REMEMBER THIS LADY!

IRENA SENDLER

DIED 12 MAY 2008 (AGE 98)

Warsaw, Poland

The following story appeared in the South Florida Weekender a local, free newspaper distributed in North Palm Beach Florida and surrounding communities. The author asked that readers forward this article to honor Irena Sendler. The following is the unedited article entitled:

REMEMBER THIS LADY!

During WWII, Irena got permission to work in the Warsaw ghetto as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an ulterior motive.

            She KNEW what the Nazi’s plans were for the Jews (being German). Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the toolbox she carried and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack for larger kids.

            She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.

            During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out over 2,500 kids/infants.

            She was caught and the Nazi’s broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely.

Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it and reunited the family.

            Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed in foster homes or adopted. In 2007 Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected. Al Gore won--- for a slide show on Global Warming. Later another politician, Barack Hussein Obama, won for his work as a community organizer for ACORN. And let’s not forget Arafat, the terrorist, he too got the award…!!

            So much for the Nobel awards…

            In MEMORIAM – 65 YEARS LATER

            I’m doing my small part by forwarding this message.

I hope you will consider doing the same…

            It is now more than 65 years since the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the 6 million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 Million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests, who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated!

            Now more than ever, with Iran and others claiming the HOLOCAUST to be a myth, it’s imperative to make sure the world never forgets, because there are others who would like to do it again.  THE END

From Wikipedia: Irena Sendler (née Krzyżanowska, commonly referred to as Irena Sendlerowa in Poland; 15 February 1910 – 12 May 2008)[1] was a Polish Catholic social worker who served in the Polish Underground and the Żegota resistance organization in German-occupied Warsaw during World War II. Assisted by some two dozen other Żegota members, Sendler saved 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, providing them with false documents, and sheltering them in individual and group children's homes outside the Ghetto.[2]

       The author of "Remember This Lady"is anonymous.
       The Nobel Peace Prize has been a joke for many years. The once honored award has become a leftwing, political, monetary reward for American Democrat politicians and globally, the lunatic left. After Obama got his Peace Prize he promptly escalated the war in Afghanistan and proceed to blow the living hell out of half the Middle East and Africa while maintaining Gitmo!

            The South Florida Weekender is a fun little publication published by a local newsman, Joe Woolley. In my opinion the mass media, Pro-Democrat, PALM BEACH POST SUCKS in comparison!

STILL WAITING FOR SUPERMAN

STILL WAITING FOR SUPERMAN

            Jac Wilder VerSteeg of the Palm Beach Post published an editorial in the Sunday edition 12/11/11 entitled “Seek quality at ballot box”. He discusses pending lawsuits filed by parents and education activists against Florida, claiming that education is not paramount when it comes to State spending. Jac reports that in 1998 voters amended the state constitution requiring that Florida have a paramount duty to provide a high quality public education.

            Even in the face of the economic recession, Governor Rick Scott has proposed increasing the portion of the state budget dedicated to education by ONE BILLION DOLLARS. To the left, a billion taxpayer dollars is peanuts! The government pocket to them is a fathomless, infinite abyss stuffed with government money.
          Florida currently spends $6,900 per student for 190 teaching days per year. The NEA ranks Florida at 41^st out of 51 (50 states + D.C.) when it comes to the amount of “public revenue per student”. Despite the lower amount spent, the Quality Counts Report ranks Florida 5^th out of 51 in education results. This means that compared to the national average, Florida is providing a high quality education! This also means that the amount of money spent has no relationship to education quality. Need further proof?  New York State spends a whopping $18,126 per pupil and has a 38% failure rate of schools falling short of federal standards!  Compare N.Y. with Utah. Utah the lowest spending state has only 21% of schools failing to meet goals.

Waiting for Superman, a 2010 documentary film by director Davis Guggenheim was a devastating indictment of the public education system and mortifying exposure of the self-serving teachers unions. Michele Rhee an education activist and prominent figure in the documentary claims, “Money does not necessarily correlate with student achievement. In the last 30 years we have more than doubled the amount of spending per child… and results have gotten worse, not better.”

 

As usual Democrat’s assume, almost instinctively, that increased spending equates to increased quality. As if suffering from some type of genetic deficiency, the liberal mind can come to no other conclusion; government spending is the only remedy to any social problem. To the Democrat, other people’s money collected by the government and redistributed to government-favored institutions and projects is the only way of achieving social justice. History consistently shows the opposite effect and the federalization of education is yet another example.

Florida teachers should be rewarded for doing an exceptional job of educating our children efficiently. Our student achievement ranks 5^th and our spending rank is 41^st. In the private sector Florida’s education results would be viewed as a great achievement; to the socialist, Florida’s education system is being ripped off by not confiscating enough private sector money per student when compared to N.Y. Thus we have frivolous lawsuits brought by progressives to advance their personal, political and economic agendas, further wasting Florida’s resources and tax dollars.  

Jac Wilder VerSteeg apparently believes that lawsuits are not the proper method to make education paramount. His solution involves electing officials who will make education a priority. I agree. Where we disagree is when despite Governor Rick Scott’s desired billion dollar increase in funding, Jac apparently views Scott as not a friend of quality education; the socialist view, more money equals better education and a billion dollars of hard earned taxpayer money is simply not enough for Jac.

Until Clark Kent runs from the Palm Beach Post and dons Superman tights, and Jimmy Olsen agrees to be his campaign manager, Florida voters must keep electing more fiscally conservative leaders like Governor Scott who has given us an education rank in the top 5 nationally at a cost to the Florida taxpayer in the bottom 10.

Without massive government waste and fraud much can be accomplished in all sectors of society. The type of waste and corruption exposed by the film Waiting for Superman should not be tolerated anywhere, especially in education! Keep the education progressives in N.Y. and D.C. if that’s what the voters’ there desire! Keep them out of Florida!

We can always strive to be better, but for now I applaud Florida’s teachers for doing an outstanding job! In the private sector their success and efficiency might be rewarded by year-end bonuses. In public sector the motto of spend the budget money or lose it would apply. The tenured,  incompetent, union teachers exposed in Waiting for Superman and working in N.Y. and D.C. will likely mock the success of Florida's education system for not squeezing more cash out of the taxpayers.

Henry David Thoreau: “The more money, the less virtue.