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Oklahoma home builders in 2010 hit the bare ground running (The Oklahoman) Gun fired at Oklahoma City Community College (KJRH-TV Tulsa) Pickens gives another $100M to Oklahoma State (KJRH-TV Tulsa) Resolved Question: Is foreclosure a good idea? if we let the house go we will be able to rent a nice house for a couple years and be able to buy things we have not been able to afford in the past and save money for our future ect. so just by what i have read we should be able to bounce back quickly and get a house in 5 years. (I understand that it wont fall off for 7 years) but we have termites and need the roof replaced and owe homeowner dues of 800$ so it just seems logical to take the hit. we tried a short sale with the only offer we had but our lending company wont let us do a short sale! NEED ADVICE PLEASE Resolved Question: Is this not beyond a joke? * SEVENTH PLACE * Kathleen Robertson of Austin , Start scratching! * SIXTH PLACE * Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles , California won $74,000 plus medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Truman apparently didn’t notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor’s hubcaps. Scratch some more… * FIFTH PLACE * Terrence Dickson, of Bristol , Pennsylvania , who was leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn’t re-enter the house because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to sit for eight, count ‘em, EIGHT days and survive on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner’s insurance company claiming undue mental Anguish. Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish. We should all have this kind of anguish. Keep scratching. There are more….. Double hand scratching after this one.. * FOURTH PLACE * Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas, garnered 4th Place in the Stella’s when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being bitten on the butt by his next door neighbor’s beagle - even though the beagle was on a chain in its owner’s fenced yard. Williams did not get as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet gun. Pick a new spot to scratch, you’re getting a bald spot.. * THIRD PLACE * Amber Carson of Lancaster , Pennsylvania because a jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument. What ever happened to people being responsible for their own actions? Only two more so ease up on the scratching…. *SECOND PLACE* Kara Walton, of Claymont , Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000 …. oh, yeah, plus dental expenses. Go figure. Ok. Here we go!! * FIRST PLACE * This year’s runaway First Place Stella Award winner was: Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City , Oklahoma , who purchased new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, from an OU football game, having driven on to the free-way, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver’s seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner’s manual that she couldn’t actually leave the driver’s seat while the cruise control was set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down? Are we, as a society, getting more stupid….. or are more members of Congress serving on juries these days? Resolved Question: This is no Joke just Facts? It’s time again for the annual ‘Stella Awards’! For those unfamiliar That’s right; these are awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S. You know, the kinds of cases that make you scratch your head. So keep your head scratcher handy. Here are the Stella’s for the past year: * SEVENTH PLACE* Kathleen Robertson of Austin , Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was Start scratching! * SIXTH PLACE * Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angele’s , California won $74,000 plus medical * FIFTH PLACE * Goes to Terrence Dickson, of Bristol , Pennsylvania , who was leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn’t re-enter the house, because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to sit for eight, count ‘em, EIGHT days, and survive on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner’s insurance company, claiming undue mental anguish. Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish. We should all have this kind of anguish. Keep scratching. There are more. Double hand scratching after this one.. * FOURTH PLACE * Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas, garnered 4th Place in the * THIRD PLACE * Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania wins, because a jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms .. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument. What ever happened to people being responsible for their own actions? Only two more, so ease up on the scratching…. *SECOND PLACE* Kara Walton, of Claymont , Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000….oh, yeah, plus dental expenses. Go figure. OK. Here we go!!!!! This year’s runaway First Place Stella Award winner was: Mrs.. Merv $1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home.
