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Much Ado About Michael Mann the Climatology Courtroom Perjurer

Posted on November 7, 2012 by

Much Ado About Michael Mann the Climatology Courtroom Perjurer.

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99 Questions State Penn Pres. Rodney Erickson Won’t Be Asked – Part 3

Posted on October 30, 2012 by

Part 3 of 3

This final part addresses the following the last three of five kinds of questions:

The third kind appertains to the administration’s foreknowledge of Jerry Sandusky’s deviant sexual proclivities and the university’s close ties to Jerry’s infamous Second Mile Charity.  The fourth kind appertains, in general, to the unpropitious timing of coach Joe Paterno’s firing and the speedy but yet unnecessary acceptance of the consent decree and the likewise hasty hiring of Bill O’Brien—who, although now has convincingly proven his coaching ability, had had no head coaching experience at the time.  The fifth kind appertains to the worthiness of the Board of Trustees.

Questions appertaining to the administration’s foreknowledge of rampant pedophilia:

  1. Before the scandal broke, Rodney, how often did you attend Second Mile Charity gatherings?
  2.  How often did you see former VP of Campus Police Gary Schultz at Second Mile functions?
  3.  How often did you see former VP of Athletics Tim Curley at Second Mile functions?
  4. How often did you see the present VP of Athletics Ed Joyner at Second Mile functions?
  5.  How often did you see former Gov. Ed Rendell or present Gov. Tom Corbett at Second Mile Charity functions?
  6.  How often did you see Joe Amendola (who will be Sandusky’s attorney) at Second Mile Charity functions?
  7.  Are you aware that state grants had been made to the Second Mile Charity?
  8. Are you aware that Penn State mascot, wearing a Second Mile T-shirt, regularly appeared at various school functions as a show of support for the charity?
  9. Would you concur with the assessment that the Second Mile Charity could not have flourished and formed partnerships with schools statewide had it not been for the backing of the University Administration and the Board of Trustees?
  10. When did you learn that Jerry Sandusky was a pedophile—in 1977 when he founded the charity, in 1999 when he resigned as coach, sometime within those two dates, or just within the last 15 years?
  11. Were you ever aware that Gov. Ed Rendell’s friend Asst. District Attorney Joe Savitz committed suicide in 1980 shortly after news of a tri-state pedophile ring broke? 
  12. Were you not aware of Governor Rendell’s friendship with Joe’s brother Ed Savitz who was indicted for heinous sex acts and died of AIDS in 1993 while awaiting his trial?
  13. If not in 1980 or 1993, when did you become aware that there was, indeed, a pedophile ring centered at the Second Mile Charity with scores of pedophiles in the tri-state of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York?
  14. To your knowledge, are there any University Administrators or Board of Trustees members who did not know about the scandal as of 1998?
  15. To your knowledge, did any Board Member or University Administrator try to bring Sandusky to justice in 1998 or earlier?
  16. Do you suppose that attorney Joe Amendola was imposed upon Sandusky for the express purpose to keep him from testifying, which would have subjected him to cross-examination and doubtless reveal the names of other guilty parties? Continue reading →
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99 Questions State Penn Prez Won’t Be Asked – Part 2

Posted on October 29, 2012 by

Part 2 of 3 Parts

Nature of the Various Pertinent Questions That Will Not Be Asked

There are five kinds of pertinent questions that will not be asked.  In this Part, we will cover two of them.  The first kind appertains to ethics and legality.  The second kind appertains, mainly, to the hiring of Louis Freeh’s Investigative Group and the delimited report, having findings that are impermissible in a court of law.

Questions to Rodney appertaining to ethical and legal matters:

  1. Why, do you suppose, that you, in light of your affiliation with the Second Mile Charity, were elected president of the university?
  2. Do you feel that the Board of Trustees acted ethical in elevating you to the office of president?
  3. Is it not your former boss Graham Spanier, more than

    Graham Spanier

    anyone else excepting the Governor and the State’s Attorney, who is responsible for turning a blind eye to untold acts of pedophilia perpetrated on helpless young boys, for over a decade, on campus and in the nearby environs?

