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  1. 1 hour ago, Pods said:

    Unless it involves an abortion, the GOP isn't going to give a shit and I think that should be pretty obvious to someone like Hannity. Broidy paying for an abortion doesn't even seem to have made an impact.  

    Hannity flipped his shit on his radio show yesterday. He was shitting his pants and acting like someone looking at real prison time. I don't think it's just a sex payoff. 

    If Trump performed an abortion and broadcast it on live TV the GOP would say no big deal.  BENGHAZI!! TED KENNEDY KILLED A LADY!!!  EMAIL!!!! 

  2. I don’t think anyone asked him if he was the fucking Messiah, but he sure ran around offering up that info on his own. Jesus contributed exactly zero to the knowledge base of mankind. Perhaps disproving the geocentric model of the solar system was a bit much for his illiterate, Bronze Age audience. Maybe he could have told them about the existence of North and South America. The existence of two continents with unimaginable natural resources only a boat ride away would have been incredible news to poor folks scratching out a living in Middle East desert. Nope. No time for that. 
    Bernard


    He could also have told them that the natives are easy to kill and that he’s totally cool with it despite that “love thy neighbor” stuff. Doesn’t apply to redskins. Instead we had to infer it 1500 years later. But we know it was right.
  3. Wife one is hot.
    Wife two looks a bad year away from full on meth head.

    Second seriously looks like a chick he “rescued” from the church’s meth recovery group, which he probably taught.
  4. 17 hours ago, Okie State said:
    18 hours ago, 'stache said:
    So many poor decisions over the last 30 years by hillbilly idiots who don't give a single shit about prosperity, just their narrow world view.  Thus, 30 years after the bust, and after the major O&G headquarters left for Houston, we are still primarily an O&G economy. 
    We actually have a port, the Port of Catoosa near Tulsa.  Basically a trench dredged roughly along the Arkansas River, connected to the Mississippi River and thereby the Gulf of Mexico.  It does well, but not necessarily a boom.  Underutilized due to poor leadership.
    Our natural beauty is vastly underrated.  We're no Colorado or California, but we're not solely a "plains" state like Kansas.  OKC is the flattest part of the state, so that's the majority image.  Some of the best features of Arkansas Ozarks exist in the eastern part of the state.  The western part of the state has southwest landscape features akin to West Texas and New Mexico.  Tulsa is surrounded by rolling hills, lakes, and plenty of natural beauty.  The most popular is Grand Lake.  It's utilized mostly by local O&G richers.  The rest of the lakes are for the poors and their pontoons and bud light.  Again, poor leadership under utilizing natural beauty.  The City of Tulsa is getting much better at this.  It's my only hope.
    Aviation still has a pretty big presence here, but American Airlines is the largest, and there's always the threat of consolidation in DFW.  Healthcare has been strong, but that's not really unique with all the olds everywhere supporting expanded healthcare economies.  Nothing really separates us.
    This place could be thriving, or at least be doing significantly better than it is, but the leadership are a bunch of yokels with no vision.  They only really care about gays, guns, and fucking up public schools in the name of jesus, or something like that.  It's infuriating.  I'm still here because the City of Tulsa has some leadership that is really trying to make improvements, but the state will always hold us back.  I've considered moving for a long time.  This teacher strike and inaction and insults from the state legislature have me very much with a foot out the door.  Where to?  I don't know.  But this is becoming intolerable.  

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    The education issue was a big sticking point with me knowing that I didn't want my kids to be any part of that mess. This really seems like a turning point for the state.

    Don't you live in a Houston suburb?  I just can't do that.  I live in a great part of Tulsa, near downtown and surrounded by upper, middle, and lower class neighborhoods.  School funding for me is not about quality of education.  My daughter goes to the local elementary school which has great teachers, and a very active pta and fundraising foundation.  I don't need the suburbs for quality.  My beef is the overall ridiculousness and unfairness of the entire system being underfunded because of Grover Norquist's fucking pledge from the goddamn 90s.  And the great teachers who we love are treated like royalty from the pta and foundation, but like absolute garbage from the state which provides the majority of the funding.

