USA Amnesia

[gotsnowgotslush]

Bush's Harken transaction

Bush and Harken Energy

As George Bush announces a crackdown on corporate fraud, the president's own financial dealings from 10 years ago
have come under renewed scrutiny, as Mark Tran explains

What is the fuss over Mr Bush's financial transactions?
On June 22 1990, George Bush, then a director with a company called Harken Energy, sold 212,140 shares for
$848,000 (£548,100). Almost exactly two months later, on August 20, Harken announced a $23.2m loss,
which caused its shares to drop to $2.375 from $3. The next day, Harken returned to $3,
but fell to $1 at the end of 1990

Harken sold 80% of a subsidiary, Aloha Petroleum, to a partnership formed by Harken executives, who got
most of the money for the deal by borrowing from Harken itself. The transaction allowed Harken
to reduce the amount of debt on its balance sheet and to claim the proceeds of the sale as income.

Mr Bush became a director of Harken and a member of its audit committee when Harken paid $2m for Spectrum 7,
a small loss-making energy company with large debts. Mr Bush was chief executive of Spectrum 7.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/jul/10/qanda.usa

President GH Bush and son

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Mr. Herbert Garrison- South Park cartoon series
character- a teacher to grade school children.

Dark is not the word for this choice of names. Sick fucks is a good choice of a name for
Trey and Matt, and who ever thought this was a great idea.
(If this was a deliberate choice.)

Wayne Henry Garrison

October 30, 1972

13 years old? Strangles his 4 year old girl cousin.

GARRISON v. JENNINGS :: December, 1974 :: Oklahoma Court of ...
That said child did, on or about October 30, 1972, unlawfully strangle Dana Dyan Dean by means
of a light blue cloth tied around the neck of said victim.

1972-1973 in a psychiatric hospital in Norman,Oklahoma

1974- gets a pass to be out of the facility-
Goes to Tulsa and kills Craig Neal 3 year old child

1974-1975 jail/ trial/prison

1977- released

1989- Kills 11 year old boy/ strangled with copper wire/body dismembered
Head tied to a rock in lake with copper wire.
Garrison is 14 years old.

"Thirteen year-old Justin Wiles was reported missing from his Tulsa home on June 20, 1989.
Four days later, his right hand and arm were discovered in the mud on the bank of Lake Bixhoma
in Wagoner County, Oklahoma, inside a plastic bag. Law enforcement officials later found
Justin's thigh inside a plastic bag, and his dismembered torso was discovered two tenths
of a mile away behind some rocks. Justin's head, arms, legs, and genitalia had been dissected,
post-mortem, from the torso with precise cuts through the soft tissue by a sharp instrument.
His head was eventually found floating in the water with a rock tied to his jaw with a wire.
Officials identified Justin's body through fingerprints and unique scars behind his ears."


June 20, 1989 Justin Delbert Wiles, 13, is last seen alive with Garrison
in Garrisons car at his business, Choppers Body Shop.

June 24, 1989 Justin's dismembered body is found at Bixhoma Lake. Search
warrants filed within days point to Garrison as a suspect.

July 1989 Garrison moves to Charlotte, N.C.

May 1990 Garrison is charged with filing a false insurance claim in
Oklahoma in October 1989 and is arrested in Charlotte. Prosecutors said he
gave furniture and other items to a friend as a gift and then reported
them stolen.

October 1990 Garrison is convicted of filing a false insurance claim and
sentenced to 18 months in an Oklahoma prison.

June 1991 Garrison is released from prison and moves back to North
Carolina.

Feb. 9, 1996 Garrison is arrested in connection with the drugging,
abducting and keeping an 11-year-old boy as prisoner.

March 1997 Garrison begins serving a prison sentence of 3 to 5 years
after being convicted of abducting the boy and giving him prescription
painkillers.

August 1999 Justin Wiles' body is exhumed from a Haskell County cemetery
as part of the Tulsa Police Cold Case Squads investigation.

October 22, 1999 Garrison is charged with the 1st-degree murder of Justin
Wiles. Minutes after Garrison is released from the Columbus Correctional
Institute in North Carolina, Tulsa Detective Charlie Folks and North
Carolina authorities arrest him in the parking lot.

http://amarillo.com/stories/120599/usn_LO0718.shtml
December 05, 1999

Tulsa County Sheriff's Office deputies drove to North Carolina to pick up Garrison,
who was ordered extradited by a North Carolina judge on Monday.
He is being held in the Tulsa Jail.

November-December 2001 Garrison stands trial for Justin's death. Jurors
convict him and sentence him to death.

November 2004 The state Court of Criminal Appeals affirms the murder
conviction but vacates the death sentence, citing ineffective assistance
from counsel during the sentencing phase.

October 2006 A district judge declares a mistrial during the early stages
of the re-sentencing trial.

This week District Attorney Tim Harris confirms that he offered Garrison
a chance to avoid the possibility of a death penalty when he is
re-sentenced as long as Garrison accepts a life sentence without the
possibility of parole. On Friday, District Judge Jesse Harris sentences
Garrison to life in prison without parole.

(source: Tulsa World)

Garrison drugs himself to death with ant-depressants

 

[NeverEndingMe]

so obama is able to read words (that someone else wrote) from a teleprompter. big f-ing deal?

do you take all your life values from a speech?
does hearing the obama talk, give you comfort - even when he accomplishes nothing?
do you find value in empty words?

please help me understand

I don't know about you, but I was convinced we were about to enter into a depression, that would look like The Great Depression.
President Obama's speech, today- do not endanger the recovery. Is there a recovery? Where did the million jobs of the past year, come from?
As far as I know, corporations cut people loose, to make their figures look better. It was another unhappy Christmas, where people lost their jobs,
and insurance.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Crunchy Crumpets! The old saying, about repeating-

In 1954, during the Army-McCarthy hearings, Army lawyer Joseph Welch asked McCarthy, “Have you no decency, sir,
at long last? Have you no sense of decency?”
McCarthy was crushed; his reign of terror was over. It appeared that the American right was a spent force.
Hofstadter, however, had the wisdom to see deeper. At the end of “The Pseudo-Conservative Revolt — 1954,” he wrote,
“n a populist culture like ours, which seems to lack a responsible elite with political and moral autonomy, and
in which it is possible to exploit the wildest currents of public sentiment for private purposes, it is at least
conceivable that a highly organized, vocal, active and well-financed minority could create a political climate
in which the rational pursuit of our well-being and safety would become impossible.”

