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Posted: 6:16 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010

KRMG Morning News "Stack of Stuff" and Notes 9/16/2010 

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By Joe Kelley, Host of the KRMG Morning News

  • KRMG: (Tulsa, Ok) -- Sarah Palin turned a fundraiser for an Oklahoma think tank into a Tea Party pep rally. The former Republican vice presidential candidate touched on a variety of topics Wednesday night at the Tulsa Convention Center, from her days as a small town mayor...to running Alaska....to running with John McCain in the 2008.  Palin discussed the need for limited government and she reminded the audience which numbered around 1,000 that freedom isn't free. She called the upcoming elections a turning point for this country, "This is our Valley Forge."  Palin said the stakes have never been higher.
  • KOTV: One day after rejecting an open forum to discuss his differences with the Tulsa City Council, Mayor Dewey Bartlett said today he doesn't want to discuss it at all. "We can look forward or we can look backwards. I think it's a waste of time to look backwards," Bartlett told a Chamber of Commerce audience this afternoon. It was the Chamber of Commerce that had encouraged Bartlett and Councilors to talk out their problems. The City Council rejected closed door mediation, and Bartlett has rejected an open discussion. Bartlett was asked about the issues with the council and said "I think those all, that is ancient history."
  • TULSA WORLD: Republicans continue to gain in state voter registration. The total of registered voters in Oklahoma increased by 24,993 since Jan. 15, State Election Board Secretary Paul Ziriax said Wednesday. Republicans had the biggest gain, 18,548 members, and independents increased by 8,161, Ziriax said. Democrats' total dropped by 1,716.
  • TULSA WORLD: Expo Square Maintenance Manager Jeff Talley was suspended for allegedly losing his temper and swearing at one of his employees, according to records released Wednesday by the fairgrounds. Talley was suspended with pay Aug. 18 pending further investigation of the matter, according to the written notice provided to Talley by Mark Andrus, Expo Square's president and CEO. "This morning I became aware of a situation when you allegedly 'lost your temper' and 'used the F-word' several times," which caused the employee to feel threatened, the notice states. A second notice to Talley, dated Sept. 9, says he would be suspended for five days without pay.
  • TULSA WORLD: The City Council is expected to vote Thursday on whether to legalize changes that former Mayor Kathy Taylor made to the city's seal and her adoption of a city slogan. Some councilors criticized the move earlier this week, saying they were bothered that Taylor did not go through the appropriate legal process. Taylor changed the seal's colors and created a logo that depicts the seal with the slogan, "City of Tulsa, A new kind of energy." Councilor Rick Westcott said during Tuesday's committee meetings that any changes to the seal or slogan should not be the work of a single person. Taylor should not have been allowed to overturn the work of a residents committee that undertook extensive study in creating the seal four decades ago, he said. In regard to the slogan, he asked: "What happens down the road 10 years from now? Are we still going to be using a new kind of energy, or an old kind of energy, or an existing energy?"
  • Michelle Obama thinks being America's First Lady is 'hell', Carla Bruni reveals today in a wildly indiscreet new book. Miss Bruni reveals that Mrs Obama replied when asked about her position as the U.S. president's wife: 'Don't ask! It's hell. I can't stand it!' Details of the private conversation, which took place at the White House during an official visit by Nicolas Sarkozy last March, emerged in Carla And The Ambitious, a book written in collaboration with Miss Bruni.
  • The airport screener arrested for assaulting a coworker who taunted him about the size of his penis after his genitalia was exposed by a full-body scanner told police that he snapped after being subjected to "psychological torture" by fellow Transportation Security Administration employees who repeatedly asked him, "What size are you?" In a handwritten statement given to cops following his May arrest, Rolando Negrin, 45, described the fallout after he walked through a high-tech "whole body image" scanner during a training session for TSA workers at Miami International Airport. Negrin's statement to Miami-Dade Police Department officers, excerpted here, was obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request.
  • A man whose head was covered in a bag and who had his hands bound was found dead Wednesday morning in a restroom at Terminal 3 at Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said. Airport police were called to the bathroom shortly before 8 a.m. and found a body slumped in a stall, according to sources familiar with the case. They called Los Angeles police, who dispatched detectives with the department's robbery-homicide division to investigate. The sources said it was not immediately clear if the death was a suicide or a homicide. [Updated at 12:30 p.m.: Los Angeles police said that a preliminary investigation indicates that the man in the restroom died from a possible suicide. They said the case has been turned over to the Los Angeles County Coroner to determine official cause of death. They also stressed that the investigation was in its early stages.]
  • Health insurers are asking for immediate rate hikes of more than 20 percent in Connecticut for some plans, citing rising medical costs and federal health reform laws as reasons. Both issues -- the new federal health care reform and rising medical costs -- are significant drivers of the increases, according to filings by insurers with state regulators that were reviewed by The Courant.
  • KJRH: The controversy surrounding the trees around the Central Park Condominiums in Downtown Tulsa continued Wednesday. Crews were set to cut down the trees in front of the condos to prevent birds from landing there. Several residents spent Wednesday morning protesting the decision of the condo board to cut the trees down. Mid-morning, the tree contractors left without cutting any down. They told 2NEWS that they didn't want to be part of the controversy. "About 15,000 of them show up every night," said Kent Morlan, the president of board for the Central Park Condominiums downtown. He's talking about starlings. It's a type of bird that migrates to Tulsa from the south in the spring and infiltrate downtown starting in mid-July. They usually arrive to roost around dusk, but it's what they leave behind that's creating a stink, literally.
