LiberalinNC
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Fri Dec-24-04 10:42 PM
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My mother sent my kids a book written by Lynne Cheney for the Holidays! |
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I called her and said "MOM, WTF? YOU bought a book written by that bitch Lynne Cheney?"
She tells me "It's about George Washington, it's history"
I tell her "I don't give a shit, that book IS NOT staying in MY HOUSE, I'll buy the kids an Al Franken book. That Cheney family is scum of the earth and I will never allow anything written by them in my home."
Funny thing is she hates Bushie and Cheney more than me!
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Fri Dec-24-04 10:45 PM
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1. Well, at least it wasn't "Sisters"... |
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Sat Dec-25-04 01:33 PM
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20. LOL! That's exactly what I was thinking! |
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What a shock to 'family values' that would've been!
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Sat Dec-25-04 10:17 PM
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30. but then they could have sold it on Amazon.com! |
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A good-condition used copy could get you a hundred bucks (more if it's signed)!
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Wed Dec-29-04 03:29 PM
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39. You can sell "Sisters" for $500 |
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I wish someone had given me that for Christmas :)
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Fri Dec-24-04 10:53 PM
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2. Hold your nose and drop it in the trash |
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Fri Dec-24-04 11:04 PM
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5. maybe she should burn it |
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well, I guess recycling would be the best option.
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Sun Dec-26-04 12:19 AM
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if you don't like a book; burn it.
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Wed Dec-29-04 03:19 PM
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Edited on Wed Dec-29-04 03:19 PM by reformed_military
I think another group has that same attitude.
:thumbsdown:
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Wed Dec-29-04 08:10 PM
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42. Oh, where did you get that advice? |
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Is that what you think a liberal would do?
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Fri Dec-24-04 10:55 PM
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3. I wouldn't buy anything from Lynne Cheney. Sell it on amazon.com and use |
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the money to buy a 'decent' book.
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Sat Dec-25-04 10:11 AM
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14. But you want someone else to buy it? |
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Sat Dec-25-04 10:22 PM
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31. a fool and thier money are soon parted... |
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Sun Dec-26-04 02:14 AM
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Fri Dec-24-04 11:03 PM
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4. Who want's to re-learn history from the perspective of these facists? |
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Fri Dec-24-04 11:10 PM
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6. My cousin bought it for her kid... |
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She said the kids loved it.
I don't know.
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Fri Dec-24-04 11:23 PM
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7. take it to your local bookstore - tell them it was a gift and you would |
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like to get something different - they will let you - at least at barnes and noble and borders
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Sat Dec-25-04 06:42 AM
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8. Sounds like the makings of a good bonfire to me. ;-) nt. |
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Sat Dec-25-04 12:16 PM
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17. Uh..........sorry but the very idea of booking burning |
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harkens back to a dark day in human history which I'd just assume not repeat. Someone else had a good suggestion......don't like it?
There's always a paper recycling center.
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Sat Dec-25-04 04:40 PM
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22. Uh..........sorry, but did you see the WINK at the end of the sentence? |
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Sat Dec-25-04 10:08 PM
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29. I don't think anyone is burning it to send a message |
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of fascism, but more to send a message of "this sucks!"
No one's saying Lynn's book shouldn't be sold. It just shouldn't be bought by progressives. :)
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Wed Dec-29-04 03:31 PM
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40. Pauline Kael said that there is nothing wrong with burning a BAD book... |
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as long as you're doing it for aesthetic rather than ideological reasons
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Sat Dec-25-04 06:47 AM
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9. Now, THAT book you can burn. |
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Sat Dec-25-04 08:27 AM
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It's a shame that your mom made the Cheney's some more $$$$. Can you send it to her and have her return it for a refund? If not, BURN IT!
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Sat Dec-25-04 08:44 AM
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No matter how distasteful I'd never BURN a book. You could however, give it a good Christian burial.
I guess Mom had a bit of a brain fart, eh? At least she isn't a Bushie.
My mother in law gave my 7 year old (at the time) son a floral needlepoint eyeglass kit. He doesn't wear glasses. She told him he could do the needlepoint and then when he does wear glasses, carry them to school in a flowery needlepoint case. I guess she wanted him to get the crap kicked out of him or something. So weird. She also gave my daughter stationery to use to write to her from camp. Unfortunately it was the same stationery we had given my mother in law the year before to use to write to my daughter at camp!
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Sat Dec-25-04 09:06 AM
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12. Send her a fruitcake, THAT will teach her a lesson... |
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Sat Dec-25-04 09:14 AM
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13. Is there a chapter that details how conservatism creates homosexuality? |
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If so, I certianly would not read the article, but I would look at the pictures.
