Magic man done it.

[urbpan]

Well, truth be told, I didn't have any plans to visit Kentucky, but it just backed up behind Kansas and Mississippi in the "last states to visit--shortly after I die, maybe" competition. Hoo doggy! We're so proud of our dogmatic ignorance that we erected a museum to it!

Also, my 3:00 alarm just went off, and my camera is at home somewhere.

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[bezigebij.livejournal.com]

When the Gallup Poll asked people about their views on the subject last March, 47 percent of Americans polled said that God created humans pretty much in their present form some time in the last 10,000 years. That belief was strongest among those with less education, regular churchgoers, people 65 and older, and Republicans.

This scares me...47%!!!

[signsoflife.livejournal.com]

I know it's a consequence of having just finished _Mountains Beyond Mountains_, but I've got to wonder how many cases of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis that $27 million could have cured. But then, it's not like Jesus said anything about serving the poor, the sick, or the imprisoned. He was pretty clear that his first priority was the secular humanist conspiracy to decieve us into beliving men were descended from monkeys.

[candent.livejournal.com]

That's awesome, I completely agree.

[grace-batmonkey.livejournal.com]

Amen!

Also: excellent icon choice.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

holy crap, there are going to be some really confused anthropologists in 2,000 years.

[grace-batmonkey.livejournal.com]

I spent a good 5min picturing that very outcome. It did not make my little black heart any bigger or brighter.

In fact, I may have had a Charlton Heston moment.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

oh, this is but one of many ways that humanity is currently full of stupid.

[grace-batmonkey.livejournal.com]

To say the least - my fella and I enjoy vigorous discussion about the stupidity of humanity, but even we are fatigued from regarding the endless catalogue of idiocy available these days.

We're past the uncomfortable laughter part and well into "why can't we just divide the nation, so that they can do their ridiculous thing and let everyone else thrive away from their fear and ignorance?"

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

i really feel that that's the way things are headed which would be good except for the fact that the sane people would get all of the worst weather.

[aemiis-zoo.livejournal.com]

Wait...which half of the country do we get?

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

we get the coasts, pretty much, with the exception of the east coast south of baltimore.

[aemiis-zoo.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess I am in the right place (for the time being).

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

like i said, we get the crappy weather. :)

[aemiis-zoo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the sun is actually out today, but it has been cool (40s) and raining the past couple days...

Let's do it

[candent.livejournal.com]

In three years, the conservative run half would be experiencing huge amounts of accidental gun deaths, a surge in young girls dying from back alley abortions, manual labor shortage, because of immigrants from poor countries refusing to work for slave wages, thus leading to a rise in heart attacks by rich people doing hard labor for the first time in their lives, and violent confrontations between all of the fundamentalist Christian sects, as they end up killing each other over who's denomination best represents Jesus' "loving teachings."


Uncontrolled corporate greed would lead to monopolies and rule by a tyranical oligarchy, ultimately leading to economic collapse. Unfortunately, this would mean a dyspotic dictator would grab power, and convince the obtuse populace that the nation on the left was to blame, and declare war, for the dual purpose of diverting the citizenry from the real cause of their mysery, and stealing the natural resources that their country no longer possessed, because of environmental neglect. To top it off, the right's cultural events would consist of gun shows, beauty pageants for six year olds, and attending Osmond Brother concerts.

[sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com]

I used to handle customer service calls for American Electric Power in that area: I can speak from experience when I say that the archaeologists are going to be confused, too, as some of those people are so inbred that their family trees would have scared the shit out of Wilbur Whateley. (I regularly had Jukes and Kallikaks calling up because our automated phone payment system would ask for a contact phone number and they didn't understand the concept of 'contact phone number'; it took real effort for me not to say "Do you have the number of your meth dealer? Use that.")

[iheartoothecae.livejournal.com]

Next time I got to Louisville I'm grabbing the giant baseball bat outside the Louisville Slugger museum and beating that anti-evolution museum to smithereens.

But not before I steal one of those animatronic dinosaurs to put in my living room.

[octogirlie.livejournal.com]

But not before I steal one of those animatronic dinosaurs to put in my living room

Pick one up for me, will ya? Parasaurolophus, if you don't mind. =D

I live within 10 minutes of similar- the one where the owner was recently tried and convicted of tax fraud/evasion. He claims that his theme park was actually a church, so he shouldn't have to pay taxes.

[sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've been having fun with the saga of "Dr. Dino": the only difference between him and "Dr." Carl Baugh (the idjit that claims that he's found evidence of human tracks alongside the dinosaur tracks in the Paluxy River in Texas) is that Hovind got greedy. Truthfully, Baugh's too stupid to pull off a good scam: when even the people at Answers In Genesis refer to him as a crook and a dope, you know he's bad. (If you ever decide to visit his Creation Evidence Museum on a lark, specifically try to ask him a question: Baugh prefers to present his theories about creationism to grade-school kids because he's terrified of running into anyone who can poke holes in his arguments. Start showing anything other than complete agreement with his fake artifacts, and he'll literally run and hide in back until you're gone.)

