OKC912Project newsletter for the week of January 4th 2010

OKC912Project newsletter for the week of January 4th 2010

Until I have time to create a newsletter in a more reader-friendly format, I am condensing the newsletter to those articles most currently impactful for our membership in terms of action and education. Please continue to check www.RestoreOkPublicEducation.com for information on Education-related issues. Please contact me with questions about content or for more information on upcoming events; jenni@okc912project.com. Jenni White; Education Coordinator, OKC912Project

UPCOMING EVENTS:
Please include as many of these as you can on your calendar.

- January 11th, Thursday, Activist Training - Operation Defuse; 6:45 PM - Belle Isle Library, 5501 N Villa Ave., Oklahoma City, OK 73112. Operation Defuse is an awareness and action campaign aimed to stem the growth of a totalitarian-style police state.

- January 21st OKSAFE Action Forum, the Village Library, 10307 N. Penn Ave., The Village, OKC, 6:30-8:00 pm

- January 21st, Screening of Not Evil Just Wrong, 7-9pm, UCO (and two Tulsa locations), Liberal Arts Building. Contact Leigh Sethman Oklahoma Grassroots Coordinator, Americans for Prosperity, 405.202.9945 for more information

- January 22nd & 23rd - Clouds Over America Conference, Friday afternoon
through Saturday morning. For more information and reservations, please call (405) 348-9991 weekdays from 9:00 a.m. until 5:30 p.m.

- February 1st, Monday, Meet Your Legislator on opening day of the legislative session! Meet in the first floor rotunda of the State Capitol at 12:00 to meet your legislator and begin to learn how to have influence over what happens in this state! There will be a refresher course on talking to legislators (ten minutes or so), an update on pending bills and distribution of bullet pointed flyers to lawmakers. After the State of The State speech, the legislators will return to their offices and we will be there to meet them.

- February 4th Thursday, OKC912Project General Meeting; All members are invited to discuss and help draft simple group bylaws. American Legion Post 73, 5000 SE 24th Street 73155

- February 11th 5th District Congressional Republican Candidate Debate 6:30pm to 9:30pm at the UCO Nigh University Center - 2nd Floor - Constitution Hall

- February 18th OKC912Project Candidate Town Hall with James Lankford, Congressional candidate for Oklahoma’s 5th District AND Dr. Janet Baressi, Candidate for State Superintendent of Schools. American Legion Post 73, 5000 SE 24th Street 73155

- February 19th & 20th - The Oklahoma Liberty Conference, Sovereignty 2010 will be sponsored by the Oklahoma Constitutional Alliance at the Metro Tech Spring Lake Conference Center, 1900 Springlake Drive,Oklahoma City, OK 73111, Friday 9 am to 9 pm, Saturday 9 am to 5 pm. More information to come later.

- March 4th Thursday, OKC912Project General Meeting; TBA. American Legion Post 73, 5000 SE 24th Street 73155

- March 13th Saturday, Take Back Our Country Tour with Glen Beck, Dick Morris, John Rich and Gretchen Wilson. Tulsa Convention Center. Tickets on sale now @ http://1170kfaq.com/takingourcountryback.html

- April 1st, 2nd & 3rd, OKC912Project General Meeting/Garage Sale at the American Legion Post 73, 5000 SE 24th Street 73155. Please start saving back items you would be willing to donate to the sale now. Please also put this on your calendar NOW so that you can be available to help when time comes! We will need LOTS of volunteers!

Do not forget to find and attend your local OKC912Project small group today. For more information on dates and times please contact:

Nita Lindberg for the Edmond group: nitalindberg@cox.net
Jean Shroer for the North Side group: jischroer@sbcglobal.net
Scott Grass for the Mustang/Yukon group: scottgrass@att.net
Matt DeToy for the Choctaw/East Side group: FLYARCH@aol.com

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LEGISLATION, STATE:
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Lawmakers File “Freedom of Healthcare Choice Act” Contact: State Rep. Mike Ritze
Capitol: (405) 557-7338
OKLAHOMA CITY – The voters of Oklahoma will have the opportunity to preserve the existing health care system in Oklahoma under legislation sought by three state legislators.
State Reps. Mike Ritze and Mike Reynolds and state Sen. Randy Brogdon announced today that they will file legislation enacting the “Freedom of Healthcare Choice Act,” allowing voters to preserve the existing healthcare system in Oklahoma regardless of congressional action at the federal level.
The legislation will allow a vote of the people to opt out of the proposed federal system.
http://www.okhouse.gov/OkhouseMedia/ShowStory.aspx?MediaNewsID=3350

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LEGISLATION, FEDERAL:
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SENATE
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Recent Senate Votes Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010 - Vote Agreed to (88-10, 2 Not Voting)

The Senate gave final approval to this bill funding the Department of Defense through September 2010. The bill now goes to the President.

