Instructor Refuses to Teach Liberals

A Volunteer hunting instructor with the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation has been removed as a volunteer after he asked Obama voters at a recent clinic in Broken to leave and refused to continue the class if they stayed. Two people affected where Daniel Reddy and his son, and his son Lane, who was taking the class to go hunting with his grandfather.

From The Tulsa World:

when father and son arrived at the lesson, the volunteer instructor, Kell Wolf, asked if any of the students voted for President Barack Obama.

Reddy, a transplanted Californian — and former Marine — raised his hand.

According to Reddy and others in the room, Wolf called Obama "the next thing to the Antichrist" and ordered Reddy and Dunkley from the room. When Reddy refused, Wolf said he would not teach "liberals" and would cancel the course if Reddy didn't leave.

Luckily for Reddy and his son, the department set up private instructions for them as all the classes for the rest of the year are booked.

State Rep Doesn't like Freedom of Speech, wants Dawkins uninvited

Following a resolution to place the ten commandments on the state capital grounds, the state of Oklahoma, or at least one representative, goes even farther. Thomsen authored an open condemnation of the atheist Richard Dawkins, and asks the University of Oklahoma to redraw its invitation to have him speech.

In House resolution 1015 (rtf link) Rep. Thomsen (R-Ada) states:

THAT the Oklahoma House of Representative strongly opposes the invitation to speak on the campus of the University of Oklahoma to Richard Dawkins of Oxford University, whose published statements on the theory of evolution and opinion about those who do not believe in the theory are contrary and offensive to the views and opinions of most citizens of Oklahoma.

Oddly in a resolution that condemns one's views it opens with the statement that

WHEREAS, the University of Oklahoma is a publicly funded institution which should be open to all ideas and should train students in all disciplines of study and research and to use independent thinking and free inquiry

So that free inquiry is only in ideas and thoughts that mesh with the majority of voters (or your own views) in the state of Oklahoma. Got it.

**It should be noted that the local Barnes and Noble had a large pile of evolution books including Dawkins' The God Delusion.

Oklahoma home to 19 Hate Groups

The Southern Poverty Law Center has released their annual listing of hate groups in the country. Overall the center lists 926 hate groups with 19 of those being based in Oklahoma. The state with the most hate groups is California with 88 followed by Texas with 66.

The Full list of hate groups in the state:

• The Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ, Inc. (Black Separatist) - Tulsa
• Brotherhood of Klans Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (Ku Klux Klan) - Atoka
• League of the South (Neo Confederate) - Bixby
• Brotherhood of Klans Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (Ku Klux Klan) - Cement
• Brotherhood of Klans Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (Ku Klux Klan) - Coalgate
• Brotherhood of Klans Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (Ku Klux Klan) - Hinton
• The Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ, Inc. (Black Separatist) - Lawton
• Brotherhood of Klans Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (Ku Klux Klan) - Moyers
• Artisan Publishers (General Hate) - Muskogee
• The Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ, Inc. (Black Separatist) - Oklahoma City
• Nation of Islam (Black Separatist) - Oklahoma City
• National Socialist Movement - NSM (Neo-Nazi) - Oklahoma City
• White Revolution (Neo-Nazi) Okmugee
• Bayou Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (Ku Klux Klan) - Shawnee
• United White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (Ku Klux Klan) - Shawnee
• The Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ, Inc. (Black Separatist) - Tulsa
• American National Socialist Workers Party (Neo-Nazi) - Tulsa
• European-American Unity and Rights Organization (White Nationalist) - Tulsa
• Nation of Islam (Black Separatist) - Tulsa

Headline: Antlers woman accused of attacking maid's eye

From The Tulsa World:

An Antlers woman is facing a charge of attempted maiming in which prosecutors say she tried to pull out the eye of a motel maid in McAlester.

Twenty-six-year-old Tommie Sue Cofflet is accused of attacking the maid after the group she was with was asked to leave the motel.

Court documents say Cofflet held the maid in a headlock and began digging at her eye and caused severe trauma to the left eyeball.

