Monday, May 11, 2009
Maddie's Dance recital is Thursday 21st
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Morning everyone!!
Maddie's Dance recital is Thursday, May 21st at the Stillwater Community Building at 7:00 pm, for those that can make it...
David Feherty shouldn't get pass for tasteless joke - but neither should Wanda Sykes
Updated Monday, May 11th 2009, 7:40 AM
Here is what David Feherty, a golf guy who poses no threat to the memory of Lenny Bruce, wrote in a Dallas magazine recently:
"If you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Osama Bin Laden, there's a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and Bin Laden would be strangled to death."
Not funny. An old joke, tastelessly retold. Feherty of CBS - who once wrote a book called "Somewhere in Ireland a Village is Missing an Idiot" - is drawing fire because of it. But you have to wonder how a similar joke might have played at the White House Correspondents' dinner on Saturday night, as long as it was about a Republican.
Because here are a couple of jokes Wanda Sykes wrote and then delivered to that crowd:
"You know, you might want to look into this, [President Obama], because I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker, but he was just so strung out on OxyContin he missed his flight. ...
"Rush Limbaugh hopes the country fails? I hope his kidneys fail, how 'bout that?"
Somehow Ms. Sykes got laughs with this material, and draws no fire. It is all supposed to be about the setting, or so we are told. President Obama was there, the dinner is always the Washington version of a Friars Club Roast, just without the Sopranos language.
So Sykes, a comedian, gets a pass because of where she was, and whom she was talking about. And maybe who she is. David Feherty, who fancies himself a bit of a comic himself, doesn't, at least not so far. As always, the rules on all this change from day to day like baseball's strike zone.
This isn't about condoning what Feherty wrote. It sure isn't about running interference for Limbaugh. He has become the clown at the right-wing circus and has had the bully pulpit for a long time, not just banging away at people who think like President Obama - or Wanda Sykes for that matter - for a long time.
Limbaugh is another gasbag in this country who has gotten rich on meanness, and so if he is getting a taste of his own medicine now, prescription or otherwise, that is probably just swell with the people he has trampled on the way to the buffet table. Then the bank.
But what if Limbaugh, white talk show host, goes on the air and says that Sykes, black comedian, is about half-a-terrorist and that, oh by the way, he hopes she dies? Is he allowed to say he's just an entertainer, and tell everybody to lighten up?
Feherty? He has been condemned by representatives from Pelosi and Reid and even the PGA Tour. CBS issued a statement that said, "Feherty's column for a Dallas magazine is an unacceptable attempt at humor and is not in any way condoned."
It remains to be seen whether Feherty, whose work on television I usually like, and whose writing I like a lot, will be forced to issue an apology. Or if he might even lose his job over this. This is what Pelosi's spokesperson, Nadeam Elshami, said about the things Feherty wrote in D magazine, in what was supposed to be a piece about George W. Bush moving back to Dallas:
"Such comments are beyond the pale and an insult to our patriotic men and women in uniform."
Really? It sounds like they are a whole lot more insulting to Speaker Pelosi and Sen. Reid. But if context does matter here - which it only occasionally does when the thought police get righteously cranked up about something and turn into vigilantes - it is worth pointing out that Feherty has become a tireless, passionate advocate for injured soldiers. Pelosi went to Iraq this weekend? Feherty has been there, too.
It doesn't get him over on what he said. We'll probably find out soon enough exactly how much trouble he has gotten himself into. He thought Pelosi, liberal Democrat, was fair game. Limbaugh thinks everybody who disagrees with him is fair game.
Wanda Sykes thought Limbaugh, a loudmouth white conservative, was big game, thought she could say whatever she wanted because she had the bully pulpit for a night, and she didn't have to take it from Limbaugh anymore, she could dish it out.
And if Nancy Pelosi had been in the room, she would have laughed along with everybody else, for the best reason in the world: It wasn't about her.
Friday, May 08, 2009
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Ann and I worked with this nice lady at JC Penneys downtown a thousand years ago...
