Archive for November, 2007

The ORU Dog and Pony Show

The dog and pony show continues at Oral Roberts University.
On Wednesday Richard Roberts the former President and CEO of Oral Roberts University told students at a chapel service that he did not want to resign as head of the scandal-plagued university, but that he did so because God insisted during a conversation with Roberts on [...]

Speaking of Depressed

Cardrico Nash, 32, of Sapulpa is probably very depressed of recent.

Judging from his mugshot, he looks depressed, doesn’t he?
Cardrico is locked up in the Tulsa jail on 4 charges of child endangerment with a $50,000 bond on each count.
Reportedly Cardrico’s problems started when he picked up two of his four kids from their mother who [...]

Depressed Oklahoma

The National Mental Health Association in its Mental Health America Report has some depressing news for Oklahoma.
It seems Oklahoma is one of the most mentally depressed states in the country.
According to the report the only states more depressed than Oklahoma are Nevada, Rhode Island, Kentucky, West Virginia and the most depressed of all, Utah.
The rankings [...]

ORU Finds Cash Cow

Just when it looks like it is time to “turn out the lights, the party’s over”, the Oral Roberts family manages to find another cash cow, saving the family business yet once again.
Back in the late 1980’s Oral Roberts announced that God was going to kill him unless the faithful raised $8 million. They [...]

Fairgrounds Purge Continues

It appears to this writer that a concerted effort is underway to purge the Tulsa Fairgrounds of anything not horse show related.
And it now looks as if another long-term Tulsa Fairgrounds tenant, the Tulsa Flea Market, is doomed to follow Bell’s Amusement Park out the gates of the Fairgrounds.
The owners of the Tulsa [...]