Wow Talk about being "PC"! 

The SEAL are acting like 

Glenn Lewis, the Mayor of Moore, 

just rolling over for CAIR...

CAIR GOOD NEWS ALERT: CAIR Welcomes Navy Decision to Remove Target of Muslim Woman, Quran (WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/30/12) –- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today welcome a decision by the U.S. military to stop using a target depicting a Muslim woman wearing a religious head scarf (hijab) and verses from the Quran to train Navy SEALs at the new close quarters combat range at Joint Base Fort Story in Virginia Beach, Va. The Navy made that announcement after the Washington-based Muslim civil rights organization sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta on Friday asking that the target and the religious text be removed from the training facility, referred to as a "kill house." Lt. David Lloyd, a spokesman for Naval Special Warfare Group 2, told the Virginian-Pilot: "We have removed this particular target and Arabic writing in question from the range in the near term, and will explore other options for future training."

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SEAL training range won't show woman as target

By Kate Wiltrout

The Virginian-Pilot 

June 30, 2012

NORFOLK

The Navy will not use a target depicting a Muslim woman holding a gun at a new training range for SEALs in Virginia Beach. 

The announcement came hours after the Council on American-Islamic Relations asked the Pentagon to remove the target. A picture of the cardboard target, which shows a woman in a headscarf holding a pistol, was published in The Virginian-Pilot on Tuesday. The image shows verses of the Quran hanging on the wall behind the woman, which also generated criticism from the group.

Nihad Awad, executive director of the Washington-based council, said in the letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta dated Friday that the target "is offensive and sends a negative and counterproductive message to trainees and to the Muslim-majority nations to which they may be deployed."

Panetta's press office did not respond to a request for comment. Late Friday, Lt. David Lloyd, a spokesman for Naval Special Warfare Group 2, said the materials in question would not be used on the close quarters combat training range, which was dedicated Monday at Joint Expeditionary Base Fort Story.

"We have removed this particular target and Arabic writing in question from the range in the near term, and will explore other options for future training," Lloyd said. 

Naval Special Warfare Group Two, which oversees SEAL teams 2, 4, 8 and 10 at Joint Expeditionary Base LIttle Creek, has not yet put the $11.5 million facility to use. 

The 26,500-square-foot building contains 52 interconnected spaces, including mock-ups of markets, a hospital, schools, a bank, a bus depot and two mosques. It will allow small groups of SEALs to practice enemy engagement at close range. 

Many of the details were taken from actual raids over the past decade, Capt. Tim Szymanski, the commodore of Naval Special Warfare Group 2, said during a tour of the facility Monday.

Szymanski said SEALs must differentiate in a split second between civilian bystanders and potential enemies, and noted other cardboard cut-outs on the range would show people holding animals, not weapons.

Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Islamic group, said it's important that military units not be trained to see Muslims as enemies, even if they are fighting in Afghanistan or other Muslim-majority nations.

"There are all kinds of people all over the world trying to do us harm. Why would you use this particular image in training people how to kill?" Hooper asked. "It creates the impression, we believe, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, that you should view Muslim women in headscarves with hostility and suspicion."

The council also spoke out in recent months against an instructor at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk who taught a course on Islamic radicalism that referred to the war on terror as a war against Islam.

The course was halted after a military officer who was a student complained. The instructor, an Army officer, was relieved of his teaching duties. A broader review of training across the military related to Islam found no other problems.

Kate Wiltrout, 757-446-2629, kate.wiltrout@pilotonline.com

I am sure that CAIR-OK, the 

Mayor's of both Moore and Norman, 

with the help of Home Creations, 

will have something like this...

Don't Norman our Moore... (Part 1)

Curbside recycling is a FLOP not only in Oklahoma City, but, also in the "People's Republic of Norman" too !

All one has to do is to drive around in Norman and see how many households are doing curbside recycling !

Moore mayor vows to try
again on curbside recycling

By M. Scott Carter

MOORE — Even though he wasn’t too successful during the last city council meeting, Moore Mayor Glenn Lewis said he would try again to establish a curbside recycling program.

“It didn’t happen this time,” he said. “But I believe, eventually, it will.”

Modeled after programs in Norman and Oklahoma City, Moore’s program would have cost between $1.56 to $3 per month and allowed residents to recycle at the curb, Lewis said. Residents weren’t required to participate; however, the fee would be applied to everyone.

Organized opposition at the July city council meeting killed the idea.

But just for now.

“We’ve been talking about doing curbside recycling before,” Lewis said. “There’s been a lot of discussion, but the council has had other priorities.”

But, like many other issues city leaders deal with, Lewis said the issue of recycling won’t “just go away.”

“Japan recycles about 90 percent of its trash,” he said. “They are so successful because their programs are mandatory. It’s the same in cities like Seattle, after a while the programs become mandatory.”

Eventually, Lewis said, the city will have to address the recycling issue, just like problems with its outdated sewage treatment plant.

