Posted on 04/17/2025 3:03:43 PM PDT by DallasBiff
“Poor woman…probably devastated.”
Then she should not have raised an alleged murderer.
So she consciously raised him to shoot people? Sure…
** Is it me or is every sheriff/chief of police black? **
Why not? Watch “Bosch Legacy” - the last season.
They go off the rails though as they become young adults and have to begin to make their way in the world in college. Suddenly, such kids are faced with tricky new adult decisions in a way they have never been before: lots of free time, with uncertain friendships, and only a weak understanding of how to shape their lives and futures.
Then add in dodgy prescription medications, unrecognized health issues, sexual frustration, experimentation with drugs and alcohol, unaware or unhelpful parents and other adults, and a lack of religious faith for guidance. Those kinds of kids can then turn suicidal, self-destructive, or violent -- often with spiteful or plainly evil motives.
In a deeper sense though, one also glimpses another issue: that American society these days shelters its children too much from adult responsibility and thinking, but then drops them into the deep end of the pool. And, like other modern large colleges and universities, FSU is a strange cross between a big, happy club for young adults to find themselves, and a bleak, heartless institution with little guidance for its inmates as they serve time.
“And, like other modern large colleges and universities, FSU is a strange cross between a big, happy club for young adults to find themselves, and a bleak, heartless institution with little guidance for its inmates as they serve time.”
What do you base this assertion on?
Well, you can rest assured that this little piece of VITAL information will NEVER see the light of day!
And, where/who is his father?
PERPS USE OF MEDS IS NOT ALLOWED TO BE PUBLICISED!
BAD JU JU FOR BIG PHARMA, DONTCHAKNOW?
“So she consciously raised him to shoot people? Sure…”
Yes, in much the same way that numerous mass shooters and perpetrators of school violence were raised.
I dunno.
Apparently, no one else does either!
I’ve been a bit moooody lately.
In order to willfully flee deputy lkner just walk at a brisk pace.
A half century ago, an an era of greater institutional seriousness, I attended and graduated from university and graduate school. I also lived in Tallahassee for forty years and knew FSU well, including students, graduates, faculty, and administrators. The James G. Martin Center For Academic Renewal, City Journal, and Victor Davis Hanson are my preferred sources as to the larger issues.
A great many students these days do not belong in college and are ill-served by the expense and waste of time. Under the influence of generous student grants and loans, American higher education lowered its standards and changed its goals for the liberal arts. In the course of a generation, learning and scholarship were dropped in favor of ideological indoctrination as the price of a college degree as a work credential. Even the weakest and least motivated students were kept rather the being flunked out.
Why should students who are not challenged intellectually by their coursework otherwise try to acquire knowledge and develop their capacity for critical thinking? And how then should colleges compete? Campus amenities, reputation, and winning sports teams. FSU is in now fully in that game, and its recent science and engineering graduates I knew scorned the liberal arts program as too often a diploma mill for the lazy and dull.
Go the the FSU libraries as I did off and on for years and you notice a pattern. Outside of exam time, the general undergraduate library is almost empty. At exam time, the library is abuzz, but with a great many students flitting about visiting each other instead of studying or doing research. The science library tends though to get more intense use, with much less socializing.
As for the bleak heartless aspect of modern higher education, if you spend any time on a college campus, you easily notice that many student are unhappy and stressed out. Part of that is their temperament and personal circumstances, but the older that I get, the more wrong that it seems to me for most young people on campus to be miserable without a compelling reason.
Would such students be better off working instead, getting a degree later in life or online from home if they wanted one? One of my college professors in the early 1970s described his best students as being WW II veterans on the GI bill. They were older, often married, and serious minded. They did the work -- in overcrowded classes -- and went on to become known as "the greatest generation." We seem to be long past that now, with bigger campuses for larger but much less dedicated students taking a degraded catalogue of courses
Can you type a little slower? She’s out of breath just reading this.
She probably gets winded taking a crap. DEI at its finest
Hm…that’s not what I see. They would be very small if not dilated.
The point I was trying to make was the light conditions are not bright, so the pupils could be the size we see because of the light conditions.
He was on medications. And there was along running custody dispute with the Norwegian biological mother - who took him to Norway without notification and overstayed there with him.
“Christopher Ikner then quickly became worried and alerted authorities, saying his son “has developmental delays and special needs,” which he feared would not be taken care of without access to his regular doctors. The affidavit said Phoenix Ikner was “on medication for several health and mental issues, to include a growth hormone disorder and ADHD.”...
Actually, his dad had custody. The biological mother is Norwegian. The cop is the stepmother. There has been a bitter custody battle going on for years...and the kid was on various drugs for...issues.
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