SC Bureaucratic “Lion King” Love Letters - Accidentally Released Infidelity Emails

You would think that of all people an information technology specialist with nearly 15 years of experience in state government would be the last person to inadvertently spill their marital infidelity all over a publicly-accessible email.

That’s apparently not the case in S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s cabinet …

According to emails obtained by FITS, the former director of strategic development and information technology at Haley’s Department of Probation Parole and Pardon Services (SCDPPPS) appears to have mistakenly responded to one of his lover’s emails from a state government address — using taxpayer-provided resources.

The result?  One of the most hilarious email exchanges we’ve ever read — a veritable treasure trove of comedy gold that features the illicit lovers’ pet names for each other, graphic sexual references, professions of their undying love for each other and concerns over the possibility of getting caught by their respective spouses (both were married at the time the emails were sent a little over a year ago).

The best part of all this?  The employee’s state government email signature repeatedly pops up amidst the flurry of exchanges between “Simba” and “Nala” (the pair are apparently big fans of the 1994 Disney movie The Lion King, and use the names of the cartoon’s protagonists as their pet names for each other).

Ready to get your “cheese on?”
Read the emails here: http://www.fitsnews.com/2012/07/17/bureaucratic-love-letters/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Keep it on App Trail folks.
Open Ring Four. We have more clowns.

In 1979, a prominent Dem booster took a kid he abused to Second Mile fundraiser.

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Bucceroni says he accompanied Edward Savitz, a well-known Philadelphia businessman, Democratic political booster and advocate for at-risk children, to a fund-raiser “somewhere past Harrisburg.”

The event was to raise money for the recently established Second Mile foundation, and Bucceroni says he remembers meeting the man everyone referred to as “The Coach,” Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, who founded Second Mile in 1977. Bucceroni says Savitz and Sandusky knew each other through The Second Mile and political fund-raising events.
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Bucceroni’s story was a twisted, tortured one in the three years leading up to his brief interaction with Sandusky. The Philadelphia native, who now works as a police officer in the city’s public school system, says he was sexually abused by Savitz starting in 1977. Like Sandusky, Savitz met and groomed many of his alleged victims through his work with at-risk youths.
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Bucceroni says he told police in 1980 about his abuse at the hands of Savitz, but that no charges were filed then; Savitz was finally arrested in March 1992, charged with involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, sex abuse of children, indecent assault and corrupting the morals of a minor. He died of AIDS in a hospice days before his trial was to begin in April 1993.
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Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/i-team/sex-abuse-victim-recalls-horrid-encounter-edward-savitz-associate-jerry-sandusky-article-1.1115909#ixzz20sLs3tKF

Hmmmmmm........

Former PSU president Graham Spanier keeps national security clearance amid Sandusky scandal

Fired Penn State University President Graham Spanier has kept his job with the federal government through the Jerry Sandusky scandal, and the release of the internal university report that labeled him and others as part of a child sex abuse cover-up.

Attorneys for Spanier, who has not been charged criminally, said Spanier was investigated for four months after the scandal broke in November, and when it concluded, the feds allowed him to keep his "top secret security clearance."

Spanier's attorneys have criticized the Louis Freeh report's conclusions that Spanier, Joe Paterno and two other officials covered for Sandusky to save face.

Instead, his attorneys called the federal investigation "far more independent" and noted that his security clearance wasn't included in the final Freeh report even though the feds interviewed many of the same people interviewed by Freeh's team.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/07/former_psu_president_graham_sp.html#incart_river_default

Well he certainly shows stellar judgement, the right priorities and ethical behavior. We should feel even safer.

Rocky Top: A Tribute to Pat Summitt. (Yes. Seriously.) by Ally Auriemma

Note: I have never told this story outside of my family.  It seems appropriate, given that Coach Summitt received the Arthur Ashe award for Courage at this past weeks' ESPY awards.  It's also appropriate because this year is the 40th anniversary of Title IX, something I will be discussing in another post.

When I was eleven years old, Pat Summitt called me.
I don't mean she called my house looking for Dad, or called home by mistake in search of an office phone.  No.  This was a deliberate phone call, by Pat Summitt, looking for me. "Hello, Alysa, this is Pat Summitt from Tennessee."  Verbatim.

I was eleven.  We had just started our rivalry with Tennessee.  To say I was terrified of Pat Summitt is understating the point.  She is an icon of the sport.  She's naturally terrifying because of her intensity, her drive, her winning history...it's PAT SUMMITT.  I mean, cripes!

And I say this as a kid who had spent the past four years on a bus with Rebecca Lobo, so I tend to be unfazed by athlete superstars.  This was a whole different kettle of fish.

This is also coming from a girl who spent the ENTIRE very first UConn/Tennessee game on January 16th, 1995, in the Gampel student lounge playing SuperMunchers on a Compaq computer.  So if this nerd was freaked out by Pat Summitt, it was a very, very, very big deal.

