Perhaps we should call them special interest projects.

http://www.usnews.com/money/business-economy/articles/2009/02/19/finding-the-pork-in-the-obama-stimulus-bill.html

http://www.examiner.com/x-2759-Business-and-Finance-Examiner~y2009m2d28-Top-10-wasteful-earmarks-on-stimulus-bill

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/02/23/9000-earmarks-in-the-410-billion-omnibus-spending-bill-gang-tattoo-removal-maine-lobster-la-raza-more/
I added Malikin just because she has a reasonable list. Obama was talking about the Stimulus bill. These all relate to the Stimulus bill.

I’ve asked a related question here before, but my dad hired his sister about 20 years ago to act as office manager for his business, a doctor’s office, and she has become very, very destructive in that time. She fires any person that disagrees with her, refuses to compromise on any issue, has pressured my dad to cut off my mom’s (his ex-wife’s) alimony and health care (my mom lives in an attic-room apartment on nearly nothing), and is trying to break up his relationship with his current girlfriend. She also tried to break up my sister’s relationship with her fiance and also my girlfriend and I. My dad’s sister has two sons–about the age of my sisters and I–who act on her wishes and also seem to lack empathy, and are constantly breaking the law, and take all the benefits of the office they can, for example being able to help fund their tuition and buying a house, and funding their own businesses.
It has gotten to the point in the business where my dad’s sister’s recklessness is going to cost my dad his livelihood–because she does not pay business taxes, my dad has huge bills via the IRS–hundreds of thousands of dollars–and although my dad is owner of the business, his sister now has a (much) larger salary than he does. For example, last year he took home $37,000, while she took home $107,000 out of the office. Usually she earns about $87,000 + benefits (vacations all the time, 5+ weeks a year, taking hundreds of dollars in petty cash at a time, charging groceries to the office or to my dad, etc. She is not specialized nor has any degree, but makes more than most lawyers.) It’s just insane, perhaps literally…
My question is, when my dad brought in a new manager a few months ago, the new manager tried to institute changes, and for the sake of my dad’s relationship to his extended family she did not fire my dad’s sister but cut her salary down, at first to half, and then up to I think $72,000. My dad’s sister is constantly trying to wrest control away from this manager. Everyone involved in the situation is utterly frustrated with this person, and my sisters and I, and my dad’s girlfriend are thinking of confronting my dad about his sister, and seeing if he will fire her via the new manager.
What I worry about, if his sister is indeed a sociopath, and if her sons are sociopaths, are their reactions to her being fired potentially dangerous? In other words, are my sisters, father, mother and I putting ourselves in danger by contributing toward her being fired? I worry because we’ve given her so many second chances, and she just abuses those chances, so if she stays on we are just doing ourselves harm anyway, especially to my mom’s health, if she gets sick without insurance, and to my dad’s mental state if he loses his business/house.

I had a random urge to make my own personal website (not for business or any public gain), but I don’t know what it should be about. I don’t have any particular hobbies except writing. I’ve written a novel and I thought maybe I could do something with that, but it may seem sort of conceited if I make a whole website about it. Does anyone have ideas? It doesn’t have to be about writing, either. Any suggestion is fine!

I applied to both business and engineering programs for university. I was just wondering what separates the two degrees when it comes to calculous courses and the type of maths you take.

Thanks

I have just started a new personal business for woman’s community. we have a large quantity of cosmetics products but I don’t know how to market and promote..does it work to use facebook for marketing purpose I wanna know about
The most important aspect of any social media effort and How to use Facebook to expand my business

