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OK
COUNTY DESERVES BETTER The
Oklahoma County Clerk's office has been a
"joke" for a long time, but that hasn't
stopped Carolyn Caudill's fellow "friends"
at the county from circling the wagons to keep her in
place.
Sadly,
it's another example of how they'd rather have bad
government in Oklahoma County than good people who are
genuinely looking out for the taxpayers.
STAN
INMAN
is the pain-in-the-ass they fear at the
county. When he was County Commissioner,
he made them do things "by the law," stopped
them from spending bond money that the county had no
right to, and who demanded accountability from the
clerk's office.
The
last person the "good old boys" at the
county want in office is Stan Inman.
That
should be the one thing that tells you he's exactly
the RIGHT PERSON to replace Carolyn
Caudill.
This
is the woman who put taxpayers SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS
on the Internet, than blamed it on the taxpayers for
filing the documents in the first place.
This
is the woman who put whose response when questioned at
a public forum questioned why anyone had a problem
with the whole thing, while attacking Stan Inman with
comments about Stan who had a deputy that had been
divorced three times?
So
what.
I'm
really curious how this woman ever got elected in the
first place. I guess nobody was paying
attention that year.
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Does
Caudill Even Work??
(From
McCarville Report)
Stan
Inman Campaign: DA Forced Release Of Carolynn
Caudill Work Records
Republican
Stan Inman's campaign for Oklahoma County
Clerk said today it took the
intervention of District Attorney David Prater
to obtain records Inman claims show incumbent
Carolynn Caudill "has shown up for work
only slightly more than 30% of the time."
The
records, the Inman campaign said in a news
release, were obtained through an open records
request made by Friends of Stan Inman.
Two
requests were made on June 25th, 2008. One of
the requests was about payroll and employees,
and it was released within days. However, the
request for records pertaining to county
officials entry and exit from the security
system located in the Oklahoma County office
building were not responded to until the DA's
office and Sheriff's Office intervened on
Monday, the release said.
The
records, which only go back to January, 2008
show: There were a total of 107 working days
which comes to 856 hours of operation @ 40
hours per week or 160 hours per month; Caudill
"badged" in 57 of those days. There
was never one time that Caudill exceeded 20
hours in the office per week; She logged a
total of 58 hours in February, 44 hours in
March, 41 hours in April, 43 hours in May, and
32 hours in June. That equals 218 hours of
being in the office out of a total of 856
total hours of operation, the release claims.
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Is
Caudill sending these to employees?
If so, is this sort of "leaning" on
your employees to get them to "pay
up?" Seems a bit
"questionable" ethically to
me. No wait....it is
UNETHICAL.
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New
Group Formed to Highlight Caudill’s Social
Security Number Fiasco
A
group of citizens have formed a local PAC
to highlight the actions of Oklahoma
County Clerk Carolyn Caudill that resulted
in the release of millions of Social
Security numbers and other personal
information on the internet. “When the
Department of Defense lost a laptop that
had service members Social Security
Numbers, the military did press releases
and sent letters to every affected former
service member to let them know how they
could protect themselves from any
potential problems. All Caudill did was
blame the citizens for putting the
information on the forms,” said Porter
Davis, Chairman of OKPropertyOwners.org
PAC.
In
an interview on FOX-25 news Caudill said
that even though her property record forms
asked for Social Security Numbers,
citizens should have known that they
didn’t have to fill in the information,
even though there was no indication on the
form that providing the information was
voluntary. Further, there was no
indication that these records would ever
be digitized and placed on the internet.
“If
Caudill won’t accept responsibility for
her actions, then it is up to the voters
of Oklahoma County to bring her to
account. We formed this group to let as
many people know that their personal
information was put on the internet
without their consent, and without any
mandate, it was Carolyn Caudill’s
decision alone.
“We
are mad that she put our information on
the web, and furious that she tried to
cover it up by sending the data to a
foreign based company to redact the Social
Security Numbers. Once the data leaves the
country, there is no more legal protection
for our personal information,” Davis
said.
Porter
said the group was running radio ads to
highlight the danger to people’s credit
and to alert people to possible identify
theft, and doing follow up mailings. The
ads are independent expenditures and not
supported by any candidate.
“While
I like Stan Inman, this group was formed
because we believe that the citizens
should hold elected officials accountable
for their blunders and this was a big
one.”
“And
to make matters worse, we are now finding
out that she is only at work half the
time. Oklahoma County deserves better. And
it’s up to the Republican voters to make
sure we hold her accountable,” Davis
concluded.
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If
Obama's Plan Were Followed Barack
Obama is enjoying a popular jaunt through the Middle
East, but if America had heeded his judgment over the
last five years, the fawning stories that have
followed him this trip might be quite different.