Richard Hofstadter died in 1970, at the age of 54. If he had lived to 2011, he would have taken no satisfaction in learning that his words had come true.

http://www.salon.com/2011/12/05/the_infantile_style_in_american_politics/

{gsgs comment- Unfortunately, it is worse than that. The same old, same old-
has been re-purposed in a very cynical way.}

The usual suspects are laughing all the way to the bank.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

You make me want to bring back the word "retard".

You, sir, need to eat a shotgun and pull the trigger. The word 'retard' applies to you, not her.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

amicus I like you I really do but, you need to take your head out of your ass on this one.

When Atlas shrugs, he starves, because no one will sell him any food.

It is you who is the foolish here.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Founded in 1985, Enron Corporation grew from its headquarters in Houston, Texas, into the seventh
highest-revenue-grossing company in America. Petitioner Jeffrey Skilling, a longtime Enron officer,
was Enron’s chief executive officer from February until August 2001, when he resigned. Less than
four months later, Enron crashed into bankruptcy, and its stock plummeted in value. After an
investigation uncovered an elaborate conspiracy to prop up Enron’s stock prices by overstating
the company’s financial well-being, the Government prosecuted dozens of Enron employees
who participated in the scheme. In time, the Government worked its way up the chain of command,
indicting Skilling and two other top Enron executives. These three defendants, the indictment charged,
engaged in a scheme to deceive investors about Enron’s true financial performance by
manipulating its publicly reported financial results and making false and misleading statements.

Count 1 of the indictment charged Skilling with, inter alia, conspiracy to commit “honest-services” wire fraud, 1
8 U. S. C. §§371, by depriving Enron and its shareholders of the intangible right of his honest services.
Skilling was also charged with over 25 substantive counts of securities fraud, wire fraud, making
false representations to Enron’s auditors, and insider trading.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/08-1394.ZS.html

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

PETER J. BOYER: At the end of one day's House session, Newt delivered an ideological broadside, a long list of accusations against House Democrats for being soft on communism.
No Democrat replied because the chamber was empty, a shot the C-Span cameras never showed. The Democrats were outraged by Newt's sneak attack.

FRANK GREGORSKY: Tip O'Neill viewed it as an attack on his colleagues and as McCarthyism.

Rep. THOMAS P. O'NEILL, Jr., (D), MA, Speaker of the House: My personal opinion is this. You deliberately stood in that well before an empty House and challenged these people and you challenged their Americanism and it's the lowest thing that I've ever seen in my 32 years in Congress!

FRANK GREGORSKY: And then for three hours _ this was May 15th, 1984 _ from about noon to about 3:00, there was an old-fashioned partisan intellectual and ideological shoot-out.

Rep. NEWT GINGRICH: Is it wrong for those of us who have grown up as historians, who believe in looking at history, to raise questions of history? Is it wrong for us to go back and do the research and lay it out?

Rep. THOMAS P. O'NEILL, Jr.: Will the gentleman yield?

Rep. NEWT GINGRICH: I am always delighted to yield to our distinguished Speaker.

Rep. THOMAS P. O'NEILL, Jr.: Very interesting, the way the gentleman talks, as an apologist for the remarks that he made the other day. Let's look at the truth of the thing.

Rep. NEWT GINGRICH: I_ I will_

Rep. THOMAS P. O'NEILL, Jr.: Let's look at the truth.

Rep. NEWT GINGRICH: I reclaim my time for one minute, Mr. Speaker!

Rep. THOMAS P. O'NEILL, Jr.: I want to know why you went_

Rep. NEWT GINGRICH: I am reclaiming my time!

Rep. THOMAS P. O'NEILL, Jr.: _back to 1970 and 1971_

Rep. NEWT GINGRICH: I reclaim my time, Mr. Speaker!

Rep. THOMAS P. O'NEILL, Jr.: I thought you_

Rep. NEWT GINGRICH: Just to make the point_

Rep. THOMAS P. O'NEILL, Jr.: I thought you said you would give the Speaker the courtesy_

Rep. NEWT GINGRICH: I will yield to_

Rep. THOMAS P. O'NEILL, Jr.: _the courtesy?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newt/newtscript.html

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Ten years before he wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum published an obscure weekly newspaper, the Saturday Pioneer, in Aberdeen, S.D. The Saturday Pioneer was a mix of boilerplate features and news stories, local society news, humor and arts columns, and editorials about the issues of the day. During Baum's tenure at the paper (from January 1890 to March 1891), the chief issues about which he editorialized were the 1890 elections and the question of which city, Pierre or Huron, would be made the capital of the new state of South Dakota.

The Sitting Bull Editorial

Sitting Bull, most renowned Sioux of modern history, is dead.
He was not a Chief, but without Kingly lineage he arose from a lowly position to the greatest Medicine Man of his time, by virtue of his shrewdness and daring.
He was an Indian with a white man's spirit of hatred and revenge for those who had wronged him and his. In his day he saw his son and his tribe gradually driven from their possessions: forced to give up their old hunting grounds and espouse the hard working and uncongenial avocations of the whites. And these, his conquerors, were marked in their dealings with his people by selfishness, falsehood and treachery. What wonder that his wild nature, untamed by years of subjection, should still revolt? What wonder that a fiery rage still burned within his breast and that he should seek every opportunity of obtaining vengeance upon his natural enemies.
The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession, lingered last in the bosom of Sitting Bull. With his fall the nobility of the Redskin is extinguished, and what few are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them. The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians. Why not annihilation? Their glory has fled, their spirit broken, their manhood effaced; better that they die than live the miserable wretches that they are. History would forget these latter despicable beings, and speak, in later ages of the glory of these grand Kings of forest and plain that Cooper loved to heroism.
We cannot honestly regret their extermination, but we at least do justice to the manly characteristics possessed, according to their lights and education, by the early Redskins of America.

