[kj] OT - List of books Sarah Palin wanted banned

[Alexander Smith]

It was a joke. Put down that flag and grow a sense of humor.

Alex in NYC


On Sep 7, 2008, at 1:29 PM, The Exorcist wrote:


> Nice try but silly. It was all over the papers and the blogs.

> It's what caused Palin to talk about her 17 year old being pregnant  

> in order

> to refute such bullshit.

>

> Next...

>

> At 12:07 PM 9/7/2008, Alexander Smith wrote:

>> "her not being the mother of her child Trig"

>>

>> Hadn't heard that one. YOU'RE SPREADING SCANDAL!!!!

>>

>> Alex in NYC

>>

>>

>> On Sep 7, 2008, at 1:31 AM, The Exorcist wrote:

>>

>>> Nope... The Media went into it when someone started the rumor  

>>> about her not being the mother of her child Trig.

>>>

>>> At 12:40 AM 9/7/2008, Alexander Smith wrote:

>>>

>>>> "I'm glad to see we've now delved into the analysis of her child  

>>>> rearing. "

>>>>

>>>> She's the one who invokes her motherhood at every opportunity.  

>>>> That makes it fair game.

>>>>

>>>> Alex in NYC

>>>>

>>>>

>>>> On Sep 6, 2008, at 7:10 PM, The Exorcist wrote:

>>>>

>>>>> Huh? So if Bristol is 17 and can make her own decisions why are  

>>>>> people

>>>>> tacking her onto her Mother? You tell me... *shrug*

>>>>>

>>>>> There are plenty of people out there with different lives and  

>>>>> circumstances.

>>>>>

>>>>> Some have 10 kids and they're all well behaved, some have 2 and  

>>>>> all hell breaks loose.

>>>>>

>>>>> Have you seen any signs of neglect on her children? How many  

>>>>> WOMEN have gone to work shortly

>>>>> after having a child? Many! Especially if they have a husband  

>>>>> and family at home that can help

>>>>> with the kids.

>>>>>

>>>>> I'm glad to see we've now delved into the analysis of her child  

>>>>> rearing.

>>>>>

>>>>> Sincerely,

>>>>> Me

>>>>>

>>>>> At 06:42 PM 9/6/2008, Alexander Smith wrote:

>>>>>

>>>>>> "she loves her kid and didn't throw her out of the house..."

>>>>>>

>>>>>> You can prove this? Also, Bristol's 17 -- can't she make her  

>>>>>> own decisions?

>>>>>>

>>>>>> And if we're getting into the "good parenting" realm, how about  

>>>>>> the fact that she went back to work three days after her child  

>>>>>> with Down syndrome was born? Yeah, that's great parenting.

>>>>>>

>>>>>> Alex in NYC

>>>>>>

>>>>>>

>>>>>> On Sep 6, 2008, at 6:37 PM, sade1 wrote:

>>>>>>

>>>>>>> > she still loves her kid and didn't throw her out of the  

>>>>>>> house...

>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>   That's a 3-pointer, right there. That (above) is the  

>>>>>>> different between regular

>>>>>>> parenting and good parenting.

>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>

>>>>>>> ... ... ... ... ... ...

>>>>>>>

>>>>>>> [looking at the current state of things]

>>>>>>>

>>>>>>> 'Save me...

>>>>>>>   save me from Tomorrow..

>>>>>>>    I don't want to sail in this Ship Of Fools...!'

>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>

>>>>>>> --- On Sat, 9/6/08, The Exorcist < killingjoke at theimmortalfool.com 

>>>>>>> > wrote:

>>>>>>> From: The Exorcist < killingjoke at theimmortalfool.com>

>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [kj] OT - List of books Sarah Palin wanted banned

>>>>>>> To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net 

>>>>>>> >

>>>>>>> Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008, 3:23 PM

>>>>>>> Because her daughter got preggers means she's not consistent?

>>>>>>> You can believe in and something and preach it and teach it.  

>>>>>>> You can't FORCE someone

>>>>>>> to follow it. One has NOTHING to do with he other. How many  

>>>>>>> parents have kids that don't listen to them?

