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12. It Can't Happen Here is a must-read.

Fri Feb 17, 2012, 03:11 AM

Feb 2012

Every time I hear about border security, I think about how it doesn't just "keep the bad guys out," but could keep us in.

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"The Handmaid's Tale". I just dusted off my copy. [View all] Cleita Feb 2012 OP

I think we can gleefully fit a couple dozen copies up his ass. nt valerief Feb 2012 #1

I have been thinking a lot about that book lately JitterbugPerfume Feb 2012 #2

It Can't Happen Here is a must-read. Zookeeper Feb 2012 #12

Dear Goddess, don't do that. They'll take it as Remember Me Feb 2012 #4

I know Tsiyu Feb 2012 #5

Pretty sooon Santorum will start slipping up and calling the U.S. "Gilead" Arugula Latte Feb 2012 #7

Is *that* how they read them? Starry Messenger Feb 2012 #8

I couldn't tell who had it worse in that story Zalatix Feb 2012 #10

I was gonna offer my copy hfojvt Feb 2012 #11

I'm happy to say that my son just read that... Zookeeper Feb 2012 #13

Love Margeret Attwood!(sp?) Dragonbreathp9d Feb 2012 #14

The Handmaid's Tale rose up in my mind this morning TexasProgresive Feb 2012 #15

Every time I see some religious nut, I think Nehemia Scudder. hobbit709 Feb 2012 #16

I had forgotten about Nehemiah Scudder. Staph Feb 2012 #18

I'm in complete shock malaise Feb 2012 #17

I bet that book has been on lots of minds lately lunatica Feb 2012 #19