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Oooohhhklahoma.... Where America thrives. (Shhh. Talk about Texas some more.) Moving from Chicago to Oklahoma is maybe not the only thing our kids have ever thanked us for, but certainly we hear it most frequently, given the news here, and the news (and the weather) back there.

BTW, Milady Webworker tells me Speaker of the Oklahoma House T.W. Shannon may be running for Dr. Coburn's seat. (I think maybe Sherry McEvil mentioned this the other day.) He's a Republican male who, apparently, is not properly Republican pink, even. Who knows what he thinks, as a right-winger, about bi-racial Cheerios ads?!?

Here: http://www.okhouse.gov/District.aspx?District=62

From the news links on that page:

He has introduced "legislation to make permanent the one percent tax on horizontal drilling, ensuring the energy industry continues to thrive in Oklahoma."

A different article about Gov Mary Fallin (not really female because she's R) signing a bill aimed at promoting marriage and fighting poverty, quotes him: "Countless studies have shown a stable, two-parent household is important for the growth and stability of children. And the economic results are striking – child poverty rates shoot through the roof when marriages end. I believe this measure will work toward turning that tide and laying the groundwork for a more positive environment for families in Oklahoma while providing stability children need to grow into successful adults."

Just what we need, an anti-green and hetero-pair-marital-normative oreo Okie in the US Senate.

heh

from last thread, message # 698 :

Oh good...
Back from shopping.

Did I miss anything?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 30, 2014 12:17 PM (w3OHe)

Decades ago, a relative described driving his new furriner wife around south-eastern Oklahoma. They saw a sign directing them to "Heavener." My religiously starry-eyed but geographically challenged relative exclaimed to his bride, Why! We're "heaven-ers!" So they drove into town, asked a local how you pronounce the name of the town, and skee-daddled out of there when they heard him welcome them, of course, to "HEAVE-nurr".

mindfulwebworks.com/tales/geographic-jollies

The original name for the Macarena?

"Now, where the hell did I put my glasses?"

MSlytherynNBC: Gryffyndors will hate it but the new Bernie Botts half-blood commercial is really cute.

Just to be clear, considering a comment above:

The Cheerios ad is not at issue, just the incredibly stupid racist LaughingStock Media tweet, right? I haven't seen the ad itself.

Strangest thing about the Cheerios tweet is, that particular bugaboo - interracial anything, really - is so middle-of-last-Century now! As the reply tweets so amply demonstrate. Only the racists who think they aren't racists still think that way.

My home town was totally segregated. Today, on what were the "white" streets of my youth, I see brown & pink kids shooting hoops together. Nobody thinks anything of the mixed couples. Saw a nice-looking black guy and his pretty white wife the other day at a store, and their (presumably their) kid was so cute and sharp, I had to tell the Dad I thought so. I think it brightened his day; he looked a little shopping-haggard.

There are still pockets 'round here & elsewhere, where a black might feel more than a little uncomfortable walking in a local greasy spoon, where a mixed-race couple might be given the ol' hairy eyeball by all the regulars. But all strangers get that, the stranger the moreso is all.

And if they walked in and said, "Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure, and we ought to nuke Mecca," then those same locals might all laugh and offer to buy their breakfast.

The GOP is not committing suicide - they're murdering our country.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at January 30, 2014 08:09 AM (chqG9)
Those 2 are not mutually exclusive
Posted by: Nevergiveup

Like many mass murders, y'always wish those psychos would just off themselves, not take out a bunch of others first, right?

The problem with mental health testing in public schools is similar to the Constitutional problem of prayer in public schools. The problem is not the prayer or the mental health testing per se -- the problem is the "public" part of the schools.

" Stone's law wouldn't outlaw cigarettes per se. But if his proposal becomes law, cigarettes would have to be sold in California without filters...."

Things that twenty years ago were thought up by college students on recreational drugs, then dismissed in the sober light of morning as the silly ideas of drunken fools, are. nowadays proposed as actual legislation!

And like the foolish lawsuits that judges allow, this kind of idea is seriously considered instead of simply being mocked for the tyrannical foolishness it is.

((PS It's just the idea of the petty intervening nannyism drives me nuts. I never had much interest in tobacco, especially filter cigs, so personally I don't care one way or the other, but I despise tyranny in all its forms. Hope those who think we should only focus on Important Syrias Matters disdain my ranting on this.)

Gabriel - I am impressed with the depth and extent of your comment-inspiring content this morning. I only would argue with two words of yours...

chortle cough need coffee

Good morning. The dawn did not come up like thunder, but the sky is lightening.

Good eeeevning frenz.

Have you heard about "The European 'Silent Party' phenomenon"? Because it's "now making a major splash on the US club scene," according to an email I received.

-quote-
Wanna know how it works? [not really but I can't stop here]

Take a club/backroom full of people.

Arm them all with a set of two channel wireless headphones....

Have 2 DJs on stage spinning 2 different styles of music at the same time.

Let the party people select which DJ they want to hear via the toggle switch on their headphones.

