Texas GOP wants to ban a bunch of books in schools

[YGIFS 19449]

they banned a book that talked about the banning of books?  Seriously?  

You could lock Ray Bradbury in a room with Hunter S. Thompson and 451 grams of mescaline and they couldn't come up with this shit.  

Let me guess what's next?  Publishers have to take out insurance on the print-run in case the book won't make it onto library shelves, and the school board just so happens to offer re-insurance on that insurance?  

WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING?  

[Shut up Lou Holtz 2011]

I’ve written 2 books about sharks. Both for kids. My most recent is “A Shark Named Pickles” about a tiger shark named Pickles. The. Book teaches kids that trash in the ocean is dangerous and we need to clean the oceans. 
 

I think the next adventure for Pickles is “Pickles Gets Banned”. I would love for my book to make the list and piss off the nazi Karens in this country. Maybe start with book banning but Pickles teaches the reader we should ban “shark finning” not books!

[YGIFS 19449]

Please work in an angle in your next 'Pickles' book where the shark appreciates electric boats because they don't leave so much liquid contaminant in the ocean.  And one day attacks a bad man who wants heavy diesel on all boats, even ocean kayaks.  I promise-I'll get you a prominent spot at the Children's Tent at the Texas Book Festival in '25 or '26

[Shut up Lou Holtz 2011]

1 minute ago, YGIFS said:

Please work in an angle in your next 'Pickles' book where the shark appreciates electric boats because they don't leave so much liquid contaminant in the ocean.  And one day attacks a bad man who wants heavy diesel on all boats, even ocean kayaks.  I promise-I'll get you a prominent spot at the Children's Tent at the Texas Book Festival in '25 or '26

I love it! Pickles becomes an electric boat salesperson and eats a Cheeto guy

[Fudge Nuggets 19151]

55 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Why can’t their perfect child just be told to avoid said book?

That would require parenting and take away valuable time set aside for day drinking.

[YGIFS 19449]

5 minutes ago, Shut up Lou Holtz said:

I love it! Pickles becomes an electric boat salesperson and eats a Cheeto guy

(knock-knock)

"Who is it?"

-Candygram

"Wait, you're that shifty boat salesman who's really a shark and tried to upsell me on battery waterproofing."

-Pizza delivery 

[miguelito 11220]

37 minutes ago, Shut up Lou Holtz said:

My most recent is “A Shark Named Pickles” about a tiger shark named Pickles.

 

 

 

/obligatory

/at least the 50th time I've posted that picture.

[HenryJames 65890]

35 minutes ago, Shut up Lou Holtz said:

The. Book teaches kids that trash in the ocean is dangerous and we need to clean the oceans. 

Kid goes in the cage, cage goes in the water, kid goes in the water. Trash's in the water. Our trash.

[Shut up Lou Holtz 2011]

I am here for all the Jaws references! Here’s a picture of the real Pickles. My photo taken in the Bahamas 

 

Edited June 12 by Shut up Lou Holtz

[Shut up Lou Holtz 2011]

3 hours ago, miguelito said:

 

 

 

/obligatory

/at least the 50th time I've posted that picture.

This will always be funny! Great scene 

[WBT 20424]

[gofuckyourself 8122]

6 hours ago, Shut up Lou Holtz said:

I’ve written 2 books about sharks. Both for kids. My most recent is “A Shark Named Pickles” about a tiger shark named Pickles. The. Book teaches kids that trash in the ocean is dangerous and we need to clean the oceans. 
 

I think the next adventure for Pickles is “Pickles Gets Banned”. I would love for my book to make the list and piss off the nazi Karens in this country. Maybe start with book banning but Pickles teaches the reader we should ban “shark finning” not books!

If you want to get banned just name the next one in the series, "Pickles Gets Tickled ... Pink By Cleaning Up the Oceans"

Moms for Liberty and Karens for Kraziness and friends will be happy to oblige. They don't actually read and I doubt they even read the full book title. 

['stache 21777]

OK Supreme Court tells state superintendent to fuck off. You love to see it.

