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Re: Noah's Ark theme park opens in Kentucky

#81  Postby Fenrir » Feb 28, 2017 8:28 am

In case anyone missed it Ken now has a shiny new factually fact based diorama showing why all the naughty peoples needed to get drownded.

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Re: Noah's Ark theme park opens in Kentucky

#82  Postby Alan B » Feb 28, 2017 1:00 pm

The banks need to call in all his loans...
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Re: Noah's Ark theme park opens in Kentucky

#83  Postby Alan B » Feb 28, 2017 1:13 pm

laklak wrote:I'm impressed that Noah knew about bulbous bow design thousands of years before we knew enough hydraulic engineering to design one.
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Really, Laklak!

Goddidit. S'obvious, innit. :snooty:
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Re: Noah's Ark theme park opens in Kentucky

#84  Postby Scot Dutchy » Feb 28, 2017 1:19 pm

Must have found the steel girders as well.
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Re: Noah's Ark theme park opens in Kentucky

#85  Postby Alan B » Feb 28, 2017 1:24 pm

But, but, the Fludde was in the middle of the Bronze Age.

This God must be a really clever bloke (or was it a blokess?).
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Re: Noah's Ark theme park opens in Kentucky

#86  Postby Animavore » Jul 21, 2017 11:48 am

Ken Ham lights up the Ark in the colours of the rainbow to represent God's promise to never again commit genocide on us. Ends up with gay boat instead.

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Re: Noah's Ark theme park opens in Kentucky

#87  Postby Calilasseia » Jul 21, 2017 12:44 pm

Can someone explain why he's built what appears to be a wooden oil tanker?

I'm pretty certain any resemblance to the Exxon Valdez is wholly unintentional, but at least this moola scow isn't going to bring disaster to Alaska ...
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#88  Postby Teague » Jul 21, 2017 12:50 pm

Calilasseia wrote:Can someone explain why he's built what appears to be a wooden oil tanker?

I'm pretty certain any resemblance to the Exxon Valdez is wholly unintentional, but at least this moola scow isn't going to bring disaster to Alaska ...


LMAO I was thinking that too! :lol:
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Re: Noah's Ark theme park opens in Kentucky

#89  Postby Teague » Jul 21, 2017 12:52 pm

I already posted this in a seperate thread....



Creationist Ken Ham blames atheists and ‘fake news’ for failing Ark Encounter theme park

The organization behind a tax-payer subsidized “replica” of Noah’s Ark in Kentucky is blaming atheists for tax-payers getting fleeced by the project.

Creationist Ken Ham built the $92 million Ark Encounter project in Williamstown, Kentucky. The “dismal failure” of the project has backers lashing out at “intolerant atheists” for mocking the return on investment taxpayers have received.

“Sadly, they are influencing business investors and others in such a negative way that they may prevent Grant County, Kentucky, from achieving the economic recovery that its officials and residents have been seeking,” complained Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis.

“Why so many lies and misinformation? Simply because we are in a spiritual battle, and the intolerant secularists are so upset with such world-class attraction like the Ark (and Creation Museum) that publicly proclaim a Christian message,” Ham claimed. “They will resort to whatever tactics they deem necessary to try to malign the attractions.”

Not just atheists, Ham also blamed the media for not uncritically repeating his alternative facts.
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Re: Noah's Ark theme park opens in Kentucky

#90  Postby Agi Hammerthief » Jul 21, 2017 1:02 pm

Calilasseia wrote:
I'm pretty certain any resemblance to the Exxon Valdez is wholly unintentional, but at least this moola scow isn't going to bring disaster to Alaska ...

only by proxy of global warming due to general reality denial.
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Re: Noah's Ark theme park opens in Kentucky

#91  Postby chairman bill » Jul 21, 2017 1:20 pm

When's the launch date? I wanna see it float.
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Re: Noah's Ark theme park opens in Kentucky

#92  Postby Scot Dutchy » Jul 21, 2017 1:34 pm

With the amount of steel inside it it would sink.
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#93  Postby Shrunk » Jul 21, 2017 2:40 pm

Scot Dutchy wrote:With the amount of steel inside it it would sink.


