It just gets smaller and smaller for John Weaver-Hudson.  

No, not that.  Janko's "congregation" at Hope Lutheran Church, 205 Bennett Avenue, Hartford, Michigan 49057.

Official WELS documents reveal the once thriving 88 member church () is now down to a mere 60.  And they probably counted the janitor and the mailman twice to get that.

http://wels.locatorsearch.com/welsAddDet...LSID=62901

Sources within the WELS hierarchy refused to confirm or deny reports that the exodus of the faithful was due to the church's pastor spending all day browsing gay porn on the internet instead of attending to church business.

The Golden Key honor society says it has chartered their second online institution. Not sure who the other one is, although it might be Western International University.

Quote:Global Honor Society Charters 366th Chapter of the Society
ATLANTA (May 6, 2008) Golden Key International Honour Society is proud to announce the 366th charter of the Society at the American Public University System (APUS), which includes American Public University and American Military University. The charter is the second at an online institution of higher education. The Charter Ceremony will be held in 2009 in conjunction with the university's graduation ceremonies.

"We consider it a privilege to be one of the first online universities to offer a Golden Key charter," said Wallace E. Boston, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer of APUS. "This is testament to our strong commitment to educating those who serve at every level."

APUS is an online university system that serves more than 30,000 adult students living in all 50 states and more than 130 foreign countries. APUS offers 57 degrees in its online undergraduate and graduate programs. APUS's curriculum, affordability and flexibility helps working adults pursue degrees in homeland security, national security and emergency and disaster management. APUS also offers programs in professional studies, management and liberal arts. A university book grant provides textbooks at no cost for eligible undergraduate students. Eligible students may apply for Federal Student Aid.

"Golden Key is proud to recognize the high-achieving student members at the American Public University System with outstanding benefits that will motivate and prepare them for even greater future success," said Alex Perwich, Golden Key Chief Executive Officer. "The local chapter extension provides members with an enriching international experience within the university community."

Golden Key International Honour Society was founded in 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia. The global nonprofit organization provides not only academic recognition to students in the top 15% of their class, but also leadership opportunities, community service, career networking and scholarships. The Society has over 360 chapters at colleges and universities in Australia, Canada, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates and the United States. Membership into the Society is by invitation only to students in all fields of study. For more information about Golden Key International Honour Society, visit www.goldenkey.org.

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And "all that stuff" is carefully maintained at Duhgreebored also, where DocDocRayRay is rounding up allies like A---- H----- rummaging about in the Balkans.

The superpatriots, Potemkin chaplains, and other encouragers of the harassment of wives and children (as "fags", "sluts", "dykes", with home addresses, etc.) have explained my inferiority by virtue of my being an amputee.

Two problems:

1) An awful lot of real patriotic real war veterans would be surprised to find that this makes them objects of ridicule to persons like DrDrRayRay et al.

2) I'm not.(UNQUOTE)


Well there goes the potential to earn a few bucks at Chip's site.

Janko Lupescu is at it again. Can the man not piece two thoughts together without slipping into unintelligble verbiage. It'll never get him through Loyola. That's right, it didn't.

Untied Against Homeskooled Kidz

Quote:Untied Against Homeskooled Kidz
by Erick Erickson

Posted: 05/27/2008

Both California and Tennessee have done their best to shut down the home school movement in the past year.  First California made it illegal to home school children unless the person teaching the child could show grade level certification.  Then Tennessee’s Board of Education ruled that diplomas from home school affiliated organizations were invalid to show proof of high school graduation.

Now, Subway has gotten involved.  The sandwich restaurant chain is holding a competition called “Every Sandwich Tells a Story.”  Children can win prizes for their schools.  But, the rules state, “Contest is open only to legal residents of the Untied States who are currently over the age of 18 and have children who attend elementary, private or parochial schools that serve grades PreK-6. No home schools will be accepted.” [Emphasis added]

Given the rate at which homeschooled children win the national spelling bee, perhaps Subway should have let a third grade home schooled student proof read its rules.  In addition to spelling “united” as “untied,” the prizes included a “gift bastket” in lieu of a “gift basket.”

As Home Education Magazine notes, “The presumed rationale for the exclusion is that the grand prize is athletic equipment for a school and that “home schools” aren’t organized schools and that the equipment is intended for a community, not a family.”  But there are two additional issues worth pointing out.

First, to echo Home Education Magazine, the anti-home school agenda in this country has been very successful at pushing the idea that children are not part of the community unless they are part of an organized government funded school.  The prizes could just as easily have had appropriate alternatives for home-schooled children.

Second, many home-school students affiliate with a group of home-school students for sports, tutoring, and general interaction.  It is very common for home-school students to get together for classroom style instruction and planned events.  Subway’s prizes would continue to be appropriate for such organizations, and would help those organizations. But Subway would rather disqualify a whole group of students whose parents have chosen education over indoctrination.

