Oklahoma heat and the NBA

Posted on August 2, 2008

Well its over 100 in Oklahoma again. On the plus side, wer’re getting a basketball team. Maybe we should call it the Oklahoma heatwave!

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Twitter Updates for 2008-07-07

Posted on July 7, 2008

Happy birthday to me! #

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FBI + PJ = conviction

Posted on June 7, 2008

Dylan Thomas aka Jon Schillaci arrested on June 6th by the FBI in Mexico. PJ had worked with the FBI since January 2008 and with their information, he was arrested and sent back to New Hampshire to face charges from 1999.

Congratulations to PJ and the FBI Agent in Charge.

Twitter Updates for 2008-06-03

Posted on June 3, 2008

Watching the news and hearing that Barrack Hussein Obama will be the Democrat nominee. Rush is right again. #

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Wordpress Update to 2.5.1

Posted on May 20, 2008

I will be updating the site soon to 2.5.1 once a few more plugins that I use get updated to WP 2.5

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Twitter Updates for 2008-05-08

Posted on May 8, 2008

Oklahoma ranks 7th nationally in teen pregnancy. #

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Funding the future of Oklahoma

Posted on May 8, 2008

I’m a teacher and a Republican. I’m also fiscally conservative when it comes to the government waste that is very prevalent here in Oklahoma. But due to overspending in certain departments, certain people think it would be wise to use bond money that comes out of the same account for education expenses, to fund our education system. Yeah, read that sentence a second time. Certain Republicans think that by issuing a bond out of the same account that is used to pay for education via appropriations, to pay for education in the short term is a way to increase our funding for education.

Mind you that teachers in this state earn just over $35,000 per year starting. And they want to use this bond money to give educators their bonus this way. It’s not going to work.

If the bond has a weak return of investment, it will cost this state even more money to pay off that bond. Plus where are we going to get the money to pay for that bond? Take more money out of roads? How about schools?

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SB 2100 will hurt public schools and our kids

Posted on April 23, 2008

Recently the state of Oklahoma passed a bill that allows for school boards to vote on de-regulation of the district. The person that launched this bill is Jubar Shumate, a good friend of mine from my days at Housing at the University of Oklahoma. Jabar was our advisor and mentor to several of us in student leadership. Jabar stood up for students when he was at OU. Now as a state senator, he’s against students. The bill means that school districts that deregulate no longer have to follow the state mandates of required core classes. The district can force teachers to teach at schools, such as McClain High School in Tulsa, where acts of violence are common, and if the teacher declines, they can be fired. Teachers lose all due process even without the assistance of the teacher’s union. Teachers won’t be required to prepare students for college courses or technical schools. No chance for performance based pay increases. Is this what we want for our children? An education system that fails them from the start because the district deregulated and scared off all of the good teachers? Read more

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