In addition to having a pathetic and contrived radio show show, Regular Jim Traber also has an incredibly boring website. At the this site you can see picture galleries of Regular Jim, including his family’s best attempt at making bad stock photography, his trading cards, and someone named “Card Board Jim Traber.”  Seriously.

The site also includes other pointless things like an event calendar from 2009 and an “About Us” page that, get this, claims that Regular Jim was inducted into a mysterious “Baseball Hall of  Fame in its first year of existence.”    Regular Jim doesn’t clarify which Hall of Fame this is, but I can only speculate it’s either the Mendoza Line Hall of Fame or the International Bad Baseball Player Hall of Fame and Museum.

The “cash cow” of Regular Jim’s website is a message board where people with user-names like mingusX5, Patriot Girl and da_greek_poke bicker and have pointless discussions about sports.  I’ll admit, I frequented the message board for a bit during the mid-Aughts.  I think I was married at the time, so clearly I wasn’t in the right frame of mind.  Marriage is my excuse for nearly everything that happened in the mid-Aughts.

The reason I bring all this up is that a reader notified us yesterday that Regular Jim is now looking for new advertisers on the bustling website.  Regular Jim’s website is pretty obscure, so I sent him the following email to see what his rates were:

Mr Traber -

We would be interested in purchasing advertising on your website. It would be similar to the one we have on your baseball stats page. Please send us a rate sheet.

Thank You -

For some reason, Regular Jim never got back with us.  So I decided to do my own research and visit Alexa.com, which ranks all the websites in the world based on traffic.  JimTraber.net, the actual host page for his forum, has a rank of 6,774, 124. That means there are over 6.5 million websites in the world with better web traffic than Jim Traber’s.  To put that number in perspective, our traffic rank is 330,000, DailyThunder’s rank is 361,000, and OklahomaRock’s is 1.5 million.

Based on that information, I would estimate that an add on Jim Traber’s site should cost a pack of Iron City Brew, a dozen Johnsonville Brats and a cheesecloth.  But since Regular Jim does have a identifiable name, I would estimate an add would cost $50 – $100 a month.

Anyway, since Regular Jim Traber will not respond to our email, I challenge our readers to get rates for his website.  That way we’ll know if we can afford an ad on his site and if Jim Traber is possibly charging his advertisers too much money.   You can email Jim by clicking here.

When you get a reply, either email it to use or post it in the comments.   It should be fun.  Maybe Jim will even meltdown on the radio.  That would be cool.

Update: The un-ultimate replied “LOL” to our email.  Not sure what that means.

Last night, Harry Johnson finished last in the Republican Primary for Oklahoma House District 5.   He only received 686 votes.  I think 600 of those votes came from people with a sense of humor as juvenile as ours, 85 came from his friends and colleagues, and 1 came from Haywood Jablome.

As a tribute to Mr. Johnson and his failed bid for epic greatness, watch the video above.  It’s pretty funny.  It’s so funny that I think we should collaborate with this guy on future videos.  What do you think?

Anyway, I’m going to say we are now officially done with bad Harry Johnson jokes.  Unless, of course, Harry Johnson “pulls out” of his next political race.   Or we learn he’s a manscaper.

(Editor’s Note: This post was written by David.  He’s our newest contributor).

Today, the people of Oklahoma’s 5th Congressional District will take their first step towards filling Mary Fallin’s vacancy, which until now was a job left to state troopers. In all, 11 candidates are running for the spot. I visited each of the 11 candidates websites in an attempt to help keep you, the loyal Lost Ogle reader, informed. I will now share some highlights.

First we’ll take a look at the Republicans.  In alphabetical order:

Kevin Calvey -R

www.kevincalvey.com

My favorite thing about Calvey is that he “volunteered for the Army at 37, only a month after being married.” Perhaps this is a testament to his patriotism or how incredibly awful marriage can be, but a month in and Iraq seemed a better alternative to marriage. Then again, his wife is hot, so it was probably his patriotism.

While in Iraq “…he received verbal death threats on several occasions by members of al-Qaeda.” I hope this wasn’t surprising to Calvey. I have to believe verbal death threats lobbed at you are way better than grenades. A bruised psyche is better than a lost limb.

He’s a staunch Catholic, so we know where he stands on things like abortion, homosexuality and logic. According to his website the government wants to… “Use ‘hate crimes’ laws to criminalize preaching the Bible’s words on homosexuality. Kevin will stand strong against such extremist policies.” Criminalize preaching? Beating the hell out of someone because of how they look or love is not “preaching the Bible’s words”. It’s hate. I think the law is trying to prevent the kind of redneck ignorance that causes so much pain. Then again, I could be wrong. I’m not though.

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Rick Flanigan – R

www.rickflanigan.com

From his official website – “If you reached this website because you found a flyer on your car windshield, I would first like to apologize for violating your personal space by putting a flyer on your car. I do appreciate your understanding that I must work extra hard to get my message out.” So he’s sorry, but not sorry enough to not screw with you car. “I respect your personal space, but don’t care I invaded it.” Yeah. That sounds about right for someone wanting to run for political office in this country.

