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Professor's arrest roils Alabama campus after shootings
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Posted on 02/14/2010 6:56:22 AM PST by JoeProBono

Amy Bishop is charged with capital murder in the shooting deaths of three fellow biology professors. A Massachusetts police chief discloses that Bishop fatally shot her own brother in 1986.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: alabama; amybishop; jpb; uahuntsville
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To: Brilliant

Curiously enough, virtually no mention is being made of this fact. You can bet that if a conservative flipped out and did something like that (even if she wounded whites as well, as this woman appears to have done), the whole thing would have been described as a racist assault.

But once again Ann Bishop is being protected because she is that most blessed of species, the ur-liberal from Liberal Land.


21 posted on 02/14/2010 7:52:45 AM PST by livius
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To: MAexile
"They named a cul-de-sac after Scarlett O'Hara?"

Yes...we do that down here. And we also like Miss Scarlet's spunk!

22 posted on 02/14/2010 7:55:13 AM PST by LadyPilgrim ((Lifted up was He to die; It is finished was His cry; Hallelujah what a Savior!!!!!! ))
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To: LadyPilgrim

I have always said, “American by birth, Southern by the Grace of God.” Reading this article, I hope others can see why I feel the way I do.


23 posted on 02/14/2010 8:03:31 AM PST by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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To: LadyPilgrim

Scarlett O’Hara...pulled a pistol and shot a thief dead for stealing her last “ear-bobs” (which I assume are earrings?) inside Tara...what’s not to love???

Oh yeah...plus she was HOT. :)


24 posted on 02/14/2010 8:06:39 AM PST by Mich Patriot
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To: livius

“Two of the three people she killed were black, and the other was Indian, so she didn’t even go after “rednecks.”

There are plenty of black rednecks.


25 posted on 02/14/2010 8:16:15 AM PST by billhilly
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To: JoeProBono

Former DA William Delahunt (D), now in Congress representing Mass’ 10th district, and helped Bishop get off, isn’t saying much.


26 posted on 02/14/2010 8:21:04 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Venturer
Look around at some of those teaching in college..
Dr. Ron Karenga. who tortured and burned other blacks with a soldering iron and heads the black studies program at California State University.


...and who invented Kwanzaa.
27 posted on 02/14/2010 8:25:54 AM PST by Deo volente (January 19, 2010...the Second American Revolution begins, right where it all started!)
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To: geezerwheezer

Yes! It is grace! :-) Me too! He had mercy on me as well!


28 posted on 02/14/2010 8:30:22 AM PST by LadyPilgrim ((Lifted up was He to die; It is finished was His cry; Hallelujah what a Savior!!!!!! ))
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To: bert
Lol, NYT headline

Harvard educated professor teaches life lesson to Confederate university

29 posted on 02/14/2010 8:37:52 AM PST by OldCorps
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To: Mich Patriot
"Scarlett O’Hara...pulled a pistol and shot a thief dead for stealing her last “ear-bobs” (which I assume are earrings?) inside Tara...what’s not to love???"

Yes, it's earrings! Us girls like to protect those things that are ours! :-)
And you're right about loving her attitude!

See...2nd Amendment rights and all! Spunk.....yep.....that fits perfectly. :-)

30 posted on 02/14/2010 8:42:15 AM PST by LadyPilgrim ((Lifted up was He to die; It is finished was His cry; Hallelujah what a Savior!!!!!! ))
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To: gussiefinknottle
she did not have a permit. i gleaned that from nyt’s

You don't need a permit to purchase or own a firearm in Alabama, despite what the NYT might think.

You do need one to carry concealed, and it's against the rules of the University to bring a gun on campus, a student might be expelled and a faculty or staff member might be fired. But as always, those intent on doing murder and mayhem don't observe the rules.

But even if she had needed a permit, and been denied one, she was a Professor of BioChemistry, with access to all sort of chemicals and the knowledge to make "good" use of them. I'm sure she could have come up something even nastier. Bomb, chemical weapon, even a biological one.

31 posted on 02/14/2010 8:46:55 AM PST by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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To: billhilly
There are plenty of black rednecks.

Indeed, Dr. Johnson worked with the Boy Scouts, that probably makes him a high tech redneck.

32 posted on 02/14/2010 8:54:28 AM PST by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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To: JoeProBono

Gopi Podila, Podila, originally from Andhra Pradesh

******

Tenure commonly refers to life tenure in a job = STUPID.
IMO, you need to earn your job every day of the week.

33 posted on 02/14/2010 9:10:14 AM PST by kcvl
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To: JoeProBono

“Two of the three people she killed were black, and the other was Indian, so she didn’t even go after “rednecks” kThat is because Rednecks shoot back.


34 posted on 02/14/2010 9:13:45 AM PST by 20yearvet (they yell for more tests as long as its your money)
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To: Venturer

“We accept these people to teach our youth?”

I agree entirely with your point. One thing to keep in mind, however, is that teaching is at the bottom of the list when it comes to faculty responsibilities. What universities want most is for their faculty to bring in grant funding and to increase the university stature through publications. Teaching is just one of those ‘irritating’ things that they have to do.


35 posted on 02/14/2010 9:17:12 AM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: kcvl

“Tenure commonly refers to life tenure in a job = STUPID.
IMO, you need to earn your job every day of the week.”

Ironically, one of the stated purposes of tenure is to ensure that academics can be free thinkers without worrying about dismissal, but you can’t survive long in a university environment if you don’t follow the liberal party line.


36 posted on 02/14/2010 9:19:24 AM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: kcvl

“Tenure commonly refers to life tenure in a job = STUPID.
IMO, you need to earn your job every day of the week.”

Ironically, one of the stated purposes of tenure is to ensure that academics can be free thinkers without worrying about dismissal, but you can’t survive long in a university environment if you don’t follow the liberal party line.


37 posted on 02/14/2010 9:19:24 AM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

She killed them because even affirmative action wasn’t enough to get her tenure in a second tier university. After having enjoyed unearned applause all of her life she become homocidal when reality began to intrude.


38 posted on 02/14/2010 9:27:45 AM PST by achilles2000 (Shouting "fire" in a burning building is doing everyone a favor...whether they like it or not)
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To: behzinlea
harpies

good thing this forum is virtual, I'd been shot to pieces years back

39 posted on 02/14/2010 9:31:23 AM PST by wardaddy (I have been in a serious RHCPers mood lately......)
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To: gussiefinknottle
made many nasty remarks about southerners.

hey...just like here...go to any race or civil war thread....that is all some ancestrally angry posters here ever comment on

40 posted on 02/14/2010 9:32:59 AM PST by wardaddy (I have been in a serious RHCPers mood lately......)
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