“Right now we’re under an EPA consent order on our sewage plant,” he said. “And while our sewage rates are stable, I can almost assure you they will have to be increased. It’s like everything else right now. We’ll see some type of increase in the next year; there’s only so much we can absorb.”

Lewis said that same logic applies to the recycling debate.

“After so long things fill up,” he said. “And there’s nothing you can do.”

He noted that many residents make use of the waste dump near Interstate 240 and Bryant Avenue, but predicted that “more sooner than later” that disposal facility will be at capacity and residents will have to find another site to dispose of their refuse.

“A hunk of Oklahoma City and a good portion of Moore is already buried there,” he said. “All the rubble after the tornadoes. Originally it (the dump) was supposed to have a 50-year capability, but I believe it’s down to about 15 years. It’s going to fill up quickly.”

And with no space for dumping, Lewis said, some type of curbside recycling will become mandatory.

“One of the arguments is that recycling saves fuel,” he said. “I’ve seen hundreds and hundreds of tons of plastic bottles in that landfill — and it took millions of gallons of fuel to create those. It’s cheaper to recycle than to create from scratch.”

But convincing voters will be difficult.

“Getting a program developed isn’t going to happen right away,” he said. “And right now we don’t want to make it mandatory; the timing’s wrong.”

Instead, Lewis said city officials were “working with the business community” to put out recycle bins and encourage voluntary recycling. “We still push people toward recycling. We have a lot of participation in Moore. For example, we have a lot of people that recycle newspapers.”

Still, Lewis predicts that eventually, Moore will be forced to do what other cities have done and develop a mandatory curbside program.

“It’s a good idea,” he said. “Recycling is just one of those thing it will have to be done because resources will be so scarce. We haven’t given up on a curbside program, we’re just going to phase it in. The city may have to subsidize it to get it started, but, eventually, it will become mandatory.”

M. Scott Carter 366-354 scarter@normantranscript.com

Moore’s Warren Theater outsells the rest of the state during its opening weekend

Moore’s Warren Theater
outsells the rest of the state
during its opening weekend

OKCBusiness Staff

The City of Moore announced today the newly opened Warren Theater outsold the rest of the state during the April 5-6 weekend. Showing 11 movies, Moore officials said the theater was the third-highest grossing theater in the U.S.

Construction began on the cinema complex in March 2006 and includes such features as: art Deco-style design, a bull-nose marquee, lots of polished chrome and etched glass, sculpted ceiling panels, carpet custom-milled based on Thirties theater archives and plaster moldings. Also, the theater serves beer or cocktails and dinner in the balcony from a full kitchen and wait staff.

The Sykes Update for April 3, 2008Moore Mayor Glenn LewisOklahoma Lt. Governor Jari AskinsBill Warren

Moore voters endorse school bond issue, re-elect mayor

Voters in Moore gave thumbs up to a $69.9 million school bond issue and renewed their mayor's contract for another four years Tuesday.

Unnofficial returns showed voters overwhelmingly re-elected incumbent mayor Glenn Lewis by a 3-to-1 margin over challenger Paul Jaynes, a former Marine.

Lewis earned 2,214 votes to Jayne's 521

Lewis said he was pleased by the results.

"I'm very happy," he said. "We have a really good team intact. I'm pleased the voters chose to keep us in place."

Lewis, who has served as mayor since 1994, said earlier this year he still had things he wanted to do.

"I still have a few things I want to finish. I want to be there when our new theater opens and I want to make some improvements for kids. I'd like to do a Little League stadium and accomplish some more things like that."

Though he was disappointed by the loss, challenger Paul Jaynes said he was happy "just to be on the ballot."

"It proves that I know at least 200 people," Jaynes said. "Honestly, the mayor has been around a while and he's got the name recognition. Plus he's done a pretty good job."

Jaynes said he appreciated those residents who voted for him and said he hadn't ruled out a future bid for office.

"I'm not ruling anything out," he said. "Every time that sun's up, I'm up and at it."

Tuesday evening's results were also good news for Moore school officials.

With all the district's 38 precincts counted -- portions of the Moore school district lie in Oklahoma City -- voters endorsed a $69.9 million school bond issue by more than 4,000 votes.

The issue received 8,143 yes votes to 3,319 no votes.

"I'm so excited I just don't know what to tell you," said Moore school superintendent Deborah Arato. "It looks like a great win."

The large percentage of yes votes, she said, showed that Moore school patrons "are supportive of their schools and of their school kids."

"It's wonderful," she said.

Proceeds from the bond issue will be used to fund construction of two new elementary schools for the district and several remodeling projects including a larger gymnasium for Westmoore High School and a new fine arts center for Moore High school.

"About 74 percent of the money will be used for construction cost," Arato said.

Tuesday evening's vote capped a winter election season which saw voters fight ice storms and a lack of electricity to cast their ballots.

And turnout, like earlier this year, was low.

"We only had about 9,000 vote in the Moore school bond vote," said county election board secretary, Paula Roberts. "We would have liked to have seen more people vote."

Roberts said absentee and absentee-in-person voting was also slow.

"I not sure what it was," she said. "Maybe voter apathy."