Revisiting the NCAA, USC, Reggie Bush, Penn State and the pedophile

A few weeks ago the NCAA came out and said to the chagrin of parents everywhere, and a stunned by pepper spray nation, that the Reggie Bush case, and the pedophile at Penn State were "not comparable"; as reasoning for not releasing USC from their onerous sanctions, while easing up on PSU.

Today we find out that PSU is paying out $59.7 million to 26 victims of the pedophile they allowed free reign to rape and destroy.

Hmmm, not comparable.... yet PSU is released from most of their NCAA penalty for losing institutional control, admitting that moral failure by paying out nearly $60mil, and the NCAA hands them a hall pass.
How is this even possible in the real world?

Aren't we all just a little shocked that the people running the NCAA are telling us that; the alleged never proven allegations against the Bush family for accepting money from a independent sports agent are somehow more reprehensible than a skeezy old man, and longtime PSU employee raping 26 little boys in the campus shower?

USC never gave the Bush family a dime outside the scholarship earned by Reggie to play ball.
No coach at 'SC has ever been accused of the crimes that piece of crap is now serving time for.
So how does 'SC's "loss of institutional control" come out being demonized as far worse than what PSU allowed their employee to perpetrate on their property?

The sports agent involved in the Bush case was not an employee of USC.
He did not woo the Bush's on campus with dollars and automobiles; and if he had would we still look at him as though he'd fallen down a few rungs on the ladder of life below a pedophile?
Not on the ladder I climb. There is no rung for pedophiles.

Sandusky was an employee of PSU, a longtime employee, and trusted friend of Joe Paterno's.
He used that position to prey on at least 26 young boys whose parents trusted him without reservation vis a vis his connection to PSU and Paterno.

PSU should not only be disallowed a year of particpation in all NCAA sports for every year the pedophile preyed on the prepubescent while on the PSU campus, they should also forfeit an additional year for each of his victims.

Which for me at the age of 52 would mean, that I would never have to be reminded of their "loss of institutional control" on  cool fall Saturdays, ever again.
I feel better already.

Midget in a Minefield

What does one say about Vlad's, ham handed moves at trying to reassemble the USSR?

Extortion, bribery, outright threats of economic destruction, cutting gas and oil shipments to countries whose only means of keeping their populations alive during harsh northern European winters, lies in their ability to import Russian stores.

Yeah Vlad I believe when you threaten an entire nation with freezing, that might be considered un-neighborly in your parts, the rest of the world looks on that as a crime against humanity.

But how would you recognize such a thing?

Wouldn't actually being a human be a prerequsite for understanding crimes against humanity?

Stalin, wasn't human, neither were Hitler or Mao.

Unfortunately for the Russians, and their former friends in the USSR, a troglodyte from a past era has foisted himself on a long suffering people.

Why do the power hungry Putin's of diminutive proportions always stick their tiny little hands into the public pie?

Forcing their own myopic vision on those who can see.

What is going on in that itty bitty little brain, behind those blank beady blue eyes?

Evil.

Russia, the midget you've allowed to become czar, has placed your entire nation in the midst of a minefield.

Ted Cruz Retardican Lost

Dear Ted,
Almost singlehanded, you have taken the Retardican Party, and pushed this esteemed organization to the brink of extinction.
Think Whig Party.
Cruz baby, you wigged out, enlisted your Tea Partyin' cohort to the trainwreck that is your policy, and nearly wiped out any remaining semblance of American credibility.
You've left me quite a job in damage control.
Never mind the lasting consequences of your actions on the GOP; focus instead on what you've done to convince the rest of the world that we are a ship without a rudder.
Your boy Boehner, equally at fault; I've seen Jackson Galaxy have more success herding cats, than the Boner has with his ship of fools.
With all of the recent emphasis on mental health in our nation, perhaps we should start with the Retardican contingent in Congress.
Group lobotomies anyone?
Someday (hopefully), you guys will understand that the economics of the nation bears as much resemblance to a household budget, as Boner does to a caring human being.
None at all.
We can also say the same for you Ted, your asshole buddy Paul Ryan, and all of your other feeble minded oligarchy building numbnuts.
Reagan's assault on the middle class is over; and your time is running short Ted.

Continued Sucksess Ted,
Your President
Barry O'Bama

Sports Reflection

Having read today that USC's appeal against NCAA sanctions, those imposed in the wake of the Reggie Bush scandal; had been denied I really didn't think much about it.
Not much, until that is, I read the quote attributed to NCAA spokesperson Meghan Durham:
" There is no comparison betwen the USC and Penn State cases."

You know I'm with her; there is no comparison.
I mean how can anyone compare a school being penalized for one student taking money to play football; with another school being penalized for allowing a longtime employee free reign to rape little boys in the school locker room for years on end?

Well said Meghan, there can be no rational comparison.
However, in speaking for the NCAA you have just thrown a mirrors stark reflection back on one of the key areas where America just can't seem to get it right.

We place no value in protecting our children from pedophiles, especially when the guy can coach football.
Well at least until he's exposed...

So now the NCAA has just come out and said what our courts and society have been saying forever.
That fictional amateur status of college athletes is seriously more important than the vetting and prosecution of serial pedophiles.
I can't be the only guy who finds this state of affairs fundamentally flawed. Am I?

