The doctor gets paid even if the patient dies. The lawyer gets paid even if she loses the case. The Police Chief gets paid even if the murder rate increases. Shall I go on? What an ignorant post.
@Principal_Jon I think part of the problem is parents complaining. "1984" could bring up problematic issues, so they assign books that don't. Unfortunately that eliminates most of the classics.
Groceries up. Rent up. Utilities up. Insurance up. All of this makes my blood pressure go up.
While Oklahoma families are getting crushed, Congress is handing billionaires a tax break. I’m running to put working Oklahomans first.
First, the "Oh my Oklahoma unions have all this power" thing was squashed in 2001 when Oklahoma passed the Right to Work law; unlike other states, in Oklahoma no union can force anyone to do anything. Ever. School Districts can stop any bargaining session and impose their terms, it's statutory. Police, fire, and teachers can't strike... ever. That walk-out he brings up? It was AUTHORIZED BY ADMINISTRATORS AND SCHOOL BOARDS, nobody walked off the job without their bosses' permission. Pretending otherwise is just another Mazzei lie (like the electoral college lie, like the "oh I never opposed the smelter" lie, and the list grows daily).
The reason firefighters, police officers, and teachers join unions voluntarily is because no insurance company will defend them if they face wrongful termination because of a false accusation. Hell, try getting an Oklahoma insurance company to actually cover your roof let alone represent you in court. Cowardly administrators would rather fire an innocent teacher than fight a lying parent and it happens again and again. Cowardly police chiefs would throw their officers to the wolves if it weren't for union representation. These are all high risk jobs where people are exposed to false accusations daily; joining a union for $50-$60 a month gives them free legal representation when falsely accused because no police officer, firefighter or teacher can afford the $20k to $50k it takes to even start to fight a wrongful termination. If you talk appeals the bills can hit six figures in a hurry.
Mazzei wants to leave public servants defenseless against cowardly administrators, corrupt police chiefs, and fire marshals who don't back their people. Why? Because he's a big money venture capital guy, a connected good old boy who doesn't give a damn about working Oklahomans, their liabilities, their realities, or their futures.
Mazzei wants you to face a false accusation without any way to pay for an attorney, he doesn't care if you're wrongfully fired, he's happy to put a smelter smokestack in your backyard so long as he gets to smoke a cigar at Mar a lago, and, don't forget, he wants to give away your vote by handing over all of Oklahoma's electoral college votes to the national "popular vote" winner; which would've been Hillary.
He's already sold you out before the election, Oklahoma. What do you think he's going to do after?
Mazzei has paid in full for the governor's seat and Roger Stone has pulled the chair out for him and set the table... are you going to let him have that seat, Oklahoma?
Did you know that one of the greatest practical jokes ever pulled beyond Earth belongs to astronaut Owen Garriott.
In 1973, Garriott was part of the crew aboard Skylab, America’s first space station. The prank he played on Mission Control officer Robert Crippen earned a permanent place in astronaut humor.
Before the mission, Garriott brought a tape recorder into space. On it, his wife had recorded several short lines. One day, when Robert Crippen made radio contact with Skylab from Houston, Garriott was ready with the recording.
The exchange went something like this:
“Skylab, this is Houston. Please respond.”
A cheerful woman’s voice came over the line.
“Good morning, Houston. This is Skylab.”
After a brief pause, Mission Control asked carefully:
“Who is speaking?”
“Hi, Robert,” the voice replied. “This is Helen, Owen’s wife.”
For a few seconds, Crippen tried to process what he had just heard. Then he finally managed to ask:
“What are you doing up there?”
“I just thought I’d bring the boys something to eat,” the voice answered from orbit. “Everything is fresh.”
Mission Control fell silent for nearly a full minute.
Then the connection was cut.
Apparently, even a trained flight controller needed a moment to recover from that one.
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There is a special place in hell for people who claim protesters in places like New Jersey and Minnesota should be punished, while openly celebrating and justifying the January 6 riot.
Thankful to President Trump for showing me who Mike Mazzei is before the election. No one should change their stance for an endorsement! If he will flip now, he will continue to flip in the future.
This video was last night at the debate, then watch the flip the next day just in time to pull that endorsement! Lost my trust with this one!
All because Trump wants his buddies in the UAE (that have paid him hundreds of millions of dollars to, through crypto) to have their Smeltering Plant in Oklahoma with a BILLION dollars of subsidies that we Oklahomans will pay!
The largest dark money group zeros in on allowing OK tax dollars to pay tuition for private religious schools. As a reminder, Art.2 Sec. 5 of the OK Constitution explicitly prohibits the state from using public money or property to benefit any church, sect, or system of religion.
Where is the Greenland hospital ship? Did it get lost?
Where are the 101 empty oil tankers coming to America? Did they get lost?
Where are the DOGE bonus checks? Did they get lost?
Where is the rescued hero pilot? Did they get lost?
Where are the promised Epstein files? Did they get lost?