Hurricane chief: Govt wasting millions on PR campaign.
By on May 17th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Hurricane chief: Govt wasting millions on PR campaign.
“The federal government is spending millions of dollars on a publicity campaign that could be used to plug budget shortfalls hurricane forecasters are struggling with, the National Hurricane Center’s director said Thursday. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is spending up to $4 million to publicize a 200th anniversary celebration while the agency has cut $700,000 from hurricane research.”
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What a nightmare!
May 17th, 2007 at 9:57 pmOnly in Bushworld.
May 17th, 2007 at 10:00 pmIt's ok, they're going to a "faith-based" forecasting system, and they feel really good about it!
Meanwhile, my jewish neighbor is still working on that big boat of his. And now he's starting a menagerie in his back yard!
May 17th, 2007 at 10:01 pmI am living in an Eugene Ionesco play. My dream come true.
May 17th, 2007 at 10:05 pmAt least they're not outsourcing the PR to India.
May 17th, 2007 at 10:08 pmBush probably awarded the publicity contract to a GOP affiliated crony.
May 17th, 2007 at 10:11 pmThat's because the Bush administration is exceedingly good at shaping the perception of reality, not at dealing with it in an effective way.
From the Iraq debacle, to the Katrina fiasco, it's all the same: The focus of this administration is always on the message and the control over it.
May 17th, 2007 at 10:25 pmOops! It's "...and their control over it"
May 17th, 2007 at 10:27 pmMeanwhile, my jewish neighbor is still working on that big boat of his. And now he’s starting a menagerie in his back yard!
Comment by Briseadh na Faire
Hehehe
May 17th, 2007 at 10:34 pmGood one.
Bush has really done nothing, But act like a Tin-Horn, Bannana Republic Dictator,and his
minor deamon,/strike> underlings have been running a 6 yearpropagandaElection campaign.Hollow Slogans, no plans, other than to subvert the government, and try to create a new Pan-Amercan Empire.
**cough**Google**cough**PNAC**cough**
Like Pinky and the Brain, but dumber,and much more Evil.
May 17th, 2007 at 10:45 pmBah,the html code wentwacky on that one LOL
May 17th, 2007 at 10:46 pm"NOAA! how long can you tread water?"
May 17th, 2007 at 10:50 pmWasting money is a deliberate strategy employed by the Bush administration to undercut science. This is the sole explanation for the Mars program at NASA: to divert funds used in legitimate scientific research (much of it climate related) to a black hole of pointless waste.
And, while they're at it, they might as well set their friends up with fat contracts to do nothing.
May 17th, 2007 at 10:53 pm“NOAA! how long can you tread water?â€
Comment by heyzeus
Melting of the caps could to a major ecological collapse of the worlds oceans.
Fact: If the oceans die, we die.
----------------
Slowing the thermohaline circulation would have several major global effects:
* The decreasing transport of CO2, contained in water from the surface to the deep ocean. This would contribute to further increases in the level of CO2 in the atmosphere and thus to further warming (due to CO2).
May 17th, 2007 at 10:59 pm* Regional cooling, for instance in Europe. This could result from the slowing of the northward transport of heat by Atlantic Ocean currents, even while the rest of the planet warms rapidly.
* Reduced sinking of cold, dense water in the Arctic. This would, in turn, reduce the amount of nutrients carried back toward the surface elsewhere in the world that sustain marine life living near the surface.
Article here.
now jimbo dude always speaks the truth
and i say
POLITICAL PARASITES
HOODLUMS
LEECHES
TICKS
MAGGOTS
MAGGOTS
SCUMBAGS
oh yeah a little PR
i think everyone very much knows about noaa or nasa who you gives
two about 200th anniversary except themselves
regarding the rest of the criminal class
CORRUPT
I
SAY
TOTALLY CORRUPT
May 17th, 2007 at 11:40 pmGovernment doing what government does best -- pissing away money where we really can't afford to have it pissed away.
May 17th, 2007 at 11:43 pmdude they don't piss it away
it
goes
somewhere.........
LIKE TO A BUNCH OF HOODLUMS
A BUNCH OF CRIMINALS
A BUNCH OF SWINDLERS
CORRUPT I SAY TOTALLY CORRUPT ENOUGH TO MAKE EVERYONE PUKE
now jimbo dude ALWAYS TELLS THE TRUTH :)
May 17th, 2007 at 11:50 pm#16
dude.... if they don't have the money
AND
can't leech it off us...
what do they do....
start up the printing press, the fed has unlimited authority to print
as much money as they wish out of thin air
but in reality that dilutes every dollar you have, a hidden tax, they've
May 18th, 2007 at 12:14 amhid the m3 and added at that time 40 billion to the circulation
federal reserve act
CORRUPT
democratic party who enacted that
CORRUPT
fdr new deal
CORRUPT and currency devaluation
nixon, reagan
CORRUPT and current devaluation
ENOUGH
TO
MAKE
May 18th, 2007 at 12:18 amEVERYONE
PUKE.......... (if they knew the truth)
NOAA's PR campaign: Your tax dollars at work.
Heckuvajob, Georgie!
May 18th, 2007 at 1:59 amThis is totally a "let them eat cake" administration.
May 18th, 2007 at 9:06 amIt's amazing how the 'fiscal conservative', 'small government' Republicans are against wasting money (in charitable goals only), and are all for giving away pallet loads of $ bills for ITS OWN PR campaings. On a second tought, no, it's not amazing at all.
May 18th, 2007 at 9:24 amYep, that's our government in action, style over substance.
May 18th, 2007 at 9:29 amNot to mention the old smoke and mirrors routine.
Perception equals reality, so pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
May 18th, 2007 at 12:53 pmI don't know how the government can justify spending millions on advertising an event, when they are $19 billion short on the amount of money needed to end global poverty. The US agreed to the UN Millennium Goals in 2000, which state that along with 190 other countries we will cut extreme poverty in half by 2015 and eliminate it by 2025. We promised to help out the poor of the world and yet over 800 million people still go to bed hungry each night. Not only that, but according to the Borgen Project, every 3.6 seconds another person dies of starvation. And the US is using its funds to advertise a party?
May 18th, 2007 at 1:35 pm