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Today we learned that it’s more important to win a college football game than it is to bring a known child abuser to justice.

Let that sink in for a second.

Today we learned that the Penn State Athletics department covered up for a child abuser. Two men are to be indicted for knowing that one of their own was actively abusing children. Not just any children, but the neediest of children, in a foundation he had set up that was supposed to protect them.

We have reached a point where it is more important to “win” and protect those who help you win, rather than protect children.

For years, I had always been dubious of college athletics and the benefit they have for schools. How could it be possible for an athlete to get a full ride, when perhaps the next great scientist could have gotten that ride instead? The stories we have heard about college professors being under pressure to pass star athletes and look the other way. Stories of students receiving gifts in various and creative hush hush ways to avoid the “oversight” of the NCAA.

Now we can see the true extent of how dangerous college athletics are. Now, all of the naysayers who defend college athletic programs as they drain their schools of money, as they ignore the nerds on campus and reward jocks should hang their heads in shame. Shame on you for being part of the problem.

Maybe now, it should dawn on people that college athletics has to change. But, it will not. Like all scandals in the NCAA, this one will fade out of memory as the fictional myth of a national title become “important again”.

The sad thing is that I am sure there is more than one fan who might actually be thinking to himself right now (without ever saying it out loud)”yeah… if we could the national championship, I’d be okay with that.”

From WTAE in Pittsburgh:

MONROEVILLE, Pa. — In July, McDain’s Restaurant started a ban on children younger than 6. The story quickly spread from Monroeville and went viral on the Internet, being featured on CNN and Yahoo!
Four months later, owner Mike Vuick told Channel 4 Action News that he has seen a 20 percent increase in business at his eatery on Broadway Boulevard.

From Scientific American:

it was evening-time activists like entomologist George Vernon Hudson and golfer William Willett who can be blamed for Daylight Saving Time. Noting that a little extra well-lit time on a balmy evening would be nicer than in the morning when everybody’s asleep anyway, the two independently proposed shifting clocks forward for the spring and summer. Governments soon seized upon the idea as a way to cut down on energy use — more sunlight in the evening means less coal-burned to provide artificial alternatives.

Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to hold up too well. And changing back and forth to Daylight Saving Time twice a year seems to be bad for human health — from increased risk of heart attack to more mine accidents. Nevertheless, in 2007, the U.S. Congress saw fit to extend Daylight Saving Time‘s reign from earlier in spring to deeper into fall in 2007.

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This week’s podcast is a day late.. but it has plenty of Hitler references to make up for it! Is Obama literally Hitler? Are blowjobs more evil than Hitler? You be the judge… On this weeks show:

NJ Congressional Candidate Diane Sare says that Obama is literally Hitler (video)
It’s palindrome day
Minnesota wall street protesters are nicer
I interview Diane Sare in studio & we discuss:
- Lyndon LaRouche
- Hitler (aka Obama)
- Godwins law
- politicians shouldn’t talk science

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A Halloween-themed graphic featuring a zombie President Barack Obama with a bullet hole in his forehead provoked widespread outrage and the attention of the Secret Service Monday after a local Republican committee in Virginia used it to scare up interest in Halloween parade political activities.

The montage, a banner on a mass email to Loudoun Republicans, mingles seasonal images including a jack-o-lantern, a disfigured U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi and a throng of flesh-hungry zombie Obama supporters.

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The image was first reported in a post Monday on the conservative northern Virginia blog, Too Conservative. The post’s author, identified as a “Loudoun Insider,” said he’s no Obama fan, “but putting up a photo of him as a zombie with a bullet hole in his head?”

“Someone should send this to the US Secret Service,” the blog post concluded. The Secret Service is in charge of the president’s security.

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Americans’ Approval of Congress Drops to Single Digits

So… read around the Internet today and everyone will have you believe that either A) ZOMG loans are 100k+ and are out of control or B) shut the fuck up, I worked through college and have no loans and you are a loser for taking your loans.

And do you know what we realize… that ONCE AGAIN… the middle class… the average citizen in American, has been suckered into a fight of extreme left versus extreme right. The two extremes that don’t give a shit about you and me, the average American.

You see, the extreme right… they can pay for everything they want/need. It’s easy, they just roll up their sleeves and elbow grease it, amiright? Or maybe, they just get a check written for them and then they are done & done.

The extreme left, well they just need a gub-ment hand out for their extreme levels of debt (100k plus) and then they will be done and done, amirite? You see, they were ENTITLED to get that expensive liberal arts degree just as much as mr right wing was, aren’t they?

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So… some overly sensitive PC police created this “campaign” to alert anyone thinking of buying a costume that you could be insulting someone by doing so. Who am I going to insult? The bombing people culture?! I think this is hilarious actually. The PC-police state that continues to grow in America every day never ceases to amaze me. Maybe it’s just me, but I appreciate offensive humor.

Someone might say “well that is because you are white” and I would say NO, douchebag, that is because I have a sense of humor. In fact, I never understood the big hubbub over mascots. Naming a team the redskins isn’t offensive. It’s in good fun. You might say “why not name a team the Guineas?” and I would reply to you (being half Italian) that I would find that hilarious, and would root for that team double hard if they were from my home state of New Jersey!

That is why the Internet has struck back and made a “meme” of this campaign. Parodying it with all sorts of characters… my favorite:

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- an interview with Jim the average, everyman, roving republican
- tax breaks for hiring felons
- Pat Buchanan is not saying that minorities are bad for the US, he’s just saying things will go downhill as it gets darker around here, if you catch his drift
- immigrants “took der jibs”
- the 99% movement is using a new swastika

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OCTOBER 24–Citing the potential of “Occupy Wall Street” to become a “global brand,” a Long Island couple has filed to trademark the name of the amorphous organization responsible for the protests and encampments in lower Manhattan and other U.S. cities, The Smoking Gun has learned.

In a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) application, Robert and Diane Maresca are seeking to trademark the phrase “Occupy Wall St.” so that they can place it on a wide variety of goods, including bumper stickers, shirts, beach bags, footwear, umbrellas, and hobo bags.

The October 18 filing, made in Diane Maresca’s name, cost the couple $975, which Robert Maresca, 44, termed “something of a gamble” in a TSG interview.
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