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Congress Uses Our Money To Fund A Depraved "Hamster Fight Club"

Posted by $ allosaur 2 years, 6 months ago to Government
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And other stupid programs like it? This kind of $chiff Adds Up!
You'd think a "Hamster Fight Club" is something me dino would dig up out of The Babylon Bee. This cruel and unusual research raks along with Dr. "I Am Science" Fauci funding Chinese scientists to torture dogs with sand fleas. To prove what? That pain hurts? What's next? Cock fights?
No wonder there's at least decent caring people out there who formed a nonprofit organization called White Coat Waste. White Coat Waste says the National Institute Of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) spent over $1.5 million of our tax dollars to watch aggressive genetically altered hamsters rip into docile ones.
To follow the science? What science? This is taxpayer-funded animal abuse plain and simple.
Can't you hear some mealy-mouthed Congress person now? "Whut? Just a measly $1.5 million bucks, ya say? Shucks! That's just a drop in the bucket! How could that really impact inflation?"
Ever put a pot under a leaky faucet dripping a slow steady flow of drops? Fills up surprisingly fast to overflowing, doesn't it?
If you start counting every one of those isolated programs often stuffed hidden away in bills for all the gimme gimmes out there that become laws, the total price tag and its inflationary impact adds up very quickly.
SOURCE URL: https://rightnewswire.com/your-jaw-will-drop-when-you-find-out-how-much-the-government-is-spending-on-a-hamster-fight-club/


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  • Posted by mccannon01 2 years, 6 months ago
    The scary thing would be hamsters today, humans tomorrow.

    I recall a to-do back in the late '60s (or early '70s) a university in NY was given a $250k grant to discover how little kids get hurt on tricycles. The outcome: 1) They fall off; 2) They bump into things. Any mom at the time already knew that and could have given those answers for free.

    Edit add: I looked this up just for the hekuvit... Adjusted for inflation, $250,000 in 1970 is equal to $1,848,820 in 2022.
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    • Posted by $ 2 years, 6 months ago
      That jogged a memory. Me an old dino recalls putting a quarter in a machine to buy a can of soda during the early Sixties where I grew up in Dothan, Alabama.
      During that same period, I remember feeling shocked when I had to pay fifty cents for the same thing during a family visit to Atlanta.
      I became glad I didn't live where I had to pay what I considered to be "big city prices."
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      • Posted by mccannon01 2 years, 6 months ago
        Yes! I remember getting a bottle of soda from a machine for a quarter, too, and then getting a nickel back for the bottle. We used to look for bottles along the road to get the quarter, LOL. I also remember getting a bottle of orange Crush and pouring it on vanilla ice cream! If I can get my weight under 200 maybe I'll do that again!
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        • Posted by $ 2 years, 6 months ago
          Me dino forgot about that! Back then bicycles had baskets for school books and I'd pedal to school where bike racks were provided.
          You can't see bike racks at elementary schools anymore. Today parents would be arrested for what they let kids do back then.
          That bike basket came in handy when it came to collecting Coke bottles to make money to buy back then cheap comic books, candy bars and stuff.
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          • Posted by mccannon01 2 years, 6 months ago
            Sounds like we had similar experiences in our youth. Did you play in the woods, swamps, and streams to catch snakes, frogs, and turtles? I can remember earlier times when an empty bottle would only bring 2 cents. Good days. You're right about parents would have a hard time today letting kids do what we did!
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            • Posted by $ gharkness 2 years, 6 months ago
              In the mid-80's we moved from sleepy little East Texas to scary-big Dallas. My son was 13 - a terrible time for him, but he made one friend who understood him and in the summers, they disappeared somewhere down a creek close to the house, came back for lunch every day, and took off again for the rest of the day. Those were magical days. I loved every second of them, and now, he remembers them fondly, too. Two years later he was all into buying a car, working nights/weekends and getting his "independence."

              Those days are SOOO fleeting. BTW he and his friend caught a huge snapping turtle and brought it home. We though it was safe down in the bottom of a barrel, but the darn thing jumped up and bit his hand. The good part was that he had just not 30 seconds previously stuck his NOSE in the barrel. Funny how stuff like that can come back out of nowhere and take you by surprise, in your memories.
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            • Posted by $ 2 years, 6 months ago
              Houses and lawns have replaced the woods I used to play in when I was a kid in Dothan, Alabama.
              My now deceased well-to-do father had a lake house an hour's drive away in the Florida Panhandle. A way bigger woods there looked like a jungle in a Tarzan movie. It's still there.
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    • Posted by $ gharkness 2 years, 6 months ago
      I am not sure they are really waiting for "tomorrow." I think they are TODAY looking for ways to keep the populace riled up and fighting EACH OTHER. That keeps us from noticing what THEY are up to.
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  • Posted by LarryHeart 2 years, 6 months ago
    Put in the amendment the Confederacy added to the constitution. All bills must be on one and only one issue.
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    • Posted by $ blarman 2 years, 6 months ago
      Amen. We have that in my State Legislature (the budget bills are a little more nuanced) and it's fantastic. I'd love to see it implemented at the Federal Level. There is no reason for these massive 10,000-page bills except to overwhelm people.
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      • Posted by $ 2 years, 6 months ago
        Me dino never really got over the wicked birdbrain of the west saying, "Let's pass this bill to see what is in it."
        Do believe it to be the most stupid thing I ever heard in my life.
        Well, maybe until gaffe-amatic Biden went from foot-in-mouth stupid to nursing home senile.
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        • Posted by $ gharkness 2 years, 6 months ago
          I agree it's pretty stupid, and maybe even the MOST stupid. Problem is she has SO MUCH competition, when it comes to being stupid. They all seem to be lining up to best her.
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        • Posted by $ blarman 2 years, 6 months ago
          It certainly ranks up there with other gems like the island of Guam tipping over...
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          • Posted by $ 2 years, 6 months ago
            Me dino clean forgot about that one. Maybe my subconscious wanted me to. Now giving some thought, anyone who thinks an island like Guam can tip over does not qualify for stupid but just plain ignorant.
            Like the country preacher who told me the sun went around the earth and the lawnmower man who told me astronauts never did land on the moon because their blood would boil.
            All in a sudden I'm thinking of that Werewolf Of London song.
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            • Posted by $ blarman 2 years, 6 months ago
              In most cases, I separate ignorance from stupidity by will: ignorance is a lack of knowledge about a particular topic (but without malice) while stupidity is knowing but still doing it anyway (malice).

              In the case of our elected Representatives, they have the means and responsibility to become knowledgeable about any topic up for debate. Because they represent their constituents, the People, they have no excuse for ignorance. Their poor policy decisions are based on willful stupidity (malice) and vapid adherence to ideology.
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  • Posted by term2 2 years, 6 months ago
    This country is just beyond saving, unfortunately.
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    • Posted by $ 2 years, 6 months ago
      Me dino is slightly more optimistic but not enough to with your statement.
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      • Posted by $ 2 years, 6 months ago
        Left out the word "argue" because me dino getting old I guess.
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        • Posted by term2 2 years, 6 months ago
          I think what I am really saying is that IF I were in control of saving the country, I would not expend any effort on its behalf because I thought it was a losing fight. But I am NOT in control of the country, nor could I have any discernable impace on the fight
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          • Posted by $ 2 years, 6 months ago
            Me dino would close the border, start deporting Biden's illegals, open pipelines and all access to oil fields and let capitalists do their capitalism thing, though there's certain free speech suppressing monopolies I'd like to shatter.
            Oh, yeah, since the DOJ is corrupt, I'd can them all and start all over again. Once I have enough special marshals or whatever they'll be called trained, I'd start arresting Marxist traitors, especially those who perjured themselves when they swore to protect the constitution.
            I'd be hated but I'd be okay with myself.
            Dream on, dino. Dream on.
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 2 years, 6 months ago
    One of my dentists got behind in his payments to the IRS and ended up owing $1500. I went with him to the meeting with the IRS agent. She said, "I've never known an employer to come with an employee to one of these meetings.' I said 'if he had the $1500 to pay you, I wouldn't be here. I'm writing the check. I'll take it out of his pay. ' She looked absolutely stunned at such a novel idea.' Stupid, stupid, and stupid.
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