The University of Michigan changes its mind
The University of Michigan will go bravely forward and show the movie “American Sniper” after all:
“The initial decision to cancel the movie was not consistent with the high value the University of Michigan places on freedom of expression and our respect for the right of students to make their own choices in such matters,” the statement [by E. Royster Harper, University of Michigan’s vice president for student life] said.
Methinks it far more likely that the amount of ridicule to which they were exposed as a result of their original decision to cancel may have caused them to re-evaluate things. They had thought the expedient thing to do was to cancel the movie, and now they think it more expedient to reinstate it.
Go, Michigan!
Lets do the timewarp again!!!!
I remember doing the time warp
Drinking those moments when
The blackness would hit me
And the void would be calling
It’s just a jump to the left
And then a step to the right
With your hands on your hips
You bring your knees in tight
But it’s the pelvic thrust
That really drives you insane
It’s so dreamy
Oh fantasy free me
So you can’t see me, no not at all
In another dimension
With voyeuristic intention
Well secluded, I’ll see all
[rocky horror and shock treatment tell the story of the cultural changes of the frankfurt school in symbolism and archtypes!!!]
“We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.”
― Konstantin JireÄek
michigan, the scene of national importance..
-99 percent of the artichokes
-44 percent of asparagus
-two-thirds of carrots
-half of bell peppers
-89 percent of cauliflower
-94 percent of broccoli
-95 percent of celery
-90 percent of the leaf lettuce
-83 percent of Romaine lettuce
-83 percent of fresh spinach
-a third of the fresh tomatoes
-86 percent of lemons
-90 percent of avocados
-84 percent of peaches
-88 percent of fresh strawberries
-97 percent of fresh plums
the above is what may be lost because the green movement prevented otherwise…
[just wait till they realize that without that prep, and leaving the underbrush naturally, and no water. get the marshmallows as the fires will really be interesting soon]
You’re not saying that Michigan gives us 99 percent of artichokes are you?
There was a great tweet from the new football coach (Jim Harbaugh) saying that the football team will be watching the American Sniper movie. I wonder if that was important in changing the administration’s attitude?
Of course, this is the same university that defended the right of a professor to write an article stating that it was ok to hate republicans and did not see any problem with how students in her class might be threatened if they had differing political viewpoints.
I know some alum who changed donation strategy after that incident. I wonder how many more wrote the university about this incident.
I think artfldgr is referring to California and it’s impact on the food industry.
Now, if he mentioned fruit crops like cherries and apples, then I would agree with his statement.
When California ag tanks specialty crops will disappear from a grocery near you. California accounts for 1/5 of non grain and meat produced in country. Follow the commodity markets, not equities or bonds. That is where the rubber meets the road.
Harbaugh and a few alums stepped in and gave the U. of M. administration a dose of reality. Good on ’em.
Saddle up; fight back.
Harbaugh is right.
This is the thing: all this “disapproval” is tissue-thin. Laugh them to scorn, ridicule them, ignore them.
Limbaugh found out that the “stop Rush” “Movement” was actually exactly 10 people — ten — sending hate mail and “complaints” to Limbaugh Show advertisers around the country. These ten people, his investigators discovered, generated EIGHTY PERCENT of the hate mail, via computer algorithms that mimicked spates of individual messages.
So what if some bozos show up with signs and stuff? Would the world end if we walked past them and flipped them off? My dad taught me this about 30 years ago: on my campus, the Leftists were outraged eleventy-plus that South Africa was participating in the Davis Cup — with a black player, but hey. So they were yelling and waving signs and screaming obscenities at the audience walking in. My dad had called me, furious, from 200 miles away to say he was going to BUY A TICKET just to SHOW these freaks that they did NOT get to TELL him what he was and was not allowed to do.
So we walked through the gauntlet, and you know what? it wasn’t that big a deal. And we really enjoyed the tennis match. And the world didn’t end. . . .
We shouldn’t let the Leftist jerks buffalo us. Srsly.
If this movie had been banned everyone would be falling all over themselves to be showing it.
Liz, your correct…
i was just pointing out focus priorities..
an old fashioned psych would say “avoidance”
which is what happend running up to various historical things in which people ask, could it have been prevented, and of course people say yes.
but what they leave out of the equation is the will to prioritize the focus to something that would lead to that rather than focus that distracts from that.
the US may lose a huge portion of its ability to make food for people. Stalin showed that if you control food, you control the people. the police and military are having exercises over domestic behavior under the cover of training for isis… camps are manned, and the army has documents on how the civilian labor camps are run…
and we care whether or not a college will show paddington or american sniper…
think on that… think how we make fun of the idea of nero fiddling while rome burns…
In psychology, avoidance coping, escape coping, or cope and avoid is a maladaptive coping mechanism characterized by the effort to avoid dealing with a stressor
WWII with hitler happened because of a educated persons refined ablity to make avoidance appear like erudition… same with russia as an enemy… iran getting the bomb…etc. the SOCIAL collective uses human psyhchologyh and behavior in their games while denying such exist unless convenient.
