NUMBERS

[FourScore]

Here are some excerpts from the latest Harper's Index, (not yet online):

• Number of homes whose mortgages a U.S. advertising firm offered to pay in exchange for converting the homes to billboards: 10

• Number of applications the firm received in the first week after making the offer: 11,575

• Amount of federal money that went to National Public Radio in 2010: $2,700,000

• To Jerry Falwell's Liberty University: $446,000,000

• Number of free condoms handed out by the Brazilian government in advance of Carnival this year: 84,740,000

• Average age at which women consider themselves to be "old," according to a study by a British funeral planning company: 29

• At which men do: 58

http://dailykos.com/

[grasswire]

1. why is Liberty University getting tax dollars?

?

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Good question...

:(

[aquart]

3. And what are they doing with them?

[prairierose]

4. Student loans......n/t

[secondwind]

5. Is that Falwell number correct? 446 MILLION?????

That's a lot of Bibles!