Oct
31
2009
kristymorrell
Pottawatomie County has the 3rd highest suicide rate in the State of Oklahoma. This is frightening to me! The population of Pott. Co is around 30,000. Recently, I began coordinating a program that targets children ages 12-19 for meth/suicide prevention. When researching some of the data; I was astounded at the rate and the concern of prevention, effectiveness, and ideas of how to decrease the suicide rate. How do we as a community combat this issue? One person cannot do this alone. Currently I am researching data and planning to gather with various community organizations that can offer statistic s and resources. Have any ideas?
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Oct
29
2009
Aquarius
I had always thought we had some honest politicians. How naive was that?? I liked Cobern even though he was a republican. Now he is bing accused( and it seems he’s guilty) of helping a cohort pay off a mistress and get her husband a job. He and Inhofe are letting ads run on tv trying to scare old people. These ads say they are protecting seniors from losing their medicare drug coverage. They are not in danger of losing it and the ads are just scare tactics.
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Oct
29
2009
grump
I hadn’t heard of this story but it happened over a year ago. Basically a 62 year-old Minnesota man deck out his La-Z-Boy with a lawnmower engine and other accessories and would drive it down to his local bar to watch Vikings football games. One Sunday he pick up for his chair under the influence after hitting a parked car. Continue reading
1 comment | posted in Funny, News
Oct
28
2009
reasonmclucus
Does the Obama administration understand why we invaded Afghanistan? Does Obama understand that we have no choice but to remain in Afghanistan until we can establish a stable government that will not allow the country to be a base for terrorism?
The Christian Science Monitor has reported that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told CNN it would be “irresponsible” to send more troops into Afghanistan before the political situation is resolved. Actually it would be irresponsible to wait for the political situation to be resolved before committing sufficient troops to stabilize the situation.
We invaded Afghanistan in 2001 because the Taliban government of Afghanistan had allowed the country to be used by a group of al Qaeda terrorists who had attacked New York City and Washington, D.C., on September 11. We cannot afford to leave until…
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1 comment | posted in Politics
Oct
23
2009
grump
This is possibly the coolest carved pumpkin I’ve ever seen. And yes I am a Star Wars nerd. And my daughter will dress up as Princess Leia for her first Halloween.
2 comments | posted in General