Site address change

Just a quick note that the site is going to be changing its address to role into my bigger ircfreak.net domain. The new address for the site will be http://oklahoma.ircfreak.net. The current blogger address will foward you to the new location and the RSS feed should not be affected by the move.

If you want to you can check on my main site http://ircfreak.net or my side blog full of oddities at http://bits.ircfreak.net

Update: The Cname has yet to take affect so the site will still be .blogspot.com based for the next day or so. If you got errors going to oklahoma.ircfreak.net try back tomorrow. The CNAME has been fully pushed to the DNS servers and the switch is complete

One Lonely Woman Protests 10 Commandments Bill

Oklahoma House Bill No. 1330 provides for a 10 commandments monument to be placed on state capital grounds. The monument would be funded by the family of the Broken Arrow representative who authored the bill. Rep. Mike Ritze says the costs to design, build, and maintain the monument would be about $10,000 dollars. The monument would resemble the monument on the grounds of the Texas state capital in Austin, which was the subject of a 2005 US Supreme Court case.


The Texas Monolith

In a sign of just how religious the state of Oklahoma is, one lonely woman, Kelly Howell, a senior history major at the University of Central Oklahoma showed up to protest the bill. Sadly the only day Howell doesn't have classes is the same day lawmakers don't meet. So Howell's protest on the south steps of the state capital was mostly unnoticed.












Photo from NewsOK

Missouri Man shoots TV over DTV Converter [Detour]

In another detour out of Oklahoma we head up to Missouri where a 70 year-old Joplin Webb City man, Walter Hoover, supposedly quite drunk, shot up his TV when he couldn't get his converter box to work:

From KSDK

Police responded to the man's house Wednesday after reports of shots being fired inside.

Turns out the 70-year-old gunman was livid over losing cable and could not get his digital converter box to work. Police took Walter Hoover into custody after a brief standoff and charged him with unlawful use of a firearm.

Lesson? Don't drink while hooking up electronics

Update Heres a video from the AP on the story:

Texas Women Gets Pranked on Craigslist [Detour]

Time for a tangent south of the Red River down to Denton, TX. Here is the story of a Denton women who had her picture and phone number posted on Craigslist and caused her to get flooded with calls asking for sex

"One of them, which actually threw me off guard, said something along the lines of, 'I want to meet up with you and have a good time. Is HIV okay?'"

City of Tulsa Gets Hip; Joins Twitter

Seems the City of Tulsa has realized the benefit of being on twitter and has joined the techie masses. Mayor Kathy Taylor says of Twitter

It's allowing us to reach a whole new demographic of people who may not have been involved with the city before and let them know about all of the exciting things that are going on," she said.

Twitter would have been a great tool for the city to have used during the ice storm of December 2007 to keep residents apprised of the cleanup and power restoration efforts

The city's account, cityoftulsagov, has about 158 followers, though Taylor expects the number to rise as "Social networking like this is the way of the future."

You can also follow the mayor's personal account at MayorTaylor

"Abort Obama, Not Babies"

Little late on this one.

An Oklahoma City man had a sign that read "Abort Obama, not babies" confiscated by police officers who claimed it was a threat against the President of the United States. Now the man, Chip Harrison, is receiving support from all over the country and was given time off by his boss to speak to the media today.

From The Oklahoman:

"I believe that the Lord put the abortion issue on my heart to make a statement,' Harrison said. He told police the words "Abort Obama" meant he was calling for Obama's impeachment over his stance on abortion, according to the police report released this morning, and the sign was returned after the officers' supervisor intervened.

Police spokesman Steve McCool said this morning the sign was taken in error, and Oklahoma City residents should not be worried that their First Amendment rights will be violated.

McCool did not criticize the decision his department made to notify the U.S. Secret Service, which visited Harrison's home later that day and cleared him as a possible threat against the president.

Harrison said he asked the Secret Service agent if he could put the sign back in his pickup window and he was told it was up to him.

Harrison also stated he is not seeking a lawsuit against the department or even an apology just "a better explanation"