The Legion Of Reason

The death of George Floyd was tragic and horrific and the outpouring of outrage justified. So where was this anger when Tony Timpa died in exactly the same way? Why is Black Lives Matter silent over the death of retired police captain David Dorn at the hands of looters and so many others? What kind of sick and depraved individual takes video of Dorn's death and uploads it to Facebook Live instead of rendering aid? Some people may not like what I have to say, but it has to be said. We need real conversations, and BLM is not at all interested. I'm angry too. But I have some pointed questions for those who buy the narrative BLM is selling.

I was loath to edit this one. The audio on my side took a lot of work to correct because of some glitch in the audio chain, but I think it came out well in the end. The volume was all over the place and I had to take the time to go through it and alter the volume envelope. Better late than never! For Feb 6, 2020... Assisted dying news - Justice Minister David Lametti to table new legislation expanding access to medical assistance in dying; Catholic authority predictably plays the fear card; a British Columbia hospice refuses to comply with MAID poloicy; BC court sides with father and orders children to be vaccinated over mother's objections.

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Links:Terry Gilliam in memoriam: https://tinyurl.com/tese8sl Student group wins free speech court battle: https://tinyurl.com/uo4meyfhttps://tinyurl.com/t4v9bce Alberta government and campus free speech:https://tinyurl.com/rt7jum8 MAID story links:https://tinyurl.com/y5r53yswhttps://tinyurl.com/r8naeryhttps://tinyurl.com/wlp5wtuhttps://tinyurl.com/ue45rge Hospice refuses to offer MAID:https://tinyurl.com/rcp8v34 Catholic Watch...More Catholic opposition to MAID:https://tinyurl.com/qlee5akhttps://tinyurl.com/wt2zl26https://tinyurl.com/rvzonul Quack Tracts...Anti-vaxx story links:https://tinyurl.com/yx22d8d7https://tinyurl.com/shyw22s

It's been a while, but we're back!The topic du jour has been welling up inside me for some time and I need to get this rant out. We'll have a look at how our entertainment has been hijacked by those who want to use it as a propaganda tool for their political agendas, starting patient zero (Ghostbusters 2016) and ending with some truly spectacular failures. And of course men are to blame for poor box office showings.Seriously. They actually say this.And movies like Joker and Ford v Ferrari can't be allowed to do well at the box office or at major film award events.We will finish the discussion with one of the most godawrful shows - nay! THE worst thing on any medium.In other news, in a BC court a judge has sided with a father who wished his children to be vaccinated over the mother's objections.An anti-choice student group at the University of Alberta claiming its free speech was suppressed by being forced to pay an exorbitant amount for security at an event has won in court.The federal government is in the pr

For episode 264, Sunday, August 11, 2019... The Regressive Left Files... The Democratic Socialists of America had their national convention and showed why they aren't fit to run a lemonade stand, let alone a nation state... http://tiny.cc/i200az Serial HRC complainant Jessica Yaniv is in hot water following a YouTube debate with Blair White (also trans)... http://tiny.cc/m400az http://tiny.cc/2400az http://tiny.cc/a500az Vancouver Pride bars the Public Library for merely being the venue for speaker Meghan Murphy, who the Coalition Against Trans Antagonism alleges promotes "hateful views". http://tiny.cc/l800az We discuss an Aero piece by Melissa Chen titled "Why postcolonial theory is not helping Hong Kong". http://tiny.cc/6b10az Quack Tracts... The retrial of David and Collet Stephan continues, but the bickering over whether the the testimony of medical examiner Bamidele Adegabo should be admitted into evidence as expert testimony (seriously?) in voir dire sessions means we have nothing t

