Day: July 23, 2012

Its pretty difficult to justify all what has been caught on camera.  Its pretty embarrassing to see our governor making up excuses for private sales after first acting like he didn’t know it happened.  The reporter is Jim Hoffer.

Why are there private sales going on?  Why is this behavior allowed?  This video  was filmed a year and a half ago.  Nothing has changed to shore up the loophole.

Why aren’t Virginians howling over being the illegal gun capital of the east coast?  Probably because they do not know they are.

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In what has been described as a “knee jerk reaction,” Sunday morning officials at Penn State tore down the statue of Joe Paterno with no warning to the town or university.  Today, the entire Penn State football team awaits possible sanctions from the NCAA.  According to Politico.com:

The NCAA came forward to say that it will levy “corrective and punitive measures” against the school. The sanctions will be spelled out Monday, the NCAA said without disclosing further details.

NCAA President Mark Emmert hasn’t ruled out the possibility of shutting down the Penn State football program in the wake of the scandal, saying he had “never seen anything as egregious.”

The Paterno family issued a statement saying the statue’s removal “does not serve the victims of Jerry Sandusky’s horrible crimes or help heal the Penn State community.”

“We believe the only way to help the victims is to uncover the full truth,” said the family, which vowed its own investigation following the release of an investigative report by former FBI Director Louis Freeh that found that Paterno and three other top Penn State administrators concealed sex abuse claims against Sandusky.

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If you want a great news show and you miss Aaron Sorkin and the West Wing, go to HBO and watch The Newsroom.  I have quickly become addicted.  There are plenty of great lines, as only a Sorkin production can offer, plus you get to pretend that there is a real, decent news station, even though there isn’t really.  The show deals with current or semi current events.

I can’t say enough good about it.  I rarely like anything but its worth subscribing to HBO just for the Aaron Sorkin fix.    The Newsroom isn’t for everybody.  It is definitely counter-Faux News.  The leading man , Will McAvoy really is an impressive character, moderate Republican, but a man with principles.

Each week gets better.

Another new show is Political Animals on USA.  Its pretty good also.  It is somewhat of a take off on the Clintons at times.  Sigourney Weaver plays the Secretary of State.  She is a former first lady and she is divorced from her husband.  Sound familiar?

Its a decent show with lots of twists.  Political Animals.