tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20580332.post8162947597447088519..comments2023-11-02T16:07:08.761+03:30Comments on Maureen's Blog: TOTALLY RIGHTEOUS!Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06349710718701701101noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20580332.post-28488067916131005162009-06-02T07:23:40.356+04:302009-06-02T07:23:40.356+04:30Men JeansCheap Brand Jeans Shop - True Religion Je...<A HREF="http://www.jeancheap.com" REL="nofollow">Men Jeans</A>Cheap Brand Jeans Shop - True Religion Jeans, <A HREF="http://www.jeancheap.com" REL="nofollow">Women Jeans</A>GUCCI Jeans, Levi's Jeans, D&G Jeans, RED MONKEY Jeans, <A HREF="http://www.jeancheap.com" REL="nofollow">Cheap Jeans</A>Armani Jeans, Diesel Jeans, Ed hardy Jeans, Evisu Jeans, Jack&Jones Jeans...<A HREF="http://www.ed-hardy-clothing.co.uk" REL="nofollow">ed hardy clothing </A> Online Store - We wholesale and retail cheap <A HREF="http://www.Ed-hardy-shirts.com" REL="nofollow">ed hardy shirts</A> <br />g including Ed Hardy Men's Clothing,<A HREF="http://www.ed-hardy-clothing.us" REL="nofollow">ed hardy clothing </A>Clothing,Ed Hardy Kids Clothing, <A HREF="http://www.Ed-hardy-shirts.com" REL="nofollow">ed hardy womens</A> Sunglasses, Ed Hardy Swimwear and more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20580332.post-61325367033805975792008-07-22T12:46:00.000+04:302008-07-22T12:46:00.000+04:30Facebook Eklentisiz Türkçe Yapma<A HREF="http://maswex.blogspot.com/2008/07/facebook-eklentisiz-trke-yapma.html" REL="nofollow">Facebook Eklentisiz Türkçe Yapma</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20580332.post-67534883970149842932008-05-17T10:44:00.000+04:302008-05-17T10:44:00.000+04:30For those who say that they would be "kicking ass"...For those who say that they would be "kicking ass" over this issue if they lived in Bartlesville, I remind you that you do not live here. I do. I think that it is ridiculous that the book was banned and is still semi-banned. However, I have a great job among many extreme conservatives. A person here could possibly lose their promotability by showing up on the record against the book banning. Small-town social pressure can be incredible.<BR/><BR/>For example, someone at work the other day was AMAZED that I was not terrified of Obama. The question was not even around support for Obama because *obviously* that would be out of the question. <BR/><BR/>The sad thing is that the whole scandal makes it more difficult to attract bright, intelligent people to town. And it may even impact the ability to keep bright, intelligent people in Bartlesville. In fact, this is the straw that broke camel's back for my wife and me. Between the two of us, three MS degrees have started looking for a job out of town. Leaving Bartlesville will probably reduce our standard of living because income to cost here is amazing, but at least I won't have to bite my tongue daily to conservative bigotry that I must endure. Unfortunately, my attitude to leave rather than enact change (like many people who leave) may leave Oklahoma as a backwater, but on the other hand I think this is what many people such as Mrs. Rader would prefer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20580332.post-42335579548752945442008-05-05T15:37:00.000+04:302008-05-05T15:37:00.000+04:30thank you nice sharingthank you nice sharingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20580332.post-14887996128461922582007-10-10T05:03:00.000+03:302007-10-10T05:03:00.000+03:30This article has made me sick. Especially that An...This article has made me sick. Especially that Anne Frank has been challenged for "promoting Judaism" as a jewish girl i had hoped that the world had grown since the haulaucaust but i suppose not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20580332.post-7532027047946611332007-09-15T08:26:00.000+03:302007-09-15T08:26:00.000+03:30I'm sending a letter to them concerning all this. ...I'm sending a letter to them concerning all this. However, I've got a feeling they might not listen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20580332.post-30682272002152799722007-09-06T04:36:00.000+03:302007-09-06T04:36:00.000+03:30Umm, "promoting Judaism" is a reason to have a boo...Umm, "promoting Judaism" is a reason to have a book removed? What if I said I wanted to have the bible removed because it promotes Christianity? Besides, The Diary of Anne Frank has confirmed historical significance. It's about someone we are absolutely sure existed and about an event that we are sure happened. Not that the events in the the bible are fiction. And just because there are homosexual characters in a book is absolutely no reason whatsoever to remove them. Homosexuality is not a virus, it's not wrong, it's not unsanitary, and it is not rated M.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20580332.post-12065487494108343142007-08-28T03:31:00.000+03:302007-08-28T03:31:00.000+03:30Dear Ms. Johnson, I must confess that I have been ...Dear Ms. Johnson, <BR/><BR/>I must confess that I have been turned in direction to this blog through Libba. I have not read 'The Bermudez Triangle', but it is now definitely on my 'Must Do Immediately' list. I find it deeply unnerving and also slightly frightening that people such as this 'Rader' are still out there in the world trying to control other breathing, living, human beings. <BR/><BR/>As a Canadian, we hear a lot up here about the craaaazy, frighteningly religious Southern Americans. But still, they're up here in the Great White North as well, (you can't escape them, they're like cockroaches, infesting everything). Just this year my cousins started attending a Christian High School. My paternal family has always been Evangelical, but my cousins had never been nearly as extreme about religion as they are until this year. When I mentioned to my eleven year old cousin that I have homosexual friends, she responded with, and I quote, 'Ew, gay people!'. It's people like Rader and the ones teaching at my cousins school that have driven my generation into a state of hate and fear. My cousin is eleven years old and has never met a homosexual person. She's being pumped full of hate towards a minority she has no experience/quarrel with. Um, Hitler anyone? I know that it's risky bringing up someone as taboo as Hitler, but we can only learn from our mistakes and I think it's time we stopped shoving history under the rug. Not only is there censorship of art going on all around us, there is, as korny as it sounds, censorship of love. We're being taught that people are evil and will be punished for things we don't understand, which I find much more frightening than having someone meet me then later tell me I'm going to Hell or am going to be punished some other way for my evil ways. Are people really so gullible?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20580332.post-2900456222145762382007-08-22T01:04:00.000+03:302007-08-22T01:04:00.000+03:30Ok. My name is Jessica, and I've read your book. I...Ok. My name is Jessica, and I've read your book. I found nothing wrong with it. It was a great book. <BR/>This may be off topic, but I was over at my friends house and we got on the topic of when we'd have kids and if our kids were gay, what we'd do. I said I'd be fine, shocked maybe, but fine. I'd still love them. And she looked at me like I was insane. She told me if one of her kids were gay she'd disown them. I felt like slapping her.<BR/>I think it's wrong how people treat gays and the whole it being a sin just cause the bible says so is stupid. I belive that God loves us no matter what. I go to a christian camp, and they made a big point about us being created in God's image. And if we're gay or Bi isn't that part of our image too?<BR/>It all makes me so angry. How can our world be so screwed up, that people will bash someone or ban a book for being gay or bi or even just having content that deals with that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20580332.post-35796011820002919062007-08-19T05:47:00.000+03:302007-08-19T05:47:00.000+03:30Hi, Maureen. I did come to this blog from Libba's ...Hi, Maureen. <BR/><BR/>I did come to this blog from Libba's blog, so THANKS for the sorta-info about TSFT!<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I think censoring books is really kind of stupid. I mean, yes, there are some things that need to be censored, but as Libba said, kids will censor things themselves. This is why I put down Speak- it made me physically ill and I knew if I read more I wouldn't be able to handle it.<BR/><BR/>And the Bible comment from Ms. rader- I wouldn't mind reading the Bible in school. But it seems to me as if she's suggesting that ALL students read the Bible, and nothing else. Does she think everyone is Christian in our schools? What about the Jewish students? What about the Muslim students? If we read the Bible, we should read the other books, as well. I mean, I don't believe in evolution- I believe in Creationism, yet we study evolution in school and I have to deal with it. It's interesting, just not what I believe. So I'd be happy to read the Koran or another religion's documents. It broadens your horizons.<BR/><BR/>Rachel D.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20580332.post-79778749938146824522007-08-19T01:44:00.000+03:302007-08-19T01:44:00.000+03:30"Promoting Judaism"? That is just ridiculous. I ca..."Promoting Judaism"? That is just ridiculous. I can't even respond to that.Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00887595349679720292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20580332.post-91176588007073174162007-08-18T07:44:00.000+03:302007-08-18T07:44:00.000+03:30Hello, I’m Aimee, I've been lurking on your blog f...Hello, I’m Aimee, I've been lurking on your blog for quite some time. I read some author blogs regularly and can't quite recall which directed me here, but it was at the beginning of this whole battle and I've been reading your blog since then. I am a teen, and I haven't read a single book of yours (nothing at all personal, that’s just how it worked out, I s’pose). However. I just want to let you know that I glow with appreciation when I read posts like this. Thank you for keeping your readers updated and educated, and doing so intelligently. I read comments from teens telling you that they're looking into censorship issues in their own community, and that is a wonderful thing. Please don't stop fighting. This is important. A small victory is a victory still. I could elaborate, but a passionate essay on