Gov. Jindal’s reference to the wastefulness of volcano monitoring has stirred quite a controversy here and in the blogosphere. The Anchorage Daily News story is here: http://www.adn.com/news/politics/story/702875.html
Many, many millions are spent annually watching the tropics and monitoring hurricanes, something that can actually be done by watching a barometer and watching the sky for “mares’ tails and mackeral scales.” This is obviously an activity of some importance to coastal states like Louisiana, whose citizenry has shown a remarkable inability to get out of the way of hurricanes.
Well, I’ve never really lost a day to the equinoctal storms we get here, many of which would be the lead story on cable news if they were somewhere else. I have lost losts of days to volcanic eruptions. Alaska is very dependent on air transport and when the atmosphere is filled with ash and dust, jet airplanes can’t fly. In fact, most of the over the North Pole air cargo between Europe, the US, and the Orient has to be re-routed or grounded when a volcano blows in Alaska. So, keeping an eye on the things is kinda important to us, to people along the West Coast mountain ranges, to Hawaii, and to anybody who flies over the North Pacific. Somebody should have done some fact-checking on that one, but I’ve simply come to expect this sort of stuff from a Party that has completely lost its way.
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Steph C (Diary) Thursday, February 26th at 12:17PM EST (link)Such as, isn’t this already being funded through other appropriations? If so, where is the justification for another 1.7 billion?
That sort of thing; the sort of information that the MSM typically leaves on the cutting floor when dealing with Republicans.
Overall I agree with you that it’s important but it’s the things we don’t know through disinformation that I wonder about.
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Or maybe make a movie: Jindal vs the Volcano.
Steve Maley (Diary) Thursday, February 26th at 12:23PM EST (link)On second thought, that idea sucks.
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Jindal shoul've made the connection
Erick Brockway (Diary) Thursday, February 26th at 1:21PM EST (link)Volcano monitoring, while important, isn’t stimulus.
Anyone living in the shadow of Mt. Ranier knows the danger they face, and appropriate warning is essential, if possible.
But is it “shovel ready”?
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Will I be stimulated if the volcanos are monitored? nt
Vegas_Rick (Diary) Thursday, February 26th at 2:09PM EST (link)“God is great, beer is good and people are crazy.”- Billy Currington
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” Calvin Coolidge.
No, of course not, but the issue is
Achance (Diary) Thursday, February 26th at 2:12PM EST (link)whether the monitoring is warranted or a waste of money. It isn’t a waste, but additional money is hardly a stimulus.
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Just yanking your chain a little Mr. Chance. nt
Vegas_Rick (Diary) Thursday, February 26th at 2:20PM EST (link)“God is great, beer is good and people are crazy.”- Billy Currington
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” Calvin Coolidge.
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farstar99 (Diary) Thursday, February 26th at 3:36PM EST (link)Instead of paying an agency to sit watching a pot that may never boil, or a quake that may never shake, we tell people to stop living near volcanoes and quake zones, but if they do, to look out of their window every morning.
If they have a window, it’s probably not going to happen that day.
If they don’t, that’s about as much advance notice as they’d have had, anyway.
The one possible exception is the Yellowstone Super Shield, but frankly, there aren’t enough people living in the immediate area who are in constant contact range for an early warning to do them much good. They’re either pyroclastic fodder, or they’d get out on their own.
And for God’s sake, why is the government (meaning us) still paying to insure people who insist on living in flood plains, quake zones and volcanic areas, anyway?
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manifestdestiny (Diary) Friday, February 27th at 12:32AM EST (link)We can’t be experts in everything. That’s why a pure democracy would be awful. Bridges would be falling, hurracanes come without notice. Peanut butter would kill people.
If you really want to prove to the libtards that this stim bill is bad go find money that is being given to rich people or corporations. You know how they hate the rich. I’ll bet dollars to donuts that there is some give aways to the rich as sure as there’s a K Street in DC. See the Dilbert cartoon.