"You go to war with the funding you got, not the funding you wish you had."
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The Scientist blog reports that a representative of the National Science Foundation (NSF) was at the annual meeting of the America Society for Cell Biology (ASCB). The NSF representative pointed out a couple of things things:
by Kim Krisberg
"We will pay for this by taking money from one of the slush funds in the president's health care law."
From The Scientist: Public Concern for Private Funding.
Did you notice that he arranged for a backdrop of little children and uniformed vets when he issued his denunciation of "political theater" from the Democrats?
Sometimes I wonder: does he ever listen to what he's saying?
The noises he emits do enter his ears, but pass through and come out the other side. There's nothing inbetween to stop it.
Not since WWII has there been a President who had such a carte blanche to do whatever he wanted to do, in this case defy most of the world, who were trying to tell him that such an endeavor would be a quagmire of competing sects.
4 years later: a quagmire of competing sects.