Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Brad Henry spent a lot of money yesterday

Fifteen million for early childhood eduction, thirty-six million for OHLAP (Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program), fifty million for teacher pay increases, twenty five million for teachers retirement, seventy-five million for endowed chairs (more on this later), twenty million for better drug and substance abuse treatment and eight million to qualify more kids for Medicaid. Thats about two hundred and twenty nine million dollars Agnes!

In addition he is pouring one million into the Battleship Oklahoma Memorial and we are sending all those statues we bought for Oklahoma City depicting the Land Run to Disney World. Seems that there is a Disney Vice-President who is from Oklahoma and he wants to display those statues down there in Florida this centennial year.

Speaking of Florida, and this is ALL NEW, I was really getting serious about Oklahoma when the lady Astronaut drove 900 miles in her diapers to confront "The other woman." Then Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon is on Larry King Live and says "I know I will be criticized for this but Hell knows no fury like a woman scorned." Things are really in the grease now and for a country so sick of Iraq and Bush, this has to be the most high level comedy of the 2000s. The Republicans in the Senate could not be happier because it takes their refusal to debate the Iraq was off the front pages.
Does anybody really give a hoot or a holler about this? You bet. CNN will ride it. Nancy Grace, whoa! How will this woman-lawyer handle this. "Female astronaut gone nuts."

If you have been keeping up, Second Reading is about over. Tomorrow, Wednesday, February 8, bills will be in committees for hearing.