1. Taxpayer-Funded Snow Cones for Emergencies (and Promotions) – $6,279

They were purchased to treat heat exhaustion in Michigan. Have you
ever been to Michigan? It is depressing. Those poor people could use a
rainbow snowcone.

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2. Federal Dollars Goes Toward Cowboy Poetry – $50,000

There is an annual Cowboy Poetry Party where cowboys and cowgirls, poets and

musicians, artisans and scholars, rural people and city folks get together to recite prose for a week in January.

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3. Taxpayer Dollars Go to Promoting Christmas Trees – $75,00

Normally liberals hate Christmas, but not this year!

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4. Video Game Preservation – $113,270

The International Center for the History of Electronic Games (ICHEG)
received over $100,000 in federal funds for video game preservation.
According to the organization‘s website, it collects, studies, and
interprets video games, other electronic games, and related materials
and the ways in which electronic games are changing how people play,
learn, and connect with each other, including cross boundaries of
culture and geography.

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5. Drug-Themed “Mellow Mushroom” Pizza Restaurant – $484,000

I ordered from a Mellow Mushroom franchise in Tallahassee once and
it was awesome. I was shocked that vegetable vegan pizza was actually
available at 1am in Florida.

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6. Study Looks for Connections Between Cocaine and Risky Sex Habits of Quail – $175,580

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7. Study on Jordanian Student Hookah Smoking – $55,380

Over the past three years, the National Institute of Health‘s
Fogarty International Center has awarded a Virginia Commonwealth
University researcher nearly $170,000 to study changes in hookah smoking
habits and beliefs of university students in Jordan including over
$50,000 in 2011.

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8. Study of Online Dating – $606,000

Researchers at Columbia University received over $600,000 to study
how heterosexuals use the internet to meet one another, and how that
activity influences their sexual behavior.

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