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Yep.

Tell me if this sounds like a place that encourages critical thinking, gives students multiple perspectives, encourages asking questions, etc.

The School has "Four Pillars" that explain their values:

1.The primacy of Jesus Christ as the incarnate Son of God, the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, who is the lens for all learning and the Lord of our daily lives.

2.The priority of Scripture as the inerrant and authoritative written Word of God that guides us in all matters of faith, learning, and living.

3.The practice of Wisdom as an objective, attainable reality grounded in the person and example of Jesus Christ and anchored in the Bible.

4.The pursuit of Truth as the goal for all members of the university community, who work to promote healing and wholeness in a broken culture and hurting world.

So tell me, how much questioning, how much pursuit of truth is there when they first declare that Jesus is god, the bible is perfect, and only through Jesus can you be wise? Oh and they have things like purity oaths where you swear you won't (under penalty of fines and expulsion) drink, have sex, do gay things, etc., even off campus, even after you're 21.

Oh and they maintain a policy that they will fire anyone who is homosexual. Which should be illegal, but isn't in Oklahoma.

The University president has written a couple of books that sound like they were written by Glenn Beck's dumber little brother, he thinks global warming is a liberal hoax, and argues that all liberal ideas inevitably lead to Stalin or Hitler.

The school's notablue alumni include the guy that wrote "Heaven is For Real" when his son supposedly had a near death experience (and saw things like Jesus having crucifixion wounds in his palms, which is historically inaccurate).

Schools like these, and there's tons of them, exist because parents want to send their kids to a glorified bible camp that can grant them a degree at the end of it, thus skirting around the evils of real education that might cause them to question their beliefs, and ensure they are surrounded by other students that have taken purity oaths so they won't be having sex or trying alcohol.

It's adult day care.

Oklahoma Wesleyan offers a degree in Science Education (as one of their few majors) specifically because they want to pump out shitty science teachers who will be conscientious objectors when it comes to teaching evolution in schools. They have only one professor of biology, and his personal page on the school website tells you just what kind of a biology education you'll get from him:

>Mission & Passion

>I am a bond-servant of the Lord Jesus Christ, and feel that it is a privilege and a great responsibility to help students learn more about the world of biology and assist students become one with God as Christ is one with God. My passion is to not only help students master the courses I am privileged to teach, but also help each student understand how the Scriptures integrate into every aspect of Biology. It is a privilege to assist students to accomplish the great tasks that God has planned for them.

>I have been studying the Life of the Jesus Christ in detail for over 15 years. I am in the process of memorizing the Book of Matthew. I first memorized the great Sermon on the Mount, Matthew chapters 5, 6, and 7, and it has greatly affected my life, for the glory of God.

Try to tell me with a straight face that this is a place that isn't trying to brainwash kids instead of educate them.

I used to do the waterproof cases or waterproof bag, but I switched over to just a 1/2 gallon plastic container with a screw top lid... Something like THIS Toss that in the cooler and you are good to go. Pretty sure I bought it for like $2 at WalMart.

Extra lighters is definitely a good idea if you are a smoker. Those become very valuable the further you get down river.

Cheap water guns like these are pretty fun to have on the river too.

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David Blatt is a great guy, I'm a big fan of the data collecting that OKpolicy does.

I think there is a good argument to be made for not subsidizing anything and everything (the technical word is willy-nilly) and probably to have subsidies with set end dates (that are sooner rather than later to encourage innovation.)

Who knows, I'll have to do more research into it.

Oh! Also, if you're interested, I went to the Budget Summit in January that OKPolicy hosted which had Paul Pierson as the keynote speaker who co-wrote a very amazing book called American Amnesia about government intervention in the economy that I clearly need to re-read because I feel like it addresses all of this and I've forgotten it

Arizona and New Mexico were both open to white settlement many, many decades before Oklahoma, and only joined the Union later because they decided to do so as separate states (our Enabling Act was the same as theirs, at first). "The Last Frontier" shows up in Oklahoma: A Guide to the Sooner State, produced as part of the New Deal in the 30s and the first comprehensive history of the 46th state, and it shows up in our history other places too. Frontier lawlessness s an important part of the Commission's Report on the Tulsa Race Riot, as the commonplace reporting on Tulsa's lawlessness and need for citizens to take matters into their own hands—or as they called it then, frontier justice—are a key background to understanding why, at the seeming drop of a hat, large swathes of white Tulsa would be willing to commit such terrible atrocities. This is also the same time period as the Osage Indian Murders, when the FBI's forerunner literally recruited cowboys and Indians to solve crimes in the Osage Nation. So for a while there, at least into the 40s, Oklahoma's status as the last frontier was uncontested. You still see its resonance today: central Oklahoma is branded as "Frontier Country" because it's the last land of cowboys, with its huge stockyards and high concentration of period storefronts selling western boots. Seriously, go on google street view and look at the intersection of Exchange and Agnew in OKC and tell me that isn't "Southwestern".

Oklahoma really is on a geographic continuum with eastern New Mexico, and we even share a mesa with them (though it does have a different name there). And the flora and fauna are also similar, with plenty of crossover at least as far as I35. The weather also isn't different: we may call those deep, often dry creek beds washes and they may say arroyo, but they're the same phenomenon, and they're common in the Cimarron watershed really far east into Oklahoma.

