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IChing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 11:55 AM Original message |
Parent criticizes book 'Fahrenheit 451 wants it removed from school. |
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ck4829 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
1. Then urge YOUR kid not to read it |
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Beetwasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 11:57 AM Response to Original message |
2. Oh, The Irony |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 11:57 AM Response to Original message |
3. Classic. |
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Bonobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 11:57 AM Response to Original message |
4. That's from the Onion, right. Please tell me it is! |
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bowens43 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 11:58 AM Response to Original message |
5. "It shouldn't be in there because it's offending people." |
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ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 11:59 AM Response to Original message |
6. the Berms are fat, ugly, brain-dead idiots. Oops. I apologize |
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IChing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 11:59 AM Original message |
I'm glad some got the irony of this news story. |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:00 PM Response to Original message |
10. These book banners have never read the books |
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Pacifist Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
34. I'll be stunned to learn he CAN read. |
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China_cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 11:59 AM Response to Original message |
7. Good grief. |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 11:59 AM Response to Original message |
8. Wait a minute here |
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bperci108 (969 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:28 PM Response to Reply #8 |
28. DING! DING! DING!.... |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:46 PM Response to Reply #28 |
32. It is ironic |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 01:08 PM Response to Reply #8 |
37. That was my question. |
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Julius Civitatus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 01:37 PM Response to Reply #8 |
45. The dumbass is confusing the novel with Michael Moore's movie |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 03:01 PM Response to Reply #45 |
56. LOL I wondered about that |
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markbark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 11:59 AM Response to Original message |
9. More's the pity the Principle Caved.... |
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Greeby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:00 PM Response to Original message |
11. He probably thought it was a prequel to Fahernheit 9/11 |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:00 PM Response to Original message |
12. "The book had a bunch of very bad language in it". I would suggest |
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Hav (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:01 PM Response to Original message |
13. . |
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Jack Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 01:39 PM Response to Reply #13 |
46. Now that's irony!! |
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IChing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 01:44 PM Response to Reply #46 |
49. That was the obvious irony I saw ..he wants to ban a book |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:04 PM Response to Original message |
14. They'd probably consider "irony" filthy language. |
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Jack Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:07 PM Response to Original message |
15. Pardon me, but Good God this is stupid |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 01:14 PM Response to Reply #15 |
40. see, your subject line took God's name in vain. |
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Jack Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 01:40 PM Response to Reply #40 |
47. I have a taste for irony |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 02:16 PM Response to Reply #47 |
52. that should protect you from |
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Jack Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 02:28 PM Response to Reply #52 |
54. Interesting analogy. |
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Vexatious Ape (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:07 PM Response to Original message |
16. Let's replace the offending book with |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 01:16 PM Response to Reply #16 |
41. Yeah, there's no violence in that |
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Elwood P Dowd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:08 PM Response to Original message |
17. Wasn't there an alternate version of that book |
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WolverineDG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
18. I love "critics" who haven't read the books |
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jane_pippin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
19. No, silly man. You don't celebrate Banned Book Week by banning books! |
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SaveElmer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
20. Mr. Verm...If you want to hide your kid from life... |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:10 PM Original message |
Bill Maher is right - Americans are dumber than anyone realizes. |
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Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:10 PM Response to Original message |
21. "they shouldn't have a book at all." |
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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:12 PM Response to Original message |
22. The article says the dad hadn't even read the book. |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:47 PM Response to Reply #22 |
33. Of course he hasn't |
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bmbmd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 01:42 PM Response to Reply #33 |
48. Particularly if it is a book |
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MaineYooper (555 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:13 PM Response to Original message |
23. If you burn a book about burning books, do you get an irony wormhole? |
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fasttense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:15 PM Response to Original message |
24. Alton Verm must be a firefighter |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:18 PM Response to Original message |
25. Irony aside, keep Alton away from the Foley IMs! n/t |
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IChing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:20 PM Response to Original message |
26. Well, I think he should be considered as a nominee |
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wicket (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
27. Won't someone please think of the children???? |
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Downtown Hound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:29 PM Response to Original message |
29. How ironic |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
30. The solution is to remove Alton Berm |
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anarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:34 PM Response to Original message |
31. banning it is not enough...I say burn it. |
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genie_weenie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
35. Too bad a depiction of Muhammad isn't in Bradbury's classic |
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BlueEyedSon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 01:06 PM Response to Original message |
36. More morans, makin' sure their kids are morans too. |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 01:10 PM Response to Original message |
38. I love how RW Christians get books banned for various reasons |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 01:11 PM Response to Original message |
39. Sounds like book bonfire time this Weds. night at his church. |
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onethatcares (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 01:25 PM Response to Original message |
42. unbelievable, |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 01:26 PM Response to Original message |
43. Being drunk, violence, dirty talk... |
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Alcibiades (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 01:34 PM Response to Original message |
44. Why doesn't he demand they remove the BIBLE? |
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jmowreader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
50. We need a Constitutional amendment... |
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The Stranger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
51. A new army of morons, the proles, who imprison the intelligentsia. |
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dapper (755 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
53. Sex is in the dictionary |
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Jim Warren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 02:32 PM Response to Original message |
55. Verm's 15 seconds of fame |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 03:01 PM Response to Original message |
57. maybe he could have a chat with |
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IChing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
58. Some quotes from the book I picked out |
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IChing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:13 PM Response to Original message |
59. I'm gonna send this story to Keith. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:15 PM Response to Original message |
60. This person belongs in prison. |
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IChing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:16 PM Response to Reply #60 |
61. OK that took me a second.........LOL |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
62. In other news, a Georgia teacher fired for exposing students to NUDE ART |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 08:23 PM Response to Reply #62 |
63. Oh, and GA Dept. of Ed will take up a petition to ban Harry Potter. nt |
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