Why American Culture Sometimes Scares Me might run a little long for a comment. Point being: thank you, I respect you immensely for your efforts, and the next time I’m not completely broke I will be purchasing Bermudez. (Vespas are fun. You deserve one.) Cheers and be well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20580332.post-578359958960882982007-08-18T02:33:00.000+03:302007-08-18T02:33:00.000+03:30I was annoyed that I couldn't really do much right...I was annoyed that I couldn't really do much right now to help fight this, so I tried to come up with ideas. I figured that, if they're going to censor it in one school library, I can at the very least try to expose more kids to it at another. So I went to my high school's library and requested The Bermudez Triangle, which they are now ordering. I plan to put it out where a lot of people will see it once it arrives. :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20580332.post-53433955056098956072007-08-17T21:10:00.000+03:302007-08-17T21:10:00.000+03:30Hi, Maureen, I found you a while back through the ...Hi, Maureen, I found you a while back through the Brothers Green, but I don't think I've commented here before. Just want you to know that this future YA librarian supports you! I read Bermudez Triangle this summer and loved it. And as a future librarian, nothing frustrates me more than to see libraries forced to cave to the restrictive views of people like this.Kristihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07001883343907309590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20580332.post-82212698139767753252007-08-17T01:47:00.000+03:302007-08-17T01:47:00.000+03:30okay...not to sound strange, but there happen to b...okay...not to sound strange, but there happen to be a lot of gay people in my school, and in our school newspaper it says that they shouldn't have to hide that and that it is their choice to be that way. we see it in our daily lives, so why should it not be read in a book? I love reading and i know a lot of people who do. I think it is stupid to deprive people especially young adults of reading a book just because of something like that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20580332.post-56829157997574013302007-08-16T06:33:00.000+03:302007-08-16T06:33:00.000+03:30So Anne Frank promotes Judaism? Well, what about t...So Anne Frank promotes Judaism? Well, what about this Rader woman, promoting stupidity every time she opens her mouth?<BR/><BR/>Now, I say this without meaning to sound like a suckup (but I probably will anyway). The Bermudez Triangle is one of the finest teen novels ever, and it is a huge deprivation to the kids to make it harder for them to read by putting it on the special shelf.<BR/><BR/>On another note, I think you should definitely go to Bartlesville. Come on now. Who doesn't want a hug? If anyone can warm Ms. Rader's cold, cold heart, it's you. And Free Monkey, of course. Musn't forget Free Monkey.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20580332.post-16158158444743575722007-08-16T01:55:00.000+03:302007-08-16T01:55:00.000+03:301. The diary of Anne Frank does not really promote...1. The diary of Anne Frank does not really promote Judaism.<BR/><BR/>2. Wait, promoting religion is forbidden in Oklahoma? Because they have this books called the "Bible" which heavily promotes Christinanity. They should ban it.<BR/><BR/>3. Actually, come to think of it, I can't think of any book promoting Judaism more than the Bible. That's pretty much what the whole "Old Testament" part is all about. I guess they should really ban it.<BR/><BR/>Blah.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20580332.post-79829374167494939662007-08-16T00:48:00.000+03:302007-08-16T00:48:00.000+03:30The Diary of Anne Frank was challenged for promoti...The Diary of Anne Frank was challenged for promoting Judaism?????!!! I have no words to describe how angry this makes me. Wait, yes I do have several words, but I will not post them here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20580332.post-88535813987315627132007-08-15T22:31:00.000+03:302007-08-15T22:31:00.000+03:30I already posted my opinion on this certain subjec...I already posted my opinion on this certain subject--and on Libba Bray's LJ as well--and i just wanted to say, that my friends and i are now going to be reading The Burmedez Triangle. ...this is absolutely insane. *breathes in and out*<BR/><BR/>PS- Ms. Johnson, I just finished reading Girl At Sea, and thought it was really good!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20580332.post-75204076477026667472007-08-15T21:42:00.000+03:302007-08-15T21:42:00.000+03:30As Brianna has just said, one of the best ways to ...As Brianna has just said, one of the best ways to get kids to read something is to tell them they can't. I am smiling.<BR/>Yes, Maureen, I think you should go to this place and speak to any supportive group. I bet a local, independent bookstore would be happy to have you in for a reading/signing. Have a party. Be positive. Talk about the book (and your others). Don't even mention the censorship if you can help it; just fight fire with a distraction. Let curious people come and see that you're about good writing, not distributing child-porn or whatever it is they think you're doing.