Historians also think we're part of the Southwest. James Green, a historian with a doctorate from Yale, named his book on socialism in Oklahoma and the states to our south and west Grass-Roots Socialism: Radical Movements in the Southwest, 1895--1943. Oklahoma University has the Western History Collection, one of the best libraries for primary sources on the "Wild West" in the world, and any book about cowboys and their ilk worth its salt will have a bibliography chock full of monographs from the University's Press.

Consider our cultural institutions too. Gilcrease Museum is the largest collection—in the world—of Western art (western here meaning The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, not 300), and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum is in Oklahoma City. What do both of those museums have a bunch of? Stuff you'd expect to find in a Western, Fredric Remington sculptures, and Albert Bierstadt paintings. That's all really "southwestern", when your image of the Southwest is the OK Corral or Clint Eastwood squinting.

I'm not trying to say we aren't also Southern, or Midwestern, or a plains (or even southern plains!) state. We're all of them, in one big beautiful mix, and don't let anybody say we ain't.

http://www.achickwithbaggage.com/blog/become-a-native-oklahoman-talk-their-language.html

That's the original post online, but I'm not sure where it ultimately comes from.

A long time ago I had an "Okie Dialect Dictionary" that had a bunch of these and more.

I thought this was "purdy" funny myself!

Edit:

I think this is the "dictionary" I'm thinkin' of.

The Good Ol' Boy (& Gal) Okie Dictionary by Daniel Hudgins

https://www.amazon.com/good-boy-gal-Okie-dictionary/dp/0963945777

When you have someone whose core problematic set of cognitions revolve around how they are amazing and better than most people, it's hard to convince that person they need therapy to improve themselves ;)

In terms of most likely therapy, this is a good template - https://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Therapy-Personality-Disorders-Second/dp/1593854765

There's tons of these stories, like when our great "conservative" Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn was negotiating serial philanderer Senator Ensign's monetary exit from a cheating scandal with his staff (his "best friend's" wife).

https://youtu.be/KVIDCSswc6E?t=548

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/coburn-i-acted-as-ensign-hampton-go-between

https://www.politico.com/story/2009/07/c-st-where-scandal-meets-spirituality-025139

https://www.amazon.com/Street-Fundamentalist-American-Democracy-Readers/dp/0316091065/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Tom Coburn is about as "Christian" as Osama Bin Laden. But the illiterate electorate of Oklahoma will buy it if you're selling it. Just like Epic Schools' LIES (which KWTV9 and other Oklahoma based TV media are keeping hush hush right now, because all their friends and political allies are neck deep in it) and on and on and on. Then dumb Okies sit around wondering why politicians lie to them all the time. Gee, it's a "real mystery", isn't it...... ???

> Authoritarian vs Libertarian in my eyes is the real struggle.

I highly recommend this book - http://www.amazon.com/Conservative-Affirmation-America-Willmoore-Kendall/dp/0895268116

Brilliantly written series of essays that speak to that point. I, too, struggled with Libertarianism for a while, and Dr. Kendall's work was instrumental in helping me sort that out.

We had MIL's house professionally sprayed 3 times. There were still roaches climbing the walls in broad daylight.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LLLM06Y/

We put this stuff out, around the walls, behind appliances, in cabinets and on countertops and left it for weeks. Put it in the furniture, too. After you clean it up, you might need to re treat because they will hatch out again. This is for the brown German roaches.
http://www.germanroaches.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/GERMAN-COCKROACH.jpg

Buy these, put about 16 or so drops in a gallon and let the milk sit overnight. Voila! No more lactose. My wife is lactose intolerant and these have saved us so much money from not having to buy lactose free milk.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003VSTRY8

Our current Cox bill is $84 because we do internet only.

If he'd able to get the hang of using a firestick or chromecast, you could hook him up with a Netflix and Hulu account and he could have more options than he'd know what to do with (and get some bunny ears for his TV so he could still watch local news, PBS, sports etc).

May not be the answer you're looking for, but it's a very good way of cutting that bill in half!

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not my shirt - but time to get ready for November!

First of all, good for you creating an account just to spam about two companies' pissing match.

second of all, just get this and watch all of the channel 6 you want, along with a lot of other free channels: http://www.amazon.com/Homeworx-HW110AN-Super-Indoor-Antenna/dp/B008KVUAGU

I am running an ER-X-SFP (Ubiquiti) with HWNAT Offload enabled, and an UAP-AC-PRO for wireless.

You can get both of these for <$100 each if you find them "Used" on Amazon. They work well in this setup. HMU if you need config examples.

EDIT:

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I highly recommend both of these books:
An Oklahoma I Had Never Seen Before
and Alternative Oklahoma

I just recently installed one that's like the sink sprayer in the kitchen sink. It was like 40-50 at Amazon. Here's the link and a video of the product. They do feature video footage of someone wiping shit off of a corn cob:
https://www.amazon.com/RinseWorks-Patented-Certified-Warranty-Extension/dp/B01CF51ZJ2/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=aquaus&qid=1556898520&s=kitchen-bath&sr=1-2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuZs2NuI7VY

I use this guy. It's worked very well for me. I have the 150 down plan and get around 120 down in actuality. It's only $60

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