Turner: BOK to punish North Tulsans tax stand

[brunoflipper]

quote:Originally posted by Friendly Bear

quote:Originally posted by brunoflipper

quote:Originally posted by Friendly Bear

quote:Originally posted by brunoflipper

quote:Originally posted by Friendly Bear

quote:Originally posted by brunoflipper

quote:Originally posted by Friendly Bear

quote:Originally posted by rwarn17588

F.B., take your rantings and anti-Semitic slurs to the Voice of Tulsa. You'll fit in better there with other dozen or so bigots, misanthropes and nutcases.

Lighten up.  

In the best tradition of comedians Myron V. Cohen, Don Rickles, Henny Youngman, Alan King, Jerry Lewis, Joey Bishop, and a host of other Jewish comedians who have made careers out of making fun of their religion, their wives, the Catskills, etc., it was only a joke.

Unfortunately my Wink "Smilie" []was deleted by the heavy hand of the Forum Gestapo when he/she edited my comment as Unnecessary.

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bigot

Am not.

bigot

Am NOT.

i'm giving a talk at Tulsa School for Science & Technology tody, got any funny black "jokes" that i can use to break the ice??

the worst kind of racist are the ones who won't own up to it..

bigot...

By the way, there is actually NO EVIDENCE of any untoward remarks emanating from hereabouts.

The Forum Gestapo happily dropped my earlier jocular comments down the George Orwell ThoughtCrime Memory Hole, labeling simply as Unncessary.

Not bigoted.  Not profane.  Not racist.

Unnecessary.

No evidence at all....

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wink? cute.
bigot.

[Friendly Bear]

quote:Originally posted by cannon_fodder

Its not blocked.  The page has simply been removed from the server.  The vote is over and the registrant doesn't want to pay for bandwidth so they have removed the page.  You can still view a cached version here:
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:bLheGrcqicoJ:www.ourriveryes.com/+OurRiverYes.com&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

Not everything is a conspiracy.  "The man" hasn't blocked anything.  Learn something about the internets before you post ridiculous accusations of blocking websites.  When you delete a directory on a web server and restrict access to public folders (which everyone with a web server had better do) the directory listing comes back as forbidden.  Instead of a DNS 404 error, you get a forbidden error until the DNS listing  expires.

Actually, your Cache link doesn't work.  Nor does pasting it to a URL Address.  

Still comes back Forbidden.

And, I posted my aside as a Question.............not some Grand Tulsa Oligarch Families - MetroChamberPots Conspiracy Theory.  

I presume they simply killed access because they want us to "just move along"......

You think that the OurRiverYes organization actually still WANTS any record of their failed Sales Tax Initiative?

A re-packaged River Tax - Part Deux will likely come out in the next year or so.

The Tax Vampires are always HUNGRY............

[cannon_fodder]

Wow, it really doesnt like me to post that link in here...

past the entire thing in the URL:

72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:bLheGrcqicoJ:www.ourriveryes.com/+ourriveryes.com&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

[guido911]

quote:Originally posted by Friendly Bear

quote:Originally posted by cannon_fodder

Its not blocked.  The page has simply been removed from the server.  The vote is over and the registrant doesn't want to pay for bandwidth so they have removed the page.  You can still view a cached version here:
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:bLheGrcqicoJ:www.ourriveryes.com/+OurRiverYes.com&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

Not everything is a conspiracy.  "The man" hasn't blocked anything.  Learn something about the internets before you post ridiculous accusations of blocking websites.  When you delete a directory on a web server and restrict access to public folders (which everyone with a web server had better do) the directory listing comes back as forbidden.  Instead of a DNS 404 error, you get a forbidden error until the DNS listing  expires.

Actually, your Cache link doesn't work.  Nor does pasting it to a URL Address.  

Still comes back Forbidden.

And, I posted my aside as a Question.............not some Grand Tulsa Oligarch Families - MetroChamberPots Conspiracy Theory.  

I presume they simply killed access because they want us to "just move along"......

You think that the OurRiverYes organization actually still WANTS any record of their failed Sales Tax Initiative?

A re-packaged River Tax - Part Deux will likely come out in the next year or so.

The Tax Vampires are always HUNGRY............

