It's getting deep
As we wind up to the day of election the campaign ads are getting more negative. Jim Inhofe has a new one out that features a Bill Clinton lookalike that is pictured teaching a David Walters lookalike how to lie. It's pretty outrageous and childish - but it probably works with the nitwit portion of the audience. And Jim Inhofe is a devout Christian? Hey, I'm not surprised.
The cockfighters are beyond bad, they have begun to lie to the public with newspaper inserts that claim on the one hand that SQ 687 won't really ban cockfighting but on the otherhand it is somehow threatening hunting and fishing. Come on guys, you can't have it both ways. But of course, your strategy is to so confuse the public that they won't know what they are voting for or against. That's your only hope.
Tuesday, October 29, 2002
Cockfighter TV Ads
I just saw the first pro-cockfighting TV commercial! Of course the huckster in the ad doesn't even mention cockfighting - he says State Question 687 is really a ploy by "California radicals" to attack hunting, fishing and rodeos. Why are these miscreants lying like that? Because they have no case. The Oklahoma Gamefowl Breeders (cockfighters) strategy is to try to confuse the voters and hope the confusion will go their way in the election. Their strategy and tactics are an insult to Oklahomans. We aren't nearly as stupid as they treat us. Can we have a lottery on who gets to personally kick these idiots out of Oklahoma all the way to Louisiana?
I just saw the first pro-cockfighting TV commercial! Of course the huckster in the ad doesn't even mention cockfighting - he says State Question 687 is really a ploy by "California radicals" to attack hunting, fishing and rodeos. Why are these miscreants lying like that? Because they have no case. The Oklahoma Gamefowl Breeders (cockfighters) strategy is to try to confuse the voters and hope the confusion will go their way in the election. Their strategy and tactics are an insult to Oklahomans. We aren't nearly as stupid as they treat us. Can we have a lottery on who gets to personally kick these idiots out of Oklahoma all the way to Louisiana?
Vacuum Cleaner Huckster
Ouch! The Claremore Progress newspaper doesn't mince words when evaluating candidate Gary Richardson:
Independent Gary Richardson is straight out of the good ol’ boys club, exhibiting the salesmanship of a vacuum cleaner huckster. If he weren’t such a successful lawyer, he would probably be a tent revival preacher performing miracles and leading repentant sinners away from perdition.
When the election is over, Richardson will return to his lucrative law practice in Tulsa and will continue to pay tolls when driving the Turner Turnpike to Oklahoma City.
They go on to endorse Steve Largent.
Ouch! The Claremore Progress newspaper doesn't mince words when evaluating candidate Gary Richardson:
Independent Gary Richardson is straight out of the good ol’ boys club, exhibiting the salesmanship of a vacuum cleaner huckster. If he weren’t such a successful lawyer, he would probably be a tent revival preacher performing miracles and leading repentant sinners away from perdition.
When the election is over, Richardson will return to his lucrative law practice in Tulsa and will continue to pay tolls when driving the Turner Turnpike to Oklahoma City.
They go on to endorse Steve Largent.
Oklahoman Victim in Moscow
Very sadly, an Oklahoman was the American hostage killed in the Moscow theatre when Russian troops tried to rescue hostages held by Chechens. The family of Sandy Booker was notified this morning that his body was identified as one of the more than 100 killed in the siege. The Daily Oklahoman reports that Sandy Booker had gone to Moscow to see his Russian-Kazakh fiance and her child and was in the theatre when Chechen terrorists took it over and demanded that Russian troops leave the breakaway region of Chechnya. Wire reports indicate most of the hostages died from a powerful mysterious gas used during Saturday morning's raid of the theater. Russian troops have been criticized for using a gas that they refused to identify to doctors who needed to treat the hostages felled by the gas.
Mr. Booker worked for 18 years as an electrician at the General Motors Plant in Oklahoma City. The Daily Oklahoman reports that workers at the Oklahoma City plant continued Monday to wear red, white and blue ribbons in support of Sandy Booker and his family.
118 innocent hostages died in the tragedy. 50 of 54 terrorists were killed by the Russian troops. The Russian troops may or may not be found to have made serious errors in their attempt to end the hostage situation but the Chechen terrorists who organized and instigated the hostage taking are the ones who bear direct responsibility for the heinous crime against innocent people. If they were planning on world sympathy for their cause they failed miserably.
My heart goes out to the family of Sandy Booker and to all the others who lost loved ones in this senseless crime.
What's going on?
Yulia Latynina, a Russian journalist, has an interesting viewpoint on how the Moscow tragedy fits into a bigger picture:
President Vladimir Putin kept his word and wasted the terrorists. Not in the outhouse as promised, it's true, but in the orchestra pit. The West expressed its support. The reason for this support was the West's unexpected discovery that it is waging a third world war against Islamic extremism. In that war, just as in World War II, wild and rather uncivilized Russia turns out to be an ally. I have no intention of indiscriminately knocking Islam, but for some reason we haven't seen Shintoist terrorists. The snipers captured in Washington had accepted Islam, not Buddhism.
Very sadly, an Oklahoman was the American hostage killed in the Moscow theatre when Russian troops tried to rescue hostages held by Chechens. The family of Sandy Booker was notified this morning that his body was identified as one of the more than 100 killed in the siege. The Daily Oklahoman reports that Sandy Booker had gone to Moscow to see his Russian-Kazakh fiance and her child and was in the theatre when Chechen terrorists took it over and demanded that Russian troops leave the breakaway region of Chechnya. Wire reports indicate most of the hostages died from a powerful mysterious gas used during Saturday morning's raid of the theater. Russian troops have been criticized for using a gas that they refused to identify to doctors who needed to treat the hostages felled by the gas.
