Day: August 7, 2012

So Who’s Abusing Children Now?

Here’s the latest from Jim Vanore of Good Writers Block.

NCAA President Mark Emmert recently placed punitive sanctions on Penn State University for allowing a known pedophile to victimize boys on their campus from 1998 to 2011. That felon has been dealt with by the legal system and is now facing a lifetime behind bars.
The “big four” administrative department heads responsible for allowing this abuse of children, are University President Graham Spanier, Vice President Gary Schultz, Athletic Director Timothy Curley, and head football coach Joe Paterno.  Paterno died earlier this year, and the other three face their own day in court.
Emmert said, “…the cultural, systemic, and leadership failures at Penn State had to be addressed, and that the NCAA’s  approach demands that Penn State become an exemplary NCAA member by eradicating the mindset that led to this tragedy.” 
His words.  You see, he just wants to eliminate the “mindset” that placed football above the welfare of innocent children.
So who is he punishing? Obviously, Emmert thinks that the football team (all of whom were in grammar school when this crime began) must answer for those who were complicit in these crimes. That’s sort of like the IRS telling your children that they must take a year off from their 7th grade studies and do time in prison, because you cheated on your tax return.
 
 
 
 

Church Attacks And Temple Attacks And The Tea Party

The Aug. 5 shootings at the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wis. is being used by Democrat politicians and their old media supporters to attack the Tea Party, Second Amendment supporters, and Christian conservatives.

You never want a serious crisis to go to waste, right?
 

The murder of six and wounding of three was done by Wade Michael Page who was an overweight, over-tattooed, U.S. Army reject that most recently played bass in a neo-Nazi, white supremacist band. 
If one is a neo-Nazi, white supremacist then one is an anti-Christian by definition, and an anti-American to boot as the Nazis were the enemy.
Which gets us to the next point: where is the outrage at the attacks on churches in the country?
Carl Chinn has compiled this list of incidents of violence at American churches (and mosques and synagogues)  with the ones happening this year highlighted in yellow. Granted many of the acts — such as bodies found in parking lots and shootouts between drug gangs — involved the churches simply because they served bad neighborhoods, and granted that many of the acts involved deranged people who had come into contact with the churches through their ministry, but note the number that involved bombs and molotov cocktails. You can fairly call them acts of “domestic terrorism” and hate crimes.
Also, note how the death toll was kept to one in an April 22 incident in, ironically, Aurora, Col., because one of the congregants had a gun, much as the deaths were stopped in 2007 because a church member was armed when a gunman entered New Life Ministry in Colorado Springs and began shooting.  
Evil doesn’t go away when people are disarmed. It does, however, increase when lies are told and division created solely for political gain.
By the way, the Tea Party is not “anti-government” but anti-corruption. 
The Tea Party is inspired by the recognition that people have entered government and acquired influence and power for their own benefit all the while laughing at those they claim to be wanting to serve whether it be by giving “free” health care or increasing “social justice”.

Olympic Tidbit Of The Day

Athletes in the Ancient Olympics were exempt from homicide charges for deeds done during competition. Every year there would be cremations after the festival.

Hat tip VFW magazine.

USA Is Not Dead Yet In Manufacturing

Apple once boasted that its computers were “Assembled for Apple in California”. That has long not been the case as the work is now infamously done in China.

Of course, assembly is about the easiest part of building a computer and doesn’t even begin to tell the story about how one is made.
So Macword.com endeavored to find the source of the components of MacBook Pro laptop.
It learned that while the body came from China, display came from South Korea, and the hard drive from Thailand; the Intel chip was likely made  in Chandler, Az., and the RAM possibly came from Boise, Idaho.
These, btw, are the most important parts of the computer.
It further notes that while the wireless card and graphics chip were fabricated in either Europe or Asia, both were designed in California.