(Saturday Pioneer, December 20, 1890)

The Wounded Knee Editorial

The peculiar policy of the government in employing so weak and vacillating a person as General Miles to look after the uneasy Indians, has resulted in a terrible loss of blood to our soldiers, and a battle which, at its best, is a disgrace to the war department. There has been plenty of time for prompt and decisive measures, the employment of which would have prevented this disaster.
The Pioneer has before declared that our only safety depends upon the total extirmination [sic] of the Indians. Having wronged them for centuries we had better, in order to protect our civilization, follow it up by one more wrong and wipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the earth. In this lies future safety for our settlers and the soldiers who are under incompetent commands. Otherwise, we may expect future years to be as full of trouble with the redskins as those have been in the past.

An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre."
(Saturday Pioneer, January 3, 1891)

http://www.operationmorningstar.org/L. Frank Baum Called For The ETERMINATION of ALL LAKOTA.htm

http://www.aberdeen.sd.us/index.aspx?nid=22

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Sept. 24, 1957: President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Ark., to enforce desegregation.

New York Times

President Sends Troops to Little Rock, Federalizes Arkansas National Guard; Tells Nation He Acted to Avoid An Anarchy

Washington, Sept. 24--President Eisenhower sent Federal troops to Little Rock, Ark., today
to open the way for the admission of nine Negro pupils to Central High School.

Earlier, the President federalized the Arkansas National Guard and authorized calling the Guard
and regular Federal forces to remove obstructions to justice in Little Rock school integration.

Action quickly followed the President's orders. During the day and night 1,000 members
of the 101st Airborne Division were flown to Little Rock. Charles E. Wilson, Secretary
of the Defense, ordered into Federal service all 10,000 members of the Arkansas National Guard.

Today's events were the climax of three weeks of skirmishing between the Federal Government
and Gov. Orval E. Faubus of Arkansas. It was three weeks ago this morning that the Governor
first ordered National Guard troops to Central High School to preserve order. The nine Negro
students were prevented from entering the school.

The Guardsmen were gone yesterday, withdrawn by Governor Faubus as the result of a Federal Court order.
But a shrieking mob compelled the nine children to withdraw from the school.

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0925.html#article

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14080752

Sept. 23: An angry mob of more than 1,000 white people curses and fights in front of Central High School,
while the nine black children are escorted inside. A number of white students, including Sammie Dean Parker,
jump out of windows to avoid contact with the black students. Parker is arrested and taken away.
The Little Rock police cannot control the mob and, fearing for their safety, remove the nine children
from the school. Three black journalists covering the story are first harassed and then physically attacked
and chased by a mob. They finally run to safety in a black section of town. President Eisenhower
calls the rioting "disgraceful" and orders federal troops into Little Rock.


Sept. 24: Members of the 101st Airborne Division, the "Screaming Eagles" of Fort Campbell, Ky.,
roll into Little Rock. The Arkansas National Guard is placed under federal orders.

Sept. 25: Under troop escort, the nine black children are escorted back into Central High School.
Gen. Edwin Walker, U.S. Army, addresses the white students in the school's auditorium before the nine students arrive.

Thirty years later, I met three people from Arkansas. They were well spoken,
pleasant, and had no prejudice against anyone.
I was given the impression that religion was something that was central in their lives. I did'nt pry into what sect of religion
that was.

It gave me second thoughts, about what I had seen, concerning busing in Boston.-

On the air from 1973 to 1975, Evening Compass found an audience through its in-depth coverage of
school desegregation in Boston, which began in 1974. The Ten O'Clock News stood out as an in-depth
news program. It strove for a balance between local and national stories, between politics and the
Arts. The last The Ten O'Clock News program was broadcast on May 30, 1991.

Frank Tivnan (Director of Communications for Mayor Kevin White) commends the performance of the
police department and reports no serious injuries to residents or schoolchildren. John Coakley
(Boston School Department) gives school attendance figures. Coakley reports that the atmosphere in
the schools is reasonably calm. Joseph Jordan (Superintendent, Boston Police Department) reports on
a liquor ban imposed in South Boston. Jordan notes that police made 20 arrests today.

Leroy Chase (Deputy Superintendent, Boston Police Department) reports that Freedom House is helping
to patrol streets in Roxbury/North Dorchester. Kevin White (Mayor, City of Boston) takes questions
about the enforcement of busing in South Boston.

http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/t...s-about-anti-busing-sentiment-in-south-boston

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

God Wills It! God wants this to happen! God had/has ( will have ? ) intentions for this to happen!

A multi- dimensional God! A God for every Universe. A God for every layer.

And when the layers intersect and interact, you get Gods/gods- that battle each other.

{Simultaneous? Wills it. Does not will it. Wills it to be undone. Wills it to be re- done.
Wills it never to have happened. Wills it to happen, over and over, again.}

Oh, how I love uncertainty!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101118141541.htm

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Bob Dylan - Times They are a-Changin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCWdCKPtnYE


Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last

"Throughout the 1940s and 1950s America was overwhelmed with concerns about the threat of communism growing in Eastern Europe and China.

Capitalizing on those concerns, a young Senator named Joseph McCarthy made a public accusation that more than
two hundred “card-carrying” communists had infiltrated the United States government.

Though eventually his accusations were proven to be untrue, and he was censured by the Senate for unbecoming conduct, his zealous
campaigning ushered in one of the most repressive times in 20th-century American politics.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/arthur-miller/mccarthyism/484/

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

In 2012 it will be 55 years since desegregation.

There are no water fountains. We drink bottled water.

Religious schools are funded by the government.

No one takes a ride on the bus. Everyone owns a car. Or lives in it.

{The food you are eating is not from Earth. ha ha - Dr Who joke. }

No one is allowed in those buildings.

Unless, you are a member of the 1%

1957 SONG

Oh, the white folks hate the black folks, And the black folks hate the white folks.
To hate all but the right folks Is an old established rule.

But during national brotherhood week, national brotherhood week, Lena Horne and Sheriff Clarke are dancing cheek to cheek.
It's fun to eulogize The people you despise, As long as you don't let 'em in your school.


Oh, the poor folks hate the rich folks, And the rich folks hate the poor folks.
All of my folks hate all of your folks, It's American as apple pie.

