A spokesman for Tim Tebow says he’s canceling an appearance at a revival organized by a controversial Ohio preacher.  The star Denver Broncos quarterback — and outspoken Christian — was scheduled to speak at a Columbus event in March led by televangelist Rod Parsley.  Tebow’s brother Robbie said Wednesday he’s cancelling the talk. Robbie Tebow says Tim’s speakers’ bureau hadn’t researched the event before saying yes to the invitation.

With many thanks to Rachel Zoll of the Associated Press for telling me about it.

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Mark Berndt, a 61-year-old former teacher at Miramonte Elementary School, has been charged with 23 counts of committing lewd acts on children with authorities alleging he spoon-fed semen to his students, the Los Angeles Times reports.

If someone did that to my child- and I might as well say it because I’m thinking it- the police wouldn’t have to worry about him.

According to the Times, Berndt told his students they were going to play “a tasting game,” during which each were blindfolded and sometimes gagged with tape.  Authorities, as well as at least one parent, also alleged semen was fed to students on cookies and on a blue plastic spoon.  Local station KTLA reports the investigation started when a photo processor alerted authorities to photos of Berndt’s which allegedly showed acts of bondage as well as the spoon-feeding.  In total, police report there are 23 male and female alleged victims, all ranging in age from 7 to 10-years-old. They also report the crimes took place between 2008 and 2010.

Honestly, this guy needs to be locked away forever.  He’s not only disgusting, he’s a pervert.  Enjoy eternal incarceration.  Nasty reprobate.

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The open secret in American higher education is that most institutions are unable to measure the quality of their instruction.

Students are being charged loads of money. There’s just no way to tell how good it is. At least if you go out to a restaurant if your food is bad you can send it back. In colleges, they get your money up front. You don’t get it back even if you don’t graduate.

In his State of the Union address last Tuesday, President Obama proposed several measures to lower college tuition. University leaders responded cautiously, warning that cost-cutting reforms might also cut into instructional quality. But here’s the big open secret in American higher education: Most institutions have no meaningful way to measure the quality of their instruction. And the president didn’t ask us to develop one, either.

Because higher ed is big business. Except it’s a big business that’s producing too much failure, too little competence, too few learned people. It’s privileged position in society has rendered it, in many respects, suspect, corrupt [yes, I'm thinking of you Claremont McKenna], and incompetent.

“If you can’t stop tuition from going up, your funding from taxpayers will go down,” Obama warned. “We should push colleges to do better; we should hold them accountable if they don’t.” Fair enough. But look again at Obama’s criteria for “better”: holding down costs, graduating students and helping them get jobs. There’s no mention of whether the students are actually learning anything. At most institutions, including my own, we have no idea if they are. Sure, professors assign grades in their courses, and students are asked to evaluate the classes they take and the professors who teach them. But neither measure gives us any real answer to the $200,000 question: What knowledge or skills are students acquiring in exchange for the skyrocketing tuition they pay?

If you talk to most college grads, they don’t know much more after they finish than they did when they started. And what they did ‘learn’ they’ll forget in 2 years.

And we now have some alarming national data to suggest the answer: not nearly enough. My New York University colleague Richard Arum and the University of Virginia’s Josipa Roksa recently tracked several thousand undergraduates as they moved through two dozen U.S. universities. They found that almost half of them didn’t significantly improve their reasoning or writing skills during the first two years of college. And after four years, subsequent research showed, more than one-third of students still showed no significant gains in these areas.

There’s something wrong in higher ed. Something that too many academics are ignoring because, frankly, they’re only concerned about their own paychecks and not about the students they’re supposed to be educating.

Accreditation agencies are a joke. They accomplish nothing and they only provide administrations boasting rights (purchased at a high price- which price is then passed along to students who are then not furnished what they purchased).

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At least 68 people were killed when riots broke out at a soccer game in Egypt, the country’s deputy health minister said. Hundreds were injured in the riots, the deputy minister said. The fighting occurred in a stadium in the northeastern city of Port Said at a match between Al-Ahly and the home team, Al-Masry.

Barbarism.

UPDATE:  The AP is reporting now that 73 are dead and over 1000 injured.

