[Vision2020] Palin and book banning

[keely emerinemix]

Tom, thanks for the back-up.  Gary, I hadn't read Saundra's post correcting my post.  So, my guess is that I got it wrong, at least partially, and that I shouldn't have forwarded an email without verifying it.  

My bad.  For which I apologize.  

Keely
http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/


From: jampot at roadrunner.com
To: idahotom at hotmail.com; kjajmix1 at msn.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Palin and book banning
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 07:08:15 -0700










Why is it not surprising that you would find a rumor that 
somebody's husband's cousin heard somewhere to be more authoritative then a blog 
that expresses skepticism and the use of common sense and actually cites the 
original article on the subject from the Wasilla paper? Mrs. Lund has 
already pointed out how at least a portion of the husband's cousin's rumor is in 
error by noting that at least three of the books on the list hadn't been 
published when Palin was the mayor and the newspaper article makes it clear that 
no books what so ever were specifically discussed. Is it easier to run 
with pre-conceived notions than it is to entertain pesky facts?
 
g

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: 
  Tom 
  Hansen 
  To: keely emerinemix ; vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 6:05 
  AM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Palin and book 
  banning
  
Keely stated:
 
"I would not knowingly pass along 
  false information, and if this is not a true story -- if it's not an accurate 
  account of any attempts, if there are any, of Palin's attempts to take certain 
  titles off the shelves -- then I shouldn't have posted it.  Dale Courtney 
  says it's false.  I don't know.  But if someone out there can 
  demonstrate to me that what I passed along was, in fact, false, then I 
  apologize now and will again.
 
The authority cited by Dale 
  Courtney, in repudiating Keely's claim, is a blog (that's right, a blog) 
  titled "Explorations", whose mantra is "Believe nothing, no matter where you 
  read it, or who said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own 
  common sense", at:
 
http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/
 
Concerning 
  the author of this blog, Charles Martin:
 
>From "Explorations" 
  at:
 
http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/about/
 

  "About the Author
   
  - Charlie Martin (variously known as Charles R Martin in 
  technical publications, “Charlie (Colorado)” 
  in blog comments, and “Seneca the Younger” when posting at Flares into 
  Darkness) is a computer scientist in Louisville, Colorado. The musings in this blog, whether 
  on technical subjects, Buddhism, politics, philosophy, modern business, arts, 
  sciences, cats, passing fancies, or other less categorizable notions, are his 
  own and no one else is in any way responsible. 
   
  - Charlie Martin is a Colorado computer scientist and 
  nearly-successful screenwriter who contributes to the Flares Into Darkness 
  political blog as ‘Seneca the Younger,’ and blogs under his own name at the 
  aggressively non-political Explorations blog."
   
   
  Now, about Exploration's blog 
  entry titled "Palin Rumors", located at:
   
  http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/09/06/palin-rumors/
   
  Among the listed 71 "rumors" 
  (some would better serve as fodder for stand-up comedy) is . . .
   
  "41.  No the list of books 
  she wanted to ban that’s being passed around isn’t real; among other things, 
  it includes a number of books published after her time in office there."
   
  Within this text "list of 
  books" is linked to Exploration's source of verification, another blog, Mike 
  Cane 2008, at:
   
  http://tinyurl.com/67j9qr
   
  So, what you have here is Dale 
  Courtney's blahg repudiating a claim by referencing another blog who verifies 
  their statements by citing yet another blog.
   
  Kinda reminds me of a line in a 
  song of which I forget the title . . .
   
  "Here we go round in circles . 
  . . "
   
  So, Keely, until I read or hear 
  it from a more reliable source (say, maybe the National Enquirer), your 
  husband's cousin's claim remains intact.
   
  Seeya round town, Moscow.
   
  Tom Hansen
  Moscow, Idaho
   
  
 
 

  
  
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