I wonder if they're going to make a profit, after paying people to watch it and barring anyone but the choir from watching.
If they do, I will have lost respect for my own country.
De-fucking-licious. :)
I'm getting really sick of these Creationist assholes. Can we just put them on a desert island somewhere and conveniently forget about them?
Basically in Canada? Hennepin County compared with Canada? I wish, but far from it. I would say Seattle is closer to Canada than Bloomington MN, a suburb of Minneapolis. Dipshit.
The best part is that Richard Dawkins is speaking at the Association of Atheists' conference this weekend. I bet he had to rewrite his speech.
These "creationist assholes" are half your country. Doesn't mean they aren't assholes, but they aren't going to go away. Solution? Cascadia: http://zapatopi.net/cascadia/
hahahahahaha
seriously, when will they figure out that being deliberately stupid is ... stupid-making? oh, that's right, they don't believe in verifying the performance of their theories compared to reality. They will never get it.
Don't know what I'm laughing about, actually. These people rule our world (ok, America).
That's awesome. But, alas, I fear they will make money... I recently visited the Creation Museum in Covington, KY and it was PACKED (with an admission ticket of $20 a pop). As far as I could tell, my partner and I were the only godless heathens in the place. It was disheartening, but as a scientist I was amused to see that their "scientific" arguments for the viability of creationism were laughable at best.
Of Course it will make money, by the same method that Ann Coulter's books are NYT best-sellers, and "The Passion of the Christ" is one of the top-selling movies.
Churches and special interest groups will buy up thousands of tickets and give them away. That's why they pass that collection plate every Sunday. What else are they going to do with it? Help the poor? That's communistic.
That is amazing. Can't wait to hear RD's take on it.
Yeah, but is Kirk Cameron in it??
That's rich. He'll skewer them.
seattle is only 100 miles away from canada.
minneapolis is about 250 miles south of the canadian border.
so long as we're being scientific. and all.
Anyone else notice that Kentucky (KY) and K-Y Jelly have the same initials?
My question is more relevant than this film.
Well, if anybody is really that interested in seeing it, but doesn't want to endure the hassle of being kicked out of line for appearing too "rational", there are apparently a couple of bittorrent files floating around:
http://www.torrentportal.com/torrents-search.php?search=Expelled
Not that I'm endorsing the illegal downloading of copywrited media - particularly patently stupid copywrited media - but, just you know, sayin' and all.
Their propaganda must really, really suck if they can't even put it in front of the general public.
@3 - agreed!
@12 - it's actually 300 miles from the Canadian border. Author, have you ever driven 300 miles? That's 5 hours. According to your calculations, I guess that means Utah is basically in Mexico.
Wow, I touched a nerve, there, huh northern midwesterners? Eh? Ya leekers!
Canada, Canada, Canada.
(1) Portland is closer to Canada than Minneapolis. Closer to the North Pole, too.
(2) The makers of "Expelled" have the right to choose who they want to let in to see their "movie", though the fact they won't let one of the people they interviewed for the movie in to see it is telling.
But if PZ Myers was told he couldn't stand in the Mall of America in front of the theater, well FUCK THAT. The MoA has always skirted around First Amendment issues by claiming that it's a private place. Bloomington police and city councilmembers should take a deep, deep look at that policy if a citizen was told to move along from *the mall* simply because a movie producer didn't like his presence.
I know that weren't allowed to tape anything it the theater, but somebody should have broken out a videocamera for the interaction w/ the police *outside* the theater.
that's pretty funny.
#5 Only if we get to burn down the Discovery Institute and run all their ilk out of Cascadia into the deserts of the east.
@16 252.17 miles as the crow flies from approx 2nd st s and 3rd ave s in downtown minneapolis due north to a spot in the boundary waters a few miles outside international files . 295 road miles from minneapolis to int'l falls.
@17 - just a scosh, ya hoser.
thanks Zwbush for pointing out the obvious. Seattle is indeed closer to Canada by say 2.5 hours to be exact.
I think we just wanted to point out your own provincialism here. Moreover, the degree to which being from Canada is associated with something just rotten, is well losing its value. Literally!
apttitle, agreed! seattle's proximity to canada was one of the reasons I wanted to move here in the first place :D
227 miles from Nye's Polonaise in Nordeast to the border at the Little Lake Vermillion River SE of Crane Lake.
Why am I all of a sudden getting chills and thinking of "The Handmaiden's Tale"?
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