{"id":18317,"date":"2010-04-01T07:42:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T12:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18317"},"modified":"2010-04-01T16:19:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T21:19:15","slug":"say-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18317","title":{"rendered":"Say huh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yuh, these are the people running the country. I may be late to this party, but, <a href=\"http:\/\/hankjohnson.house.gov\/\">Congressman Hank Johnson<\/a> expresses his fear that Guam will someday &#8220;tip over and capsize&#8221; because there are too many people on the island at about 1:25 into the video.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zNZczIgVXjg&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zNZczIgVXjg&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>He spent the first minute painfully describing the dimensions of the island&#8230;TWICE&#8230;even though the admiral tried to help him out by calling the island &#8220;small&#8221; after the congressman&#8217;s first attempt to describe the dimensions. So I&#8217;m guessing that the good congressman thinks islands are just floating around in the ocean like big inflatable pool toys. Hopefully, the Navy is aware that&#8217;s not the case.<\/p>\n<p>This is the kind of interrogatory that led to national health care legislation. Think that Congressman Johnson read the bill before he signed it? <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Old Tanker for the video.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Apparently, he&#8217;s claiming it was <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/300113.php\">a metaphor now<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yuh, these are the people running the country. I may be late to this party, but, &hellip; <a title=\"Say huh?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18317\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Say huh?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}