Are you still talking?

[Friendly Bear]

quote:Originally posted by guido911

quote:Originally posted by Friendly Bear

quote:Originally posted by cannon_fodder

Its not blocked.  The page has simply been removed from the server.  The vote is over and the registrant doesn't want to pay for bandwidth so they have removed the page.  You can still view a cached version here:
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:bLheGrcqicoJ:www.ourriveryes.com/+OurRiverYes.com&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

Not everything is a conspiracy.  "The man" hasn't blocked anything.  Learn something about the internets before you post ridiculous accusations of blocking websites.  When you delete a directory on a web server and restrict access to public folders (which everyone with a web server had better do) the directory listing comes back as forbidden.  Instead of a DNS 404 error, you get a forbidden error until the DNS listing  expires.

Actually, your Cache link doesn't work.  Nor does pasting it to a URL Address.  

Still comes back Forbidden.

And, I posted my aside as a Question.............not some Grand Tulsa Oligarch Families - MetroChamberPots Conspiracy Theory.  

I presume they simply killed access because they want us to "just move along"......

You think that the OurRiverYes organization actually still WANTS any record of their failed Sales Tax Initiative?

A re-packaged River Tax - Part Deux will likely come out in the next year or so.

The Tax Vampires are always HUNGRY............

Are you still talking?

Yes, apparently so.

My Forum Execution has evidently been postponed, not commuted or pardoned, but I'm praying for a reprieve...........

I throw myself on the tender mercies of the Forum GeheimeStaatsPolizei:

Don't Taze me, Bro!

And, I solemnly promise to never hijack another Forum Thread, or as BrunoFlipper so delicately intoned, ThreadCrapping.

Promise.

[8D]

[rwarn17588]

I don't believe your promises, F.B.

You can't control yourself from spouting half-baked conspiracy theories, unfunny slurs and tedious rants.

Frankly, whatever nuggets of good information or discussion you bring to the TulsaNow table is overwhelmed by gigantic piles of trash.

That's the sad and honest truth.

I'd say let the execution commence.

[Friendly Bear]

quote:Originally posted by rwarn17588

I don't believe your promises, F.B.

You can't control yourself from spouting half-baked conspiracy theories, unfunny slurs and tedious rants.

Frankly, whatever nuggets of good information or discussion you bring to the TulsaNow table is overwhelmed by gigantic piles of trash.

That's the sad and honest truth.

I'd say let the execution commence.

The Tulsa Now Forum Execution Protocol:

1.  Ready.

2.  FIRE.

3.  Aim?

[?]

[USRufnex]

quote:Originally posted by guido911

Am I hearing this correctly. Is someone actually complaining about a $117 Million charitable gift because such was conditional that the other needed 200 plus million dollars
come from the public.

If I am the Kaisers or any other family with similar megawealth who donate money to make Tulsa a better place to live, I tell that ingrate as well as any other complainer that you can count on not receiving another nickel.

Oh, unless those ingrates are in the habit of making multi-multi million dollar philonthrapic donations, do not even try to compare what you donate into the argument.

Jeez, why can't the vote "No" people on this page be gracious winners.

Wow.  Can someone please give me a towel because my head just exploded... I find myself in complete agreement with Guido-doh-doh...

All the comedians FB refers to were engaging in "self-deprication"...

I can be self-depricating by naming my fantasy football team the "East Tulsa Methheads" because I live there... if I changed the name to "Midtown Elitists"???  Er, uh... is this funny?!?... not so much...

And since I'm one of them thar publick hi-skool gra-jee-ates from Hale, I couldn't find a good source... so I'm posting a link from Wikipedia...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-deprecation

quote:Self-deprecation (etymologically better is self-depreciation) is a form of humor in which people or comedians make jokes about themselves, their shortcomings, or their culture, usually without being guided by any underlying self-esteem issues.

The boundaries for this kind of humor are often more relaxed than for other kinds of humor. For example, whereas a Jewish joke told by a non-Jew may be considered anti-semitic and offensive, the same joke told by a Jew may be taken in good humor. The ability to laugh at oneself and the absurdities in one's own culture is often considered a good character trait.

