Homeschooling Family Snatched by German SWAT Team

              

Honestly, they needed a SWAT team ?

 On August 28, 2013, the Wunderlich (pronounced Voon-der-lish) family of Darmstadt, Germany was accosted while in their home by a SWAT team.   Their four literate, clean, coversant, and law abiding children were taken from them.  Social workers who watched the proceeding told the parents "You'll never get them back".   The children were taken from their parents in such a traumatic fashion because they homeschooled.     There was no other reason that the Wunderlich's children were taken.

                   Homeschooling has been illegal in Germany since Hitler penned a law making it so.  He wished children to be available to indoctrination by the state, and this law has never been revisted.

               Homeschooling is legal in all of Europe now, except Germany.  Even Switzerland has strict guidelines whereby families have the option of homeschooling.   Ireland, England and Wales also now permit it.  Detailed long term studies are in and despite the fact that we've all known one or two homeschooled children who may not be getting all they need, statistically the children do well in college and in the world.  They don't wind up on social service rolls and they are generally self supporting.  Many homeschoolers are capable of the out of the box thinking that is so necessary for the types of innovations we need to meet the challenges of the world now.   Even the United Nations considers Germany's stance on homeschooling archaic and a violation of basic civil rights (according to a 2007 statement)

               I talked to several German Embassies in the US this week, and they were unaware of the case.  Let's make them more aware of the value of homeschooling.

                 

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Contact information

Note: Calls are answered first in German followed by English (stay on the line).

German Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Phone: (202) 298-4000

• Select English, then 3 for other departments, then 7 for the political department.

Email: online contact form

• Please select “Other—Email the German Embassy” as the subject line for the online contact form. If you receive an error message in Google Chrome, please try a different browser.

German Consulates

Atlanta
Boston
Chicago
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German Officials

You can also send a message to one or all of the officials listed below. Let them know that the world is watching Germany and that the Wunderlichs are not alone.

School Office—Frau Christa Lettau
Staatliches Schulamt
z. Hd. Frau Christa Lettau
Rheinstr. 95
64295 Darmstadt
FR GERMANY
Tel. (+49-6151) 36 82-411
Fax (+49-6151) 36 82-402
Email: Christa.Lettau@da.ssa.hessen.de
 
Youth Welfare Office—Mr. Behnis
Der Kreisausschuß. des Landkreises Darmstadt-Dieburg
Jugendhilfe
Erziehungshilfe
z. Hd. Herrn K. Behnis
64276 Darmstadt
FR GERMANY
Tel. (+49-6151) 881-14 42
Fax (+49-6151) 881-14 62
k.behnis@ladadi.de (email address closed due to volume)

Herrn Harms
r.harms@ladadi.de
Tel. (+49-6151) 881-22 74
Fax (+49-6151) 881-42 74

Family Court—Judge Markus Malkmus and Judge Koenig
Amtsgericht Darmstadt
Familiengericht
z.Hd.Herrn Markus Malkmus
Postfach 1109 51
64224 Darmstadt
FR Germany

 

Encouragement and support

You can contact the Wunderlich family at dirk.wun@googlemail.com

 

Calls to Action

The time has come for us to take sustained and vigorous action on behalf of the Wunderlich family and German homeschoolers.

1. Please keep the Wunderlichs in your thoughts and prayers.
2. Will you help us expand our efforts to communicate our grave concern over the abuse of this family’s human rights?
   The German government needs to know in no uncertain terms that this action against the Wunderlichs is not acceptable.
   
   • Call and email the German Embassy in Washington, D.C. (Already contacted them? That’s OK—contact them again.)
   • Call and email the nine German consulates in key cities across the U.S.
   • Note: while we can be appropriately and justifiably outraged by this action it is important that we always treat people with respect. Thank you!
   Talking points
   • You are shocked and dismayed at the German actions in sending a SWAT team to remove the Wunderlich children.
   • A UN rapporteur has criticized Germany for its harsh treatment of homeschoolers in his 2006 report on the German education system (see paragraphs 62 and 93 (g) of the report).
   • Germany authorities should immediately release the Wunderlich children to their parents.
   • Germany should promptly change its law to permit homeschooling to comply with its obligations under international law.
   