the SAME behavior was rife just prior to the conflict of wwii because no one wanted to listen to the points, list them out, and then accept what preponderance would tally up.
i will come back in a few and show what i am talking about…
1. The libertarian approach to Indiana’s religious freedom law
2. The most common defense of Obama…
3. About “The Second Coming”
4. Twin announcements by the DOJ: protecting the administration’s friends, destroying its enemies
5. Hope and change from Obama [bumped from prior to april 1]
6. Pretty soon Memories Pizza may be just a memory
7. Attack in Kenya
8. Iran: let’s make a deal
9. The Iran “deal”
10. Atlanta cheating scandal perpetrators sentenced
11. The band that just walked away, Renee (Part II: the lyrics)
12. A liberal’s take on the Iran “deal”
13. The Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses
14. Going out in style (literary)
15. Happy Easter!
16. Waging the PsyWar
17. Obama and disarmament: one of his longest-held dreams
18. About those fouettes
19. McArdle: on Erdely’s UVA story
20. Obama’s negotiating style
21. Again with the fouettes
22. You learn something new every day [children immigrants]
23. My latest PJ article: Too good to fact check
24. Shot in the back
25. Another sign of the continuing decline of the American university
26. Our Lost Constitution
27. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty on all counts
28. Clarification: the rule on shooting fleeing felons
29. Dick Cheney takes it pretty far…
30. The University of Michigan changes its mind
31. Was Hillary Clinton selling political favors?
1. How the U.S. thinks Russians hacked the White House
2. President Obama’s executive order to sanction overseas cyber criminals
3. Moscow criticises ‘US attempts to isolate Russia’ over Victory Day events [soviet style parade]
4. Why a Russian Is Fighting for Ukraine
5. NATO Caps Size of Russia’s Mission After Internal Reports of Espionage
6. Should West Use Nuclear Weapons Against Russia?
7. Eastern European civilians undergo military training amid Russia threat
8. Baltic States Buckling Down For Russian Action [6 million population cant defend itself]
9. Russia relies on threats of nuclear attack [russia threatens nuclear war if US helps allies]
10. Sanctions-Strapped Russia Outguns the U.S. in Information War
11. Russia’s bizarre nuclear fever dreams
12. Russia: A Suspect Protests in Putin Foe Murder Case [beaten to confess and take the fall]
13. Russia reportedly issues new threat to NATO over forces in Baltics [another nuclear war threat]
14. Nato ‘must respond to Russian cyber assault’ [Cyberwar again]
15. US, Russian war games rekindle Cold War tensions in Eastern Europe amid Ukraine crisis
16. Russia’s Next Target [Russia eyeing to invade Moldova]
17. Russia Curtails Crimean Free Speech
18. As Tensions With West Rise, Russia Increasingly Rattles Nuclear Saber [nuclear war threats increase]
19. Cheyenne Mountain Complex To Re-Open, Prompting EMP Attack And World War 3 Fears
20. Russians Hacked White House Via State Department, Claims Report
21. Stay alert for the coming’: Islamists hack British govt website [what ally taught them?]
22. Ex-Obama Intel Head: ‘Very Likely’ China, Russia Hacked Hillary’s Private Email Account
23. Carly Fiorina: ‘Of Course’ Hillary’s Emails Were Compromised
24. Bachmann: Obama’s foreign policy ‘virtually guarantees’ World War III
25. Obama: China ‘using muscle’ to dominate in South China Sea
26. U.S. Wary of Possible China Island Fortresses
27. China voices opposition to Obama cyber sanctions [why?]
28. Starbucks Exec Apologizes For Accusing Bay Area Man Of Being Chinese Spy Trying To Steal Trade Secrets
29. Chinese navy prepares to launch three new and upgraded nuclear submarines
30. Advanced US weapons earmarked for Asia-Pacific
31. Electronic Weapons: China Climbs The AWACS Ladder
32. Venezuela plans to buy more Russian and Chinese arms
33. Nuclear Fears in South Asia
34. As Russia Improves Its Surface-to-Air Missiles, US Looks To Counter
the first list is neo in april, the second list is the articles in the first week of april covering the nuclear conflict coming… amazing stuff kind of on the back burner
president very chummy with communist countries against american allies…
american military systems hacked
state department hacked, hillary hacked
miltary training in the US discovered to be domestic [middle east cities are not like US cities, and so the training is for what urban fighting? europe? russia? internal war?]
