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do-gooder book banners are totally incompetent, which does indicate your total ignorance of classic literature.  Why would you stop with Orwell’s Brave New World or Animal Farm , D.H.Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers or even Harry Potter ?  If you yourselves had a decent education you would be capable of seeing the horrible influences on your children’s minds wielded by much more common fare.  There is no way in the world that you would want your children to expand their minds through classic literature, so pay attention amateur censors and book-banners, because you have a lot to learn, and so much more to ban. 

William Shakespeare:  If the WITCHCRAFT in Harry Potter bothers you, then how can you ignore MacBeth ?  Then of course we must be sensitive as to RACIAL PREJUDICE, so The Merchant of Venice would be a no-no.  Think of Shylock as the stereotypical Jew.  As well, do you want to expose your children to YOUTH SUICIDE?  How about Romeo and Juliet ?  Therefore you have no choice but to ban Shakespeare. 

Charles Dickens:   The SUPERNATURAL is forbidden, is it not, as it could derange the minds of your children.  Then when Christmas comes, make sure nobody can read A Christmas Carol, because of the ghosts.  But with Dickens once again ANTI-SEMITISM is exposed.  You cannot consider Fagin in Oliver Twist as a nice person, can you?  Therefore, you have no choice but to ban Dickens.

Jane Austen:    Pride and Prejudice was required reading in my high school days, but I was not aware at the time how my mind was dragged into the gutter by reading about Lydia, the youngest of the five daughters, who at the age of 15 had an illicit affair with Mr. Wickham.  Imagine, pre-marital sex.- FORNICATION!!!  OMG.  Burn all her books before your innocents read such stories.

Jonathan Swift :  You might think that A Modest Proposal is actually modest, you know, something even the modest Amish would be allowed to read.  Think again, because it is a proposal that the starving Irish eat their babies to alleviate the effects of famine, with the advantage that it is food at hand, and then there would be less mouths to feed.  CANNABALISM.  You certainly don’t want your children to see that.

Emile Zola :  It’s even more dangerous to go outside of Classics in English, because you yourself may not be competent in the language.  Emile Zola made his mark in France with Nana , the story of a Parisian whore.  PROSTITUTION.  It’s a good thing that most American students don’t learn French.

Even your young children are exposed to the worst of influences.  The Wizard of Oz , a story children love, must be taken off the shelves because it tells of witches, evil witches who cast spells.  WITCHCRAFT.  Harry Potter could be considered tame by comparing him with the Wicked Witch of the West. 

How about your even younger children.  You must be careful to not let them read, or for you to read to them Fairy Tales , or they will stay awake in fear all night as you read them the story of Little Red Riding Hood .   “What big teeth you have, grandma”, she said.  “The better to eat you with”, answered the wolf.  Eat you?  CUNNILINGUS.  That is certainly a forbidden concept for very young children.  What was in the apple that was given to Snow White to eat because of JEALOUSY?  Some kind of poison?  Look what has happened to Hallowe’en?  Can you allow your children to eat candy apples any more?   Then there is Goldilocks and the Three Bears .   Your kids will learn that BREAKING AND ENTERING and THEFT of food are permissible will they not?

So what have you learned?  I would think that for you to do a proper job, you might as well put a lock on all school libraries, because you will be complicit in emptying the shelves anyway.  Think of the fact that you will have saved the expense of a school librarian.  See, your good deeds do have benefits. ]]> Sat, 14 Dec 2024 07:04:27 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/22384/turning-the-page-the-role-of-bookstores-in-the-modern-age http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/22384 Fri, 13 Dec 2024 08:49:30 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/22359/9-american-countercultural-books http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/22359 Tue, 10 Dec 2024 22:47:02 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/22347/12-rare-book-editions-and-their-last-known-sales http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/22347 Tue, 10 Dec 2024 07:50:22 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/22327/out-of-print-can-libraries-survive-the-digital-age http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/22327 Sat, 07 Dec 2024 22:20:12 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/22013/book-series-opens-conversations-on-culture http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/22013 Tue, 29 Oct 2024 20:26:47 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/20225/salty-cravings-how-literature-inspires-wanderlust http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/20225 Sun, 17 Mar 2024 08:15:21 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/19175/childrens-picture-book-flagged-at-alabama-library-because-authors-last-name-is-gay http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/19175 Tue, 10 Oct 2023 06:15:09 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/18788/the-most-popular-books-on-social-media-according-to-booktok http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/18788 Thu, 10 Aug 2023 06:52:46 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/18748/obama-biographer-says-ex-president-as-insecure-as-trump-would-be-terrible-on-scotus-in-stunning-interview http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/18748




























A 16,000-plus word interview with former President Obama’s award-winning biographer has  raised eyebrows  for an assortment of reasons, ranging from his renewed allegation that Obama's first memoir was fictionalized and the observation he's as "insecure" as political rival Donald Trump.
Tablet’s  lengthy Q&A with historian David Garrow , who wrote the lengthy 2017 biography "Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama," has stunned social media with its various claims about the former president, who remains one of the Democratic Party's most popular and influential figures. The New York Times reviewed Garrow's biography as a "impressive if gratuitously snarly" book that "clearly intended to break the 44th president’s monopoly on his personal narrative."

