What do you think will be the first book they ban if Palin becomes president?

[Taverner]

My guess? She will ban Dawkins' "God Delusion"

They freakin HATE that book

[livetohike]

1. "The Catcher in the Rye"

is probably in the top ten.

[HereSince1628]

2. Pocket eds of the annotated Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution

[lapfog_1]

3. "Origin of Species" - n/t

[C_U_L8R]

4. I think she'll start banning websites

like DU.

Protesting is now terrorism
(in the minds of peabrained republicans)

[valerief]

6. Yup, yup, yup!

[valerief]

5. I was wondering the same thing. They may not ban any books, but will, instead,

black out certain pages.

:shrug:

[Rowdyboy]

7. "The Handmaid's Tale"....it's their plan of action

Can't let that get out

[benld74]

8. The Beauty of Living in Canada

[gateley]

9. She won't begin with books, she'll begin with The Constitution.

Then she can disappear any book she wants.

[The Straight Story]

10. Maybe they should ban books

It might help us save on health care costs and such, banning things is good now - you just have to find a way to relate such banning to saving money ;)

[CoffeeCat]

11. This book will be banned for sure!

"The Sarah Palin Story: Alaska Drilling With My Husband's Business Partner."

[stopbush]

12. I wish it was the Bible

That would solve so many problems.

[billyoc]

13. Catholic Bible.

[Taverner]

16. "Those damn books Tobias and Judith!!! Nothing good ever came of them!"

:P

[valerief]

14. Here's a list

http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/challengedbanned/frequentlychallengedbooks.cfm

The “10 Most Challenged Books of 2007” reflect a range of themes, and consist of the following titles:

1) “And Tango Makes Three,” by Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell
Reasons: Anti-Ethnic, Sexism, Homosexuality, Anti-Family, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group


2) The Chocolate War,” by Robert Cormier
Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Violence


3) “Olive’s Ocean,” by Kevin Henkes
Reasons: Sexually Explicit and Offensive Language

4) “The Golden Compass,” by Philip Pullman
Reasons: Religious Viewpoint

5) “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” by Mark Twain
Reasons: Racism

6) “The Color Purple,” by Alice Walker
Reasons: Homosexuality, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language,

7) "TTYL,” by Lauren Myracle
Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group

8) "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” by Maya Angelou
Reasons: Sexually Explicit

9) “It’s Perfectly Normal,” by Robie Harris
Reasons: Sex Education, Sexually Explicit

10) "The Perks of Being A Wallflower,” by Stephen Chbosky
Reasons: Homosexuality, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group

Off the list this year, are two books by author Toni Morrison. "The Bluest Eye" and "Beloved," both challenged for sexual content and offensive language.

[alsame]

15. Being VP for Dummies

[valerief]

20. LOL!!!

:rofl:

[grateful581]

17. All of these books

http://www.amazon.com/Must-read-evolution-Books/lm/LLD2IRJXE5GV

[jpak]

18. The entire Library of Congress

except for the Bible

Can't be too careful - that stuff might be written in Backmasked Devil Code!!

:evilgrin:

[Hugin]

19. My guess is they'll use the "Sonderfahndungsliste G.B." to compile their list...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book

[Errrica]

21. Catch-22.

Which is probably my favorite book of all time.

[valerief]

22. Sex-Ed for Teens. Our Bodies, Ourselves.

[Believing Is Art]

23. Audacity of Home, Dreams from My Father,

My Life, Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World, Living History, America Back on Track, An Inconvenient Truth, The Assault on Reason, basically anything by prominent Democrats. If they can totally silence the other side, then maybe the American people won't think and realize how screwed we are.

[Name removed]

24. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Cerridwen]

26. How did you get in with that name?

I swear you people are becoming more obvious as you become even more clueless.

[Greyhound]

29. Can we play with this one for a while first?

:bounce:

[Cerridwen]

32. Looks like we'll get to. It seems the mods have their hands full

with all our new disruptors visitors.

