More than a dozen lucky rabbits were given Swedish massages four times a day, courtesy of U.S. taxpayers, as part of a study to figure out whether massage can help recovery times after strenuous exercise — a practice Sen. Tom Coburn says makes a mockery of federal spending.
I can see giving tax dollars to "moderate" terrorists or blimp attack defense domes, but I didn't get all those automatic pay check deductions so Bugs Bunny can get endless deep tissue stimulation! Basic research, the oldest con game in the book.
The rabbit massages are one of the hundred wasteful products Mr. Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican, identified in his latest edition of the Wastebook, an annual compendium of the ridiculous and outrageous items in government spending, which he is releasing on Wednesday.
On Wastebook you post pictures of yourself achieving nothing of any value, sometimes paired with self-congratulatory text updates. So it's just like that other one.
Every year this guy lists the outrages and nothing ever changes. We need to start caring about PEOPLE, man. Now if you'll excuse me I'm gonna fall off this bar stool, stagger home and beat my family savagely.
Other highlights included the National Science Foundation paying academics to teach monkeys to gamble
"No, Chin Chin! You don't split up two tens!!!
A first-person combat shooting video game the Army developed — but which intelligence officials fear terrorists could use to train their own recruits.
I don't want to alarm you, but the terrorists may have access to video games. Seriously, what is this? I always assumed terrorists trainees (complete with special little name tags) just watch endless episodes of "Jersey Shore," "Teen Mom" and "Real Housewives" until the proper hatred for the American Satan has been instilled.
Indeed, Hezbollah has adapted the game’s design to train suicide martyrs.
"Pretend the dots are innocent people and the ghosts represent enemy soldiers."
Mr. Coburn’s investigators also found scientists putting mountain lions, monkeys, rats and cows on treadmills.
Our national mountain lion obesity problem is deeply troubling. This is the way forward.
In the case of the rabbits, they weren’t put on treadmills but were forced to exercise in order to create stress.
"Get off that treadmill, Thumper! What do you think you are, a cow or something?"
Science!
Taxpayers paid $387,000 for the two-year study, which concluded that other studies were right, and massage seemed to help in recovery — though it wasn’t clear that rabbit physiology could be extrapolated to humans. The rabbits were euthanized at the end of the study, Mr. Coburn’s report says.
It's funny that in the rush to get all scandalized over the sweet life of these jumping vermin we kind of glossed over the whole "euthanized" thing.
Komment Korner
The country fell short by roughly 536 impeachment hearings that year.
Who Is John Galt?
Next time Sen. Coburn needs life saving modern medial care, maybe he should decline as it is almost certainly grounded in basic research that, since he has no expertise or ability to put in context, he'd declare was a waste of taxpayers money when it was performed.
You've got to pass what's in the cupboard before you can see what's in the cupboard
Barbara, I think you're falling for a classic Tom Coburn misdirection.
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