Okla Legislature 2nd Worse in Nation

[Red Arrow]

It was the wait on the phone that was 8 minutes.  He had my forms ready before I got to the door. 

8 minutes for a divorce.  Way to go.

[Townsend]

Filed Bill Would Defund Oklahoma Arts Council



http://kwgs.com/post/filed-bill-would-defund-oklahoma-arts-council

State lawmakers will consider a bill this session that would completely defund the Oklahoma Arts Council in four years.

The bill calls on the arts council to replace its state funding with private funding.

"If you've got XYZ arts organization over here requesting a grant or corporate support from a big company, then you would have the arts council also asking for that support," said Jennifer James, director of Oklahomans for the Arts, an advocacy group supporting the state arts council. "It would dilute the pot of money that's already out there."

The arts council currently gets $4 million from the state, which makes up 85 percent of its budget. If passed, House Bill 2850 would take away state appropriations for the council in 25 percent chunks of its current funding. By 2018, the state would no longer give money to the arts council.

James said that would endanger the entire state's arts culture.

"We are not in a position to be able to compete with states that are much older than we are and that have had philharmonics and symphonies and ballets and opera houses and festivals for three and 400 years," James said. "We are a young state, and we are a poor state."

A study commissioned by the arts council says the arts have a $315 million economic impact in Oklahoma. Most of the council's work is dedicated to giving grants and helping arts organizations find funding.

[Ed W]

So if this passes, you'd have to wait for three days to get a divorce. But if you want to shoot her, it's 8 minutes tops. That's sensible.

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[Conan71]

So if this passes, you'd have to wait for three days to get a divorce. But if you want to shoot her, it's 8 minutes tops. That's sensible.

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Pretty well sums it up, Ed.

[dbacksfan 2.0]

Filed Bill Would Defund Oklahoma Arts Council



http://kwgs.com/post/filed-bill-would-defund-oklahoma-arts-council

This one statement really sticks out........

"We are not in a position to be able to compete with states that are much older than we are and that have had philharmonics and symphonies and ballets and opera houses and festivals for three and 400 years," James said. "We are a young state, and we are a poor state."

How many United States were there between 1614 and 1714?

http://kwgs.com/post/filed-bill-would-defund-oklahoma-arts-council

[Conan71]

This one statement really sticks out........
How many United States were there between 1614 and 1714?

http://kwgs.com/post/filed-bill-would-defund-oklahoma-arts-council

The ignorance coming from the Ok Legislature takes your breath away...

[dbacksfan 2.0]

The ignorance coming from the Ok Legislature takes your breath away...

Must be that modern history class that I did not take, just like the modern math I skipped.

[Townsend]

This one statement really sticks out........
How many United States were there between 1614 and 1714?

http://kwgs.com/post/filed-bill-would-defund-oklahoma-arts-council

All I could find:

http://www.jamestownohiooperahouse.com/website__opera_house_history.pdf

The Playhouse in Williamsburg, Virginia, is commonly believed to be the first "opera house"
in America. Although date of construction is unknown, most scholars of opera and theater history
assign a date of 1722.

Now festivals?  I guess those could be dated to when the first fun folks got to the colonies.

[dbacksfan 2.0]

Oldest Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic 1842

http://nyphil.org/history/main/overview

Oldest Ballet Company, San Francisco 1933

http://www.sfballet.org/about/history

Oldest Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Choral-Symphony 1880

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_Symphony

[Townsend]

Oldest Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic 1842

http://nyphil.org/history/main/overview

Oldest Ballet Company, San Francisco 1933

http://www.sfballet.org/about/history

Oldest Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Choral-Symphony 1880

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_Symphony

Time travel

[dbacksfan 2.0]

Time travel

Yeah, I suppose. They got lost using "The Time Tunnel"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060036/?ref_=nv_sr_1

[heironymouspasparagus]

The ignorance coming from the Ok Legislature takes your breath away...

True.  But that was not a quote from one of them.  It was from the director of the Oklahomans for the Arts.   **Sigh**

No sense of history....

[Townsend]

I'm pretty sure there's some mental retardation going on here.

Abortion Bills Set for Hearing in House Committee

http://kwgs.com/post/abortion-bills-set-hearing-house-committee

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two bills to further restrict abortion in Oklahoma are scheduled for a hearing in a state House committee.

The House Public Health Committee is expected to consider both bills during its regular meeting on Tuesday.

One bill by Broken Arrow Republican Rep. Mike Ritze would require abortion providers to have clinical privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their practice. A second bill by Edmond Republican Rep. Randy Grau restricts the use of abortion inducing drugs.

Supporters of the bills say they're designed to protect the health of women who have an abortion in Oklahoma. Opponents argue the bills would make it more difficult for a woman to have an abortion.

What's budgeted to do this over and over?

[patric]

I'm pretty sure there's some mental retardation going on here.

Abortion Bills Set for Hearing in House Committee
What's budgeted to do this over and over?

When you are a career politician with fistfuls of tax dollars, you just drunkenly stagger between the "Abortion / War On Drugs / Repeal Obamacare" trifecta.

There's hope, though

[Conan71]

I'm pretty sure there's some mental retardation going on here.

Ritze does look a little special.