My vote for the stupidest new law in Oklahoma (or anywhere else)

OKLAHOMA CITY -- A lawmaker's plan to redistribute municipal sales tax collections could cost the state's two largest cities a combined nearly $30 million.A bill by Rep. Steve Martin, R-Bartlesville, would take 1 percent of each city's municipal sales tax revenue to benefit smaller cities, many of which have lost independent businesses and stores.Generally, smaller cities would gain money while larger cities would lose money.Oklahoma City would lose $13.4 million in annual sales tax collections and Tulsa would lose $16.1 million a year.The bill narrowly passed the House Rules Committee, and House Majority Floor Leader Greg Piatt, R-Ardmore, won't say if the bill will be scheduled for a vote on the House floor.

Tulsa World: Lawmaker wants to redistribute OKC, Tulsa sales tax revenue


I realize that the little cities are getting hurt by the big ones drawing in their people to spend money at the big stores, but there has to be a better way. 

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The Mind that went into making this.....

Get the details about it at  the person who made it web site.

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Being Led By The Lord

Sermon notes from Grace Church Pastor Bob Yandian on how God leads us and how it is often not the same way twice.

'Where's the patient?' 'I am the patient,' Jeff Gordon says - Sprint Cup Series - Scenedaily.com

AVONDALE, Ariz. – While talking about his massive crash Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Jeff Gordon recalled a somewhat-humorous visit to a hospital after a big wreck at Pocono Raceway in 2006.
Gordon lost the brakes in his No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet heading into Turn 1 at Pocono and slammed the outside wall. He was fine, though he was sent to a New York hospital for a CAT scan.
“This part of the hospital, I don’t think many of their patients walk in,” Gordon said.
“I’m here for my CAT scan,” Gordon told hospital personnel.
“Well, where’s the patient?”
“Well, I am the patient.”
“They told us there was a car accident.”
“Yeah.”
“How fast were you traveling?”
“About 200 when the brakes went out. I think I hit about 150, 160 mph.”
“No, seriously. Where’s the patient?"

'Where's the patient?' 'I am the patient,' Jeff Gordon says - Sprint Cup Series - Scenedaily.com


Thanks Scenedaily, that is funny.  I can picture this almost like an Abbot and Costello 'Whose on First' routine.

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One In A Million - Bob Yandian

As I had a few (not many cause not many read this) complaints about heavy sermon notes, I have held off for a while. I still check why people come to the site and a lot of it has to do with people looking for stuff that they find in my sermon notes. So I have established a new blog for just my sermon notes and will post a link here when I type them up (which I never seem to have time for anymore).

This link is to a pair of age old questions. How does God hear all our prayers when we all pray at once? How do we know that God will hear and answer our prayers.

Why does this game scare me....?

And, though I do not drink, I can imagine a bunch of drunks trying to play it....

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Again, someone with too much time on their hands....

I wish I had the time to waste like this.  Instead I waste time finding stuff like this.  A hat tip to Country Keepers by Gary Peterson for pointing this out to me.

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So where does your city rank?

America's Most Sinful Cities

We have unveiled the American city that has fallen the farthest from grace in each of the seven deadly sins ( lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, wrath, envy and pride). For each sin we stretched our imagination to find a workable proxy--murder rates for wrath, per capita billionaires for avarice--then culled the available data sources to rank the cities. Some of the results were surprising: Salt Lake City as America's Vainest City. Some were not: Detroit as America's Most Murderous.

Lucky my nearest city is not on any of them...

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Another Nascar moment for you to enjoy

Who is on the front row on the Daytona 500

Congrats Mikey, I knew you had it in you.

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If you can not wait for Daytona to start

Number 9 of top 10 Daytona Races(ESPN):

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Mayors bet food on Super Bowl - Yahoo! News

BOSTON (Reuters) - When the New England Patriots and New York Giants face off in Sunday's Super Bowl American football championship, the mayors of their home towns will have an edible wager on the line.
Enormous amounts of food are at stake in the traditional bet this year, and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg have pledged to donate their winnings to homeless shelters and other charities.
A win by the Patriots, giving the team a record-setting 19-0 season, will bring Menino a hefty smorgasbord of New York delicacies, including pastrami sandwiches from the Carnegie Deli, pizzas from Staten Island and Caribbean-style beef patties from the Bronx.
If the underdog Giants win, Bloomberg will be sent a package including 42 pounds of Dunkin' Donuts coffee, 100 cups of clam chowder and 144 Boston cream pies

Mayors bet food on Super Bowl - Yahoo! News

What a nice thing to do.  It is great that while we are wolfing down all our food this Sunday, that some people who really need it will get some food.  I think that both of them should give it no matter who wins. 

