The Bush Presidential Library
We would love to give proper attribution for this sneak preview of the Bush Library, but it arrived, like so many others circulating by e-mail, absent of any clue on authorship. We got it from Jack Rosen, and he got it from who knows where; but to the unknown originator, our thanks.
The Library will include:
The Hurricane Katrina Room, which is still under construction.
The Alberto Gonzales Room. Have you seen that? You can’t remember?
The Texas Air National Guard Room. Skip this one. No need to show up.
The Walter Reed Hospital Room, where they don’t let you in.
The Guantanamo Bay Room, where they don’t let you out.
The Weapons of Mass Destruction Room, which no one has been able to find.
The National Debt Wing. Bigger than a WalMart, and it has no ceiling.
The ‘Tax Cut’ Room: admission restricted to the fabulously wealthy.
The ‘Economy Room.‘ You’ll find it in the toilet.
The Iraq War Room. After you complete your first tour, they make you go back for a second, third, fourth, and sometimes a fifth.
The Dick Cheney Room, in an undisclosed location.
The Environmental Conservation Room. Still empty.
The Supreme Court Gift Shop, where you can buy an election.
The ‘Decider Room’ complete with dart board, magic 8-ball, Ouija board, dice, coins, and straws.
The museum will be equiped with an electron microscope to help you locate the President’s accomplishments.
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A Bush Library? In this recessionary time, would not a FEMA Trailer in Ward 9 in Atlanta containing a copy of Economics for Dummies, The Life and Times of General George Custer and My Pet Goat and suffice to secure his legacy.
Comment by Mrs D. — October 3, 2008 @ 9:06 am
What a glorious idea! If you weren’t so busy winning Ohio for Obama (and like minded candidates) I’d try to talk you into organizing the FEMA Trailer Bush Library Committee. Maybe we can get Barb to bring the idea to life in Photoshop and post it on DailyKos.
Comment by Al — October 3, 2008 @ 9:09 pm
Thought you would like it!
I, too am working on winning Ohio for Obama!
So, please have Barb do what she will with it what she will. Heck, Olberman or Maddow may even be interested! Also, have her send it to Ohio Daily Blog. Jeff is a good guy and I’ve already written him about “and the horse”.
As a former member of Hortini’s “A-Team” I would be honored.
However, as it is National Banned Book Week, I’d like to post the following:
This is National Banned Book Week. Here are the Books Banned in 2007
And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell
The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
Olive’s Ocean, by Kevin Henkes
The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
TTYL, by Lauren Myracle
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
It’s Perfectly Normal, by Robie Harris
The Perks of Being A Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
Here is a List of Books Banned at One Time or Another in the United States
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
If like me you find among these lists some of your most beloved tomes, please buy a book this week.
My sister, Pat would be proud that I remembered!
Comment by Mrs D. — October 5, 2008 @ 4:57 pm
Great information. I’ll see what I can do with it. Now — do you happen to know who it is (what organization) that is still “banning” books in 2007? Is this James Dobson? As for the historical list, I remember when the Catholic church maintained “the index,” their list of forbidden books. But I wonder who else was doing the “banning.”
Comment by Al — October 6, 2008 @ 3:59 pm
Who wants books banned? Under the banner of “family values” religious groups and their members and the politicians who cater to them seem to be the biggest offenders.
Here are some basic resources on book banning in America:
http://www.ncte.org/about/issues/censorship/front/109678.htm
http://712educators.about.com/cs/bannedbooks/a/bookbanning.htm
And then consider this:
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — ‘Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.’ — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
Comment by Mrs D. — October 7, 2008 @ 6:07 am