The feature began with a tale of Sheila Miyoshi Jager, who was Obama’s girlfriend  in the 1980s well before his political career, allegedly saying their relationship ended when "he would not condemn antisemitism." Tablet made it clear that Obama’s version of the breakup was much different in his own book, as he indicated embracing "Black racial consciousness" clashed with his White girlfriend. 
"Whose version of the story is correct? Who knows. The bridge between the two accounts is Obama’s emerging attachment to Blackness, which required him to fall in love with and marry a Black woman. In Obama’s account, his attachment to Blackness is truthful and noble. In Jager’s account, his claims are instrumental and selfish; he grants particularism to the experience and suffering of his own tribe while denying it to others," Tablet’s David Samuels wrote in the preamble that also put a spotlight on "Obama’s hostility to American exceptionalism."

Samuels then dove into the Q&A with Garrow, who also penned the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bearing the Cross." The famed biographer’s conversation with Samuels shocked many readers, with various allegations circulating on social media. 

Here are the most eyebrow-raising tidbits: 
Not normal
"He’s not normal—as in not a normal politician or a normal human being," Garrow said after telling a story about Obama’s lawyer warning him not to ask about his father. 
Garrow later referred to Obama as "a creature from another planet" when discussing his wife Michelle Obama being raised by a close, loving family.  
Letters to an old girlfriend
"With Alex [McNear, Obama’s girlfriend at Occidental College], I think she wanted to have her role known. So when Alex showed me the letters from Barack, she redacted one paragraph in one of them and just said, ‘It’s about homosexuality,’" Garrow said before explaining that a man named Harvey Klehr was tasked with going through the letters, which are at Emory.
"He’s spent his whole life at Emory, but they won’t let him take pictures. So Harvey has to sit there with a pencil and copy out the graph where Barack writes to Alex about how he repeatedly fantasizes about making love to men," Garrow said. 
Garrow feels Obama’s "Dream from My Father" was fabricated 
"He wants people to believe his story. For me to conclude that ‘Dreams from My Father’ was historical fiction—oh God, did that infuriate him," Garrow said. "He doesn’t want the writerliness challenged. It’s my story and I’m sticking to it. The book [Dreams] is so fictionalized."
Garrow continued: "It’s so inaccurate, whether about the dynamics among the guys in Hawaii or what’s going on in the community group on the far South Side. And it completely omits women. I’ve always thought that there’d eventually be a feminist critique of Obama because his mother and all the girlfriends—they’re not there. They don’t exist."
Garrow revealed he spoke with Obama for eight hours in three off-the-record sessions while he was still president. He was derisive about Obama, saying the things he shared that most "energized" him were "hilariously inconsequential," like boasting about being fluent in Indonesian in his youth.
Garrow made the same "historical fiction" charge in "Rising Star."
"He further accuses [Obama] of inventing a racial identity struggle that never happened and retrofitting his early life story to conform to it," New York Times writer Brent Staples wrote in his review of "Rising Star."
Samuels has questions about Obama’s current role
"He lives in a large brick mansion in Kalorama. Doesn’t it strike you as weird that he’s an ex-president, he’s comparatively young, and he’s living in the center of Washington, D.C.? The original excuse was that Sasha had to finish school. Then you could say, ‘Well, the opposition to Trump needs a figure to rally around.’ But now Sasha has graduated from USC, Trump is gone,  Joe Biden  was elected present, but he’s still there," he said. 
"Doesn’t that strike you as odd? I mean, I have heard from more than one source that there are regular meetings at Obama’s house in Kalorama involving top figures in the current White House, with Secret Service and cars outside. I don’t write about it because it’s not my lane," Samuels continued. "There are over a thousand reporters in Washington, and yet there are zero stakeouts of Obama’s mansion, if only to tell us who is coming and going. But he clearly has his oar in."
Obama is ‘just as insecure as Trump’
"He has no interest in building the Democratic Party as an institution. I think that’s obvious. And I don’t think he had any truly deep, meaningful policy commitments other than the need to feel and to be perceived as victorious, as triumphant. I’ve sometimes said to people that I think Barack is actually just as insecure as Trump, but in ways that are not readily perceived by the vast majority of people. I think that’s probably my most basic takeaway," Garrow said.
"But it does go back to ‘Dreams’ being a work of fiction, that the absence of an actual personal story makes him need to compose one," he continued. "For every time he says, ‘Oh, I spent years reading the history of the civil rights movement,’ I know he read BTC, but I don’t think he read much else. This is someone who … 98 percent of his reading has always been fiction, not history."
Obama would be ‘too lazy’ for a spot on the Supreme Court
"He’d be terrible because he’s too lazy. This is in the book. It goes back to him being Hawaiian. At one point, he says, ‘I’m fundamentally lazy and it’s because I’m from Hawaii.’ That’s close to the actual quote," Garrow said. 
Obsession with celebrities
"I’ve always found [Barack and Michelle Obama's] need to hang out with celebrities bizarre. Because the people they both were, all the way up through at least 2000, would’ve had no desire to do that. It wouldn’t have crossed their minds to be with Beyoncé and Jay-Z or Richard Branson, or you name it," Garrow said. 
"Black people in Chicago, everyone, Jerry Wright, Hermene Hartman, they’re not surprised that Barack turned into someone else," he continued. "But they can’t explain why Michelle turned into someone else."
Samuels added: "He’s happy to go on NPR and talk about meaning or Marilynne Robinson novels or whatever, to make the wine moms identify with him, so he can put one over on them. Just don’t ask him to visit the hospital when you get cancer, because he’ll be hanging out on someone’s yacht, with the other winners."
The office of Barack and Michelle Obama did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 
The story drew considerable attention from conservatives online, with National Review's Charles C. W. Cooke calling it an "extraordinary interview."













