For years, I’ve suffered from the misinformation that if the President of the United States had reservations concerning a bill delivered to him from the US House of Representatives and the US Senate, then said president had the option to veto said bill.
Hey Joe Paterno… time to hit the road. UPDATE: Looks like JoePa is out.
I dunno what exactly has and hasn’t happened up there in State College, Pennsylvania, but I can say with much clarity that I’m not buying what the Penn State brass is selling.
Not. One. Bit.
The reason is very simple.
When defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky resigned from his position on the Penn State football team, he was a mere 55 years old. Sandusky said he wanted to work with disadvantaged children through his Second Mile foundation. Sandusky had long been rumored to be JoePa’s heir apparent, an event seemingly likely given Sandusky’s being the brains behind Linebacker U and his 10 All-American linebackers.
Fifty-five. Years. Old.
That’s the age when coaches who are going to champs start on their way and this is why I don’t believe what PSU President Graham Spanier is alleging. And another thing, who ever heard of him before last Friday? Joe Paterno is the King of Pennsylvania.
Following his departure, as near as I can determine, nobody offered Sandusky a head coaching job ( I could be incorrect about this, but I haven’t found anything substantive to assert he was offered coaching jobs).
I suspect that the 2002 incident involving Sandusky and Victim 2, as witnessed by former PSU quarterback, then-graduate assistant coach and current wide receivers Coach Mike McQueary (AND WHY-IN-THE-HELL DIDN’T HE INTERVENE?) wasn’t the first time anyone caught Sandusky giving in to criminal conduct.
My spidey-sense tells me Sandusky was asked to resign and that there’d be no trouble…
We’ve seen this movie way too many times.
Y’know, it’s not easy being from South Carolina. It seems as if every time there’s a mention of The Palmetto State in the national media, it’s because of garden-variety rank stupidity… or drunk-driving fatalities… or domestic violence… or underfunded public schools… or, oh I could go on and on.
Today, the reason is of the super-dumb variety.
Get a load of these two Myrtle Beach Teabagging geniuses and and what they’ve been charged with by the Grand Strand’s one and only Horry County Sheriff’s Department.
Having had the wildly entertaining opportunity to retrieve college pals from the Horry County Jail whilst in college, all I have to say about this is: Enjoy the powdered eggs, fellas– I’ve heard they’re without peer!
… Newt has become an embarrassment to the entire species of mankind.
Paraphrasing a Gladys Knight and The Pips’ hit from many years ago, He should be leaving on the midnight train to Georgia!
Newt Gingrich continues to walk back his Sunday “Meet The Press” appearance quotes condemning GOP Rep. Paul Ryan’s plans for Medicare as “right-wing social engineering”. Here’s a link to the transcript of the now notorious episode.
During a Tuesday appearance with FOX News’ Greta van Susteren, Newt detailed his personal apology to Ryan and did his darnedest to ban Democrats from using his words against him and other Republicans in the coming general election:
I don’t know why my friends waste their time on reality television… this is sooooooooooo much more entertaining. The Newt is doing a terrific job reminding Republicans why they were so excited to see him leave Washington, DC in disgrace so many years ago.
The Democrats don’t need to worry about using him in any ads.
Speaking of embarrassments, the the idiot governor of South Carolina (really, it’s been so long since we’ve had any other kind) Nikki Haley decided it was a good idea to join in on the Gingrich beat down.
I, for one, seriously doubt she’s even read the Ryan budget proposal and wonder how long it will take for this media moment to become no longer useful and set on the curb.
Holy smokes, I didn’t even have to wait until Wednesday!
Tonight, GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, along with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), spoke and signed copies of his books at a Minneapolis fundraiser for the Minnesota Family Council.
Never heard of them?
Well, the group is the Minnesota version of those conservative Christian organizations that spend most of their money trying to ban gay marriage in the states and whose president has asserted that gay teens who commit suicide bring it upon themselves.
I mean, what would Jesus think if The Newt didn’t hate on the homos?
Anyhoo… some Twin Cities-based gay-friendlies decided to sprinkle a little fairy dust on Newt and his frozen-faced third wife and urge them to change their minds about homosexuality:
Here it is from another angle:
What a day!
Fortunately for me, I live in a different district.
Last Friday at the South Carolina Republican Party gathering in Greenville, SC, US Rep. Tim Scott (R-SC) said something on federal government subsidies to the oil companies that didn’t make a whole lot of sense as anything except as an evasion:
FANG: Government’s obviously spending billions every year in oil subsidies and it was just found out this week that in the first quarter, the big oil companies, Exxon, Chevron, whatever, made thirty five billion. And they’re still getting taxpayer money. What do you think of that? Is that fair?
SCOTT: Well, A) I have not seen the report so I can’t tell you whether it’s fair or not. I think everybody — fair is a relative word.
I guess an extension of Scott’s reasoning could be that segregation in the American South was a “relative” inconvenience for a certain demographic group.
Relatively speaking, of course…
h/t: www.thinkprogress.org
Mr. Fish:
Americans aren’t stupid, just busy. However, if given the chance to make an informed decision about wars or military engagements or police actions or whatever-the-hell you want to call them, my fellow Americans will surprise their elected leadership… most assuredly.
You don’t buy a suit of clothes sight unseen.
On Monday, 18 April 2011, I happened to be in South Carolina’s capitol city of Columbia and had heard that one of my favorite nutjobs, US Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) would be headlining the Teabaggers’ annual anti-taxes event with SC Governor Nikki Haley (R) on the steps of the SC General Assembly.
As the reader can discern from the photograph, turnout at this event and others across the nation has bottomed out from the heady days before former SC Gov Mark Sanford (R) revealed to the world that he couldn’t keep either his pants or his mouth zipped shut.
However, that has not deterred the true believers from abandoning their cause.
Sigh…
You know, it really is difficult to feel anything for these people and their odious opinions, but I remain hopeful that one day they will realize that they haven’t been a part of the middle-class for a couple decades now and things aren’t going to get better for them if they keep ingesting by the mouthful conservative propaganda intended to disenfranchise them from the country of their birth.
1. Wisconsin’s public workers have already “made sacrifices to help balance the budget, through 16 unpaid furlough days and no pay increases the past two years,” according to the Associated Press. The unions know their members are going to have to make concessions on benefits, but they rightly see the assault on their fundamental right to negotiate as an act of war.
2. There are already 13 states that restrict public workers’ bargaining rights and it hasn’t helped their bottom lines. As Ed Kilgore notes, “eight non-collective-bargaining states face larger budget shortfalls than either Wisconsin or Ohio,” and ” three of the 13 non-collective bargaining states are among the eleven states facing budget shortfalls at or above 20%.”3. This isn’t just about public employees. What even a majority of the protesters don’t know is that Walker’s law would also place all of the state’s Medicaid funding in the hands of the governor. State senator Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton — one of the Dem law-makers who fled the state to block a vote on the bill — told local media that this amounted to “substantial Medicaid changes” that put “the governor, all of a sudden… in charge of Medicaid, which is SeniorCare, which is BadgerCare …and he has never once said what he intends to do” with those programs. But the provision led journalist Suzie Madrak to conclude that “the end game for all this is to defund state Medicaid programs and make it impossible to serve as part of the new health care safety net.”
4. Health-care costs, rather than workers’ greed, are what has driven up the price of employees’ benefits. But generally speaking, those public sector health-care costs have grown at a slower clip than in the private sector.
5. Public employees’ pensions account for just 6 percent of state budgets.
