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The Joplin Globe reports that Missouri lawmakers have inducted science fiction writer Robert Heinlein to the Hall of Famous Missourians to a cheering crowd of fans who call themselves "Heinlein's children."
State Rep. T.J. Berry says Heinlein encouraged others to "strive for the stars, for the moon" and "for what's next." Donors to the Heinlein Society and the Heinlein Prize Trust paid for a bronze bust of Heinlein, which will be displayed in the House Chamber at the Capitol where it will join 45 other Missourians honored with busts in the hall including Mark Twain, Dred Scott and Ginger Rogers, as well as more controversial Missourians such as Rush Limbaugh.
"Our devotion to this man must seem odd to those outside of the science fiction field, with spaceships and ray guns and bug-eyed monsters," Heinlein Society President Keith Kato said. "But to Heinlein's children, the writing was only the beginning of doing."
(Score: 5, Informative) by archfeld on Thursday August 25 2016, @05:35AM
I realize you have a right to an opinion but I don't see any anti-Semitism in starship trooper, but rather a satirical story about the world under a dominating Federal government that controlled all aspects of life. Want to know more... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein [wikipedia.org]
'Heinlein decisively ended his juvenile novels with Starship Troopers (1959), a controversial work and his personal riposte to leftists calling for President Dwight D. Eisenhower to stop nuclear testing in 1958. "The "Patrick Henry" ad shocked 'em," he wrote many years later. "Starship Troopers outraged 'em."[44] Starship Troopers is a coming-of-age story about duty, citizenship, and the role of the military in society.[45] The book portrays a society in which suffrage is earned by demonstrated willingness to place society's interests before one's own, at least for a short time and often under onerous circumstances, in government service; in the case of the protagonist, this was military service.'
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Friday August 26 2016, @01:14AM
Watch this Israeli-Jewish made documentary about the ADL and a lot of things will start to make sense about the Jewish perspective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNWF9CeoZdE [youtube.com]