Caitlin stressfully writes, “My number one stressor these days is trying to get into grad school…I feel grossly inadequate!” Wait! Wait a minute there, Caitlin. You are certainly not inadequate. You have completed your undergraduate course of study. This is a big accomplishment, the hardest accomplishment of college. Quite impossible for you to be inadequate. You are now amongst the minority of Americans who have earned an undergraduate degree, about one-third of Americans. This is a source of pride for you and is affirmation you are successful at academics. You have earned your right to attend graduate school, you are qualified. In many ways, graduate school is a breeze. Hard work, yes, but you are no longer required to meet breadth requirements, those are behind you now. Here on in, you will enjoy study of your chosen topic, and only your topic. You will discover your professors will treat you as an equal, a junior equal. All will recognize and honor your having worked your way to this level of education. None will consider you inadequate and you are not. Welcome to academic world, Caitlin. You will do just fine. Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation

Starry Nite sincerely asks, “Who have you been hanging around with that you seem to have such a low opinion of Americans.” Barack Obama. Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation

Ms. Dee asks, “Was it the questionnaire?” Nah, this was Obama hollering, “Penny? Oh F-word!” Penny says, “I think I can best serve our nation in my current capacity….” This is political code talk for, “I am a known crook.” Might be Obama and Pritzker read some commentaries around here at WoW and realized people are on to the two of them. Obama is the Black Messiah. Perhaps he will resurrect Kenneth Lay then nominate him Secretary of Commerce. Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation

F P rewrites history, “[Calamity Jane] She was ripe for revisionist history and her ‘autobiography’ was essentially a pack of half-truths and outright exaggerations. Ah, but she made a name for herself! She would make a good Okie; quite the tall tale she is. I am told she even seduced Paul Bunyan a time or two. She has to be quite the woman to handle that lumberjack. F P continues to yip and yammer, “Personally Ms Taha, i’d stick with coyote; you’d have a better chance with the trickster.” There are times I believe I am Coyote. Periodically, my husband will comment, at night in bed, I am like sleeping with a coyote, then he giggles. Never have figured out quite what he means. Hey! You know the difference between a dog and a fox? About six drinks. Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation

Sibelle Daubigne chews the fat, “Are lazy fat Americans eating too much or praying too much?” Eating too much and not praying enough. Those people should be praying heart disease or diabetes does not kill them by age fifty, or maybe an earlier death due to a collapsing chair. Rather sad about our American children. Two out of three range from fat to obese. Recent report discusses our children, pre-teens and early teens, who are overweight have the arteries of a forty to fifty year old person. Obesity is the leading cause of diabetes amongst children and adults. Do you know overweight people add billions of dollars to our healthcare costs each year? We are paying for their fat. Enough said, fat kills. I am off to Jack-In-The-Box for a double cheese burger, with bacon, big bag of fries and a large chocolate shake. I will have supper later. Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation

Deburca Obj comments, “…Obama has lots more appointments to make and I’m sure you’ll be able to find fault with every one of them!” Absolutely. I am just sitting here waiting for Obama to appoint a dog to the White House. I am ready, am prepared to rant for days. This dog will poop on our taxpayer carpet in the Oval Office. This dog will chew on chair legs, table legs, will jump up on Lincoln’s bed, then run off to hike his leg on fine works of art, he will leave smelly dirty dog hair all over and, worst of all, he will chase after and bother any cats around the White House. This ain’t right. All this, at our taxpayer expense. We will foot the bill for this damage done by a dog appointed to the White House administration. If Obama was not such a bozo, he would appoint a raccoon or two for our taxpayer supported White House, such as these wild raccoons which live with us in our home. Unlike dirty dogs, our raccoons are at least gracious enough to wash their little hands after dinner: http://www.purlgurl.net/aue/coon_toilet03.jpg Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation

Starry Nite follows in my shadow, “Your posts are poking fun at the american way and you call us trite.” Oh my! You best not watch Jay Leno! That boy has a thing for lazy fat Americans. Do you know, when Jay Leno was a young man, he was homeless? Yep, he lived on the streets. Look at him now! Darn if Jay does not have a garage full of fine cars which are the envy of every American boy, from teenager to old man. Jay did not arrive at his position in life by playing nice-nice kissy face with all whom he met. Nope. Jay is successful because he is brave enough to poke fun at our human ways, especially lazy fat Americans. When you have no ability to laugh at yourself, you are truly lost. Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation

Starry Nite adds wisdom, “She is not Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm.” Nope. Sarah is Calamity Jane, one of my most favorite heroines. Shoot ‘em up, cowgirl, yee haw! However, I have some issues with Calamity Jane killing my ancestors but there is the circle of life; Martha Jane ended up an alcoholic doing laundry for whores at a brothel. My medicine animal, Coyote, taught her humility. Rather doubtful Sarah will end up this way, but Sarah does have this frontierswoman spirit, which is good; she can kick butt on Rebecca Randall. Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation

Marina adds to reader value, “…stop talking/writing like bad dialogue in a 50’s cowboys and Indians B movie.” I love Fifties Grade B movies, especially cheesy sci-fi movies! Interesting some remakes of those Grade B movies are today’s box office hits. More interesting, a person will pay $25 for a movie house ticket, pay $50 for a box of popcorn and $100 for a soda pop, all just to express appreciation for Hollywood actors and actresses who make higher salaries than Wall Street executives. However, those Wall Street boys are poor actors. A modern day Grade B actress I really like is Lana Clarkson. I admire her for such efforts at becoming successful. She worked hard, never seemed to catch a break. Rather tragic one of the most rich, most elite, most famous of Hollywood types blew her brains out. Strikes me, Marina, our country needs to return to the high moral values of our Fifties Era. Tell ya, there are no better role models than Ozzie and Harriet, and during the Fifties, monster movies were never more silly. Ah, but these are the modern days of the famous slicing a woman’s throat, stabbing a waiter to death, shooting a woman waiting in a car and blowing a woman’s brains out, then walking away from justice, with a smile. Pays well to be amongst the elite, including that boy who thinks God is on a spaceship. I like Fifties Grade B movies. Watching those old movies does not cost you a C-note just to watch lousy acting and lousy directing, like today’s movies. Lot safer in black and white, to boot; you do not have all that vivid red blood splattered all over the screen just to turn a buck. I Love Lucy! Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation

Cynthia Neil delights readers, “…but after so many republican screw ups and George Bush’s unimaginably stupid choices, it’s kind of hard NOT to be biased.” Ha! Ha! Ain’t that about the truth! I am a registered Democrat. I voted McCain and Palin. My vote was cast strictly based upon economic issues. I voted for common sense, not so much party philosophy. I do work at being objective and truthful. Nonetheless, as you comically quip, Cynthia, this is very hard to not be biased. When I cast my vote I thought, “I sure hope McCain and Palin will not prove to be more Bush people.” There is bias in my mind against Republicans which is hard to shake off. Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation

Reminds me of a story. Few years back a bunch of us, thousands of us, were suckered into investing in Intrepid Technology, a company claming to be successful at rendering cow manure into methane gas. This is a proven Green technology, and this is a very good technology for protecting our environment and reducing our energy dependence on foreign nations. This company, Intrepid, simply lied to investors. All of us lost our money, Intrepid lies in ruin and shame. Very slick lies, though. I am not so smart. I lost forty grand on this thieving company. Others lost much more. So, I protest too much. I became so angry with the executives and the board of directors stealing our money through outright lying, I worked at pulling together a grass roots effort to protest this criminal behavior. Invested a lot of time and effort into this grass roots protest group. Protest is simple. Each investor sends a tube of K-Y Jelly to twelve executives of this company with an endearing note attached, “Next time you screw investors use this.” I have no way of knowing how successful was my grass roots protest effort. However, personally, I sent through UPS twelve packages to twelve executives, each containing a tube of K-Y and my endearing note. One of those executives is a former U.S. Senator and a former high executive of Montana Power. I have no fear of the famous. I do know, right after initiating my grass roots protest effort, Intrepid stopped lying to America, came clean about past lies and made changes in executive structure. Still lost our money, though. When you bury your head in sand like an ostrich, all you are doing is sticking your butt high up making a tempting target ripe and ready for abuse. One of the greatest challenges our country faces is Americans are no longer willing to take to the streets to protest, much less willing to take five minutes to write a rant in a blog to protest wrongdoing. Americans are ostrich and, in the end, will get their just deserves. Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation

Dana Jae comments, “Me thinketh the Okpulot Taha doth protest too much.” I think head buried ostrich often make prime targets of their butts. Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation

I am motivated to comment on this inane political correctness we suffer these days of political double speak. Make note of this wording, “The bank collapsed in 2001 after regulators discovered accounting irregularities that overstated its assets.” There was a time we used a simple phrase, “cooking the books” to describe this activity. Longer back we used a simple word, “fraud.” During my childhood, we simply called this “stealing.” Readers who are business savvy are aware of the Bush family Silverado Savings & Loan scam which cost us taxpayers over a billion dollars. This Pritzker family Superior Bank scam is no different, except this scam only cost us taxpayers a little under a billion dollars. I bet Sarah Palin is grinning like all git out right about now; she is quite correct about the character of a person is revealed by the people with whom he “pals around”. Sarah worked at imparting this notion to America but our good peoples are so blinded by this bright light of political razzle-dazzle, they refuse to see the light. Would you Americans like some salt and pepper with your cooked books? Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation

Oh no! Another Annenberg crook! Change you can believe in! Well, this jingling change in your pocketbook which is about all the spare change you will have left when Obama is finished with us. This choice of known crook Pritzker simply proves to me Obama is corrupt and Obama is no smarter than Dubya Bush. Obama speaks better than Bush but Obama ain’t any smarter than Bush. Oh, sorry, Obama did not really choose her. I have to give her credit due; she purchased her position within the Obama administration. Glory Hallelujah! The Black Messiah cometh! Hold up your hands my fellow faithful followers! Yes brothers and sisters hold up those hands and beg, the tax man cometh with nickels and dimes for us all! Change is coming! Your tin cup will over runneth! Penny Pritzker. * rolls her eyes * Obama is a bozo. Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation

How interesting. I am reading a widespread philosophy of “guilty until proven innocent.” Kids are at fault. Bus driver is at fault. Teachers are at fault. Parents are at fault. The community is at fault. No! All republicans are at fault, especially Sarah Palin! What factual evidence do you participants offer which clearly links a specific source to blame for this inappropriate behavior? Might this be one, two, maybe three kids started up this chant and the rest joined in thinking this is cool and fun? Perhaps a kid, maybe siblings heard this on the news, read this, did not understand the meaning of “assassinate” then spread this around on campus? Reminds me of an innocent mistake I made during my teaching career. I am discussing solids, liquids, gasses and related topics during a science class. I get to talking about how some “things” fall between a solid and a liquid, this “thing” being demonstrated with a hefty rubber band. Lot of fun, kids love this. I took to launching pencils to show kids how rubber bands are elastic, sorta solid, sorta liquid. Not intended, I launch a pencil which promply sticks itself into our soft acoustic ceiling. Oh boy, my kids are absolutely delighted, think this is so funny. Certainly they will remember some of what I teach. Over coming days, there is plague of pencils being shot into ceilings in almost all classrooms. Who catches the heat for this? You know. What a reprimand I received from my principal. Participants here quickly blaming this person and that person for this school bus incident reminds me of my one time accident of launching a pencil into a ceiling. Those dozens of pencils hanging from ceilings all around our school. She did it! This is all her fault! She is a bad teacher! Fire her! Ain’t this a lot like you participants? Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation