1 It gets much for Democrats - specifically House Dem Rep Delahunt:

Braintree officers who remember the 1986 shooting said that former police Chief John Polio dismissed detectives from the case and ordered the department to release Amy Bishop after a telephone conversation with former district attorney William Delahunt.

Delahunt is currently a U.S. congressman from Massachusetts.

When contacted Saturday, Polio, now 86, said that there was no cover up in Seth BishopÂ’s death, though there were questions about whether the shooting was an accident.

2 Its been my experience that the tough ones are the ones who really care.

Either that or they're sadistic megalomaniacs who torture small animals in the basement for pleasure.

3

If no one ever scored more than 25%, then no one passed the class.

How does that help? You'll just have to retake the class.

4 she killed her BROTHER ... ! man, that has to mess you up. seriously, one way or another that lady was looney-tunes.

5

Either that or they're sadistic megalomaniacs who torture small animals in the basement for pleasure.

That was my experience. Assholes that really didn't care if you learned anything.

One dick I took a class from ended up getting a sex change operation years later. Articles said he was really depressed during the time I took his class.  

6

looks like this chick really, really hates to not be in the limelight and over-shadowed. I'll bet her husband slept with one eye open if he scored more than her on bowling league night.

7 Her photo on Drudge is axe murderer scary.

8

Buh, bye Delacunt. Another one bites the dust.

9 Apparently according to a reference from Instapundit as found on rate-my-professor.com, she was also a socialist but that will never get mentioned. Had she been a fan of the tea party that would have been the lead in to every story about the shootings.

10 If no one ever scored more than 25%, then no one passed the class.

At the end of the semester, he'd grade on a curve.  It was his way of letting people know that getting an A or B doesn't mean you know jackshit yet.  Which of course we didn't. 

11 you don't kill your brother like that and not kill again. i'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.

12 Wickpedia says that while congress is in session Delahun rents a house with Chuck Scumer, George Miller, and Dick Durbin.  Awww roomies in D.C.   Eliot Spitzer was #9 ..Shout out to  # 10, 11, & 12..

13
Her photo on Drudge is axe murderer scary.

Posted by: CharlieDontSurf at February 13, 2010 09:57 PM (0Xpf6)

Good lord, she looks like Ruth Buzzi after a battle with meth addiction

14 She went to Ha-vahd.

That gets you a free murder in MA.

15 Fuck her, and the old police chief.  I want some asses in the sling.

16

I pretty much screwed myself for life with the same tactic.  Took grad classes as an undergrad, hard professors, 5 more credits per semester than recommended, you name it.  At graduation, nobody gave a damn that I managed a "B" in a class that was 10 times more difficult than what my peers signed up for.  Employers and grad schools screened for GPA before anything else.  The vast majority of pre-meds I knew didn't major in any of the hard sciences because it would bring down their GPA.

Same goes for the social sciences.  I saw many more English and American studies majors (which had the highest grading departments) being feted for primo jobs at investment banking houses than  Econ majors (the lowest grading department in my university).  Which probably explains the current state of our banking system....

Bitter old lady speaking here, but experience would never lead me to recommend someone to take the hard course over the easy.   

17 *slaps the shit out of Blazer with purse*

18
So is her hubby getting charged too? Story i saw earlier said he helped her pack her bags an hour before the shooting.

19 i'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.

I'm guessing she's the type that will only kill if there's something she wants and can't get some other way.  The vibe I got from the NYT article was her and her mother conspired to murder the brother.  If there's some deeper investigation, I'm guessing it would be something to do with her father's will (or one he was about to write), trust fund allocations, etc.  This is all conjecture of course...but money/power issues are time tested motives for murder.

20 This is Pulp Fiction type shit.

21 Apparently according to a reference from Instapundit as found on rate-my-professor.com, she was also a socialist but that will never get mentioned. Had she been a fan of the tea party that would have been the lead in to every story about the shootings.

Posted by: Drew in MO at February 13, 2010 09:58 PM (ZMzB0)

I have it on good authority that she drove by a tea-party on the way to shoot those people and that she was a really big fan of Lipton Tea and Don Meredith.

Coincidence? I think not.

I bid you adieu.

22

18

She may have strongly encouraged him to help her.

23

.............but I'm a professor.........

 

OsamaHusseinIslamObama 2012'

(the terrorist-Uighur-ACORN-media choice)

-It's never too early to campaign-

24 I wonder if Delahunt will get "Worse Person in the World"

25 Personally my grad experience was much like a crucible, removing the dross. It's why I get all the fun stuff at work. Bridges, sea walls, and tons of other shit.

26

Denied tenure. For what???..

...she wasn't a Republican

27 I have it on good authority that she drove by a tea-party on the way to shoot those people and that she was a really big fan of Lipton Tea and Don Meredith.

Yes, I'd say that almost makes her Sarah Palin's bff. Though seriously I do enjoy the lefts often used guilt by tissue paper thin association. I don't really believe it myself, I just like to play along now and then. Being completely bat shit crazy is kind of its own separate political stance.

28

The tenure issue is what drove her over the cliff. If you're denied tenure, your career is finished as an academic. You will not get another tenure track position at another school. Period. Tenure is THE life or death issue for every academic.

Her only option left in education would be teaching high school science classes. And that's a BIG dropoff for a Harvard grad.

29

This women had NO commen sense.  She was a poor teacher, so bad that her students took up a petion against her.  She filed inter-departmental complaints. She was part of the faction that tried to censure the University President, and failed. 

And she wondered why she did not get tenure?

And just to be snarky, didn't she know the University was a gun free zone?  Isn't that supposed to protect everyone on campus from nut jobs with guns?

Mike G

30 She is a Harvard Grad, know who else is a Harvard Grad? Barack Obama.

31 check out her 'mug shot' on http://topics.al.com/tag/UAH%20shooting/index.html...

looks like an unhinged lefty...

Ivy Leaguers don't quite understand true academic pressures like an engineering class...  they get 'reading weeks' and 3 hour mid-terms.... they may be among the best when they arrive at school, but 4 years of academic softness creates 'well rounded' students, but not tough, analytical professionals 

32 >>Of course the detailed case files conveniently went missing.

I'm down with that, brother.

>>The soft bigotry of low expectations.

I'm not sure that's very post-racial.  I know she was white, but still.

>>People avoided his classes in droves, but I signed up for every one I could.

Yeah.  Me too.  Ayers could be tough.

33 Dack at #5 and La Mauvaise at #!6.  Roger that.  I scouted Profs before I signed up for their classes just to avoid the jerks with hard ons for undergrads and pre med students.  I wasnt going to be able to get into med school with anything less than a 3.5 or 3.6 GPA and I did not want some dickless social retard screwing things up for me.

34 Summer breeze---makes me feel fine---love'n you with jasmine on my miiiinnnndd.....

35

This women had NO commen sense.  She was a poor teacher, so bad that her students took up a petion against her.  She filed inter-departmental complaints. She was part of the faction that tried to censure the University President, and failed. 

Higher education doesn't give a shit about teaching. That's grunt work. You can be the best teacher in the world and that doesn't get you crapola in the department. It's research and publishing that gets one tenure.

Filing complaints against other professors and taking part in a censure of the university president is a big mistake for a non-tenured faculty member. Most academics are smart enough to wait for tenure before pulling the crazy lefty shit.

36 5 more credits per semester than recommended

I didn't do that, but I had a TA'ship and Rockwell picking up the tuition tab, so there wasn't a big financial press for my to try and rush it.

Even a "normal" grad school load at UCSD didn't leave much spare time.  The 1st year dropout rate in my incoming grad school class was 50%.  My BF at the time 4.0'd the first year, then dropped out stating he couldn't take it anymore.  The first year was the hardest and I do think that was intentional. 

There's a lot of people trying to get out in 3 years these days who are doing it for financial reasons.  At $40K a pop for an Ivy league joint, there's some compelling financial motivation to make your escape ASAP.

37
So  The shooter was a self-proclaimed "socialist"?

38 This women had NO commen sense.  She was a poor teacher, so bad that her students took up a petion against her.  She filed inter-departmental complaints. She was part of the faction that tried to censure the University President, and failed.

I hear she gave bad head too.

39 Harvard, Lefty, Delahunt, killed her brother - the MSM is going to carefully back away from this one and then turn and run like hell.

40 Her only option left in education would be teaching high school science classes.

Shooting a bunch of people because you have to teach high school is a bit over the top.

41 >>She is a Harvard Grad, know who else is a Harvard Grad? Barack Obama.

And George I-Can't-Blame-Him-Enough W. Bush.  And don't forget Tommy Lee Jones.

42 We have to close Harvard before it kills again.

43

36 ... My BF at the time 4.0'd the first year, then dropped out stating he couldn't take it anymore. ...

Posted by Purple Avenger at February 13, 2010 10:24 PM (VgINC)

PA is female? I did not know this.

Is the percentage of commenters here at Ace really 50%?

Is there a cheat sheet or some other sort of indication?

44

After working for a JC in Commiefornia I recommend that one not look at colleges as be 'good' places to work. They epitomize  Scott Adams 'Don't Feed The Egos'.

It's not about work as much as campus politics. After 10 years I'm sick of it....and there's no raises, no COLA's, no matching 401k's, no bonus', no stock options.

45 Good lord, she looks like Ruth Buzzi

Strange. I was thinking more like Emo Phillips.

46 There's a lot of people trying to get out in 3 years these days who are doing it for financial reasons.  At $40K a pop for an Ivy league joint, there's some compelling financial motivation to make your escape ASAP.

Touche. I was in and out as fast as I could. Besides I like the business/political aspect of what I do. I didn't feel like hanging around with a bunch of academics. 40k a year for grad school is kinda lows these days btw. Average is around 45k. I know MIT is around 55k/yr. 

47 Harvard grad means nothing anymore except that any scrunt can be one. that's cryin' shame.

48 So the takeaway from this is that when David Brooks referred to the "educated class," he meant it in a bad way.

49 I had one who's tests were so brutal, nobody ever scored more than 25% on one.

I had one who stated on Day One regarding his exams:
- No one has ever earned 100%
- No one has ever finished
- There is no time limit

He'd throw a 'grinder' or two up front. If you didn't read through all your tasks and pick your battles you would get hung up on trivial shiite.

50

The biggest surprise of this thread is learning PA is a chick.

That probably explains the Jenny Silver thing. It doesn't excuse it, just explains it.

51 If you read the article it says that the tenure decision didn't matter because she was going to be part of a biotech startup. Then she turns around and offs her colleagues at a staff meeting. The bit about reading from the textbook for lectures and having her students petition against her is telling too. This chick was an unstable loner and not getting tenure made her snap. Oh, and I hope Delahunt (spit) gets his ass kicked for this one.

52 PA is female? I did not know this.

...or perhaps a butt pirate but I'm hoping the former and not the later.

53 #40 She would rather go to Death Row than teach High School. Try hanging out at a high school during lunch time...I kinda understand but do not approve. She is just another nut with a gun.

54 I saw BF as Best Friend. Not likely, right? Where's the demand for pics?

55 PA is female? I did not know this.

Hey, PA, show us your tits.

56 PA is a split tail?

What?

57 I read PA as saying his best friend bailed on the second year. But, maybe he's...well, NTTAWWT. [imagine a large number of smilies here]

58 I saw BF as Best Friend.

[looks down and checks junk]  Ding, ding, ding we have a winner.

59

Betsy

Are you saying that is his defence, that she made him do it.  And then she made him go to work and not warn anybody or call 911 or anything? 

60

I now have this image of Purple Avenger as one of the Marvel superheroines, only real.

I now need a beer to preserve my mental faculties and general coherence.

61 Even if PA is a guy, most Morons won't believe it. He might as well pretend to be a chick and post stuff about shoes and makeup and back humps.

62 I hear the crazy bitch read Richard McBeef and flipped out.

63 I'm nearing four decades of life and the most awkwardly social person I ever met was a professor I had in grad school. You would think this guy grew up in a box and was raised by chimpanzees he was so awkward. Painfully awkward. Awkward in the way of "I need to quietly move away from this guy as fast as possible". 

64

What kind of guy uses "BF"? Ever?

I now need another beer to ......

65 1986? Looks like yet another wonderful criminal-justice success for GOVERNOR MICHAEL DUKAKIS.

Good God in Heaven, are we lucky we didn't elect THAT clown to the Presidency. Imagine him in charge when Crown Heights and LA were going on.

66

What kind of guy uses "BF"? Ever?

I now need another beer to ......

If it was BFF there would have been no mouse hole to escape from..

67

Bernard Shaw: "Governor Dukakis, would you support the death penalty for a Harvard graduate who killed her brother and then three other people twenty plus years later?"

Governor Dukakis: "No."

68 Ok I get it. BF= Best Friend. bf= boyfiend. nice; I get it...code and shit. I don't neeed an Enigma machine bitch. It's all right here. *taps forehead*

69

Howie Carr picked the wrong week to go on vacation.

First Patches bows out, now a Delahunt scandal.

Another fastball the size of a grapefruit right in 'ol "Big Shoe's" wheelhouse and the fat mo' is going to be in Florida for the peak.

Come back, Cap'n! Come BAAAAACK!

 

70

#60

Didn't realize he did all that.  Thought he just packed the bag. But maybe after a few sleepless nights with a nutcase like that he'd be a little unstable too?

71 69, God, I wish I could still listen to the Chump Line.

72 I always said it must be nice to be a democrat.  I didn't realize just HOW nice.

73 I now have this image of Purple Avenger as one of the Marvel superheroines

Actually, the PA I base this handle off of isn't a super hero type at all.  The original Purple Avenger was who some Manhattan detectives I knew would blame weird shit on. 

Your tux came back from the cleaners with a flattened steamed frog in the pocket?  Must have been the work of the Purple Avenger...

You pull out of the precinct lot and the bumper falls off the squad car.  The Purple Avenger struck again...

That sort of thing.

74 She's crazy but not drive across the South in a diaper white knuckling your way to your astronaut BF...or is it bf? I dunno this computer talk thing.

75

Even if PA is a guy, most Morons won't believe it.

No, they'll believe it but still post "PA is a chick" in every other thread for the next several years.

76 PA, just for the record, please do not show us your tits.

77 I think it's time to send him Delahuntin' for a new job!

78 Please to help do you have this Delahunt's number for telephone? I require his legality skills.

79

I no longer have this image of Purple Avenger as one of the Marvel superheroines. Ever.

Darth: stop with the Enima-machine-and-code talk, ok? I'm psychologically scarred, man.

80 http://tinyurl.com/yzty94r   6 page "police report" from NECN online. It's insane

81 PA? Never heard of him.

82 So PA, do you have any tatoos?

I have one.  I have some gay friends, too.

83

In case you Morons missed it, Brietbart was on Beck yesterday and said that Big Education is coming and that he's going to use the ACORN strategy of one school at a time -- exposing and correcting all the horse manure that goes on -- until he covers every university in the country.

With the economic crash that's coming, schools are already hurting in the endowment departments and I'd imagine parents aren't going to be as willing to shell out big sheckles for lofty lefty colleges now that the indoctrination news is going mainstream.  I'd look for mucho herd thinning.  State budgets will have to do away with ridiculous univ. prez salaries and I'd imagine tenure and the be-all/end-all of publishing are going to have to be rethought. 

84 Actually, the PA I base this handle off of isn't a super hero type at all.  The original Purple Avenger was who some Manhattan detectives I knew would blame weird shit on.

All this time I thought you were inspired by that Billy Zane movie "Phantom."

85 She is a Harvard Grad, know who else is a Harvard Grad? Barack Obama.

Posted by: robtr at February 13, 2010 10:22 PM (fwSHf)

Dots --> Connected

86 As I said in an earlier thread, at least now the University will be able to fire her, had they given her tenure and she had done this there is no way they could get rid of her.

87 Purple is a manly color.

88 I always pictured PA as someone cooking meth in an abandoned warehouse.

89

As I said in an earlier thread, at least now the University will be able to fire her, had they given her tenure and she had done this there is no way they could get rid of her.

And that makes a total of four tenure track slots that just opened up at UAH.

*ducks*

90 http://tinyurl.com/yzty94r   6 page "police report" from NECN online. It's insane

Posted by: Granny Jan at February 13, 2010 10:53 PM (WZJHV)

Her mother didn't hear a shorgun blast from upstairs blowing a hole in the wall? She then goes downstairs and accidently blows her brother away?

She didn't know she shot her brother?

What a crock of shit!

91

OT  Dr Jones has a little more to say in BBC Q&A

http://tiny.cc/NDeFQ

92

I was under the impression from Howard Dean that the Southland didn't believe in science. So the real question is what is Hunstville Alabama doing with a science department at their college. Isn't that just diverting resources from the Bible/NASCAR double major program?

93

Not to mention that NYT just laid down two pages on her, but failed to mention that she's a Socialist.

However, if she had ever attended a Tea Party it would be Page One News.

94 Those State Police reports at NECN contain stories that don't add up. She fires a shotgun upstairs and the mom doesn't hear it because the house is well sound proofed? The State Troopers just buy that? Amy says she can't remember doing things that contradict her story, such as putting on her jacket after the shooting and taking the gun with her outside after the shooting. The Staties swallow that, too? She was in her room while her father was out shopping. She was there due to a dispute with her father regarding something she had said that morning. No report of what she said, the magnitude of the dispute, her state of mind? Complete bullshit.

95

"What?   I didn't know PA was a chick!"

sex change, presumably

96 I always pictured PA as someone cooking meth in an abandoned warehouse.

I always pictured PA with two Colt 45 1911 pistols blasting a hole in Karl Marx' face then shoving a hand grenade up his ass. Fighting for the American way.

97

Palin Steele was also a chick, or at least he discussed issues like a chick.  Well, maybe he was just a bitch.

98 Has anyone above read the articles on her?  It doesn't seem so.

99

"What?   I didn't know PA was a chick!"

sex change, presumably

self administered.

100

Sorry for my mistake PA. It's just that the lead thread on JWF is about supermodels (Update: second thread. The lead is now about a BO float in France. Miraculously, my head is much clearer now)

"alexthechick" and "ParanoidGirlinSeattle" are clear; one even has a riding crop.

Seriously, is there a cheat sheet or some other sort of indication as to who is which? This mistake really hurt.

101

Yikes #80

There is no conclusion in those reports that makes sense. How did they decide that the most interested parties were truthful?  No reference to the autopsy report. No neighbors or passersby questioned. No other family members, schoolmates or friends questioned to see if these people were on the up and up?  Delahunt just fell into a black hole .. 

102 I heard PA is a hot Latina chick named Marisol and has mane-like black hair and perfect tits and ass.

103 So, what is a Yankee with a degree from Havard doing at a second or third tier scool like UA-Huntsville?  Am I missing something? Is this school good because of all the NASA and Army shit in Huntsville? At least they knew a nut when they say one, er a little late though.

She just sounds like another crazy Yankee to me, we see them all the time down here, and we still don't give a shit about how they do it up North.

104 We should probably expect more of these in the future. University professors are a hard working bunch. I couldn't imagine having to work 21 hours a week and keeping my sanity or not having a mental breakdown. It's a tough life, one step above being goat turd farmer.

105 The American People and morons, are tired of bloggers who talk the talk but don't walk the walk when it comes to showing their junk, or their tits.  It's time for pics.

And I mean it.

106 She is a Socialist, know who else is a Socialist? Barack Obama.

Dots --> Connected

107 She fires a shotgun upstairs and the mom doesn't hear it because the house is well sound proofed?

Everybody sound proofs their house to squelch 12 gauge blasts. Where the hell have you been?

108 And the part about letting the family collect their emotions before questioning. AKA getting their stories straight.

109 98

Palin Steele was also a chick, or at least he discussed issues like a chick.  Well, maybe he was just a bitch.

I always thought he was just a dickhead. 

110

i'll be honest. I still can't believe we haven't had a thread on AoS concerning the palestinians dressing up like Na'vi from Avatar at an Israeli protest.. If you don't know what I am talking about , check out drudge.

111 111, Gabe won't let us.

112 It sitting right there staring us in the face.  State of Union.  The anchors all a titter over Michelle and many women in attendance.  All in purple.

113

So, what is a Yankee with a degree from Havard doing at a second or third tier scool like UA-Huntsville?

The academic job market is so glutted with Ivy League degrees that these guys and gals pretty much have to take a job where they can get one. A doctorate from Harvard and Yale does not guarantee a place in academia. Not these days.

114 She's a regular Annie Oakley.  Yep.

115 >>The anchors all a titter over Michelle and many women in attendance.

Tell me about it.  I got so worked up I had to pretend I was asleep.

116 AKA getting their stories straight.

Yea, it doesn't track.  If you're holding a shotgun, safety off, pointed at some dude's chest, and it "accidentally" fires 3+ times, 99.999% of the time we're through the looking glass.

117

114

Yeah. As college tuitions rise the value of the degrees declines. A  Bachelors in most subjects is almost worthless.

118 >>...a second or third tier scool like UA-Huntsville?

Watch it, boy.

119 Here's a money quote from the NY Times:

“She was a very outspoken person,” Mr. Reeves said, “and outspoken people don’t bottle things up.”

I guess we should forgive her, sounds like she's a community organizer!

120

AKA getting their stories straight.

Yea, it doesn't track.  If you're holding a shotgun, safety off, pointed at some dude's chest, and it "accidentally" fires 3+ times, 99.999% of the time we're through the looking glass.

question. What kind of shotgun can you fire three times without either a)reloading it or b)having to "pump" it to chamber the next round?

 

121 A doctorate from Harvard and Yale does not guarantee a place in academia...

...or even as a WalMart greeter.

122 question. What kind of shotgun can you fire three times without either a)reloading it or b)having to "pump" it to chamber the next round?

Any of the semi-auto ones.  Usually you can get 3 or 4 in the tube and one in the pipe.

123 question. What kind of shotgun can you fire three times without either a)reloading it or b)having to "pump" it to chamber the next round?

Almost ALL shotguns sold today are semi auto gas or recoil guns that will fire 3 shots by simply pulling the trigger, 5 shots if you have the plug out.

|I guess you have no idea what the plug is.  For federal migratory birds you can not have more than 3 shells in your gun, so a plug prevents you loading the gun fully.

Here all day, Google up shotguns for more!

124 I think the gun was fired once upstairs (a test) and twice downstairs. And, yes, she pumped it and shot her brother twice, I bet. I wonder if she told her dad "You love Seth more than me! I hate him!" I figure if the State Police can write a bullshit report, I can make up quotes from 23 years ago.

125 She claims to have accidently fired the shotgun upstairs first, and then gone downstairs where she then accidently fired it again... killing her brother.

126 Funny, but Bicycle Johnson got a hardon when the MA guy arrested was a nut who thought Sarah Palin was sent by God.

He doesn't seem to have much to say about the perfesser. I guess it never happened if the accused was a socialist SCIENTIST

127 Multiple "accidental" discharges from a pump gun would be ummm...unprecedented.

128 125, Would such a shotgun be available or common in 1986?

129 Here you go, Wiki on shotguns, more than you'll ever want to know.

http://tinyurl.com/l3c3a

130

what did i miss?

Boston Creme Pie

Matt Damon

Ben Affleck

easily the worst regional accent in all of america

Martha's Vinyard and everyone on that Island

The Patriots

That guy from Nantucket who makes me feel inadequate

Trancendentalism

Any TV show set in Boston

131 Would such a shotgun be available or common in 1986?

A semi-auto?  Sure.

132

 question. What kind of shotgun can you fire three times without either a)reloading it or b)having to "pump" it to chamber the next round?

Any of the semi-auto ones.  Usually you can get 3 or 4 in the tube and one in the pipe.

Indeed, I thought these were a newer invention. I guess 1986 isn't so long ago.

133 Yeah, this was sibling rivalry for sure. Unfortunately for Seth he had a sister who was certifiable. Her dad gave her shit and said nothing to the boy. The boy goes and gets groceries for lunch and throws them on the table for the women to make and goes to watch TV. The mother calls the daughter to help make lunch and she goes ballistic. End result? One dead brother. That was one shit ass investigation too. Must be nice to have a Mom with pull in the local government.

134 Heh. Democratic member of the "Educated Class" goes postal for a second time...

135 Actually, it was a pump action.  After hearing from the scene, that the deceased took two in the chest, I ruled it was a suicide, and told the police to release her.

136 At least this lady didn't do any work on the IPCC, things couldn't really get any worse for those guys.

137 133, Ok, then. Interesting that the specific make and model of the weapon are omitted.

138 130 125,

Would such a shotgun be available or common in 1986?

See #131, the answer is YES.

Browning invented the recoil "hump back" shotgun at least 80 years ago.  Read the wiki story, it will have the date.

Does the story say it was a pump?  Pump shotguns are very rare now, except for police use and waterfowl hunting.  I have three and rarely use them any more since my super black eagle is so reliable.

139

easily the worst regional accent in all of america

Heh. But those southerners sure sound retarded, don't they?

Or should I say "retahded"

140 what kind of gun did she use in the UAH shooting?

141

easily the worst regional accent in all of america

Heh. But those southerners sure sound retarded, don't they?

Or should I say "retahded"

I kind of like the southern twang. I dislike New York and Boston accents. However, I do live in Pittsburgh where we have Yinzer which is not pleasing to the ear either.

142 At the very least, she should have been charged and convicted of manslaughter, even if there was a prosecutor recommendation for suspended sentence.  That would have at least put a felony on record and she'd not have been able to buy any guns in the future.

There's a lot more to this story than just that turd brain Delahunt giving a favor. 

143 Yeah, this was sibling rivalry for sure.

Posted by: Rocks at February 13, 2010 11:39 PM (yguwr)

The Globe reported at the time that Amy Bishop had shot her 18-year-old brother, Seth M. Bishop, an accomplished violinist who had won a number of science awards.

Sounds pretty likely to me. She didn't like being passed by.

144 NY Times story says it was a pistol that was unregistered. 

Idiots, you don't have to register a pistol in AL.  You might have to have a permit to buy one, but there is no gun registration in AL.

Yankees, they think everyone has the same dumb rules they have.

145 what kind of gun did she use in the UAH shooting?

Posted by: Ben at February 13, 2010 11:43 PM (qVmY7)

Don't know but I would bet money it was a revolver. Liberals couldn't work anything else.

146 what kind of gun did she use in the UAH shooting?

Pistol of some sort.  One story I read claimed it was a 9mm, but media reporting of weapon specifics is very unreliable.

147 With its proximity to NASA's Marshall Flight Center / Redstone Arsenal (I spent 3 months there, tremendous fixed assets including the bays in which they assembled Atlas-5 rockets, as well as test stands), Alabama has thrown lots of money at the school, it is very fast growing and focused on providing high-tech industries with engineering talent... Push kids hard, old style weed-out methods, would presume that this is not a lefty's paradise (socially, academically, politically)...  You need to walk, talk and live tech... Marxist garbage probably not so well received...

148 Pittsburgh?  The biggest city in  West Virginia? 

149 I'm sure that as a member of the Educated Class, she planned this with mathematical precision and careful thought, rather than lose all control and shoot up the room like some ill-bred commoner.

Wait, planning it is a good thing, isn't it?

150

Even sadder is that the pictures of her being placed in the squad car show her wearing jeans.

I tried to warn you people and you laughed. Fuck you.

151

"what kind of gun did she use in the UAH shooting?"

We're keeping that info secret, so when we start interrogating suspects ......

152

Yeah, this was sibling rivalry for sure.

Posted by: Rocks at February 13, 2010 11:39 PM (yguwr)

The Globe reported at the time that Amy Bishop had shot her 18-year-old brother, Seth M. Bishop, an accomplished violinist who had won a number of science awards.

Sounds pretty likely to me. She didn't like being passed by.

Actually, after seeing her picture on drudge, I have another theory.

She didn't kill her brother, her brother killed her, he then put on a crappy wig and lived out the rest of his life as his sister. Why would he do this? Gambling debts he racked up betting on which rain drop would slide down the window pain first. So  he spoke to his parents, who hated his sister(their daughter) and they concocted this scheme that would get rid of their unwanted daughter and free their beloved son from being viciously murdered by drunk Irish bookies.

Now the parents, having political connections, called in a favor to have the whole incident swept under the rug. Until now, some 24 years later, the guilt of having murdered his sister, the unfulling life as a women, and the denial of tenure pushed him over the edge which resulted in the campus shooting yesterday.

 

153 Marxist garbage probably not so well received...

Probably pissed that her recommendations for new "hope" based science programs were sneered at.  Guys who design/build rockets really don't groove on hope based engineering.

154 I was wrong the semi auto is over 100 years old, from wiki.

"And in 1900, he patented the Browning Auto-5, the world's first semi-automatic shotgun. The Browning Auto-5 remained in production until 1998".

155

what kind of gun did she use in the UAH shooting?

Pistol of some sort.  One story I read claimed it was a 9mm, but media reporting of weapon specifics is very unreliable.

It was an automatic nuclear fuel cell powered laser gun.

156 pane not pain, shit

157 Posted by: Ben at February 13, 2010 11:51 PM (qVmY7)

Possible, with the apparent investigative skills of the police there they might have missed the sex of the victim. But her husband is going to be the next one going on a shooting spree if that's true.

158 Ben is on to something. The old shoot your sister and then pretend to be her trick.

159 what kind of gun did she use in the UAH shooting?

This psycho was probably using a FN 57.

160

It was an automatic nuclear fuel cell powered laser gun.

Or a Davy Crockett nuclear recoilless rifle. Film at 11.

161

It was an automatic nuclear fuel cell powered laser gun.

Posted by: The MSM at February 13, 2010 11:53 PM (qVmY7)

Worse,it was an ASSAULT pistol. The kind with bullets.

162 Ben, the coroner was in on it, too.

163 Posted by: Ben at February 13, 2010 11:51 PM (qVmY7)

Well... that's a theory! Guess the cop assigned to strip search him/her will have some stories to tell.

164 It was one of those District 9 weapons.

165 Possible, with the apparent investigative skills of the police there they might have missed the sex of the victim.

When you can mistake an obvious murder for a cow tipping incident, anything is possible.

166 Yeah, not getting tenure is definitely the kiss of death. She's a nut but the scary thing is, I can see how she snapped. She's 45 and she's been denied something she's been working toward since she was 22 or so. Stuff like this is why I'm seriously thinking about going to industry after I finish grad school. If I went into academia, not only would I have to deal with commies all the time, but there would be insane amounts of pressure for low pay. I would not want to end up washed-up at 45 with my life's work essentially for nothing.

I have to laugh, though, at how she thought the ChemE profs were too hard on her students. Lady, they're engineering profs. They're that hard on their own students, because engineering is fucking hard. Jeeze. Biology majors can be some whiny bitches.

<---engineer

167

But her husband is going to be the next one going on a shooting spree if that's true.

"She" might very well be her husband as well. Isn't it odd you never see them in the same place at the same time? She probably just created a "husband" as a way to save on taxes by filing as married. So not only is he a degenerate gambling, sister murdering, cross dressing, psycho unable to get tenure, he is also a tax cheat.

this story keeps getting weirder by the minute.

168

Worse,it was an ASSAULT pistol. The kind with bullets.

COP KILLING BULLETS!

169 Say what you want, she was a wonderful prof who taught evolution and abhored Chritianism. Fine by me.

170 You would think that if I can find out this with one key stroke, that the NY Times with it "vast" editorial staff could?

Al Gun laws:

Handguns

Permit to purchase handgun? No
Registration of handguns? No
Licensing of owners of handguns? No
Permit to carry handguns? Yes The Permit to carry is a CONCEALED carry permit.

171 Having been a New Yorker who chose to go to college in Georgia, I 'd bet she came with all those Yankee misconceptions I had, like if people talked slower they must be thinking slower. I unlearned that the hard way when those local kids blew the curve. And frankly, if you talk with a Northern accent, you are not considered by the locals to be much above those professors who are obviously speaking English as a second language. She was behind on getting tenure from the moment she spoke.

172

Congressman Delahunt (D-MA) who was the DA who swept it under the rug was "unavailable for comment".

Hey, everyone's entitled to a few mistakes.

173

Having been a New Yorker who chose to go to college in Georgia, I 'd bet she came with all those Yankee misconceptions I had, like if people talked slower they must be thinking slower. I unlearned that the hard way when those local kids blew the curve. And frankly, if you talk with a Northern accent, you are not considered by the locals to be much above those professors who are obviously speaking English as a second language. She was behind on getting tenure from the moment she spoke.

You sure have a pretty mouth!

174 Apparently, she also has a history of violence in the classroom.  Has anyone else seen this profile on campusreform.org: http://reform.campusreform.org/faculty/amy-bishop

175 Was the 1986 killing investigated by the same crack cops that oversaw the Chappaquiddick Kid's driving mishap back in '69?

176 She should have Cobained herself back in 86 and saved other folks today a lot of pain and suffering.

177

She could have always gotten a job making Obama dolls.

http://tiny.cc/Kx9lB

178 If I went into academia, not only would I have to deal with commies all the time, but there would be insane amounts of pressure for low pay.

Dood, four words -- GLOBAL. WARMING. RESEARCH. GRANTS.  That shit will get you and yours hooked up for life.

179 It was an automatic nuclear fuel cell powered laser gun.

But was it in the 40 watt range?

180 180, True, but not for long. That balloon is popped.

181 What's the method of execution in bama? Do they still deep fry death row inmates?

182 What was she mumbling about "it didn't happen" or something?  and why did she say that?

183 I bet the Bama cops can get her to puke up the truth about her brother's murder.

184

What was she mumbling about "it didn't happen" or something?  and why did she say that?

If I only had a dime for every time i rocked back and forth while repeating out loud, "I'm not here, this isn't happening".

185 The dad sounds like a dickless wonder. Your son is blown away and your daughter and wife are sticking to a bullshit story and you do nothing? Coward.

186 Apparently, Alabama uses lethal injection by default, but gives the inmate the option of electrocution if they request it.

She'll undoubtedly go with an incompetency defense.

187

Looks like someone made a mistake.

Police say she is 42, but the university's Web site lists her as 44.

And she's a neurobiologist

188 Your son is blown away and your daughter and wife are sticking to a bullshit story and you do nothing?

Indeed.  The smart move would be to flee in the middle of the night and take up an assumed name in a foreign country before those crazy bitches decide to whack you too.

189 People avoided his classes in droves, but I signed up for every one I could.

You is truly a badass.

190 Hey, at least she'll never be the "Worst Person In The World".

191

Your son is blown away and your daughter and wife are sticking to a bullshit story and you do nothing?

Indeed.  The smart move would be to flee in the middle of the night and take up an assumed name in a foreign country before those crazy bitches decide to whack you too.

there fathers life was probably not to different than James Caan's character in the film Misery.

192 Like this Bishop woman would ever get tenure at UAH.  Please.

All these Alabama women have tenure.

Tenure has to be approved by the Governor, you know.

193 RickS 176, the comment on that profile smells like an Amarillo stockyard. My guess is some /b/tard having his lulz.

194 Tenure. The entire concept sucks. I teach from time to time. I teach at a top university as a clinician. My career is only as good as my last class. If I blow it, I am not invited back next semester.

195

Speaking of weird academics, look up this name: 

Raymond J. Maciewicz

  He had a PhD and an MD, AND, was tenured at Harvard.  He was a neurologist.

Top of the world , right?

Nope.

He took secret toilet vids of a female employee, and as a result had his med license to practice medicine suspended.

THEN he apparently illegally prescribed pain-killing meds.

THEN he lost his medical license.

It's all a matter of public record.

I remember him as very bright, smarmy and condescending, and ....weird.

QED.

 

 

 

 

 

196 "It didn't happen"

Is that a throwback to the bro's killing or what?
I guess this was an accident too. Either that or she's done it in her head so many times she can't distinguish from reality anymore.

197 Either that or she's done it in her head so many times she can't distinguish from reality anymore.

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that grasping reality was not one of her core competencies.

198 grasping reality was not one of her core competencies

I'm thinking she'll have plenty of "free time" in the near future to brush up on it.

199 The formal psychiatric evaluation will read "totally fucking nuts" and "damn, that's some badass crazy there, dude".

200 How very yandere. Lovely.

201 Problem is that kooky comment will form the basis of an insanity defense. She'll probably get off and end up getting tenure at the laughing academy.

202

Looks like Delahunt is already considering retiring..and, it looks like he might be a friend to Chavez.

http://tiny.cc/iLfcS

Damn, what the hell goes on in MA?

203 it looks like he might be a friend to Chavez.

Isn't that the official definition of the acronym "D-MA" anyway?

204 Yeah,  they are all on their knees for Chavez now. Fidel can't get it up anymore and the brother is a bore.

205 Joe Kennedy, the one with the low-cost oil scam is a big friend of Hugo. The World is a cesspool and MA is a particularly stinky corner.

206 I notice that in the NYT piece, Delahunt was "unavailable for comment" since he was supposedly in Israel, yet the Boston Globe piece mentioned just above in #204 said he gave the possible retirement comment on Friday.

Delahunt's "availability" seems to have suddenly become rather selective very recently.

207

One thing about Delahunt: he makes great canned fruit.

I love peaches!

208

OT  Which one is Delahunt in the pic?

http://tiny.cc/GeyVy

209 Ohhh..... a maniac biology scientist!

I'm waiting for the FBI to make a statement that the anthrax attacks are really super solved for real this time!

210 Something's srsly wrong with the investigation of the shooting of her brother.   How long before the LSM tracks down her parents?    This bitch's mama has some splainin' to do.

211 I wanted the hard professors.  I wanted the ones who would help me think, to determine what was real and provable.   Didn't always like the classes, but, silly me--I figured it was because **I** was too dumb.  Not that they were unfair.

212

Didn't always like the classes, but, silly me--I figured it was because **I** was too dumb.  Not that they were unfair.

I went back to school in my late twenties after years of real world experience. I could tell the difference between "tough but fair" and "pure asshole with God complex".

213 Apparently, she also has a history of violence in the classroom.  Has anyone else seen this profile on campusreform.org:

214 What is really needed now is a cool Birther/Truther monicker for those saying she murdered her brother and how it was all covered up.  You people are bad for the party and bring scorn and derision upon us all.  I am very concerned about this.

215 161 what kind of gun did she use in the UAH shooting?

Fully loaded

216 These kinds of shootings are what happens when bad crazy right winger denialists are allowed to run loose. Obama should seize all guns and declare martial law now

What? She's a SCIENTIST?

She's just a poor girl from a poor family, spare her this life from this monstrosity

217

I am very concerned about this.

You're likely to be alone there, chief. One the media figures out this story doesn't fit the narrative, it's straight into the memory hole. Right next to Anne Pressly.

218

She's just a poor girl from a poor family, spare her this life from this monstrosity

I saw what you did there, Freddy. Well played.

219 The soundproofing in my basement does a pretty good of of muffling hobo screams, but not even that is enough to quiet a shotgun blast.

220 That pic of the woman... looks like CJ with a Mary Tyler Moore hairdo

221 More proof that guns don't kill people.  Ivy Leaguers kill people.

222 "I actively sought out the toughest professors in my later undergrad and grad school years."

WOW!  You must be, like, really super duper smart!  Or just a douchebag.

223 I would think her chances of getting tenure now are improved with these three recent openings.  Fingers crossed.

224 Missing papers? Don't look at me, morons.

225

I kind of like the southern twang.

Posted by: Ben at February 13, 2010 11:44 PM (qVmY7)

So........How YEW doin', hun?

226 I would hit that.

Those pyscho-bitches go the extra mile to please a guy.

Every answer has to include "no, not crazy in a bad way..."

227 The way I heard the story of Freaky Mcblastypants here is this: First shot-into BR wall. 2nd shot-into bro. 3rd shot-into ceiling as she goes out the door. AKA-the fuck you all shot. She was deranged from the get-go, and if she had of been charged correctly, would long ago had a date with the Bama Sparky. Oh! Almost forgot-she was outside waving the shotgun at a motorist trying to jack his car when she was apprehended. Who knows how many other ppl she might have blasted away? This doesnt even make a smidgen of sense.

228 71 eman, You can still listen to the chumpline. Go to wrko.com. Audio on demand. It is there every day.

229 there is lots more bloggy goodness to come out of this story just wait, get the popcorn. it is sad though, I live in a state where the guilty go free and the innocent are punished, all with my tax dollars also see this cross posted from moelane.com http://tinyurl.com/yg3xuxj a key part of the story and one that has political implications nationally is that William Delahunt D MA was the District Attorney at the time and was the key player who decided to not pursue charges which is in this story in the Boston Herald http://tinyurl.com/yg3xphr but strangely missing from the Boston GlobeÂ’s story (owned by the NYTimes) had that's a surprise, not http://tinyurl.com/ybw9jf2 Massachusetts is great a letting the guilty go free and punishing the innocent. The Salem witch trials live on here. And the Coakley run for senate shows that she and the political establishment were confident that her checkered past would not affect her chances, were they wrong? most people had no clue about her prosecution of the child day care workers that were innocent. http://tinyurl.com/y99uk4s and this http://tinyurl.com/ychbuq4 see also this horror, the Bernard Baran case http://tinyurl.com/ykat2gn more here http://tinyurl.com/ycxb8bq hey those high taxes have to be used for something and the Scott Brown election showed that the people of Mass. may be waking up from a long slumber

230

Since we are into lists today, how about

the Top 10 lesser known savages in hisotry. Can Amy make the cut?

This and other lists at listverse.

231 The lesson for all of us: stand between a liberal and a lifetime government job at your own peril.

232 Greetings my Droogies. for those who hate the Olympics, here is the cure.

http://ww w.brobible.com/Story/97548

233 This thread is just more evidence of the right-wing loonies War on Science.  I have it on good authority that this shooter was a SuperSekrit member of the John Birch Society and also the Flemish Nazi Party Vlaams Belangdang.  But do you bring up THAT evidence??????  Nooo ...... instead predictably you go after the BIOLOGY angle!

234 The bit about classes being too hard sounds like the typical inter-dept BS that goes on all the time. For example, the math department will make the classes given to the Engineering or Science departments really hard with the least competent teachers, while the good classes are geared for math majors. It is common for the same course to be offered (for example) in the spring for that major, and in the fall for other colleges. or at 8:00 v. 9:00 and it is very common for a department to effectively screw the other colleges by forcing them to work harder or have lousy instructors.

As for you PA, I think you are confusing enthusiasm and assholeity. Many students avoid both because they can't tell the difference.

235 The bit about classes being too hard sounds like the typical inter-dept BS that goes on all the time.

I am aware of  a state university (I shall not name it because I know at least one moron graduated from it) with a rule that no education major can receive a grade lower than B- in any class given by the physics department, regardless of actual proficiency.  This rule came about when the education department realized not a single one of their majors was able to pass a physics class when graded on ability to master material.  You know, like math/science majors are graded.  This interfered with their ability to graduate and get jobs giving children the multiple-choice tests that come with the textbook, since they don't understand math/science themselves.  (My source is a physics instructor at said university.)

236 who wears jeans to a tenure meeting? A crazy bitch, that's who

237 Heather, yeah that happens too.
At my school they had special rules for athletes. I was a TA in grad school and saw it first hand.

I also saw a lot of kids figure out this stuff and modify their schedule so they could, for example, take the calculus class that was full of Business majors and not Engineers.

For me, my biggest shock was seeing the Econ majors struggle over reading a graph -- I knew then that Economics wasn't the dismal science, but the disabled science.

238 Foxnews: oooooh Mom served on a police personnel board...hmmm, nothing to see here.

239

1) Tea Party protester and rabid Sarah Palin fan Gregory Girard was was found with a stash of military grade weapons, explosive devices, camouflage clothing, knives, handcuffs, bulletproof vests and helmets, and night vision goggles. Police believe he was "preparing for domestic and political turmoil," and feared martial law would soon be imposed.

2) Sarah Palin's Tea Party speech preceded the University of Alabama - Huntsville shooting.

Coincidence?

It doesn't look like it.

240 Chemical engineering courses are difficult by their nature. The prof. basically says here are the equations that have to do with these types of problems and here's how to apply them. You really can't make it any simpler, but for kids coming from a biology (little math required) background, it would be a real shock.

241 "my biggest shock was seeing the Econ majors struggle over reading a graph -- I knew then that Economics wasn't the dismal science, but the disabled science."

Who cares if they can't read a graph?  They make a hell of a lot more money than engineers.  Plus it's easy to outsource engineering work.   Those asians & injuns are better at math and cost about 1/10th the price.  And they do better designs.

242 ummmmm..... 239


satire is your friend

243

Heads up: Dick Cheney will appear on ABC's "This Week" this morning.

Millions of liberal heads are forecast to violently asplode

244

Carefull there Purple.... talk of missing or deleted file conspiricy theories can get you banned over at Red State

The MA. police department acted completly appropriate.

245 the cover up was done by the local police Chief Polio was sleeping with her mother I grew up in Braintree I know more about this than you

246 There are more than a few misconceptions in this thread. I am not sure she was Harvard degreed, I have seen Harvard trained in some places. Maybe she just attended (no degree) or just was a post-doc or tech of some sort? Until someone points to what her pedigree is, you never know. It is not just the extra grad school, usually profs were near the top of their class and working their butt off from day 1. 12 years + 4 undergrad + 4-5 Grad + up to 5-6 posdoc then you start your first real position as a junior faculty around age 30. You have 5-6 years to establish yourself. And you are right, losing out on tenure is pretty much the end of your career. I am a engineering prof at a southern school. I am the only southerner in our department and maybe one of two in the college. They typically look for merit, not birthplace, so being a yankee would not get her bumped. Even just being an ass or batshit crazy won't typically get you denied tenure if you are productive and doing what you need to do. If you let your crazy or ass make too many enemies, it could limit your tenure case. But even then I have seen both get through. I have a prof friend at UAH that worked with some of the victims and she is having trouble with tenure as well, along with others. They seem to have some history of troubles there, sadly. And my liberal friends are all blaming the "easy access to guns" on this. Science and Engineering profs have access to stuff that can to a ton more damage than a simple pistol. I can't even count the number of high pressure cylinders on my hall containing who knows what. And who knows what the hell they can do in the bio labs. As for getting tenured people removed, I have heard it is almost never done. The target can drag it out indefinitely. Wait to last minute to appeal, then come up with a plan to get back on track, then repeat. It can literally take decades, so generally they just let you retire out, since deadweight is pretty close to retiring anyway. Maybe if you are in jail and cannot fulfill your duties they might have a case...

247 I'm just appalled by the low standards applied to education majors.  Goes with my general disgust with teacher licensing standards...I've got the equivalent of a math minor in my engineering degree, but it's illegal for me to teach junior high math in Iowa or Wisconsin.  OTOH, my brother, who didn't take any college math classes but does have a degree in Marxist indoctrination education, can...well, he needs to pick up a Native American history class to get licensed in Wisconsin, but he can get a probationary license and take it over the next summer.  I have no idea what that has to do with right angles or graphing negative numbers.

(I took chem for majors and always regretted not taking more, but subsequent classes were the same time as electronics classes...probably should have switched majors.  I was pretty dumb when I was 19.)

248

They make a hell of a lot more money than engineers. 

I wouldn't say that. Engineers where I worked started straight out of school at around 60K and usually were making between 85K and 100K within 5 years.

If they were willing to work more and obtain an SRO license they could progress though Operations management making well over 100K.

I know MBAs who are little more than clerks at their places of employment.

249 The miracle is that we still get some competent High School teachers, not that so many of them are bad. 

250 how do you even untangle this mess?

251 the cover up was done by the local police Chief Polio was sleeping with her mother I grew up in Braintree I know more about this than you Posted by: Noah Now we're getting somewhere.

252 If police chief was sleeping with mother, then appropriate for DA to look the other way. Orgasms are the highest form of evolutionary traits and thus must be respected and revered.

253 "who cares if they can't read a graph"

uh,... anyone that owns currency??? anyone that pays taxes? anyone that is subject to laws written by legislators relying on Economists?

Really, If Economists (present company excluded) ran the Auto industry we would have a government authorized Federal Torque Reserve insisting that internal combustion is a flawed system and the FTR has to set compression ratios to adjust for weak torque demand.

They would still be trying to resurrect wooden spoke wheels like they keep flogging the Keynesian horse.

And the NYT would have a Nobel laureate writing about how we need a government bailout to counteract gravity.

254
what kind of gun did she use in the UAH shooting?




A gas operated helicopter mini-gun that fires 3000 rds per minute. You can buy them at most gun shows in Alabama and Virginia.

255 259

In the Boston Herald article I just read, Delahunt claims he "doesn't recall" the case. So if there's going to be any unraveling, we can expect the typical additional MA charge for politicians, Perjury.

256

the cover up was done by the local police Chief Polio was sleeping with her mother I grew up in Braintree I know more about this than you

That doesn't matter. If we can lay this at the feet of congressman Delahunt in any way we need to do it. If the shoe was on the other foot the Democrats would do it.

You have to fight dirty with these bastids.

257
"Pump shotguns are very rare now, except for police use and waterfowl hunting.  I have three and rarely use them any more since my super black eagle is so reliable."

Kemp, my wife and I bought two recently. One was a 20-gauge Mossberg, the other a 12-gauge pre-1968 model made by Winchester. The guy at the gun shop said that if you want a shotgun for home defense, the pump action is the way to go: nothing says "I mean business" to a home invader like the click-clack of the pump action being worked. (Well, OK, a shell being discharged into his chest also says "I mean business", but you know what I mean.)

258

the cover up was done by the local police Chief Polio was sleeping with her mother I grew up in Braintree I know more about this than you

The staties would have to go along to get along. Staties are the ultimate deteminants, thus Delahunt to involved.

259
In the Boston Herald article I just read, Delahunt claims he "doesn't recall" the case. So if there's going to be any unraveling, we can expect the typical additional MA charge for politicians, Perjury.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 14, 2010 10:05 AM (vVM8h)

In other words he cant recall how much money he received to make it go away.

260
Riehl World View has a good summary on this. It looks like the classic cover-up.

Official police report not filed for 3 months, no ambulance called to the scene by the family and the shotgun holes were patched before the investigation.


tinyurl.com/yzbrf2r

261

Attorney General of Massachusettes, Marcia Coakley promises an investigation stat. /s

262 my biggest shock was seeing the Econ majors struggle over reading a graph

Heh. I took Macroeconomics as a required social sciences elective in engineering school. I sat next to a Marketing major who was trying to pass the class for the third time. Pass, not get an A. I was stunned by the number of people who thought the graphs were like, way hard.

263 270 white punk the husband and kids should be thankful she didn't kill them...and the tragedy is she killed her brother and three others and their families are f'd up..........

264 This story shows how corruption, weakness, and insanity can reach far across space and time to kill again and again.

265
The real tragedy is that the shooter has four kids. Her kids are the same age range of mine. So in addition to the killed and wounded, the husband and kids lives have been destroyed as well.

Posted by: wHite punk at February 14, 2010 10:27 AM (eA3tl)

From what I've seen so far the husband just may be complicit in this as well. A neighbor said he saw him helping her load packed bags into her car in their driveway about an hour before the shooting and this was in the afternoon a time when most people would be coming home from work not going to work. Now I'm not saying he helped her plan the shootings or had any idea that she would end up murdering three people in cold blood, but I'm getting the impression he knew exactly where she was going and that she had a loaded gun and he figured she would make a dramatic spectacle and be locked up in a looney bin without shots being fired or anyone getting hurt. Then he could file for divorce and get full custody of the children. I'll bet this woman carried his balls around in her purse right next to her revolver.

266 I'll bet this woman carried his balls around in her purse right next to her revolver. Posted by: Blazer Fully agree. Just as her Mom did with her Dad.

267

To increase interest in teh Vancouver Olympics, the IOC added the Yogi Yahooees, the Scoobie Doobies, and the Really Rottens. 

Hong Kong Phooey's got a chance to medal in ice dancing. 

268 277, Wally Gator is out?! Wally Gator is out?!

269
I'll bet this woman carried his balls around in her purse right next to her revolver.
Posted by: Blazer

Fully agree. Just as her Mom did with her Dad.

Posted by: eman at February 14, 2010 10:39 AM (4tixt)

I know these types of people. The progressive educated Northeastern elitist types where the men are eunuchs and have no backbone and let the women in their lives run roughshod all over top of them. I hope both parents are still alive and get to see their demon-seed of a daughter fry. At any rate even if she doesnt, a deep south prison full of sweaty butch women will be a very educating and liberating experience for Miss new England college professor.

270

Stereotypes die hard, I guess. Here I was, assuming college was some boring lah-ti-dah book reading bullshit for ugly egghead lezbos and queers in bowties. Holy shit, turns out the place is like a fucking badass 3-D realtime version of Resident Evil 7!  Damn, I'm gonna have to start looking into that GED again.

271

Stereotypes die hard, I guess. Here I was, assuming college was some boring lah-ti-dah book reading bullshit for ugly egghead lezbos and queers in bowties. Holy shit, turns out the place is like a fucking badass 3-D realtime version of Resident Evil 7!  Damn, I'm gonna have to start looking into that GED again.

Posted by: iowahawk at February 14, 2010 10:46 AM (hqvM3)

Call Of Tenure 2: Modern Education

272 The Police Chief is the key to unravelling this story. Send a stripper with a six-pack of Ensure Plus to his house and get the truth out of him.

273 Iowahawk,

 You remain as a god to us.

274
John Grisham's...

T H E
P R O F E S S O R' S
A L I B I

275 I tend to be anti-lawsuit but cases like this just beg for a lawsuit on behalf of the victims against Dalehunt and maybe crazy Amy's parents as well.

276 #257 Vic, you work nuc OPS? That should not be considered anywhere near the norm as far as employment standards are concerned. The term golden goose comes to mind.

277
From the producers of Look Who's Talking Now...

By the director of Prizzi's Honor...

Cameron Diaz in...

THE WACKY PR FESS R!

278

My God, peeple, are you reelly MOREHONS?! She didn't do any reel killing untill she was in the SOUTH! The SOUTH! The continuous NASCAR racing, the gun shows, tractor puls for GAWDS sake. The invironmint was the cause and her impoverished upbringing.

signed

Gibbs right hand

279
Stephen King's

T E A C H E R
T E A C H E R,
B A N G
B A N G

280

Steven Seagal in.......



EDUCATIONAL DECISION

281

Vic, you work nuc OPS?

I did at one time (SRO licensed). I am retired now.

282 I see Brian Dennehy tackling the dual role of the State of Alabama and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

283 Is this gal a Kennedy?

284

Anyway, the point is Engineers who didn't work in Ops also made good money.

They just made more going to Ops.

285
Dean Koontz's...

THE LEARNING CURVE

286

I know these types of people. The progressive educated Northeastern elitist types where the men are eunuchs and have no backbone and let the women in their lives run roughshod all over top of them.

I have watched over the last two years my nephew turn into a eunuch. He moved out to the SFran area, met a woman from the ivy league, married her (why bother really because they don't believe in it). I see him every christmas. I went to one of these schools as well but it had the opposite effect on me--actually made me angrier. Meanwhile, he appears to be actually becoming gay. I've never seen anything like it. His entire demeanor has changed. I'm starting to think that SF doesn' t have a lot of gays because they went there but because the women are turning the men gay.

 

287 Michael Cimino's

T H E

T E N U R E

H U N T E R

288
Is this gal a Kennedy?

Posted by: FatBaldnSassy at February 14, 2010 11:04 AM (YiECU)

Not likely. A Kennedy would have downed a liter of Chivas Regal and a handful of muscle relaxers and then invited their colleagues along for a Sunday drive.

289
Harrison Ford in......



FORCED TENURE FROM NAVARONE

290 dagny, Damn, that's nasty. It's too bad there isn't something called "The Man-Team" that can kidnap him and restore his Manliness.

291
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES ON CAMPUS

292 http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/93834/

  HMM: Delahunt Says He Might Be Next To Go: “US Representative William Delahunt said yesterday that he is considering retiring from his congressional seat representing the South Shore and Cape Cod, although he portrayed his deliberations as routine and said they are not related to challenges from Republicans who are energized by Scott BrownÂ’s upset victory in last monthÂ’s special Senate election.”

Posted at 10:59 am by Glenn Reynolds

293 Posted by: dagny at February 14, 2010 11:05 AM (8Ujau)

Saw something on the news the other day.  There is a quiet little movement to get "affirmative action" for white males.   I'm beginning to think that affirmative action is a dangerous policy because you don't know what damage to other members of society will occur.  They gave the report in conjunction with the announcement that over 60% of college students are now women.  Well yeah sure they are, colleges just aren't taking men.  My black female friend gets into every program, gets every job and she says "it is getting tough to figure out who wants me and who want the "black American female" for their government forms.  So even the very people that they are trying to help are getting hurt. 

294 Nutseroo Nanny Stater in her First Detention

295 Georg Fenady's

T E N U R E

I N

T H E

W A X

M U S E U M

296

Steven Seagal in......



HARVARD TO KILL

297

Last night I was looking at the mug shot of the nutty professor and kept thinking she looked familiar.  I read this morning that her parents now live in Ipswich which is a few towns away.  I think she has come into the farm stand I worked at in HS and college and still work there from time to time for extra money.  I swear I've seen her. 

298 Those asians & injuns are better at math does not equal are better engineers.

Very true.  Its not hard to brute force solutions that will work.  The vast majority of products ever made were engineered using brute force techniques.  Make it work, Get'r Done, Ship it.

Generating an elegant "outside the box" solution that works and is inexpensive is a whole different matter.  The mental "ah ha!" leap that gets you across that chasm can't be taught in school. Math and hard sciences competency, other than of the general sort, aren't much help in making those leaps either.  They're useful once the chasm has been jumped, but they're not what powers you across.

299

What, to me, the most scary part is the deathly calm demeanor being handcuffed and shoved into police custody and saying something like those people weren't dead, it didin't happen, etc.

I wouldn't be surprised there were more past episodes of her unhinged moments coming out now. 

Which beggs the question of if those weren't planted?  We know for sure is that she can and had planned this rampage, not as the spur of the moment out burst.

300 262 --


The Keynesian thing keeps getting flogged because (1) it's popular with politicians and (2) the waves of theory that followed it (e.g. rational expectations, and the Farmer-Woodford stuff that took RE down) can't be as widely taught because the math is too hard (dynamic programming, calculus of variations, etc.).


I know you said "present company excluded," but don't blame us, man, we're trying!

301 Michael Pressman's

T H E

B A D   N E W S  B E A R S

B R E A K I N G

T E N U R E

302

Looking Glass

Naturally, the Globe has a sob story about a guy getting oil from Delhaunt's buddy, Hugo Chavez.

The headline is a little misleading, but I think Delahunt will declare he wants to spend more time with his family in the coming weeks.

 

303 The simple solution tends to jump out at me after I've done the brute force. Because then all the important data and concepts are in my head for easy manipulation.

304 At any rate even if she doesnt, a deep south prison full of sweaty butch women will be a very educating and liberating experience for Miss new England college professor. She is willing to kill for what she wants. It just might be a perfect fit for her.

305 The families of the Alabama victims will certainly sue when they find out these murders are traceable to a 1986 Massachusetts coverup of another murder. I bet they could reveal a clear pattern of corruption, neglect, and willful indifference.

306

I liked my tough professors and tended to do well in their classes, but there is an important qualifier: tough but fair. The really good ones worked just as hard as the students and were tough but fair; the ones that were absolute jackasses dinked around but treated their students like dirt and set them up for failure (especially if the student dared to disagree with their thinking).  I've done the "nobody got above a 25%" quiz before; I've yelled at a class before -- I usually pulled one of those when the class wasn't consistently not doing any work and after giving them fair warning.  I'd give them the pop quiz from freaking hell; they'd all score terribly; then, it was "let's make a deal" time -- I held the score on that pop quiz and tell them to start doing their work (just do the work, read the assignments, participate a little, that's all I asked) and I'd scratch that pop quiz from the final grade...keep dicking off and I'd smash their GPA with that quiz and possibly another one.  A lot of my students hated my guts when they were in my class, but I had a lot of them asking me for advice or trying to take another class under me a semester or two later (which made me feel good, I'll admit).

This prof sounds like one that didn't want to work at her end, but wanted people to go out of their way for her -- a spoiled brat if you will.  It's getting pretty prevalent unfortunately (along with the tantrums...which is what this strikes me as being, and is utter childish bs).

307 "simple" solutions are never simple.

308

Another sterling example of the sheer genius of journalists:

"...then shot him with a shotgun and fled down the street with the rifle in her hand..."

309 Have seen this being blamed on the tenure system.  But all teachers have a tenure system.  You work for three years and you are set for life.  Have actually known of a teacher who pushed a desk into a kid and she was kept in the classroom.  The kid's parents were the ones punished by the district and the community for thinking this was unacceptable.  The teacher's union and the district stood up to the parents and ultimately it was they who had to leave the community.

310

Northeastern liberal asshole (NLA) doesn't get tenure at Harvard.  So NLA goes down south to the University of Alabama at Huntsville--for God's sake! Not even the main campus at U of effing  Alabama!  Whatta comedown for NLA.  But maybe NLA can finally get tenure there. 

 

Then NLA doesn't get along with the neighbors, files complaints with the police and the  city council about a neighbor's dogs.  She files interdepartmental complaints.  In short NLA "endears herself" to the people around her.  And big surprise, NLA isn't granted tenure at ol podunk U of A Huntsville.  How could this be?  She's apparently a brilliant scientist--but also equally apparently a world class asshole.  So she blows the department head away, along with two other members of the department--and, depending upon how things work out in the hospital for the other shooting victims, maybe 3 more.

311 Waiting for Obama to say the Braintree police acted stupidly.

312 Amy Bishop had a low emotional intelligence. She may have wanted to get along with people, but she appears to have had trouble doing so. This article is VERY revealing on why she would have been denied tenure and what motivated her to punish the people she shot. http://tiny.cc/aIAUf She do delighted in her self-appraised superiority, she cheesed off her colleagues who would obviously not be keen to put up with a jerk in the department for the remainder of their careers, even a productive or talented jerk.

313 Huntsville, AL is ot exactly "podunk". I once made a buisness trip there to a firm named SAIC. There is a lot of high tech stuff in that city.

314 Often times I find the simple solution requires more art than science. Of course, we always need the math to back up the solution.

Yep.  That's where a broad generalist "Renaissance man" type science knowledge comes into play.  It allows me to visualize what might be possible, although non-traditional. 

Lately, my "flash" intuition is batting about .500 on creative leaps, which seems pretty good. 

315 >>Of course, we always need the math to back up the solution.

I thought there would be no math.

316 I wonder if this is really a problem with that school, the Big H, the "you're the best and brightest, you made it here" place. 

317
So how does the MSM reconcile itself with a fellow traveler going on a cold-blooded killing spree and what will be the spin if they even bother to report on it ? I mean after all, where are all the gun clinging, bible thumping Tea-Party terrorists that should be going on shooting rampages that Big Sis and the MSM warned us about?

318 I can't believe Mike Hucabee pardoned this woman just so she could kill again...oh wait, the DA is a (D) Congressman?...never mind.

319

So how does the MSM reconcile itself with a fellow traveler going on a cold-blooded killing spree and what will be the spin if they even bother to report on it ?

They all charectorize it as "the AL shooting". Never mind that it is a yankee from Harvard and MA who did the shooting.  It is the Alabama shooting. 

320

At least we (think we) know now - 9mm.

And after hearing she was 42, then 44 yrs old.  45 yrs old. 

321

So how does the MSM reconcile itself with a fellow traveler going on a cold-blooded killing spree and what will be the spin if they even bother to report on it ? I mean after all, where are all the gun clinging, bible thumping Tea-Party terrorists that should be going on shooting rampages that Big Sis and the MSM warned us about?

Posted by: Blazer at February 14, 2010 11:46 AM (t72+4)

The Husky Blogger weeps.

322 ABC has posted the transcript of the "This Week" Cheney interview.

The transcript starts with several lines from the show's introduction.

LINK

323

They all charectorize it as "the AL shooting". Never mind that it is a yankee from Harvard and MA who did the shooting.  It is the Alabama shooting. 

