Kansas’ weakened economy received a big boost today, as the Department of Homeland Security reportedly is recommending Kansas as the site for a new $450 million biodefense laboratory. The lab, which will be located in Manhattan, is expected to have a $3.5 billion economic impact for the state. But with that amount of money at stake, expect the losing states to try to block the decision – just as Kansas did with the air-refueling tanker contract.
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Block?
Why? Are there French in Manhattan Kansas?
So who will be in charge of this wonderful thing?
Homeland security? The DOD?
Okay, let’s cut to the quick. They want to put this very dangerous operation here and we TRUST the govt. to properly oversee this? Hmmm….
How about a private firm?
Who?
Halliburton?
Oh, think of all the money that will surely “trickle down” to the working stiff!
I know we’ll have Wal-Mart run it!
Why not?
Time for a Wal-Mart rant……….
At Wal-Mart, Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart, every hour of every day. This works out to nearly $21,000 profit every minute. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1st to St. Patrick’s Day than Target sells all year. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined, and employs about 1.6 million people worldwide.
Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world, and is the largest company in the history of the World.
Let Wal-Mart buy out Wall Street, and the car manufacturers.
Capitalism at it’s finest.
After all, that is the ultimate end goal of capitalism, isn’t it?
I always thought so. America, we have arrived.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
“…the site for a new $450 million biodefense laboratory.”
Hmmmmm Time to read The Stand again.
There might as well be if you are someone in a competing location.
Maybe this lab will lead to a CSI episode being filmed here. Sweet!
RP_McMurphy
Take a deep breath! My goodness, reading your rant nearly wore me out.
“Predestined
Posted December 3, 2008 at 12:39 pm | Permalink
“…the site for a new $450 million biodefense laboratory.”
Hmmmmm Time to read The Stand again.”
LMAO
It is blurry right now where the funny stops and the scary starts.
I notice this proposed lab is also in the neighborhood, by kansas standards, of the places they want to grow frankenrice and frankencotten.
HAHAHAHAHAHHA
Kansas. Biodisaster capital of the nation.
Or should I say toxic dump capital of the nation?
“JOBS JOBS JOBS I say! My kingdom for a handful of jobs!”
Buffalo Commons would sure be a step up from biodump to the world!
I guess if they kill all the humans here, it will allow them to FINALLY get their coal fired power plants with no opposition…
Good for economic development.
Glad it’s downwind most of the time.
Clearly this is an EVIL LIBERAL plot to spread malaria to the heart of the red states. Wipe out the dinosaur population so gay marriage can be made legal and science can be taught in the classrooms.
KFG you’re behind all this, aren’t you?
Wahine_Tara
Polynesian?
TARA YOU VERY FUNNY!
Is this the same student in Hawaii?
brian, you’re right…..
NURSE RATCHED, NURSE!
Time for my meds ain’t it?
Say Chief, whatcha say we bust outa this joint?
Will the biodefense lab be able to research into the evolution of viruses and bacterial weapons? Or must they restrict themselves to the belief that all viruses and bacteria spontaneous generate through the will of the creator and the best defense is a SWAT prayer team?
Heh. I love reading the Rude Pundit’s comments about Dobson’s super duper prayer teams. They sound a lot like your “SWAT prayer teams”.
“KFG you’re behind all this, aren’t you?”
Damn Tara, you caught me!
Maggotpunk
Posted December 3, 2008 at 1:20 pm
LMFAO!
Are they going to give away free samples?
Can I volunteer my ex-wife “Hogjaws” as a test subject? Just askin’
The fear of progress never ceases to amaze me in this state.
“CapitolWildcat
Posted December 3, 2008 at 1:50 pm | Permalink
The fear of progress never ceases to amaze me in this state.”
I think in this case it is the reasonable fear of spilled or stolen biological weapons.
Heheehheh Gster!
I’ve got an ex I’d volunteer too. It could be a matched pair!
