Posted on 04/18/2007 11:20:25 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
Well now! You make a compelling point.
Absolutely no poetic justice in this story. /sarcasm
Condolences to all of the innocent victims, their families and their friends.
Is it ok to say her hair rhymes with happy ?
And some in my workplace were talking about how much they admired her work and what a fabulous wordsmith she is. I was truly underwhelmed by her.
I thought, “This is what passes for good poetry???!”
Truly crappy poetry.
Double-Dog Dittos to that!! I guess any RAT/lib/socialist English “professor” who can string a couple of lines of PC claptrap together is now considered a poet. If she teaches her courses like she writes her “poetry”, it can’t be much of a class. I would ask for a refund!
I would have posted a picture, but they’s all X-Rated.
“He” was in one of her classes....until she demand he be removed....
“poetry” seems to be like “art” - the weirder it is, the more it is celebrated.....as long as someone rich is following (supporting) it.
She has a lot of senority. If she demanded he be expelled, there must not be any warning mechanism to attract the attention of higher ups.
Actually, I'm sort of a fan of Giovanni Ribisi, cf. Band of Brothers, and The Gift.
I don’t agree with it, but I do understand the rationale behind what she is doing. People from the left are trying to empower themselves by taking the blame for other people’s activities. It makes them feel less frightened to think they did something to cause evil (and can conversely do something to stop evil).
Well, maybe I shouldn’t use the word evil, because they don’t reallly believe in good/evil. But I think it’s a fairly egocentric approach to the world to try and rationalize that everything is your own fault.
I thought, “This is what passes for good poetry???!”
I've never heard of her before, and hopefully this doesn't pass as representative of her body of work, but the "We are Virginia Tech" refrain sounds straight out of the mouth of a gum-snapping high school cheerleader:
S-U-C-C-E-S-S. That's the way we spell "success."
“I suggest she talk about baby elephants in another place at another time...............”
Just wait until a Democrat gets in the White House. Nikki will probably be made official speechwriter for the President.
You replied to the above articles saying — “He was barely literate and yet was passed through the university with passing grades because no one would admit that he didn’t belong in college.”
When I went through those articles I found nothing that indicated that he was illiterate (or barely so).
Now, I have seen that he was disturbed, a loner, not socially adept (very anti-social) — but — never illiterate.
In fact, I read one of his plays and he can write as well as many who post on Free Republic, if not better than some. He definitely did not want to speak to people. One of his teachers indicated that he was not just disturbed but *mean* (and I might add, perhaps “evil” in his deeds, for sure).
He refused to talk to people. Some of his dorm-mates, when first encountering him, thought he couldn’t speak well. But they found out later (at certain times) that he could speak, when he wanted to. He was not illiterate or not knowledgeable of the English language. For one, he was an English major.
So, to give people the impression he was illiterate is simply putting a false idea out to people that has *no basis* in fact (or in any reports that I have seen *anywhere* since the beginning of all this reporting).
Regards,
Star Traveler
Yep, and I have a feeling he isnt the only one in that situation at colleges in America.
I was really embarrased at how long it took Rush Limbaugh to grasp this point the other day. As soon as I heard that he was an English-major and then the "rich kids" part of his note, it was like firecrackers went off in my head. It took Rush about 15 minutes and several callers to make the connection.
You said — “Instead of denouncing him as the evil bastard he was...”
I saw her do that very thing. I saw an interview (on the web TV version of CNN) in which she denounced him as — not disturbed but mean. She said “I know disturbed and he was not disturbed; he was mean!”
That definitely puts another light on things. And as for following through on these things, they apparently did, with the university administration and counseling and the police department. But, apparently nothing came of it (or not “enough” came of it).
Regards,
Star Traveler
“People from the left are trying to empower themselves by taking the blame for other people’s activities.”
Now if they would just take the blame for their own activities...
Check it out---I'm a poet:
There once was a guy from Nantucket
Who was beat
en down by the white man
AND s-l-a-v-e
to the warming oceans
The beluga whale screams its opposition
To the BUSH regime (OUT the BUSHES!)
Orpheus weeps . . .
Ivory tears of baby elephants.
WE DIDN'T LISTEN.
Outside, it's Amerika.
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