Dumbass chimp.."forecasting" the hurricane was not the frigging problem

[rainbow4321]

Just out of curiosity, what is the repuke definition of "low priority"..and does anyone else get an "uh-oh" feeling when the phrase "released late Friday" is used by this regime???


http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/living/science/13035512.htm

The White House has unveiled a spending proposal that would pump millions of dollars into badly needed hurricane forecasting equipment, saying the "extraordinary investment" is a first step at strengthening the nation's warning system.

Included in the $55 million request: new equipment for hurricane hunter planes, more buoys to track conditions in the ocean, a redesign of the sensors dropped into storms, and most notably, another highly equipped hurricane hunter plane.


The proposal, released late Friday, also includes among other things money for repairs to weather equipment and field offices -- part of a $17.1 billion emergency spending package that now goes to Congress.


In a separate proposal, the White House suggested taking $2.3 billion beyond the $17.1 billion from programs it called low priority and applying that money to hurricane relief.

[DebJ]

1. aahhh yes, low priorities...the poor, the sick, the elderly....

[Freedomfried]

2. Any program Halliburton didn't bid on

and get.

[unhappycamper]

3. Don't forget Tricky Ricky Santorum's S. 786.

National Weather Services Duties Act of 2005

<snip>

(d) PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN DISCLOSURES- An officer, employee, or agent of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Weather Service, or any other department or agency of the United States who by reason of that status comes into possession of any weather data, information, guidance, forecast, or warning that might influence or affect the market value of any product, service, commodity, tradable, or business may not--

(1) willfully impart, whether directly or indirectly, such weather data, information, guidance, forecast, or warning, or any part thereof, before the issuance of such weather data, information, guidance, forecast, or warning to the public under subsection (c); or

(2) after the issuance of such weather data, information, guidance, forecast, or warning to the public under subsection (c), willfully impart comments or qualifications on such weather data, information, guidance, forecast, or warning, or any part thereof, to the public, except pursuant to an issuance that complies with that subsection.

From Thomas:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c109:3:./temp/~c109yrBBqj::

It's interesting to note that Accuweather is based in PA and is a major Tricky Rick contributor.