The good and the bad, emphasis on Trib and Sun-Times
On Thanksgiving Day (in the evening, actually) Hong Kong protesters decided to sing the American national anthem as a gesture of thanks for President Trump signing two bills into law Wednesday that condemned China.
When they were done with “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the protesters chanted “USA, USA, USA.”
Via PJ Media
Sweet Jesus, do not let this happen. Dome alums, shower the school with objections.
via The Lid
She loves the anti-Trump testifiers, except for the self-concentrated lieutenant colonel, whom she also would not invite, but detests Trump as mean and vulgar and hard to work with and declares him guilty beyond further consideration as having committed high crimes and misdemeanors.
Which have done or might have done what damage to the country? Weak on policy, strong on personal interaction, like a Henry James novel, she lays it all out, laying herself out for all to see.
What a relief it is turn away from the maelstrom of American politics, and the endless speculation over whether Donald Trump asked for a quid pro quo in the hope of generating negative coverage about Joe Biden, to the placid backwater of Israeli politics, and the endless speculation over whether Benjamin Netanyahu asked for a quid pro quo in the hope of generating positive coverage about himself.
How refreshing it is to stop wondering whether the Ukraine-impeachment circus is merely an attempt to reverse the voters’ decision and spin the 2020 election by replacing democracy with judicial process, and to start wondering whether the Netanyahu-indictment circus is merely an attempt to reverse the voters’ decision and spin the 2020 election by replacing democracy with judicial theater.
more more more here, Trump and Netanyahu will win again | Spectator USA
And the financial world is watching.
ROME—An international network of financial watchdogs has suspended the Vatican’s access to its information, dealing a major blow to the Vatican’s financial credibility under Pope Francis.
Out you go, we can’t trust you:
The Egmont Group, a Toronto-based network of more than 160 national financial intelligence units around the world, has decided to suspend the Vatican watchdog from access to its secure web system, through which members share information about money laundering, financing of terrorism, tax fraud and other financial crimes, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Vatican declined to comment. The holy munchkins are too busy preparing the next papal tirade against capitalism.
Ridiculous.
via Vatican Loses Access to International Financial Watchdog Information – WSJ
More alarming details:
News of the Egmont suspension came the day after the Vatican unexpectedly announced that Pope Francis was replacing his top financial regulator, AIF [Vatican’s Financial Information Authority] President René Brülhart, prompting a member of the regulator’s board to resign in protest.
Marc Odendall, a French German banker, resigned on Monday from the board of AIF, saying that the pope’s decision to dismiss Mr. Brülhart showed that the Vatican didn’t intend to address Egmont’s concerns.
“There is no point in staying on the board of an ineffective organization,” Mr. Odendall said.
Etc. etc. Hard reading.
A mother’s advice . . .
Dominus Vobiscum: Notes from a massgoer's underground
Tomorrow’s first reading, from Second Maccabees 7:
22 She said to them: I know not how you were formed in my womb: for I neither gave you breath, nor soul, nor life, neither did I frame the limbs of every one of you.
23 But the Creator of the world, that formed the nativity of man, and that found out the origin of all, he will restore to you again in his mercy, both breath and life, as now you despise yourselves for the sake of his laws.
The king asked her to talk to him about his refusal. She said she would.
27 So bending herself towards him, mocking the cruel tyrant, she said in her own language: My son, have pity upon me, that bore thee nine months in my womb, and gave thee suck three years, and nourished thee, and brought thee up unto this age.
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Dems mewl and puke in their show trial’s arms, grabbing at any new charge to make at the president, the columnist writes:
But what really gets me is how it’s been almost seven years since Barack Obama left one of his ambassadors to die in a terrorist attack on a U.S. consulate, and the same people who defended the Obama administration endlessly over that, are feigning outrage over Trump’s tweet expressing his opinion.
Democrats have been crying “impeach!” over everything for years, and now every time Trump expresses an opinion, we’re hearing “intimidation.”
The same party that defended the Obama administration’s failure to protect our consulate in Libya from an attack that claimed four American lives, including that of a U.S. ambassador, are now trying to tell us that we should be outraged over a harmless tweet—a tweet that, regardless of what one thinks of the content, was written after Yovanovitch started testifying, and as far as Trump knew, she wouldn’t have even had an opportunity to see until well after her testimony concluded? A tweet that she’d have been oblivious to had Schiff not brought it up.
And the aggrieved diplomat in this case had the nerve to bring that failure up as if to join the ranks of the abused.
(“Mewl and puke”? Try Shakespeare’s “All the world’s a stage.”)
We recognize that we contributed to the harm students experienced, and we wanted to apologize for and address the mistakes that we made that night — along with how we plan to move forward.
Here’s hoping no Medill student contributed to this.
Oops in spades. Sloppy of this one-time news person. The Daily in question is staffed by Medill students. My baaad.
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