Mullet Over #549

Veterans of snow shoveling generally agree that spraying one’s shovel scoop with cooking oil will facilitate snow shedding and significantly decrease the effort required for clearing sidewalks, etc.

A special few bread-baking mavens are perceived as skilled artisans. Subsequent to overseeing dough preparations, the experts closely regulate ambient moisture content, oven temperatures, oven air flow and baking times. Particular hamburger vendors often pay handsomely to acquire tasty buns “perfectly” prepared.

Sometimes Hollywood really is larger than life. When filmmakers made the motion picture Mutiny on the Bounty (starring Marlon Brando), the movie model of the 18th century ship was constructed on a 1.3:1 (180 feet vs. 138 feet) scale to provide extra space for filming crews.

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Income tax reform bill heads to full Senate

The Oklahoma Senate Finance Committee has given approval to legislation that would ultimately lower the state income tax rate from 5.25 percent to 4.75 percent.  The measure was approved on a nine to three vote on Tuesday.  Senate Bill 585 by Sen. Mike Mazzei, R-Tulsa, and Sen. Rick Brinkley, R-Owasso, would be fully effective in tax year 2015.

“When fully implemented, this will save hardworking Oklahoma taxpayers $250 million,” said Mazzei, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.

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Pro Tem Bingman on Administrative Workers’ Comp.

Oklahoma Senate President Pro Tempore Brian Bingman issued this statement Tuesday in response to the passage of Senate Bill 1062, the Administrative Workers’ Compensation Act, in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The legislation was passed on an 8-2 vote and now heads to a floor vote before the full Senate.

“Today’s vote is an undeniably strong signal of support for replacing Oklahoma’s broken workers’ compensation system,” said Bingman, R-Sapulpa.  “We have to put the brakes on our runaway workers’ compensation system if we are serious about growing our state’s economy.  I applaud my colleagues in the Senate Judiciary Committee for their dedication to making Oklahoma a more prosperous place to live, work, and raise a family.

Digital audio with Senator Bingman discussing the Administrative Workers’ Compensation Act has been posted.  Go to www.oksenate.gov, select the “Media” tab and then go to audio clips or click here for the direct link.

Muslim preacher urges ‘Jihad Seeker’s Allowance’

Anjem Choudary was secretly filmed mocking non-Muslims for working in 9-5 jobs their whole lives, and told followers that some revered Islamic figures had only ever worked one or two days a year.

“The rest of the year they were busy with jihad [holy war] and things like that,” he said. “People will say, ‘Ah, but you are not working’.

“But the normal situation is for you to take money from the kuffar [non-believers].

“So we take Jihad Seeker’s Allowance. You need to get support.”

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Irreconcilable differences

Opinion:  I haven’t written anything since the election. I have just been watching and listening and reading. What I have seen, heard, and read concerns me a great deal, mainly because it is far too similar to what I saw, heard, and read before the election.

For four long years, a small group on the right documented publicly, for all to see, just who and what Barack Barry Hussein Obama-Soetoro is. Presented clearly, unambiguously, in terms easily understood even by those with only a government school education, to not have gotten the picture was only possible for the willfully blind or the terminally stupid. Unfortunately, this appears to be what the majority of Americans, including millions of “conservatives,” actually are.

I still see so-called conservatives talking about Obama and the Democrats as if they were the loyal opposition who really believe in America, but just differ in how they want to make her better. That Obama and the Democrats are hard-core Marxist revolutionaries, out to destroy capitalism and turn the country into a collectivist, totalitarian police state, seems never to have occurred to them. In fact, they still appear offended by the fact that some of us point out this fact.

Instead, I see the same tired, old RINO Establishment hacks, like Boehner, McConnell, Rove, et al., and hear them mouthing the same old mealy-mouthed Big Talk, following it up with No Action, and leaving the pundits with tons of meaningless verbiage to spew out in an ever-changing, but always the same flood of useless nothingness.

The Benghazi debacle/scandal, which as little as 20 years ago would have brought down the government, is being swept under the rug. We have a senator who has been caught using underage sex slaves in the Dominican Republic, paid for by a beneficiary of his legislation. We have dozens of blatantly unconstitutional “gun control” bills, clearly aimed at eventually completely banning private ownership of firearms, being run out at the federal and state levels. We have the Fraud in the White House continuing to ignore the constitution and by-pass a complicit Congress with a string of patently illegal “executive orders.” The blatant voting fraud during the 2012 election is being brushed off as just the notion of a handful of misinformed, misguided troublemakers. There’s a whole lot more going on, but we only have so much space. In any case, what do all these outrages have in common? Like the vast majority of mass murderers in America, the perpetrators are Democrats and the incidents are all being ignored, lied about and/or distorted and spun in a favorable light by the Department of Propaganda, aka, the Fifth Column or “mainstream” media.

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