The President's biggest regret

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  1. raristud

    raristud Member

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  2. profgoldblatt

    profgoldblatt New Member

    bungled response to Hurricane Katrina.


    I can't think of one thing George W Bush has done without it failing. Bush himself clearly regrets nothing about the United States' own misadventure in Iraq, although some news organizations, submissive to the end, portrayed his phony contrition in a recent interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson as "unusually blunt" and "stunningly candid." Uncontradicted by the deferential anchorman, Bush did concede that mistakes were made in Iraq, although not by him.

    To accept responsibility for the ongoing tragedy would require an active conscience.

    Maybe the liberal media will forget “Brownie,” the incomprehensibly incompetent FEMA director Michael Brown, who had no idea evacuees were using the New Orleans convention center as an evacuation shelter.

    One of the most memorable images from Hurricane Katrina is Bush looking out the window of Air Force One at the Gulf Coast destruction below, symbolizing an out-of-touch commander-in-chief who waited two days after Katrina struck before cutting short his vacation. Rove used Katrina to push the administration’s failed ideologies on the Gulf Coast, advocating segregated schools, reduced pay for low-wage reconstruction workers, and limited government health care. Political allies received large no-bid contracts. Americans were outraged. A CBS News poll six months after the hurricane found that just32 percent of the public approved of the way Bush handled the disaster.
     
  3. Tom H.

    Tom H. New Member

    Troll Alert

    Moderator,

    This Professor Leland Milton Goldblatt is a shill and a troll. His signature block contains the logos for 8 unaccredited schools and the photo of Orville Redenbacher. What the hell is going on here?

    Query this fraud's name in Google and you'll quickly understand as you view the results. His act is reminiscent of one "Isadore Weisberg" at the Google alt.education.distance group. Hate filled and full of crap with phony Hebrew phrases.
     
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  4. profgoldblatt

    profgoldblatt New Member

    Why do you need to bring my religion into this? What is this some sort of antisemitic web forum?

    Where is my deere friend Steve F. Levicoff? Steve are you on a long hall? Tom you need to understand a non-accredited school is not illegal.

    NOTICE:

    Be advised you need to cease and desist from any further libeling of Prof. Leland Milton Goldblatt, Ph.D. Ed.D.
     
  5. Bill Huffman

    Bill Huffman Well-Known Member

    I don't believe that it is possible to commit libel against a fictional entity.
     
  6. profgoldblatt

    profgoldblatt New Member

    Well, I still take it personally.
     
  7. NGC6205

    NGC6205 New Member

    However, claiming you have a degree and if that degree is from an unaccredited school, is illegal in some states.
     
  8. profgoldblatt

    profgoldblatt New Member

    This law has never been constitutionally tested as many local laws from fine intentioned simpletons.
     
  9. NGC6205

    NGC6205 New Member

    There isn't a constitutional issue involved. States have the power to set educational standards within their borders. BTW, prosecutions for use of unaccredited degrees have occurred. While, AFAIK, none of the cases have progressed as far as the SCOTUS, I can clearly imagine a cert. denied in all of them.
    http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/mt/pressreleases/20080214093538.html

    I do not consider state legislatures to be simpletons. However, someone who's only educational accomplishment is a bunch of degrees from unaccredited degree mills is a simpleton.
     
  10. Bill Huffman

    Bill Huffman Well-Known Member


    I think it is reasonable to assume that the professor Goldblatt did not really purchase all of those bogus degrees. Afterall the professor is a fictional entity whose purpose is to simply troll this forum. The best way to deal with a troll is to ignore them.
     
  11. profgoldblatt

    profgoldblatt New Member

    I am sure you wouldn't.
     
  12. profgoldblatt

    profgoldblatt New Member

    I am sure you would not because the state legislature laws et actions are never overturned by a court.
     
  13. NGC6205

    NGC6205 New Member

    I know that sometimes state laws are overturned by the courts. I never said that courts do not overturn laws. However, a law is still a law until it is overturned by the courts. These laws have not been overturned by the courts and probably never will be. Therefore, my original statement is still valid. This is the last I will post on this issue. I have placed you on my ignore list.
     
