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(Spiegel) Stupid Evangelical family gets political asylum in another country because state wouldn't let their five kids be home-schooled to avoid "anti-Christian worldview" taught in public schools   (spiegel.de) divider line 510
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St_Francis_P [TotalFark]
2010-01-30 09:09:10 PM
A German couple who wanted to homeschool their children have been granted political asylum in the US.

Little good that will do them once Obama puts them in the detention camp.
 
sunbird
2010-01-30 09:14:48 PM
I wonder if all the fundies who are thrilled about this will feel when a German Muslim family pulls the same stunt.

/Europe to start exporting its fundies to the US like its 1689 all over again!
//If only there was a large dry place to send the criminals....
 
sunbird
2010-01-30 09:15:37 PM
sunbird: I wonder if how all the fundies who are thrilled about this will feel when a German Muslim family pulls the same stunt.


FTFM
 
verbal_jizm [TotalFark]
2010-01-30 10:32:38 PM
GaryPDX: No more Public Socialist Indoctrination School for my kids or grandchildren.

You're just like the comics. Entertaining at the beginning but after a while, just so predictable.
 
GAT_00 [TotalFark]
2010-01-30 11:25:44 PM
I was going to say "And nothing of value was lost" but then I RTFA and saw they came here. I'm going with "Goddammit" instead.
 
Kirk's_Toupee
2010-01-30 11:48:40 PM
at first i assumed it was people in the us and i was like good go to whateverstan..but then i saw this...St_Francis_P: A German couple who wanted to homeschool their children have been granted political asylum in the US.



and then i was like crap.
 
all the good names are gone [TotalFark]
2010-01-30 11:50:21 PM
And here I was hoping we finally got a few wacko fundies out of our country...
 
Winktologist [TotalFark]
2010-01-30 11:57:09 PM
GaryPDX: verbal_jizm: GaryPDX: No more Public Socialist Indoctrination School for my kids or grandchildren.

You're just like the comics. Entertaining at the beginning but after a while, just so predictable.

We are free thinkers. Sorry that bothers you, comrade.

You sure are free thinkers, just like all the others.
 
Lionel Mandrake [TotalFark]
2010-01-31 12:14:00 AM
Great...more batshiat fundies in America. Just what we need.

Thanks a lot.
 
Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude
2010-01-31 12:30:34 AM
Bahahahaha. You enjoy. We're more than willing to send the muslim fundies too.
 
UNC_Samurai
2010-01-31 12:31:15 AM
www.theboxset.com
 
adamgreeney [TotalFark]
2010-01-31 12:31:20 AM
GaryPDX: verbal_jizm: GaryPDX: No more Public Socialist Indoctrination School for my kids or grandchildren.

You're just like the comics. Entertaining at the beginning but after a while, just so predictable.

We are free thinkers. Sorry that bothers you, comrade.

Yes, and what delightful debate tactics you learned. I mean, who can argue with the conservative insult generator and personal attacks? Those schools really paid off.
 
GAT_00 [TotalFark]
2010-01-31 12:31:32 AM
Winktologist: GaryPDX: verbal_jizm: GaryPDX: No more Public Socialist Indoctrination School for my kids or grandchildren.

You're just like the comics. Entertaining at the beginning but after a while, just so predictable.

We are free thinkers. Sorry that bothers you, comrade.

You sure are free thinkers, just like all the others.

He's such a free thinker, nobody listens to anything he says. His ideas are free from all outside influence and influence nobody.
 
penthesilea [TotalFark]
2010-01-31 12:36:31 AM
FTFA: In November 2007, the Federal Supreme Court ruled that parents can even be deprived of the custody of their children>

It's one thing to want some minimum standards or regulation, but Germany is far too rigid when it comes to homeschooling.
 
robmilmel [TotalFark]
2010-01-31 12:36:33 AM
GaryPDX: No more Public Socialist Indoctrination School for my kids or grandchildren.