Still I hope the Dunkin' Donuts etc. get the distribution

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Gee, I think someone wanted some national attention

ESPN - Senator wants to know why NFL destroyed Patriots spy tapes - NFL:

"WASHINGTON -- With the Super Bowl fast approaching, a senior Republican senator says he wants the NFL to explain why it destroyed evidence of the New England Patriots cheating scandal.

'I am very concerned about the underlying facts on the taping, the reasons for the judgment on the limited penalties and, most of all, on the inexplicable destruction of the tapes,' said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., in a Thursday letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell."

Mr. Specter, why are you releasing this information now. Why not a month from now or a month ago. Your timing make it look to me like you are trying to get your name in the news, not to look for the truth.

Facts are, others did it, Pats get caught and punished, end of story. Why are you making a big deal of it.

One of the most stupid ideas that I have ever seen.

Flo and Friends was funny today

At least I thought it was.




You can catch it at Flo and Friends

Someone needs anger management

FOXNews.com - Man Sets Radio Station on Fire Over Playlist Change - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News:

"Paul Webster Feinstein, 24, has been charged with second-degree felony arson for the Jan. 5 fire that caused $300,000 damage to the studios of 91.7 FM KOOP. He faces from two to 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine if convicted.

Feinstein told investigators that he was 'very unhappy' about the changes to his playlist, said Austin Fire Department Battalion Chief Greg Nye. The songs were intended for an Internet broadcast that occurs when the station is off the air."

The article says he acted normal most of the time. Guess people can hide a lot of stuff...

They said it was a media circus at the Superbowl

I really did not believe them though....

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So that you do not have enough to worry about.

` NEW YORK - For rabid fans of the New York Giants and New England Patriots, this Sunday's Super Bowl won't be just a game. It may be a health hazard. Heart attacks and other cardiac emergencies doubled in Munich, Germany, when that nation's soccer team played in World Cup matches, a new study reports. While history suggests European soccer fans can get a bit more worked up than the average American football fan, doctors think there are some valid warnings to be shared.

Super Bowl could be heart health hazard - Yahoo! News

You know, drinking too much water could kill you but we do not have health warnings on it.  Yes a person with a sedentary lifestyle could have a heart attack but so could I walking down a stairs.  Get over it people, When your time has come, it has come.  If you do not take care of yourself, expect a death when you least expect it.

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Can you say OOOOPPPPSSS!!!!!

FOXNews.com - Angry Employee Deletes All of Company's Data - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News:

"When Marie Lupe Cooley, 41, of Jacksonville, Fla., saw a help-wanted ad in the newspaper for a position that looked suspiciously like her current job — and with her boss's phone number listed — she assumed she was about to be fired.

So, police say, she went to the architectural office where she works late Sunday night and erased 7 years' worth of drawings and blueprints, estimated to be worth $2.5 million.

'She decided to mess up everything for everybody,' Jacksonville Sheriff's Office spokesman Ken Jefferson told reporters. 'She just sabotaged the entire business, thinking she was going to get axed.'

It didn't take Steven Hutchins, owner of the architectural firm that bears his name, much time to figure out who'd done it — Cooley was the only other person who had full access to the files.

Police arrested Cooley Monday evening and charged her with causing greater than $1,000 damage to computer files, a felony. She was bailed out the following afternoon."

Hutchins told one TV station he'd managed to recover all the files using an expensive data-recovery service.

As for the job, Cooley originally wasn't in danger of losing it. The ad was for Hutchins' wife's company.

The firm told FOXNews.com that Cooley no longer is employed there.

WOW. The last firm that I worked for we had a guy do that with a Intranet that we had for my fellow techs. We had backups of the data cause we suspected that when he knew he was on the way out he might try something like this.

This woman was not even going to loose her job, till she tried this stunt. Rule of thumb: always ask before you do any damage. The job you save may be your own.

Bill gets some shut-eye at MLK day event - BostonHerald.com

Bill gets some shut-eye at MLK day event - BostonHerald.com

According to the New York Post, Clinton took a snooze in the middle of a service to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Convent Avenue Baptist Church in Harlem on Sunday.The Post provided a snapshot of the presidential nod-off, in a picture that made its way onto the Internet - and was perched high atop the Drudge Report - showing Clinton napping as King’s son, Martin Luther King III, spoke, and during the remarks of lawyer William Wachtel.

I wonder how much he snoozed when he was in office.  Could be why we are in the trouble we are in.

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