isn’t George Washington one of our first community organizers. I hear Harriet Tubman wasn’t too bad either
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Gee, I wonder if the Republicans have heard of Paul Revere or the Sons of Liberty?
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18 miles from Charlestown to Concord.
On horseback.
On muddy springtime dirt roads.
While evading hostile British Army patrols.
And he did it in 6 hours. (in time so the Minutemen would be waiting on the green at dawn.)
Don't mess with me, Random.
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Revere rode to Lexington Green specifically to warn Hancock and Adams, then he headed for Concord to continue the alarm. He was picked up by a British Patrol at what is now the gates of Hanscom Field (Bedford, MA), but was able to escape and continued on foot.
Others may have rode further, but Paul was the "focal point" in the Sons of Liberty...he knew everyone along the route and where they lived, so he was able to alert the most persons to the crisis.
(And as an interesting aside...the armory at Williamburg, VA was taken by the British on the morning of April 20, before news of the previous days' action at Lexington reached them. But for a quirk of timing, the "shot heard 'round the world" would have been in Virginia.)
Minuteman National Battlefield is my "home" park...it's four miles from here. :peace:
"If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.”—Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989)
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Blog RMS show watching party tomorrow night???
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Blog RMS show watching party tomorrow night???
Doesn't her show start on Tuesday the 9th? I hope so, I am working up a "cold" or some other ailment to leave work early.
:p
Seriously, I need a DVR!!!
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of course its tomorrow night, cuz I am on EVENINGS..............gahhhhhh...
MB, I try not to hate to hard on the types of moms you describe. Many of them live here near the healing waters of Lake Mtka. Just by virtue of living here, I get lumped in with them. But now there are more like me than there are of them, so we are about to turn my district blue, ya know?
I did not intend to inflitrate and upset the apple cart when I moved here, but uh, since its working...I will stay.
DH wants us to move to Michelle Batshits district so we can kick her ass out, but the skools suck there so fugget aboutit.
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Two notes: Has everyone joined the Rachel Maddow TV show fan page on Facebook yet?
And, Does it matter that Favre's on the Jets when they are playing the Dolphins in Week 1?
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Two notes: Has everyone joined the Rachel Maddow TV show fan page on Facebook yet?
And, Does it matter that Favre's on the Jets when they are playing the Dolphins in Week 1?
You mean the Rachel fan page? Or the 1st TV show event page?
cuz I'm on the former but not the latter, yet. Don't understand what an "event" is. Is that gonna be like a chat room??
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Actually I see you did join that group.
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Books Sarah Palin tried to ban.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Blubber by Judy Blume
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Christine by Stephen King
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Decameron by Boccaccio
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy Blume
Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Have to Go by Robert Munsch
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Impressions edited by Jack Booth
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher
Collier
My House by Nikki Giovanni
My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Collective
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Separate Peace by John Knowles
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse- Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Bastard by John Jakes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Living Bible by William C. Bower
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
The Shining by Stephen King
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster
Editorial Staff
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween
Symbols by Edna Barth
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And a specialfor Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary. WTF? What she didn't want kids to look up words?
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Hey if Shane-O check in: ya know what we need badly? Stephanie's "To-o--o-dd"
I keep hearing it whenever anyone mentions this hockey mom!!
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Sunday afternoon video goofiness:
Note to Gov. Palin: You can have my "lurid" books when you pry them from my cold, dead hands!![]()
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Books Sarah Palin tried to ban.
....
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Collective
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Separate Peace by John Knowles
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse- Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Sunday afternoon video goofiness:
Note to Gov. Palin: You can have my "lurid" books when you pry them from my cold, dead hands!![]()
Ummm Clintster, I am in agreement with MNRN that was wrong on so many levels. I am reminded of two things. First Spinal Tap where the lads are talking about having armadillos in their trousers. Second Beavis and Butthead. The twits would sing the refrain...which is now (Beavis and Butthead style) become an earworm.
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Sunday afternoon video goofiness:
Note to Gov. Palin: You can have my "lurid" books when you pry them from my cold, dead hands!![]()
Ummm Clintster, I am in agreement with MNRN that was wrong on so many levels. I am reminded of two things. First Spinal Tap where the lads are talking about having armadillos in their trousers. Second Beavis and Butthead. The twits would sing the refrain...which is now (Beavis and Butthead style) become an earworm.
I know that in many interviews the Tappers (Tapmen? Tapsters?) have said that they based their characters and movie situations on several metal bands of the time. I could easily see the Tap doing a video like this, but less competently.
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And Mrs. C was horrified when I showed her the Palin list. "Any foe of Harry Potter is a foe of mine," quoth my beautiful and beloved.