<BR/>Go online to the ALA website about banned books and find you've got lots of company: everyone from Shakespeare to Rowling and the Bible itself. See if you can turn this nastiness into something positive to encourage kids (and maybe a few adults, too) to read and decide for themselves what they like and don't like and WHY. The WHY is so important. So many people only like or don't like something because someone else said so. Maybe if you could speak to a group in this town, people would start thinking.<BR/>I live in Salt Lake City, a highly conservative place. But we have The King's English Bookstore that loves to have readings by all kinds of authors. They love to get people thinking. Sure, they've had Shannon Hale and Stephenie Meyers, who aren't particulary controversial. But they've had Pat Bagley with his series of Clueless George books, all of which make fun of George Bush throughout. They'd love you.<BR/>Surely there must be a bookstore like that in Oklahoma. Hey, if Utah can manage a little literary diversity, then Oklahoma can.<BR/>Good luck.<BR/><BR/>word verification: kilty<BR/>sounds like a good scotophile word to meA Paperback Writerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10155962941590663738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20580332.post-33435858113341332342007-08-15T20:10:00.000+03:302007-08-15T20:10:00.000+03:30As a high school student myself, I cant see where ...As a high school student myself, I cant see where banning a book is going to stop anything. My friends and I found out about it thru Libba's blog and I had read it already so its making the rounds thru my friends. I thought the book was a frank and truthfull look at teenage love and confusion and stuff we go thru every day. It was nice to see it is something that is out for viewing and not kept in some dark room, locked away. I think they are just using the book to poke holes in society and its sad they used yours. Keep up the good fight and Im behind you all the way!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20580332.post-79176829267117100902007-08-15T18:17:00.000+03:302007-08-15T18:17:00.000+03:30You ROCK!!Keep Fighting!!!!!!!!!!!Ms. Radar doesn'...You ROCK!!<BR/>Keep Fighting!!!!!!!!!!!<BR/>Ms. Radar doesn't have a functioning brain!! Teens can think for themselves, thank you very much!!<BR/><BR/>If I lived in Oklahoma, I would be kicking some serious censorship butt. There are way racier books out there than The Bermudez Triangle.<BR/><BR/>You have my support, 110%<BR/><BR/>(And I am so jealous that you read TSFT)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20580332.post-24471318169719310622007-08-15T17:37:00.000+03:302007-08-15T17:37:00.000+03:30The problem with all this is the fact that for eve...The problem with all this is the fact that for every "victory" this woman has in Oklahoma, it starts setting what is called a "precedent" that other schools and other states can use in court to start making what they are trying to do legal. It is EVERYONE'S business what is happening in Oklahoma. If we let this go because it is not in our state, or not in our school, it will start to spread like a cancer and affect ALL OF US no matter where in this country we are. That is how the legal system works. Censorship must be fought while it is still small enough to put out the fire.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20580332.post-71051686379291947172007-08-15T17:11:00.000+03:302007-08-15T17:11:00.000+03:30I keep meaning to ask, is the book just banned. . ...I keep meaning to ask, is the book just banned. . errr. . on the special shelf. . . at the Mid High or at both the Mid High and High School?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20580332.post-64493658142437785862007-08-15T16:53:00.000+03:302007-08-15T16:53:00.000+03:30It just makes me sick that a total nutjob like Ms....It just makes me sick that a total nutjob like Ms. Radar can get a special shelf put up. We had book challenges all the time in the school I worked at. Not a single one was ever taken seriously because they were all just as nutty as this one. It's a sad day when the people responsible for the education of the whole town kowtow to one woman with an agenda that is not good for everyone.<BR/><BR/>I went to college in B'ville and know lots of people there. I can almost guarantee that the education department at the local Christian college would be totally opposed to this book banning (though they have really Christian-upped since I went to school there so maybe the wind is blowing another day). It wouldn't hurt to contact the Oklahoma Wesleyan University education department and ask if they would like you to speak to their Childrens Lit class (if you get to go there at all). <BR/><BR/>B'ville is a bastion of religion so you will surely find people who hate you. There are also a lovely bunch of people who would welcome you. I hope this is resolved in the students' favor soon. It is absurd it has gone this far. The good news is your book has a lot more publicity! I'd never heard of you or the Green brothers until Gaiman posted about this (I am currently obsessed with Brotherhood 2.0, though that obsession came after the Deathly Hallows video).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com