Giving Cocaine to Monkeys.... $71,633 of Job Stimulus money hard at work.

[Raider]

That's right, Part of Obama's $787 BILLION Dollar Porkulus Bill is being spent to make Monkey's addicted to Cocaine......




Stimulus funds pay for monkey research in N.C.


Monkeys are getting high for science in North Carolina.

An analyst at the Civitas Institute seized on that image when selecting a cocaine addiction study at Wake Forest University Medical School as No. 1 on a list of the "10 worst federal stimulus projects in North Carolina." Civitas' Brian Balfour takes swipes at projects, writing that they "seem completely unrelated to avoiding an economic 'catastrophe,' but rather an ad hoc satisfaction of countless dubious wish lists."

So, what is the $71,623 federal stimulus grant paying for?

Well, a job, said Mark Wright, a spokesman for the Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

"It's actually the continuation of a job that might not still be there if it hadn't been for the stimulus funding. And it's a good job," Wright said. "It's also very worthwhile research."

The study is examining the effects of cocaine on a particular neurotransmitter among monkeys who have had a long-term addiction to cocaine.

The medical school boasts a significant body of work studying addiction. Ultimately, the study could lead to better treatment for recovering cocaine addicts.

Balfour also cited another Wake Forest study. This one is studying whether yoga and other non-pharmaceutical therapies such as wellness classes can help alleviate hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause.

"How does this study help revive the economy?" Balfour asked.

Well, again, jobs, said Nancy Avis, a professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Health policy at the medical school. The funding, more than $147,000 over two years, will contribute to the salaries of six people


Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/03/0...#ixzz0iEbfRtPj

[DomainsInc]

A continuation of a job? I assume that means this study had funding before the stimulus as well..

[silentg]

They should test it on cabinet ministers.

[Nathan King]

It's a good thing the government is spending all this money creating "jobs". God knows it's not the free market that made America prosperous.

[jasdon11]

The main reason for this, is to get the monkeys hooked, then get them working the streets as hookers.

[DomainsInc]

This is clearly a waste of tax payer money. Addiction is not a huge problem that costs tax payers tens of millions each year. It would be a total waste to try anything to solve it. Same goes for other silly things like cancer research.

[Nathan King]

Edit. Wrong thread, sorry

[Bill Roy]

Hell, now I have read everything - that means there will be less cocaine for the idiots who write such tosh instead of domaining!

Some people really need to get a life.

[Nathan King]

This is clearly a waste of tax payer money. Addiction is not a huge problem that costs tax payers tens of millions each year. It would be a total waste to try anything to solve it. Same goes for other silly things like cancer research.

they "seem completely unrelated to avoiding an economic 'catastrophe,' but rather an ad hoc satisfaction of countless dubious wish lists."

What do you think they are researching? My guess would be a patented prescription that only provides temporary relief to addicts while putting millions of dollars into the pockets of the well-connected (to put it lightly).

The posted article is a small and arguably poor example of how spending has gotten out of control in Washington. And it's not limited to just the Democrats. Republican's are getting their slice of the pie too.

It's the American people that are gonna have to pay this massive debt off...both in taxes and inflation.

[biggedon]

the gov used to give cocaine to slaves back in the day...when coke was legal

so it fed the thirst that exists today for crack in the black community


perpetuating the slave mentality of dependency, while acting as a population control tool

raider: find some real news

[draggar]

Where can we apply for the stimulus money? I could use a couple million to help start and maintain a business.

[Gerry]

Yeah, giving money for medical research is all new and had never happened before Jan 2009.

Thanks for the post.

[Mike Cruz]

Cares about monkeys getting high, but could careless for innocent human beings dying... interesting... this chicks got her priorities backwards....

[Raider]

Cares about monkeys getting high, but could careless for innocent human beings dying... interesting... this chicks got her priorities backwards....

These accusations you pull out of your ass are really getting old... I'll bet I've done more humanitarian work in a month than you've done in a lifetime .... And the hypocrisy, this is coming from someone who idolizes a Murderer.

I once asked Zurc why he used Che Guevara as his Avatar and he said he "Admired" him..... Zurc admires a Man who executed thousands of political prisoners in Cuba, prisoners who simply opposed Castro's communist policies. Zurc admires a Man who tortured and abused his prisoners, including Children. Zurc admires a Man who's played judge, jury and executioner with thousands of innocent lives, NEVER giving them a trial.