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Well, if that district existed… “A Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel review found a sanitation department in Douglas County, Wis., that admitted to a typo that resulted in an estimate of 100 jobs saved or created, when the actual number was five.” How do you commit that typo? “$90,000 per each job saved or created” Would it be cheaper to just pay them to stay home and watch Oprah? The jobs report was worse than expected. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch were forecasting a rise in the unemployment rate to 10%, with 150,000 lost payroll jobs. An upward revision to August and September payrolls cushioned some of the disappointment, however” http://www.marketwatch.com/story/unemployment-rate-hits-102-in-october-2009-11-06-83100 600,000 * 8 = 4,800000 Resolved Question: college appeal letter…your opinion please? To Whom It May Concern: This letter is to appeal the denial of my re-admission to The University of Texas at San Antonio. It has come to my attention that I was denied admission due to my low GPA at The University of Oklahoma Norman Campus. I would like the admissions department to reconsider their decision once they have reviewed the situation that resulted in the low GPA at the previous University. Voting Question: What do you think of states amending the “no child left behind” ? 6 States OK’d to Write Education Laws Outside ‘No Child’ FOXNews.com 0 It’s a softening from how No Child Left Behind currently works — with schools having to take certain steps at specific times for missing math and reading testing goals. Critics have complained that the approach is too rigid and treats schools the same regardless of whether they miss the mark by a little or a lot. The states getting more freedom under a pilot program are Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Maryland and Ohio. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings made the announcement during a speech Tuesday in Austin, Texas. The states that won approval have come up with plans to more closely tailor solutions to individual schools’ problems and focus resources on schools in the worst shape. “We expect to see a closer fit between the causes of school underperformance and a focused attention at repairing those sources of failure,” said Margaret Raymond, director of an education think tank at Stanford University and the chair of a panel that reviewed the state proposals. Examples of changes the states plan to make include requiring schools to offer tutoring earlier than is currently called for and a greater reliance, in Indiana for example, on testing throughout the year to catch academic weak spots. In Florida, schools with low-performing students will likely be assigned teachers who have experience teaching similar students successfully. Maryland is placing more emphasis on training principals. It’s common under the law for failing schools to replace their principals. “We think principal leadership is key. It’s not just changing a principal, it’s ensuring principals have the necessary skill sets,” said Maryland schools superintendent Nancy Grasmick. In Georgia, the state is spelling out that schools can become charter schools, which are public but operate with broad independence, earlier than is currently called for, said the state’s superintendent of schools, Kathy Cox. Some critics worry the changes, specifically the focus on the worst-performing schools, will take the pressure off schools that are generally doing well but having trouble with one group of students — such as a minority group or kids with disabilities. “I don’t think it’s taking the pressure off. I think it’s allowing focus,” Cox said. Spellings has said up to 10 states will be allowed to try to participate in the pilot program. The Education Department plans to review additional state proposals this fall. The six states that won approval were among 17 that sought it. The states that didn’t win approval were Alaska, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Spellings said in an interview that the efforts by the states that won approval to try new approaches will be closely watched and will shape any future rewrite of the six-year-old No Child law. “We’re trying to set the table for a strong and sensible reauthorization,” Spellings said. “We’re going to learn some things.”
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 Emilie Autumn North American | Hula Hoop Stuck in the Sticks: Big Big News!!! 74330 | Hornshoes21.h1x.com From Google Blog Search Historic Midtown Tulsa Homes Values Are On the Rise Least Risky Markets to Invest in Real Estate Hallmark Homebuyers, the “We Buy Houses In Oklahoma City” company starts a new Television campaign You may have seen the commercials on the local Fox Morning Show or on the 53 news now banner on cox cable. The commercials From GoArticles.com Some Oklahoma cities saw gain in 2009 home prices (The Oklahoman) Across the USA News from every state (USA Today) DHS boys finish 10 at state (The Duncan Banner) Resolved Question: Am I at risk of being terminated for an off-duty altercation with an on-duty manager? Here’s the conflict: I entered the store once again to my manager stating that I was causing chaos and distracting my girlfriend from working. However, I disagree because I hadn’t even spoken to her but a few times that evening. This manager refused to close the store even though a state of emergency had been declared, the highways were shut down, and darkness was approaching. As this manager angrily demanded I leave, I stated I was only trying to help, but he continued to say I was nothing but a distraction. I