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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: goodwithagun on June 25, 2018, 01:12:07 am
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Laura Ingalls Wilder's name is set to be removed from a major children's book award after concerns were raised about the "Little House on the Prairie" author's depiction of certain races in the early-to-mid 20th century.
The Association of Library Service to Children's (ALSC) board voted unanimously on Saturday to rename the "Laura Ingalls Wilder Award" as the "Children’s Literature Legacy Award."
Read more here: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/24/association-removes-laura-ingalls-wilders-name-from-award.html (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/24/association-removes-laura-ingalls-wilders-name-from-award.html)
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I am so glad we are an enlightened society today.
/s
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Apparently, this is the evidence of her virulent and impermissible racism:
... As the Guardian notes, that legacy includes a line once in Little House on the Prairie that described Kansas as having "no people, only Indians." Wilder, who died at age 90 in 1957, apologized for the line during her lifetime and amended it to read "no settlers, only Indians." ... More (http://www.newser.com/story/261039/laura-ingalls-wilder-name-nixed-from-major-book-award.html)
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Seems this group went through a huge PC change in 2017 with a bunch of liberals in charge.
(https://s15.postimg.cc/4qug1uri3/spheres_of_transformation.png)
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Pretty soon, any white person born before 1900 is going to be persona non grata.
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Pretty soon, any white person born before 1900 is going to be persona non grata.
Not to mention those born after 1900...
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Some of the wackiest leftists in this country are in the library biz.
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Pretty soon, any white person born before 1900 is going to be persona non grata.
Or any whitey who wrote anything published before 1990. Book burning Fridays.
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Just change-out hammers and sickles for the swastika and you got the same thing.
(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/EasygoingKeyFoxhound-size_restricted.gif)
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So, let me get this right. They're systematically removing any history of America's racist past? Fascinating.
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So, let me get this right. They're systematically removing any history of America's racist past? Fascinating.
Yes but don’t worry, history has shown that it does not repent itself. 8888crybaby **nononono*
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Iowahawk's take on it:
David Burge @iowahawkblog
12m12 minutes ago
I hope they never ban my favorite boyhood book, the JCPenney catalog bra section
^-^
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Some of the wackiest leftists in this country are in the library biz.
I dated a librarian for a very short while. She was very, very wacky and very leftist. It lasted 3 dates before I said enough.
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So, let me get this right. They're systematically removing any history of America's racist past? Fascinating.
Obliterating history is one of the ways commies/fascists/socialists can control people. When there is no one left who remembers freedom, the younger generations become conditioned to accepting the totalitarian state.
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I dated a librarian for a very short while. She was very, very wacky and very leftist. It lasted 3 dates before I said enough.
Hmmm. That wasn't how my 3 date rule worked!
:laugh:
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Obliterating history is one of the ways commies/fascists/socialists can control people. When there is no one left who remembers freedom, the younger generations become conditioned to accepting the totalitarian state.
Just like the Khmer Rouge with "Year 0".
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I dated a librarian for a very short while. She was very, very wacky and very leftist. It lasted 3 dates before I said enough.
@godblessRonaldReagan
Yeah, saw a girl I had a crush on in high school at a reunion. Turns out she became a librarian -- and, therefore, quite leftist.
Teenage dreams crushed.
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@godblessRonaldReagan
Yeah, saw a girl I had a crush on in high school at a reunion. Turns out she became a librarian -- and, therefore, quite leftist.
Teenage dreams crushed.
There must be one or two hot and nasty librarians out there.... Right?
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There must be one or two hot and nasty librarians out there.... Right?
Nope. The stripper’s outfit is just that: an outfit.
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Nope. The stripper’s outfit is just that: an outfit.
I am crushed. When I was in Orlando at the Booby Hatch I could have sworn a Librarian schussed me.
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There must be one or two hot and nasty librarians out there.... Right?
That's the sad part - she was kinda hot in that bookish way that I like.
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Sounds like an opportunity for a not-racists-against-whites group to take over the name and start giving out awards based on merit, instead of color of skin.
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There must be one or two hot and nasty librarians out there.... Right?
Just watch out for the ones named "Tammy". (Obscure TV reference.)
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Sounds like an opportunity for a not-racists-against-whites group to take over the name and start giving out awards based on merit, instead of color of skin.
@Jewbacca
I wonder whether Associate members can vote. There are 4000 members.
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If you don't mind the language, you may really love this:
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9_bI789Gog#)
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Seriously?
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@mountaineer
I love it!
Wonder if he lost his job over this.