The US Supreme Court upheld a law that makes it a crime to pander to perverts seeking underage porn, even if the kids in the porn aren't really underage.

Quote:Supreme Court Upholds Child Pornography Law
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
Published: May 20, 2008

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the latest Congressional effort to curb the spread of child pornography on the Internet, a 2003 law that makes it a crime to offer or solicit sexually explicit images of children.

The law, known as the Protect Act, applies regardless of whether the material turns out to consist solely of computer-generated images, or digitally altered photographs of adults, or even if the offer is fraudulent and the material does not exist at all.

“Offers to provide or requests to obtain child pornography are categorically excluded from the First Amendment,” Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for the 7-to-2 majority.

The law at issue was a response to a Supreme Court ruling in 2002, a decision that found unconstitutional an earlier law that prohibited simple possession of purported child pornography even if the material turned out not to depict real children. The First Amendment was violated by a law that “prohibits the visual depiction of an idea,” Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said in the 2002 decision.

Justice Scalia said on Monday that by limiting the crime to the “pandering” of child pornography, the new law represented “a carefully crafted attempt to eliminate the First Amendment problems we identified” in the earlier decision.

The new law and the earlier one, the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996, were legislative efforts to deal with the challenge that technology poses to prosecutors if they must prove that material that looks like child pornography was actually produced using real children.

Under the court’s interpretation of the 2003 statute, a person offering material as child pornography can be convicted on either of two grounds: for believing that the material depicts real children, or for intending to convince a would-be recipient that it does.

The statute itself (“Protect” is an acronym for Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to end the Exploitation of Children Today) is open to a considerably broader interpretation, which led the federal appeals court in Atlanta to invalidate it in 2006, the decision that the justices overturned on Monday.

The law applies to “any person who knowingly advertises, promotes, presents, distributes, or solicits” the prohibited material, raising concerns about whether mainstream movies or innocent photographs of babies in the bath might invite prosecution.

Justice Scalia dismissed these concerns as “fanciful hypotheticals,” saying that such situations would either not give rise to prosecutions or, if they did, would be protected by the courts. In a concurring opinion, Justices John Paul Stevens and Stephen G. Breyer said they, too, were satisfied that the court’s narrow construction of the statute had allayed “any constitutional concerns that might arise.”

In effect, the court accepted the invitation of Solicitor General Paul D. Clement who, when he argued in defense of the statute last Oct. 30, urged the justices to impose “a more restrictive view” of the law’s scope if they thought it reached too far.

The two dissenting justices, David H. Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, said their concerns had not been answered. In an opinion by Justice Souter, which Justice Ginsburg signed, they said they did not object to making it a crime to mislead others by offering material that did not in fact exist. That was simply fraud, Justice Souter said.

However, he added, possession of pornographic images that do not depict real children is constitutionally protected, and offering them should not be a crime. “If the act can effectively eliminate the real-child requirement when a proposal relates to extant material, a class of protected speech will disappear,” Justice Souter said.

Joan E. Bertin, executive director of the National Coalition Against Censorship, which filed a brief arguing that the law was unconstitutional, said the decision failed to offer protection against “over-zealous prosecutors.” In an interview, she said it appeared that “the court was not willing to send the case back to Congress again,” and so “narrowed the statute in order to save it.”

The case, United States v. Williams, No. 06-694, began in 2004 as the prosecution of a Florida man, Michael Williams, who was caught in a federal sting operation offering child pornography in an Internet chat room. He claimed to have “good pics” of his 4-year-old daughter. In fact, he did not have such pictures, but when federal agents executed a search warrant, they found 22 sexually explicit images of real children on his computer hard drives.

His conviction for possessing the images, and his five-year sentence for that crime, were not at issue in the case. He challenged his conviction under the new law for pandering and won a reversal in the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, which found the law both overbroad and unconstitutionally vague.

I found this on the Internet:

“Arcana Society

Founded in July 1999 by Quinn Tyler Jackson, The Arcana Society bills itself as the Why-IQ Society. In addition to a 98th percentile score on an IQ/IEQ test, the society asks for documented proof that you are actively engaged in the pursuit of solutions to thoroughly difficult problems, or seeking understanding of the deeper questions of life. The Arcana Society was dissolved in November or December 1999 due to time pressures of its founder.”

So, this bullshit group of Quinn’s folded right fast, only after four months.  Let’s guess why.  Was it due to:

a)  no one, not even Quinn, could document their alleged pursuit of “thoroughly difficult problems”.
b)  the new members quickly found out what a douchebag Quinn is, and all quit.
c)  Quinn kept forgetting how to spell “IQ” in correspondence.  He’d write “eye-koo”, and the membership got quickly disillusioned with their “founder”.
d)  Quinn mistakenly admitted the LOWER 98th percentile, so a load of retards came to the meetings.
OR
e)  the founder’s “time pressures” were really “time-of-James-Harris pressures”, and so Quinn just couldn’t concentrate.

