http://www.batesline.com/ Tulsa straight ahead en Copyright 2010 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:03:18 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification The cover story in this week's Urban Tulsa Weekly is a profile of Tulsa District 9 City Councilor G. T. Bynum. Reporter Mike Easterling has written an interesting story about a significant figure in Tulsa politics, and he includes extensive quotes from Jack Henderson and Rick Westcott, Bynum's colleagues from... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/09/g-t-bynum-on-the-cover-of-utw.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/09/g-t-bynum-on-the-cover-of-utw.html Tulsa::CityHall Tulsa City Council Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:03:18 -0600 I was playing Uno this evening with my four-and-a-half-year-old. Spiderman Uno, with the Spider Sense card that lets you see one other player's cards before deciding on the new color. I won the first hand. (Bad daddy.) Little Bit's lower lip started trembling, and he starting getting sniffly. He said... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/09/why-did-my-body-think-of-that.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/09/why-did-my-body-think-of-that.html Family Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:02:33 -0600 Kohl's is running a contest via Facebook, the Kohl's Cares for Kids $10M Giveback Contest. From now until Friday, September 3, 2010, you can vote up to five times each for your favorite school. (You have 20 votes total.) The top twenty schools nationwide will be awarded $500,000 each. I... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/08/help-the-little-light-house-win.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/08/help-the-little-light-house-win.html Tulsa::Education Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:08:46 -0600 On Right Wing News, John Hawkins has posted a first-hand report with lots of photos from the Defending the American Dream Summit (organized by Americans for Prosperity) and the Restoring Honor rally, held last weekend in Washington, D. C. There were huge crowds at both events (although the rally on... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/08/reports-from-the-defending-the-a.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/08/reports-from-the-defending-the-a.html Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:06:56 -0600 Some links around the Oklahoma blogosphere: Brit Gal in the USA is now an American gal in the USA. Congratulations, Sarah! In an earlier blog entry, she writes about her emotions in the days leading up to the citizenship ceremony. And despite living in western Oklahoma for nearly five years,... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/08/oklahoma-roundup-20100829.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/08/oklahoma-roundup-20100829.html citizenship convention center Oklahoma City Roy Clark Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:37:15 -0600 As I've lost a couple of lengthy entries to a bug in the very old version of blog software that runs this site, I've decided to upgrade to a newer version before trying to add any more content. I'm hopeful that it will be a smooth transition. Thanks for your... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/08/site-maintenance-in-progress.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/08/site-maintenance-in-progress.html General Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:31:49 -0600 Back in the 1990s, companies spent billions correcting the Y2K bug, and many worried that mass chaos would ensue when buggy software failed on 1/1/2000, disrupting banking systems, financial markets, power grids, and food distribution. Many believed the best way to ride out the impending crisis was rural self-sufficiency: enough... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/08/city-best-place-to-ride-out-soci.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/08/city-best-place-to-ride-out-soci.html Cities Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:15:58 -0600 UPDATE: midnight, 2010/08/25. Nearly 120,000 Oklahoma Republicans voted in the runoff, and 70% of them voted for John Doak. Congratulations to Mr. Doak and the Oklahoma GOP. This year's turnout is only slightly lower than the 2006 runoff, which was dominated by the high-profile, expensive and fierce runoff for Lt.... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/08/fbi-informant-john-crawford-dest.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/08/fbi-informant-john-crawford-dest.html Oklahoma::Politics Insurance Commissoner John Crawford John Doak Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:31:42 -0600 For all Oklahoma Republicans and for some Democrats around the state, there's a runoff election next Tuesday, August 24, 2010. Early voting at county election boards across the state began on Friday and continues Saturday, August 21, 2010, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Monday, August 23, 2010, from... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/08/2010-oklahoma-runoff-early-votin.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/08/2010-oklahoma-runoff-early-votin.html Oklahoma::Politics Insurance Commissoner John Doak John P. Crawford Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:07:14 -0600 William Franklin, a Tulsa muralist, wants to create a museum in Tulsa devoted to Art Deco. He calls the idea "Decopolis," and he's working incrementally to gather fellow deco fans to help make this dream a reality. Supporters of Decopolis held a Deco Ball earlier this year in the zig-zag... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/08/decopolis-gatsby-picnic-october.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/08/decopolis-gatsby-picnic-october.html Tulsa::History art deco Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:08:00 -0600 Wireless networking and DHCP aren't complicated. They ought to work every time, but they don't. I recently spent a couple of weeks in what was built as a Residence Inn (separate buildings, with eight suites in each) and is now affiliated with a different national chain. Nice place, good price,... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/08/limited-or-no-connectivity.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/08/limited-or-no-connectivity.html Technology Travel internet Microsoft Windows wifi wireless networking Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:39:53 -0600 Here's a blog that aims to provide complete discographies for hundreds of western swing, country, and rockabilly musicians. Each entry has three sections: recording sessions (when, where, session musicians, and tracks recorded), albums, and singles. Each album listing includes the titles of each track, although it doesn't link back to... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/08/country-western-swing-discograph.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/08/country-western-swing-discograph.html Western Swing Bob Wills Johnnie Lee Wills Texas Playboys Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:38:08 -0600 http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/08/public-trust-funds-arent-public.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/08/public-trust-funds-arent-public.html Oklahoma::Politics public trusts Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:00:23 -0600 Mickey Hepner, Professor of Economics at the University of Central Oklahoma, suggests one way to raise per-pupil school funding, other than raising taxes or cutting non-education spending: Offer vouchers to encourage parents to put their children in private schools. In 2008-2009 Oklahoma education funding averaged $8,006 per student. This figure... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/08/to-raise-oklahoma-perpupil-fundi.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/08/to-raise-oklahoma-perpupil-fundi.html school choice SQ 744 Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:08:35 -0600 The BBC World Service has aired a two-part series, Useful Idiots, about Western intellectuals and journalists who were and are apologists for evil regimes. (The title is a phrase of Lenin's.) Part one focuses on the Soviet Union, Stalin, and his defenders, like George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/08/useful-idiots-and-congressional.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/08/useful-idiots-and-congressional.html Global News Politics Communism socialism Sat, 14 Aug 2010 02:03:27 -0600