[WorkingClassFilth]

Sounds like Santorum is being targeted by RAT's early and their chewing on the edges looking to see what resonates at home and nationally. I suspect that the meaning of the bill's intent is a little less crass than servicing the donations of 12 weather companies in his state.

In any event, NOAA could be argued with reasonableness to be a legitimate function of government by right of providing forecasts for obvious public safety. Less obvious is that blanket system that allows people in agriculture to tune in for forcasts and daily weather information that they can't get from the blow-dry-guy on evening news.

In the case of serious budget deflation and determined cuts in all sectors, I suppose that NOAA's budget is as much on the block as many other 'functions' of the beast. I would like to see good will efforts like killing CPB/NPR/PBS first, though. After a few rounds of this kind of cutting, maybe we can ramp up and start the panic in the streets by gutting the social program infrastructure.

[tutstar]

they can't get from the blow-dry-guy on evening news.

LOL we have a surfer dude, follicly-impaired on one station, and a blow-dry-guy on the other channel.

I'm with you on the CPB stuff! throw out the National Endowment of the Arts and then we'd be getting somewhere!

[Strategerist]

I suspect that the meaning of the bill's intent is a little less crass than servicing the donations of 12 weather companies in his state.

I don't. It's Santorum personally servicing AccuWeather.

It actually would be better if the bill was simply eliminating the NWS; but it isn't.

The goal of AccuBlunder is for raw NWS model and observation data to be avaliable to it for free, but for you to have to pay AccuBlunder to get the final product or see any of the raw data.