But during national brotherhood week, national brotherhood week, New Yorkers love the Puerto Ricans 'cause it's very chic.
Step up and shake the hand Of someone you can't stand. You can tolerate him if you try.

Tom Lehrer - National Brotherhood Week - now on DVD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ8ZCs4jY

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics, And the Catholics hate the Protestants, And the Hindus hate the Muslims,
And everybody hates the Jews.

But during national brotherhood week, national brotherhood week, It's national everyone-smile-at-one-another-hood week.
Be nice to people who Are inferior to you. It's only for a week, so have no fear. Be grateful that it doesn't last all year!

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

On March 16, 1968 the angry and frustrated men of Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division
entered the Vietnamese village of My Lai. "This is what you've been waiting for -- search and destroy --
and you've got it," said their superior officers.

As the "search and destroy" mission unfolded, it soon degenerated into the massacre of over 300
apparently unarmed civilians including women, children, and the elderly.

Calley ordered his men to enter the village firing, though there had been no report of opposing fire. According
to eyewitness reports offered after the event, several old men were bayoneted, praying women and children
were shot in the back of the head, and at least one girl was raped and then killed. For his part, Calley was
said to have rounded up a group of the villagers, ordered them into a ditch, and mowed them down in a fury
of machine gun fire.

Word of the atrocities did not reach the American public until November 1969, when journalist Seymour Hersh
published a story detailing his conversations with a Vietnam veteran, Ron Ridenhour.

The military investigation resulted in Calley's being charged with murder in September 1969 --
a full two months before the Hersh story hit the streets.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/trenches/my_lai.html

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

April 01, 2001

A U.S. Navy reconnaissance plane made an emergency landing in China after colliding with a Chinese fighter jet
sent to intercept it, U.S. officials said Sunday.

The EP-3 Aries, an electronic surveillance aircraft with a crew of 24, landed on the Chinese island of Hainan after the
collision, said Lt. Col. Dewey Ford, a spokesman for the U.S. Pacific Command in Hawaii. None of the crew was injured, he said.

Chinese officials had no immediate comment on the incident.

"Our immediate concern is to make sure the crew is in good shape, and it looks like they are," Ford told CNN.

U.S. NAVY EP-3A ARIES II
A U.S. Navy EP-3E Aries II maritime patrol ... in international airspace with fighter aircraft from the Republic of China on March 31, 2001.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Lech Walesa

During the clash in December 1970 between the workers and the government,
he was one of the leaders of the shipyard workers
and was briefly detained.

In 1978 with other activists he began to organize free non-communist trade unions
and took part in many actions on the sea coast. He was kept under
surveillance by the state security service and frequently detained.

In August 1980 he led the Gdansk shipyard strike which gave rise to a wave
of strikes over much of the country with Walesa seen as the leader.
The primary demands were for workers' rights. The authorities were
forced to capitulate and to negotiate with Walesa the Gdansk Agreement
of August 31, 1980, which gave the workers the right to strike and
to organize their own independent union.

n November 1982 Walesa was released and reinstated at the Gdansk shipyards.
Although kept under surveillance, he managed to maintain lively contact with Solidarity
leaders in the underground. While martial law was lifted in July 1983, many of the restrictions
were continued in civil code. In October 1983 the announcement of Walesa's Nobel prize
raised the spirits of the underground movement, but the award was attacked by the government press.

The country's brief enjoyment of relative freedom ended in December 1981,
when General Jaruzelski, fearing Soviet armed intervention among
other considerations, imposed martial law, "suspended" Solidarity,
arrested many of its leaders, and interned Walesa in a country house
in a remote spot.

November 21, 2011

Poland unveils Reagan statue in Warsaw

http://www.canada.com/technology/st...n+statue+Warsaw/5743609/story.html?id=5743609

Ronald Reagan Praising Lech Walesa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqNmLqzxSi4

"One of the world's greatest Labor leaders, Lech Walesa."- said Ronald Reagan.

 

[jeninflorida]

Interesting, and this would make for a great Phillip K Dick story. Now with that said, Gots, you are 100% wrong with your thinking. America would be a bankrupt nation if not for Reagan. Secondly, we never would have had the technology boom. The Dick part, I’m thinking China would still be living in 1800 technology and a farming nation.

I know you are pro-union and anti capitalism, sorry.

Lech Walesa

During the clash in December 1970 between the workers and the government,
he was one of the leaders of the shipyard workers
and was briefly detained.

In 1978 with other activists he began to organize free non-communist trade unions
and took part in many actions on the sea coast. He was kept under
surveillance by the state security service and frequently detained.

In August 1980 he led the Gdansk shipyard strike which gave rise to a wave
of strikes over much of the country with Walesa seen as the leader.
The primary demands were for workers' rights. The authorities were
forced to capitulate and to negotiate with Walesa the Gdansk Agreement
of August 31, 1980, which gave the workers the right to strike and
to organize their own independent union.

n November 1982 Walesa was released and reinstated at the Gdansk shipyards.
Although kept under surveillance, he managed to maintain lively contact with Solidarity
leaders in the underground. While martial law was lifted in July 1983, many of the restrictions
were continued in civil code. In October 1983 the announcement of Walesa's Nobel prize
raised the spirits of the underground movement, but the award was attacked by the government press.

The country's brief enjoyment of relative freedom ended in December 1981,
when General Jaruzelski, fearing Soviet armed intervention among
other considerations, imposed martial law, "suspended" Solidarity,
arrested many of its leaders, and interned Walesa in a country house
in a remote spot.

November 21, 2011

Poland unveils Reagan statue in Warsaw

http://www.canada.com/technology/st...n+statue+Warsaw/5743609/story.html?id=5743609

Ronald Reagan Praising Lech Walesa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqNmLqzxSi4

"One of the world's greatest Labor leaders, Lech Walesa."- said Ronald Reagan.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

On the day of the one last final chance to recount the voting cards with chads on them- 6 Marines dressed in plainclothes
illegally and violently interrupted the count. The Republicans felt so threatened by a count that favored Vice President Gore,
they sent men to break the law.

The Republicans were rewarded by having the Democrats bow to the Republican will, and not continue a fight for justice.