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Sat Dec-25-04 10:59 AM
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15. your mom just saw it as a children's book... |
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I am sure the book isn't at all political and there's probably a lot of kids who like it, but I understand your point of not wanting the book. I wouldn't want any money going to help these 'repugs in power'
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Sat Dec-25-04 04:46 PM
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Cheney and her cronies have made a complete re-working of history taught to our children a major goal. Their "history" deletes any suggestion that anything done by white Americans was in any way wrong. Think of "Fox News" as a blueprint for a history lesson, and that's what Cheney and her foundation are doing.
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Sat Dec-25-04 04:57 PM
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it's a white washed version of history for kids.
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Sat Dec-25-04 12:06 PM
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16. The only time book burning is justified LOL |
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Sat Dec-25-04 12:23 PM
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18. Don't BURN the book, take the time to send it back to your mother w/ |
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the message BANNED AS NAZI PROPAGANDA written in Black permanent marker across the front cover. If my mother did that to my children I would defiantly send it back to her that way!
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Sat Dec-25-04 12:24 PM
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19. So your mom hates Bushie and Cheney |
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and yet she bought When Washington Crossed the Delaware: A Wintertime Story for Young Patriots, by Lynne Cheney? What was she thinking?
Hopefully not the same thing my mom was thinking when she sent my son Way to Be! by Gordon B. Hinckley. I used it to steady a tipsy plant.
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Sat Dec-25-04 01:34 PM
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21. It is a good book about US history i think your kids will like it |
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Sat Dec-25-04 04:51 PM
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24. Sorry, but there are much better books. |
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Edited on Sat Dec-25-04 04:52 PM by lolly
There are plenty of good history books for children that don't promote wingnut ideology at the expense of a balanced examination of history.
Look around at online booksellers or in libraries.
I would no more give my child a book by a wingnut--even it it was about flower arrangement--than I would give him a book by Adolph Hitler--even if IT was about flower arranging. Yes, I'm serious.
And, as I said early, Cheney's foray into history is not innocent and it's NOT without ideological content. Read a little more on her and her campaign to purge all non-wingnut historians from college campuses and eliminate non-ideologically correct viewpoints from the teaching of history at all levels.
Try to get your mother's money back on this one. Don't feed the Republican machine.
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Sat Dec-25-04 04:55 PM
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I'm not saying that the book is poorly written or doesn't offer historical information of interest. But, for god sakes, Lynn Cheney wrote it. The woman that proclaimed John Kerry was (paraphrasing) "s a bad, bad man." Yeah and your husband is a model of statesmanship (Fuck who, Dick? " In any case a line has to be drawn somewhere and this seems to be a good place to start. But, in the words of Dennis Miller, "Hey that's just my opinion, I might be wrong.";-)
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Wed Dec-29-04 03:33 PM
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41. Was he tombstoned for having bad taste or for being a disruptor? |
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Either reason is fine by me :)
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Sat Dec-25-04 04:55 PM
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and it's not very good.
Wouldn't have sold any copies if she wasn't the VP's wife.
Someone bought a copy for every classroom in our school and I threw mine away.
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Sat Dec-25-04 09:53 PM
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28. I'm return ring it to Barnes and Noble |
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Edited on Sat Dec-25-04 10:49 PM by LiberalinNC
And will allow my kids to pick something out - Like I said, I don't want none of that propaganda bullshit in my house!
Lynne Cheney can bit the big one! (HA HA, she probably already does);)
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Sat Dec-25-04 10:22 PM
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32. Don't burn it but take it out of circulation |
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Maybe put it in a red "bio-hazards" bag, with a note explaining the dangers of Cheney and a right wing perspective on history. Also include a note of your feelings toward your mother for sending your kids the book. Sort of a time capsule of what not to do.
Hide it away in an attic/basement... or trash it.
I can't abide burning a book....not even one by Lynne Cheney.
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Sat Dec-25-04 10:32 PM
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Don't let her get any royalties off of it.
It isn't just a matter of not having it in your house...heck, I occassionally read books by Conservatives to motivate me, and challenge my brain (sometimes it almost explodes) but I refuse to give these people a penny of my money - I get it from the library.
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Sun Dec-26-04 12:13 AM
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34. Maybe she should have given a copy of "My Pet Goat". lol eom |
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Sun Dec-26-04 08:56 AM
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37. NOW that would have made me laugh! |
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But Mom isn't all that "funny", except when she speaks of that idiot in the wh.
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