If I woke you up and told you that controversial Bishop of New Birth church, Eddie Long was crowned king I bet you would ask if I have had a fever. Well, not only was he crowned king but he also got dressed in some despicable out fit and was paraded in front of adulating worshipers. The “humble man” of God was only too pleased to oblige as Ralph Messer (who claims to be a Rabbi bringing Torah truth to Christians) with a couple of supposed Jews masqueraded with garb and old bits of scrolls declared how worthy and anointed Bishop and “king” Long is to read sacred scriptures inscribed there in.

And he has video showing the whole despicable charade of a ceremony. Long and Driscoll, heretics of a reprobate self-aggrandizing feather.  But even worse than these two- the ‘churches’ which follow them.  It’s bad enough that the two of them are theological ignoramuses.  Worse still the fact that thousands are equally dim!  Is there NO ONE in either of these churches who knows what truth and proper Christianity are?

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Nicely done!!!!

Dieses Manuskript ist ein Entwurf des Anfangs einer der letzten Schriften Martin Luthers, dem Kurtz bekentnis D. Mart. Luthers, vom heiligen Sacrament, veröffentlicht 1544 in Wittenberg. In diesem kleinen Werk widmet sich Luther erneut dem Abendmahlsstreit und beschuldigt vehement den Schweizer Reformator Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531) und dessen Anhänger. Das mit vielen Anmerkungen und Korrekturen versehene Manuskript unterscheidet sich stark vom gedruckten Text. Bevor er sich Zwingli vornimmt, kritisiert Luther darin einen anderen Theologen, den Schlesier Kaspar von Schwenckfeld (1489/90-1561), der sich ebenfalls gegen Luthers Abendmahlslehre stellt.

A fantastic find!

He may be notoriously bad and perform from inside a litter bin. But students at Cambridge University have been told it is totally “unacceptable” to treat a local busker like rubbish. Charlie Cavey, 31, has been a regular fixture of the university town for 11 years and is known for squeezing himself into a tiny metal bin to sing and play his guitar. But his most recent pitch – outside Corpus Christi college – has upset some students so much that they have started harassing him in a bid to make him move on. On a number of occasions they have thrown stink bombs into the bin and another a bottle of bleach.

It’s kind of surprising that Cambridge students would act that way.  That’s the sort of thing you’d expect from the UNC Tarheels.  But I guess bad manners are universal.

GOP front-runner Mitt Romney said this morning that he’s not concerned about the plight of the country’s very poor because there are social safety nets that take care of them.  ”I’m in this race because I care about Americans,” Romney told CNN’s Soledad O’Brien this morning after his resounding victory in Florida on Monday. “I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I’ll fix it.”

“I’m not concerned about the very rich, they’re doing just fine. I’m concerned about the very heart of the America, the 90, 95 percent of Americans who right now are struggling and I’ll continue to take that message across the nation.”  The CNN anchor pressed Romney: “You just said I’m not concerned about the very poor because they have a safety net. And I think there are lots of very poor Americans who are struggling who would say that sounds odd. Can you explain that?”

“Well, you had to finish the sentence, Soledad,” said Romney. “I said I’m not concerned about the very poor that have the safety net, but if it has holes in it, I will repair them…The – the challenge right now – we will hear from the Democrat Party, the plight of the poor, and – and there’s no question, it’s not good being poor and we have a safety net to help those that are very poor. But my campaign is focused on middle income Americans. My campaign – you can choose where to focus. You can focus on the rich. That’s not my focus. You can focus on the very poor. That’s not my focus. My focus is on middle income Americans, retirees living on social security, people who cannot find work, folks who have kids that are getting ready to go to college. That – these are the people who’ve been most badly hurt during the Obama years.”

No- the people most badly hurt are… well actually it’s just the poor.  The middle class has been hurt by Congress.  The rich, on the other hand, have been blessed by both the Congress and the White House.

Mitt, I’m not sure if you Mormons read the real Bible, but you might want to borrow a copy and open it, say, to Ezekiel 16:49-50.

49 This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. 50 They were haughty, and did abominable things before me; therefore I removed them when I saw it.

Mitt, did you see that? Sodom was destroyed because it had excess, you know, kind of like you and the rest of the politicians ruining this country, and because Sodom didn’t aid the poor and needy and, like you, Mitt, were haughty.

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