not really…you just have to wait til the island falls asleep and then sneak up on it and overpopulate it…and really it’s easier, because islands don’t kick, so you don’t have to worry about that…
Remember how in kindergarten you used to draw islands as a semicircular lump of land floating around unmoored in the ocean? Then later on your learned they’re more like a mountain on the bottom of the ocean?
Hank Johnson apparently is still at the ‘floating lump’ stage of development.
And the admiral wasn’t much better. he should never have shown respect for that bullshit and answered it as though it were valid. He should have laughed at the dumb sonofabitch and asked for somebody sane in his place.
@ straightarrow: Unfortunately, folks in uniform have to show deference to congresscritters, stupid, smart, or whatever. The critters are the peoples’ duly elected representatives and the military are just supposed to execute policy. I know I would have had a hard time keeping a straight face, so I respect the admiral’s ability to answer calmly. “Uh, we don’t anticipate that” and then he’s on to some population numbers. Nice, comforting numbers that let him focus on anything other than the idiot in front of him.
Uh, I know all about the inferior position of the military to the civilian authority, but no way in Hell should anybody be required to show respect for stupidity. And I agreed with Truman about his dismissal of MacArthur. But my God! This is beyond the pale.
April 1st, 2010 at 12:20 pm
Dude that guy was high …. he had to be…
We need to start drug testing our government officials
April 1st, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Island tipping…it’s like cow tipping but way harder.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:27 pm
My God… The horror….the horror.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:52 pm
@Sebastian:
not really…you just have to wait til the island falls asleep and then sneak up on it and overpopulate it…and really it’s easier, because islands don’t kick, so you don’t have to worry about that…
April 1st, 2010 at 2:19 pm
The guy is sick, real for real sick, I believe he has hepatitis B. But still he is a Congressmen.
The disease makes your brain stop working and all your islands tip over.
April 1st, 2010 at 2:46 pm
I’m reminded of a Roman Senator who lugged a black rock around all day…
April 1st, 2010 at 6:38 pm
Remember how in kindergarten you used to draw islands as a semicircular lump of land floating around unmoored in the ocean? Then later on your learned they’re more like a mountain on the bottom of the ocean?
Hank Johnson apparently is still at the ‘floating lump’ stage of development.
April 1st, 2010 at 6:51 pm
This is what happens when you allow “progress” to cause Anthropogenic Plate Tectonics.
Do your bit, and lift one foot off the Earth for an hour today!
April 1st, 2010 at 7:36 pm
“Anthropogenic Plate Tectonics.
Do your bit, and lift one foot off the Earth for an hour today!”
lol
April 1st, 2010 at 7:37 pm
This isn’t rocket science. he is an idiot who was elected by people even more idiotic than he.
April 1st, 2010 at 7:38 pm
And the admiral wasn’t much better. he should never have shown respect for that bullshit and answered it as though it were valid. He should have laughed at the dumb sonofabitch and asked for somebody sane in his place.
April 1st, 2010 at 8:47 pm
The 2012 Dumbocrat presidential candidate !!!!! (just in case obammy drops out).
April 1st, 2010 at 10:10 pm
@ straightarrow: Unfortunately, folks in uniform have to show deference to congresscritters, stupid, smart, or whatever. The critters are the peoples’ duly elected representatives and the military are just supposed to execute policy. I know I would have had a hard time keeping a straight face, so I respect the admiral’s ability to answer calmly. “Uh, we don’t anticipate that” and then he’s on to some population numbers. Nice, comforting numbers that let him focus on anything other than the idiot in front of him.
April 1st, 2010 at 11:53 pm
Yes, ordinarily we’d say that. But this admiral was in Top Gun. And now he has four stars.
Top Gun. Now you just think about that.
Oh, I know what you’re thinking.
Fred Thompson was in it, too.
April 2nd, 2010 at 4:19 am
Uh, I know all about the inferior position of the military to the civilian authority, but no way in Hell should anybody be required to show respect for stupidity. And I agreed with Truman about his dismissal of MacArthur. But my God! This is beyond the pale.
April 2nd, 2010 at 4:35 am
“Kids, drugs are bad, mmkaaay?”
April 2nd, 2010 at 3:06 pm
Straightarrow: He should get a medal for keeping a blank expression in the face of brain-burning stupidity.
I would not have been able to avoid telling him that we will use the same technology the Navy uses to prevent Oahu from capsizing.