Feds Spent $800,000 of Economic Stimulus on African Genital-Washing Program

CNS News ^ | September 13, 2010

[La Lydia]

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), spent $823,200 of economic stimulus funds in 2009 on a study by a UCLA research team to teach uncircumcised African men how to wash their genitals after having sex. The genitalia-washing program is part of a larger $12-million UCLA study examining how to better encourage Africans to undergo voluntary HIV testing and counseling – however, only the penis-washing study received money from the 2009 economic stimulus law. The washing portion of the study is set to end in 2011...

Because AIDS researchers have been unsuccessful in convincing most adult African men to undergo circumcision, the UCLA study proposes to determine whether researchers can develop an after-sex genitalia-washing regimen that they can then convince uncircumcised African men to follow...

The study’s lead investigator Dr. Thomas J. Coates was the fourth highest-funded researcher in the country in 2002 and is currently conducting HIV research on three continents. CNSNews.com asked both Coates and NIMH the following question: “The Census Bureau says the median household income in the United States is $52,000. How would you explain to the average American mom and dad -- who make $52,000 per year -- that taxing them to pay for this grant was justified?”

Coates, who was unavailable for comment, directed CNSNews.com to ask grant-related questions of his assistant, Darya Freedman, who did not respond. The NIMH also declined to respond to CNSNews.com’s question.

[Don Corleone]

This should really, really stimulate the economy.

Well, all that washing will certainly stimulate something. /snic

[timeflies]

I always wondered why women didn’t knock the flies off the faces of those poor children, when they show their faces on TV. You know when they are begging for money.

[Red Badger]

Here we have our new American Model 1369 Genital Washing Machine. Let me demonstrate, may we have some volunteers from the audience?...............

[mt tom]

YIPES now i know why it is so hateful hermaphrodite come to mind

[blondee123]

Real life in the Obama world, IS STRANGER THAN FICTION!

[Deaf Smith]

Axe Ball Washer Soap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Skj7cNpnzg

[Gabrial]

Let's see, the research team worked with about 250 African men, so that would work out to about $3,292 of taxpayer money per penis.

“We are headed in the right direction”.
- Barack Obama, September 2010

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

They would not even consider asking them to refrain from sex. No. Because they consider the Africans incapable of restraining themselves from their lower animal instincts and acting in a civilized manner. That would stop the spread of disease.

[annieokie]

I wonder that as well. Even animals use their tails to swish the flys off themselves. Conclusion being I suppose that these people are lower than animals.

What mother would just sit there and let her child starve? I would be grubbing for anything I could find, and what are the teats dry?

[FrankR]

What next? A few million to teach them to wipe their butts with toilet paper instead of their bare hand?

[AnglePark]

And even in that case, I would rather spend the money on a program that teaches them how to build their own purification systems.

I’d like to help you, but I can’t help you until you learn to help yourself...

[KarlInOhio]

This brings to mind the bathing scene in Coming to America where Eddie Murphy has been ..., er , cleaned.

[yesca]

..and how much do those ball washing stations at the golf course cost, maybe we should send some of those to dot across the dark continent?

(Holes & greens to follow)

[Brugmansian]

Anyone else reporting this? CNS wants me to register which is doesn’t for the rest of its content. Did they pull the article?

[Pessimist]

In all fairness, you probably have to pay people quite a bit to teach Africans how to wash their dongles. :)

[annieokie]

I wonder that as well. Even animals use their tails to swish the flys off themselves. Conclusion being I suppose that these people are lower than animals.

What mother would just sit there and let her child starve? I would be grubbing for anything I could find, and what are the teats dry?

When I think of the MILLIONS and MILLIONS we Americans send in benevolent money to all these country's from our taxes, it is just staggering that these people are still hurting so bad.

Guess it is a vision of what is to come in America under this regime, fly's love Obama also.

[oldtimer2]

The free market solution would be to ask industry to find a solution. Ask Brillo and S.O.S. to design a hollow soap pad, possibly shaped like a condom. This surely would be an effective option and very low cost.

[SpaceBar]

I once wondered what circumstances would make a country go through violent upheavals that left their leaders hanging from lampposts, their heads in baskets, or worse. I no longer wonder.

[Cyber Ninja]

Is this some of your work, just (satirically) asking?

I'm afraid you are going to tell me it is real...