No Jail for Willie Nelson on Drug Charge  
Washington Post
ST. MARTINVILLE, La. — Willie Nelson and his tour manager were spared jail time Tuesday after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count of marijuana possession. Nelson and tour manager David Anderson, along

Immigrants Seek Mental Health Outreach  
AP via Forbes.com –
The video manifesto Seung-Hui Cho mailed midway through his rampage at Virginia Tech revealed a bitter, vengeful and violent young man – and raised questions about why he hadn’t received counseling or

Did anyone watch the Sopranos tonight and get
That bad feeling when looking at the

Asian character…

That the Asian
Character was too much to
handle…

Because he reminded us to much of

Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho?

CBS Sues Radio Station For Playing Imus  
Post Chronicle – CBS radio is taking a California radio to court to stop it from broadcasting Don Imus’ morning radio show. CBS fired Imus for making racist and sexist comments about the Rutgers University women’s basketball

Clinton Courts Blacks, Assails Bush  
Maysville-Online – The requested document could not be found! Please return to the front page or contact the newspaper

Sen. Biden Blames GOP for Virginia Tech Killings  
NewsMax.com Sen. Joe Biden, a Democratic Party candidate for president in 2008, on Thursday blamed the Republicans for the Virginia Tech killings and a string of events that have made news in the past few years.

Clinton Praises Rutgers’ Basketball Team  
Las Vegas Sun
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton met Friday with Rutgers women’s basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer, and later proclaimed that Rutgers ‘has a chance

By Silla Brush

Posted 4/17/07

Virginia Tech started from humble beginnings as a public land grant college soon after the Civil War. Its 132 students were organized into a corps of cadets for military training, a continuing tradition at the university. The college didn’t begin to graduate more than 100 students with a bachelor’s degree until a half century later. But it began to grow following World War II, in part because of the G.I. Bill, and continued to expand in the 1960s and 1970s.

 Virginia Tech University ROTC Cadets stand vigil in the Memorial Chapel the day of the shootings. (Charlie Archambault for USN&WR)

And ever since, the university has been on a roll.

The university of 28,470 students (6,471 of whom pursue graduate degrees) in rural Blacksburg, over three hours from Richmond, regularly ranks among the better engineering and agricultural programs in the country, and has expanded notably in size and research ambitions. U.S. News ranked Virginia Tech 34th among national public universities and 77th overall in the country, and its undergraduate engineering program ranked 17th.

The university last year announced an ambitious plan to double the amount of research on campus by 2012 and spend about $1 billion on nearly 3 million square feet of construction in the next decade.

Most people across the country probably know the university as a sports powerhouse. The Hokies football team is a regular pick for college bowl games, and head coach Frank Beamer is one of the winningest Division 1 coaches around. Quarterback Michael Vick (the 2001 top pick in the NFL draft and current quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons) brought the university constant attention. The men’s basketball team has also been scooting up national rankings in recent years.

The university accepts about 70 percent of applicants and is nearly 60 percent male and 83 percent white. The student body is 5 percent African-American, 7 percent Asian, and 2 percent Hispanic. The university is not without critics. In recent years, despite efforts to boost minority enrollment and recruit minority faculty, it has seen its African-American student population drop. The lack of minority representation has led to protest on campus, including one a year ago during which students chanted: “Virginia Tech is allergic to faculty of color.”

Meanwhile, the university has kept up with its tradition of military service. It is one of only three in the country–along with Texas A&M University and North Georgia College and State University–with a corps of student cadets training full time for the military. Membership in the corps was required for all “able-bodied males” until 1964, when it became optional. And the small town of Blacksburg has also fueled a loyal alumni base known as “Hokie Nation.”

The shooting Monday was the second in the past year that led to a lockdown on campus. In August, a jail inmate who had escaped shot and killed a deputy sheriff and another security guard near the campus; police eventually caught the gunman, William Morva, in the woods near the university.

Reuters had a story:

Gunman’s kin sought better life in
U.S.: grandfather
Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:23 AM ETSEOUL (Reuters) – The family of the man who carried out the massacre at Virginia Tech university left South Korea 15 years ago with little money and big dreams of a better life in
America, the shooter’s grandfather told two newspapers.“They went to the States saying they wanted to raise their kids properly but I can’t believe this
happened,” the man, who asked to be called Mr Kim, said in an interview published on Thursday in the daily Hankyoreh.South Korean-born Cho Seung-Hui, 23, was identified on Tuesday as the gunman who killed 32 students and teachers at Virginia Tech.Kim, 81, who lives in Kyonggi province outside Seoul, said he
had
had little contact with his daughter — Cho’s mother — since they arrived in the
United States.Cho’s parents ran a used-book shop in Seoul until they left for the
United States.“They bought the tiny shop with the money my son-in-law made in
Saudi Arabia before he got married,” Kim said.However, immigration was not easy. “They made it onto the plane without much money.”Kim said relatives of his son-in-law
had invited the family to the
United States, where they apparently worked as dry cleaners, adding: “They thought they would be able to educate their children well in the U.S”.Kim’s sister said she remembered Seung-Hui as a quiet child.“He was a good-looking boy but he wouldn’t talk. If I nudged him and tried to talk with him, he wouldn’t answer,” Kim Yang-soon, 84, told Reuters Television.When grandfather Kim did speak with his daughter, her mood would brighten when she told him about her son and daughter. The daughter graduated from

Princeton
University.Kim said he felt grief, anguish and sorrow over the shooting.“Seung-Hui troubled his parents when he was young because he wouldn’t talk, but he was well-be
haved. I don’t know how I can compensate for the responsibility for raising my kids improperly,” Kim told the Dong-A Ilbo newspaper.He extended his deepest sympathies to the victims of the shooting and their families.“I don’t know how he could do this when his parents went to a country far away and worked
hard.”

Muslims world-wide use the name “Ismail” extensively. Each country may have some variation, but it always refers back to Abraham and his son, Ishmael.

 Ismaili (i at the end) is one of the last of 7 sacred Imams who come as the “hidden Imam” that the “madman of Iraq” often refers to in his speeches. Again related to religious terrorism.

AX refers to the Muslim belief that Abraham was to kill Ishmael as an act of obedience and faith using an AXE.

Therefore, it is my belief or thoughts,
This was a sign of blind obedience.

What do you think?

Homeland Security: Lost in all the coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre are the prosecutions of two Americans who allegedly joined al-Qaida. How many more are living here among us? READ MORE

What is happening to our country?

Pictures of the girl believed to have sparked the worst school shooting in US history have been made public. Eighteen-year-old Emily Jane Hilscher was one of the first two victims to be identified in the Virginia Tech massacre.
See the pictures and read the latest news here

When you see the pictures–another idea will come to mind.