Comments on: Fox’s Campaign Carl Claims ‘You Can’t Dispute’ That Palin Was ‘Against’ The Bridge To Nowhere http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:23:51 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: desertflower1 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/comment-page-2/#comment-5216368 desertflower1 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:38:22 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/#comment-5216368 Gregor Samsa....maybe so. But just the fact that she inquired about this at all...on at least 3 occasions, is frightening. Gregor Samsa….maybe so. But just the fact that she inquired about this at all…on at least 3 occasions, is frightening.

]]> By: desertflower1 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/comment-page-2/#comment-5216360 desertflower1 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:37:16 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/#comment-5216360 Yeah, and it also seems that she is against the state of Alaska paying for rape victims forensic tests...americablog.com has the info..Everyday brings a new revolation. None of them good!! Pass it on! Yeah, and it also seems that she is against the state of Alaska paying for rape victims forensic tests…americablog.com has the info..Everyday brings a new revolation. None of them good!! Pass it on!

]]> By: shoeless http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/comment-page-2/#comment-5216292 shoeless Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:04:59 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/#comment-5216292 <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/04/palin-also-supported-the_n_123991.html" rel="nofollow">Palin Also Supported The "Road To Nowhere" (And May Still)</a> Palin Also Supported The “Road To Nowhere” (And May Still)

]]> By: The Shadow http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/comment-page-2/#comment-5216272 The Shadow Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:56:57 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/#comment-5216272 This women lies like a cheap rug. You guys need to tell you wives, girlfriends, sisters and mothers and co workers the truth about her. This whole thing in the words of Bill Clinton is "the biggest ferrytale" I've ever heard. They tell lie after lie about the positions and the media which knows better does nothing to correct the record. Guys this election is too important to let them win it based on LIES. We have to stand up on U Tube and anywhere else and tell the truth about this rightwing idiot. This women lies like a cheap rug. You guys need to tell you wives, girlfriends, sisters and mothers and co workers the truth about her. This whole thing in the words of Bill Clinton is “the biggest ferrytale” I’ve ever heard. They tell lie after lie about the positions and the media which knows better does nothing to correct the record. Guys this election is too important to let them win it based on LIES. We have to stand up on U Tube and anywhere else and tell the truth about this rightwing idiot.

]]> By: Gregor Samsa http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/comment-page-2/#comment-5216248 Gregor Samsa Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:35:08 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/#comment-5216248 That list of books that were banned by Sara Palin -or that she wanted to ban- is bogus, and has been debunked already. Check out this <a href="http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/bannedbooks.asp" rel="nofollow">entry at Snopes.com Zooey is right: the list is suspect because it contains titles that were not even published at the time Palin supposedly asked for their ban from Wasilla's public library.</a> That list of books that were banned by Sara Palin -or that she wanted to ban- is bogus, and has been debunked already.

Check out this entry at Snopes.com

Zooey is right: the list is suspect because it contains titles that were not even published at the time Palin supposedly asked for their ban from Wasilla’s public library.

]]> By: Gregor Samsa http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/comment-page-2/#comment-5216234 Gregor Samsa Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:44:09 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/#comment-5216234 <i>"I think God’s will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that."</i> ~Sara Palin This just in from Captain Obvious: If all it takes to get things done is a little prayer, why would you want to run for VP, campaigning as a competent, experienced candidate? I mean, who needs experience and competency when you have Gawd on your side? Why, you could just stay home and pray all bloody day long, for that matter. But the 23%ers fall for this nonsense over, and over, and over... “I think God’s will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that.”
~Sara Palin

This just in from Captain Obvious: If all it takes to get things done is a little prayer, why would you want to run for VP, campaigning as a competent, experienced candidate?

I mean, who needs experience and competency when you have Gawd on your side? Why, you could just stay home and pray all bloody day long, for that matter.

But the 23%ers fall for this nonsense over, and over, and over…

]]> By: Jane E. Schneider http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/comment-page-2/#comment-5216230 Jane E. Schneider Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:35:23 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/#comment-5216230 That's right, Keith, but you gotta watch out for those pigeons plotting in secrecy and the reactionary zebras. But the hamsters do have fun! That’s right, Keith, but you gotta watch out for those pigeons plotting in secrecy and the reactionary zebras. But the hamsters do have fun!

]]> By: Gregor Samsa http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/comment-page-2/#comment-5216224 Gregor Samsa Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:28:37 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/#comment-5216224 Right. Just like you can't dispute that those WMD were found in Iraq.... Right.

Just like you can’t dispute that those WMD were found in Iraq….

]]> By: sacopenapa http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/comment-page-2/#comment-5216222 sacopenapa Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:28:11 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/#comment-5216222 This is a beauty MATE... This comes from DEMOCRACYNOW: <em>Palin: Iraq War is a “Task” from God In campaign news, a video has emerged of Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin telling ministry students at her former church that the US invasion of Iraq is a task from God. Sarah Palin: “Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending them out on a task that is from God. That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan. So bless them with your prayers, your prayers of protection over our soldiers.” During the same address, Palin said the construction of a new oil pipeline in Alaska is God’s will. Sarah Palin: “I can do my part in doing things like working really, really hard to get a natural gas pipeline, about a $30 billion project that’s going to create a lot of jobs for Alaskans, and we’ll have a lot of energy flowing through here. And pray about that also. I think God’s will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that.” The video of her speech was originally posted on the Wasilla Assembly of God’s website </em> This is a beauty MATE…
This comes from DEMOCRACYNOW:

Palin: Iraq War is a “Task” from God
In campaign news, a video has emerged of Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin telling ministry students at her former church that the US invasion of Iraq is a task from God.