  • NEWSOK.COM - A Satanist group with plans for a public event at the Civic Center Music Hall has splintered, a founder said Wednesday. A statement posted on the website of the Church of the IV Majesties said the church had been disbanded and an Oct. 21 gathering at the Civic Center -- to include a "public satanic exorcism" -- was no longer scheduled. The website advised people who had already purchased a $15 ticket to the event to send their ticket to a post office box and their money would be refunded."The Church of the IV Majesties has been dissolved, the show has been canceled," the website said. However, James Hale, who said he is one of the church's three founders, told The Oklahoman on Wednesday that another Church of the IV Majesties' founder wrote the statement because he has been expelled from the church. Hale said he searched online for the co-founder's address so he could provide a map to the man's home and discovered a website listing the man as a registered sex offender. He said the group does not allow sex offenders.
  • NEWSOK.COM - Don't go looking for lottery tickets at Oklahoma's two largest airports anytime soon. Talks are still under way to have the lottery games available at Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City and Tulsa International Airport, a lottery official said Wednesday. Jim Scroggins, Oklahoma Lottery Commission executive director, told lottery trustees during their quarterly meeting Tuesday that an agreement had been reached with both airports. Rollo Redburn, director of administration for the Lottery Commission, said Wednesday that Scroggins misspoke. "It's not a done deal," Redburn said. "We're still working with both airports to figure out what can be done."
  • It has been nearly 15 years since the arrest of Ted Kaczynski, aka the "Unabomber," and yet his ability to terrorize the public persists. Now, survivors of his mail-bomb attacks and victims' families are haunted by the fear that the Harvard-educated mathematician might upload 40,000 pages of his writings and other documents to the Internet. The controversy surrounding the release of the documents began in August 2006, when U.S. District Court Judge Garland Burrell ordered the U.S. Marshals Service to auction off Kaczynski's personal property, including redacted writings, typewriters, jackets and several other items. Burrell ordered all proceeds of the auction to go to the victims of Kaczynski's 17-year reign of terror. Kaczynski was unhappy with the ruling and filed suit to try to stop the sale of his possessions, but in 2009, the decision was affirmed by an appeals court. Burrell directed prosecutors to provide Kaczynski with an unredacted copy of his documents in advance of their sale, The Smoking Gun reported. Ever since that ruling, the FBI has been painstakingly scanning all of the 40,000 pages of documents for Kaczynski. The decision to provide Kaczynski with unredacted copies of his writings has upset many of his victims, who are afraid he will have the documents uploaded to the Internet.
  • If you're a smoker, New York City just got a little less friendly. Mayor Michael Bloomberg today announced plans to ban smoking in some of the Big Apple's most famous outdoor locations, including Central Park, the boardwalk at Coney Island and part of Times Square. The new rules would forbid smokers from lighting up in all of the city's public parks and beaches, a definition that includes the pedestrian zone of Times Square, where a Camel cigarettes billboard once blew fake smoke rings at passers-by. The city banned smoking in bars and restaurants in 2003, a move that faced strong opposition at the time. Now, crowds of smokers are a common sight outside the city's many nightspots.
  • Sticks of dynamite that sparked an alert on an Ohio railway line were later found to be props from a Denzel Washington movie. Jefferson County (OH) Sheriff Fred Abdalla said the device, resembling two sticks of dynamite with wires, was detonated by a bomb squad on Tuesday and turned out to be harmless. Sheriff Abdalla said that he suspected it was a prop left behind by a film crew that making Unstoppable, a thriller about a runaway train. Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway workers had found the item earlier in the day along tracks near Rayland, about 120 miles east of Columbus
  • Butchers said the meat dress worn by singer Lady Gaga to the MTV Video Music Awards appeared to be all beef -- and not particularly expensive beef. Los Angeles designer Franc Fernandez declined to explain how he made the raw meat dress, saying only that it took him two days to stitch, but Peter Cacioppo, 50, head butcher of New York's Ottomanelli Brothers, said the dress was clearly cheap beef.
  • A personal phone conversation by an air traffic controller likely contributed to the cause of a deadly midair collision over the Hudson River last year, the The National Transportation Safety Board said. The NTSB said the air traffic controller's personal phone call distracted him from his air traffic control duties, including the timely transfer of communications for the accident airplane to the Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) tower and correcting the airplane pilot's incorrect read-back of the EWR tower frequency.
  • Universal Orlando is tweaking an attraction to ensure even guests with butterbeer bellies can enjoy the park's most popular Harry Potter ride. After taking heat from ride critics and guests too big to squeeze in, the company said it has started tinkering to make "Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey" more accessible. Workers are adjusting the overhead harnesses that keep guests in place while a robotic arm flings them through a chaotic sequence in the boy wizard's life.
  • A FLORIDA man who lost an arm after trying to rescue some baby birds nearly lost the other one - trying to help an alligator. Alexander Alcantare spotted the 8-foot alligator, which had been hit in the head with an arrow, in water near his Miami-Dade home about Sunday. "I figured I'd trap it and get it some medical attention," he said. The alligator attacked him though, biting him on his good arm as he tried to restrain it. Mr Alcantare told NBC Miami he had lost his other arm when he fell on an electric fence while trying to rescue some baby birds. His arm was burned so badly it had to be amputated.
  • The Corn Refiners Association appears to be taking a cue from Blackwater: After all that bad press, they are rebranding. Starting now, we are all supposed to start referring to high-fructose corn syrup by the gentler, more fresh-from-nature sounding "corn sugar." They even have a new website up about it."The name 'corn sugar' more accurately reflects the source of the food (corn), identifies the basic nature of the food (a sugar), and discloses the food's function (a sweetener)," the petition said.
 
 

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