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http://adventuresinmommyhood2009.blogspot.com/2011/11/to-penn-staters-and-fans-of-joe-pa.html Wow - this blog post brings up a horrific point:

This is what i don't like the about the whole situation. Curley or Schultz could have easily told Paterno or McQueary that it had been turned over to the authorities or that it was taken care of. But because of the media fueled firestorm. Everyone is made to look like the bad guy. Right - how many years ago was that? If you caught someone at work sodomizing a kid (a 10 year old boy) and you told your boss and the a-hole was still visiting your place of employment 10 YEARS LATER, you wouldn't have some kind of issue with that?! 6 years actually. They have been investigating Sandusky since 2008, incident happened in 2002. Look im not going to swallow everything ESPN shoves down my throat. I would much rather wait for the PA police to release the official police statement after gathering all the evidence and witness statements. Done for the night. Or you could just read the indictment that has been posted all over this board. ESPN didn't write that.

If you think for one minute I'm going to spare a drop of sympathy for Paterno, you're fooling yourself. The only people I have sympathy for are the kids who were raped and abused.

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I wouldn't say Warren is a Socialist (part of the Socialist Party) but she leans more that way than towards Capitalism.

Voter ID isn't voter suppression. Geez. I hate when people used intentionally biased language to rename something neutral. It's at best misleading and at worst a lie. Being able to just show a valid ID at the polls here in Minnesota would be much easier than what we currently have.

"Joe Paterno had a team meeting Monday, told the players HE DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT JERRY SANDUSKY, everything came as a surprise to him ... asst coach McQueary was "distraught" and told his players he might be gone before Saturday's game." That's what Kim Jones of Yes (in Happy Valley) just said on WFAN radio

Wow. That would be....has any school ever cancelled the rest of their season of football because of scandal?

You need to read the grand jury report to understand this. Warning, though, it is horrifying and many people can't get through it completely. There's a lot more here than "an incident." There was a direct witness to a boy being forcibly raped in a Penn State shower. That witness told Paterno, and he relayed the info to his superiors. You need to understand the magnitude of these allegations to understand why JoePa (and everyone else who knew what Sandusky was doing) abdicated his responsibility so thoroughly by not making sure the police were contacted. Even worse, as recently as 2007 Sandusky was still coming to closed practices with young boys - AFTER Paterno and the school knew about the 1999 and 2002 incidents. In 2009, Sandusky was allowed to run an overnight football camp for youngsters on the Penn State campus. Sandusky was still allowed to use workout facilities as recently as last week. This is huge, and I don't think it's quite hit most of the public how ugly it is. That will sink in over the coming days and weeks. OK so I read all 23 pages. I still do not see where JoPa had direct knowledge of any sexual contact. Even in the earlier statements, he says there was inappropriate behavior on Sandusky's part. Before I go on, lets get one thing straight, in no way am I defending the actions of anyone involved. I am simply stating that JoPa should not get fired for his part. I am more disgusted by the grad assistant who at the age of 28 had to run home to daddy and tell him and NOT stop what he saw or Joesph Miller the wrestling coach who witnessed an incident and the janitor who ran and told everyone but did nothing to stop the attack including the police that listen in on a mothers conversation with him and the then DA that did nothing about it. WTF. This has nothing to do with living in the past (1960's) either. This is a sad story about a beloved coach that got away with it because no witness stepped in to stop it. JoPa turn the information over to his superiors, one of which oversaw the Campus Police. It wasn't his job to follow up, it was Gary Schultz as overseer of the campus police and Tim Curley, his boss. Paterno is a Mandated Reporter - (a professional such as a teacher or a coach is required by law to report any suspected or observed child abuse or neglect to the police.)

Not sure if this belongs in other teams section, but.... Should Joe Paterno Survive Penn State’s Child Sex Scandal? Paterno, of all people, was never supposed to go out like this. http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/11/08/should-joe-paterno-survive-penn-states-child-sex-scandal/ Long story short, JoePa was told by a witness that something of a sexual nature happened between Sandusky and a 10 year old boy and instead of calling the police, he told his boss. And then let it go at that. This makes me sad. Like the TIME writer, I would never have expected JoePa to not ferociously move to protect a child. This will tarnish him forever. Rightfully.

Nothing to see here... just the collapse of the euro... and maybe the entire global economic system Hey, remember my last bloggingheads, when I went to the 1930s analogy to describe the current problems in the global political economy? Well, that was a few days ago, and my, how things have changed -- to make that 1930's analogy even more powerful. The eurogoggles metahor may be coming to an end -- because the situation is so dire that even the cheeriest summit won't alter perceptions in financial markets. http://drezner.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/11/07/nothing_to_see_here_just_the_collapse_of_the_euro_and_maybe_the_entire_global_econo I know, people usually don't click the link and read the article, they just skin the snip posted. But really, read the article. It's short and contains the pertinent snips from 2 other articles. Worth reading and tells you why eyes should be on Italy, not Greece, as the canary in the coal mine for the direction of the EU and how that can affect the USA.

I know both Marxists and anarchists who are prominently part of the Occupy movement. I don't say that as a pejorative, that's just what they believe. (Also - many anarchists are also pacifists)

To bring the thread back on topic ... Although I'm pretty sure I won't like some of the solutions that will be proposed by Occupy groups, there will be some that have broader appeal. Plus, I think for our type of government to work, we need to have citizens actively engaged in all aspects, which includes idea generation. I'm not a big fan of the idea that only 'experts' should or can come up with solutions to problems. And yeah, I include elected officials as 'experts.' Our politicians aren't in Washington to rule over us, they are there to be our voice. Nothing more, nothing less. If the politicans forget that, it's about time we remind them. If we forget that, Gods help us. So if between them (Tea Party and Occupy) the population is woken up to our responsibilities as citizens to be active participants, that's all to the good.

I am distracted by the girl in the far right picture. That's my son's girlfriend. She's a cutie!