And Che was a Racist, publishing his own racist material, Zurc must admire that too.

Yes, This dumbsh*t from Florida who idolizes a murderer, wants everyone here to believe he's "Caring" When in reality, he's nothing but a cold hearted bastard.

Cares about monkeys getting high

Yeah, that's what this story is all about, "Monkey's getting high" .... It has nothing to do with spending money from a Job stimulus bill that was intended to create jobs, It's not about taking that money and spending it elsewhere where it can be put to better use, NOPE it's all about "Monkey's getting high"

Do you ever think outside the box instead of inside your ass?

If you were a Monkey Zurc, and volunteered for the program, I'll bet it would take them years just to teach you how to use a straw.

[Gerry]

Could this be another photo op? Hmm, Richard Burr -

That money was allocated through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the $787 billion stimulus measure passed with just three Republican votes in the Senate in February.

Burr was not one of those three votes. In a statement on Burr's Senate website, published before the vote, Burr criticized the bill for spending "almost a trillion dollars of borrowed money on projects and programs that are unlikely to produce any real broad-based stimulus or create jobs that will still be here two years from now."

By the way, that money was a very small fraction of the package of funds given to WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY, $27,183,129.00.

To the state of NC, Total Funds Awarded:

$4,266,792,933

Total Funds Received:
$1,684,345,055

Is this waste? Perhaps...but we have to get crackheads like you, Raider, back to some semblance of living.

Is wasteful spending a good thing?

Absolutely not. That is why funding has ceased to be poured into your boy's virtual fence.

a reassessment of the project that has thus far cost the government $672 million.

A 28-mile prototype virtual fence has been in use in southern Arizona for two years, but that stretch will be replaced by the first permanent section.

The virtual fence was developed as part of then-President George W. Bush's border security plan. It was meant to add another layer of protection at the border, along with thousands of Border Patrol agents and 650 miles of real fences.

Do the math... $24,000,000.00 per mile of fence.

A virtual fence.

We should have paid that with virtual money.

That would have been an estimated $15,600,000,000.00 for only 650 miles of fence along a border that is actually 1,951 mile long border.

That fence, if completed, would have only covered 1/3 of the total border.

[Raider]

Yes, just three Republican votes and Doc wants to make everyone think the Republicans own the bill.... LMAO

Olympia Snowe also voted for the Bill, another Republicrat with long Liberal voting records.

No, I'd say the $787 Billion Dollar wasteful stimulus bill is owned by the Democratic party and the dumb bastard in the White House who signed it.

And since were discussing votes, how many Democrats voted to invade Iraq? 60 something wasn't it?

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But back to Monkey's getting high, Only the Democratic party would use Tax dollars to turn Monkey's into cocaine addicts.

[Gerry]

See, those that voted against these stimulus checks, have no problem showing up with the press and taking a photo op AND the credit for getting this done.

Perhaps the people are starting to question just what in the hell is going on with "the other side".

He recently appeared at a big hoopla giving a check to a local community in the tune of $2million.

Now, knowing you, I am sure you are against lesbians and gay rights because it is just not GOP enough, so I know you don't like Rachael Maddow because of that reason along with, egad, she works for another non-endorsed network.

http://www.dscc.org/blog?blog_entry_KEY=639

So, in case you wonder what in the hell is going on, its time to face the real deal here...as Rachael points out, NOTHING IS A SECRET!

Today was a good example...a jobs bill. Sure, 12 GOP voted for it.

The question I would have is why those votes for no???

I actually read that bill. And what I don't understand is why a "NO" when everyone has been screaming and crying for Jobs.

Plus, not only was this a jobs bill, but it also was for funding many Federal institutions and agencies INCLUDING crimes against women and Homeland Security Agencies.

As far as bills goes, it was only 106 pages in PDF form. It was more a curiosity than anything so I read it. http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-...2847eh.txt.pdf

I did get a chuckle when I read section 535.

One would have to wonder what benefits Senators from Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Arizona, Texas, Arizona, etc would have to gain in voting NO to funding federal agencies as well as equipping national and local law enforcement agencies...oh, and voting down a wife beating measure. My guess is the literal translation Rule Of Thumb is still in effect in those colonies...English law allowed a man to beat his wife with a stick so long as it is was no thicker than his thumb.