  4. Do you not have the vested authority to fire Graham Spanier?
  5. Do you consider it ethical to grant Graham Spanier a faculty position?
  6. Why did you not present the issue of sanctions to the Board so that issue would openly discussed and made a matter of record? 
  7. Moreover, why did you act hastily when the Board could have easily convened and decided the matter?
  8. In light of your being the newly elected president, did you not overstep your authority when you accepted the NCAA’s Consent Decree without gaining the Board’s approval?
  9. Or, did in fact, the Board tacitly permit you to arrogate this authority?
  10. In accepting the Sanctions, do you profess to have acted under bonafide law as opposed to color of law?
  11. Do you consider it ethical to hire Ed Joyner as VP of athletics when he previously had been on the Board of Trustees and had been active with the Second Mile

    Ed Joyner

    Charity?

  12. Do you consider it ethical of the Board to give this same man Carte Blanche to select Joe Paterno’s successor?
  13. Are you aware that NCAA Pres. Mark Emmert has no more of a legal right to impose sanctions for criminal behavior than does the Man-in-the-Moon or the president of Mars candy bars?
  14. Do you realize that even though all of the college presidents of the Big Ten Conference, or for that matter all of America, might claim to acknowledge Mark Emmert’s authority, it is immaterial, for they lack the authority to nullify the laws of jurisprudence?  
  15. Did you consult with the University’s legal counsel to confirm that Emmert was not working within the law?
  16. Did you consult also with legal counsel without the

    Mark Emmert

    University?

  17. Do you not realize that it is to the benefit of the University to curtail the scope of the scandal?
  18. Has any attorney, including Board member Mark Frazier, gone on record to inform you that both you and Emmert have, indeed, been acting unlawfully?
  19. Also, has either the District Attorney’s Office of Centre County or the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office informed you that you have been acting unlawfully?

    Tom Corbett

  20. Moreover, do you consider that the punishment fits the crime—i.e. that the football team, Penn State students and alumni, and Pennsylvania fans at large should be punished for the actions of one man and the lack of vigilance of the several University Administrators and Board of Trustees to protect against such debauchery?
  21. Excepting you and your friends, is there anyone in Happy Valley or elsewhere in Pennsylvania or on the planet, who thinks that 2012 Nittany Lions Football Team got what it truly deserves?
  22. What would you say, Rodney, to your detractors who claim your actions are “smoke ‘n’ mirrors” to keep the focus off of yourself, other administrators, and members of the Board for enabling Jerry and his debauched friends to prey on so many young boys, over decades, throughout Pennsylvania? Continue reading →
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99 Questions State Penn Pres. Rodney Erickson Won’t Be Asked

Posted on October 26, 2012 by

Due to Frankenstorm, Luncheon and Party Will be Postponed to Friday, Nov. 2!

Part 1 or 3 :In Celebration of Halloween!

On Wednesday, Oct 31 (Halloween) at the Washington Press Club in D.C. Rodney Erickson will address a friendly audience and make some insipid remarks and then answer some softball questions about them.  However, what the muted public wants to hear him answer are hardball questions, not just about the insufferable Draconian Sanctions per se, but, more important, about the atmosphere in Happy Valley that not only fostered a Jerry Sandusky to pray on so many victims for so very long but allowed his Second Mile Charity to expand unfettered from Centre County to all of the many other counties throughout the state.

To keep in the mood of Halloween and to keep everyone mindful of the seriousness of the offenses that Penn State’s administration is, indeed, guilty of, it would be befitting were Rodney to wear a jailbird outfit, say with number 112-107-0 on front and back, don a see-through translucent mask, and carry Lady Justice’s scale.

That would be so funny—so funny that the controlled press would be hard pressed to avoid the irony, i.e. the travesty of justice!

The luncheon will begin at half past noon; Rodney’s remarks (low keyed—no speech—unimportant ex post facto subject matter) should begin about one o’clock; and, about twenty minutes thereafter, of the scores of questions that could be asked, only the very same few that already have been asked time and time again—all centering superficially on the Death Sentence—will be asked, and they will be answered, evasively, exactly as before.  At ten minutes to the hour, no doubt, the emcee, perhaps Mark Emmert himself, will interrupt the Q & A session saying to the audience something such as, “One last question, please, for we must vacate the dining hall no later than top of the hour, lest we all be turned into Pumpkins.”  Attendees will moan wistfully but laugh and grab a last handful of candy corn and Rodney shall be left off the hook—surprise! surprise!—and Rodney will pretend he is a legitimate president!

