Veeeery interesting connection; never thought of it that way.

I agree it is ludicrous that the boy in England was given an award for what he did on a bus, but the truth is that the certification was set up for people with severe learning difficulties.

Not for people like the kid in the story.

Hence the reason the staff needed to be there to oversee the person’s ability to do the tasks. As a relative of mine has taught people with learning difficulties to use a bus independently, she knows that many of the tasks we may take for granted need to be emphasized for those who need help.

It’s a great story sure, and the boy shouldn’t have been sent this certificate, but the truth is that this AQA was intended solely for people with learning problems.

fear = ignorance

The facts man, the facts!

See also his interviews with Beck, Hannity, Cavuto.

There is evidence a birth was reported — from data that could have been created any time after the birth — but that evidence has been discredited as counterfeit by at least three qualified examiners.

There’s no evidence of a marriage between Stanley Anne Dunham and Barack Obama Sr. — no “marriage announcement” — no blood tests — no marriage license — no photographs — no minister, judge or guru — no witnesses or guests — no cake — no limo — no one caught the garter or the bouquet — there wasn’t a bridal shower.

The first and only known reference to a marriage appears in Anna’s 1964 divorce filing, a sworn court document that contains demonstrably false statements. There’s no evidence that Obama Sr. was ever served with a copy — Senior was in Africa. Whatever facts Ann Dunham provided to her attorney were her version of the facts of the relationship. Funny thing, one the best documented parts of Anna’s life are her divorces.

There’s no evidence that Anna and Obama Sr. ever lived together except a questionable “birth announcement” and there’s no evidence that Barack Obama Sr. is the father of Obama.

I find the 1972 visit interesting. A lot of things were coming together in 1972. Anna brought “Barry” to Hawaii from Jakarta — somebody got Barry lined up to attend the prestigious Punahou School — Senior was sliding out of favor with his superiors in the Kenyan government — and out of the blue — another coincidence — Senior shows up in Hawaii — “on family business” — the only time the two Obamas laid eyes on each other. What brought Senior to Hawaii — in and out — “on family business.” Was a deal made?

No state, county, city or town has declared itself the birthplace of Obama.

No hospital claims Obama was born in its facility or on its grounds — no doctor claims to be the person who brought the Obamamessiah into the world — no midwife, nurse or nurse’s aid has ever claimed they were present at the blessed event — there’s no delivery room imprint of baby Barack’s footprint.

There’s no original “Certificate of Birth” — none — nada — zero — zilch — and nobody has ever said they saw one — no one has ever said, “I have seen Barack Obama’s original birth certificate.” — no one, except Obama, himself.

On page 26 of “Dreams…,” Obama writes, “I discovered this article, folded away among my birth certificate and old vaccination forms, when I was in high school….”

Now there’s no birth certificate or old vaccination forms — there’s no scrapbook either — there’s nothing. Remember Obama’s raid on grandmother Madelyn’s typical white apartment, the evening of her death — Obama made sure his life was clean — whatever mementoes and records were in the 86 year-old’s apartment accompanied Madelyn to the other side — their ashes are also in the Pacific — the only real things in his life are in the Pacific — and Michelle was video’d jumping onto Obama in an expression of delight — odd behavior at a burial — why’d she do that?

Do you know what we do have? We got Obama’s word that he’s on the level.

There are no physical paper documents related to Obama during the first five years of his life in the public domain — and, there isn’t a single piece of paper that documents the relationship of Stanley Ann and Senior in the year proceeding his life. There is nothing.

What Obama offers up is an alleged “autobiography” that is so full of lies, misrepresentations and mischaracterizations that it is correctly described as mythology.

People have been know to puff up a resume or two, but few have ever made up a complete life history — and that’s exactly what “Dreams…” is — it’s a myth — Obama’s idealized version of his life — but it’s all made up — like Obama, it isn’t real — but it was first — now, it’s what most people know about him. It’s Obama’s version of the facts — demonstrably so — but he wants us to know that he’s on the level.

Obots say they have documentation — they have Obama’s “Certification of Live Birth (COLB),” which they always describe as a “birth certificate,” and the magic birth announcements — both “discovered” in the summer of 2008. Somebody in the campaign obviously decided that Obama could be nominated and they better come up some documentation — somebody might ask if the guy was eligible.

