Americans Call for Book Burnings

Be sure to read the whole article. It’s very interesting.

Outside West Bend, the fight caught the attention of Robert Braun, who, with three other Milwaukee-area men, filed a claim against West Bend calling for one of the library’s books to be publicly burned, along with financial damages.

The four plaintiffs — who describe themselves as “elderly” in their complaint — claim their “mental and emotional well-being was damaged by [the] book at the library.”The claim, unconnected to the Maziarkas, says the book “Baby Be-bop” — a fictional piece about a homosexual teenager — is “explicitly vulgar, racial and anti-Christian.

“Braun, who says he is president of a Milwaukee group called the Christian Civil Liberties Union, said he singled out the book because it “goes way over the line” with offensive language and descriptions of sex acts.

The call for burning the book showed his passion, Braun, 74, said. “I don’t sit on the fence when I do these things. When I make a decision to speak up on something, I go for it.”

Library fight riles up city, leads to book-burning demand – CNN.com

A Surprisingly Good WWII Description

From the Urban Dictionary, no less. Here it is:

World War II

Germany invades Czechoslovakia.

Britain & France tell them to stop that bullshit.

Germany invades Poland. (Russia also invades Poland from the other side: everybody forgets this.)

Britain & France declare war. This is the ‘official’ kick-off.

Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, & Romania all join the German side. (Everybody forgets the last three.)

Axis forces go through Europe like vindaloo through a colostomy.

Nazis exterminate Jews, gays, gypsies, & the disabled. (everybody remembers the jews but forgets the rest.)

UK holds out.

Russia & the USA don’t do shit.

Entire divisions of Danish, Belgian, Dutch, Norwegian, French & Serbian volunteers join the Axis armies & SS. (everybody forgets this & to listen to them now, they were all in the fucking resistance, which must have been MASSIVE.)

Axis forces invade Russia. Suddenly the Russians don’t think it’s funny any more.

Japan joins the Axis & bombs Pearl Harbor.

Suddenly the US doesn’t think it’s funny any more.

The USA tools up the world, ’cause it’s got more factories than everybody else put together, & they’re out of bomber range.

Axis runs out of steam in Russia, cause Russia’s enormous & bloody freezing.

Allies invade on D-Day… 5 landings: 2 British, 2 American, 1 Canadian. (everybody forgets the Canadians.)

Hitler ends up smouldering in a ditch. Russians find the body & confirm he only had one ball. Seriously.

The US decides invading stuff is a pain in the ass and invents the atom bomb instead. Drops two buckets ‘o sunshine on Japan.

Russians steal half of Europe.

UK’s spent almost every penny it had.

US starts telling everybody how it was all about them, & 64 years later is still doing so.

“Some of the World War II guys in ‘Call of Duty’ have, like, foreign accents… what’s up with that?”