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Posted by Steve B on March 3, 2010, 6:03 pm
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>>Heck, the gov't is paying professors to study why drunk co-eds are more
>>likely to have sex than sober ones.
To study the issue, or merely to report their own anecdotal experiences?
There is a difference.
Steve
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Posted by Bill Smith on March 4, 2010, 1:53 pm
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deserttraver@fishymail.net says...
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> >>Heck, the gov't is paying professors to study why drunk co-eds are more
> >>likely to have sex than sober ones.
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> To study the issue, or merely to report their own anecdotal experiences?
> There is a difference.
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> Steve
I had to go Google to remember where I found it (see #7 below). Google
turned up many results...
1. $100,000 IN STIMULUS FUNDS USED FOR A MARTINI BAR & BRAZILIAN
STEAKHOUSE: ?You probably wouldn't guess that a martini bar and a
Brazilian steakhouse would be on tap for stimulus funds, but in St.
Joseph, Missouri, two privately owned facilities are getting 100,000 of
your tax dollars.? (CBS's ?CBS Evening News,? 12/9/09)
2. $390,000 TO STUDY MALT LIQUOR AND MARIJUANA CONSUMPTION: ?The State
University Of New York At Buffalo Won $390,000 To Study Young Adults Who
Drink Malt Liquor And Smoke Marijuana.? (?Senate GOP Point Out 'Pure
Waste' Found In Stimulus Package,? The Hill, 12/8/09)
3. $210,000 TO STUDY LEARNING PATTERNS OF HONEYBEES: ?The University Of
Hawaii Collected $210,000 To Study The Learning Patterns Of Honeybees,
And $700,000 Went To Help Crab Fishermen In Oregon Recover Lost Crab
Pots.? (?Senate GOP Point Out 'Pure Waste' Found In Stimulus Package,?
The Hill, 12/8/09)
4. $1 MILLION TO STUDY ANTS: ?Half A Million Dollars Went To Arizona
State University To Study The Genetic Makeup Of Ants To Determine
Distinctive Roles In Ant Colonies; $450,000 Went To The University Of
Arizona To Study The Division Of Labor In Ant Colonies.? (?Senate GOP
Point Out 'Pure Waste' Found In Stimulus Package,? The Hill, 12/8/09)
5. $15,551 TO STUDY DRUNK MICE: ?The Rodent Study At Florida Atlantic
University In Boca Raton Used $15,551 In Stimulus Funds To Pay For Two
Summer Researchers To Help Gauge How Alcohol Affects A Mouse's Motor
Functions.? (?Stimulus Money And Weird Science: Benefit Or Boondoggle??
The Orlando Sentinel, 2/16/10)
6. $4,200-$5,500 TAX CREDIT FOR PURCHASING GOLF CARTS: ?President
Obama?s Stimulus Plan? Is Now Paying Americans To Buy That Great
Necessity Of Modern Life, The Golf Cart.? ?Thanks to the federal tax
credit to buy high-mileage cars that was part of President Obama's
stimulus plan, Uncle Sam is now paying Americans to buy that great
necessity of modern life, the golf cart.? (?Cash For Clubbers,? The Wall
Street Journal, 10/17/09)
7. $219,000 TO STUDY THE SEX LIVES OF FEMALE COLLEGE FRESHMEN: ?Five
Hundred Syracuse University Freshmen Will Divulge The Details Of Their
Sex Lives ? $219,000 In Stimulus Funds For The Study.? (?SU Sex Study
Raises Concern,? The [Syracuse] Daily Orange, 9/8/09)
8. $1 MILLION TO RENOVATE ?THE SUNSET STRIP?: ?Sunset Boulevard, Also
Known As ?The Sunset Strip? And One Of The Most Famous Streets In The
World, Will Be Getting A $7 Million Facelift After More Than 75 Years Of
Use, With A Free Million Dollar Nose Job Coming From Uncle Sam.? (?Feds
Stimulus Sunset Strip Beautification Project,? WeHoNews, 9/28/09)
9. $325,394 TO STUDY ?MATING DECISIONS? OF CACTUS BUGS: The Cactus
Bug Project At The University Of Florida Is More Ambitious, Spending
$325,394 In Stimulus Money To Determine How Environment Affects The
Mating Decisions Of Females. According to the project proposal, it
should also answer the question, ?Whether males with large weapons are
more or less attractive to females.?? (?Stimulus Money And Weird
Science: Benefit Or Boondoggle?? The Orlando Sentinel, 2/16/10)
10. $500,000 TO STUDY ?SOCIAL NETWORKS LIKE FACEBOOK?: ?A $498,000,
Three-Year Grant? To Study ?Social Networks Like Facebook.? ?Millions of
Internet users have been enjoying the fun -- and free -- services
provided by advertiser-supported online social networks like Facebook.
