http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2010...-bann.html

Lawyers creating work for themselves, and destroying productivity with it.

Here's my proposal:
The gov't should offer some amount of money ($100M/3 years?) for any university that closes its law school and replaces it w/ a medical school.

Clearly lawyers are out of control.

Damn how did you get that picture of Roberta.


Roberta

We'll know they've totally won when they get rid of Pop Warner and high school football. Oddly enough, do you guys know that there are no seat belts on school buses?

(09-07-2010 10:21 AM)smn1256 Wrote:  We'll know they've totally won when they get rid of Pop Warner and high school football. Oddly enough, do you guys know that there are no seat belts on school buses?

Hghschool football will soon come to an end in many places when budget cuts kick in. Since you righties don't like paying taxes, things like this get cut(I suppose it would probably get cut north of the Mason-Dixon line first since you guys south of it care more about HS football than edumacation).

California is looking at or possibly even passed the nation's most strict skiing helmet law. Everyone under 18 has to wear one on the slopes.

(09-07-2010 11:08 AM)RobertN Wrote:  

(09-07-2010 10:21 AM)smn1256 Wrote:  We'll know they've totally won when they get rid of Pop Warner and high school football. Oddly enough, do you guys know that there are no seat belts on school buses?

Hghschool football will soon come to an end in many places when budget cuts kick in. Since you righties don't like paying taxes, things like this get cut(I suppose it would probably get cut north of the Mason-Dixon line first since you guys south of it care more about HS football than edumacation).

chapel hill is down south and i guarantee my high school was ranked higher than yours

(09-07-2010 11:08 AM)RobertN Wrote:  Since you righties don't like paying taxes [...]

The vast majority of "righties" are fine with paying taxes. It is the wasteful spending for non-essential programs and pet projects that drive the ire.

Boortz listed off several examples shown here. Even in "good times", these would be questionable at best, downright foolish at worst.

- $6.1 million in federal funding for a new visitors center at the Audubon National Wildlife Refuge
- $700,000 for a professor at Northwestern University to create computer software that tells jokes
- $89,000 on a sidewalk that leads to a ditch in Boynton, Oklahoma
- $554,763 for the National Forest Service to replace windows in a closed visitor center at Mount St. Helens
- $762,372 to create "Dance Draw" interactive dance software
- $1.9 million for international ant research
- $200,000 to help Siberian communities lobby Russian policymakers
- $760,000 to Georgia Tech to study improvised music
- $700,000 to study why monkeys respond negatively to inequity
- $363,760 to help NIH promote the positive impacts of stimulus projects
- $456,663 to study the circulation of Neptune's atmosphere

Yes, it's on Boortz' blog, and no, I didn't follow the links of each one to investigate it all myself. But this type of spending is so commonplace that these sorts of lists are easily verifiable.

(09-07-2010 01:18 PM)Motown Bronco Wrote:  

(09-07-2010 11:08 AM)RobertN Wrote:  Since you righties don't like paying taxes [...]

The vast majority of "righties" are fine with paying taxes. It is the wasteful spending for non-essential programs and pet projects that drive the ire.

That's been explained to that damn idiot on numerous occasions.

(09-07-2010 01:18 PM)Motown Bronco Wrote:  

(09-07-2010 11:08 AM)RobertN Wrote:  Since you righties don't like paying taxes [...]

The vast majority of "righties" are fine with paying taxes. It is the wasteful spending for non-essential programs and pet projects that drive the ire.

Boortz listed off several examples shown here. Even in "good times", these would be questionable at best, downright foolish at worst.

- $6.1 million in federal funding for a new visitors center at the Audubon National Wildlife Refuge
- $700,000 for a professor at Northwestern University to create computer software that tells jokes
- $89,000 on a sidewalk that leads to a ditch in Boynton, Oklahoma
- $554,763 for the National Forest Service to replace windows in a closed visitor center at Mount St. Helens
- $762,372 to create "Dance Draw" interactive dance software
- $1.9 million for international ant research
- $200,000 to help Siberian communities lobby Russian policymakers
- $760,000 to Georgia Tech to study improvised music
- $700,000 to study why monkeys respond negatively to inequity
- $363,760 to help NIH promote the positive impacts of stimulus projects
- $456,663 to study the circulation of Neptune's atmosphere

Yes, it's on Boortz' blog, and no, I didn't follow the links of each one to investigate it all myself. But this type of spending is so commonplace that these sorts of lists are easily verifiable.

Found this about the $700k for the joke-telling software.

Quote:A Northwestern University professor is under fire from critics for having accepted a $700,000 “research grant” awarded by the federal government to create joke-telling computer software.

According to Chicago’s WLS-TV, Professor Kristian Hammond received the funds from the federal stimulus package, funds meant to create jobs and help shore up the faltering economy. But Hammond insists the “humor grant” is about serious work:

“Understanding what makes humor, what makes irony, what makes interesting juxtapositions, to understand what that means we can actually create it. We can create new material,” said Hammond.

(09-07-2010 01:18 PM)Motown Bronco Wrote:  

(09-07-2010 11:08 AM)RobertN Wrote:  Since you righties don't like paying taxes [...]

The vast majority of "righties" are fine with paying taxes. It is the wasteful spending for non-essential programs and pet projects that drive the ire.

Boortz listed off several examples shown here. Even in "good times", these would be questionable at best, downright foolish at worst.

- $6.1 million in federal funding for a new visitors center at the Audubon National Wildlife Refuge
- $700,000 for a professor at Northwestern University to create computer software that tells jokes
- $89,000 on a sidewalk that leads to a ditch in Boynton, Oklahoma
- $554,763 for the National Forest Service to replace windows in a closed visitor center at Mount St. Helens
- $762,372 to create "Dance Draw" interactive dance software
- $1.9 million for international ant research
- $200,000 to help Siberian communities lobby Russian policymakers
- $760,000 to Georgia Tech to study improvised music
- $700,000 to study why monkeys respond negatively to inequity
- $363,760 to help NIH promote the positive impacts of stimulus projects
- $456,663 to study the circulation of Neptune's atmosphere

Yes, it's on Boortz' blog, and no, I didn't follow the links of each one to investigate it all myself. But this type of spending is so commonplace that these sorts of lists are easily verifiable.

actually this is a list that McCain put out