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1. #101
   On February 18th, 2010 at 10:02 am, misterbee241 said:

   I spent my life working with PhDs. Most, but not all were total crackpots. The stories I could tell you.

2. #102
   On February 18th, 2010 at 10:13 am, misterbee241 said:

   I’ll also add that a good many of them believed their PhDs granted them “god” status. Unfortunately, the organization we worked for thought so too. I would insult the really pompous ones by addressing them by their first names. You could see their jaws clinch.

3. #103
   On February 18th, 2010 at 11:17 am, J S Ragman said:

   When the woman would not give the seat up, Bishop punched her in the head, all the while yelling “I am Dr. Amy Bishop Moe, Larry, the cheese! Moe, Larry, the cheese!”

4. #104
   On February 18th, 2010 at 12:49 pm, greenfairie said:

   Amy Bishop is the left’s Dr. Hassan. Just as everyone in the Army knew the guy was a jihadist but did nothing about it out of fear or political correctness, everyone in Bishop’s community and her academic colleagues did nothing about her behavior out of fear and/or political correctness.

   Bishop should have been thrown in prison for murdering her brother. But her mom was a big cheese in local politics, so the police chief and DA let her go free. She and her no-good husband should have been thrown in prison for trying to blow up her supervisor. But she was at Haaahvaaahd, they didn’t want a scandal, and hey, did you know author John Irving’s her cousin? She was One Of Them, so nothing was done. She should have been thrown in jail for assaulting that woman at the IHOP (as her no-good husband stood and watched), but she was part of the academic elite, so nothing was done. Now three people are dead.

   We don’t need gun control, we need to identify the crazed and the malicious people and have the guts to act before they do.

5. #105
   On February 18th, 2010 at 1:12 pm, dadmin said:

   Maybe those students’ complaints “at least three times a year ago” did make a difference, and influenced the panel that denied ‘Dr.’ Bishop from being tenured. At least they weren’t targeted.

6. #106
   On February 18th, 2010 at 1:56 pm, RobM1981 said:

   To a small degree, in this case, several of the people who should take responsibility for not stopping her are the very people she shot.

   The petition that the students signed was handed to Dr. Gopi Podila. The students complained that not only did Podila seem to “blow them off,” but he obviously shared the letter with Bishop.

   Bishop then made it a point of using several identifiable phrases from the petition during her subsequent lectures. The message was clear: “Podila is on my side, and you will pay for this.”

   Podila was clearly one of Bishop’s primary enablers. It’s unfortunate that his bad judgement carried such a high price, but it’s absolutely TRAGIC that his bad judgement cost two other people their lives.

7. #107
   On February 18th, 2010 at 4:12 pm, Danceswithdachshunds said:

   J S Ragman said:
   …yelling “Moe, Larry, the cheese! Moe, Larry, the cheese!”

   For the youngsters among us wondering what the heck…
   

8. #108
   On February 18th, 2010 at 4:46 pm, J S Ragman said:

   dwd

   thank you.

9. #109
   On February 18th, 2010 at 5:04 pm, englishqueen01 said:

   One of the more troubling quotes in this piece:

   Robert O. Lawton, a biology professor who was in the room during the shooting but escaped unscathed, also thought she could be strange, but said she wasn’t the strangest academic he’d run across in his long career.

   And we trust these people to educate our children?

   I would have loved to have been the mother in the iHop. My response would have been, “I am englishqueen and I weigh more than you do.”

   I feel terribly sorry for her children. Imagine the embarrassment at having this loon for a mother.

10. #110
    On February 18th, 2010 at 9:11 pm, cabrerski said:

    On February 18th, 2010 at 9:38 am,
    

    rike101 said:
    Or she is Emo Phillips’ long lost sister.

    Here is one of my favorite Emo Phillips jokes:

    “I was pulled over in Massachusetts for reckless driving. When brought before the judge, I was asked if I knew what the punishment for drunk driving in that state was. I said, “I don’t know… reelection to the Senate?”

11. #111
    On February 18th, 2010 at 10:08 pm, cabrerski said:

    One more Emo joke (and quite appropriate for this site):

    My grandmother took ill recently. The doctors did all they could then spoke to me. They said, “Emo, your grandmother’s heart is strong but she is brain dead.” And I was sad…we never had a Democrat in the family before.

12. #112
    On February 19th, 2010 at 5:07 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    Sorry, I read this and just can’t help it:

    Despite facing a possible death sentence, she is still concerned about her professional life and her position at the university.

    “She said, ‘Do I still have a job out there?’ She asked me that yesterday,” Miller (her lawyer) said. “She said, ‘Do you know if I have a job? I assume they fired me. Did they fire me?”‘
    Well, shooting 6 faculty members, killing 3 of them, is definitely cause for some disciplinary action. I would think at least “Double Secret Probation”.
    /sarc
    Good God! This woman is off her rocker!

13. #113
    On February 19th, 2010 at 8:15 pm, docjohn52 said:

    Good God! This woman is off her rocker!

    That’s exactly what her attorney is going to be saying a month from now.

