This goes out to Betty McCollum and Jack Kingston. They are congress people of opposites of the aisle, and one would argue, getting them working together would be a fantastic idea. One problem, they are working together to waste time. The proposed bill/amendment about Military use of money for sponsorship is both misguided and hypocritical. They state that it's a waste of tax payer money while we need a budget cut. Fair, but it is not an improvement if you are spending the same money, just in a different place. It's also hypocritical to state that it's a waste of money to sponsor Nascar, bass fishing, and mixed martial arts, but it's not to sponsor the NBA, NFL, MLB, MLS, or other motor sports. The funny thing is NASCAR is bigger than almost all of them besides the NFL. More fans show up to a NASCAR race than do the super bowl. Not to mention, when you sponsor a car, you logo appears on every shirt that is sold, and no money comes back from that? Then the government didn't do it's job because every private company that is a sponsor gets a cut of memorbilia sales.
Betty, I won't spend another time in the city of St. Paul, because of you. In my opinion one of the greatests cities in the country, let alone MN. I won't spend a dime there, including the Xcel Energy Center or science Muesum, or Cossettas. If you really want to scale back the budget, than cut the funding to all sports, you are single handly picking a fight with NASCAR. Have you ever been to a race? Have you seen the military support? No, if you had you wouldn't be pushing this. Your counter part, who resides in GA has also never been to a race. So how can you speak so intelligently on it? He also said that an Air Force recruiter doesn't know anything about recruiting. That if the Pentagon can come up with hard numbers no recruiter could. I guess I need to see Jack about everything because according to him, you all know more than people that actual do a job.
You spent a whole day, wasting tax payer money over this. I had to take time out of my day to write to all my reps, to educate them because of your hypocricy. You want to reach across the aisle and fix something? Term limits to end career politicians. Public funding for campaign finance to make it equal for all. Look at the money wasted on the drug war, a war that factual CAN NOT BE WON! Admit to everyone how we spend more on the drug war than we do education, and if you look at the money spent out of the military budget for the drug war (raid, swat teams, etc. come from the defense budget as it's military or para military training) that we may spend almost double on the drug war than we do education. Or maybe, find away to bring health care costs down, as Obamacare is not the answer and you know it. Maybe if you all had to use the same insurance that your constitutiants do, you would actually get something accomplished. Keep your eye on the ball, my eye is making sure every incumbant is voted out, until you all realize, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM!
Thursday, July 19, 2012
The continued fall of JoePa, while the dirty handed PA Gov gets off scott free
I am really really tired of the hate. And to those that know me, maybe that is hypocritical. But it has becoming very clear to me, that we all are better served with positive re-enforcement vs. negative. So how do we change it?
I don't have the all the answers, but this much I know...it has to start some where, so I will do my part and start here.
If there is one thing I have learned from JoePa and the whole Sandusky ordeal is this, a true measurement of a man, isn't his words but his actions. Joe has been his greatest critic, in fact, I argue had he not said, "I wish I would have done more," or the Lt. gov Noonan had said the same thing about Joe, the media wouldn't have bashed him or his charactor like they did. Which I find troubling. See to me, that state Coach made, exemplifies who was, and what he was about. Any one with a heart, and a desire to be a positive effect on this place we call Earth, would have wished they did more. See what most forget is what the whole statement was, "...in hindsight, I wish I would have done more". Hindsight is 20/20 and if I had a nickel for everytime I wish I had done something different I would be a millionaire. That doesn't mean, everytime I wished I had done something different, that I didn't try to get it right the first time. He didn't admit guilt, he recognized his influence, and realized he trusted the wrong people. He was not perfect, never claimed to be, but he ALWAYS tried and wanted to do the right thing.
So from this point forward, that's is all I suggest we concentrate on. If we all at least try to do the right thing, our world would be a better place. If the people he had trusted to do that right thing, the people we hire to do the right, had done the right thing, Joe wouldn't have had to unfairly endure the charactor attacks, the knew jerk reactions, the bogus assualts on his true legacy, the one that goes WAY beyond football.
