This is my letter to the editor today of the tulsa world

[madokie]

First off I would like to thank you for not covering the Anti-War march in Washington DC on Saturday in Sundays paper, I would hate to see that the local people were shone the caring and compassion exhibited there.
Second I would like to thank you for covering the Pro-War rally in Washington DC on Sunday in todays paper, showing for all to read the hate exhibited here.
I come away knowing what I already knew too well. And that is you are not a BALANCED newspaper

[mermaid]

1. Did You Know That

Tulsa is "A Slut" backwards? :D

[madokie]

2. I do now

[Divernan]

3. Good letter, and how have they covered local boy Mike Brown?

Can you find out if he ever actually passed the bar in Oklahoma. He worked for a small local law firm for only one year and then they let him go. I suspect that they hired him after he graduated from law school and was studying for the bar. The bar exam is taken toward the end of summer and the results come out around early November. In some firms, if the person has the right connections, but fails the bar the first time, they will carry him while he studies for and retakes the bar, but if he fails the second time, they let him go. Brown's one year stint at the OK law firm fits that time frame. The only other legal jobs he referred to in his FEMA bio, were stints doing administrative work for the OK Supreme Court and the Colorado Supreme Court. Those kind of jobs may not require one to be actually licensed/admitted to a state bar, but they do require political connections. This goes a long way to explain why he spent the last 10 or so years before going to FEMA, doing a non-legal job for a horse show association. Given his political connections, if he had passed the bar, he'd have been working for a law firm, or in SOME capacity as a licensed atty.

Then Allbaugh slots him into FEMA as "general counsel" !
Sorry-didn't mean to highjack your thread, but I've been thinking about how to check to see if he was ever licensed by the Oklahoma state bar.

[madokie]

4. I don't have any idea, I do know he was hardly mentioned

in the local MSM. I'll see what I can find.

[fudge stripe cookays]

5. FYI

I would hate to see that the local people were shone the caring and compassion exhibited there

Shone should be "shown."

And I would make the second paragraph less wordy: for instance:
"Second I would like to thank you for covering the Pro-War rally in Washington DC on Sunday in todays paper, displaying all the hate exhibited there."

FSC

[earthboundmisfit]

6. But I'm sure I saw the AP article "Protesters Want Troops Home" yesterday

On page 5 or 7 of section A main news. Had a pic of Cindy on the left. Wish there'd been more pix, and it was the same Associated Press article I'd read elsewhere. I'm at work without yesterday's paper in front of me, so I can't tell you exactly what page and I can't remember the writer, but do check it again, because it's there.
And for the last two Sundays the editorial page has carried many more enlightened letters than we usually see - I'd like to say this is a sign - likely too much to hope for, but it's nice to see!
Cheers to ya, MadOkie - from another one! :toast:

[madokie]

8. What an ass I am.

That part of the paper was on the floorboard of my truck. I was thinking it was a small section but never gave it a second thought. Thanks for the heads up.
I sent an apology to the world just now.:blush:
:toast:

[MrBenchley]

7. Shown, not shone...

and for dog's sake, put some commas in whrre they belong!