I just received this. Please pass this on, no matter what you political views are we can't have someone in the White House that will try to block access or ban any kind of art.

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

Old news
Old, fabricated news
A bunch of those books didn't exist while she was mayor.

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/sliming_palin.html

We’ve been flooded for the past few days with queries about dubious Internet postings and mass e-mail messages making claims about McCain’s running mate, Gov. Palin. We find that many are completely false, or misleading.

* Palin did not cut funding for special needs education in Alaska by 62 percent. She didn’t cut it at all. In fact, she tripled per-pupil funding over just three years.

* She did not demand that books be banned from the Wasilla library. Some of the books on a widely circulated list were not even in print at the time. The librarian has said Palin asked a "What if?" question, but the librarian continued in her job through most of Palin's first term.

* She was never a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a group that wants Alaskans to vote on whether they wish to secede from the United States. She’s been registered as a Republican since May 1982.

* Palin never endorsed or supported Pat Buchanan for president. She once wore a Buchanan button as a "courtesy" when he visited Wasilla, but shortly afterward she was appointed to co-chair of the campaign of Steve Forbes in the state.

* Palin has not pushed for teaching creationism in Alaska's schools. She has said that students should be allowed to "debate both sides" of the evolution question, but she also said creationism "doesn't have to be part of the curriculum."



Go to the url for full background info on each

word.. just posting something i recieved. figured you people love debates and arguments. i dont like her for reasons i wont discuss. bc politics and religion are two things i dont much get into with people. i emailed back dude that link.

you asshole stop smearing that bitches name!!!

good, they should be banned. faggot books.

+1 for Palin

No book should ever be banned, ever.

except the bible. not from libraries, just banned period.

I don't agree.

I do rescind my previous statement, however.

If FRANK CALIENDO ever writes a book, it's pages should be used to light the fire under his body, so his body can be consumed by flames.

I fucking hate that man.

fuck books. ban them all.

books r 4 teh gayz!

so is anonymous posting. ZING!

What about books of child porn?

OOOOOOOOOH!

*makes popcorn*

u eat popcorn while reading? that isnt reading food!

Luckily, this one works out by way of legal technicalities.

The book itself is not banned (meaning it is not against the law to create) but the publisher, distributor, library, including anyone found in possession of said IMAGES can be jailed. A person creating a book of descriptions of child sex, sex with children, child rape, etc. is pretty much protected by federal law. Unless that description is on an affidavit or confession admitting to a physical crime. In which the book form will most likely be printed for future pedophiles to study and enjoy...but, there's a point behind it.

This is the only way to avoid needless confusion and creating a precedent for the banning of other books.

Placing the responsibility on the people, not the 'book'.

The only reason I say no book should be banned ever is to attempt to alleviate (such as the above example) any attempt of infringement upon human creativity. Unfortunately, there is no golden standard of 'acceptability' in the world of art and what offends one person might inspire and illuminate another. Banning one book opens the door to the banning argument, and depending on the voice in charge, any book can become a target.

James and the Giant Peach leads to Communism. True fact.

Robert Cormier, one of the above named authors, has an explicit child rape scene in the beginning of one of his novels. The name slips me, but I've read it and know it is there.

the first encyclopedia of numbers

fucking lady doesnt even believe in equal rights for women.

Man, I loved those Alvin Schwartz Scary Stories books when I was a kid.

I think the majority of the american people are completely ignorant and i'm scared this whore will be in office. I really wish common sense still existedi n society.

I hate that fucking bitch!!!!!

Why was she even asking that question in the first place? Awfully strange question to be even thinking about. She's clearly got book banning on the brain. Not someone who should be anywhere near the White House.

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Fairy tales should not be debated in the classroom, except from a literary standpoint. They don't teach the Tooth Fairy in science class, they shouldn't teach creationism either.

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if you read the whole article it seems a little fishy, i am not saying shes a book burner, but why the rhetorical question about something like the libraries policy on banned books?

Regardless of whether she banned books or not, Palin is still a Bible-thumping creep.

Daddy's roommate

LOLSEXXORS!!

According to Factcheck and some other news stories I read (USA today, maybe?). she asked about banning books because there was some talk in the town about it, so she was asking about procedures to go about it. She never asked for any books to be banned nor did she campaign for such a thing.

And as for creationism, I think it should be debated in classrooms because I'm confident evolutionary theory could wipe the floor with it, seeing as how it has, you know, EVIDENCE. If people are too afraid to confront ideas in a forum, then that only adds to my suspicion that their beliefs aren't all that defensible.