was instantly angered at this notion and presumed to tell him that he lacked the fortitude and ineptness to make a moral decision to send these remaining employees home. He then presumed to threaten to call the cops if I didn’t not immediately vacate premises. I then began to leave, and as I left I said, “You’re a piece of shit, and you have no respect for your employees.” I then left the building, and I did not return. I did work today, however, this manager was not scheduled. I spoke casually to the store manager, ops manager, and sales manager without mention to this altercation. I just thought I would let it go. However, an employee was told I was “probably going to be fired” for the altercation. Now my question is this… Would it be wrongful termination if I am let go? There are multiple witnesses, and many of these people were individuals I was helping. This manager and I have gotten along for the most part up until this time, but he does have temper problems. I agree I was wrong to argue, but I was there on my own time ONLY to be of help to my friends and co-workers. In my opinion, this guy should have let these employees go. He put their lives in danger by keeping them, (I’m not saying it was his call alone, I honestly am unsure of this decision) and my intentions were good. Resolved Question: I need help findng something.. Please it’s REALLY important to me and my sister Amber…? Resolved Question: Crazy Laws of the world…..? In Salt Lake County, Utah, it’s illegal to walk down the street carrying a violin in a paper bag. In San Francisco, it’s illegal to pile horse manure more than six feet high on a street corner. In Devon, Texas, it is against the law to make furniture while you are nude. In California it is illegal for a vehicle without a driver to exceed 60 miles per hour. In Florida men seen publicly in any kind of strapless gown can be fined. In South Carolina it is legal to beat your wife on the courthouse steps on Sundays. In New York, the penalty for jumping off a building is: Death. ( Go figure…) In Danville, Pennsylvania, all fire hydrants must be checked one hour before all fires. In Pennsylvania, it’s against the law to tie a dollar bill on a string on the ground and pull it away when someone tries to pick it up. In New York City, it’s illegal for a restaurant to call a sandwich a “corned beef sandwich” if it’s made with white bread and mayonnaise. In California it is illegal to set a mousetrap without a hunting license. In France, it is against the law to sell an “E.T” doll. They have a law forbidding the sale of dolls that do not have human faces. In Athens, Greece, a driver’s license can be taken away if the driver is thought to be either “poorly dressed” or “un-bathed” In Wilbur, Washington, it is illegal to ride an ugly horse. In Louisiana, biting someone with your natural teeth is considered “simple assault,” but biting someone with your dentures is “aggravated assault.” In the state of Washington, it is illegal to have sex with a virgin under any circumstances. (Including the wedding night.) In Switzerland, it is illegal for a man to relieve himself while standing up after 10pm In Florida, it is illegal to fart in a public place after 6 P.M. on Thursdays. In Massachusetts, it is illegal to go to bed without first having a bath. (However, another law prohibits bathing on Sunday) In Samoa, it’s a crime to forget your own wife’s birthday… Does anyone know anymore?
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 76% Think It's a Good Time to Buy | Flat Fee MLS, For Sale By … Culinary Arts & Techniques: Semi-Homemade Money-Saving Slow … Front-End Web Designer (www.limewire.com)… (Design Jobs On The … From Google Blog Search The Great Recession and How Did We Got Here? According to Me! home insurance Q&A Do You Qualify for a USDA Home Loan Tulsa OK From GoArticles.com Some Oklahoma cities saw gain in 2009 home prices (The Oklahoman) Across the USA News from every state (USA Today) Waste Management awaits word from FEMA (The Duncan Banner) Resolved Question: Am I at risk of being terminated for an off-duty altercation with an on-duty manager? Here’s the conflict: I entered the store once again to my manager stating that I was causing chaos and distracting my girlfriend from working. However, I disagree because I hadn’t even spoken to her but a few times that evening. This manager refused to close the store even though a state of emergency had been declared, the highways were shut down, and darkness was approaching. As this manager angrily demanded I leave, I stated I was only trying to help, but he continued to say I was nothing but a distraction. I was instantly angered at this notion and presumed to tell him that he lacked the fortitude and ineptness to make a moral decision to send these remaining employees home. He then presumed to threaten to call the cops if I didn’t not immediately vacate premises. I then began to leave, and as I left I said, “You’re a piece of shit, and you have no respect for your employees.” I then left the building, and I did not return. I did work today, however, this manager was not scheduled. I spoke casually to the store manager, ops manager, and sales manager without mention to this altercation. I just thought I would let it go. However, an employee was told I was “probably going to be fired” for the altercation. Now my question is this… Would it be wrongful termination if I am let go? There are multiple witnesses, and many of these people were individuals I was helping. This manager and I have gotten along for the most part up until this time, but he does have temper problems. I agree I was wrong to argue, but I was there on my own time ONLY to be