Archive for March, 2008



A few days ago I picked up on a comment  by the President of The Southern Baptist Convention regarding Canadian ministers and human rights tribunals.  
His comment was made within a larger speech to the American Family Association about bias in liberal media.
…Page, who completes his two-year service as top elected leader of the nation’s second-largest faith group in [...]

ar arrr arrrr!
Oh forget chuckling, this is funny.
HAHAHAHAHA! 
I promised myself I would not write about  Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed again. There has been another blunder by Premise Media, PR firm and producers while attempting to address the last one that resulted in an enormous amount of coverage in all kinds of blog communities. The fur and the fudging is [...]

I despair.
When the head of an evangelical denomination in the US says Canadian ministers can be jailed for speaking against homosexuality, a couple of million Southern Baptists take his words as gospel.
As Dr. Frank Page is getting ready to leave office as President of The Southern Baptist Convention he spoke about ‘liberal bias’ in US media. 
To Dr. Page, [...]

Director Oren Jacoby:
Our movie poses the question: Where did anyone get the idea that it was all right to kill people in the name of God?
When we started to make this film we were shocked to discover how many Americans don’t seem concerned about a possible breakdown between the separation of Church and State. They [...]

Dr. Dawg: Anti-climaxing in Ottawa: Warman versus Lemire
A packed room; hundreds turned away. Sweating tension in the faces of cowering, pallid operatives of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, wrenched from their burrows. Fearless defenders of free speech, the gleam of righteousness in their eyes, lightning flashing outside, as though in sympathy. China, gnawing on the [...]

There is a cliche that no publicity is bad publicity in the movie business.
A 3.5 million dollar film by Premise Media - Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed made for proponents of Intelligent Design in the US got a lot of online publicity ( added: BlogPulse Nielsen Metrics 25-03/08) this past weekend when a US biologist who had [...]

There is a significant Human Rights Tribual tomorrow in Ottawa. Dr. Dawg and BigCityLib have more.
Warren Kinsella will be there to watch. has more.
Good background at The National Post: Scrutinizing the human rights machine.
…one of Canada’s most prominent white supremacist propagandists, backed by the legal team that defended Holocaust-denier Ernst Zundel, will put the country’s [...]

On Thursday night, Dr. PZ Myers, the most prominent US science critic of creationism was expelled from a pre-screening of a creationist documentary. His family and guest were not. His guest was Richard Dawkins.
The New York Times and other media outlets have begun to pick this passion battle between scientists and creationist producers is heating up, [...]



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