TabbyCat

If he was complicit in a cover-up, he didn't follow the law. Nowhere would it be considered "following the law" to conceal the crime of child sexual abuse/rape and protect the perpetrator.

Not that I don't believe you, but where did you see that he was put on leave at his own request? Everything I've read say the decision was made by interim president Rodney Erickson. The fact is that the law protects his job. It's not pretty, but it's the LAW. Though I somehow doubt he will remain there.

I especially appreciate this quote from the link above: On Friday, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) whistleblower Jane Turner, a 25-year veteran Agent who blew the whistle on the FBI's failure to provide protection for child sex abuse on North Dakota Indian Reservations, issued a statement on the Penn State scandal. “Unfortunately, I witnessed first-hand the institutional inaction that often happens when someone reports child abuse,” Turner said. “It takes enormous strength to put one’s moral integrity over your personal inclination to protect fellow colleagues who have committed

Why Mike McQueary Can't Be Fired He has, however, been placed on indefinite leave.

I don't think anyone is blaming anybody MORE than the blame Sandusky gets in this. However, it is the appearance that there was a group of people who willingly looked the other way, that has people rightfully upset. How can anyone argue that THAT wouldn't be wrong? Really, really WRONG. Time will tell. It would be healing if it were proven to be untrue. I hope that it is. Meanwhile, until it's resolved, the suspicion and anger aren't misplaced. I find it most unsavory that Sandusky is out on bond. But--he is currently only accused, not convicted, and so it is "legal" for him to be rele

Oh, right. So what does that say about YOU demanding a link?

Try here. Or here. Or here. Or here. You get the idea. The quote was picked up by Reuters. It's all over the place.

Interesting...even the Borough of State College Government's Police Department web site refers to it as a "riot." I also like and agree with this young woman's opinion piece from The Miami Herald in which she concludes: "Penn State students need to look at the bigger picture: Should Paterno be getting all this heat from the media and critics? Maybe not, but as the face of Penn State football he takes full responsibility — it’s part of the job. His fall from grace was not out of wrongdoing, but out of failing to act properly on the information he was given. A phone call to local police

Pubby, I owe you an apology for being so critical. It was mean of me, and I am sorry. I really enjoy your site, and I'm glad you have kept it going for so long.

Strangest. Subtitle. EVER.

Yep. And the STUDENTS are innocent. The ones who didn't engage in criminal acts, that is. Let me understand this...you're agreeing with me? Then how do you maintain that the students will be blamed? They won't. They had nothing to do with it. Jimminy Crickets, are you hard to follow.

Oh, my bad. There was nothing even like a riot. There weren't somewhere between 4-5,000 kids destroying street sings and lamposts, tipping over a vehicle, and throwing things, injuring both police officers and civilians. This is how these kids act every night at drinking time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTBnniHpHz8&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq-rSjNCFoo&feature=related And THANK GOD for the many, many more representative students like THIS young man, who tried in vain to speak reason to his fellow students, but who was ridiculed and jeered at for spe

THAT world view. Only an idiot would blame the students. They had nothing to do with it. They didn't even know about it. They are innocent. Anyone who would blame them or ostracize them would just be a mean and bitter person. However, if they chose to take up CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR because of it, they deserve every ounce of criminal blame coming at them for that choice. With a side dose of blame for their insensitivity to the REAL VICTIMS this case involves. And that's what I'm talking about. What you're talking about? Isn't reasonable or likely.

Congrats!! That's awesome! My daughter is also a musician. She has made mo so proud, many, many times. What instrument does your son play? Or does he sing?

I will never go back for a second visit with a smoke-stinky stylist.

*SIGH* I didn't want to, but it looks like I need to pull THIS out again:

I don't believe so. And I'm glad I don't share your world view. The students (generally) are victims of the choices of their administrators, too. And I could understand their outrage at the cover-up. But the ones who chose to become criminally violent? Because their coach was fired? They should face the same as any other citizen who behaves in such a way. Unlike you, I believe MOST people will see the students sympathetically. Except for the ones who became criminally violent. They get no sympathy from me, and many others too, I would guess. Even their fellow students (you k

Fortunately for those whose property was destroyed by the rioting students, the State Police don't take offenses such as Riot, Attempted Arson, Failure to Disperse, Criminal Mischief and Disorderly Conduct as mere tantrums, and intend to make arrests. I didn't see any mention of punishing anyone who wasn't involved.

I do believe, by saying, "...and the student body for protesting the firing of Paterno..." the poster you quoted was speaking SPECIFICALLY of the hundreds of students who went into full-blown riot mode after Paterno was fired. And though it doesn't happen often, I agree with him. That show they put on was a shameful embarrassment to their school and a smudge to their own characters. Thankfully, many other students have turned it around for those who behaved so badly. Many of them are gathering tonight for a candlelight vigil (instead of a tailgate party) in support of Sandusky's victim

LOVE the Buford Highway Farmer's Market!! We're having beef brisket with mashed potatoes and gravy and sliced avocado with lemon, salt and pepper tonight.

As I said last night, there's plenty of blame to go around.

And I'm bitter? Sure I financed my car--me and just about everyone else. I'm happy for you that you paid cash for yours, but my purchase isn't diminished by yours in any way. And I don't feel justified by purposely damaging someone else's property because I needed "the wave of joy and bliss...like a shaft of sunlight" warming "my heart, allowing me to experience happiness and joy for the first time ever." And honey, I have a both a BA and an MA in English--I've been not only a "student of literature" but also a teacher of it for many years now.

You do understand that "too" means "in addition to" and not "in place of" or "instead of," right? Just checking.

You really have no clue about how others feel about their vehicles, right? It's all about "your baby," right? One more payment and I get title to mine. I was TERRIBLY UPSET when mine was dented by someone who didn't have the DECENCY to leave me a brief note, telling me they'd whacked into my car. Three times, I might add. In two weeks. THREE TIMES. But I didn't go all renegade and elect to exact justice on others. Sure, I could have kicked in the door panels of every car near mine, but then what would I have? A "wave of joy and bliss" AND a damaged car? ANd possibly criminal charges?