Guam will capsize
 

Just when you think you've heard it all.Now comes Senator Hank Johnson of Georgia who tells an admiral on the floor of the house that the addition of 8000 troops to guam could cause the island to capsize!! , unbelievable, i dont know how to post the link from youtube, perhaps Sam can help me :)

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Please bear in mind the district in Georgia he is from.

Outside the Atlanta perimeter, Georgia is a pretty solid conservative state.

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I thought it had to be an April fools joke until I found out he said it back around March 25th. I saw the clip on Jay Leno's show and unless this congressman is a fantastic actor he was totally serious. Never cracked a smile or gave any indication he was kidding. Scary!

Here is the Youtube clip. It is 2:38 seconds long and the good part is close to the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xkbh...eature=related

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Rush Limbaugh said we all need to give the man a break. He is very sick with hepatitis C.

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So basically, if Guam's current population is increased by 14% or so, there is a danger of the island tipping over.

:blink


:toofunny :toofunny :toofunny

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Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA): "I wasn't suggesting that the island of Guam would literally tip over. 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 overburden its already overstressed infrastructure."

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This statement is way too clever for Hank Johnson to have personally composed it. :toofunny :toofunny I give *them* points for trying, though.

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Yep.

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Well, I don't know him personally. When I heard the statement, I felt it was metaphorical. I'd have to know more. I can't imagine a human being thinking a piece of land could capsize. I think I would need more information on this. Something isn't making sense, unless he was drunk or high. Honestly, I haven't checked into this statement at all. I just put out the surface information.

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Don't forget the coral reefs and global warming and all that