    As I mentioned, the biggest quandary I'm facing is, if not here, where?  I was raised partly in Corpus Christi and have no real desire to move back.  I was raised the other half in a Tulsa suburb, which partly accounts for my disdain for suburbs.  I went to graduate school in Dallas and loved it living in my area, near Northpark Mall.  I recently looked up housing there and JFC, the cost of regular houses is absurd and have tripled since I left.  I make good money and might can pull it off, but man what a beating.  Dallas, like Houston, is becoming dominated by the suburbs in affordablity, and that just does not appeal to me.  And for the price of the house, the Dallas schools don't exactly have a glowing reputation.  The quality here is the same or better despite the disparity in funding.  Dallas is still on my list of possibilities, mostly because I still have family there and familiarity with the area.  But while school funding is better, the state legislature in Texas does a lot of the same shit as Oklahoma on the cloak room side.

    I've considered a wholesale change.  I've worked a lot in D.C. in the last year and love that city.  But prices again are crazy, and I'm not sure I have a wholesale change like that in me.  The place I've strongly considered is Minneapolis.  It's top 5 in just about every good quality of life ranking, including schools, and I have at least a few friends up there.  The cold winters and distance from our families cuts against a wholesale change like that, but its still very high on my list.  

    I'm just really angry and depressed right now seeing how the state legislature is acting.  I really want to either burn the place down or say fuck it, I'm out.  It runs through my head every minute of every day, and I just can't decide what's best.  As long as there is uncertainty, the status quo wins.  So I'll probably stay here forever and just hope some sanity can make the state legislature in my lifetime.  I've considered running myself but my state representative is actually one of the handful doing the right thing so it wouldn't change anything, adding to my sense of helplessness.  I can't make the rural bumpkins and suburban snowflakes give a shit about schools and to stop messing with the gays and doing its other cloak room nonsense.  My vote is meaningless in federal elections too.  I'm just stuck, and it sucks.

  5. 2 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

    But in fairness, what is Oklahoma going to hitch its wagon to?  It's landlocked, and so it has no access to the economic benefits that a port brings.  It was never going to be a great banking or finance hub after Dallas was chosen to be the site for the regional Fed in 1913.  It doesn't have any natural beauty akin to Colorado or California that can be used to attract talented young people.  And yet, if you just dig down a few thousand feet, there's incredible wealth.

    What was their other choice?

    So many poor decisions over the last 30 years by hillbilly idiots who don't give a single shit about prosperity, just their narrow world view.  Thus, 30 years after the bust, and after the major O&G headquarters left for Houston, we are still primarily an O&G economy. 

    We actually have a port, the Port of Catoosa near Tulsa.  Basically a trench dredged roughly along the Arkansas River, connected to the Mississippi River and thereby the Gulf of Mexico.  It does well, but not necessarily a boom.  Underutilized due to poor leadership.

    Our natural beauty is vastly underrated.  We're no Colorado or California, but we're not solely a "plains" state like Kansas.  OKC is the flattest part of the state, so that's the majority image.  Some of the best features of Arkansas Ozarks exist in the eastern part of the state.  The western part of the state has southwest landscape features akin to West Texas and New Mexico.  Tulsa is surrounded by rolling hills, lakes, and plenty of natural beauty.  The most popular is Grand Lake.  It's utilized mostly by local O&G richers.  The rest of the lakes are for the poors and their pontoons and bud light.  Again, poor leadership under utilizing natural beauty.  The City of Tulsa is getting much better at this.  It's my only hope.

    Aviation still has a pretty big presence here, but American Airlines is the largest, and there's always the threat of consolidation in DFW.  Healthcare has been strong, but that's not really unique with all the olds everywhere supporting expanded healthcare economies.  Nothing really separates us.

