Brenda Martin has been found guilty of money laundering. She has been fined over 3 thousand dollars and sentenced to five years.
Money laundering convictions in Mexico can lead to 15 years imprisonment.  Her friend,  Waterloo businesswoman Deb Tieleman was in the court room when the sentence was handed down; she has almost single handedly brought this case to [...]

Embittered pastor speaks out - Daimnation
“I have a feeling he might be Islamic; therefore, he don’t recognize Christ”
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The church is Pentecostal.  Pastor Roger Byrd has led the all-white congregation in the town of about 1000 people for nine years. 28 members of the congregation voted to keep the sign up.
“I would put the same sign up [...]

Because we tend to pick up media from various sources I was wondering how The Conservative Party of Canada would handle the optics of their private media briefing yesterday - it was a pretty good guess how media would handle it.
Steven Taylor head of The Blogging Tories is handling the online damage.
The Conservative Party has [...]

The agent for the federal Conservative Party in the last general election “made materially false and misleading statements” on its financial returns, Canada’s elections commissioner alleges… 
Opps.   
Calling a media conference and not telling the select few media they are the only ones invited is not. a. good. thing. So who got invited to the private briefing? [...]

I don’t know how long God and Country is available for download. I’m interested in Persecution Complexes: Identity Politics and the “War on Christians” by Elizabeth A. Castelli, but this edition is chock full of good stuff. Gotta love the internet.
via: The Revealer

The RCMP and Elections Canada serving a warrant on the Federal Conservative Party this week has unleashed reactions that have jumped the shark from Conservatives. The blame game is amazing and is meant to point away from the bad optics. The Globe and Mail Blogolitics looks at the spin Conservatives have put on this incident.
With his [...]

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, a creationist film opened in the US yesterday. It is made by Premise Media, a Canadian Company.
I agree with Chris Hedges,  while scientists have done an excellent job of refuting the film, and ID has shown to be the reactionary repackaging of creationism: the side show of anger (people were duped to appear in this) [...]

This article on kids buying their high school diplomas in Houston is dated 2007.
The requirements for high school graduation from a public school in Texas  include 22 credits and passing the state test called TAKS ( Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills). However, kids in Houston can buy their high school diploma from a specific private Christian school without re-doing [...]