   
   Resources
   • Farris: Germany Breaking Pledge to Protect Rights
   • For ideas on human rights arguments, visit TheBerlinDeclaration.org
3. You can support our fight for the Wunderlich family by donating to the Homeschool Freedom Fund.

The above contact information has been graciously provided by Michael Farris, Attorney,
 Home School Legal Defense Association,    of which I am a member.


      It's good to know that the Germans have cleaned up all the Neo-Nazis, the Islamic extremists,  the human traffickers, and the hate crimes sufficiently to occupy their SWAT teams with homeschoolers.    What do they do if you fail to sweep your section of the street before nine am ?  Anyone ?



UPDATE:   Friday, September 20, 2013

Thank you to all of you who wrote the different German Embassies in the US and expressed your concern and outrage concerning this matter.

The Wunderlich children were returned to their family today, several hours ago on the condition that they attend school in Germany.

http://www.examiner.com/article/custody-of-homeschooled-children-returned-to-wunderlich-family

The Obama Administration was completely silent on this matter even after a SWAT Team dragged four children from their parents.  Perhaps they would like to do the same when they finish grabbing all the guns and soft drinks.   After all, what better way to indoctrinate, program and spy on the parents than by snatching all those bright homeschooling children.

A Time for Every Purpose

      

We have finally reached a time in which the space is worth more than many of the items which occupy it.

   I remember being in college and being a young engaged girl, gathering things for the days when we would be cooking, cleaning, and setting up our first household.  We were married when I had one more year of college remaining, and so, I was a student commuting to clinical affiliations at hospitals all over New Jersey and New York in order to have seen lots of disorders and issues, and in order to perform the procedures we need to do safely and smoothly right from the first days of licensure.   Those were tough days. I had barely enough money for the weeks groceries at Pathmark from the generic aisle. I certainly didn't have money for sheets, tables, furniture, or towels.  We got a few things as gifts when we were married, but most of our friends were also young and poor.  Our dining area table was a card table and two metal folding chairs. I covered it with a vinyl tablecloth.   We had no couch, so we put my husband's twin bed from his last home, in the living room next to the wrought iron railing. I placed pillows in the back and covered the whole thing with a slipcover I got at a garage sale.  It looked like a couch.   We had a rent controlled brick apartment on the second floor which looked like a townhouse, and was very close to Interstate 287. The heat and gas for cooking were included in the rent.  I could get to New York City and many other places in thirty to forty minutes by car.
         In two years we had saved enough to buy a small house. It had been a summer home in the Ramapo Mountain Range near a lake.  We no longer lived in a convenient place, but I had graduated and was working, and didn't need the same level of convenience I had when I was in school.  Our big bed did not fit in our new house, and so we sold it. We needed everything but we were moving forward. At least we lived in a home we owned, which seemed like a step forward.
        There were four houses after that as our family grew and we continued to gather things we needed, as we needed them, often from penny saver styled newspapers, garage sales, or from friends who were moving or were transferred.
         When my husband's parents died, we accepted some things of theirs that we loved in our home.When my husband's beloved aunt passed, and my own remaining beloved aunt passed, we received things that found a place in our home.  Kids also bring things to your home.  With four, and eventually five children, bicycles come with birthdays.  Tall boys wind up with basketball hoops, and sporting equipment.  One son built kites, the type which lift him off the ground, and these are tough to store when assembled.
          When the worst happened, and one of our sons died suddenly, we had an entire room of books, games, toys, computers, dvds and videos.  We didn't feel as if we should sell or give away everything. I took a long time to go through everything.   We finished a smaller room in the lower level here. My husband built bookcases, and we lovingly placed everything there.  It's now a place where we go to watch a video, or play a video game, and remember some of the great times with our son.  (This is the room where our older kids painted a true sky with clouds that look so real, they appear to drift slightly as you watch them.)
           By the time my own parents passed, most of our kids were in college. It made sense to me to hold on to as much as I could from my parents homes because three, maybe four households are being set up in the fairly near future. A nice piece of furniture from one of my parents homes would not only be free to them, but it would provide a memory and a sense of continuity, whereas a laminate something from Wal-Mart or Ikea likely wouldn't, and it would cost them hard earned cash.   After my parents passed I rented a large storage unit, and for a time kept everything there. Eventually, there were indications in the bad economy that the storage company was about to go out of business.  We moved everything out just before they did.   We placed everything on the second story of a new barn we'd had built for general storage.
          Our daughter bought her first home a bit more than a year ago.  Happily, she chose to take with her some of the more expensive pieces of furniture that had belonged to my parents.  My daughter likes antiques, and presently her brothers like modern.   We let her take all the furniture she wanted, and other than buying a bed and major appliances, she had everything.
            So now we have reached a time that is unusual for us.  All of our lives, thus far, have been spent in the gathering mode.  Gathering comes naturally to most women. In the history of our marriage,there have been only a few times, when we were readying to move to another home, that we had garage sales, and decreased a substantial portion  of our household goods.  We were gatherers, and sometimes this had clear benefits.  When friends or relatives needed something, we usually had one.  We gave cribs and playpens to friends when we had used them for a couple of years.
            We have been lucky that in this farm we have good storage, but it would be foolish to keep many things which ultimately risk some damage. It's time to begin to find good homes for not only my parents things, my aunts things, but many of the things my husband and I have gathered through the years of our marriage.  We were gatherers for so many years, and this saved our buying very much new.  We bought mattresses new, and washer-dryers new, but whenever we could, we checked good garage sales, consignment shops and other less expensive sources for things our family needed.  Now we will shift some gears.   Finally, we have reached a point where the freed up storage space has more value than many of the items occupying it.
         
