Saturday, November 12, 2011

Trib Updates



This is a weekly series that will include a brief summary of the latest articles that have been published on The Tribulation Times Herald-Exhorter.  Hopefully, this will encourage you to go check out some truly outstanding articles that have been published by a number of truly outstanding authors.  Moreover, I hope this will also encourage you to want to become a contributing member/author, as well.  The “Hear Ye!  Hear Ye!” site explanation near the top of the side-bar should answer many of your questions.  Yes, this series also included an “SOS! (Spam On Saturdays)”  segment before, but it just wasn’t working for me.  Therefore, that will be replaced by a republishing of one of the Trib articles.

[Beth Moore and Christian Women Who Wear Too Much Make-Up…] is another typical Lavender Darwin rant.

[Al Mohler’s Briefing on 11-04-11] provides some commentary by Lavender on an Al Mohler presentation.

[Rocksmith Guitar Game Makes Sense] is a very positive review by Lavender (for a change).

[Twelve Nurses Forced To Take Part In Abortions] has Lavender calling attention to a possible very despicable rules violation.

[Simpsons 9-11 Reference] has Lavender pointing out something that it downright spooky (naturally-speaking, of course).

[Fox News, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Big Oil, and Goofiness] has Lavender trying to make up for being so nice in the Rocksmith Guitar Game review.

[Revenge of The Mummy POV Universal Studios Florida Roller Coaster] is something else that we have come to expect from Lavender.

[Billy Joel – The Stranger] has Lavender ruining another good song for me.

[Duggars and #20] is from Lavender, which should be enough to say.

[The People’s Cube] has Lavender drawing attention to a provocative site.

[Hunt for Red Obama] has Lavender showing us that communist plots have not gone out of fashion (at least not in the minds of the Tea Partiers)How.

[How to Close a Facebook Account] gives us some indications of what Lavender’s exit strategy may entail.

[Steve Taylor – Hero] has Lavender calling attention to a pretty good song.

[Peter Gabriel on Letterman] has Lavender providing us with some footage from the mini-concert.

[The GOP and 2012] has Lavender pointing out some things that may indicate that the Mayans knew what they were talking about.

[Thank You Veterans] goes to show that Lavender may actually have a couple of marbles left.


“Are you still so dull?”  Jesus asked them.
I first started not liking [Penn State] very much when their football team beat my beloved [Missouri Tigers] in the [1970 Orange Bowl], 10-3.  Yes, I have made it quite clear that my first love is the [Arkansas Razorbacks], but with me spending more time in the state of misery than opportunity, I have found it prudent to save some love for good ol’ Mizzou.

Anyway, that Orange Bowl victory came at the end of [Joe Paterno’s] fifth season as the head football coach at Penn State, which would make this season be his 45th.  Of course, since my trusty old solar-powered Casio calculator died, I have had to do my mathematical cypherin’ on my not-so-trusty, even older and non-solar-powered abacus.  So, I might be off a decade or two.

Did you happen to take note of the score of that Orange Bowl game?  This is typical of the 400+ victories under Paterno.  For he has them playing smash-mouth football, which is a very exciting style if you enjoy seeing the teams trying to run over the other.  For the rest of us, it can be excruciatingly dull.

Despite the area where the main campus of Penn State is located being called Happy Valley, I would think that it would require being a rather dull person to attend the school.  For a great deal of Pennsylvania is quite mountainous, which leads to pockets of isolation, and as you can see from the map, State College, which is the middle of the map and where the main campus of Penn State is located, is in a very isolated pocket.

If you can’t see it, please take my word for it.  For I have been just north of State College on I-80 more times than I’d like to remember, and it takes a while to get anywhere from there.
Put it this way, it is a good three (and much more likely over four) hour drive to Pittsburgh, even in a sports car with a lot of power and corners well.  Yes, it is somewhat closer to Harrisburg, but I haven’t heard much about it being the place to party—have you?

Even the Penn State football uniforms reek of dullness.  They claim that it is meant as an homage to the past, but dark-blue jerseys and plain white helmets are just plain dull.  Perhaps in another twenty years or so, they will add the Nittany Lion logo (as shown above) to one side of their helmets like the Pittsburgh Steelers do, which is stupid (and not necessarily better than dull).

As referenced with Matthew 15:16, there is another meaning to dull, and this is appearing to be more and more applicable to Joe Paterno and the administration of the Penn State Athletic Department.  For it is being alleged that [Jerry Sandusky] engaged in a pattern of [sexual assaults] upon very young boys associated with [The Second Mile Charity] while and after he was Paterno’s defensive coordinator, and the stuff is starting to hit the proverbial fan about Paterno knowing about at least one incident that happened in 2002 involving a 10 year-old boy being molested by Sandusky in a shower room at the Penn State Athletic Complex.

Since Paterno reported what he was told to the athletic director, he is not being investigated for any legal wrongdoing, but since he clearly saw that nothing really came of the molestation accusation, shouldn’t he have wanted to get to the bottom of it on his own?  After all, Paterno is supposed to be a man of great integrity, and letting something like that be swept under the proverbial rug would have had to have torn his guts out—right?

Alas, I must admit that I can naturally be just as hypocritical as you about some things.  Well, maybe not quite that bad, but the point I am trying to get to is that I would have a very different perspective about this if Sandusky had of been getting busy with some cheerleaders (really good-looking female cheerleaders, just to be clear) over the years.  In fact, he could have been taking some incoming freshmen co-eds on an intimate tour of the dorm rooms, but I have to draw the line on little boys and girls.

In all fairness, Paterno may be able to honestly say that he really didn’t know anything, which makes him about as dull as one can get in every sense of the word.  What do you think (or know)?

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2 comments:

  1. Not being much of a football fan, I find them all a bit dull :)

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  2. Thanks for stopping by again, my dear Ann!!! That is understandable.

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