and people are convicted and sent to prison with it. Most of the time, the people are also guilty. I don't need line for line to tell me she wanted to ban the book. It falls right in line with her views.
On another note, it's not really about being a Republican or Democrat at this stage of American history. Oil Company execs run our country right now, and I am over it.
Plus, we MUST keep church and state seperate to prosper and to keep our civil liberties. Just because Palin is a woman doesn't mean I can relate to her. She has birthed 5 kids, is "thrilled" that her 17 year old daughter is pregnant by a "self proclaimed redneck", wears designer glasses yet has all these mouths to feed... I cannot comprehend. I have two kids, and haven't shopped at the mall in 5 years. Please... I beg all women everywhere to take a REAL in depth look at Palin, her past, her beliefs, and her intentions. Don't vote for her just because she is a woman... because before you know it, she will be the ONLY woman with a choice.
That those numbers on money given to pols by Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac is over a 20-year period, yet Obama, barely three years in the Senate, rose to No. 2! What a pig!
Ha! Obama has been railing against Washington insiders lining the pockets of other Washington insiders while the taxpayers ultimately have to foot the bill. The Agent of Change, it seems, didn’t exactly walk the walk on this one.
You apparently haven't been to law school. (Nothing wrong with that, by the way.) But if you had, you would know that this "journalism" is not circumstantial evidence. It is classic hearsay, which is not allowed in court.
I don't doubt that the persons quoted in the story are all telling the truth. My argument was simply that it is all just too easily dismissed, and although I didn't mention it, all too easily planted if you wanted to further the media's "anti-Palin" bias later. Sort of like leaking forged documents related to Bush's service in the national guard.
As to the believablity of the claim, as I said, I believe it, but I would have believed it on far less information than the article offered. My criticism of the article is that it could have offered much more support than it did, and leaves itself open to dismissal as "a hachet job" by people out to get Palin.
And finally, as to McCain's long time membership in the COS. That is well known in the Satanist community, and although most non-santanists are not aware of the numerous persons of political power who are devoted to the the COS, his membership is a matter of COS records.
His signed in blood contract of devotion is on file at the Rectory Office of the COS in Chula Vista California.
Palin on at least three occasions asked the Wasilla librarian about banning books. When the librarian refused to ban any books, Palin fired her. Palin has claimed the firing was not related to the book banning question, rather because she did not have the support of the librarian.
I will ask again, since when does the mayor need the support of the local librarian?
It is in the damn snopes article you cite:
Taylor Griffin, a spokesman for the McCain campaign, said that Palin asked the head librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, on three occasions how she would react to attempts at banning books…
Palin notified Emmons she would be fired in January 1997 because the mayor didn’t feel she had the librarian’s “full support.” Emmons was reinstated the next day after public outcry, according to newspaper reports at the time.
Howard Bess didn't just grab the spotlight now. He's an old-time, old-line Mat-Su live-and-let-live small-L liberal in the Jay Kerttula/Katie Hurley mold who has clashed long and famously with the Palinistas and their predecessors. And his clashes have been much reported in the Frontiersman and in the ADN. He's in the spotlight more now because there's some national attention to the area, but he has for many, many years been in the local/regional spotlight.
I take it you do not live in Alaska or anywhere near the Mat-Su, because your assertions about Palin's record and the events in Alaska (including AGIA, ACES and other issues) are, to put it politely, very inaccurate.
For others: The point about Palin's stances regarding the oil industry is really important. That's what makes her popular among Alaskans, not that other wacko stuff. The wacko stuff leaves most Alaskans, who are actually pretty much like Howard Bess in their social views, aghast.
Bess is an example of much that is problematic in the homosexual movement and its adherents who attempt to balance their behaviors with Christianity. He, by his self-proclaimed status, is placed at odds with the position taken by virtually every main-line faith in the world. I must wonder which Baptist convention he is a member of? Certainly not the Southern Baptist version. Howard needs to contantly rationalize his behaviors as do many who practice homosexuality, as a "so-called" pastor he should reflect carefully on his deviant behavior. Sarah Palin is much less "dangerous" than an entire political party that can sleep at night with the 40,000,000 unborn dead on their souls.
GO SARAH!!
I was before I read this article, and now only more so.
"Yeesh, how dumb do you have to be to constantly repeat a false rumor?
Oh, wait ... this is Salon. Nuff said."
I agree 1000%. But did you know that Barack Hussein Obama is a secret Muslim who's going to raise poor people's taxes because he's also the AntiChrist?
I am awash with joy as I see Godless liberals squirm at a candidate that threatens everything from their sacrament of abortion to the occasional deviates in their pulpits. An 80% approval rating is difficult to argue with, eh bucko? There are always a few of the unwashed,Birkenstock wearing, Volvo-driving, pacifististic, former-pot heads out there to rally AGAINST anything!! SARAH speaks to the working class in ways your boy Obama will never be able to. And lo and behold the great generousity of brother Biden...hmmm...what a charitable contributor and protector of the all the "poor" and "downtrodden" GO SARAH!!!
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox