Father Fox tells it like it is......

I want to reprint a post from Father Martin Fox's blog Bonfire of the Vanities:

From the National Catholic Register article:

ROME — The start of the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family has triggered a wave of activism from well-funded LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered) activist groups in the U.S., who are targeting “outspoken” Catholic bishops in hopes of changing Catholic practice and moral doctrine.

“Most important is the opportunity to create a precedent for change,” the Human Rights Campaign said in its pamphlet on the synod.

The LGBT group has announced an activist effort targeting eight bishops in a pamphlet that labels them as “the best of the worst Catholic bishops across the country.”

Its campaign will target Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, Archbishop John Nienstedt of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Archbishop Dennis Schnurr of Cincinnati, Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., the president of the U.S. bishops’ conference, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia, Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore and Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Ill.

The effort aims to target bishops the activist group claims have been “most outspoken in their rejection of LGBT Catholics, their civil rights and their rightful place in the Church.” The effort will include Rosary events and literature distributions in the bishops’ home cities.

Among the Human Rights Campaign’s corporate partners are large corporations like American Airlines, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Bank of America, Northrop Grumman, Chevron, Lexus, Goldman Sachs, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. (Emphasis added.)

See that? Our Archbishop has been "targeted." That means we in the Archdiocese have been "targeted."

Let me amplify that. This isn't about the Archbishop. Our Archbishop is simply being faithful to the teachings of our Lord and Savior. He is doing his job. He is being our shepherd. This is an attack on the Body of Christ as a whole, and that means every one of us.

And the Archbishop deserves to know that the faithful stand with him. When he stands up for Christ, we must stand with him!

While I don't imagine his Excellency is fretting over this, I also don't imagine this is going to be pleasant. Even if the efforts of the "LGBT activists" are reasonably civil (let us hope), this is not something most of us would want to endure outside our places of work, churches, or homes.

I'm not sure the Archbishop would want me to, er, organize any letter-writing, but I don't know why you couldn't contact him and let him know he has your prayers and support.

Second, you may want to contact some of those companies above, to see if they wish to be enlisted in this effort. Do these companies really intend to lobby the Catholic Church to change her teachings? Really?

Third, and most important: it's time to get ready. This is only the beginning. A storm is brewing. It will get ugly. We are not delicate flowers; we are soldiers of Christ! You and I had better prepare ourselves so we can endure what is coming; because one of the things that's going to make this difficult is having people around us losing heart and helping the enemies of the Church.

Get ready, folks. It will get worse before it gets better. A lot worse.

(Headline note: someone no doubt will quibble about my use of "the gay agenda." Headlines need to be brief; and I'm hard-pressed to find a brief expression for, "those who seek to overturn God's plan for human complementarity and family." Feel free to suggest polite alternative language if that's your thing.)

Is the Pope Catholic?

Pope Francis: Fighting Poverty & Hunger Key to Defeating Islamist Killers in Syria-Iraq

Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, November 30, 2014, 12:55 PM Gateway Pundit

Spoken like an blind leftist.
Pope Francis told an audience in Turkey that fighting hunger and poverty were key to defeating Islamist killers in Syria-Iraq.
The Times of Malta reported:

Pope Francis, currently visiting Turkey, has called for interreligious dialogue “so that there will be an end of all forms of fundamentalism and terrorism.”

The Pope said fighting hunger and poverty, rather than military intervention alone, were key to stopping Islamist militants carrying out “grave persecutions” in Syria and Iraq, referring to the Islamic State.

Speaking at the start of a three-day trip to Turkey, Francis said “terrorist violence” showed no sign of abating in Turkey’s southern neighbours, where Islamist insurgents had declared a caliphate and persecuted Shi’ite Muslims, Christians and others who do not share their ultra-radical brand of Sunni Islam.

“It is essential that all citizens – Muslim, Jewish, and Christian – both in the provision and practice of the law, enjoy the same rights and respect the same duties,” the Pope stated.

Francis faces a delicate mission in Turkey, a majority Muslim but constitutionally secular state, in strengthening ties with religious leaders while condemning violence against Christians and other minorities in the Middle East.

It is widely known that Islamist killers are often educated and come from wealthy backgrounds.
Killing in the name of Islam has nothing to do with poverty.

Baseball's Craziest Wife

Chip was speculating about who was the sexiest baseball wife. I don't know who that might be but I know who was the craziest. Anna Benson the ex-wife of former loser Met (redundant right) pitcher Kris Benson. My brother interviewed her and was with her when she went on Howard Stern to say she would blow all of his teammates. Her is a little sampling of what she was about:

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New York Daily News July 9, 2013

The curvy wife of former Mets pitcher Kris Benson was armed to the teeth when she busted into her estranged hubby’s home and tried to rob him at gunpoint of $30,000, a police report revealed Tuesday.

Anna Benson also gave cops a bizarre explanation about why she was wearing a bulletproof vest, telling them she was trying to get it to “mold to her body.”

The busty brunette said it was a new model and she was “testing” it for the company and “didn’t understand why [they] were making such a big deal out of this,” the report said.

The revelations came a day after the 37-year-old former “Baseball Wives” star was nabbed for barging into Benson’s home in Smyrna, Ga.

“It scared me,” the once mighty righty told cops.

Benson said his wife was “screaming and out of control” and feared she might shoot him. He said he told her money was in his wallet, but instead of fetching it he high-tailed it to the woods and called cops.

When Smyrna police arrived, they found Anna on the back porch smoking a cigarette.

IAN SCOTT, EMGAnna Benson has dropped jaws by posing topless in Penthouse and having sex with the pitcher in the stadium parking lot as fans waited.

“It’s inside,” she told cops as they cuffed her.  “The gun.”

The former FHM model also had a knife in her waistband and was wearing an ammo belt “that had several rounds of ammunition,” the report said.

And she had plenty of contempt for her husband, repeatedly calling him a “p---y.”

MICHAEL BUCKNER/GETTY IMAGESAnna Benson attends her birthday bash and Lingerie Bowl Party in 2005.

Anna Benson admitted threatening him with an “expandable metal baton” and claimed “there were illegal drugs in the house,” the report stated.

Police have not confirmed there were drugs in the house, but among the items they removed was a bag of syringes and eight unidentified pills, according to the report.

In addition, police confiscated a Taurus handgun, 13 rounds of ammunition, a hatchet, a Taser, a computer hard drive and a court order of some kind.

RON ANTONELLIAnna Benson once threatened to have sex with every one of her husband’s teammates if he cheated.

Anna Benson was charged with two counts of felony aggravated assault with a weapon, one count of criminal trespass and one count of possession of a weapon during the commission of a crime.

She is now cooling her high heels in an Atlanta-area jail and awaiting a court date.

Kris Benson, who pitched for the Mets for two seasons in 2004 and 2005, met his wife at an Atlanta strip joint where she worked as a dancer.

MICHAEL BUCKNER/GETTY IMAGESThe once-happy couple announced they were splitting last July.

Anna Benson later did a topless Penthouse spread and raised eyebrows when she showed up for a Mets team Christmas party in a sexy Mrs. Claus getup.

Benson was traded to Baltimore not long after. And a year later, the Daily News reported their marriage was on the rocks after Anna Benson caught the pitcher fooling around with one of her friends.

Two years earlier, Anna Benson had threatened on Howard Stern's radio show to have sex with every one of his teammates if she ever caught him cheating. Her spokesman insisted she was joking and the couple later reconciled.

MICHAEL BUCKNER/GETTY IMAGESAnna Benson was a presence in Major League Baseball even before her hubby pitched for the Mets.

Anna Benson went on to star in the short-lived series "Baseball Wives," which aired on VH1 from November 2011 to January 2012 before it was canceled.

Hey I ordered that!

We are having a big sale through Cyber Monday so a whole bunch of new people are ordering from us. We have a open cardigan sweater called the Franny that is pretty popular.It caused a little problem yesterday.

You see this women ordered a dress and added a note. She asked "I also want a black granny in size 3x."

So I turned to Shivonne and said to her "Where does your Grandma live again?"

But we couldn't work it out so I had to call the lady and tell her that we haven't been selling black grannies since 1865.

It sucks when you miss a sale. Just sayn'

If Star Date were like J Date

"Fascinating."
"Uhura assures me that if I get a little dog I can get a whole bunch of dates. This dog seems perfect. It was first bred in Madison Wisconsin by an unemployed gardener. It was named after him."
"The Dickhead terrier."

Recycling can take the stress out commenting.

We will just have to see if it violates the civility rule.

If it does we will grin and bear it. So to speak.

Panda sex with Charle Bukowski

Marina, majestic, majic
infinite
my little girl is
sun
on the carpet-
out the door
picking a flower, ha!
an old man,
battle-wrecked,
emerges from his
chair
and she looks at me
but only sees
love,
ha!, and I become
quick with the world
and love right back
just like I was meant
to do. 

You know Crack is wrong about the KKK

I mean things are just not the same. Just sayn'

Whose that girl?

She was one of the most frustrated characters on Sixties TV because the heart wants what it wants and her boyfriend wanted a sausage.

She guest starred on about every TV show in the Sixties including Gunsmoke, Medical Center, I Dream of Jeanie, Route 66 and lots in the seventies like Kojack, Mannix and one of my favorites Petrocelli.

Whose that girl?

DId you ever get the feeling?

Did you ever get the feeling....that even though we are supporting him all the way.....that Professor Turley might be a little over matched when is going up against Obama and the lapdog media?

Did you ever get the feeling?

Did you ever get the feeling that Crack and the Evil Blogger Lady have something going and Lawnboy has no freakin' idea what is going on?

Did you ever get the feeling?

That Eva made everything all about her and every other comment on the Fuhrer blog was about her....that Adolph would say.....Shut the hell up Fraulein I am invading Poland here?

Did you ever get the feeling?

Did you ever get the feeling......that when you are a piece of shit...you are a piece of shit....and all of excuses and plea bargains don't mean a fucking thing?

Did you ever get the feeling?

Did you ever get the feeling that when the guy with the red shirt beamed down to the planet with Kirk and Spock and McCoy......that he was definitely the guy who was turned into a pillar of salt?

Sometimes it is a really, really good thing!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who hangs at Trooper York. I hope that you and your family enjoy the blessings of the day. Food, Family, Fellowship. What could be better?

I am enjoying the ending so much more than the begining

The Fall of the House of the Evil Blogger Lady commences apace.

It is very enjoyable.

I note that several people have emailed or posted at me that they deleted SiteMeter. Obviously it is because it is telling them something they do want to hear. The same reason that they blew up their blog and forced out so many commenters who also said things that they did not want to hear.

Now I understand it is all Crack all the time with most threads degenerating into a monologue by Crack about the misdeeds of whitey and the need for reparations. But maybe that is the nature of blogs. It seems that Turley's turns into the Inga show on almost every thread. But the decline of the Evil Blogger Lady is very pleasing.

Every picture tells a story......don't it?

Over at Turley's I used the simple expedient of posting photos to offer my view of what is going on in Ferguson. Of course that made Inga and a few other Libtards lose their shit because the truth hurts. Inga was so delusion that she claimed the photo's were racist and that Turley deleted them. To his credit he did not.

Now there is a whole crop of new looting photos. The folks in Ferguson did not disappoint. A scorpion is a scorpion. That's just the way it is.

Take the temp here in Brooklyn

Michael Haz asks what is happening in Brooklyn.

Well everything is ok because the lunatics are in charge of the asylum. De Blasio checks everything he does with Sharpton. There is a bill before the City Council that the cops  can not search anyone unless they get written permission. Any cop who even looks crosswise at a criminal will now be brought up on charges and tortured to the delight of the cheering crowd. So cops don't go one step out of  their way.

Everyday a group of yutes come out of school at about 3pm and walk down Court St. They are boisterous animals which is generally normal for teenagers. They shove and push each other and every other day they knock into the sign outside the store and knock it over. So at a quarter to three I close the sign and lean it against the wall until they pass. Yesterday they knocked over some of the flowers that Nelson had outside his bodega next door. He rushed out and started yelling at them because he is one tough little Dominican. Big Mistake. Now they will do it every day. The police will do nothing. It will escalate every day. One little mistake and his life will be ruined even though he is totally in the right and protecting his property. When  Lisa chased the masked intruder out of the store with a bat the cops showed up an hour later and told us we weren't supposed to do that.  That we could be prosecuted.  So you have no recourse.

Not in De Blasio's New York.

I am taking proactive steps to be prepared for the next incident. Because there will be another incident.

Of that you might be sure.

What if Literary Masterpieces were written by different people.

I use the term "Literary Masterpiece" very loosely but what if Barack Hussein Obama wrote "Dreams of My Real Mother?"

What if Literary Masterpieces were written by different people

What if HP Lovecraft had written "Pride and Prejudice."

Marilyn's Diary

I was devastated when my Uncle Herman left us to run off and live with Carol Herman. I couldn't understand how he could leave. I mean I get it that he was finished with Aunt Lily. She was 1505 years old so she was kind of a cold fish. For a succubus. But why did he leave my dewey fresh virgin charms. My perky breasts. My flower that smelled so sweet like a daisy in the sun. Why oh why did he leave us?

It didn't last with Carol Herman. She never stopped talking. She would talk and talk and talk. Uncle Herman finally left her. He became a serial dater. He lived with Virgina Graham for a while and produced her TV show. He band Kitty Carlisle for two years. He once banged Sally Jesse Raphael so hard that he broke her glasses. But he only had two really significant relationships after he left Carol Herman.

He had moved to Wisconsin while working as an extra on the Rodney Dangerfield movie "Back to School" and met a spinster law professor who was trying to live as a lesbian but couldn't get a girlfriend. He leached off her for a while because she was an easy mark but eventually he got very tired of her. Her drinking and pomposity were just too much. She just wanted to get all dressed up and sit on her throne and reenact scenes from Sunset Boulevard. Plus she kept asking him to kidnap dogs so they could have three ways. So he left. I hear he was replaced by a gardener. Most likely a Mexican because they do the jobs that Americans don't want anymore.

Then he moved to Philly to be Jayson Williams Limo Driver. Where he met a ketchup heiress and rest is history.

I hear he went into politics but I find that hard to believe.

I still miss my Uncle Herman.

The Summer of Boo Boo

Mama was very worried about Brother Bear. He had been acting out. She tried to smother him with attention but she was much too close to him. She overwhelmed him and he had to rebel to establish his own identity.

He started hanging out with the black bears. Most of the bears in Jellystone didn't associate with them very much. It was a very segregated national park. They had their own section of the forest where it was worth your life to visit. But strangely they accepted Brother Bear even though he was Jewish.

He started dating a young bear named Aretha. She had a great singing voice but she really liked to party. She introduced Brother to pot and H and soul music. He was never the same. He just wanted to party and fuck all the time. Aretha moved to a zoo in Ferguson Missouri and Brother was devastated. He tried to pick up other chicks but when he was rejected he was savage.

The problem was that he just didn't burn down a liquor store or turn over garbage cans. He would kill young female campers with long brown hair.

It was the Summer of Boo Boo.

(Stan and Jan Berenstain "Son of Boo Boo", The E True Hollywood Story of the Berenstain Bears) 

What if Literary Masterpieces were written different people

What if Dom Deluise wrote the "Lord of the Rings." What ho Tom Bombadil?

The funniest shit ever!

"My Milkshake Brings All the Boys to the Yard"

What if Literary Masterpieces had been written by different people?

What if "Gulliver's Travels" had been written by Al Goldstein?

Why don't you watch movies?

I don't have all that much free time and I don't like to invest all that much time in a movie. Every once in a while we start one and it sucks and we are pissed that we wasted our time.

Now I make an exception for big time science fiction movies like The Avengers and Captain America. Or the Hobbit movies. The new Cinderella movie looks pretty good. But most of the movies that come out these days kinda look like they really suck.

