Fabulously rich Obama Administration official wants to cut wages of $9/hour workers.

Listening to Obama talking about economic justice for the Common Man is like listening to Newt Gingrich talk about traditional family values and honesty in government.

The Mighty Rhinogradentian, which doesn’t actually exist, but should!

Where snobby Jesuits can go to console themselves about being so superior to the rest of the disappointing Church:

Broadway & Madison: What’s something the average faculty or staff member might not know about the chapel?

Father Cobb: Non-Catholics might be consoled to know that in 1995 we asked Steven Holl to design a chapel that would be “engaging for people of all faiths or no faith or faith-under-crisis.” The poet Rilke once advised that when people disappoint you, you should turn to nature because nature will not disappoint you, and I feel something similar about the Catholic Church. When it disappoints you, which is likely to be every day, you can turn to places such as the chapel where God’s saving presence seems tangible and life-giving.

Courtesy the Cuteness and her rather gifted photographer Mom:

courtesy of L’Angelus, a fine Cajun band.

…is unjustified, so he is clearly insane according to the sober judgment of experts in Talk Radio and the War Party whose wisdom stampeded us into a foolish war less than a decade ago. Now we are, yet again, being spooked with visions of mushroom clouds over American cities, yet again, and, yet again, being told that only a fool or America-hating lefty could possibly want to avoid a fresh pre-emptive war (which, by the way, the Pope reminds us is not in the catechism).

You know, like the America-hating lefties who constitute Pentagon intelligence. What do those cowards and America-haters in the military know in comparison to the damp-handed chickenhawks and bellicose perma-civilians who constitute our Ruling Class, our field of GOP candidates, and our conservative pundit class? Ron Paul is clearly insane to rely on people who know what they are talking about and ignore the consensus of exactly the same people who plunged us into the debacle of Iraq using exactly the same scare tactics they are deploying now.

…head for Chicago! We’re helping out with a Militia Immaculata retreat for the youthly types this weekend at Marytown out in Libertyville. In addition, (on December 31 at 9:00 AM), I will be speaking at Marytown for an Adult Morning Seminar on Mary, Mother of the Son and This is My Body. If you live in Chicago, please come! I’d love to meet you!

It’s a rare treat when my sweetie gets to accompany me on my travels, so I’m looking forward to this one! We’ll be back in the Emerald City on January 3! Merry Fifth Day of Christmas!

Short answer: Yes.

There’s gobs of evidence for it. For my own take on the matter, go here.

…is abundantly documented in stories like this one on the immense toll our chickenhawk pols inflict on their helpless experimental human subjects as they see how much abuse an all volunteer military can endure in their little Great Society building projects abroad.

And now a million of them are jobless and our Ruling Elites thank them by scheming to cut their benefits.

It is far more than our fat, dumb and happy nation deserves that these grossly overburdened human beings don’t launch a coup against our obscene Ruling Class who shovel them around like concrete.

…somehow wound up being targeted for vilification by the Brownshirt Community of Intolerant Gay Targeters of Incorrect Thought. She deals with it with grace and aplomb. Appropriately, when they conduct a 15 Minute Cartoon Hate against her, something in their subconscious opts to draw themselves in brown shirts.

Tolerance is not enough. You. MUST. Approve!

He writes:

Boy do I have a question from you! Not sure if you will be able to answer it or not, but you’ll know more than me! Now I am a convert to the faith (R.C.), for many reasons, including it’s historical claims. Now I know that the Eastern Orthodox (of all Christian groups) are probably the closest to us. My opinions about the relationship between the two have varied over the years, from the initial idea that they were hostile to each other, and then a gradual ‘not that wide a gap between the two’ kind of sentiment. That later sentiment was, in part, helped by people like you, who I have seen point out that we are not that far apart. But I have noticed a tendency in E.O. to bear a grudge against, and that a hostility does exist in the hearts of at least some of its members. This is also historical. Historically speaking it seems more animus is directed at the Catholic by the Orthodox, then vice versa. And please don’t make me mention how they blame so much on us (the sack of Constantinople in the 4th Crusade is complicated, but it was neither devastating nor unprovoked, and the Teutonic Knights who went to war against Russia sought to bring Russia back in communion with Rome and Christendom as a whole).
As of just today I came across something I found very odd (this is where you come in).
I was reading John C. Wright’s blog, and in one of them a E.O. and a Mormon got into a discussion of original sin, it prompted the E.O. to post a link that showed the differences between the Roman Church and the Eastern Orthodox. Needless to say I read it, and to be frank was quite blown away by it. I knew we had our differences, but at least according to this source, I had no idea the Orthodox thought that we believed in a DIFFERENT GOD THEN THEY DID?!! What?! And that is only one of several WHATS in the thing. So here it is:

What do you make of this? Is this really the differences between us, or are these guys E.O.’s version of our “Trads” and are just causing some stink. Now I am very confused. Please help!

Yeah, this is an Eastern manifestation of the Any Idiot with a Keyboard phenomenon that also plagues the Catholic Church when its members go on line and start pontificating about What the Church Teaches. Eastern Christians can say stupid stuff just as Western ones can, including blather about how Christians who don’t belong to My Little Eastern sect worship strange gods and so forth. Pay it no mind. You can also find any number of Eastern Christians who recognize that other baptized Christians are (obviously) Christian and not Zoroastrian or Buddhist. Oh, and five’ll get you ten that sect also rejects an awful lot of other Orthodox as worshipping false gods too. There is no such thing as “Orthodoxy” just as there is no such things as “Protestantism”. There are lots of “Orthodoxys” and lots of “Protestantisms”.

You are right that the Eastern Churches are closest to us and the Catholic communion greatly desires reunion with the East so that the Church might “breathe with both lungs” as JPII put it. Certainly this has been a priority since the Council. God alone knows if it will ever happen. Meanwhile, we approach the immense complexities of the different Eastern Churches with respect and with the understanding that, online, anybody can say any crazy thing they like. Take it with a huge grain of salt.

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