Sunday, November 6, 2011

That's why they call it Happy Valley!


It's full of clowns. So to speak.
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12 comments:

The Dude said...

Trouble Along the Way is on, Duke Wayne is a football coach at a Catholic college.

So, how would he have handled hearing about a child being raped in his school's showers? Differently than Joe Paterno, that's for sure.

November 6, 2011 at 7:35 PM
Trooper York said...

You got that right Sixty.

That's a good rule of thumb.

What would the Duke do?

November 7, 2011 at 1:42 AM
ndspinelli said...

I'm still fairly new to this blogging stuff. What's the deal w/ Shouting Thomas. He's batshit on this child rape shit..defending the rapists, priest rapists, etc. Please give me some history on this guy.

November 7, 2011 at 12:49 PM
The Dude said...

Batshit crazy, Woodstock dweller, name dropper and musical idiot. He actually thinks George Harrison had talent. He went nuts on me when I wrote that his "close personal friend and dead guy" Paul Butterfield was a no-talent hack, too. Shouting must be deaf, or at a minimum, tone deaf.

But that's just my opinion. YMMV.

November 7, 2011 at 12:59 PM
The Dude said...

Oh yeah, he hates white women, too. But somehow his oriental wives keep dying on him. Funny, that.

November 7, 2011 at 1:04 PM
rcommal said...

Methinks Shouting Thomas protests too much on this topic. Suspicious.

November 7, 2011 at 2:00 PM
rcommal said...

Hell, even rhhardin isn't minimizing this one.

November 7, 2011 at 2:01 PM
ndspinelli said...

Thanks, gents. Shouting seems to have a lot of baggage and I'm trying to understand. That's my nature, knowing there sometimes is no understanding a person.

November 7, 2011 at 2:37 PM
The Dude said...

While I would hope not to be misunderstood on this point, and based on my experience with the Duke lacrosse case, I can agree that we should let the case run its course through the court system.

But what I can't understand is why the observer of the child being raped did not intervene. I would have been tempted to try and kill that child raper with whatever fell to hand, and finding nothing, then using my bare hands to kill that scumbag. But that's just me.

The baggage I carry is knowing what rape, actual rape, not the kind that Crystal Gail Mangum alleged, does to a person. Even family members are deeply affected.

There you have my take on it. Witness something that heinous and kill the perp on the spot. Go old school, old testament, resuts: perp, DRT.

November 7, 2011 at 3:22 PM
The Dude said...

^results, not resuts. Computer is acting up.

Keep that excuse in mind, Troop, for future typos.

November 7, 2011 at 3:24 PM
rcommal said...

But what I can't understand is why the observer of the child being raped did not intervene.

I suspect he was weak and quite literally could not process what he was seeing in any effective way. Perhaps it to do with (from what I can gather from various reports) that he was a local boy, one who'd played football in high school and then at Penn State, and then was involved in program even afterward. Perhaps he was that place was so ingrained in him and he in it that he simply couldn't get past the cognitive dissonance.

That is no excuse and I do not excuse it, and while I don't think I would have tried to kill the guy, I simply cannot imagine not immediately, viscerally intervening, if only to yell out (whether that would have been wise or not). Under no circumstances can I imagine not calling the police either on a cell phone or on the nearest phone I could access. But I'm with Sixty Grit; I know something about the effects of and emanations from child abuse and sexual abuse. Who knows about the guy who actually saw and yet whose first thought, apparently, was to call his dad?

November 7, 2011 at 3:51 PM
Fred4Pres said...

Helping Trooper remember...

What does this remind you of?

November 8, 2011 at 4:16 PM

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