The link: http://www.house.gov/owens/
I've heard this sound byte before, but I never actually got a transcription of it. Today Rush played it on the air, and I thought I should transcribe it, so that Google can spread the love of mesteembed Cnograssman Major Owens.
On February 23rd, 1995, on the floor of the House, Major Owens actually, literally, not at all figuratively, said the following: “What about the 200 million people who were lost in the Atlantic crossing? Very conservative estimates say that the slave trade, just the crossing of the Atlantic, bringing the slaves across, there were 200 million people who died just coming across. So great was the number of people who were thrown overboard, that it altered the ecology of the ocean. [laughter begins] The sharks, even now, trace, er, follow after ships, along a trail, seeking... the flesh that was thrown overboard in all those years, 200 years, of the slave trade.”
That shit's just the best. He said “very conservative.” Supposedly, later on, he revised it down to 20 million. It just goes to show, I'm 15 billion times smarter than cantaloup headed Major Owens. Well, ok, fine, 1.5 billion.