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Cho sent photos and rambling letter to NBC.
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Posted on 04/18/2007 1:29:40 PM PDT by harwood

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To: TBall
LOL...at this point, that’s not any crazier than the other things posted in explanation.
1,201 posted on 04/18/2007 9:10:44 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: RDTF

LOL.....I have NO idea WHAT you are talking about! I have never watched that show.


1,202 posted on 04/18/2007 9:12:05 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Shelayne

I agree. It’s so ridiculous. Red flags everywhere (a prof refuses to allow him in class, students not attending class because of his behavior, him not responding when asked direct questions by a prof, etc.). It’s been 18 years since I was in a college classroom as a student so maybe it’s really different now, just like high school classes are different in many ways. Why was he still allowed to attend classes or be privately tutored? This is college, he was an adult.

I had a roommate that was looney. Seriously looney. I spent a year living with her and it was hell. I called her mother at one point, no help there. 6 months after graduation I received a form from the federal government, phone calls and eventually one on one interviews because she applied for a job that required some kind of special security classification clearance. I thought long and hard about what I said to them, I didn’t want to be responsible for her not getting a job, she was a math wiz, but she was nuts. I reported her many times to campus security, the RA, campus Admin. but not nearly as many times others had. She was a “loner” and all that but she was nuts. She could also be violent and scared me quite a few times and I’m not easy to scare. Nothing was done about her during our college years, although the university offered to switch my room many times because they couldn’t switch her out since she wasn’t the one complaining. She didn’t act out in classes, those she attended, so there wasn’t an issue there. I can’t imagine that she would have slipped through the system back then had she behaved that way in class.


1,203 posted on 04/18/2007 9:14:47 PM PDT by Twink
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To: Strategerist
The frustrations of a guy who isn’t getting laid at that age, when he knows most everyone around him are is pretty ENORMOUS (not to excuse him or anything), obsessing about the guys that actually are having sex with the girls he’s stalking - I think deep down that may be the real core root.

Yep. That's my take as well. Everything else is overlay -- no pun intended.

1,204 posted on 04/18/2007 9:16:04 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: RDTF
But the big news is Sanjaya finally got voted off American Idol... LOL

You're kidding right? Because otherwise it would be a real crappy thing to spoil a tv show for the West Coasters in the middle of a VA Tech thread with no warning! Thanks a lot jerk!

1,205 posted on 04/18/2007 9:16:18 PM PDT by CAluvdubya (DUNCAN HUNTER '08)
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To: jhw61
Thanks you very much, for your kind words. My mother and I were very close and I miss her very much.

Yes, it IS great to be able to talk with my kiddo every day. We have always been very close and I know that it's VERY important to have a close relationship with one's family.

1,206 posted on 04/18/2007 9:16:27 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: All

This guy was a complete nutjob!!!!! Can anyone say otherwise with the ranting that he uttered??????

And mailing the packages in between the two shootings too???

I wonder what his parents must be going through. “Hell on Earth” seems pretty accurate.


1,207 posted on 04/18/2007 9:18:16 PM PDT by cleveland gop (Dalton for Pres. '08!!!! First Imus, who's next?)
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To: Star Traveler

If you have no idea why he called himself Ishmael, why would you say that the most obvious answer is hatred? Most of us who see the Islam connection hope we are dead wrong but it needs to be explored since PravdABDNC is not going to.

If you don’t have the answer you really can’t rip people who are attempting to find an answer. Thinking outside of the box is not hate but exploring different theories. What if you are wrong and we are right?? Is it hate then?

If you are right, great. The hopeful answer is he was a psycho, the scary answer is that he went Mooselip terrorist. Especially when he says he has terror in his heart.

I just don’t understand why you would want to limit anything right now?

Pray for W and Va Tech


1,208 posted on 04/18/2007 9:20:26 PM PDT by bray (The Surge is Working against both enemies of America)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
No, Ishmael, in the Bible, is NOT considered to be a "bastard". If Sarah had never had a child, Ishmael, would have inherited everything from his father. It was a usual thing, at that time, for barren women to have their husbands impregnate a "handmaiden", so that there would be an heir. Jews need a male blood relative to say Kaddish (sp?) when they die and afterward.

Once Sarah had a child, Ishmael got demoted.

