| Welcome, Guest |
You have to register before you can post on our site.
|
| Online Users |
There are currently 102 online users. » 0 Member(s) | 100 Guest(s) Applebot, Google
|
| Latest Threads |
UIUC Flushes Gollin Crime...
Forum: George Gollin
Last Post: Dickie Billericay
05-21-2026, 04:58 PM
» Replies: 26
» Views: 15,012
|
Universities Offer Up Cou...
Forum: Unaccredited vs. State-Approved vs. Accredited
Last Post: Herbert Spencer
05-15-2026, 11:59 AM
» Replies: 0
» Views: 180
|
A Kick in the Shorts for ...
Forum: John Bear
Last Post: Martin Eisenstadt
05-10-2026, 08:00 AM
» Replies: 9
» Views: 66,409
|
DesElms Skulking in Yonde...
Forum: Gregg DesElms
Last Post: WilliamW
01-17-2026, 11:53 AM
» Replies: 4
» Views: 1,840
|
Brown U Shooter Physics M...
Forum: George Gollin
Last Post: WilliamW
12-22-2025, 03:50 PM
» Replies: 1
» Views: 1,417
|
MD Gov's 'Missing' Thesis...
Forum: General Education Discussions
Last Post: Armando Ramos
12-13-2025, 08:47 AM
» Replies: 1
» Views: 1,494
|
UCumberlands' H1B Scam
Forum: Distance Learning Discussion
Last Post: Harrison J Bounel
12-02-2025, 12:38 PM
» Replies: 1
» Views: 1,483
|
Levicoff Snuffs It
Forum: Nominees, second-stringers, others
Last Post: Albert Hidel
11-09-2025, 04:16 PM
» Replies: 12
» Views: 11,728
|
The College Scam: New Boo...
Forum: General Education Discussions
Last Post: Henry Greenberg
09-14-2025, 03:42 PM
» Replies: 6
» Views: 7,776
|
AI 'Supercharges' Mills
Forum: Unaccredited vs. State-Approved vs. Accredited
Last Post: Yancy Derringer
08-30-2025, 08:38 AM
» Replies: 0
» Views: 3,291
|
|
|
| Al's Dreamboat |
|
Posted by: Martin Eisenstadt - 05-03-2009, 03:52 PM - Forum: Alan Contreras
- Replies (6)
|
 |
When Gay Al wakes up with a hard on, there's only one thing for him to do: write about it in his personal blog. Here's his post from 7:35 am on February 13, 2009 (yup, the day before Valentine's Day):
Quote:The trials of Sam-Unwise
I met Portland mayor Sam Adams when he was 18. At least he looked 18. I am fairly sure that it was the same Sam Adams, but the room was kind of dim. He was kind of cute, maybe I should have asked him out. I was about 30 when we met. Let’s see, 30 minus 18 is a 12-year age difference. Is that, well, proper?
Let’s look around in society for examples from respected leaders. Senator and envoy George Mitchell was 60 and wife Heather was 35 when they met, so that’s a 25-year gap, pretty impressive. William O. Douglas was sixty-six when he met twenty-two year old Cathy at a Portland bar. She became Mrs. Justice Douglas, a 44-year difference. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich started out a little differently by marrying his barely-former high school teacher when he was 19 and she was 26—a bold step but only a seven-year difference. He’s on a different wife now and the gap is more traditional, if you will: she’s 23 years younger.
So we can dispense with Sam’s preference for younger partners. It is traditional, almost Republican, you could say, if you throw in Henry Kissinger’s younger wife and any number of others that we could unearth. Reviving that issue is simply political necrophilia.
So that leaves Sam-Unwise with the problem of the Age of Consent, a concept under which legislators who remember lust in the abstract but are too old to recollect what it feels like establish cutoff dates for the behavior of those who still have it. As far as I can tell from online sources, most U.S. states set the age at 16, some at 17 and a few, including Oregon, at 18. In other words, states pick an arbitrary age.
