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

[Werner Presber]

Inapproproate lanuage? Palin should read the Illustrated Stories from  
the Bible


Am 02.09.2008 um 22:39 schrieb 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
>> ...

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