I vote for (e).

Just when we were about to write off Gus ... he returns with a flurry of posts to prove he is still running the show.

Sainz latest posts at DD

Sure it isn't vintage Sainz - it is primarily bullshit links but I bet that Gus just wanted to keep the tribe from getting too restless. It is amazing that nobody but us, the DL Truth members, question his prolonged absences from the scene. I'm positive that others notice, it is just a lack of guts and self-respect that prevents them from even commenting about it.

Hello Forum Members,

I would like to mount a compaign against supposed distance learning experts and forums that allow individuals to post negative information that embarasses, defames or insults people because of the university they attended. You may contact me at RobertHill20@yahoo.com.

Freedom of Speech does not give someone the right to malign the character of another individual. We must make a stand now, or eventually, we will lose the right to decide. I believe that eventually there will be a test case in either Oregon, Maine, Texas, Washington State or any other for that matter which will overturn the laws created to prevent someone from using their unaccredited degree.

I wish to point out here that I don't condone the purchase or sale of a transcript or degree purely for the exchange of financial consideration. Work should be required. Evaluation of experiential learning is a hot topic for many people, and as long as the institution is legitimately licensed, no one should have the right to say anything.

Accreditation has always been a voluntary process. Please click on the Google link listed below and read many of the states from government websites, both state and federal. I believe with passing of the Higher Education Act of 1965, accreditation became emphasized as a means to insure quality in education.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=na...+education

http://www.chea.org/pdf/CHEA%20At%20A%20...-10-03.pdf

"CHEA Purposes ____________________________________________________________
Advocacy
• Primary national voice for voluntary accreditation"

In 1985, I borrowed close to $6,000.00 from the Federal Student Loan Program for the purpose of attending Clayton University, formally of Missouri, unaccredited and now considered by supposed experts to be a diploma mill out of Hong Kong.

Several of these supposed experts in distance education had their own universities in operation, which are now considered degree mills, LIAR, Greenwich, Columbia Pacific and others etc... I don't need to mention any names here. What gives anyone the right to pass judgment on another individual or tell them what to do.

Thank you for your contribution to the discussion and for your assistance and in cutting these people off at the knees. Have a Nice Day!!

Sincerely,

Reverend Dr. Robert Ray Hill

aka True Patriot

Hey Folks,

Kindly use the spelling "Gollin" for our favorite buddy George. The reason is because Google and the other search engines key off the spelling of his last name. I recently received an email from George Gollin stating he thought I was one of the key players of this forum. I never answered him. I will state emphatically here that I never started DL Truth, nor am I an Administrator or Moderator of this forum. Until yesterday, I haven't posted here since August 2007.

Quote from email received from George:

From: "Gollin, George D" <g-gollin@uiuc.edu>  Add Mobile Alert  
To: "'Dr. Robert Ray Hill'" <roberthill20@yahoo.com>
CC: "Gollin, George D" <g-gollin@uiuc.edu>, "Contreras_a@mercury.osac.state.or.us" <Contreras_a@mercury.osac.state.or.us>, "'John Bear'" <john.bear@mac.com>, "Jeffrey.E.Brunton@dcca.hawaii.gov" <Jeffrey.E.Brunton@dcca.hawaii.gov>, "akoenig@aacraosw.org" <akoenig@aacraosw.org>, "Dory.Hamburg@dhe.mo.gov" <Dory.Hamburg@dhe.mo.gov>, "gbrown@billyblue.com.au" <gbrown@billyblue.com.au>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 14:48:08 -0500
Subject: RE: Hello George

...

I don't think you've ever described your role in the creation of that strange DLTruth.com discussion forum, and I would be interested to hear a factually accurate account of this. Perhaps you'd care to post the information somewhere? If I recall correctly you announced its existence within a few hours (less than an hour?) of its creation. And since the majority of its content comprises a mix of insulting and obscene messages posted anonymously about people who are unsympathetic to the operators and customers of diploma mills, it does not reflect any better on you than does your significant involvement with a fistfull of diploma mills.

George Gollin
Professor of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

www.lamp.ac.uk

Accredited UK University of Lampeter offers a wealth of distance education degrees, both undergraduate:

Archaeology and Anthropology
Theology and Religious Studies
Voluntary Sector Studies
Welsh Studies

and postgraduate:
M.A philosophy
M.A classics
M.A history
M.A anthropology
etc,
each with various pathways.
Furthermore research degrees (Ph.D/M.Phil ).