Being a "loyal, faithful customer" does not mead a thing to corporate businesses. Most likely they get hundreds of complaints a day. If you want service that treats you right you need to stick to local businesses. There are a few late night joints where you can get some grub. They include: Joe Mommas, Phat Phillys (sadly going out of business soon so get them while you can), Mary Jane's Pizza, McNellies, The Hunt Club, Twin Peaks, Kilkenny's, Dave & Busters, White Owl, BruHouse, SoCos, Crow Creek Tavern, Gray Snail, Full Moon Cafe, The Brook, Louies, Magoos, The Dog House and many more. Keep your money in Tulsa!
went to Arby's @ 15th n harvard, a couple wks ago. will be made clear as to why I'm just posting this now as the story unfolds. pulled up to drive-thru about 15 min to midnight. they close at midnight. waited n waited, no response. talked into the speaker a few times, no response. thought maybe they were short handed, n maybe they were in the restroom. waited few more minutes, no response. surpisingly, I was still the only car at the drive-thru. tried again to get response talking to the speaker, again no response. tried honking my horn couple times, no response. getting upset now, I got a slow fuse till I usually get upset. n most times I go here, I'm a regular about twice weekly, get good prompt service. which is why on this occasion things seem weird. I ck the time it's now 3 minutes to midnight. I've decided to drive off. so I just call out to the speaker one more last time before driving off. then to my shock a voice finally comes thru the speaker n says "I'm sorry we're closed". I call back n say "I realize that but I've been waiting patiently for 15 minutes to talk to someone n place an order, I pulled up here at 15 min to midnight". the response back is "sorry, we're closed". I attempt again to explain. again the same robotic parroted response is "I'm sorry, we're closed." I explain how I'm a regular customer, etc. same b.s. response. so I yell out I'm contacting Arby's corporate h.q. tomorrow about this horrible lack of service n his rude, "I'm sorry, we're closed", response. the response back, "I don't care, sorry we're closed." I drive off, pissed off. try to contact Arby's by going to their website, "Arby's.com" n call a 1-800 #, no phone #. they only accept complaints post thru their website, n they'll respond via e-mail. I get a "generic corporate apology" response. I e-mail back how I've been a faithful regular customer for years, visiting twice a week, n spending $20+ a month there. $240 a year! I go on to state I want a personal, not "generic corporate" response. I want the employee/mgr I spoke with at that location FIRED! I also stated I wanted compensation for my wasted time n how rudely I was treated! I received an e-mail response stating an apology for my mistreatment, assurances the employee/mgr would "be reprimanded". I e-mailed back my frustration with the "reprimand", n lack of compensation. a week later I receive in the mail a note n 2 coupons for "small sandwich, small fry, n small drink." I go to this Arby's twice a week, spend $20 a month, $240 a year n I get 2 coupons for "small sandwich, small fry, n small drink"! this is my compensation! I get better discount coupons, better compensation, from the Arby's coupon circular in the sunday paper! I e-mailed a response back for "my compensation." I've yet to receive any response back. nothing. been 10 days now. no e-mail, no regular mail, nothing. nothing. It really makes me sad. yeah, pissed off too. but really sad. that Arby's doesn't care about me as a customer, not really. oh they went thru the "generic corporate response." I guess being a loyal, faithful, customer doesn't mean much anymore. by the way my contact person at Arby's was tanya williams. "tanyawilliams@arbys.com" just fyi. in case your interested in e-mailing her. but unfortunately I can't guarantee any response. well at least not anything beyond a "generic corporate response." if that. yeah, if that. scott
My husband and I recently hired Midwest Builders of Tulsa, Inc. to construct a 30X30 pole barn on our property. We gave them $6000.00 per agreement; the other $5,000.00 would be due upon completion. On our receipt, they stated that they would be responsible for getting the permit. They sent a crew out on 8/22/10- they dug 12 holes, each 2’ deep, put the posts in and put the forms for the foundation up. When we got home that evening, there was a big red sticker on one of the posts stating that until a permit was provided, all building was to be stopped and that per code the holes must be 3’ deep. On 8/23/10 my husband made several attempts to contact John at Midwest Builders- no answer, and no return phone calls. My husband finally left a stern message threatening to cancel the check- he got a call back. He was told that we were going to pay $400 to $500 dollars to get an engineering report before they could get our permit. My husband thought that was odd and decided to call the Wagoner County Planning Commission- they said that they had no idea what this guy John was talking about. The Planning Comm. Said that all we needed to do was to bring them a copy of the deed, and some kind of drawing of the building that could in fact be drawn on a napkin if need be. On 8/26/10, I drove to the Wagoner County Planning Commission, I gave them those two items, they said they also needed a copy of the general liability insurance and workers comp insurance carried by Midwest Builders of Tulsa. The planning commission called Midwest Builders, there was no answer. I decided to drive to Sand Springs and personally get copies of these items so that we could get the needed permit. When I got to Midwest Builders, I spoke to John, I told him what we needed and he said that they don’t carry liability insurance or workers comp. He said that they contract the work out. I asked for contact numbers and names for the contractors so that I could get the insurance information to the planning commission- he was vague and did not want to continue the conversation. I insisted he talk to the planning commission while I was there- He got on the phone with them reluctantly- he spoke with Brenda- she told him that the holes were not to code- and told him that the code went into effect in Feb. of 2006. She also offered to send him a copy of the state law that went into effect about 7 months ago that requires them to provide general liability insurance and workers comp. John told her that he hadn’t heard of either the code or the state law and he didn’t want a copy of the law. John told me he would make a few calls and get back to us and that if he could not resolve it, he would refund our $6000.00. I picked up my husband from work at 3:30- I asked him if John had called him- he said yes, he said that John had a solution for all of this. John’s solution was to tell the Wagoner County Planning Commission that we were just going to buy the materials from Midwest Builders of Tulsa but that we were going to erect the structure ourselves and then he would send his crew back out. This infuriated me. We drove back to Sand Springs- John’s step daughter was there, I insisted that she call John to come back up there and refund our money. After a heated debate over the lack of ethics, dishonesty and lack of knowledge on Midwest Builder’s part, we were told that they would give us $4800.00 back. They made us sign the invoice before we could get the check and when we got to the bank to cash the check, we were told that it could not be cashed. The fact that we were losing 1200.00 for 3 guys to put 12 holes in our yard that were not even deep enough to be up to code was enough- but then to add insult to injury, they wrote us a hot check. We would like for you to look into this- there is no telling how many buildings they have erected that are not to code or how many people that they have ripped off. These people have supposedly been in business 37 years- a seemingly reputable company.