Just so everyone knows, the overriding question that should be asked, but won’t be, is–why is this venue not University Park, where the university sits, rather than D.C., some 200 miles and four hours away?  Perhaps Rodney does not want to bother Penn Staters with State Penn trivial matters?  Moreover, to make sure that students do not forego invaluable study time following him to D.C., he has decided on a mid-week day for his friendly get-together!

The purpose of this so-called talk is to give the University’s Administrators the appearance, aided by the venal controlled Press, that the Good Ole Boys (and Girls) have nothing to hide, when, in fact, hiding the facts is exactly what they are endeavoring to accomplish with every fiber of their being—and doing a superb job, sad to say. Continue reading →

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The Secret Gala Affair in Baltimore Regarding the Takeover of the Second Mile Charity

Posted on October 12, 2012 by

The Mysterious Kidnapping of Violet Ripken! (Redux)

This brief blog is actually an addendum to the 4-part blog titled Penn State Scandal, More Manure Pitchforked under the Carpet! and subtitled The Mysterious Kidnapping of Violet Ripken! published last month.

See http://ncaafootballinsights.com/2012/09/04/penn-state-scandal-more-manure-pitchforked-under-the-carpet/

Part IV of that blog ended with a blurb about the “Ambassadors Dinner” held the night before last.  The oddest thing about this dinner was there was no mention of it anywhere except in the above blog.  A google search revealed only that, the above blog.

There was no mention of it on the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation’s website.  The Baltimore Marriott did not log this event on their calendar of events.  The event was not covered in the Baltimore Sun newspaper.

This writer informed TV Host Nancy Grace of it.  She is the namesake of the Nancy Grace Show which touts itself as being “justice themed” and “interested in the breaking crime news.”

Perhaps she would not have ignored the story had her program been concerned with “Injustice!” (for the big crooks who get away with serial crimes) rather than “justice” (for the common Joe, like you and me, who now and then commits a single unpremeditated crime, without accomplices above his social status.)  In other words, perhaps she doesn’t cover systemic crime!

Perhaps she would have jumped on the story if the story—about a huge connection of pedophile rings centered at the Second Mile Charity in University Park, Pennsylvania—had not been broken in 1980, an re-broken, again and again, every few years up to the present time by countless publications, only to be dismissed out of hand, as though it were a mere “dog bite man” story.

Perhaps her bosses at HLN (formerly CNN Headline News) told her that they themselves are pedophiles (not that they necessarily are) or that some of their close powerful pedophile friends, some senators and governors, would be loathe hearing such an unflattering story.

Yes, indeed, Nancy, like the rest of us, must work to eat, and without a head it is very hard to do!

Not to single Nancy out, but she represents the “hard core” reporting issuing out from the mouths of the well-paid, I dare not say, mainstream media. Continue reading →

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Part 3: Penn State’s Phenom Coach Bill O’Brien

Posted on October 11, 2012 by

Part 3 of 5: Coach O’Brien’s Monkey

Wherever Bill Goes Goes His Monkey

In part 1 we saw where Bill had stepped into a bucket of dung (or so it seemed).  Well, after great effort and much embarrassment he was able to extract his foot, but as soon as he did so a monkey jumped smack on his back and held fast.

Enlarged—

Monkey Man, if you accept this job as head coach of our university with our 108 thousand-seat stadium, a diversified Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, and Transgender curriculum—tops in the country—with our student body that loves apple pie, with—I’ll say it once again—with our 108 thousand-seat stadium—with our diversified campus, etc. etc., you had better never say a disparaging word about the Board of Trustees, NCAA Prez Mark Emmert, or the sanctions he imposed. If you fail to abide by this proviso, we will cut your balls off!

Anonymous

The above email to Coach O’Brien was Bcc’d to several people, one of whom subsequently forwarded it to this investigative blogger.  The sender is evidently a Board defector who could not tolerate any more of the Board’s chicanery.  In his transmission he said he trusted that I would do an adequate job of explaining to Penn Staters what is meant by “Monkey Man.” 

Although at first I had no idea what the moniker meant, but the more I thought the clearer my imagings became. 

Of course, the monkey is figurative.  Although it’s unreal, it certainly looks real!  Bill thinks only he can see it, but in fact everyone not only sees it but hears it screeching!

