tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736821.post113839884196194659..comments2023-08-08T04:19:26.974-07:00Comments on THE CALLADUS BLOG: The Pledge of AllegianceCalladushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17620879847877868166noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736821.post-1140542396764864732006-02-21T09:19:00.000-08:002006-02-21T09:19:00.000-08:00What a difference a day (or two) makes.As soon as ...What a difference a day (or two) makes.<BR/><BR/>As soon as the weekend finished, I was actually able to start getting some results from my background search on Dr. Curry.<BR/><BR/>I'm surprised, and Dr. Curry will be pleased I'm sure. <BR/><BR/>Ellis Rexwood Curry IV is a graduate of Florida State with a Juris Doctor degree. He is a member in good standing of the Florida State Bar association and is elegible to practice law in Florida. I've verified he is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. The Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers refused to verify his membership.<BR/><BR/>Oh, and Hillsborough Community College website is back online. Perhaps they went offline over the weekend for maintenance.<BR/><BR/>I did do a little research on his claims in his blurb. I found out he WAS a paid journalist - for his college newspaper.<BR/><BR/>Now if I can just discover why he talks about himself in the third person.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736821.post-1140264885258048192006-02-18T04:14:00.000-08:002006-02-18T04:14:00.000-08:00I assume that you are Dr. Curry? I hope so, or el...I assume that you are Dr. Curry? I hope so, or else you are plagiarizing his web site. (Word for word even!) If you are Dr. Curry, then a brief description and a link to your website would be sufficient – it’s only good netiquette to not use my blog as a mirror of your web site.<BR/><BR/>Having said that – your web site brings up some interesting points that I’ll probably spend an enjoyable afternoon researching at my college library – when I next have the chance. <BR/><BR/>Excuse me for taking the liberty of checking your credentials. I became fascinated with you after I read your glowing blurb on your web page about how you are a:<BR/><BR/><I>“familiar voice of freedom for millions. As a celebrity historian, international businessman, worldwide correspondent, journalist, distinguished lecturer, noted political and cultural commentator, political scientist, consultant, author, freedom phenom [sic] and activist, Professor Curry operates a think tank and pressure group to promote liberty.“</I><BR/><BR/>On researching you, I find that the 2-year Hillsborough Community College in Florida lists you as an instructor. HCC seems to be having some sort of funding issues – their domain (HCCFL.edu) is no longer accessible except through Google’s cache or Archive.org. Lexis-Nexis mentioned some funding issues. Archive.org hasn’t successfully archived the HCC web site since April of last year, and INTERnic.net doesn’t have any information on the HCC web site since November of last year. <BR/><BR/>I used Google’s cache of your HCC faculty page to find your instructor’s page on www.ij.net - I hope you’re being reimbursed for that by your employer. I wasn’t able to find you on Archive.org’s cache. This seems to indicate that you are a new employee at HCC. (Your college has some serious issues! I think HCC kept the website servers online after they stopped paying for their domain name and lost their DNS.) According to the US department of Education, HCC IS accredited to offer degrees in dental assisting and hygiene, optician, nursing, and x-ray and MRI technician. <BR/><BR/>The HCC faculty page says that you’re an attorney in private practice, a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and have a J.D. degree from Florida State University with honors.<BR/><BR/>I checked both the National and Florida organizations and failed to find you as a member. (Both organizations have a very helpful member search function online!) I didn’t call the Florida State University Registrar to check your degree, but you got me so curious that I’ll probably do so after the weekend.<BR/><BR/>I searched for you and got no hits for Rex Curry, Dr. Rex Curry, Ellis R. Curry, or Ellis Curry in Lexis / Nexis news, or in the Martindale-Hubbell® Law Directory, nor in any court in Florida state case law. There were no cites for you in Google scholar. Google does list 150 hits for you as of this morning, but all of those hits seem to be written BY you, not ABOUT you. Many of the entries BY you seem to be you railing at the Wikipedia community ‘conspiracy’ to hide the truth about the Pledge’s connection to Naziism – and calling them liars. Interestingly enough, Wiki doesn’t seem to find you important enough to keep an article on you.<BR/><BR/>In short, Dr. Curry, I find you unconvincing. I’ll still research what you’ve said here, but only because as a skeptic, I enjoy researching kooks and nut-cases. You should read my article on Homeopathy!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com