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Did anyone catch Wallace on faux news last night call Jindal an immigrant.
That was precious.
I'm no fan of Jindal and I thought his speech was weak, but hey, lay of his race/ethnicity. As a country we should be just as proud if an Indian person gets in office as we were for a black man. It shows our diversity.
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Sheesh, repubs and science! Ooops! I put them in the same sentence!!!
What are your "scientific" credentials? My post, that you have so readily taken out of context, was directed at no one else but ParkTwain. My point was he carelessly agrees to throw away money at something he DOES NOT FULLY UNDERSTAND. What are YOU going to learn from this 140 million dollars worth of monitoring?????? Do you think the "scientists" are going to come to your home, thank you for your support and then present detailed reports? Unless you live in a volcanic region then none of this applies to you.
Those sneaky Dems.... Kind of like Bush not budgeting the 2 wars at all. You know, no accountability?
Wouldn't have been five wars, including the two we are now fighting, had Carter installed a new government in Iran like his national security advisor was practically begging him to do in 1979. Had Clinton not allowed the CIA to fall into an ineffective state with zero operatives in Afghanistan due to inadequate budgets, a 25% attrition rate and no leadership from the White House even after five successfully attacks on US interests by al Qaeda during the Clinton Presidency, the failed 9/11 plot would be a footnote in history along with the other two failed al Qaeda plots during the Clinton years.
You can go back to mindlessly blaming everything on GWB now.
Understanding volcanos isn't just an activity reserved for the "locals".
1. There is more than one U.S. state with dormant or active volcanos.
2. The scientific knowledge obtained from one volcano can be used to understand other volcanos.
3. The USGS is consulted by nations all over the world.
4. The USGS sends its scientific personnel all over the world to study volcanos found elsewhere.
5. The USGS is sometimes sent to other nations to study volcanos whose eruptions might threaten territory and resources in which the U.S. has a "strategic interest" or in which U.S. multinational corporations have a "significant" economic interest.
I'll save everyone a bit of money, volcanoes erupt so don't build cities next to them, fault lines tend to cause earthquakes so don't build big cities around them, water is very destructive force so don't build cities underwater.
Evolution should be allowed to take place on the folks that ignore those very obvious problems... the whole natural selection thingy...
While I commend your logic. I just think it is just a weeeeeeeee bit too late for that way of thinking since most village's, towns, cities etc have been in place long before geographical defects or meteorological abnormalities were learned.
Wouldn't have been five wars, including the two we are now fighting, had Carter installed a new government in Iran like his national security advisor was practically begging him to do in 1979. Had Clinton not allowed the CIA to fall into an ineffective state with zero operatives in Afghanistan due to inadequate budgets, a 25% attrition rate and no leadership from the White House even after five successfully attacks on US interests by al Qaeda during the Clinton Presidency, the failed 9/11 plot would be a footnote in history along with the other two failed al Qaeda plots during the Clinton years.
You can go back to mindlessly blaming everything on GWB now.
Sorry, but all your ranting about previous administrations truly pales in comparison to Bushes failed policies...
I'm no fan of Jindal and I thought his speech was weak, but hey, lay of his race/ethnicity. As a country we should be just as proud if an Indian person gets in office as we were for a black man. It shows our diversity.
My comment was just in line with Wallace's comment that Jindal was an immigrant.
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A major eruption of Mt Rainier isn't going to kill only 57 people next time, unless there's LOTS of monitoring and warnings.
Fund it through the normal channels, not the emergency spending bill that is supposed to be for stimulating the economy. Making this a free for all for every single liberal wish list pipe dream means that we are simply borrowing money that our children will be forced to repay to study a volcano. It has nothing to do with creating jobs. Liberals should never be put in charge of money. Obama has already doubled the federal deficit one month into the job. Now he is promising to cut the defict in half in two years.
If he was out of touch with California, that might not be a bad thing. What made him so out of touch with democrats is that he thinks people should take personal responsibility and not rely on government for the answers. Imagine that kind of thinking?
How does one take personal responsibility for adequate hurricane warnings, viability of levees, and rescue in cases of massive structural failures due to faulty construction?
Just curious.
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