Sarah Palin, different opinion now.

[Rustyduktape]

last post i made, the Sarah Palin's speech thing, was actually a positive thought from me. my views on her have COMPLETELY changed now. the following was given to me by a friend in college. this was supposedly from a town in Alaska, i have no idea what the connection is between the town and Sarah Palin, but this pissed me off:

This information is taken from the official minutes of the Wasilla Library Board:

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< BR>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

after the librarian opposed her, she ordered her to be fired. this is perfect proof of how much of a close minded woman she is, brain washed by the people who raised her. my opinion of her is completely changed. your thoughts?

[Funkmasta]

unsubstantiated claim. proof?

Plus I am not even sure what you are trying to say. I am just trying to point out that you said:

"the following was given to me by a friend in college."

"this was supposedly from a town in Alaska, i have no idea what the connection is between the town and Sarah Palin"

after the librarian opposed her, she ordered her to be fired.

this is perfect proof of how much of a close minded woman she is, brain washed by the people who raised her. my opinion of her is completely changed. your thoughts?

My thoughts are that you should do some research before you change (or form) opinions on *anything*

[LINUS]

Connect the dots for me, so we aren't making assumptions. Did she ban these books, or just tell the librarian not to pay full retail & just get 'em off Amazon?

[CorvallisBMW]

unsubstantiated claim. proof?

This has actually been around for a few weeks now. It's substantiated by the several hundred people in Wasilla who came out to support the librarian.

Connect the dots for me, so we aren't making assumptions. Did she ban these books, or just tell the librarian not to pay full retail & just get 'em off Amazon?

No, these were books Palin tried to have banned from the public library

[Miasma]

It's substantiated by the several hundred people in Wasilla who came out to support the librarian.

[StereoInstaller1]

unsubstantiated claim. proof?

Did you read the email I posted on another thread? In a town of 5,000 people, one lady wrote all about Sarah.

Substantiated by Snopes, the letter is authentic.

The content may be another thing, but so far, she fires anyone who gets in her way...unless there is a public outcry.

[Rustyduktape]

thank's for clarifying the legitmacy for me. but she brought this to have the books banned, taken out of the library, and the librarian said no. there really is no arguement to back her up on this one.

EDIT: and think about it, she won't have to fire anybody in her way anymore, because there will not be anyone in the way. this is ridiculous.

[LINUS]

Was there any other reason the librarian was up for a negative job review?

She just got 'cleared' of the other mis-fire, if I'm not wrong. Is this already a black -n- white bad one on her, or are we still 'working' on this?

Refresh would have saved me, but that list is all over the place ---- Illiterate me saw a Mark Twain book ---Whaaaa, I smell something. Or I'm wrong.

[Funkmasta]

Did you read the email I posted on another thread? In a town of 5,000 people, one lady wrote all about Sarah.

Substantiated by Snopes, the letter is authentic.

The content may be another thing, but so far, she fires anyone who gets in her way...unless there is a public outcry.

So, when can she fire Obama?

[myinfernalbmw]

I heard that there are books on the list that weren't even in circulation/print when the list was released.

Story in the LA Times clearing up the bogus accusations-

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2008/09/palin-didnt-try.html

[Rustyduktape]

i should have researched a little more on that, i do admit that. but again this is the press we're talking about. i guarantee there is some truth in this. and even half of those books would spark a major outrage with teachers across the country, and adding that to her pro-creation teaching dealio, i would guess she'd become VERY unpopular VERY quickly. but yeah, the whole dictionary thing, that must be bologna. haha.

[CorvallisBMW]

Interesting article, but she leaves out one important fact. Palin was mayor from 1996-2002. The author claims that several books were not published in 1996; that doesn't really matter. What matters is what books were in the library while she was in office. All the books on the list were published before 2002.

[Funkmasta]

Interesting article, but she leaves out one important fact. Palin was mayor from 1996-2002. The author claims that several books were not published in 1996; that doesn't really matter. What matters is what books were in the library while she was in office. All the books on the list were published before 2002.

Wait, so, you don't like when you are super-regulated? I thought you were commie/pro-government babysit?


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[Vedubin01]

wait, so, you don't like when you are super-regulated? I thought you were commie/pro-government babysit?


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[Julien]

I can understand people being republican... But backing up Palin is just a joke.. Seriously.

Julien