What we have been doing is binge watching on NetFlicks. We check out a series and if we like it we catch up by watching an episode every night until we have seen it all. It beats out movies because you basically know what you are getting.

Still I might make an exception for Cinderella. The cousin from Downton Abbey plays Cinderella you know?

Some times it is hard to see it out until the end

I hate to give up on TV shows although I do it all the time. I gave up on a bunch this year already. New Girl. Blue Bloods. The Millers. Two Dunk Girls. Two and a Half Men. I just can't take it anymore.

There are various reasons. Sometimes they just get too stupid like New Girl or The Millers. Sometimes they are too ridiculous in their political correctness like Blue Bloods and Two and a Half Men. But most of the time it is because they get too gratuitous violent.

Last week they had the 100th episode of the new Hawaii Five O and it was wall to wall torture porn. They had McGarret in a room and they water-boarded him and drugged him and hit him with a cattle prod while he hallucinated a whole new storyline with all of the characters living different lives. But mostly it was torture. We discussed dropping it but we are going to stick it out because we love to see all the places we had visited on Hawaii on the show. But it is becoming a week to week thing.

Another one that is on the cusp is the Sons of Anarchy. The had a guy who had his eyeball gouged out with a spoon two weeks in row. Not once but twice. It was a little overkill don't you think. They casually kill off ten or twenty people at a time but in brutal graphic way that is just over the top. Prior seasons were just as bad if not worse. I mean when a guy bites off his own tongue and spits it at the cops you know it is not Leave it to Beaver.

Still there are only two or three episodes left in the seven year run. So we are going to stick it out. Will Jax murder his mother because she murdered his wife and the mother of his children? Will the rest of the club get shot down because the other charters can't take their bullshit anymore? Will Gemma just kill herself or will she take other people down with her.

We have to hang on a couple of more weeks. But it is tough. I don't know if I really want to anymore.

The laughs keep on coming...........via email

I don't know who it is that is emailing me at my gmail account for Trooper York. It could be Titus. It could be Crack. It could be Garage. It could be anyone. Even Lawnboy. The title says aformerfriend@gmail.com so it could be anyone. I am not that interested except for the fact that this mook wants to start up trouble. That is troubling to say the least.

Anyhoo he/she sent me a link to the thread yesterday about Lawnboy being mocked. A shitpot of comments were deleted or so it seems. Leisure Suit Larry actually stopped fingering his borrowed dogs anus and took out his eraser. You have to laugh. His sockpuppet cries that he is "bullied" at Lem's and he complains about being deleted by Haz but he has no problem deleting a slew of comments. Nice touch douchebag.

The snitch also said in his email that the Crack Emcee is back full force in various Bill Cosby threads. Nice. That's the kind of commentary that builds understanding. Not bad faith at all.

I would rather talk about hockey.

Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha!

Remembrance of Things Pabst

So last Friday night we were exhausted again. We had a trunk show with a jewelry designer which actually worked out quite well. We thought it was going to be a bust as it was on a cold Friday night and it was from 4pm to 7pm which is not prime time for shopping.

Our good friend Zuly was in town so we decided to go out to eat as we usually do. We started out with the idea of going to the hipster place "Black Mountain" but we got sidetracked. When we walked past Red Rose we noticed that they had chicken spedini's and Lisa was not going to let that go. So we had to go old school.

Red Rose is a real Old School guinea joint that has been around for fifty years. I have to take Spinelli there the next time he is in town. The bar has every old timey bottle your father or grandfather ever ordered at the Knights of Columbus. The best thing of course is the rice balls.

We had a delicious tomato and roasted pepper soup and rice balls and a new treat eggplant balls. Just like the rice ball but made with eggplant instead of rice and man they were great. Plus lots of bread to dip in the soup. We were off the leash and not paying attention to our diets.

Lisa went with the chicken spedini served with veggies and a potato croquet. Zuly went with the special which was a rack of lamb. The photo doesn't do it justice because the lighting is so poor.

I went with my favorite. Meatballs and spaghetti. When I was a kid my Mom might have served that three times a week. She would make a big pot of Meatballs on Sunday. Or better yet Grandma would and give us a big pot to bring home. Then she would make some pasta to put the sauce and meatballs over. It could be spaghetti. Linguine. Fusilli. Whatever. It was just a taste of home.

