{"id":13474,"date":"2009-08-11T07:19:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T12:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13474"},"modified":"2009-08-11T07:19:37","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T12:19:37","slug":"time-to-dust-off-the-ol-trench-coat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13474","title":{"rendered":"Time to dust off the ol&#8217; trench coat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why am I just hearing about this stimulus cash from the National Endowment for the Arts now? (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/NEA-gives-money-to-_pervs_-for-twisted-fun-8088479-52911637.html\">Washington Examiner<\/a> link)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;CounterPULSE, which received $25,000 in stimulus funds, and which may be best known for its &#8220;Perverts Put Out,&#8221; a &#8220;long-running pansexual performance series.&#8221; The group urges guests, &#8220;Join your fellow pervs for some explicit, twisted fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, the NEA defended this and numerous other small grants of extremely questionable merit in a letter to Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla. &#8220;The NEA did not use [stimulus] dollars to fund any of the projects,&#8221; wrote Patrice Powell, the agency&#8217;s acting chairman. The grants, she wrote, &#8220;can only be used to provide salary support for staff positions or fees for previously-engaged artists and\/or contractual personnel that are critical to an organization&#8217;s artistic mission and in jeopardy of being eliminated as a result of the current economic climate.&#8221; In other words, you&#8217;re not paying for &#8220;Perverts Put Out.&#8221; You&#8217;re paying to make sure that CounterPULSE has enough money to produce &#8220;Perverts Put Out.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Everyone knows how expensive it is for us pervs to maintain a staff, er, I mean keep our secretaries&#8230;er, uh&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, $25k isn&#8217;t much, compared to the trillions the stimulus will cost, but still, &#8220;Perverts Put Out&#8221;&#8230;really?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why am I just hearing about this stimulus cash from the National Endowment for the Arts now? (Washington Examiner link) &#8230;CounterPULSE, which received $25,000 in stimulus funds, and which may be best known for its &#8220;Perverts Put Out,&#8221; a &#8220;long-running pansexual performance series.&#8221; The group urges guests, &#8220;Join your fellow pervs for some explicit, twisted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-usual-suspects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-3vk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}