Posted on 11/01/2009 10:58:16 AM PST by Nachum
1. $300,000 FOR MAPPING RADIOACTIVE RABBIT FECES: “A Week Mapping Radioactive Rabbit Feces With Detectors Mounted On A Helicopter Flying 50 Feet Over The Desert Scrub. … $300,000 In Federal Stimulus Money.” “A government contractor at Hanford, in south-central Washington State, just spent a week mapping radioactive rabbit feces with detectors mounted on a helicopter flying 50 feet over the desert scrub. … the helicopter flights, which covered 13.7 square miles and were paid for with $300,000 in federal stimulus money, took place in an area that had never been used by the bomb makers. … Marylia Kelley, the executive director of a California group called Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment, said the rabbit cleanup was ‘kind of funny, in a sick way.’” (“Even Rabbit Droppings Count In Nuclear Cleanup,” The New York Times, 10/14/09)
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The Golden Fleece Awards lives again ...
1: Radioactive Rabbit Feces. This one makes some sense. It will make a lot more sense as more soldiers come home sick from radiation poisoning because of DU.
3: Sex lives of coed freshmen. I volunteer to do this one for free, if you don't tell Mrs. Altair.
5: Bug research. Imported species have actually caused a lot of havoc. We have only a fraction of the knowledge we think we have on The Environment. Now if only those idiots like Algore and company would take heed ...
7: Research of computer Social Networks. I've been doing this for free for about two decades now. It's a fascinating study and has finally come into its own with the 2008 election. Can I get a piece of the action?
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