Regardless, what McQueary told them all he saw wasn't ambiguous or subject to interpretation.  He says he saw McQueary energetically raping a 10-yo child.

As one born in PSU land who still cheers on Penn State and considered Paterno to be Coach Exemplar, I almost cried at first hearing. My husband, who lived in Pennsylvania thru high-school and had met Paterno when he visited husband's H.S. to give a motivational talk, felt the same pangs...and, it was a prime subject of conjecture by us over the week-end. We felt that the state insitutions would be protective of the Penn State officials in view of the pervasive football & other admiration. We have been pleasantly surprised to see (and hear via cousins) that institutions like the Harrisburg paper are not hiding nor in denial.

Not even if Paterno was on the short list for sainthood should his failure to follow through - even if he wasn't legally required to do so - be glossed over.

Isn't this the man who built a career on doing the right thing?  Does it seem like he did enough in this case to make sure the right thing was being done?

Does this sound like a man who did the right thing?

"If true, the nature and amount of charges made are very shocking to me and all Penn Staters. While I did what I was supposed to with the one charge brought to my attention, like anyone else involved I can't help but be deeply saddened these matters are alleged to have occurred....

"As my grand jury testimony stated, I was informed in 2002 by an assistant coach that he had witnessed an incident in the shower of our locker room facility. It was obvious that the witness was distraught over what he saw, but he at no time related to me the very specific actions contained in the Grand Jury report. Regardless, it was clear that the witness saw something inappropriate involving Mr. Sandusky. As Coach Sandusky was retired from our coaching staff at that time, I referred the matter to university administrators."

So, Sandusky was "retired" and what, Paterno just hands it off to the administration?  Why not the cops if Sandusky wasn't a university employee anymore?  Why not Child Protective Services?  The incident Paterno was told about occurred in 2002 - nine freaking years ago!  Nine!

But, the show must go on.  Strong moral, ethical and academic values must be instilled in the young men Paterno coached, right?  How in the name of God does someone hold himself out as a role model for morals and ethics and do only what he was legally required to do, and no more?

The more I hear people bringing up what a swell guy Paterno is, the more I am reminded of how the Catholic Church handled reports of abuse by priests; in this allegory, Paterno's not the one who committed the acts, but he's part of the hierarchy that failed those who had been victimized up to that point, and all those who were harmed from that point forward.

...what's happening in Greece is a dress rehearsal for what's going on in the United States.

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...you have an identical strategy being used between Greece and the United States. Greece is the first domino since Iceland. And the financial interests that are looking at this post-2008 debt crisis as a grab bag think now is the chance for us to make our move. Now we can take all this debt that we've built up and we can get out of the financial system, we can turn it into direct ownership of property. We can own the Greek islands, we can own the Greek public domain, just like we can own what Minnesota, Chicago, Wisconsin, and California own. And all of a sudden you have a huge virtual foreclosure process.
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You can look at what's happening in Greece when it says cut back your pensions, cut back your Social Security, cut back your medical care. This is exactly what we're going to see done ... by the Obama administration here.

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...former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinskiz warned that the growing wealth imbalance in America - now reaching levels not seen since the Great Depression - could lead to civil unrest in the streets. As the middle-class in America falls deeper and deeper into desperation - Brzezisnki said, "we're going to slide into intensified social conflicts, social hostility, some forms of radicalism, there is just going to be a sense that this is not a just society." We have a society in which 400 Americans own more wealth that 150 million other Americans. We have a society in which 50% of all the children in America will depend on food stamps at some point in their life before they are 18 - and among African American children that number is 90%. We no longer live in a just society - and if Brzezinski is right - turbulent times could be ahead for America.