Posted by: Vic at February 14, 2010 11:50 AM (QrA9E)

I hate being called a Yankee.  I effing hate the Yankees.

324 ABC has posted the transcript of the "This Week" Cheney interview.

The transcript starts with several lines from the show's introduction.

LINK

Posted by: mrp at February 14, 2010 11:51 AM (HjPtV)

I watched.  He laughed when he was read Biden's quote that Iraq would be the one of the Obama admin's greatest accomplishments.  Then he destroyed the abusrd statement.

325

At least we (think we) know now - 9mm.

And after hearing she was 42, then 44 yrs old.  45 yrs old. 

Posted by: MDr VB1.0 CS1st at February 14, 2010 11:51 AM (ucq49)

She looks like an 80 year old Friar Tuck . Why is it lefty women start to look like dried up cow manure as soon as they reach their thirties? Must be all the ugliness inside finally starting to permeate to the outside.

326

I hate being called a Yankee.  I effing hate the Yankees.

LOL, they called me a "grit" in the Navy; but I like grits.

327 if you want to make it partisan you should note that it was the Chief of Police a guy named Polio who swept it under the table not the DA your assertion that it was Delahunt is stupid

328 >>I think she has come into the farm stand I worked at in HS and college..

Marini's?

329 The nation's self-styled elite have previously had problems with uncontrolled violence

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/01/notepads-of-sha.html

  Bylines of Brutality

"A Denver newspaper columnist is arrested for stalking a story subject. In Cincinnati, a television reporter is arrested on charges of child molestation. A North Carolina newspaper reporter is arrested for harassing a local woman. A drunken Chicago Sun-Times columnist and editorial board member is arrested for wife beating. A Baltimore newspaper editor is arrested for threatening neighbors with a shotgun. In Florida, one TV reporter is arrested for DUI, while another is charged with carrying a gun into a high school. A Philadelphia news anchorwoman goes on a violent drunken rampage, assaulting a police officer. In England, a newspaper columnist is arrested for killing her elderly aunt...."

This "professor" will be cast down the memory hole like all the rest.

330 I think she has come into the farm stand I worked at in HS and college..

Marini's?

Posted by: sickinmass at February 14, 2010 11:55 AM (Dxfei)

Ha!  Nope.  Meadowbrook Farm, South Hamilton.  I grew up on the mean streets of Wenham. 

331

 your assertion that it was Delahunt is stupid

Really?

Braintree officers who remember the 1986 shooting said that former police Chief John Polio dismissed detectives from the case and ordered the department to release Amy Bishop after a telephone conversation with former district attorney William Delahunt, who is currently a U.S. congressman from Massachusetts.

"Whatever we had we gave to the DA. An inquiry was conducted and no complaint was issued. So as far as I was concerned, that was the end of it," Polio said in the phone interview. "As far I'm concerned, everything that was done that should have been was done correctly. All reports went to the DA, they called it. When people start making innuendos of a cover up or this or that, it upsets me.”

332

So how does the MSM reconcile itself with a fellow traveler going on a cold-blooded killing spree and what will be the spin if they even bother to report on it ? I mean after all, where are all the gun clinging, bible thumping Tea-Party terrorists that should be going on shooting rampages that Big Sis and the MSM warned us about?

Posted by: Blazer at February 14, 2010 11:46 AM (t72+4)

The Husky Blogger weeps.

Posted by: loppyd at February 14, 2010 11:51 AM (pGELo)

Yea, fat pony-tail bicycle boy couldnt wait to run with the story about the nut-bag in Mass. who was stockpiling weapons with the psychiatrist wife and to use his usual six-degrees-of-seperation formula to once again smear the tea-parties with. He posted on this when it first happened, but since it doesnt have an angle for him to smear the right with, you wont see him give it any play even with the damning allegations and past history of it coming to light.

333 One State Trooper might just say to himself "Fuck it", and start talking. One snowflake slips and then an avalanche races down the mountain.

334

"I think she has come into the farm stand ..."

Was she attired in halter?  Reins?

335 "A Denver newspaper columnist is arrested for stalking a story subject. In Cincinnati, a television reporter is arrested on charges of child molestation. A North Carolina newspaper reporter is arrested for harassing a local woman. A drunken Chicago Sun-Times columnist and editorial board member is arrested for wife beating. A Baltimore newspaper editor is arrested for threatening neighbors with a shotgun. In Florida, one TV reporter is arrested for DUI, while another is charged with carrying a gun into a high school. A Philadelphia news anchorwoman goes on a violent drunken rampage, assaulting a police officer. In England, a newspaper columnist is arrested for killing her elderly aunt...."

This "professor" will be cast down the memory hole like all the rest.

Posted by: Looking Glass at February 14, 2010 11:57 AM (zamYU)

Not to mention that lesbian Huffpo blogger who stabbed her life-partner to death after she threatened to leave.

336 >>I grew up on the mean streets of Wenham.

Okay, the streets werenÂ’t all that mean, but there were a number of vicious dogs around. 
Was there always a voice in your head saying "I am going to end up in jail"?
 You needed to hide in Witch City? Lol!

337 "I think she has come into the farm stand ..." Was she attired in halter? Reins? Posted by: MDr VB1.0 CS1st Were the kids feeding her clover?

338 343 Yea, fat pony-tail bicycle boy couldnt wait to run with the story about the nut-bag in Mass. who was stockpiling weapons with the psychiatrist wife and to use his usual six-degrees-of-seperation formula to once again smear the tea-parties with. He posted on this when it first happened, but since it doesnt have an angle for him to smear the right with, you wont see him give it any play even with the damning allegations and past history of it coming to light.

Glenn Reynolds had a post about what he saw at the Tea Party, and Whashisface posted about what Reynolds missed. Course one of them went and the other didn't. I forget which one sat on his ass surfing the net and which one actually attended.

339
Yea, fat pony-tail bicycle boy couldnt wait to run with the story about the nut-bag in Mass. who was stockpiling weapons with the psychiatrist wife and to use his usual six-degrees-of-seperation formula to once again smear the tea-parties with. He posted on this when it first happened, but since it doesnt have an angle for him to smear the right with, you wont see him give it any play even with the damning allegations and past history of it coming to light.

Posted by: Blazer at February 14, 2010 12:01 PM (t72+4) 

I posted on the thread about it that the town the guy lived in is very upscale and not the backwater hickville that fits his usual narrative. 

The place is called Manchester-by-the-Sea.  They voted to add the "by-the-Sea" part in the 90's to avoid being confused with the city by the same name in New Hampshire.

This is Manchester. 

340 Really?

Don't irritate the leftist with facts.  You know how much that annoys them.

341

 "I think she has come into the farm stand ..."

Was she attired in halter? Reins?

Posted by: MDr VB1.0 CS1st

Were the kids feeding her clover?

No animals.  The stand sells everything from produce grown on the farm to fresh cheeses, pasta, jams & jellies, breads, etc.  Oh and cigarettes.  LOL

342 Don't irritate the leftist with facts.  You know how much that annoys them.

I'm not familiar with Noah's work.  I did notice he sthu, though.

 

343 Okay, the streets werenÂ’t all that mean, but there were a number of vicious dogs around. 
Was there always a voice in your head saying "I am going to end up in jail"?
 You needed to hide in Witch City? Lol!

Posted by: sickinmass at February 14, 2010 12:07 PM (Dxfei)

Useless fact:  Fat Matt Amorello lives on the street I grew up on.  I heard his house was going to be auctioned off which is sad because he has kids.

I can't afford to live in Wenham! 

344 Morning morons!

345

Whats up with the professors androgynous cabin boy haircut? Is that the secret haircut all lefty feminazis like Amanda Marcotte wear to identify each other out in public with?

346 _{Isn't it a little odd that President's Day white sales follow immediately after Valentine's Day? Are there really people who go "ZOMG what did I do last night? I better throw these out and get new ones"?It reminds me of that scene in American Psycho at the Chinese laundromat}

347 Maybe I should read my copy of "Senatorial Priviledge" despite Ted Kennedy's passing. Massachusettes justice seems to have multiple curiosities.

348

Let me understand this ... the full police report posted on boston.com says the boy's mother called police and waited at the front door for them ... she also indicated she knew her son's wound was probably mortal? Was her son lying on the floor bleeding to death and his mother didn't stay with him, hold his hand or speak to him in his dying moments?  If so, that is incredible unmaternal like behavior to me.

349

Blazer:

It's called the Dutch Boy.

 

350

Let me understand this ... the full police report posted on boston.com says the boy's mother called police and waited at the front door for them ... she also indicated she knew her son's wound was probably mortal? Was her son lying on the floor bleeding to death and his mother didn't stay with him, hold his hand or speak to him in his dying moments?  If so, that is incredible unmaternal like behavior to me.

Posted by: D. at February 14, 2010 12:21 PM (/rqW

Neither one of the parents called an ambulance either, they just left him to bleed to death. The police called for one after they arrived on the scene after it was much too late. Imho they wanted him to die because he was  the prime witness to his sister being bat-shit crazy.

351 Happy Valentines Day

352

Happy Talking Vagina Day !

353

Maybe I should read my copy of "Senatorial Priviledge" despite Ted Kennedy's passing.

It's a very good book.

354 She killed her brother and her messiah is running around telling everyone, "we are our brothers keepers! " OH that rich!

355 Over at masslawyersweekly.com there's a great article on Delahunts brother who got Andrew Sullivan off on a drug arrest in Sept 2009.  The judge was totally ticked off.

356
Consider why Delahunt might want to call it a career. First, heÂ’s already got a state pension - $58,343.76 a year. HeÂ’s also vested for a congressional kiss in the mail, probably at least another $90,000. He turns 69 in July, so heÂ’s still young enough to cash in on his career in, ahem, public service, as well as finding time to fact-find at those clothing-optional Jamaican beaches he so enjoys.

Delahunt will bow out as gracefully as possible, preserving his contacts. He just doesn't need the aggravation of a real campaign at his age when he can spend the remaining years in a life of leisure while still being referred to as "congressman" and making the occasional prognostication in front of the media.

Mass is a disgrace. Sickinmass.

357 if you want to make it partisan you should note that it was the Chief of Police a guy named Polio who swept it under the table not the DA your assertion that it was Delahunt is stupid Posted by: Noah

stfu, Noah

358

sickinmass

More time to spend on nude beaches if he's retired.

359 Humble apologies: It wasn't Rep. Delahunt's brother but Atty. Robert Delahunt, a relative.

360 Do you know gun owners are over 9000 times more likely to accidentally shoot a family member than to use a gun in self defense?

361

Sounds like she never completed an approved hunter

safety course.  They teach you that a loaded gun is

verrrrrrrrrrry dangerous.

362

371

So I can shoot a couple of my lib relatives with my 357 Mag with laser and say I was just showing them the dot?  Grrrreat!

