Midday Open Thread
Daily Kos —
The RNC's Michael Steele has been taking so much heat from fringe conservatives that he shut down his blog. Jeffmd has put together some very cool precinct-level maps of the IL-05 special election. - DavidNYC Good news for the environment, bad news for Dow Chemical: In one of her first actions as director of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson has ordered the Great Lakes office of EPA to stop negotiations with the Dow Chemical company — begun in the last days of the Bush administration — over controversial dioxin cleanup in the Saginaw Bay watershed. Bush's ...
Oklahoma tells Obama-voting gun owners to get out
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
... Nasty story . Fortunately, the state handled it well. Well, they apparently didn't handle it well when they were first informed of the problem - it took a third person to tell them that they too were offended before the state felt they "had" to act. Dunkley and his father, Daniel Reddy, who live in Tulsa, went to Broken Arrow on Tuesday night for a hunter safety course normally required to get an Oklahoma hunting license.... But when father and son arrived at the lesson, the volunteer instructor, Kell Wolf, asked if any of the students voted for President Barack Obama. Reddy, ...
OK: hunting instructor tells Obama voters to get out
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
by Pam Spaulding
The election has been over for months now and this loser still can’t get over it. From the land of Sally Kern, look what happened to 13-year-old Lane Dunkley and his dad Daniel Reddy experienced when he took a class to receive his hunting license. But when father and son arrived at the lesson, the volunteer instructor, Kell Wolf, asked if any of the students voted for President Barack Obama.
Reddy, a transplanted Californian — and former Marine — raised his hand.
According to Reddy and others in the room, Wolf called Obama “the next thing to the Antichrist” and ordered Reddy and Dunkley from the ...
Not Exactly the Best Way to Win Friends & Influence People
Ace of Spades HQ —
Not Exactly the Best Way to Win Friends & Influence People This article , from the Tulsa World, is a story that I've been just waiting to hear since the inauguration. Not that I knew it would happen in this arena, but I knew it would happen SOMEWHERE. Sort summary: Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation volunteer hunter safety instructor starts out his class with the question "How many of you voted for Obama?" When the Obama voters in the class raise their hands, Mr. "I'm The Only True Patriot In This Room" demands that they immediately leave or else he'll cancel the ...