          So I have begun to take things to consignment shops as a consignee.  I sell things on Ebay. I took a lot of nice clothing no one ever wore to Goodwill recently. So much so, in fact, that I got a 20% discount when I bought a new autumn wreath for our daughter there.   Slowly but surely we are lightening the load here.  We sent some garden tools over to my daughter's tool shed recently. It's funny but I don't remember acquiring many of these tools. I wonder if I could give her some chickens ? I will save some things for our sons as they might change their minds about wanting some of the things we have here.
         It will be good to find homes for many of the things we don't use, or never found the time to use.

        These are often challenges for people with an interest in preparedness.  We buy or somehow acquire specialized tins for breadbaking, grinders for meat, grinders for grain and then we might not ever use these.  Space occupied by things we don't use is space that is unavailable for additional food storage which can be the most important of all.   When they first came out I bought a Soda Stream machine thinking that making our own sodas with minimal sugar or stevia would not only be cheaper, but would be healthier.  We have never used it.  My acquiring it coincided with a health kick all my kids went on where they rejected soda as bad for their teeth and general health.  It's funny that all the years we raised them I wasn't able to get that point across.  This year, I gave the Soda Stream machine to my daughter.

The Law of Unintended Consequences

                     

( Cartoon found at: www.kjonline.com )

    I have not been particularly gung ho about the last few "police actions" or wars the US entered in the Middle East.  It worried me that as Americans we might not understand the complexity of the longstanding relationships of the groups of people there, and that it could be difficult to predict outcomes fully.  Eventually though, I had to accept that our government and particularly our president had access to confidential information that I do not. I had to trust that what President GW Bush was saying was in the best interests of our nation.   I didn't embrace everything he did. I thought that he needed to take much more of a hard line against illegal immigration than he did, but I believed him when he set out exactly why we needed to enter the Middle East.
                          Barack Obama entered the White House having been a lack lustre Senator, with little more than a nice guy demeanor, and he gained a lot of traction in his criticism of President Bush.  Mr. Obama sold himself as a "live and let live" kind of a president who would not sanction interference in other sovereign nations.  Of course, I realized that once he began getting the daily intelligence reports that much of that would have to change.
                          I do realize that the use of chemical weapons and incendiary bombs to control opposition in Syria is a very negative occurrence and that it not only violates international law, but it constitutes a war crime.  However, President Bashar Assad of Syria was winning the war against his pockets of opposition without such means.  Can we be absolutely sure that his regime did this ?