Imagine:
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama
overflew the Iraqi cities of Baghdad and Najaf Monday,
where the mass graves for an estimated 240,000 victims
of sectarian violence killed since 2007 were visible
even from an altitude.
Sen.
Obama was on his way to meet with American soldiers
completing the US withdrawal from Iraq in Kuwaiti
ports. Miles away, Iranian and Saudi delegations were
meeting in an emergency summit in Kuwait City in an
effort to keep the Iraqi civil war from boiling over
into open regional conflict. Both sides have accused
the other of providing advanced weaponry and training,
while faulting American leaders for the bloody
collapse of the Iraqi state.
Fortunately,
of course, none of that happened.
Obama
was in Baghdad on Monday for one reason and one reason
only: President Bush wisely ignored the senator's
repeated calls to abandon the Iraqi people and instead
listened to advice to change commanders, strategy and
tactics in Iraq. The resulting counterinsur- gency
doctrine and a surge of American forces into Iraq
coincided with a popular Sunni revolt against the al
Qaeda-led insurgency known as the Awakening movement,
which was followed by the fracturing of the Shiite
Mahdi Army and other militant groups.
If
we'd listened to Obama in 2002, Saddam Hussein (or his
murderous son Qusay) would still be brutally
repressing hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shiites and
Kurds - and some of the world's most accomplished
terrorists (such as Abu Abbas, 1993 WTC bomber Abdul
Rahman Yasin and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi) would still
call Iraq home. I doubt Obama would be flying to
Baghdad.
If
we'd listened to him in 2005-2006, when things were at
their worst, then the nightmare scenario might well be
playing out: an open Iraqi civil war, verging on a
wider regional war, with Saudi Arabia and Iran backing
different sides in Iraq. I doubt Obama would be flying
to Baghdad.
So,
by all means let the journalists of The New York Times
paint his visit as an accomplishment of some sort.
Just
keep in mind that if we'd followed the novice
senator's judgment at any point during his career,
Iraq could've been too dangerous a place for his
flight to even consider touching down.
Bob
Owens blogs at Confederate Yankee, from which this is
adapted, and writes for Pajamas Media.
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Sally Kern packs heat. She
should. The enemies of the truth love to
threaten people. The same group had me carrying
a gun myself when threats were reported to me by
"insiders" in 1991.
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John Edwards is on the VP list for Obama...and yet a
story claiming he has a "Love Child" doesn't
get picked up by any of the mainstream
media. No bias there, huh?
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IT
HAPPENED ON THIS DAY
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On
this day in 1965, Bob Dylan rocks the world of folk
music when he performs at the Newport Folk Festival in
Rhode Island and abandons his acoustic guitar for an
electric one. By going electric, Dylan eventually
moved rock and folk music closer together. He also
infused rock and roll, known then for its mostly
lightweight lyrics, with a more intellectual, poetic
sensibility.
Dylan
was born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, in
Duluth, Minnesota. Growing up, Dylan, who taught
himself to play guitar, formed his own bands and was
influenced by such musicians as Elvis Presley and
Little Richard. As a student at the University of
Minnesota, he performed folk and country music at
cafes and began calling himself Bob Dylan after the
Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914-1953). In 1960, Dylan
dropped out of school and moved to New York City,
where he met his idol, folk musician Woody Guthrie
(1912-1967), and became involved in the Greenwich
Village coffeehouse folk scene and its social protest
music. His first album, featuring his distinct,
gravelly-voiced vocals, was released in 1962. Dylan's
next album, the following year, included "Blowin'
in the Wind" (which became a major hit for the
folk group Peter, Paul & Mary) and "A Hard
Rain's A-Gonna Fall," two of the best-known folk
songs of the era. With his third album, in 1964,
"The Times They Are A-Changin'," Dylan
established himself as the pre-eminent folk
singer-songwriter of his generation.
In
1965, Dylan released "Bringing It All Back
Home," a half-acoustic, half-electric recording
in which he was backed by a nine-piece band, a
departure from his previous pared-down performances.
That summer, he made his historic live performance
with an electric guitar at the folk festival in
Newport, where he played such songs as "Maggie's
Farm" and "Mr. Tambourine Man." Some
fans reportedly booed Dylan at the time, although it's
long been a topic of debate as to whether the crowd
was unhappy with Dylan or the poor sound system.
Regardless, after Newport, Dylan's popularity
continued to soar as his musical style continued to
evolve and he became known for his innovative, poetic
and sometimes cryptic lyrics.
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It
seems not everyone in Germany was ecstatic about
Barack Obama's speech in Berlin.
German
broadcasting station Deutsche Welle reports that
those attending were told to leave their placards
and posters at home.
