
You debate an odd bill, you hear some odd testimony. But this...
The Georgia House Judiciary Committee took up a bill last week that would "prohibit requiring a person to be implanted with a microchip," and would make violating the ban a misdemeanor. According to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, one exchange from the hearing could have been ripped right from Dr. Strangelove.
The Journal-Constitution reports that things started getting weird when a woman who described herself as a resident of DeKalb County told the committee: "I'm also one of the people in Georgia who has a microchip." Apparently no lawmaker took this as a warning sign, and she was allowed to continue her testimony.
"Microchips are like little beepers," the woman told the committee. "Just imagine, if you will, having a beeper in your rectum or genital area, the most sensitive area of your body. And your beeper numbers displayed on billboards throughout the city. All done without your permission."
"Ma'am, did you say you have a microchip?" state Rep. Tom Weldon (R) asked the woman.
"Yes, I do. This microchip was put in my vaginal-rectum area," she replied.
No one laughed. State Rep. Wendell Willard (R), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, asked her who had implanted the chip.
"The Department of Defense," she said.
Willard thanked the woman for her input, and the committee later approved the bill.


ejg3
April 20, 2010 6:05 PM
And if the esteemed legislator had asked if the chip remained in place there would he a debate on whether the questioner or the answer was more anal retentive.
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Ugg the Repug
April 20, 2010 6:11 PM
Ugg family invent chips. But we just leave on ground after make ax. Har har har.
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NerdRage
April 21, 2010 1:35 PM in reply to Ugg the Repug
and thats why us humans drove the cavemen to extinction, we realized that the flakes left behind from knapping out an stone axe head were actually quite sharp, much sharper than the actual axe...
so we found uses for them
its too bad you guys are dead, you seem like a nice neanderthal
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Ugg the Repug
April 21, 2010 2:48 PM in reply to NerdRage
Ugg not dead. Recently defrosted. As knukle-drag Neanderthal, naturally Ugg a Repug. Har har har.
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Ugg the Repug
April 21, 2010 2:51 PM in reply to NerdRage
As Nerd know, Neanderthal go extinct because we not social, not care much to help each other, same as Repug today. Seem history repeating. Har har har.
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Mooser
April 20, 2010 6:15 PM
All you good Repugs better rip out those pacemakers and heart monitors right now! They use them to track your guns!
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Rockridge
April 20, 2010 6:20 PM
Oh, God, I want film!
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JEP07
April 21, 2010 10:14 AM in reply to Rockridge
You Tube awaits!
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tk
April 21, 2010 1:04 PM in reply to Rockridge
Film of the committee hearing? Or film of the....
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Billy Hill
April 27, 2010 9:26 AM in reply to Rockridge
Found it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnFtImxyGKA
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JohnW1141
April 20, 2010 6:22 PM
I'm introducing a bill requiring all patriotic Americans to love our flag.
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kollund
April 20, 2010 7:37 PM in reply to JohnW1141
what sex does the flag have? one has to pay attention, you could be promoting a gay relationship.
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weezie.jefferson
April 21, 2010 9:30 AM in reply to kollund
LOL!!
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JohnW1141
April 21, 2010 2:29 PM in reply to kollund
kollund,
all Patriotic Americans are heterosexual, so the flag should be hetero, unless it chooses to be gay, or a crossdresser, in which case it becomes a French flag.
I myself chose to be hetero when upon my birth the doctor handed me Form #T-34d, the Sexual Identification/Orientation Form, and I checked the box for Hetero.
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Quesie
April 20, 2010 6:32 PM
This touches me in my happy place.
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willp
April 20, 2010 6:43 PM
The fever swamp is now the fever sargasso sea.
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bluestatedon
April 20, 2010 7:02 PM
Normally I would say her head is up her ass, but I guess we can blame the chip.
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JEP07
April 21, 2010 9:47 AM in reply to bluestatedon
...how else can you read the display?
