When the World is too much to take

On March 19 the Tulsa World ran an opinion piece from Allison Moore, a Muslim member of the Tulsa World's “Community Advisory Board.” It was titled: Why not hate? Your own health may be at risk.

Most of it was innocuous, citing health studies that suggest hating people leads to mental and physical illness for the individual who hates. But her first paragraph was more than any rational person should have to take:

Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry - Squatters on the Moral High Ground

Oklahoma State Representative
John Bennett of Sallisaw.

by Theodore J. King - 

On September 11, 2014, Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry (TMM) released a statement condemning State Representative John Bennett of Sallisaw for comments he made about the dangers, he perceives, of Islam in the United States.

On February 15, 2015, TMM promoted a candle light prayer vigil held at Boston Avenue United Methodist Church for three Muslim college students: Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha, and Razan Abu-Salha, who were shot to death by an atheist over a parking space in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

While it is reasonable for TMM to condemn the murder of anyone over a parking space, regardless of religion, TMM had no comment on the beheading of Colleen Hufford and the stabbing of Traci Johnson, employees of Vaughan Foods in Moore, Oklahoma. Alton Nolan, a recent convert to Islam who had renamed himself Jah'Keem Yisreal, on September 24, 2014, beheaded Colleen Hufford and stabbed Traci Johnson at the Vaughn Foods factory in Moore, Oklahoma. He was stopped from killing Johnson when the owner of the factory, a reserve Oklahoma County Deputy, shot Nolan/Yisreal, wounding him. TMM promoted and participated in a prayer vigil for the killings that occurred in North Carolina, a thousand miles from Tulsa, but made no mention of a killing by an Islamic fanatic, a little over a hundred miles away in Moore. In my meeting with Rev. Ray Hickman, TMM's executive director, on November 8, 2016, I asked him about this.

Counter Culture Hissy Fits

  I voted for Gary Johnson for President.  He was not my ideal candidate, but I think he was the most qualified having been a reasonably, successful two-term governor of New Mexico.  And anyone who can convince folks twice to let him live in a mansion in Santa Fe , rent free, must be pretty clever.   Since we have an electoral college system, and therefore 50 state elections, I could vote my conscience.   If you voted for Trump and don't want to read any further let me leave you with this – I'm not here for you to agree with everything I write.  I am a truth teller and therefore an equal opportunity offender.  Having written that, I am relieved Hillary will not be president and am prepared to support this new president even though I have misgivings about him.

  Today, I picked up the entertainment tabloid The Voice which took the place of Urban Tulsa after UT folded some years ago.  The Voice is a publication of Langdon Publishing who  publish Tulsa [Rich] People magazine.   It is a magazine for, by, and about the elite of Tulsa.  While it is called Tulsa People the Tulsa people who live east of Harvard, north of Admiral, and west of the Arkansas River are never seen in its pages.  The Voice, is a publication for, by, and about millennial snowflakes. 

TSET Discovers Water

This is a billboard found on the expressway to the Tulsa airport. You have probably passed one just like it on your way to church, school, work, etc. The ad tells you to drink water. It comes from the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust or TSET, 

They currently have one billion dollars in the bank. By 2025 they may have two billion. Of that money, almost NONE goes towards healthcare in Oklahoma. But they can spend money on billboards informing you that water is good for you.

It's time to take TSET's money and apply it towards healthcare and healthcare alone not on slick ads telling us to drink water, eat our vegetables and not smoke.