Progressive liberal college administrators will shut this down literally by next week, pointing to racism, sexism and unfair treatment of disadvantage students. Zero accountability.
Tommy the the cat is my name
In late December 2005, a silent 911 call came into the emergency dispatch center in Columbus, Ohio.
No one spoke. There was only silence.
Following standard procedure, police were sent to the apartment the call came from. Inside, they found Gary Rosheisen, a disabled man who had fallen from his wheelchair and couldn't get back up. He suffered from osteoporosis and had previously experienced mini strokes, leaving him unable to reach the emergency cord above his bed. His medical alert necklace wasn't around his neck either.
Lying beside the telephone was Gary's orange tabby cat, Tommy.
The phone had a speed dial button programmed to call 911. Gary later explained that he had adopted Tommy about three years earlier and had occasionally tried teaching him to press that button in case of an emergency. He admitted he never really believed the cat had learned it.
Investigators confirmed the call came from Gary's apartment. They confirmed Gary couldn't reach the phone himself. They confirmed Tommy was beside it when officers arrived.
What they could never prove was whether Tommy intentionally pressed the button.
They also couldn't find another explanation for how that silent 911 call was made.
Gary never forgot who was sitting next to the phone that day.
To him, Tommy wasn't just a pet.
He was the reason help arrived
World Cup soccer:
Opening whistle
Flop flop flop flop flop flop goal
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1960s - Oil will be gone in 10 years.
1970s - Another ice age in 10 years.
1980s - Acid rain will destroy crops in 10 years.
1990s - Ozone layer gone in 10 years.
2000s - Ice caps will be gone in 10 years.
None of this happened; it only resulted in higher taxes.
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Look, Portland, I know it's a bitter pill to swallow. But you have no choice. Sign or lose the team. And it's actually a small price to pay to keep the team. It's just that simple.
The greatest injustice inflicted on American students is teaching them to fear dissent.
Every worthwhile education begins with the recognition that intelligent people reach different conclusions. Competing ideas expose weak assumptions and strengthen sound ones. Science, economics, philosophy, law, and medicine all advanced because ideas faced examination in the open, usually by someone willing to be disliked.
A university fulfills its purpose by cultivating that habit of mind. Students learn to ask better questions, weigh evidence, defend a conclusion, and abandon it when the evidence turns. Intellectual maturity consists of a willingness to be wrong in public.
Many universities now cultivate a different habit. A student learns within the first semester which opinions earn approval and which complicate a GPA. That lesson sticks harder than anything in the syllabus.
Curiosity requires the freedom to be wrong out loud. Take that away and what remains is a very expensive performance of agreement.
The cost shows up later, when these students become citizens who need to evaluate a claim on its merits and instead reach for the nearest consensus.
Students and professors who still practice open inquiry are doing what thoughtful people have always done. They submit their ideas to people capable of exposing their weaknesses. Every durable truth has survived that process.
A generation trained to think will meet a hard problem head on. A generation trained to agree will meet the same problem and ask first who else agrees with them.
