Coffee Talk: The Session, The Internet, The Thunder

^2012 session of the Le3islature is done…with mixed results. Goverrnor Fallin’s key plan, an income tax reduction, didn’t happen. Republicans couldn’t agree on a plan in the final hours. Huh?

^The UN wants to regulate the Internet? Where did this nonsense come from? Red China?

^So a 16-year-old criminal ruins it for thousands and has the mayor and police chief running around like the sky is falling. The shooting after a Thunder game last week had Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett wringing his hands and saying Thunder Alley will just have to end. Police Chief Bil Citty, who always seems to bemoan things instead of taking action, did the same thing. And one of the best things about support of the Thunder is a thing of the past. That’s a pity. The Oklahoman’s Jenni Carlson nailed it in a column when she wrote we’ve lost something special.

^Village Idiot: MSNBC’s Chris Hayes said on his show Sunday that he feels “uncomfortable” calling fallen soldiers “heroes.” Hayes apologized for his  remarks later Monday. “Why do I feel so uncomfortable about the word ‘hero’?” Hayes said. “I feel  uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so  rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. Um, and, I don’t want to  obviously desecrate or disrespect memory of anyone that’s fallen, and obviously  there are individual circumstances in which there is genuine, tremendous  heroism, you know, hail of gunfire, rescuing fellow soldiers and things like  that. But it seems to me that we marshal this word in a way that is problematic.  But maybe I’m wrong about that.” Yes, you are wrong.


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  1. Steve Dickson, 30 May, 2012

    I would like to know what agency, board, commission or department has been eliminated. Not reduced, but E L I M I N A T E D. Is our takeover of state government to be for nothing? Weak – if you’re in the Legislature or you’re the Governor and you call this good work, you should find something else to do.

    Someone tell me why we are in the UN? Why do we allow that building to still exist in this country? Foreclose on it, and level it to the ground. Stop funding it, period. Any questions?

    Mr. Mayor and Police Chief – if you sacrifice Liberty for safety you get neither. Are you really going to let something like this stop people from supporting their team? Seriously? That’s pretty weak, as well. How bout you take some of the OKCPD off traffic patrol/revenue generation and put more of them downtown on the few nights there are games. Think “Protect and Serve”. For the record, I have never been to a Thunder game, I don’t like basketball at any level, I don’t believe in publicly funded stadiums for professional teams/billionaires and won’t benefit one way or another from this – but the message you people are sending is WRONG.

    MSNBC – people watch that?

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