Dammit, Dammit, Dammit !! Michael Mann and Jerry Sandusky

Dammit, Dammit, Dammit !!

I had this idea 3 weeks ago, but I've been too busy at work to devote any real time to the research. 

There's a researcher at Penn State named Michael Mann who was implicated in a lot of the ClimateGate emails.  The emails hint that Mann over-massaged the climate data to give the impression that there really was a massive "blade" on the Climate Change hockey stick.  (There isn't one.  They made it up.  Time will tell, won't it?) 

Penn State's faculty, the same group of government Teat-Suckers who let Jerry Sandusky rape little boys for a few decades, they did an "investigation" of Mann and declared his actions to be acceptable. 

I was going to post a bunch of Penn State logos scattered throughout a straightforward defense of Michael Mann.  Go here for the defense I would've used.  The Canadians, Israelis, Aussies who visit this site would've been totally lost.  The Americans, with the Jerry Sandusky/Joe Paterno/Penn State coverup in their media every day, would've gotten the joke. 

But dammit, dammit, dammit, I've waited too long. 

Go here to read the guy who beat me to it.  It's greatness. 

Dammit. 

BTW, It's been hot in the northeast United States but so far the Texas summer has been relatively mild. 

Joe Paterno and me. And maybe you.

There's been a lot of hand-wringing and outrage over Joe Paterno's failure to stop Jerry Sandusky's habit of sexually abusing young boys. 
Paterno had knowledge of the crimes, and he had the power to do something. 

Instead, Paterno put the interests of his organization first.  Penn State had a reputation.  Money was being made.  Maybe they weren't 100% sure, they told themselves.  Somebody else should deal with the problem of boy rape.  A scandal would give Ohio State or Nebraska or some other Big 10 rival a recruiting edge.  Nothing is worse than giving ammo to the other side. 

There were plenty of good reasons to cover up the problem, or at least postpone dealing with it. 

I'll bet Paterno's statue is torn down within a year. 

But enough about Paterno.  Let's talk about me.  And maybe you. 

Barack Obama has increased our national debt by 5 trillion dollars.  There are 81 million taxpayers in the U.S.  That means he has increase my share of the debt by $64,000.00 during the Obama administration.   (If you look at the total debt per taxpayer, it's up to $191,000.00) 

I'm not doing enough about that problem.  Yeah, I work pretty hard with the Libertarians when I can, and I blog and bitch and moan every morning, but I don't do enough. 

If you're expecting an angel to come down and force Sam Walton's kids and the Bass Brothers and Ann Marion Burnett to pay off everyone else's share, it ain't gonna happen and it wouldn't even help.  We could take every penny of taxable income away from the evil 1%, and it wouldn't even make a dent in Obama's DEFICIT spending per year. 

George Bush got us into a couple of wars with people who didn't attack us.  Obama has bombed and droned in two or three other places.  We account for 45% of the world's military spending, and I know that a lot of bombs get dropped for the sole purpose of creating jobs at Lockheed and Bell Helicopter.  But I don't do enough about it.  I'm not out in the streets banging pots and pans together, the way we all think Joe Paterno should have.  I haven't chained myself to the gates at Lockheed.   

Obama gave 3/4 of a trillion dollars to friends and supporters in the name of stimulus.  Lots of Democrats are obviously ashamed of this, but criticizing Obama would give ammo to the other side....the Ohio States, the Michigans, and other Big 10 rivals.  So they hunker down and comfort themselves with the polite fiction that this was a "stimulus", not a payoff. 

Barack Obama, by all accounts, has smoked enough weed to BarBQ a T-Rex.  He also continues to imprison black males by the hundreds of thousands for smoking marijuana.  Is that wrong?  Does it piss you off that he's doing this to preserve government jailer and narc jobs?   And are you still going to vote for the hypocrital f***er because you don't want to admit that you made a bad choice in 2008? 

All of this is going to blow up on us.  We're going to watch it happen, in slow motion, with plenty of time turn back.  We're not doing anything about it.  We're busy, we have families, and we have tribal loyalties to our own, whether it's Democrat or Republican.  We're sitting in our tribal groups, wondering who is going to swoop down and stop the incoming disaster, an economic meltdown that will make Weimar Germany look like The Love Boat. 

The Penn State leadership will go on trial soon.  Prosecutors will be asking "what did you know, when did you know it, and why didn't you do something about the problem?".

They aren't going to have a good answer. 

I don't have a good answer.  I've got to get to work.  I haven't seen the new Spiderman movie yet.  I want to read Keith Richards' autobiography. 

Do you have a good answer? 

9 boys molested at government institution. No steps taken to close the facility.

A government organization recently created a media firestorm when it allowed one of its ex-employees, a known pedophile, to continue using the government's facilities and bring young boys into its showers and dressing rooms.

One government employee attempted to report that he'd seen this ex-employee raping a 10-year-old in the workplace shower.  This witness went to his supervisor, who went to his supervisor to report the crime.  No actions were ever taken to intervene or protect the child. 

The only law enforcement involved were the government organization's in-house security.  No one in the organization spoke out.   

There were other incidents with young children involving the organization's in-house security officers.  Officers made recordings of the pedophile employee apologizing to the mother of one of the boys that he molested. 

No one pressed charges for years, and other government employees took great pains to cover up the incidents and protect the reputation of the government institution. 

It appears that 9 young boys were molested in some way.  Some of them were raped. 

If this had happened at a private institution, would our government allow it to remain open for business for another 15 minutes? 

Would politicians be rushing to sponsor something called the "Victims Of Paterno's Coverup Bill of 2011"?

Would Nancy Pelosi be standing in front of cameras, pontificating about the need for more regulation and oversight of the education industry? 

Just wondering. 

Good news on the Climate Bill

Here's Politico, reporting on some good news about the Climate Bill, also known as "the convenient excuse for a tax increase and a massive power grab":

The Senate climate bill has been at death’s door several times over the past year. But with the days before the August recess quickly slipping away, the case may truly be terminal now.

Hit the link to read the whole thing.  And then from The Washington Examiner, here's a post-mortem on the whitewash of the Climategate scandal:

When the Climategate e-mails were released last year, the evidence of misconduct by the scientists involved was so strong that the climate establishment was forced to commission a series of tribunals. Yet the conclusions of those inquiries are as specious as the science they were supposed to investigate. By asking the wrong questions -- or not asking them at all -- they have failed to advance the climate debate one iota. 

....This panel did not examine the other e-mails on the CRU server, as it was supposed to do. It cleared the scientists of perverting the peer review process simply because their efforts did not succeed, thereby ignoring their clear intent as expressed in the e-mails.



Further, the inquiry failed to ask the most basic questions of the CRU scientists, such as whether Professor Phil Jones had actually deleted inconvenient e-mails. Britain's freedom of information office said that the Cimategate e-mails provided the most cogent evidence imaginable that there had been efforts to avoid FOI requirements, yet the Muir Russell review did not investigate this appropriately.

Even this inadequate investigation, however, found that the way the hockey stick graph was handled was misleading. Imagine what it -- and the parliamentary committee -- would have found if there had been some witnesses for the prosecution.

Those who hope that these inquiries exonerate global warming science are engaging in wishful thinking. The Climategate e-mails are still there for all to read and the questions they raise remain unanswered. Until there are answers, Climategate rolls on.