Kansas City had to shut down schools today, 700 people are out of work and kids can't go to school due to lack of money while Obama's deficit spending can find billions of dollars to piss away important things like pig odor research. What is more important than educating kids?

Kansas City to Close Nearly Half Its Schools

Before the Senate resoundingly defeated a McCain amendment on Tuesday that would have shorn 9,000 earmarks worth $7.7 billion from the $410 billion spending bill, the Arizona senator twittered lists of offensive bipartisan pork, including:

$2.1 million for the Center for Grape Genetics in New York.
$1.7 million for a honey bee factory in Weslaco, Tex.
$1.7 million for pig odor research in Iowa.
$1 million for Mormon cricket control in Utah.
$819,000 for catfish genetics research in Alabama.
$650,000 for beaver management in North Carolina and Mississippi.
$951,500 for Sustainable Las Vegas.
$2 million "for the promotion of astronomy" in Hawaii
$167,000 for the Autry National Center for the American West in Los Angeles.
$238,000 for the Polynesian Voyaging Society in Hawaii.
$200,000 for a tattoo removal violence outreach program to help gang members or others shed visible signs of their past.
$209,000 to improve blueberry production and efficiency in Georgia.