Happy Thanksgiving!!

   Well, its Thanksgiving time. Time to stuff yourself with Turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffiing and pie all while watching football with family and relatives. Also, its a time to reflect and be thankful for what's around you.

I am thankful for my family and friends who support me no matter what. I'm thankful for the god given ability to run. Also, I am thankful for my Columbus Running Company peeps, others at Motion running group, my small group Pelaton, and anyone else in my social life. You all help me stay sane when work gets crazy.

 And, as an Ohio State Fan I am thankful that this Saturday will be the last Saturday that we as fans will see Jim Bollman (and he walrus face and mustache) run Ohio State's awful and predictable offense. So that we can be thankful that hopefully Urban Meyer can come be the new Head Coach and bring us National Championships. I am also thankful for the Ohio State Men's Basketball Team who right now as I am typing is kicking the crap out of VMI. Hopefully with a great team like this it will be a National Championship/Final Four season for them to help us cope with the Football team stinking it up this year.

I am thankful to be a Columbus Crew fan too. (That's for you DeLeon).

All in all we all have to be thankful for some things in our life.

To Leave you I'm going to post you a funny video thanksgiving related. It was from a hit show in late 70's/early 80's right around I was born but I watched reruns before and it is still funny today. WKRP in Cincinnati. Very underrated show. This clip below is from the Thanksgiving episode you have to see. Check it out and HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!!

WKRP in Cincinnati Thanksgiving episode Clip

Thoughts on the whole Penn State case

  Unless you've been living under a rock for the last 2 weeks you may have not know about what has been going on at Penn State. Head Coach Joe Paterno and many other university officials were fired while the Athletic Director and Director of Finance at Penn State resigned over the fact that they covered up child molestation accusations of one the ex assistant coaches Jerry Sandusky that he had sexually abused young boys in the facilities of Penn State. 

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7221684/the-tragedy-penn-state-nittany-lions-coach-joe-paterno


http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/tag/_/name/penn-state-scandal

Apparently, this all broke out from 2002 when  then-graduate assistant Mike McQueary witnessed Jerry Sandusky forcing himself on a young boy in the Penn State locker room. He didn't go to the police but went to Joe Paterno, Paterno went to his higher ups in the athletic department. This raises the question of why didn't they go to the authorities or the police and why didn't they follow up on it. Sandusky's behavior was in big question before as to why did he retire early in 1999, and was still allowed to use the Penn State facilities even after the 2002 incident.

It's a sad story all around and for a moment the people at Penn State forgot who were the true victims of this the abused children whom now stories have came out about Jerry Sandusky. All in all this has destroyed the reputation of a famous football coach in Paterno, university officals being charged with purgery, and put the program and the school in Jeopardy all because nobody followed up and didn't go to the authorities, the police in the first place.

Here's a story of the past incidents that impicated Jerry Sandusky

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/11/who_knew_what_about_jerry_sand.html

More twists to the whole story is the lawyer that is defending Sandusky had a sexual encounter 15 years ago when he was 49 with a 17 year old girl that became his wife, however the legal age of consent in Pennsylvania is 16 but I still think it's really weird.

Everybody's easy to cast their stones at Jerry Sandusky, and rightfully so even though he hasn't been brought to trial and hasn't been found guilty by a court of law. Yet, the evidence, stories, and other victims that are now coming out pretty much say it all for him. The phone in interview he did with Bob Costas this past Monday with Sandusky's lawyer present in the studio with Bob Costas doesn't make him less guilty either. We should remember God is the one true judge and he will judge Jerry Sandusky for what he had done, but I hope Sandusky spends the rest of his miserable life in jail.

The pastor at my church blogged about the incident and how it's tragic and how it also damages the social capital in our society

http://richnathan.org/blog/penn-state-and-the-destruction-of-social-capital/

I mean I agree that this could be one thing that is leading to the fact the public puts less and less trust into social organizations or the government. Trust me I work for the Department of Defense I know all about the politics that go on where I work. However, this whole Penn State thing had shown me 2 things. One of course is something as serious as child abuse should be reported to child and protection services and the law authorities. There simply no question about that. How do we teach our children as young adults, full grown adults or our elders about what the right and morally thing to do if we ourselves don't do it? Taking responsiblity is human. I bet right now Joe Pa, Mike McQueary the assistant who witnessed Jerry Sandusky and the boy in the showers in 2002, Penn State's now ex-school president, the former athletic director and those others who had to resign or let go or learning that they had to be acountable for their actions and what they did not do.

Another thing we should learn from the Penn State situation is a way to improve social capital among our leaders and authorities. I know that there are those few in our government, community, and churches that try to hide things from the public. We should all be humble, trusting, but still aware of what is going on because it can only be the best way we can teach our children so society can grow overtime. Hopefully everyone tries to get what I'm saying.

I'm D-Money, that's my two cents and I'll leave you with a letter that an OSU fan wrote to Penn State fans as a sign of good faith

http://www.rewindcolumbus.com/GREAT-letter-from-an-OSU-fan-to-Penn-State-fans-/11127319?pid=180377

November Rain

   Yes, the title of this blog comes from a Guns N' Roses songs. They are one my favorite bands of all time. I'm talking about the originally lineup with Axl, Slash, Duff, Izzy, and Stephen Alder(the drummer). Sorry, but Stephen needed a cool name or he just didn't want to stand out like his other bandmates. Of course sadly due to Axl's behavior led to the downfall of the orginally lineup and now he tours and records with different guys under the Guns N' Roses name. So it's basically not the same.
 
  The song and the video November Rain is defintely popular, especially if in the month of November if you hear it on the radio. You see what goes on in your life around you as you try to get through the month. Kind of like the worst part of a storm happening before it dies down. The dieing down part of the year being the month of December with the excitement of the holidays and the worst part of the storm or year being the month of November. Hence the name of the song November Rain. Though if you listen to the lyrics of song it's about unrequited love.
  
  I just like the song cause it fits to what is going on this month of November. I have a couple friends running marathons this weekend in either Indianapolis or New York. This in a sense is their November Rain. Our running club trying to get individuals together to get ready to possible go to Seattle next month to run USATF Club Cross Country Nationals. There are people getting ready for the holidays especially this early. Some Light Rock radio stations even play Christmas Music after Halloween. I'm not in the Christmas mood until maybe 2 weeks before after or if I decide to run at USATF Club Nats. I also in the mood to get through work because I have a lot of time off next month to celebrate the holidays with family and friends.
 
   College Football teams are going through the month of November hoping to win out and get a great bowl game in the post season. I didn't think Ohio State would be in the spot to possible get to the Big Ten Championship game until last Saturday Night's win over Wisconsin now they still have a shot to win the Big Ten but they can't slip up on the way and all they have to do is get through the games in the month of November which includes Indiana, at Purdue, home against Penn State, and the finally against the evil empire up north Michigan!! They get through that and they'll have a chance to go to the Big Ten game to have a chance to win the Big Ten and go to the Rose Bowl.

   I dunno what is the point of this blog. I just wanted to tie in the song November Rain into it since if you think about it rain in November in itself is cold unlike the wet rain we get in the late spring and summer but the weather is much warmer where in November it still has some 50's and 60's but if it gets cold and if it rains it's much colder. Makes it miserable to run through. Try running in the snow the next months of winter. But, all have our November Rain to get through sometimes. Getting through the worst part of a storm and seeing light and the end which is the holidays and a start of the new year for a new beginning.

I'm D-Money, that's my 2 cents and for your enjoyment since it's a great song here in the video to Guns N' Roses November Rain