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Oh Those Nutty Professors!!!
Fox News ^
| 10/23/2009
| logic 'n reason
Posted on 10/23/2009 3:33:32 PM PDT by Logic n' Reason
Government watchdogs are blasting taxpayer-funded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities that send college professors on free vacations and pay for programs on topics like the "cultural significance of the circus poster" -- just a few items on an eye-popping list of questionable NEH projects.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: academia; federalfunding; highereducation; neh; taxes; thearts; waste
And if I'm not mistaken, are not our dear, "unbiased", "objective" friends at NPR a part of NEH??
To: Logic n' Reason
Egads.
$400,000 for an exhibition "exploring the importance of plants as a source of inspiration for noted American poet Emily Dickinson";$350,000 to explore the "cultural significance of the circus poster";$725,000 to produce a two-hour documentary on the history of American whaling;$130,000 for 16 professors to study the "truth and meaning" of life according to Aristotle; $50,000 to build a computer model of an ancient city in Pakistan complete with "animated and interactive 'inhabitants'"Nearly a half a million dollars to figure out why Emily Dickinson wrote poems about flowers?
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posted on
10/23/2009 3:40:21 PM PDT
by
La Lydia
To: Logic n' Reason
This is just outright THEFT......
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posted on
10/23/2009 3:41:47 PM PDT
by
eeevil conservative
(GIVE ME A PLACE TO STAND AND I WILL MOVE THE EARTH....Archimedes)
To: Logic n' Reason
or this
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posted on
10/23/2009 3:44:59 PM PDT
by
greatdefender
(If You Want Peace.....Prepare For War)
To: La Lydia
$130,000 for 16 professors to study the "truth and meaning" of life according to Aristotle $130,000 for the grad students of 16 professors to study the "truth and meaning" of life according to Aristotle
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posted on
10/23/2009 3:45:26 PM PDT
by
Mojave
(Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
To: Logic n' Reason
Midnight Basketball Games for the penny-loafer and wingtip set..!
OUTRAGEOUS.
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posted on
10/23/2009 3:46:19 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: eeevil conservative
This is just outright THEFT......Yes. It is.
Let's get our Federal Representatives and Senators from the newly formed Conservative Party to clamp down on this.
Oh wait.........................
We don't HAVE a Conservative Party!
Question is: WHY?
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posted on
10/23/2009 3:46:56 PM PDT
by
Logic n' Reason
(If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got.)
To: Mojave
Yeah, and when they discover the "truth and meaning" of life, according to Aristotle, who has never been studied before, will anyone ever know?
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posted on
10/23/2009 3:47:53 PM PDT
by
La Lydia
To: Logic n' Reason
....these grants are silly....they’re just re-cycling existing scholarship....the dollar amounts however seem reasonable....example:
•$147,000 to send 25 professors to Berlin for a month to study the life of Johann Sebastian Bach.
.....that comes to a per diem of $196 per professor...with the value of the dollar falling, I expect that it could take that much....especially when you factor in air fare over and back.
To: STONEWALLS
“. . . do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.”
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posted on
10/23/2009 4:45:55 PM PDT
by
Logic n' Reason
(If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got.)
To: Logic n' Reason
Pork for Dorks.
To: Logic n' Reason
Pay your taxes (which we’re raising).
April 15th is right around the corner. :D
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posted on
10/23/2009 5:12:10 PM PDT
by
Tzimisce
(No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
To: La Lydia
Unlike the National Science Foundation, which is imperfect, NEH is a nest of academic nepotism.
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posted on
10/23/2009 7:13:18 PM PDT
by
TopQuark
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