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New York, You're Still No. 1 by Michael Chertoff
1 posted on 06/09/2006 5:02:56 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem
“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”

Or whiskey and car keys to a Kennedy.

2 posted on 06/09/2006 5:08:32 PM PDT by Screamname (I`ll give peace a chance when it doesn`t need one.)
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To: neverdem
Is it mere bureaucratic senselessness? Or administrative incompetence? Or rank parochialism? Or flat-out corruption?

E) All of the above.

3 posted on 06/09/2006 5:11:30 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: neverdem
>Republicans need to be cut off...

Not with the dems still in existence. There still is a difference and its a very big difference.

5 posted on 06/09/2006 5:21:44 PM PDT by tomzz
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To: neverdem
Giving money and power to government is like giving column space to Rich Lowry.
7 posted on 06/09/2006 5:23:27 PM PDT by mrsmith
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To: neverdem

If the immigration bill is amnesty(which will bankrupt us and throw power to the dems) I see a third pary for 2008.


8 posted on 06/09/2006 5:26:57 PM PDT by John Lenin (is a moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest)
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To: neverdem
$1 million for the Waterfree Urinal Conservation Initiative;
$550,000 for the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington;
$500,000 for the Sparta Teapot Museum in Sparta, North Carolina;
$500,000 for the Arctic Winter Games in Alaska;
$250,000 for the National Cattle Congress in Waterloo, Iowa;
$100,000 for the Richard Steele Boxing Club in Henderson, Nevada

And in "Emergency Spending":
$700M for the Railroad to Nowhere;
$6 million for two Hawaii sugar plantations;
$15 million for seafood promotion strategies;
3.9 billion for farm aid;
$20 million to help New England’s fishing industry recover from a bad harvest;

And in "Agricultrue Spending:
$20 million for eradication and control for glassy-winged sharpshooters/Pierce’s Disease
$19.9 million for eradication and control of the Asian Long-horned Beetle
$6.5 million for eradication and control of sudden oak death
$3.6 million for climate forecasting in Florida
$2.5 million for cotton research in Texas
$1.9 million red imported fire ants, in Stoneville, Mississippi
$1.7 million for cereal crops in Fargo, North Dakota
$1.14 million for the Center for Innovative Food Technology in Ohio
$1.0 million for bovine genetics in Beltsville, Maryland
$940,000 for brown tree snake management in Guam
$878,046 for catfish genome research in Auburn, Alabama
$790,744 for coffee and cocoa research in Beltsville, Maryland
$668,570 for diet nutrition and obesity research in New Orleans, Louisiana
$490,354 for corn rootworm research in Ames, Iowa
$459,000 for oyster post-harvest treatment in Florida
$447,009 for barley food health benefits in Beltsville, Maryland
$406,000 for agro ecology in Maryland
$390,101 for honey bee research (Varroa Mites) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
$387,,976 for Manure Management research (National Swine Research Center) in Ames, Iowa
$373,824 for grapefruit juice/drug interaction research in Temple, Texas
$365,156 for potato breeding research in Aberdeen, Idaho
$244,077 for bee research in Weslaco, Texas
$150,000 for blackbird control in Louisiana

And in "Interior Spending:
$20 million for the Olympic National Park, Washington ;
$17 million for the Phoenix, Arizona SW Health Center ;
$16 million on Southern Pine Beetle Forest Health Initiative ;
$6.7 million for the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development ;
$6 million for the Chesapeake Bay program ;
$5 million to acquire land for a Flight 93 Memorial in Pennsylvania ;
$2.96 million to replace the lighting system at Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota ;
$2 million for the Environmental Systems Center of Excellence of Syracuse University for Indoor environmental quality and urban ecosystems sustainability research ;
$1.9 million for Allegheny National Forest recreation sites, Pennsylvania ;
$1.4 million for gypsy moth slow-the-spread research ;
$1 million for the National Hispanic Health Farm Workers Initiative ;
$1 million for construction at the Pacific Crest National Scenic trial ;
$1 million for the South Lake Tahoe wildfire protection as a grant to the South Lake Tahoe Public Utility District ;
$1 million for the Florida Department of Citrus Abscission Chemical Studies ;
$1 million for the Iowa State University project on mitigating emissions from egg farms ;
$700,000 for the National Zoological Park to provide for staffing for the opening of the new Asia I exhibit and for enhanced pest control ;
$700,000 for wolf monitoring in Idaho ;
$375,000 for a Central California ozone study, San Joaquin Valleywise Air Pollution Study Agency ;
$300,000 for ivory-billed woodpecker research ;
$200,000 for landscape work at Gettysburg NMP ;
$150,0000 for Northern Aplomado Falcon recovery efforts ;
$72,000 for sudden oak death research ;
$66,000 for the Washington Tennis and Education Foundation in Washington, DC

Need we say more? The Climate of Corruption infects both parties--our only choice is to throw the the entire bunch out and start again.

10 posted on 06/09/2006 5:35:49 PM PDT by Small-L (I love my country, but I despise the politicians who run (ruin) it.)
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To: neverdem
The funding cuts for Washington and New York are otherworldly by any standard, and indeed DHS officials seem to be living on another planet. DHS thinks that New York City has no “national icons.” Which makes you wonder: Have any DHS officials even visited New York City or watched any movies about it?

Rich joins Hillary and Fruit Loops Chuckie in demanding more money for New York so it can pay overtime for janitors in state agency offices.

12 posted on 06/09/2006 6:40:02 PM PDT by sinkspur (Today, we settled all family business.)
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