E-Mail me and I'll send you an address to mail my $1.8Million.
Posted on 03/04/2009 3:18:59 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Posted by: Jeremy Pelofsky Tags: Front Row Washington, Iowa, pigs, Tom Coburn, Tom Harkin
Some might think it would be hard to defend spending $1.8 million on researching how to deal with the odor from pig manure, but Senator Tom Harkin found it pretty easy to do.
Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, succeeded in getting the funds included in the $410 billion omnibus spending bill that is pending in the Senate, drawing protests from some like Senator John McCain that it is wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars.
“I’m sure that David Letterman will probably be talking about it and Jay Leno will be talking about it, we’ve got $1.8 million to study why pigs smell,” Harkin said on the Senate floor after an amendment was introduced aimed at killing the funding.
“People constantly complain, with good reason, about big farms, factory farms and their environmental impacts so it makes good sense to fund research that addresses how people can live in our small towns and communities and livestock producers can do the same and co-exist,” he said.
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Gee, could it be they roll around in their own shit everyday?
Do we get referral fees?
Sen. Dung Heap would know. His stink is the worst of all.
Who, the pigs or Democrat Senators?
With all the PORK in DC,,I suppose this research will be done at the Capitol,,right?
I think the pigs have more self respect.....
E-Mail me and I'll send you an address to mail my $1.8Million.
I can understand the dislike of the pig smell, but there is no justification for this kind of waste right now.
A lot of central Iowa has the stench of pigs, just like some other parts of the country have the stench of cows. I wore a brand new pair of boots into a pig barn for 15 minutes a couple of days after Christmas. To this day, when I wear those boots, I can still smell the hogs on them...even though I didn’t step in anything in the barn.
The smell is that permeating...but not worth $1.8 million dollars.
Harkin of the famous photo from the Harkin Steak Fry of September 17, 2007?
Doesn’t take any money at all to figure out why the US Congress stinks worse than any hog farm........
(note he’s not in the photo, on the stage ... but his wife is ... hint, hint)
For a mere $200K I could tell them that pigs stink and even give them several reasons for the phenomenon, and they would save over $1.5 million.
Tom Harkin...the Faux Viet Nam Pilot;
What he did while on active duty is even more confusing. In 1979, Mr. Harkin, then a congressman, participated in a round-table discussion arranged by the Congressional Vietnam Veterans’ Caucus. “I spent five years as a Navy pilot, starting in November of 1962,” Mr. Harkin said at that meeting, in words that were later quoted in a book, Changing of the Guard, by Washington Post political writer David Broder. “One year was in Vietnam. I was flying F-4s and F-8s on combat air patrols and photo-reconnaissance support missions. I did no bombing.”
That clearly is not an accurate picture of his Navy service. Though Mr. Harkin stresses he is proud of his Navy record—”I put my ass on the line day after day”—he concedes now he never flew combat air patrols in Vietnam.
He was stationed at the U.S. Naval Air Station at Atsugi, Japan. Damaged aircraft were flown into Atsugi for repairs or sometimes flown out of Atsugi to the Philippines for more substantial work. Mr. Harkin says he and three other Navy pilots flew these ferry flights. And, when the planes had been repaired, he and his fellow pilots took them up on test flights. “I had always wanted to be a test pilot,” he says. “It was damned demanding work.”
” you can understand that the management problems of what to do with the waste has become very serious, “
Yucca Mountain storage is now available!
Senator Harkin defends oder of pigmarks...
That’s a maintenance test pilot not a “Chuck Yeager” type break the envelope style Test Pilot....
Just another exaggeration....
or Tom Harkin Faux Test Pilot
Harken unto this, my FRiends: “why does pork stink?” well, look at this earmark, commonly referred to as “pork,” to research why pork stinks.” That’s almost a self-answering question!
But the government should not be footing the bill. Pork producers should be. And on and on, thousands of times, with many other issues in this budget; and budgets for the last 60 years.
Why Pigs Smell?
Simple, they have spent too much time with politicians. There, now send me my money.
My apologies to the pigs, that deserve our respect far more than todays politicians.
“Just another exaggeration..or Tom Harkin Faux Test Pilot”
I’ll bet the experience was SEARED in his memory...
that = they
Dear Senator Harkin,
Pigs smell because they roll in poo and poo stinks. I have provided the answer to your question, so you can send me the money. You need only send 1/10th of the amount earmarked...I am NOT greedy.
Karen
You should get $100,000 for coming up with that theory.
Are you talking about pigs or members of Congress? Is there any difference?
And 0bama votes “present”.
I think I will go have a hot pork samwich; lottsa roast pork on bread with mashed taters and gravy. Oh Yea!
We do have a big problem in the midwest with people attacking farming operations in hte media and in court because they smell, but this earmark does not belong in the omnibus spending bill.
The odor soulution is pretty simple actualy. All farm and city waste materials can and should be converted to energy like electricity, diesel fuel and other valuable chemicals like nitrogen fertilizer. The technology is here today and the machinery and equipment is available off the shelf and will fit on one semi trailer. Several companies are now marketing such setups as turn key ready.
That 1.8 million would have been better spent on one or two of these mobile production facilities as a bio-tech waste to energy demonstration plant.
larry in Iowa
They aren't going to study why pigs stink. They're going to study why pig poo stinks!
I'd LMAO if it weren't for the fact that they're spending OUR tax dollars on it.
If you are indeed interested in taking care of the odor associated with the hog confinement operations, then look no further. My name is Darrell Lathrop with EDN Environmental, We successfully treated with a solution that is totally green and 98% effective. (meaning air sniffers dont register an odor. Don’t take my word, let me prove it to you . My email is edn7@att.net and I’ll be glad to demonstrate this very efficient, cost saving avenue and cure the concerns of confinement odors not only with hog, but with chickens, and dairy. Municipalities as well at a cost well below what the current science delivers and is capable of. Kinda Cool huh………………D.
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