Rays run oyster project awry (Govt Planning at its best)

The Virginian-Pilot ^ | 8/24/2004 | SCOTT HARPER

[leadhead]

If it fails the first time for good and obvious reasons, do it again with more money the same way.

[RIGHT IN LAS VEGAS]

Note to self.....

start a farm.....

Forget to erect the fox fence

[chemicalman]

You know what they say about oysters.

[rotstan]

Anyone know why the Army Corps of Engineers is involved in this, or what legislation is funding this?

[MonroeDNA]

Rush needs to see this. Hilarious!

[camle]

your tax dollars herd at work feeding the hungry - rays. LOL~!

[SampleMan]

'Well, all we’re doing with all this money is feeding cow-nosed rays’ oops I said it.

[camle]

but everybody loves ray - doncha know?:-)

[blanknoone]

“I hope people don’t come away from this saying, 'Well, all we’re doing with all this money is feeding cow-nosed rays,’ ” he said.

Well, what exactly do you 'hope' people will say about your $78,000 ray feeding program?

Here is what I hope. I hope government can get out of things they have no business being in in the first place. And when they are involved with do-gooder projects that they shouldn't be, I should at least hope that they are competent. I guess both of our hopes are going unrealized.

[Sacajaweau]

Sure do, but I couldn't get him to eat them!!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I very surprised that the governmaent didn't just rename this The Skate Enhancement Program and celebrate it as an unqualified success.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

...everybody loves ray...

Cow-nosed Ray?

[jimfree]

'O Oysters,' said the Carpenter,
'You've had a pleasant run!
Shall we be trotting home again?'
But answer came there none --
And this was scarcely odd, because
They'd eaten every one.

[camle]

he does look kinda hungry.... i hear he digs seafood

[Catspaw]

“We didn’t really know anything about the cow-nosed ray,” said Doug Martin , project manager for the Army Corps of Engineers in Norfolk, lead agency for the multimillion-dollar oyster initiative.

Well, Dougie, you know one thing now: cow-nosed rays really think baby oysters are tasty morsels.

[Oystir]

I have nothing to do with this.

[wbill]

“I hope people don’t come away from this saying, 'Well, all we’re doing with all this money is feeding cow-nosed rays,’ ” he said.

Perhaps Mr. Brumbaugh would care, then to elaborate on exactly what they were doing. Sounds like 78K of chum, to me.

[Sam Cree]

What happened to the oysters in the first place?

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[Atlantic Friend]

I wonder what is the name of this species of oysters ? Were those "hollow oysters", crassostrea gigas ?