 

Oklahoma Supreme Court rejects state education board’s authority over public school libraries

EDMOND, Okla. (AP) —

Local school boards in Oklahoma will retain the right to determine what books are available in public school libraries after the state Supreme Court shut down efforts to shift that discretion to the state Board of Education.

“The state Board of Education is attempting to exercise unauthorized quasi-judicial authority in enforcement proceedings before the board,” Justice James E. Edmondson wrote in the unanimous ruling Tuesday in a lawsuit brought by Edmond Public Schools.

“State statutes give a local school board power and a type of statutory discretion to supply books for a school library that meet local community standards,” the ruling added.

The board, led by state Superintendent Ryan Walters, had recommended the suburban school district remove two books — “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini and “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls — after new rules were approved in June 2023 that banned books and other media that contain pornographic and sexualized content.

The lawsuit was filed days before a hearing the board scheduled on the district’s appeal of its recommendation.

The district welcomed the decision in a statement. It said the ruling “protects our locally elected school board’s role in creating policies that determine how library materials are selected and reviewed.”

Walters said he was disappointed, calling in a statement for the Legislature to act “and reign out of control access to pornography in schools that our kids are exposed to.”

The ruling came the same day attorneys for LGBTQ+ youth, teachers and major publishers asked a federal appeals court to affirm a lower court order that blocked key parts of an Iowa law banning books depicting sex acts from school libraries and classrooms.

There has been a wave of similar legislation around the country, typically from Republican lawmakers who say the laws are designed to affirm parents’ rights and protect children. The laws often seek to prohibit discussion of gender and sexual orientation issues, ban treatments such as puberty blockers for transgender children, and restrict the use of restrooms in schools.

Many of the laws have prompted court challenges.

Earlier this month, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ordered the return of eight books dealing with subjects including racism and transgender issues to library shelves in a rural Texas county. Llano County had 17 total books from a library in Kingsland in an ongoing book-banning controversy.

https://apnews.com/article/oklahoma-school-library-book-ban-court-91ae7697c5a4501cde85a7ca00f24351

[Willfully Horn 7919]

Sad news out of Utah, with thirteen books being officially banned from their school system. Apparently, this is the first state with a state-wide ban. Here is the list of censored titles:

• "A Court of Thorns and Roses" by Sarah J. Maas
• "A Court of Frost and Starlight" by Sarah J. Maas
• "A Court of Mist and Fury" by Sarah J. Maas
• "A Court of Silver Flames" by Sarah J. Maas
• "A Court of Wings and Ruin" by Sarah J. Maas
• "Empire of Storms" by Sarah J. Maas
• "What Girls are Made of" by Elana K. Arnold
• "Milk and Honey" by Rupi Kaur
• "Forever" by Judy Blume
• "Tilt" by Ellen Hopkins
• "Fallout (Crank, Book 3)" by Ellen Hopkins
• "Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Atwood
• "Blankets" by Craig Thompson

Milk and Honey is a book of poetry. All those who vote, or support, this censorship should go home and throw out all their literature, all their music, and all their films. They have no right to art of any kind. Fuck them. And cornhole that bitch in Westlake.

(Note. Tried to c/p two different links, but no luck).

 

[WBT 20424]

3 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

• "A Court of Thorns and Roses" by Sarah J. Maas
• "A Court of Frost and Starlight" by Sarah J. Maas
• "A Court of Mist and Fury" by Sarah J. Maas
• "A Court of Silver Flames" by Sarah J. Maas
• "A Court of Wings and Ruin" by Sarah J. Maas
• "Empire of Storms" by Sarah J. Maas

What's the story with these?  I haven't read any but I've seen them in book stores and on best seller lists and such.  They looked like another generic ya fantasy series.  Fucking nazis.

[safe sex 11685]

They're fairly horny.

[mchookem 16230]

Oryx and Crake is like any Atwood novel...heavy on the dystopia, a difficult read, a weird sex angle... like McCarthy, she's one of my favorite authors and i've read just about everything she's written but she always leaves me feeling uncomfortable and disturbed. i love it lol.

if an elementary school kid is managing to read that, they have far surpassed their peers and should be in GT level classes encouraging them to read anything/everything.