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Sunday afternoon video goofiness:
Note to Gov. Palin: You can have my "lurid" books when you pry them from my cold, dead hands!![]()
Ummm Clintster, I am in agreement with MNRN that was wrong on so many levels. I am reminded of two things. First Spinal Tap where the lads are talking about having armadillos in their trousers. Second Beavis and Butthead. The twits would sing the refrain...which is now (Beavis and Butthead style) become an earworm.
I know that in many interviews the Tappers (Tapmen? Tapsters?) have said that they based their characters and movie situations on several metal bands of the time. I could easily see the Tap doing a video like this, but less competently.
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And Mrs. C was horrified when I showed her the Palin list. "Any foe of Harry Potter is a foe of mine," quoth my beautiful and beloved.
Oh I've seen the videos for "Sex Farm" & "Hell Hole" Hard to say which would have been more competently shot, the Tap ones or "Breakin' the Law."
I agree with Mrs Clintster! But she only wants four of the Potter books banned! Do the other ones past muster? WTF?
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I think when she asked for them banned, those were the four books that were out at the time. Surely she'd have asked for 5-7 banned as well.
Course my humble Random opinion is F*ck Harry Potter.
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I think when she asked for them banned, those were the four books that were out at the time. Surely she'd have asked for 5-7 banned as well.
Course my humble Random opinion is F*ck Harry Potter.
Random, I have shielded Mrs. C from your comment for your safety. Seems her "stank-eye" is impervious to the almighty smote.
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Sunday afternoon video goofiness:
Note to Gov. Palin: You can have my "lurid" books when you pry them from my cold, dead hands!![]()
Ummm Clintster, I am in agreement with MNRN that was wrong on so many levels. I am reminded of two things. First Spinal Tap where the lads are talking about having armadillos in their trousers. Second Beavis and Butthead. The twits would sing the refrain...which is now (Beavis and Butthead style) become an earworm.
I know that in many interviews the Tappers (Tapmen? Tapsters?) have said that they based their characters and movie situations on several metal bands of the time. I could easily see the Tap doing a video like this, but less competently.
![]()
And Mrs. C was horrified when I showed her the Palin list. "Any foe of Harry Potter is a foe of mine," quoth my beautiful and beloved.
Oh I've seen the videos for "Sex Farm" & "Hell Hole" Hard to say which would have been more competently shot, the Tap ones or "Breakin' the Law."
I agree with Mrs Clintster! But she only wants four of the Potter books banned! Do the other ones past muster? WTF?
I think when she asked for them banned, those were the four books that were out at the time. Surely she'd have asked for 5-7 banned as well.
Course my humble Random opinion is F*ck Harry Potter.
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I think when she asked for them banned, those were the four books that were out at the time. Surely she'd have asked for 5-7 banned as well.
Course my humble Random opinion is F*ck Harry Potter.
Random, bad boy! Thou shalt not denigrate Mr Potter! :modbat:
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I think when she asked for them banned, those were the four books that were out at the time. Surely she'd have asked for 5-7 banned as well.
Course my humble Random opinion is F*ck Harry Potter.
Random, bad boy! Thou shalt not denigrate Mr Potter! :modbat:
Mr. Potter is Cliche clap-trap that is written by a medicore writer and only claim to fame is the ability to outwit kids into reading seven hundred pages of B.S.
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I think when she asked for them banned, those were the four books that were out at the time. Surely she'd have asked for 5-7 banned as well.
Course my humble Random opinion is F*ck Harry Potter.
Random, bad boy! Thou shalt not denigrate Mr Potter! :modbat:
Mr. Potter is Cliche clap-trap that is written by a medicore writer and only claim to fame is the ability to outwit kids into reading seven hundred pages of B.S.
We still love you Random!
Say Random, have you seen "Seven?" What did you think?
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The Comcast has more HD ad is bogus because they are counting on demand programming in addition to linear channels. Verizon FiOS blows comcrap away. Cablevision only touts the linear 60 channels they carry and even that comes from owning 22 of the channels carried.
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Ah, random. All is forgiven from your dismissal of local hero Paul Revere from this morning.
I too have similar opinions of the "Potter" and "Vampire" series. I have not read one word nor seen one second of any of the Potter films....and I sat through "Interview with a Vampire" only because I was not yet married to Mrs. TriSec and really wanted to be.
Palin ban list....:shudder: What is this, the 1950s? "Banned in Boston" takes on a whole new twist now...
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Ah, random. All is forgiven from your dismissal of local hero Paul Revere from this morning.
I too have similar opinions of the "Potter" and "Vampire" series. I have not read one word nor seen one second of any of the Potter films....and I sat through "Interview with a Vampire" only because I was not yet married to Mrs. TriSec and really wanted to be.
