A fistful of awesome ( http://cnsnews.com/news/article/feds-spend-38-million-decrease-human-elephant-conflict )
The Department of the Interiors Fish and Wildlife Service has awarded $3.8 million in 2011 and 2012 for a African Elephant Conservation grant that, in part, aims to decrease human-elephant conflict. The grant award for 2013 is estimated at $1.5 million to continue efforts to protect African elephants and their habitat, according to federalgrantswire.com. I know, it's only 1.5 million this year. Just a drop in the bucket right? I also saw where the Minister of Truth Carney would not answer a question posed about President Obama forgoing his lavish vacations and golf outings for the rest of the year in order to save money. Of course, no answer means "He's not going to stop those." Seems like we have an Imperial Presidency. Nice article from last week. American Way: why it's become clear that Obama's White House is open to the rich and closed to the poor ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/9934645/American-Way-why-its-become-clear-that-Obamas-White-House-is-open-to-the-rich-and-closed-to-the-poor.html ): Once, only nobles were granted an audience with the King. In America, we've prided ourselves on abandoning those privileges of class some 237 years ago, following that little uprising in the 13 colonies. And we again congratulated ourselves at 12:01 pm Eastern Time on January 20, 2009, just moments after Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States and as he committed to making his administration the most transparent and open in history. But more than four years later it is time to ask questions. The most transparent administration ever? The most transparently political, yes. The most open government? If you have the money to buy access, yes. Since last weekend, Mr and Mrs Regular Citizen have been denied the access people used to be granted to tour the White House, purportedly because of the clampdown on federal spending since the "sequester" that imposed cuts across the board. And their cancellation is an austerity measure that saves a pittance, while more frivolous taxpayer funding for items like the White House dog walker continues. Meanwhile, noble Americans can buy time with the president for a suggested donation of $500,000 to his new campaign group, Organising for Action. Yes, the announcement offering access to the president for cold, hard cash was made openly and with total transparency. But it was also made without shame. President Obama, the people are hungry. Let them eat cake. J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:361978 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
