Dance With Occupy Everywhere

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ANALYSIS: A life-changing event

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Priorities Revealed

From today's Tulsa World:

Letter to the Editor: Some protection

By Delbert Majors, Tulsa
Last Modified: 12/11/2011 3:24 AM

"I am absolutely astounded and appalled. On the evening of Nov. 25, our family was watching a movie on TV when we received a knock on the door. It was a neighbor from across the street, asking if we had seen or heard anything unusual in the last 30 minutes or so. We hadn't. He was asking because several of the windows in his Lincoln Navigator had been broken - obviously by someone or ones who were just bored because they didn't steal his high-dollar stereo or anything.

What was astounding was when I asked him if he had called the police, he replied he had and they referred him to a web page on the computer to fill out for their police report. This absolutely flabbergasted me. The police won't follow up on crimes committed in a neighborhood.
The big kicker happened the next morning. We love just living a few blocks from Riverside. One of our guests went for his morning run. When he got back, he said, he saw several cars with broken windows.

This means if the police had come when they were first called, there would have been a good chance they would have captured the offenders. Especially when I just read a few days before, they were graduating a new class of policemen from the academy. They were going to be looking for drunk drivers and seatbelt offenders. Drunk drivers, yeah. But come on, shouldn't robbery and vandalism be put ahead of seatbelt offenders?

Again, I can't tell you how appalling this type of "police protection," or lack thereof, is to me." 

Why Burger King Doesn't Run Attack Ads Against McDonalds?

Maybe we are headed into an era where the political parties become less and less relevant while unlikely social justice advocacy groups become popular opinion makers.

Bob Schieffer's commentary about the absence of commercial 'attack ads' gives us some insight by comparing the commercial world to the political campaigns.

15 Million US Children Live in Poverty

Jay Cronley includes this very compelling comment in his Sunday column in the Tulsa World.

“Perhaps you noticed over the Thanksgiving period that lines were longer to get a hot turkey meal than where they were selling big flat-screens for a few hundred dollars.”

Yes, hunger and poverty go hand in hand with unemployment, along with their hand-maiden, homelessness.  Just watch this video.

We can do better than this.

Just Sayin'

Here's a letter to the editor submitted Friday November 18 to the Tulsa World.  So far, it hasn't appeared in print or online.

"On November 17, the Tulsa World reported that a 33 year old homeless man pleaded guilty to robbing an Arvest Bank in Bartlesville of $7,193. The paper said the judge sentenced him to life in prison because that’s what the bank wanted. 

Meanwhile, Wall Street fraudsters, who ran our country into the ditch and wrecked our economy, continue to get ‘golden parachutes’ worth millions instead of hard time in a ‘federal gated community.’  

Meanwhile, the twelfth richest man in America, who spent $250 million of his own money to become mayor of New York City, had his police department arrest Occupy Wall Street demonstrators exercising their rights and confiscate their personal possessions, including books. The score of arrests nationwide is demonstrators, 1,000+, fraudsters 0. 

Meanwhile, the census bureau reports the middle class shrunk to less than half of our population. Does this mean that the majority of our country is made up of the poor and the rich? 

Now, I hear some families who are struggling to get into the middle class are beginning to wonder, “if you want a piece of the American Dream, you’ll have to go to Finland to find it.”"

Just sayin’