Watch the spectacle as a mass of humanity get down to a soundtrack that only they can hear!

-unquote emphasis mine-

Let's PARTY!

Small DOSES, not does. (And I’m on the desktop so I can’t blame the cell’s autocorrect.) Also, I forgot (again!) that link would embed the vid. Fancy shmancy WordPress. Hope that was okay.

Since I’m taking a 3rd slot… here’s Bonus Thing #3:

Our Freshman US Congressman Jim Bridenstine was to bring (I presume he did bring) Tyronne Wood’s dad to the SOTU. Weasel Zippers

“As a combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, I understand the importance of knowing that America leaves no one behind. I am honored to host the father of a true hero.”

That’s how your congressman talks, right? I guess when we left Chicago, we could have moved worse places than here.

Thing 2, finally:

Here in Oklahoma, State Sen. Nathan Dahm (R-Broken Arrow, next to Tulsa), filed legislation he’s calling the [b]“Piers Morgan Constitutional Right to Keep and Bear Arms Without Infringement Act.”[/b] Good article about him and the proposed bill at KJRH.

Some good reading is Dahm’s bio at OKSenate.gov: Raised by Baptist missionary family, for starters. “As a Constitutional Conservative, Nathan draws heavily from his experiences in the formerly communist — and currently socialist — nation of Romania to inform people of the failures, perils, and evils of socialism. Nathan is one of the few home-school graduates to ever serve in the Senate, and is currently the youngest member in the Oklahoma Senate.”

Imagine I posted a picture of Dahm’s smiling face here.

So, the Limey tweeted a dare for the Okie to come on his show, “if you have the guts.”

Dahm accepted, and he debated (if you can call it that) Pier Smorgan on Monday night,

YouTube link to short clip from the show for those with low threshhold of tolerance for the likes of Piers — we had to watch it in small does:

There’s about 100 copies of the whole debate on YouTube now. Here’s what appears to be about the oldest one.

Home-schooled Baptist Oklahoma Republican entrepreneur. Wooty woot! Don’t y’all have lots of politicians like that where you are?

Good evening from the wilds of Oklahoma.

Two things I thought y’all might like to see, if they haven’t been covered already (Alas I think I’ve maybe missed some chunks of PoliNation lately.)

Thing 1:

ask.metafilter.com Dying of cancer, gramma scribbled twenty note cards with inscrutible code. Grandchild thought to crowd-source it to ask.metafilter and…

“Holy cow! 14 minutes to solve the back of the card that has been bugging my family for 20 years! That is amazing!”

And Gramma’s secret is amazing.

c/o Gizmodo c/o someone on Ace of Spades.

Anna Puma still here? GLAD YOU'RE ALIVE!

Couple of years ago, daughter calls and says the guy she was riding with had banged into a bridge, messed up his wheel, could I please come get her?

She failed to mention the reason he hit the bridge was everything was coated in ice!

LadyW and I decided, wtheck, a Midnight adventure. We were only about 1/2 mile from home when I watched the fenceposts zip forwards in the rear view mirror as we went backwards into the ditch, then slowly tumped over (it's a local term) on the side. She & I got out, walked the half-mile home on grass as ice-coated as the road, holding on to each other, baby steps.

When the tow truck guy dropped the van back at the farm, and it started right up, he couldn't resist saying, yup! Ford tough!

webworker got coke.com
Great score, buddy!!!
Or was it ewok.com???
-andycanuck

Heh. if only I'd been smart enough to register as many other short domains as I could think of back then!

Speaking of scoring, the big ol' pickup in front of me yesterday had the Okla. license plate LUVBEEF. Must be a neighbor - I've seen it before.

Uh, in case some Northeastern cityslicker doesn't get it, the plate was a score because beef comes from cattle (cows to you) of which Okla. grows a few....

How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username

That's disturbing.

I've had a domain for over a decade that's four letters dot com. Registered by phone (!) and I can still vividly recall the fellow, when I said xxxx.com, replying, incredulously, "that's all?" and complimenting my getting it. Even back then, when most folks hadn't run a browser, and thought "dot com" was a failed California business. I've since been told the domain could be valuable.

I had some mix-up where my ownership was threatened - the authorized email no longer existed, and some other thing. Pretty scary to look at my site one day and some generic page was displayed. Went through some hoops for days to regain control. Glad to know my domain provider was being careful, but for a while I wondered if I was going to get it back.

And that was just a cascade of error, not an attack.

For some reason, my mindfulwebworks.com domain isn't as lusted after.

jeannebodine, sad for you, but you had her for a long life, and that's an eternal treasure.

Just talked to my mom yesterday, but now I feel like calling her again. She'll turn 94 this year, and may outlive me....

"going paperless is not as messy or unhygienic as it may sound...."

Welllll....

In that Chrichton book about going back to the 15th Century or somewhen, he mentions that they used plentifully-available linen scraps to wipe with. That sounds even nicer than paper.

But they didn't try to recycle it!!!!!!!