Rose Colored

(In response to "Bizz Buzz" in the April 28-May 4 issue of Urban Tulsa Weekly)

Thanks Urban Tulsa for listing Turn Tulsa Pink in the Biz Buzz for the week! Our event was great and we appreciate your support! We hope to glow pink from space Oct. 22-29 to honor ALL women in our county who have been affected by any form of cancer. This time PINK is for women and girls!

--Turn Tulsa Pink

Air Out the Laundry

(In response to "Elephant Unleashed" in the April 28-May 4 issue of Urban Tulsa Weekly)

Has anyone noticed Arnold Hamilton's uncanny ability to reduce conservatives to members of one of three (very marginalized) groups: evil corporatists who greedily sacrifice widows and orphans for profits, angry rednecks spoilin' for a fight, or religious zealots obsessed with someone else's moral turpitude? One (or all) of these groups sparks the ire in every column he writes.

Apparently state Republican Chairman Matt Pinnell's tempest-in-a-teapot complaints about the Oklahoma Democratic Party really got Hamilton's goat. But how many people (with a life) care what the New York Times thinks of Oklahoma? Oklahoma could convert every toll road into a bike trail, replace every fast food restaurant with a Whole Foods, turn every church into a Wiccan temple, authorize man-beast weddings, and legalize drive-through abortions, but people who read the NYT would still characterize Oklahomans as flyover state rubes.

After decades of bungling the state's business, folks lost patience and Democrats were finally voted out of office. This has Hamilton in a perpetual snit. The truth is, choosing between Democrats and Republicans is like having a choice between two -- and only two -- brands of laundry detergent, neither of which will actually get your clothes clean. So we helplessly switch back and forth between the two, hoping that someday one of them will finally be able to purge the fudge from our underwear. Neither one ever can.

If Governor Fallin and company, along with a Republican-controlled state house can't make meaningful, positive changes for this state, it's not exactly like the good people of Oklahoma aren't keeping score. If they fail they will be (and should be) voted out. Then maybe Brand B will get yet another chance to prove what it can't do. That should make Arnold happy.

Rinse, repeat.

--Todd Kreigh

Take a Sip

(In response to "Elephant Unleashed" in the April 28-May 4 issue of Urban Tulsa Weekly)

Your obvious liberal bias is astounding. Do your homework before you go on a tirade against Tea Partiers. Yes, there are some Tea Partiers who are a bit on the crazy side, but that is not typical of the group as a whole.

--Nate Williams

Tasty Revolution

(In response to "Concrete Cocinas" in the May 5-11 issue of Urban Tulsa Weekly)

Concrete cocinas is a good thing for us busy people and for the ones who don't like to cook. I hope they're here to stay. I love the idea of taco, torta, tostada and the shrimp. !!!!!!! VIVAN LOS TACO STANDS ... VIVAN!!!

--Molly Montoya

Alternative Considerations

(In response to "Thrift Family and Other Lies" in the May 5-11 issue of Urban Tulsa Weekly)

Fact check.

"Neither party really wants to balance the federal budget because it can only be done by bringing home the troops, shrinking the Pentagon by 90 percent, ending corporate welfare, and soaking the rich."

Ted, realizing that an isolationist, totalitarian worker's paradise is your ultimate -- albeit laughably demented -- objective, how can you consider yourself even remotely honest with statements like this?

This is the "only" way? Government is prevented, by the hand of some deity, from cutting any government expenditures except the Pentagon? No other cuts can be made? The Pentagon and its -- what, 10 percent of the national budget -- is the reason for D.C.'s budget struggles? Really?

Wars are the only waste that the federal government has? Even allowing for your Marxist fantasy that the U.S. is evil and that a military isn't needed, how can you possibly assert that as divine fact if you even have a cursory knowledge of elementary math?

Realizing that your career is built on appealing to the self-loathing many ignorant Americans have and which expresses itself in the form of today's globalist progressive neo-Marxism, it is still hard to fathom why you can't stick to facts and opinions to pursue your goal. When you confuse the two, or lie about which is which, you aren't even a provocateur anymore. You just become irrelevant.

--Michael Wayne

Fiscal Comparisons

Who gets gold and who gets the shaft?

1. Testing companies get gold. Students get the shaft. Teachers are hog-tied to test-prep and state testing.

2. Walmart rednecks get gold. Wal-Mart girls get the shaft. The U.S. Supreme Court is deciding a class-action sex discrimination suit against the No. 1 retailer. The 1.6 million plaintiffs claim female workers in hourly jobs took home $1,100 less than men while women managers earned $14,500 less than male counterparts. The court rules next fall.

3. College coaches get gold. College players get the shaft. For being full-time employees of the college, players get no salary nor workers comp when injured on the job.

4. Smoke shops and smoke-filled casinos get gold. Smokers and gamblers get the shaft. Dumb Okies won't kick their butts, thinking what they don't know about the No. 1 killer won't hurt them.

5. Drug lords get gold. Law enforcement gets the shaft. Drug prohibition produces more crime, more drug-related violence and more corrupt cops.

6. Priests and preachers get gold. Parishioners get the shaft. Catholic and Southern Baptist churches ban women from preaching "the word of God."

7. Blood-thirsty governors get gold. The "though shalt not kill" crowd gets the shaft. The state kills people for killing people, permitting killers to escape the hellhole.

8. Donald Trump gets the gold. Poor folks get the shaft. The poor pay the Social Security payroll tax on all wages and the Trumps are protected from the tax when making over $106,800.

--Virginia 'Blue Jeans' Jenner