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Senators Take Lessons from Hypo

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Anonymous

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Give us hoof and mouth, but hold the terrorists
By Drovers news staff | Thursday, August 13, 2009

Two weeks ago, U.S. Senators Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts, along with Representatives Lynn Jenkins, Jerry Moran and Todd Tiahrt, all from Kansas, issued a statement supporting the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility scheduled to be built in Manhattan, Kan.

The decision to award Kansas the new facility was not without detractors – most notably the runners-up contenders in Texas and Mississippi. But the Kansas politicians rejoiced in the fact that the $650 million facility is project to bring $3.5 billion to the state, and create 500 high-paying, scientific federal jobs.

The Department of Homeland Security approved locating the new National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas, after reviewing 18 possible sites over 6 years. NBAF will be dedicated to researching the biological threats of foreign animal diseases and diseases transferred from animals to humans.

But at least one heartland resident has trouble connecting the dots between Brownback and Roberts’ support of NBAF and their opposition to transferring Gitmo detainees to Kansas, the home of the U.S. military’s only maximum-security prison.

Mary Sanchez, a columnist for The Kansas City Star, wrote this week that Roberts and Brownback “went berserk” when word got out that the Obama administration was thinking of transporting the prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to Leavenworth to stand trial. “We don’t want them here,” Sanchez quoted Brownback as saying. “They should be treated with dignity and humanely, but it should not be here.”

Sanchez also wrote: “When words of opposition weren’t enough, the senators stomped their feet and put holds on key Obama appointees for the Departments of Justice and Defense. Nothing like a little senatorial temper tantrum to ensure bureaucracy grinds to a halt.”

But Sanchez says “Brownback was singing a different tune when Kansas was chosen in February as the new site for the nation’s bio-defense lab.” She says Brownback and Roberts “seem to believe that the U.S. government can protect the lab and its devastating contents yet is not up to the task of safeguarding detainees. Somebody explain the logic there, please.”
 

hypocritexposer

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The biodefense lab that was associated with the anthrax mailings of 2001 is temporarily shutting down most research to allow officials to make a thorough accounting of every germ, virus, and poison that’s being stored at the facility. The lab, at Fort Detrick in Maryland, has come under intense scrutiny since the FBI accused researcher Bruce Ivins of sending the 2001 letters laced with anthrax. (Ivins killed himself while under investigation.) Now, officials want to comb through storage rooms and refrigerators to ensure that every dangerous agent is listed in the lab’s inventory.
 
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Wrong again Hypocrit- shows how much you follow the cattle industry :roll: :roll: ...This is the Plum Island research center that will move all the testing/studies of foot and mouth disease along with all other animal disease testing to the "heart" of cattle country....

Another GW Bush brilliant idea- that his rubberstamp followers seem to have lapped up....

The National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) is a proposed U.S. government-run research facility that will replace the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in New York. The proposed facility will be operated under the authority of the United States Department of Homeland Security.[1]

The facility, which is not yet built, will be located in Manhattan, Kansas.[2] The 520,000 square-foot facility is scheduled to begin construction in 2010, become operational by 2014, and employ up to 300 people.
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By Congressional mandate that foot and mouth disease not be studied on the US mainland, Plum Island is the only facility currently studying foot and mouth disease. However, the NBAF will be located on the mainland, prompting concern from Congressional Democrats.

Several rural advocacy groups, such as the National Grange, have spoken out against the idea of locating the facility on the mainland, as well. In addition, groups have formed in Athens, Georgia, Manhattan, Kansas and Butner, North Carolina to oppose the laboratory's proposed location in those cities.
 

hypocritexposer

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you missed the point. I was pointing out that it is doubtful that they can safeguard a lab fully either. They've had problems in the past.


She says Brownback and Roberts “seem to believe that the U.S. government can protect the lab and its devastating contents yet is not up to the task of safeguarding detainees. Somebody explain the logic there, please.”
 