For episode 263, Sunday, July 21, 2019... This week marked the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landings, yet not only are we NOT back on the moon, conspiracy theories claiming the moon landings were faked still abound... http://tiny.cc/iga19y http://tiny.cc/0ga19y The Regressive Left Files... Scarlett Johansson is roasted for daring to say she can play any character she wants http://tiny.cc/f12z9y BC trans woman claims salon violated her human rights for refusing to Brazilian her male genitalia http://tiny.cc/kha19y Slate publishes article violating social justice dogma, says 'trigger warnings' are bad http://tiny.cc/v12z9y Feminist design student creates a chair of misandry to stop the non-problem of 'manspreading' http://tiny.cc/f12z9y Eye on Islam... Saudi mother loses custody of daughter when a photo of her in a bikini is presented to a judge, crickets from feminists http://tiny.cc/n02z9y Mike Pence calls for the release of Saudi atheist blogger Raif Badawi http://tiny.cc/3z2z9y Catholic Watch... Well

For episode 262, Monday, July 15, 2019... The Regressive Left Files... Well, it happened. Just like I predicted. An armed Antifa terrorist was shot dead as he tried to firebomb the ICE detention facility in Tacoma, WA. The same one that Ted Wheeler would not allow police to respond to a 9-11 call from. This is on YOU, Wheeler.... http://tiny.cc/z8lp9y An interesting Twitter thread illustrative of the Regressive Left.... http://tiny.cc/p6cp9y Rapper withdraws from Detroit music fistival over racist ticket pricing.... http://tiny.cc/aedp9y Nicki Manaj won't appear at a music festival in the Barbaric Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.... http://tiny.cc/3cdp9y Author on a Scientific American blog claims fat is not the problem - "fat phjobia" is... http://tiny.cc/acdp9y Eye on Islam... Muslim leaders in Britain complain about "Islamophobic" signs at London's Pride event... http://tiny.cc/bulp9y An Australian teen rescued from arranged marriage in Lebanon because her family decided she wasn't "pu

For episode 261, Sunday, July 7, 2019... The Regressive Left Files.... Antifa assaults journalist Andy Ngo in Portland... http://tiny.cc/rvdd9y http://tiny.cc/b0dd9y http://tiny.cc/a1dd9y http://tiny.cc/91dd9y http://tiny.cc/02dd9y http://tiny.cc/j3dd9y To dismantle 'fat phobia' the whole of Western civilization must be dismantled! Wouldn't it be easier to just lose some weight? http://tiny.cc/l4dd9y Catholic Watch... Bishop in Columbia plans to spray city with holy water to combat his city's high murder rate. http://tiny.cc/04dd9y Cleric in Muenster, Germany calls for parishioners to forgive pedophile priests. Many congregants respond by walking out. http://tiny.cc/39dd9y Quack Tracts... An update on the re-trial of David and Collett Stephan http://tiny.cc/vded9y http://tiny.cc/ieed9y Woman in St. Louis arrested for hiding her daughter's diabetes and allows her to die horribly http://tiny.cc/efed9y American Theocracy Today New study shows what we atheists already know, that we treat the religious better than

For episode 260, Sunday, June 23, 2019... The Regressive Left Files.... Why women's national soccer teams think they should get the same pay as the men's (and why theyt don't) http://tiny.cc/erip8y More on the Oberlin College civil suit https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... Coleman Hughes speaks out against slavery reparations in the US Congress, gets called racial slurs http://tiny.cc/btip8y http://tiny.cc/puip8y William Shatner owns podcaster who whished he was dead instead of Leonard Nimoy http://tiny.cc/2vip8y 20,000 Christians embarrass themselves by signing a letter calling for the removal of Netflix's "Good Omens". Only one problem.... http://tiny.cc/o0ip8y http://tiny.cc/49ip8y UK advertising is banned from using gender stereotypes http://tiny.cc/dcjp8y Quebec's Bill 21 passes and minorities fear workplace surveillance http://tiny.cc/8yip8y Medical Assistance in Dying... In New Zealand, 1,000 doctors sign a letter in opposition. We look at why https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar... In O