Obama’s “birth certificate” (COLB) appeared on June 12, 2008 on the DailyKos website without any reference as to who released it. There is no provenance explaining where the “birth certificate” (COLB), with the certificate number blacked out, came from. In Hawaii, birth certificates aren’t publicly available and reporters’ requests for one have been ignored for months. There is no explanation as to which official vouches for its origins or its authenticity.

Hawaii’s Hawaii State Registrar, Dr. Alvin T. Onaka, was asked if Janice Okubo, public information officer for the Hawaii Department of Health, had confirmed that his office produced a 2007 COLB, date-stamped June 6, 2007, with Obama’s birth information on it. His response was, “Absolutely not. No one in our office confirmed it.”

At least one judge has used the Internet COLB to dismiss a challenge to Obama’s eligibility.

And the birth announcements that appear out of the ether on July 22, 2008, raise more questions than they answer. The “birth announcement” is on microfilm/fiche from the Honolulu public library. The microfilm shows a notice placed in the Sunday Advertiser, and dated August 13, 1961. The announcement in the “Births, Marriages, Death” section reads: “Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama, 6085 Kalanianaole Hwy., son, Aug. 4.”

The problem is, Orland Scott Lefforge owned and occupied the house at 6085 Kalanianaole Highway. The “Obamas” didn’t live there. Mrs. Lefforge just happened to die 10 days prior to the appearance of the birth announcement that listed her address, so we can’t ask her. But we do know that the next door neighbor told investigators that, “his mama, and his papa never lived there.”

Beatrice Arakaki affirmed she was a neighbor of the address listed. She has lived at her current residence of 6075 Kalanianaole Highway from before 1961 to the present. Mrs. Arakaki told investigators that “his ‘mama,’ and his ‘papa’ never lived there.” Arakaki told investigators that she had no recollection of Obama being born or of the family living next door having a black child born to a white mother.

Not a shred of evidence links the Dunhams or Obamas to Kalanianaole Highway. Kalanianaole only surfaced in connection with the Obamas in July 2008. I don’t think you’ll be seeing a commemorative plaque on the old homestead anytime soon.

There is no evidence of Anna’s whereabouts in July 1961. If we knew where she actually was in July 1961, we would have half the puzzle solved. But we don’t.

We know that Anna lived apart from Senior — he in Hawaii — she in Seattle. Senior never spent one day under the same roof as his namesake. Anna returned to Hawaii after Senior returned to Africa to complete her degree, and begin Obama’s education. She enrolled Obama in the Noelani Elementary School Kindergarten.

Now, get this — Obama’s kindergarten records went missing from the the State of Hawaii Department of Education. Millions of kids go through Hawaii’s kindergartens. Damned bad luck! Obama’s kindergarten records have been “lost.” Just another strange coincidence in a series of coincidences.

This loss is important, because Kindergarten records for original school entry would have contained Obama’s REAL Certificate of Birth and an application with the following:

• His Legal name
• Parents or Legal Guardians’ names
• Date of Birth
• Place of Birth
• Vaccination Records (revealing a timeline to the place and DOB)

And although Obama has had a first-class education, that spanned 25 years, there is only a single document that has ever been released — an application for admission to the Fransiscus Assisi Primary School in Jakarta, Indonesia — the document was discovered by independent investigators.

The Obots attacked that authentic document, because it identifies Obama as a Muslim and a citizen of Indonesia. It’s really something! They love all his phony documentation, but attack the one actual piece of paper that has been released to the public — and, there’ll be nothing else coming from Indonesia.

Our guy in Jakarta reports that on the 3rd of July 2007, U.S. Congressman Eni Faleomavaega touched down in Jakarta, Indonesia on one of those wonderful, taxpayer-paid junkets. According to his Indonesian sources, the “officials” who accompanied Faleomavaega were interested in acquiring any and all documentation or photographs of a young Barry Soetoro for America’s “national archives” and they were offering cash, lots of it. In a show of faith, Barack Obama’s childhood school would be one of the very first beneficiaries of this outpouring receiving thousands of dollars to upgrade the school and for the purchase of computer equipment, thanks in part to the benevolence of this visiting junket.

