It’s Read a Banned Book Day!
Yes, once again it’s time to celebrate our country’s ignorance! Why not prove your higher brain functions and read a banned book? Here’s the Top 10 Banned Books of 2005-2006:
- The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
- “The Chocolate War” by Robert Cormier
- The Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck
- “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou
- “Fallen Angels” by Walter Dean Myers
- “It’s Perfectly Normal” by Robie H. Harris
- The Scary Stories series by Alvin Schwartz
- The captain Underpants series by Dav Pikey
- “Forever” by Judy Blume
 
“But you know, making overt advances to 16-year old boys from a 52-year old man is nothing about being gay. It’s about pedophilia.”
Foley In 10 Minutes - As Only Keith Olbermann Can Do
“David Shuster just reported that sources on Capital Hill are telling him Hastert is done as Speaker. They are saying he will not hold the position in the next week. Following that, Keith gives a rundown on the timeline in the Foley scandal.
There are now reports that Republican members of Congress knew about this 11 years ago. That would put this in 1995. Now what other “sex scandal” has happened in Washington since then? Oh yeah - Monica Lewinsky. So the Lewinsky incident was so severe to merit a multi-million dollar investigation and the attention of both halls of Congress, yet a Republican congressman having possible illicit contact with pages under the age of 18 doesn’t get any attention by the GOP? There you have it - the perfect definition of hypocrisy.”
Bill Maher Gives Wolf Blitzer His Take On Foley
Meanwhile… While All Eyes Are On Foley, Iraq Is Rapidly Deteriorating.
“Staying the course isn’t good enough because a course has to have an end.”
Al Qaeda Letter Says Prolonging The Iraq War ‘Is In Our Interest’: I would love to see a Democrat come out and just plain say it: By staying the course like Bush loves to do, he is doing nothing but killing our soliders and playing into the hands of the terrorists, just like he did in the tape that Osama conveniently played right before the 2004 elections. A vote for Bush and his inept strategy in Iraq is a vote for Osama Bin Laden.
The administration has now found a letter written in 1998 by the founder of the Iranian revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, that cited a need for nuclear weapons. Is Bush going to use this letter as an excuse for his “October Surprise?”
Six Reasons Republicans Can’t Win The War on Terror (only six?)
“We punished people with 15 years of hard labor when waterboarding was used against Americans in World War II.”
Jon Stewart Takes A Look At ‘Tolerable Cruelty’
“In the past few weeks, the nation has been stunned by the rash of school shootings in Colorado, Wisconsin, and at an Amish schoolhouse in Pennyslvania. President Bush said he was “saddened and deeply concerned†about the shootings and plans to convene a summit of education and law enforcement experts to discuss federal action that can help communities prevent violence.”
FACT CHECK: Bush Slashed Funding For School Violence Prevention
Bush certainly cares about not leaving any children behind, doesn’t he? Oh…wait…once they’re fucking dead, I guess they don’t matter to Bush anymore.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
~~Aristotle
And now…
Your moment of Zen