Great...more of you brain-dead turds.
 
Sgt Otter [TotalFark]
2010-01-31 12:40:00 AM
...great. The Iraqi interpreters who actually risked their lives and the lives of their families to assist the U.S. military still have a backlog of asylum applications.
 
El_Frijole_Blanco [TotalFark]
2010-01-31 12:42:12 AM
GaryPDX: My kids went to private school. No more Public Socialist Indoctrination School for my kids or grandchildren. Private School or Home School only.

The private school I can understand but homeschooling is a recipe for a brood of morons
 
El_Frijole_Blanco [TotalFark]
2010-01-31 12:42:56 AM
You know who else was home schooled



\\\Oblig
 
Snarfangel [TotalFark]
2010-01-31 12:45:06 AM
Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude: Bahahahaha. You enjoy. We're more than willing to send the muslim fundies too.

Wait, Germany wants to start shipping out members of a minority religion?

/whistles innocently.
 
oldebayer
2010-01-31 12:55:35 AM
They said that their children were being "educated according to an anti-Christian worldview" in public schools, and that textbooks are filled with obscene language, swear words and blasphemy. "They're more about vampires and witches than about God,"

Where were these textbooks when I was in school?
 
itazurakko [TotalFark]
2010-01-31 01:14:24 AM
Ah yes, the HSLDA!

Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude: Bahahahaha. You enjoy. We're more than willing to send the muslim fundies too.

Indeed. I'm hoping to see at least one case, this could get interesting.
 
itazurakko [TotalFark]
2010-01-31 01:18:20 AM
Sgt Otter: ...great. The Iraqi interpreters who actually risked their lives and the lives of their families to assist the U.S. military still have a backlog of asylum applications.

They don't want to give up their culture entirely? It can be a long wait...

/alas
 
Bonzo_1116
2010-01-31 01:19:29 AM
$5 says Frau Romeike pops out an anchor baby within the year, and they start drawing WIC.
 
NewportBarGuy [TotalFark]
2010-01-31 01:20:30 AM
Sgt Otter: ...great. The Iraqi interpreters who actually risked their lives and the lives of their families to assist the U.S. military still have a backlog of asylum applications.

I wish more people understood what blowback meant. I can't wait to see the day the people we backed get overthrown and Iraq splits into three factional regions, then two as the Sunnis pick a side.

I can't wait because I'll sit back, take a long pull off a beer, and watch history play itself out again. The final chapter of Iraq is yet to be written, and it's going to be a real downer.

It was perhaps the most bullshiat war of all bullshiat wars. We're going to actually lose power and influence in the region, contrary to PNAC military and political projections.

I really want to see how history treats Iraq, it is a cruel biatch.
 
GAT_00 [TotalFark]
2010-01-31 01:27:50 AM
NewportBarGuy: I really want to see how history treats Iraq, it is a cruel biatch.

It will probably be remembered as worse than Vietnam, for the simple reason that Communism didn't win, meaning that Iraq is going to probably go down as the dumbest and worst managed war of all time. And when history mentions that, it will mention with it the man who had the brilliant idea to go there and his little speech on a carrier.
 
Shostie [TotalFark]
2010-01-31 01:33:23 AM
GAT_00: I was going to say "And nothing of value was lost" but then I RTFA and saw they came here. I'm going with "Goddammit" instead.

Yeah. An extra seven is going to make such a massive difference.
 
Hobo Jr.
2010-01-31 01:33:28 AM
Damn it, these people need to stay out of my country.

We don't need no stinkin foreigners with their weird religion and customs.
 
PunchDrunkPanda
2010-01-31 01:33:58 AM
Sgt Otter: ...great. The Iraqi interpreters who actually risked their lives and the lives of their families to assist the U.S. military still have a backlog of asylum applications.