The
move came under criticism, especially from the
German left, which speculated that the campaign
wanted to avoid images of Germans displaying
anti-American statements. Others say the ban was
aimed at preventing activists from making demands
on Obama.
And
the senator's visit will cost just over
three-quarters of a million dollars — half of
which will be paid for with German public funds.
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It
seems there will be no such hero's welcome in New
Zealand for Condoleezza Rice this weekend.
The
New Zealand Press Association is reporting that
Auckland University's student association is
offering a $5,000 reward to any student who can
make a successful citizen's arrest of the
secretary of state.
Association
president David Do says the arrest would be for
Rice's role in "overseeing the illegal
invasion and continued occupation" of Iraq.
He
adds, "It is hard enough living as a student
in Auckland these days without having a war
criminal coming to town, so we thought we'd give
our students a chance to make a dent in their
student loans and work for global justice at the
same time."
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A
sharp decline in the intensity of news coverage of
the Iraq war immediately followed General David
Petraeus' testimony before Congress last
September.
Cybercast
News reports that data from the Multi-National
Force-Iraq shows there were 219 embedded reporters
in Iraq when Petraeus told Congress that the surge
was working. That was also the month that the
surge reached full force.
The
number of embedded reporters has since dropped by
74 percent in nine months to just 58 in June.
The
largest single-month drop in embeds came in
October of 2007 right after the general's
testimony.
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The
Arab news network Al-Jazeera celebrated the
birthday of released Lebanese terrorist Samir
Kuntar with a cake and fireworks.
The
Middle East Media Research Institute reports that
Kuntar — who shot an Israeli child's father in
front of her and then beat her to death with his
rifle in 1979 — was given a hero's welcome on
the network.
One
interviewer said, "You deserve even more than
this. I think that 11,000 prisoners — if they
can see this program now — are celebrating your
birthday with you. Happy birthday."
Kuntar,
who was part of that Israel-Hezbollah prisoner
swap last week, was then presented with a cake and
a collage of photos, including one of him and
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. And as Kuntar
cut into his cake the network set off fireworks.
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Athletes
from Iraq have been banned from taking part at
this summer's Beijing Games, the International
Olympic Committee has announced.
The
team was already the subject of an interim ban
after the Iraqi government replaced the country's
Olympic committee with its own appointees.
Under
the IOC charter, all committees must be free of
political influence.
Iraq
had been planning to send a team of at least seven
athletes to the Olympics which start on 8 August.
Two
rowers, a weightlifter, a sprinter, a discus
thrower, a judoka and an archer were in the frame
for the trip to Beijing.
INTERPRETED:
We'd hate to have a FREE IRAQ represented at the
games for the world to see.
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Sen.
Barack Obama scrapped plans to visit wounded
members of the armed forces in Germany as part of
his overseas trip, a decision his spokesman said
was made because the Democratic presidential
candidate thought it would be inappropriate on a
campaign-funded journey.
The
spokesman, Robert Gibbs, said Thursday that Obama
made his decision out of respect for the
servicemen and women, but Sen. John McCain's
presidential campaign immediately criticized the
move.
"Barack
Obama is wrong. It is never inappropriate to visit
our men and women in the military," said
Brian Rogers, a spokesman for the Republican
contender.
Obama's
decision raised a number of questions because the
visit, which had been scheduled for Friday, never
appeared on the schedule of events distributed to
reporters who are accompanying him on his travels.
The
first word from the campaign about its existence
was Gibbs' statement.
Obama
had been planning to go to Landstuhl Regional
Medical Center in Germany before a flight to
Paris. Gibbs said the stop was canceled because
Obama decided "it would be inappropriate to
make a stop to visit troops at a U.S. military
facility as part of a trip funded by the
campaign."
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The
New York Times Co. will increase the
Monday-Saturday newsstand cost of its flagship
paper by 25 cents to $1.50, the publisher said
Wednesday.
Times
Chief Executive Janet Robinson said the price
increase for The New York Times will take effect
Aug. 18. The last increase came a year ago. The
company recently announced a 4.5 percent increase
in home delivery prices for the paper that takes
effect this month, the second bump in a year. The
increases helped overall circulation revenue rise
2.5 percent in the latest quarter.
The
increase will not affect the Sunday edition of the
Times, which sells for $4 at the newstand in the
New York metropolitan area and $5 in other parts
of the country.
The
move comes a week after The Wall Street Journal
said it would boost its newsstand price by 50
cents to $2 starting July 28 to reflect both new
content and higher costs.
Newspaper
publishers are battling sharp rises in newsprint
costs and deep declines in advertising revenue.
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Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is threatening to pay
thousands of state employees the federal minimum
wage of $6.55 an hour until lawmakers reach a deal
on California's overdue state budget.