of help to my friends and co-workers. In my opinion, this guy should have let these employees go. He put their lives in danger by keeping them, (I’m not saying it was his call alone, I honestly am unsure of this decision) and my intentions were good. Resolved Question: Is foreclosure a good idea? if we let the house go we will be able to rent a nice house for a couple years and be able to buy things we have not been able to afford in the past and save money for our future ect. so just by what i have read we should be able to bounce back quickly and get a house in 5 years. (I understand that it wont fall off for 7 years) but we have termites and need the roof replaced and owe homeowner dues of 800$ so it just seems logical to take the hit. we tried a short sale with the only offer we had but our lending company wont let us do a short sale! NEED ADVICE PLEASE Resolved Question: If illegal aliens are not receiving welfare, why ask for reform? Monday, July 13, 2009 11:53 AM By: Dave Eberhart Activists in California are pushing for a ballot initiative that would end public benefits for illegal immigrants and terminate welfare payments for their children, according to a report in The Los Angeles Times. Organizers have kicked-off a drive to gather the 488,000 voter signatures required to qualify the measure for the June 2010 election. It has been a slow start, however, with only $350,000 in the war chest. Typically, statewide initiatives consume about $4 million at the signature-collecting phase. Supporters of the initiative further want to challenge the citizenship of children born in the United States to parents who are here illegally, San Diego political activist Ted Hilton told the Times. Hilton argued that the 14th Amendment states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside.” Since illegal residents are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States, their offspring should not be citizens, he maintained. Hilton pointed to estimates that California’s 2.7 million illegal residents account for $4 billion to $6 billion (mostly schools, prison space, and emergency healthcare) of the state’s $105-billion budget. “Are we going to continue asking taxpayers to pay for these services when the state is completely out of money?” he asked. The measure would end state welfare to an estimated 48,000 households and 100,000 children — aid that now costs the state $640 million a year. Hilton has been beating the drum against illegal immigration for two decades. With regard to the new initiative, his organization, Taxpayer Revolution, has gotten the seal of approval from Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, the American Legion California chapter, NumbersUSA, Save Our State, and the California Coalition for Immigration Reform. The California initiative follows similar measures in Oklahoma, Colorado Virginia, Arizona and Georgia, according to the Times report. Meanwhile, proponents for the rights of illegal immigrants argue that illegal residents pay taxes — sales taxes on what they buy, gasoline taxes when they fuel their cars, property taxes if they own homes. The Social Security Administration estimates that in 2007, illegal residents nationwide contributed a net of 12 billion dollars to the system. Peter Schey, a Los Angeles attorney who successfully challenged Proposition 187, a similar measure, said courts would most likely sink the initiative. “This proposal . . . has no chance of surviving a constitutional challenge,” he told the Times. “It is plainly driven by racism and a desire to whip up xenophobia during difficult economic times for U.S. citizens.” Proposition 187 was halted in its tracks when a federal judge ruled that the measure unconstitutionally usurped federal jurisdiction over immigration. Mike Hethmon, an attorney with the Washington-based Immigration Reform Law Institute, told the Times that the latest measure passes muster under federal authority delegated to the states to restrict access to benefits and verify applicants’ eligibility. Unlike Proposition 187, the new measure does not attempt to curtail access to education – keeping it square with the 1982 Supreme Court ruling that states could not bar illegal immigrant children from schools. Some features of the initiative: Would cut off CalWorks payments to the children of citizens or legal residents who fail to meet eligibility requirements for state aid because they are unwilling to work, addicted to drugs or absent. Would require that applicants for birth certificates verify their legal status. Would require that those applicant for birth certificate unable to verify their legal status produce official identification from a foreign government, a record of any publicly funded costs for delivering the child, and other information before receiving their child’s birth certificate, which would be marked with the notation “foreign parent.” http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/california_welfare_end/2009/07/13/234879.html
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Money, alert system tops city council agenda (The Duncan Banner) Some Oklahoma cities saw gain in 2009 home prices (The Oklahoman) City Calendar (The Ponca City News) Resolved Question: 10-pts too winner of this ques: On America Oh! the beautiful! ? I ATTEMPTED TOO ANSWER MY OWN QUESTION AND I SEE NO BEAUTY? JUST REPLY, WITH SOME SAMENESS, FOR OR AGAINST A BEST ARGUEMENT, THAT WILL SINCERELY, AND GOODBYE Voting Question: I’m road tripping and would love some advice on what to do in the places I’m going.. :)? Resolved Question: Is there a white Christian terrorist conspiracy?
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