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I had a Tolerant Liberal Friend who, upon disagreeing with Rush on a political question of homosexuality or abortion or some cherished Lib cause, argued that "you're just a robot following orders, and he's a big fat idiot!"

I had to point out that to begin with, this was at very least a poor example of trying to argue his point...that he was attacking a man based on his outward appearance, and if I had said "Obama's just a thick-lipped N-word", I would be called an intolerant ignorant bigot. You debate the issues by staying on the issues, and attacking someone based on their looks is a sign you've got nothing to attack with.

Secondly, every Lib I know proclaims how tolerant I should be of every kind of "diversity" under the sun, and to make fun of a man based on his weight was certainly a sign of intolerance and bigotry of the worst kind.

I encountered this same kind of Lib bigotry some time ago when Ken Hamm opened his "Creationism Museum" here in Ohio. Now, personally, I am a "God-Made-Man-Over-A-Million-Years" kind of guy. (My wife is a dyed in the wool "7-Day-Miracle" person, and we get along fine.) I figure my view doesn't threaten my Salvation, and if it matters, God will explain how he really did it five minutes after I am dead, if in fact it matters at all then. Still, I don't agree with the very thing Ben is attacking: Teaching one unprovable (Godless) theory as if it were a provable Law with no possible allowance for outside views. There is no litmus-paper-test for something that supposedly goes on for millions of years unobserved, and I object that any student with a different opinion can be squashed with grading.

Bottomline, this Creation Museum opened up, and he's doing so much business he has to expand the parking lot. Fine with me if he promotes what he believes even though I see things (slightly) different. But the local "alternative newspaper" comes out, and boy, did THEY decide to straighten us out! These "tolerant" Liberals, who would preach to me up and down on how I should accept homosexuals in the Boy Scouts or schools, on how it was provincial for me to say abortion was wrong for others; these free thinkers simply gutted the people who were flocking to the Creation Museum. "They shouldn't be allowed to teach this nonsense!" one exclaimed. Some woman (in flannel, no doubt) insisted "this is just short of child abuse!"

Proving once again that those who preach Tolerance are often the most intolerant.

The funny thing is that here in My Home Town, we have a thing called the "Underground Railroad Freedom Center." This white elephant was sold to the taxpayers as a way to "revitalize our downtown". It was going to be bringing in tons of people to the downtown. It was going to "bring us together." We were told that it would be paying for itself after three years.

Five years along, the Slavery Museum is doing a lot of business with school kids who are bussed in for their reeducation, for free of course. Their "walk in" business is almost nonexistent, and they have laid off half their staff...but recently they wanted not only another tax levy to stay open, but a million more because they want to move the original entrance they built facing the river (where our revitalized downtown development has never grown) turned around to the other side of the building facing the city. (Yep, the reason nobody wants to go rehash slavery and feel guilty about it is simply that they are facing the wrong way.)

Also, this past year the City Council FINALLY got the ball rolling on the new riverfront development. The Slavery Museum owned a big chunk of land that was given to them for free for "later growth". In the new riverfront plan, that empty scrub land was needed for two trendy restaurants, so guess what...the Museum told the city that they wanted a million plus dollars for that land, the mud they got for free. After a few days of talk radio, though, they caved, when they decided that the move made them look like, well, greedy and ungrateful bastards.

But anyway, compare this. On one hand, the Liberals invented a downer museum that makes white people feel guilty (even though a lot of us died for that freedom in the Civil War), a museum that few people want to go to, that must extort cash from taxpayers to stay open. On the other hand, you have privately funded interactive museum that whatever you say is profitable. And guess who the "tolerant" people think should be shut down?