Needless to say, this routine bit of housekeeping was denounced as "an unmistakable slap in the face" to American Catholics and as evidence of "the antipathy of this administration both to Catholics and to the Vatican -- and to Christians in the Middle East." You know, the whole war on religion thing. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush jumped on the bandwagon, tweetering that Obama was "closing" the embassy as "retribution" for some American Catholics' opposition to the Affordable Care Act. Dead Breitbart's Home for Rabid Howler Monkeys opined that the move

looks to some as though the Obama administration is trying to diminish and discredit the Vatican’s role in the world because it's [sic] pro-life, pro-family, and pro-religious freedom values is at odds with the Regime's pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage stance.

Saaaay... You know who else has been breaking with traditional Vatican obsessions on culture-war issues and hates capitalism, just like the Kenyan Keynesian? Heck, this guy even talks to atheists and relocated his own residence from the Vatican's "Apostolic Palace" to a small guest house on the Vatican grounds, an unmistakable slap in the face to Catholics everywhere.

Update: How could we forget? As Buzzfeed's Dorsey Shaw revealed this week, the real problem is that Barack Obama thinks he's the Pope:

Why, that's just RIDICULOSE, because anyone knows that all non-Muslims coming to such countries get their heads chopped off at the Arrivals gate. Geller took particular issue with the Pope's claim to know more about Islam than she does, because she is A Expert:

Faced with disconcerting episodes of violent fundamentalism, our respect for true followers of Islam should lead us to avoid hateful generalisations, for authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.

How does he know that? When did he become an imam? ... [snip of some "behead the infidel" verses from the Koran]

Nothing will be gained by this refusal to face reality. Christians will still be slaughtered in the name of Islam and jihad all over the Muslim world. And now the Pope has forbidden Catholics to speak honestly about what is happening and why. It's a disgrace.

Stupid ol' New Pope. A real Catholic leader would call for the nuking of Mecca. But... If Geller claims that she's better at interpreting the Koran than New Pope is, doesn't that mean she's an Imam? Well played, Ayatollah Geller!

I'll be damned if I will ever be forced to hire someone with orange hair, body/neck/face covered with tattoos, multiple piercings, or a man in a dress... or for that matter, a demonstrative effeminate male or purposeful butch-looking female.

Apparently, she's perfectly OK with hiring accidentally butch-looking females, so really, there's no reason to call her judgmental.

"The victim had been fantasising about being killed and eaten by someone else since his youth," Dresden's police chief, Dieter Kroll, told a news conference. It was not immediately clear whether any act of cannibalism had taken place.

And yet another episode of The I.T. Crowd comes to life (yes, yes, and that was based on another German cannibal fetish murder in the early Aughts). And once again, the guiding principle of the old "Germany or Florida" game is confirmed: the kinky sex crimes are from Germany, the unbelievably stupid criminals are from Florida.

“This isn’t Toronto. We will not tolerate illegal drug activity in my jurisdiction by anyone to include our elected officials."

Deliberate attention-seeking on the part of the sheriff? Goddamn right. And beautifully done.