Sooooooooo-WEE!!!!

[PsychoSy]

President Bush signed an $80-billion wartime spending bill but we will get to control only about $15-billion of it. In other words, plenty of Congressional pork is piggybacking this one! Here the complete laundry list of all the markets those piggies are going to, courtesy of the Federalist Newsletter.

$110,000,000 for the National Animal Disease Center in Ames, Iowa.

$54,750,000 for the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services for the Interoperable Communications Technology Program (what in the hell is this?!?!?)

$41,000,000 for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for geostationary systems.

$24,000,000 for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for polar orbiting systems.

$15,000,000 for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

$5,500,000 for the Library of Congress PA system.

$5,000,000 for State and Tribal Wildlife Grants.

$4,849,000 for the General Accounting Office.

$3,300,000 for the European Communities music listening dispute.

$1,100,000 added by the Senate for the Capitol Architect for the Capitol Building.

$500,000 for the St. Louis Children's Museum.

$437,000 for the Huntington Sanitary Board of Huntington W.Va.

$225,000 added by the House for the Mental Health Association of Tarrant County Fort Worth, Texas (considering how Texans think, the probably need it!!)

and, last but not least...(are you ready for this one?)

A whopping $100,000 for the American Academy of Liberal Education in Washington, D.C.!!

Hooyah!! :D :)

An unprecedented $22.5-billion in pork projects attached to 2003 appropriations bills. Man...Congress will have to raise the debt ceiling above the current $6.4 Trillion if we ever want our bond rating to look better than Enron's. :p :angel:

[Sazar]

pork IS the other white meat :D

[UDawg]

$5,000,000 for State and Tribal Wildlife Grants.
Is this for whale hunting? :p

The sad thing Psy is that this list is just one one hundreth of a percent of the whole list. :mad:

[Sazar]

$3,300,000 for the European Communities music listening dispute.

that one has to be the FUNNIEST item on the list...

who the fluggle gives a flying turd what the european communities listening dispute is ?

anyone here have a clue ?

and they get 3.3 million buckeroos of our taxpayer money ?

they should be paying the US to resolve this 'dispute'

:D

[UDawg]

Originally posted by Sazar
that one has to be the FUNNIEST item on the list...

who the fluggle gives a flying turd what the european communities listening dispute is ?

anyone here have a clue ?

and they get 3.3 million buckeroos of our taxpayer money ?

they should be paying the US to resolve this 'dispute'

:D

It prolly has something to do with France and their inability to win a war. :p

[Sazar]

Originally posted by UDawg71
It prolly has something to do with France and their inability to win a war. :p

france has music ?

[PsychoSy]

Yeah, Vamp...WTF is it over there that got all those Brits in a music listening tizzy?!?! :D :p

[UDawg]

Originally posted by Sazar
france has music ?

DAMN YOU! I spit out my oj all over my keyboard. :p

I am also mad and sad to say that republicans are just as much to blame for this crap. :mad: I think they may be more responsible since they are the party of fiscal responsibility... dosn't look like it here. :rolleyes:

[Sazar]

Originally posted by UDawg71
DAMN YOU! I spit out my oj all over my keyboard. :p

:D

[Sazar]

Originally posted by UDawg71
DAMN YOU! I spit out my oj all over my keyboard. :p

I am also mad and sad to say that republicans are just as much to blame for this crap. :mad: I think they may be more responsible since they are the party of fiscal responsibility... dosn't look like it here. :rolleyes:

they are politicians dood :)

I would personally prefer a lot of funding to go to our education system but then the various constituencies and what not have their own agenda's that they thrust out there...

oh well..

[UDawg]

Originally posted by Sazar
they are politicians dood :)

I would personally prefer a lot of funding to go to our education system but then the various constituencies and what not have their own agenda's that they thrust out there...

oh well..

Ya that's the problem with republicans, they would be perfect if they wern't politicians. :p :D BHAHAHA! talk about the impossible.

[sytaylor]

Originally posted by PsychoSy
Yeah, Vamp...WTF is it over there that got all those Brits in a music listening tizzy?!?! :D :p

(in his apparent abscence i'll try answer)...

Its simple.. There are the odd few who like good music, yet to be converted to crap pop garbarge which is spewed out at twice the rate of the US (believe it or not).

It is gonna cost a cool 3 million to sort all us rebels out :p

[DaveW]

Originally posted by PsychoSy

$54,750,000 for the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services for the Interoperable Communications Technology Program (what in the hell is this?!?!?)


From what I gather its a system that networks the records of local law enforcement, federal law enforcement, the CIA, INS and other government organizations so they can be accessed through a single resource. In theory, the CIA could do a single database query like this

SELECT * FROM INS.Immigrants WHERE Country_Of_Origin = 'Syria' AND Ethnicity = 'Arab' AND Religion = 'Muslim' AND Visa_Status = 'Expired'

Then the next time one of those guys is pulled over for speeding, "Wanted by the CIA for questioning" would show up on the Cop's computer.

Isn't that great? :rolleyes: