In the US, a female teacher, Amy Bishop, shot three people dead Friday, and wounded three others, after learning she had been denied tenure at an Alabama university. Tragic incident. She can't have been okay in the head.
Implications for gun control? Well... none it seems.
Now... some people who fly in the same blog stream as magpie will know of a certain neocon loon. I was willing to bet HE had it all worked out, and I was not disappointed:
"Amy Bishop, Detained in Huntsville University Faculty Murders, is Harvard-Trained Left-Wing Professor." says he.
Right. She was Left-wing and went to Harvard. Ergo it was obvious she was going to kill someone. Genius. Perhaps everyone who ever went to Harvard and doesn't believe in American hegemony through force of arms should be pre-emptively jailed. Dunno.
Perhaps someone should take HIM away in a straitjacket before he goes on a rampage after hearing an academic sneer at Sarah Palin (He's real tough though...shows pictures of male models to a blogger he doesn't like and swears he had abs like that 20 years ago).
Appropriating a tragic and violent crime to serve one's personal political paranoia is loathsome and without merit. It's not the first time this blogger has done this. And if she was a life-long Republican and an avowed neoconservative, it still wouldn't mean jack shit as far as the case goes.
No coverage I have seen indicates her political leaning - whatever it actually is - had anything to do with the crime. Unless Bishop was a member of a radical organisation the remainder of which is an immediate threat to public safety, there is absolutely no reason to even hypothesize what her political leanings are.
As crazy at it is, EVERYTHING in the U.S. is now politicized. If you own a bidet, you're a leftwing radical. If not, you're a "true American." WTF
ReplyDeleteRather than unity, the past election has created more rifts since the American Civil War. Even the damned Dems can't agree with one another.
Hey boomer.
ReplyDeleteI think the disunity was always there, it's now in the open, is all.
Truth be told, I wish there had been some of this disunity when Bush Cheney were busy taking America into Iraq, pissing all over her allies, and letting cowboys run the US economy.
boomer: the Democrats have never agreed on anything. They're too diverse.
ReplyDeleteMagpie: I like your new layout. I can check my spelling and more importantly to me, simply click on "Home" to get there instead of wasting a bunch of time. Anyway, it's quite good looking.
Cheers tnlib, appreciate the comment because I've given it a bit of thought.
ReplyDeleteI want people to feel at ease if they come here.
Unless they're ultra-Right scumbags or some other kind of extremist... then they're going to have to pay for their beer.
Agreed on the new look, magpie. Easier on the eyes, although it does nothing for my abs. Something you might want to consult my buddy Don about.
ReplyDeleteI never ask a man about another man's abs.
ReplyDeleteIn fact I never ask a woman about another man's abs either.