Penn State paid for Jerry Sandusky’s crimes in a major way when the NCAA handed down its penalties. Even after all this time, I still find the actions taken by the NCAA to be absurd and misplaced. Vacating Paterno’s wins from 1998 is no big deal; JoePa is dead. Forcing a $60 million fine to be given to charities of disadvantaged children can be a good thing. However, the dropping of scholarships from 85 to 65 means 20 fewer young men will have the chance to get a quality education and have an amazing opportunity to play BIGTEN football. 20 men, by the way, who had nothing to do with Jerry Sandusky. Finally, PSU will have a four year bowl ban, again, punishing those who had nothing to do with Sandusky, and many of whom may not even know who he is.
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Category Archives: Politics
Deadbeat or Pro-choice?
I find this cartoon by Steve Kelley to be both enlightening and sad at the same time. Decadence and political correctness in America have reached a stench so high that while on one hand, we punish one group of people for being deadbeat, on the other hand we champion, crusade and march for, and protest over the “right” to end life for another group of people.
It is sad, really, that our society has become so selfish that we only think of ourselves and most often not of the innocent who are just waiting for a chance to become one of us.
Unintended Consequences
The law of unintended consequences has a strange way of winding its way back to biting us in the behind. Congress recently passed a “Bill of Rights” for passengers flying on commercial airliners in the United States. They deemed that any airline keeping passengers on board a flight for longer than three hours before taking off would be subject to huge fines. This sounds great, right? After all, no one wants to be stuck on an airplane for hours on end. Regulators love to regulate, and law makers love to write new laws. However, what sounds beneficial to passengers often has unintended consequences.
At the country’s largest and busiest airports, this law, and the avoidance of its fines, can often cause more problems and delays than if the rule didn’t exist. I was trying to get home to Columbus from JFK one stormy night, and the delays to push back off the gate were mounting up as flight departures were slowed due to the weather. After sitting onboard for around an hour at the gate, we were all told we had to deplane. Once in the terminal, not five minutes passed and we were told to board again. My guess is that Delta was trying to reset the three hour clock and avoid a potential for delay fees.
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The Real Thanksgiving
A reader’s comment reminded me of this true story of Thanksgiving, told by Rush Limbaugh, in a way only he can tell it. Good luck finding this story in your child’s classroom.
Time now, ladies and gentlemen, for The Real Story of Thanksgiving, as written by I — by me — in my second book, See, I Told You So. It’s page 70 in the hardcover version. “On August 1, 1620, the Mayflower set sail. It carried a total of 102 passengers, including forty Pilgrims led by William Bradford. On the journey, Bradford set up an agreement, a contract, that established just and equal laws for all members of the new community, irrespective of their religious beliefs. Where did the revolutionary ideas expressed in the Mayflower Compact come from? From the Bible. The Pilgrims were a people completely steeped in the lessons of the Old and New Testaments. They looked to the ancient Israelites for their example. And, because of the biblical precedents set forth in Scripture, they never doubted that their experiment would work.”
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“Radical Islam” a dirty word?
These two video clips are astounding. They are both short, but together, they show that both our government isn’t serious about protecting us from a real threat and also that a portion of the younger generation of Americans are willing to publicly admit they support Hamas and Hezbollah. Amazing! Is this the United States of America?
Our Attorney General has no problem worrying about the dangers of Tea Party Members and the Arizona law that enforces the Federal laws against illegal immigration, but is unwilling to say the words, “Radical Islam.”
This young college student publicly supports a terrorist organization.
Lookout America, times are changing.
UPDATE: Rush said today about Eric Holder: “His law firm, ladies and gentlemen, represented a bunch of terrorists at Guantanamo, as have some of his appointees at justice! His law firm represents these people. So he can’t say, “Yeah, it’s radical Islam,” ’cause then he’s condemning his own clients or his former firms’ own clients. That’s why he can’t say it. Stop and think of that. Radical Islam, there’s no question it’s our enemy.” Imagine that, our Attorney General is from a firm defending enemy combatants who fought against the United States and held at Club Gitmo.
Lunacy of the Left
Glenn Beck responds to naysayers of the Arizona Law that takes on the illegal immigration problem the Federal Government refuses to confront. 70% of Americans from all States agree with the new law . . .
“Papers please: Law makes it crime to be Illegal Immigrant.”
This is how MSNBC summarized the new law in Arizona, designed to do something that our federal government will not: take illegal immigration seriously.
The idiocy of the not-so-subtle Nazi reference is exceeded only by the idea that doing something “illegal” should be anything other than a “crime.”
But common sense didn’t stop many from reacting as if Arizona’s attempt to ask for identification would turn the Southwestern United States into the Fourth Reich.
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Nashville Flooding
In the aftermath of the Nashville flooding, there have been some startling revelations about this tragedy stemming from the media coverage and the public in general. Specifically, there are no calls to text to a number to donate money, there are no Facebook buttons with links to help or donate, very late mention on WhiteHouse.gov for donations, and not much of a word has been whispered by the news media. This all lies in stark contrast to the coverage and outpouring of concern over hurricane Katrina that devastated the Gulf coast (notably New Orleans) and the earthquake that basically destroyed Haiti.
I wonder aloud and publicly about why this is. Do you? Is it because there aren’t self made victims seen from helicopters holding signs that ask the govt. for help? With not much of a peep from the media, is it because “people helping people” works better [Nashville] than “government helping people” [New Orleans] and that doesn’t fit the script?
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