  14. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Could you tell me: How do you determine that these laws will probably never be overturned by the courts? I'm not saying you're wrong, just wondering what criteria you apply to knowing which laws likely will or likely will not be overturned by the courts. And, of course, I remember what my freshman American Government professor, Lou Morton of Mesa State College, used to say: a stupid law is not necessarily an unconstitutional law.
     
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  15. NGC6205

    NGC6205 New Member

    I base my opinion on a basic knowledge of constitutional law and the fact that some of these laws have been in effect for several years. The states have the power to control and regulate higher education and to regulate professions. Using this power, states have set laws regarding education and professions for many years. Constitutionally, the federal government was not provided the power over education, but through the use of the general welfare clause, the federal government has expanded its power into the area of education.

    In my opinion, the only Constitutional challenge to the laws can be through the application of the first amendment right to free speech. However, the right to free speech is limited in particular instances. For example, in Roth vs. United States, 354 U.S. 476 (1957), the court found that obscene language was not in "area of protected speech and press". The court also said, "the unconditional phrasing of the First Amendment was not intended to protect every utterance." There are many other instances where laws have placed limits on free speech and the courts have upheld the Constitutionality of those laws.

    I am not stating that I am absolutely right. It could be possible that the courts would overturn one or more of these laws. However, as has happened in the past, if the legislature desires to regulate, forbid or encourage something, the legislature will simply rephrase the law to avoid Constitutional problems. That still does not negate the fact that these laws exist now and the violation of these laws is a crime.
     
  16. profgoldblatt

    profgoldblatt New Member

    In the United States, freedom of religion is a constitutionally guaranteed right provided in the religion clauses of the First Amendment. Freedom of religion is also closely associated with separation of church and state, a concept which was written of by Thomas Jefferson.
     
  17. Gin Ichimaru

    Gin Ichimaru New Member

  18. Gin Ichimaru

    Gin Ichimaru New Member

    The so called "leftist" media has been handling him with kid gloves. I listen to Air America Radio because its the only place to find the truth, well that and BBC. Anyway these last 8 years Fox, CNN and MSNBC have been sucking up to the White House.

    Oh really? Why is Hu Jintao still in charge of China? Or when will the US Army be invading North Korea, that Kim guy is still running things? Is Burma next on the list? Jeez I forgot, they sent Rambo there. :D

    I do not think it should be the purpose of the US to be worlds policeman. Thats not what the US Army is supposed to do.

    Maybe if the US would get its own house in order by housing its own homeless, cleaning up its own prisons and feeding its poor than it will have some moral high ground.
     
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  19. raristud

    raristud Member

    ( The so called "leftist" media has been handling him with kid gloves. I listen to Air America Radio because its the only place to find the truth, well that and BBC. Anyway these last 8 years Fox, CNN and MSNBC have been sucking up to the White House )

    - I prefer a combination of various magazines, news channels, and newspapers that offer conservative, international, and liberal perspectives.

    ( Oh really? Why is Hu Jintao still in charge of China? Or when will the US Army be invading North Korea, that Kim guy is still running things? Is Burma next on the list? Jeez I forgot, they sent Rambo there. ) :D

    - 1. Hu's party considers him to be an effective leader 2. I hope not 3. I have to catch the latest Rambo edition.

    I do not think it should be the purpose of the US to be worlds policeman. Thats not what the US Army is supposed to do.

    - I agree. I believe that the fundamental purpose of the US Army is to defend the United States from threats to the homeland and its citizens.

    Maybe if the US would get its own house in order by housing its own homeless, cleaning up its own prisons and feeding its poor than it will have some moral high ground

    The US is not perfect by any means, but it does a very good job of offering opportunities for advancement. Rather than create a dependency by continuously feeding the poor, I would prefer for the US to focus more on assisting the homeless and the poor in finding jobs and opportunities for educational attainment. In terms of prisons, the US correctional system is like the Hilton in comparison the prisons in the majority of countries around the globe. You are going to dream about US prisons in a Japanese correctional facility. Japan is known for its cleanliness . :)
     
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  20. Bruce

    Bruce Moderator

    You ARE kidding, right?
     

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