Despite the scandal that won’t go away, ever, Bill’s monkey-blindness is hilarious.  Bill is oblivious to the fact that people throughout Happy Valley and all over the football world are chortling every time he appears on TV with his monkey.  If he were to talk to it and feed it oranges and peanuts, it couldn’t be much more ridiculous.

After the first two games of the season, both losses, the monkey looked more like a baboon with a rose-colored derriere and some Penn Staters were guffawing and chuckling loudly.  Bill’s face was getting red too.

Some fans were making snide remarks.  Some were chanting, “Bill, put the monkey in the zoo!”  A dozen or more disgruntled fans donned Sandusky and Erickson masks. TV cameras were kept off all of the many cynics.  As the band played on, and stalwart fans and cheerleaders, feigning indifference, waved placards saying “We are—,” Bill furtively slipped the monkey some bananas and plantains.  

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Part 2: Penn State’s Phenom Coach Bill O’Brien

Posted on October 8, 2012 by

Part 2 of 5: A Misnomer Indeed

The Board of Distrustees

If you had a bent for prepubescent boys and if you were seen going in and out and out and in of the Boys’ Rooms of the statewide Second Mile facilities and if you held the keys to justice in the state of Pennsylvania, what pray would you do?   Would you throw the keys away in the deep blue sea?  Would you bury them under the Governor’s lumpy smelly carpet? 

Would you pretend you were just a bit lax and negligent? Or would you go from the sublime to the ridiculous pretending that indeed the keys did work and pay some Italian citizen Mafioso purblind pedophile-searching sleuth 6.5 mill to write sheer cockamamie for you?

Readers, we ought not make hasty inferences.  Of course, not all the Board members are pedophiles.  In fact, some of them might be as straight as an arrow and would no sooner seduce a prepubescent than a sheep or a ram.  Most of them, no doubt, are just cowards, who have been cowed into silence.  A few of them, likely, might even be chagrined that Penn State is arguably the most LGBTQ-friendly campus in all America.  Those few straights who think so keep their tushes on the Board solely for the many perks available to them.   

The Distrustees’ Three Scapegoats

Actually, the number of scapegoats is astronomical: Pennsylvania taxpayers, alumni, students, fans, players.  But there are three who would be immolated in the pyre within the smoke and mirrors of the Board’s altar in the holy Temple of Baal.

As rats, the Distrustees pointed to Paterno and two other unfortunate chaps, and then they scurried underground to plot how they would dispense with every truth-seeker who dare shine a flashlight into their labyrinth.  The caverns run throughout Happy Valley to Harrisburg to Hershey (home of the Milton Hershey Boarding School (orphanage) for Boys—likely the most expensive school in the world) to Philadelphia and to who knows where else for sure except God, the Devil, and maybe Guv Rendell.

Tom Bradley

The two other unfortunates are interim coach Tom Bradley and assistant coach Mike McQueary.   Bradley is guilty of one count, guilt by association; and McQueary is guilty of two counts: one, not looking the other way when Jerry was porking his young victim in the behind and, two, not procuring an affidavit after reporting what his eyes could scarcely believe. 

Doubtless, in hindsight, McQueary must rue that he did not deck Sandusky right then and there in the shower room and hauled him wet and butt-ass naked down to police headquarters with the traumatized prepubescent boy in tow.

Had he done so, he would have been a national hero!

However, being that McQueary didn’t do so, he was therefore made into a scapegoat.  Jerry’s ratty enablers would scurry behind the three unfortunates.  The spineless whores in the mass media would castigate them mercilessly while singing Lucy in the Skies with Diamonds and Sympathy for the Devil.    Continue reading →

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Penn State’s Phenom Coach Bill O’Brien

Posted on October 5, 2012 by

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Part 1 of 5: In Search of the Right Man

Prologue  

Although Bill O'Brien is the focal point of this blog, he is one of the few individuals—one of three in fact—who is implicated in the forever-widening Pedophilia Scandal but is not guilty of any crime, as an accessory to the fact or an accessory after the fact or worse.

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Penn State’s Phenom Coach Bill O’Brien

Posted on October 4, 2012 by

Part 1 of 5: In Search of the Right Man

Prologue  

Although Bill O’Brien is the focal point of this blog, he is one of the few individuals—one of three in fact—who is implicated in the forever-widening Pedophilia Scandal but is not guilty of any crime, as an accessory to the fact or an accessory after the fact or worse.  Moreover, he is the one and only person beyond suspicion of any untoward behavior whatsoever.

