This is the list of books Palin tried to have banned from the Wasilla library
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 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
This is the list of books Palin tried to have banned from the Wasilla library
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 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
> 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 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
>> This is the list of books Palin tried to have banned from the >> Wasilla library
> [snip--many standard works normally considered "great" by literate > people]
What's the source of this list?
> The woman is an ignoramus as well as an idiot.
I take it that you'll be vigorously campaigning to eliminate state-operated libraries in order to remove any political control over the availability of books.
>This is the list of books Palin tried to have banned from the Wasilla >library
There are good, factual reasons to not want someone like Palin a heartbeat away from the Presidency (I suspect that if you gave this woman that kind of power, she'd make Dubya look like a champion of freedom), but this list is bogus. I very much doubt that a small-town public library would even *have* all of these books, let alone that any one person would try to have *all* of them banned.
>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 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
> >> This is the list of books Palin tried to have banned from the > >> Wasilla library
> > [snip--many standard works normally considered "great" by literate > > people]
> What's the source of this list?
> > The woman is an ignoramus as well as an idiot.
> I take it that you'll be vigorously campaigning to eliminate > state-operated libraries in order to remove any political control over > the availability of books.
> State-run schools must be in your sights as well.
Why should you assume such an idiocy? Your "reasoning" appears to be about as clear as hers.
>> >> This is the list of books Palin tried to have banned from the >> >> Wasilla library
>> > [snip--many standard works normally considered "great" by >> > literate people]
>> What's the source of this list?
>> > The woman is an ignoramus as well as an idiot.
>> I take it that you'll be vigorously campaigning to eliminate >> state-operated libraries in order to remove any political control >> over the availability of books.
>> State-run schools must be in your sights as well.
> Why should you assume such an idiocy? Your "reasoning" appears to be > about as clear as hers.
So you're in favor of government-run libraries and the associated political control over the availability of books?
Why then are you so upset about this particular instance of a political involvement in the process?
> > >> This is the list of books Palin tried to have banned from the > > >> Wasilla library
> > > [snip--many standard works normally considered "great" by literate > > > people]
> > What's the source of this list?
> > > The woman is an ignoramus as well as an idiot.
> > I take it that you'll be vigorously campaigning to eliminate > > state-operated libraries in order to remove any political control over > > the availability of books.
> > State-run schools must be in your sights as well.
> Why should you assume such an idiocy? Your "reasoning" appears to be > about as clear as hers.
It wasn’t until this experience befell me that I realized how widespread the “fact” of evolution has become. To believe in the creation of the universe in an educational setting is social suicide. I often wonder why it has to be this way, and why so few are able to embrace the truth.
As I surfed the web tonight, I came across your web page, and a great burden was lifted off my back. The articles and resources have been such a blessing to my discouraged heart. It feels marvelous to know that there are others out there who bear the same plight as myself, and must face the “cold light of science” attitude embraced by the instructional population.
I hope that one day even leading evolutionists will have their eyes opened to the faultiness of the theory and be given salvation from the Lord. Criticizing these people is necessary, but we must all realize that apart from the grace of God, we would be just like them.
It is for this reason that I will continue to pray for my teachers and peers. I am interested in helping in anyway that I can. It would be a great honor, especially for an issue of such importance. I appreciate your efforts.
This is the list of books Palin tried to have banned from the Wasilla library
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 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 _______________________________________
thomas p
A quote from your source
"note: there’s some buzz being generated that says that this post contains a comment that lists the books that Palin supposedly wanted banned. The list is here, but there appears to be no truth to the claim made by the commenter, and no further documentation or support for this has turned up."
>>> >> This is the list of books Palin tried to have banned from the >>> >> Wasilla library
>>> > [snip--many standard works normally considered "great" by >>> > literate people]
>>> What's the source of this list?
>>> > The woman is an ignoramus as well as an idiot.
>>> I take it that you'll be vigorously campaigning to eliminate >>> state-operated libraries in order to remove any political control >>> over the availability of books.
>>> State-run schools must be in your sights as well.
>> Why should you assume such an idiocy? Your "reasoning" appears to be >> about as clear as hers.
> So you're in favor of government-run libraries and the associated > political control over the availability of books?
He did not say that, and there is no necessary connection between state financed and politically controlled.
> Why then are you so upset about this particular instance of a > political involvement in the process?
Perhaps it is because it is both illegal and contrary to principles concerning the free exchange of ideas.
This is the list of books Palin tried to have banned from the Wasilla library
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 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
%%%% Looking at just the titles I know I wouldn't want my grandchildren reading over half of these books. Many of the titles I'm not familiar with and a few titles were listed twice. Do you want your grade school child reading Fanny Hill or the Bible?
"Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor if sort of like a COMMUNITY ORGANIZER, except that you have actual RESPONSIBILITIES."
news:Xns9B0F6D08DAD31VeebleFetzer@204.153.245.20... | drdonmar...@comcast.net (Don Martin) wrote in | news:619ee6fb-4138-4b9e-a827-f11b5b12c965@n33g2000pri.googlegroups.com: | | > On Sep 4, 11:06 am, palin.bi...@yahoo.com wrote: | >> http://www.librarian.net/stax/2366/sarah-palin-vp-nominee | >> | >> This is the list of books Palin tried to have banned from the | >> Wasilla library | > | > [snip--many standard works normally considered "great" by literate | > people] | | What's the source of this list? | | > The woman is an ignoramus as well as an idiot. | | I take it that you'll be vigorously campaigning to eliminate | state-operated libraries in order to remove any political control over | the availability of books. | | State-run schools must be in your sights as well.
