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keep_left

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6. I remember that Rick Santorum had a weird bee in his bonnet about that.

Reply to Eugene (Reply #4)

Tue Jul 30, 2024, 02:10 PM

Jul 2024

His fanboy thing for privatizing NOAA coincided with the desires of one of his cronies (of course).

...these public agencies compete with the for profit business of AccuWeather, whose owner Joel Myers has been pushing to have them shut down or at least forced to give all their data to AccuWeather instead...

Santorum tried to privatize weather when he was a Senator in favor of Accuweather who’s owner was a big donor to him.

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P2025 wants to break up, privatize NOAA. [View all] Sogo Jul 2024 OP

The Felon is still harboring a grudge over the Sharpie incident tinrobot Jul 2024 #1

Why go after NOAA? My guess, some of the billionaires will provide free weather information to us. Jim__ Jul 2024 #2

The last serious talk about privatizing NOAA was when Shrub was president. Eugene Jul 2024 #4

I remember that Rick Santorum had a weird bee in his bonnet about that. keep_left Jul 2024 #6

If I'm not mistaken... -misanthroptimist Jul 2024 #7

For-profit weather information biophile Jul 2024 #3

It is so dumb and dangerous alarimer Jul 2024 #5