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Category: Politics and Science
Posted on: March 19, 2009 6:08 PM, by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum
'Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington.'
- Governor Bobby Jindal, February 24, 2009
If this video is any indication, both eruptions have the potential to do a lot of damage and it seems to me they're not mutually exclusive. So let's keep an eye on each.
(And spare the fruit fly funding too).
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Comments
We now need to have an image of a fruit-fly infested Alaskan bear ambling on volcano slopes.
Posted by: Ashutosh | March 19, 2009 7:36 PM
Why spend money on volcano monitoring when the Internet will do it for us for free?
If a volcano erupts in the middle of the ocean and there is no video camera there to record it, does it make a sound?
Posted by: Bruce | March 20, 2009 12:43 PM
I wonder how he would feel about robotic fish?
Posted by: Philip H | March 20, 2009 4:31 PM