Until the Supreme Court acted, the age standard was different in some states for gay couples, as if there were something fundamentally different about the nature of the bond. The age remains different in some states for people who want to marry, as though a person who can’t consent by virtue of immaturity suddenly matures if he wants to marry at 16.
This is the astonishingly murky thicket of baseless laws into which our new Attorney General has been lured in a moment of inattention and from which, if he is as smart as he is supposed to be, he will quickly emerge without doing anything stupid. Sam’s kiss-and-fib is getting to be stale political theater, a fine example of something upon which scarce public funds should not be spent. Start with schools, unemployment, health care, water quality, public safety and potholes.
Oh, the room where I met Sam was the newsroom of the Oregon Daily Emerald at the University of Oregon, where I was working in the mid-1980s. Sam came in to have some political argument with the staff (that’s why I’m pretty sure it is the same guy) and told me that he didn’t like my position on something (got to be the same guy).
I’m nostalgic for what might have been, Sam. It’s true, I’m 52 and fat, and I was briefly a Republican, though I never inhaled. These days I’m a respectable professional, not without charm, and single. Say hello sometime.
Posted by Alan Contreras at 7:35 AM 0 comments Links to this post
Said "Sam Adams" is not a bottle of beer but rather the self-decribed "queer and a faggot" Mayor of the city of Portland, Oregon.
Oh yeah, I'm sure all the child molesting pervs like Adams want a piece of this:
![[Image: Alan%2BContreras%2B1.jpg]](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AY27OD0ljCQ/SWK5EL06PqI/AAAAAAAAAOs/mMhVu27TX34/S220/Alan%2BContreras%2B1.jpg)
Anal Contreras: "A fine example of something upon which scarce public funds should not be spent."
Try to look more like an intern Al, then you might have a chance.
So the pervert says that age of consent laws are "baseless." Apparently defamation wasn't the only class he slept through in law school. Probably out trolling the latrines during crim law class the day they covered that.
Well hell Al, if we can all just ignore those laws we consider "baseless" then aren't you pretty much out of a job? Your arbitrary enforcement of Oregon's unaccredited-degree laws has been adjudicated as not only baseless but a violation of constitutionally protected civil rights.
|
|
|
| Nova Tops 2009 OEDb Rankings |
|
Posted by: Herbert Spencer - 05-01-2009, 12:31 PM - Forum: Distance Learning Discussion
- No Replies
|
 |
OEDb's Online College Rankings 2009
Quote:We think more transparency is a good thing; a set of objective, quantitative rankings — however imperfect — should help shed some light on the relative attractiveness of the most popular accredited online colleges.
Nova Southeastern University jumped from number 4 in 2008 to number one in the latest rankings.
Last year's number one, Upper Iowa University, fell to number 4 in 2009. Regent University jumped from 7 in 2008 to 2 in 2009, while Champlain College went from 8 in 2008 to 3 in 2009. LeTourneau University, last year's number 2, fell to number 5 in 2009.
Western Governors leaped from 39 in 2008 all the way to number 9 in 2009. Salem International jumped from 30 last year to 10 in 2009. Last year's number 5, California University of Pennsylvania, fell out of the rankings entirely for 2009.
Among the heavily advertised programs, Walden fell from 12 last year to 14 in 2009. University of Phoenix fell from 25 last year to 28 this year. Colorado Tech went from 15 last year to 19 this year. Capella moved up one slot, from 24 last year to 23 this year.
Here's the Top Ten for 2009:
1 Nova Southeastern University 9.213
2 Regent University 11.663
3 Champlain College 13.290
4 Upper Iowa University 13.479
5 LeTourneau University 14.001
6 Liberty University 14.195
7 Grand Canyon University 15.502
8 Dickinson State University 17.269
9 Western Governors University 17.398
10 Salem International University 17.483
|
|
|
| CCNH Applies for DETC |
|
Posted by: 4Knee Kate - 05-01-2009, 09:16 AM - Forum: Unaccredited vs. State-Approved vs. Accredited
- Replies (7)
|
 |
As if Warnborough becoming accredited wasn't enough, another serious kick in the shorts for the clones is on the horizon. Alabama-based Clayton College of Natural Health, another of the clones' favorite whipping boys, is on the road to accreditation. This from the 4-30-2009 CCNH student newsletter:
Quote:As you read in the recent Holistic Times newsletter, we are in the application process for accreditation with an accrediting agency that is recognized by the United States Department of Education. We are not allowed to provide more specific information about this because the agency with which we are applying has rules that prevent us from doing so until the accreditation process is complete.
Applying for and completing accreditation is a lengthy and detailed process. Should CCNH be successful in its accreditation efforts, we will be able to offer accredited degrees in natural health, holistic nutrition, and holistic health and wellness. The college is in the early stages of the process, and we are discovering that we need to make a few changes to meet the requirements of the accrediting agency. This is good news for you, for the college, and for the natural health and holistic nutrition education community.
DETC is the only accreditation agency that prohibits applicants from publicizing their application, so it doesn't take a lot of imagination to figure where CCNH is applying. CCNH long has been a legit but unaccredited operation, and for those of us who appreciate independent, non-traditional education it will be nice to see them get official recognition of that fact.
|
|
|
| Chuck Norris: Decline/Fall of Private Education |
|
Posted by: 4Knee Kate - 04-30-2009, 07:19 PM - Forum: General Education Discussions
- Replies (1)
|
 |
The Decline and Fall of Private Education
by Chuck Norris
Quote:...Of course, government officials won't admit to a blatant usurpation of our rights, but they will say their educational reform is seeking to help your children. They will say it is necessary to establish common educational standards. They will say that we need to leave education to the experts and not to parents. And I fear that too many of us simply will give in to the whims of the nanny state.
As I wrote in my new best-selling book, "Black Belt Patriotism: How to Reawaken America": "The reason that government is cracking down on private instruction has more to do with suppressing alternative education than assuring educational standards. The rationale is quite simple, though rarely if ever stated: control future generations and you control the future. So rather than letting parents be the primary educators of their children -- either directly or by educating their children in the private schools of their choice -- (government) want(s) to deny parental rights, establish an educational monopoly run by the state, and limit private education options. It is so simple any socialist can understand it. As Joseph Stalin once stated, 'Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.'"...
What's amazing, too, is how hypocritical it is for Congress to make this decision. The Heritage Foundation's report also conveys that 44 percent of current United States senators and 36 percent of current members of the U.S. House of Representatives have "at one time sent their children to private schools." While the foundation found that 11 percent of American students attend private schools, 20 percent of the members of the 111th Congress attended private high schools. And they want to remove the voucher option for private school education?
...Our Founders' educational philosophy seems to me to be the charter of a true American system of education. But as we know, our nation's public schools, especially our nation's colleges and universities, are the seedbeds of politically correct and leftist indoctrination. It shouldn't be that way, but it is. It's a travesty that we have come to the point that we have to protect our children from the public school systems by looking to alternative methods.
If you have a good public school, congratulations. Stay active in the PTA, and attend school board meetings to keep it that way. For many parents, the only responsible choice is to send their children to private, parochial or Christian schools or to home-school their children. My wife and I home-school our 8-year-old twins.
...Parents deserve educational choices; choice is what this country was founded upon. Government's controlling and monopolizing education is just another avenue for usurping power and control on the slippery slope to socialism. And it's unbecoming for our republic, whose Founders created a system of freedom, choice and minimal government intervention.
Is it merely coincidental that the private choice of home schooling was outlawed by the Soviet state in 1919, by Hitler and Nazi Germany in 1938, and by Communist China in 1949?
Is America next?
|
|
|
|