Even though I am an atheist, I don't think this video makes a compelling demonstration of of religious apologists and the actual arguments they make. While the prime mover argument is made over and over, this is used to argue for the existence of a god. Generally, they go farther before they get to proving that their particular god is the one "proven."

To Winstonfield_Pennypacker: You said, "Real religion is the effort to improve the self." This sounds like the road to a No True Scotsman logical falacy. If I were cite Southern Baptist Christianity as an example of a religion that does not meet your criteria, would you claim this is not a real religion?

Interviewer Michael Parkinson considered this his most difficult TV moment and thought Ms. Ryan was rude towards other guests. Meg Ryan thought he acted like nut/a disapproving dad ( http://business.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=598&id=521652006 )

Reading some comments on this interview on YouTube people are quite divided. I wonder whether men are more eager to defend Michael and women more eager to defend Meg? I generally see too personalities clashing held in prison by the eye of the camera and guests sitting with them. They both are defending their persona and interestingly play with this interviewer/interviewee situation.

Woohoo it gets sifted this time!:)

I never knew a Scotsman could get so annoying after just 2 minutes and 14 seconds.

I'm trying to place that dude's accent. Is that Scottish, or an Irish dialect from Newfoundland, or what? Is there a Canadian or Scotsman in the house?

*lies its quite clearly a made up disorder.

http://news.scotsman.com/uk/Dyslexia----39a.4877986.jp

"The sooner (dyslexia] is consigned to the same dustbin of history the better,"
wrote the Labour back-bencher in his online column for the Manchester Confidential website.

heyyyyy that's a real nice no true scotsman argument you've got going there for yourself but unfortunately it's total bullshit. terribly sorry that your particular chosen brand of nutty belief system happens to be associated with this specific barbaric practice but that's the way it is. you can selectively quote wikipedia articles till the camels come home but the fact remains that FGM IS associated with some branches of islam and you Dr. internetnobody aren't the arbiter of which branches are "true" or "false". I'll get you started by giving you a little hint though......they're ALL FALSE. the islam tag is not only appropriate it's requisite.

Cool post.

To A Mouse: http://www.videosift.com/video/Robert-Burns-To-a-Mouse

and a Scottish bonus: http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Scotsman-Bryan-Bowers

it made me laugh, but - I must say - that just is NOT swedish at all!
Furg van der Ploeg sounds Dutch, and he sounds like a happy Scotsman...

what the hell were they thinking?!

Ach, from a Scotsman across the pond, I bid ya a wee bit of applause for your gold star. Cheers, brother!

Yes there are intelligent voters there, same as there are in the South and in other places. Last polls I saw from there showed McCain up by quite a bit and I'm pretty sure Bush won both times there as well so they aren't going to vote for Clinton or Obama in the end, debating how to please them is a loss to start with. Even if they do and maybe it's possible with Clinton it's just 5 electoral votes. They aren't our target audience.

We do want to build consensus and that's exactly why Clinton can't be on the ticket. If you think she's been vetted and can't bring new controversy take a bit of time to read the following article.

http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Hillary39s-woes-take-their-toll.4071541.jp

So far Obama hasn't touched her on most issues she's open on, she flung Wright and Ayers out there but he stayed more classy and that had a bit to do with why he'll win. She's still open to all of that and more though, so far it's been just amateurs and the press poking at her. The repubs will tear her up on that stuff and more. Most damage she's taken in the campaign has been self inflicted anyway and I don't see how she can possibly be vetted for what she insists on doing to herself.

With the court on the edge of spit decisions on everything from Roe v Wade to torture to how we can try and hold suspects and open seats likely in the next few years there's a lot at risk even before we consider the economy, the war, and so on. Most who claim they won't show now probably will when we come to it because the cost is too high for angry gestures, those who won't were just Limbaugh's chaos or too prejudiced to be any help anyway.

She'll bring us fewer voters than we think and for every one she brings she'd drive at least one more away, independent and crossover voters who like Obama and are looking for a change but don't like her or believe she's any part of change. She's probably dead weight or break even at best and that's before we even consider how she'll energize the repubs in both fund raising and voter turnout. They don't much like McCain otherwise, they are hoping for a reason to care and she's it.

