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So far airline passengers are experiencing the biggest troubles thanks to Mount Redoubt’s eruption.
Although Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport remains open, Alaska Airlines had to re-route five flights inbound for Anchorage — two coming from Seattle, two from Hawaii and one from Nome.
Later Alaska canceled 19 flights “destined to Anchorage and flights out of Anchorage to Bethel, Deadhorse, Kodiak, Nome,
Kotzebue, and Barrow…”Airline officials say they just aren’t going to take any chances.
Good thing they don’t listen to Sarah Palin or Bobby Jindal.
Thanks, Mr. Justin
What is to monitor? Buy a map or look around. Living downwind or down slope of a volcano is a bad idea no matter what your political leanings. Taxpayer money can’t substitute for common sense.
Yeah! and lets get rid of the weather service! People should just not live on the coast.
We also shouldn’t keep trying to find an early detection system for Earthquakes. They only kill thousands of people each year.
She’s a woman in power, remember?
Just take a look at Argentina’s president, when the farmers went on strike she preferred to let the grain rot and let the people starve than to admit defeat and/or wrong.
so lib editor the detectors were already in place for this eruption so new ones were not needed and just how many job is this piece of pork from the “stimulus” bill going to create. I will bet if you look back to who added this the manufacturer of the devices is in his district and made a large campaign donation
get over your lame liberal self
6,
“AVO offices are in Anchorage and Fairbanks, Alaska. The Anchorage office is at the USGS, and is the primary point of information dissemination during crises. Fairbanks offices are concentrated at the UAFGI, which serves as the data collection point for most of the seismic and satellite data. AVO is staffed by the equivalent of about 22 full-time scientists, technicians, and administrators. Managerial responsibility for AVO rests with the Scientist-in-Charge, a USGS employee in Anchorage, and the Coordinating Scientist in Fairbanks, a UAFGI or ADGGS employee.”
Looks like its a small sample of highly skill workers. Exactly what the US doesn’t need, right?
And all local to Alaska. They should just close the facility and send them back to civilization.
I like the idiotic creativity of the foam at the mouth liberals who post stories on here in linking something that has nothing to do with Palin to her just because they don’t like her ideology. John’s, if you read this, posters like Eideard is what is making your blog ridiculous with cheap shots like this entry.
This headline is misleading. The article is not really related to Palin at all (and yes, I did follow the links, which are tangential at best). In my view, the only point this item makes is that the editors at DU are pretty liberal and anti-conservative. The real point about the airlines just got lost in the spin. Perhaps when JCD whines on TWiT all the time about “crappy journalism” he should turn the microscope around. Good journalism is more than just trolling for page views.
I think Obama should spend more time beefing up his foreign policy etiquette rather than using the Situation Room for campaign strategy and attacking his potential opponents in 3 years.
It’s no coincidence that Sanford, Palin, and Jindal get focused on by liberal blogs and the rest of the media, along with JIm Cramer.
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She has an ideology? From the outside it looks like any old crap she thought would help her win a presidential pageant is it. I ‘spose that is an ideology of sorts.
But absolutely she could be the savior of the rightest of the right, of the republicans. Of course that would be a beautiful failure in every other respect. So Palin, you go girl! You so purrdy. Etc.
#6 I never said they should not be funded. They should be funded under the general funding bill for the country not slid into a supposed stimulus bill that was nothing but pork. 10s of millions of dollars for a few dozen jobs for a highly skilled very rare worker is not stimulus last time I looked I have never seen a vulcanologist on the corner with a sign will work for food
The point isn’t if monitoring volcanos is a good thing or not or even if it is a good idea for the federal government to pay for it.
The point is the stimulas package is supposed to create jobs and stimulate the economy not be the place where you get all your pet projects for your state because nobody is going to read the thing before they vote on it.
If monitoring volcanos is important to you the stimulas package is the last place you should want it funded from. It needs to be in the normal budget system.
That is unless you acknowledge that the stimulas package was nothing but a way for the Dems to get stuff paid for that for whatever reason couldn’t get through the normal process.
13,
“It needs to be in the normal budget system. ”
Yeah. Cause that’s how US politics work.
You barely teach science in schools without creationists demanding equal time to study the Bible.
#13 I agree with you. There is questionable # of jobs associated with this $140M infrastructure spending – if job creation was the only goal.
The US spends about $340M per day in Iraq. If we left Iraq by lunch time instead of 5PM and use that money for volcano monitoring, do you think that is a good tradeoff?
http://www.armscontrolcenter.org/policy/securityspending/articles/gwot_spending_burn_rate/
What’s the date that it’s going to erupt?
Deadhorse, five miles from the picturesque Alaskan resort of Arsenic Harbor.
Shouldn’t they have renamed that airport by now?
#15 Dallas. Jobs creation and economic stimulas are all the stimulas package are supposed to be about.
Do you right wing nuts want some cheese with that whine?
#19, Gig,
Jobs creation and economic stimulas are all the stimulas package are supposed to be about.
Once is just a small error, but twice in the same sentence is a trend. it is spelled stimul-U-s. No “a”. 🙂 Please, if you see me make the same type of error, bring it to my attention.
BUT, where is it written that the stimulus bill was to only contain things that would stimulate the economy?
FYI, the Stimulus Bill was joined with another spending bill that didn’t make it through Congress before the break. Almost all the “pork” was from the previous bill and were not new attachments.
This has been proposed several times in recent years but had been removed by the previous Administration. With Redoubt’s rumbling and St. Helen’s new rumbling, this was an urgent project. And yes, it should be in the General Budget.
#6 & 12, Paulo,
How many volcanoes are in Texas? how about the whole South West? Yes, I know of some extinct volcanoes, but seriously, can you tell us why a vulcanologist would even be in Texas except to teach at one of the fine schools of higher learning?
Paul, I hope by this time you’ve wiped the spittle off your chin, and keyboard, and monitor. And maybe even changed your shirt. You are still the ignorant right wing nut you’ve always been.
There’s a very interesting book called “The Year Without a Summer” about what happened in the year 1816. It makes one think about heading for the supermarket and loading up on as much canned protein as possible if the evening news says a large volcanic event is going on somewhere.
#16, Mt. Redoubt has been erupting since last Sunday, most recently Friday night/Sat morning (Mar 28th-29th).
Topic: Palin hasn’t said anything about turning back that money, as far as I have heard. It was another governor who commented that it was a waste of money.
Palin: She needs to get out of office. Not doing too good recently, and her staff is kindda not up to par either.