Libertarians, the fiercest defenders of free speech this millenium has yet seen, must be waging war against the First Amendment because we informed Ted Rall that if he hired me as a personal assistant, and I told everyone who called or emailed him that Rall peddles the same line of tripe as William Raspberry, but far, far less eloguently, no judge in the world would force him to keep paying me for it. Which is not an opinion, but a solid gold fact.
How, exactly, are libertarians so culpable in the termination of Helen Thomas' employment that we deserve to be singled out for special condemnation in your latest brainless rant? Oh, that's right. We aren't, and once you get past the big, bold headline, you even admit it. No, libertarians didn't fire Helen Thomas. Libertarians wouldn't have fired her as libertarians agree with her. No libertarian is thrilled by the prospect of giving Israel money so they can pass it along to the arms merchants of death. That would be the so-called liberal media for whom you are shilling.
So, what did libertarians do to draw your wrath this time? We gave you a much needed social studies lesson. We told you how the law of your land works, and did it in a civil, succinct, and (by your own admission) correct manner. Just damn. Tar and feather us and ride us out of town on a rail.
You don't know how to tell a friend from an enemy, Rall. I'll give you another civics lesson--the Constitution does not allow for the current top heavy Federal semi-socialism, but nothing in the Constitution prohibits the individual states from being as socialist as their voters want them to be. So, what is the advantage to heeding the law of the land and doing things the Constitutional way? Simply that the federal government will have no opportunity to skim kickbacks if they don't handle the money along the way, and the states and cities will not only be able to tax their citizens more if the federal government is taxing them less, but will be able to spend less on jumping through federal hoops and, therefore, more on actually helping people who need it. This is our position, and if you liberals were to go along with us in regards to the federal government, the local governments can do a better job without the interference.
In other words, Rall, true liberals don't know who their real friends are and yellow "journalists" like you are the reason why. Obviously you didn't listen to Shirley Sherrod when she said what Bob Dylan said in his song "Pawn in Their Game"--it isn't about race, race is just what the rich use to distract us while they pick our pockets. The same can be said for any other hot button issue that seperates Americans into ANY two groups except poor sufferers and robber barons.
Why are you shilling for the rich, Rall? You expect them to reward you for it? I've got news, dude. You're trashing your credibility so fast that you will become worthless to them before they even discover you exist. So good luck with that.
Will Rogers once spoke of a starving mountain lion that killed a bull. He was so hungry he ate almost all of it, then got such a bellyache that he just roared and roared. He roared so much that a hunter was able to track him and shoot him.
The moral? Those who have a belly full of bull should keep their mouths shut.
In response to your column on the rise of the "Tea Party", or Through the Looking Glass and What Ted Saw There:
We are pleased to see you announce that the "Tea Party" matters. I presume we may proceed now.
I don't know who appointed you the thought police, but as a libertarian I saw RonPaulForums.com the day it was decided to call that regional get-together (I think it was in Montana) The Tea Party. The people who did it did indeed want to take America back from white C.E.O.s, and from C.E.O.s of various other colors too. Along with this they had a burning desire to take back America from the arms merchants of death, including the ones who infested the White House at that time (and were lily-white), and from the media moguls who had already developed the habit of libeling us with false charges of racism because we dared to be vocal antiwar conservatives. Who is it, again, that you work for, Mr. Rall?
The "Tea Party" movement is indeed something we have seen before in this nation. It's a populist movement. The last one was in the early years of the Twentieth Century, was liberal in nature, and led to the rise of labor unions for both better and worse. This current populist movement is simply a long overdue swing of the pendulum.
Robert O. Paxton said fascism blah blah blah "...abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion." Libertarians in 2008 disdained to vote for the awful McCain/Palin ticket because we wanted to preserve, protect and defend democratic liberties and limit the preliminary effort at internal cleansing the neocons were engaged in. We also dared to speculate aloud as to why the neocons didn't stop the unethical "redemptive violence" (what an oxymoron!) of September 11, 2001, which led to imperialistic wars.
And all the way the elites of business, government and the media ignored us as they were able and smeared us unremittingly as we tried to run the only honest conservative in all of Congress at the time for president (don't get smug, Mr. Rall. There's only one honest liberal, too--Rep. Kucinich of Ohio--and he fared no better). Now, of course, we are attracting several "conservative" has-beens from the "elites". What do you expect? That all opportunists will suddenly retire from politics?
The vast majority of "Tea Partiers" do indeed support our troops. No libertarian supports wars for pipeline territory or against oil producing nations who abandon the petrodollar.
If "The Right" seems to suffer from ideological imprecision at the moment, one logical explanation is that the libertarians are trying to teach our rank and file friends what it really means to be conservative. It isn't easy to compete with oddballs like Glen Beck. But rest assured, libertarians can be, and have been, specific to a fault. And are famous for "turning off" neocons.
