From a soldier to an anti-Military student...true story

INSPIRING WORDS... in honor of Service Men & Women worldwide
This letter was written by Charles Grennel and his comrades who are veterans of the Global War on Terror. Grennel is an Army Reservist who spent two years in Iraq and was a principal in putting together the first Iraq elections, January of 2005. It was written to Jill Edwards, a student at the University of Washington who did not want to honor Medal of Honor winner USMC Colonel Greg Boyington. It appears Ms. Edwards and other students (and some faculty) do not think those who serve in the U.S. armed services are good role models.

-- A TRUE STORY by Charles Grennel

To: Edwards, Jill (student, UW)
Subject: Sheep, Wolves and Sheepdogs

Read it here:

www.inspire21.com/stories/americanstories/SheepWolvesandSheepdogs

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Mia Marie Pope, who was a high school friend of Barack Obama (aka Barry Soetoro) in Hawaii during the 1970s, says that Obama identified himself as a foreigner in high school and was known as a crack-smoking homosexual.

Obama received grant as foreign student: Citizen of Indonesia

Details are emerging as whistleblower clarifies discrepancies.

Postman remembers 'foreign student' Obama predicting he'd be President of the United States

Postman: Ayers family put 'foreigner' Obama through school
Claims he met young Barack who boasted he would someday be president

UCLA: some of the dumbest students on the planet

Parents, don't waste your money! Since UCLA is called one of the top 25 American universities, I'd investigate the other 24 before you fork out the dough, too.

Stealth: Is this why the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is behind the Occupy Orlando group?

The Neville Awards:

One of the main issues of the Occupy Movement is college loans and student debt. One of the core laws of Sharia is not allowing interest on loans. Could this be another stealth effort to recruit unwitting college students to Islam by promising to forgive all loans once Sharia is established?

One can only imagine these gullible leftist students converting in droves to have loans and interest forgiven. The price of debt forgiveness is enslavement to Sharia.

"Arab Spring" Update -- Sharia's Bustin' Out All Over

The Catastrophe of Public Education

What H.G. Wells says in his famous statement above is quite true. History is a race between education and catastrophe. Unfortunately, the manner in which education is delivered in the United States, and in other countries of the Western World, through public institutitions, now is itself the catastrophe. Rather than preventing a larger historical catastrophe, public education is now promoting and contributing to just such a thing.

This is not exactly news. It was already realized early in the 1980's (the federal report, "A Nation at Risk," 1983) that students were graduating from high school, and often from college, without knowing much of anything. Sometimes they were functionally illiterate, especially from inner city schools. Alarms were continually sounded through the 1990's, such as with Thomas Sowell's splendid Inside American Education, The Decline, The Deception, the Dogmas [The Free Press, 1993]. But now, after a good thirty years, and with some marginal improvements in some places, the general problem is just as bad, if not in certain respects worse. With some regularity, polls seem to show that graduates know little about history, government, literature, science, economics, geography, etc.

In the 80's, it was easily recognized that one problem with the schools was just the "dumbing down" of the curriculum. Less and less was expected of students, often deliberately, so as not to damage their self-esteem; and, indeed, international surveys showed that American students felt better about themselves, even when their performance was dismal in international comparisons. Students from say, Korea, felt worse about themselves but accomplished much more. This was a trend that should have been reversed just as easily as it was recognized. But it wasn't. In 1988, E.D. Hirsch published a book, Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know, talking about the essential general knowledge that education should be conveying; but the educational Establishment ignored this.

Nor is this just an American phenomenon. Theodore Dalrymple, a British psychiatrist practicing at a public hospital and a prison, in his marvelous Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass [Ivan R. Dee, 2003], remarks that he didn't know what disturbed him more, that the young toughs of his experience were tatooing themselves with swastikas, or that they actually didn't know, thanks to British education, who had actually used the swastika (the Nazis) and what they had done (dictatorship, war, mass murder). His regular experience with the young patients he saw was that they knew little about anything.

Why this has all happened is not all that mysterious, nor why it has proven so difficult to reverse the trend. There has just not been the political will, or perhaps even the political means, to accomplish reform -- with a smokescreen of lies and deceptions confusing the matter. Indeed, I believe that the system is simply unreformable, and the only solution is to allow students and parents to escape it.

The root of the problem can be summarized in three terms: (1) teachers' unions, (2) education schools, and (3) the federal government. Each of these has become its own rent-seeking and bureaucratic institution, following a dynamic, well described by Public Choice Economics, that serves themselves as institutions but bears little relation to what most people would think of as the purposes of education, let alone public education. The most disturbing feature of this dynamic is the extent to which ignorance promotes the control and purposes of the educational establishment better than the successful dissemination of knowledge would. . .

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Obama was a C to C- student!!!

Remember when the big (liberal) deal was to make fun of George Bush's intelligence???

Well, look who's running the country now:

Obama is the LAST person she has ever met that she would have thought would be President of ANYTHING, let alone, of the United States.

So now we are the United States of Titanic just because liberals all worship skin reflectance values ranging from 19 to 46!

Arizona: NO. Fisting: YES.

Democrats. Figures. Highland Park School Official Won’t Send Students to Arizona But She’ll Send Them to Secret GLSEN Gay Sex Classes...

Evidently, Obama didn’t get the message...

Voters-Be-Damned…Obama Plows Ahead With Radical Agenda- Will Nationalize Student Loan Industry

OMG! Like, before he was 30, Obama was a law review editor! ZOMG-OMG!!1!

"Besotted nitwits" (liberals), please open your eyes before you walk off a cliff somewhere (oh...you already have)...OMG: a part-time non-tenure track lecturer who taught seminar classes in the basement at Chicago Law School, and who allowed his own law license to become inactive in 2002 (but who nevertheless continued to permit his part-time law firm to hold him out to the public as "of counsel" until 2004), is now going to pick the next member of the SCOTUS.