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Dennis M
April 20, 2010 7:02 PM
One of the commenters on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution comment board quipped, "The Republicans have found their next VP nominee." Nuff said.
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Early Out
April 20, 2010 7:39 PM in reply to Dennis M
Ah, yes, the Grand Old Perineum!
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bluesplashy
April 20, 2010 10:09 PM in reply to Dennis M
right on!
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Kuyleh
April 21, 2010 5:40 PM in reply to Dennis M
LOL!
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bluestatedon
April 20, 2010 7:05 PM
"And your beeper numbers displayed on billboards throughout the city."
I wonder if a phone rings somewhere in the Pentagon when she drops a deuce.
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pdxer
April 20, 2010 7:06 PM
Forcibly implanting a microchip in someone's vaginal-rectum area is only a misdemeanor in Georgia?!? I think that's the real scandal here.
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bluestatedon
April 20, 2010 7:07 PM
"The Republicans have found their next VP nominee."
Comment of the year. Hands down.
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JEP07
April 21, 2010 10:16 AM in reply to bluestatedon
Not only have they found her, they can keep track of her!
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ejg3
April 20, 2010 7:13 PM
They can't implant the microchips into the brains of these folks because the chips are too big to fir.
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expat46
April 20, 2010 7:44 PM
vaginal-rectal chip implants taint nothing to laugh about.
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JEP07
April 21, 2010 9:30 AM in reply to expat46
I think she's mistaking a pile for a chip...
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chameleon
April 21, 2010 9:43 AM in reply to expat46
Lol....lol.... that was funny.
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Johnny
April 20, 2010 7:44 PM
This is a fairly common paranoid delusion. Valerie Solanas, who shot Andy Warhol, also believed secret agents planted a transmitter in her uterus.
But hey, in this lady's case, it could be real.
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kenner
April 20, 2010 7:48 PM
Please say it taint so!
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Demyankee
April 20, 2010 8:22 PM
"Willard thanked the woman for her input, and the committee later approved the bill."
The committee then immediately adjourned to check whether the tingling sensations around their noses was due to their own chips.
This is an undeniable demonstration of what a great country this is. That someone so patently unhinged is able to remain at large and, indeed, then testify before a governmental body considering a remarkably lunatic proposition.....it takes one's breath away.
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JEP07
April 21, 2010 9:46 AM in reply to Demyankee
at LEAST they could have demanded a Catscan (or a frequency scan) before they took her word for it.
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jmcnair
April 20, 2010 8:24 PM
The guy here in Knoxville who shot three women (and himself) at shift change at the hospital was looking for the doctor who he thought implanted him with a chip during his appendectomy.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2010/apr/20/hospital-shooting-ends-2-dead/
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CranialRectalLoopback
April 20, 2010 8:39 PM
I'm sure she's a birther. In the interest of accountability, I demand to see this implant ... IN SITU.
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sillycita
April 20, 2010 9:01 PM
Well heck, they should get themselves this nifty device for self-protection! Get yer Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie here!
http://zapatopi.net/afdb/
STOP MIND CONTROL NOW! The gobbermint is EVERYWHERE. If they're in your hoo ha, they're definitely in your brain!
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fkaZk0sm0
April 20, 2010 9:30 PM
'vaginal-rectum'?!??
since 'vaginal' is an adjective and 'rectum' is a noun, i can only guess that 'vaginal' is modifying 'rectum' in this construction. and yet i'm having trouble picturing what exactly a vaginal rectum would look like... guess i'll have to fire up ye olde google image search....
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Early Out
April 20, 2010 9:36 PM in reply to fkaZk0sm0
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Rick Jones
April 20, 2010 9:43 PM
Comedy writers get paid to think up stuff that isn't half this funny. Sometimes you gotta just love what fruit the Republican craziness bears.
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Given Up
April 20, 2010 10:15 PM in reply to Rick Jones
Isn't this kind of thing supposed to be the premise for a bad horror movie or something? Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
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JEP07
April 21, 2010 9:41 AM in reply to Given Up
"Alien Implant!!!"