You said, "Tea Partiers deserve praise for having gotten 'off the couch.' They've shown up. That's what matters! never mind that they're stupid. Never mind that many--[I]those who get quoted in the media, anyway[/I] (a telling phrase)--are painfully ignorant and uneducated." And I agree. If libertarians can't rub elbows with them, we can't educate them on just what the Constitution means. And if we don't, who will? So, we leave it to the arrogant liberals to chase the stupid liberals back home to the couch. No wonder you got us ex-Monsanto C.E.O. Tom Vilsack for a Secretary of Agriculture and four more years in Iraq and Afghanistan.
So, as a libertarian of long standing and a "Tea Party" attendee, I reject your blanket and gross mischaracterization of me. I do, however, welcome the opportunity to warn my fellow crumpeteers against the evils of following neocons and other false prophets.
And I would advise you, Mr. Rall, to stop lobbing stones until you get your own glass house bricked in. Because, as Will Rogers (gone seventy-five years this August 15th) once said, "The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal--they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats." And if conservatives learn how to listen to their constituents before the Democrats do, lunch will be served.
And no, lying your ass off about me is no substitute for listening to the American people.
Peace 4 All, Truth Counts: Crime bosses, Israel/Palestine
The AIPAC National Summit is reserved exclusively for those who contribute a minimum of $3,600 annually to AIPAC. It takes large contributions to maintain Israeli policies.
National Summit is AIPAC's premier foreign policy retreat. This exclusive annual gathering offers AIPAC members unique access to members of Congress, American and Israeli policy makers, and leading Middle East expert members that AIPAC has the largest influence over.
The Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa provides all the luxury amenities a resort has to offer: an infinity pool, spa treatments, tennis courts, a golf course and a serene beach on the Atlantic Ocean. Located just 10 minutes from the Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport and 30 minutes from Miami International Airport, the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa is a perfect home for AIPAC National Summit 2010. It takes the most exclusive facility to attract congress members & leaders.
FY 2000 military grants include $1.2 billion for the Wye agreement and $1.92 billion in annual military aid. FY 2003 military aid included $1 billion from the supplemental appropriations bill. The economic grant was earmarked for $960 million for FY 2000 but was reduced to meet the 0.38% rescission. Final amounts for FY 2003 are reduced by 0.65% mandated rescission, the amounts for FY 2004 are reduced by 0.59%, and the amounts for FY 2008 are reduced by .81%. Sources: CRS Report RL33222: U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel, updated Jan. 2, 2008, plus the FY ’08 omnibus appropriations bill, H.R. 2764.
This estimate of total U.S. direct aid to Israel updates the estimate given in the July 2006 issue of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. It is an estimate because arriving at an exact figure is not possible, since parts of U.S. aid to Israel are a) buried in the budgets of various U.S. agencies, mostly that of the Defense Department (DOD), or b) in a form not easily quantifiable, such as the early disbursement of aid, giving Israel a direct benefit in interest income and the U.S. Treasury a corresponding loss. Given these caveats, our current estimate of cumulative total direct aid to Israel is $113.8554 billion.
It must be emphasized that this analysis is a conservative, defensible accounting of U.S. direct aid to Israel, NOT of Israel’s cost to the U.S. or the American taxpayer, nor of the benefits to Israel of U.S. aid. The distinction is important, because the indirect or consequential costs suffered by the U.S. as a result of its blind support for Israel exceed by many times the substantial amount of direct aid to Israel. (See, for example, the late Thomas R. Stauffer’s article in the June 2003 Washington Report, “The Costs to American Taxpayers of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: $3 Trillion.”)
Especially, this computation does not include the costs resulting from the invasion and occupation of Iraq—hundreds of billions of dollars, 4,000-plus U.S. and allied fatalities, untold tens of thousands of Iraqi deaths, and many thousands of other U.S., allied, and Iraqi casualties—which is almost universally believed in the Arab world to have been undertaken for the benefit of Israel. Among other “indirect or consequential” costs would be the costs of U.S. unilateral economic sanctions on Iran, Iraq, Libya and Syria, the costs to U.S. manufacturers of the Arab boycott, and the costs to U.S. companies and consumers of the 1973 Arab oil embargo and consequent and subsequent soaring oil prices partially as a result of U.S. support for Israel.
Among the real benefits to Israel that are not direct costs to the U.S. taxpayer are the early cash transfer of economic and military aid, in-country spending of a portion of military aid, and loan guarantees. The U.S. gives Israel all of its economic and military aid directly in cash during the first month of the fiscal year, with no accounting required of how the funds are used. Also, in contrast with other countries receiving military aid, who must purchase through the DOD, Israel deals directly with the U.S. companies, with no DOD review. Furthermore, Israel is allowed to spend 26.3 percent of each year’s military aid in Israel (no other recipient of U.S. military aid gets this benefit), which has resulted in an increasingly sophisticated Israeli defense industry. As a result, Israel has become a major world arms exporter; the Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports that in 2006 Israel was the world’s ninth leading supplier of arms worldwide, earning $4.4 billion from defense sales.
Another benefit to Israel are U.S. government loan guarantees. The major loan guarantees have been $600 million for housing between 1972 and 1990; $9.2 billion for Soviet Jewish resettlement between 1992 and 1997; about $5 billion for refinancing military loans commercially; and $9 billion in loan guarantees authorized in FY ’03 and extended to FY ’10. Of that $9 billion, CRS reports that Israel has drawn $4.1 billion through FY ’07. These loans have not—yet—cost the U.S. any money; they are listed on the Treasury Department’s books as “contingent liabilities,” which would be liabilities to the U.S. should Israel default. However, they have been of substantial, tangible benefit to Israel, because they enable Israel to borrow commercially at special terms and favorable interest rates.
