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  1. I have no idea what this is about. What I do know is that every one of the posts made by this account has come from the same computer, meaning this story of a stolen password is highly unlikely.
  2. I am sick and tired of this line from Bo and company. How many years in a row will they overlook an opponent and lose (ISU or TxTech 2009) or almost lose (SDSU last year)? Enough is enough. Once or twice in a coach's early career is understandable, but after that it should be a wake up call. You can't take a week off, there are no "gimme" games in college football. Anyone can beat anyone on any given Saturday. Winners don't make excuses, they make plays. It was patently obvious neither the coaches nor the players were interested in that game last week. I agree, Richard, that this refrain is getting awfully tired. We have overlooked or prepared poorly for WAY too many opponents. Bo needs to get this fixed, and now. It starts between his ears.
  3. This has nothing to do with "mob mentality." I suppose by this definition expecting the sun to rise in the east is "mob mentality." If you don't know enough to make a judgment in this case, you have your head in the sand. •1994-97: According to the grand jury report, Sandusky engages in inappropriate conduct with three boys he met separately through The Second Mile. One boy was 7 or 8, another was 10 and the third was 12 or 13. According to the report, the now-grown men said Sandusky engaged in inappropriate conduct ranging from touching to outright sexual encounters.•1998: Penn State police and the state Department of Public Welfare investigate an incident in which the mother of an 11-year-old boy reported Sandusky had showered with her son and may have had inappropriate contact with him. In a June 1, 1998, interview with investigators, Sandusky admits showering naked with the boy, admitting it was wrong and promising not to do it again, the grand jury report says. The district attorney decides no charges will be filed and the university police chief closes the case, according to the grand jury. •1999: Sandusky retires from Penn State after coaching there for 32 years, but retains full access to the campus and football facilities. •2000: Sandusky showers with a young boy and tries to touch his genitals during overnight stays at the coach's house, according to the now 24-year-old man's testimony in the grand jury report. •2000: Tim Calhoun, a janitor at the Lasch Football Building on the Penn State campus, tells his supervisor and another janitor he saw Sandusky performing oral sex on a young boy, according to the grand jury report. A second janitor reports he saw Sandusky and a boy leave a shower room and walk out of the building hand in hand. No one reports the incident to university officials or law enforcement, according to the grand jury. •March 2, 2002: According to the grand jury report, a graduate assistant tells coach Joe Paterno he saw Sandusky in the locker room shower the night before, performing a sex act on a young boy he estimated to be 10 years old. •March 3, 2002: Paterno reports the incident to Athletic Director Tim Curley, saying the graduate assistant had seen Sandusky "fondling or doing something of a sexual nature to a young boy," according to the grand jury. Later, the assistant is summoned to a meeting with Curley and Senior Vice President for Finance and Business Gary Schultz. The assistant later tells the grand jury he told Curley and Schultz he saw Sandusky and the boy engaged in a sex act, but Curley and Schultz told the grand jury they had not been told of such an allegation. Instead, Curley said he had the impression the conduct amounted to non-sexual "horsing around." Schultz said he couldn't remember details, but seemed to recall that "Sandusky might have inappropriately grabbed the young boy's genitals while wrestling," according to the grand jury. Sandusky's locker room keys are confiscated, he is told not to bring his Second Mile participants to campus and the incident is reported to the charity, but no law enforcement investigation is launched, according to the grand jury. •2002: The Second Mile learns of the shower incident. Curley tells the charity that "the information had been internally reviewed and that there was no finding of wrongdoing," The Second Mile said in a statement Monday. •2005 or 2006: Sandusky allegedly befriends another Second Mile participant whose allegations would form the foundation of the multiyear grand jury investigation. •2006 or 2007: A wrestling coach at the high school where Sandusky was volunteering allegedly surprises Sandusky and the boy "lying on their sides, in physical contact, face to face on a wrestling mat." Sandusky tells the coach the two were working on wrestling moves, the coach tells the grand jury. Sandusky allegedly begins to spend more time with the boy, taking him to sporting events and giving him gifts, including golf clubs, a computer, cash and clothes. During this period, according to the grand jury report, Sandusky performs oral sex on the boy more than 20 times, and the boy performs oral sex on him once. •2008: The boy's mother calls the high school to report her son had been sexually assaulted, and the principal bars Sandusky from campus and reports the incident to police. The investigation reveals 118 calls from Sandusky's home and cellphone numbers to the boy's home. •November 2008: Sandusky informs The Second Mile he is under investigation and he is removed from all program activities involving children, according to the charity. •September 2010: Sandusky retires from The Second Mile, according to the grand jury. This is an excerpt from this article. The two underlined portions are my emphasis. The second underlined segment shows that PSU authorities, and specifically Joe Paterno, took the allegations of these incidents seriously enough to take action to curb Sandusky's access. It is a clear statement that they - and specifically Joe Paterno - knew he was involved in nefarious acts. You ask for "proof" that Paterno should have been fired. The two underlined segments alone are more than enough to fire Paterno because he did not report specifically what he heard to the police, Child Social Services or any other external authority immediately. The fact that he never reported these things to an external authority is not only grounds for termination, it is disgraceful. Shameful. Horrible. Indefensible. The fact that Sandusky was never personally barred from access to campus, athletic facilities or contact with the team also means Paterno had to be fired. Joe was in charge, to a degree sufficient to have Sandusky immediately and permanently barred on his word alone. He knew, or had every reason to know, that Sandusky was involved in heinous acts. Failing to take every conceivable action to ensure the safety of his players, kids on campus, and every child involved in Second Mile is an unforgivable abrogation of his duties as a leader of young men. The only reason people are complaining that Paterno was fired is due to his status as a football coach. If he were a regular joe, nobody would care that he was fired. His celebrity, and his celebrity alone, is all that makes people think he should still be employed.
