Category: Blithe Spirit

Hitler’s First Victims: The Quest for Justice: Timothy W. Ryback: 9780385352918: Amazon.com: Books

​How an honest prosecutor in the early ’30s slowed down the Nazi machine:

Hitler’s First Victims exposes the chaos and fragility of the Nazis’ early grip on power and dramatically suggests how different history could have been had other Germans followed Hartinger’s example of personal courage in that time of collective human failure.​

Execution of four Jews in Dachau, when it was a detention center for political prisoners​, in 1933 led to evidence-gathering that led to Nuremburg in the mid-’50s.

It’s the story of a man of honor who did what he could at a time of crucial change.

Chicago’s new archbishop has some bad press in Seattle

Archbishop-elect Cupich played hardball with his law firm?

The accuser, the vicar general who resigned the position is no Johnny-come-lately:

Father Steve Dublinski, rector of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes and the Vicar General and Moderator of the Curia of the diocese, has been named [5/18/2011] Director of Seminarians and Rector of Bishop White Seminary, Spokane, while continuing as Vicar General.

Father Dublinski, originally from Walla Walla, was ordained June 29, 1985, after seminary formation at Bishop White Seminary in Spokane and North American College, Rome.

He was associate pastor of St. John Vianney Parish, Spokane Valley, until June 1989, when he was assigned to St. Charles Parish, Spokane, also as associate pastor. In October 1990 he became pastoral administrator of the parish, and on Nov. 4 of that year, pastor.

In July 1997 he moved to St. Mary Parish, Spokane Valley, as pastor.

In 2002 Bishop Skylstad appointed him Vicar General and Moderator of the Curia for the diocese.

The following year, Father Dublinski became pastor of the parishes in Rosalia, Oakesdale, St. John, and Tekoa, and two years later, rector of the Cathedral.

Hell!

Valerie calls the shots

She’s turned into quite the operative:

Jarrett looks like the real guiding hand on this White House, taking the inchoate agenda offered by the 2008 campaign and crafting it into the approach Obama has deployed almost from the beginning.

Jarrett looks exactly like what the left claimed Dick Cheney was: dealmaker, corporatist, and the real administrative power behind a shallow and uninterested figurehead president, who’s just relieved he doesn’t have to answer to those progressives any more.

Progressives are finally getting the message: they have been snookered.

A Clinton-Obama difference, one of how many?

From the top-drawer Future of Capitalism site:

The “Conversations With Bill Kristol” interview this week is with Joseph Lieberman, who tells this anecdote about the difference between President Obama and President Clinton:

the last year when I was in the Senate, I was sitting at a table in the Senate. We happened to be at the Senate Democratic Caucus and one of the colleagues said, “When’s the last time any of you talked to President Obama?” So I said, he turned to me and I said, “Well, about six weeks ago, I got a call about something that was in my committee.” “Wow, six weeks ago.” So this guy who was the chairman of one of the major committees – “I haven’t seen him or talked to him in six months.” And then we started talking about Clinton and I remember saying, “Clinton, he’d call you and the problem was how do I get him off the phone,” he was just, you know, until he got your agreement to do what he wanted you to do.

One of them is wrapped up in his job, the other in himself.

What evil lurks? Reboot IL’s devil knows

In this week’s election, advisories in favor of the 10% minimum wage and millionaire tax swamped Rauner, even as he knocked Quinn off by a comfortable margin, whereby hangs a tale of trouble for Rauner.

As regards one of these anti-Rauner votes, observes Reboot Illinois’ resident devil,

At minimum, [Mike] Madigan can keep the threat of rallying his caucus behind a millionaire tax in his pocket to use against Rauner. I don’t think Scott Walker or Mitch Daniels, the Wisconsin and Indiana governors Rauner often has cited as role models, ever faced legislative leaders carrying sticks so big.

He is indeed the hog with the biggest nuts, especially since Beavers got knocked out of the box.