Components of Israel Aid Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. aid since World War II (not counting the huge sums being spent in Iraq). The $3 billion or so per year that Israel receives from the U.S. amounts to about $500 per Israeli. Most of this money is earmarked in the annual Foreign Operations (foreign aid) appropriations bills, with the three major items being military grants (Foreign Military Financing, or FMF), economic grants (Economic Support Funds, or ESF), and “migration and refugee assistance.” (Refugee assistance originally was intended to help Israel absorb Jewish refugees from the Soviet Union, but this was expanded in 1985 to include all refugees resettling in Israel. In fact, Israel doesn’t differentiate between refugees and other immigrants, so this money is used for all immigrants to Israel.)
Not earmarked but also included in congresssional appropriations bills is Israel’s portion of grants for American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA) and monies buried in the appropriations for other departments or agencies. These are mostly for so-called “U.S.-Israeli cooperative programs” in defense, agriculture, science, and hi-tech industries.
Before 1998, Israel received annually $1.8 billion in military grants and $1.2 billion in economic grants. Then, beginning in FY ‘99, the two countries agreed to reduce economic grants to Israel by $120 million and increase military grants by $60 million annually over 10 years. FY ’08 is the last year of that agreement, with military grants reaching $2.4 billion (reduced by an across-the-board rescission), and zero economic grants. Then, in August 2007, U.S. and Israeli officials signed a memorandum of understanding for a new 10-year, $30 billion aid package whereby FMF will gradually increase, beginning with $2.55 billion in FY ’09, and average $3 billion per year over the 10-year period.
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FINAL REPORT ; DECEPTION ; WHAT IF?; WATCH OUT, & THE HOUSE OF TREASON; by Ronald L. Waldron
When I was young, my father and I went 'round and 'round in the evenings. I wanted to watch Channel Six. I considered it more reliable in terms of news than the other stations. My father wanted to watch Don Woods. You see, he considered Mr. Woods more reliable. When Don forecast rain for the weekend, we were off to the lake. When Don forecast fair weather, we canceled the picnic and kept the galoshes close to the front door. It was an odd sort of "reliability", but it worked for Dad. Now, I see from last night's broadcast, you are playing for the same sort of "reliability". You seem to believe that we will tune in, secure in the knowledge that when you say it's day it will assuredly be night, and when you say it's night it will unquestionably be day. You said that Nathan Dahm's website was "misleading". Oh, I'm sorry. You didn't say that; you said it was "MISLEADING". Well, I still don't have it right; I seem not to have huge red letters at my disposal. I guess I have a long way to go to become a proper propagandist. So what was it that was "MISLEADING"? It seems he mentioned that John Sullivan voted for the TARP bailout, and provided one link that proved the assertion (and proved the same about Mary Fallin) and one that showed he voted for something else. So, you pronounced that one link of two "MISLEADING". You didn't, I see, even mention that a link which proved his claim and was in no way "MISLEADING" was right below it. So this raises the question--is it more "MISLEADING" for a candidate to provide a link which is what he says it is, and another link just as a bonus, or is it more "MISLEADING" to jump on this one link in the finest "gotcha journalism" style in an effort to make people believe that no such bailout vote occured? For, you see, there is no question that Sullivan (and Fallin) voted to rob from the poor and give to Goldman Sachs (and others). The only questions that remain are, who do you think you're fooling, and is it really a good idea to sacrifice your reputation as a news organization for a piece of Good Advertiser Sullivan's "War Chest"? Our founding fathers believed that a vigorous and free press was necessary for the maintenance of a democracy. I sincerely hope they were wrong. For if they were right, then there is no hope for democracy in Tulsa, Oklahoma. And I don't know what else to say, except that I hope the fine reputations of Doug Dodd and Clayton Vaughn are in no way tarnished by the fact that the news organization they once worked for has degenerated into a "news organization" and an outlet for pure propaganda. As sincerely as a heart attack, Anthony Platt of Tulsa.
cc: KTUL KJRH FOX23 OETA UTW The Nathan Dahm campaign The Randy Brogdon campaign libertyforest.com Anyone to whom any of the above care to forward this.
The law says if you know of any child abuse report it. I reported it got a case number called two weeks later to check on the case. Was told we do not go out on old reports. I said this happened during Christmas break and then I took the child out of the home for safety. Our great court system gave her back this being a proparent state we give the parents a second chance to kill or abuse their children again. Emotional abuse shows no bruises until the child explodes from within and then the state takes over and pays for help that was reported years ago. How stupid can we get. The sitting judge is sending these kids that are asking for help, back into dangerous homes and she needs to answer for that.
It is in the Tulsa Airport, just not beyond the security. We are in the process of training a new driver and he has to be certified to go back there. Sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
Why is UT no longer in the Tulsa Airport!?! I fly every week and always looked forward to reading a copy on my flight--also I usually fly home on Thursdays and would grab a copy to see what was happening for the weekend. Many times I would strike up conversation with a fellow passenger that would be visiting Tulsa and I would always be sure to get them a copy of UT as well. Seems like a great place to advertise--Why is it no longer there!?!?!
after serving my time in the Marines i have come to notice something that is happening all over tulsa. the American Flags all over Tulsa are in a terrible shape! come on people! If you are going to let Old Glory fly at least have the knowledge on how to maintain, fold, what time to raise and lower and what sizes of our Flag needs to be flown in certain weather! Tulsa i know you have a deep respect, loyalty and love for this great Nation so please learn to respect it by knowing your National Fag!
I'M ALSO PISSED AT THE YEARLY WASTED MONEY ON REPAIRING THE SAME STREETS OVER AND OVER AGAIN. IF CITY OF TULSA WOULD ACTUALLY FIX THEM THE CORRECT WAY, THAN THE FOLLOWING YEAR THE MONEY CAN BE SPENT ELSE WHERE! GO TO ANY OTHER STATE- NO TOLLS OR HORRIBLE ROADS! AREN'T TOLLS SUPPOSED TO HELP PAY FOR ROADS AND OUR TAX'S.
