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The state supreme court has overruled a law passed that forebade injured workers from bringing their own doctor before or workers' comp judge, even though the employer got to bring their own lawyer.
I love this quote from Mike Seney, VP of the State Chamber, a pro-corporate group.
He complained about “doctors who are hired guns and give a higher rating than what is appropriate.”
And I'm sure the employers' doctor NEVER gives lower ratings than appropriate.
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I don't need to add anything to Purcell's words. He expresses his ignorance nicely.
”The park is for citizens. Having a prairie dog town there is just not compatible for people using it for recreation uses,“ Purcell said.
Umm. Every town has parks. Lawton has other parks. Very few towns have a park that features a prairie dog town. Without us prairie dogs, Elmer Thomas is just another field.
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In another sad commentary on Lawton's pitiful theaters, yet another movie that everyone in America is talking about, Sicko, is denied to our denizens. Perhaps we don't need to watch this movie because we benefit so nicely from the services of four institutions that have done so admirably. We have Reynolds Army Hospital (see Walter Reed for further details) the Lawton Indian Hospital, Southwestern (a private hospital, currently downsizing like nobody' business) and Memorial (the public hospital and, oddly, the best of the lot).
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The only thing missing from the unveiling debacle of the 50-year-old Belvedere from the Tulsa Time Capsule was Geraldo Rivera. Too bad the body of Al Capone didn't float out. The Tulsans finally had their much overhyped car resurrection and the result is worthy of "Tales from the Crypt," the episode where grandpa keep wandering out of the grave with increasing symptoms of decomposition. And from the looks of things, the microfilm that was supposed to contain all those names of 1957 Oklahomans guessing Tulsa's population in 2007 is nonexistant. Instead there are just a few postcards with guesses (I'll bet most of them overshot the 300-some-thousand reality. All that rust could have come from just the last few days of inundation our state has suffered. A month of rain reveals the woefully poor drainage of our town. But on the bright side, that was yet another awesome full rainbow looking back to the east from the westside Thursday evening.
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You know we prairie dogs have our ears to the ground. Word has it that after all that effort in the Lawton Extreme Home Makeover, certain individuals were not too happy with the finished product and demanded certain modifications to the handicapped accessible appliances to make them more accessible to the non-handicapped. Hmmm.
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That's what I found out after waiting the mandatory 30 minutes in the drive-thru at the Cache Road McDonald's. They had been advertising that they would put your creme and sugar in the coffee for you. But when I got to the front of the line (what exactly do they do in there?) I reminded the employee I'd asked for three Splendas. Well, I was handed a stirrer and three Splendas. Oh well. Many say that the McDonald's at the EZ Go on Gore and 67th is much worse. I was even told that a customer went to the drive-thru at 6:30 a.m. (long after it should have opened) and got no answer. He peeked inside to see folks hurredly putting their aprons on and starting up. So that got me to thinking, what is the worst fast-food location in Lawton?
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So, Imus lost his gig on radio and with MSNBC. I wish we got MSNBC like everyone else in America so that we could see what we're missing.
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Have you noticed the new sign at the site of the old "Wolf Creek Town Center" on 82nd and Quanah Parker? It advertises 600,000 sq. ft. That's big enough for a Target.
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And we prairie dogs don't even get a vote. I would guess that councilmembers are pretty much steaming right now that they don't have stacks of cash to spend after the defeat of the three-eighths sales tax. No doubt they will blame the ignorant, uninformed voters who dared vote against a tax instead of looking in the mirror and pointing at their prairie dog-murdering, animal license-mongering selves.
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So, they say on Channel 7 that the DA won't press charges on the gasification of our burrows because the law says only those who actually do the poisoning can be charged and it would be unfair to charge the killers and not those who gave orders. In the immortal words of Dickens, "If the law supposes that, then the law is a ass."
On the bright side, we are starting to recover. A walk in the park is not the walk in the graveyard it was two weeks ago, but it also isn't the walk in the active prairie dog town it was a month ago.
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