Story Comments
Posted by: diogenes48 1 year, 2 months ago
This page is a permanent archive of the comment below and its replies.
To view this comment in the context of the full discussion for the story, use this link.
-
9%
diogenes481 year, 2 months ago
This comment is below the standard viewing threshold View It »
WAY OUT OF CONTEXT!
Reply
Fruit Fly Research she is talking about is the pork program.
Representative Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) for $211,509 in olive fruit fly research in Paris, France.
Are we trying to expand what she has said?
I guess she is not a Washington DC insider, so she does not understand we need these pork programs to get important bills passed. Shame on her.
I just wondered why the honorable representative from California get a United States research program funded. We surely have a similar research in the US or need to start one if it is really that important.-
93%
jordan111 year, 2 months ago
This comment is below the standard viewing threshold View It »
What the CA Senator asked for wasn't 'pork.' It was to boost the study of olive fruit fly infestation, which affects 4000 jobs annually in CA, not to mention lost sales and therefore lost tax revenue to both the State and Federal governments. As a major player in CA's economy, figuring out how to stop the destruction of the crop is a necessity, not some frivilous request.
Reply
If you're looking for frivilous, how about a teapot museum in Virginia, which was given millions? And remember the bridge to nowhere? Well the road to the bridge to nowhere was still built. A very nice, never used road that ends where the bridge would have begun. That also cost taxpayers millions, including you if you pay taxes.
Palin obviously didn't do her homework, and 'assumed' that research on fruit flies was silly. All she could conjur up was a tiny little bug that is of no significance to the human world. Well it has a HUGE significance, and studying it is NOT "pork." Oh yeah, I want a moron like her in charge of the free world. "You betcha." Her handlers give her moronic talking points, and rather than check on the relevance of them she just goes along. And she would do the same thing with whoever 'handled' her in the WH. It took me 10 minutes to find out that fruit fly research is CRUCIAL. But know knowthing Palin can't be bothered with checking things out. She's too busy getting her make up done.-
100%
david_nwpa1 year, 2 months ago
This comment is below the standard viewing threshold View It »
While we are on the subject, how about the natural gas pipeline that has yet to be built but is the cornerstone of Palin's claim to improving the energy problems in the US? TransCanada has taken a substantial amount of money in contracts, but has way too many legal hurdles and challenges ahead of it. Some have argued it will never be built. Sarah Palin is not a leader, and cannot claim to be a scientist. Honestly, why was she chosen? Who in the McCain goon squad is doing damage control whenever she opens her mouth?
Reply -
Neutral
diogenes481 year, 1 month ago
This comment is below the standard viewing threshold View It »
And if you were the author and wrote it this way, I would not have posted my remarks. But to equate what she has said to what you want to mean - I am not sure if I want to listen to that type of noise. Maybe I am too logical and focused.
Reply
-
-
100%
diogenes21st1 year, 2 months ago
This comment is below the standard viewing threshold View It »
Just wanted to make sure nobody confuses me with this Diogenes.
Reply
Very few of these so-called "pork" projects or earmarks are pure wastes of money. That is a fantasy that ricochets around the uninformed mind. How many of the critics of these things have actually not only looked at their role in the budget, but also at the details of the programs? Thanks to decades of so-called pork, we have dams, bridges, roads, transplant surgery techniques, vaccinations, military weapons, engineering techniques, steel-making formulas, safer autos, and so on. If anyone wants to have a facts-at-20-paces duel, let's go.
Most of these pork programs create jobs, help our infrastructure, improve human health and move great ideas from the publics sphere (esp. universities) into the private sector,where they become profitable products and techniques that create more jobs.-
90%
lfergie8121 year, 2 months ago
This comment is below the standard viewing threshold View It »
There is really no confusing the two of you. One talks out of his posterior and you speak with intelligence.
Reply
I agree that most of the so called pork is beneficial to development but the only "pork" that Palin was familiar with was the "bridge to nowhere" so naturally without any real knowledge of government she falsely assumed that they were all bad.-
Neutral
ETproductions1 year, 2 months ago
This comment is below the standard viewing threshold View It »
Not so fast. Palin was all for the Bridge to Nowhere till the project unravelled in COngress because it developed such a furor as obviously wasteful spending. She then switched to being an oponent of the project, but kept the money for it anyway.
Reply
-
-
-
89%
lfergie8121 year, 2 months ago
This comment is below the standard viewing threshold View It »
diogenes48
Reply
It would help if you found out what the fruit fly research is all about, like maybe reading the article, before showing your ignorance.
FTA "However, fruit flies are used by researchers to study the origins of autism, one of the special needs afflicting some of the very children Gov. Palin was discussing in her speech."
Of course it would have been to Sarah Palin's best interest to find out what the "pork" was being used for before showing her own ignorance. -
-
100%
OldBetty1 year, 2 months ago
This comment is below the standard viewing threshold View It »
Why can research only be done in the United States? Scientists cross bounderies in collaborations all the time, sharing results of studies for the good of all. And, yes, if you take the time to read up on it, this research is important.
Reply
-
loading ...
memestryker
chuck-the-canuck
jordan11
ETproductions
miklkit
Teech
Beau7890
juvel
hefaa1
diogenes21st
Post Reply
You are not signed in to Propeller.com. Please sign in to post a reply.