NYS Grants $$$ to Farm for Mattresses for Cows

[SteveGrenard]

November 6, 2006 -- ALBANY -


Gov. Pataki has granted an upstate farm $15,000 to buy mattresses - for its older cows!

The pampered bovines are in Kernel Acres Sunset View Farm, in Rensselaer County, one of 17 farms to share more than $200,000 in grants designed to better New York farms.

"It was only a matter of time before we got to building retirement homes for cows," said E.J. McMahon, head of the Manhattan Institute's Empire Center for New York State Policy.


http://www.nypost.com/seven/11062006/news/regionalnews/15g_so_moos__can_snooze_regionalnews_kenneth_lovet t.htm

[SteveGrenard]

So I checked it out and there it was, a cow mattress:

[Dr Adequate]

Trust you to milk this for all it's worth. From what I've herd, unless there's an udder side to the story, nothing important is at steak --- so what's your beef?

[TragicMonkey]

I found the thread title confusing. I thought it meant NY granted money to cows so that they could attempt growing mattresses on their farms. I had a charming mental picture of a cow driving a tractor, scratching her head and wondering why her crop of Serta Posturepedics weren't coming up. Probably the pH of the soil.

[Darth Rotor]

Trust you to milk this for all it's worth. From what I've herd, unless there's an udder side to the story, nothing important is at steak --- so what's your beef?
The cream of the joke is that this gubenatorial decision is, at its base, pork! :)



(pork barrel)

DR

[SteveGrenard]

I found the thread title confusing. I thought it meant NY granted money to cows so that they could attempt growing mattresses on their farms. I had a charming mental picture of a cow driving a tractor, scratching her head and wondering why her crop of Serta Posturepedics weren't coming up. Probably the pH of the soil.


Sealy Pasturematic

[Katana]

Sealy Pasturematic

What about the Pasteurmatic?

[SteveGrenard]

not posturepedic

pasturepedic?

[Dr Adequate]

The cream of the joke is that this gubenatorial decision is, at its base, pork! That's all bull; and the way you're steering this discussion shows that you've got an ox to grind.

But I can make mincemeat of your arguments. I'm not easily cowed.

[Darth Rotor]

That's all bull; and the way you're steering this discussion shows that you've got an ox to grind.

But I can make mincemeat of your arguments. I'm not easily cowed.
The wurst thing you could try to do is attempt to convince me that this isn't all a lot of baloney. Try hamming it up in another thread. Your bovine humor is boaring me. :cool:

DR

[UserGoogol]

I'm not entirely sure why this is particularly silly. (Except for the fact that cows are silly animals, of course. lol moo~) Cows aren't really designed to stand on cement or whatever the floors of farms are made out of, so a "cow mattress" seems like a fairly useful thing for treating cows humanely. And $15,000 isn't that much money, both when you divide by however many matresses they must've bought and when you divide by the number of taxpayers there are in New York.

[insert cow pun here]

[Zep]

http://www.cowswithguns.com/cowmovie.html

[LeFevre]

I'm not entirely sure why this is particularly silly. (Except for the fact that cows are silly animals, of course. lol moo~) Cows aren't really designed to stand on cement or whatever the floors of farms are made out of, so a "cow mattress" seems like a fairly useful thing for treating cows humanely. And $15,000 isn't that much money, both when you divide by however many matresses they must've bought and when you divide by the number of taxpayers there are in New York.

[insert cow pun here]

We all know the floors of farms are full of big spikes. Farms are mean. :(

[Beerina]

We all know the floors of farms are full of big spikes. Farms are mean. :(

And it's up to taxpayers to help private businesses purchase legitimate, or even illegitimate "touchy-feely" expenses. But it works because it gets votes.

Elsie why would they do it?