Eating at Red Rose is like eating at home for me. We know Santo and his wife for forty years and have enjoyed many a good meal there. We just can't eat like that anymore. I have a heart condition you know. The fucking doctor is going to weigh me and tell me I am a fat fuck again. So I have to watch it.

But it was fun to have a taste of old times.

Grubering at TOP

My erstwhile email informant sent me this comment posted at some thread about Leisure Suit Larry being bullied at Ithmus:

 SamanthaHill said...

Meade knows of what I speak. He gets bullied to no end over at Lem's Levity. It's ugly there, it's ugly at the Isthmus and it's ugly here. It happened many times over the years here and was ignored by Althouse. The fact that someone needs to ask about the bullying and doxing here is laughable.

I don't know who Samantha Hill is as I do not recognize the name. I think it is a sockpuppet for someone like Inga although it seem a little too well spoken for that nitwit. 

The "doxing" thing is new. I didn't even know what that was until the recent dust up about the shirt guy where Instapundit was accused of doxing the simpleton who made the original tweet. I thought doxing was when Capitan Aubrey caught a dose of the clap from a waterfront trollop. Who knew?

This is just further confirmation of Michael Haz's origninal formulation. While Professor Turley is called on to defend the Constitution......the evil blogger lady is fighting in the comments section about people being mean to Lawnboy. Just goes to show you!

Hat tip to Spinelli. He was right about Turley. I am not someone to not admit when they are wrong. I still think that Turley is a liberal weenie but his heart is in the right place. At least he realizes that Obama is treating the Constitution like it was a liquor store in Ferguson, Mo.

One of these things is not like the other.....

Michael Haz said...

Law prof and blogger Jonathon Turley was selected to represent the House in the House's challenge of Obama's extra-constitutional activities.

Law prof and blogger Ann Althouse was mentioned in a news article because she is to cheap to buy her husband his own dog.

Compare and contrast.

Not only that Professor Turley explains that he loves women with bodacious ta-ta's.

Whose that girl?

She looks like a Cosby kid and she is of that era but she never sucked on a Pudding Pop. She just liked to bang the drum all night.

Plus her favorite baseball movie starred Robert DeNiro.

Whose that girl?

Can I stick that in your Puddin' Pop Baby?

New York Post November 17, 2014

He’s gone from America’s dad — to national disgrace.

The public implosion of Bill Cosby has been nothing short of stunning — a decade-long, slow-motion fusillade of mistresses and no fewer than 16 sex-assault accusers culminating in recent weeks with a series of spectacular, career-threatening p.r. grenade blasts.

Blast 1: Three weeks ago, comedian Hannibal Buress goes viral with a stand-up bit lambasting “The Cosby Show” icon and Jell-O Pudding Pop pusher as a smug hypocrite who preaches family values in public — and rapes women in private.

“Pull your pants up, black people,” Buress, who has written for “30 Rock” and “Saturday Night Live,” says in the bit, doing a mocking imitation of Cosby.

“Yeah, but you raped women, Bill Cosby,” Buress zings.

“So, [that] brings you down a couple notches. ‘I don’t curse on stage.’ But, yeah, you’re a rapist.’”

Blast 2: On Monday, Nov. 10, Cosby invites the public to “Go ahead. Meme me!” over Twitter, leading to the #CosbyMeme hashtag getting inundated with Buress-inspired rape slurs.

“MY TWO FAVORITE THINGS,” read one submission, lettered atop a picture of Cosby looking adorably pleased in a very Huxtable-looking sweater. “JELLO PUDDING & RAPE.”

Blast 3: In response to both the meme-backfire and the biting Buress bit going viral, Arizona artist Barbara Bowman on Thursday recounts for The Washington Post an ordeal she had previously described as one of 13 sex-assault accusers in a 2004 lawsuit against Cosby.

