[Vision2020] Palin and library books

[Jeff Harkins]

Of course, you have overlooked the fact that it has been reported 
that a constituent (or group of constituents) had asked her what the 
procedure was for challenging the book inventory.  As a proper role 
for an elected official, she researched the issue (with the 
librarian, as I am to understand) and informed the constituent of the 
procedure and protocol for challenging the book inventory.

What is a bit murky, the librarian - reportedly a democrat - chose to 
use the incident in a political move.

Perhaps we will learn more about this.

 From a cynical perspective, I do hope that the pundits, the 
democrats, the liberals, the far left and others continue to attack 
Gov Sarah Palin on family and personal issues.  These petty attacks 
on her character, her religion, her children go a long way to raising 
her visibility with the voting public.

Even the demo candidate Sen Obama has asked for the personal attacks 
to stop. That hasn't seemed to stop the tenor and vitriol of the 
attacks.  Obama doesn't seem to have much control over those elements.

Are the issues not relevant?  Maybe we could talk about Biden's 3 
sector plan for Iraq.  How does Palin feel about that? Perhaps we 
could explore the VPs' positions on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  What 
about education - both candidates have a record of positions on education.

Raise the bar, please.  A recent post (by Hansen) insinuating that 
Palin was inappropriately using state funds for travel and overnight 
stays, and using her home for overnight reimbursement.  This kind of 
penmanship terror should stop - Hansen should know better - his 
tactics are an insult to our locals .  You folks are all better than 
this - and smart enough to ask penetrating and relevant questions.

There are numerous articles and newsreports, fully researched, that 
would reveal the "real story" about Palin's expense 
reimbursements.  Cut to the chase - contact Kim Garnero, Alaska State 
Finance Director, whose responsibilities include expense 
reimbursement for state employees.

Thanks.

t 04:16 PM 9/7/2008, you wrote:
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>While there's no doubt that Palin discussed (a discussion she's 
>subsequently labeled "rhetorical") banning books with the City's 
>librarian, the book list below canNOT be attributed to Palin.  Its 
>origins seems to be this:
><http://www.adlerbooks.com/banned.html>http://www.adlerbooks.com/banned.html
>
>The specific titles of books Palin was interested in banning is of 
>no interest to me; of great interest and concern to me is that 
>banning books was a topic in which Palin had any interest and tells 
>me a great deal about her.
>
>
>Saundra Lund
>Moscow, ID
>
>The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people 
>to do nothing.
>~ Edmund Burke
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>From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com 
>[mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of keely emerinemix
>Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 2:36 PM
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] Palin and library books
>
>
> >From Jeff's cousin -- interesting information about Sarah Palin 
> and her attempts to get books banned from the Wasilla, Alaska, 
> library when she was mayor.
>
>Flicka????!!!!!!  Webster's Ninth Collegiate Dictionary?????!!!!
>
>OK, I guess "Our Bodies, Ourselves" isn't a surprise . . .
>
>
>Keely
>http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/
>
>
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>Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 16:38:09 -0400
>Subject: (no subject)
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>samscat99 at netscape.net; betterthanchocolate at hotmail.com; 
>kjajmix1 at email.msn.com; johnmetc at verizon.net; pnixon18 at hotmail.com; 
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>
>Let's spend a few moments browsing the list of books Mayor Sarah 
>Palin tried to get town librarian Mary Ellen Baker to ban in the 
>lovely, all-American town of Wasilla, Alaska.  When Baker refused to 
>remove the books from the shelves, Palin threatened to fire 
>her.  The story was reported in Time Magazine and the list comes 
>from the librarian.net website.
>
>I'm sure you'll find your own personal favorites among the classics 
>Palin wanted to protect the good people of Wasilla from, but the 
>ones that jumped out at me were the four Stephen King novels (way to 
>go Stephen, John Steinbeck only got three titles on the list), that 
>notorious piece of communist pornography "My Friend Flicka,"  the 
>usual assortment of Harry Potter books, works by Shakespeare, Walt 
>Whitman, Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Twain (always fun to see those two 
>names together), Arthur Miller, and Aristophanes, as well as "Our 
>Bodies, Ourselves" (insert your own Bristol Palin joke here), and 
>the infamous one-two punch of depravity:  "To Kill a Mockingbird" 
>and "Little Red Riding Hood."  But the cherry on the sundae, the 
>topper, is Sarah Palin's passionate, religious mission to clear the 
>shelves of the Wasilia Public Library of that ultimate evil 
>tome:  "Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary."  That's the one 
>with " equality," "free speech" and "justice " in it.
>
>Go over to your book case and take down one of the books you'll find 
>on the list (I know you've got a couple) and give it a read in honor 
>of the founding fathers.  Then tell me I'm not the only voter who 
>doesn't want this woman within thirty feet of the United States Constitution.
>
>  Sarah Palin's Book Club
>
>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 Potter20and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
>Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
>Have to G o 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
>M y 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=2 0Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
>Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
>Separate Peace by John Knowles
>Silas Marner by George Eliot
>Slaughte rhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.< br> 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--Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
>Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween 
>Symbols by Edna Barth
>
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