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megaman79 on 08 September 2008

 

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megaman79 on 08 September 2008



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

fkusumot on 09 September 2008
ManusJustus said:

Sarah Palin trying to ban books from the library sounds like good fuel against her in a debate.

It was the book by John Stewart that she wanted banned, so no big whoop in the red states. Harry Potter was also targetted because it's satanic. Oh, and A Wrinkle in TIme. All very bad books. It's not like she wanted to ban The South Beach Diet or anything interesting.



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steven787 on 09 September 2008
fkusumot said:
ManusJustus said:

Sarah Palin trying to ban books from the library sounds like good fuel against her in a debate.

It was the book by John Stewart that she wanted banned, so no big whoop in the red states. Harry Potter was also targetted because it's satanic. Oh, and A Wrinkle in TIme. All very bad books. It's not like she wanted to ban The South Beach Diet or anything interesting.

 

Or Atlas Shrugged, or 1984, or A Clockwork Orange, or Where the Wild Things Are.

No books were banned, and no librarian was fired under Palin.  She thought about it but was talked out of it.  She can be reasoned with. (I'm trying to be good)



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totalwar23 on 09 September 2008
steven787 said:
fkusumot said:
ManusJustus said:

Sarah Palin trying to ban books from the library sounds like good fuel against her in a debate.

It was the book by John Stewart that she wanted banned, so no big whoop in the red states. Harry Potter was also targetted because it's satanic. Oh, and A Wrinkle in TIme. All very bad books. It's not like she wanted to ban The South Beach Diet or anything interesting.

 

Or Atlas Shrugged, or 1984, or A Clockwork Orange, or Where the Wild Things Are.

No books were banned, and no librarian was fired under Palin.  She thought about it but was talked out of it.  She can be reasoned with. (I'm trying to be good)

hmm, I'm still trying to clear that up for me. There's this letter by Anne Kilkenny (which is a real person) which states differently that after protest did Palin backed off. I'm trying to find out how accurate her letter is.

 



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The Ghost of RubangB on 10 September 2008

She can do whatever she wants as long as she doesn't hurt my baby, A Wrinkle in Time.  Then I'll seriously get off the tubes and strangle her myself.



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senseinobaka on 12 September 2008

Book banning claim Debunked, Please update OP

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-09-09-Palin-book-ban_N.htm



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NJ5 on 12 September 2008
senseinobaka said:
Book banning claim Debunked, Please update OP

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-09-09-Palin-book-ban_N.htm


I don't think that debunks anything. All it says is that no books were ever banned, which doesn't mean she didn't try to get them removed.

 



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The_vagabond7 on 12 September 2008

Yeah, that seems like a rather misleading article. It just states there is no record of books being removed from shelves, which isn't really a point of debate. She tried and failed to have books removed from library shelves.



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ManusJustus on 12 September 2008
senseinobaka said:
Book banning claim Debunked, Please update OP

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-09-09-Palin-book-ban_N.htm

Debunked?  Have you read the article?

Mary Ellen Emmons was Wasilla's librarian at the time. She told a local newspaper, the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, in December 1996 that Palin repeatedly had asked her about removing books from the library, but said Palin never mentioned specific titles, according to the Anchorage Daily News.

In January 1997, Palin requested that the city's department heads, including Emmons, reapply for their positions. Though the censorship issue was not raised, some members of the community rallied behind Emmons and the librarian kept her job until she resigned three years later.

Sarah Palin asks the librarian about removing books, the librarian refuses, then Palin makes her reapply for her job.  You know what kind of politics that is?  I dont know firsthand, I've only encountered it when studying about non-democratic political systems, speficially favors and punishments that authoritarians use while in power.  There is a lot of irony in voting your freedoms away.