and his concern was that the influx of military personnel would overwhelm the island's infrastructure and ecosystem. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #47 how do we really know that's the real Joe, and not a Joebot sending from a repeater in the Philippines? I'm skeptical til I see the correct code involving CAPLOCKS, Madonna and OWG |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-04-01 23:11 |
| #46 GLOBAL WARMING WAR-induced DIAPORAS = COMING POPULATION, CULTURAL SHIFTS = ............CLUSTERS OF FLOATING HOMES/HOUSEBOATS/VILLAGES along future Guam coast lines. HONG KONG, SHANGHAI MALDIVES come to Guam??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-04-01 22:46 |
| #45 DAILY TIMES.PK > MALDIVES EYES "FLOATING HOMES" AS SEA LEVELS RISE. Iff my various personal dreams/visions are correct, DITTO FOR GUAM-CNMI-MICRON,ETC. IN A FUTURE TIME. AND FYI, this kind of GLOBAL WARMING effect throughout ASIA-PACIFIC is exclusive of BANGLADESH, PAKISTAN, MALAYSIA-INDONESIA, ....@etc SOUTH ASIA REPLACING THE PHILIPPINES + OTHER ASIAN AS SOURCE OF CHEAP INTERNATIONAL LABOR [read, CULTURAL, POPULATION DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES]. AFAIS Contractors are already bringing in batches of MUSLIM WORKERS from SOUTH/SE ASIA for the MARINE BUILDUP, NOT FILIPINOS,ETC. whom are now deemed as too expensive relative to the Banglas Pakis,Malays-Indons, etc. Just sayin. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-04-01 22:41 |
| #44 You crazy people - its cow tipping thats in - not island tipping |
| Posted by: Chief 2010-04-01 22:08 |
| #43 Is that district anywhere near Plains? No, but a major landmark of the district is Stone(d)Mountain. That might explain a lot. |
| Posted by: GK 2010-04-01 21:55 |
| #42 Hate to deflate everyone's fun, but check the date and read this. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2010-04-01 21:12 |
| #41 Showed the video to my 14 year old. She couldn't stop laughing. Showed it to my 11 yo daughter, and she thinks he might be on drugs. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-04-01 21:02 |
| #40 Maybe she shouldn't laugh. How would anyone's brain be after spending an evening with this guy. He probably got his info on good authority from him. |
| Posted by: tipper 2010-04-01 18:45 |
| #39 Showed the video to my 14 year old. She couldn't stop laughing. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2010-04-01 15:52 |
| #38 Parkview? |
| Posted by: Beavis 2010-04-01 15:42 |
| #37 You didn't happen to know a Coach Carter there did you? My long lost cousin. Still living in Lilburn a far as i know. |
| Posted by: ~dnt 2010-04-01 15:31 |
| #36 Willard paused and said: "We don't anticipate that." I say the Admiral gets an honorary Snark of the Day for that one |
| Posted by: SteveS 2010-04-01 15:21 |
| #35 Is that district anywhere near Plains? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-04-01 14:33 |
| #34 Mojo, there were MIG's in "Top Gun"- remember the 4G inverted dive that Tom Cruise did - the plane directly under him was a MIG. They were in the beginning and the end of the movie. |
| Posted by: Onslow 2010-04-01 14:05 |
| #33 |
| Posted by: Mizzou Mafia 2010-04-01 13:57 |
#32 His office is claiming it was a "maritime metaphor" His office staff are scared to death of being kicked off the federal gravy train. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2010-04-01 11:55 |
| #31 I don't remember any MiGs in "Top Gun"... F-5s, sure. |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-04-01 11:36 |
| #30 About the Admiral and a bit more That Naval officer is ADM Willard, Commander USPACOM. Of course, I can call him “Rat” as that was his callsign when I met him as the CO of VF-51, the Screaming Eagles. He’s a pretty cool guy with a good sense of humor. He was one of the advisors on “Topgun” and also was one of the MiG pilots in the movie. |
| Posted by: tipper 2010-04-01 11:28 |
| #29 His office is claiming it was a "maritime metaphor" |
| Posted by: Beavis 2010-04-01 11:24 |
| #28 Wow. Wouldn't put him in charge of making sure ants find a picnic. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-04-01 11:02 |
| #27 As long as they don't hold any liberal rallies off of the island's center of mass, they ought to be OK. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-04-01 10:52 |
| #26 Atomic Conspiracy----If you are referring to my comment (#1), I was deadly serious. The Admiral must have felt that he was visiting an asylum when he went to the hearings. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2010-04-01 10:42 |
| #25 Ah, Smiffa's replacement. That explains it. |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-04-01 10:35 |
| #24 Up here they're called Ring Dings. And they're gooooood... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-04-01 10:27 |
| #23 You only think you're kidding, Alaska Paul. Official Ding Dong webpage, featuring none other than uber-moonbat Ted Turner! There has to be something highly subversive about this. Btw, I always had a hard time remembering what Ding Dongs were actually called, and just referred to them as "those fudge hockey puck things." |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2010-04-01 09:32 |
| #22 Thank goodness I left Lilburn a decade ago. |
| Posted by: Beavis 2010-04-01 09:31 |
