(And some days it takes more Stones than others...) Where Mythical Bestiary meets Contemporary Culture and Chews On Its Leg Until Covered with Slobber.(Time magazine)
And from the Anchorage Daily News:
"Back in 1996, when she first became mayor, Sarah Palin asked the city librarian if she would be all right with censoring library books should she be asked to do so.
"According to news coverage at the time, the librarian said she would definitely not be all right with it. A few months later, the librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, got a letter from Palin telling her she was going to be fired. The censorship issue was not mentioned as a reason for the firing. The letter just said the new mayor felt Emmons didn't fully support her and had to go.
"Emmons had been city librarian for seven years and was well liked. After a wave of public support for her, Palin relented and let Emmons keep her job.... In December 1996, Emmons told her hometown newspaper, the Frontiersman, that Palin three times asked her -- starting before she was sworn in -- about possibly removing objectionable books from the library if the need arose."
The list making the rounds that claims to be Palin's hit list is a fraud; at least two of the books on the list, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire weren't published until three years after Palin approached the librarian. Like the one false note in an otherwise true story that cost Dan Rather his position, I suspect the fake list of being a bit of Republican disinformation, an attempt to discredit the larger story with quibbling.
Circulating a falsehood is already being used by people like Michelle Malkin as a way to discredit the core truth-- Palin's attempt at banning books-- just as the one forgery in CBS' National Guard story was used to absolve Bush of going AWOL. But screw that; let's see Joe Biden ask Palin why she hates John Steinbeck and Twelfth Night.
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Let's see; there is Troopergate, the killing of wolves from heliocopters, the disregard for global warming and the polar bears, and the overall beauty queen /"(I am the QUEEN and I am in charge!") mentality on top of attempting to fire the librairian. She minored in Poly Sci from University of Idaho. Yep qualifications are strictly top-notch for me not to even look her way.
We few liberals are betting here in Prescott that she will have to quit for "family reasons" and good buddy Lieberman will fill the bill.
It just doesn't fit any other way.
Questioning and sighing,
Dee Ann
Mike, you always seem to find photos I never see anywhere else. I think its time I seriously thought about moving to Australia and becoming a tattoo artist.
It will be of great comfort to my graduate school professors that the one skill I retain from years of acquiring research techniques in medieval studies at great expense is the ability to tickle a search engine and find bikini fakes of presidential candidates.
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