What I found most disturbing is that KJRH reported “rapes have fallen to 16%,” which would mean 16% of Tulsans are raped each year.
That many rapes would equal about 170 people a day, seven people an hour or one person every 8.5 minutes. By 2015, everyone in Tulsa will have been raped.I haven’t been raped yet.Since I know my chances are high, I can prepare.
KJRH also reported homicide rates dropped 15% from last year.Tulsa had 68 homicides in 2007.This year we’ve had 54.That’s actually a 21% drop.I’m not a math wiz.I used a calculator.
According to study by Central Connecticut State University, Tulsa is the 21st most literate city in the U.S.
We can read, we just don’t interpret things gooder.
It’s hard to believe, but in just a couple of days 2009 will be here. I’m not sure why that’s hard to believe, but it seems like an appropriately cliched introduction to the cliched “Top News Stories” list. Check out the first half of our Top 20 after the jump.
Over at the greatest website in the world, NewsOK.com, they have posted a video reviewing their Top 10 Videos of 2008. After a cursory review of the rankings, this is what I have determined: the list is sham.
The reason for this is because the best video NewsOK.com has ever produced didn’t make the list. If for some reason it hasn’t made the Top 10 in total views, they need to put it on the front of NewsOK immediately. Not only does it have an interesting kid talking about an uninteresting film, but it showcases Heather Warlick. We like that Heather Warlick.
Fortunately, Brandon Chatmon’s homage to “Boom Goes the Dynamite” came in at number three, but Dave and Angie didn’t show a clip of it. This was strange, because they did show footage of all the other videos that made the list. Hell, they even showed a 10 second clip of an elk fighting a buffalo. Maybe they didn’t have the courage to include a morsel of Brandon squirming “To the Hizzeeeeeeeeeee.” Makes you wonder if they are slightly embarrassed by the video???
Also, I like how Dave mentions the video was posted on DeadSpin, but failed to mention that the reason DeadSpin picked up on it was because we brilliantly posted the video. Dave had an amazing opportunity to prove he wasn’t a Douche Bag, and predictably, he failed. And no, we are not bitter about it. Nope…not bitter at all.
At least scantily clad Thunder Girls made the rankings. Berry Trammel’s f*cktard opus about message boards popped in too. The reason Berry’s video was so popular was because it was posted on so many message boards. Got to love irony.
Anyway, I hope the people at NewsOK.TV have a great 2009, and we wish them the best in their endeavor to produce high budget amateur videos.
On Christmas Day, The New York Timespublished an excellent story about the recruitment of Jamarkus McFarland, a high school defensive lineman from Texas. The story gave a “behind the scenes” look at the college football recruiting process, and focused on the battle between OU and Texas for the services of the Top 100 five star super recruit who is the current focus of most of James Hale’s wet dreams.
The best of part of the article was where Jamarkus described some of activities involved in his recruitment, and what took place during his official visits.
McFarland made four official visits during his recruitment — to Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana State and Southern California.
He said he saw everything from flat-screen televisions in Texas Coach Mack Brown’s bathrooms to L.S.U.’s recruiting hostesses sitting on the laps of prospects.
But the best summation of his experience might have come from a paper he wrote for his English class comparing Oklahoma and Texas. The paper, “Red River Rivals Recruit,” includes a description of a wild party hosted by Longhorns fans at an upscale hotel in Dallas after the Oklahoma-Texas game on Oct. 11.
“I will never forget the excitement amongst all participants,” McFarland wrote. “Alcohol was all you can drink, money was not an option. Girls were acting wild by taking off their tops, and pulling down their pants. Girls were also romancing each other. Some guys loved every minute of the freakiness some girls demonstrated. I have never attended a party of this magnitude.”
He continued: “The attitude of the people at the party was that everyone should drink or not come to the party. Drugs were prevalent with no price attached.”
He compared that with a house party hosted by a sorority at Oklahoma.
“Drinks were plentiful, but not to the extent they were” at the Dallas party, he wrote. “Some people were tipsy, but in control of themselves.”
Hey, I’ve been an OU football fan since I would crawl. I went to my first Sooner game when I was six, and my favorite book as a kid was Bootlegger’s Boy. All that being said, I am officially giving my verbal commitment to the University of Texas. I have no clue what I’m committing to – maybe they have a College of Blogging or something – but sign me up and get me on the bus, I want to be a Longhorn.
Seriously, after reading the Times article, I wonder how we get any recruits to come to Oklahoma. At other places, they have hostesses on your laps, humvee limos taking you to parties, and girls “romancing” each other. At OU, we just send our head coach over to your house to set the dinner table and watch bad comedies. Hell, even OU’s sorority girls are annoying.
I’m pretty sure this is the house band for The Conncourse or Underground or whatever the hell it is they call the trippy-ass tunnel network beneath downtown. I’m also pretty sure that the people who work in The Underdround have to wear the same jump suits as the guitar players.
Hi y’all! I’d love to be able to start off by telling you all to have a Merry Christmas, but that was earlier this week, jerk. It’s over. Sort of. The retailers have their post-holiday hooks in you already, so I doubt the madness will stop for a few days. But…since the holidays are wrapping up, but still clinging to life, I figured you’d all be okay with just a couple more Christmas activities. I mean, it’s not like there’s some giant array of things to choose from for these pointless little posts, but I’ve been given a task, and I plan to work towards finishing that task, right until I decide to give up.
This actually seems pretty awesome. I hadn’t heard of it until the last couple of days, but I’ll pay good money to see pretty girls kicking really high. Nothing says Christmas like the world famous Rockettes, kicking and panty-flashing. I have to admit; that gives me a special kind of holiday joy. The kind where your kneecaps get cold and your pockets get a little tighter. Aside from all that, this sounds like a really great show. I guess by now there’s a good chance that it’s sold out, but it’s not like it’s my fault. You’re the idiot who’s basing his social life on the advice of some Lost Ogle rookie, so just back off, ok chief??
When Thunder General Manager Sam Presti sat on Santa Claus’ lap (and, seriously, I think the guy might still be young enough to get his picture with Santa for his mom’s mantle–he was high school class of ‘95) he had only one wish for Christmas. That wish was seven more wins. Thanks to Toronto not bringing their A game this past week, the Thunder were able to keep pace with the worst team in NBA history by notching their third victory in their first thirty games.
Honestly, this isn’t the worst thing that could happen to Oklahoma City’s franchise. Attendance is still excellent thanks to the excitement of having a major league sports franchise in town, and the team was expected to be awful, anyway. Finishing the season with fewer wins than any other team enhances the team’s odds of winning the draft lottery whose prize is hometown hero and drag queen Blake Griffin. Even making history by failing to meet the ‘73 76ers standard of 9-73 wouldn’t be all bad. It would make Oklahoma City the answer to a Trivial Pursuit question that didn’t involve ripping the heart out of the city of Seattle. In their inaugural season, no less.
Then again, no team wants to be associated with such a mark, and particularly no General Manager, regardless of how important this futility is for the long term plan of the team. With that in mind, these are the Christmas wishes, I had–most with the idea of avoiding this fate: Continue reading ‘Peace, Love and Thunderstanding: Bah, Humbug! Edition’
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