Beware Of Gift Bearing Libertarians
Imagine, if you will, an amusement park set to open in the not-too-distant future. But instead of roller coasters and cotton candy, this one will have"juvenile giraffes" and odes to the good ole days. Which to the founders of this wonderland occurred about 6,000 years ago, when man and T-Rex blithely roamed the Earth together.
The year will be 2014. And the land of enchantment that commences operation that year will be a creationism theme park, which will exist aboard a "500-foot-long wooden replica of Noah’s Ark containing live animals," so kids can learn how the Earth really began and ignore all that tripe about the Big Bang.
It will accompany the already rocking Creation Museum in Boone County, Kentucky, which is devoted to a literal interpretation of the biblical story. This leads to certain challenges, of course, as Charles Pierce points out in his book Idiot America, such as providing a theoretical basis for how humans and dinosaurs co-existed, before the latter shuffled off this mortal coil.
Which explains why Creation-Museum dinosaurs are afforded the privilege of donning an "English saddle, hornless and battered," to remind them of their main purpose during their brief terrestrial experience: Serving as our Lippizanners.
Just imagine how much fun the Kentucky Derby must have been back then!
Perhaps, worst of all, not only is this scientific Frankenstein being built, but at the announcement of its pending, um, creation, was not some far-right loon, but the Kentucky Democratic Governor Steve Beshear. Perhaps its simple coincidence that in a year's time, he shall once again stand before the voters of Kentucky as a candidate for governor. And that he arrived at the unveiling with a potential offering of over $37 bn in taxpayer-funded, tourism development incentives.
Yes, I know, surely the Pirates of the Garden of Eden ride will provide jobs and lead to increased tourism for the area, but if the only requirement is to provide visitors with fantasy and pool a few shekels, why not just screen Russ Meyer movies or hand out signed copies of George W. Bush's Decision Points?
Perhaps the end goal is to collapse history of the universe into from 1776 to the present, hence making America god's creation on earth. I mean if you can chop off billions of years, already, what is chopping off a mere few millennia for the next theme park?
far left loon >.<
Where the Flintstones is a documentary.
Sunday schools to balance things out. Wonder how that'd go over?
Why do you guys all hate America???
bumper sticker once at my favorite way side diner that was razed to make a BP store. It said "I Love My Country, It's My Government I Distrust". Am I clear?
"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master." - Hunter S. Thompson
The Kaaba features The Black Stone that comes from Adam's first temple. Muhammad hisself is said to have laid the stone in place. Someday when the faithful from allaroundtheworld come to pay respects at this place and you can't get a vacancy in a Motel 6 within 18,000 cubits you'll understand the wisdom of these shrewd Kentuckians.
why they've never seen heaven when actually flying above it.
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Diabolus est Deus Inversus
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Diabolus est Deus Inversus
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For a second there I thought it said to beware of gift bearing leprechauns.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Your dreaming.
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"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master." - Hunter S. Thompson
I didn't get the headline either. Grandmother of Libertarianism, atheist Ayn Rand, must be spinning in her grave to have Libertarianism somehow associated with this Biblical nonsense.
It's hard to determine which is more responsibility for the average conservative's and reactionary's low IQ (or, at least ignorance), the Bible, propaganda aimed at the Roman Empire or Fox "News," propaganda aimed to prop up the American empire.
"The antidote to bad speech is more speech." ~~J.S. Mill
There just aren't any words to describe these fucking morons. Fucking morons just doesn't come anywhere near close enough.
Cue edit. I suppose all of the monsters in the Bible will all magically turn into dinosaurs now. Does this make Goliath related to Godzilla??
More likely Leviathan.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
How can people that are supposedly intelligent be so ignorant? This is not just ignorant it is denying science. it is denying reality for crying out loud. What is wrong with these fools that buy this BS? Believe what ever idiociy you want but do deny reality is mind numbing. 6,000 years is all our world is when written history is longer? Maybe I'm missing something like logic or intelligence. Dinosaurrs .....and us?.?. Good Grief stupidity is all around us and has just voted in more of it..... Can intelligent people survive? I'm not too sure but there it is. PEACE
The love you take is equal to the love you make. John Lennon Paul Mc Cartney
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Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I think the display will look remarkably exactly like this:
http://phemisaurus.blogspot.com/
It's truly astonishing to compare the immense power and wealth of the United States to the average American. Seriously. Have you ever stood in line at Wal-Mart or McDonald's or any other all-American venue and simply wondered how this unintelligible group came to dominate the known world? It's a frightening prospect and makes you question the arc of history.
That also brings to mind a picture I saw a few weeks/months ago; it was of a middle-aged, overfed, under-educated, trailer-residing blonde female holding two semiautomatic pistols while wearing some derogatory shirt proclaiming her dominance over and hatred of Muslims. In her mind, this woman is the ultimate bad ass. After all, she lives in the most powerful country in the history of the world, thank you very much! But then I thought to myself, "How long would this woman last in Iraq? Or Iran? Or Lebanon? Or Pakistan? Or just about any country over which she proclaims dominance?"
Not more than a few minutes.
It's striking how absolutely uncorrelated America's wealth, power, and influence are to the average American's intellectual capacity. An uncomfortably large percentage of Americans believe that Adam and Eve were not only flesh-and-blood historical figures, but that they walked with T-Rex and saddled up on ol' Brontosaurus. Yet we are the country with the most technologically advanced weapons of mass destruction. We, the nation that tends to believe Jesus will descend from Heaven on a fiery steed in the near future to annihilate most human beings while "saving" a select few to perpetually worship him and his Father, yes, WE could lay waste the the entirety of Earth with our outsized nuclear stockpile.
It makes you question everything we thought we knew about history and progress.
And many believe Jesus walked around with an open bible quoting scripture.
"Just imagine how much fun the Kentucky Derby must have been back then!"
Gimme $100 on T-Rex to win, with Tricerotops to show and Velociraptor to place. Trifecta bitchez!
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
Man, getting them in the gates must have been a bitch.
that you could somehow gather 2 of every single species of flora and fauna on Earth into one ark (no matter how big it was) is seriously insane. Even if you did, think of all the deadly bacteria, viruses, poisonous flora and fauna that would be onboard. Think of all the predators eating the prey during the voyage. And after you finally landed on dry ground and de-arked, there would be at best 2 of every species. We know that lack of genetic diversity would soon make each and every one of them extinct.
Only someone with absolutely no knowledge of science (geology, genetics, biology, physics, etc.) could possibly believe this crap. No matter how hard and long it rained the entire land mass of the Earth would never be totally submerged. That is pure lunacy and yet this new park purports this to be historical fact!
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