Speaking of infamy Re: A day which will live in inflamy ...

[Simon Bryquer]

An article from Time Magazine's website has this bit of information that 
I thought might be of interest as we get ready for Banned Books Week:

"Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs 
into her policy at times. "She asked the library how she could go about 
banning books," he says, because some voters thought they had 
inappropriate language in them. "The librarian was aghast." The 
librarian, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn't be reached for comment, but news 
reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire her for not 
giving "full support" to the mayor."

Link to the full article:
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1837918,00.html

SCB



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com>


> I'm really enjoying the "logic" by which, by virtue of Alaska's
> proximity to our old (and now defunct, in case anyone hasn't been
> following the last decade and a half or so of news) cold war
> archnemesis, The Evil Empire, she thus has foreign relations/national
> security "experience." Which I would imagine implies that, as Barack
> Obama will hopefully prove to be our first Hawaiian-American president
> (do note, by the way, all four points of the compass in this election,
> plus the 1st, 50th/21st, and 48th and 49th at LEAST states o' the
> Union represented--but NOT, in the face of decades of presidential
> political "wisdom," the Old South), he should handily be able to deal
> with those wily Orientals, and disspell any thoughts they might be
> (Pearl) harboring of extending their Co-Prosperity Sphere Honoluluward
> ...