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Gunner Asch reported Elvis on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:25:23 -0700 in misc.survivalism : 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 ******* 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 I think he SHOULD have read many of them. Almost every title on that list is a modern masterpiece or breakthrough work of importance or both. I can imagine why the right-wing retardos want to ban To Kill a Mockingbird. And the Leftwing Retardos want to ban everything else, particularly those written by Conservatives. Its a wonder that the lefties haven't attempted to ban the Harry Potter books, chock full as they are with mysticism and supernaturalism. Not to mention the rampant Christian symbolism, the definitive expectation of the difference between Good and Evil, and that you ought to not merely find Evil distasteful, but something worth combating, actively combating, not just passing resolutions against. On the gripping hand, if this is the list I believe it is, it is the one put out by the Librarians as "banned books" when there was some objection to having them available for all children. Unfortunately, too many Librarians seem to be Liberal Art Majors, and consider "discrimination" to be bad, right next to "critical thought" and "age appropriate subjects." Fnord. pyotr -- pyotr filipivich The two oldest cliches in the book are "The Good Old Days were better." and "After all, these are Modern TImes." |
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"pyotr filipivich" wrote in message ... snip Its a wonder that the lefties haven't attempted to ban the Harry Potter books, chock full as they are with mysticism and supernaturalism. Not to mention the rampant Christian symbolism, the definitive expectation of the difference between Good and Evil, and that you ought to not merely find Evil distasteful, but something worth combating, actively combating, not just passing resolutions against. You're a little slow on the draw there, pyotr. Christian conservatives have sued or petitioned school boards all over the country to ban them from schools. "Laura Mallory, a mother of four from the Atlanta suburb of Loganville, told a Georgia Board of Education officer that the books by British author J.K. Rowling, sought to indoctrinate children as Wiccans, or practitioners of religious witchcraft..." ============================= "And here is dear Ashley, a 9 year old, the typical average age reader of Harry Potter: "I used to believe in what they taught us at Sunday School," said Ashley, conjuring up an ancient spell to summon Cerebus, the three-headed hound of hell. "But the Harry Potter books showed me that magic is real, something I can learn and use right now, and that the Bible is nothing but Boring lies." age 9....what is this world coming to? ============================= "Conservatives Urge Ban on 'Harry Potter' Over Witchcraft, Homosexuality" By Elena Garcia Christian Post Reporter "Roberta Combs, president of the 2.5 million strong Christian Coalition of America, said she was disappointed that Rowling chose to label Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of fictional Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, as gay. "It's not a good example for our children, who really like the books and the movies. I think it encourages homosexuality," said Combs, who has called for a ban on the seven-book series." ============================== "In Cedarville, Arkansas, the school board restricted access to the Harry Potter books unless a student could produce a signed permission slip from their parents. The board passed the rule because fundamentalist parents complained after "hearing a series of anti-Potter sermons in 2001 by Mark Hodges, pastor of the Uniontown Assembly of God Church and a member of the Cedarville School Board." ============================== It appears from the evidence that you the conservative/liberal views of it backwards. On the gripping hand, if this is the list I believe it is, it is the one put out by the Librarians as "banned books" when there was some objection to having them available for all children. Unfortunately, too many Librarians seem to be Liberal Art Majors, and consider "discrimination" to be bad, right next to "critical thought" and "age appropriate subjects." Fnord. Unfortunately, you seem to be a little nuts. -- Ed Huntress |
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Ed Huntress wrote:
"pyotr filipivich" wrote in message ... snip Unfortunately, you seem to be a little nuts. Just a little? LOL -- John R. Carroll www.machiningsolution.com |
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"John R. Carroll" wrote in message ... Ed Huntress wrote: "pyotr filipivich" wrote in message ... snip Unfortunately, you seem to be a little nuts. Just a little? LOL I don't know if it's actually nuts, or just an infectous case of winger head-and-ass inversion. Or maybe it's something he shares with strabo: anyone left of center is responsible for everything bad, even the bad things that come from the right. Hmmm...maybe that's just another way of saying head-and-ass inversion. -- Ed Huntress |
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Ed Huntress wrote:
"John R. Carroll" wrote in message ... Ed Huntress wrote: "pyotr filipivich" wrote in message ... snip Unfortunately, you seem to be a little nuts. Just a little? LOL I don't know if it's actually nuts, or just an infectous case of winger head-and-ass inversion. Or maybe it's something he shares with strabo: anyone left of center is responsible for everything bad, even the bad things that come from the right. Hmmm...maybe that's just another way of saying head-and-ass inversion. Perhaps, but it's still nuts and completely, not just a little. -- John R. Carroll www.machiningsolution.com |
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:39:44 -0700, pyotr filipivich
wrote: Its a wonder that the lefties haven't attempted to ban the Harry Potter books, chock full as they are with mysticism and supernaturalism. It's the winger fundies that try to ban & burn those. Probably unread (big words, right?) -- Cliff |
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"Ed Huntress" wrote in
