Tag Archives: Oklahoma

Ed Shultz On Teabagger Militia

Last night MSNBC’s Ed Shultz ranted about the teabagger plan in Oklahoma to form an armed state militia to defend against the federal government. Crazy/scary OK state Sen. Randy Brogdon is running for governor and joins Shultz to “call for the restoration of Constitutional liberties.”

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Oklahoma Teabaggers To Form Militia To Defend Against The Federal Government

Oklahoma teabaggers are working with politicians to form a state recognized volunteer militia to defend themselves against the federal government. Just in case, you know, somebody tries to make them obey the tyrannical health care reform bill. Frustrated by recent political setbacks, tea party leaders and some conservative members of the Oklahoma Legislature say they would like to create a …

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A Major Whoopsie For Oklahoma’s Haters

Remember when Oklahoma lawmakers passed a bill declaring the state exempt from the Matthew Shepard Act? It turns out the asshats cited the wrong federal bill number in their legislation and Oklahoma is actually now exempt from federal laws about reporting racial and religious discrimination. In trying to strip gays and lesbians of their rights, the Oklahoma State Senate inadvertently …

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Oklahoma Senate Votes To Exempt State From Federal Hate Crimes Law

Oklahoma state Sen. Steve Russell’s bill to exempt his state from complying with the federal hate crimes law has passed overwhelmingly. Under the new provisions of Senate Bill 1965, reports that were collected during investigations of possible hate crime that did not end in a conviction would be destroyed or kept by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. Russell said …

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Sally Kern Tries To Ban Divorce

OK state Rep. Sally Kern must be among the wingnuts who don’t realize that the attempt to ban divorce in California is a hoax, because now she’s trying the same thing in Oklahoma. Scheduled for introduction in the 2010 legislative session by state Rep. Sally Kern, R-Oklahoma City, House Bill 2279 would restrict the “use of incompatibility as a ground …

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Sen. Coburn’s Prayer Backfires, Other Oklahoma Senator Misses Health Care Vote

Remember when Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) asked for prayers that a fellow Senator miss the crucial cloture vote on health care reform, presumably due to illness or death? This morning, teabaggers were wondering if their prayers backfired when Coburn’s Oklahoma GOP colleague Sen. James Inhofe failed to show for a second procedural vote. From a caller to Sen. John Barrasso …

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Oklahoma Legislator Wants Exemption To Hate Crimes Law In Order To End State’s Raging Corpse-Fucking Epidemic

Oklahoma state Sen. Steve Russell (R) plans to submit a bill that would authorize the state to opt out of the recently passed Matthew Shepard Act. Because it discriminates against the right to hate queers and would hinder the prosecution of corpse fuckers. SRSLY. “The federal government should not be creating a special class of people, and that is just …

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Trans Attorney Runs Against Sally Kern

Since Sally Kern blames LGBT folks for the bad economy and thinks we’re worse than terrorists, I find it more than a little bit delicious that her just-announced 2010 opponent for her Oklahoma House seat is Brittany Novotny, a young transgender attorney. Novotny operates a private law practice specializing in employment and civil rights law in downtown OKC. She represents …

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Sen. Coburn: If You’re Sick, Tough Luck

Wingnut Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) tells a woman that she shouldn’t expect help from the government just because her husband has a traumatic brain injury. “The idea that the government is a solution to our problems in inaccurate.”

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Still Alive: Oklahoma DOMA Challenge

A lesbian couple in Oklahoma has filed a new federal challenge to DOMA and their state’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. The couple apparently filed their suit without the consultation of any LGBT group, despite pleas from such organizations that gay couples refrain from acting alone. Duncan Osborne at Gay City News: The lawsuit has had a troubled history. Filed …

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And Then She Floated Home In Her Ark

Tulsa, Oklahoma mayoral candidate Anna Falling is running on the platform of forcing the city’s zoo to include the book of Genesis in its displays, in order to explain to children where all the animals came from. “Some may ask why this issue during a Mayoral campaign? And I say why not?” said candidate Anna Falling. For Anna Falling, the …

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BREAKING: Oklahoma Baptists Suspend Ten Commandments!

Last month OK state Rep. Sally Kern issued her Proclamation For Morality, a hateful resolution that blamed gays, among others, for the decline of the U.S. economy. The resolution has not been adopted, but according to a blog called The Lost Ogle, that didn’t stop the Baptist Messenger from forging the signatures of the governor and the secretary of state …

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Sally Kern’s “Morality” Rally

OK Rep. Sally Kern and her supporters held a “morality rally” on the first floor of the state Capitol yesterday, where protesters tried to outshout Kern’s idiots. The rally was held to promote Kern’s attempt to have the legislature endorse her “Proclamation of Morality, ” which I recently mentioned here. Among many other things, Kern’s proclamation blames gays for the …

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PhoboQuotable – Sally Kern

“For the first time in America’s history, we have a president who has no understanding of the Biblical worldview and who has even less understanding of the truths of the Bible. This is evident when he says that support for homosexual “marriage” [unions] can be found in the Sermon on the Mount or that certain passages in Romans are just …

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Prom Night II: The STDs

Remember that recent study proving that kids who pledge abstinence until marriage actually have “significantly more unsafe sex” than regular kids? Apparently that result is lost on Oklahoma’s Agape Project, judging by their new billboard campaign. (Photo via JMG reader M.A.)

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Sunday’s Sermons: “Patriot Pastors” To Call For “Crushing” Of Hate Crimes Bill

Pastor Paul Blair of Reclaiming Oklahoma For Christ is spearheading a national drive for the nation’s “patriot pastors” to call for a “crushing” of the Senate’s hate crimes bill this Sunday. “Just think, if pastors would get up on their pulpits and teach folks about how the issues of today are going to affect them and then lead them, we …

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Teabagger Busted For Making Terrorist Threats Via Twitter

A tea party protester in Oklahoma has been arrested for making terrorist threats via Twitter. An Oklahoma City man who announced on Twitter that he would turn an April 15 tax protest into a bloodbath was hit with a federal charge of making interstate threats last week, in what appears to be first criminal prosecution to stem from posts on …

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What’s Anita Bryant Planning?
(And What Is Her Husband Up To?)

JMG reader Douglas In Oklahoma points us to this teaser post by James Miko on a site called Gossip Boy, in which Miko describes having gone undercover at Anita Bryant’s new ministry in Oklahoma City, which she runs with her second husband, Charlie Dry. Miko promises a coming multi-part expose’ on Bryant and Dry, to begin tomorrow. It looks to …

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Oklahoma House Passes Sovereignty Bill

Spurred by President Obama’s stimulus package, today the Oklahoma House passed a bill declaring the state sovereign from any rule of the federal government not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution, the first shot in a growing national movement intended to give states the power to defy federal laws on a broad range of issues from abortion to gun control to …

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PhoboQuotable – Sally Kern

“I’ve done a lot of reading on this. I wish I could describe to you their behavior. I will not because I would be redder than this suit. It’s their behavior that we oppose. This theme of equality and freedom is the approach that the homosexuals are using today – totally perverting the true intention of what our Constitution meant. …

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