So vote....ah forget it.
 
oroku_saki
2010-01-31 01:34:32 AM
GAT_00: I was going to say "And nothing of value was lost" but then I RTFA and saw they came here. I'm going with "Goddammit" instead.

That's exactly what I thought.
 
PunchDrunkPanda
2010-01-31 01:35:43 AM
GaryPDX: Private School or Home School only.


Even the Gitmo interrogators think that's a bit cruel, Gary.
 
jaerik
2010-01-31 01:36:01 AM
If you have to pull your kids out of public education because you think the entire curriculum, as agreed upon by (generally) democratic processes, is part of a vast conspiracy to indoctrinate them, doesn't that mean by sheer mathematics alone that your worldview has already lost?
 
dontpointthatthingatme
2010-01-31 01:36:21 AM
"Lutz Görgens, the German consul general for the southeastern United States ... "

Wow, really?
 
006andahalf
2010-01-31 01:37:10 AM
GAT_00: NewportBarGuy: I really want to see how history treats Iraq, it is a cruel biatch.

It will probably be remembered as worse than Vietnam, for the simple reason that Communism didn't win, meaning that Iraq is going to probably go down as the dumbest and worst managed war of all time. And when history mentions that, it will mention with it the man who had the brilliant idea to go there and his little speech on a carrier.

I'm gonna cheer when it does manage to hold together for a time. Not because I believe it or support such foreign policy adventures, but because I like being contrary.
 
Ringshadow [TotalFark]
2010-01-31 01:38:12 AM
I'd rather they home schooled their children then try to force public education to bend to their will.

/I'm looking at you, Texas
 
ShawnDoc [TotalFark]
2010-01-31 01:38:53 AM
GAT_00: NewportBarGuy: I really want to see how history treats Iraq, it is a cruel biatch.

It will probably be remembered as worse than Vietnam, for the simple reason that Communism didn't win, meaning that Iraq is going to probably go down as the dumbest and worst managed war of all time. And when history mentions that, it will mention with it the man who had the brilliant idea to go there and his little speech on a carrier.

The war itself went fine. Great in fact. It is the occupation and what happens afterwords that is the clusterfark.
 
skygod
2010-01-31 01:39:08 AM
Good riddance.
 
relcec
2010-01-31 01:40:23 AM
GAT_00: NewportBarGuy: I really want to see how history treats Iraq, it is a cruel biatch.

It will probably be remembered as worse than Vietnam, for the simple reason that Communism didn't win, meaning that Iraq is going to probably go down as the dumbest and worst managed war of all time. And when history mentions that, it will mention with it the man who had the brilliant idea to go there and his little speech on a carrier.

We lost in Vietnam, and it had no bearing whatsoever on the collapse of communism. I know it saddens you that it's starting to appear like we will achieve our objectives in Iraq, but you need to try to come to grips with that fact. 12X more Americans died in Vietnam and a couple million Vietnamese probably, never mind the fact it practically ripped apart our country and seriously damaged our military. Even if Iraq descended into chaos tomorrow and never recovered it could never be as bad as Vietnam. I'm starting to think you are the most delusional person on here.
 
shower_in_my_socks [TotalFark]
2010-01-31 01:40:31 AM
robmilmel: GaryPDX: No more Public Socialist Indoctrination School for my kids or grandchildren.

Great...more of you brain-dead turds.


Ah, but they'll have such great SOCIAL SKILLS... just like Gary. Every home-schooled kid I've met is awkward and strange. Their batshiat-crazy parents are totally f*cking them over.
 
Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude
2010-01-31 01:41:31 AM
Snarfangel: Wait, Germany wants to start shipping out members of a minority religion?

/whistles innocently.

Fine by me. The less fundies, the better.
 
Elvis_Pelt
2010-01-31 01:41:47 AM
elvis-pelt.com

I am GaryPDX

/way late, as usual
 
ChiWhiteSox_56
2010-01-31 01:41:53 AM
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

Hmm ... Nothing about fundie douchebags. No matter where this family goes, those kids won't get the chance to truly appreciate their freedom until they get out of their parents' house, provided they're not hopelessly brainwashed by then.

Parents don't always realize that the 'freedom of religion' part of the Bill of Rights applies to everyone - even their grown children.

// Bitter
 
ipeeintheshower
2010-01-31 01:42:08 AM
I think this family just wanted to live among the hardcore religious fundamentalists in the US that are just too thinly
spread out in Germany.
 
flypusher713
2010-01-31 01:43:07 AM
Ringshadow: I'd rather they home schooled their children then try to force public education to bend to their will.

/I'm looking at you, Texas

Our SBOE is a bad, tiresome, overly repeated joke, yes.

/fundie incumbents are on my political hit list
 
TommyymmoT [TotalFark]
2010-01-31 01:43:39 AM
GaryPDX: My kids went to private school. No more Public Socialist Indoctrination School for my kids or grandchildren. Private School or Home School only.

/The divide widens.

I went to private schools my entire life, and our philosophies vary greatly.

Indoctrination?
Pick yer flavor.
 
PunchDrunkPanda
2010-01-31 01:44:11 AM
ShawnDoc: The war itself went fine. Great in fact. It is the occupation and what happens afterwords that is the clusterfark.


Can't remember who initially posted it a few weeks ago, but this is a fantastic read from a different view on what coulda woulda shoulda. (new window)
 
CapStormfield
2010-01-31 01:44:33 AM
GAT_00: It will probably be remembered as worse than Vietnam, for the simple reason that Communism didn't win, meaning that Iraq is going to probably go down as the dumbest and worst managed war of all time.

Militarily, GWB put the US in a great position and we have bases at critical points all across the most volatile region in the world.

Of course, the left ain't happy until we lose - which I always thought was strange. Don't they know that it is their heads that will be first to the chopping blocks if we go full Muslim?

My other concern is with the morale of our armed forces. This latest sop by Obama to his most vocal supporters is not going well in military circles.

But then again, another barrier out of the way for the luscious left. Still, you'd think they'd realize ...
 
flypusher713
2010-01-31 01:46:29 AM
shower_in_my_socks: robmilmel: GaryPDX: No more Public Socialist Indoctrination School for my kids or grandchildren.

Great...more of you brain-dead turds.


Ah, but they'll have such great SOCIAL SKILLS... just like Gary. Every home-schooled kid I've met is awkward and strange. Their batshiat-crazy parents are totally f*cking them over.

I'm curious, what are the top ten professions for the home-schooled? What careers are most likely?

/Not trolling, I really want to know.
 
shower_in_my_socks [TotalFark]
2010-01-31 01:46:37 AM
relcec: it's starting to appear like we will achieve our objectives in Iraq


Are you f*cking serious? We achieved our objectives in Iraq? After moving the goal posts how many times, exactly? Let's see...

4,000 Americans dead, thousands more seriously wounded, tens-of-thousands of dead Iraqis, and NO F*CKING WMD PROGRAM! Nothing! We went there because Iraq was supposed to be an "imminent threat," and it F*CKING WASN'T. We invaded an entire nation and ripped it to pieces for NOTHING.

Unbelievable that you're so retarded and shameless that you would publicly state that we've achieved our objectives in Iraq. We didn't achieve sh*t because our entire reason for invading turned out to be a giant load of bullshiat sold to the world by our own leaders. It is a folly unmatched in American history and our grandchildren will still be living it down 50 years from now.
 
PunchDrunkPanda
2010-01-31 01:46:42 AM
CapStormfield: Of course, the left ain't happy until we lose - which I always thought was strange. Don't they know that it is their heads that will be first to the chopping blocks if we go full Muslim?

There are a lot of very strange things with these two sentences.
 
GardenWeasel
2010-01-31 01:48:04 AM
sunbird: crim

www.southwestern.edu
 
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