Month: July 2013

Pope Francis changing his mind . . .

. . . about his new appointment to the Vatican Bank. Was informed by the nuncio to Uruguay and others. The problem?

What provoked the rupture with the nuncio [Janusz] Bolonek and his sudden transfer [from Uruguay] can be summarized in two expressions used by those who confidentially examined his case in Uruguay: pink power and conducta escandalosa.”

Pink as in succumbing to same-sex attraction. Escandalosa indeed.

Paula Deen guilty as charged

She said it in 1986, and one other time, and that’s it, folks:

The show trial of Deen is an attempt by the Americas Ruling Class to wash the mouths of millions of white people with a bar of extra-tolerance soap, spreading white guilt across the land with the public take-down of one of the most famous female faces on television.

It’s an attempt to do to Paula Deen what they did to John Rocker, pour encourager les autres. (Once one of baseball’s top closers, a 1999 interview with Sports Illustrated turned John Rocker into a hate figure for the international media. )

Yessir, she’s enough to make people foam at the mouth.

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Later, from Reader D:

Not much is different between our Politically Correct Public Opinion Trials and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Didn’t the Chinese have to get up and denounce themselves in public? Paula cried her mea culpas in tearful humiliation. Too bad the public doesn’t remember history or can’t make comparisons. Even the excoriation of the church over and over in the media, for the pedophile kettle of fish. Very reminiscent of the French Revolution — with the figurative cart through the public streets or rather through the NY Times.

Paul Deen, Alec Baldwin, and selective indignation

Sample of Instapundit treatment of news of day:

SCORCHED-EARTH VINDICTIVENESS: Paula Deens upcoming cookbook, currently the No. 1 seller on Amazon.com, has been dropped by its publisher.
Meanwhile, John Nolte is asking Capital One if it has anything to say about Alec Baldwins homophobic Twitter rant.Crickets. Deen is being rendered a nonperson over something she said decades ago, but Baldwin gets a pass over something he said yesterday. Seems like theres some sort of double standard here.

UPDATE: Prof. Stephen Clark writes:

The cancellation of Paula Deens book at this time is about avoiding being seen as enabling what appears to be an evolving protest as expressed through the advance orders, coupled with a desire to flip off the protesters. Just another page in the ongoing cultural aggression being waged by the bicoastal elite. It does, however, neatly illustrate the inherent viciousness of the class.

Maybe she should self-publish and look to other media ventures and outlets.

Glenn Beck went that route, and makes more money than Oprah. . . .

It’s a not-miss site.

These Euros are mad

Thing is, Obama doesn’t know when to stop.

But he never was very good at the inter-governmental relations thing. Except for that maiden voyage thru Germany etc. lo what it seems so many years ago.

Senior European Union officials are outraged by revelations that the US spied on EU representations in Washington and New York. Some have called for a suspension of talks on the trans-Atlantic free trade agreement. . . . .

Hmmm.