37%, if you count fungible college and university funding

NPR: Stop Making Babies and Driving Cars to Save the Planet The answer to your question is ...  Taxpayers Provide More Than 25 Percent of NPR's Funding, Analyst Says

Douchbags Suck

Should We Be Having Kids In The Age Of Climate Change?

Ferorelli, 33, and Kallman, 32, are both in committed relationships, and in the throes of this problem. Ferorelli recently helped her widowed mother pack up her house, saving cherished items with the unspoken assumption that they are for a next generation. And yet, when she imagines raising a child, Ferorelli says she can't help but envision the nightmare scenarios that have dogged her since she first heard the term "global warming" in elementary school. "Knowing that I gave that future to somebody is something that just doesn't sit very well," she says. At the New Hampshire meeting, 67-year-old Nancy Nolan tells two younger women that people didn't know about climate change in the 1980s when she had her kids. Once her children were grown, "I said to them, 'I hope you never have children,' which is an awful thing to say," Nolan says, her voice wavering. "It can bring me to tears easily." She adds that of course people are driven to procreate, and you can't really tell them not to. One woman looks a little stunned. She's not a climate activist — just tagged along with a friend — and says she had no idea that deciding not to have kids because of the climate was even a thing. These aren't the first would-be parents to ask whether it's fair to bring a child into the world. U.S. birth rates plummeted during the Great Depression. Many also must have thought twice amid warnings of overpopulation in the 1960s and '70s, and under the threat of nuclear holocaust. [NPR BABBLE CONT] Per usual, what's particularly galling is this pap is being distributed using public funds.  See Mr. Watt's rebuttal: Climate Philosopher Demands a Tax on Children.  Wait.  The very fact that you would consider reading actual climate science means there is no way in hell that you pay attention to the cloistered mind rants of the NPR set to begin with.  Yikes.  It seems I have unintentionally subjected you to climate porn.  Sorry.

The Gun-Happy Swiss

“ Absurdem Est   You can see immediately where this is going.  An NPR "special series" on guns in America.  Did I say NPR?  The thing is,  I've been holding this for a week; it was originally published last March, pre-dating the "Navy-Yard" shootings, so that's not what compels me.  What does is having another exemplar of Liberal writing about guns. Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson here looks at Switzerland- whoops— "Gun Loving" Switzerland,"— an immediate tip-off to mindset.   She is not a fan. So, what's good and bad about gun loving Switzerland?.  Read it.  See if you can find the "hasn't worked."  I found these. Swiss — like Americans — are grappling (oft used Liberal fun word for unsubstantiated predicates)  with the question of gun control these days after shooting attacks like one on Feb. 27 that killed four people in a factory outside Lucerne. Firearm deaths in Switzerland take place at just one-seventh the rate that they occur in the United States. But researchers say guns are often used in suicides and crimes of passion in Switzerland. (OMFG! Is she saying that with no access to guns there would be no suicides?) Gun control advocates argue Swiss authorities have lost track of too many of these military-issued guns, which account for most of the 2.5 million-plus guns in Switzerland. (That's what "gun control advocates do you twit.  Else they would not be  gun control advocates. ) Here are a few of the good. "Gun politics in Switzerland are unique in Europe. Switzerland does not have a standing army, instead opting for a people's militia for its national defense." (Wiki) "It's a tradition that some historians say kept the Nazis from trying to overrun Switzerland during World War II."(Article) What an awkward sentence.  "It's a tradition that some historians say ..." What does  that mean— "Tradition;" "Some historians?"  If you're going to throw in that qualifier, then I  expect a citation for historians who omit that tradition.  And does not mentioning something automatically mean dissent?  Of course not.  I think the reader will find that the "what's worked" column dominates this article.  Even if the reader is not aware that tax payer subsidized NPR is a nest of cloistered Liberals, with little knowledge of the other side of any issue they advocate; and that they make shit up, a lot;  the reader will like and admire the gun happy Swiss.  Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson was not able to make a sow's ear from a silk purse.  ”

FBI removes shoes, serves coffee while arresting Islamo terrorist

Imam Arrests Show Shift In Muslim Outreach Effort FBI Agents Remove Shoes Prior To Arresting Terrorist Imam Suspect at Florida Mosque

“ "Obviously there is a lot of operational planning that goes on before an arrest takes place," says John Gillies, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Miami field office.  In the second part of a series on counterterrorism training, NPR looks at a test case in Miami. The first thing that popped into my head was a vision of U.S. Marines removing their boots before flushing out Japs on Saipan.

The NPR TAPES

“ So it's more complicated than saying, 'Where was Obama born?' In Hawaii or not? Is he an American citizen or not?" she asks. Ms. Liley then describes the birthers as conservatives.  [WaTimes] ”

If we can treat NPR as a microcosm of the Democrat Media Complex, and we can, then this is what you call the smoking cigar secreted in Monica's vajayjay.

“   Senior Vice President of NPR Ron Schiller met with individuals he believed to be potential donors. However, undercover video was running during this meeting. In the following clip, Mr. Schiller and his co-worker Betsy Liley describe how NPR covers those who deny climate change is happening. ” Ms. Liley talks about a donor who would only give to NPR if the outlet did not talk to those who believe climate change is not happening: Liley tells Schiller  "It is a complicated thing ... "   How so?  Well  form the science perspective we treat it as settled science, so no problemo ... “ But in politics, our Washington desk, might actually cover it should it resurface as a political issue...this debate." [...] Mr. Schiller chimes in later saying, "The main point here is that it is not our responsibility to present the opinion of a non-scientist through our science desk. All educated scientists accept that climate change as fact. ” Liley continues: “ So it's more complicated than saying, 'Where was Obama born?' In Hawaii or not? Is he an American citizen or not?" she asks. Ms. Liley then describes the birthers as conservatives.  "We're not covering the birthers. We are not covering them. There's a whole movement within the conservative group about questioning something that Obama has said as fact, 'I was born in Hawaii, when it was the United States.' The group that questions this, some of whom are commentators...I don't know any who are Democrats, but they are primarily conservative commentators and people who follow them question if Obama is [a citizen]," she further explains. "I think the challenge in our society now is that we are questioning facts. It's not opinions we are debating. I mean, what are the facts? Is the world flat? Is that the next question we're going to debate?" Ms. Liley wonders. [Full] ” In yesterdays installment, Slate's David Weigel answered his own question "How much damage will this do to NPR" with "Unfortunately for the stingers, Schiller just left NPR for the Aspen Institute."  Did he take Betsy Liley with him?  Did he take NPR's Liberal culture with him?  I see some irony in all this.  Liley and Schiller, albeit unwittingly, have just done for NPR, and by extension the DMC, what Joseph Valachi did for the Mafia.

NPR - Again!

How Badly Will James O'Keefe's New Sting Video Hurt NPR? Slate Magazine - ‎1 hour ago‎

“   “In my personal opinion, liberals today might be more educated, fair and balanced than conservatives,” Schiller said. ”

How badly will it hurt them?  The question itself reveals Weigel's bias, so no surprise here.  After watching all of this smoking gun video, where NPR cozies up with Islamo jihadists, and bashes conservatives, here's David Weigel's  conclusion. “   Unfortunately for the stingers, Schiller just left NPR for the Aspen Institute. ” How very - Democrat. BTW, thanks to righty gomez for calling it to my attention with this  Daily Caller link.

JFC!

NPR's Totenberg Expresses Regret for Using Term 'Christmas Party'

= Great Comment “ Needs sumpin…. Oh, wait I see it. There’s not enough droopage. = Great Comment Comment