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Apparently, playing a reporter, "Jonathan Pie," is his comedy act. I loved the video!
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If you don't mind the language, you may really love this:
:silly: :silly: :silly:
This is an epic rant.
:beer:
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Apparently, playing a reporter, "Jonathan Pie," is his comedy act. I loved the video!
"Anti-Fascist is the default setting"
LOL
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Thanks @mountaineer I didn't know who he was. Thought he was a reporter.
He is spot on.
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What a glorious bloody rant!
Language aside, I loved it!
(Not particularly offended, I have heard/used those words before, and in this case, you just run out of emphatic words at some point.)
What we are seeing is the Bowdlerization of classical authors, children's books, cartoons, the works, along the lines of who just might conceivably be offended by whatever..
This was done to Shakespeare, with only a scattering of the jokes left for the (now relatively highbrow) penny stinkers in the globe, removing enough comic relief that English Lit teachers could flog students humorlessly with tragedy and comedy alike.
Strip the sense of culture from a culture, and you might as well paint everything battleship gray and make the interior decorators get a construction job.
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If you don't mind the language, you may really love this:
Hilarious, thanks.
But darn it I thought @Wingnut was back.
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Hilarious, thanks.
But darn it I thought @Wingnut was back.
So did I.
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A couple of years ago I was searching for material in my local library that debunked or at least gave the opposing argument for "climate change." I found a dearth of resources, yet there were numerous resources making the case for "climate change." The librarian helped me search for material within the Texas library system, and we did find a few. At some point during our interaction, she managed to insinuate her opinion and expressed her disapproval of my stance on "climate change." I'm pretty sure sharing her personal opinion is not part of her job description. I was taken aback that she felt the need to voice her disapproval of my reading choices, so I wasn't ready with a snappy comeback.
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A couple of years ago I was searching for material in my local library that debunked or at least gave the opposing argument for "climate change." I found a dearth of resources, yet there were numerous resources making the case for "climate change." The librarian helped me search for material within the Texas library system, and we did find a few. At some point during our interaction, she managed to insinuate her opinion and expressed her disapproval of my stance on "climate change." I'm pretty sure sharing her personal opinion is not part of her job description. I was taken aback that she felt the need to voice her disapproval of my reading choices, so I wasn't ready with a snappy comeback.
I make remarks like "I'm a geologist, so I understand your concerns. After 4.6 billion years of climate change, you just want it to stop."
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Isn't there something ironic about renaming something a "Children's Literature Legacy Award" while at the same time erasing such a huge figure in children's literature?
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Hilarious, thanks.
But darn it I thought @Wingnut was back.
Wingnut was something else. You know that thing in your head that keeps you from saying stuff you probably shouldn't? Well...his was broken.
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Wingnut was something else. You know that thing in your head that keeps you from saying stuff you probably shouldn't? Well...his was broken.
Yeah... What a mutt, right?
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I make remarks like "I'm a geologist, so I understand your concerns. After 4.6 billion years of climate change, you just want it to stop."
@Smokin Joe
:silly: Where were you when I needed you?! Just so you know, I'm stealing it.
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Wingnut was something else. You know that thing in your head that keeps you from saying stuff you probably shouldn't? Well...his was broken.
Mine works pretty good, it just runs a little slower than my mouth.
Your eyes look a little glazed occifer, you been eating donuts?
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@Smokin Joe
:silly: Where were you when I needed you?! Just so you know, I'm stealing it.
You have my blessings, and you can't steal what is freely given. :seeya: :beer:
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So, let me get this right. They're systematically removing any history of America's racist past? Fascinating.
First you erase it, then you deny it, next you forget it, and finally you repeat it.
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First you erase it, then you deny it, next you forget it, and finally you repeat it.
But where do the reparations fit into that cycle??
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A couple of years ago I was searching for material in my local library that debunked or at least gave the opposing argument for "climate change." I found a dearth of resources, yet there were numerous resources making the case for "climate change." The librarian helped me search for material within the Texas library system, and we did find a few. At some point during our interaction, she managed to insinuate her opinion and expressed her disapproval of my stance on "climate change." I'm pretty sure sharing her personal opinion is not part of her job description. I was taken aback that she felt the need to voice her disapproval of my reading choices, so I wasn't ready with a snappy comeback.
