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Ben Stein: America 2089

by Phantom Ace ( 99 Comments › )
Filed under Economy, Politics at May 25th, 2009 - 2:26 pm

Economist/Actor Ben Stein writes a very interesting piece from a future point of view.  What is scary is the plausibility of this scenario.

Decline and Fall: A View From 2089

THE future is now. To see how history might look back on our economic crisis, we bring you this excerpt from “The Decline and Fall of the United States of America,” Beijing University Department of Western Hemisphere History (Beijing Press, 2089):

The demise of an economy as mighty as that of the United States as of 2000 cannot be accounted for by anything less than deeply mistaken and foolish decision-making within that nation’s ruling circles. No amount of foreign competition or resource shortage has historically caused such a catastrophe. However, policy actions undertaken without proof or even evidence of their efficacy have historically done so. (See “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” Gibbon, 1776.)

I hope this scenario doesn’t come to pass.

Ben Stein withdraws as UVM commencement speaker after outcry over intelligent design

by bar ( 33 Comments › )
Filed under Evolution, LGF at February 4th, 2009 - 9:12 am

Calls commencement flap ‘pathetic,’ denies he’s anti-science

Ben Stein described the brouhaha over his selection as commencement speaker at the University of Vermont as “laughable” on Tuesday called the whole episode “pathetic.”…

In a phone call to the Free Press on Tuesday, Stein said that describing his views as “antithetical to scientific inquiry” was “a wildly unfair characterization.” He said he was by no means “anti-science,” as some of his critics have described him.

“I am far more pro-science than the Darwinists,” Stein said later in an e-mail. “I want all scientific inquiry to happen — not just what the ruling clique calls science.”
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(Via Hot Air)
I don’t care that he’s a creationist any more than I’d care if he were a phrenologist. It’s goofy, but so long as he doesn’t turn the speech into a lecture on the subject, I’m willing to tolerate his eccentricity. What I wouldn’t tolerate is his egregious bad-faith attempt to equate Darwinism with social Darwinism. Why would an audience filled with scientists and science majors want to be addressed by a guy who believes “science leads you to killing people”? Better yet, why would that guy want to address them? It’d be like inviting a liberal who believes conservatism is inherently racist to guest-blog on Hot Air. I get enough flak for linking HuffPo occasionally in Headlines that I can imagine how that’d go down with our readers.

Exit question: Can it really be that we’re creeping up on 9 p.m. on the east coast without a post yet on this from LGF?
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Around and around we go.
I am sure some “creationists” will have some meltdowns at LGF today over this.

Little Green Footballs Praises 9/11 Truther and Moon-Bat Ebert’s Criticism of Ben Stein

by savage ( 153 Comments › )
Filed under LGF at December 5th, 2008 - 6:02 pm

This is from the comments section on Orthodox Muslims vs. Christians. I’m gonna just put the whole thing up here.

Hat tip to tuffasnails for the idea and Jehu for basically hitting it out of the park, nay, hitting it into geosynchronous orbit.

Good going, kids…. 🙂

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Another ID thread over at LFG all organsiming over themselves because the genius and moral titan Roger Ebert did not like Ben Stein’s film Expelled. So there are only one or two people that even dare to counter the sorority bonding level of comments and observations and snickering remarks made by posters that cannot even see that they have been beaten into group think. But then so many of them are intellectual sado-masochists they beat themselves into group think to win approval and continued posting rights from Charles. Most of them are beating up on a poster named “stretch.” But here was one from a lone free thinker there named Zimriel:

“Fahrenheit 9/11″ is a compelling, persuasive film, at odds with the White House effort to present Bush as a strong leader. He comes across as a shallow, inarticulate man, simplistic in speech and inauthentic in manner. If the film is not quite as electrifying as Moore’s “Bowling for Columbine,” that may be because Moore has toned down his usual exuberance and was sobered by attacks on the factual accuracy of elements of “Columbine”; playing with larger stakes, he is more cautious here, and we get an op-ed piece, not a stand-up routine. But he remains one of the most valuable figures on the political landscape, a populist rabble-rouser, humorous and effective; the outrage and incredulity in his film are an exhilarating response to Bush’s determined repetition of the same stubborn sound bites.
–Roger Ebert, arbiter of all that is right and proper in film documentaries.
IOW… watch out for fleas

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So LFG posters ought to know now that they have embraced a raving fat-ass moonbat in their hunt against creationists.

Here is a dialog on the same thread that reveals the pathetic police state of mind Charles has created. And I challenge Charles to deny this fact taking place on his own website.
And yes he has the right to create and control anything there, but the rest of us have the right to point out he is a tyrant that demands all thoughts conform to his regarding Evolution. Charles is showing the same police state mentality of all liberals and secular progressives. So don’t try and pretend you are the NEW MEDIA. You are the same as the old, but you just make less money and reach fewer people than the Dan Rathers of the world.

Posted in: Ebert: Win Ben Stein’s Mind

#9 VegasRick 12/04/2008 6:59:07 pm PST

I wish I had $1 for every ID/Darwin post.
/just sayin’

Posted in: Ebert: Win Ben Stein’s Mind
#13 Charles 12/04/2008 7:00:07 pm PST

re: #9 VegasRick
I wish I had $1 for every ID/Darwin post.
/just sayin’

Yeah. You’d get about $18 every 60 days.
Don’t spend it all in one place.

There is Charles just a humping it to suppress any dissent, not 5 posts later he is crunching this little poster, who as you can see in his response was “just kidding.”

Posted in: Ebert: Win Ben Stein’s Mind

#25 VegasRick
12/04/2008 7:02:55 pm PST

re: #13 Charles

Yeah. You’d get about $18 every 60 days.

Don’t spend it all in one place.

I did say post and not thread. And I was alluding (as a joke) to the # of posts these kind of threads usually generate. And I was just kidding.

Posted in: Ebert: Win Ben Stein’s Mind
#62 VegasRick 12/04/2008 7:13:02 pm PST
re: #25 VegasRick

I did say post and not thread. And I was alluding (as a joke) to the # of posts these kind of threads usually generate. And I was just kidding.
I guess I am not going to get any response after gettin down dinged for my comment. See you all later. No harm, no foul, hopefully

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Look at the kowtowing and ring kissing this poster must perform to avoid the banning stick. Charles you have screwed up a good thing. You deserve the posters you have now, bunch of cowards and ass-kissers, and crippled thinkers. Yeah, you really showed all those that believe in creation (and many among us were not young earthers, or followers of DI but you banned anyway) But in all you did you turned your website into the Potemkin village of the blog world

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