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Are_grits_groceries's JournalHarper Lee pwned a Virginia school board that banned To Kill A Mockingbird:
The problem is one of illiteracy, not Marxism
Early-1966, believing its contents to be "immoral," the Hanover County School Board in Virginia decided to remove all copies of Harper Lee's classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, from the county's school libraries. As soon as she was alerted, Lee responded perfectly by way of the following letter, written to, and later published in, The Richmond News Leader.
Also sent, as mentioned in the letter, was a contribution to the Beadle Bumble Fund — a project set up by the newspaper in 1959 to highlight/compensate for "official stupidities," and which subsequently gave away copies of the banned book to all children who asked.
January, 1966
Editor, The News Leader:
Recently I have received echoes down this way of the Hanover County School Board's activities, and what I've heard makes me wonder if any of its members can read.
Surely it is plain to the simplest intelligence that "To Kill a Mockingbird" spells out in words of seldom more than two syllables a code of honor and conduct, Christian in its ethic, that is the heritage of all Southerners. To hear that the novel is "immoral" has made me count the years between now and 1984, for I have yet to come across a better example of doublethink.
I feel, however, that the problem is one of illiteracy, not Marxism. Therefore I enclose a small contribution to the Beadle Bumble Fund that I hope will be used to enroll the Hanover County School Board in any first grade of its choice.
Harper Lee
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/04/problem-is-one-of-illiteracy-not.html
Ha!
Rebel with a clue.
A huge waterspout formed near Tampa:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/video-captures-waterspout-forming-tampa-bay-141311354.html
Beautiful and scary....
If I make the longest OP EVER, what do I win?
I will only fill it with articles of facts and links to those articles about one side of a topic.
It will prove I can google and ignore anything else.
Then I will use that as evidence I am right, and that anybody who disagrees with me is on THE OTHER SIDE.
That should do it!
Please let Zimmerman testify.
A lot of people think they are smarter than everybody else.
He wants to explain himself and convince others that he is right. Z should listen to his lawyers, but after last night with the judge stalking out, who can blame him for not wanting to leave it to them.
Even if they have screwed up, his biggest mistake will be ignoring them now.
If the prosecution is any good, the cross will turn him and his story upside down. Z has to stick with what he has already said or run the risk of looking like he is adding crap, or worse, lying about what he already said. I'm sure the urge is strong to embellish the story in order to explain it better. That's why you want to get the story locked down from someone.
Up until this point, i thought the prosecution was behind or even at best. The defense attorneys have overplayed their hand and may have given away any advantage. This does not even take into account the problem with the witnesses.
Sneak Attack in Legislature by NC GOP
@lizzwinstead: MONSTERS MT @PPact:
NC EMERGENCY: ANOTHER sneak attack! #HB695 vote happening RIGHT NOW with no notice. Please come to #NCGA if you can!
NEVER turn your back on them!
President Obama talks to some very persistent reporters:
@petesouza: Stylish kid reporters interview Obama at
http://t.co/3s0KtIyHLn
Inquiring minds.....
And you think teevee is a vast wasteland?
DOGTV — the first-ever TV network devoted to “stay-at-home” canines — launches Aug. 1 on satellite provider DirecTV.
“DOGTV is the ideal baby sitter for ‘home alone’ dogs. Research shows that dogs feel better in the company of television, especially when the right content is on,” the network says on its Web site.
House-bound hounds can watch videos that will help them relax from the stress of chasing cats and pining for their next bowl of Alpo.
“Relaxing sounds and music have been created to keep anxious dogs calm,” the network said in a statement.
The shows can also help jittery pooches get used to stressful situations, such as blaring car horns and tail-pulling toddlers.
These segments will include “stimulating programming,” to “desensitize and expose dogs to different day-to-day stimuli,” according to the network.
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More: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/watch_dogs_tiMB1xS85WMZrHS3FsdMgP
Now it can be a vast wasteland for pets too.
So is Edward Scissorhands in Venezuela yet
or is he still passing out tidbits of info from Moscow to Jack Bauer?
The threads are melding in my mind with old pop culture.
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