: "pyotr filipivich" wrote in message ... snip Its a wonder that the lefties haven't attempted to ban the Harry Potter books, chock full as they are with mysticism and supernaturalism. Not to mention the rampant Christian symbolism, the definitive expectation of the difference between Good and Evil, and that you ought to not merely find Evil distasteful, but something worth combating, actively combating, not just passing resolutions against. You're a little slow on the draw there, pyotr. Christian conservatives have sued or petitioned school boards all over the country to ban them from schools. Lest you forget Ed there have been plenty of politically correct left wingers pushing to ban books like "Of Mice and Men", "Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn", and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" for offensive words, ideas, and pedaling a "softer view of slavery" among other reasons. I also find it hypocritical that Cliff is against burning books. Him being a big proponent of freedom and all. It's merely another legal form of freedom of speech AFAICT. Just so long as the book you're burning legally belongs to you. Neither the far left or the far right has much tolerance for freedom of speech. -- Dan CNC Videos - http://tinyurl.com/yzdt6d |
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"D Murphy" wrote in message ... "Ed Huntress" wrote in : "pyotr filipivich" wrote in message ... snip Its a wonder that the lefties haven't attempted to ban the Harry Potter books, chock full as they are with mysticism and supernaturalism. Not to mention the rampant Christian symbolism, the definitive expectation of the difference between Good and Evil, and that you ought to not merely find Evil distasteful, but something worth combating, actively combating, not just passing resolutions against. You're a little slow on the draw there, pyotr. Christian conservatives have sued or petitioned school boards all over the country to ban them from schools. Lest you forget Ed there have been plenty of politically correct left wingers pushing to ban books like "Of Mice and Men", "Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn", and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" for offensive words, ideas, and pedaling a "softer view of slavery" among other reasons. Pfffhht. You're talking about a short-term thing that was out on the fringes. Christian conservatives have been trying to ban books for 200 years. I also find it hypocritical that Cliff is against burning books. Him being a big proponent of freedom and all. It's merely another legal form of freedom of speech AFAICT. Just so long as the book you're burning legally belongs to you. Cliff is against someone burning his own books? Why? Neither the far left or the far right has much tolerance for freedom of speech. Ideologues are a plague upon civilization. -- Ed Huntress |
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"Ed Huntress" wrote in
: "D Murphy" wrote in message ... "Ed Huntress" wrote in : "pyotr filipivich" wrote in message ... snip Its a wonder that the lefties haven't attempted to ban the Harry Potter books, chock full as they are with mysticism and supernaturalism. Not to mention the rampant Christian symbolism, the definitive expectation of the difference between Good and Evil, and that you ought to not merely find Evil distasteful, but something worth combating, actively combating, not just passing resolutions against. You're a little slow on the draw there, pyotr. Christian conservatives have sued or petitioned school boards all over the country to ban them from schools. Lest you forget Ed there have been plenty of politically correct left wingers pushing to ban books like "Of Mice and Men", "Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn", and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" for offensive words, ideas, and pedaling a "softer view of slavery" among other reasons. Pfffhht. You're talking about a short-term thing that was out on the fringes. Christian conservatives have been trying to ban books for 200 years. Try finding those books in a middle school library then. They went from required reading to banned. As for the length of time they've been at; that's really not the problem is it? I also find it hypocritical that Cliff is against burning books. Him being a big proponent of freedom and all. It's merely another legal form of freedom of speech AFAICT. Just so long as the book you're burning legally belongs to you. Cliff is against someone burning his own books? Why? During you hiatus he was in a tizzy over some folks burning Harry Potter books. I actually read his link. Turns out they bought them, then lit them on fire. As best as I recall, I got him to say that flag burning is OK but not book burning. Seems like the same thing to me. Neither the far left or the far right has much tolerance for freedom of speech. Ideologues are a plague upon civilization. Maybe. But they really do test where the lines are drawn and they cause people to think. So it's not all bad. You just can't let them run amok. -- Dan CNC Videos - http://tinyurl.com/yzdt6d |
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On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:28:17 +0000, D Murphy wrote:
"Ed Huntress" wrote in : [quoted text muted] Lest you forget Ed there have been plenty of politically correct left wingers pushing to ban books like "Of Mice and Men", "Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn", and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" for offensive words, ideas, and pedaling a "softer view of slavery" among other reasons. I also find it hypocritical that Cliff is against burning books. Him being a big proponent of freedom and all. Those two sentences do not correlate. It's merely another legal form of freedom of speech AFAICT. Just so long as the book you're burning legally belongs to you. Ah, the disclaimer. Are you then suggesting that Cliff is only against book burning one one variety? If so where do you get that impression for he hasn't said or implied any such thing. To the contrary, Cliff, and most of the voices here, have been pretty clear in their unconditional distaste for censorship. If you have something to say then do so directly. Implying ulterior motives, or making **** up like the regular trolls, is beneath you. Neither the far left or the far right has much tolerance for freedom of speech. On this we can definitely agree. -- Regards, Curly ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Bush Doctrine: Privatize Profits, Socialize Losses ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ .................................................. ............... Posted via TITANnews - Uncensored Newsgroups Access at http://www.TitanNews.com -=Every Newsgroup - Anonymous, UNCENSORED, BROADBAND Downloads=- |
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