Palin ban list....:shudder: What is this, the 1950s? "Banned in Boston" takes on a whole new twist now...
Well, still got the oldest standing settlement here in Florida.
That aside, I've read 6 of the 7 books, and 4 of the who knows how many movies. I refuse to see another movie, or read the 7th book. I know how it ends. There is only one satisfying ending, which isn't that statisfying.
And the banned book list...I miss the irony of not having Fahrenheit 451 on the list
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Ah, random. All is forgiven from your dismissal of local hero Paul Revere from this morning.
I too have similar opinions of the "Potter" and "Vampire" series. I have not read one word nor seen one second of any of the Potter films....and I sat through "Interview with a Vampire" only because I was not yet married to Mrs. TriSec and really wanted to be.
Palin ban list....:shudder: What is this, the 1950s? "Banned in Boston" takes on a whole new twist now...
Well, still got the oldest standing settlement here in Florida.
That aside, I've read 6 of the 7 books, and 4 of the who knows how many movies. I refuse to see another movie, or read the 7th book. I know how it ends. There is only one satisfying ending, which isn't that statisfying.
And the banned book list...I miss the irony of not having Fahrenheit 451 on the list
Agreed re: F451, but the inclusion of "The Handmaid's Tale" is enough irony pie for me.
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I was thinking about that earlier...(history).
The short list of "most historic cities in the US" would be mostly east-coast...
I still get a chuckle out of our trip to Phoenix (9 years ago now.). The "historic district" preserves an 1895 Victorian as the "oldest wood-frame house in Arizona".
Like my friend said..."So what? My mother's house is older than that..."
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Agreed re: F451, but the inclusion of "The Handmaid's Tale" is enough irony pie for me.
Should be noted, Never heard of it, doubt i'll ever read it. But i assume it's something with control or banning.
Hey, 1984 isn't on that list either. What kind of Banner bans books, but doesn't ban the books that esentially expose her plan?
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Agreed re: F451, but the inclusion of "The Handmaid's Tale" is enough irony pie for me.
Should be noted, Never heard of it, doubt i'll ever read it. But i assume it's something with control or banning.
Hey, 1984 isn't on that list either. What kind of Banner bans books, but doesn't ban the books that esentially expose her plan?
Wikipedia on "The Handmaid's Tale". It seems to me that "1984" would be Darth Cheney/Alberto Gonzales' vision of Utopia, and "THT" would be Dubya/Evil Uncle Chuckles' vision. Not sure where Wasilia's Bestest Mayor would fit into either of those scenarios. She might be more of a "Brazil" type.
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Wikipedia on "The Handmaid's Tale". It seems to me that "1984" would be Darth Cheney/Alberto Gonzales' vision of Utopia, and "THT" would be Dubya/Evil Uncle Chuckles' vision. Not sure where Wasilia's Bestest Mayor would fit into either of those scenarios. She might be more of a "Brazil" type.
Definitely "Handmaid's Tale".
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Wikipedia on "The Handmaid's Tale". It seems to me that "1984" would be Darth Cheney/Alberto Gonzales' vision of Utopia, and "THT" would be Dubya/Evil Uncle Chuckles' vision. Not sure where Wasilia's Bestest Mayor would fit into either of those scenarios. She might be more of a "Brazil" type.
Definitely "Handmaid's Tale".
Ofgrampy?
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I was thinking about that earlier...(history).
The short list of "most historic cities in the US" would be mostly east-coast...
I still get a chuckle out of our trip to Phoenix (9 years ago now.). The "historic district" preserves an 1895 Victorian as the "oldest wood-frame house in Arizona".
Like my friend said..."So what? My mother's house is older than that..."
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Wikipedia on "The Handmaid's Tale". It seems to me that "1984" would be Darth Cheney/Alberto Gonzales' vision of Utopia, and "THT" would be Dubya/Evil Uncle Chuckles' vision. Not sure where Wasilia's Bestest Mayor would fit into either of those scenarios. She might be more of a "Brazil" type.
Definitely "Handmaid's Tale".
Ofgrampy?
Oh! Jesus Clint. My eyes!
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Wikipedia on "The Handmaid's Tale". It seems to me that "1984" would be Darth Cheney/Alberto Gonzales' vision of Utopia, and "THT" would be Dubya/Evil Uncle Chuckles' vision. Not sure where Wasilia's Bestest Mayor would fit into either of those scenarios. She might be more of a "Brazil" type.
Definitely "Handmaid's Tale".
Ofgrampy?
Oh! Jesus Clint. My eyes!
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Mondo mentioned it earlier, but it bears repeating: The list is bogus.
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Mondo mentioned it earlier, but it bears repeating: The list is bogus.