[mkfarnam]

To Willow61: the OP of this thread...................


ARTICLE II:
You do not have the right to never be offended.. This country is based on freedom, and that means freedom for everyone --
not just you!..
You may leave the great state of Oklahoma, but leave it AS IS,.. get it!?
You may express a different opinions, just remember who your dealing with.
But the world is full of idiots, and probably always will be.

asta La Vista......Baby

[_redbird_]

Originally Posted by wyllow61

A not to Padcrasher....nope, thanks for the invite but no can meet you...I dont drink beer (and in true Okie fashion you will say that is what is wrong with me). I have no idea what a flamewar is....I am not incognito and am not a moderator. I actually found this site doing a search for stats on oklahoma. I took the opportunity to voice my complaints about Oklahoma/oklahomans. And, yes, pretty much most Okies are the way I described...yes, there are some who are clean, some who are nice, but they are NOT the majority.
For Jammie---I got the law enforcement stats I quoted in my original post from the FBI crime stats per state....Okla, according to them, is number 1 for animal cruelty cases, though that was in 06 I believe...

Apparently, our friend wyllow61 has decided not to share her views on Oklahoma with us anymore.

If you re-read the post above, one could lead a herd of heifers through the holes in her fence.

For example, how would she know the majority of people in Oklahoma are not nice? If it is based on the ones she has met, then I would have to wonder WHY the ones she has met are not friendly towards her? I hope she is not making the claim to know the majority of the entire population are not nice.

Second, her spellun and grammir are pretty atrocious for an alleged grad student. She never did tell us what her major is or what college/university she attends. No wonder there.

And as for animal cruelty, I think statistics can be made to make any point. I could just as easily say people in Oklahoma inform law enforcement when they see cases of animal abuse more than other states, therefore we have more cases.

Please come back wyllow61. You will find Oklahomans to be friendly, most are tidy, and many do not drink beer.

That is, if you choose to allow yourself to see the good in Oklahoma.

[linicx]

I"ll trade you. We have one in another Forum that will trump this genius any day and in every way.

He says he own 240 acres. He says he has a bachelors in Economy and a Masters in Finance. He says he has a wife and kids. He understands nothing about tax money, where it is collected or how it is distributed. He's too busy screaming ALL the taxes from his 1/4 of the state go to support the poorest part of the state. I keep wondering if that is the case why does his school system need state and federal funding? . He claims he farms, yet knows nothing about soil, why one county may harvest a greater crop one year than the next, how crops effect the humidity, or why one county might me more hot and humid than the other - even though geographically it is farther south, . And he knows absolutely nothing about the weather. I don't think even a weather rock will help this jerk. He makes wild statements and proves nothing except his ignorance. When he's forced into a citation, je offers proof unrelated to the subject. I have yet to find a state employee that can tell to the penny what percentage of the tax money collected from Area A is used specifically to fund Area Z regarding the amount and for which projects? He doesn't get that local real estate taxes support local schools and the rest of the tax money is collected by state or feds. We have 80,000 farming families that plant an average of 1000 acres each. If you have a good year and harvest 100 bushels of corn per acre; it ain't chicken feed. For a guy that has a wife and kids he sure spends a lot of time and money in girly clubs. His best proof yet is a 40 year old weather map, mot considered by the scientific community. to be the de facto proof of historical humidity data. He does not get that historical data can be 3 minutes old.

[_redbird_]

Originally Posted by linicx

I"ll trade you. We have one in another Forum that will trump this genius any day and in every way.

Maybe we need an "Unhappy People" forum, so they can congregate and spew their pew.

[karibear]

Originally Posted by _redbird_

Maybe we need an "Unhappy People" forum, so they can congregate and spew their pew.

It wouldn't work. They are so busy thinking they have all the answers - just ask them, they'll be happy to tell you what's wrong and what everyone else should do to fix it - to be aware that they aren't happy people. And some people just plain have nothing better to do than hold on to their misery, and try to make everyone else feel just as miserable. I do my best to ignore them.

[mkfarnam]

Originally Posted by linicx

I"ll trade you. We have one in another Forum that will trump this genius any day and in every way.

He says he own 240 acres. He says he has a bachelors in Economy and a Masters in Finance. He says he has a wife and kids. He understands nothing about tax money, where it is collected or how it is distributed. He's too busy screaming ALL the taxes from his 1/4 of the state go to support the poorest part of the state. I keep wondering if that is the case why does his school system need state and federal funding? . He claims he farms, yet knows nothing about soil, why one county may harvest a greater crop one year than the next, how crops effect the humidity, or why one county might me more hot and humid than the other - even though geographically it is farther south, . And he knows absolutely nothing about the weather. I don't think even a weather rock will help this jerk. He makes wild statements and proves nothing except his ignorance. When he's forced into a citation, je offers proof unrelated to the subject. I have yet to find a state employee that can tell to the penny what percentage of the tax money collected from Area A is used specifically to fund Area Z regarding the amount and for which projects? He doesn't get that local real estate taxes support local schools and the rest of the tax money is collected by state or feds. We have 80,000 farming families that plant an average of 1000 acres each. If you have a good year and harvest 100 bushels of corn per acre; it ain't chicken feed. For a guy that has a wife and kids he sure spends a lot of time and money in girly clubs. His best proof yet is a 40 year old weather map, mot considered by the scientific community. to be the de facto proof of historical humidity data. He does not get that historical data can be 3 minutes old.

If he's a farmer, ask him to explain what it was that caused the "Dust Bowl" era.

[Goodpasture]

Originally Posted by mkfarnam

If he's a farmer, ask him to explain what it was that created the "Dust Bowl" era.

Taht would be the wind, right? Without that all that dust would have stayed right where it was............

[mkfarnam]

Originally Posted by Goodpasture

Taht would be the wind, right? Without that all that dust would have stayed right where it was............

Not quite. That's only part of it. It wasn't just a drought either. Something had to stir up the dirt in order to create a never ending dust cloud.

Besides........I didn't ask you..

Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936

[mkfarnam]

The Dust Bowl was an ecological and human disaster caused by misuse of land and years of sustained drought.[1] Millions of acres of farmland became useless, and hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes; many of these families (often known as "Okies", since so many came from Oklahoma) traveled to California and other states, where they found economic conditions little better than those they had left. Owning no land, many traveled from farm to farm picking fruit and other crops at starvation wages. Author John Steinbeck later wrote Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath about such people. The latter won thePulitzer Prize.

The Dust Bowl affected 100,000,000 acres (400,000 km2), centered on the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, and adjacent parts of New Mexico, Colorado and Kansas.
Dust Bowl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Jammie]

Originally Posted by mkfarnam

If he's a farmer, ask him to explain what it was that caused the "Dust Bowl" era.

Was it DUST?

I didn't read your link, but our ancestors suffered from that very same thing~grasshoppers, dust storms, no crops, etc. It was a very difficult era for a lot of people. Kinda makes this awful Recession look just a bit better, doesn't it?