Mr. Booker worked for 18 years as an electrician at the General Motors Plant in Oklahoma City. The Daily Oklahoman reports that workers at the Oklahoma City plant continued Monday to wear red, white and blue ribbons in support of Sandy Booker and his family.
118 innocent hostages died in the tragedy. 50 of 54 terrorists were killed by the Russian troops. The Russian troops may or may not be found to have made serious errors in their attempt to end the hostage situation but the Chechen terrorists who organized and instigated the hostage taking are the ones who bear direct responsibility for the heinous crime against innocent people. If they were planning on world sympathy for their cause they failed miserably.
My heart goes out to the family of Sandy Booker and to all the others who lost loved ones in this senseless crime.
What's going on?
Yulia Latynina, a Russian journalist, has an interesting viewpoint on how the Moscow tragedy fits into a bigger picture:
President Vladimir Putin kept his word and wasted the terrorists. Not in the outhouse as promised, it's true, but in the orchestra pit. The West expressed its support. The reason for this support was the West's unexpected discovery that it is waging a third world war against Islamic extremism. In that war, just as in World War II, wild and rather uncivilized Russia turns out to be an ally. I have no intention of indiscriminately knocking Islam, but for some reason we haven't seen Shintoist terrorists. The snipers captured in Washington had accepted Islam, not Buddhism.
Monday, October 28, 2002
Sullivan Gets Personal, Dodd Upset
Candidate for Congress, Doug Dodd, held a press conference today to call on his opponent, John Sullivan, to stop criticizing Dodd's children. Later, on KRMG radio in Tulsa Dodd claimed that Sullivan had been telling donors in telephone calls critical things about the Dodd children. In an interview on KRMG later, John Sullivan stopped short of a complete denial of Dodd's allegations. Dodd also complained that Sullivan had misrepresented Dodd's stand on guns to a crowd in Wagoner County. Dodd claimed to be just a cozy with the NRA as is Sullivan and blasted Sullivan for telling voters that Dodd was anti-gun. It's a shame neither of these candidates stands up against the NRA but it's also a shame that candidates bring their opponents children into the mud-slinging. It's reprehensible.
John Sullivan's tactics during the Republican primary contest with Oklahoma First Lady Cathy Keating last year were reportedly so underhanded that many of the Keating supporters couldn't support Sullivan in the general election. Many of them were rooting for Dodd when he faced off against Sullivan the first time to fill Congressman Steve Largent's vacated seat.
Years ago, when Inhofe was running against Jim Jones for Congress I went to a fundraiser for Inhofe. During Inhofe's talk I remember him telling mean-spirited jokes about Jim Jones' wife. I was so shocked at his mean-spiritedness that I not only didn't support Inhofe anymore, I've never voted for him since. We should punish this kind of candidate rather than reward them.
Despite Dodd's support of the NRA I will be voting for Doug Dodd this time.
Candidate for Congress, Doug Dodd, held a press conference today to call on his opponent, John Sullivan, to stop criticizing Dodd's children. Later, on KRMG radio in Tulsa Dodd claimed that Sullivan had been telling donors in telephone calls critical things about the Dodd children. In an interview on KRMG later, John Sullivan stopped short of a complete denial of Dodd's allegations. Dodd also complained that Sullivan had misrepresented Dodd's stand on guns to a crowd in Wagoner County. Dodd claimed to be just a cozy with the NRA as is Sullivan and blasted Sullivan for telling voters that Dodd was anti-gun. It's a shame neither of these candidates stands up against the NRA but it's also a shame that candidates bring their opponents children into the mud-slinging. It's reprehensible.
John Sullivan's tactics during the Republican primary contest with Oklahoma First Lady Cathy Keating last year were reportedly so underhanded that many of the Keating supporters couldn't support Sullivan in the general election. Many of them were rooting for Dodd when he faced off against Sullivan the first time to fill Congressman Steve Largent's vacated seat.
Years ago, when Inhofe was running against Jim Jones for Congress I went to a fundraiser for Inhofe. During Inhofe's talk I remember him telling mean-spirited jokes about Jim Jones' wife. I was so shocked at his mean-spiritedness that I not only didn't support Inhofe anymore, I've never voted for him since. We should punish this kind of candidate rather than reward them.
Despite Dodd's support of the NRA I will be voting for Doug Dodd this time.
Sunday, October 27, 2002
Cockfighters State Their Case
A contact sent me a photo of a card some cockfighters left on his relative's car in an Owasso, Oklahoma parking lot this weekend. The anti-cockfighting group doesn't need to say anything. If they leave it up to the cockfighters to promote their "sport" the cockfighters will convince Oklahomans to not only ban their bloodsport but possibly go one step further and ban the cockfighters themselves.
A contact sent me a photo of a card some cockfighters left on his relative's car in an Owasso, Oklahoma parking lot this weekend. The anti-cockfighting group doesn't need to say anything. If they leave it up to the cockfighters to promote their "sport" the cockfighters will convince Oklahomans to not only ban their bloodsport but possibly go one step further and ban the cockfighters themselves.