I just wrote my congressman asking him to eliminate volcano monitoring from the budget

[XemaSab]

My congressman is Wally Herger in the Second District of California.

http://www.house.gov/herger/welcomemsg.shtml

There are at least two major active volcanoes in the Second district, as well as several currently inactive volcanoes.

Do you think Herger will do the right thing and cut out the volcano pork from the federal budget, or do you think he will pander to the special interests and vote to employ more government bureaucrats to sit there and tell us that Shasta and Lassen haven't erupted yet?

:popcorn:

[donco6]

1. I wouldn't mind knowing if a volcano was becoming active.

But I guess that's just me.

[XemaSab]

2. Who cares if Seattle and Portland get dusted with a little ash?

Nothing a broom won't take care of. :shrug:

I mean, hell, the kids might even get a day off school. :shrug:

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. They could have grilled cheese sandwiches if a volcano hit

and it wouldn't cost the school or taxpayers a thing.

It could be a part of the science curriculum and lunch.

[noiretextatique]

12. ...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Kurovski]

7. Portland and Seattle?

Oh hell, the rain will wash it away. No worries.

I'm more worried that we don't have a highway named after Jesus. So where's a Highway named Jesus? That's what I'd like to know. :mad:

[SoCalDem]

15. My son was a little freaked out when he moved there

called me and said "Mom, there are volcanic eruption emergency evacuation routes all over the place"..

poor kid.. born in Kansas (tornados)..grew up in Calif (earthquakes) and moves to Washington (volcanos)

[Kurovski]

16. Which reminds me...

fortunately after a volcano, there will be a tsunami to put out the fires.

So again I ask...what's the problem here? Jesus will take care of it in all his increment wisdom.

[Control-Z]

19. I think it's just east of

Ronald Regan Drive.

[donco6]

10. Oh, duh! LOL!

You had me.

Yes, that would be FANTASTIC if he argued against it.

[tangent90]

3. I don't get it. never mind

...

[XemaSab]

6. I'm serious that I emailed him and told him that

and I hope to God he takes my email seriously and votes against funding volcanic research.

The 2010 election is right around the corner, and I really want to see him explain to the people of the North State why we shouldn't be monitoring our LARGE, LOOMING, VERY ACTIVE volcanoes. On TV. In front of a large audience. :)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. Good for you! Why should the effing volcanologists own the government?!?

:rofl:

[Kurovski]

8. Those effing effers!!!

Effit!

[rpannier]

14. Damned volcanologists

Driving around in their brand-new Astin-Martin vehicles.
Wearing the latest fashions from Paris
Vacationing in the south of France and then off to a night in Monte Carlo to go gambling.

Those people get everything.

And what have they ever done for ME?!

[Kurovski]

17. Well, besides lying to all of us...

all they ever did was invent the lava lamp.

[depakid]

9. That guy's a real piece of work

From one of his recent press releases:

“Madam Speaker, I’d like to paraphrase an old saying. ‘Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to make things worse.’ History shows us that government spending doesn’t fix economic problems.

“If spending was the key to a robust and sound economy, the U.S. should be in a boom time. Government spending has been out of control for the past twenty years. Look where it has gotten us!

“Spending that is delayed for two years is not stimulus!

“Spending for pet causes of Members of Congress is not stimulus!

“And temporary tax credits for people who already pay no income tax are not stimulus!

“We need fast-acting tax relief for working families and small businesses. I urge the Senate to put good policy above politics.”

http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ca02_herger/StimFloorSpeech.shtml

[Mz Pip]

11. I spend a lot of time at Lassen

I'd like to know if scientists think it might go off so I can postpone my hike. But that's just me.

[Cleita]

13. You know, my community is sitting on the caldera of an ancient volcano.

Hot sulfur springs, conically shaped hills in the landscape and some steam vents point to it. I think I would want it monitored. My Congressman is a Repub too. I wonder how he would respond?

[XemaSab]

22. Why not write him and ask?

:popcorn:

[Kurovski]

18. Wally mentions Ronald Reagan at least once on his website.

How is it we don't have a church, or a spaceship named after Reagan? If he is the greatest president as we all know he is...then why aren't more things named after him?

A candy bar, or the Grand Canyon, or maybe an important disease?

[Ardent15]

20. Herger is a GOP leader, unfortunately

And he's in a very safe Republican district.

[Pharlo]

21. They may THINK of themselves as anti-volcano monitoring

but, doesn't that make them Pro-volcano? Should we start calling them the Pompeii Republicans and attach a post-Vesuvius eruption picture every time we refer to them as the "Pompeii Republicans"?