Posted on 10/01/2009 3:52:52 AM PDT by suspects
When a talk-show guy like me gets a call from a stripper complaining about guys surfing porn, you know you’ve got a problem.
In this case, the stripper was Victoria - former stripper, actually - who spent 10 years dancing at New England’s finest “gentlemen’s clubs.” She was miffed after hearing about rampant on-the-clock porn surfing at the National Science Foundation.
The Washington Times broke the story - so many government workers were conducting (ahem) “free-lance research on human reproduction” on taxpayer time that the Inspector General’s Office was swamped. They had to pull people from their real jobs - checking grant applications to the $6 billion agency for fraud and abuse - and put them on dirty Web site duty.
“We anticipate a significant decline in investigative recoveries and prosecutions in coming years as a direct result,” the IG reported.
Worse, it took years for anyone to notice that the management style at the NSF had become “a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty.”
One senior executive at the National Science Foundation spent 331 days surfing porn on his government computer, sometimes even chatting online with overseas porn workers. Nearly a calendar year - and he never got caught.
That’s the slutty part. Nutty is when this high-ranking government bureaucrat defended his actions as an act of charity.
“He explained that these young women are from poor countries and need to make money,” investigators wrote in a memo. “This site helps them do that.”
His fellow federal workers were a little more honest. According to the Times report, one was caught with “hundreds of pictures, videos and even PowerPoint slide shows containing pornography.” When asked if he had done any actual work the day he downloaded the porn, the employee responded:
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
A stripper complains about unfair competition from the internet and uncovers tawdry conduct in a federal agency.
Can’t make this stuff up.
The way porn is done nowadays, there's hardly much reproduction involved. In fact, if space aliens watched a typical porn movie, they'd come away thinking that human reproduction was done on the outside.
We need to hire more inspectors to watch the inspectors who were supposed to watch the agencies.
Yeah. Government, the solution to government problems. /s
Is there any chance any of these people will have their positions eliminated? Probably not. These types of exposes often times try to put a humorous spin on government work but it’s really not funny.
Well, reviewing grant applications must be awfully dull work.
Can you imagine having to go to work and read hundreds of pages of impenetrable jargon every day?
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