You did a helluva job, Wolfie
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Oklahoma in The 2010 Census
Look at it: it’s one big retirement community. Barely more than 8% Latino.
No wonder Inhofe gets elected over-and-over. When you’re old and white, you can afford to be solipsistic.
Oklahoma valedictorian denied high school diploma after ‘cursing’ during speech
A high-achieving student from a small Oklahoma town has been denied her high school diploma, allegedly because she used the word “hell” in her valedictorian speech.
Kaitlin Nootbaar, 18, delivered the speech three months ago after graduating from high school in the community of Prague, according to KFOR-TV.
Nootbaar’s father David said she borrowed a line in her speech from one delivered in Eclipse, a movie from the Twilight Saga series.
“Her quote was, ‘When she first started school she wanted to be a nurse, then a veterinarian and now that she was getting closer to graduation, people would ask her, what do you want to do and she said how the hell do I know? I’ve changed my mind so many times,’” David said. (Photo: KFOR-TV)
How fortunate for the school board that they are too bass ackwards to get in to the 21st Century and have a website for contact information. Those fools deserve a flamin’.
City officials are waging a war on vegetable gardens
Municipalities named for destroying urban vegetable farming are:
- Drummondville, Quebec
- Tulsa, OK
- Clarkston, GA
- Oak Park, MI
- Chatham, NJ
Oklahoma Doctor Refuses To Provide Rape Victim With Emergency Contraception
ThinkProgress reports: “An Oklahoma emergency room doctor refused to provide emergency contraception to a 24-year-old female rape victim because the medication violated the health provider’s personal beliefs… ‘I will not give you emergency contraceptives because it goes against my believes,’ the doctor allegedly told the rape victim and her mother, Rhonda. ‘She knew my daughter had just been raped. Her attitude was so judgmental and I felt that she was just judging my daughter.’
Canadian Valley Hospital in Yukon, OK: Go on and fuck them up with crappy reviews on Google and Yelp.
Oklahoma Christian Radio Station General Manager Calls Obama Racial Slur (IMAGE)
(trigger warning for racist language)
Teddy Oyler works for 93.9, a Christian radio station that, as a registered non-profit, pays no taxes. When Addicting Info called to ask about Oyler’s statements, they denied that he worked there; when they called again, the station hung up. Here’s a screenshot from their Dec. 2011 media kit:
Welllllll would you look at that. The racist asshole is a station manager (or was as of very recently.)
-Jess
I’ve got this one: Call his boss Randall Christy at 508-456-7488 and ask him questions like…
- Does one have to be a bigot to work for you?
- Was Jesus a bigot like Teddy Oyler?
- Do you have the brains and commitment to graduate from Harvard Law like the nigger in the Oval Office?
For what it’s worth, Oyler didn’t say this on the air, so I don’t think that the license to KIMY is in jeopardy. You could complain to the FCC about Oyler not being fit to be on the air, but I don’t think that it would get you anything. About the best payback you could run would be to call Oyler’s boss, Randall Christy of Ada, OK over-and-over during working hours.
It’s a nice graphic, but it doesn’t quite get the message to people in Oklahoma who are trying to criminalize womanhood.
Does anyone want to start a letter writing campaign to people in Oklahoma telling them that criminalizing womanhood is a diversion from what will help poor, hungry and sick Oklahomans? Or has anyone ever tried to directly communicate with them before and it’s failed to raise their consciences?
Occupy Tulsa arrests, police pepper-sprayed protesters (by RTAmerica)
Jackboots in Oklahoma
Two decades later, even in the face of the growing reach of the Christian Right, his prediction seems apocalyptic. And yet the powerbrokers in the Christian Right have moved from the fringes of society to the floor of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Christian fundamentalists now hold a majority of seats in 36 percent of all Republican Party state committees, or 18 of 50 states, along with large minorities in 81 percent of the rest of the states. Forty-five Senators and 186 members of the House of Representatives earned between an 80 to100 percent approval ratings from the three most influential Christian Right advocacy groups - The Christian Coalition, Eagle Forum, and Family Resource Council. Tom Coburn, the new senator from Oklahoma , has included in his campaign to end abortion a call to impose the death penalty on doctors that carry out abortions once the ban goes into place. Another new senator, John Thune, believes in Creationism. Jim DeMint, the new senator elected from South Carolina , wants to ban single mothers from teaching in schools. The Election Day exit polls found that 22 percent of voters identified themselves as evangelical Christians and Bush won 77 percent of their vote. The polls found that a plurality of voters said that the most important issue in the campaign had been “moral values.
