This may be predictable, but…

I’m gonna give a thumbs down to Bobby Jindal.  Last night he said:

“[The economic stimulus package] includes $300 million to buy new cars for the government, $8 billion for high-speed rail projects, such as a ‘magnetic levitation’ line from Las Vegas to Disneyland, and $140 million for something called ‘volcano monitoring.’ Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, D.C.”

Thank you Governor Jindal for reminding me how obnoxious anti-science sentiment can be.  You know, I do understand that it might on the surface seem like those aren’t the first projects we should pick to stimulate the economy, but I feel like he hasn’t thought about it for more than 4 seconds or so.  I mean, aren’t high speed rail lines a GOOD thing?  They’re energy efficient, aren’t they?  Better than flying or driving?  And people need to be employed to build them?

“Something called volcano monitoring”?  Is it. . like. . . hard to understand what that means? And wouldn’t we. . . like to know. . . if a volcano is about to erupt?