If you still need that material I can highly recommend these two:
https://smile.amazon.com/Unstoppable-Global-Warming-Updated-Expanded/dp/0742551245/ref=sr_1_fkmr3_1?keywords=Unavoidable+climate+change+every+1500+years&qid=1566390382&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmr3
https://smile.amazon.com/Confessions-Greenpeace-Dropout-Sensible-Environmentalist/dp/0986480827/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=patrick+Moore&qid=1566390483&s=gateway&sr=8-1
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Wingnut was something else. You know that thing in your head that keeps you from saying stuff you probably shouldn't? Well...his was broken.
Maybe the funniest poster ever here at TBR. Sorely missed.
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dfw wrote:
"Pretty soon, any white person born before 1900 is going to be persona non grata"
Sorry, have to correct this:
"Pretty soon, any white person born before 1900 is going to be persona non grata"
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Nice video in reply 25 above (by mountaineer).
Kinda reminds me of a young Pat Condell gone over the edge !
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dfw wrote:
"Pretty soon, any white person born before 1900 is going to be persona non grata"
Sorry, have to correct this:
"Pretty soon, any white person born before 1900 is going to be persona non grata"
Sorry, have to correct this:
There is no known person living today who was born before 1900.
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Sorry, have to correct this:
There is no known person living today who was born before 1900.
Seems strange doesn't it?
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Seems strange doesn't it?
It's a conspiracy. Or the Law.
Back to the topic. Censorship.
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6C6_NVj964&t=183s#)
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Sorry, have to correct this:
There is no known person living today who was born before 1900.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/05/13/shes-only-person-left-born-1800s/84321322/ (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/05/13/shes-only-person-left-born-1800s/84321322/)
Just one.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/05/13/shes-only-person-left-born-1800s/84321322/ (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/05/13/shes-only-person-left-born-1800s/84321322/)
Just one.
To be fair, that we know about.
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To be fair, that we know about.
True, that. A lady who babysat us kids (and my mother's generation as well) died a few years back. We realized that no one knew when she was born, or how old she was. Some births were not recorded if you go back far enough, and she was 'old' when she babysat mom...who was born well before WWII.
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True, that. A lady who babysat us kids (and my mother's generation as well) died a few years back. We realized that no one knew when she was born, or how old she was. Some births were not recorded if you go back far enough, and she was 'old' when she babysat mom...who was born well before WWII.
That's what I mean, alright... I know an old hillbilly grandmother that does not know how old she is... wasn't born in a hospital, never got a social security number, Hasn't been off the mountain in my whole lifetime... She's older than dirt. Certainly over 100... I ain't saying she is that old, but I can't say that she ain't, either... :shrug:
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/05/13/shes-only-person-left-born-1800s/84321322/ (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/05/13/shes-only-person-left-born-1800s/84321322/)
Just one.
That article is from 2016. She died in 2017.
I believe the oldest now was born in 1903.
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That article is from 2016. She died in 2017.
I believe the oldest now was born in 1903.
Oops. My bad.
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Oops. My bad.
I think this is him.
Kane Tanaka born 2 January 1903 Living 116 years, 232 days Japan
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I think this is him.
Kane Tanaka born 2 January 1903 Living 116 years, 232 days Japan
I ran across her while looking, too, but then found the other lady.
Women outlive men, as a rule, and the oldest guy is a German, Gustav Gerneth, born in 1905.
My grandmother lived to 101, and my folks are still alive (in their upper 80s).
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I ran across her while looking, too, but then found the other lady.
Women outlive men, as a rule, and the oldest guy is a German, Gustav Gerneth, born in 1905.
My grandmother lived to 101, and my folks are still alive (in their upper 80s).
My mom's side are fairly long-lived. Reaching through the upper 80;s to mid-nineties. My dad's side all reached their 80's.
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My mom's side are fairly long-lived. Reaching through the upper 80;s to mid-nineties. My dad's side all reached their 80's.
Maternal grandfather passed just short of 80, but my paternal grandparents reached 84 (grandad) and 95 (Grandmother).
I was so surprised to make 30, I actually started behaving better....
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Maternal grandfather passed just short of 80, but my paternal grandparents reached 84 (grandad) and 95 (Grandmother).
I was so surprised to make 30, I actually started behaving better....
I didn't make it past 19. The Peter Pan Principle. I'll never grow up. But when I hit 35 I took a truckload of my crap to the dump. FWIW, I didn't expect to live past 30.
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If you don't mind the language, you may really love this:
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9_bI789Gog#)
Flippin' brilliant. A rant for the ages.
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If you don't mind the language, you may really love this:
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9_bI789Gog#)
The Limey nailed it! I especially like the part about the real Nazi's flying overhead his Mums house during the battle of Briton.
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This is what happens when woke goes terribly wrong.