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Taxpayers Fund Research on Bugs, College Sex Lives, Facebook, and Rabbit Droppings...
CNS News ^ | 10/29/09 | Fred Lucas, Staff Writer

Posted on 11/01/2009 10:54:27 AM PST by Nachum

(CNSNews.com) – In Ansonia, Conn., $2.3 million in federal stimulus funds is being used for insect research, specifically the “rearing [of] large numbers of anthropoids” which includes the “Asian long-horned beetle, the nun moth and the wooly adelgid,” the New Haven Advocate reported.

Duluth, Minn., rarely known for its high temperatures, received $6 million in economic stimulus funds for a snowmaking facility, even though it is the 15th snowiest city in America, according to City-Data.com.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bugs; fund; research; taxpayers
The NEA is funding a picture of a Polar Bear in the middle of a snow storm.
1 posted on 11/01/2009 10:54:27 AM PST by Nachum
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The list, ping


2 posted on 11/01/2009 10:54:58 AM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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” “rearing [of] large numbers of anthropoids” which includes the “Asian long-horned beetle “

This author needs to repeat Freshman Biology to learn the difference between ‘anthropoids’ and ‘arthropods’....

3 posted on 11/01/2009 10:59:06 AM PST by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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This has got to be stopped. I call for separation of Church and State. They can not support these nun beatles.
4 posted on 11/01/2009 11:14:24 AM PST by cotton
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This has got to be stopped. I call for separation of Church and State. They can not support these nun moths.
5 posted on 11/01/2009 11:15:31 AM PST by cotton
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To: Nachum

http://www.asian-longhorned-beetle.com/


6 posted on 11/01/2009 2:03:49 PM PST by Western Phil
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