An American friend sent me this list of some of her favourite items funded by money from the US Government's stimulus bill.

•$300,000 for a GPS-equipped helicopter to hunt for radioactive rabbit droppings at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state.

•$30 million for a spring training baseball complex for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies.

•$11 million for Microsoft to built a bridge connecting its two headquarter campuses in Redmond, Wash., which are separated by a highway.

•$430,000 to repair a bridge in Iowa County, Wis., that carries 10 or fewer cars per day.

•$800,000 for the John Murtha Airport in Johnstown, Pa., serving about 20 passengers per day, to built a backup runway.

•$219,000 for Syracuse University to study the sex lives of freshmen women.

•$2.3 million for the U.S. Forest Service to rear large numbers of arthropods, including the Asian longhorned beetle, the nun moth and the woolly adelgid.

•$3.4 million for a 13-foot tunnel for turtles and other wildlife attempting to cross U.S. 27 in Lake Jackson, Fla.

•$1.15 million to install a guardrail for a persistently dry lake bed in Guymon, Okla.

•$9.38 million to renovate a century-old train depot in Lancaster County, Pa., that has not been used for three decades.

•$2.5 million in stimulus checks sent to the deceased.

I can see the sense in the money sent to dead people (last item) given the boom in zombie movies this year there are a lot of jobs being created for zombies out there.

The roundup of radio active rabbits is more puzzling though. When the special helicopter locates them and the rabbit wranglers round them up what are the government going to do with them.

I know in WW2 the Germans had a plan to release exploding rabbits behind enemy lines but radio active ones would glow in the dark and give themselves away.

Perhaps the rabbits are linked to the grant to study the sex lives of female students at Syracuse University. Do you think the radioactivity might make the rabbits rampant?

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