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From: Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Helmet efficacy test
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 13:27:30 -0400
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On 4/18/2025 12:03 PM, AMuzi wrote:
> 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.

For now.....Besides, that line of reasoning serves as rationalization 
for library book bans.

> 
> 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

I just realized I typo'd my earlier response, $195 should have been $1.95

> 


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