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Gary
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From the City That Dreams
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 9, 2011 - 11:27pm PT
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Just heard a press conference on the radio. Joe Paterno got the boot along with the president of Penn State.
What took so long? They should be tried as accessories.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Never, never stick around too long......hmmmm, did I say that?
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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If you knew someone had raped a kid, you'd call the cops. I know you would. Any reasonable person would.
Why didn't Paterno?
What the hell's wrong with him?
He ought to be locked up.
In California, there's a law that says an authority-type figure ( teacher, preacher, cop, etc. ) can be locked up if he knows of a kid being abused, and doesn't immediately report it to the police.
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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"We have reached a new low"
who is the 'we' ?
Do you refer to the public that called for his firing after Paterno's friend molested boys while Paterno did next to nothing ?
Paterno's unwillingness to do more to stop Sandusky will forever taint anything he did as a head coach in my mind .
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Nov 10, 2011 - 12:16am PT
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The President of Penn State was also fired by the Board of Trustees, but in our culture that will be a non-event.
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dirtbag
climber
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Nov 10, 2011 - 12:16am PT
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What a horrible series of events.
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Oxymoron
Big Wall climber
total Disarray
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Nov 10, 2011 - 12:16am PT
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Dinosaur.
All things must pass. Those, too.
Goodbye & good luck. And thanks.
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Nov 10, 2011 - 12:45am PT
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Anytime there is a big power structure imperiled, the response is typically the same.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Nov 10, 2011 - 12:52am PT
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Somebody should turn off the full moon.
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Oxymoron
Big Wall climber
total Disarray
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Nov 10, 2011 - 12:56am PT
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If the World is f*#ked up, It's because YOU allowed it.
Free will? Nope. It's YOUR fault.
Damn you.
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Oxymoron
Big Wall climber
total Disarray
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Nov 10, 2011 - 01:11am PT
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In this Life, we're ALL forced into cowardly positions.
YOU decide if you stay there.
It's just a factor of what makes you, you.
Pick your battles well, little Murse.
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Oxymoron
Big Wall climber
total Disarray
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Nov 10, 2011 - 01:18am PT
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Tell someone? How about kicking his ass onsite?
In the moment.
Busted for real is forever.
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Oxymoron
Big Wall climber
total Disarray
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Nov 10, 2011 - 01:20am PT
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You talk a lot, Wyna. That happens on the intardnets, it seems.
Think.
Think hard. Can you?
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Gary
climber
From the City That Dreams
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 10, 2011 - 08:40am PT
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Tell someone? How about kicking his ass onsite?
How do you walk away from seeing that? You don't drag that sorry sack of sh#t out of the shower? You don't tell the police?
Paterno said:
"This is a tragedy," he said. "It is one of the great sorrows of my life. With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more."
Hopefully the next greatest sorrow in his life will spending the next few years in the state penitentiary.
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Nov 10, 2011 - 09:21am PT
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from Penn State to state penn..
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Nov 10, 2011 - 09:31am PT
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Didn't Mugs play on the Penn State team?
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sandstone conglomerate
climber
sharon conglomerate central
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Nov 10, 2011 - 10:04am PT
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Wonder how long this has been going on...probably a lot longer than 9 or so years. Why was it allowed to happen? Follow the money trail...What a way to wrap up your career, your life.
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Gunkie
Trad climber
East Coast US
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Nov 10, 2011 - 10:16am PT
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Read the grand jury report, it's horrific: http://cbschicago.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/sandusky-grand-jury-presentment.pdf
Let's never forget what Paterno did not do. His trusted assistant comes to him and reports the rape of a 10 year old boy one day AFTER it happened and didn't call the cops. So what does Paterno do? He also DOES NOT CALL THE COPS. That is where Paterno lost everything. Paterno not only did not call the cops, he tacitly allowed the pedophilia to continue on his watch and on his, effective, property for an additional 9 years. Paterno just threw away everything he ever did positive because of hubris and ego.
I'd imagine Mugs Stump is swinging his old Chouinard axes over this.
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