No
More Tote Bags, No More Books!
 In
2010 National Public Radio received the princely
sum of $2,700,000 in federal aid, an amount
which sent Republican
legislators into frothing, apolectic
rage over this seemingly
wide-open spigot to the Treasury.
By contrast, in
2010 Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, a
private college in the backwaters of Lynchburg,
Virginia, received $445,000,000
in federal
aid.
That is not a typo.
Liberty College, in case you didn't know, is
not a very good college. Until it tightened
its grip on the federal teat it had to be bailed
out by Reverend Sun Myung Moon. It used to
be considered a Tier Four school, four
then
being
the bottom
rung, until the system was simplified to just
two tiers. Now it's a Tier Two school. Yay.
The reason for this is simple
as it is, in fact,
little more than a Christian
monastery
wallowing
in
Biblical
creationism. You can't dance there, you can't
drink there, you can't get cozy with the
opposite sex there and you damn sure won't
learn anything about evolution there. Welcome
to 1392. Or
Tehran.
Even so, it's the largeest evengelical
college in the world, as biblical birds are
known to
flock, and is not shy about the fact that its
mission
is to graduate as many mis-educated students
as possible, especially in the field of law.
Wuh-wo!
Anyway, it seems a bit unfair to me, to put
it mildly, that a single college bent on miseducating
students
takes financial
precedence over a national institution that
attempts to enlighten
and entertain one and all.
The answer here is simple... NPR needs to transform
each member station into a college for the
broadcast arts, and each campus would
run a radio station staffed by the students.
Ira Glass would be the
head of the Literature
department, Garrison Keilor would head the
English department and Tom & Ray Magliozzi
would be in charge of the Industrial Arts.
On-line classes, of course, just like Liberty
College.
The schedule of programs would be essentially
the same except that Terri Gross would have
to read the lunch menu every say and we'll
be thankfully free of the pledge drives forever.
Thank you, Jesus.
=Lefty=
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 February
10, 2011: "We're going to have a relentless focus on creating jobs." -
John Boehner.
So far the list of GOP accomplishments for 2011 is:
(1) Attempted curtailing of abortion rights.
(2) Attempted defunding of Planned Parenthood.
(3) Attempted defunding of NPR.
(4) Investigating Muslims.
(5) Declaring English as America's Official Language.
(6) Reaffirming "In God We Trust". Yawn.
(7) Challenging AARP's tax-exempt status.
(8) Approved defunct funding for failed
religious schools.
(9) Attempt to destroy Medicaid.
(10) Attempt to destroy Planned Parenthood
(11) Shutting down the government
(12) Attempt to destroy the EPA.
(13) Attempting to eliminate financial
counseling.
(14) Passed a House budget that gives $4 trillion in tax cuts to
the rich.
(15) Spend $500,000 to discriminate against gays.
(16) Continued
toadying for the rich.
(17) Pretending the deficit is to blame for slow
job growth.
(18) De-funded SETI.
(ARGH!!!!!!!)
(19) Tried to kill Chrysler two years ago... which is now going to pay
back all its government loans.
(20) The Judicial
Branch of the GOP, the Supreme Court, votes
5-4 to deny
consumer class-action suits.
(21) Redefining
rape. Yes, redefining rape.
(22) Pushing for spending
caps tied to GDP.
Bad idea.
(23) Claimed credit for dropping oil prices
because they passed
a bill.
(24) Refuse to reduce
oil subsidies.
(25) Stood helplessly and watched as Senator
John Ensign made Bill Clinton look like
a Carmelite nun.
Nope. No job creation here. Seriously. Not
a fucking employment sausage. Move along.
Move along.
I'll keep adding to this list until the Republican
House does something to create jobs. I unhappily
predict this is gonna be one lonnnnng list.
After all, you don't get rid of a sitting president
by helping the economy.
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 And
what manner of lie is Fox News spewing today? Anything to
do with the rapper, Common. This one's particularly odious as it's
more blatant racism on Fox's part.
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