Archive for the ‘Oklahoma’ Category

All your emails are belong to Inhofe

A big part of the reason I haven’t been blogging much is that I just feel like I don’t have the ability or opportunity these days to do enough reading and research to post anything of value to the discussion. For example: The conservative conspiracy theory du jour, led by Oklahoma Republican Senator Jim Inhofe, regarding emails stolen from the… Read the rest

MAPS: On the move to get your money

Anti-MAPS video made by my friend David.

Attorney to challange Sally Kern for HD 84 seat

In what may prove to be the most interesting House race in Oklahoma next year, local attorney Brittany Novotny announced her campaign to challange uber-wingnut Sally Kern.

The voters of House District 84 deserve a representative who will fight for them.  So today, I’m officially announcing my candidacy

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Photos from today’s Rally for a Moral Budget

(Click on box to get a bigger version.)
Quite a good turnout for a weekday. And it wouldn’t be complete without teabagger counter-protesters. They were relatively well behaved, compared to the townhall outbursts.

How will the Democrats’ health care reform benefit Oklahoma?

The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Henry Waxman, is one of the House committees that has produced a bill to address health care reform. Waxman is a fierce advocate of real reform, and he and his committee staff have come up with a great way to demonstrate the benefits the bill would produce broken down by congressional… Read the rest

Another proud moment for Oklahoma

What an ass.
Really, what does he do all day, besides kissing the butts of the big oil lobbyists?
In response to this fine example of Oklahoma crude, the Oklahoma Democratic Party has a petition to demand that Inhofe “read the bill!
Here’s what I posted as a comment as I signed:

Pointless exercise, since this cretin just

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The Oklahoman having ‘difficulty’ with Kennedy’s liberal legacy

I know you all will be shocked by this, but The Oklahoman has used the occasion of Ted Kennedy’s death to question his political contributions to the nation and bash liberals.
“…estimating Kennedy’s historic imprint is difficult — and not just because we and millions of Americans not living on either coast disagreed with him on the size and… Read the rest

Coburn’s contradictory health care message: ‘You’re on your own’ but ‘call my office’?

This is the now famous clip of Oklahoma’s cruel doctor, Senator Coburn, responding to a constituent’s suffering with such utterly cold political pandering that even after years of Republican meanness on full display, most of the nation gasped in shock.
Which is it, Senator, is she on her own like the insurance companies decree in cases like hers (since… Read the rest

The ugliest web site in Oklahoma

I don’t know if this really qualifies as THE ugliest in the entire state, but I think it’s a serious contender in the crowded Government category.
The screen shot below really doesn’t do this inside page of the Canadian County web site justice. All those state flags are waving!

The front page only has two waving flags, which is… Read the rest