"It is with great sadness that we announce that Joe Paterno passed away earlier today," the family statement said. "His loss leaves a void in our lives that will never be filled." Dies of complications of lung cancer. Or shame. Or a broken heart.
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A tragic end to an incredible career. And I mean tragic in the classical sense, as taught in HS English class during discussion of Aeschylus (I probably date myself with that statement.)
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Joe Paterno ends his era at Penn State. He left a long career, but I am not so certain he left much of a legacy other than the sheer number of games he coached.
The shame is that the Jerry Sandusky scandal had left an indelible black mark on him, and by extension the Penn State football program.
Were I Brent Mussberger, I would have a monthly full mouth debriding to rid myself of all the sweet syrupy bullsh*t I spoke about Paterno: Joe Pa this and Joe Pa that, my ass...
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Unfortunately, buried below the fold on most newspapers was a release of some documents from the grand jury investigation. The papers stated that Paterno went to the police and reported what he had been told by McCreary.
Everyone is all over Paterno because "he didn't follow up" but do you really have to follow up on a police report and reports to the AD and President of PSU.
The press loves to take down public figures like Joe and just like in so many other similar cases, they never bother to publically apologize for their rush to judgment and that gives credibility to the rumors and allegations about his actions that were false.
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Tragedy: "a play in which the protagonist, usually a man of importance and outstanding personal qualities, falls to disaster through the combination of a personal failing and circumstances with which he cannot deal"
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My comments were based on what I know Paterno did, not what I think he should have done.
Ifn he went to the cops, good for him. That doesn't excuse him or his program from letting things go on as they did.
And as such, let us face it: knowing what Paterno knew, defensive genius or not, Sandusky was a sh*tty choice as a face of Penn State and it will always be so.
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Joe's machine included the cops. He went once so he would have some plausible deniability. They would have acted if Joe had wanted them to, but he didn't think it would be in the machine's best interests, including Penn State's.
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Mama always told me that if I can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.
My condolences to him family.
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So you fire a sick old man who has rendered so many years of fine service to your institution, knowing full well that it was the institution itself that protected Sandusky? You make Paterno the fall guy? Bullshit. Chickenshit. Penn State is rotten to the core.
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IIRR Penn State is also Mann's home to the AGW scam.
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It's also the home of the Applied Research Lab, which has quietly brought a lot of valuable science & technology to our military, esp. the Navy and Marines.
Generalizations aren't all that useful when applied to such a large and diverse institution.
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I agree w/Badanov & gorb...just telling the PSU admin & then letting it go was not enough...reminds me of a famous quote attributed to Burke...also fwiw - A couple NHL Hockey players (Theo Fleury for one) who were victims of similar abuse gave a great rundown on the bullshit they encountered and reached out to the victims of the PSU scandal. One of the NHL players said this wrt Paterno -(paraphrased) if one of Paterno's grandkids had been abused I'd imagine he'd done more than just tell his boss and let it go at that.
[An Nahar] Egyptian border police rubbed out two African migrants and maimed a third as they tried to cross illegally into Israel early Saturday, security officials said.
Border police spotted the man and woman, whose nationality remains unknown, as they tried to climb over barbed wire along the frontier and fired on them after they refused to heed calls to stop.
It was the first reported shooting this year of migrants as they try to sneak into Israel seeking a better life.
About 11 migrants, most of them from Africa, were killed last year.
Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... said in 2010 year that Egyptian police had killed at least 85 migrants near the border since 2007.
Israel has repeatedly asked Egypt to clamp down on migrant traffic and smuggling along the mostly non-existent border.
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I bet Israelis had a different type of traffic on mind and beside, I doubt that they asked to give the migrants rosebuds.
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Women in the Middle East however, are seeing the choice as an attack, albeit sarcastic, on the clothes worn by Muslim women to enjoy their time in the water.
Ya think? Normally, if someone were to be found in the water in some kind of sack, it would soon be followed by a murder investigation. I can't imagine this being comfortable or convenient in any way, unless you have no natural defense against exposure to sunlight or you are worried about honor killings.