People from his high school class knew that he was weird. No, they didn't know what his favorite food was, but they "knew" him.

You're really stretching...................LOL

1,209 posted on 04/18/2007 9:23:25 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Cold Heat; Hattie

Good posts. Now I think I get it.

The person who declared him was a “danger” ordered outpatient treatment for him. Ugh.

What needs to change is that if a person is deemed a “danger” then inpatient treatment should be required? So that the mental health professionals can better diagnose and treat the person?

I don’t know what the answer is, either. This has brought back memories of a girl in my college history class. She was odd, to say the least. We wondered why she wasn’t kicked out of the college. Then I found out what her real problem was from a kindly professor who knew I would not gossip about her and would try to befriend her. I did try. But she dropped out of school soon after anyway. It was so sad.

What was the real problem: her father had recently died and her mother was mentally ill. She trying to look after her mother, work and go to school. One day, she came home from class and found her mother had murdered her beloved cat in a most cruel and horrible way and there were parts of the cat all over the house.

Of course the poor child seemed odd. Only a crazy person would NOT freak out in such horrid circumstances. The poor girl was very intelligent and very sweet. If only she had had a chance. I wonder what ever became of her. I still pray for her from time to time.

What can be done? I don’t know.


1,210 posted on 04/18/2007 9:26:09 PM PDT by chickenNdumplings
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To: jhw61
Oh yes, I know that Koreans get quite upset, when an American calls them Japanese or some other Asian name. My daughter went to school with some Americas of Korean descent and I heard about this, from the children's parents.

Cho was a "game player" ( in the sense that he was playing a role, in real life ) and sent cryptic, puzzle messages to people's phones. And nobody who got these messages, could ever figure out what they meant.

1,211 posted on 04/18/2007 9:27:24 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
He didn't have it tattooed, he put it on with a red magic marker.

Look at the pictures he sent to NBC......there's NOTHING on either arm.

1,212 posted on 04/18/2007 9:28:57 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Twink

My kid’s in college now. He’s a Senior and his profs have all been very straightforward about grading. Many of his classes, it’s three tests for the entire semester...you either do well or you don’t. Some profs have cut their class size by half by the withdraw date, and of those left, they still pass only about 60 percent.

For some of his classes, especially early on he had writing assignments (Comp, etc.) and occasionally he has to submit a paper now, but the guidelines are very strict about what they want, etc. and it doesn’t seem to me that any prof in any of his classes have “given grades away.” (it’s a state U, so maybe because tuition is cheaper they don’t get the hassles that some of the private institutions get from students/parents when the kids have to retake a class or don’t do well.)

I know a prof at an Ivy League U who says he is absolutely hated and harrassed because he won’t compromise on his grades. Calls from parents, pleas from students to change their grades, but he believes you have to earn the grade.

I was so surprised to find at a school of VaTech’s reputation that a kid like this, whose writing was so 5th grader like, could actually make it to their Senior year.


1,213 posted on 04/18/2007 9:29:32 PM PDT by dawn53
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To: rbmillerjr

Oh, he was most certainly a coward.


1,214 posted on 04/18/2007 9:29:51 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: NickatNite2003

Oh good grief....get a clue!


1,215 posted on 04/18/2007 9:30:49 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: TwoSue

Vote for Pedro.


1,216 posted on 04/18/2007 9:31:59 PM PDT by rednesss
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To: HairOfTheDog

:-)


1,217 posted on 04/18/2007 9:32:44 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

You’re a ferret in your own mind Olbermann.


1,218 posted on 04/18/2007 9:32:47 PM PDT by NickatNite2003 (From the Man from Hope" to the wife who snarls "Abandon All Hope!")
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To: jonrick46
It depends which version you're reading.

Have you never heard of/read/seen the book, which was turned into a movie, called "THE HANDMAIDEN'S TALE"? If you have, where do you think the title and a bit of the story came from?

1,219 posted on 04/18/2007 9:34:46 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: HarmlessLovableFuzzball
Cho Seung-Hui was declared mentally ill and "an imminent danger to others."

He was a democrat then...?

prisoner6

1,220 posted on 04/18/2007 9:36:43 PM PDT by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts hold the country together as the loose screws of the Left fall out.)
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