Hey, American Taxpayers, did you see the Reader's Digest this month? Ooooh, have they got some goodie examples of Federal Spending Gone Crazy. And the wisdom of college debt? Read it here.
NUTSO FEDERAL SPENDING.
* Redundant engine program for the R-35 fighter jet, cost $207 million
* Benefit checks sent to dead government employees, cost $120 million
* International Center for the History of Electronic Games for video game preservation, cost $113,227
* Columbia University, to study online dating, cost $606,000
* To researchers at Wellesley College to answer the question, Do you trust your Twitter feed, cost
$492,005
* Virginia Commonwealth University researcher for a study on hookah smoking by Jordanian students,
cost $55,382
* University of California, Riverside, to study whether happy or unhappy people spend more time on
social media, cost $198,195
* Primate researchers to study what feces-throwing among chimps reveals about communication
skills, cost $592,527
* National Science Foundation to study Women, Weaving and Wool in Iceland between the years
AD 874-1800.
AND THE WISDOM OF RUNNING UP COLLEGE DEBT?
Colleges are asking students and parents to break the college piggy bank for these classes:
How To Watch Television (Montclair State)
Alien Sex (University of Rochester)
Harry Potter: Finding Your Patronus (Oregon State)
Arguing with Judge Judy (University of California, Berkeley)
Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame (University of S. Carolina)
Mail Order Brides: Understanding the Ph8illippines (Johns Hopkins)
Tightwaddeery, or the Good Life on a Dollar a Day (Alfred University)
Surviving the Coming Zombie Apocalypse (Michigan State)
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
PRIMA DONNA PROM DATE SAYS "NO"
Rejection, Rejection - Eric Cantor (R-VA) did not get his first-choice date for the Prom. In the spirit of Congress's new Bipartisanship Cantor's aids reached out to Pelosi-the-Pit-Bull to see whether the CA Democrat would sit with the VA Republican during tonight's State of the Union Spectacle.
But alas, this unlikely duo was not to be. Ms. Pelosi already has a date, and so she declined Cantor's advances.
And then Hoity Toity Pelosi "tweeted" her rejection of Cantor's overture and now all of Washington and the world knows she rejected him (ah, poor Eric). (or at least the few people who follow Pelosi's tweets know about it).
Personally? I don't know why Eric Cantor invited Pelosi to be his date for this Hokey Hoe-Down. They are on opposite sides of the political fence, they don't much like each other, they criticize each other regularly, and they don't "pillow talk" very well. Can you imagine a "date" where you don't even like your "date?" I suppose you'd have to skip the chit-chat and stick to the dance. And then try not to step on each others' toes.
Cantor and the rest of the Republicans should completely skip this juvenile spectacle called the State of the Union Address, much less make overtures to the Other Side. After all, most of the Supreme Court members won't be there. They know what a joke it has become - nothing more than a political pep-rally.
The Republicans who have agreed to sit with the Democrats? They have made a monstrous mistake. Last week the Dems were blaming the Reps for the AZ shooting, calling them all kinds of nasty names and blaming them for the shooter's actions. Now the Republicans are all kissy-huggy with them. Yikes, it's time to vomit up the prom punch.
But alas, this unlikely duo was not to be. Ms. Pelosi already has a date, and so she declined Cantor's advances.
And then Hoity Toity Pelosi "tweeted" her rejection of Cantor's overture and now all of Washington and the world knows she rejected him (ah, poor Eric). (or at least the few people who follow Pelosi's tweets know about it).
Personally? I don't know why Eric Cantor invited Pelosi to be his date for this Hokey Hoe-Down. They are on opposite sides of the political fence, they don't much like each other, they criticize each other regularly, and they don't "pillow talk" very well. Can you imagine a "date" where you don't even like your "date?" I suppose you'd have to skip the chit-chat and stick to the dance. And then try not to step on each others' toes.
Cantor and the rest of the Republicans should completely skip this juvenile spectacle called the State of the Union Address, much less make overtures to the Other Side. After all, most of the Supreme Court members won't be there. They know what a joke it has become - nothing more than a political pep-rally.
The Republicans who have agreed to sit with the Democrats? They have made a monstrous mistake. Last week the Dems were blaming the Reps for the AZ shooting, calling them all kinds of nasty names and blaming them for the shooter's actions. Now the Republicans are all kissy-huggy with them. Yikes, it's time to vomit up the prom punch.
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