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The image above has been transformed for the purposes of satire (I put the text version of air quotes in all by myself).

Scientology is paying for advertisement on YouTube. YouTube is owned by Google. Google has been criticized in the past for its cooperation with China. Tom Cruise pumped money into China while making Mission Impossible III. Supposedly scientology is committed to making human rights a reality around the World. That must be why their most famous member injected $10 million into a totalitarian country that is the most famous human rights abuser.

I was surprised to read that Joe Scarborough had a successful career as a congressman after trying to offer pro bono representation to a terrorist who shot and killed an abortion doctor. The judge at the criminal trial refused to allow it because of his inexperience in criminal defense law. His motivations were based on his pro-life views. I am willing to assume that since he was by no means the best lawyer available, there was self interest and self aggrandizement at play as well. I am not implying that anybody is ever undeserving of a vigorous defense. Joe’s volunteering was something else.

Joe Scarborough is now a controversial broadcaster. I don’t know what his response would be to a question about his views on people who side with terrorists in the present socio-political climate.

I was able to find one transcript that supports my argument that there is a double standard. Terrorism is abominably wrong even if you agree with the viewpoint of the terrorist.

There are several third parties who are standing up and condemning the actions taken by Anonymous against scientology. Many of them point to the fact that they are giving scientologists the perfect opportunity to claim that they are experiencing religious persecution. I agree with this argument, and I would like to point out that many countries do not recognize scientology’s claim to be a religion, choosing instead to view scientology as a business enterprise.

In some respects, scientology is very much a multi-level marketing scheme. I was hesitant in writing that because I don’t want to give MLMs a bad name.

75% of American Christmas tree buying families opted for live trees last year. They spent an average of $40.50. That adds up to $1.2 billion in sales.

However, the sale of artificial trees has grown more than 25 percent in the last five years. Consumers spent $631 million on fake trees last year. A natural Christmas tree is a natural, renewable, recyclable product. I would encourage people to buy locally grown trees if that is possible. I used to get mine for free from my fathers woodlot. I one a cash door prize at my employers Christmas party one year and I splurged on a fancy tree from a local lot. I think it cost about $30 back then.

I worked on a Christmas tree farm as a teenager. The trees that I trimmed during the summer were cut, graded, wrapped, loaded and shipped by truck to Boston where my boss rented a sales lot. The growers in Christmas Tree Council of Nova Scotia donates the best big tree in the province to the city of Boston each year as a gesture of thanks for the relief effort that Bostonians offered to victims of the Halifax explosion.

This mulleted mannequin and these fiberglass dinosaurs live together in a museum display in Kentucky. Creationists built the museum to illustrate their interpretation of the natural history of the Earth. All 6,000 to 10,000 years of it.

There is an overwhelming consensus among REAL scientists that the Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old. I personally think that the inception and construction of this museum was a way for some people to scam other people out of some money. I don’t have any hard evidence, I just BELIEVE it.