                        Lastly, the idea of a cruise missile strike against Assad strongholds in Syria is an extremely complex undertaking. It brings with it enormously complicated consequences the results of which cannot completely be foreseen.   According to Russia Today, NHK Japanese News, Deutche Welle, European News from Brussels, BBC, Kazakhstan News, and France 24, at last count, these were the positions.   Russia and China oppose any war action whatsoever and both believe that Assad would not have done something so foolish. They believe that such an attack was likely Al Queda generated in order to weave the US back in to their Jihad.  They believe this matter should be handled using poltiical means.  Russia has agreements with Syria to provide material and financial support in the event of war.    France has long term commitments in Syria, and has for many years. France has voted to provide partial financial support to the US if we try to unseat the Assad regime, but they will not be taking action themselves.  England's David Cameron felt strongly that England should retaliate against the Assad regime for the use of chemical weapons, but Parliament voted resoundingly not to step into this landmine.  This leaves England's Prime Minister almost powerless in this situation.   Syria's neighbors Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar etc. think that something should be done, but publicly they are saying that the US should probably not be doing it.  They express some concern about controlling the great natural gas supplies in Syria.   Israel has been very quiet.  They have to be concerned that Syria, a fairly large country could be about to be embroiled in war in their region.  Meanwhile, not particularly well covered in US news is the fact that more and more terror attacks are occurring at the hands of the Taliban and Al Qaeda since we have essentially withdrawn.  Al Qaeda's plan may be to draw Syria into a bitter war with the US and Europe while connecting that war with impending bedlam in both Iraq, Afghanistan, and then Iran.   With the entire Middle East on fire, and unable to access oil, gas etc.  then Russia and China can be drawn in.   This is a recipe for World War III cooked up by Al Queda.    Can we really trust Barack Hussein Obama who has crashed our economy, taken our nation's debt, our children's debt, and our grandchildren's debt to new heights ?  Can we trust the man who systematically removed freedom after freedom from us, one holiday at a time ?  Can we trust the regime that passed a complex bill which we were told concerned health care, that no one read ?    Can we trust the regime which empowered NSA to capture all communications from American citizens ?  Can we trust the president who has sealed his educational records, birth records, and health records from us, and who was the first one to do so ?
             I'll admit it.  I am out of faith in our leaders.  As much as I was disturbed by the pictures of the results of the supposed Sarin attack of Syrian children and adult civilians, I cannot trust our government enough to believe them when they provide us with "factual intelligence" they used to arrive at their decision-making.   They haven't been truthful with us on anything else, so why should this be the exception.   In fact, I am not sure that Barack Obama doesn't intend to run us into the ditch as a nation. His appearance of allegiance to Islam seems inappropriate for a nation which was founded on Christian principles.

           There are some interesting and excellent posts on these subjects that I will link to here:

 Please contact your Congressmen and Senators on this.  Please let them know how you feel.


http://thedailysmug.blogspot.com/2013/09/al-qaeda-vows-to-slaughter-christians.html

http://thedailysmug.blogspot.com/2013/09/breaking-senate-panel-approves.html

http://thedailysmug.blogspot.com/2013/09/kerry-arab-countries-offered-to-pay-for.html

http://thedailysmug.blogspot.com/2013/09/president-obama-complained-about-way.html


http://thedailysmug.blogspot.com/2013/09/this-war-will-not-be-like-others-it.html


       Unfortunately for the United States, Barack Hussein Obama is either not sharp enough to see a trap while it's being set, or at least, on some level, he is in collusion with those that most of America sees as our enemies.

