Spiritual? Right....and other Headlines of the day

Saint Oprah? Yup. "She's a really hip and materialistic Mother Teresa," says Kathryn Lofton, a professor at Reed College in Portland, Ore..."I live inside God's dream for me. I don't try to tell God what I'm supposed to do," (Oprah) told the crowd. "God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself."
Yup. God wants you to be rich, perfect, and successful....

Compare Oprah to THIS link...I must accept the fact that I have no absolute control of my life;
For when I take a ride in a bus, in a car, in a boat, in an airplane, in a tricycle, my life is in hands of the driver. If I trust my life at the hands of the drivers frail as they are, I have but to trust God who is the absolute pilot of my life.

And compare Oprah to a REAL saint...I was listening to C-Span podcast, they were discussing the leper colony at Molokai...
Well, it is Father Damian's feast day on May 10th...(RIghtwingFreeper headsup).
There's a fairly good movie about it, too, starring the guy who later played Faramir...Peter O'Toole also plays a bit part in the film...

Other News:

TheMiddleGround blog outlines the battle going on in Iraq..."Zarqawi is in Baghdad to make his "last stand" his "Alamo". Without Baghdad, he holds nothing. Without Baghdad, the government stays in place and wins.".
Iraq the Model has been covering it too...not much about it on CNNI...

Want to fight terrorism? Try Poetry. Interesting article about how a Yemeni poet saw the harm of terrorist acts to the lives of people trying to live normal lives...

Is the Dafur peace a sham? Well, if you don't allow troops to police it, then yes.

GatewayPundit has stories of Saudi abuse of maids, in Colorado...

Tom Hanks is annoyed that a film that denies that Jesus Christ was God is causing churches to criticize the film.
Actually, he should be very worried...the Freeper prayer chain is bringing out their most powerful weapon: They are praying for his soul...imagine what would happen if he got born again, like Martin Sheen?

And if you saw the Flu movie, you might want to read THIS (PDF), which is the US Government's plan to fight flu...MEGO....myeyesglazeover....

And for those of us who have asthma, we are told Inhaled steroids don't cure us, they just make us feel better....duh...all I know is that if I use my Azmacort, I don't need to use my "rescue inhaler" to breath...

And finally, the invention of the day: PawSense....keeps kitty off of computer by playing the harmonica...or hissing...The bad news is that MY cat jumps on my laptop when I'm using it...he likes the vibration...FARK has PHOTOS...