Many of the items on that list look important for the war effort (at least from their names). If this stuff was so important, why didn't the DoD request it in their budget submission? Is it because they knew the bottom line would be too big and they're allowing Congress to bulk it up for them? I've heard this happens with other government departments. Anybody Congress/budget smart out there?

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Posted by: 121 at November 6, 2007 03:37 AM

The item listed on this site as "Project Soar" is listed in the bill as "$5,000,000 for the SOAR Virtual School District". This earmark has no connection to the Artificial Intelligence/Cognitive Science effort entitled "The Soar Project", as suggested by the JH post below.

Posted by: REW at August 1, 2007 03:08 PM

SOAR
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/soar/home

RAINCOAT
Syracuse Research Corporation – Reasoning and Assessment of Intelligence for Counter-Narcotics and Anti-Terrorism (RAINCOAT) - $1.7 million The Reasoning and Assessment of Intelligence for Counter-Narcotics and Anti-Terrorism (RAINCOAT) project provides the U.S. Air Force with an operator-focused decision support tool. RAINCOAT is a software application that will assist in the detection, identification, and monitoring of drug, insurgent, and terrorism activities. RAINCOAT integrates information from multiple intelligence sources and compresses the intelligence reporting timeline for SENIOR SCOUT operators. This capability directly supports SENIOR SCOUT operators for their ongoing anti-terrorism and counter-drug missions in the Middle East and South America.

Posted by: JH at July 29, 2007 03:12 AM

Another breathless epistle from Christian.

If memory serves last year's bill sported no less than 2,847 earmarks when it was done. The year before that it was more than 2,500, and well over 2,200 the year before that. In fact, if you followed the trend line since 1996 (270 earmarks, and the last time the number actually declined), you'd have expected this year's crop to be in the low 3,000's at least.

Whatever. It's irrelevant anyway (unless you happen to be one of this year's 1,776 lucky winners — "Come on down!").

The real outrage is that the total cost of the earmarks — 300 or 3,000 — comes out to be just around 2.3% of the Defense Appropriations Bill every year.

Every %#$@! year!

What are the chances?

Be interesting to see if that 2.3 number changes this year, now that the Hill's under new management, as it were.

Posted by: FirstCav at July 28, 2007 09:07 PM

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Posted by: Hugshug at July 28, 2007 06:19 AM

Please don't tell me you guys are giving the Politico cred for crying out loud. Read their masthead cast of players and you will see a whole bunch of cast offs thrown out the door when downsizing hit the MSM like an aids epidemic.

Man that concept is so lacking in good judgment if you go back and read the interviews with the initial creators of the Politico by MSM followers when they were only just putting that place together.

All the initial bunch that seeded the place were shall we say off the beaten path and they somehow had to gather up enough fresh blood just out of J school of like minds to be hired cheap to carry the same story line on.

I recommend you pop into a look at that red flag stuck in the middle of your story and do a reality check.

Posted by: Observer at July 27, 2007 11:09 PM

I took a very quick look, and found two that I would question:

Spherical Airship Research and Development-Bishop, Sanford

Geospatial Airship Research Platform-Kaptur,Marcy

These would both appear to support the development of so called "high altitude airships"; a moot effort since smaller UAVs can fill the bill much more readily (UAV technology is available, proven, inexpensive).

proper work should be being done on airships for military transport, and that, ONLY on rigid shelled craft, not the inflated (no pun intended)and hyped "hybrid" airship types that would still use flexible envelopes. Both the "spherical airship" and "geospatial airship" are pure pork in that they are no more than glorified balloons or blimps; both of which are to limited in capability and not worth the monies put into them...at least, not as envisioned for the programs that are listed.

Posted by: campbell at July 27, 2007 08:57 PM

Here are some items that I would like to know more about. I will do so researching of my own, but I would also like DT to look into them.

Hawaii Undersea Chemical Weapons Assessment Program - Abercrombie, Neil

Project SOAR - Braley, Bruce

Advanced Radar Absorbing Tiles for Surface Ships - Cardoza, Dennis

China Geospatial Data Project - Everett, Terry

Lens XX Hypervelocity Ground Testing - Higgins, Brian

High-Power Microwave System for Vehicle Immobilization - Schiff, Adam

Project Kryptolite - Smith, Christopher

RAINCOAT - Walsh, James

LAU-7 Sidewinder Replacement Program - Waters, Maxine

Posted by: JH at July 27, 2007 02:58 PM

Many of the items on that list look important for the war effort (at least from their names). If this stuff was so important, why didn't the DoD request it in their budget submission? Is it because they knew the bottom line would be too big and they're allowing Congress to bulk it up for them? I've heard this happens with other government departments. Anybody Congress/budget smart out there?

Posted by: TB at July 27, 2007 02:47 PM

Young and the others that I recognize at the top of the list are mostly "Old Bulls" that have been in Congress since I was a boy over 30 years ago. I am so sick of these people who seem to think that the Congress just wouldn't get anything done unless they were there.

I heard another Republican congressman from North Carolina (I think his last name was Black) being interviewed just before the last election who was bragging(!) about his ability to steer pork spending to his district. He said that his opponent (a young democrat fellow I think just out of the military) just didn't "get it"; and that if he lost the election, then the people of his district were no longer going to enjoy the benefits of his pork barreling ways. Fortunately, I think he lost in the general election.

Now as a Republican who rejoiced when Newt Gingrich attacked the democrats who controlled Congress back in the early 90's as "pork-barreling" and made a number of changes after he became Speaker to keep that in check (as far as I know anyway), I was absolutely dismayed to hear a leading Republican congressman bragging about his pork-barreling ways! And he wasn't the only one; I believe that even John Boehner, the current Minority leader in the House, has defended the practice as good government.

I don't have any sympathy for anyone in Congress who indulges in pork barrel spending. I can understand earmarks for things that are necessary and good, like needed highways and so on, but many of these items are just incredible: like museums for various animals or whatnot; and you know that the only reason they wanted it was to shower some federal dollars on their district, even if it accomplished nothing more than generating a few more paychecks for people they were connected with. It is disgusting.

Posted by: Max at July 27, 2007 02:36 PM