The sad thing is, everyone is blaming and hold a football coach to a higher standard than our own law enforcement officals. Say what you want about Freeh's report, it is not a complete report. Joe never emailed, so there are NO emails from Joe, only things other say about him. Also, Freeh doesn't address how law enforcement didn't have enough evidence inn 1998, but yet Joe knew and it's all his fault. I knew in 1998, it came across the ticker on ESPN. And why would Joe not want a man, who was no longer a coach, to not be investigated? Oh because they were friends? But they weren't. The BOT (board of trustees) is who name Sandusky successor, he was friends with many BOT members including Gov. Tom Corbett. Who has State Attorney General chose to table the Sandusky case, for at least 3 years. Joe was the one who said, Sandusky shouldn't be the next coach.My point, where there is smoke there is fire, Corbett has smoke all around him, and he's the only one with any motivation to hide the Sandusky's monsters acts. There was no need for Joe to, it was not a "football" problem. We aren't talking about NCAA violations we are talking about laws, and laws that it's up to our government officals to address. Blame the coach all you want, but how can you not blame the police, the SAG, the BOT, or the Governor? They all had the info too, they all failed to do more. And just in case you didn't know, Corbett hired another individual to head up the public safety department that also ran a sex ring, and was finally arrested for it, against the Governor's wishes.
For those saying the Paternos need to go away, are the same folks that don't want the whole truth. That our society isn't corrupt from football giants, it's corrupt from our political and legal system.
Hate me all you want, bash me all you want, you don't know me. You don't that I was sexual abused as a child by a babysitter. You don't know that I always loved PSU football because it was school first. How does a guy who benches players who were eligible by NCAA standards but not his standards for a bowl game when all he was worried about was a record. His actions for almost 60 years don't fall in line with his accused inactions for the last 10. It doesn't make sense at all. Take away his statue, his records, his wins, and I firmly believe he and the family wouldn't care, he was more worried about turning boys into men, and creating contributing factors of society, and Sandusky was obviously not one, but how many other hunderds were. And Sandusky's biggest allies were through the Second Mile foundation, a foundation that donated to Corbett, a foundation that was supported largely by the BOT's, a foundation that had close friends and allies of the Sandusky, who today, claim they had no knowledge. Seems odd that a coach who cut ties with a man in 1999 had more knowledge and chose to hide it than those who were close friends and donators of Sandusky through his arrest.
For journalist who always ask questions and assume doubt, are doing the opposite, making blind statements. I want another investigation done, as if I was being investigated like the BOT was, I would love to chose the investigator, espeically a good friend, as Freeh is to Corbett. Take down all of Joe's legacy, I don't care. But if you really want to right a wrong, fix something that is broken, remove Corbett from office, have all of his emails made public record, do a honest investigations. I knew when Freeh was named by the BOT it was joke, you can chose to have yourself investigated and then admit it's a limited scope. My theory, some one on the BOT bribed, lied, cheated or whatever to convince law enforcement not to do a thing, because of the work of the second mile foundation and it's connection to political figues in the state of PA. I could care less of Joe's legacy, I want the truth, and right now we don't have it.
I don't have the all the answers, but this much I know...it has to start some where, so I will do my part and start here.
If there is one thing I have learned from JoePa and the whole Sandusky ordeal is this, a true measurement of a man, isn't his words but his actions. Joe has been his greatest critic, in fact, I argue had he not said, "I wish I would have done more," or the Lt. gov Noonan had said the same thing about Joe, the media wouldn't have bashed him or his charactor like they did. Which I find troubling. See to me, that state Coach made, exemplifies who was, and what he was about. Any one with a heart, and a desire to be a positive effect on this place we call Earth, would have wished they did more. See what most forget is what the whole statement was, "...in hindsight, I wish I would have done more". Hindsight is 20/20 and if I had a nickel for everytime I wish I had done something different I would be a millionaire. That doesn't mean, everytime I wished I had done something different, that I didn't try to get it right the first time. He didn't admit guilt, he recognized his influence, and realized he trusted the wrong people. He was not perfect, never claimed to be, but he ALWAYS tried and wanted to do the right thing.
