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Jon Gosselin’s Public Shot At Forgiveness With A Rabbi

2:00PM Foster Kamer | “I feel guilty,” Jon Gosselin laments to “America’s Rabbi”, Shmuley Boteach. Rabbi Shmuley talked to Jon on his bima about asking the world for forgiveness. We dispatched our Black Ops spy to the scene. One word: Wow. This is absurd. More »
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Tom Cruise’s Cook Exposes Scientology’s Scary Retention Practices

9:15AM Foster Kamer | Ruh-roh. The St. Petersburg Times—Scientology HQ’s hometown paper and perpetual investigative thorn in their side — has unleashed another scathing report on the religion. This time, it’s on the lengths they’ll go bringing deserters back, including Tom Cruise’s wedding chef. More »
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French Convict The Church Of Scientology Of Fraud, Almost Ban It

10:53PM Ephraim Gadsby | The haughty, stubbornly secular French have convicted the Church of Scientology of fraud. Just for pressuring two women to pay tens of thousands of dollars for spurious Scientological products and services! Victimisation of religion says this oily spokesman. More »
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Islamic Extremists Target Beyonce

8:30PM Ephraim Gadsby | The Muslim Brotherhood In Egypt is a political organisation that once included Sayyid Qutb, the man who inspired Al-Qaeda. It was founded to promote Islamic law, oppress women, etc. And now it wants to keep Beyonce out of Egypt! More »
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Repent!

7:24PM Andrew Belonsky | A Rabbi says atoning on Twitter and Facebook doesn’t work for Yom Kippur. God agrees.
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Father Bob’s Job Has Been Saved! Hallelujah!

11:01AM Jess McGuire | I was flabbergasted when I heard that the Catholic Church were trying to force Father Bob Maguire to retire even though the adorable gent is in perfect nick and thoroughly keen to continue tending to his South Melbourne parishioners. Thankfully, it seems that the public outcry over Father Bob’s forced retirement has resulted in the Catholic archdiocese backing down, and Father Bob gets to keep his job. More »
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See No Evil?

8:15PM Andrew Belonsky | A Christian website has found time to accuse Gawker of killing liberal journalism.
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Phillip Garrido: Child Murderer?

3:50PM Andrew Belonsky | Ack! Just when you thought kidnapping rapist Phillip Garrido couldn’t get any worse, there are now rumours that the blogging religious fanatic may have killed victim Jaycee Dugard’s sons. Because, you know, why not? [The Sun]
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Carrie Prejean Suing Everyone

3:50AM Pareene | Noted wind victim Carrie “Miss Opposite Marriage” Prejean is suing three Miss California USA officials for firing her because of her religions beliefs, even though that is not actually why they fired her. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

Scientology Thwarted (For Now)

8:15PM Andrew Belonsky | The Scientologists had their henchmen remove that scary jargon video. A new one is here.