| #21 Georgia's 4th congressional district Rep. Johnson makes a very convincing case for drug testing Congress. I almost expected him to tear into a package of Ding Dongs right there. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-04-01 09:14 |
| #20 Georgia's 4th Cong. District lies adjacent to the City of Atlanta. Few surprises here. Link. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-04-01 09:04 |
| #19 Where is his district? I need to know where that high a density of imbeciles is Georgia, so as to avoid it. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2010-04-01 08:45 |
| #18 it's April. He's a fool. So....um... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-04-01 07:57 |
| #17 This IS an April Fools right? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-04-01 06:54 |
| #16 One of the legendary stories of the "Old Navy" claimed that a frontier congressman emerged from a below decks tour of a wooden navy vessel exclaiming, "Why, it's all hollow down there!" |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2010-04-01 06:18 |
| #15 Reminds me of the cattle guard story. CATTLE GUARDS For those of you who have never traveled to the West or Southwest, cattle guards are horizontal steel rails placed at fence openings, in dug-out places in the roads adjacent to highways (sometimes across highways), to prevent cattle from crossing over that area. For some reason the cattle will not step on the "guards," probably because they fear getting their feet caught between the rails. A few months ago, President Obama received a report that there were over 100,000 cattle guards in Colorado. Because Colorado ranchers had protested his proposed changes in grazing policies, he ordered the Secretary of the Interior to fire half of the guards immediately. Before the Interior Secretary could respond and presumably straighten him out, Vice-President, Joe Biden, intervened with a request that before any guards were fired, they be given six months reetraining. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-04-01 06:03 |
| #14 Cynbat the sailor. Pretty annoying to blow one of my favorite jokes this early in the morning. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2010-04-01 05:59 |
| #13 Maybe he is getting oceanographic advice from his predecessor, "Cybat the Sailor" McKinney. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2010-04-01 05:57 |
| #12 Hank, Hank, Hank.... It's Georgia pine trees that "tip over" bro, not islands. Come on man, you be makin us look bad down here. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-04-01 05:42 |
| #11 It's in no danger of tipping over with all those extra people. It might sink, though. |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2010-04-01 04:36 |
| #10 "BATTLESHIP OKLAHOMA", HUGO CHAVEZ's COUNTRY/ISLANDS-DESTROYING, US-MADE "EARTHQUAKE BOMBS" ABOARD NAVAL/MARITIME VESSELS AS US RETREATS/WITHDRAWS FROM TASIA-PACIFIC NOT HWITSHANDING. * "Guam is attached to the sea floor" > Are the Perts sure of that? When I returned to Guam in the 1990's I heard new geologic Theories about how the underwater mountain = Mountain range of which Guam-CNMI is zenith is akin to a GEOLOGIC VERSION OF A MASSIVE UNDERWATER CORAL/ROCK POLYP, HEAVY OR FAT ON TOP BUT HELD UP AT ITS BASE BY THIN OR WEAK STEM OR OTHER CONNECTIVE FUSE TO THE SEA FLOOR. Think MUSHROOM, LILYPAD, or UPSIDE DOWN SPADE [Cards]. Just sayin. Iff there is disagreement or lack of consensus by US-World Perts as per GLOBAL WARMING, CAUSES AND EFFECTS, WHY NOT SAME FOR "SAFE/ACADEMIC" GEOLOGY AND OTHER MAJOR SCIENCES? Anuther test for "GLOBALISM" + so-called "OWG-NWO", |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-04-01 01:12 |
| #9 Hepatitis C Wrong organ. I would have guessed late stage syphilis. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-04-01 00:49 |
| #8 My God, the dictionary definition of "Moron" illustrated live. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-04-01 00:45 |
| #7 O M G |
| Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-04-01 00:44 |
| #6 ah, er, the honorable gentleman from Georgia got the date wrong. A day early, honest. |
| Posted by: lex 2010-04-01 00:35 |
| #5 From what I've read, he has Hepatitis C, which "affects" him. Maybe he got it from the water in his district, which might also be his predecessor's excuse...  |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-04-01 00:34 |
| #4 The Admiral deserves a medal just for maintaining a professional demeanor. Can you imagine what the Admiral was thinking as he left that session? |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2010-04-01 00:31 |
| #3 The admiral should have told him it's safe so long as the folks don't all run to the same side. Not that we need anyone to actually TRY that, just in case. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-04-01 00:31 |
| #2 A mind is a terrible thing to waste. The admiral should have told him it's safe so long as the folks don't all run to the same side. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-04-01 00:23 |
| #1 This guy is on drugs or mentally challenged, IMHO. Watch the video and weep. This guy votes for trillions of your dollars, as well as similarly challenged house members. Are we doomed? I hope not. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2010-04-01 00:11 |