I’ve been to Oklahoma many times. I agree with you, it’s a scary place. I’m not exactly a coastal elite either. I’m used to Jesus rednecks and horrifying abortion billboards, but Oklahoma is something else entirely.
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Yeah, since this was 20 years ago, there’s a fair chance I’m either remembering something wrong and conflating trips or the place closed long ago. Maybe someone got a deal on some scrap billet/waste from the plant at some point and was selling it off for a while. Still, thanks!
The horrifying abortion roadside monuments are a thing with the Jesus rednecks everywhere. There are a few in TX that are utterly horrifying.
Once you get far enough north, rural TX and OK are hard to tell apart on either side of Red River - gun fondling, Bible thumping, religiously Republican, racist as hell, anti-intellectual, diligent in sabotaging progress, and generally scary, but I was still a little surprised at how so much of the place was like that, like even getting to a larger city (by OK standards) wasn’t like the temporary reprieve into a blue bubble.
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Now you’ve jinxed it. 
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Watching the tornadoes destroy the billboards could be entertaining.
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Moore has some wicked tornado karma. It’s uncanny.
But it might have to do with the location, being immediately south of OKC. The stronger tornadoes tend mostly to move from Southwest to Northeast, and it seems they get deflected by the heat dome from the built up area of OKC; thereby detouring into Moore.
Fun fact: Oklahoma City has a larger population than Las Vegas, NV; Baltimore MD; and Atlanta, GA (just to pick a few surprising examples).
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They had a story on the local NPR this morning, which I can’t find on their website, unfortunately, about how several of the republicans had a debate, and the audience was annoyed and unconvinced on their discussion of the healthcare issue.
The couple of folks they talked to sounded irritated by the republicans.
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Fortunately, I’ve never turned to Johnny Rotten for informed political opinion.
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Ah shit. Looks like he fooled me into thinking he’d turned into such a sweet old fart.
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WTF, seriously:
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I threw up in my mouth a little bit after reading this:
Notably this buzzword filled tripe:
The White House Office of American Innovation, to be led by Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, will operate as its own nimble power center within the West Wing and will report directly to Trump. Viewed internally as a SWAT team of strategic consultants, the office will be staffed by former business executives and is designed to infuse fresh thinking into Washington, float above the daily political grind and create a lasting legacy for a president still searching for signature achievements.
So help me god if somebody says, “government 2.0”…
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How long until Kushner fucks something up due to lack of ANY experience, do you wager?
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I’m hoping really soon.
And whatever happened to all those anti nepotism laws anyway? (Oh yeah, they are vague and filled with loopholes.)
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Once this admin is gone, some laws and guidelines clearly need to be updated and strengthened.
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Watch him veto it.
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That was surreal. He seemed like he was completely agreeing with it all the way through, and then said THAT?
The mind boggles.
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Shocked/ shocked/ not that shocked.
http://www.alternet.org/media/foxs-bill-oreilly-totally-isnt-racist-despite-all-these-times-he-was-very-clearly-racist
http://www.cnsnews.com/video/national/oreilly-americas-race-problem
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/a3mfzw
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No, I know his history. But did you see him nodding emphatically the entire time, and mouthing words that made it seem like he completely agreed with her? That’s the part that I can’t figure out.
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