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Penn State's Joe Paterno is gravely ill and nearing death, as his family rushes to his side
Pennlive.com ^ | 1-20-2012

Posted on 01/21/2012 3:58:56 PM PST by Dysart

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To: surroundedbyblue

Thank you.


101 posted on 01/21/2012 6:35:15 PM PST by narses
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To: mom4kittys

Realistically, there isn’t much he could’ve done. He could have encouraged the actual witness to follow up with police (which he may have done - we don’t know). We know that he got the witness together with the police commissioner. We don’t know what happened after that.

Reasonable people (read: *not* most of his critics in this thread) wanted him to “follow up” more than he did. There might be some merit to that. I don’t know. It’s very difficult to say what you should or shouldn’t do if you aren’t a witness. Paterno had no idea what actually happened. He did exactly what he was *legally* supposed to do.


102 posted on 01/21/2012 6:35:21 PM PST by flintsilver7 (Honest reporting hasn't caught on in the United States.)
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To: Admin Moderator
Also first announced on PSU Twitter feed
103 posted on 01/21/2012 6:36:13 PM PST by PA Engineer (Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
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To: sten

If the reports are true (conflicting information is coming out now), then I too will raise a glass to him. I believe he did what he felt was right, and the details of that are going to be between him and the Good Lord.

Remember also that Paterno was not a “media friendly” coach, and they held that against him for years.


104 posted on 01/21/2012 6:37:52 PM PST by flintsilver7 (Honest reporting hasn't caught on in the United States.)
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To: Lurker

Indeed. May Our Lord be with you all the days of your life.


105 posted on 01/21/2012 6:37:55 PM PST by narses
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To: flintsilver7

That is what I thougt—thanks


106 posted on 01/21/2012 6:40:55 PM PST by mom4kittys (See you in another life, brotha)
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To: momtothree

I agree - a wise lady.

We all will have to account for something in the end.


107 posted on 01/21/2012 6:41:03 PM PST by Scotswife
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To: narses

And you as well.


108 posted on 01/21/2012 6:41:19 PM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: sten
actually, he’s always been a staunch conservative ... that’s all you need to know. after that, 94% of the media (vote democrat) will vilify him whenever they can.

i’m going out to have a drink to JoePa and remember PSU.

i despise/detest the country that has evolved since then (the 80s)


Agree. They killed him and the worst is Graham Spanier still has a high salary position there. The coverup was to protect the Board and Spanier at the expense of Joe Paterno. All anyone has to do is a bit of investigation of Spanier's background to find the links to the cultural rot.

Rest in peace Joe Paterno.
109 posted on 01/21/2012 6:42:16 PM PST by PA Engineer (Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
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To: PA Engineer

I’m getting a “that page does not exist” message.


110 posted on 01/21/2012 6:42:56 PM PST by Scotswife
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To: sten
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111 posted on 01/21/2012 6:43:45 PM PST by bushpilot1
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To: Scotswife
You are correct. They have pulled the report.

Reports of Joe Paterno's death refuted by family.
112 posted on 01/21/2012 6:52:31 PM PST by PA Engineer (Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
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To: Lurker
I've not the one who allowed a monstrous pedophile to remain on his staff for decades.

That honor (if you will) goes to Spanier and the Trustees who granted Sandusky Emeritus status and gave him the keys to the locker room. After that happened, Paterno told Sandusky he would never allow Sandusky to become head coach at Penn State.

113 posted on 01/21/2012 6:54:23 PM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: skeeter

All he had was secondhand information—he wasn’t a witness himself.


114 posted on 01/21/2012 7:06:00 PM PST by mom4kittys (See you in another life, brotha)
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To: Lurker

This thread is amazing and I am only on the 17th comment.

Too bad the old man is departing without telling everything he knows about Sandusky and who else was involved.


115 posted on 01/21/2012 7:30:13 PM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell)
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To: Essie

The man lead a long and good life. The comments made bye the self righteous, sanctimonious people here are nauseating.


Self righteous because we didn’t enable a serial pedophile the way he did? Is that what you mean?


116 posted on 01/21/2012 7:48:26 PM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell)
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To: narses; Lurker

Not to butt in the conversation, but there’s a big difference between say cheating or feeling lust in the heart, or even a divorce or cheating incident, and enabling a serial pedophile.


117 posted on 01/21/2012 7:51:51 PM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell)
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To: NittanyLion

To bad justice towards pedophiles and mercy towards little boys weren’t important parts of his life.


118 posted on 01/21/2012 7:54:13 PM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell)
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To: mom4kittys
Because he was not just the coach.

Paterno was on the governing board of The Second Mile, which is the charity from.which the children were obtained. When it came about that the campus police did not perform an investigation into the incidents being reported ... He should either have gone to the city police or resigned from the board. Most freepers are focusing solely on the incident witnessed by the assistant coach. That doesn't fly, there was the janitor reported incident as well.

There is zero plausible deniability for Joe.
A lot of the football pagans do not require plausability.

119 posted on 01/21/2012 7:59:44 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Aevery_Freeman

It sounds as if Paterno reported the incident according to the existing rules and regs >>

most states have laws where you must report any threat of child abuse to the police or child services if not you will be charged with a crime if you do not. I don’t know about PA.


120 posted on 01/21/2012 8:54:17 PM PST by Coleus (John 3:16, John 6:53–58,)
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