%%%% Did you notice the list contained subversive books like a dictionary, the bible and Little Red Riding Hood!
"Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor if sort of like a COMMUNITY ORGANIZER, except that you have actual RESPONSIBILITIES."
> This is the list of books Palin tried to have banned from the Wasilla > library
> 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 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
>> So you're in favor of government-run libraries and the associated >> political control over the availability of books?
> He did not say that,
Are you saying that?
> and there is no necessary connection between state financed and > politically controlled.
Perhaps not a "necessary" connection, but a universal one nonetheless.
>> Why then are you so upset about this particular instance of a >> political involvement in the process?
> Perhaps it is because it is both illegal and contrary to principles > concerning the free exchange of ideas.
Government operates by force, which is contrary to principles concerning the free exchange of ideas.
If you want politicians to control your library systems, education systems and medical systems, don't be surprised to find politics entering into every aspect of their operation.
> This is the list of books Palin tried to have banned from the > Wasilla library
From the Web page you cite:
"The list cited by Andrew AuCoin is not from Sarah Palin. It actually comes from http://www.adlerbooks.com/banned.html. Its a compendium of all books banned anywhere in the United States."
"Pretty obvious when one notes that Solzhenitzin was in the list, not exactly a conservative target. Anyone who DIDNT realize this was BS should be ashamed of themselves."
>> This is the list of books Palin tried to have banned from the Wasilla >> library
>> 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 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
>more lies..
The OP apparently doesn't realize that there's no need to lie about Palin to prove she's totally unqualified.
>>> >> This is the list of books Palin tried to have banned from the >>> >> Wasilla library
>>> > [snip--many standard works normally considered "great" by >>> > literate people]
>>> What's the source of this list?
>>> > The woman is an ignoramus as well as an idiot.
>>> I take it that you'll be vigorously campaigning to eliminate >>> state-operated libraries in order to remove any political control >>> over the availability of books.
>>> State-run schools must be in your sights as well.
>> Why should you assume such an idiocy? Your "reasoning" appears to be >> about as clear as hers.
>So you're in favor of government-run libraries and the associated >political control over the availability of books?
Planning on opening a scarecrow factory with that straw, Bert?
> This is the list of books Palin tried to have banned from the Wasilla > library
> 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 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
> > This is the list of books Palin tried to have banned from the > > Wasilla library
> From the Web page you cite:
> "The list cited by Andrew AuCoin is not from Sarah Palin. It actually > comes fromhttp://www.adlerbooks.com/banned.html. Its a compendium of > all books banned anywhere in the United States."
> "Pretty obvious when one notes that Solzhenitzin was in the list, not > exactly a conservative target. Anyone who DIDNT realize this was BS > should be ashamed of themselves."
It took me roughly 15 seconds of Googling to find the true source of this list (and it isn't even on Snopes yet).
"The list cited by Andrew AuCoin is not from Sarah Palin. It actually comes from http://www.adlerbooks.com/banned.html. Its a compendium of all books banned anywhere in the United States."
"Pretty obvious when one notes that Solzhenitzin was in the list, not exactly a conservative target. Anyone who DIDNT realize this was BS should be ashamed of themselves. "
On the other hand, it might help to remember that the use of the word "ban" in this thread is bogus as well.
The fact that a library, or even an entire library system, chooses not to stock a book doesn't mean that the book has been "banned". Until the government starts burning books and arresting people who write, sell or own them, that word is not applicable.
Libraries and schools are constantly forced to decide what books to stock; the processes by which they make these decisions are varied.
In government-run institutions, the process is always subject to political influence, and the politics might not be to your liking. Keep the government out of the picture and the controversy ends.
> This is the list of books Palin tried to have banned from the Wasilla > library
> 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 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 > _______________________________________
> thomas p
> A quote from your source
> "note: there’s some buzz being generated that says that this post contains a > comment that lists the books that Palin supposedly wanted banned. The list > is here, but there appears to be no truth to the claim made by the > commenter, and no further documentation or support for this has turned up."
She left out community organizer Barack Obama's 2 memoirs lol.
>> > This is the list of books Palin tried to have banned from the >> > Wasilla library
>> From the Web page you cite:
>> "The list cited by Andrew AuCoin is not from Sarah Palin. It actually >> comes fromhttp://www.adlerbooks.com/banned.html. Its a compendium of >> all books banned anywhere in the United States."
>> "Pretty obvious when one notes that Solzhenitzin was in the list, not >> exactly a conservative target. Anyone who DIDNT realize this was BS >> should be ashamed of themselves."
>It took me roughly 15 seconds of Googling to find the true >source of this list (and it isn't even on Snopes yet).
>while liberals tend to forward crap like this list.
>The last thing we need to do is turn Palin into a victim >by forwarding false rumors.
Agreed. There are enough *real* reasons to oppose Palin's candidacy. If we harp about her husband's 22 year old DUI conviction, or act as though her daughter is the only 17 year old who ever got knocked up - both completely irrelevant - or latch onto bogus crap like this list, the Repubs will claim we're grasping at straws. And they'll be right.
We often take pleasure in pointing out where Republicans have blown things out of proportion, twisted the facts and outright lied to further their own ends. Let's not be hypocrites by doing the same.
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