[mmsword.livejournal.com]

When I heard that Kent Hovind got smacked down by the IRS I laughed for perhaps 30 minutes straight.

[pipu.livejournal.com]

WTF? The best part:

It shows models of children leaving a church where the minister believes in evolution. Soon the girl is on the phone to Planned Parenthood, while the boy cruises the Internet for pornography sites.

[nmsunbear.livejournal.com]

I was going to repost that same section. I confess, I utterly fail to see the connection. Maybe I should go to the museum and get edumacated.

[aemiis-zoo.livejournal.com]

Flaming poop on a stick! WTH is wrong with people?!

[interfecta.livejournal.com]

A Christian-based organization admits that fossils may have once been real bones?? Crap!

All this time I believed there really *was* a shadowy organization that employed millions of Jewish, Muslim, Pagan, atheist and sexually perverted artists throughout the world to make fake dinosaur bones and hide them so "scientists" could find them.
I was really hoping those guys would give me a job. It sounds exactly like the theater industry, except with money.

[interfecta.livejournal.com]

Also:
May I steal this icon, sir?
Thanks, Interfecta

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Since I stole it from the Jehovah's Witnesses (with able photoshopping help from cottonmanifesto--who should be credited) I don't see why not. :)

[interfecta.livejournal.com]

Thank you kindly!

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

your camera in on the chair in the kitchen, btw.

[protoblast.livejournal.com]

but it just backed up behind Kansas and Mississippi in the "last states to visit--shortly after I die, maybe" competition.

Kansas U. is home, surprisingly, to one of my favorite natural history museums (http://nhm.ku.edu/). Sure they haven't changed most of the exhibits in 30 years and the bee colony keeps dying, but the state has some great limestone beds with all sorts of extinct critters in them and the museum takes full advantage. Plus, where else can you see the bedraggled and stuffed pelt of Commanche (http://nhm.ku.edu/Hdocs/Comanche.html), the only survivor of Custer's escapades at the Little Bighorn? It's a classic of this type of museum: small, cramped, dusty, staffed by eager advocates of evolution and the environment, full of neat things, and more than a little weird. I try to always spend a lot of money in the gift shop on the way out.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I felt bad about putting down Kansas--after all, Dorothy and Superman are from there! But I decided to leave it as is because of the Kansas Board of Ed. voting against evolution.

If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve!

[nmsunbear.livejournal.com]

If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve!

I love it! I want a bumper sticker. ;)

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

http://www.stickergiant.com/page/sg/PROD/funrel/b5619

[sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com]

And to quote one of my patron saints, "And Jesus pulled the thorn from the brontosaurus's paw, and the brontosaurus became His friend." (I've been keeping tabs on this one for a while, and I honestly give it a year before it implodes. Speaking as someone who's lived in "the buckle of the Bible Belt" for nearly three decades and who regularly passes by Carl Baugh's Creation Evidence Museum on the way to Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose, they'll never get enough money from revenues to keep going for long. If there's one thing I know for certain, it's that most fundamentalists are so cheap that they use both sides of the toilet paper, so the usual gift shop revenues are going to be rather short. I expect the same thing of the creationists who bought up the concrete dinosaurs out in Cabezon, California: they're hyping up how they're using dinosaurs as "missionary lizards", but I give that crowd another year before they run out of cash and have to sell the dinosaurs to another buyer.)

[broken-angel.livejournal.com]

Oh my. I think I just threw up in mouth a little.

[droserary.livejournal.com]

Forgive the state for its backwards zealots and biggots. It really is a beautiful place. So is Tennessee, even though Bryan College in Dayton is the home fo the Center for Origins Research (*rolls eyes*). Don't forget Dr. Michael Behe, author of Darwin's Black Box, still teaches at Lehigh University of all places in Pennsylvania, a state I happen to highly respect.

I figure there will always be moronic legislation, moronic legislators, and dogmatic ignorance. No reason not to visit a state, though :-) I plan to get all 50, even if Alaska keeps pushing for opening the ANWR for oil drilling.

[greenminions.livejournal.com]

I'm glad this article at least mentions how close it is to metro Cincinnati. Other articles I've read portray it as being in the middle of no where, which it is not.

I live in Cincinnati btw.

[paying-w-mysoul.livejournal.com]

Aaaahahahahahaha. Ha.
I'm having a hard time believing this isn't a joke.

[(Anonymous)]

Aaaahahahahahaha. Ha.
I'm having a hard time believing this isn't a joke.