363 Chuckles posted some hate mail on his blog:


"Hey little green fudgepacker. Let me ask you, when youÂ’re gently parting the ass cheeks of a hirsute Latino in order to tongue his hickory nut, what goes through your mind? Will I go with the overhand reach-around next? Walk me through that."




I dont care who ya' are, that right there was funny.

364
DA William Delahunt made a back-room deal with the politically connected Bishop family. The police would not book Bishop and give her a criminal record that would preclude her continuing her degree at Harvard, if the family promised to get private psychiatric help for their daughter. So three innocents are now dead. Waiting for the Law & Order episode on this one. I would be out for blood and go after the DA (Delahunt), the Police Chief (Polio) and the parents for at a minimum obstruction of justice in the quiet "Purging" of all records.

365 Neither one of the parents called an ambulance either, they just left him to bleed to death.

Of course, that what you'd do if you wanted the dude dead-dead in the first place.  I'd bet a donut the mother was a co-conspirator in the murder of her son, and a box of donuts she was an accessory after the fact in facilitating the obvious fiction fed to the police.

366 371 - so come and take them and I can get sharper on differentiating targets

367
Of course, that what you'd do if you wanted the dude dead-dead in the first place.  I'd bet a donut the mother was a co-conspirator in the murder of her son, and a box of donuts she was an accessory after the fact in facilitating the obvious fiction fed to the police.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at February 14, 2010 12:39 PM (vqrSK)

....and the father was a spineless coward who let his spoiled rotten wife and daughter terrorize the household.

368

"Do you know progressive gun owners are over 9000 times more likely to accidentally shoot a family member than to use a gun in self defense?"

FTFY

369 This kind of stuff has been happening since the caveman days and will still be happening when there's a McDonald's on Ceti Alpha Six.

370
Do you know gun owners are over 9000 times more likely to accidentally shoot a family member than to use a gun in self defense?

Posted by: nine coconuts at February 14, 2010 12:34 PM (DHNp4)

People who sneak in through a window at night with a ski-mask on dont count as family members.

371 sickinmass,
The law and order episode would be as follows --
Woman shoots up office. It is later discovered that she was involved in a shooting at home that was covered up by a politician. [so far so good] [but,...] The shooter will have been the mother of a child shot by a vet that was denied health coverage. The politician that covered it up will have been on the payroll of a gun manufacturer.

see, same story, only ... different.

372 382, Don't leave out a Sarah Palin/TEA party angle. Oh, and AGW, too.

373 People who sneak in through a window at night with a ski-mask on dont count as family members.

Family of Man, Blazer.  Scratch a prog, find a hippie.

They're just too damned heavy, and they're not my brothers.

374 if the family promised to get private psychiatric help for their daughter

I wonder if she was ever officially committed to a mental institution or adjudicated mentally defective?  Those could be subsequent civil things the police wouldn't be aware of.

I ask this, because those are two of the explicit disqualifiers on the BATF Form 4473 you fill out when buying a firearm.  Lying on that form is itself a federal felony.

There was supposed to be several hundred million dollars allocated in the Brady Bill to upgrade state reporting to the feds from the loony bins and courts that do such adjudications.  This happened before Brady, but it would be nice to know that allocated money was actually spent on records updating to keep the known crazies from buying guns.

375 Do you want blorgs with that?

376
nine coconuts,

He'll (Delahunt-D-Ma) find a nice soft landing spot somewhere in his buddy Hugo Chavez' administration.

377 "Lying on that form is itself a federal felony."
Unless your nuts, then it is expected.

378

Has this been posted?

John Brennan on detainee recidivism: “Twenty percent isnÂ’t that bad”

http://tinyurl.com/yh5phhj

379 Unless your nuts, then it is expected.

Or a criminal.  Good thing the NRA pushed hard for the criminals and loons database in the Brady Bill wasn't it?  Of course the original draft had no language mandating any sort of actual checks.

380
Imagine....Barney Frank and Bill Delahunt voted out on the same day.
Isn't it time to put Tierney under the microscope, loppyd?...if you can find him in Salem.

The "Invisible Man" lives.

381
some of you non-massholes will find it funny to know we our very own little Ray Nagin up here. His name is William Lantigua and he's not your ordinary hack.

Lantigua is an extraordinary hack. As a state rep Lantigua ran for mayor. He promised he'd resign his membership in the state house if he won. Well, he won. But he changed his mind about resigning from the state legislature (a $70k/year 'job')

Naturally this caused outrage, even from people living in Lawrence, MA. But here's the thing: Lawrence is a shit-hole, a poster city for the welfare state. There a very few taxpayers in Lawrence; the place is loaded with identity-stealing illegal invaders; and a lot of other poor trash.

Lawrence needs a 'bailout'. The city needs $35M to keep it afloat (of course, temporarily until it needs another 'bailout'.) The state legislature threatened Mayor Lantigua that if he didn't resign from one of his 'jobs' Lawrence wouldn't get the $35M.

So Lantigua finally resigned from the state house, after his major supporter, the 'hispanic' community, put pressure on him.

382 Imagine....Barney Frank and Bill Delahunt voted out on the same day.
Isn't it time to put Tierney under the microscope, loppyd?...if you can find him in Salem.

The "Invisible Man" lives.

Posted by: sickinmass at February 14, 2010 01:02 PM (Dxfei)

I saw him in a car leaving the Marcia Coakley's "rally" in Gloucester.  I said "Hey look, there goes my future ex-congressman!"  He rolled up the window poste haste.

He's going to face a tough challenge from Hudak.

383

P.A. yes they had some money for that but a court ruling rendered it moot. The courts have ruiled the U.S. government can not force States to enforce federal law.  So only about half of the States are actually reporting (as of 200

Also, the law (fed and most States) requires more than just evidence of mental problems. It requires an order from the court that the individual is an imminent threat to themselves or others.

This is as it should be.  

384

Naturally this caused outrage, even from people living in Lawrence, MA. But here's the thing: Lawrence is a shit-hole, a poster city for the welfare state. There a very few taxpayers in Lawrence; the place is loaded with identity-stealing illegal invaders; and a lot of other poor trash.

Shitole indeed.  But without Lawrence, I may not have a job.  The bulk of our cases are in Lawrence District Court. 

I heard on the radio that the taxpayers of MA pay for 95% of Lawrence's city expenses.  And that Lantigua doesn't even live there.

 

385 loppyd, Is Markey in trouble?

386 I dont know Mass, but I know NJ, and in NJ you have to give a list of all previous addresses, sign a medical release and then the State Police runs a background check from all states where you lived to filter out the nuts. (is there any evidence that this reduces incidents like what heppened here?)

It is expensive (PO money order only. no cash, no check, no cc.) and takes a long time.

You also need an FBI fingerprint check, which you pay for, a national criminal records check, which you pay for, and two letters of recommendation from upstanding local citizens)

Yes, this is to OWN a gun, not carry.

387 loppyd, Is Markey in trouble?

Posted by: eman at February 14, 2010 01:10 PM (4tixt)

I haven't heard any rumblings.

388

CharlieDontSurf: Her photo on Drudge is axe murderer scary.

Drew in MO: Apparently according to a reference from Instapundit as found on rate-my-professor.com, she was also a socialist but that will never get mentioned. Had she been a fan of the tea party that would have been the lead in to every story about the shootings.

All of these nihilists are axe-murderer-scary [or, in her case, axe-murderess-scary].

You people out in the real world have no idea how bad things are in the academy.

 [Hint: Guys like Keith Olbermann & Al Franken are NOT faking it.]

 

389
 Easy Ed Markey. His district makes no sense, and at the age of 63, neither does he. But it would be cruel to deinstitutionalize him after 34 years in the halfway House of Representatives.

390
There was absolutely no coverup at all.

On Dec. 6, 1986, then-20-year-old Amy Bishop blasted her brother, Seth Bishop, 18 - described in newspaper reports at the time as a talented violinist and science student - with a shotgun during an argument, fled the familyÂ’s Victorian manse and was later arrested by cops at gunpoint.

That is where the investigation of the case stopped.

391 Let's see: 9000 times as likely to shoot a family member as an intruder.  Minimum 10-12 home invaders *killed* per year by homeowners.  Therefore, there must be 90,000 to 106,000 family member killed by guns each year, no?  [And that's only assuming that shooting anyone at all in the home has an equal likelihood of them dying.  I suppose we could say, perhaps 100 home invaders shot {which, in my experience would cover Detroit in an ordinary year} and therefore there should be 900,000-1,060,000 family member shot each year.]

Per this thread, those who don't understand numbers can say really, really stupid things and think they can get away with it. [Yes, I'm looking at you, ManBearPig.]

392 The State Police report is pretty revealing.

393
So has anyone posted on LGF that she's an evolutionist?

394 I just read that NYT article. WOW.  What a total cover-up.

395 "Ah yes, will "Going Postal" now be supplanted with "Going Harvard"?"

396

"Ah yes, will "Going Postal" now be supplanted with "Going Harvard"?"

Both are predominantly Dems, .....

397 Not confirmed, but interesting: Amy Bishop's husband was also her boyfriend in 1986. Insty has it.

398

399 That's too true, really.

During my time in academia I can say that I met more rage filled people with very little self-control than anywhere else.  I think their own self-belief that they are somehow more enlightened, better, sophisticated people tends to give them the notion that they are above having very real human emotions like jealousy and anger -- their belief that they are also not violent due to their ideologies (usually they are anti-gun, anti-death penalty, anti-military, anti-hunting, yada yada...all the things that they believe cause people to be violent) actually helps to contribute/excerbate their responses when they get them (because everybody is capable of rage and violence).  They have not learned, nor fostered, much self-control.

An interesting story that supports this was one of my husband's female profs  in a grad class getting furious with him during a discussion which could be summed up as his questioning of her premise that "all wars are evil, uhmmkay, and Amerikkka is evil for starting wars was the sidebar to her lecture".  He essentially questioned this; she got mad at him; he didn't back down; she ended up throwing things at him and screaming profanities(he used to wear his old BDUs and flannel shirts to class and was so attired for that class and that too was part of said prof's attack -- he was wearing the wrong "uniform" if you will, which is something all teachers are told not to do -- prejudge according to outside appearance).

I know her too -- and she's something else; I completely believe this happened.  It was ridiculous, and quite honestly an embarassment to my profession (he ended up with a B in her class -- was pulling a perfect 4.0 until the outburst, suddenly his grades started going downhill...honestly, she needed to be reported for that, but of course we're talking about somebody with tenure).

399 If the Washington cop killings can be hung around Huckabee's neck, this particular shooting can certainly be put on Delahunt..

400 WE HAVE A WINNER @ #42 We have to close Harvard before it kills again. Posted by: eman at February 13, 2010 10:27 PM (4tixt)

401 Dang 404 So has anyone posted on LGF that she's an evolutionist?

If they did, it would be the first justifiable ban Charles did in months.

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