Hollywood might have some trouble getting Sigourney Weaver to do THAT sequel, no?
The Alien gut-busting birth scene sure takes on a new "angle" with this plan.
Sure would be a lot funnier than the old sequels.
Maybe Mel Brooks could make this one...
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Mia Kulper
April 20, 2010 10:27 PM
A million dollars to the teabagger who gets their tinfoil panties to market first.
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barnacle
April 20, 2010 11:20 PM
Every time she has an orgasm, a little LED displays OOH!
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John
April 20, 2010 11:51 PM
Medical researchers have determined that watching Fox News has the same effect as a microchip planted in the brain.
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JEP07
April 21, 2010 9:35 AM in reply to John
OR the ass, whichever comes first...
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JEP07
April 21, 2010 9:36 AM in reply to JEP07
I just want to know, is it Intel or AMD?
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JEP07
April 21, 2010 9:36 AM in reply to JEP07
the public REALLY needs to know...
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Peter Principle
April 20, 2010 11:56 PM
Your Republican Party: Defending the nation against schizophrenic paranoid delusions since 1854.
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exiledflatlander
April 21, 2010 2:57 AM
Isn't the technical term for the area in question "taint"? As in it taint this and it taint that.
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Luke
April 21, 2010 5:05 AM
Yeah, obviously, we're gonna need a whole lot more microchips. On the plus side, you no longer have to carry your Starbucks card.
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Sailormarlowe
April 21, 2010 5:34 AM
But...if the Pentagon needed a close-up of Rachel Maddow's face, why not just request one from MSNBC? Oh, they wanted REALLY close up...
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OhioMan
April 21, 2010 7:40 AM
Shooter thought doctor implanted tracking chip
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 2:51 AM
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A mentally ill gunman who killed a hospital worker and wounded two others was upset with a doctor who he thought had implanted a monitoring device during an appendectomy in 2001, police said yesterday.
Knoxville Police Chief Sterling Owen IV said Abdo Ibssa first entered a medical tower near Parkwest Medical Center and asked for the doctor. After being told the doctor wasn't there, Ibssa went to another area where patients are discharged and opened fire with a revolver.
He killed himself after shooting the three women. He would have been 39 yesterday.
"There was less than five seconds from the time of the first shot until the last shot," Owen said.
Investigators found a note at Ibssa's Knoxville apartment in which he said the doctor had implanted a chip that was being used to track his movements, Owen said.
Haloperidol, an antipsychotic medication used to treat schizophrenia and Tourette's syndrome, also was found at his apartment, but investigators think he hadn't been using it.
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Polderboy
April 21, 2010 8:41 AM in reply to OhioMan
I'm starting to think microchip implants for psychiatric patients might not be such a bad idea at all: to track if they have taken their medication
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JEP07
April 21, 2010 9:44 AM in reply to Polderboy
But you'll have to add preparation H to the drug mix, and it may not be compatible with some of those anti-psychotic drugs, doncha know?
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dumdedumdum
April 21, 2010 11:05 AM
that explains that tingly feeling.
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Mary Alice
April 21, 2010 3:31 PM
Who elects these people? I cannot claim to hold Georgia in high esteem but I am sure that 51% of voting Georgians aren't idiots. How does this happen? I watched the Arizona state legislature from the balcony some years ago and It was like watching a large group of 13 year old middle-school drop-outs arguing loudly and with conviction about who could make the most authentic fart sounds. Who elects these people? Why hasn't the U.S. self-destructed? Who are these people and where do they come from? How did they avoid education altogether? Such a puzzlement.
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David Auts
April 21, 2010 5:03 PM
It sounds to me like the lunatics are starting to run the asylum in Georgia.
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sunkawakan
April 22, 2010 11:31 AM
Here is the video: http://media.legis.ga.gov/hav/09_10/2010/committees/judi/judi041310EDITED.wmv
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Tosh
April 26, 2010 11:54 AM
wow they are such lunatics, they just need to stop all that nonsense
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