“The women victimized by Bill Cosby have been talking about his crimes for more than a decade,” wrote Bowman, who says the legendary comedian repeatedly raped and drugged her in 1985, including in his New York town house, when she was an 18-year-old aspiring actress.

“Why didn’t our stories go viral?”

Blast 4: On Friday, Cosby spokesman David Brokaw confirms that Cosby would not appear on CBS’s “Late Show with David Letterman” next Wednesday, as previously scheduled.

Either Cosby was refusing to face questions on the sex-assault allegations or he had turned so toxic, so quickly that Letterman wouldn’t go near him.

Blast 5: In an interview broadcast Saturday,Cosby responds with excruciating, literal radio silence after NPR reporter Scott Simon brings up the touchy subject.

‘SCOTT SIMON: “This question gives me no pleasure Mr. Cosby, but there have been serious allegations raised about you in recent days.”’

‘BILL COSBY: [Silence]’

‘SIMON: “You’re shaking your head no. I’m in the news business. I have to ask the question. Do you have any response to those charges?”’

‘COSBY: [Silence]’

‘SIMON: “Shaking your head no. There are people who love you who might like to hear from you about this. I want to give you the chance.”’

‘COSBY: [Silence]’

The barrage of explosively bad publicity couldn’t have come at a worse time for Cosby, who rose to national fame 30 years ago, when “The Cosby Show” debuted on NBC.

Now at age 77, Cosby was clearly angling for a personal Renaissance.

In September, Cosby released an authorized biography, “Cosby: His Life and Times.”

The book — written by ex-Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker — details in worshipful terms the comic’s rise from humble beginnings in Philadelphia as one of four sons of a maid and a Navy sailor.

The book recounts his coast-to-coast success as a young stand-up, which he parlayed into a starring role on the ’60s action show, “I Spy.”

From there came his own sitcom, “The Bill Cosby Show,” followed by contributions to award-winning children’s projects, including “The Electric Company,” on which he was a recurring guest, and “Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids,” which he created as an educational cartoon series.

But his biggest claim to fame remains “The Cosby Show,” which ruled the sitcom universe for eight seasons, from 1984 to 1992.

Yet the book glaringly makes no mention of sex-abuse allegations.

“I didn’t want to print allegations that I couldn’t confirm independently,” Whitaker explained to BuzzFeed.

Not confirmed? Bowman and Cosby’s other alleged victims would quarrel with that characterization.

Allegations stretch back into the Huxtable heyday of the mid-’80s.

The alleged victims tended to be young women in their late teens and early 20s and had been in a mentoring relationship with the star when they say he drugged and attacked them.

The first official allegation surfaced in early 2005, when Andrea Constand — a Temple University basketball star who is now a Toronto-area massage therapist — alleged that Cosby had drugged and molested her.

Cosby, a Temple alum who had remained involved with campus events, insisted that the sex was consensual, according to reports quoting sources close to the soon-aborted criminal investigation.

A whopping 13 additional women would join Constand’s civil lawsuit as witnesses, insisting in court papers that they, too, had been first “mentored,” then drugged and/or abused by the curmudgeonly comic years, even decades prior.

One of those “Jane Does” would reveal herself to be Bowman, and two other accusers would step forward by name.

Tamara Green, now a California lawyer, told the “Today” show’s Matt Lauer in 2005 that Cosby gave her pills to fight a fever and then groped, kissed and disrobed her as she fell into a stupor.

And Beth Ferrier alleged that 20 years prior as a young model she had been slipped a drugged coffee by Cosby, who then attacked her.

Neither Bowman, Green or Ferrier — or any of the other statute-of-limitations-barred Jane Does in the lawsuit — had anything to gain financially by supporting Constand’s lawsuit, which Cosby settled privately within a year.

NBC, his “Cosby Show” home throughout the 1980s, announced in January that the comedian, actor, author, producer and activist would be starring in a new sitcom in 2015.

Cosby would play the patriarch of a multigenerational family, the network boasted.

“I’ve got it all put together, man!” Cosby joked of the project as recently as June.

The network has apparently been less enthused, blandly describing the show as on the “off-season development track.”It was unclear what, if any, impact the latest publicity plague will have on the project.