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I am convinced of a truth after living all these years on this earth. Simply and baldly stated, there are some people who have bathed themselves in misery for years. And they truly do not want anyone to hand them a big thick towel to dry off. They experienced a severe trauma in their life some time before, and rather than grieving it, and then slowly moving past it - or at least WANTING to move on from it - they get stuck with that wet muck all over them.
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Jim Priest is CEO of Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma and can be reached at jpriest@okgoodwill.org.
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Football in Oklahoma I haven’t always understood the subtleties of football in Oklahoma but luckily my dad was a Sooner Fan. He had to explain to me while I was still young what a Sooner was and how we got that name but I’ll spare you all that. When we lived in Centrahoma he listened to the OU games on the radio.
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Honestly, with that thought, who can relax enough to sit down at the dining room table and peacefully gorge themselves on Lucy's homemade noodles and Uncle Roger's deep-fried turkey, followed by six slices of Mom's pecan pie. Knowing that marathon days of working your regular job, housecleaning, grocery shopping, Christmas parties, and expensive gift-buying are getting ready to descend on you like a ton of bricks falling off a freight train.
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As a life-long resident, business owner, and landowner in the target area, I am strongly against the turbine powered wind farms being solicited and built by foreign corporations in Hughes County for several reasons.
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This may be the most frightening Halloween of all time. People across America are scared stiff as we are bombarded 24-hours a day with terrifying scenes splashed across television, our telephones and tablets. We can’t get away from the howls, screeches, growls, ghastly facial expressions and horned headed characters spewing menacing rhetoric. All of this has been brought to us by our Democratic and Republican parties.
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