[Publib] 'Giving Thanks' from the Kid's Reading Room of the LosAngeles Times

[Scott Bonner]

I loved the lines:
"And they were fleeing Obama-type tyranny from the mother country."

And

"The teacher was teaching a word for the day, "incentive," and he used the
true Thanksgiving story.  I'm sure it was an oversight on the part of the
teacher."

LOL.

Scott Bonner, Adult Services Librarian
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-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Beisser [mailto:fredbeisser at mesanetworks.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:16 PM
To: Scott Bonner
Cc: 'PUBLIB'
Subject: Re: [Publib] 'Giving Thanks' from the Kid's Reading Room of the
LosAngeles Times

Thanks for your thoughts, Scott. They sound similar to the comments at 
http://tinyurl.com/5khxsl.

Fred

Scott Bonner wrote:
> Nice politicizing, and in tune with the recent market-related bickering on
> Publib, not to mention the oft-celebrated off-topic-ness.
>
> One would be hard pressed to use Pilgrims as an example of free markets,
> free minds, or religious liberty, but that doesn't stop us from doing
> exactly that.  Their society was a libertarian's nightmare.  I know, I
know,
> they weren't as bad as portrayed - but they also weren't as good as
> portrayed, either.  In any case, the article was a poorly written fluff
> piece, didn't so much show failed socialism as successful parsing of
> state-owned resources out to preferred citizens (is that the new
> capitalism?), and contained numerous historical inaccuracies, like the
idea
> that the Pilgrims had it so rough.
>
> (Side note: If they did, it was their own fault.  They built on land that
> had been cleared and cultivated by natives for who-knows-how-long, and was
> conveniently empty just prior to Pilgrim arrival thanks to infections of
> smallpox and other plagues from European visitors some years before.  What
> could be easier, and still be called colonizing?  There are great, famous
> sermons from the Pilgrim leaders praising God, for He had seen to their
> plenty by killing off so many unbelieving savages.  More politicizing, or
> just history?  That depends on your politics.)
>
> Scott
> Speaking for no one but myself
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org]
> On Behalf Of Fred Beisser
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 11:05 AM
> To: PUBLIB
> Subject: [Publib] 'Giving Thanks' from the Kid's Reading Room of the
> LosAngeles Times
>
>  From the Kid's Reading Room of the LA Times comes a Thanksgiving story 
> and a lesson in failed socialism. See:
>
http://www.latimes.com/features/kids/readingroom/la-et-story23-2008nov23,0,7
> 094177.story
>
> Fred Beisser
> Trustee
> www.elbertcountylibrary.org
> (Colorado)
>
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