    This place could be thriving, or at least be doing significantly better than it is, but the leadership are a bunch of yokels with no vision.  They only really care about gays, guns, and fucking up public schools in the name of jesus, or something like that.  It's infuriating.  I'm still here because the City of Tulsa has some leadership that is really trying to make improvements, but the state will always hold us back.  I've considered moving for a long time.  This teacher strike and inaction and insults from the state legislature have me very much with a foot out the door.  Where to?  I don't know.  But this is becoming intolerable.  

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  6. This is the sort of stuff that will actually hurt him in his electorate’s eyes: actig weak and impotent.  

    His entire fan base is weak and impotent. He won’t drop a bit in the polls.
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  7. I also was woken up twice this weekend by earthquakes. Nice to see all that fraking, while fucking up the earth and regularly shaking the whole state, was totally worthwhile. Harold Hamm and his fat ass cabal make a few extra hundreds of millions of dollars, and we got earthquakes and more school spending cuts. Fuck this state, fuck everything.

  8. I love the circular argument that we shouldn't raise school funding until they perform better.  They need better funding to perform better you fucking morons!  Have you seen the pictures circulating of textbooks falling apart in Oklahoma?  Some of them were published before 9-11 and have not updated it's effect on world history.  Let's also look at the explosion of "school choice" initiatives, themselves circular in reasoning.  "If you give more choice the schools will compete and improve."  Yeah, okay.  What happens is that the charters and magnets involve active parents (they have to go out of their way to apply and get in), and those kids already have a leg up.  The ones left at the "failing" neighborhood schools are a conglomerate of kids with parents who are less involved, a very difficult task for even the best of teachers (and don't give me "the parents should just try harder"; kids don't get to choose their parents and no amount of shaming will make lazy parents better).  If we had a better mix, the better students with the more involved parents could help lift up the other kids.  But no, we put the better situated students together, and the disadvantaged students together.  I think there is room for magnets and charters, mostly where they offer something very specific (arts, music, language immersion, etc.), but there are far too many, and they've become mostly the "good" schools while the other schools struggle.  A parent shouldn't want the magnet because the neighborhood school sucks.  They should all be good and the magnet should be for something more specific.     

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  9. 1 hour ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    Ah. I was imagining salt like in seawater. I would think that would raise problems in the filtration system. And make it hard to see underwater. So I guess it's just like a regular pool but with a little salt in it? Yeah, I can see how that's a thing. Especially when it comes to selling your pool. 

    I thought the same thing when I first heard the term (saltwater, like the ocean) then my in-laws converted and it's nothing like that.  It's a clean poll that feels a lot less "chemically" than most pools.  It's a significant upgrade.  Not sure how the science works, but the salt is minimal and the reduction in "chemically" feeling chlorine is noticeable.

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  10. My new toy. I named her Smokey Daniels. Clearly homemade a long time ago, thick metal, and crafted to last a lifetime. Found her on Facebook marketplace for $250 (though I paid an extra $50 renting a trailer and on gas to pick her up from about 90 miles away). Can’t wait to fire her up and smoke a brisket. Need some good wood (no homo) and a weekend with nothing else to do. My new prize possession. Sounds lame but this makes me incredibly happy!

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  11. 45 minutes ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

    So, instead of only screwing ok, he is now gets to screw the whole country....and if he's fired, ok may end up with him as their governor....what a country.

    The country's fucked regardless of who cheeto dick appoints.  Might as well rid my state of some scum.

  12. Not bourbon, but I found out yesterday that Balcones is available at my local stores.  They had Texas Single Malt, Baby Blue, Brimstone, and Rumble.  I'm a big fan of single malt and Brimstone, less so on the others.  It some ways, though, I feel like I've lost something special.  I like to share single malt with friends and feel like it's a secret that only I know about.  But the positive is I can drink it more often without worrying about how to obtain a refill.

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