[Pak Daily Times] Sindh Information Minister Shazia Marri said on Saturday that Sindh government had detected 21,438 fake computerized and 20,456 manual national identity cards, besides unearthing 1,264 people involved in double government jobs.
This she said while addressing an urgent presser at the Sindh Secretariat. Marri further said that besides detecting fake NICs and people having double government jobs with the help of Auditor General Sindh and National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), the government had also unearthed 381 cases of deceased employees, whose salaries were being issued illegally.
Talking about statistics in detail, she said that NADRA had blocked 638 CNICs and 82 manual identity cards for reservations. Marri said that though manual cards had not been issued since 2002 and their usage was objectionable since 2004, around 73,000 manual cards were being used.
"The age of around 16,065 government employees had been registered wrongly, despite the fact that public servants are provided with a period of two years to correct their particulars in record, if needed," she said, adding that all the statistics had been revealed by scrutinising the record of 401,388 government employees in the first phase of the drive, launched three months ago on the directives of the Sindh chief minister.
She said that fake voting had become a severe and burning issue of the society while President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... was committed to eliminating the that menace since inception of his tenure.
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They say "job" but it looks to me like "sinecures".
[An Nahar] Iraqi police tossed in the calaboose 19 officials and tribal leaders after they threatened to harm an MP who alleged graft in Storied Baghdad's ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... municipal government, officials said on Saturday.
Sherwan al-Waili, a politician belonging to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's bloc and a former minister of state for national security, made the claims in mid-December. They led to the arrest of Storied Baghdad deputy mayor Naeem Abboub.
The 19 suspects, including at least five Storied Baghdad municipal officials and several tribal leaders, were jugged on Friday after they allegedly conveyed the threat to Waili's brother Merdan in the southern city of Nasiriyah.
"Around 20 men arrived, some of them in government cars," Merdan al-Waili, a 60-year-old tribal chief, told AFP.
"They threatened me. They said: 'If our sons are not released in two days, you will see what happens'."
Nasiriyah police Colonel Falah al-Saidi said officers tossed in the calaboose 19 people after they "threatened Merdan, and said his brother is responsible for the lives of their sons, and the judgments against them."
Thirteen of the people tossed in the calaboose have since been released, and six remain in jug.
A Waili family member, who did not want to be named, said the group had also demanded that the politician publicly apologize for his claims.
Waili's political office told AFP that the politician had uncovered evidence of corruption in Abboub's office, and insisted Waili would continue his work.
Graft is rife in Iraq, with watchdog Transparency International ranking the country as the eighth-most corrupt country in the world. Efforts to fight corruption are often met with violence and intimidation.
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Just one whistleblower type can have a devastating effect on graft, especially if he gets away with it.
That an Iraqi was able and willing to do this is really shocking. And hopefully will be inspirational to other Iraqis. Once honesty gets around, graft becomes much, much harder.
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Graft and bribery exist in all societies. It acts like a tax that inhibits efficient financial activity. Capital tends to seek markets where it can achieve a good and predictable return. Add some socialism and instability into the brew of high levels of corruption and capital flees. Iraqis can choose to be like the US that has a relatively low level of corruption and socialism versus a potential high level of profit or Iraqis can follow the opposite template of Zimbabwe. Somewhere in between is Mexico.
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Letter to Naturehere. This is an area of research that (I think) should go forward but with the most careful vetting and security. The scientists are right to pause, and the international scientific community needs to review the criteria by which the work will be done. We have rules regarding how other deadly viruses (e.g., ebola) are handled, but those don't necessarily apply in other countries and in laboratories that do not receive government funding. The science world needs to catch up in its understanding of the risks of this work getting into the wrong hands.
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at least do it in a level 4 lab with proper security
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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[Pak Daily Times] Sindh Information Minister Shazia Marri said on Saturday that Sindh government had detected 21,438 fake computerized and 20,456 manual national identity cards, besides unearthing 1,264 people involved in double government jobs.