THE OKLAHOMA TAX COMMISSION IS A JOKE! AREN'T THE CASINO'S SUPPOSE TO HELP SUPPORT SCHOOLS, ROADS, AND THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA....IT SEEMS THAT ONLY THE GOVERNMENT OFFICALS ARE THE ONLY ONES MAKING MONEY OFF CASINO'S IN OKLAHOMA. THE CHEROKEE CASINO DOEAN'T EVEN HELP OUT THE TRIBE. THE CHEROKEE NATION IS MORE SCANDALOUS THAN THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA, OHHH WAIT THEY ARE PRETTY MUCH THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA, THEY JUST USE TAKE ADVANTAGE CHEROKEE'S AGAIN FOR THEIR OWN PROFIT. AND YES I'M HALF CHEROKEE, NEVER HAVE HAD HELP FOR THE NATION. I GET REJECTED FOR COLLEGE AND ASSISTANCE, BUT I SEE PEOPLE WHOM ARE NOT EVEN REGISTERED TO THE TRIBE GETTING FULL RIDES AND BENEFITS THROUGH THE CHEROKEE NATION.
IT'S ALL A SHAME IF YOU ASK OR DEPEND AN OUR STATE OR GOVERNMENT FOR HELP, UNLESS YOUR RICH AND NEED A TAX BREAK OR IF YOUR BANK NEEDS MONEY.....BANKS GOT EVEN MORE STRICT WITH THEIR BAILOUT, THEY GOT RAISES AND PAID VACATIONS.
I'm pissed at Urban Tulsa, I am an advertiser with you and its been over two weeks since I have any magazines. I keep requesting service.....consider this an ex-advertiser. The urban's not what it use to be!
I am so incredibly pissed off/tired of all the Government Officials not enforcing the laws against illegal immigrants and the fact that they are wasting our City/Country away! Why have these laws if they are not going to enforce them! All I know, is that City Council and Government Leaders better start taking this whole illegal immigration thing serious, before they take over our whole dang Country/City! AMERICANS SHOULD "NOT" BE THE MINORITY IN AMERICA!!!! PERIOD!!! If you are illegal, you're not an immigrant... YOU'RE AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT!! LET'S GET THAT RIGHT!!! OK????? (PISSED OFF!!!!!!)
If you haven't written McDonald's corporate office yet, you should. Those are the things they need to know about. When paying for food and service, there's no reason for beratement of calm, well-meaning customers. Lately I've thought, if the environment and/or the meal, itself, is better at home, why eat out? It's beginning to make less and less sense.
don't forget to post your reviews on kudzu.com! why? because anytime a google map search is done, those same reviews show up directly under the addresses for the business you're searching for. the reviews show up pretty quickly, within minutes.
i was piiiiiised at RED ROBIN over here on south riverside. i've been to other red robins, but i didn't recall being this irritated when i left. it was just utterly horrible food, tasteless and WAY OVERPRICED. also, the drinks tasted watered down. it was just an overall bad experience and we'll NEVER go there again. EVER!
@theryanharvey correct friend. People are so stupid, it's like seriously!? Local bands don't get nearly enough press and things like this destroy the scene...
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Being a "loyal, faithful customer" does not mead a thing to corporate businesses. Most likely they get hundreds of complaints a day. If you want service that treats you right you need to stick to local businesses. There are a few late night joints where you can get some grub. They include: Joe Mommas, Phat Phillys (sadly going out of business soon so get them while you can), Mary Jane's Pizza, McNellies, The Hunt Club, Twin Peaks, Kilkenny's, Dave & Busters, White Owl, BruHouse, SoCos, Crow Creek Tavern, Gray Snail, Full Moon Cafe, The Brook, Louies, Magoos, The Dog House and many more. Keep your money in Tulsa!
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On 8/23/10 my husband made several attempts to contact John at Midwest Builders- no answer, and no return phone calls. My husband finally left a stern message threatening to cancel the check- he got a call back. He was told that we were going to pay $400 to $500 dollars to get an engineering report before they could get our permit. My husband thought that was odd and decided to call the Wagoner County Planning Commission- they said that they had no idea what this guy John was talking about. The Planning Comm. Said that all we needed to do was to bring them a copy of the deed, and some kind of drawing of the building that could in fact be drawn on a napkin if need be. On 8/26/10, I drove to the Wagoner County Planning Commission, I gave them those two items, they said they also needed a copy of the general liability insurance and workers comp insurance carried by Midwest Builders of Tulsa. The planning commission called Midwest Builders, there was no answer. I decided to drive to Sand Springs and personally get copies of these items so that we could get the needed permit.
When I got to Midwest Builders, I spoke to John, I told him what we needed and he said that they don’t carry liability insurance or workers comp. He said that they contract the work out. I asked for contact numbers and names for the contractors so that I could get the insurance information to the planning commission- he was vague and did not want to continue the conversation. I insisted he talk to the planning commission while I was there- He got on the phone with them reluctantly- he spoke with Brenda- she told him that the holes were not to code- and told him that the code went into effect in Feb. of 2006. She also offered to send him a copy of the state law that went into effect about 7 months ago that requires them to provide general liability insurance and workers comp. John told her that he hadn’t heard of either the code or the state law and he didn’t want a copy of the law. John told me he would make a few calls and get back to us and that if he could not resolve it, he would refund our $6000.00.
I picked up my husband from work at 3:30- I asked him if John had called him- he said yes, he said that John had a solution for all of this. John’s solution was to tell the Wagoner County Planning Commission that we were just going to buy the materials from Midwest Builders of Tulsa but that we were going to erect the structure ourselves and then he would send his crew back out. This infuriated me. We drove back to Sand Springs- John’s step daughter was there, I insisted that she call John to come back up there and refund our money. After a heated debate over the lack of ethics, dishonesty and lack of knowledge on Midwest Builder’s part, we were told that they would give us $4800.00 back. They made us sign the invoice before we could get the check and when we got to the bank to cash the check, we were told that it could not be cashed. The fact that we were losing 1200.00 for 3 guys to put 12 holes in our yard that were not even deep enough to be up to code was enough- but then to add insult to injury, they wrote us a hot check.
We would like for you to look into this- there is no telling how many buildings they have erected that are not to code or how many people that they have ripped off. These people have supposedly been in business 37 years- a seemingly reputable company.
Brent and Tina Willmann
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How, exactly, are libertarians so culpable in the termination of Helen Thomas' employment that we deserve to be singled out for special condemnation in your latest brainless rant? Oh, that's right. We aren't, and once you get past the big, bold headline, you even admit it. No, libertarians didn't fire Helen Thomas. Libertarians wouldn't have fired her as libertarians agree with her. No libertarian is thrilled by the prospect of giving Israel money so they can pass it along to the arms merchants of death. That would be the so-called liberal media for whom you are shilling.
So, what did libertarians do to draw your wrath this time? We gave you a much needed social studies lesson. We told you how the law of your land works, and did it in a civil, succinct, and (by your own admission) correct manner. Just damn. Tar and feather us and ride us out of town on a rail.
You don't know how to tell a friend from an enemy, Rall. I'll give you another civics lesson--the Constitution does not allow for the current top heavy Federal semi-socialism, but nothing in the Constitution prohibits the individual states from being as socialist as their voters want them to be. So, what is the advantage to heeding the law of the land and doing things the Constitutional way? Simply that the federal government will have no opportunity to skim kickbacks if they don't handle the money along the way, and the states and cities will not only be able to tax their citizens more if the federal government is taxing them less, but will be able to spend less on jumping through federal hoops and, therefore, more on actually helping people who need it. This is our position, and if you liberals were to go along with us in regards to the federal government, the local governments can do a better job without the interference.
In other words, Rall, true liberals don't know who their real friends are and yellow "journalists" like you are the reason why. Obviously you didn't listen to Shirley Sherrod when she said what Bob Dylan said in his song "Pawn in Their Game"--it isn't about race, race is just what the rich use to distract us while they pick our pockets. The same can be said for any other hot button issue that seperates Americans into ANY two groups except poor sufferers and robber barons.
Why are you shilling for the rich, Rall? You expect them to reward you for it? I've got news, dude. You're trashing your credibility so fast that you will become worthless to them before they even discover you exist. So good luck with that.
Will Rogers once spoke of a starving mountain lion that killed a bull. He was so hungry he ate almost all of it, then got such a bellyache that he just roared and roared. He roared so much that a hunter was able to track him and shoot him.
The moral? Those who have a belly full of bull should keep their mouths shut.
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In response to your column on the rise of the "Tea Party", or Through the Looking Glass and What Ted Saw There:
We are pleased to see you announce that the "Tea Party" matters. I presume we may proceed now.
I don't know who appointed you the thought police, but as a libertarian I saw RonPaulForums.com the day it was decided to call that regional get-together (I think it was in Montana) The Tea Party. The people who did it did indeed want to take America back from white C.E.O.s, and from C.E.O.s of various other colors too. Along with this they had a burning desire to take back America from the arms merchants of death, including the ones who infested the White House at that time (and were lily-white), and from the media moguls who had already developed the habit of libeling us with false charges of racism because we dared to be vocal antiwar conservatives. Who is it, again, that you work for, Mr. Rall?
The "Tea Party" movement is indeed something we have seen before in this nation. It's a populist movement. The last one was in the early years of the Twentieth Century, was liberal in nature, and led to the rise of labor unions for both better and worse. This current populist movement is simply a long overdue swing of the pendulum.
Robert O. Paxton said fascism blah blah blah "...abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion." Libertarians in 2008 disdained to vote for the awful McCain/Palin ticket because we wanted to preserve, protect and defend democratic liberties and limit the preliminary effort at internal cleansing the neocons were engaged in. We also dared to speculate aloud as to why the neocons didn't stop the unethical "redemptive violence" (what an oxymoron!) of September 11, 2001, which led to imperialistic wars.
And all the way the elites of business, government and the media ignored us as they were able and smeared us unremittingly as we tried to run the only honest conservative in all of Congress at the time for president (don't get smug, Mr. Rall. There's only one honest liberal, too--Rep. Kucinich of Ohio--and he fared no better). Now, of course, we are attracting several "conservative" has-beens from the "elites". What do you expect? That all opportunists will suddenly retire from politics?
The vast majority of "Tea Partiers" do indeed support our troops. No libertarian supports wars for pipeline territory or against oil producing nations who abandon the petrodollar.
If "The Right" seems to suffer from ideological imprecision at the moment, one logical explanation is that the libertarians are trying to teach our rank and file friends what it really means to be conservative. It isn't easy to compete with oddballs like Glen Beck. But rest assured, libertarians can be, and have been, specific to a fault. And are famous for "turning off" neocons.
You said, "Tea Partiers deserve praise for having gotten 'off the couch.' They've shown up. That's what matters! never mind that they're stupid. Never mind that many--[I]those who get quoted in the media, anyway[/I] (a telling phrase)--are painfully ignorant and uneducated." And I agree. If libertarians can't rub elbows with them, we can't educate them on just what the Constitution means. And if we don't, who will? So, we leave it to the arrogant liberals to chase the stupid liberals back home to the couch. No wonder you got us ex-Monsanto C.E.O. Tom Vilsack for a Secretary of Agriculture and four more years in Iraq and Afghanistan.
So, as a libertarian of long standing and a "Tea Party" attendee, I reject your blanket and gross mischaracterization of me. I do, however, welcome the opportunity to warn my fellow crumpeteers against the evils of following neocons and other false prophets.