He has a “satire” section on his site which is just a bunch of “funny” essays synonymous with the Tea Part.  One of them refers to Rachel Maddow as “Rachel Madcow” in a piece called “I Think My Wife’s Dog is Communist.”  I’m not kidding. If that’s not enough for you to make an informed decision about giving Rick Flanigan your vote, nothing is, except for the fact that he looks like an age-progressed Chad.

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All 15 Tulsans willing to speak to police as confidential drug informants have been outed.

A federal grand jury investigation into alleged Tulsa Police corruption indicated several officers fabricated testimony, stole money and falsified search warrant affidavits.

Five current and former police officers were indicted on charges of perjury, witness tampering, distribution of drugs and other crimes.

In the wake of the investigation, 11 people have been released from prison, to which all 15 confidential informants said, “Oh F***!”

The list of informants was leaked through a text message and circulated around Tulsa.

As part of the investigation, the FBI and Department of Justice set up a sting operation by placing an agent who posed as a drug dealer with $13,000 in a hotel room.  Four of the indicted officers went to the hotel.  Only $8,000 was turned in.

The FBI taped one of the officers putting money in his pocket.

All but one officer has pleaded not guilty.  Many of the indicted officers have been placed on paid leave.

Paid leave?  Where can I get that gig?  Seems like a pretty sweet vacation.

When the city is laying-off officers and looking at ways to cut back, how about suspended without pay?  In high school, I don’t remember being suspended with A’s. How about no paycheck?  If they’re found innocent: retroactive salaries.

Oklahoma is an at-will state.  What does it take to get fired from a government job?  If an officer walked pantless into the police station, back flipped down the hall and onto the sergeant’s desk, all while singing Rainbow Connection and snorting a line of coke, he would be suspended with pay.  Of course, he’d enter a not guilty plea, even if security cameras taped the incident.

In response, TPD set a no-tolerance policy for police officers found lying on police reports, but only for future lies.

Past falsified reports are still fine.

Last month, we wrote about 10 things we’d like to see happen this summer. Here was Number 10 on the list.

A Republican state senator leaves his wife of 40+ years for a young married lobbyist who may be pregnant with his child.

Well, according to OkiePundit.com, it looks like we may have been close to predicting another summer news story:

OkiePundit can confirm that the Tulsa World is withholding a damaging story on incumbent State Senator Harry Coates until after Tuesday’s primary in order to protect his re-election prospects.

Multiple well-placed sources have confirmed for us that the Tulsa World is sitting on the story that explores the allegation that Coates has been engaged in an affair with a lobbyist who is about 30 years younger than he is and that the married lobbyist may be pregnant with the senator’s child.

OkiePundit has the lobbyist’s name, but we will not publish it at this time as she is not a public figure.

We can also confirm that the lobbyist’s husband works for Governor Brad Henry and filed for divorce on July 13th.  Coates, who is vying to become the Senate Republican leader, has been under pressure since this “open secret” came out in political circles several weeks ago.

Wow.  First Taco Bueno gets a remodel and now this?!?  I’m thinking Megan Fox better hurry up and come to Oklahoma City.  It’s going to happen someday, I promise.

Anyway, I guess we can add to this harry (ha ha!) story a little bit and tell you that:

Continue reading ‘The one where an old State Senator probably had an affair with a young lobbyist…’

Let’s be honest here, we have had quite a bit of fun with Mary Fallin on this website. Therefore, it’s pretty cool that she decided to do this Q&A.  Unfortunately, we’re now going to feel a little guilty when we make fun of her.  Oh well, we’ll get used to it.

Anyway, Mary Fallin is our former Lieutenant Governor, represents the Oklahoma 5th district in the US House of Representatives and was an extra in this depressing Molly Ringwalk film that also starred the dude from Gremlins.  Mary Fallin is also popular, a Republican and a strong favorite to be Oklahoma’s next Governor.

Check out our Q&A with here after the jump.  And if you missed them, be sure to check out our QA’s with Jari Askins and Drew Edmondson after the jump.

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Earlier this morning we posted a Lost Ogle Q&A with Jari Askins. Now we have a Q&A with the other person who wants to be the Democratic Party’s nominee for Governor: Drew Edmondson.

Drew is the current state Attorney General, and has been in that office since I was in high school.  He’s led lawsuits against tobacco, poultry and even Frank Keating.  He also may be the oldest living person to go by the name Drew.  No what that means?  Drew has experience.

Anyway, check out our Q&A with Drew after the jump.

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A couple of weeks ago, we got the idea to do a Lost Ogle Q&A with the four “major” politicians running for the governor’s office. The guidelines were pretty simple.  We’d send each candidates the same 15 “light-hearted” questions, and they’d have a few weeks to answer them.

I’m not sure if we should be surprised, flattered or feel naughty, but three of the four took us up on the offer.  They were Lieutenant Governor Jari Askins (D), Attorney General Drew Edmondson (D) and Congresswoman Mary Fallin (R).  State Senator Randy Brodgon (R) apparently decided not to participate in the Q&A.  He was probably just too busy misinterpreting the constitution or thinking of potential nicknames for a state militia.

The first Q&A we are publishing this morning is with Democrat Jari Askins.  She is the current Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma, a former judge and a former state representative.   She’s also an active alumni of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority.  There’s no word on if she’s ever tried to make it snow.

Anyway, check out our interview with the Lieutenant Governor after the jump.  And check back in a couple of hours for our interviews with Edmondson and Fallin.

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