Posted on 02/22/2010 6:19:57 PM PST by marktwain
Maybe the "backwater school in Alabama" had enough sense to not "follow the lead of Harvard, Yale & other elite Ivy League schools" and give tenure to a raving nut case.
It's just a shame that UA-Huntsville didn't send her packing sooner. Although that may have upset her even more.
That is a tough one for me. Very tough. I want as little government involvement in non-enumerated items as possible. But at the same time I’m glad for the Apollo missions. I think private companies (especially Space X) will be more than capable of stepping up and taking cargo -and eventually people- into LEO and even lowering the cost in the process. But at the same time I must admit that I want NASA to provide some other private companies with enough resources (and again this runs counter to most of my feelings on government involvement in the private sector) to develop those exotic propulsion systems that could land an expedition on Mars in the not so distant future.
Having been a member of Mensa for many year,
I have met a lot of people far brighter than Amy.She has no impulse control.
She is an atheist and has no respect for human life except herself.She was taught those skills by her parents.
They enabled that lack of moral values.
Clinically she is what is known as solipsistic.
I didn’t read all of the article, but it does not harmonize with this article in the Huntsville Times.
http://blog.al.com/breaking/2010/02/why_did_amy_bishop_snap_a_pict.html
KNOWLEDGE PUFFETH UP; BUT LOVE BUILDETH UP.”
—1 CORINTHIANS 8:1-13
http://www.agsconsulting.com/htdbv5/r3144.htm
“backwater school in Alabama”
You are showing your ignorance. One of the top engineering universities in the country.
Knowledge puffeth up. Those who professed to be knowing ones put on an air of superiority.
Wesley’s Notes
Cor. 8:1 All of us have knowledge - A gentle reproof of their self - conceit. Knowledge without love always puffeth up. Love alone edifies - Builds us up in holiness.
You got to love a guy, who claims to do his best thinking in a nudie bar.
“
Eight years later, the neurobiologist was denied tenure at an Alabama university,
a failure her husband and her attorney said played a role in a shooting
rampage that left three of Bishop’s colleagues dead and three others injured.
“
Harvard PhD., denied tenure at a university below The Mason-Dixon Line...
that says “You ain’t sh-t.” in academic circles.
If she was being tried in the locale of Harvard, she’d be acquitted.
Because all the Harvard professors on the jury would know she’d
been abused by those hillbillies at UAB.
Yes, I’m being sarcastic to a degree. But being a redneck that got
to work in West Coast academia...that’s the way the bi-coastal
academic crowd thinks of anything in flyover country.
Well, maybe except U. of Chicago, Washington U. (in St. Louis)
and U. Wisconsin-Madison.
>> Is this the AP trying to make excuses for this lib b*tch?
Given the word ‘brilliance’ is often used as an endearing, enviable, positive attribute, I agree the word choice is suspect - it projects sympathy, understanding, affection.
IQ worship is for idiots.
Sounds like it.
I’m waiting for the same story to be written about the other Liberal wacko - Joe Stack, and how he was so brilliant he was misundertood as was the Unibomber.
That may very well be, but it is what my husband and I think too: She felt rejected and humiliated because she did not get tenure at a backwater school in AL (the deep South).
Trust me, live in Boston long enough and you will realize that many intellectuals there think of the entire South as a backwater.
This does not mean that my husband and I agree with the assessment; of course we do not — but we are Southerners and we heard it all in the 20+ years we lived in Boston.
DH and I think she may be legally insane, but should get the death penalty anyway.
I got to thinking about Amy Bishop today. She will never stand in her kitchen and do what I was doing: washing dishes, fixing dinner, baking cookies.
She will never again get to do anything with her family or her friends and colleagues (the few that are left).
There is no need for me to waste the space here enumerating all the things, big and small, that Amy Bishop will never experience again.
It does not make sense. She knew if she killed people, life as she knew it would be over. She knew she would either spend the rest of her life in prison or in an insane asylum.
Why would she do it then, unless she could not conform her conduct to the requirements of law?
No matter how enraged I became, I do not believe that I would murder someone (self-defense, defense of others doesn’t count). If nothing else, I have far too much to lose. So did Amy Bishop.
Again, I think she should get the death penalty. That is because the consequences of her actions went beyond her life and have devastated or ended the lives of many people.
Does AL have a death penalty? This b*tch deserves it.
Being voted down for tenure at U of Ala-Huntsville assured that she would never get a position at one of the 25 to 30 universities in the country which DO have Ph.D. programs in neuroscience (U of Ala-Huntsville does not, only some general biotech/engineering degree). She, in fact, was bound for a school even lower on the academic ratings scale in her field and even less able to support her core research area.
I’ve been acquainted with such people before. They are misunderstood and get frustrated. They get disillusioned with humanity in general. Oh, one more thing, none of them have ever committed murder, let alone multiple murders.
A girl who played Dungeons & Dragons!!
That should have been the tip-off right there!
AL does have the death penalty, unlike MA where she committed her first homicide.
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