Here’s what I’m seeing out there at the moment:
- US tightens sanctions on Tehran (BBC) — One more click of the rachet. Do we have those naval assets in place yet? Is anyone paying attention?
- Damning Penn State report reveals abuse cover-up (The Guardian) — Wow. If The Guardian is leading with this uber-American scandal (as are the WSJ, NPR, and the NYT), I guess I’d better put it on my front. But I can’t see leading with it. WashPost seems to agree with me…
- Ray Tanner to be named new USC Athletic Director (thestate.com) — I can see how the job would have been his if he wanted it. But who’s going to coach baseball now? Oh, wait — I see it’s Chad Holbrook.
- 2 charged in Beltway-style sniper case (Spartanburg Herald-Journal) — I hadn’t even heard anything like this was going on just up the road.
- Wells Fargo to Settle Mortgage Bias Case for $175 Million (NYT) — This was to settle “to settle accusations that its independent brokers discriminated against black and Hispanic borrowers during the housing boom.”
- Is recovery near? Why the housing bust may be over (WashPost) — This is what the Post led with instead of Penn State.
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Today’s also-ran story (it came in seventh on my list, and I limit my fronts to six stories to force myself to choose) was about the fallout from this Boston Globe story saying Romney did, too, stay at Bain three years longer than he says.
I just couldn’t quite decide that that was more important than the stories I chose.
I guess I should link you to some of the aforementioned fallout. Here’s NPR’s story, and here’s the WashPost’s. For a Brit perspective, here’s The Guardian’s.
Romney probably didn’t have much direct control over Bain after 1999. However, his name was still listed in prominent executive jobs. And the company certainly was following in the direction he started. Essentially he’s trying to have it both ways with Bain. Either he was it’s leader in a capacity sufficient to create jobs or he wasn’t. He can’t just say he did great things until 1999 then after that the company went to hell and a handbasket without his knowledge or direction. Either Bain was good for the nation’s economy or it wasn’t.
We need to move on from this. But if we do Romney needs to shut up about the alleged 100,000 jobs he created while at Bain. That’s just not an honest claim.
With the shameful pedaphilia episodes of the Catholic Church and now Penn State I hope we’ve established a new pardigm in this country that abuse of that nature will absolutely not be tolerated, period. And anyone who tries to cover this up or show one whit of compassion for the perpetrator will be prosecuted as an accessory after the fact. I’m all for the NCAA slapping the death penalty on the Penn State football program to set an example for all to see. Too bad we couldn’t do the same type of thing for the Catholic Church. Imagine, no mass for a year.
And of course we’d also be shutting down all the other churches, and all sorts of secular programs that bring youth in contact with adults, since such abuse is just as prevalent in those areas as in the Catholic Church. Right?
Brad, you missed my point. I’m tallking about the cover-up, not the actual crime that led to the cover-up. If an organization covers up something on the same scale as Penn State don’t you think they should be sanctioned? Penn State should have to abandon it’s football program for a year as penance for the cover-up. After all the cover-up was intended to keep the programs good name in tact. Now that it’s name is sullied seems only reasonable to let everyone know it’s better to report a crime and accept a small amount of shame rather to let the whole thing get inflated by a follow-on cover-up.
Back to the Romney story, was he paid a salary by Bain after 1999? If so then his whole story “I had already left the company” story is pretty sketchy. Maybe that’s why he doesn’t release his tax returns.
@Brad – The only churches we hear abusing children are the Roman Catholics and the little cults that pose as churches for economic reasons only. Kind of puts you in interesting company doesn’t it.
Here’s yet another area of bi-partisan cooperation. Apparently both Harry Reid and John Boener, among others on both sides of the aisle, are highly upset about the “made in China” Olympic uniforms. Besides, they are just plain butt ugly. Thank you Ralph Lauren for bring our contry together for the first time since 9-11.
http://news.yahoo.com/u-olympic-uniform-controversy-rages-182139665.html
If the USA uniforms are meant to represent the US, why do they insist on putting that ugly, huge Polo emblem on them? Since when do Americans wear berets outside of the Army? As far as being made in China, I probably wouldn’t wear them for long periods of time… who knows what toxic materials are being used.
loved the Doonesbury series on how China lauded Mittens for creating so many jobs there….
Probably not as many as Obama.