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| billyweeds |
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marantzo wrote: I just got an email from Mitty. She is fine. Lost electricity up to 2 weeks ago. Still no phone service but no house damage. This is the first time she's been able to get to a computer. She misses the forums and our shenanigans.
What great news! |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:30 pm |
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Yes, very good news about Mitty.
Tell her we hope all is well and we wish to see her here again as soon as she can.
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:46 pm |
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| daffy |
| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:54 pm |
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| daffy |
| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:08 pm |
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via email:
Quote: Example of a tragedy:
President Bush was visiting a primary school and he dropped in on one of the classes. They were in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings. The teacher asked the President if he would like to lead the discussion on the word "tragedy". So the illustrious leader asked the class for an example of a "tragedy".
One little boy stood up and offered: "If my best friend, who lives on a farm, is playing in the field and a tractor runs over him and kills him, that would be a tragedy".
"No said Bush, “that would be an accident".
A little girl raised her hand: "if a school bus carrying 50 children drove over a cliff, killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy".
"I'm afraid not," explained the president. "That's what we would call a great loss."
The room went silent. No other children volunteered. Bush searched the room. "Isn't there someone here who can give me an example of a "tragedy"?
Finally at the back of the room a small boy raised his hand. In a quiet voice he said: "If Air Force One carrying you and Mrs. Bush was struck by a 'friendly fire' missile and blown to smithereens that would be a tragedy".
"Fantastic!" cried Bush. "That's right! And can you tell me why that would be a tragedy?"
"Well," says the boy, "It has to be a tragedy, because it certainly wouldn't be a great loss and it probably wouldn't be a fucking accident either." |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:59 pm |
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One of our unlovable representatives, Ernest Istook, is running for Governor. He's one of the representatives who keeps trying to find ways to get around the First Amendment prohibition on establishment of religion. Our Lieutenant Governor, Mary Fallin, is running for his seat.
Our current governor, Brad Henry, is a Democrat who won a narrow victory in a three-way race in which the Republican candidate was Steve Largent, a congressman and football hero. He also ran a lackluster campaign in which he gave nobody a reason to vote for him. Henry, on the other hand, has done a good job. Right before he took office, the state government announced it was facing a severe shortfall; he reversed it to a surplus within sixteen months, and even wants to give a tax rebate. There was a proposition a month ago to raise gasoline taxes by five cents a gallon which failed by something like 86-14%, but it appears not to have hurt him and I'm not sure how strongly he supported it. His approval rating is 70%--in Oklahoma. The Republican-controlled press tries to keep quiet about him in hopes he'll go away.
As for the congressional seat, Mary Fallin is one of the few Republicans I vote for. Among other things, she chaired the Aerospace States Association and was the keynote speaker at our space conference last year. She also was notably sensible during Bush-Gore while our governor Keating was making a jackass out of himself. Her chief Republican opponent, Corporation Commissioner Denise Bode, is someone else I've voted for on occasion, but I prefer Fallin. I don't get to vote on the matter.
If Henry wins, and either woman or a Democrat wins, I'll be quite happy. However, given that this is the state who sent Tom Coburn to the Senate, I don't underestimate the possibility we could have a double disaster. |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:06 pm |
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Syd wrote:
won a narrow victory in a three-way race in which the Republican candidate was Steve Largent, a congressman and football hero. He also ran a lackluster campaign in which he gave nobody a reason to vote for him.
And Largent never even bothered to vote until he decided to run for public office. He was an idiot. Our state is crawling with them. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:25 pm |
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| I had forgot that Largent ran in Oklahoma. What I do remember is hoping like hell that that clueless right winger didn't get in. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:26 pm |
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| To me he is Bush Jr. lite. Or maybe Bush Jr. is Steve Largent lite. |
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| censored-03 |
| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:34 pm |
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| Hurray for Mitty! |
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| judithannie |
| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:55 am |
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I am so happy to hear that Mitty is OK. I have been so concerned about her.
We just heard last Thursday that my uncle from Abbeville got out OK. He rode out the storm - Rita - but the next day called to say the water was rising very fast - he lives on the banks of the Vermillion River. We didn't hear anything for 4 days and finally he was able to call us and tell us he was OK and when he returned home the water had gone only up to his porch and his house was saved too. So much luckier than most.
It is so sad for me to hear the names of many litlle towns I remember from LA - Erath, Delcambres, Houma, Mamou - all devastated and some totally destroyed.
Now that I know that Mitty is OK and the last unknown for me has been resolved. I am so relieved. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:58 am |
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Now that Mitty is back from the dead we can start a forum on vampires and zombies! I'm reading The Historian, so it's only fitting.
Mitty: Glad to hear you're okay. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:23 am |
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| Where's Melody? |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 3:06 am |
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| She's been gone an awfully long time. I hope she still loves us. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:26 pm |
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