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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 6 months ago
    Talking about book bans - our local talk radio had a segment on the Racine schools libraries removing Vonnegut, Bradbury, and the Bible (among others) from all school libraries. Now for grade schools that's probably not a big deal, but at the Jr. High and High School?
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    • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 6 months ago
      An update - not only those, but Twain, Shakespeare, world atlas's, etc. The conjecture is that they are going to go on a spending spree to buy these in electronic format so that they can "edit" out the parts they don't like, and/or replace with condensed or summaries - 'cause we wouldn't want to tax the young'uns with having to read a whole book or them bad words to understand our heritage, or those uncomfortable thoughts - like in F451.
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      • Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 10 years, 6 months ago
        The 'editing' is my problem with electronic books. I like my Kindle. It's much more convenient to carry around than a paper book, but...I buy the books I love in hard back so that they can be preserved and found by future archeologists.
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    • Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 10 years, 6 months ago
      Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451. We can't have books about burning books can we.
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      • Posted by Hiraghm 10 years, 6 months ago
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        The thought was hardly born when a city policewoman, her hands thrust deep underneath the mattress, shouted in triumph. She pulled out three tattered, dog-eared paperback books, looked at the covers, and handed them over to Pyle with a smirk. "She's one of them, all right."

        The books were: The Sixth Winter, The Man Who Awoke, and Fahrenheit 451.

        "Look at this crap, would you," Conte said in disgust. "With all the problems here on Earth, why would anybody waste their time with this escapist stuff? We oughta take these and throw them right into the trash can."

        "What're the stories about, anyway?" Arteria took the dry, brittle volumes from Conte and read the back covers. Won't do to let them know I know already . . .
        "Get this. It says here that The Sixth Winter is about the sudden onset of an ice age; and The Man Who Awoke is about a scientist in 1933 who goes to sleep and wakes up in a future of depleted resources and ruined environments."

        Conte took the books back. He scowled at them. "Yeah? What's the third one about?"

        "Burning books."

        Conte looked uncomfortable and opened his mouth to say something, but he was interrupted by the arrival of Jheri Moorkith and the Green Police.
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        "Fallen Angels", Niven, Pournelle, Flynn
        http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/06717...
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  • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 10 years, 6 months ago
    The Republicans went along 6-0 with the first restriction and then 4-2 on the second. This is not about President Obama. It is about the Federal Election Commission and US campaign laws. WE PROHIBIT THE CANDIDATE FROM PROFITING FROM THE CAMPAIGN. The campaign manager can be paid (handsomely), staffers of all kinds get paid whatever they can get. The candidate must not make a penny.

    I know that you can cite egregious violations. They remain violations. The principle stands.

    Also, I can easily ask "Why not make money off a campaign, win or lose?" Why not be a professional politician, getting paid well to raise issues, meet forums, discuss problems, propose solutions, etc?

    Well, the easy answer is that our altruist-collectivist-mystiicist tradition holds that money is dirty. "Money is not speech" they claim. So, we can question the very foundation of these laws from objective premises. ("Money is Speech" here" http://necessaryfacts.blogspot.com/2012/... "Money is Press and Speech" here: http://necessaryfacts.blogspot.com/2013/...)

    Short of that, though, it remains a basic fact of US election law, that the candidate is not running a business. Thus, Paul Ryan cannot profit from his book if the book is part of his campaign.

    (I ran for Congress in 1992. The Libertarians said that I "would not have to do anything." Silly me. Then the forms began to arrive.... I had a lot of explaining to do...)

    It's the law: obey it until you can change it.)
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  • Posted by fivedollargold 10 years, 6 months ago
    Another attempt to suppress the Regime's political enemies. Fivedollargold is suspicious that these heinous acts were conceived by lib think tanks which are intertwined with Dear Leader's army of bureaucrats.
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    • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 10 years, 6 months ago
      No, my dear Half Eagle. If you read closely: " ... Democrats rejected that and pushed for a different, commercial, exemption that imposes rules over the publisher’s politics and book pricing. Republicans went along and the commission approved that 6-0. ... There were concerns raised by Weintraub that Ryan was trying to profit off sales of the book promoted on his websites. Republicans carried that to victory in a 4-2 vote."

      Commissioner Lee Goodman stands out (sometimes). Apparently, his Republican comrades stand _with_ (more often).
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      • Posted by Hiraghm 10 years, 6 months ago
        He didn't say "conceived by Democrat think tanks", did he? He said "LIB think tanks".
        There are more "Libs" in the Republican party than there are Tea Partiers, unfortunately.
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