Sen. James Inhofe voted YES......send e-mail or see bio
Sen. Tom Coburn voted NO......send e-mail or see bio
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Cloture Motion; Reid Amdt. to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - Vote Agreed to (60-40)

The Senate agreed to this motion to invoke cloture on an amendment making changes to the $871 billion health care bill. The vote allows debate to proceed and prevents a filibuster.

Sen. James Inhofe voted NO......send e-mail or see bio
Sen. Tom Coburn voted NO......send e-mail or see bio
HOUSE:
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Recent House Votes Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010 - Vote Passed (395-34, 5 Not Voting)

The House approved this defense spending bill, sending it to the Senate for final passage.

Rep. Mary Fallin voted YES......send e-mail or see bio
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Jobs for Main Street Act - Vote Passed (217-212, 6 Not Voting)

The House passed this $154 billion jobs bill which is partially paid for by unspent money from last year's Troubled Asset Relief Program. The bill now goes to the Senate.

Rep. Mary Fallin voted NO......send e-mail or see bio
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Upcoming Votes The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - H.R.3590

The Senate is expected to continue working on this health care reform legislation.

ARTICLES and ACTION ITEMS OF INTEREST:

What the Dems Know: Universal Voter Registration In January, Chuck Schumer and Barney Frank will propose universal voter registration. What is universal voter registration? It means all of the state laws on elections will be overridden by a federal mandate. The feds will tell the states: 'take everyone on every list of welfare that you have, take everyone on every list of unemployed you have, take everyone on every list of property owners, take everyone on every list of driver's license holders and register them to vote regardless of whether they want to be ...'
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/what_the_dems_know_universal_v.html
Please contact your STATE legislators and ask them to consider authoring additional sovereignty legislation in response to “Universal Voter Registration”. This coupled with federal immigration reform (amnesty) will be yet another big nail in the coffin of our republic.

The Media’s Top 10 Worst Economic Myths of 2009
http://businessandmedia.org/articles/2009/20091209120343.aspx

Latest Data Suggests Obamanomics Continues to Stifle Rebound Emerging indicators now suggest that the Obama-Reid-Pelosi economic agenda explains our uninspiring recovery, and is retarding, not accelerating, growth.
http://cfif.org/v/index.php/commentary/43-taxes-and-economy/467-latest-d...

A MUCH WATCH video: Breakfast with David Horowitz, Pat Caddell and Scott Wheeler from Restoration Weekend 2009
http://www.davidhorowitztv.com/restorationweekend/rw2009/272-opening-bre...

Ask Charlie Rangel to Schedule a Fair Tax Hearing in the Ways and Means Commission
https://secure2.convio.net/afft/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserActio...

Join hundreds of thousands of concerned Americans calling for a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the healthcare reform bills being brought forward by the 111th Congress.
http://www.libertyaction.org/310/petition.asp?Ref_ID=3045&RID=22911616

States Fight Back - In addition to 27 states that have already taken legislative steps to combat the Congressional Democrats’ health care bills, and the 13 state Attorney Generals who joined together to fight the constitutionality of issues such as the Nebraska “Cornhusker Kickback” on Medicaid payments, states are also preparing to take legal action against the federal government if certain controversial provisions are enacted into law.
http://www.resistnet.com/forum/topics/states-fight-back

National Association for Gun Rights BILLWATCH page. Bookmark this to check legislation specifically regarding guns and gun rights.
http://www.nationalgunrights.org/billwatch.shtml

NRA News' investigative reporter Ginny Simone takes a look at the global gun control goals of the United Nations. By pushing for a binding international treaty aimed at superseding the U.S. Constitution, the United Nations is committed to rendering Americans' Second Amendment rights to own a firearm meaningless.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDMeDmV0ufU

Vote Map: Senate Roll Call No. 396 - H.R. 3590 as Amended; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act GREAT MAP! Check this out!
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/votes/?votenum=396&chamber=S&...

End Illegal Immigration – a part of ALIPAC – Americans for Legal Immigration PAC Please consider taking the following political actions to join the movement to oppose Amnesty for illegal aliens, secure our borders, and enforce our existing immigration laws to stop and reverse illegal immigration.
http://www.endillegalimmigration.com/Help_Stop_&_End_Illegal_Immigration...