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The long journey of Yeonmi Park began in North Korea. It is there that she was born in 1993 and grew up while forced to endure an existence of worrying about having food to eat on a daily basis. She was trained at an early age by her mother of being very careful of what she said because if one says the slightest wrong thing in North Korea it comes not only at the cost of one's own life but that of family members. 

One day Yeonmi and her mother escaped over the then frozen Yalu River into China. There they were both raped and sold as sex slaves. After 2 years of this brutal existence she met a Missionary from South Korea and she escaped again into south Korea via the Gobi Desert and eventually was able to be put on a flight from Mongolia to South Korea. She studied criminal justice in South Korea and later immigrated to the US, settling in the NYC area. There she heard about this "wonderful" university called Columbia University. As a student there she was shocked to find teachers and students alike were anti-western, anti-Capitalism and anti-white male. Back in North Korea students had the hidden gun to their heads to be anti-American and here at Columbia University everyone hated their own country without any encouragement at all. Most notable she recalled being rejected & dismissed by a teacher for simply stating the scientific fact that there is a difference between a man and a woman.

Yeonmi recognized the familiar stench. All the talk of equity & collectivism is well known throughout most of the world. It is called Marxism and American higher education is dedicated to it while putting out propaganda and silencing any and all oposition. Yeonmi's book is must reading for our descendants. They may not have the Constitution. They have to know what they are facing in the terrible world they are about to inherit. ]]> Mon, 08 May 2023 09:15:02 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/17858/shortchanged-review-technically-advanced http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/17858 Thu, 20 Apr 2023 10:11:20 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/17841/poverty-by-america-review-poverty-is-your-fault http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/17841 Mon, 17 Apr 2023 07:57:38 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/17704/william-f-buckley-sr-review-conservatisms-mexican-roots http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/17704 Mon, 27 Mar 2023 08:55:45 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/17582/luck-of-the-draw-review-the-view-from-the-fortress http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/17582 Thu, 09 Mar 2023 09:57:31 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/17574/candidate-memoir-season-from-ron-desantis-to-nikki-haley http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/17574 Wed, 08 Mar 2023 10:31:56 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/17514/ron-desantis-has-a-new-book-coming-out-next-week-heres-what-his-first-one-said-cnn-politics http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/17514 Mon, 27 Feb 2023 06:01:31 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/17508/the-last-campaign-review-battles-of-sherman-and-geronimo http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/17508 Sun, 26 Feb 2023 11:23:47 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/17481/confronting-saddam-hussein-review-bushs-war-or-americas http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/17481 Wed, 22 Feb 2023 08:13:25 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/17460/the-lincoln-miracle-review-how-a-longshot-won http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/17460 Sun, 19 Feb 2023 06:57:06 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/17409/iron-and-blood-review-the-german-way-of-war http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/17409 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 10:27:41 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/17386/the-ship-beneath-the-ice-review-endurance-found http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/17386 Sun, 12 Feb 2023 12:52:51 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/17382/a-mystery-of-mysteries-review-edgar-allan-poe-through-the-pale-door http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/17382 Sat, 11 Feb 2023 12:27:25 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/17344/cobalt-red-review-the-human-price-of-cobalt http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/17344 Tue, 07 Feb 2023 09:02:22 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/17267/lives-of-the-wives-review-literary-spouses-silent-partners http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/17267 Mon, 30 Jan 2023 11:10:45 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/17260/spillane-review-he-nailed-mike-hammer http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/17260 Sun, 29 Jan 2023 11:32:13 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/17200/fdrs-gambit-review-playing-the-numbers http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/17200 Wed, 18 Jan 2023 11:40:39 