vxbush 5/30/2023 5:58:25 AM

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Never outsource what you can do at home: Government Science™ Opens New Biolab Studying Animal Pathogens in Middle of Kansas

That’s one reason why Cross is welcoming tomorrow’s ceremonial opening of a massive new high-security laboratory in Kansas, the first in the United States designed with pens and equipment such as cranes to move big animals tainted with the most hazardous infectious agents, including Nipah virus. Although active research won’t begin at the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) in Manhattan for several years, Cross predicts that “a high containment resource to deal with agriculturally important pathogens … is going to change the [research] landscape.”

The laboratory, which will be operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has taken nearly a decade longer to complete than planned and, at $1.25 billion, cost nearly three times as much as first predicted. It is also controversial. Although many researchers and powerful Kansas politicians have supported the project, some scientists, Manhattan residents, and farm groups have voiced concerns about handling pathogens dangerous to livestock and humans in the nation’s agricultural heartland. If a highly contagious animal disease escaped the lab, “it would just shut down commerce,” says Larry Kendig, a board member of the Kansas Cattlemen’s Association.

Top. Men.

vxbush 5/30/2023 6:02:14 AM

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Hanoi Jane Fonda Has a Novel Way to Solve the ‘Climate Crisis’

She, like so many LLLeftists, just believes everything the media says about the climate change emergency (despite decades of them being wrong) or, more likely, she just wants to be seen as caring...by saying we should imprison white males. 

Sigh. Could someone please find a valium dart and shoot her? 

vxbush 5/30/2023 6:07:50 AM

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‘What Is She Doing Here?’: Report on Feinstein’s Health Details Senator’s Confusion Over VP Harris

How many times have Dems left incapable people in their positions of power? Over how many decades? And how often have Republicans done this? Let's start the list: 

Biden

Feinstein

Hillary Clinton (honorary member)

Fetterman

Robert Byrd

McCarthy doesn't look so good now, and I'm thinking he now needs to go on this list. I haven't seen video of him talking since his supposed injury.

vxbush 5/30/2023 6:14:00 AM

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vxbush 5/30/2023 6:44:30 AM

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In #3 vxbush said: McCarthy McConnell doesn't look so good now, and I'm thinking he now needs to go on this list. I haven't seen video of him talking since his supposed injury.

Whoops. Wrong Republican.

JCM 5/30/2023 7:17:16 AM

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Occasional Reader 5/30/2023 7:42:38 AM

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Good (late) morning (depending on your time zone).

Possibly the best moment for me from the holiday weekend was when Little OR challenge me to make a song out of any random thing he said.  I accepted.  He said, "duct tape!".   I promptly started singing "Duct Tape Girl", to the tune of Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl".  He almost fell over laughing. 

buzzsawmonkey 5/30/2023 7:46:22 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 7:

Well done!   BTW, isn't a "duct tape girl" someone like Dylan Mulvaney?  Gotta hold that stuff in place, after all...

Occasional Reader 5/30/2023 7:47:50 AM

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In #7 Occasional Reader said: Little OR challenged me

Occasional Reader 5/30/2023 7:50:43 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 8:

Heh.

In that case, I don't even want to know what the WD-40 is for. 

JCM 5/30/2023 8:51:09 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 10:

Rule 34.

vxbush 5/30/2023 9:01:30 AM

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In #7 Occasional Reader said:  I promptly started singing "Duct Tape Girl", to the tune of Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl".  He almost fell over laughing. 

Oh, most excellent choice!

vxbush 5/30/2023 9:01:53 AM

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In #11 JCM said: Rule 34.

There are many things I don't want to know. Count this among them. 

Alice in Dairyland 5/30/2023 9:20:23 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 13: 

Rule 34 - If it exists, there is porn of it.

vxbush 5/30/2023 9:23:11 AM

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In #14 Alice in Dairyland said: Rule 34 - If it exists, there is porn of it.

Oh, I know the rule. I'm saying I don't want to know what the porn looks like!

Alice in Dairyland 5/30/2023 9:26:20 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 15:

Misunderstood your comment.

vxbush 5/30/2023 9:31:01 AM

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In #16 Alice in Dairyland said: Misunderstood your comment.

Given the context, it was easy to do. 

JCM 5/30/2023 2:08:22 PM

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JCM 5/30/2023 5:56:22 PM

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Internal corporate chats are talking about a Climate walkout at the downtown HQ tomorrow.

I am so restraining myself.