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Mullet Over #573

By James White

The opossums (pronounced “uh-possums” or, in Oklahoma, simply “possums”) are often considered to be unattractive animals. They resemble large rats, have toothy “grins,” generate repulsive odors and can hiss loudly. Traits we might list in the plus column: Opossums usually do not carry diseases and they devour pests such as roaches, mice, scorpions and spiders in large quantities. Contrary to popular myth – opossums do not have the most teeth (usually 50) of any land animal – that would be certain species of snails which typically have more than 25,000. Most of any mammal: Spinner dolphins with 252. Most of any land mammal would be the giant armadillos which can possess 100 pointy dental things.

The official dance of Mexico is The Mexican Hat Dance. Official dance of Hawaii: Hula. Official dance of Kentucky: Clogging (which also happens to be a significant problem for some sewer lines).
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Devastating definition of liberalism

Conservative talk show radio host Rush Limbaugh recently broke down “liberalism” in a detailed-yet-simplistic way for his listeners.

Limbaugh argued that “in a free country, people will not choose liberalism.”

“If they want to eat salt, they’ll eat it. If they want to eat trans fats, they’ll eat it. If they want to eat beef, they’ll eat it,” he explained. “The only way liberals can get you to live the way they want you to is to deny you freedom to do what you want to do. And they’re not happy with you living and thinking in ways other than the way they live and think. You must conform.”

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Red Cross seeks additional blood donors

While many volunteers generously responded to the emergency call for blood donations from the American Red Cross in July, donors of all blood types, especially O negative, A negative and B negative, are still needed this summer. Blood products are being distributed to hospitals almost as quickly as donations are coming in.

Blood and platelets are needed for many reasons. Accident and burn victims, heart surgery patients and organ transplant recipients, as well as those receiving treatment for cancer or sickle cell disease, may depend on lifesaving transfusions. In fact, every two seconds a patient in the U.S. needs a blood transfusion.
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Theatre Tulsa auditions

Theatre Tulsa has announced the audition date for the first production of its 91st season, “Legally Blonde: The Musical.”

Auditions will be held Sunday, July 28, at 1 pm at Christ’s Church Episcopal, 10901 S. Yale. Roles are available for all lead and supporting characters, plus several ensemble singers and dancers.

The show requires a mix of male and female actors ages 18 and up. Older teenagers who can play 18 are also welcome to audition.
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Who owns you?

If hacked, the hacker owns the site – it’s a question of control – the good news for Tulsa Today is that we have recaptured this site and it is back in local hands. We have moved to a higher security server and we are redesigning. Now, dear reader, let’s talk as this redesign is underway.

Those who control your information control what you think you know and your priorities. They control your vote. They control your culture. Whoever controls your information controls you. We have been your independent reporting team in Tulsa and we change to fit your needs.

Tulsa Today (est. 1996) is the oldest independent online local news source on the Internet anywhere and we have often been targeted by those who would silence our voice. For three months, leading to the 2012 national election, Tulsa Today was hacked daily. Daily we applied the patch to remove the hack. The hack was back the same day. Every day the cycle continued until the storm “Sandy” rolled onto the Northeastern seaboard then that particular attack never came again.

Think about that for a moment. If a hacker from the northeast daily launches attacks on a local news and opinion site in Oklahoma then, in regard to the First Amendment and to use NASA’s phrase – Houston, we have a problem. A presumably intelligent computer savvy operator spends regular time over a considerable period to silence a community site halfway across the country… why?

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