[Epoch Times] A university professor in Michigan has been placed on leave after declaring it would be "more admirable" to kill guest speakers who hold "transphobic," "racist," and "homophobic" views than to just shout them down. You're a little early for that, Prof. Steven Shaviro, who teaches film and media studies courses at Wayne State University, took to Facebook to express his thoughts about "free speech on campus," claiming that he does not "advocate violating federal and state criminal codes." You seem conflicted, Steven.
Nevertheless, the professor wrote that "right-wing speakers" deserve death because they are "precisely" invited by right-wing college groups with the intention to "provoke and incident that discredit the left" and give more publicity and validation to the "reprehensible views" they allegedly have. Didn't your momma teach you, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me?"
"Protesters get blamed instead of the bigoted speaker; the university administration finds a perfect excuse to side publicly with the racists or phobes, [and] the international and national press has a field day saying that bigots are the ones being oppressed," Shaviro continued.
To help make his point, Shaviro cited the assassination of Symon Petliura by Jewish anarchist Sholem Schwarzbard in 1926 in the aftermath of Russian Civil War.
"The exemplary historical figure in this is The core of Schwarzbard's defense was to attempt to show that he was avenging the deaths of victims of pogroms,, who assassinated the anti-Semitic butcher Simon Petliura, rather than trying to shout him down," Shaviro wrote, apparently comparing critics of the radical left-wing race and sex ideologies to a war leader whose troops carried out deadly pogroms.
"Remember that Schwarzbard was acquitted by a jury, which found his action justified," he wrote. The core of Schwarzbard's defense was that he was avenging the deaths of victims of pogroms, so perhaps not an apt comparison. Anyway, 'acquitted' is not equivalent to 'justified'.
The Facebook post caught the attention of Wayne State administrators, who took action and suspended Shaviro on Monday.
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" that discredit the left"
They do a good job of that to themselves. Protesters get blamed instead of the bigoted speaker
The implication that these SJWs are easily led astray buffoons! Point them in a direction and tell them "Sic'em".
Keeping you posted: During Qual testing of Centaur V structural article at MSFC, the hardware experienced an anomaly. This is is why we thoroughly & rigorously exercise every possible condition on the ground before flight. Investigation is underway. Vulcan will fly when complete.
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It's an upgrade to a design that's been in use for a long time. As it's intended to be able to carry payloads as heavy as Delta IV Heavy serviced in the past, it has to be strengthened. That's what the testing is about.
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[FoxNews] Multiple military helicopters crashed Wednesday night in Trigg County, Kentucky – near Fort Campbell – leaving several people dead.
Two HH60 Blackhawks of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) were conducting a training exercise at approximately 10 p.m. when they crashed, Brendalyn Carpenter-Player, the director of the Fort Campbell Public Affairs, told Fox News Digital.
"The crewmembers were flying two HH60 Blackhawk helicopters during a routine training mission when the incident occurred. The status of the crew members are unknown at this time," Carpenter-Player said. "The command is currently focused on caring for the servicemembers and their families."
BREAKING: French police have squared off against French firefighters in open combat as the firefighters join French resistance fighters. pic.twitter.com/zuPpTPcvMC
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This is a very disturbing video, at least for me. Incomprehensible.
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I am glad they left the Halligan tools at home.
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It has been a long time since I've played Sim City, but I don't recall this ever happening.
Perhaps they have installed some extra downloadable content.
Notice the bracing. Pretty standard stuff. Think phalanx but 2.5" hose (or whatever the metric is) at full pressure instead of Sarissa Pikes. Why the police thought they could just shield sweep this opponent is a mystery, and a truly hostile opponent wouldn't have let them off the hook cuz they got owned.
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Got to do that once, but we used two hoses. I got picked as the reacher, so I had a hose on each side, and with the bracers we looked like a Rugby scrum. As the reacher, I was to call order, chant advance cadence, and ultimate shut the valve off.
Absolute rush so long as I remembered the longer it took, the more fatigued the nozzle operators become, and it only take an instant slip to lose that grip. Then not only is there a rogue line loosing its way around the ranks, my arm could be in harms way if that happened.
Instructor said something classical like, "Train like this is a real fire, so if you come across this fire you can remember this training."
[PJ] Remember Chris Christie? He thinks you do. He even thinks you want to. Christie spoke in New Hampshire on Monday, and you know what that means. The former New Jersey governor thinks he will be the one Republican presidential hopeful to take down Donald Trump in 2024 and ride to the White House in a blaze of glory (if not on a milk-white steed, as finding one that could hold him would be nigh impossible), amid hosannas from a grateful nation that is finally saved as Christie slays the twin dragons of America-First Trumpism and Old Joe Biden’s America-Last socialist internationalism. If you doubt that this is going to happen, that’s only because it isn’t, but nonetheless, up in the Granite State on Monday, Christie was really throwing his weight around. "I'll moiderize him!"
Christie based his claim that he could beat Trump on the one successful moment of his brief and disastrous 2016 presidential campaign, when he humiliated and mocked Marco Rubio for repeating some campaign patter he had memorized. As a flustered Rubio struggled to get his bearings and kept repeating the same words, Christie taunted him, saying: "There it is — the memorized 25-second speech."