“The fear of progress never ceases to amaze me in this state.”
Fear of progress? No. Fear of incompetence here? Yeah.
Mr. Capitol Dude…..
We’ve had so much gawlderned progress from you and your kind that we ain’t got a gawldamned dime left to give you in the name of progress.
HEHEHEH. HAHAHAHHAAH
Good one RP.
And they say you are crazy….
Maybe it’s the capitol crowd that needs those meds!
And the lobotomy.
Makes sense locating it in Kansas, for a few dollars they can have an endless supply of test subjects!
“Phantom
Posted December 3, 2008 at 3:12 pm | Permalink
Makes sense locating it in Kansas, for a few dollars they can have an endless supply of test subjects!”
Unfortunately, whatever savings there will be more than made up for when they realize they have to pay lots to relocate scientists to Manhattan Kansas to work at the facility.
A new Manhattan Project! Yipee. Are we sure this is going to be a bio-defense and not a bio-weapons lab?
Are we sure this is going to be a bio-defense and not a bio-weapons lab?
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My guess is both.
“ANTI
Posted December 3, 2008 at 4:33 pm | Permalink
Are we sure this is going to be a bio-defense and not a bio-weapons lab?
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My guess is both.”
I don’t think you can have one without the other.
It would be impossible to efficiently test bio-defenses without making (or acquiring) bio-weapons to test them against.
Probably won’t hear much about this in the news though.
Brian, that is what I was thinking. Can’t have defence without offence.
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Would the settle for a weapons lab, instead of a coal plant out west?
This could be a NIMBY thing, Ks. might not have too many states battling to get it.
Power plant or a bio-defense lab in cattle/crop country housing the most deadly diseases and viruses know to man and our food supply?
I’ll take the power plant!
know=known
This is encouraging-
“The new National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility would replace an aging 24-acre research complex on Plum Island, about a mile and a half off the eastern shore of New York’s Long Island. Foot-and-mouth research has been confined to the island since 1955 to avoid an accidental outbreak that could lead to the slaughter of millions of livestock. The disease does not sicken humans.
Some farm groups have expressed concern about the risks of moving the lab to the U.S. mainland. The Bush administration acknowledged earlier this year that accidents have happened with the feared virus at the Plum Island facility.”
Ha! And you thought Stephen King wrote fiction!
If what I heard it true, Russia wiped out an entire town with their “bio defense” testing. By accident, of course. It only takes one moron forgetting to put the lid back on…
“The Bush administration acknowledged earlier this year that accidents have happened with the feared virus at the Plum Island facility.”
Maybe they should’ve gone and checked that out personally.
Bio-defense lab? Is this a lab that will assure us we’ll never have to read another bio in the paper again? If a newspaper attempts to print a bio, will the bio-defense lab nuke the paper? Will the next step be a bi-defense lab? You know, cost cutting and what. Perspiring minds want to know this stuff. It’s a hard world out there, by golly, and I know my rights.
Remember – the anthrax terrorist attackes originated from a DoD lab.
Has it occurred to any of you why they want to locate this lab in Kansas? Are any of you familiar with the term “guinea pig?”
They’d better hurry up and git-r-done cause we aim to be gittin’ bilojickly attacked by 2011. That’s what they been sayin anyhow.
What a way to get rid of all of us yokel, useless eaters. But at least we’ll have BILLIONS coming into the state.
WHY is this a good thing? I don’t want a biodefense lab in Kansas!
Oooooooooo, science. B-a-a-a-a-a-a-d. Let’s all be afraid.
Heheheh Walker!
Pmom, it’s all about the notches in the gun belt for some economic development folks, some politicians, and governor leadership.
Those notches represent “jobs” ya know. And the state cant even fill all the private sector jobs available now.
Funny, when were talking about jobs, science = good.
When we talk about schools, science = bad.
Kansas. As wingnutty as you think…
And damn greedy too!
A better location – Johnston Atoll. More isolated – easier to maintain security.