It ain't the joke, it's the teller.  I don't think Rush Limbaugh is very funny when he uses "Halfrican American," however lightheadedly, to describe Barack Obama and Halle Berry.  And I wouldn't like hearing redneck jokes told to me by Ted Kennedy, either...

Get it?

[Friendly Bear]

quote:Originally posted by USRufnex

quote:Originally posted by guido911

Am I hearing this correctly. Is someone actually complaining about a $117 Million charitable gift because such was conditional that the other needed 200 plus million dollars
come from the public.

If I am the Kaisers or any other family with similar megawealth who donate money to make Tulsa a better place to live, I tell that ingrate as well as any other complainer that you can count on not receiving another nickel.

Oh, unless those ingrates are in the habit of making multi-multi million dollar philonthrapic donations, do not even try to compare what you donate into the argument.

Jeez, why can't the vote "No" people on this page be gracious winners.

Wow.  Can someone please give me a towel because my head just exploded... I find myself in complete agreement with Guido-doh-doh...

All the comedians FB refers to were engaging in "self-deprication"...

I can be self-depricating by naming my fantasy football team the "East Tulsa Methheads" because I live there... if I changed the name to "Midtown Elitists"???  Er, uh... is this funny?!?... not so much...

And since I'm one of them thar publick high-skool gra-jee-ates from Hale, I couldn't find a good source... so I'm posting a link from Wikipedia...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-deprecation

quote:Self-deprecation (etymologically better is self-depreciation) is a form of humor in which people or comedians make jokes about themselves, their shortcomings, or their culture, usually without being guided by any underlying self-esteem issues.

The boundaries for this kind of humor are often more relaxed than for other kinds of humor. For example, whereas a Jewish joke told by a non-Jew may be considered anti-semitic and offensive, the same joke told by a Jew may be taken in good humor. The ability to laugh at oneself and the absurdities in one's own culture is often considered a good character trait.

It ain't the joke, it's the teller.  I don't think Rush Limbaugh is very funny when he uses "Halfrican American" jokingly to describe Barack Obama and Halle Berry.  And I wouldn't like hearing redneck jokes told to me by Ted Kennedy, either...

Get it?

RAMPANT Political Correctness has just about rung the Death Knell of any such self-deprecating humor.  

Everyone is entirely TOO sensitive today.

It isn't even considered politically-correct humor if Teddy Kennedy makes jokes about drunken Irish Americans, and he's an Expert.

But FB is not politically correct, is he?

[USRufnex]

I'll take that as a "no," you really don't get it.

Oh, and my problem with predatory lending, Mister Fodder, is that it makes things worse for people of all economic classes.

I find myself wondering why things keep getting worse gradually, bit-by-bit for people simply because they may not be as financially literate as they should be... and am wondering if the bottom rung on our "ladder of opportunity" is replaced by a rung made of barbed-wire, if anyone would notice or take action?

Re:  the river tax, the quote from north Tulsa's Jane Malone in the TW says alot about why this didn't pass, despite all the private $$$ promised... "This is not about wants; it's about needs.  They shouldn't have planned for us but with us."

[Friendly Bear]

quote:Originally posted by rwarn17588

I don't believe your promises, F.B.

You can't control yourself from spouting half-baked conspiracy theories, unfunny slurs and tedious rants.

Frankly, whatever nuggets of good information or discussion you bring to the TulsaNow table is overwhelmed by gigantic piles of trash.

That's the sad and honest truth.

I'd say let the execution commence.

I guess you're not nominating me for TulsaNow Forum Poster of the Year?

Sad. []

P.S.  Name one half-baked conspiracy theory that F.B. has spouted.

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[Conan71]

Ladies & Gentlemen, please don't feed the bear.

[Townsend]

quote:Originally posted by Conan71

Ladies & Gentlemen, please don't feed the bear.

Are we sure it's not Tay again?  I'm just wondering.

[Friendly Bear]

quote:Originally posted by Conan71

Ladies & Gentlemen, please don't feed the bear.

The Tax Vampires are hungrier than the
Bear.  They NEED to FEED their GREED.

They crave ever more Taxes.  The Bear only craves Honey.  

And, Love.

They brought the Bear back from Hibernation.

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[Townsend]

Paul?