How much exactly is 1 TRILLION dollars?

Well, for starters, one trillion dollars is how much the United states has spent on the war in Iraq. As for me, it doesn't matter what your political views are, but it seems that if you could really wrap your mind around how much a trillion dollars is, you might see that enough is enough. That is exactly what Rob Simpson has done in his new book What We Could Have Done With the Money: 50 Ways to Spend the Trillion Dollars We've Spent on Iraq. Imagine what a trillion dollars could have done for America? Well, all

you have to do is visit this website and spend away. It's exhausting as a matter of fact--not that I would mind. Heck, I could buy the Astros--and keep spending!

I HATE CENSORSHIP!

Okay, so I'm sure all of you have noticed some of my crazy displays around school by now, and I'm sure that you noticed the "Banned Book" announcements during Banned Books Week. But what is a librarian to do when an author censors HeRsElF? Sounds crazy, huh? It's true. Stephenie Meyer has said that the fourth installment of the Twilight series should not be read by kids under 16. WHAT? Whose kids? Mine? Yours? You? Can you all hear me screaming Noooooooooooooo! from a cave somewhere??? What is this world coming to? I thought that censorship was up to the parents! I thought we had stopped all of this book rationing a long time ago! That that's why parents are there...we count on them to be the moral compass...just like, well, Bella and Edward are moral compassess for Renesmee, but wait a minute...YOU CAN'T KNOW THAT IF YOU CAN'T READ IT!

Someone PLEASE...stop the madness...Gladden
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