>>>>>>> Raise them religious and kids are not religious, raise them  

>>>>>>> left wing/right wing and kids go against the grain?

>>>>>>> That's just anther cheap shot which is pathetic. How about her  

>>>>>>> daughter getting preggers and she still loves

>>>>>>> her kid and didn't throw her out of the house, ehhh?

>>>>>>> Sincerely,

>>>>>>> Me

>>>>>>> At 03:36 PM 9/6/2008, woody2shooz wrote:

>>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>> what does she restrict in her own family's home?

>>>>>>>> consistency and contraception apparently

>>>>>>>> sade1 wrote:

>>>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>>>    I wonder what movies she thought of banning also,

>>>>>>>>> since libraries do carry movies and cds and dvds...

>>>>>>>>> ..or better yet,

>>>>>>>>> what does she restrict in her own family's home?

>>>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>>> ... ... ... ... ... ...

>>>>>>>>> [looking at the current state of things]

>>>>>>>>> 'Save me...

>>>>>>>>>   save me from Tomorrow..

>>>>>>>>>    I don't want to sail in this Ship Of Fools...!'

>>>>>>>>> --- On Sat, 9/6/08, LONESTYLE at aol.com <LONESTYLE at aol.com>  

>>>>>>>>> wrote:

>>>>>>>>> From: LONESTYLE at aol.com <LONESTYLE at aol.com>

>>>>>>>>> Subject: [kj] OT - List of books Sarah Palin wanted banned

>>>>>>>>> To: gathering at misera.net

>>>>>>>>> Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008, 12:18 PM

>>>>>>>>> Check this one out...

>>>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>>> ~LB

>>>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>>> > Here is a list of books that Sarah Palin tried to have

>>>>>>>>> > banned from the

>>>>>>>>> > Wasilla Public Library, according to the official minutes

>>>>>>>>> > of the Library

>>>>>>>>> > Board. When she was unsuccessful at having these books

>>>>>>>>> > banned, she tried to

>>>>>>>>> > have the librarian fired.

>>>>>>>>> >

>>>>>>>>> > As many of you will notice, it is a hit parade for book

>>>>>>>>> > burners.

>>>>>>>>> >

>>>>>>>>> > A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

>>>>>>>>> >   A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

>>>>>>>>> >   Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden

>>>>>>>>> >   As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

>>>>>>>>> >   Blubber by Judy Blume

>>>>>>>>> >   Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

>>>>>>>>> >   Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

>>>>>>>>> >   Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

>>>>>>>>> >   Carrie by Stephen King

>>>>>>>>> >   Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

>>>>>>>>> >   Christine by Stephen King

>>>>>>>>> >   Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

>>>>>>>>> >   Cujo by Stephen King

>>>>>>>>> >   Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen

>>>>>>>>> >   Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite

>>>>>>>>> >   Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck

>>>>>>>>> >   Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

>>>>>>>>> >   Decameron by Boccaccio

>>>>>>>>> >   East of Eden by John Steinbeck

>>>>>>>>> >   Fallen Angels by Walter Myers

>>>>>>>>> >   Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John

>>>>>>>>> > Cleland

>>>>>>>>> >   Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes

>>>>>>>>> >   Forever by Judy Blume

>>>>>>>>> >   Grendel by John Champlin Gardner

>>>>>>>>> >   Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam

>>>>>>>>> >   Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

>>>>>>>>> >   Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

>>>>>>>>> >   Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

>>>>>>>>> >   Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

>>>>>>>>> >   Have to Go by Robert Munsch

>>>>>>>>> >   Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman

>>>>>>>>> >   How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell

>>>>>>>>> >   Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

>>>>>>>>> >   I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

>>>>>>>>> >   Impressions edited by Jack Booth

>>>>>>>>> >   In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak

>>>>>>>>> >   It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein

>>>>>>>>> >   James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

>>>>>>>>> >   Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

>>>>>>>>> >   Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

>>>>>>>>> >   Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

>>>>>>>>> >   Lord of the Flies by William Golding

>>>>>>>>> >   Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein

>>>>>>>>> >   Lysistrata by Aristophanes

>>>>>>>>> >   More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

>>>>>>>>> >   My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and

>>>>>>>>> > Christopher Collier

>>>>>>>>> >   My House by Nikki Giovanni

>>>>>>>>> >   My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara

>>>>>>>>> >   Night Chills by Dean Koontz

>>>>>>>>> >   Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

>>>>>>>>> >   On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer

>>>>>>>>> >   One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander

>>>>>>>>> > Solzhenitsyn

>>>>>>>>> >   One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

>>>>>>>>> >   One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

>>>>>>>>> >   Ordinary People by Judith Guest

>>>>>>>>> >   Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health

>>>>>>>>> > Collective

>>>>>>>>> >   Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

>>>>>>>>> >   Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl

>>>>>>>>> >   Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin

>>>>>>>>> > Schwartz

>>>>>>>>> >   Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

>>>>>>>>> >   Separate Peace by John Knowles

>>>>>>>>> >   Silas Marner by George Eliot

>>>>>>>>> >   Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

>>>>>>>>> >   Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

>>>>>>>>> >   The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

>>>>>>>>> >   The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

>>>>>>>>> >   The Bastard by John Jakes

>>>>>>>>> >   The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

>>>>>>>>> >   The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

>>>>>>>>> >   The Color Purple by Alice Walker

>>>>>>>>> >   The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth

>>>>>>>>> >   The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs

>>>>>>>>> >   The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

>>>>>>>>> >   The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

>>>>>>>>> >   The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

>>>>>>>>> >   The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder

>>>>>>>>> >   The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks

>>>>>>>>> >   The Living Bible by William C. Bower

>>>>>>>>> >   The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

>>>>>>>>> >   The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles

>>>>>>>>> > Wibbelsman

>>>>>>>>> >   The Pigman by Paul Zindel

>>>>>>>>> >   The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders

>>>>>>>>> >   The Shining by Stephen King

>>>>>>>>> >   The Witches by Roald Dahl

>>>>>>>>> >   The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder

>>>>>>>>> >   Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume

>>>>>>>>> >   To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

>>>>>>>>> >   Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

>>>>>>>>> >   Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the

>>>>>>>>> > Merriam-Webster

>>>>>>>>> >   Editorial Staff

>>>>>>>>> >   Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the

>>>>>>>>> > Halloween

>>>>>>>>> >   Symbols by Edna Barth

>>>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>>> Psssst...Have you heard the news? There's a new fashion  

>>>>>>>>> blog, plus the latest fall trends and hair styles at  

>>>>>>>>> StyleList.com.

>>>>>>>>>

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>>>>> Competition is a barbaric, insensitive ritual that reeks of  

>>>>> social Darwinism.

>>>>> We cannot allow the fittest to survive on our pages. Your loss  

>>>>> is someone

>>>>> else's gain, and your gain is someone else's loss. Therefore,  

>>>>> losers contribute

>>>>> to the society and winners take away from it. Being a winner is  

>>>>> unethical, while

>>>>> a society of losers is happy and striving as a collective. In  

>>>>> the spirit of diversity,

>>>>> inclusiveness, and collectivism our contests shall have no  

>>>>> winners.

>>>>> Everyone is declared a loser, which in our book means an ethical  

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>>> Competition is a barbaric, insensitive ritual that reeks of social  

>>> Darwinism.

>>> We cannot allow the fittest to survive on our pages. Your loss is  

>>> someone

>>> else's gain, and your gain is someone else's loss. Therefore,  

>>> losers contribute

>>> to the society and winners take away from it. Being a winner is  

>>> unethical, while

>>> a society of losers is happy and striving as a collective. In the  

>>> spirit of diversity,

>>> inclusiveness, and collectivism our contests shall have no winners.

>>> Everyone is declared a loser, which in our book means an ethical  

>>> team player.

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> Competition is a barbaric, insensitive ritual that reeks of social  

> Darwinism.

> We cannot allow the fittest to survive on our pages. Your loss is  

> someone

> else's gain, and your gain is someone else's loss. Therefore, losers  

> contribute

> to the society and winners take away from it. Being a winner is  

> unethical, while

> a society of losers is happy and striving as a collective. In the  

> spirit of diversity,

> inclusiveness, and collectivism our contests shall have no winners.

> Everyone is declared a loser, which in our book means an ethical  

> team player.

>

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