I have this one great friend at school, and recently, he made up these…codenames for all the girls that we usually interact with and one of the girls is a friend of mine, and I happened to leak a meaning of a codename to her. The next day he was furious with me and gave me the silent treatment. At the end of the day, though, I promised not to tell anyone. But….the day after that an idiot mouthed off and got that one friend to think that *I* had told one of the girls AGAIN. So he treated me like scum at school. When I got home, I asked that one female friend what had happened in her little clique and I also asked that one idiot what HE had said to them. It turned out that I had no fault in that business. Then the next day, the creator of our codenames, I’ll call him X, he said he was going to stop using the codenames because somehow, the meanings leaked and all the girls now knew them. He started being very mean towards all of his friends. Then….I tried convincing him not to be like that. He always said very mean things…and I argued with him on FB for a whole day and at the end, finally got him to say something positive. Now…I started trying to get him to interact with me more like before, because he had stopped doing that. He deleted me from his sibling list(which kinda represents a list of good friends) and added that idiot as one, although he knew that I had not mouthed off after the first time. I think the reason he is being nice to most of our clique’s members and not to me is because I was one of the few who tried to get him un-pissed after we sort of took turns leaking information.
He was such a good friend before that he’s become an essential part of my life. I’m feeling really depressed right now because he is not treating me as a friend like before…I’m living in hell. WHAT THE FRICK DO I DO?
Any suggestions on how to make him see that I only tried to get him to be un-pissed because I am a real friend? Btw, I tried telling him stuff about friendship and stuff because he talked about it like he regarded friends same as toys.
I’m depressed..:(

I go to the Sit down shut up and do what Obama tells you school in NJ. Each week we study a real American Hero. This week’s hero is Barney Frank. I need help answering these questions, if I get them wrong I have try to figure out what is really wrong with Nancy Pelosi, so please help, as she has a lot problems.

Barney is sliding in the polls, so if he were to run for re-erection today, would he fail like Bob Dole?

Like Ronald Reagan, he was in show business before politics. Did he play the lead role in the Rocky Horror Picture Show, or was he Spanky in the Little Rascals?

And last, is he really gay, or is it just a vote thing. Have you seen the way he dresses, I dont think so.

Thank you for help.

Ok, well, I’m 16, and I moved to the U.S. from Britain when I was 10. I had been friends with this guy, Ashley (he’s 16, as well) when I lived in Britain. Our dads worked in the same business, and my dad was offered a job in the U.S., so we moved here. I stayed in touch with Ashley a lot, though, and his dad was offered a job really close to us about a year ago. So, lucky for me, Ashley now lives in the same town as me, and goes to the same school. Well, Ashley’s family got all moved in in November. Anyways, he’s really nice, and funny and great to be around, I mean, I’ve spent a ton of time with him since he moved here, because I just love every aspect of his personality. Well, I really, really like him. I’ve known him since I was 4, and even when I was living here, we were really close friends… but when I saw him in person for the first time since I moved, I was like, …Woah, because he’s reallyyy attractive, and I’ve LOVED getting to spend so much time in person with him. Anyways, he’s told me multiple times that I’m so pretty, now, and he’ll say things when we’re hanging out, like, Hey, hot stuff, and look at me to see what kind of reaction he gets. He jokes around and makes a lot of sexual innuendos involving him and I (no, he’s not a pig. I think they’re hilarious) and always hugs me and touches me (not innapropriately…), etc… I think he might like me, because he hints around a lot and sort of tests the waters between us… What do you think? Do you think he might like me?

Well, tonight, I went over my dad’s house (I live with my mom) and Ashley came with me to meet my dad, stepmom, and younger half-sister. My sister went to bed, and my dad and stepmom were in the living room, so Ashley and I were in my room, watching TV, and messing around on my laptop, etc… just having fun. So I started taking pictures of us together to post on Facebook, and in one, I was pretending to lick his face, but I slipped, and actually did (lol.) So we started laughing, and joking around, he said, Cool, now just try that about… 2 feet lower… and with no clothes on. So I sort of jabbed him in the arm, and laughed. We were looking at the pictures we took, and in one of them, I was sitting, and he was standing behind me, with his chin on my head, and he said Oh, look how cute we are! and smiled. So I looked at him, and I said, Would you ever want to be more than just my friend..? or something along those lines… I was really nervous so I don’t remember exactly. His eyes got really wide, and he turned kind of red, and sort of said Uhhhmm. But then my stepmom came in, and after she left, I didn’t ask him again… I’m so confused. I mean, he kept acting all touchy-feely, and making jokes, and everything, so I don’t think it was a negative… But I’m so lost. If he’s going to be that nervous, I don’t know how to ask him or bring it up again. What should I do?! Help!

I have a business of computer accessory. My business and running for around 1 year.
I’m looking for new ideas to help market and promote my business.
I asked a similar question the other day but wasn’t given any good ideas. Most of which don’t seem to apply to my business. now again I’m here to know any solution help !

What is the job called where the person markets a certain business in a certain way like decides how it looks. Is it like a marketing manager or media manager.