    Adnauseum…

14. #114
    On February 20th, 2010 at 5:50 pm, William said:

    I wonder if the majority of the “professors” at the University were antigun, anti second amendment advocates, anti-”Right to Bear Arms Choice,” advocates-activisists. The Second Amendment, Article two of the Bill of rights, states that the Constitution guarantees: “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

    Those who deny this “Right” but who choose to deny people their right to defend themselves, their families and loved ones, and their possessions – home, property, etc., against aggression, but wish to see people defenseless and at the mercy of aggressors, could be called “Anti-Choice” persons, for that is what they are, anti-Choice. Those who support the Rights as written into the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, are worthy of the title “Pro-Choice.”

    If those professors were anti-self defense, anti-gun, anti-second amendment advocates, I wonder how many have been contemplating packing heat from now on, so as to exercise their second amendment right to bear arms, as well as their right to ensure Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness as laid out in the United States of America Declaration of Independence, as follows: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. … “

    Isn’t it strange how frequently there are attacks by thugs, by gun wielding nuts, and by knife, club, bat, fist, and foot wielding nuts who attack people in a crowd, and how seldom, if ever, people in the crowd step forward and fight back, over power the attacker, and even kill the attacker or attackers?

    The police are not our body guards, and depending on them to rush to our location, arriving within a split second, and defend and protect us like Superman, is not only unrealistic, but also has gotten people killed again, and again, and again, and again, and again …. ad nauseum.

    In the city of Philadelphia, a young female graduate student of the University of Pennsylvania was heard moaning and screaming, and heavy, loud knocks were heard against her shared walls with other apartment building tenants. Several people who heard he screams and the banging and knocking noises independently did dial 9-1-1, reporting their findings. The police began to arrive several minutes later.

    Upon arrival, several of the people form inside the building and from outside the building talked with the police and pointed out the apartment in which the woman resided. According to news reports, some of those who tried to speak with the police were apprehensive about committing to the certainty of what they thought they heard and exactly which apartment the sounds escaped from. As a result the police knocked on the door that some of those who met the police pointed out, but there was no response. The police decided that there was no answer at the door, hence no response, and left the premises.

    In the morning the woman’s workplace, concerned of her whereabouts, was unable to contact her. The young woman’s brother visited her apartment, used his key to enter, and discovered her dead.

    It is theorized that the murderer was inside the woman’s apartment at the time the police arrived, but because they did not enter the apartment, the murderer was undiscovered, and continued his assault after they vacated the premises. It is believed that the woman could have survived, and/or received medical attention for any injuries, had the police actually entered the apartment and offered assistance rather than writing the call up as a non-response at residence call.

    In the television commercial for the home security system, women are home alone, or with their children. Someone breaks through their doorway. Immediately the woman screams, begins to clumsily run up the stairway or toward the telephone in another part of the house. The telephone begins to ring and the woman runs to the phone, picks up the telephone receiver and says, “Hello?”

    How idiotic is that?!!!!!????!!!!!

    Someone is breaking into your home and you are going to pick up the telephone and say, “Hello?”!

    Wouldn’t the most logical and wise thing to do be to take our your gun, point it at the attacker-tresspasser, squeeze the trigger, walk over to him or her as he or she lay on the floor after your first hit, point the gun at his or her head, and put two more into his or her skull, and end it right then and there?

    Of course it would!

    If someone breaks down your door and is only ten feet from you, do you think you will get the opportunity to run to the telephone, hear it ring, pick it up, say “Hello?” and expect to be saved?

    Sorry. Superman is a comic book and movie character. Not a real person. No one we know has Super hearing like that, and no one we know can move through time and space at what could be the speed of light, or even faster, like that, and would arrive within a split second and drag your attacker out of your home and turn the attacker over to the police in a few seconds like Superman can.

    Bruce Lee died, and he was not a body guard for every person either. Where he alive he’d have to be by your side to beat on your attackers, and unless he also carried a gun, he’d be at a disadvantage against a gun wielding attacker. Nor is Chuck Norris, Randy Coutoure or anyone else from the UFC. Bong Soo Han, Michael Tyson, The Gracie and Machado Jiu Jitsu family members, the masters of Hapkido, Aikido, Judo, Jiu Jitsu, Krav Maga, Muay Thai, le Savate, Wrestling, Sambo, Pancrace, Penjit Silat, Kung Fu, Jeet Kune Do, etc., etc., etc., are not your body guard. they are not there to protect you. Neither is Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hitchcock, Buffalo Bill, the Sundance Kid, the Lone Ranger, or the US Marines Marksmen.

    Anyway.

    I am just wondering “aloud” if the professors were mostly anti-self defense, anti-gun, anti-second amendment proponents, but are thinking differently now.

    I wonder what will happen when more potential victims turn out to be skilled, well trained, level headed citizens packing heat.

    I’ll bet that things will turn out differently, the aggressors will lose, but that the citizen who defends him or herself will then be harassed and painted by looney tunes out there as the bad guy, for not being kind and cooperating with that nice aggressor.