She had heard, I'm assuming from my father, that I had been saying to people that The University of Tennessee looked like a really good place to go to school.  I knew this information from two sources - the games I had seen on TV of the Lady Vols playing, and the media guides I had stolen from press rooms when I snuck back there during games to hunt for food or Diet Coke.*
*some kids collect stamps, I collected media guides of women's basketball programs and and tried to memorize the school mascots of every single Division 1 program.  It became a huge game with the team to see if they could stump me.  I could not be defeated.
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Much more and well worth the read:
http://theculturebarista.blogspot.com/2012/07/rocky-top-tribute-to-pat-summitt-yes.html?spref=fb&m=1

She was raised right and that's a very high compliment. Geno, you done good!

Crusades Camp For Catholic Boys

The red-caped Catholic loons of Tradition, Family & Property held a summer camp for boys where they reenacted the Crusades with such games as Christian Vs Infidel Dodgeball. "Real men are taking the standard of Catholic heroism to fight evil, but the enemy these men face today are far more evil than your Muslim hordes."

PSU spokesperson: Sandusky’s retirement package revoked

Not that there were any options in the matter, but at least now it’s official: Jerry Sandusky’s retirement package, which he received from Penn State in 1999, has been revoked, according to university spokesperson Dave La Torr.

Per Statecollege.com, Sandusky received the following items as part of his retirement:

A lump sum of $168,000

Four free football season tickets for the rest of his life and the opportunity to purchase four more within the 35-yard lines

Two men’s and women’s basketball season tickets for the rest of his life

Lifetime use of a locker, weight rooms, fitness facilities and training room in the East Area locker room

A five-year agreement, subject to renewal, between him and Penn State to work collaboratively in community outreach programs, such as The Second Mile, that “provide positive visibility to the University’s Intercollegiate Athletics Program”

A 10-year agreement, subject to renewal, giving him an office and telephone in the East Area locker room

La Torr said he did not know exactly when the package was revoked, and added only that there were no plans to recover the lump sum of nearly $170,000. It wouldn’t be the first contract issue to be brought up since the Sandusky scandal, or even the first in recent days. The New York Times reported over the weekend that former coach Joe Paterno worked to negotiate his contract to end after the 2011 season while aware that Sandusky was under investigation once again.
http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/07/16/psu-spokesperson-sanduskys-retirement-package-revoked/

Now they'll claim the scandal is over again.

Jerry Sandusky case: Three men say they were abused in '70s or '80s

Sources close to the Jerry Sandusky case say that three men have come forward and told police that they were abused in the 1970s or 1980s by the convicted pedophile.

They are the first men to allege abuse before the 1990s, and if found to be credible, would directly attack the 68-year-old's defense argument that a person doesn't become pedophile in his or her 50s.

In the early 1970s, when one of the men says he was abused, Jerry Sandusky would have been in his late 20s.

Sandusky was convicted in June of 45 counts of child sex abuse against 10 victims. As the jury was deliberating, more victims -- including his own adopted son -- were speaking publicly for the first time about abuse.
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http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/07/jerry_sandusky_case_three_men.html

And so it begins.......

Link to map of all 'Stop & Frisks' in NYC & guns found:

The next thing Romney should do this second

is announce his choice for VP. That will change the conversation because the media will beat that to death for days.

However, their campaign has proven to be so inept that they will probably pick Palin.

BREAKING:The Paterno family has instructed their lawyers to form a committee of experts (link is up)

to review the Freeh Report. They vehemently disagree with the conclusions he drew, and they want the experts to review his presentation.

Don't have a link yet. The report is from Don Van Natta who works for ESPN and has been following this since it began. I am looking for a link, and will post one as soon as I find one.
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I am beyond outrage and into some other unnamed emotion.
Suffice it to say that they are beyond denial and in their own world. They are going to keep this alive and more dirt will come out when other investigations are through.
They will NEVER accept that he was anything but a saint.

(I am editing because I can't bloody type worth a damn.)

Paternos to conduct own review
Joe Paterno's family has instructed its lawyer to form a "group of experts" to conduct a comprehensive review of the facts and conclusions presented in the Freeh report.

"We are dismayed by, and vehemently disagree with, some of the conclusions and assertions and the process by which they were developed by the Freeh Group," Wick Sollers, the lawyer for the Paterno family, said in a statement Monday. "Mr. Freeh presented his opinions and interpretations as if they were absolute facts. We believe numerous issues in the report, and his commentary, bear further review."

The Paterno family also said it will ask its team of experts and lawyers "to go beyond the report and identify additional information that should be analyzed." A review is also planned on Freeh's presentation of the facts at last Thursday's press conference in Philadelphia, Sollers said. In addition, the Paterno family has asked the Freeh Group to preserve all its records, notes and materials collected during its seven-month investigation of the Jerry Sandusky matter.
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"The process of reviewing the report and other relevant information is going to be a complicated and time consuming exercise," Sollers said. "It took the The Freeh Group roughly seven months to conduct more than 400 interviews and review three million documents. We do not expect or intend to duplicate this effort but we are going to be as thorough as reasonably possible. In the meantime, our attorneys have asked that we not make any further comment on this matter until they are ready to provide an update on their progress."

Sollers pledged that the Freeh report will not be "the last word" on the matter, pledging that the family's inquiry will be "as thorough as reasonably possible."
Link to story because there's more: http://m.espn.go.com/wireless/story?storyId=8169773