For episode 259, Sunday, June 9, 2019... Catholic Watch... We take a look at the grounds for appeal Cardinal Pell's lawyers believe will reverse their client's guilty verdict. It is debatable if the court will find the com-Pell-ing. http://tiny.cc/vyoy7y http://tiny.cc/kcpy7y Bishops in California bravely state the "seal of confession" is more important than reporting child molestation that a recent law would require them to do. Hope you like "orange", clergy! http://tiny.cc/o3oy7y A Rhode Island bishop orders Catholics to not support the LGBT community during "Pride month". Accusations of homophobia ensue... http://tiny.cc/a7oy7y Illinois bishop refuses the "sacrament of communion" to the state's Catholic legislators because they enshrined access to abortion services into law. http://tiny.cc/h9oy7y The Regressive Left Files... According to "researchers" and the University of British Columbia, the sport of dodgeball is now to be considered a tool of oppre

For episode 258, Monday, June 2, 2019... The new government of Alberta has canceled the process which would have banned so-called "gay conversion therapy". A pro-"forced birth" group in Lethbridge is taking the city to court over its refusal to place their ads on buses. Ken Ham's "Ark Encounter" is suing its insurers for $1M after it refused to cover costs due to rain damage to the access road. The irony is not lost on anyone. A UK nurse 'sacked' by the NHS for repeatedly proselytizing to patients loses her court appeal. The Regressive Left Files... Actress Meryl Streep courts the ire of the outrage brigade saying that the term "toxic masculinity"

For episode 257, Monday, May 20, 2019... Quack Tracts.... Germany may adopt fining parents who refuse to vaccinate their children http://tiny.cc/t4sw6y Kentucky teen anti-vaxxer contracts gets poetic justice when he contracts chicken pox http://tiny.cc/75sw6y Ontario court rules doctors can't impeded access to medical assistance in dying services by refusing to make referrals http://tiny.cc/36sw6y South African preacher Ruffus Phala urges congregants to embibe 'jik' - essentially bleach - to wash away their sins. The result? 27 dead, 18 in critical condition. But at least their souls are whiter than white! http://tiny.cc/bytw6y But this wasn't his first rodeo... He's previously tried Dettol and antifreeze on congregants (http://tiny.cc/h1tw6y) before switching to jik (https://nairobinews.nation.co.ke/news...), killing 6 in 2018. There has to be a word for a serial killing preacher. The Regressive Left Files... Excellent article in The Atlantic pleading for university administrations to stop students running

For episode 256, Sunday, May 5, 2019... Evolutionary biologist Colin Wright joins us to talk about evo, the new science denialism from the left, trans women in sport and sex differences in behavior. Colin is an Eberly Fellow at the Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University.

For Episode 255, April 28, 2019: Eye on Islam... Of course we'll talk about the Islamist attacks in Sri Lanka. Linda "Cockroach" Sarsour was invited to speak in Winnipeg, but the city's mayor Brian Bowman is demanding she be disinvited. The Sadistic Sultan of Brunei defends signing the death penalty by stoning for homosexuality and adultery into law against its European critics, writing that there is a high bar for finding someone guilty. Cuz yeah. That's what the problem is, not that these are considered crimes in the first place. Writing in the Guardian, Owen Jones makes a plea to the Muslim community to band together to fight the far right which threatens The Regressive Left Files... What's this? An American college where students engage in discourse with someone they disagree with? How dare they! After Middlebury College cancelled an event mere hours before Charles Murray was scheduled to speak, one class quietly decided to invite him and engage his ideas. Wow. What a concept! At Sartoga Springs