And I would advise you, Mr. Rall, to stop lobbing stones until you get your own glass house bricked in. Because, as Will Rogers (gone seventy-five years this August 15th) once said, "The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal--they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats." And if conservatives learn how to listen to their constituents before the Democrats do, lunch will be served.
And no, lying your ass off about me is no substitute for listening to the American people.
Anthony Platt of Tulsa
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Title: Truth Counts: DON’T COUNT ON GETTING IT
ID: 9024844
Category: Mystery & Crime
Description: Our Occupied Government: Our government has the audacity to DESTROY the hopes and dreams of Americans while supporting the atrocities of Israel. We have full knowledge of the involvement of Israel in the decisions to ATTACK Iraq by presenting false intelligence. We see the money accepted by our officials from a foreign interest lobby. We see the amount of our sons & daughters killed in wars fought for all the wrong reasons. We see our financial system, and media controlled by the Zionist political movement. What we do not witness from our government officials from either political party. A) Moral values. B) Ethics. C) Integrity. D) Accountability. E) Oversight. F) Commitment to American TAX-PAYERS. G) Fiscal responsibility.
The Israel/Palestine conflict, the lobby crime bosses, Are all finding out that the Truth counts? We look for The day when there is Peace 4 All. Ronald L. Waldron
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Keywords: United States
Peace 4 All, Truth Counts: Crime bosses, Israel/Palestine
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National Summit is AIPAC's premier foreign policy retreat. This exclusive annual gathering offers AIPAC members unique access to members of Congress, American and Israeli policy makers, and leading Middle East expert members that AIPAC has the largest influence over.
The Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa provides all the luxury amenities a resort has to offer: an infinity pool, spa treatments, tennis courts, a golf course and a serene beach on the Atlantic Ocean. Located just 10 minutes from the Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport and 30 minutes from Miami International Airport, the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa is a perfect home for AIPAC National Summit 2010. It takes the most exclusive facility to attract congress members & leaders.
FY 2000 military grants include $1.2 billion for the Wye agreement and $1.92 billion in annual military aid. FY 2003 military aid included $1 billion from the supplemental appropriations bill. The economic grant was earmarked for $960 million for FY 2000 but was reduced to meet the 0.38% rescission. Final amounts for FY 2003 are reduced by 0.65% mandated rescission, the amounts for FY 2004 are reduced by 0.59%, and the amounts for FY 2008 are reduced by .81%. Sources: CRS Report RL33222: U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel, updated Jan. 2, 2008, plus the FY ’08 omnibus appropriations bill, H.R. 2764.
This estimate of total U.S. direct aid to Israel updates the estimate given in the July 2006 issue of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. It is an estimate because arriving at an exact figure is not possible, since parts of U.S. aid to Israel are a) buried in the budgets of various U.S. agencies, mostly that of the Defense Department (DOD), or b) in a form not easily quantifiable, such as the early disbursement of aid, giving Israel a direct benefit in interest income and the U.S. Treasury a corresponding loss. Given these caveats, our current estimate of cumulative total direct aid to Israel is $113.8554 billion.
It must be emphasized that this analysis is a conservative, defensible accounting of U.S. direct aid to Israel, NOT of Israel’s cost to the U.S. or the American taxpayer, nor of the benefits to Israel of U.S. aid. The distinction is important, because the indirect or consequential costs suffered by the U.S. as a result of its blind support for Israel exceed by many times the substantial amount of direct aid to Israel. (See, for example, the late Thomas R. Stauffer’s article in the June 2003 Washington Report, “The Costs to American Taxpayers of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: $3 Trillion.”)
Especially, this computation does not include the costs resulting from the invasion and occupation of Iraq—hundreds of billions of dollars, 4,000-plus U.S. and allied fatalities, untold tens of thousands of Iraqi deaths, and many thousands of other U.S., allied, and Iraqi casualties—which is almost universally believed in the Arab world to have been undertaken for the benefit of Israel. Among other “indirect or consequential” costs would be the costs of U.S. unilateral economic sanctions on Iran, Iraq, Libya and Syria, the costs to U.S. manufacturers of the Arab boycott, and the costs to U.S. companies and consumers of the 1973 Arab oil embargo and consequent and subsequent soaring oil prices partially as a result of U.S. support for Israel.
Among the real benefits to Israel that are not direct costs to the U.S. taxpayer are the early cash transfer of economic and military aid, in-country spending of a portion of military aid, and loan guarantees. The U.S. gives Israel all of its economic and military aid directly in cash during the first month of the fiscal year, with no accounting required of how the funds are used. Also, in contrast with other countries receiving military aid, who must purchase through the DOD, Israel deals directly with the U.S. companies, with no DOD review. Furthermore, Israel is allowed to spend 26.3 percent of each year’s military aid in Israel (no other recipient of U.S. military aid gets this benefit), which has resulted in an increasingly sophisticated Israeli defense industry. As a result, Israel has become a major world arms exporter; the Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports that in 2006 Israel was the world’s ninth leading supplier of arms worldwide, earning $4.4 billion from defense sales.
Another benefit to Israel are U.S. government loan guarantees. The major loan guarantees have been $600 million for housing between 1972 and 1990; $9.2 billion for Soviet Jewish resettlement between 1992 and 1997; about $5 billion for refinancing military loans commercially; and $9 billion in loan guarantees authorized in FY ’03 and extended to FY ’10. Of that $9 billion, CRS reports that Israel has drawn $4.1 billion through FY ’07. These loans have not—yet—cost the U.S. any money; they are listed on the Treasury Department’s books as “contingent liabilities,” which would be liabilities to the U.S. should Israel default. However, they have been of substantial, tangible benefit to Israel, because they enable Israel to borrow commercially at special terms and favorable interest rates.
