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Tried to vote early last week but that wasn't happening as Cleveland County doesn't have much of a venue and evidently alot of folks are turning out. Being Oklahomans, we have some very important fundametal state ballot issues. For instance, we have an initiative to add hunting as a constitutional right. Now being a liberal who enjoys fishing and sees an importance in hunting (it's a crazy paradox right?) I still don't see any need for this issue and I don't like the notion that people could override state conservation experts if a animal species were endangered. Remember this is a state where you can legally noodle with spearguns, trap animals, shoot mountain lions (which are not in abundance), kill feral pigs without a license, and buy automatic weapons at flea markets and people get all worried that a vegan PETA supporter would somehow get elected and then pass an initiative to ban hunting? Not bloody likely. More reasonable would be that the allowed people to shoot such individuals in season, of course.
I have made some more progress with my heal and so I'm hoping to be able to get into a more predictable pattern of training. I ate way too much Halloween candy and I have to get my guts straightened out a little, but I managed to go an unplanned 1:40 yesterday, before walking it in due to GI issues. I got to running with one of the OU kids and didn't pay attention to time plus I had just watched NYC marathon and was on a high.
Lastly, I caught RockandRolla at the Warren yesterday evening which, contrary to the reviews I had seen, was pretty good. I think it was exactly the type of film I needed, no intrigue, no emotional drivel, just violence and cockney accents. I would recommend it, maybe not the best of that genre but a solid 2 hours of entertainment. I'm interested in what Sr. Ritchie will do with Sherlock Holmes.

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