For the last week or so, the Church of Scientology of Portland has been sponsoring a Volunteer Ministers‘ Cavalcade in Pioneer Square in Portland. They put up a huge yellow tent and spoke with anyone who wanted to talk. In one week they had about 4500 people go through the tent, looking at the exhibits, […]
Archive | May, 2007
Viral video
This amazing video demonstrates the level of protection provided for skin by “Gloves in a Bottle” (one of my clients). I’ve been using their product for about 8 years, whenever dry skin becomes an issue for me, or when I work out where I might get some poison oak on my skin. First I put […]
History Channel
May 9th of this year marks the 57th anniversary of the publication of the book Dianetics. The History Channel noted it with this silly clip: Dianetics Anniversary. They camp it up a bit, but it IS true that Dianetics was published 57 years ago. Old as I am, that’s before I was born. They make […]
BBC’s smear campaign pre-empted
John Sweeny, a BBC reporter doing an “exposé” on the Church of Scientology, has found that the church is not a normal victim of sensationalist journalism, willing to take whatever they dish out. Before the BBC could get their smear job on the air, the Church completed its own exposé of the slipshod journalism of […]