Then there's personality, the VP's office isn't the back seat ride along that it used to be and you CAN NOT fire the VP, they are an elected official just like the President is. They can be impeached and convicted but not fired. Once in office the chances of her trying to run things her way from the VP office is too large and nothing about this campaign suggests she'll take a back seat to or stop for anyone once she sets her mind to it. It's a violent conflict waiting to happen.

It's a real bad idea, best chance the repubs have for a win. Either her alone or him behind her would have worked better, but not her behind him and not now, not after this campaign. He can do better and so can we.

Pro-war propaganda? Since when since the 60's has Hollywood ever been that?

Netflix has this on "very long wait"... sigh. Enough of these sifts and I won't need to rent it. (nah.. A fierce manly Scotsman like Butler is waaaay too yummy to miss on HD)

Tags changed from "kilt, upskirt, just for laughs" to "kilt, scotsman, upskirt, just for laughs" by gold star member calvados.

Shut up gorillaman you sasenach imperialist English morris dancing bowler hat wearing bufty bas!

To the most Holy Father and Lord in Christ, the Lord John, by divine providence Supreme Pontiff of the Holy Roman and Universal Church, his humble and devout sons Duncan, Earl of Fife, Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, Lord of Man and of Annandale, Patrick Dunbar, Earl of March, Malise, Earl of Strathearn, Malcolm, Earl of Lennox, William, Earl of Ross, Magnus, Earl of Caithness and Orkney, and William, Earl of Sutherland; Walter, Steward of Scotland, William Soules, Butler of Scotland, James, Lord of Douglas, Roger Mowbray, David, Lord of Brechin, David Graham, Ingram Umfraville, John Menteith, guardian of the earldom of Menteith, Alexander Fraser, Gilbert Hay, Constable of Scotland, Robert Keith, Marischal of Scotland, Henry St Clair, John Graham, David Lindsay, William Oliphant, Patrick Graham, John Fenton, William Abernethy, David Wemyss, William Mushet, Fergus of Ardrossan, Eustace Maxwell, William Ramsay, William Mowat, Alan Murray, Donald Campbell, John Cameron, Reginald Cheyne, Alexander Seton, Andrew Leslie, and Alexander Straiton, and the other barons and freeholders and the whole community of the realm of Scotland send all manner of filial reverence, with devout kisses of his blessed feet.
Most Holy Father and Lord, we know and from the chronicles and books of the ancients we find that among other famous nations our own, the Scots, has been graced with widespread renown. They journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage tribes, but nowhere could they be subdued by any race, however barbarous. Thence they came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea, to their home in the west where they still live today. The Britons they first drove out, the Picts they utterly destroyed, and, even though very often assailed by the Norwegians, the Danes and the English, they took possession of that home with many victories and untold efforts; and, as the historians of old time bear witness, they have held it free of all bondage ever since. In their kingdom there have reigned one hundred and thirteen kings of their own royal stock, the line unbroken a single foreigner.

The high qualities and deserts of these people, were they not otherwise manifest, gain glory enough from this: that the King of kings and Lord of lords, our Lord Jesus Christ, after His Passion and Resurrection, called them, even though settled in the uttermost parts of the earth, almost the first to His most holy faith. Nor would He have them confirmed in that faith by merely anyone but by the first of His Apostles -- by calling, though second or third in rank -- the most gentle Saint Andrew, the Blessed Peter's brother, and desired him to keep them under his protection as their patron forever.

The Most Holy Fathers your predecessors gave careful heed to these things and bestowed many favours and numerous privileges on this same kingdom and people, as being the special charge of the Blessed Peter's brother. Thus our nation under their protection did indeed live in freedom and peace up to the time when that mighty prince the King of the English, Edward, the father of the one who reigns today, when our kingdom had no head and our people harboured no malice or treachery and were then unused to wars or invasions, came in the guise of a friend and ally to harass them as an enemy. The deeds of cruelty, massacre, violence, pillage, arson, imprisoning prelates, burning down monasteries, robbing and killing monks and nuns, and yet other outrages without number which he committed against our people, sparing neither age nor sex, religion nor rank, no one could describe nor fully imagine unless he had seen them with his own eyes.

