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2009-11-03 -Short Attention Span Theater-

After a flurry of stimulus spending, questionable projects pile up

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Posted by Beavis 2009-11-03 15:12|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 $1.5 million for a fence to block would-be jumpers from leaping off the All-American Bridge in Akron, Ohio.

How about a frickin' fence to keep illegal aliens out of my country?!?!?!

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-11-03 16:13|| 2009-11-03 16:13|| Front Page Top

#2 $1.5M fence, no. $20 target at the bottom, si.

Posted by ed 2009-11-03 17:31|| 2009-11-03 17:31|| Front Page Top

#3 $219,000 for Syracuse University to study the sex lives of freshmen women.

Now that's one smart professor to pull that one off. Hey doc, need any research assistants?

Unfortunately the public get bored in a nanosecond w/ financial scandals and the politicians know it. Unless it can be used to batter Republicans, the Evening News won't touch it. Much prefer to lead w/ bashing men only private clubs, unless they are gay or another untouchable minority. Then who are the media to judge?

Posted by ed 2009-11-03 17:39|| 2009-11-03 17:39|| Front Page Top

#4 $219,000 for Syracuse University to study the sex lives of freshmen women.

Damn - someone stole my Grant Application!

$148,438 for Washington State University to analyze the use of marijuana in conjunction with medications like morphine.

Another Grant stolen!

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-11-03 17:43|| 2009-11-03 17:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe you can volunteer to be a test subject, CrazyFool.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-11-03 18:16|| 2009-11-03 18:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Maybe the investigative teams at Syracuse and Washington State should collaborate ...

Posted by Steve White 2009-11-03 18:21|| 2009-11-03 18:21|| Front Page Top

#7 $219,000 for Syracuse University to study the sex lives of freshmen women.

That buys a lot of Gurls Gon Wilde dvds...

Posted by Pappy 2009-11-03 20:52|| 2009-11-03 20:52|| Front Page Top

#8 $219,000 for Syracuse University to study the sex lives of freshmen women.
And this is going to stimulate the economy, exactly how?
Oh wait...
What a great idea:)

Posted by tipper 2009-11-03 21:30|| 2009-11-03 21:30|| Front Page Top

#9 $2.3 million for the U.S. Forest Service to rear large numbers of arthropods, including the Asian longhorned beetle, the nun moth and the woolly adelgid.

Now studying the sex lives of freshmen women at Syracuse...survey or lab work?

Posted by JohnQC 2009-11-03 21:37|| 2009-11-03 21:37|| Front Page Top

#10 Something happened. Must have got hung up on Syracuse.

I don't know why you'd want to rear large numbers of the Wooly Adelgid because we have been trying to eradicate them in the Smokies since they are killing off the hemlocks.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-11-03 21:38|| 2009-11-03 21:38|| Front Page Top

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