FHK Down for Repairs

Well, I finally did it…I crashed the site (we all knew that was going to happen, eventually!) Sorry.

Yes, the amazing Ron Goodwyne, our IT Guy got us back up to a point, but we’ve decided to take this opportunity to do some serious work on the site. Feel free to look through the archives…we’ll be back in a few days, better than ever.

Election 2008: The Next President (Part 1 of 3)

…of Nikitas3.com

• Part One
• Part Two
• Part Three

We are in the trajectory of another Presidential election year, and the rhetoric is getting hot. With the nation polarized on many issues – though not nearly so much as just six months ago when Iraq was looking bleak and Bush was looking cooked – there is much focus on each and every word, wink and nod in the cornucopia of debates. And with Democrat front-runner Hillary Clinton at one point refusing even to commit to a yes-or-no answer on whether she concurred with her own New York State governor over his plan to grant drivers’ licenses to illegal aliens, the voters are getting a genuine taste of the candidates beyond the beauty-pageant aspect of the coming race.

We are being told that 2008 is a “watershed” year, when the nation will decide whether to go this way or that on many critical issues, and indeed that is true. To add to the volatility, it appears that after 8 years of a Republican in the White House, along with the hard-leftward drift of the Democrats, the media are pressing for change more than ever, and will do everything possible to obscure the true positions of the Democrat candidates. When a very liberal Illinois Senator Barack Obama won’t talk specifics, but starts talking flowery about bringing the nation together in one big happy family, it’s time to pull out the nonsense meter and take a true reading of his intentions rather than allowing the media to gloss over his comments with swooning reviews of his style. Read more

Open Books: Oklahoma’s Finances Online

Okie Campaigns congratulates Senator Randy Brogdon, who said:

We are charged with being good stewards of the state’s resources…Making the appropriations process completely transparent and easily accessible to our citizens is simply the right thing to do, because in reality, every dollar the Legislature appropriates belongs to the citizens.

Senator Brogden explained that the Oklahoma program is modeled on the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006, introduced by Tom Coburn and Barack Obama.

According to the introduction to Oklahoma’s Open Books web site: Read more

West Point Cadets doing the “Oompah Loompah” (Video and Lyrics)

Oompah Loompah’s in Camo?!

Oopah Loompah, West Point Style

Oompa Loompa doompadee doo
I’ve got another story for you.
Oompa Loompa doompadah dee
If you are wise you’ll listen to me,

What do you get from when you guzzle down sweets,
Eating as much as an elephant eats?
Where are you at when you’re terribly fat?
What do you think will come of that?

Doo, doo, do-do-doo!
I don’t like the looks of this!

Oompa Loompa Doompadee Dah
If you’re not greedy you will go far
You will live in happiness too
Like the Oompa Oompa Loompa doompadee do!

Hat-tip, OkieCampaigns