The Top 10 Lowlights of the New York Times in 2009
http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2009/20091230015615.aspx

The 22nd Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting From the Media Research Center.
http://mrc.org/notablequotables/bestof/2009/default.aspx

Call and E-mail The Networks--Demanding They Report the Fannie and Freddie Fiasco! The Media Research Center is calling on ALL members of the MRC Action team to call and email NBC, ABC and CBS News executives demanding they report the truth about how our tax dollars are being spent and start holding the government to the same standard as they do private companies!
http://www.mrcaction.org/548/email_form.asp?CID=548&RID=23293066

MAP of senate votes for those that rejected tabling the amendment that would have prohibited federal funding of abortion coverage.
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/votes/?votenum=369&chamber=S&...

Petition to recall LA Senator Mary Landrieu The blog And So It Goes in Shreveport notes that a petition to recall Senator Mary Landrieu has been accepted for filing by the Louisiana Secretary of State. Citizens have 180 days to file enough signatures to get this on a ballot:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/01/petition_to_recall_la_senato...

There is something you can do to stop Obamacare Nothing would be more unexpected, or more immediately helpful to the American people, than if Republican State Senator Scott Brown could pull of the mother of all upsets and capture the special election for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat on January 19th. A Brown victory would deny the Democrats the 60 votes necessary to shove through the takeover of the nation’s health care system.
http://biggovernment.com/2010/01/08/there-is-something-you-can-do-to-sto...

Full-body scanners won't make air travel safer: Surveillance expert The new scanners "see" through clothing, allowing the operator a look at naked passengers. They have been called a "shocking" invasion of privacy by civil liberties groups and an ineffective measure by aviation security watchdogs. In countries such a Britain, they have been found to breach child pornography laws if used on minors.
http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2250625

Poverty Is Not a Cause of Terrorism, Radical Islam Is During the Progressive Era in America (1900-1920), it became common to excuse crime by blaming the crime on the environment in which the perpetrator was raised rather the evil within the perpetrator’s heart. Even the most heinous of acts could be overlooked if it could be demonstrated that the one who committed the act was raised in a home with an abusive father, a low appreciation of education, or even worse -- poverty.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35101

Merge the 'Terror' Lists to Prevent the Next Attack I’d be as enthusiastic as Chertoff about body-screening if it would give us a 90+% chance of stopping the next attack. But it won’t. The terrorists will simply change their methods to outwit the machines. (In one memorable terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia, the bomber bore a large explosive suppository, causing his own and other’s deaths.)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35044

Muslim children training for jihad (video) Another video from the “Muslim world” and more evidence that Islamic violence and jihad are not some fringe element. Interspersed with readings from the Qur’an and featured on Muslim blogs and boards, nor is it some non-existent extremist or radical version of Islam. This website follows news and information on radical Muslim. There are some horrifying videos on this site that just illustrate in full life size that we are in a fight for our lives.
http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/muslim-children-training-...

Tea Party Voter Guide. A single guy is trying to put together a voter guide for every single state in the nation! Really very cool idea! Help him if you can!
http://countyroots.com/teapartyvoterguide/

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FUNNIES OF THE WEEK:
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"I think it was a mistake to take health care on as opposed to continuing to spend the time on the economy." --Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE)
- - - After being bribed with $100 million in Medicaid savings for his state in a "cash for cloture" deal, Nelson provided the 60th Senate vote for health care. We're glad he's come around, but talk about too little too late.
From the Patriot Post

As if the failed undi-bomber wasn't bad enough Christmas news for jihadis, this New Year's note just came in from the Department of Premature Detonation: "Fourteen suspected terrorists died Tuesday night when the bus they rigged with explosives blew up prematurely," CNN reports. "The explosion occurred as the suspects were riding the bus in the province of Kunduz," Afghanistan.
- - - - Around our humble shop, we like to call this sort of incident "self-solving." More to the point, however, it sounds like these jihadis had a bad case of ED -- explosive dysfunction.
From the Patriot Post

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WORDS OF LIBERTY FOR THE WEEK:
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"As on the one hand, the necessity for borrowing in particular emergencies cannot be doubted, so on the other, it is equally evident that to be able to borrow upon good terms, it is essential that the credit of a nation should be well established." --Alexander Hamilton, Report on Public Credit, 1790

"[A] rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Marquis de Lafayette, 1823

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CARTOONS OF THE WEEK:
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How Dinosaurs Became Extinct
A No Brainer
Cotton Pickin' Tax Payers