Who bans a farking dictionary? Afraid the young'ins may learn a word not in the bible? This woman is bat-shiat crazy...

Link is farked.

valloned: Who bans a farking dictionary? Afraid the young'ins may learn a word not in the bible? This woman is bat-shiat crazy...

If she has problems with books, wait'll someone explains the intertubes to her. she'll blow a gasket.

OOOOO - Caribou Barbie is scared of Harry Potter!

/dictionaries have naughty words in them. Can't have your kids looking up 'vagina', can you?
//Of course, if her daughter had bothered to look up 'contraceptive', she might not be in the situation she is in now.

This wouldn't be that same erroneous list that includes several books that weren't published at the time, would it?

Oh yeah - dictionaries have all kinds of bad words.

/Can't RTFA - seems to be unavailable.

valloned: Who bans a farking dictionary? Afraid the young'ins may learn a word not in the bible? This woman is bat-shiat crazy...

Remember the joyous day back when you were a kid that you discovered the F word was in the great, big, has-its-own-special-podium dictionary at the library? And you called your friends over so they could see, because they wouldn't believe you if you just told them about it? I bet that's the kind of thing she wants to stop.

Aaaaand SHE ATE MY GODDAMN CLAM CAKES!

The list that's circulating is a general list of frequently banned books. Seriously, if you are going to try to smear someone, make sure your fake sources can't be checked out.

Why wouldn't a sane person want these books banned?

We are a Christian nation!

And one of those books used the 'N' word.

Wake up, people! Gender and race do not matter anymore. We are all fully equal!

How, how in the fark do grown people in this country have NO PROBLEM with an imbecile like this being nominated for VP?

I can't wait for the election. Win or lose I am going to write down the number of votes these two idiots get and I'm going to make that number my wallpaper on my PC. I want to be reminded each and every day how many people in this country have the IQ of a goddam donut...

sariq And one of those books used the 'N' word.

two if you count the dictionary.

pwhp_67: How, how in the fark do grown people in this country have NO PROBLEM with an imbecile like this being nominated for VP?

I can't wait for the election. Win or lose I am going to write down the number of votes these two idiots get and I'm going to make that number my wallpaper on my PC. I want to be reminded each and every day how many people in this country have the IQ of a goddam donut...

Don't you insult donuts like that!

TheGrayCat: Don't you insult donuts like that!


You're right. I like donuts...

anyone have a working link?

aimtastic: And you called your friends over so they could see, because they wouldn't believe you if you just told them about it? I bet that's the kind of thing she wants to stop.

And as a conservative, Palin believes this is one of the roles government is best suited for.

Health care, infrastructure? Not so much.

FeedTheCollapse: anyone have a working link?

The debunking of the supposed list can be found at Michelle Malkin's site.

As can be expected, she's in full-throated glee over this gotcha of the "libtards." :::sigh:::

I won't link. I feel dirty just visiting there.

The list she supposedly wanted 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

Some of those books were not yet published at the date this supposedly took place.

There's no question she DID ask about banning books, and that's a legitimate issue, but it's stupid to start spreading shiat like this that will only make people look at the lies your side is telling instead of the real issue.

No. farking. Way.

There is no list and there never has been. She never specified which books she wanted banned. This is just a list of all the books that have ever been banned.

quickdraw: There is no list and there never has been. She never specified which books she wanted banned. This is just a list of all the books that have ever been banned.

[citation needed]

Atillathepun: [citation needed]

The Harry Potter books didn't start until 1997. Her quest for banning supposedly took place in 1996.

woodpecker from mars: Atillathepun: [citation needed]

The Harry Potter books didn't start until 1997. Her quest for banning supposedly took place in 1996.

Does it really matter which books she wanted banned, or that she wanted any books banned?

Man, we have to choose between a book burner and a secret Mooslim. may as well flip a coin.

Completely and utterly false, as some of the books were published AFTER she became mayor.

Look, there are LOTS of reasons to oppose this candidate, including her attempt to fire the librarian. And she did inquire about removing books.

But this list is totally bogus.

submitter: Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary

it has that WORD in it.

woodpecker from mars: The Harry Potter books didn't start until 1997. Her quest for banning supposedly took place in 1996.

Does not mean her quest ended as soon as it began, does it?

quickdraw: There is no list and there never has been. She never specified which books she wanted banned. This is just a list of all the books that have ever been banned.

Nuh uh. Now that its been green lighted on Fark, it MUST be true!

SilentStrider:
submitter: Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary

it has that WORD in it.


Liberal?

Atillathepun: [citation needed]

Well I'll let you google it yourself but there are now several lists purporting to be the ones she wanted to ban. Many of which were not published when her banning offenses took place.

I would love to find an actual list and have been actively searching for it but from what I understand she never went so far as to provide an actual list. She just tried to pressure the librarian into saying she would go along with the bans that Sarah wanted (whatever they might be).

FWIW I don't think not having a list makes what Palin did any less offensive. She's still a wanna-be book-banning coont.

sariq: Does it really matter which books she wanted banned, or that she wanted any books banned?

I think you missed the point. Instead of tackling the true issue of her wanting to ban books, people are instead circulating a bogus list and passing it off as truth, thus keeping anyone from talking about the real issue and instead making this another debunking festival. It makes the Obama supporters who are doing this look bad. Stick to the truth.

woodpecker from mars: There's no question she DID ask about banning books, and that's a legitimate issue

no, banning books is never legitimate.

pwhp_67: SilentStrider:
submitter: Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary

it has that WORD in it.


Liberal?

No, "Librarian." There's no hate like librarian hate. :P

JohnnyC: Does not mean her quest ended as soon as it began, does it?

Back in 1996, when she first became mayor, Sarah Palin asked the city librarian if she would be all right with censoring library books should she be asked to do so.

http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/515512.html

This is what the whole issue is centered around. That particular meeting with the librarian. I'm just saying the list is bogus and detracts from the story. I'm not saying her wish to ban books is not true.

SoothinglyDeranged: woodpecker from mars: There's no question she DID ask about banning books, and that's a legitimate issue

no, banning books is never legitimate.

Can't stop the signal. it just goes on.

SoothinglyDeranged: no, banning books is never legitimate.

Are you being purposely obtuse?

woodpecker from mars: I think you missed the point.

Well, my point was that banning any book is corrupt.

But I certainly think everyone should "Stick to the truth."

I'm not even sure it's possible to ban books anymore. there are hundreds of open source applications that allow you to scan books into a computer and send them out to the world as .pdf files. How do you ban something like that?

woodpecker from mars: Are you being purposely obtuse?

Nah I think he/she is genuinely confused about your post. Sometimes a screen name is really apropo.

woodpecker from mars: Sarah Palin asked the city librarian if she would be all right with censoring library books

Then she fired her when she said no.

Also, if I ever DO manage to get off my ass and finish writing my 'great american novel' i'm going to try like hell to get someone to ban my book. The only surefire way I know of to get people to do something is to tell them they aren't allowed to do it. Attempting to ban books only makes it certain that people will add them to their reading list.

Weaver95: I'm not even sure it's possible to ban books anymore. there are hundreds of open source applications that allow you to scan books into a computer and send them out to the world as .pdf files. How do you ban something like that?

Well this was 1996.....

TheGrayCat: I want to be reminded each and every day how many people in this country have the IQ of a goddam donut...

Just think of how stupid the average person is, and now realize that HALF of everyone else is stupider than that.

quickdraw: Atillathepun: [citation needed]

Well I'll let you google it yourself but there are now several lists purporting to be the ones she wanted to ban. Many of which were not published when her banning offenses took place.

I would love to find an actual list and have been actively searching for it but from what I understand she never went so far as to provide an actual list. She just tried to pressure the librarian into saying she would go along with the bans that Sarah wanted (whatever they might be).

FWIW I don't think not having a list makes what Palin did any less offensive. She's still a wanna-be book-banning coont.

I realize THIS list is false, but you stated with some certainty that there was no list whatsoever. I'd just like to have the story dug into a bit more before I make that determination.

sariq: Then she fired her when she said no.

Jesus. I am not defending book banning, people. I am simply saying the list that is passed around, the list that is the subject of this thread, is bogus.

sariq: woodpecker from mars: Sarah Palin asked the city librarian if she would be all right with censoring library books

Then she fired her when she said no.

Dude, woodpecker is on your side. She loves books.

Atillathepun: I'd just like to have the story dug into a bit more before I make that determination.

Go for it. I dug as far as I could but I'm not going to go back and link to every site I read about it just cuz your too lazy to do the same. :)

Weaver95: I'm not even sure it's possible to ban books anymore. there are hundreds of open source applications that allow you to scan books into a computer and send them out to the world as .pdf files. How do you ban something like that?

You serious? McCain is going to shut down the internets if he gets elected. And why not - he's got no farking use for it.

You know who else hated books?


What's that word that people always use to describe America?
Oh yeah, freedom.
I guess Palin doesn't like that freedom stuff.

I doubt McCain, Obama, or any other politician knows what freedom is either. This country is screwed.

Weaver95: I'm not even sure it's possible to ban books anymore. there are hundreds of open source applications that allow you to scan books into a computer and send them out to the world as .pdf files. How do you ban something like that?

You clog the tubes.

On the other hand, if you just make these required reading for a class, it'll turn them into kryptonite.

quickdraw: Dude, woodpecker is on your side. She loves books

Seriously. For three years in a row, I ran a banned books project (new window)each September. I'm just trying to make a point about....ah, forget it.