What Would Jefferson Do ?

             

Central Virginia

    Both of the farms we have owned here in Virginia were originally properties of Thomas Jefferson's family.  This sounds like a really special distinction, worthy of a realtor's brochure, but it isn't as large a deal as it, at first, sounds.  Thomas Jefferson's parents owned a great deal of land in Central Virginia in their day.  Peter Jefferson, his father, was a surveyor, and his mother Jane Randolph's father owned a great deal of land.  Thomas eventually inherited the bulk of these lands from both families. At one point he owned thousands of acres in multiple counties here, so my farm shares the distinction of being owned by the Jeffersons or Randolphs at one time with literally thousands of other properties.  There is no real indication that Thomas Jefferson himself ever set foot on the land which is actually our farm, although he was frequently in this county.  At the time of his death, he was land rich, but quite cash poor, and he died having never paid back his Italian friend, Philip Mazzei .   Oddly, one of Philip Mazzei's descendants actually went to high school with me in New Jersey and is now an anesthesiologist.)

                Thomas Jefferson was a risk taker.  He left his farms to family and workers while he traveled by horse and helped to craft a new nation.  He took personal risks and risks to his own safety in order to leave us with the legacy of the nation with which we have grown up.  Remember that in the days of Jefferson, no heavy equipment existed.  Much smaller areas could be farmed, and much of it was done using slave labor. He was often away and did not give input as to how things should be done, and history tells us that Jefferson's properties were not as productive as they could have been, had they received his full attention.  We are indebted to this person who did his best to move our nation forward.  Jefferson did keep slaves, but by most accounts, he treated them exceptionally well, and did train and educate those he believed could benefit, in an era in which this was not done. He was wrong in that he believed that society might never progress sufficiently to allow black slaves freedom and equality, though he likely knew that this was the right thing to do.

                When others tell me that by speaking out on what is a little blog that I may subject myself to additional IRS audits and additional Obama Regime intrusions, I think of Thomas Jefferson.  How would he feel if the present day owner of one of his tracts decided that putting all of my interests first came before the issues of freedom and truth ?  How would he feel if I chose not to call tyranny, tyranny ?   We must all balance personal costs of doing what is right, along with the issues of personal and family safety.

Thoughts on Orthopedics and Knee Joint Injuries

   

  As a registered nurse, especially when the kids were small, I used to get top pay in the hospital for rotating to a variety of specialties.  Critical Care (Intensive Care) is my specialty, but it can be hard to get away at the end of eight to twelve hours, if you needed to pick up kids. When the kids were first starting public school (yes, before we homeschooled), and so I was one of the few nurses who absolutely liked to rotate as a fill- in to a variety of specialties. This included pediatrics, pediatrics special care, labor and delivery, post-partum, post partum recovery, recovery room, a variety of critical care units, same day surgery, emergency room,  urology, endocrinology,  and some others.  Despite the uncommon flexibility I was known for in those years, there were hospital specialties I don't like much, and in which I am limited.  For example, I am not a big fan of orthopedics.  My dislike of orthopedics dates back to nursing school when we were required to set up different types of traction. If it isn't correct, this is not only painful for your patient but it can be devastating to his healing.  I didn't much like the pin care either. Metal pins which went through the skin anchored the patient to some types of traction.
         I also had patients on Stryker frames and on Circ-o-electric beds, which allow the patient to be turned around in any position in order to provide his care without actually really moving him. There is a trap door in the back which allows for care to the backside.

The is a Cir-0-electric bed.

           This is a really important specialty and the nurses who develop these skills really should be admired but alas, I am not one of them.  Two of my five children broke limbs while they were growing up.  My daughter slipped while wearing tights on the oak staircase and fractured her elbow. One of my sons got a comminuted fracture of his arm when another son took him ice skating for the first time. It was all I could do each of those days not to run from the room screaming.   I don't like orthopedics and so I quickly send those with orthopedic injuries to a physician or the hospital, so long as that is away from me.
           I have been lucky to have avoided these types of injuries myself.  Recently though, the amount of work I have been doing has increased greatly. The four horses I own now take a lot of lifting, mucking, and activity.  We have had eight inches more rain than is normal in Virginia, and some of the pastures are muddy when they are mucked.  This seems to result in a twisting motion for my right knee. At first, it seemed simply stiff, and then a little swollen.  It seems that working on uneven rolling ground allows the knee to depend heavily on the medial and lateral ligaments of the knee.  I needed to prevent so much side to side motion and twisting while I worked.  I started out with a large ace bandage around the right knee for added support prior to mucking.  This helps a bit, but there is still burning on the interior aspect of the knee (the medial collateral ligament) when I am finished. I am considering a knee splint to wear just when I am working with the horses. Did I mention I dislike orthopedics intensely ? 

As anyone with a ski injury to their knee will tell you, this is one of the body parts God could have considered just a bit longer.

          For the purpose of redeeming this post as an educational one, and not simply one of my musings, I  should mention a bit about Knee Ligament Injuries:

An ACL injury -- or other ligament injury -- is sometimes hard to diagnose. Symptoms of a knee ligament injury are:

• Pain, often sudden and severe
• A loud pop or snap during the injury
• Swelling
• A feeling of looseness in the joint
• Inability to put weight on the point without pain

If they're not treated at the time, ACL injuries and other types of ligament injuries may act up months or years later.

         An orthopedic surgeon will do a physical exam, possibly an x-ray, and sometimes a CT scan or an MRI.  Treatment can range from splinting to needle extraction of blood within the knee, and sometimes surgery.

       The things you can do to avoid the more sweeping treatments above is to stay off the affected knee to allow it to heal following a known injury.  Ice the knee for the first 24 hours, 20 mins on and 20 mins off.   Taking NSAIDs, or ibuprofen does not only address pain, but is necessary for the inflammation which occurs within these ligaments. It's better to take a low dose repeatedly over time, for this injury, than it is to take a large dose when you are writhing. Check with your doctor if you have stomach or gastrointestinal issues, bleeding disorders, or any reason not to take NSAIDs.   Elevate the knee while you are sitting.  Invest in a knee brace which prevents additional injuries while the ligaments are healing.

Really easy to use. It doesn't stink and you can keep it off your hands.

        I'm doing all of that plus painting the region that hurts with the new Ben-Gay that lives in the freezer. It's called Ben-Gay Zero Degrees.   It's hard to find, but really good stuff.    Also, make sure that if you have a knee injury you are wearing good shoes that keep you sure-footed.   Sandals and high heels are not only tough on ankles, but they can be tough on knees and make women in particular prone to reinjury.
       Now that I think about it, all of my grandparents had knee issues following injuries at one time or another.


                  

No one is paying me to say this.  This stuff is great.

To Many, Barack Hussein Obama Has Lost His New Car Smell

              

Yes, I am beginning to get the idea.

 

