The president of Oral Roberts University, which sits in the heart of America’s Bible Belt in Oklahoma, is accused of using donors’ money to buy his wife expensive cars, fund private jet trips for his daughter, remodel his home and maintain a stable of horses for his children.
The wife of Richard Roberts is also accused of sending hundreds of text messages to “underage males” who had been provided with university-issued mobile phones, and spending tens of thousands of dollars on clothes with university funds.
Three professors claim that they were dismissed after reporting the university’s allegedly illegal involvement in a political campaign.
The professors claim that they were dismissed after they turned over to the board of regents a copy of a report detailing moral and financial abuses by Mr Roberts and his family. The document…detailed dozens of alleged instances of misconduct. Mrs Roberts was given a red Mercedes convertible and sports utility vehicle at donors’ expense. The Roberts’s home, according to the document, has been refurbished 11 times in 14 years. Mrs Roberts spent more than $39,000 at a Chico’s clothing shop in less than a year, and had other accounts in California and Texas. According to the document, she also repeatedly said: “As long as I wear it once on TV, we can charge it off”.
Lots more details in the article. I especially like the part about Mrs. Roberts texting male students between 1AM and 3AM. Does she have some special insomnia they helped her to cure?
#89 – You might try explaining how my view is narrow. It seems that your sole reason is that i don’t agree with you.
Well, why isn’t your view narrow because you don’t agree with me.
I’ve decided you like it better when you don’t get along with me than when you do, and since you have everything to do with that and I seem to have nothing to do with that, let me say…
Of course my horizons are far broader than yours. I have the courage to face the godless universe and it is a far bigger universe than the imaginary one you live in.
But as you wish, I will continue to be nice to Christians… Why? For the same reason that I’m nice to retarded kids.
One fine day, o Lord of the Condiments, I look forward to hearing you explain exactly what makes false modesty such a virtue.
You keep pushing this nonsense that because stupid people, being stupid, often claim falsely and erroneously to be intelligent, therefore any person who claims to be intelligent is therefore stupid. That, melad, is what I fondly refer to as Logic-Free Reasoning®™. Sorta messes up your smug implication of intellectual superiority to offer up nonsense like “Some idiots claim to be smart; so if someone claims to be smart, that proves he’s an idiot.”
Left unexplained is what the smart one is supposed to say – “I’m an idiot.” ? What purpose is served by that?
Awaiting your brilliant explanation w/ bated breath… 😉
>>Left unexplained is what the smart one is supposed to
>>say – “I’m an idiot.” ?
The smart ones, Fish FInger, don’t offer unsolicited self-evaluations of their own intelligence.
>>Of course my horizons are far broader than yours.
Tee hee! Snicker snicker!
There you go again, OFTLO. Telling us once more how smart, sophisticated, urbane, worldly, broad-horizoned you are. Not to mention hip-and-happening, free-thinking, bohemian, blah, blah, and blah.
Please stop. It’s tacky. And what I said is true, people who tout their own self-proclaimed intellectual superiority are the ones who are (correctly) viewed as being pathetic, self-serving dunces.
Word up, dawg.
I’d be fascinated to learn how you arrived at that conclusion…
If one’s lack of stupidity constitutes a necessary premise for one’s argument, then how would that be asserted in such a way as would meet with your approval?
#94 – MM,
I find it highly amusing when you say shit like this. Left unsaid, of course, is that you are smarter than everyone else on this sight. But, you would never ever say that. You would just leave it assumed by the fact that you sit around calling everyone else dunces to their face. You really are a putz when you get like this. You’ll be much more persuasive if you take things down a notch and get over yourself.
>>Left unsaid, of course, is that you are smarter than everyone
>>else on this sight.
Ah, Scottie, Scottie, Scottie. I make no inferences about my own intelligence. It doesn’t take the IQ of an atheist Einstein to simply recognize brilliance or idiocy. And it’s been my observation that those who most vociferously ballyhoo their superior intellect fall into the latter category more often than not.
Besides, it’s just so declassé. “Oooh, I’m so intelligent”. Jeez.
>>You would just leave it assumed by the fact that you sit around
>>calling everyone else dunces to their face.
“Everyone”? Scottie! And you’re the one who bellyaches about me putting words in YOUR mouth!
I don’t believe I’ve ever called anyone here a “dunce”, or even stupid. I merely stated the almost universal truth that those who loudly proclaim their own intelligence are usually the ones trying to make that long, hard (and ultimately unsuccessful) slog out of intellectual mediocrity.
#98 – MM,
And if that post right there isn’t the perfect example of you saying in the most passive aggressive way possible that you are the smart one in the crowd, nothing is. I may be putting words in your mouth. However, the implication was there loud and clear. It’s not just an inference on my part.
Old Yiddish saying, ‘If three people tell you you’re drunk, you lie down.’ Three people on this blog have just told you you’re drunk.
You really need to do some introspection. Try this exercise:
Jesus, in whom you believe and I obviously do not, said:
A) Love thy neighbor
B) Be condescending to thy neighbor
C) Be patronizing to thy neighbor
D) Belittle thy neighbor
E) Ridicule thy neighbor
I claim that you personally regularly engage in B through E. Do they teach this in your Grand Unitarian Church of I’m Better Than You Na Na Na Na Na? I doubt it.
Go back and read your own posts. Imagine that they’re directed at you instead of from you. Then sit and think for a while. Try a little empathy. And, always ask yourself:
Whom would Jesus belittle?