In Search of Bill O’Brien

The otherwise liberal Board of Trustees precluded many people from consideration in their search for the next head football coach, to wit—Lesbians, Gays, Bi-Sexuals, Transgenders, and Queers.

The Board insisted that the successful candidate have the following requisites—

  • One, although he had to be “straight” he must appreciate alternate life styles and support LSBTQ initiatives.
  • Two, he had to be far removed from the Jerry Sandusky/Penn State/Second Mile Charity Pedophilia scandal.
  • Three, he had to have at least a year’s experience as a head football coach of a junior high school football team or above.
  • Four, he had to be a man’s man.
  • Five, most important, he had to understand who’s who in Happy Valley politics and be willing to shine Board members’ shoes on occasion.

O’Brien had all the requisites to be the successful candidate except one: he had zip, zero, zilch head football coaching experience.

That stumbling block was promptly removed after he promised never to say a disparaging word about the Board nor a gruff word about their crony Mark Enema, the NCAA prez.

There was one other stumbling block—O’Brien wanted to hire a butch as one of his assistant coaches.  The Board thought the intent was noble but objected.  But Bill persisted.  The Board relented a little, “Maybe in a few years!” they told him.  Bill consented.  And then he shook hands with each male member of the Board and gave a peck on the cheek to Chairwoman Karen Peetz and told her she was beautiful!

Hence, Bill became the schools’ next head football coach!

Some Victories, Some Cheers, but—

In light of this past Saturday’s impressive win against the Illini, Coach O’Brien has shown he is quite capable as a head coach.  Apparently, he has gotten the Nittany Lions back on track to glory.

Hail to the Coach!

Hail to the team!

Hail to the Board of Trustees!

And three cheers for Rodney Erickson:

Rodney for president, Rah!

Rodney for vice president, Rah!

Rodney eats it, Rah!!!

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Bantering with Penn State Coach Bill O’Brien to Make a Point

Posted on September 17, 2012 by

A few weeks ago I wrote a cynical blog titled “More Blue Ribbons Needed: Penn State’s Can of Worms Opens Wider.”  I informed Coach O’Brien of it with a Tweet, “Your Blue Ribbons is a bad idea” to which he responded tersely.

Instead of responding to the idiocy of the Blue Ribbons, Bill commented only on my uncomplimentary reference to him.  He tweeted me back saying, “Lackey coach, Screw you”

Of course, he was angry.  No one likes to hear a derogatory remark about himself especially when it is undeniably true.

On Friday, September 14, I tweeted him again saying, “U ought to speak tomorrow at Rally for Resignations.  One rant against sanctions could turn your team around & save your job.”

Evidently, he had not noticed my name for likely he would not have responded.  His response: “Silly to even suggest it”

Feeling to the contrary, I posted my reasons on his Facebook page, I like Bill O’Brien.  To wit:

Hey Coach,

Till now I hadn’t realized you had a Facebook page. Had I known, I would have made comments all along, such as, Good Job, Keep up the Good Work, Congratulations, etc.

Anyhow, I got a suggestion that might cut back on defections and rekindle your team’s waning spirit. Here it is, it’s simple:

All you have to do is join Franco Harris at 10 o’clock this coming Saturday morning on the Old Main Lawn for the “Rally for Resignations” of the Board of Trustees. Tell your team to be in attendance and notify the local papers of you intend to speak.

Of course you do not want to alienate the Board who butter your bread so lavishly, so to speak, so don’t say a word disparaging about them.  Instead, just address the sanctions.  Say how unfair you think they are and that they should be lifted at once.  

Everyone—fans, players, and the Board, yes the Board too, will be indebted to you.Everyone—the fans, the players, and the Board—yes, the Board too—will be indebted to you.  [A 2-10 record would underscore the preposterous sanctions.]

What’s more you will likely be around awhile in your coaching capacity.  However, if your crestfallen players continue to play as they have been playing, the team will likely not win more than two games this season, thus, you’ll be out the door looking for another gig.

P.S. If you would like me to help spread the word about your brave stand, just let me know, I would be glad to do so.

 All the best, 

Maxie Opossovitch Continue reading →

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