STIMULUS ABUSE: Coburn & McCain Release New Report Detailing Wasteful Projects That Don't Create Jobs
Video: Because coke-addled, research monkeys need stimulus, too -- ABC News
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The report, released by Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and John McCain, R-Ariz., highlights 100 stimulus projects that they say have "questionable goals," are "being mismanaged or were poorly planned" and are even "costing jobs and hurting small businesses."
The Coburn-McCain report takes issue with stimulus spending on projects like one that entailed research on how cocaine affects monkeys. The Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center was awarded $71,623 to study what the report calls, "Monkeys Getting High for Science."
Bonnie Davis, a spokeswoman for The Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, said the "small grant has helped protect very important research that will have significant impact on public health in regards to cocaine addiction and the issue of relapse."
Go a little further down the list and you'll find even bigger spending. The California Academy of Sciences is receiving nearly $1 million in stimulus funds to send researchers to the Southwest Indian Ocean Islands and East Africa to capture, photograph and analyze thousands of exotic ants.
There's also funding for yoga and hot flashes. Researchers at Wake Forest University have received nearly $300,000 to study whether integral yoga "can be an effective method to reduce the frequency and/or severity of hot flashes" in breast cancer survivors.
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Aug 3, 2010 at 9:50 AM
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I'll set up the serving table down at the supper market. by his smoke shack and hand them out. Not today thoe, its 103* now. Wait till Oct. after they blow us up. Many will need a goverment hand out. Ah, Pork, much better than Pink Meat too !
Hey Gomps, years ago I played "The Bones", and pair of hog ribs, or steer. 3/4" wide by 4" long. Thought I had 2 that would do but a tad short and only 1/2 wide. To light.
An ol boy here was going to wittle me a pair out of wallnut, but after 2 years now, guess he forgot.
Maby I planted a seed. Sure miss playin them bones ? Dar, its "Oscars Ribs" I knew it dident look quite right.
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Sorry Bingo, its just that it fits to a T..........!
Oh Z, I went back and re-read some of my speed typeing and I found many places whAre I dident go back and make sure its all thAre.........like Tel, instead of Tell. Wrer, in stead of were. Very many times I type and miss words, turn letters around, and just Fu*k up the spellin.............spelling............in the Ozarks its Spellin...........many times I spell it like we say it in these thAre Hills.
If you ever go to Branson, "Toy's-r-Us" Mo. them thAre people will drive ya Nut..............s ! Dont evan go east of town. The "In-Bread Folks" have a way of life only hillbillies can understand.
Many are very hard workers, if you pick them up and take them home. Plus, Dar has an Ergo-Grom-ict key board with the keys curved and spaced out.
See, im all left thumbs with a normal, or lap top keyboard, but im a "Wix-Bang" on this new fangled key board......had 1/3 of my RC Hillacopter Gang getting one after I showed them mine. Wish DB would alow a FEW Pics.
You dont evan need to spell to fly Heillacopters, real, or RC, cuz im PIC, and I make the ruls....Rules.....see I did it again. Pilot in Comand...! So 45% of the time, its becouse I dont go back and look at my speed typeing. Typing ? I thoink, think ?
2 Barbie Dolls sat in the "Full Scale Cockpit" of my 206 Jet Ranger, 5' long, rotor blades wrer......were 72"......! Piper J3 Cub had 6' wing span, and JI Joe in the full scale cockpit, just some of the kick Ass Toys I had once apon a time.
5 Snowmobuiles, shit i cant spell that word, 6 R/C planes& Chopers, 2 Harley full dressers. The 65 FLH 1200 had every piece of crome, 85 lights, 8 track AM-FM, west coast tour pac, & twin tennas up the back. & I cant spell worth-a-Crap.
Eaze up on yr self. But keep on working with me. Yr the most fun I've had since I found my P**ck*r........& Oscers-Rib's.......
"ZaRa" that last one was yr best work in a long time. Oh, Hey. Hillery asked the daughter C on Sat. mornning if she had had sex yeat with her Bou, and she said "Not Acording to Dad" I havent ......?