We knew to was coming, but I’m disappointed (so far) at the lack of counter opinions on many of the media/movie review sites.
I mean I know that this is due in part to the fact that most Conservatives have children to take care of, (because they didn’t abort them all) & because they have jobs they need to go to instead of having their hand out as a Liberal minion, or being one of those who spend their all time making sure the successful vote buying of the Democrats continues. I realize that these who collect welfare at the expense of those who are at work all day, do have more time to sit home & write more negative reviews on Ben Stein’s brilliant movie “Expelled”. However, we need to take time to defend truth, since these attackers are only interested in squashing it to protect their world views, their Government grants, & their welfare checks.
One thing that has been missed in the debate is this; How can you advocate liberal style “separation” of church & state, & then dutifully investigate intelligent design as a so called “scientist”?
The answer is, you can’t! Something has to give, or you don’t get any grant money. This is one of the reasons they hate the idea, & would rather stay in their little financial & ideological comfort zones!
The fact that these people don’t like the movie doesn’t bother me. What bothers me is the blatant lying they do while writing their reviews. Like one reviewer on Apple.com who said; “Darwin didn’t cause the Holocaust.” Nowhere in Stein’s movie does he say that Darwinism alone was sufficient to lead to the events. In fact, in the movie Stein himself says that though many of the principles of Darwin were believed by Hitler, he doesn’t think that was the only factor that led to the Holocaust. Other’s interviewed in the movie came to the same conclusion.
What is amazing to me is how badly todays Scientists have turned on science itself, & traded in the principled questioning & searching for answers, for the protection of their own political, social or religious ideologies. For instance, like it or not, their atheism is a “faith” of sorts. It takes faith to believe anything that you weren’t around to see. Scientists & Darwinists can cry all they want but that’s a fact they can’t change no matter how hard they try.
Most notably in Steins movie, the flagship or Darwinism Richard Dawkins is cornered by logic itself, into admitting that Intelligent design is possible. On a comical note though, he feebly tries to save face for the movement by suggesting that a superior race of beings could have created the first cell & then disappeared. Yes, he actually suggested Aliens were possibly responsible, but yet he call those who believe in God delusional?
Huh? If they were superior to us or God, then where did they go? & where did they come from in the first place? What did they make the cell from?
Very disappointing showing by Mr. Dawkins to say the least. It was almost sad to watch him reduced to intellectual cannon fodder by Ben Stein.
In any case, you need to ignore the flood of leftist reviews that are trying to slander the movie, & silence it. (You know, those leftist champions of free speech & the media.)
Yes, they want to silence Ben Stein, & anyone who they don’t agree with. The movie stands on it’s own, & I’d encourage anyone to go see it & make up your own mind, instead of listening to fascist liberals who will go as far as to blatantly lie about it, to convince people not to go.
I do however also encourage you to look around the web & read their venomous reviews. Ask yourself why they are so angry? Why so viscous? What are they so afraid of? If the movie is so ridiculous & pointless as they claim, then why are they spending their time defending Darwin & attacking Ben Stein’s “Expelled” so veraciously?
It’s because they want to pontificate to you about what’s suitable for your viewing, & tell you what you should watch. Didn’t Hitler burn books? Create a state run media? Try to control the knowledge & communication?
Go see the movie while you live in a country where you can make up your own mind. Because if you don’t? There will come a day where the right you didn’t exercise, becomes a right you’ve lost.
In Tennessee we have a problem much like the one we have all over the country, which is Tax & Spend Democrats in state government. Surely most of you have heard about Gov. Phil Bredesen, & his wife Andrea Conte’s costly Governor’s mansion “renovation” project. Well now it’s become a “keep up with, & then way out-do the joneses” project, & at an obscene cost to taxpayers in Tennessee.
Renovations & upgrades to the aging Georgian Revival home on Curtiswood Lane were originally proposed by first lady Andrea Conte as a project that would be funded with mostly private money, along with about $1.5 million in taxpayer funds.
But now four years later, the project boasts a 15,000-square-foot underground banquet hall. toward which Taxpayers will be expected to pitch in some $11 million to $12 million in public funds.
In correspondence dated Jan. 7, state Reps. Frank Buck, a Democrat from Dowelltown, and Beth Harwell, a Republican from Nashville, asked Bredesen to halt the project.
“With the financial constraints facing the state and plans to cut departmental budgets, it is fiscally irresponsible to continue with this construction,” they wrote.
Additional Dan Lee Comments:
In Tennessee we went from having a huge budget surplus last year, to being in a position where we have to start cutting government services. Is that a partisan issue? Well I guess when you have a democratic governor wasting millions of dollars on his wife’s pet project, & a bunch of democrat cronies who won’t speak out against it, then IT IS a partisan issue now isn’t it?
I’m tried of hearing democrats crying that people are turning it into a “partisan issue”, when their party is in fact the perpetrators of the irresponsible behavior.
If I heard there was a lion devouring children at the schoolyard, I’d get my rifle & go look for a lion, not a bear.
Similarly, if I heard that there were Democrats (or Republicans for that matter), fleecing the taxpayers of Tennessee by wasting our money for pet projects? I’m gonna track down & point the finger at some Democrats & Republicans, & try to set them straight. I’m not going to blame the Green Party.
This mansion renovation is now thoroughly out of control, & a strong public backlash is the only way to stop it. I strongly urge Tennessee citizens to contact your state & local representatives to demand that this project is halted, & re-evaluated for fiscal responsibility, because as of right now that concept has apparently escaped those in charge of the project.
It should be noted that in a recent attempt by a Mt. Juliet, Tn. citizen Thomas Kovach to halt the project via a lawsuit, Bredesen’s lawyers had the case thrown out on a technicality that Kovach said even the judge called “unfair”. In a call to the Steve Gill of the Gill Report radio show, Kovach says he was basically out-lawyered by Bredesen, has run out of time & resources, & hopes that others will pitch in & fight to stop the project.
Kudos to Mr. Kovach for having the courage to stand up to even the most arrogant form of Government bullying & waste, & Dem. Rep Frank Buck for having the courage to break ranks with the Dems to at least attempt to restore some sanity. By the way, a huge tax increase is on the horizon for Tennessee citizens.. Go figure..
