After this evening, I have a tremendous amount of sympathy for Kathleen Willey and Jennifer Flowers.  I now know what it is like to have your reputation and good name raped by a man who feels he has the life and death power of a tin-plated dictator, i.e. Hitler. I have a serious problem with people who have a problem with honest criticism and honest dialogue.  If a person can't handle criticism, there's a major character flaw.  I don't mind admitting when I'm wrong.  Evidently this individual has some serious narcissism problems.   But, I also know I will not stop Praising the Lord, Rejoicing, and Giving Thanks, even though I no longer have a church to go to, and have had the past five years of my life trashed.  Ain't life grand?  Seems to me if you are unhappy with the way things are going in your church, just quit giving them money.  I do hope some of my fellow parishioners are reading this.  What causes a priest to think that the parish is 'his' and he is the absolute power over life and death?  Doesn't God fit in here somewhere?  Did someone die and make the rector God?  I can't win a battle of he said, she said when there were two witnesses and a stacked court.  I'm not even going to try.  I wonder what the Lord has planned?  This is going to be interesting.  But, where do I go to get back my reputation and my good name?  I keep telling myself, blessed are you when people lie and tell all manner of untrue things about you...

Speaking of the Almighty, maybe He really doesn't like New Orleans.  Seems like it's been hit by tornados now.  http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/02/02/D8FH3PC07.html  http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/2/2/214140.shtml?s=us   And the US Weather service has revised it's tornado scale.  http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/ap_060202_tornado_scale.html   Seems they are going to lower the standards necessary for an F-5. 

There are some things in life that just demand comment.  Seems the producor of the last (real) James Bond flix was arrested in a prostution sting.  He was in drag.  http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/02/02/060203014239.ygp5w1s5.html

The important thing about John Boehner's election to House Majority Leader is the fact that he was not Tancredo's choice.  Shows that Tancredo may not have as much power as he would like to think he does.  http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/2/2/140307.shtml?s=lh

Note to overzealous special prosecutor on alleged missing White House notes.  1.  Ask Hillary where they are.  2.  Deal with it.  3.  Get a real job!  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060202/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/cia_leak_1  Speaking of missing notes, seems Fitzgerald won't turn over notes to Libby's defense team.  http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200602021424.asp

Wow!  Those anti-Islamic cartoons causing so much trouble in Denmark were created by Islamists to make trouble.  http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/02/islamic-society-of-denmark-used-fake.html   http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004440.htm   http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21127

Weather experts are confirming what we in the Southwest have known for months.  We're in a La Nina year.  http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11148372/  And the bottom line on Global Warming?  No one knows.  http://www.livescience.com/environment/060201_temperature_differences.html

The usual - The Dems will do anything to hurt Bush.  http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-2_3_06_MK.html

Looks like Murtha has a feel shaddy dealings with....  his brother Kit - http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9359

I'm glad RCP saw through Tim Kaine the other night.  I think he's one of those Emperor's New Clothes Dems.  Sounded way too much like Algore to me.  http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-2_2_06_JN.html

There is a God and He is not all that available in my parish right now, but He is here...  "We've all been told at one point in our lives that we should avoid eating meals late at night as it will lead to weight gain. However, our research in rhesus monkeys, which are considered an excellent model for studying primate (man and monkey) obesity issues, showed that eating at night is no more likely to promote weight gain than eating during the day. Of course this research does not suggest that snacking at night after eating your normal daily ration of calories is a good idea, " said Judy Cameron, Ph.D., a senior scientist in the Divisions of Reproductive Sciences and Neuroscience at the OHSU Oregon National Primate Research Center. Cameron also is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh."  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/02/060202075343.htm

I'm too tired tonight to get started on the anti-immigration thing.  I like what Jack Smith had to say today.  It is reasonable and not like Tancredo's facist hatred of anything Hispanic.  http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_3466680  I wish someone would follow the links and help expose this man.  I feel like John the Baptist, a voice crying in the darkness...and no one will listen.  P. S.  I've been picturing John the Baptist looking something like Newt Gingrich.   Speaking of Tancredo and the anti-Hispanic backlash his rhetoric is spawning, let's have a little review of a history of another people tortured by hate.  http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21111  

Geez, Rush is Right!  Gotta love him!  http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_020206/content/truth_detector.guest.html  "RUSH: I can tell you what rug was in there until he got his own, the rug that was in when Ronald Reagan was president. Because I was there, and he pointed it out to all of us. So the president says, "I hope you get the sense of my optimism about the country."

I got a new Gallup poll here, folks, taken this month -- "shows that, despite a range of current concerns, fully 85% of adult Americans say they are extremely or very 'proud to be an American.'" A total of 85%. "Just 5% answered 'only a little' or 'not at all.'" Five percent! There you have the liberals in this country, 85%, fully 85% of adult Americans say they are extremely happy or very proud to be American, as the Editor and Publisher here writes, "despite a range of current concerns." This is my point. This range of current concerns is brought about by fake media polls that they believe and then report and hope that everybody else believes. People are proud to be Americans in this country, and they're optimistic. Five percent say they're only a little proud to be an American or not at all, and they are the American left. "

This is the kind of article you want to see every once in awhile - how a moderate Moslem is fighting to take his mosque back from radicals.  http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21138