Sarahcuda’s unReading List?
Whatever happened to Free Will, the very backbone of Faith? Free Will requires choice; choice requires decision-making; decision-making requires knowledge; and acquisition of knowledge required chomping on Ye Ol’ Apple. (Why be damned for doing what you were REQUIRED to do?)
According to the lore, wasn’t Lucifer hisownself kicked out of the right-hand-of-God seat and punted to Perdition specifically because he wanted to force people to comply with The Plan, and His All-Knowingness declared that, that would mean nada?
We are SUPPOSED to think. If we were all meant to be alike, we might as well have been born sea slugs. (Or lemmings. (-;)
A friend e-mailed this to me last night. ‘Twas one of those forwarded deals — no online source yet — but if/when I find a link, I’ll post back with it.
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Update 09/23/08
I sit corrected! :::blushing:::
While the crux of the matter is true — Sarah Palin did approach a Wasilla librarian with a request to ban books, the librarian refused to cooperate, and only a groundswell of public support prevented her firing — word now is that a specific book list was NOT submitted. My friend wrote again this morning, saying, “Seems the banned list isn’t hers — But it’s created a firestorm of protest on the Kansas Peace & Politics email list,” so that is apparently where the story originated.
Apologies for my error! I would never (knowingly) disseminate disinformation… so I will leave what I have written in place here (as a matter of record), but with a strike-thru, so no one else will assume that it is genuine (as I mistakenly did).
If, at some later date, we learn that the list *is* authentic, afterall — i.e. that the truth is being squealched due to pressure from “someone” — I’ll surf back in with another update and and un-strike that section. (I’m leaving the remainder of my post intact today since it remains relevant even without the book list.)
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Books that Sarah Palin tried to get banned when she was mayor of Wasilla.
This information is taken from the official minutes of the Wasilla [AK] 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
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
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To Kill a Mockingbird (the movie version of which happens to be one of my all-time favorites) and several of the others are *Classics*!
My Friend Flicka, for pity’s sake? (WTF?!) And Shakespeare? Even a version of the bible that she doesn’t approve of? LMAO! Sheesh, whuttuh twisted, ignorance/superstition-embracing, control freak.
It’s kinda hysterical that she’s so paranoid about King & Koontz, but totally missed one of THE best in the entire genre (another of my personal favorites), Anne Rice. And what, no evil Edgar Allan Poe? I’m shocked. Shocked, I say! Absotively outraged!!
I suppose Arthur Miller’s The Crucible wasn’t included on the list because it tells of all the righteous fun and frolic in 1692 Salem. How the heck did she miss Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, the release of which was nothing short of a major, enlightenment-type, society-changing event? And Fahrenheit 451, especially since this is the modern-day equivalent of a book-burning list? :::irony-moment::: And Anne McCaffrey’s entire Pern series (yet another favorite of mine), where there’s an entire planet with NO religion at all? Yer slippin’, Sarah!
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Pause while Thel has another one of *those* moments: where it seems like she’s already died, gone to hell (this is IT!), and discovered that her crazy old aunt is running the place.
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But seriously, these fundiemental lunatics would be *so* entertaining – if only they weren’t, you know, RUNNING FOR OFFICE, planning to control our lives, and stuff. :::shudders::: Perhaps not all hope is lost. I wonder if her adopted witch-fearing/-hunting cult is one of those groups who handle snakes or drink strychnine…… (I’m just sayin’. (-;)
An aside, just for the record: as a general rule, by nature I’m the live-and-let-live type — I respect other human beans and would never make fun of someone else’s religious practices or lack thereof — unless he/she/they use said chosen dogma as an excuse to fear, hate, judge, control, persecute, and/or kill others.
IMO, save for their chosen targets, there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between religious extremists of *any* flavor — they’ve all found the group that gives them license to be and do what THEY WANT to be and do, while using God as an excuse instead of taking personal responsibility for their own decisions and actions — and, in my book, using God/Allah/Great Aunt Gertie as the excuse to murder others with impunity is, by far, the greatest wrong/sin of all.
The “official” Stress Relief part o’ this post……
Polar Bears Against Palin totally cracked me up! (-:
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