[valerief]

31. Dang, I've gotta start looking at names before I respond.

[Cerridwen]

34. Depending which part of the country you're from, you might not

notice it anyway. Some people pronounce that awnty. Where I'm from, we say anti. Also, few people come to a message board and start calling people names right off the bat - unless they're up to something.

Man, palin sure has brought them out of the woodwork. I hope the mods have the industrial sized Raid.

[valerief]

37. Yeah, jeepers freepers. nt

[valerief]

27. As mayor she tried to fire a librarian for not banning a book.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3470182

[YOY]

30. Because they do.

That's what she tried to do in her Mayoral town.

She tried to get a Librarian fired for refusing her.

That's what they do.

[grateful581]

35. Google is your Friend

Try researching before you post
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/2008/view.bg?articleid=1117009&srvc=2008campaign&position=15

[Cerridwen]

25. The Koran. The Torah. All non-right-kind-of-xtian sacred writings.

Conquerors throughout history first work to subvert and destroy the gods and beliefs of the conquered and supplant them with their own.

[annarbor]

28. My whole damned Harry Potter collection!

The religious right seems to have a hard on for all things mystical...

[Cleita]

38. Yep, I think they will be targeted too. n/t

[uberllama42]

33. Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit is dangerous because it shows how important the free flow of information is. Sometimes it is banned because it is graphic, but at least as often it is targeted by book-banners because it doesn't look kindly on book-banning.

[johnaries]

52. Yep, that's always the first one book burners burn.

Because it shows them for what they truly are.

[lame54]

57. but it's not a political book...

so said Bradbury when he objected to Michael Moore's title Fahrenheit 9/11

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

36. The Bible. It's jampacked with rape, incest, sadism, & commies.

"The bible is a book with some beautiful poetry, a bloodstained history, a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of 10,000 lies." - Mark Twain

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

39. won't mittens be surprised when it is

The book of Mormon

[crimsonblue]

40. The Kuran

[kskiska]

41. Kitty Kelley's exposé of Sarah Palin

and her meteoric rise to the top of the American Nazi Party.

[B Calm]

42. SCREWED by Thom Hartmann

[dembotoz]

43. harry potter

[Liberalatus]

44. oops

dupe

[LeftishBrit]

45. Charles Darwin: Origin of Species

John Guillebaud: Contraception: Your Questions Answered
(or any similar book)

The Bill of Rights

I agree, anything by Richard Dawkins

Moliere: Tartuffe (17th century play about a crook who uses religion to manipulate people)

And I'm sure she'd ban the following website:

www.polarbearsinternational.org

[Left Is Write]

46. Anything by Christopher Hitchens.

[Iris]

47. All of them. The only book we really need is the Bible.

right?

[girl gone mad]

48. The old testament.

It probably has too many Jews for Palin's liking.

[sofa king]

49. The "Blue Book"

That's the annual federal budget request figures from the White House. The Bush Administration has taken numerous measures to prevent easy dissemination of those numbers, obviously to conceal from casual observers and the press their profligate and irresponsible spending.

[cobalt1999]

50. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

The first really good book explaining evolution.

[LeftishBrit]

51. Anything by Michael Moore

I once came across a right-winger who was trying to convince everyone that he was doing the work of the Devil!

[Rocknrule]

53. Everything except "My Pet Goat" and "Mein Kampf"

[krabigirl]

54. Agree about Dawkins, but I don't think she'd be able to ban anything.

[lame54]

55. The True Sarah Palin Story

[leftofthedial]

56. all the science textbooks

[Breeze54]

58. These will be banned FIRST!

The Constitution of the United States: With the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation

by R. B. Bernstein (Introduction)

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Constitution-of-the-United-States/R-B-Bernstein/e/9780760728338



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Synopsis

Originally drafted by the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the Constitution defines the United States of America. This greatest of all American documents not only establishes our system of government, it limits the power of that government, specifying our irrevocable rights and privileges as individuals. The Constitution remains as relevant today as it was over two hundred years ago.

Included in this volume are the complete texts of the Constitution of the United States of America and its amendments; the Declaration of Independence; and the Articles of Confederation. The book also includes an insightful introduction by R.B. Bernstein, a chronology of important dates, and an index to the Constitution.