Willa May Ramsey
Willa May Ramsey, 89, of Stillwater, died on Tuesday, May 5, 2009, in Stillwater. Service will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday in Lost Creek United Methodist Church with Pastor Max Rudd and the Rev. Larry Huff officiating. Interment will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens. Strode Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
She was born on Oct. 30, 1919, in Arkansas, to Zeek Bounds and Florence (Tettleton) Bounds. She married Paul Vernon Ramsey on Nov. 5, 1938. He preceded her in death on March 9, 1988.
She was preceded in death by her parents; and husband.
She is survived by three sons, Paul Ivan Ramsey and his wife, Faye, Billie Wade Ramsey and his wife, Cynthia and Curtis Dean Ramsey and his wife, Pam; two daughters, Carolyn Huff and her husband, Homer and Donna Faye Quinn and her husband, Bill; nine grandchildren, Larry James Huff, Paul Scott Ramsey, DeWayne Huff, Michael Todd Ramsey, Kimberly Ann Owens, Amy Lynn Wright, Toby Ryan Ramsey, Matthew Taylor Ramsey and Nicholas Hoisington; and six great grandchildren.
Condolences may be e-mailed to the family and an online obituary may be viewed by visiting www.strodefh.com.
Appreciating teachers
For Teacher Appreciation Week, Stillwater NewsPress is recognizing teachers who have positively impacted readers’ lives. Here’s what several readers had to say:
Appreciating Anita Hauf:
Mrs. Hauf rocks! She is a second-grade teacher at Will Rogers Elementary. She has taught me in both first and second grade.
She taught me how to pronounce words correctly and what they mean. She let us raise caterpillars that turned into Painted Lady Butterflies. She understands when you’re hurt. She makes you happy when you’re sad.
She lets us have popcorn parties as a reward for being good. She’s had lots of student teachers because that’s how good she is.
We got to have a young authors fair. We wrote a book and spent lots of time illustrating it. Then we looked at each other’s books and read them to the parents of my friends.
Mrs. HAUF IS A ROCK STAR!! She makes learning fun!
I’m going to miss her next year.
— Submitted by Lauren Millis
second-grader at Will Rogers Elementary
Ed's Note: My personal thoughts... I have to fav's.... Mrs. Tammy Moffat, and Mrs Trisha Moffat... They are the coolest bestest greatest nicest caringest... you name it they are the "est" of all!
Jonathan sends along this note....
As you have probably heard, Pontotoc county has had the first Oklahoma
case of swine flu. That is right, right here in Ada in fact.
What is really sad is that you get the impression from some around
here like it was a race and it is a good thing. That just confuses me.
Anyway, Randi, me and the kids are all OK so far, so it wasn't us.
But nobody is saying who it was, but supposedly, from the health
person at ECU, this person quarantined themselves for 5 days until
the symptoms passed. So maybe it didn't spread much. But we will know
more as the next 3-4 days go by.
--
Sent from my mobile device
Thanks,
Jonathan Moffat
case of swine flu. That is right, right here in Ada in fact.
What is really sad is that you get the impression from some around
here like it was a race and it is a good thing. That just confuses me.
Anyway, Randi, me and the kids are all OK so far, so it wasn't us.
But nobody is saying who it was, but supposedly, from the health
person at ECU, this person quarantined themselves for 5 days until
the symptoms passed. So maybe it didn't spread much. But we will know
more as the next 3-4 days go by.
--
Sent from my mobile device
Thanks,
Jonathan Moffat
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
"Be generous with your colleagues and your competitors. When
people learn that they do well whenever they work with you,
they will be more willing to come to you with opportunities."
— Michael Masterson
people learn that they do well whenever they work with you,
they will be more willing to come to you with opportunities."
— Michael Masterson
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Monday, May 04, 2009
Wishing Ms Madison Ann Blankinship a very Happy 4th Birthday today!
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy birthday Princess Madison Ann
Happy birthday to you!!! And many more....
Happy Birthday to you
Happy birthday Princess Madison Ann
Happy birthday to you!!! And many more....
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Thursday, April 30, 2009
from Heather comes this interesting tidbit of news...
At five minutes and six seconds after 4 AM on the 8th of July this year, the time and date will be
04:05:06 07/08/09
This will never happen again until the year 3009. 1,000 years later
04:05:06 07/08/09
This will never happen again until the year 3009. 1,000 years later
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