A Few for the Road

Heading to SLC and another trip to the VA. No cancer this time but a major operation coming up on the 17th ... will try and keep this going. Driving next two days through. But as I head out I have to say I needed to share a few more 'job producing spending' from our illustrious administration in DC.

1. The National Science Foundation passed along nearly $500,000 to the University of North Carolina for an Ebonics study. The goal is to find out if speaking real English makes for more literate people. The hypothesis is that if kids can speak 'both' languages they will have higher achievement levels. Uh, umm ... no jobs created.

2. Another National Science Foundation boondoggle in Africa was another nearly $500,000 to study the sediment core recovered by major drilling project on Lake Malawi in 2005 to determine how temperature and rainfall has varied in tropical East Africa over the past 150,000 years. Do any of you care? It creates one temporary job. Whoopee!

3. And just one more - the University of Washington in Seattle think that the Real Men Are Safe Project, which stresses that message, only appeals to white men. So they're spending a cool $450,000 of public funds to make the program more 'culturally relevant' to blacks and hispanic's. To accomplish the task they are forming a committee to make the materials in the original program more minority friendly. I don't know about you but I'll sleep better tonight knowing they're on the case. By the way, it creates no new jobs.

Enjoy and keep up the good fight to get our country back from this band of thieves and hooligans.