This nasty exchange, in which Christie appeared more as a bully than as anything else, was supposed to give us the idea that it was wrong for presidential candidates to have memorized any statements (why?) and that Christie himself was a plain-spoken straight shooter who never, ever doled out any canned answers himself (unlikely). Rubio did indeed come off as stiff, unnatural, and overly reliant upon his prepared material rather than daring to think on his feet, but Christie is kidding himself if he thinks the incident made him look statesmanlike or presidential. It was no coincidence that his purposeless, passionless, aimless and self-serving presidential campaign ended a week later.
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Somebody in the uniparty has given him some $ to come out against Trump. He is only doing for the money.
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^ Re: $$. You can't buy donuts with just your personality
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^ Especially not his personality.
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If the contest was a pie eating, I would still put my money on Trump. I think Christie looks like a champion eater because of his laziness and inactivity. He might win a cannonball competition. If they go that route, there ought to be a zero tolerance stipulation against Speedos.
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there ought to be a zero tolerance stipulation against Speedos
[WIRE] White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to answer a question on Wednesday over whether President Joe Biden’s proposed ban on some semi-automatic long guns will lead to the confiscation of millions of Americans’ guns.
The question comes after a transgender shooter murdered six people, including three children, at a Christian school in Nashville this week.
"Does the president support not just banning the sale and the manufacture of semi-automatic weapons, but further than that, confiscation?" a reporter asked Jean-Pierre.
"Let me just be very clear, what we’re talking about, AR-15s, this assault weapons ban, they are weapons of war," Jean-Pierre asserted.
[NYPOST] Pope Francis ...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess... was hospitalized with a lung infection Wednesday after experiencing difficulty breathing in recent days and will remain in the hospital for several days of treatment, the Vatican said.
The 86-year-old pope doesn’t have COVID-19, front man Matteo Bruni said in a statement late Wednesday.
The hospitalization was the first since Francis spent 10 days at the Gemelli hospital in July 2021 to have 33 centimeters (13 inches) of his colon removed.
It immediately raised questions about Francis’ overall health, and his ability to celebrate the busy Holy Week events that are due to begin this weekend with Palm Sunday.
Bruni said Francis had been suffering breathing troubles in recent days and went to the Gemelli for tests.
"The tests showed a respiratory infection (COVID-19 infection excluded) that will require some days of medical therapy," Bruni’s statement said.
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#1
Haven't read the article yet but color me skeptical about AI. What is AI anyway? It's just a fancy term for computer program and it'll only be as good as the programmers who program it and the data it receives for processing. The old adage still applies: Garbage in, garbage out.
OK, so it's supposed to be highly sophisticated technology. Yeah, and the more sophisticated it aims to be, the more testing and debugging will be required to make it work. You won't be able to buy it off the shelf just yet. Don't look for it to save any children today or tomorrow. Years from now, maybe.
Old fashioned technology like fences, metal detectors and a few good teachers armed and willing to do what's necessary are still the best bet.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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Facial recognition is a thing, though it can be defeated a variety of ways.
The solution to school security is to lock the doors while kids are in the building.
You don't need AI for that. Garden variety human intelligence will do.
Not that there's much of that in the public education industrial complex.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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OK, I read the article and I'm still not convinced.
The bigger question is how a whack job, obviously unstable transvestite got his hands on a gun in the first place. Then I want to know who convinced him to shoot up a school and exactly how that was done. Call me paranoid if you will but it seems to me that something awfully sinister is happening.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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^ Yes, like the Uvalde shooter, let's hear what sort of income this creature had. Was it enough to buy the items used in the attack? Anyone want to own up to seeing this creature practicing use of the firearms? We are told the firearms were "purchased legally." Where? Any comment from the counterman who made the sales?
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^ You can bet the FBI and ATF have top men looking into it. Top. Men.
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^ so they can steer the narrative to their directed strategic goals, not to prevent further violence.
[Washington Examiner] The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it has approved over-the-counter sales of a nasal treatment for opioid overdoses for the first time.
Narcan has been given the seal of approval by the FDA to hit pharmacy shelves, with the agency saying Wednesday's action paves the way for the "life-saving medication" to be made easily available to those who need it.
"The FDA remains committed to addressing the evolving complexities of the overdose crisis. As part of this work, the agency has used its regulatory authority to facilitate greater access to naloxone by encouraging the development of and approving an over-the-counter naloxone product to address the dire public health need," FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said in a statement.
"Today’s approval of OTC naloxone nasal spray will help improve access to naloxone, increase the number of locations where it’s available, and help reduce opioid overdose deaths throughout the country. We encourage the manufacturer to make accessibility to the product a priority by making it available as soon as possible and at an affordable price," he added.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Steven Shaviro, who teaches film and media studies courses at 
[PJ] Remember Chris Christie? He thinks you do. He even thinks you want to. Christie spoke in New Hampshire on Monday, and you know what that means. The former New Jersey governor thinks he will be the one Republican presidential hopeful to take down Donald Trump in 2024 and ride to the White House in a blaze of glory (if not on a milk-white steed, as finding one that could hold him would be nigh impossible), amid hosannas from a grateful nation that is finally saved as Christie slays the twin dragons of America-First Trumpism and Old Joe Biden’s America-Last socialist internationalism. If you doubt that this is going to happen, that’s only because it isn’t, but nonetheless, up in the Granite State on Monday, Christie was really throwing his weight around.
...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess...
