Did it start to make some sort of sense at some point?
BioFact--a scientist named a bat after her. Check the phase of the moon.
Posted on 04/17/2007 5:52:13 PM PDT by subbob
“We are Virginia Tech. We are sad today and we will be sad for quite awhile. WE are not moving on, we are embracing our mourning. We are Virginia Tech. We are strong enough to know when to cry and sad enough to know we must laugh again. We are Virginia Tech. We do not understand this tragedy. We know we did not deserve it but neither does a child in Africa dying of AIDS, but neither do the invisible children walking the night to avoid being captured by a rogue army. Neither does the baby elephant watching his community be devastated for ivory; neither does the Appalachian infant in the killed in the middle of the night in his crib in the home his father built with his own hands being run over by a boulder because the land was destabilized. No one deserves a tragedy. We are Virginia Tech. The Hokier Nation embraces our own with open heart and hands to those who offer their hearts and minds. We are strong and brave and innocent and unafraid. We are better than we think, not quite what we want to be. We are alive to the imagination and the possibility we will continue to invent the future through our blood and tears, through all this sadness. We are the Hokies. We will prevail, we will prevail. We are Virginia Tech. "
BioFact--a scientist named a bat after her. Check the phase of the moon.
But Viva le difference!
I turned it off when she started with the Africans dying of AIDS ‘cause I knew she was going to start spewing her political agenda. And I didn’t even know who she was.
According to the Wikipedia entry for ‘ahem’ Mister/Miss Nikki Giovanni, she has a tattoo in memory of that original gangster, Tupac Shakur. It reads “THUG LIFE”.
Here is the link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Giovanni
And the quote:
Trivia
Nikki Giovanni has a tattoo with the words “Thug Life,” in memory of Tupac Shakur.
Makes one wonder where this person’s morals originate from.
Front 242
Need to sit awhile with your numerous, wholly right points.
Have you read either On Moral Fiction by John Gardner or Style by Walter Raleigh? I’d be keen to know whether you had.
Thanks for the cogency and the clarity.
We caught the tape replay long after....and, to be honest, I was focusing on her Paula Poundstone suit, peroxided feathers, and - once again, to be honest - wondering wheather this was a buzz cutted womyn or some sort of beige Richard Simmons.
In these times, some people are hard to "sex" just by looking.
Good for you!
Didn’t know such places still existed.
There is hope.
LOL...OUI!
There aren’t many, but they do exist.
“BTW, what is a “Hokie”? It was a little easier to follow when the school’s athletic teams were called the “Gobblers,” but I guess that name might have been changed due to political correctness.”
Oh give us a break.
A football coach in the 1980s hated “Gobblers” and started the change to Hokies, which had actually been around longer than Gobblers. It’s a nonsense word from a cheer made up in the 1890s.
Over the hill, pseudo-intellectual, fraud, who made and continues to make a living from white guilt. Sorry, sister, don’t have any.
The whole deal was ridiculous. The students were murdered less than thirty-six hours before. They haven’t even been buried yet and this peroxide clown is talking about baby elephants, aids in Africa and leading them in cheers? It was embarrassing.
Only one thing has ever helped me overcome a terrible loss and that’s time.
There was such a death in VA a few years ago. A strip mining operation loosened a boulder which rolled downhill, hit a house and killed a baby.
Someone else may have answered but I don't have time to read the thread.
No one said that it actually had happened.......just the general situation............. so thank you.
This speech is outrageous. This was not a fund raiser for the World Wildlife Fund or Victims of Avalanches in Appalachia or Disease of The Decade. It was a convocation for the victims of the deadliest school shooting in this country.
A man decided to murder 32 innocents with callous disregard for the sanctity of life. The hearts of their family and friends must be shattered with grief at this time and for a very long time to come. This was not caused by the indifferent force of history or economy or politics. This happened because evil had free reign on VT campus. And that evil had a name.
the writing’s a bit whacko for a college grad and teacher.
she’s made the occasion an advertisement for her leftwing political agenda.
took me to “We are Marshall!”
i personally thought she could have said something far more profound for those kids.
I’ve read most of John Gardner’s essays.
“Only one thing has ever helped me overcome a terrible loss and that’s time.”
amen.
time....and faith (for me anyway)
You mean the ivory hunters destroy their schools, their libraries, their hospitals, their shopping malls, their sports stadiums?
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