Mike

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Oldtimer said:
Wrong again Hypocrit- shows how much you follow the cattle industry :roll: :roll: ...This is the Plum Island research center that will move all the testing/studies of foot and mouth disease along with all other animal disease testing to the "heart" of cattle country....

Another GW Bush brilliant idea- that his rubberstamp followers seem to have lapped up....

The National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) is a proposed U.S. government-run research facility that will replace the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in New York. The proposed facility will be operated under the authority of the United States Department of Homeland Security.[1]

The facility, which is not yet built, will be located in Manhattan, Kansas.[2] The 520,000 square-foot facility is scheduled to begin construction in 2010, become operational by 2014, and employ up to 300 people.
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By Congressional mandate that foot and mouth disease not be studied on the US mainland, Plum Island is the only facility currently studying foot and mouth disease. However, the NBAF will be located on the mainland, prompting concern from Congressional Democrats.

Several rural advocacy groups, such as the National Grange, have spoken out against the idea of locating the facility on the mainland, as well. In addition, groups have formed in Athens, Georgia, Manhattan, Kansas and Butner, North Carolina to oppose the laboratory's proposed location in those cities.

You got any proof that moving the Plum Island research to another facility is Bush's idea? Didn't think so..................... :roll:
 

Tex

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Oldtimer said:
Give us hoof and mouth, but hold the terrorists
By Drovers news staff | Thursday, August 13, 2009

Two weeks ago, U.S. Senators Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts, along with Representatives Lynn Jenkins, Jerry Moran and Todd Tiahrt, all from Kansas, issued a statement supporting the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility scheduled to be built in Manhattan, Kan.

The decision to award Kansas the new facility was not without detractors – most notably the runners-up contenders in Texas and Mississippi. But the Kansas politicians rejoiced in the fact that the $650 million facility is project to bring $3.5 billion to the state, and create 500 high-paying, scientific federal jobs.

The Department of Homeland Security approved locating the new National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas, after reviewing 18 possible sites over 6 years. NBAF will be dedicated to researching the biological threats of foreign animal diseases and diseases transferred from animals to humans.

But at least one heartland resident has trouble connecting the dots between Brownback and Roberts’ support of NBAF and their opposition to transferring Gitmo detainees to Kansas, the home of the U.S. military’s only maximum-security prison.

Mary Sanchez, a columnist for The Kansas City Star, wrote this week that Roberts and Brownback “went berserk” when word got out that the Obama administration was thinking of transporting the prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to Leavenworth to stand trial. “We don’t want them here,” Sanchez quoted Brownback as saying. “They should be treated with dignity and humanely, but it should not be here.”

Sanchez also wrote: “When words of opposition weren’t enough, the senators stomped their feet and put holds on key Obama appointees for the Departments of Justice and Defense. Nothing like a little senatorial temper tantrum to ensure bureaucracy grinds to a halt.”

But Sanchez says “Brownback was singing a different tune when Kansas was chosen in February as the new site for the nation’s bio-defense lab.” She says Brownback and Roberts “seem to believe that the U.S. government can protect the lab and its devastating contents yet is not up to the task of safeguarding detainees. Somebody explain the logic there, please.”


Brownback and Roberts have been instrumental in allowing the meats industry to disintegrate. In the mean time they and their party have reaped huge amounts of money from the meats industry that have done the equivalent of what Wall Street and the bankers did to our economy as a whole.

These two guys need to be strung up for incompetence or corruption.

It is the Phil Gramm economics at work for the "rich" and well heeled corporations who are taking our country to the bank while Congress gets paid off.

There is no logic here, just self interest at work.

Tex
 

RobertMac

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Tex, you are bringing me around...

Republican leadership(recent)...party of big business and Wall Street...placate the general public with conservative social issues.

Democrat leadership...party of big labor, lawyers and Wall Street...placate the general public with the illusion that they are for the working man.

The majority of both parties should be thrown out Nov. 2, 2010!!!
 
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