Samurai sword wielding man shot and killed at the Scientology Celebrity Centre International in Los Angeles.
A former cult member, of course. The WaPost swaddles the story with kindness, treating the cultists like a religion.
The Celebrity Centre includes a seven-story Norman-revival landmark that towers over the Hollywood freeway and used to be a residential hotel for movie stars.
The castle-like facility now serves as “a home for the artist, a place where he can come and learn, attend seminars, meet other artists and even perform at our many showcases and events,” according to the center’s Web site.
The Church of Scientology was established in 1945 by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. It teaches that technology can expand the mind and help solve problems and claims 10 million members around the world, including celebrity devotees Tom Cruise and John Travolta.
Oddly, those closing grafs do explain the cult pretty well. Invented by L. Ron Hubbard after many, many drinking sessions with Robert Heinlein, Scientology appreciates the importance of celebrity converts and trolls for them shamelessly. The rest, as we all know, is pure bullshit in keeping with the Three Card Monte’ism of legit religions, the kind that turns crackers into the body and blood of Jesus Christ (which just so happens to have been comprised entirely of crackers).
But I pray for religious miracles. I pray that while hooked up to an e-meter Tom Cruise will suddenly gain the power to read minds and will realize that everyone in the room is laughing at him, or that a Cardinal will receive communion and suddenly find himself with a mouthful of blood and guts. Those would be good miracles, imho.
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Speaking of religious nutjobs arguing theology….
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again? Fighting a global Depression every 80 years is a form of Ground Hog Day’ism?
DemFromCT has more examples of the vast rightwing implosion going on.
[Stolen from Crooks & Liars]
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Off the wagon. I suppose it would be ungracious to hope that he becomes a falling down drunk again, eventually dying in a pool of his own piss and vomit.
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Digby on tasers and the cops who’ve been on the receiving end of this barbaric invention. She’d also like to know why Spiky Isikoff is plagiarizing Salon’s Mark Benjamin (I’m just happy that the truth and reconciliation commission idea is still alive).
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Video of Lieberman refusing to apologize.
I’m still waiting on video of an outraged constituent knocking the unctuous so-nothing traitor on his ass. Schmelzer asks if we have gutsy comedians, or gutless Dems. [more]
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How the rich steal from the very poorest among us.
We need rights for labor, not just capital.
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More on Saxby Chambliss, the paragon of Republican virtue who dodged the draft back in the day so he could vilify Max Cleland in ‘02.
In other news of recounts:
Josh Marshall on Franken’s chances
Brauer on the quality of challenged ballots
I’ve been skipping the Lizard People ballot stories, but that voter has now stepped forward: enjoy!
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Yellower and pagier than ever, and about as useful as tits on a boar.
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Places to go, other peoples’ car trunks to dig through (I’m sure the snow scraper is in there somewhere).
Some links to tide you over:
Yoo, who is still out there and not in a cell (and yes, this is another argument for a Truth & Reconciliation approach)
Republicans behaving incoherently
$4 billion in the hole (and 13 dead — let’s try to remember that part)
Taylor also reports that the average American spends 189 hours online a year. Sounds like I should have kept this sucker shut down when I quit in February (already over my limit).
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