He's full of sour grapes because, during the campaign, when *PAB tried to jam up candidate Obama, the future president put his foot in *PAB's mouth and *PAB hasn't recovered and never will. Correct me if I'm wrong, but *PAB has never interviewed Obama again--doesn't have access-- and probably never will.

*PAB is trying to generate interest in his latest book, too, so he'll say anything.

That is all.

*PAB = Punk A** B****.

and didn't stop it and didn't call the po-po, is morally reprehensible.

On a totally more positive note, a newly created org, "Proud to be a Penn Stater," just had a founder on MSNBC. The org is not affiliated with Penn and was started approximately 24 hours ago to raise money for the victims. They've already collected over $124K with a goal of $557K--557K being the number of Penn students!

The young man appearing on MSNBC News Nation stated several times that the purpose of the org is to turn the attention to the victims. He spoke of the heinousness of the crimes and the cover up, with the victims being lost in the sensationalism.

Anyone who wants to can make a DU thread; I can't cuz it's too tedious for me on the smartphone. Link to the site below.

http://www.proudtobeapennstater.com/

out spread hands positioned just so between the bent over player's thighs to receive the ball for passing.

Thanks, OP, for the list.

Reports are that Paterno has hired a big time defense attorney. Why would he have to if he knew little to nothing? HE KNEW DETAILS.

All those who saw and didn't report what they saw to the proper legal authorities in a timely manner are cowards, and the grad assistant, the janitor and anyone else who were eyewitnesses to Sandusky's abominable actions against children but made no effort to rescue them knowing that they were being violated are poor excuses for human beings.

Making a case that a pedophile is merely a fantasizer, not a predator is weird; pedophile and predator are synonymous and indistinguishable.

I'd be surprised if Sandusky wasn't running a ring giving fellow predators access to his stash of sexually abused boys; why is this so far-fetched? In fact, I'd be shocked if he stopped defiling boys after all the repercussions since 1998.

Showtime dynasty.

But that's neither here nor there when it comes to the fact that Bird and Magic changed the game; what's more, they made their teammates better and believed strongly in the team concept. Say what you will, but they made it possible for the Jordans and the Bryants to dominate the game in later years.

Did you know that in the late 70s, owner Jerry Buss gave Earvin Johnson a million per year, 25-year contract which was previously unheard of in the NBA? Yes, he did.

For all that I can't stand Jordan, I admit that he was a great player, but I can't say he was the greatest because there were others who came before him who changed the game.

cut-throat, greedy, uncaring, disloyal slave to his own bottom line."

Always was, always will be.
Because he brought in such high revenues and increased viewership for the NBA, not to mention Nike, Hanes, and other corporations, the NBA overlooked much poor behavioral characteristics, ie., gambling, that would have gotten the average player expelled from the league. Once his father was killed, Stern and the NBA gave him a total pass, IMO. He wasn't well-liked by Bulls teammates--"my supporting cast" as he liked to say, let alone the majority of NBA players, during his hey-day in the league, and his stint in the 'Ham with the Barons stank to high heaven. Glad I heckled him at the Hoover Met as much as I could.

To top it all off, he's one of the most inarticulate college grads I've ever heard. His speech is pretty much incoherent. Yet, he thinks very highly of himself. He really believes he's the greatest player ever, and doesn't mind saying so.

ITA with those who say it's union busting pure and simple.

Bird and Magic changed the game but the NBA and Stern created Jordan Rules.

Paraphrasing Chris Rock in 'Head of State:' "I asked my niece what's fo' plus fo?' She said fawty-fo'!"

"My favorite book-Governing by Cliff Notes--" "Mine too!"

"We have lots in common: I execute innocent men--" "Yeah, and I giggle about executing women."

"Yo' a** just a po' a** hick farm boy." "Yo' a** wudn't no real cowboy with yo' fake a** ranch with no cattle."

"How'd y'all steal 2 elections?" "Practice, practice, practice."

"How 'bout them Rangers."

President Obama is obviously shaken about the recession, yet not stirred about the effect it's having on the masses. As he said in his speech this morning, "The economy will get better..." However, the statement sounded strange and incomplete, perhaps because he left out "without my help."

Yes He Can--ignore us.

SMH.

Let's face it--this nation, this world--is an economic mess. We think it's only us, but it's really all over. Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain as well as Greece and other Euro countries are just as desperate as we are, if not more so. Some of our financial wizards are blaming today's NYSE free fall on the international debt crisis. Switzerland just pushed down it's franc to try to prevent inflation, and Japan did the same with the yen.

China looks as if it's doing well, but it's got inflation and corruption problems especially in construction and building.

The EU president has warned Eurozone leaders numerous times to stop squabbling and allocate the financing needed to bailout Ireland, Greece and Spain.

Sure, the Rs hate the president with the burning passion of 10k suns and are practicing scorched earth politics, but the Dems did nothing when they had the floor either.

Fact is there was never a recovery; we moved from depression to recession and we're heading for a deeper recession, even if Bernanke enacts a 3rd quantitative ease (QE3). All of this is because Congress has refused to initiate jobs creation and hold the banks responsible for their criminal acts.

Then there's what Melissa Perry said.

had the choice.

Look, I listened closely to President Obama's stump speeches and concluded as early as February 2008 that he was more right-leaning than either HRC or the Big Disappointment, all of whom I considered the top 3 for the nom and eventual White House win.

If you check his record as an Illinois rep, you'll see that while he was a man of ethics, he was also pretty conservative. His short time as US senator was pretty right-leaning (read, bipartisan) as well.

Not that I have anything against bipartisan because it is a good thing when the ones with whom you're working compromise are of noble character, rather than backstabbing haters.
I don't hold the escalation of the Afghan war against him because he never wavered on this during the campaign. I don't hold the Guantanamo detention camp non-closure against him because he's tried, and reality often bites once one takes office.

These are only 3 of more than a few issues about which I have no beef with the president.

There are, however, at least 2 major beefs I hold against President Obama: Rahm and Geithner and, most important, his failure to live up to what I deem his most important statement of his election night speech -- "We may not always agree, but I will always listen to you."

I don't know who the 'you' was of whom he said he'd listen but, so far, he hasn't listened to we the people on jobs creation, on health insurance reform, on prosecution of the domestic terrorists cousin Darth Cheney and the sociopath Dim Son, on shoring up Wall $treet in the face of their continued abysmal failures, nor on debt ceiling/budget talks.

In fact, in 3 years, he's rarely listened to progressives on his supposed side of the aisle on any issues directly affecting our households daily. This is why I grade him as barely passing, even taking into account that we were already Wily Coyote suspended off the cliff when he took the oath of office on that bitterly cold day of 1/21/09.

the longest;" most of us "99ers" haven't had income since February/March. In fact, there is NO BILL being considered for we exhaustees who have been unemployed the longest, but have yet to secure employment, gainful or otherwise. Yet, we have been fighting very hard for the current extensions. Many of us have been surviving by the skin of our teeth, since most of us have no retirement and/or savings from which to draw.

Just to clarify. . . .

are more willing to point out the veracity, or lack thereof, of comments made about the weakness of Democrats rather than contact the senate critters to demand action.

Thinning and proving online is far more preferable--and much easier--than doing what you suggest. But whatever. As a long-term unemployed who has exhausted all benefits and who has been without income for months, I've been on the phone and emailing letters and faxing for well over a year now as the fight for extensions and job creation bills have been ongoing. I've written the president, spoken to senate aides countless times--some know my voice and I theirs, sent my story to the Ways and Means committee for the record, been on national news broadcasts several times, been quoted in several major newspapers, spoken several times on Ed Schultz's radio show, blah blah blah. I blame both parties based on my experience in the unemployeds' fight for survival. All while constantly tweaking my resume, performing a daily job search, including networking as much as possible, sending out 100s of CVs, and trying to survive without cash. ITA that if more employed people were involved as you suggest, there would be more positive action in both houses of Congress from both parties. It is easy and convenient to point out the repubs' reprehensible behavior. However, 3 fingers are pointing back at the Dems when they point at the other party.

But, hey, what do I know?

the Dems are just as much to blame.

The Dems care no more for the suffering of the jobless than the fat cat corporations that created this unemployment mess. Weak democratic leadership is the bigger culprit, IMO.

(see Schwarzenegger, Whitman, et al.) and much more about prestige and the idolatry of power. For politicians, both aspirants and the elected, power is their religion.

They love nothing better than deciding the fate of the hoi polloi, ie., such and such authored the bill___, for good or ill.

It is the religion of power that they diligently worship and worshipfully seek.

Maybe it was designed that way, and maybe not, but today's pols have raised power-seeking to an amoral art form. The prestige of having council person, assembly person, senator or governor or congressperson before their name is like Viagra to their egos.

But I'm'a try to say it without being too incendiary, yet say it I must.

Liberals and every other white person in this country, in fact, around the world, knew that Shrub and the Blood-Thirsty Beast had, among many heinous crimes too numerous to mention, stolen 2 elections, committed treason by outing an intelligence operative, illegally invaded Iraq and shot up Uday and Qusay Hussein, looted the Treasury and Fed Reserve, yet not one had the courage of their convictions to risk their lives to prosecute them.

It was all hush-hush and on the down low, with folk half-heartedly moaning about their crimes on the web.

Not even Shrub's 2 white opponents had the guts to pursue justice after they were blatantly cheated by Governor Dim Son and his crooked henchmen.

But y'all expect the black man to reach back and do what not one of y'all dared. Where was this hue and cry while things were spinning out of control from 2000 to 2008?

If y'all didn't while it was happening, why should President Obama now, especially with all the dikes he's having to plug because of the previous admin's criminality?

It is a crock and a form of repudiation and racism against Obama to blame him for not prosecuting Shrub and Company.

And it is inappropriate and it ain't right for him to be blamed.

Stop the madness. It ain't Obama's job to pursue a justice that not even RS pursued during our dissension into a terroristic 3rd world state under the other 2 before him.

Not one white law firm has sought to file suit against either Shrub or Mr. Go F*** Yourself since they've left office. Not even the ACLU has taken up the mantle to seek justice for what was done. Legal action can be initiated outside of the White House, so get to it.