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As for Iraq...well, that WILL go down as the biggest con job and salemanship in history.

That's something to really be proud of and literally a LASTING legacy.


Hmm, as someone else pointed out, an amount TO CONTINUE funding for the program...Ooops, missed that, eh?


Seriously, you think the dems own that bill? When Bush walked away having raised the national debt ceiling to 11.3Trillion? You think Obama did that? As Rachael pointed out, nothing is hidden. Bush had just raised the national debt ceiling to 9T to cover the shortage in July and then turned around a few months later and raised it to 11.3T.

Hey, what can I say, I enjoy a good f*cking just like anyone else but what happened to foreplay? Hell, I didn't even get a nibble on the ear or a reach around.

Just like you think Obama owns the job figures of the first quarter of 2009?

Just like you think the Iraq invasion and ongoing war is/was justified?

Holy sh*t! I know you.

You're that monkey's ass on crack.

[PRED]

Holy sh*t! I know you.

You're that monkey's ass on crack.

LOL
Commonly known as an 'ass crack'

[Gerry]

The Paulson Plan

Sec. 6. Maximum Amount of Authorized Purchases.

The Secretary's authority to purchase mortgage-related assets under this Act shall be limited to $700,000,000,000 outstanding at any one time

Sec. 10. Increase in Statutory Limit on the Public Debt.

Subsection (b) of section 3101 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking out the dollar limitation contained in such subsection and inserting in lieu thereof $11,315,000,000,000.

What were those figures striked out you ask?

Amendments

2006--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 109-182 substituted
``$8,965,000,000,000'' for ``$8,184,000,000,000''.
2004--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 108-415 substituted
``$8,184,000,000,000'' for ``$7,384,000,000,000''.
2003--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 108-24 substituted ``$7,384,000,000,000''
for ``$6,400,000,000,000''.
2002--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 107-199 substituted
``$6,400,000,000,000'' for ``$5,950,000,000,000''.

Your boy Shrub single-handly DOUBLED the debt and LEFT IT TO BE INHERITED.

How is it that increasing the debt ceiling to $11.3 trillion can now be an Oops, we underestimated as per Paulson, Cheney, Rove, and Bush.

The day Bush left the white house, the debt ceiling stood at $10.7 Trillion.

Your boy burned through almost 3 trillion dollars in his last three months!

Oh, yeah...preach it girl, Nothing is Hidden!


Wait a minute. Something is hidden:

Sec. 8. Review.

Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.

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LOL
Commonly known as an 'ass crack'

The way she comes off and rants she does seem like some crack head looking for a GOP fix and mainlining the shit.

Can't get enough of the good sh*t.

Yup, like she said, all dem crackheads started smoking pot and moved up to the hard shit.

[Mike Cruz]

These accusations you pull out of your ass are really getting old... I'll bet I've done more humanitarian work in a month than you've done in a lifetime .... And the hypocrisy, this is coming from someone who idolizes a Murderer.

I once asked Zurc why he used Che Guevara as his Avatar and he said he "Admired" him..... Zurc admires a Man who executed thousands of political prisoners in Cuba, prisoners who simply opposed Castro's communist policies. Zurc admires a Man who tortured and abused his prisoners, including Children. Zurc admires a Man who's played judge, jury and executioner with thousands of innocent lives, NEVER giving them a trial.

And Che was a Racist, publishing his own racist material, Zurc must admire that too.

Yes, This dumbsh*t from Florida who idolizes a murderer, wants everyone here to believe he's "Caring" When in reality, he's nothing but a cold hearted bastard.




Yeah, that's what this story is all about, "Monkey's getting high" .... It has nothing to do with spending money from a Job stimulus bill that was intended to create jobs, It's not about taking that money and spending it elsewhere where it can be put to better use, NOPE it's all about "Monkey's getting high"

Do you ever think outside the box instead of inside your ass?

If you were a Monkey Zurc, and volunteered for the program, I'll bet it would take them years just to teach you how to use a straw.

I am not sure how you can call someone a liar and a hypocrite in the same post where you are both lying and being a hypocrite yourself...

You are too full of your own bull shit in lies to ever see the truth and honesty in anything. See a shrink.