There followed a lifetime of “missing” documentation — but it must a coincidence — it has to be a coincidence — just keep telling yourself, “it’s a coincidence.”

Obama/Dunham divorce — Released (by independent investigators)
Soetoro/Dunham marriage license — Not released
Soetoro adoption records — Not released
Punahou School records — Not released
Soetoro/Dunham divorce — Released (by independent investigators)
Selective Service Registration — Released — Probable counterfeit
Occidental College records — Not released and vigorously defended
Passport records — Not released and official government passport files scrubbed clean by John O. Brennan — now Obama’s terrorism and intelligence czar

Just a coincidence?

Columbia College records — Not released
Columbia thesis — “Soviet Nuclear Disarmament” — Not released
Harvard College records — Not released
Harvard Law Review articles — None
Illinois Bar Records — Not released
Baptism certificate — None
Medical records — Not released (unless you count a one-pager from his personal physician saying Obama’s healthy)

Just a coincidence?

Law practice client list — Not released
University of Chicago scholarly articles — None
Annenberg Challenge Board Minutes — None
Illinois State Senate records — None
Illinois State Senate schedule — Lost

Almost 50 years old and there’s no paper trail — coincidence, Mr. Bazer? Would you hire someone with this curriculum vitae? The man is completely undocumented. You don’t know anything about Obama — operative word, KNOW. None of us really do because he and his life are undocumented — an impossible coincidence — and Obama fiercely defends the release of what documentation is available.

Some of us believe that something isn’t on the level and that we are entitled as United States citizens to ask any damned politician who he is, what his politics are, what his agenda is, where he came from and who sent him.

You do know Obama could end all of this with a single phone call — why doesn’t he press the button?

what a pity

It’s a sad thing to see the world decay. I feel like Eddie Willers at the end of Atlas Shrugged, I can’t let it go, but at the same time I also know that minds ruined by disinformation and public education can’t be expected to think rationally.

Your description, “rigid gestalts formed from unknowable visual fragments”, and Oleg’s analogy about “a prefabricated optical lens that redirects incoming information and rearranges the existing dots”, both tie in with something Ayn Rand said about education…

“If you want to grasp what the comprachicos’ methods have done to the mind of a high-school student, remember that the intellect is often compared to the faculty of sight. Try to project what you would feel if your eyesight were damaged in such a way that you were left with nothing but peripheral vision. You would sense vague, unidentifiable shapes floating around you, which would vanish when you tried to focus on them, then would reappear on the periphery and swim and switch and multiply. This is the mental state — and the terror — produced in their students by the comprachicos of Progressive education.” — from The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution

And yet some heroic individuals do make it through the system with functional minds, and they can make more of a difference than ever. Like Daniel Hannan for example, he rocked the world with this one brilliant speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs

So while I’m going Galt, I’m not counting out Han Solo.

I have an advantage here. Of my own volition I saw practically no movies and no TV for 40 years — instead I worked and traveled and studied. Now I’m retired and get to see a few movies on cable TV. My advantage is that my criticism is not verdigrised by gradualism. I truly can compare then (1950s) and now (1990s…).

I don’t see Aristotle’s aesthetics reflected by much I see, and the boy-toys and super fems don’t act, they parade, but I guess that’s because they have no story to tell.

Again, the media and academia gobbled up the Cold War enemy propaganda and stuffed it into three generations, whose philosophies now amount to nothing more than rigid gestalts formed from unknowable visual fragments. The 60s Demogogic Party locked their minds by inventing thought control by PC and MC, so don’t expect intellectual change.

The trajectory Greek-Roman-Renaissance-Enlightenment-Industrialization plummets. Go Galt.

MYTHS AND FACTS ABOUT OBAMACARE
Why after reading this MYTHS AND FACTS ABOUT OBAMACARE do I suddenly want a “Picture ” off the cover of Time Magazine 12 times in the last 16 months
of someone with big Ears on the wall and throw Darts at it and stick Pins in it and Chant a Haitian Medicine Dr.s Death wish ?
This should make us ”Feel Better ” !
Go to U Tube or Drudge today .
Reagan’s COMMON SENSE speech is far more in-vogue today than in 1961 !

1961: Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine…