Money from the porkulus bill is going to the University of Wisconsin to fund research projects.
Designed to jolt the nation’s economy, the stimulus package has begun to fuel millions of dollars in research at Wisconsin universities, giving life to projects that otherwise would have been delayed or scrapped.
The process of funding has just begun, but so far projects totaling $35 million have been approved at Wisconsin universities. UW-Madison has won the most grants, with nearly $27 million in funding for 90 proposals. Medical College of Wisconsin projects total about $3.9 million. Marquette University has received almost $3 million, and UWM has awards surpassing $1.6 million.
The funding will create jobs for doctorate-level research assistants, graduate students, technicians, hourly workers and others – and bolster research in areas ranging from climate change to asthma research.
The porkulus bill hasn’t stimulated the economy nor has it created one job. It was nothing but 100 percent pure pork. All this did was keep a bunch of people on the public dime instead of making them go out and find a real job.
Two leaders of the Republican Party are staying in the U.S. Senate. One crybaby RINO — Republican In Name Only — is leaving. Guess who the RINO is blaming for the problems facing the GOP?
That’s right. The two leaders as well as Southerners and conservatives.
The RINO is departing Sen. George Voinovich (RINO-Ohio). The leaders are Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Sen.Tom Coburn (R-Okla.).
Here’s what the departing crybaby RINO had to say:
We got too many Jim DeMints and Tom Coburns. It’s the southerners. They get on TV and go ‘errrr, errrrr. People hear them and say, “These people, they’re southerners. The party’s being taken over by southerners. What they hell they got to do with Ohio?”
No, Sen. Voinovich, you have it backwards. There’s too many of your types that have dragged the Republican Party — the Party of Ronald Reagan and Abraham Lincoln — toward the left and turned it into the Me-Too Party of borrow-and-spenders, spurning tax cuts, limited government and social conservativism that put it into power. The likes of Voinovich, former GOPer Arlen “Magic Bullet” Specter, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins have been reliable votes for the Democrats Statists year in and year out.
You are the remains of the Go Along Get Along Gang, the likes of Bob Michel and Bob Dole, who were just happy being at the table with the adults and were all too willing to give the Democrats Statists everything they wanted just to receive some crumbs.
[I]t seems to me that it’s always moderates who want to run blocks of voters out of the party. “Oh, we can’t afford to be fiscally conservative anymore. Forget about that.” “Social conservatives? We need to get rid of those Jesus freaks!” Now, we’ve got George Voinovich actually saying that the problem with the Republican Party is that it has Southerners in it. As a Southerner, I would be offended by that except for the fact that nobody I know gives a damn what George Voinochich thinks about anything.
Additionally, since when did Tom Coburn become a Southerner? Granted, the great state of Oklahoma is right above Texas, but they also fought for the Union in the Civil War. If they’re a “southern state” in any meaningful sense, so’s Arizona, Colorado, and half of California.
Setting that aside, it’s worth asking: how did Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn become “leaders” in the GOP? Neither of them is actually in the Republican leadership, right? Perhaps it has to do with the fact that Coburn and DeMint usually didn’t go along with the crowd in the Senate over the last few years, while the party was getting creamed at the ballot box, and now they both still have their credibility.
Meanwhile, George Voinovich was following the party leadership over the side of a cliff, like a lemming, and is mostly known for getting so upset over John Bolton that he cried like a girl in the Senate.
Here’s the girlie man crying like a baby in the Senate:
Good riddance. Don’t let the door hit you in the rear end on the way out.
Our Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama tries demonizing doctors — yes, doctors — as greedy and typically performing unnecessary medical procedures in order to make more money.
If The Christos wants to see greedy, He need look no further than one of His largest benefactors and the real obstacle to real health care reform — trial lawyers. But that’s a whole different post unto itself.
The Wall Street Journal takes The Messiah to task and says that if the desire to turn doctors into villains is part of The Anointed One’s plans, ObamaCare will be even worse than we’re currently imagining it to be.
Those greedy doctors. “You come in and you’ve got a bad sore throat, or your child has a bad sore throat or has repeated sore throats,” President Obama explained at Wednesday’s press conference. “The doctor may look at the reimbursement system and say to himself, ‘You know what? I make a lot more money if I take this kid’s tonsils out.’”
If that’s what he really thinks is wrong with U.S. health care—and with the medical profession—then ObamaCare is going to be even worse than we thought. The point Mr. Obama oversimplified is that the way the U.S. pays for medical services can encourage some physicians to prescribe unnecessary tests or treatments, especially in Medicare. But his implication is that doctors aren’t acting in the best interests of their patients in order, basically, to rob them.
Many unnecessary tests and procedures are ordered and conducted for one reason — to safeguard the health care practitioner against frivolous lawsuits filed by the real greedy, avaricious bastards — trial lawyers — down the line.
That, plus the gradual transfer of actual payment to third parties, has driven up the cost of health care. And making the government the single payer isn’t going to drive down those costs.
But it will reduce the quality and amount of service. That’s guaranteed.
A long-time high school wrestling coach in Dearbornistan, Mich. was fired by the Muslim principal of the school for helping a Muslim student convert to Christianity.
A high school hall-of-fame and Christian wrestling coach in Dearborn, Mich., claims he was muscled out of his long-tenured coaching job by the school’s principal, a devout Muslim, because the administrator was furious over a student wrestler who had converted to Christianity from Islam.
Gerald Marsazalek has coached wrestling for 35 years at Dearborn Public Schools, amassing more than 450 wins and, in addition to being added to the Michigan High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame, was named “Sportsman of the Year” by the All-American Athletic Association.
Despite Marsazalek’s success, however, Principal Imad Fadlallah of Dearborn’s Fordson High School ordered the administration not to renew the coach’s contract, allegedly in retaliation over the student’s conversion and to continue a campaign of flushing Christianity out of the school.
“We are getting a glimpse of what happens when Muslims who refuse to accept American values and principles gain political power in an American community,” said Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel of the Thomas More Law Center, which is representing Marsazalek. “Failure to renew coach Marszalek’s contract had nothing to do with wrestling and everything to do with religion.”
The Religion of Piece (of Arm, of Leg, of Torso) strikes again.
The Thomas More Law Center is representing Marsazalek in the wrongful termination lawsuit that has been filed.
One would think this should be a slam-dunk, but who knows.
Bend over and grab your ankles, here they come again to play the prison game “Drop the Soap.”
The Milwaukee Common Council is looking at steep increases in fees — that’s just another word for “taxes” — including snow removal and rates on city parking meters. That’s in addition to the whopping rate increase Mayor Barrett is seeking for water rates from the state’s Public Service Commission.
Milwaukee aldermen are set to decide Tuesday whether to boost this year’s snow-and-ice fee by 24%, double parking meter rates outside downtown and raise a host of other fees.
Those increases won the support of a key Common Council committee Monday. But the council’s Finance & Personnel Committee delayed action on two of the biggest fee increases for next year – the 2010 garbage and snow-and-ice fees – along with two new fees aimed at taverns and ambulances.
Also on Tuesday’s council agenda is Mayor Tom Barrett’s recommendation to seek state Public Service Commission approval for a 28.5% increase in water rates to balance the Water Works budget and position the agency to generate profits that could help ease pressure on the general city budget. That would follow a routine 3.8% increase already set to take effect Sept. 1.
That’s in addition to rising property taxes courtesy of the city itself and the state, which eliminated the QEO for gummint-run skoolz. Wait till MPS starts jacking up taxes to cover all the increases in salary and benefits to teachers and other district staff.
Read the whole article. The number of increases is staggering.
WASHINGTON — The feds are spending tens of millions of stimulus dollars to repair and build toilets across the nation, in an outflow of taxpayer funds that critics have branded “potty pork.”
From humble sylvan outhouses to “historic” restrooms, cash from the $787 billion stimulus is going to spruce up or completely replace aging toilets, government releases show.
In New Mexico alone, the feds are spending $2.8 million for toilets in national forests.
The bathroom bonanza runs across myriad federal agencies, from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to the Veterans Affairs Administration and the Army.
“You could definitely say this is potty pork,” said Leslie Paige of Citizens Against Government Waste. “This puts a whole different swirl on money going down the drain.”
That would include: Botox (John Kerry), facelifts (Bela Pelosi) and hairplugs (Joe Biden).
Heck, with all the facelifts Bela Pelosi has had they could finance the entire takeover. If she has one more facelift, she’ll have a goatee.
Of course, under government-run health care, all surgery is pretty much considered elective, considering the hellacious waiting periods. You’re likely to be dead before your number comes up.
Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) informed viewers on Fox News Sunday that the ObamaCare bill pending in the House and Senate to engineer a federal government takeover of the health care system mandates all health care providers, including Catholic institutions to perform abortions without exception.
Here’s Sen. Kyl’s appearance:
Don’t forget about what we blogged about here and even prior to the anointment of Our Lord and Savior in November: the Catholic Church will not take this mandate from the abortion industry meekly.
The bishops will seriously consider shutting down all Catholic hospitals and health care providers rather than comply with a mandate from The Messiah and the Democrats Statists in Congress to perform abortions.
I seriously hope they aren’t bluffing, even though it will cause a real health care crisis in the absence of critical health care providers. Remember: it wouldn’t be the Catholic Church that caused the crisis but rather the Second Coming of Christ and His Apostles on Capitol Hill.
It’s their fault for being whores for the abortion industry.
Rep. Mark Kirk is seeking the GOP nomination for the essentially vacant U.S. Senate seat in Illinois. You know, the one that disgraced former Gov. Rod Blagojovich put up for sale. The one now occupied by a less-than-one term empty suit after previously having been occupied by a less-than-one term empty suit.
Rep. Kirk is a RINO — Republican In Name Only. He has been a consistently liberal vote in the House of Representatives, all the while campaigning as a conservative.
His most recent vote to raise taxes was as one of eight Republicans to vote for Cap-and-Tax. If those Republicans had voted with the rest of their party, Cap-and-Tax would have died the death it deserved.
Now, Kirk is flip-flopping all over the place like a rainbow trout out of water. The Politico reports that Kirk told Fox News Chicago:
I’ve always backed energy independence policies, but I’ve heard from people on this issue like no other. The energy interests of Illinois are far broader and deeper than my North Shore district. The political prospects of this bill are dim in the Senate… I think the bill in its current form is probably dead.
Then why did you vote for it, Mr. Kirk? You and your fellow RINOs could have killed the bill. Methinks along the lines of the Politico columnist, that in order to win the Republican nomination for the Senate seat, you need the support of downstate Illinois, who will feel the full brunt of the impact of this dreadful bill should it ever become law.
And if it becomes law, you helped make that possible. That’s your legacy. A flip-flopping, talking-out-of-both-sides-of-your-mouth political hack like you should lose and deserves to lose.
The Politico has video of the flip-flopper on the link posted above.