  I don't need to go over 2009 to the present. We all know how the US debt load has skyrocketed under Mr. Obama's watch, and how Mr. Obama plays fast and loose with the Constitution, which he considers a bit on the outdated side.  I do want to talk about his intentions this week though.
                 Mr. Obama who promised to close Guantanamo Bay Prison, and promised to safely extract US troops from Afghanistan and Iraq, plans to send cruise missiles to bomb Syria.  You remember Syria ?  When President Bush, (Baby Bush, around here) sent troops to the Middle East and they didn't find weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), other nations, with actual news services reported that the WMDs left the nations under attack in trucks for Syria for safekeeping.  It shouldn't really be a surprise to anyone that someone has found them and that in the midst of a Syrian Civil War they are being used.
                I think it is absolutely terrible that someone, either the Assad government or Syrian rebels chose to use Sarin gas and incendiary bombs, in another incident on innocent Syrian families, and I would like to help, but I have grave concerns.
                First of all, Barack Hussein Obama seems to lack evaluative capabilities. When Barack Obama completes his plan of cruise missile bombing of key Assad locations in Syria, no one in Syria, including the families of those assaulted by the WMDs will be happy.  They will see an assault of their nation by the US, a nation founded on Christian principles, whether Obama likes that or not, as infidels assaulting a Muslim homeland.  They don't care that Barack, who grew up in predominantly Muslim Indonesia, thinks he is helping.  After an air assault of Syria, even those who were indifferent about the US will hate us with a passion that will spawn more terrorists and breed more violence and discontent.  There is also the Law of Unintended Consequences. It is impossible to bomb Syria without there being collateral damage to innocent people. It may be impossible to avoid continuing and broader WMD assaults of Syrians in retribution for Mr. Obama's attack.
               Second, Mr. Obama has said that "He believes that the law allows him to bomb Syria without consulting Congress".  Yes, in defense of the US, I believe that to be provisionally true, but I do not think that it is true when Syria attacks Syria.  When Syrians attack Syrians then the UN, and the UN Security Council evaluate together what should be done from an humanitarian standpoint.  When China and Russia ask for caution, one doesn't aim one's cruise missiles.
              If you can, please send an e-mail to your Congressman.  We don't need to attack Syria.  The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Yemen and the others whose efforts would not be considered as suspect as ours need to step up and help to take care. Haven't we learned anything in Egypt ?
            To an awful lot of Americans, Barack Hussein Obama does not speak for them.  He has brought the American economy to its knees and is about to finish it off with Obamacare. A War with Syria with Russia and China supplying their weapons is a bad idea unless you wish to get us annihilated. Mr. Obama has indeed lost that "new car smell" that so many seemed to think he had.


There is a wonderful blog you might wish to see at:

 http://obamasanidiot.blogspot.com/

Below is their list of our fearless leader's "accomplishments".

 

 

An impressive list of accomplishments:

First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United State.
First President to violate the War Powers Act.
First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
First President to defy a Federal Judge's court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.
First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
First President to spend a trillion dollars on 'shovel-ready' jobs when there was no such thing as 'shovel-ready' jobs.
First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.
First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
First President to terminate America 's ability to put a man in space.
First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke-out on the reasons for their rate increases.
First President to tell a major manufacturing company n which state it is allowed to locate a factory.
First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-Corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials his office.
First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office, 90 to date.
First President to hide his medical, educational, and travel records.
First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
First President to go on multiple global 'apology tours'.
First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayer.
First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
First President to repeat the Holy Qur'an tells us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.
First President to take a 17 day vacation.

How is this Hope and Change working out for you?

Fukushima Radiation Levels Deadly As of Today

        

The tanks they are a-leaking

 


      Russia Today and several other foreign news agencies (which sadly I have come to trust since the U.S. news services have become reporters of Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy News) are once again reporting things which are absent from our news.    Apparently, there has been a very recent spike in radiation levels at Japan's Fukushima Daichi failed nuclear power station.   It has been known for awhile that radioactive water being stored in large tanks that was used to cool the reactors during the initial incidents, are leaking into the ocean. In fact, fishing has been stopped in some of the areas there.   However, the news that radiation is now 18 times higher than was measured prior, is new and has been reported in the last few hours. 1800 millisieverts an hour is now leaking from the tanks, which Tepco says is sufficient to kill an exposed person within four hours.

                 This nuclear disaster is not over.  It's not over for the people who live within a hundred kilometers of the site, for people who live several hundred kilometers from the site.  It may not be over for those who inhabit the West Coast of the US and Canada, or for Far Eastern Russia or other nations who may catch radioactive drift from the oceans.



Read more about this at:

 http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/01/fukushima-radiation-levels-higher-japan

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23776345


http://rt.com/news/japan-fukushima-level-three-762/