February 24, 2009
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Political Quickie
Bobby Jindal of Louisiana is babbling in the background. I’m not catching everything he says, just noticed that he started out on a positive note then turned negative. I wonder if he’s going for the old sandwich ploy.
What really caught my attention was when he was complaining about money going for volcano monitoring. He was opposed to it. I would bet he wouldn’t be so opposed to hurricane monitoring. I’d also bet that if he had constituents in Hawaii or Alaska, he’d have picked a different example to criticize.
Comments (10)
I suspect you are correct! You’ve not mentioned the one near you lately, is it sleeping/napping for awhile?
@CharlotteColors - Mount Redoubt is still steaming and shaking, but hasn’t erupted. It is still on color code orange, alert level watch.
Ah, my governor the dufus. A lot of people here in Louisiana have been less than impressed by the way he seems to be more interested in becoming better known on the national stage than in anything as tedious as, say, actually governing Louisiana.
What bugs me is that people pick examples to criticize that may sound silly on the surface but, if you take two seconds to educate yourself a bit about them, are actually pretty good things to spend money on. This type of attack – “spending money on volcano research? how absurd!” - is very typical of the anti-science, anti-intellectual bent that the Republicans have been on for the past eight years or more.
Undoubtedly.
so here I am, a girl from Louisiana. Did I listen to him??? NO, No and then another NO. wth, he chose not to accept the monies or part of the monies from the stimulus package. Must be very nice to live in the Governors mansion.
@Scriveling - @misunderstood47 - Now that you ladies have familiarized me with him a bit, he is sounding a lot like Sarah Palin.
i was ill listening to him. what a moron! must be nice to be able to get a payment plan! those days are history!!! elitists don’t get middle class America!
No kidding, but since most people in the US don’t have to worry about volcanoes it’s an easy thing to pick on. He of all people should be sensitive to natural disasters. I remember reading bits of an essay he wrote about how he helped to perform an exorcism on someone in college. Sigh.
@quitchick - ”most people in the US don’t have to worry about volcanoes”
Most people in the U.S. and elsewhere just don’t know that they have any cause for concern over U.S. volcanoes. Ash clouds are indistinguishable, visually and on radar, from ordinary clouds, but they can bring down airliners. Many intercontinental flight paths cross the pole, and flights between Asia and North America stop to refuel in Hawaii. In 1989, a KLM flight from Amsterdam dropped about two miles after an ash encounter, before the crew got the engines restarted. That is what led to the establishment of AVO and the monitoring program.