  4. We don't need a bot. We need dedication.
  5. No, I believe it was last Tuesday. But everything she did was legal and available to the general public. She got no special favors. Try telling that to all the people who think otherwise. No thanks. I couldn't care less what they think. They are welcome to put themselves in that position and see what legal options they have. Some people won't believe until they're there themselves.
  6. This sounds like the "branes" of string theory. I need to re-read my Greene, but basically energy/matter whatever you want to call it just is, and at times these various branes interact, and the interaction can create these bubbles where portions of the laws of one brane and portions of the laws of another brane interact, mesh, and create a universe with its own unique set of laws. It's similar to what happens when a sperm fertilizes an egg. Genes from both parents interact to create a new creature made up of the parts of the parents. I agree very much with your statement of the difficulty of truly grasping the infinite. Did a thought experiment on it once and it really freaked me out.
  7. No, I believe it was last Tuesday. But everything she did was legal and available to the general public. She got no special favors.
  8. It's pretty quiet in Happy Valley tonight. Makes me think that those worries, which are prudent, are going to turn out to be unfounded. Hope this keeps up.
  9. Hours, or even minutes, sometimes seconds. The "bin Laden is dead" speech was finished as the president was walking to the podium, IIRC. Speaking of having to memorize things, as a child I was picked to give the sermon at our church Christmas play. Mom made me memorize the whole thing, three full pages and a paragraph on a fourth, in one month. I did it, but I was sweating bullets up there. Still an awful memory.
  10. For a guy in the position he's in, he should have used different words than "Princess Nancy." It's WAY too familiar, like when Bush tried to give the German president a shoulder rub. Horribly awkward, and inappropriate. But anyway, about Perry - I expect to hear soon that he has a blood sugar disorder, or something. The guy is acting kooky. His campaign has to be on life-support right now.
  11. Somewhere between 6 and 10 minutes, yes. She called her mom first, and her mother calmed her down and got her to call 911. I can't claim to know Lauren well, but I would agree that injury hit-and-run is not indicative of her character, at least not as I know it. There was a decent interview in both the LJS and OWH articles about this where the officials basically said this wasn't unheard-of. Some felony murder suspects enter pretrial diversion, so if they're eligible, I would presume Lauren would be.
  12. You win. I have no response for that. You should have said, "Pardon my French." I teed that one up for you!
  13. Actually, I thought the worst gaffe of the debate was Cain calling Pelosi "Princess Nancy." For a guy with some significant problems in relating to female voters, that was a nearly unforgivable comment. Cain is headed for a huge fall. He's his own worst enemy.
  14. I think you are automatically disqualified for president if you misspell faux pas in a thread title. To answer your question, the teleprompter is not the same thing as Perry forgetting his own platform. Every president since the invention of the teleprompter has used one. This myth that Obama can't speak without one is belied by his town hall discussions. We've seen him speak without one many, many times. It's just that same kind of character assassination that "the other side" does to every sitting president. It's silly, but people fall for it every time. How many people perpetuated the ignorant myth that George Bush wasn't really running the show, Cheney was? Heard that one as many times as I've heard the teleprompter nonsense. Perry's lapses in memory, or.... whatever it is you want to call that... are far more disturbing. I have no idea how a man gunning for president could make as many blunders as he has recently. They're painful to watch, and he seems genuinely lost out there. It almost makes me worry he has something medically wrong with him.
  15. You are awesome! I thought i was the only person to ever say ass hattery. haha. plus your signature is amazing! Been saying it for years. LINK
  16. His brother had committed suicide under nearly identical circumstances in 1996. The theory is that Gricar did the same thing. Hard to say. But the least likely thing, IMO, is that he was "silenced" over this. LINK
  17. Failure to provide a full and complete explanation of this (which is currently scientifically impossible, and may never be possible) does not mean that God exists.
  18. I'm ready for it to be over, too. I'm heartsick at this whole mess. I hate that we have to play this game and that we can't just focus on football. Our involvement in this mess can't get over soon enough for me. Just watching TV or reading the webz is going to be difficult for the next several weeks as more of this plays out.
  19. Analogies are never 1:1 comparisons. The worst thing about using an analogy is that inevitably you spend as much time discussing the merits of the analogy as you do discussing the point it was intended to make.
  20. Happy 236th birthday, U.S. Marine Corps!

  21. Simple, basic prudence dictates that you have SOME kind of concern about fan and team safety in light of this situation. Saying you're concerned isn't throwing Penn State or its fans under the bus, it's just common sense. To wit, there are discussions going on right now about the game between Tom Osborne, Jim Delaney and Penn State officials. This is a situation which requires due diligence and it's not a slap in the face to PSU/PSU fans that we're doing this. Jack Mitchell, local radio personality, just got done interviewing Tom Osborne. Via Twitter: Just spoke with Tom Osborne and he told me that right now, the game is on as planned, but he hasn't heard from PSUs AD or Jim Delaney yet. My perception is that there's still the possibility this game doesn't happen pending Osborne's contact with PSU and Delany. Osborne told us moving the game isn't feasible at this point. As I left Coach Osborne's office, Bo Pelini went in for a closed door meeting, for what I'd presume is a discussion about playing the game. Tom Osborne also told me that he's never said this before, but he'd understand if Husker fans chose to wear something other than red at PSU.
  22. swmckewonOWH Samuel McKewon Mike McQueary will, right now, coach on Saturday. Game time decision on where he is.
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