So from this point forward, that's is all I suggest we concentrate on. If we all at least try to do the right thing, our world would be a better place. If the people he had trusted to do that right thing, the people we hire to do the right, had done the right thing, Joe wouldn't have had to unfairly endure the charactor attacks, the knew jerk reactions, the bogus assualts on his true legacy, the one that goes WAY beyond football.
The sad thing is, everyone is blaming and hold a football coach to a higher standard than our own law enforcement officals. Say what you want about Freeh's report, it is not a complete report. Joe never emailed, so there are NO emails from Joe, only things other say about him. Also, Freeh doesn't address how law enforcement didn't have enough evidence inn 1998, but yet Joe knew and it's all his fault. I knew in 1998, it came across the ticker on ESPN. And why would Joe not want a man, who was no longer a coach, to not be investigated? Oh because they were friends? But they weren't. The BOT (board of trustees) is who name Sandusky successor, he was friends with many BOT members including Gov. Tom Corbett. Who has State Attorney General chose to table the Sandusky case, for at least 3 years. Joe was the one who said, Sandusky shouldn't be the next coach.My point, where there is smoke there is fire, Corbett has smoke all around him, and he's the only one with any motivation to hide the Sandusky's monsters acts. There was no need for Joe to, it was not a "football" problem. We aren't talking about NCAA violations we are talking about laws, and laws that it's up to our government officals to address. Blame the coach all you want, but how can you not blame the police, the SAG, the BOT, or the Governor? They all had the info too, they all failed to do more. And just in case you didn't know, Corbett hired another individual to head up the public safety department that also ran a sex ring, and was finally arrested for it, against the Governor's wishes.
For those saying the Paternos need to go away, are the same folks that don't want the whole truth. That our society isn't corrupt from football giants, it's corrupt from our political and legal system.
Hate me all you want, bash me all you want, you don't know me. You don't that I was sexual abused as a child by a babysitter. You don't know that I always loved PSU football because it was school first. How does a guy who benches players who were eligible by NCAA standards but not his standards for a bowl game when all he was worried about was a record. His actions for almost 60 years don't fall in line with his accused inactions for the last 10. It doesn't make sense at all. Take away his statue, his records, his wins, and I firmly believe he and the family wouldn't care, he was more worried about turning boys into men, and creating contributing factors of society, and Sandusky was obviously not one, but how many other hunderds were. And Sandusky's biggest allies were through the Second Mile foundation, a foundation that donated to Corbett, a foundation that was supported largely by the BOT's, a foundation that had close friends and allies of the Sandusky, who today, claim they had no knowledge. Seems odd that a coach who cut ties with a man in 1999 had more knowledge and chose to hide it than those who were close friends and donators of Sandusky through his arrest.
For journalist who always ask questions and assume doubt, are doing the opposite, making blind statements. I want another investigation done, as if I was being investigated like the BOT was, I would love to chose the investigator, espeically a good friend, as Freeh is to Corbett. Take down all of Joe's legacy, I don't care. But if you really want to right a wrong, fix something that is broken, remove Corbett from office, have all of his emails made public record, do a honest investigations. I knew when Freeh was named by the BOT it was joke, you can chose to have yourself investigated and then admit it's a limited scope. My theory, some one on the BOT bribed, lied, cheated or whatever to convince law enforcement not to do a thing, because of the work of the second mile foundation and it's connection to political figues in the state of PA. I could care less of Joe's legacy, I want the truth, and right now we don't have it.
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