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Wednesday, June 7, 2006

Days of Hubbard

Posted by BRADLEY STEINBACHER on June 7 at 10:18 AM

It will be interesting to see how NASCAR’s many evangelical fans react to this:

The Church of Scientology is gearing up to bring its message to a whole new arena: racing fans.

“Ignite Your Potential” is the mantra Scientology uses to get Tom Cruise and other Hollywood celebs jumping up and down. Now that message will be used to fuel the engines of a new NASCAR race team.

The venture is called “The Dianetics Racing Team,” named after the best-selling self-help book written by the movement’s founder, science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard.

Kenton Gray, a California race-car driver who has said Dianetics helped his life and driving performance, will head up the Dianetics team.

Of course, NASCAR already has an Enzyte racing team, so it’s not like the “sport” is a stranger to bullshit science.

(Via ABC News via RAW STORY.)

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I don't imagine the typical NASCAR fan is going to cotton to this too well, which actually makes me kind of happy.

Posted by Mike | June 7, 2006 12:05 PM

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yeah, but did you know that google.com is now censoring search results for scientology???

click: http://www.google.com/search?q=xenu

then scroll down http://xenu.net is deslisted from google at the request from scientogists.

your freespeech surrenders to xenu.

Posted by seattle98104 | June 7, 2006 1:01 PM

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If only the Enzyte team would put the hilariously scary face of Bob from the commercials on their cars, I MIGHT be inclined to watch NASCAR.

Posted by Gomez | June 7, 2006 2:20 PM

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Erm, Seattle98104, xenu.net is the top search result for "xenu".

Posted by Fnarf | June 7, 2006 4:32 PM

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yes, but they removed a former result that pointed to xenu.net at the request of scientology meaning something that scientolgy didn't like was removed.

get it?

Posted by seattle98104 | June 7, 2006 4:36 PM

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Um, no, I don't get it. What "former result" that points to the number one site? How could that be interesting? The net is chock full of exposes of Scientology, and it all shows up in Google just fine. American google has never removed anything "at the request" of any organization that thinks they're being slandered, even a lawsuit-happy one like Scientology. Scientology is a load of crap, and there's a load of bad news on offer in Clearwater, Florida, but they're really not that powerful.

Check out that Wikipedia article on Xenu, it's great stuff. I like the disclaimer that says "no, despite appearances this is not a joke article".

Posted by Fnarf | June 7, 2006 10:33 PM

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um, no your wrong.

i'm guessing you can't scroll or something

"In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org."

from the complaint:

"Sender:
Church of Scientology
Sent by: [Private]
Moxon & Kobrin
Los Angeles, California, 90010, USA"

Posted by seattl98104 | June 8, 2006 9:36 AM

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in other words scientology is using the DMCA to force companies to remove/delist links to sites that infringe on their copyrights and trademarks e.g. the whole of all scientology teachings and simple words like "scientology" when they find it offensive.

got it now?

Posted by seattl98104 | June 8, 2006 9:39 AM

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No, I don't get it. The link that was "removed" was www.xenu.net, according to the DMCA complaint. But that web site is not only still up, but it is the NUMBER ONE SEARCH RESULT. So what is your complaint, exactly? What has been removed?

Posted by Fnarf | June 8, 2006 5:16 PM

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