Good news on the Smithsonian stuff

Invictus ChiKen · Post by **Invictus ChiKen** » 2005-06-18 01:31am

Your correspondence regarding the screening of "Privileged Planet" has been
forwarded to the Smithsonian's Public Inquiry Mail Service for response.

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History recently approved a
request by the Discovery Institute to hold a private, invitation only
screening and reception at the Museum on June 23 for the film "The
Privileged Planet." Upon further review we have determined that the content
of the film is not consistent with the mission of the Smithsonian
Institution's scientific research. Neither the Smithsonian Institution nor
the National Museum of Natural History supports or endorses the views of the
Discovery Institute or the film "The Privileged Planet." Given that the
Discovery Institute has already issued invitations, we will honor the
commitment made to provide space for the event, but will not participate or
accept a donation for it.

We appreciate your interest in the Smithsonian Institution and support of
its programs

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To tired to tell if this be news of good or ill so me just posing it...

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2005-06-18 01:35am

They aren't co-sponsoring it, and have made it invitation only. Yes.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2005-06-18 02:46am

I'm still offended that it was ever approved for screening in the first place. It would be like showing neo-Nazi recruiting videos in a synagogue. The entire goal of this film is to undermine the scientific method itself, for fuck's sake.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2005-06-18 02:49am

Darth Wong wrote:I'm still offended that it was ever approved for screening in the first place. It would be like showing neo-Nazi recruiting videos in a synagogue. The entire goal of this film is to undermine the scientific method itself, for fuck's sake.

Blame it on sloppy bureaucracy.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2005-06-18 02:51am

I'm still offended that it was ever approved for screening in the first place. It would be like showing neo-Nazi recruiting videos in a synagogue. The entire goal of this film is to undermine the scientific method itself, for fuck's sake.

I'd guess that some paper-pusher in the Smithsonian administrative office saw the words "Discovery" "Planet" and "money" and rubber-stamped it without bothering to find out what it was.

Invictus ChiKen · Post by **Invictus ChiKen** » 2005-06-18 02:52am

Darth Wong wrote:I'm still offended that it was ever approved for screening in the first place. It would be like showing neo-Nazi recruiting videos in a synagogue. The entire goal of this film is to undermine the scientific method itself, for fuck's sake.

Jesus hitler
Adolf christ
Is this the second coming
Or the fourth reich?

His mother a nun raped by a nazi
Near the end of the second great war
Gave birth to a son who could change the future
For better or worse he’s not sure
I am what should never have been
The ultimate abomination
Have I returned to save the jews
Or to destroy them?

Hear thee my fellow nazolics
Come join the neotheofacists
Keep the race pure practice eugenics
And swear to the holy swazafix

I have returned

Reich und roll!

Hess to my left and peter on my right
Will it be war or peace
Totalitarian on his throne of blood
Commands both man and beast
A pair of souls trapped in the body of one
Both prisoners of reincarnation
Torn between good and evil
I have returned for salvae-elimination

Invictus ChiKen · Post by **Invictus ChiKen** » 2005-06-18 03:03am

Sorry couldn't help myself...

Lyrics abovr my Carnivore

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2005-06-18 05:05am

Invictus ChiKen wrote:Sorry couldn't help myself...

Lyrics abovr my Carnivore

Bwahaha! I haven't heard that one in years!

Swazafix, indeed.