Boise City
Oklahoma
March 2013
These days, the Oklahoma Panhandle, as well as the rest of the state of Oklahoma, is about as Republican as you can get. If you were to stand around with seven of your best friends during the Presidential election in 2008, and you voted for Mr Obama, rest assured that your seven friends voted for the other guy. That many Republicans.
On the other hand, Oklahoma’s Favorite Son Will Rogers said, “I belong to no organized party. I’m a Democrat.”
I encountered a Will Rogers convention, much to my surprise. No, I had never imagined a Will Rogers convention, but now that I stumbled on this one, I am no longer surprised. It was at a hotel on the way to summit Black Mesa, high point of Oklahoma. There was a lot of laughing.
Rogers was born on a ranch in the Cherokee Nation that is today Oologah, Oklahoma, and became famous as a cowboy. He also was a star of radio programs, Broadway plays and movies and for writing more than 4000 syndicated articles. He was funny as all get-out. To wit…
– Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.
– A fool and his money are soon elected.
– I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
– Diplomacy is the art of saying, “nice doggie” until you can find a rock.
– When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states.
– Why don’t they pass a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as Prohibition did, in five years we will have the smartest people on earth.
_ The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back.
