The kids listened politely. And then it hit me: God loves those kids more dearly than you or I could ever imagine. They are all so incredibly young, and beautiful, and privileged, and he loves them so much it hurts. I was in awe. I am still in awe. I am stunned.Afterwards I was talking with one of the [...]

The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, expected to see more than 140,000 visitors this week, is no stranger to bizarre gadgets but the iTaser - as it has been dubbed - must rank as one of the oddest. It combines a Taser stun gun, used by 12,000 police and security forces worldwide [...]

The Center for Public Integrity has a new website with 380 thousand words by the current US government on the orchestrated misinformation campaign leading up to and including the Iraq war.
The Iraq War Card documents in Bush and companies lies about the threat Iraq posed to the US. 935 false statements were made, and well documented [...]

“Canadian authorities were informed on November 5, 2007, by Canada’s monitoring team, of a credible allegation of mistreatment pertaining to one Canadian-transferred detainee held in an Afghan detention facility,” wrote senior counsel J. Sanderson Graham. “As a consequence there have been no transfers of detainees to Afghan authorities since that date. The allegation is under [...]

Most countries do not call call Scientology a religion.
Gawker media is being threatened by Scientology for running a Tom Cruise video (legal action is operating procedure for Scientology)
Over a million people have seen the video on several sites, it was removed from YouTube and promptly put up by another user. The more suppression is used, the more people [...]

The final round of the Canadian blog awards opens today (Wednesday). Voting will be open for a week, you may cast one vote in each category.
 

 
Bene Diction Blogs On has made the finalist cut in the Best Religious blog category.
As has Hell in a Handbasket by El Maggie of Ottawa Ontario, who described herself as:
I am too hippie for the Christians [...]

Sarah Posner known for her  Alternet FundamentalList  weekly columns has a new book: God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters.
Author Sarah Posner exposes the activities of Kenneth Copeland, John Hagee, Rod Parsley, T.D. Jakes, and other politically connected, skillfully marketed, and increasingly influential religious leaders. Preaching the “prosperity gospel” the notion that faith and [...]

Negoitiating with The Lord’s Resistance Army at eaves.ca
Scott Tribe - who runs The Progressive bloggers aggregator - has always struck me as a rather sanguine fellow, so when he showed some suppressed excitement about a possible guest poster at his blog - Scott’s DiaTribes, I’ve been checking back.
I could say a lot more, but I’ll save my [...]