Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn is at it again. He’s issued his annual report that details massive government waste on stupid projects. We’re talking billions of dollars wasted on hairbrained projects.
Our favorite is the $1.5 million they spent to develop a robot that can fold shirts. Only problem is, it takes the robot 25 minutes per shirt.
OK, OK, you know us too well. That’s not really our favorite. We were just trying to sound mature. Our real favorite is the Antarctic jello wrestling.
The New York Post reports:
The report found that at the Antarctic McMurdo research station, which part of a $451 million a year polar research project, NSF employees organized a Jell-o-wrestling event and nude “polar bear plunge” party.
Ahhh, but that’s just the beginning. Scientists at the NSF came up with lots of other wacky ways to waste your money. Such as:
- Having shrimp walk on tiny treadmills to measure the impact of sickness on crustaceans;
- $80,000 study on why the same teams always dominate March Madness;
- $315,000 study suggesting playing FarmVille on Facebook helps adults develop and maintain relationships;
- $1 million for an analysis of how quickly parents respond to trendy baby names;
- $50,000 to produce and publicize amateur songs about science, including a rap called “Money 4 Drugz,” and a misleading song titled “Biogas is a Gas, Gas, Gas”;
- $2 million to figure out that people who often post pictures on the internet from the same location at the same time are usually friends; and
- $581,000 on whether online dating site users are racist.
Remember this next time you hear Democrats say there’s no way to cut the budget. Here’s Coburn outlining just a few of them.
Source: New York Post
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The retardation just keep continuing and it will continue doing so until this regime is smashed.
McMurdo was studying the effects of the cold weather on "going number 3"...at totally legit data point if one assumes global warming will freeze the earth (and it will because the model says so).
Speaking of going number 3....do you think those panasonic toughbooks will work in the shower?
We taxpayers see this same crap year after year and whose fault is it? The voters in every state in America. People keep voting for the same old fools like Jessie Helms, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barbra Boxer, or in my state, Pete Dominici and Jeff Bingaman. Why? Because they bring home the bacon, the money to their state.
Author P.J. O'Rourke explains our problem in his book, The Parliament of Whores. Find the book, read it, then think about it. His final thoughts are true about the voters mind set. This is a direct quote: "Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."
Ya'll think about it before you start hammering on me. We want everything for nothing, we are paying for something we do not really need.
You men the Jell-o wrestling wasn't scientific? Come on, I paid good money to that on-line request for donations, it sounded so legit! Now I'm really pissed!
I remember reading the science sites when Obama was running and all the 'smart' comments were how we were going to have a real science President now. No more of this anti-science religious nonsense. And look at these 'scientific' studies. By the way, none of them like to admit that since the American-hating Socialist took power, he hasn't done a damned thing for science, even killing our space program and getting a lot of our scientists unemployed. What is our national scientific goal now, anyway? Can anyone name it? And don't give me that crap about putting a man on an asteroid because that's what that is - a bunch of crap.
Instead of a man on an asteroid, would it be helpful to point out The Man gives the nation hemorrhoids?
It would be fun to read the grant proposals for these studies to see how the researchers(or maybe 'thieves' is a better term) justified their requests.
Robots, dirty laundry, intellectual shrimp, perpetual treadmills, Jell-O brains... you just described Congress.
Well put. Well put indeed.
Wow IHTM it only took you like two or three days to make a story out of this LOLOL. I read the report and I was pissed the part that made me really angry was the part where they are using the money to find out if online dating site subscribers are racists. Ugh....
Jell-o wrestling? That needs gov't money? I am all for any bar, anywhere in the nation, hosting jell-o wrestling as a promotion. Guys go to bars & pay to see this stuff, it does not need gov't money. It usually reqires a cover charge, a drink special, & maybe a radio personality form a local rock/pop station. That about covers it.
Yeah most of these are dumb.. where are the kids that want to study fusion power or cheap desalination..?