Saturday, February 09, 2008
The COS War on Psychiatry
Tomorrow people around the world will be protesting Scientology in response to the Anonymous viral videos that came out in the last few weeks. More and more scrutiny is being focused on Scientology as more damning videos keep appearing online.
The latest is from a New Year’s speech by church leader David Miscavige describing their efforts to crush, kill and destroy the business of psychiatry. In it Miscavige describes in violent language how the church is waging an apocalyptic war against the science. He also claims that many corporations are disseminating COS literature to third world countries , which has provoked a response from those same companies.
Since the goal of Scientology is to “clear the planet” and make everyone a cult member, psychiatry is their biggest competitor for helping people with mental problems. Dianetics claims to solve psychological problems with auditing. So it’s no surprise they would want to shut down any business might siphon customers away.
As to how real Scientology is, Miscavige’s own niece, who was raised in the cult has plenty to say about it here.
Friday, February 08, 2008
Cool Poster
How To Lose Without Trying
Defeatists and cowards tend to run many institutions. Here’s a classic example.
The Archbishop of Canterbury says the adoption of certain aspects of Sharia law in the UK “seems unavoidable”.
Dr Rowan Williams told Radio 4’s World at One that the UK has to “face up to the fact” that some of its citizens do not relate to the British legal system.
Dr Williams argues that adopting parts of Islamic Sharia law would help maintain social cohesion.
Firstly, why should immigrants expect any nation to bow down to their customs? Who should the natives of a country to expected to accept medieval laws because of some immigrants want them? Why do so called leaders want to abdicate all sovereignty and power to a vocal minority and screw over the rest of their citizens?
These are some examples why what he said is unforgivable. Western societies should not go backwards. Muslim societies need to move forward to join the rest of us in the 21st century.
UPDATE: Apparently, it’s already started over there.
There Will Be Oscars
Old Police Blog
The Daily Mirror is an interesting blog from the LA Times covering police stuff from 50 years ago. Here’s lots of great ads from the times illustrating the articles, like the one above.
I love this period so when I have more time I will be reading a lot of this site.
Thursday, February 07, 2008
Been Super Busy
Sorry about the light blogging. Work has been eating up a lot of my time. Things are starting to happen this year. The Bon Jovi project is just one of many irons I have in the fire . This year should be very interesting. In a good way, I hope. 
I should be doing some traveling this year so I will be blogging from all over the map. Stay tuned.
Scam of the Day
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Parkour Soccer
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Bon Jovi Loves My Town
It’s still not to late to enter in the contest on Bon Jovi Loves My Town. We’re getting entries from all over the world. Today we even got one from Kabul, Afghanistan!
Winners get to have their work played on concert screens as it goes on tour with Bon Jovi around the world. They also get assorted prizes.
The Recycling Myth
Recycling is really a scam in many respects. While it sounds like a good idea on paper, it actually uses more energy and creates more pollution in the process. But even more disturbing is the insane make work that the statists create to bedevil the citizenry. This article by th libertarian Von Mises institute delves into the extreme madness of Sweden’s recycling system. It shows what happens when you let alleged do gooders have too much power.
The latter is actually true: everybody is recycling. But that is the result of government force, not a voluntary choice. The state’s monopolist garbage-collection “service” no longer accepts garbage: they will only collect leftovers and other biodegradables. Any other kind of garbage that accidentally finds its way to your garbage bin can result in a nice little fine (it really isn’t that little) and the whole neighborhood could face increased garbage collection rates (i.e., even larger increases than usual — they tend to increase annually or biannually anyway).
So what do you do with your waste? Most homes have a number of trash bins for different kinds of trash: batteries in one; biodegradables in one; wood in one; colored glass in one, other glass in another; aluminum in one, other metals in another; newspapers in one, hard paper in another, and paper that doesn’t fit these two categories in a third; and plastic of all sorts in another collection of bins. The materials generally have to be cleaned before thrown away — milk cartons with milk in them cannot be recycled just as metal cans cannot have too much of the paper labels left.
The people of Sweden are thus forced to clean their trash before carefully separating different kinds of materials. This is the future, they say, and it is supposedly good for the environment. (What about the economy?)
Add to this all the energy schemes the government is slowly trying to shove down our throat and you can add environmentalism to the list of excuses control freaks are using to take away more liberties and choices. All in the name of “protecting us”.
This stuff is really getting out of hand, and I don’t see a whole lot of answers coming from either political party. Just more of the same.
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