Sarah Palin: “Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending them out on a task that is from God. That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan. So bless them with your prayers, your prayers of protection over our soldiers.”

During the same address, Palin said the construction of a new oil pipeline in Alaska is God’s will.

Sarah Palin: “I can do my part in doing things like working really, really hard to get a natural gas pipeline, about a $30 billion project that’s going to create a lot of jobs for Alaskans, and we’ll have a lot of energy flowing through here. And pray about that also. I think God’s will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that.”

The video of her speech was originally posted on the Wasilla Assembly of God’s website

]]> By: Keith http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/comment-page-2/#comment-5216208 Keith Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:03:27 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/#comment-5216208 My pleasure, Zooey, Simon and Gar said it's all happening at the zoo. My pleasure, Zooey, Simon and Gar said it’s all happening at the zoo.

]]> By: Zooey http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/comment-page-2/#comment-5216198 Zooey Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:35:07 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/#comment-5216198 Thanks for stopping by the Zoo, Keith. :-) Thanks for stopping by the Zoo, Keith. :-)

]]> By: Keith http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/comment-page-2/#comment-5216194 Keith Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:25:29 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/#comment-5216194 had enough, Don't remember. You know---one site links to another and before you know it, you're looking at pictures of Anna Kournikova. had enough,
Don’t remember. You know—one site links to another and before you know it, you’re looking at pictures of Anna Kournikova.

]]> By: had enough http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/comment-page-2/#comment-5216188 had enough Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:19:03 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/#comment-5216188 <em>Keith Says: One blogger I read tonight said she was voting Republican because Track was so “hot”!</em> Where on earth have you been to read that? Keith Says:

One blogger I read tonight said she was voting Republican because Track was so “hot”!

Where on earth have you been to read that?

]]> By: kuvasz http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/comment-page-2/#comment-5216182 kuvasz Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:09:30 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/#comment-5216182 Um, she was for it before she was against it? haven't heard that before have we? Um, she was for it before she was against it? haven’t heard that before have we?

]]> By: Jane E. Schneider http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/comment-page-2/#comment-5216180 Jane E. Schneider Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:08:50 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/#comment-5216180 <em>Zooey Says: I’ve got a baseball bat. ;) September 9th, 2008 at 12:02 am </em> And I've got a rolling pin. :D Zooey Says:

I’ve got a baseball bat. ;)

September 9th, 2008 at 12:02 am

And I’ve got a rolling pin. :D

]]> By: Keith http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/comment-page-2/#comment-5216178 Keith Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:08:14 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/#comment-5216178 Why would Cujo be censored, anyway? Why would Cujo be censored, anyway?

]]> By: Keith http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/comment-page-2/#comment-5216174 Keith Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:07:03 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/#comment-5216174 Oval aka James, CNN said that list was bogus. They say quite a few were not even written in 1996 or whenever. Oval aka James,
CNN said that list was bogus. They say quite a few were not even written in 1996 or whenever.

]]> By: Zooey http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/comment-page-2/#comment-5216172 Zooey Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:06:29 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/#comment-5216172 <em>Oval12345678 aka James K. Sayre Says: </em> I'll say it again: That list is <strong>highly suspect</strong>, since the Harry Potter books came out AFTER Palin was no longer Mayor of Wasilla. Just sayin'... Oval12345678 aka James K. Sayre Says:

I’ll say it again: That list is highly suspect, since the Harry Potter books came out AFTER Palin was no longer Mayor of Wasilla.

Just sayin’…

]]> By: Zooey http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/comment-page-2/#comment-5216168 Zooey Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:04:45 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/#comment-5216168 OT: We're having a little celebration at TheZoo. We've had over 500,000 views of our little blog. <a href="http://tpzoo.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/a-million-eyes-upon-usyours/#comment-81031" rel="nofollow">A Million Eyes Upon Us....YOURS!</a> OT:

We’re having a little celebration at TheZoo. We’ve had over 500,000 views of our little blog.

A Million Eyes Upon Us….YOURS!

]]> By: Oval12345678 aka James K. Sayre http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/comment-page-2/#comment-5216166 Oval12345678 aka James K. Sayre Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:04:31 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/cameron-palin-bridge/#comment-5216166 A little O/T: (hot off the Daily Kos press). Credit to: by Granny Doc, who dug through the just released records of the town of Wasilla, Alaska and found (or collated) this list. a short list of the books Mayor Palin wanted to ban from the Wasilla library Look at the list of books Palin wanted to ban. Books Mayor Sarah Palin tried to remove from Wasilla library This information is taken from the official minutes of the Wasilla Library Board. When the librarian refused to ban the books, Palin tried to get her fired. 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 End of file. A little O/T: (hot off the Daily Kos press). Credit to: by Granny Doc, who dug through the just released records of the town of Wasilla, Alaska and found (or collated) this list.

a short list of the books Mayor Palin wanted to ban from the Wasilla library

Look at the list of books Palin wanted to ban.

Books Mayor Sarah Palin tried to remove from Wasilla library

This information is taken from the official minutes of the Wasilla Library Board.

When the librarian refused to ban the books, Palin tried to get her fired.

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

End of file.

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