I'll update more later, but for now, let me just say that I LOVE Dr. dre. That man is such a good rapper and producer (despite that whole Eminem thing, cuz I can't stand that guy) and he is just SO cool on top af all that. That is all......
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Oh god this makes me soooo mad!!! I have this book! Pornography???? Puh-lease. Are they going to ban the anatomy books and the art nudes from the libraries too? I am scared for this country more each day....
GULFPORT, Miss. - A library board for two south Mississippi counties has reversed a ban on Jon Stewart's best-selling "America (The Book)."
The Jackson-George Regional Library System board of trustees said they banned the satirical textbook in eight public libraries last month because they objected to an image of the faces of the U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) justices superimposed on nine naked bodies.
"I've been a librarian for 40 years and this is the only
book I've objected to so strongly that I wouldn't allow it to circulate," Robert Willits, director of the Jackson-George Regional Library System, said after the ban. "We're not an adult bookstore. Our entire collection is open to the entire public," he said.
However, the board met Monday night and by a 5-2 vote lifted the ban. The book will return to the shelves of the eight libraries in the two counties.
"We have come under intense scrutiny by the outside community," said David Ables, board chairman. "As a board, we don't decide for the community whether to read this book or not, but whether to make it available."
Board member David Ogborn of Hurley opposed to lifting the ban.
"I haven't heard anything but a good response by our decision to keep this material out of our libraries," Ogborn said. "Our libraries are not a trash bin for pornographic materials."
The system serves libraries in Jackson and George counties.
Stewart's book has spent 15 weeks on The New York Times best seller list for hardcover nonfiction, and was named Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, the industry trade magazine.
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Oh god this makes me soooo mad!!! I have this book! Pornography???? Puh-lease. Are they going to ban the anatomy books and the art nudes from the libraries too? I am scared for this country more each day....
GULFPORT, Miss. - A library board for two south Mississippi counties has reversed a ban on Jon Stewart's best-selling "America (The Book)."
The Jackson-George Regional Library System board of trustees said they banned the satirical textbook in eight public libraries last month because they objected to an image of the faces of the U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) justices superimposed on nine naked bodies.
"I've been a librarian for 40 years and this is the only
book I've objected to so strongly that I wouldn't allow it to circulate," Robert Willits, director of the Jackson-George Regional Library System, said after the ban. "We're not an adult bookstore. Our entire collection is open to the entire public," he said.
However, the board met Monday night and by a 5-2 vote lifted the ban. The book will return to the shelves of the eight libraries in the two counties.
"We have come under intense scrutiny by the outside community," said David Ables, board chairman. "As a board, we don't decide for the community whether to read this book or not, but whether to make it available."
Board member David Ogborn of Hurley opposed to lifting the ban.
"I haven't heard anything but a good response by our decision to keep this material out of our libraries," Ogborn said. "Our libraries are not a trash bin for pornographic materials."
The system serves libraries in Jackson and George counties.
Stewart's book has spent 15 weeks on The New York Times best seller list for hardcover nonfiction, and was named Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, the industry trade magazine.
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Thats freaking stupid! Soon we wont be able to look at ourselves in the mirror untill someone else in society says we are mature enough to accept and see what we are.
Where is the world going to?