Confusing Butterfly voting sheets replaced the simple and easy to understand voting system.

Florida was covered in shame. Six Marines had made the American public's votes disappear.

Were these Marines arrested? Were their names made public?

Were the people who were responsible for guarding the recount room called to account?

They changed the history of America. George W. Bush won the election by stealing.

It was'nt enough to bar the voting booth to the poor and disadvantaged.

They tormented the old and infirm. They bullied the young and inexperienced.

G.W. Bush ushered in the most evil sick fucks this country has ever known,
into the Oval Office at the White House.

 

[Beco]

You make me want to bring back the word "retard".

Shut up

 

[Beco]

I didn't know it had gone anywhere.

But if anyone has brought it back it's Robert Downey Jr.

First Meryl Streep and now....Robert Downey? What actor do you like?

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

In October, the National Rowing Hall of Fame unveiled its 18 inductees for 2010 at the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston, Mass.
Missy Schwen Ryan along with her Olympic teammate Karen Kraft Rigsby were among those who will be inducted on March 20, 2010
at the National Rowing Hall of Fame at the Mystic Seaport in Connecticut.

After the 2000 Olympic Games, Schwen Ryan was subsequently named USRowing’s Female Athlete of the Year along with
partner Karen Kraft.. Her silver-medal finish at the 1996 Olympic Games was the best ever U.S. finish in the women’s pair
at the Olympics.

7/19/1996 Atlanta 1996 pair without coxswain (2-) Silver Medal
Karen Kraft
Missy Schwen Ryan

June 05, 2000
Missy Schwen-Ryan, a 1996 silver medalist in the pairs with Karen Kraft, will try to make the team, again with Kraft,
after having donated a kidney following the Atlanta Games to her brother Michael, who suffered from a
degenerative disease.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1019396/index.htm

20 March 2010
National Rowing Foundation (NRF), the governing body of the National Rowing Hall of Fame, inducted eighteen new members into ‘The Hall’.

Karen Rigsby and Missy Schwen Ryan

http://hear-the-boat-sing.blogspot.com/2010/03/oh-what-swell-party-it-was.html

 

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Strange undercurrents flowed, the eyes of the public view were gazing elsewhere.

Frontline
A Perfect Terrorist

A report on the role that American citizen David Coleman Headley played in the 2008 terrorist assault on Mumbai, India,
which left 166 people dead and more than 300 wounded. Included: Headley's background as a drug dealer and
US government informant.

VS

The Man Who Made the Supergun

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/programs/transcripts/911.html

Dr. Gerald Bull was the founder of Space Research Corporation. A Canadian ballistics expert, Bull modified artillery weapons,
worked on the USA's HAARP gun program and
upgraded SCUD missiles for various customers. He did work for every country, except Russia, which he hated (but the SCUD's
he modified were Russian-made). He also did
work, through the CIA, for the USA and some of its allies. His modified SCUD's rained down on Israel and Saudi Arabia, killing
Israelis and American troops.

NARRATOR: Bull's powder was made at a factory in north Belgium. The workers were paid extra money, and the work was done in great secrecy. But then the factory's parent company went broke and was taken over by a British company headed by Dr. John Pike. When Pike entered the headquarters of his new acquisition, he found a highly suspicious contract in the company's files.

Dr. JOHN PIKE, Astra Defense Systems: It was a contract for the supply of two types of a particular gun propellant. The gun propellant was not in itself unusual. It was the sort of propellant that can be used for a number of different systems. However, what was unusual was the actual physical size of the pieces of propellant that were to be supplied.

NARRATOR: Pike also came across a memo written to Dr. Bull by his associate Dennis Lyster. In it, Lyster detailed the test results for two kinds of propellant. The Belgian factory had been making propellant for two systems--one 350‑millimeter prototype and a huge 1,000‑millimeter gun. That's a 39‑inch diameter.

The huge tubes that made up the barrel were engineered in England. The trunnions, or supports for the barrel,
were found in Greece. Pipes, pumps and valves from Switzerland made up the recoil system. Seventy‑five tons of
steel parts forged in Italy formed parts of the breech. Altogether, companies in eight countries were involved.

Dr. PIKE: The story is that the System 350 propellant was intended to be used as the propellant for this experimental gun. Once the experimental gun was working, then the 1,000‑millimeter system gun could be finally designed. Its propellant could be finally designed.

NARRATOR: The tubes seized in England came in two sizes--350-millimeter and 1,000‑millimeter. Reportedly the 350 had been tested in 1989. Later that year, a firm order was placed for the 1,000-millimeter propellant. By the end of 1989, the plot to build the supergun had been penetrated, and now Dr. Bull himself had become a target of Israeli intelligence.


This was all financed through a "bank" in America where funds were diverted from American taxpayers to Saddam, ostensibly for agricultural enterprises. Saddam reportedly paid Bull $25 million for his work. The myopic viewpoint at the time was that any enemy of Iran (i.e. Iraq) is a friend of the USA.
Didn't quite work out that way.

After Bull was dead, MI6 feigned surprise at the discovery of "Supergun" barrel pieces being constructed in a foundry in England and they were impounded before they could all be shipped out (on Iraqi IL-76 transports I believe). Some pieces did make it out to Iraq.

Saddam, a former protected entity, invaded Kuwait less than 6 months after Bull was assassinated, on August 2, 1990 -
and the rest was seen on CNN 24 hours per day.

On Jan. 9, New York Times reporter John F. Burns described Hussein’s voice on the tape – as a moment of self-revealing clarity – coldly discussing the effectiveness of chemical weapons on an unprotected civilian population.

“In the history of prosecutions against some of the last century’s grimmest men, there can rarely have been a moment that so starkly caught a despot’s unpitying nature,” Burns wrote, while noting that Hussein’s “high-backed, black vinyl seat at the front of the dock was left ominously empty.”

At another point in the article, Burns added that Hussein’s alleged Iraqi accomplices “glanced furtively toward TV cameras” during the court proceedings. But Burns makes no mention of how Hussein’s hanging was a lost opportunity to identify people outside Iraq who aided and abetted the alleged genocide against the Kurds. [NYT, Jan. 9, 2007]

How had Hussein obtained the dangerous chemicals that he allegedly deployed to kill tens of thousands of Iraqi Kurds?