Never mind those big ass building attached to the side.

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#94  Postby LucidFlight » Jul 21, 2017 3:36 pm

Did they manage to get two of everything inside?
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#95  Postby DavidMcC » Jul 21, 2017 4:26 pm

DoctorE wrote:Celebrating the myth of mass murder

"Mass murder"? Don't you mean "mass religious fantasising"?
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Re: Noah's Ark theme park opens in Kentucky

#96  Postby Scot Dutchy » Jul 21, 2017 5:51 pm

One yuge wet dream. :lol:
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Re: Noah's Ark theme park opens in Kentucky

#97  Postby pelfdaddy » Jul 22, 2017 1:11 am

Excuse my tendency to rant when the subject matter calls for a bit of a lighthearted approach, but Ken Hamm is a lying fraud who badly needs to be opposed, mocked and if possible prosecuted for the financial crime he committed when knowingly and unabashedly peddled this elixir to the people of Kentucky. He must have justified this elbow-deep ass-fucking, thinking "Hey, there's a reason Kentucky is abbreviated as KY."

Let him bitch and moan. I hope he continues, because I for one find it gratifying to think that secular opposition, mockery, lampooning, debating and on-site youtubing has contributed, and will continue to contribute, mightily and heroically to the exposure of this fucking prick. My apologies to fucking pricks everywhere for equating them with this louse-eating ape.

Had this shocking waste of life energy been promulgated in the eighties, it would have prospered until this very day. It is the milieu of today; when secularism generally, and atheism in particular have gained so much intellectual and cultural ground, that the peddlers of superstition finally have to take into account the possibility of failure and financial ruin. This is the answer to the question, "Why engage in activist militant atheism?"

May all of Ken Hamm's projects--may his entire life--come to nothing but prison and an ignominious end.

He is more than a deluded pseudo-intellectual shit salesman; he actively seeks attention and admiration, seeing himself as a leadership figure among the ignorant and benighted, spearheading a modern-day fundamentalist revival, in love with an image of himself living in opulent quarters and commanding millions of dollars, the rotting fruit of his corrupt manipulations. If glorying in the image of another squirming in the dust at the point of a just and deftly handled spear is not overly inhumane, I will cherish the image.

Laurels to all of his laudable enemies in the arena of ideas. Thumb's down to him and his execrable cohort.
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Re: Noah's Ark theme park opens in Kentucky

#98  Postby laklak » Jul 22, 2017 2:48 am

In order to get out of a $0.50 cent surcharge per ticket, Hambone sold the Ark to his own non-profit corporation, losing $18 million in tax incentives. The incentive was a refund of sales taxes on ticket sales, but only applies to FOR-PROFIT organizations involved in tourism.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/kentucky-noahs-ark-theme-park-loses-18-million-after-violations-of-tax-law-for-refusing-to-pay-a-safety-fee/

oops! Just saw we already have a thread on this. Apologies.
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Re: Noah's Ark theme park opens in Kentucky

#99  Postby DoctorE » Jul 23, 2017 1:15 pm

The creationists behind a tax-payer subsidized “replica” of Noah’s Ark in Kentucky are lashing out at the media for reporting on the park’s tax evasion.
“MEDIA AND BLOGGERS OUT OF CONTROL RE: ARK,” wrote prominent creationist Ken Ham, in all capital letters.
Ham was responding to news that the Ark Encounter theme park lost $18 million in tax breaks after a deed transfer in which the for-profit LLC Answers in Genesis “sold” the park to a non-profit in an attempt to avoid paying local public safety taxes to Williamstown, Kentucky.
Ham quoted CCO Mark Looy, who said, “We are saddened that the City Council did not extend the courtesy of discussing this ordinance with us before passing it and taking it public, and was not willing to negotiate further.”
However, the Ark has burned enough bridges in town that the City Council may have been left with little choice.

Continues: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/media-o ... ing-taxes/
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