Comments on: Biodefense lab will boost Kansas economy

By: bth

bth — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:00:30 +0000

A better location – Johnston Atoll. More isolated – easier to maintain security.

By: ksfarmgrrl

ksfarmgrrl — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:46:02 +0000

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!

By: beber

beber — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:59:28 +0000

Oooooooooo, science. B-a-a-a-a-a-a-d. Let’s all be afraid.

By: Political_mama

Political_mama — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:15:38 +0000

WHY is this a good thing? I don’t want a biodefense lab in Kansas!

By: Pleefer

Pleefer — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:38:17 +0000

What a way to get rid of all of us yokel, useless eaters. But at least we’ll have BILLIONS coming into the state.

By: Pleefer

Pleefer — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:36:38 +0000

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.

By: Jed

Jed — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:28:20 +0000

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?”

By: bth

bth — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:29:54 +0000

Remember – the anthrax terrorist attackes originated from a DoD lab.

By: JMWalker

JMWalker — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:23:22 +0000

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.

By: Predestined

Predestined — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:17:49 +0000

“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.

By: Predestined

Predestined — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:16:58 +0000

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…

By: Predestined

Predestined — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:15:26 +0000

Ha! And you thought Stephen King wrote fiction!

By: ANTI

ANTI — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:18:21 +0000

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.”

By: ANTI

ANTI — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:15:42 +0000

know=known

By: ANTI

ANTI — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:15:21 +0000

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!

By: Phantom

Phantom — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:07:11 +0000

This could be a NIMBY thing, Ks. might not have too many states battling to get it.

By: Phantom

Phantom — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:06:16 +0000

Would the settle for a weapons lab, instead of a coal plant out west?

By: ANTI

ANTI — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:46:12 +0000

’s’

By: ANTI

ANTI — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:40:20 +0000

Brian, that is what I was thinking. Can’t have defence without offence.

By: brian_nuevo

brian_nuevo — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:37:12 +0000

“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.

By: ANTI

ANTI — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:33:29 +0000

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.

By: Phantom

Phantom — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:31:49 +0000

A new Manhattan Project! Yipee. Are we sure this is going to be a bio-defense and not a bio-weapons lab?

By: brian_nuevo

brian_nuevo — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:39:53 +0000

“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.

By: Phantom

Phantom — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:12:48 +0000

Makes sense locating it in Kansas, for a few dollars they can have an endless supply of test subjects!

By: ksfarmgrrl

ksfarmgrrl — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:34:46 +0000

HEHEHEH. HAHAHAHHAAH

Good one RP.

And they say you are crazy….

Maybe it’s the capitol crowd that needs those meds!

And the lobotomy.