 

[mikey2much]

You are the problem

If obama was left unchecked, we would have been in a great depression

Obama is still clueless when it comes to jobs, job creation, and creating wealth/value

If you and your rightwing idiot friends would move to some country where the rich rule with no concern for the poor or working familes. you could be happy with your lips pressed firmly against the assholes of the rich waiting for your trickle down rewards, and without your opposition we could rebuild our schools and factories and maybe give all americans a chance at happiness not just the rich.

 

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February 3, 1959

On a cold winter's night a small private plane took off from Clear Lake, Iowa bound for Fargo, N.D. It never made its destination.

When that plane crashed, it claimed the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson and the pilot, Roger Peterson.
Three of Rock and Roll's most promising performers were gone. As Don McLean wrote in his classic music parable, American Pie, (annotated)
it was "the day the music died."

Performing in concert was very profitable, even more so than a cheap cash advance and Buddy Holly needed the money it provided. "The Winter Dance Party Tour" was planned to cover 24 cities in a short 3 week time frame (January 23 - February 15) and Holly would be the biggest headliner. Waylon Jennings, a friend from Lubbock, Texas and Tommy Allsup would go as backup musicians.

Ritchie Valens, probably the hottest of the artists at the time, The Big Bopper, and Dion and the Belmonts would round out the list of performers.

The tour bus developed heating problems. It was so cold onboard that reportedly one of the drummers developed frostbite riding in it. When they arrived at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, they were cold, tired and disgusted.

Buddy Holly had had enough of the unheated bus and decided to charter a plane for himself and his guys. At least he could get some laundry done before the next performance!


No, the plane wasn't named American Pie. It only had serial numbers, N3794N.

Waylon Jennings gave his seat up to Richardson, who was running a fever and had trouble fitting his stocky frame comfortably into the bus seats.

When Holly learned that Jennings wasn't going to fly, he said, "Well, I
hope your old bus freezes up." Jennings responded, "Well, I hope your
plane crashes." This friendly banter of friends would haunt Jennings for years.

Allsup told Valens, I'll flip you for the remaining seat. On the toss of a coin, Valens won the seat and Allsup the rest of his life.

The plane took off a little after 1 A.M. from Clear Lake and never got far from the airport before it crashed, killing all onboard.

A cold N.E wind immediately gave way to a snow which drastically reduced visibility. The ground was already blanketed in white. The pilot may have
been inexperienced with the instrumentation.

One wing hit the ground and the small plane corkscrewed over and over. The three young stars were thrown clear of the plane, leaving only pilot Roger Peterson inside.

Over the years there has been much speculation as to whether a shot was fired inside the plane which disabled or killed the pilot. Logic suggests that encased in a sea of white snow, with only white below, Peterson just flew
the plane into the ground.

http://www.fiftiesweb.com/crash.htm

 

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1969: Jerry Sandusky becomes an assistant coach at Penn State. Unable to have kids of their own, Sandusky and his wife Dottie adopt the first of six children.

1977: Sandusky founds the group foster home The Second Mile, taking the name from Jesus's Sermon on the Mount: "And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two." The Second Mile will eventually become a charity for children in need.

Nov. 8, 1990: President George H.W. Bush recognizes The Second Mile as the country's 294th "Point of Light."

1994: Victim 7 meets Sandusky through The Second Mile. He is about 10 years old. According to the grand jury report, he will occasionally accompany Sandusky to coaches' meetings and attend Penn State games with him, staying overnight at Sandusky's home on the Friday before. Sandusky puts his hand on Victim 7's thigh while driving and on more than one occasion puts his hands down the waistband of the boy's pants, according to the report. The two shower together, and Victim 7 will later testify that he has a "blurry memory" of physical contact with Sandusky in the shower.

1994 or 1995: Victim 6 meets Sandusky at a Second Mile picnic. He is 7 or 8 years old. Sandusky invites him to tailgate with Sandusky's family and attend a football game with other boys.

1995: The biological mother of one of Sandusky's legally adopted sons writes "letters of concern" about Sandusky to child welfare officials and a judge—the first documented allegation against Sandusky of abuse. The son, named Matt, was not listed among Sandusky's victims. Matt attempted suicide four months after being placed with Sandusky. The night he attempted suicide, Matt wrote a letter to his probation officer asking to remain with the Sanduskys. He later testified before the grand jury, and while the nature of his testimony is not known, he brought his children to visit Sandusky on the day Sandusky was arrested, prompting the mother of those children to go to court to prevent him from doing so again.

1995 or 1996: Victim 5 meets Sandusky through The Second Mile when he is 7 or 8 years old. Sandusky invites him to tailgate with Sandusky's family and attend a football game with other boys. He will attend as many as 15 football games in all as Sandusky's guest, and he will travel with him to watch other games. According to the grand jury report, Sandusky often puts his hand on Victim 5's leg while driving.

1996 or 1997: Victim 4 meets Sandusky through the Second Mile program. He is 12 or 13 years old.

1996-98: Victim 5, now 8 to 10 years old, is taken to the locker rooms and showers at Penn State by Sandusky.

1997-98: Sandusky first makes "physical contact" with Victim 4 while swimming. Victim 4 travels to the 1998 Outback Bowl as a member of Sandusky's family party. He accompanies the team and other staff, even sharing the same accommodations. This boy also frequently stays with Sandusky in a hotel room near the Penn State campus on the night before Penn State home games. Sandusky's wife is "never present" for these sleepovers. Victim 4 also accompanies Sandusky on numerous charity golf outings.

May 1998: Sandusky picks up Victim 6 and drives him to Penn State's campus to work out. During the drive, Sandusky places his hand on Victim 6's left thigh several times. He asks him to shower, even though Victim 6 does not want to. The boy says Sandusky bear-hugged him, washed his back and picked him up and placed him under the shower head to rinse him off. Upon returning home, Victim 6's mother notices his hair is wet and calls university police. The mother has two conversations with Sandusky; A university police detective and a State College police detective listen in on both of them, with the mother's consent. Sandusky admits to the mother he has showered with other boys. She asks him not to do it again. Sandusky tells the mother, according to the grand jury summary, "I understand. I was wrong. I wish I could get forgiveness. I know I won't get it from you. I wish I were dead." Sandusky also admits what he did to a university police detective and an investigator with the state Department of Public Welfare. Wendell V. Courtney, an attorney representing both Penn State and The Second Mile at the time, is advised of the investigation. Ray Gricar, the Centre County district attorney, declines to press criminal charges against Sandusky. People/organizations aware of allegations concerning Sandusky, as of this date: Penn State University Police, State College Police Department, Centre County Office of the District Attorney, Second Mile attorney, Penn State attorney, Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare.

