Maybe I'm crazy for thinking the TRUTH matters in a political
discussion, but this story is unverifiable and almost certainly
false.

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"This is not a true tale, but who needs truth if it's dull?"
- Mason Williams

On Sep 8, 2:36*pm, jo4hn wrote:
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, Joh n 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 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 ******* 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 Learnin g 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

See the following:

http://www.librarian.net/stax/2366/s...837918,00.html