But Landon Cox, a Duke University assistant professor of computer
science, worries about the possible down side -- privacy problems.?
(?Seeking Privacy In The Clouds: Research Aims At Isolating Social
Network Information From ?Control Of A Central Entity,?? Science Daily,
10/15/09)
11. $3.4 MILLION FOR A TURTLE TUNNEL IN FLORIDA: ?The Other Third Of
The Stimulus, Government Infrastructure Spending, Has Been The Most
Controversial From The Start. Some Proposals Have Been Criticized As
Wasteful, Such As ? A $3.4 Million ?Ecopassage? To Help Turtles Cross A
Highway In Tallahassee, Fla.? (?The Challenge In Counting Stimulus
Returns,? The Wall Street Journal, 10/27/09)
12. $250 STIMULUS CHECKS WENT TO PRISONERS: MEGYN KELLY, Fox News:
?Thousands To A Million Of Your Stimulus Dollars Have Gone Straight To
Convicts. That's Right, The Feds Sending $250 Stimulus Checks To
Thousands Upon Thousands Of Prisoners... We're Talking First Degree
Murders Who Are Getting Your Money.? (Fox News? ?America's Newsroom,?
8/26/09)
Read more at the San Francisco Examiner:
http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Are-these-
12-most-outrageous-economic-stimulus-grants---
84845062.html#ixzz0hEeKrW40
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Posted by William Wixon on March 4, 2010, 3:03 pm
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> deserttraver@fishymail.net says...
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this happened after katrina too. all sorts of absurd projects being funded.
also the 9/11 projects. it happens every time. scumbags gaming the system,
legal thievery. it's a shame. weren't there news reports about some stuff
going on in haiti also right now?
there was a restaurant near me (south east new york state) that got katrina
funding. i can't remember specifics now but there were ridiculous projects
being funded by the 9/11 thing too, i'd bet some of you guys can remember
some of them. something about a small cheese producing village in wisconsin
getting 9/11 funding or something?
b.w.
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Posted by Hawke on March 5, 2010, 1:37 am
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On 3/4/2010 12:03 PM, William Wixon wrote:
>> deserttraver@fishymail.net says...
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> -snip-
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> this happened after katrina too. all sorts of absurd projects being funded.
> also the 9/11 projects. it happens every time. scumbags gaming the system,
> legal thievery. it's a shame. weren't there news reports about some stuff
> going on in haiti also right now?
> there was a restaurant near me (south east new york state) that got katrina
> funding. i can't remember specifics now but there were ridiculous projects
> being funded by the 9/11 thing too, i'd bet some of you guys can remember
> some of them. something about a small cheese producing village in wisconsin
> getting 9/11 funding or something?
>
> b.w.
Ever since the government began giving things out to the public there
have been people cheating. This is human nature. If you want to see it
on a grand scale just look at the money the military industrial complex
goes through. They spend our money on their war toys and on the wars
themselves like drunken sailors, only worse. But that is different from
the criticism of basic research, which is what a lot of these grants are
for. No one knows what we will find from these research projects. Most
scientific information that is really beneficial to society has come
from this kind of basic research. It doesn't have any specific thing
it's trying to discover and that is where the real breakthroughs come
from much of the time. We have thousands of things we use that came from
the space programs and when they did the research they had no idea what
they found would be worth anything. So basic research is really good.
Unfortunately, ignorant people jump on things they see as a waste of
money. But you never know when that research on tree frogs will come up
with something that saves your life ten years down the road. The thing
is the scientists doing the research never knew it either. You're just
glad they did it.
Hawke
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