<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a9f1ffa5-e737-4d45-a935-9ba1712f6a82/CD39A065-8609-4AA1-8541-A012A83CDB88/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://biggovernment.com/2009/10/15/the-pork-report-october-15-2009/#IDComment38866025" href="http://biggovernment.com/2009/10/15/the-pork-report-october-15-2009/#IDComment38866025" style="font-size: 11px;">biggovernment.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://biggovernment.com/2009/10/15/the-pork-report-october-15-2009/#IDComment38866025"><H2><A href="http://biggovernment.com/2009/10/15/the-pork-report-october-15-2009/">The Pork Report: October 15, 2009</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://biggovernment.com/2009/10/15/the-pork-report-october-15-2009/#IDComment38866025"><SPAN class="postheader">by <STRONG><A href="http://biggovernment.com/author/porkreport"> The Pork Report </A> </STRONG> </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://biggovernment.com/2009/10/15/the-pork-report-october-15-2009/#IDComment38866025"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/biggovernment.com/img/22D2C6C1-AC20-45C8-8558-BDCEAB09A2E4" alt="The Pork Report" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://biggovernment.com/2009/10/15/the-pork-report-october-15-2009/#IDComment38866025"><P>$300,000 in federal stimulus money pays to <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/science/earth/15rabbit.html ">map radioactive rabbit turds</A> from a helicopter</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://biggovernment.com/2009/10/15/the-pork-report-october-15-2009/#IDComment38866025"><P>$445 million worth of <A href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125556335484586141.html ">congressional earmarks compromise the priorities </A>of the Energy Department</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://biggovernment.com/2009/10/15/the-pork-report-october-15-2009/#IDComment38866025"><P>$2.6 billion diverted from guns and <A href="http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/15/troop-funds-diverted-to-pet-projects/ ">ammunition for troops to pay for politicians’ pet projects</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://biggovernment.com/2009/10/15/the-pork-report-october-15-2009/#IDComment38866025"><P>Two men imprisoned for <A href="http://www.rollcall.com/news/39455-1.html">skimming money from a $8.2 million congressional earmark </A>funded through the Defense Department</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://biggovernment.com/2009/10/15/the-pork-report-october-15-2009/#IDComment38866025"><P>Go fish: $1 million of <A href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jiYH2lXBNbmC6pnMTCUtH6-BSl5AD9B74HO80 ">stimulus funds spent to catch fish </A>in Utah</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://biggovernment.com/2009/10/15/the-pork-report-october-15-2009/#IDComment38866025"><P>The Federal Highway Administration urging localities to <A href="http://www.wtop.com/?sid=1786571&nid=30 ">impose tolls on motorists who drive during rush hour</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://biggovernment.com/2009/10/15/the-pork-report-october-15-2009/#IDComment38866025"><P>The Federal Highway Administration tells <A href="http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20091008/EDIT07/310089995/1147/EDIT07# ">Indiana it has too many billboards </A>along the state’s roads</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CD39A065-8609-4AA1-8541-A012A83CDB88/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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