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(ABC News) Cool North Dakota group spends millions of dollars in federal disaster aid on booze. Hey - you'd do the same if you lived in North Dakota   (abcnews.go.com) divider line 34
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Hanky [TotalFark] 2009-03-19 05:33:42 PM  
farktastic

 
The Rest Are Bait [TotalFark] 2009-03-19 05:46:09 PM  
I move that Drew move his operations to North Dakota where they understand the value of booze in times of emergencies.

 
whidbey [TotalFark] 2009-03-19 05:46:43 PM  
I guess they figure another Grand Forks Fiasco won't happen for another 50 years...

 
BMulligan 2009-03-19 05:47:28 PM  
Ah, North Dakota. The state that Montanans make fun of.

 
Aeonic_Blue 2009-03-19 05:47:28 PM  
You have to be drunk to live in North Dakota. I know. I lived there for six months. It it wasn't for cheap vodka, I probably would have ended up like that Japanese chick that thought Fargo was true.

 
Lt. Cheese Weasel 2009-03-19 05:49:05 PM  
Tim Wiedrich, chief of the North Dakota Health Department's emergency preparedness and response section, said Wednesday that the "unallowable or questionable" items made up nearly $200,000 of the roughly $810,000 the Bismarck-based group received between 2004 and last year to help produce a plan to fight bioterrorism and other mass disasters.

Failtastic subby troll is failtastic at maths.

 
AndEhBus 2009-03-19 05:57:27 PM  
It was to stimulate the EMS -- drunk driving accidents stimulate EMS...

/I live in North Dakota
//Considering that and the idiocy of Obama support I have been drinking a lot.

 
Linux_Yes [TotalFark] 2009-03-19 05:59:29 PM  
never get between an american and his drug of choice.

 
Frank N Stein 2009-03-19 05:59:42 PM  
i226.photobucket.com

tommcmahon.typepad.com

 
BobtheFascist 2009-03-19 06:01:33 PM  
That pretty much goes for the entire upper Midwest.

 
vernonFL [TotalFark] 2009-03-19 06:03:30 PM  
I'm not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your EMS work, there, Lou

 
2wolves 2009-03-19 06:05:06 PM  
"Sweet home North Dakota
Lord I'm coming home to you..."

 
ricewater_stool [TotalFark] 2009-03-19 06:17:00 PM  
Drinking is the only way to survive the smell of Grand Forks. Mmmm, rotten beets and french fries.

/Likes Bismarck though.

 
BMulligan 2009-03-19 06:17:08 PM  
2wolves: "Sweet home North Dakota
Lord I'm coming home to you..."


I love this song - it sounds just like "Sweet Home Alabama," except with more accordion.

 
j-po 2009-03-19 06:19:45 PM  
whidbey: I guess they figure another Grand Forks Fiasco won't happen for another 50 years...

This year the concern is about Fargo going under, mostly because instead of building dikes, they built houses. So that should make for an interesting April.

 
Lost Thought 00 2009-03-19 06:22:39 PM  
Stimulating

 
rohar [TotalFark] 2009-03-19 06:30:56 PM  
BMulligan: 2wolves: "Sweet home North Dakota
Lord I'm coming home to you..."

I love this song - it sounds just like "Sweet Home Alabama," except with more accordion.


It still needs more cowbell

 
whidbey [TotalFark] 2009-03-19 06:39:04 PM  
rohar: It still needs more cowbell

North Dakota QUEEN!

if you know what I mean...

 
All2morrowsparTs 2009-03-19 06:46:16 PM  
AndEhBus: It was to stimulate the EMS -- drunk driving accidents stimulate EMS...

/I live in North Dakota
//Considering that and the idiocy of Obama support I have been drinking a lot.


I see you were drinking when you wrote that.

 
xuanzhiyouxuan 2009-03-19 07:01:36 PM  
You jerks who are decrying this act, don't you understand that North Dakota is cold and vodka has a lower freezing temperature than water? Think of all the things for which you rely on flowing liquids. All of those things must use vodka instead of water. Radiators? Vodka. Windshield wiper fluid? Vodka. Airplane hydraulic fluid? Yes, even that must be mostly vodka to work. Honestly, if you are against north dakotan ethanol, than you are against James K. Polk's "54-40 or fight" campaign. Shame on you.

 
grxymkjbn 2009-03-19 07:08:13 PM  
whidbey: rohar: It still needs more cowbell

North Dakota QUEEN!

if you know what I mean...


The community of Leslie West frowns on your shenanigans.

 
Dorf11 2009-03-19 07:23:44 PM  
the "unallowable or questionable" items made up nearly $200,000 of the roughly $810,000 the Bismarck-based group received between 2004 and last year to help produce a plan to fight bioterrorism

One could argue the best way to fight bioterrorism is to get them hammered for 5 years in North Dakota.

/The Bucket: the last line of anti-Canadian bioterrorist defense
//if it's still there

 
MyRandomName 2009-03-19 07:25:08 PM  
I hope congress is forming a bill to tax anybody who drank the alcohol 90% of the cost for the alcohol, this is an outrage!

 
Stompn_Tom [TotalFark] 2009-03-19 08:38:54 PM  
Hell I'm in Manitoba - we vacation in North Dakota

 
SporaticVoracity 2009-03-19 09:04:37 PM  
Federal disaster aid on booze? Amateurs. At least New Orleans knew how to spend dough like high rollers at Houston tit bars.

 
RevMercutio [TotalFark] 2009-03-19 09:16:27 PM  
MyRandomName: I hope congress is forming a bill to tax anybody who drank the alcohol 90% of the cost for the alcohol, this is an outrage!

The people need to learn to chip in for the booze somehow!

 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark] 2009-03-19 09:29:29 PM  
Better use of it than AIG's bonuses, I guess.

 
defects 2009-03-19 09:32:16 PM  
What if it is a break dancing stripper emergency?

 
cryinoutloud [TotalFark] 2009-03-19 10:41:00 PM  
Stompn_Tom: Hell I'm in Manitoba - we vacation in North Dakota

You should come to Montana--the mountains slow down the wind.

 
KarmicDisaster 2009-03-19 11:30:27 PM  
It's more like a required dietary supplement in ND anyway.

 
curlyqnessa 2009-03-20 12:10:26 AM  
Frank N Stein: Could your post be any more racially offensive?

I think not says me, a proud North Dakotan of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa.

 
SLADE 2009-03-20 12:48:25 PM  
I loved there. it's so flat that you can see your dog run away for three days.
Drinking is the only thing to do there it passes the day so you don't have to relize how farking lame the place is.

 
Crosshair [TotalFark] 2009-03-21 12:35:34 AM  
Stompn_Tom: Hell I'm in Manitoba - we vacation in North Dakota

Damn straight, you Canadians smuggle more stuff into Canada than Mexico smuggles into the US. Hey, it heps our economy so we arn't complaining.

BMulligan: Ah, North Dakota. The state that Montanans make fun of.

You have that backwards. Either way, Minnesota is the bigger joke.

ricewater_stool: Drinking is the only way to survive the smell of Grand Forks. Mmmm, rotten beets and french fries.

If the beet and french fry factory are the worst smells you have smelled in your life, then you are awfully sheltered. It's only a few ties a year where it is anything serious. I thought Chicago smelled MUCH worse than the beet/french fry factory in GF.

j-po: This year the concern is about Fargo going under, mostly because instead of building dikes, they built houses. So that should make for an interesting April.

Yea, Fargo could have made more improvements than they did, though GF got more money for improvements.

 
rosebud_the_sled 2009-03-21 01:10:03 AM  
North Dakota is a state?

 
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