<p>Did I say please don’t answer the question? You would go off on a tangent and not address your original point of contention, wouldn’t you? Good debating tactic, but again it is besides the point.</p>
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<p>I doubt that many classes are being held in the UAH bio department.*</p>
<p>The school canceled all classes this week…the school was essentially closed.</p>
<p>I hope they let the D respectfully withdraw from all classes w/o penalty.</p>
<p>not to be a pain, but be careful when posting medical condition of the victim, unless you have specific releases to do so…it might be fine to post “he is doing better” but specific medical facts are confidential.</p>
<p>Ummmm…any Harvard alums (or prospective students?) not OFFENDED at this statment about the Harvard mentality? I mean…I doubt there is ANYONE who thinks Harvard isn’t “better” than Huntsville, but…? My daughter has Harvard grad school educated teachers at her high school. This attorney makes it sound like she’d better watch out. That “Harvard mentality” makes them think they’re too good for this and might bring a gun to school one day. I’m sure it takes a very driven person to attend Harvard, but…to the point where it creates a broad drive (“Harvard mentality”) toward homicide? Yeah…I’d be offended if I were an alum. </p>
<p>“Bishop, who has a doctorate from Harvard University and has taught at the Huntsville college since 2003, apparently was incensed that a lesser-known school rejected her for what amounted to a lifetime job. Obviously she was very distraught and concerned over that tenure,” Miller said. “It insulted her and slapped her in the face, and it’s probably tied in with the Harvard mentality. She brooded and brooded and brooded over it, and then, ‘bingo.’”</p>
<p>yorkyfan, I don’t know and I don’t claim to know. I believe I never said there is definite proof for cover-up just as there is no definite proof of perfectly executed investigation that yielded the truth. It could have been an accident but it does not explain the running out of the house and holding up people for a getaway car. Simple as that. The information is somehow muted and not properly relayed upward. If nothing like that happened then I would not question the whole episode.</p>
<p>“bawling her eyes out, being held up by her parents”
When I read this, I thought she was 21 year old, probably bigger than her mom and she was being held up by her parents?</p>
<p>“Bishop, who has a doctorate from Harvard University and has taught at the Huntsville college since 2003, apparently was incensed that a lesser-known school rejected her for what amounted to a lifetime job. Obviously she was very distraught and concerned over that tenure,” Miller said. “It insulted her and slapped her in the face, **and it’s probably tied in with the Harvard mentality. **She brooded and brooded and brooded over it, and then, ‘bingo.’”</p>
<p>What does that mean?</p>
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<p>I, too, believe there was a cover-up. No, I don’t have any proof.</p>
<p>I think that when something walks like a duck, talks like a duck, smells like a duck, I can believe it’s a duck before the vet tells me so.</p>
<p>I don’t think it is evidence of much of anything that Bishop was “bawling her eyes out” at Seth’s wake. If I had recently discovered that I was capable of murdering a sibling, I’d be crying too; that can’t be a happy discovery. Not to mention that it would have looked mighty suspicious if she were <em>not</em> exhibiting significant emotion.</p>
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<p>How does one accidentally shoot a shotgun 3 times?!</p>
<p>not to be a pain, but be careful when posting medical condition of the victim, unless you have specific releases to do so.</p>
<p>I copied that from a public blog that the family maintains that anyone (anyone) can join…so, no privacy has been violated.</p>
<p>“I think that when something walks like a duck, talks like a duck, smells like a duck, I can believe it’s a duck before the vet tells me so.”</p>
<p>Exactly, I think there is something more going on. There are two models, first it was an accident but why did she run out and pointed guns at people demanding a car. Second, she shot her brother in a rage, ran out with a gun demanding a car, the police caught her but they are good friends with her parents and let her go. Now, which model fit neatly together. Do I really know what happen? Of course not.</p>
<p>The same doubt seems to be there on every officials that have looked at the case and cared to voice their opinions publicly. You can brush them aside as politically motivated, but the doubt is there and easily discernable.</p>
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<p>I think he meant that coming from Harvard, she’d have a feeling of superiority (because anyone from Harvard has a superior attitude, right?).
Yep, lets slap these elitist institutions. Maybe he hopes that this approach will gain sympathy - poor Amy was a “victim” of the “Harvard mentality.”</p>
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<p>I loved that line, too. One little problem…</p>
<p>“Bishop, who has a doctorate from Harvard University and has taught at the Huntsville college since 2003, apparently was incensed that a lesser-known school rejected her for what amounted to a lifetime job. Obviously she was very distraught and concerned over that tenure,” Miller said. “It insulted her and slapped her in the face, and it’s probably tied in with the Harvard mentality. She brooded and brooded and brooded over it, and then, ‘bingo.’”</p>
<p>Sheesh. I am a Harvard grad who was turned down for tenure at a 2nd tier institution filled with people with degrees from much less prestigious places than I graduated from. I am still on good terms with the faculty at the university that turned me down. In fact, I even have worked there since, though not as a professor. I didn’t decide to slaughter faculty there.</p>
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<p>It was twice. Solimini was mis-speaking from a 24 y.o. memory, without the benefit of the contemporaneous reports and from his 1986 report and those of the others he did not conduct the investigation at the house, he was sent to go after Amy.</p>
<p>Read the Mossberg 500 info at their website. With the safety not on, a novice who had her finger on the trigger could easily had caused the shotgun to go off. While not a hair-trigger, it would not require a concerted effort to pull the trigger while bringing the barrel up from pointing at the floor to pointing at the ceiling. </p>
<p>Recall there are hunting accidents (even at the Vice-Presidential level) where (supposedly) experienced hunters accidentially shoot someone.</p>
<p>To play devil’s advocate, how (and why and when and where) did Amy chamber the third (live) round found in the shotgun when she was apprehended? Keep in mind Solimini’s report noted that they looked for the spent casing after they apprehended Amy and did not find it. Since it was not found at the house, Amy probably pumped the shotgun after she fled the house!</p>
<p>Also, why was there even another live round in her pocket of her jacket (that she says she didn’t remember having on)? </p>
<p>On your marks, get set, GO!</p>
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<p>Oh–sort of a reverse OJ? “The glove did fit, so the cops got rid of it?”</p>
<p>NSM quote: Sheesh. I am a Harvard grad who was turned down for tenure at a 2nd tier institution filled with people with degrees from much less prestigious places than I graduated from. I am still on good terms with the faculty at the university that turned me down. In fact, I even have worked there since, though not as a professor. I didn’t decide to slaughter faculty there.</p>
<p>That’s because you’re not crazy.</p>
<p>And because NSM is not infected with the “Harvard mentality” whatever the heck it is.</p>
<p>but she is a woman…</p>
<p>^ yeah? Another female Harvard Ph.D. here. Soon, our diploma will be certificate of loony entitled mentality… Oy.</p>
<p>07DAD, instead of making fun of me, you need to take a crack at explaining why she ran out and pointed the gun at various people looking for a car. That is the key thing to explain. It would go a long way to ease my thought on the subject. All these mumbo jumbo inconsequential facts do not concern me that much.</p>
<p>If all she wanted was to unload the gun, why did she have her finger on the trigger? And it’s just a coincidence that she “accidentally” pulled that trigger, in the process of bringing the gun up from pointing at the floor to pointing at the ceiling, at the exact moment when the gun happened to be pointing directly at her brother’s chest, at close range?</p>