or then there's the time one of their politicians was fretting over the island of Guam tipping over and capsizing if the Military deployed too many troops to it
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
Don't forget their star congressman Major Owens, claiming the bodies of
200 million slaves were tossed overboard by slave ships, resulting in a changed pattern of shark migrations that persists even today!
So the Guam tipper, Hank Johnson, and the shark feeder, Major Owens, have legitimate claims to being the DUmbest person in the western hemisphere. They will, however, need to demonstrate world class DUmbness for a much longer time before they can be mentioned in the same breath with Sheila Jackson Lee of the great state of Texas, who still reigns, hands down, as the western hemisphere's DUmbest individual.
I always limit this distinction, somewhat reluctantly, to our own hemisphere. In the swarming, squirming, teeming hordes of Asia, it is possible - unlikely but possible - that some unknown Cambodian, or some Burmese, maybe an anonymous Sri Lankan, is DUmber than Sheila Jackson Lee. But I doubt it.