[so we are going to send police officers to other countries? why train our police in urban warfare on US soil?]
open borders for years lettign in a lot more than just shouth americans (jihadis, russian spetznaz, spies, drug cartels, and lots o deseases)
obama increasing he 18 trillion spending till the US is so much in debt it cant fight
manufacturing moved off shore, infrastruction support destroyed
expertise negated due to colleges educational methods,affirmative action, etc. / experts lost jobs to h1b visas, skills degraded.
military shrunk, moral down, women added to combat units making them ineffective, bizare ROE, fines and punishments for soliders who drop equipment in battle, lack of armor, nuclear hardened stuff absent
russia has new weapons, anti nuclear bomb systems, upgraded the 400 square mile nuclear bunker, and 30,000 other bunkers
russia threatens obama with nuclear war to but out of things as he invaded several countries and is lined up to break nato… (or start a new war trying)
new chinese weapons give china access to space, and US coasts for missile attacks
bear bombers making runs at enemy targets and turning away forcing jets to scramble, giveing them lots of information as to time, and cauasing fatigue in protection
america moving its military centers back ungder ground to avoid EMP Attacks
internal issues used to distract public. including civilian labor camps manned by the Army… FOI documents being denied to the extreme…
the list is so freaking large its like not noticing a 100 story building being constructed in you back yard. as your talking to someone about how much more shade you have and dont get why
In Russia, shopping malls are putting out American flag doormats for people to wipe their feet on, and there are stores that are selling toilet paper with the American flag imprinted on it
Russian attitudes toward the U.S. are now even worse than they were during the end of the Cold War, and ordinary Russians are blaming America for everything from the overthrow of the Ukrainian government to the collapse of the ruble.
New Russian Military Doctrine Designates The U.S. And NATO As Top Threats
The new doctrine, which comes amid Russia-West tensions over Ukraine, maintains the provisions of the previous, 2010 edition of the military doctrine regarding the use of nuclear weapons.
It says Russia could use nuclear weapons in retaliation to the use of nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction against it or its allies, and also in case of aggression involving conventional weapons that “threatens the very existence” of the Russian state.
one of the most prominent Russian commentators has referred to the United States as “the kingdom of the Antichrist“. To the Russians, a new Cold War has erupted, and they very clearly view the United States as enemy number one.
We live in PINDOSTAN!!!
The word ‘pindos’ in Russian is highly offensive, and defines a helpless creature that is a product of a very bad educational system, one who can survive in this world only with the help of different gadgets.
russians in mall use US flag doormat to wipe their feet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UYeojsTR9Q
A few decades ago, the United States was one of the most loved nations on the entire planet.
Now it is one of the most hated.
When it comes to foreign policy, Barack Obama has made mistake after mistake and he has been alienating lots of people.
And as far as the Russians are concerned, the era of “friendship” with the United States is long gone. The trust that had been established between the two governments is totally broken, and they now consider us to be their number one strategic enemy.
It’s a mixture, but of the ingredients, university officials are reactive more than ideological in their decisions. Left activists have learned what buttons to push and, over generations, refined their means and methods for how to push those buttons to reconfigure campus culture. University officials have been trained to react to those cues.
Use that to your advantage. You don’t need to reinvent the wheel. Right activists can learn the methods to push the same buttons on the cues that Left activists have trained university officials to react to. University officials will react. Start with a competitive mindset and an open mind to learn the methods, study the lay of the arena, and the rest will develop.
It’s not easy because it’s competition where the other side has a head-start, but because of the Left activist prep, not despite it, competing in the campus activist game is easier than you think.
It would be better, once the Uni caves, to run false flag ops from both sides, and stoke up the conflict so it never dies, all the admin and teachers go crazy from the stress. MIssion accomplished.
Eric:
Your idea is a good one, I think.
But the difficulty lies not only in the fact that the left has a head-start, but that the administration is politically simpatico with the left.
Nevertheless, you are correct I think. Administrators can be bullied, coerced, threatened, pressured. They want peace and are cowards. That’s what the left learned in the 60s. There were just a few exceptions—such as John Silber of BU.
Artfldgr:
Ever notice something—people (and bloggers) write about what interests them most AND what they have most to say about? Also, that people are not political all the time? That’s true here.
Also, ever notice something else—for many years I’ve let you comment here and let you draw attention to and give information abut what interests you, and what YOU have most to say about?
That those two things—what I write about and what you write about—don’t always intersect doesn’t mean that either of us is avoiding anything. You have a certain field of expertise—some would call it a certain obsession—and you are free up to a point to give us information on it. We can take it from there.
The point where it stops is when your comments are too long and they dominate the blog thread; then I edit for length. I usually err on the side of letting you go on too long rather than too little (although I assume you would disagree). I mean this in the kindest way, but if you want your own forum to write even further about what you think people should know, get your own forum.
Neo,
I’ve cited this counter-Left campus activism example before, and I’ll cite it here: the recent Ivy League ROTC movement.
Model? Maybe, maybe not. But notably, Ivy League ROTC advocacy was viewed as quixotic … until it wasn’t.