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1 posted on 07/23/2007 3:45:38 AM PDT by Joe Voter
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To: Joe Voter

Hasn’t the MSM sorted this out already, LOL? Where’s Pelosi? Who is asking her about this?


2 posted on 07/23/2007 3:49:14 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Islam is the religion of violins, NOT peas.)
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To: Joe Voter

Check his freezer in the cellar


3 posted on 07/23/2007 4:07:51 AM PDT by bikerman (_ _ . /_ _ _ /_ . . / / . . . . / . / . _ . . / . _ _ . / / . . _ / . . . //)
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To: Joe Voter; Admin Moderator

This belongs in blog/vanity.


4 posted on 07/23/2007 4:13:00 AM PDT by gcruse (Let's strike Iran while it's hot.)
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To: Joe Voter

I’m going to start the North Texas Center For Economic Development and try for one of these earmarks. I live in DFW and $1M will develope the heck out of me economically.


6 posted on 07/23/2007 4:27:13 AM PDT by Sapper26 (Quondo Omni Flunkus Moritati)
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To: Joe Voter

Way to go Joe. Keep it up.


7 posted on 07/23/2007 4:48:09 AM PDT by shove_it (nonilligitimus carborundum)
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To: Joe Voter
there is rampant corruption, threats of civil war, and they have not met their goals...

time to defund and pull out of congress and get our boys home!

8 posted on 07/23/2007 5:34:18 AM PDT by sten
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To: Joe Voter

The Wikipedia article on this is funny and sad

>>Center for Instrumented Critical Infrastructure

The Center for Instrumented Critical Infrastructure (CICI) is a grass roots group effort to track and combat unnecessary Congressional spending.

On July 18, 2007, the House of Representatives passed a bill containing a $1 million earmark for the “Center for Instrumented Critical Infrastructure”. When Congressman Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) challenged to purpose of this earmark and the existence of the organization, Rep. Pete Visclosky (D-Ind.), who chairs the spending subcommittee responsible for the project, admitted he didn’t know whether it existed.[1].

However, per Rep. John Murtha’s (D-Pa.), this organization is a subsidiary of Concurrent Technology Corporation (CTC), a nonprofit organization in Johnstown, PA[2]. This information came out after the vote on the issue; the challenge against the earmark by Rep. Flake failed 98-326.

Nonetheless, as Congressmen blindly voted to fund something that may or may not have existed - giving the impression that Representatives do not read or research what they vote upon, CICI was established with the goal of educating the public to government waste, and legislative negligence.

The group was established on July 19, 2007 and chose the name of the mystery earmark grantee to use as a rallying call to the cause. The website specifically refuses to accept the $1 million earmark stating that it can be used for better things.<<

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Instrumented_Critical_Infrastructure


9 posted on 07/23/2007 6:00:54 AM PDT by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words)
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To: Joe Voter

Pocket change to Dums.


10 posted on 07/23/2007 6:08:21 AM PDT by marty60
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