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RE: Sarah Palin 451 - 9/3/2008 5:46:26 PM

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We need to create a "Thread Title of the Week" award.
This wins, hands down.

Sarah Palin: 451 degrees of Flaming Vice President

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RE: Sarah Palin 451 - 10/3/2008 1:31:12 PM

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Okay, since it's "Banned Book Week" I thought I'd ressurect this thread from about 30 pages back. Mainly, because it's STILL hanging on in the news, and at least now we have an actual set of titles that she was intending to have blocked from being part of the Wassila library. First, is a book called "Go Ask Alice" about a girl who gets involved with drugs, disobeays her parents, has sex, and ends up in a mental institution and dies... (Palin wanted to ban an "ABC After School Special?") ***shrug*** The other book she wanted removed was one called "Pastor, I am Gay." Which was written by a local Alaskan author. From what I understand, it's about a young man who is trying to come out, and is seeking help from his local pastor, who (in a surprise twist) does NOT try to destroy his life, or make him feel that God hates him.

Well, I can see why the Mayor of Wassilla would have issues with that...

Verification: The Onion's AV Club, "The Hater" online column, "Happy Banned Books Week!" (dated the 29th of Sept.)

Of course, this would have only been the start. Once she had scored a success, no doubt Harry Potter and Stephen King would have been next up. Followed by any books on alternative religions, or dissenting political opinion.

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RE: Sarah Palin 451 - 10/3/2008 1:51:18 PM

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I dont see what the problem is?

People who dont think and do as I think and do are clearly either
a) insane
b) evil
c) subject to bad influences such as books, written by people in category (a) or category (b)

Since the insane can be locked away for treatment and the evil locked away for their crimes, I can make the world perfect (ie in total agreement with me) if only I can prevent people being subjected to bad influences. So like I said, whats the problem?

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RE: Sarah Palin 451 - 10/4/2008 4:53:59 PM

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Oh, yes, LadyE, it's all so clear to me now...

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RE: Sarah Palin 451 - 10/4/2008 8:37:32 PM

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Just announced, the Sarah Palin scandal/concern du jour: as mayor of FrozenMooseDick, Alaska, (pop. 9000, approximately 1/4 the number of people who showed up for the DNC last week) She checked with her local librarian to find out what steps she would have to go through to get certain books banned from library shelves. Not just to keep kids from reading things that might be too "adult" for them, but rather to ban them entirely, so they would not be publicly available to ANYONE. The local librarian was appalled at the request, and has come forward with this information, even through she imagines it will eventually cost her her job.

Shades of things to come...

Come on guy..you can do better than retread this old story! And, an erroneous story at that...one of the books that Sarah was accused of trying to ban because it glamorized withchcraft was Harry Potter, a book that wasn't even published at the time.

My question is "why are libs so fixated on Sarah Palin, so hysterical about a simple soccor mom? Could it be that she represents more of what makes up the heartland of Amerca, not Beverly Hills, those mansions in San Francisco that host Obama, or the West Side of Manhattan with its lost and forgotton hippies of the 1960's and their thirty year old kids waiting for the dictatorship of the proletariat.

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RE: Sarah Palin 451 - 10/4/2008 8:52:12 PM

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A school library is now equivalent to a public library? Okey-doke.

Good point, I was thinking the same thing. While I might not agree with the arguments and the decisions, objecting to a book read in school is a completely different issue. When a book is assigned reading, it forces the child to read it and some parents might object to that.

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RE: Sarah Palin 451 - 10/4/2008 8:56:49 PM

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Actually Cory, you are mistaken. Although I said that she probably would have gotten around to Potter and Stephen King, she didn't target either J.K. or Stephen specifically. The list that was passed around the 'net, supposedly a list of books she tried to ban, was in error. It was just a list taken from a site which lists all the books that school boards and public libraries have been defending in various court cases recently.

As far as I can tell, the "A.V. Club" is the first article to mention the actual titles she and her "church ladies" in Wassila, intended to remove from public view.

As far as to "why we don't like Palin"... "a simple soccer Mom" from Alaska... Well, she's running for the second most powerful job in the United States. Possibly number one, should McCain not make it through his first term as President, either from outright death, or ending up on a ventilator in a private room somewhere. And, gosh darn it, it just seems to me that having "a simple soccer Mom" in charge of our nuclear aresenal, and our combined military might, just makes me a little on edge, don'tcha know? Especially when that "simple soccer Mom" couldn't find Iran on a map if her life depended on it. Hell, she's five weeks in to her "campaign" and she still hasn't bothered to pick up a copy of the Constitution, and look up what the definition of the position of VP entails! (Article One, Section 3, Clause 4, BTW...) The other night at the debate, when asked about the duties and responsabilities of the office, Biden had to correct her. She gave the Cheany "Darth Vader" response that the VP was, in essence, a fourth branch of the government, who answered to no one.

That's why I dislike this "simple soccer Mom": she's utterly unprepared for the job. Literally, from the press interviews so far, I'd say Paris Hilton would have been a better choice... (at least she has a viable energy policy)

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RE: Sarah Palin 451 - 10/4/2008 9:39:41 PM

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Here's a MUST-WATCH video about Moose the "Maverick". Now I know where I heard her bullshit before. She's been programmed by GoPAC!!!!! Hahahaha outsider my ass. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/26860653#27015517

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