The Blog | Bob Cesca: Presidential Likes: Pork, Smirking. Dislikes: Troops. | The Huffington Post: "...And I'm not talking about the omnibus or transportation bills. Those are givens. Let's have a look at the pork in some of the Republican defense and homeland security appropriation bills that President Bush signed. (Descriptions of each paraphrased from CAGW with parentheticals by me.)
2006 (from Citizens Against Government Waste)
_$46,908 for Hampton Jitney, Inc. (Wow. People still use the old timey word 'jitney?')
_$500,000 for the Arctic Winter Games
_$1,000,000 for the Water-Free Urinal Conservation Initiative
_$1,000,000 for the CLOSED Philadelphia Navy Yard
_$5,600,000 for the Ernest Gallo Center (wine and alcohol research)
_$3,400,000 for the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, 'which was initially designed to capture energy from the aurora borealis [northern lights], but is now being configured to heat up the ionosphere to improve military communications.' (I'm wondering if heating up the ionosphere is such an awesome idea. Then again, this earmark came from Senator Ted Stevens.)
_$8,270,000 for breath alcohol testing equipment
_$10,000,000 for the Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium (to prevent terrorists from attacking that banjo kid from Deliverance)..."
I heard him twanging just the other night.
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