On Point ! ––– Let's hear similarly from our politicians, priests & poets

K&R ––– [link:|

Pedophilia, PSU: pay NO attention to tho$e MEN behind …

… the curtains (and the high-security sky boxes).

• Neighbors, I urge your vigilance and focus. Please do not be distracted and misdirected. There is so much more going on here.

Sadly, I've watched this sad, evolving saga from early on. My freshman year at Penn State was 1966, JoePa's first year as head coach. But more significantly, I've seen similar sagas in a dozen other arenas, countries and cultures (just search "pedophilia ring" for a tragic overview).

As I see it, this is still an on-going cauterization, containment and cover-up operation. ~ Cauterize the wound; sacrifice as many as necessary. Contain the spreading story to the current list of characters and institutions. Continue the cover-up.

This has always been a much bigger cluster of cruelty and criminality than the child-raping actions one sick (well-placed) pedophile. I suggest history will show that Jerry / JoePa / PSU tragedy is but one more ugly peak atop a very deep, very old iceberg -- the SAME iceberg at the heart of the scandals within the Catholic Church / Boys Town / Boy Scouts, etc.

Courage rises among victims, those who love them, and citizens of conscience. The truth wrestles its way into the bright, disinfecting light of day. We will see exposed astonishing corruption. Governors Rendell & Corbett have SO much yet to answer for.

Embedded organized crime, blackmail, sports gambling, International pedophilia rings, working together for access, supply and protection. Pimping kids to wealthy friends and donors. C'mon, do you really think the Second Mile was just for Jerry's sick pleasures?

There is a LOT to lose here for these folks. Remember at least two disappearances remain unsolved in this horror: who, where (and how) is Victim 2, the child McQueary saw? Where is AD Ray Gicar? Why don't we know?

The Freeh Report is brutal. But remember, [1] they were hired by the Board (who to this moment have dodged any accountability); [2] they had NO subpoena powers; and [3] Freeh has substantial conflicts of interest with the Second Mile (not investigated and untouched, so far). Please, dig into the man's history as a "cleaner" of embarrassing and illegal crises.

I suggest that the primary reason so many folks are having such a hard time making sense of this "scandal", this tragedy, is that most of the truth is still hidden, and millions are being spent weekly to keep it that way.

It must and CAN be different this time ~ keep pulling on the threads. We cannot let up. The truth will out. The truth can set us free.

Don Shall (PSU 1966-71)

bravo to the science folks (assuming you're not making all this up)

… you know, like the so-called wars on drugs, poverty, terror

… you know, jobs programs (just kiddin about you scientists)

Bravo to Dr. Higgs ~ stick to your crazy connect-the-dots visions.

I heard on NPR that a reviewer came up with the descriptor "the goddamned particle" (due to its elusiveness), and THAT person's editor shortened it to the god particle – and it just stuck.

[On Edit:] Just saw this:

Meanwhile the Sun sums up the complexity of the subject: "Never in the field of human knowledge has so much been written about something understood by so few."

k&r • another case study of the toxicity of entitlement

My first thoughts as I read the post were, "How could this seem like a good idea? How could this end any way but badly?"