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/17190/demetrius-review-aiming-for-empire http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/17190 Tue, 17 Jan 2023 09:51:20 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/17171/the-myth-of-american-inequality http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/17171 Sat, 14 Jan 2023 09:50:55 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/17152/rough-sleepers-review-on-the-streets-of-boston http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/17152 Wed, 11 Jan 2023 09:52:08 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/17140/fiction-revisiting-norman-mailers-the-naked-and-the-dead http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/17140 Tue, 10 Jan 2023 06:07:55 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/17091/american-caliph-review-a-holy-war-on-hollywood http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/17091 Thu, 29 Dec 2022 08:26:37 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/17076/roald-dahl-review-giant-writer-not-always-friendly http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/17076 Mon, 26 Dec 2022 11:03:31 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/17067/charles-dickenss-a-christmas-carol-review-the-souls-rebirth http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/17067 Sat, 24 Dec 2022 08:43:41 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/17049/so-help-me-god http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/17049 "In his new memoir, So Help Me God (Simon & Schuster, 2022), Vice President Pence recounts the people, experiences, and principles that prepared him to answer that higher calling. He also explains why and how he championed the Trump agenda in office while keeping his faith in God and the Constitution."






A book that is much more than his White House years.


Enjoy ]]> Wed, 21 Dec 2022 12:29:06 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/17030/chekhov-becomes-chekhov-review-the-great-listener http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/17030 Mon, 19 Dec 2022 12:07:17 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/17022/adam-smiths-america-review-wealth-of-a-nation http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/17022 Sat, 17 Dec 2022 09:36:18 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/16982/cutting-point-solving-the-jack-the-ripper-and-the-thames-torso-murders http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/16982
The Book was released in 2021.  Call it a cold case file over a century old. Researcher Christer Holmgren put forward his theory on who Jack the Ripper was. Whether you read his book or watch the film known as "The missing evidence," I think you'll find it more than compelling.


This tells the tale much better than any review ever could:





"In Victorian London, long before the term serial killer was coined, two series of murders played out that have captured the imagination of the whole world. The Jack the Ripper murders and the Thames Torso murders, so similar to each other, took place during the same period in London and have never been solved.
In this book, journalist and researcher Christer Holmgren explains why the murders were never cleared up and names the East End carman Charles Lechmere as the culprit behind both series of murders. He was a man who claimed he found Jack the Ripper's first victim, but avoided to give his true name to the police.
In the 2014 TV documentary  The Missing Evidence -- Jack the Ripper,  the case for Charles Lechmere as the Ripper was outlined. In it, a prominent barrister stated that the case would have been good enough to take to court. This makes Lechmere stand out amongst the many suspects named over the years: his is a case where it can be practically demonstrated how he is linked to the murders.
More recent research suggests that Charles Lechmere also needs to be held responsible for the Thames Torso murder series, spanning the years 1873-1889. Guided by the help of experts, Holmgren links the cases together, establishes the underlying inspiration behind them, and beckons the originator of the murders out into the light, a century after his death."

https://www.amazon.com/Cutting-Point-Solving-Ripper-Murders/dp/9187611368

]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2022 10:33:58 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/16964/the-lighthouse-of-stalingrad-review-truth-and-lies-after-the-battle http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/16964 Wed, 07 Dec 2022 10:33:55 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/16944/bibi-review-the-warrior-netanyahu http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/16944 Mon, 05 Dec 2022 09:10:26 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/16886/the-ten-best-fiction-books-of-all-time-books-of-brilliance http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/16886 Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:53:52 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/buzz-of-the-orient/group_discuss/16869/the-new-yorkers-review-the-talk-of-the-town http://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/16869 Thu, 24 Nov 2022 09:06:19 -0500