June 1999: Sandusky retires from Penn State, effective after the '99 season, after which he still holds emeritus status, which grants him access to an office and the university's football facility.

Dec. 28, 1999: Victim 4 is listed, along with Sandusky's wife, as a member of Sandusky's family party for the 1999 Alamo Bowl.

Summer 2000: Boy known as Victim 3 meets Sandusky through The Second Mile when he is between seventh and eighth grade.

Fall 2000: A janitor, James Calhoun, witnesses Sandusky giving a boy—identified as Victim 8—oral sex in a shower at the Lasch Football Building. He immediately tells other members of the janitorial staff. Another Office of Physical Plant employee, Ronald Petrosky, looks and sees two pairs of feet—but nothing more—and later cleans the shower, though he eventually does see Sandusky leave the locker room with a boy he estimates to be 11 to 13 years of age. Members of the janitorial staff fret that they might lose their jobs if they said anything to anyone. Calhoun eventually tells Jay Witherite, his immediate supervisor, who advises Calhoun "to whom he should report the incident, if he chose to report it." Calhoun, a temporary employee, never makes a report. He now lives in a nursing home and has dementia. Victim 8's identity remains unknown. People/organizations aware of allegations concerning Sandusky, as of this date: Penn State University Police, State College Police Department, Centre County Office of the District Attorney, Second Mile attorney, Penn State attorney, Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, Penn State's janitorial staff and supervisor.

March 1, 2002: A witness, since identified as then-graduate assistant Mike McQueary, enters the locker room at the Lasch Football Building around 9:30 p.m. He testifies to hearing "rhythmic, slapping sounds" in the showers and takes a look. He sees a naked Sandusky anally raping a boy, estimated to be 10 years old and identified as Victim 2. Shocked, McQueary—estimated to be 27 or 28 years old—rushes home to tell his father.

March 2, 2002: McQueary calls Joe Paterno and goes to Paterno's home to tell him what he had seen.

March 3, 2002: Paterno calls Tim Curley, Penn State's athletic director, and invites him to his home, where he reports a version of what McQueary had said.

March 2002: McQueary is called to a meeting with Curley and Senior Vice President for Finance and Business Gary Schultz. McQueary tells them what he saw. Curley and Schultz say they will look into it. People/organizations aware of allegations concerning Sandusky, as of this date: Penn State University Police, State College Police Department, Centre County Office of the District Attorney, Second Mile attorney, Penn State attorney, Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, Penn State's janitorial staff and supervisor, graduate assistant Mike McQueary, head coach Joe Paterno, Penn State athletic director, Penn State senior vice president for finance and business.

Late March 2002: McQueary hears from Curley. He is told Sandusky's locker room keys are taken away and that the incident has been reported to The Second Mile. McQueary is never questioned by university police and no other entity conducts an investigation until McQueary testifies before the grand jury in December 2010. Curley, Penn State's athletic director, testifies that he told Jack Raykovitz, The Second Mile's executive director, that Sandusky was prohibited from bringing children onto Penn State's campus again. Curley and Schultz also meet with Graham Spanier, Penn State's president, "to report an incident with Jerry Sandusky that made a member of Curley's staff ‘uncomfortable,'" according to the grand jury summary. People/organizations aware of allegations concerning Sandusky, as of this date: Penn State University Police, State College Police Department, Centre County Office of the District Attorney, Second Mile attorney, Penn State attorney, Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, Penn State's janitorial staff and supervisor, graduate assistant Mike McQueary, head coach Joe Paterno, Penn State athletic director, Penn State senior vice president for finance and business, Second Mile executive director, Penn State president.

April 15, 2005: Gricar, the Centre County District Attorney who chose not to press charges against Sandusky in 1998, goes missing and is never heard from again. His car is found the next day in nearby Lewisburg, Pa.

July 2005: Gricar's county-issued laptop is discovered in a river. Its hard drive is missing.

October 2005: The hard drive to Gricar's computer is found on a riverbank, but no data can be recovered. Four years later, it is discovered that internet searches run on the computer before Gricar disappeared include "how to wreck a hard drive," "how to fry a hard drive," and "water damage to a notebook computer."

2005-2006: Boy known as Victim 1 says that he meets Sandusky through The Second Mile at age 11 or 12.

2006 or 2007: John Miller, a wrestling coach for the elementary school program for which Victim 1 used to wrestle, returns to the local high school one evening to retrieve something. He notices a light is on in a weight room. He goes in to turn it off and finds Sandusky and Victim 1 "lying on their sides, in physical contact, face to face on a mat." Both Sandusky and Victim 1 appear surprised when Miller walks in. Sandusky jumps up and says, "Hey, Coach, we were just working on some wrestling moves." The grand jury report notes that Sandusky was not a wrestling coach. People/organizations aware of allegations concerning Sandusky, as of this date: Penn State University Police, State College Police Department, Centre County Office of the District Attorney, Second Mile attorney, Penn State attorney, Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, Penn State's janitorial staff and supervisor, graduate assistant Mike McQueary, head coach Joe Paterno, Penn State athletic director, Penn State senior vice president for finance and business, Second Mile executive director, Penn State president, wrestling coach.

Spring 2007: Sandusky begins spending time with Victim 1 weekly, having him stay overnight at his residence in College Township, Pa. Victim 1 also testifies that he Sandusky had brought him to preseason practices at Penn State. Sandusky makes a habit of climbing into the bed with Victim 1, initially to crack the boy's back. The boy testifies that this physical contact eventually escalates to Sandusky performing oral sex on him approximately 20 times.

Spring 2008: Victim 1 terminates contact with Sandusky when he is a freshman at
Central Mountain (Pa.) High School, refusing to take his phone calls. Before their contact is severed, Sandusky continues to visit Victim 1 at school, where unaware administrators allow Sandusky to have unsupervised meetings with Victim 1 in a conference room. Sandusky is an assistant varsity football coach who has "unfettered access to the school," according to the grand jury summary.

Fall 2008: Stephen Turchetta, the head football coach at Central Mountain High, notices Sandusky, by now a volunteer assistant football coach at the school, is being "very controlling" with the students Sandusky is mentoring from The Second Mile. Sandusky would sometimes want more of a time commitment than students could give and even engaged in "shouting matches" with some of them. Turchetta later testifies that Sandusky was "clingy" and "needy" when a student would sever his mentoring relationship with Sandusky, which Turchetta describes as "suspicious."

Late 2008: Investigation into Sandusky launched at county level.

March 2009: Then-Centre County District Attorney Michael Madeira transfers the case to then-Attorney General Tom Corbett's office, citing a conflict of interest. A grand jury is eventually impaneled sometime between now and September 2009 to investigate only Victim 1's allegations.

Summer 2009: Sandusky is still listed as serving as director for overnight football camps at Penn State satellite campuses.

September 2010: Sandusky retires from day-to-day involvement with The Second Mile, saying he wants to spend more time with family and to handle personal matters.

Fall 2010: The attorney general's office is now supervising the case, a year and a half after it was transferred from the DA in Centre County. Corbett, the attorney general, is running for governor, and the general election is in November. Almost immediately, the 1998 police report about Sandusky is discovered, and the scope of the investigation into Sandusky widens.

Nov. 2, 2010: Corbett, a Republican and the Pennsylvania Attorney General, is elected governor.

2011: Victim 7 receives phone calls from Sandusky, Sandusky's wife, and "another Sandusky friend" in the weeks before his grand jury appearance, according to the grand jury summary. The callers leave messages saying the matter was very important. Victim 7 does not return the calls. It is his first contact with Sandusky in nearly two years.

March 31, 2011: Sara Ganim of the Patriot-News reveals the existence of the grand jury investigation. Her story addresses only the allegations of Victim 1. "It's been a hush-hush situation," the former interim superintendent of Keystone Central School District tells Ganim.

Nov. 5, 2011: Sandusky is arrested and released on $100,000 unsecured bail. Leslie Dutchcot, the district judge who grants his release, is a volunteer at The Second Mile.

Nov. 7, 2011: Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly says that Joe Paterno is not a target of the investigation. She refuses to say the same about PSU President Graham Spanier. Curley, who has been placed on administrative leave, and Schultz, who has resigned, turn themselves in. Both men are charged with perjury and failure to report child abuse, the latter of which is a misdemeanor under Pennsylvania law.

Nov. 8, 2011: A possible ninth Sandusky victim comes forward. Penn State first issues an advisory to reporters telling them that Paterno's weekly press conference will be limited to questions about football. Less than an hour before that press conference is to start, the school cancels it altogether. That evening, a group of students marches to Paterno's house, where he weeps in the window before coming outside to lead the students in a Penn State cheer.

Nov. 9, 2011: The 84-year-old Paterno issues a statement announcing he'll retire at the end of the season. He also acknowledges he could have "done more" in hindsight to stop Sandusky. Later that night, the Penn State Board of Trustees meets and decides unanimously to fire Paterno and Spanier. Longtime assistant coach Tom Bradley is named Paterno's interim replacement. Penn State students riot.

Nov. 11, 2011: Penn State students hold a candlelight vigil for victims of child abuse.

Nov. 12, 2011: Penn State plays Nebraska at Beaver Stadium in the school's first football game without Joe Paterno as a member of its coaching staff since 1949. The Nittany Lions lose, 17-14.

Nov. 14, 2011: Jack Raykovitz resigns as the CEO of The Second Mile. According to Curley's testimony, Raykovitz was told in 2002 that Sandusky was prohibited from bringing children onto the Penn State campus. Sandusky and his attorney, Joe Amendola, are interviewed by Bob Costas on Rock Center. Costas asks Sandusky if he is sexually attracted to young boys; it takes Sandusky more than 16 seconds to say the word "No." Amendola also suggests Victim 2—the as-yet-unidentified subject of McQueary's testimony—could wind up being a defense witness.

Nov. 15, 2011: The New York Times reports that nearly 10 more victims have come forward with allegations that investigators are working to confirm. The Allentown (Pa.) Morning Call obtains an email from Nov. 8 in which McQueary, the then-graduate assistant who testified that in 2002 he witnessed Sandusky anally raping Victim 2, says he "made sure it was stopped when I left that locker room" and that he had "discussions with police," seemingly contradicting his grand jury testimony.

Nov. 16, 2011 Missing Pa. Ray Gricar,district attorney in Centre County, Pa., Prosecutor declared legally dead this year- had investigated Penn State’s Sandusky, but never brought charges

Gricar’s last call was to his live-in girlfriend, Patty Fornicola, according to media reports on what is perhaps the most infamous missing person cases in Pennsylvania in quite some time.

After telling Fornicola he would be going out for a drive in Lewisburg, Pa., Gricar was never heard from again. His car was later found in an abandoned parking lot. It contained his county-issued cell phone but no other personal effects.

His laptop computer was later fished out of the Susquehanna River, but the hard drive was missing. It was found by a passerby months after Gricar’s disappearance, although it was too badly damaged to be of use to investigators.

Dec. 7, 2011: Sandusky is arrested led from his home in handcuffs after the grand jury indicted him on 12 additional counts of abuse against two more children.

Jan 22, 2012

"JoePa" PSU coach Joe Paterno dies

Paterno was engulfed in a child sex abuse scandal when a former trusted assistant, Jerry Sandusky, was accused of molesting 10 boys over a 15-year span, sometimes in the football building.

Paterno at first said he was fooled. But outrage built quickly when the state's top cop said the coach hadn't fulfilled a moral obligation to go to the authorities when a graduate assistant, Mike McQueary, told Paterno he saw Sandusky with a young boy in the showers of the football complex in 2002.

Paterno waited a day before alerting school officials but never went to the police.