Components of Israel Aid Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. aid since World War II (not counting the huge sums being spent in Iraq). The $3 billion or so per year that Israel receives from the U.S. amounts to about $500 per Israeli. Most of this money is earmarked in the annual Foreign Operations (foreign aid) appropriations bills, with the three major items being military grants (Foreign Military Financing, or FMF), economic grants (Economic Support Funds, or ESF), and “migration and refugee assistance.” (Refugee assistance originally was intended to help Israel absorb Jewish refugees from the Soviet Union, but this was expanded in 1985 to include all refugees resettling in Israel. In fact, Israel doesn’t differentiate between refugees and other immigrants, so this money is used for all immigrants to Israel.)
Not earmarked but also included in congresssional appropriations bills is Israel’s portion of grants for American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA) and monies buried in the appropriations for other departments or agencies. These are mostly for so-called “U.S.-Israeli cooperative programs” in defense, agriculture, science, and hi-tech industries.
Before 1998, Israel received annually $1.8 billion in military grants and $1.2 billion in economic grants. Then, beginning in FY ‘99, the two countries agreed to reduce economic grants to Israel by $120 million and increase military grants by $60 million annually over 10 years. FY ’08 is the last year of that agreement, with military grants reaching $2.4 billion (reduced by an across-the-board rescission), and zero economic grants. Then, in August 2007, U.S. and Israeli officials signed a memorandum of understanding for a new 10-year, $30 billion aid package whereby FMF will gradually increase, beginning with $2.55 billion in FY ’09, and average $3 billion per year over the 10-year period.
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When I was young, my father and I went 'round and 'round in the evenings. I wanted to watch Channel Six. I considered it more reliable in terms of news than the other stations. My father wanted to watch Don Woods. You see, he considered Mr. Woods more reliable. When Don forecast rain for the weekend, we were off to the lake. When Don forecast fair weather, we canceled the picnic and kept the galoshes close to the front door.
It was an odd sort of "reliability", but it worked for Dad. Now, I see from last night's broadcast, you are playing for the same sort of "reliability". You seem to believe that we will tune in, secure in the knowledge that when you say it's day it will assuredly be night, and when you say it's night it will unquestionably be day.
You said that Nathan Dahm's website was "misleading". Oh, I'm sorry. You didn't say that; you said it was "MISLEADING". Well, I still don't have it right; I seem not to have huge red letters at my disposal. I guess I have a long way to go to become a proper propagandist.
So what was it that was "MISLEADING"? It seems he mentioned that John Sullivan voted for the TARP bailout, and provided one link that proved the assertion (and proved the same about Mary Fallin) and one that showed he voted for something else. So, you pronounced that one link of two "MISLEADING". You didn't, I see, even mention that a link which proved his claim and was in no way "MISLEADING" was right below it.
So this raises the question--is it more "MISLEADING" for a candidate to provide a link which is what he says it is, and another link just as a bonus, or is it more "MISLEADING" to jump on this one link in the finest "gotcha journalism" style in an effort to make people believe that no such bailout vote occured?
For, you see, there is no question that Sullivan (and Fallin) voted to rob from the poor and give to Goldman Sachs (and others). The only questions that remain are, who do you think you're fooling, and is it really a good idea to sacrifice your reputation as a news organization for a piece of Good Advertiser Sullivan's "War Chest"?
Our founding fathers believed that a vigorous and free press was necessary for the maintenance of a democracy. I sincerely hope they were wrong. For if they were right, then there is no hope for democracy in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
And I don't know what else to say, except that I hope the fine reputations of Doug Dodd and Clayton Vaughn are in no way tarnished by the fact that the news organization they once worked for has degenerated into a "news organization" and an outlet for pure propaganda.
As sincerely as a heart attack,
Anthony Platt of Tulsa.
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The Nathan Dahm campaign
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Anyone to whom any of the above care to forward this.
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THE OKLAHOMA TAX COMMISSION IS A JOKE! AREN'T THE CASINO'S SUPPOSE TO HELP SUPPORT SCHOOLS, ROADS, AND THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA....IT SEEMS THAT ONLY THE GOVERNMENT OFFICALS ARE THE ONLY ONES MAKING MONEY OFF CASINO'S IN OKLAHOMA. THE CHEROKEE CASINO DOEAN'T EVEN HELP OUT THE TRIBE. THE CHEROKEE NATION IS MORE SCANDALOUS THAN THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA, OHHH WAIT THEY ARE PRETTY MUCH THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA, THEY JUST USE TAKE ADVANTAGE CHEROKEE'S AGAIN FOR THEIR OWN PROFIT. AND YES I'M HALF CHEROKEE, NEVER HAVE HAD HELP FOR THE NATION. I GET REJECTED FOR COLLEGE AND ASSISTANCE, BUT I SEE PEOPLE WHOM ARE NOT EVEN REGISTERED TO THE TRIBE GETTING FULL RIDES AND BENEFITS THROUGH THE CHEROKEE NATION.
IT'S ALL A SHAME IF YOU ASK OR DEPEND AN OUR STATE OR GOVERNMENT FOR HELP, UNLESS YOUR RICH AND NEED A TAX BREAK OR IF YOUR BANK NEEDS MONEY.....BANKS GOT EVEN MORE STRICT WITH THEIR BAILOUT, THEY GOT RAISES AND PAID VACATIONS.
PEACE OUT
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@stretmediq
If you haven't written McDonald's corporate office yet, you should. Those are the things they need to know about. When paying for food and service, there's no reason for beratement of calm, well-meaning customers. Lately I've thought, if the environment and/or the meal, itself, is better at home, why eat out? It's beginning to make less and less sense.
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i was piiiiiised at RED ROBIN over here on south riverside. i've been to other red robins, but i didn't recall being this irritated when i left. it was just utterly horrible food, tasteless and WAY OVERPRICED. also, the drinks tasted watered down. it was just an overall bad experience and we'll NEVER go there again. EVER!
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You can vote on the music link but it doesn't have all the categories on it.
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