Democrats
and Republicans have so far been unable to
compromise on a solution to the state's $15.2
billion budget deficit for the fiscal year that
started July 1. As the stalemate continued,
Schwarzenegger has ratcheted up his rhetoric.
Spokesman
Aaron McLear said the Republican governor is
contemplating signing an executive order next week
that would pay about 200,000 state workers the
federal minimum wage, which is $1.45 an hour less
than California's minimum wage.
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Hurricane
Dolly slammed ashore and then loitered over deep
south Texas as a tropical storm, dumping as much
as a foot of rain in places and ripping roofs off
buildings with 100 mph winds.
Emergency
managers waited for Dolly to move on late into the
night Wednesday and hoped to begin assessing the
storm's damage Thursday even as they began to
rescue people from flooded or damaged homes.
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A
family court judge in New Zealand has had enough
with parents giving their children bizarre names
here, and did something about it.
Just
ask Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii. He had her
renamed.
Judge
Rob Murfitt made the 9-year-old girl a ward of the
court so that her name could be changed, he said
in a ruling made public Thursday. The girl was
involved in a custody battle, he said.
The
new name was not made public to protect the girl's
privacy.
'Very
poor judgment'
"The court is profoundly concerned about the
very poor judgment which this child's parents have
shown in choosing this name," he wrote.
"It makes a fool of the child and sets her up
with a social disability and handicap,
unnecessarily."
The
girl had been so embarrassed at the name that she
had never told her closest friends what it was.
She told people to call her "K" instead,
the girl's lawyer, Colleen MacLeod, told the
court.
In
his ruling, Murfitt cited a list of the
unfortunate names.
Sex
Fruit?
Registration officials blocked some names,
including Fish and Chips, Yeah Detroit, Keenan Got
Lucy and Sex Fruit, he said. But others were
allowed, including Number 16 Bus Shelter "and
tragically, Violence," he said.
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The
head of a prominent cancer research institute
issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and
staff Wednesday: Limit cell phone use because of
the possible risk of cancer.
The
warning from Dr. Ronald B. Herberman, director of
the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, is
contrary to numerous studies that don't find a
link between increased tumors and cell phone use,
and a public lack of worry by the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration.
Another
researcher likened cell-phone use to "play[ing]
Russian roulette with your brain."
Herberman
is basing his alarm on early, unpublished data. He
says it takes too long to get answers from science
and he believes people should take action now —
especially when it comes to children.
"Really
at the heart of my concern is that we shouldn't
wait for a definitive study to come out, but err
on the side of being safe rather than sorry
later," Herberman said.
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The
Arctic may hold 90 billion barrels of oil, more
than all the known reserves of Nigeria, Kazakhstan
and Mexico combined, and enough to supply U.S.
demand for 12 years, the U.S. Geological Survey
said.
One-third
of the undiscovered oil is in Alaskan territory,
the agency found in a study
released today. By contrast, a geologic formation
beneath the North Pole claimed by Russian
scientists last year probably holds just 1.2
percent of the Arctic's crude, the U.S. report
showed.
Energy
producers such as Royal
Dutch Shell Plc and Chevron
Corp. have accelerated exploration of the
northernmost regions for untapped reserves amid
record prices and receding access to deposits in
more hospitable climates. Russia's move to scrap a
United Nations convention and carve out an
exclusive Arctic zone sparked protests from
Canada, the U.S., Norway and Denmark.
``Most
of the Arctic, especially offshore, is essentially
unexplored with respect to petroleum,'' Donald
Gautier, the project chief for the assessment,
said in the report. ``The extensive Arctic
continental shelves may constitute the
geographically largest unexplored prospective area
for petroleum remaining on Earth.''
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A
proposal that would place at least a one-year
moratorium on new fast-food restaurants in a broad
swath of neighborhoods, mostly in South Los
Angeles, won unanimous support from a Los Angeles
City Council committee Tuesday.
If approved by the full council and signed by the
mayor, the law would prevent fast-food chains from
opening new restaurants in a 32-square-mile area,
including West Adams, Baldwin Village and Leimert
Park. The moratorium would be in effect for one
year, with the possibility of two six-month
extensions.
The
measure, proposed by Councilwoman Jan Perry, whose
9th District includes much of South Los Angeles,
defines a fast-food restaurant as "any
establishment which dispenses food for consumption
on or off the premises, and which has the
following characteristics: a limited menu, items
prepared in advance or prepared or heated quickly,
no table orders and food served in disposable
wrapping or containers."
Restaurant lobbyists initially opposed the law.
But Andrew Casana, a lobbyist for the
Sacramento-based California Restaurant Assn., said
his group is working with Perry and other council
members and is waiting to see how they define fast
food and plan to deal with lots that remain vacant
after the law expires.
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