My guess for this case is simply money.   The cows were sick and they didn't want to lose money over it and with that, to get them up the tortured and already sick animal to it's death.

I do think in the minds of alot of these workers is the animal is gonna die anyway and they torture them.   I think it's terrible.  I am not against meat eating but if I knew what companies were torturing animals before they died, I'd boycott and thank god for the rules that the USDA has set where that's concerned.

Interesting he said some new revelations instead of more of the same when his album was coming out.

APE good point!

The situation with Brain has always been a thorn in my side.   I just don't understand the deal with that at all.   I was one that believed he was out for good and the latest quote from Brain is he is trying to get back in GNR.   Now it's confirmed they didn't replace any of his parts, I guess it would have cost too much money or taken too much time not to mention there is probably no reason to replace his parts.  Strange situation but I guess I shouldn't be surprised everything is strange.

I am so sorry for your loss Tommie.

Know that she lived a long and healthy life and I have to say, after seeing my dad suffer for 6 months and the worst of his suffering in the last 10 days in the hospital and the worst the last day, I'd rather him go the way your grandmother went.   

Still so sad either way.

HAHA

Well it seems really coincidental that this email is supposed to be addressed to a person -  that was posted over at Here Today by gunns1 -  and it coincidentally winds up on the message boards.

A gunman accused of killing five students in a Northern Illinois University classroom Thursday had stopped taking medication two weeks ago "and became somewhat erratic," campus police said Friday.

At the same time, officials corrected an earlier statement that six other people besides the gunman had died, saying there had been a "miscommunication."

The gunman was identified as Stephen P. Kazmierczak, a former graduate NIU student, who took his own life. (The spelling of Kazmierczak's first name was supplied by a university official. Other references list him as Steven.)

"There were no red flags," said campus Police Chief Donald Grady, saying that Kazmierczak was someone "revered by faculty and students alike."

Kazmierczak's motive is a mystery, he said. Grady refused to discuss what medication Kazmierczak was taking or anything about his medical condition.

He said Kazmierczak brought four weapons'”a shotgun and three handguns'”with him when he kicked open a door to the classroom and began firing. Police found 48 shell casings and six shotgun shells in the classroom, indicating the number of shots, he said.

Authorities have traced the shotgun and one of the handguns to a gun dealer in Champaign, where Kazmierczak was attending graduate school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They said the purchases were legal, and there was no reason that Kazmierczak should have been denied purchase. Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are tracing the other two weapons, said agent Kevin Cronin.

Earlier, the DeKalb County coroner's office had issued a news release saying that a sixth wounded student had died overnight, but university officials retracted that, saying there had been a miscommunication and that only five students and the gunman had died.

The dead students were identified as: Daniel Parmenter, 20, of Westchester; Catalina Garcia, 20, of Cicero; Ryanne Mace, 19, of Carpentersville; Julianna Gehant, 32, of Meriden; and sophomore Gayle Dubowski, 20, of Carol Stream.

Before the Friday morning news conference at which Kazmierczak was identified, NIU President John G. Peters said "the shooter had a very good academic record, no record of trouble."

Kazmierczak was not a current student at the school 65 miles west of downtown Chicago, authorities said. Peters earlier had said the man had been enrolled as a sociology graduate student at NIU but left school last spring.

In an interview at his home near campus Friday morning, a visibly rattled Joseph Peterson, the instructor of the ocean science class on which the gunman opened fire, said he did not know the shooter and had no idea why he targeted his classroom.

In Lakeland, Fla., local sheriff's police were interviewing Kazmierczak's father, Robert, at the request of investigators in DeKalb, but would not release details.

Speaking briefly with reporters at his home about 50 miles southwest of Orlando, Robert Kazmierczak, 66, who is retired, said: "Please leave me alone. I have no statement to make. This is a very hard time. I'm a diabetic."

Then he broke down crying and went back inside his mobile home. Records indicate his wife died in 2006.

The gunman, dressed in black, stormed into an oceanography class Thursday afternoon and opened fire with a shotgun and two handguns. In a matter of seconds, he killed five and wounded 16.

Then, still on stage, he killed himself, authorities said.

Late Thursday, sources confirmed that the gunman was a graduate student in social work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

A law-enforcement source said the gunman was found with a U. of I. identification card in his pocket. Police also said they were unable to determine a motive for the shooting, which erupted shortly before 3 p.m., about 15 minutes before the class of about 100 students in Cole Hall was scheduled to end.

NIU classes have been canceled indefinitely. The dorms, however, remain open. "It's not a lockdown," NIU's Peters told reporters this morning.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld … 2423.story

He stopped taking his meds and went insane.   Once they search this guys house or apartment, they may be able to find notes or a plan of this that may further explain why this happened.