Jon Stewart's book one of 5 books that were "challenged"

[SemperEadem]

http://www.cityofwasilla.com/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=516 (for the info below)
http://www.cityofwasilla.com/index.aspx?page=136 (document dump)

This library holds censorship to be a purely individual matter and declares that – while anyone is free to reject for himself books and other materials of which he does not approve – he cannot exercise this right of censorship to restrict the freedom of others.


1986
Angel Dust Blues by Todd Strasse
Creation of “Young Adult” section in library and placement of item in section

1986
Bumps in the Night by Harvey Allard
Remained on shelf

1997
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
Remained on shelf

2005
America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart
Remained on shelf

2007
The Abduction by Mette Newth
Remained on shelf

Palin served two terms as mayor of Wasilla from 1996 to 2002, so it would appear that she was after getting the Newman book banned.

[valerief]

1. LOL!!! Oh, he oughta have some fun with that!

:rofl:

[OneGrassRoot]

6. Yep, I can't WAIT!!!! LOL n/t

[Union Thug]

2. What's up with the URLs...shouldn't they be .gov?

[anigbrowl]

11. .gov is mainly for federal. Local govts. are not always consistent about it.

For example, a lot of California state websites are ____.ca.us. It's possible they mistakenly adopted a .com domain in the early days of the web and just ended up sticking with it.

[Union Thug]

14. Gotcha. I was curious because I'm alway leary of taking bait in traps

designed specifically to throw us curves. I was under the impression that all used .gov. Thanks for the clarification.

[drmeow]

3. it was because of those

naked Supreme Court Justice pictures - remember, that was WalMart's claim.

[seasat]

5. She had lustful thoughts over the naked Scalia.

She had to remove the temptation.

[drmeow]

15. I think I'm gonna hurl!

[codjh9]

4. That's a GREAT book, too. They have no sense of humor.

[progdonkey]

7. nevermind, misunderstood your post...

I read "she was after getting the book banned" in the sense of "she was mayor after getting the book banned" when I see you meant it in the sense of "the book she was after."

[AlCzervik]

8. That book is absolutely hilarious, i had to read it away from my family because i was

laughing so loud.

[DeepBlueC]

9. a heartbeat away from the presidency...gulp

:yoiks:

[Ashy Larry]

10. These are books that library patrons wanted banned.

Not Palin.

From the linked document:
"Our records indicate the following actions requested by library patrons:"

[snot]

12. Where does it say palin was the source of the request?

[SemperEadem]

13. Where does it say that I said that she was?

I'm referring to books which have been challenged--and Jon Stewart's book being one of those books.

The only book which was being challenged while Mooselini was mayor was the Newman book; being that she was inquiring about how to go about banning books, and being that the book is about a girl having two lesbians for mothers, and being that Mooselini's religious beliefs are intolerant to this notion and being that she seems to have an inability to seperate religion beliefs from the governance, it would appear that that book was the one in question. Please read for comprehension.