But from these countless evils we have been set free, by the help of Him Who though He afflicts yet heals and restores, by our most tireless Prince, King and Lord, the Lord Robert. He, that his people and his heritage might be delivered out of the hands of our enemies, met toil and fatigue, hunger and peril, like another Macabaeus or Joshua and bore them cheerfully. Him, too, divine providence, his right of succession according to or laws and customs which we shall maintain to the death, and the due consent and assent of us all have made our Prince and King. To him, as to the man by whom salvation has been wrought unto our people, we are bound both by law and by his merits that our freedom may be still maintained, and by him, come what may, we mean to stand.

Yet if he should give up what he has begun, and agree to make us or our kingdom subject to the King of England or the English, we should exert ourselves at once to drive him out as our enemy and a subverter of his own rights and ours, and make some other man who was well able to defend us our King; for, AS LONG AS BUT A HUNDRED OF US REMAIN ALIVE, NEVER WILL WE ON ANY CONDITIONS BE BROUGHT UNDER ENGLISH RULE. IT IS IN TRUTH NOT FOR GLORY, NOR RICHES, NOR HONOURS THAT WE ARE FIGHTING, BUT FOR FREEDOM -- FOR THAT ALONE, WHICH NO HONEST MAN GIVES UP BUT WITH LIFE ITSELF.

Therefore it is, Reverend Father and Lord, that we beseech your Holiness with our most earnest prayers and suppliant hearts, inasmuch as you will in your sincerity and goodness consider all this, that, since with Him Whose Vice-Regent on earth you are there is neither weighing nor distinction of Jew and Greek, Scotsman or Englishman, you will look with the eyes of a father on the troubles and privation brought by the English upon us and upon the Church of God. May it please you to admonish and exhort the King of the English, who ought to be satisfied with what belongs to him since England used once to be enough for seven kings or more, to leave us Scots in peace, who live in this poor little Scotland, beyond which there is no dwelling-place at all, and covet nothing but our own. We are sincerely willing to do anything for him, having regard to our condition, that we can, to win peace for ourselves.

This truly concerns you, Holy Father, since you see the savagery of the heathen raging against the Christians, as the sins of Christians have indeed deserved, and the frontiers of Christendom being pressed inward every day; and how much it will tarnish your Holiness's memory if (which God forbid) the Church suffers eclipse or scandal in any branch of it during your time, you must perceive. Then rouse the Christian princes who for false reasons pretend that they cannot go to help of the Holy Land because of wars they have on hand with their neighbours. The real reason that prevents them is that in making war on their smaller neighbours they find quicker profit and weaker resistance. But how cheerfully our Lord the King and we too would go there if the King of the English would leave us in peace, He from Whom nothing is hidden well knows; and we profess and declare it to you as the Vicar of Christ and to all Christendom.

But if your Holiness puts too much faith in the tales the English tell and will not give sincere belief to all this, nor refrain from favouring them to our prejudice, then the slaughter of bodies, the perdition of souls, and all the other misfortunes that will follow, inflicted by them on us and by us on them, will, we believe, be surely laid by the Most High to your charge.

To conclude, we are and shall ever be, as far as duty calls us, ready to do your will in all things, as obedient sons to you as His Vicar; and to Him as the Supreme King and Judge we commit the maintenance of our cause, csating our cares upon Him and firmly trusting that He will inspire us with courage and bring our enemies to nought.

May the Most High preserve you to his Holy Church in holiness and health and grant you length of days.

Given at the monastery of Arbroath in Scotland on the sixth day of the month of April in the year of grace thirteen hundred and twenty and the fifteenth year of the reign of our King aforesaid.

I will also point out the links on BBC and Scotsman, etc. etc.
all have a link to "Other Sports"
with a url of "sports"

And this entry in wikipedia
"BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC."

http://www.videosift.com/video/Kilted-Scotsman
http://www.videosift.com/video/Underworld-Born-Slippy-from-Trainspotting-soundtrack
http://www.videosift.com/video/Edinburgh-A-Wonderfully-Made-Timelapse

for your scots wha hae list. NB you can change your settings (on each individual playlist) so members can suggest posts on your playlist.