Congressman: I Fear Guam Could Over-Populate So Much It Will Tip Over and Capsize

By Jacob Galt Friday April 2, 2010

To add to the video of a Congressman saying that he “doesn’t worry about the Constitution”, this one says that he’s afraid Guam will tip over if it overpopulates:

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strukhoff says:

4/2/2010 at 7:09 am

Guys, you’re waaaay late on this story. btw, did you know Dylan went electric?

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Skeptic of the Anthropogenic Orgasm Between Consenting Climate Scientists says:

4/2/2010 at 7:16 am

It was a joke.

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Me says:

4/2/2010 at 7:52 am

#2 – It wasn’t a joke. He actually believed it when said it. He is heavily medicated due to illness.

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Jon says:

4/2/2010 at 8:26 am

I would like to say that the congressman is using an absurdity to illustrate a point about adding 25,000 people to a small island but I am not sure that he has the synaptic ability to make such satire.

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Benjamin says:

4/2/2010 at 8:28 am

It is close to April Fools. Still anyone should know that islands do not tip over. They go all the way down to the ocean floor. As they go down they spread out.

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RSweeney says:

4/2/2010 at 8:49 am

I would submit that anyone medicated enough or ill enough, or potentially, ignorant enough, to believe that islands can capsize due to top heaviness is incapable of making reasoned decisions for the US people in Congress.

He needs to resign.

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Bob says:

4/2/2010 at 8:59 am

This is the man who took over Cynthia McKinney’s old district. They have a long history their of electing complete and total idiots to represent them.

The worse part is, that this admiral had to sit their and take questions, and treat them seriously about navy movements from someone who doesn’t even have a high school understanding of how islands are made.

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Dallas says:

4/2/2010 at 9:07 am

Wow. He is right up there with Miss Universe contestants. Sheesh.

#4 Thanks for the geology lesson. Glad to see islands can’t tip over.

I think I need a drink today.

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Benjamin says:

4/2/2010 at 9:12 am

I had to use the geology lesson because some people on this blog believe everything liberals say.

#7 Dallas said, “#4 Thanks for the geology lesson. Glad to see islands can’t tip over. “

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Skeptic of the Anthropogenic Orgasm Between Consenting Climate Scientists says:

4/2/2010 at 9:46 am

Some of you are so unbelievably gullible that I wonder more about you than Hank Johnson. You don’t get as far as he has in a career by being dumb as a rock. None of his other questions were stupid, so a normal person would assume he was making a joke or an analogy with that kind of statement. It’s incredible he has to explain himself to the dumb sheeple of YouTube.

The general line of his questioning was around the ecosystem of Guam and it coastal areas. This is his explanation that I doubt those who fell for the clip bothered to look up.

“I wasn’t suggesting that the island of Guam would literally tip over,” he said. He clarified that he was “using a metaphor” to describe how adding [so many] military personnel to the island could be a tipping point which could adversely affect the island’s fragile ecosystem and could overburden its stressed infrastructure.”

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AlanB says:

4/2/2010 at 11:33 am

“They have a long history their of electing complete and total idiots [...] The worse part is…” said Bob (#6)

“LOL double fail” said AlanB (#10)

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bobbo, we emote with odd imagery says:

4/2/2010 at 12:23 pm

But islands tipping over is dramatic imagery.

Ok—raise your hands===who thinks he was speaking literally?

For all you going along with Hank Johnson–I think you prove that double stupid is very difficult to pull off.

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Benjamin says:

4/2/2010 at 12:24 pm

#9 If a Republican said it, you wouldn’t be making those excuses. You would say he was dumb. I guess there is a different standards for how they treat gays and idiot statements depending if you are a Democrat or a Republican politician.

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bobbo, we emote with odd imagery says:

4/2/2010 at 12:53 pm

#12–Benji, Benji, Benji.

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Benjamin says:

4/2/2010 at 1:58 pm

#13 Tell me I am wrong there. You can’t, because I am right.

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wirelessg says:

4/2/2010 at 2:01 pm

Here is the truth: This was a stupid statement (with flipping over hand gesture) said and caught on tape by a otherwise honorable man perhaps under medication followed up by the ‘metaphor’ cover story which is 100% Prime Bullsh*^!!

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bobbo, we emote with odd imagery says:

4/2/2010 at 2:03 pm

Benji–how many people do you think actually think “an island can tip over?”

Futher, if you RTFA (or wherever it is posted) the guy even says he was speaking metaphorically. You do know what a metaphor is???

It was posted here on a thread recently that a social psychotic could not understand sarcasm that was clear to everyone else.

You aren’t psychotic are you Benji? HEY BENJI!!!! OVER HERE.

The whole issue here is retarded. I’m embarrassed.

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Skeptic of the Anthropogenic Orgasm Between Consenting Climate Scientists says:

4/2/2010 at 2:57 pm

Re: #12, Benjamin: “If a Republican said it, you wouldn’t be making those excuses.”

Why should I care? I’m A Canadian, and as such am not influenced by Democrats or Republicans. In fact, the whole lot of you need to brush up on how to run a circus properly. EH?

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Steve says:

4/2/2010 at 5:19 pm

Assuming that the seven mile “smallest location” would be the fulcrum of this island lever system, it stands to reason that by thoughtful population relocation, keeping fat people near the “smallest location” on alert in the event of multiple child-births out on the far ends, a safe balance can be achieved. I don’t know why the Admiral didn’t explain this.

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Cap'nKangaroo says:

4/2/2010 at 5:51 pm

#17 How’s that Quebec thing going, eh?

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