That about sums it up. I hope she gets breast cancer.

eh to all of this.. books are extremely important in the development of your imagination.. even the bible. the stories told in the bible are actually the basis for many other books.. stories.. and movies you see. its all based on morals and such but there are some brutal stories in that shit.. interesting if you were to just sit down and skim around. and not to mention its incredibly written. im not standing behind it as a belief system.. i was raised in private schools and it was forced upon me from the beginning of time. i took it as a work of literature... not one person in their right mind should even investigate whether or not books should be banned. its invading upon the rights of freedom of speech and expression. that brings us back to witch trial shit. as a modern woman in a political power she simply could have spoken it to be nonsense. as far as debating creationism in a classroom. some of the best classes i have ever participated in involved heated discussions amongst my peers about different world religions and evolutionary theories.. it was def not a way to make friends because people can take these topics far too seriously. even more so at catholic school. even the teachers would be involved in the the aftermath of debated discussions and bring them in to the next classroom. even if it seems wrong or disrupts the school system i think that each person still should have their say... this is one of the main reasons though why i wont discuss my religious beliefs with another. i think far too many problems in this world are surrounded with the differences of religion. it should be to each their own.. but we are all too concerned with what is in everybody elses mind.

..palin (imo) isnt not the first woman i would like to see in such a hierarchy of politican power. from a female stand point. i dont think that this country could be run by someone goign through some similar struggles of people i know. she is a new mother of a child with special needs.. not only does a child take so much out of you as a woman.. mentally and physically but add special needs into that and you're doomed. then.. equate in the fact that her underaged daughter is now expecting a child of her own. so.. two new babies. which im mostly sure the mother would raise (or a nanny.. which creates complexes amongst itself within a mothers mindframe about their connection to their child) she has a son in the military.. my brother is inthe persian gulf.. i see what the destruction of a child "in war" can do to a parent.. and through all of this her blue collar working husband is going to stand behind her? ..but not have such an educated influence upon her like most first ladies (or man for ths matter) alaska is another planet. it is in no way to me a place that could prepare someone to be in the oval office. mccain is a chump. ugh.. one of my main thoughts on him is his unbelieveable thought that the fact of him being a veteran will make him better president. thats liek sayign charlie the bum with no legs is capapble of running this contry to a degree because he has faught for it. get over yourself rebulicans.. it shoulnt be about a political party.. it should be abotu whom is best suited for the job.. this world is too focused on titles and popularity contests. this isnt college football. this is the next leader of our country. this election is important.. for OUR future.. and or our children. think of the mess the next president is walking in on and cleaning up. eventhough women are better cleaners.. we're fucking lunatics and emotional time bombs. i picture this ex beauty queen and her interactions with other world leader. oh christ im stoppign now hah i dont even know why i wrote all this because im sure ill get a shitload of negative responses and comments like lisa need braces.

Yeah? Well I hope she gives birth to a retar...oh wait, never mind.

Biden lost his wife and his child in a car accident.
At least Palin's kid is alive. And people with Down's are fully function in society (to an extent). It's not like he CAN'T talk, CAN'T move, or can't do anything.
Yes, it's tough, and yes things could be better. But it could be much worse.

a man deals with loss and anxiety completely different than a woman. and i not saying downs people are incapable. i actually am fully aware they are. a good family friend of mine has down and i also did hair for a school/housing place when iwas working at my old salon they are completely capable of normal conversation. but as a development.. they are slower. and take much attention and care. also. no mother wants their child to be different. its saddening regardless how much we love and care for them .. its disheartening.

I know. I have a cousin that has William's Syndrome - her brother has Aspberger's Syndrome. as a parent myself, i can imagine that it is extremely hard to deal with.
I just don't think that justifies the capability of ruling a country at all.
I don't care when people say retard or whatever because I'm not PC by any means, but Palin is a fucking rabid bitch-pig douchebag regardless of what she's dealing with at home. I view her as a politician, not a women. I could care less if she was a woman or a man, she's a politician and they're all a bunch of scumbags.

My mom says there's a lot of black people in Africa.

oh wait, I don't know if I misread taht post or not, it's too long and I'm at work so I had to skim through it

regardless of whatever we both agree.. i see politicians though as people. and am aware of their surroundings and lifestyles.. most definately you personal life will effect your 'business" life regardless of how much you try to seperate them. also alaskan politicians are all scumfucks.

just saw on CNN that this list was fabricated...

what are you new...? that was the first response on the thread.

psshhh newfag is newwwwwww


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i'm gonna read every book on that list