Mary

God is the supreme, I answer to him. Trump supporter. Cat lover. No DM.

[Mary @AnnW4739]

@TenTimesRound Prayers sent

[Mary @AnnW4739]

@DavidWolfe Other physicians told me once muscle is fat it can’t be built back. I proved that wrong.

[Mary @AnnW4739]

@JamesHu27192912 Too much free stuff. People who repeatedly take start to expect it. Too many people take advantage instead of appreciating generosity. I worked for what I have and I take care of it.

[Mary @AnnW4739]

@WinningintheUSA Wonderful news. We literally need to clean house.

[Mary @AnnW4739]

@JamesHu27192912 Amen

[Mike Mazzei @MazzeiMike]

Thank you again, Oklahoma.

I’m deeply grateful for the trust you’ve placed in me, and I’m optimistic about what comes next.

As the Republican nominee for Governor, my immediate priorities are clear:

Deliver real tax relief
Raise literacy across Oklahoma
Protect Oklahoma land from hostile foreign ownership

I also want to set the record straight on two important issues.

First, our firefighters, police officers, state troopers and other public servants deserve certainty about their pensions. I have never supported, and will never support, replacing their defined benefit plans with a 401(k)-style system. I worked to help rescue Oklahoma’s pension systems before, and I will protect them as Governor.

Second, on the proposed aluminum plant, Oklahoma’s interests must come first.

That means a thorough EPA and Oklahoma DEQ review, independent third-party validation, continuous emissions monitoring, yearly testing of surrounding soil, hay, water and wildlife, and requiring technology capable of driving fluoride emissions down to .45 pounds per ton of aluminum produced.

Just as important, we are researching an insurance or bonding mechanism that would protect nearby property owners if the plant’s operations fail to meet the standards we require. If something goes wrong, Oklahoma families and landowners should not be left holding the bag.

We are also evaluating additional technologies, including approaches being used internationally, that could reduce emissions even further.

Economic growth and environmental responsibility are not mutually exclusive. We can create jobs, protect taxpayers, defend property owners and keep Oklahoma’s land, air and water safe.

Oklahoma’s next chapter can be our greatest yet. Now, it’s time to get to work.

[General Mike Flynn @GenFlynn]

This is absolute insanity.

This is something out of the 15th or 16th Century, not the 21st century.

Ukraine is a disaster and this must end. America must stop funding this stupid war. Fight for peace, there is a viable and ready to go peace deal—have to get Zelensky out of the equation. He is the problem and every one who is clear headed on this war knows it.

[Mary @AnnW4739]

@DavidZorkocy That’s precious

[Mary @AnnW4739]

@MinerBob00 Yes, thank you for the heads up

[Mary @AnnW4739]

@RealCraigSawyer Prayers sent

[The Royal Commentator USA @barristerlawusa]

I wanted to wait to tell you why I was so adverse to Gentner Drummond. He did a clerical rotation in my firm in the early 1990’s.

The man has no moral compass. If he can throw a client under the bus to get ahead, he does it. Even at the expense of his own client. To him that means the client was stupid.

He is a racist. He targets Blacks, Chinese, Jews and the disabled. I thought I had made a difference in his morales. Nope.

He is a bubba and one that should never hold public office again. He called the daughter of POTUS a kike.

I wanted to wait and let you know why I despise the man. I hope our next Governor MM orders a full audit of the OK AG’s office because I know where some of the corruption lies.

He was dealing AG cases to himself and billing for it.

@MazzeiMike

[Mary @AnnW4739]

@MazzeiMike Yes with a true Republican leader.

[Mary @AnnW4739]

@SkipperKnapp He could be a pillow lol

[Mary @AnnW4739]

@lanebrown_3 @JamesTaylorOK So sad for the children.

[Mary @AnnW4739]

@MinerBob00 I was amazed by how many people I spoke to didn’t know there was a run off. After I told them they said they hadn’t done any research to know who to vote for. We have to find a way to get the word out, people don’t watch the fake news anymore. Can we reach out to businesses?

[Mary @AnnW4739]

@Ryan_Parkerrr Cool

[Mary @AnnW4739]

@JamesHu27192912 Wow, I haven’t seen a persimmon since I was a kid. I remember how they taste though.

[Mary @AnnW4739]

@Bigdaddy123177 Prayers sent

[Okie_Rancher @Okie_Rancher]

I've received a lot of DMs asking about beef pricing and I'm putting the explanation here so I can reference the post in future responses:

Why rancher-finished beef costs $6 a pound hanging weight when you can buy cheaper elsewhere. (Hanging weight is 70-75% of take home weight, putting final cost between $10-$11 take home weight per lb.)

It's a fair question especially from those who haven't been around cattle or ranching. The answer comes down to what "finished" means and how the animal got there.

Finishing is the last stretch of a beef animal's life, the final four to six months, when it puts on the fat that gives beef its marbling, tenderness, and flavor. An unfinished animal is leaner, tougher, and blander. Some folks sell cattle that never went through a real finishing phase; less time and less feed, and you can taste it the first time you cook a steak. It takes like deer meat (to me anyway).

Our cattle finish on open pasture with free-choice feed available whenever they want it. They graze grass, supplement themselves at the feeder, and take the time they need. They have fresh water, shade, room to roam, and frolic. No growth hormone implants and no confinement or restricted movement. Our finishing steers on a cool morning will run, buck, and play right up to harvest weight. An animal finished this way typically takes 24 to 30 months from birth to harvest, and it lives well the whole way.

Grocery store beef comes out of feedlots where thousands of head stand in manure filled dirt pens, no grass, no shade, eating a formulated high-grain ration, with hormone implants boosting weight gain 10 to 20 percent. All is designed to get to slaughter weight faster and cheaper. A feedlot animal is often done at 14 to 18 months. They rarely move, and that's intentional. By the end, they can at most barely waddle from the feed bunk to the water tank. That kind of scale is exactly how the price gets driven down, and it comes at a cost the label doesn't show. Cheap beef requires crowding, confinement, and treating animals as production units, "Quality" is whatever survives the process. Then it all gets pooled. The beef in the grocery case is blended from countless animals, often including imported beef from overseas. Nobody can tell you what ranch it came from, because it is a mix of beef from across the globe. It's why one beef recall affects hundreds of thousands of people-- nobody knows what cow the diseased meat came from or what it was mixed with.

The $6 a pound at our place goes to raising the animal, meaning two-plus years of grass, hay, and feed for one animal rather than 14 months of commodity ration split across ten thousand head. It covers land, water, and vet care, with no implants doing part of the work for free. Processing runs another $1.05 a pound hanging weight, paid to a small family run processor that cares and hangs and ages your beef for two to three weeks instead of rushing it from kill floor to cryovac.

Nobody's getting rich at $6: we turn a modest profit only because we own the land. A rancher paying to lease or buy ground doesn't break even at $6 a pound hanging. That's the real cost of raising beef right at small scale, and it's why the price can't go lower without changing how the animal is raised. When you buy from a ranch, you're paying what the beef actually costs to produce, not what an industrial system can squeeze it down to.

Cheaper beef is cheaper because somebody cut corners. Around here, nobody does.

All life costs life and to believe otherwise disrespects that which sustains us. Our philosophy is to respect every animal that sustains us and our customers, giving each the best life possible. That is the real cost of doing business this way,

and it's worth it.