Episode 254, for April 7, 2019.... A paper published Evolutionary Psychological Science claims atheists are really X-Men! (X-Men? Not very woke, is it?) The Regressive Left Files... Speaking of "woke"... New York Times op piece "I broke up with her because she's white" - how being woke is a barrier to interracial relationships. We comment on the Jussie Smollett debacle... Quebec government tables a bill banning public employees from wearing religious symbols. At least this time they moved the crucifix from the Quebec National Assembly... A quickly-retitled Forbes piece originally called "What if 'toxic masculinity' is the reason for climate change". Quack Tracts... Journalist Heather Yourex-West (Global News) takes a look a the pockets of regions of low vaccination rates. Meanwhile... The British Columbia government has been funding an anti-vaccination group called Health Action Network Society for over a decade to the tune of nearly half a million dollars. New York county has ta

The elephant in the room... We look at the horrific hate crime in New Zealand. This was a heinous act. But the reaction of the regressive left won't leave it alone, and we look at some of the reactions indicative of what Gad Saad has called "collective munchausen syndrome". Catholic Watch The state of West Virginia is suing a diocese, charging they knowingly employed pedophile priests. Alain de la Morandais demonstrates his pedophilic propensities and child molestation apologetics on a French television program. Pope Francis says corruption is a devastating cancer harming society. He should know, as head of the world's largest organization of corruption. A poll taken in the US suggests more than an third of Catholics are questioning their membership. What the hell does the Church have to do before they finally leave? Quack Tracts... The Calgary Health Region has set up a "vaccine hesitancy clinic" whose goal is to convince parents on the fence to get their children vaccinated. In the face

For March 10, 2019.... Catholic Watch.... Cardinal Pell makes prison his new home after he was found guilty on all 5 charges laid against him in the sexual abuse of two choir boys 22 years ago. Not to be outdone, the archbishop of Lyon, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, was found guilty for failing to report allegations of sexual abuse. Police in Costa Rica raid the offices of the Archdiocese of San José and the Costa Rican bishops' conference as part of their investigation of two predatory priests. But Pope Francis remains undaunted and steadfast, finding that silver lining, saying that the revelations of sexual abuse is purifying the Church! Meanwhile, in Argentina with Catholic tendrils infiltrating its laws forces an 11-year old girl to carry to term a pregnancy resulting from rape. Quack Tract Quebec-based homeopathy 'aid' organization Terre Sans Frontières has been receiving moneys from Global Affairs Canada to push their Chagas' placebo treatment on Hondurans. After this was exposed by CBC journalist Vik Ad

For episode 251.... Quack Tract A "Down Under" chiropractor is fined $30k for claims he made of his profession curing cancer. Not enough, I say, but still good news. What about up here in the Great White North? Hundreds protest in Washington for the "right" to not vaccinate their children.  Organizers of an upcoming "natural health" (as if there's an "unnatural health"...) conference on Toronto have canceled the appearance of prominent anti-vaxxer Del Bigtree. Sentencing hearings have concluded for Jennifer and Jeromie Clark, found guilty of criminal negligence causing death and failing to provide the necessaries of life in the death of their 14-month old son John. During the trial, jurors were shown online searches for natural remedies for gangrene, which included cabbage leaves and cayenne. Jesus H. Christ on a Popsicle stick... Eye on Islam Canadians fighting for ISIS in Syria want to come home. One says that it's okay because he hasn't broken any laws here. Wrong, b

For February 3, 2019.... Eye on Islam... Asia Bibi, recently acquitted on charges of that fictitious crime blasphemy, is likely headed to Canada. Let's see... Canada's middle finger extended to the Barbaric State of Saudi Arabia - check. Canada's middle finger extended to Pakistan - check. Who's next? February 1st is World Hijab Day. Screw that. When these women take off their hijabs in support of their sisters in the Middle East or in families living in the western world whose values are stuck in the 7th century, I might have some modicum of respect. But I will never - NEVER! - allow the normalization of an instrument of misogyny, religion be damned! A petition to Nike to recall their Air Max shoes has been started at Change.org. The reason? The logo on the sole when viewed upside down looks like the word "Allah". I"m not kidding. Nike has a recent history of moralizing, unless it hurts their bottom line. And of course, CAIR is involved. The Regressive Left Files Counter Terrorism Policing UK