Stimulus Bill Pays for African Scrotum Washing

Well, if you thought cocaine for monkeys was a colossal waste of Stimulus Bill money, then you haven't heard the latest. UCLA was given a grant to teach African men how to wash their genitals:

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), spent $823,200 of economic stimulus funds in 2009 on a study by a UCLA research team to teach uncircumcised African men how to wash their genitals after having sex

That's right.  You would have thought that washing your crotch after sex should have been common sense, but apparently it ain't so in Africa.  This lack of hygiene explains the fly phenomenon that we see in so many documentary films.

I wonder if Barack Obama is a participant of this study.  He is a Kenyan by birth; so I'm told.  And he seems to attract flys:

The study is ostensibly for AIDS research:

“If we find that men are able to practice consistent washing practices after sex, we will plan to test whether this might protect men from becoming HIV infected in a later study,” the grant says
The study’s lead investigator Dr. Thomas J. Coates was the fourth highest-funded researcher in the country in 2002 and is currently conducting HIV research on three continents.

CNS confronted  Dr. Coates about the wastefulness of taxpayers money:

CNSNews.com asked both Coates and NIMH the following question: “The Census Bureau says the median household income in the United States is $52,000. How would you explain to the average American mom and dad -- who make $52,000 per year -- that taxing them to pay for this grant was justified?”

Dr. Coates referred the reporter to his assistant who never returned their phone call.

Source:  http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/75198