Joe Paterno to resign at end of season

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

So what is going on here ?
Is this a matter of party politics, or CYOA, or what ?
Has the organization been accused of anything...
...Sanduskey has been gone from it for quite a while.

On the surface, I can't see how withholding $ from an organization that
is supposedly providing a needed service to kids is going to help them.

CBS News
November 17, 2011 8:55 AM

Pa. gov puts $3M Sandusky charity grant on hold

.

I find it interesting that republicans want to do away with welfare, cut government spending, etc., and here is a rep gov and rep legislature handing out money to an organization founded and run be a pedophilic sexual predator. This also shows that a government program that performed the duties of second mile is preferable to a private organization.

[classicman]

Pa. governor’s office halts $3M grant for charity founded by ex-Penn State coach in abuse case
By Associated Press, November 16

PHILADELPHIA — A $3 million state grant that was earmarked for a youth charity established
by a former Penn State football assistant coach at the heart of a child molestation scandal has been put on hold.

Gov. Tom Corbett said Wednesday he knew that The Second Mile’s founder, Jerry Sandusky,
was gone from the organization when the grant was approved earlier this year.
Corbett, who said the funds were being withheld in light of the growing scandal, ~snip~

Corbett, a Republican, was the attorney general whose office in 2008 began the investigation
into allegations of sexual contact between young boys and Sandusky, who founded the charity in 1977.

I'm not really sure what you are getting at Spexx. The money was approve, then put on hold. Correct decision at this point, IMO.

I don't see the connection to your public/private argument. The real issue, to me, is in the last part of my quote. What did Corbett know back in 2008 and why did it take years for this to come out?

[tw]

A little reported news event was:
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA - In the wake of the sex abuse scandal that rocked Penn State earlier this month, a coalition of 10-year-old boys from across the nation held a press conference Saturday outside Beaver Stadium,

[BigV]

you're goddamn motherfuckin skippy.

"you just can't go wrong notifying the police"

Fuck. Yeah.

[ZenGum]

I couldn't make this up.

[tw]

Sandusky applied to be an assistant coach to nearby Juniata College's football team. Juniata College did a background check. So many knew Sandusky was a problem that Juniata ordered the coach to reject Sandusky. Juniata's football coach brought Sandusky onboard anyway.

When does Juniata's coach also get fired? And who are these so many people who knew Sandusky was a problem - causing him to fail a background check? More loose ends that suggest so many people knew - and said nothing.

If not yet reported in other venues, Sandusky's wife could also be charged as an accomplice to an attack on a kid locked in the basement and calling for help. She did nothing. If proven, that would also make her a felon.

Meanwhile, up north in Syracuse, that University's basketball coach and his wife are also accused (but apparently not yet charged) of doing same crimes.

[classicman]

Meanwhile, up north in Syracuse, that University's basketball coach and his wife
are also accused (but apparently not yet charged) of doing same crimes.

Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim was sued for defamation.
The investigation of Bernie Fine is still ongoing.
Charges will be forthcoming as yet another victim has surfaced.

[classicman]

In an interview with ABC , attorney Karl Rominger said
Sandusky may have simply been teaching kids how to shower.
Sandusky founded the Second Mile charity organization, which helped disadvantaged youth.

"People who work with troubled youth will tell you that there are a lot of juvenile delinquents
or people who are dependent who
have to be taught basic life skills like how to put soap on their body," Rominger said.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat???????????

Link

[ZenGum]

My bullshit detector just exploded.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

My bullshit detector just exploded.

Oh Noes! Look at what a mess you are! You need a shower, stat. You need any help with that soap?

this is another trap.

Cause it's dirty up in there, reaaaalll dirty.

[infinite monkey]

Jesus.

[tw]

They never miss an oppurtunity for a road trip:

WBC will picket the TicketCity Bowl between Penn State and Houston University to remind this nation that God Hates america and sends raping coaches as a curse for this nation's rebellion.

God also hates anyone who raises, handles, plays with, and consumes pork.

[ZenGum]

Wait wait wait wait wait.

The pedophile raping coach is part of the punishment? Not part of the sins for which the US is being puninshed?

Ok now my total-nutjob detector has also exlpoded. It's sitting beside my burned out bullshit detector, smoking gently. The fire warden is very unhappy.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Zen, you have to understand WBC's business plan. They are all lawyers. They don't give a fuck about religion. They say the most offensive things they can think of, to piss off the most people possible, in hopes of being personally attacked so they can sue. End of story.

[Lamplighter]

The Freeh Report was released yesterday, and the news seemed to focus
exclusively on damning Paterno more than the 3 administrators of the university.
News articles referred to emails as the damning evidence, but did not print/post them.
I tried various sources to download the PDF file of the Freeh Report, but was unsuccessful.

Today, the NY Times has put the Freeh Report on line here.