Way to go Meghan, hope you don't have a little boy or girl who falls into a Sandusky Trap.
If you do, and God forbid some heinous piece of crap ever touches your child; will you ever be able to look back on this statement and stand by it?
Will you be able to look back and say "I did the right thing"?
How do you face your mirror every morning look yourself in the eye, and believe such a thing?
I'm mystified.

Michael Hastings 2.0 The Tox Report

Predictable: Actions taken, words spoken, both easily foretold by those paying attention.
Not Websters, but my own definition, relating entirely to the tactics employed by our leadership in the continuing character assasination of Michael Hastings.
Many remember Mr. Hastings and his article in Rolling Stone that brought down the career of General Stanley Mc Chrystal.
How after meeting with a person of interest in his continuing reporting on the War of Terror, his new Mercedes roadster accelerated on the streets of Hancock Park, L.A. into a tree during an early a.m. single car "accident"...Of course L.A.s Coroner found drugs in the toxicology report, that was a pre-ordained given. No alcohol, but they did find medical marijuana and amphetamine.
I'm guessing the speed inspired him to drive his car as fast as possible into the tree?
Just to see how fast he could get there?
Or he was so despondent over his notoriety, PTSD, and the medical MJ he decided to end it?
If it were not so ominous a warning against those who dig to deep; it would be almost laughable in the way it mirrors the old Soviet system of "death by accident", while simultaneously destroying the dead persons public image with tales of drunken drug fueled debauchery.
Really, don't you think that well has run dry?
How gullible are we?
Rest in Peace Michael Hastings, rest in peace.

Brezhnev 2.0

Vlad is really rocking the retro Soviet show trial thing.
Last week he ordered a court to find a dead man guilty.
This week he orders another court to convict his chief naysayer on trumped up embezzlement charges.
Hey, maybe you can dig up the Czar and kill him again?

You're a busy dude Vlad, checking your decrepit conscription armed forces during the largest post Soviet war games; riding in a sub, the only thing I haven't see you do is inoculate kids against disease.
I mean a midget with your talents should never allow himself to be limited when the cult of personality is still under construction. Too many ways to endear yourself to the people with propaganda based in fantasy.
Then again isn't all your propaganda fantasy?

Unlike our own leaders who bungle about blindly killing innocents with "signature strikes" from drones; you target your foes with phony legal charges, long predetermined sentences in far off gulags...
Actually you're not a whole lot different than Barry are you?
Barry likes to hide behind "state secrets", keeps people locked up without charge or trial for years on end in a prison he promised to close six long years ago. Prosecutes in secret courts without real due process, and allows testimony derived from torture to be used in those courts.
So no Vlad, you're no worse than Barry the Constitutional law professor.

What does that say about us?
The people who allow ourselves to be lead by evil?

Blocked by the Fresno Bee

Good morning dear readers, today as normal, I began my day by reading the local rag on line with my morning joe.
Also as usual I logged in to Disqus so I might comment on the never ending cycle of stupidity that is Fresno City and County government.

Many times in the past I have participated in the Disqus forum attached to the Fresno Bee fish wrap rag, tweaking our abundantly illiterate, ignorant population spouting Faux News idioms.
This morning when I attempted to weigh in on Mayor Ashley Swearingen's plan to overpay herself and the Chief of Police Jerry Dyer; by laying off city workers who actually do the day to day heavy lifting required to run a city of 500,000 plus, I could not.

Ashley's unilateral move laying off vital code enforcement officers is clearly a retaliatory move in the wake of her failed attempt to privatize trash collection in Fresno.
Kudos to the good citizens of Fresno who voted her efforts at political patrimony into the dustbin

Yes in the past I have used, shall we say direct language, to describe the blatant incompetence and corruption exhibited by the leaders of Fresno; but nothing to warrant being blocked from commenting in the local governments mouthpiece.
Unless of course you happen to be Ashley, Jerry or the equally monstrous Maggie Mims.

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For instance; in the past I have commented on Maggies' running a revolving door of criminality through her jail by allowing the nations most prolific car thieves to make Fresno number one in car theft.
Her penchant for misquoting law, placing the county in tenuous legal territory with regard to the medical marijuana issue; and worst of all her completely inept handling of the Minkler incident, have made her a favorite target.

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Jerry Dyer is a trough feeding muscle bound steroid pumping bully.
He takes a full salary from the city to be chief, AND he collects a retirement pension from the city at the same time.
He retired so he could protect .25% of his 8.25% tax payer funded public pension; but because he's so "irreplaceable" Ashley lobbied hard for him to get a raise and stay on.
Who knew that anyone could be so indispensable, so worthy of becoming a millionaire at the public expense.
Jerry, you're having too much fun, and find it far too easy to harass the homeless than it is to take on gang bangers on their turf.


Last and least is Ashley, her attempts to gut the city of workers, while handing that work to her campaign contributors; with an eye towards using those funds to overpay herself and Jerry is just the tip of the iceberg. How about the street she wants to put through Fulton Mall.
Ashley take a trip to Pasadena, wander around the Paseo Pasadena, with your city credit card of course, and get a good idea of what Fulton Mall could be.

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You'll notice a street does not run through it.