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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Helmet efficacy test
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 11:03:44 -0500
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On 4/18/2025 10:17 AM, Zen Cycle wrote:
> On 4/17/2025 9:15 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>> On 4/17/2025 7:57 PM, zen cycle wrote:
>>> On 4/17/2025 8:17 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>> On 4/17/2025 6:05 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>> On 4/17/2025 6:01 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On that subject, today brings some helpful and hopeful 
>>>>>> news:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://apnews.com/article/rubio-disinformation- 
>>>>>> russia- china-iran- d53d00551a0a57f3114431c624db0b0f
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Government censorship doesn't play well with me.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmm. So Vladimir gets to say anything he wants anytime 
>>>>> he wants?
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess that's handy if he's on your election team.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No one in USA controls what foreign heads of state say 
>>>> or don't say. Or could, if they so wished.
>>>>
>>>> The Office of Disinformation was established to control 
>>>> US citizens' and or organizations' speech, a clear and 
>>>> blatant 1st Amendment violation.
>>>>
>>>
>>> yet we don't hear a peep from you about the government 
>>> demanding library book bans in order to get gvt funding.
>>
>> Which only indicates you are not paying attention.
>>
>> I have consistently complained about it, excepting only 
>> prurient materials for minor children.
>>
> 
>   I remember conversations where you expressed support for 
> removal of "prurient" materials. I don't recall you 
> criticizing removal of reading materials in general, to the 
> extent that you gave links for the purchase of used books 
> for specific titles that were mentioned in this forum, which 
> smacked of a rationalization (at best) of removing To Kill A 
> Mockingbird was really no big deal since you could find it 
> for $195 online. That isn't a condemnation of book banning 
> in _my_ book.
> 
> 
> 


My point was merely that parents who wish their children to 
read materials unavailable in the local public or school 
library are perfectly free to acquire those books.

Surprising to me, Ms Lee's work starts at $30 which is 
really high for a once-very-popular paperback:

https://www.alibris.com/booksearch?mtype=B&keyword=to+kill+a+mocking+bird+harper+lee&hs.x=0&hs.y=0

More typical for similar works is 99 cents:

https://www.alibris.com/The-Adventures-of-Huckleberry-Finn-Mark-Twain/book/146182?qsort=p&matches=4085

-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971