If you want to avoid it, endow a private library.

Its in the pipes. Give it ten years. I’m only at about 2,500 titles so far.

An opponent said it, Time reported it, it must be true.

Sheesh

Actually Baker declined to be interviewed. This report lied by suggesting she "couldnt be reached".

Yet another lie from Nunez and his liberal media.

Don't liberals ever get tired of being gutless, petty liars?

Again, she banned nothing.

As for this list, it has something for everyone. Though, Pil will be disappointed he didn't make the cut!

Michelle Malkin has the truth about this latest lie on her site right now. The story is totally fabricated, like all the other leftie smear attempts on her. She has the lefties scared shitless, and they are willing to tell any lie to try to destroy her. They obviously don't believe in American elective politics.

Time will bear out the FACT that she is a book-burner.

And what FACT is it that you have, Arfuckle?

Oh, dear me…. so dreadfully sorry, arfuckle…

Time will bear out the FACT that she is a book-banner.

… and what FACT is it that you have to substantiate this, arfuckle?

The charge of "book banning" comes up every time somebody, somewhere objects to wholesale, unsupervised public access to the content of certain books.

But who exactly determines what books are to be purchased for any municipal library system? Obviously, someone has to exercise some discretion, some decision-making authority, since no library other than the Library of Congress has the funds to buy each and every book that's published or the facility to keep them. Deciding what is to be purchased for a library is a discretionary decision, and surely when taxpayers object to how their money is being spent their objections should be noted and addressed.

In fact then, the real question is who is to exercise the discretion and judgment as to which books are purchased with the taxpayers' money. Should it be a library professional? Or should an elected official, accountable to the people whose money is being spent, have the final authority over how those peoples' funds are spent?

It seems to me that more often than not, the charge of "book banning" is little more than a political statement or accusation directed against those who would re-establish some accountability over the expenditure of the taxpayers' money through officials elected to do just that.

At the national level, the Constitution forbids the expenditure of funds without authorization by the people's elected representatives. There's no reason it shouldn't be the same in every state, county, and municipality.

BatOne

somebody, somewhere objects to wholesale, unsupervised public access to the content of certain books

The free market cannot be left to its own devices. The Christians have made their position on that very clear.

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." That woman, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn't be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving "full support" to the mayor. [ <a href="http://=http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1837918,00.htmlTime/url

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Greta Post, Nunez. Folks over here do not want to believe their lying eyes. ROFLMAO!!!!

Sparkie,

Hmmm… anti-free market and anti-Christian, and all in a single sentence. You must be very proud!

You try to pass yourself off as anti-authoritarian, but it would appear that only applies when the authorities involved are those with whom you disagree. Socrates would be disappointed with the state of the contemporary philosophical community.

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." That woman, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn't be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving "full support" to the mayor.

Great post Nunez. Folks over here do not want to believe their lying eyes.

I put this in the same catagory at the supposed internet photos of Governor Palin nude, that actually were old pictures of Julia Louise Dryfus.

Excuse me! That should be: "both they and you are liars".

Davinski,

Your choice of a "signature" is, of course, your choice. And thoughtless defiance in the face of reason is the hallmark of those of you on the adolescent Left. Still, are you real sure that references to the Weathermen in defense of Obama and the Democrats is such a good idea?

Your boy candidate has spent considerable effort trying to obfuscate and downplay his long-term relationship with the unrepentant terrorist, Ayers. Your not-so-subliminal reminder doesn't strike me as very prudent.

Thanks for continuing the personal attacks. Very stylish of you. Fucker.

Sparkie,

Nice dodge, Kid. But it sure doesn't challenge the validity of anything I've said.

imagine: It's a lot simpler than you are trying to make it.
No books were banned; therefore, it's all a lie.
This is typical Dem/Obama politics of personal destruction, and they will keep making things up until the election, trying to remove Sarah from the elective process. Even if they can't get her removed, they will try to create so many lies about her that they produce some sort of bias against her, even though nothing they said was true. It's a well-known Nazi propaganda technique. Flooding the media with lies drives out the opportunity for the truth to be told.

It would seem that to be a book-banner you would have to actually have banned books, right?

if the left could, they would put objectionable books in he children's section in hopes that some republican would attempt to have them removed just so they could gain the political advantage of labeling that republican a book-banner. It is SOP.

hold an ideology so ignorant as to ban books from a library.

What about those too ignorant to know what the word "ban" means, and just respond emotionally and irrationally to the merest misuse of the word?

What basis do you have for calling me a book banner? I've never supported a book banning in my life.

I just recognize that those who rely on the publics money (that includes public librarians) are going to be subjected to the whims of the public itself.

If you want to avoid it, endow a private library. Or buy your own books.

pp

PROVE that my rumor is false. Hahahahaha!

Perhaps you missed Rob's posts about Obama being a dual citizen, being a muslim, etc. etc. etc.

KMA.

The rumor of Obama's gay cokehead experience has more substance to it than anything you lefties have put out about Sarah. Unlike the "Sambo" rumor, the guy making the accusation against Obama did so publicly.
In this case, no books were banned, so this whole thing is a total lie.

Its in the pipes. Give it ten years. I'm only at about 2,500 titles so far.

I'm sure Sarah Palin supports your right to own all the books, of whatever titles, you want.

Perhaps you missed Rob's posts about Obama being a dual citizen, being a muslim, etc. etc. etc.

Well, Obama is actually a dual citizen. And I, for one, have never claimed that Obama is a Muslim.

In fact, when all the "Obama is a Muslim" stuff was going around I said I didn't care if he was a Muslim or not. I pointed out that the church he actually admitted to attending (before it became too politically inconvenient) was what was really worth scrutiny.

And that was before all the Rev. Wright stuff broke.

So pretty much nothing you just said has a basis in reality.

Here's list of the books she supposedly tried to ban, some of which are my favorites (which I've highlighted).

The problen is that some of them weren't even PUBLISHED when she acsended to the lofty position of Chief Book Burner (like the Harry Potter novels):

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
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth

Turns out this is from a list of books that people have tried to ban over a period of time. It has nothing to do with Palin.

These people have no shame. By the way, there are truly some of my favorite books up there. As you can see, I think Tarzan of the Apes was great literature, so what do I know?

There are those who are quick to accuse Gov. Palin and there are those who are quick to defend her regardless of the facts. Rob seems to think that he has put the charge to rest by attacking the alleged Palin Black List, please read below:

[Former Mayor John] 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." That woman, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn't be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving "full support" to the mayor.