On top of taxes paid on income, Oklahomans are also paying hundreds of millions to governments in order to buy the most popular medicine in the state... Cannabis.

  When the Oklahoma Tax Commission published the December tax receipts from Cannabis Medicine sales, the total is expected to put 2020 totals at about $140 million. That's 2.5 times the collections from cannabis medicine sales in 2019.
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  Medical Marijuana businesses pay annual state licenses and fees from nearly 10,000 farmers, processors and retail shops. the fees to the OMMA, OBNDD, and other agencies average somewhere around $3,500 depending on the categories. So to compare with liquor collections, it's fair to add another $35 million in Cannabis related state fees to our totals for comparison with liquor, which is rarely a physician-recommended medicine.

So the real comparison number for state & local taxes on Cannabis products should be about $175 million for 2020.

The most recent data available from the OTC on liquor  related taxes & licenses is for fiscal year 2018-19. That total is about $139 million . It includes

​  While our state budget is strapped for cash, The state-owned electric company sells Google electricity at rates way below the rates our Corporation Commission sets for PSO and OG&E. That's essentially a subsidy! 
​  Oklahomans are ignorantly creating 'Big Brother', right here in our own state.
Google operates a mega data server installation near Pryor Creek, OK. The nearby Grand River Dam Authority sells electricity at rates which economists rate as the lowest cost electricity in the world.  Google may be the largest single customer of GRDA. We identified at least 3 electric substations adjacent to or within the Google installation. It may be the single biggest operating expense that Google needs on a daily basis.
  If the GRDA ceased providing electricity to Google's Pryor facility, it could shut down a significant portion of the Global capacity of internet services for websites and social media.  

Within hours of a judge's block of Governor Kevin Stitt's demand that all food & drink services close by 11pm, nightly,  the governor's team is retreating from the demand.   Reports of the court proceeding reflect a disastrous dialogue in court testimony.  State agencies, including the Alcoholic Beverage regulators (ABLE), the State Health Dept, and the governor's own legal team and chief operating officer; could not produce any verifiable data to back up their selective restrictions.
  The orders banned diners from going to Whataburger at 11:15pm, but that same person could go to a topless strip club for a topless dancer to sit on a patron's sap while gyrating and caressing.
  The governor's team claimed that Google Analytics was the primary source of data they relied upon. But they failed to produce that hearsay, claiming they lack legal permission from Google to use the published info.
  The state authorities also said that Google Analytics concludes that mask mandates are ineffective in slowing this viral spread. Thus, they rejected Judge Susan Stallings' inquiry about an alternative and broadly applied order, which doesn't single out food & drink venues while ignoring other enterprises.

 Tonight, Attorney Frank Urbanic notified SoonerPolitics that his client restaurants & taverns won the early round of a lawsuit against the governor & state agencies. The judge blocked the governor's 'rules' for another 6 months, while the civil suit proceeds.
 It's a breaking development in taverns  & night clubs' battle for their fiscal survival. 

  Governor Kevin Stitt decided to mandate early closures of dining establishments, claiming that it's in the overnight hours that the covid virus spreads the worst.  The judge didn't buy it.  When evidence was asked, the governor's office relied only on Google data, and an unproven scenario that everyone who eats and drinks later in the night will be careless to follow protocols to prevent social spread.

Judge Susan Stallings asked why a statewide mask mandate wasn't uniformly implemented?  The defense team in this lawsuit said that Google claims a mask mandate is ineffective in slowing the viral spread.
​  The lawsuit will now proceed to the full case. Up 'til now the courts have simply addressed the judge's decision to order the governor's rules unenforceable until the case is completed in her court.  Court injunctions are a tool to prevent harms which would not be recoverable if the plaintiff had to wait until the case is resolved in full litigation.

  In the past 24 hours, the Silicon Valley allies of the Chinese Communist Party censors have begun an ideological 'cleansing' of what messages are allowed to be on the world's largest social media platforms. Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other operatives are removing many political leaders on the right from any access to use social media, even when the left agrees with the message. 
  President Trump is now banned from the social media platforms which he helped vault into dominance.  Anyone whose account is used to relay a message from President Trump, is likewise banned.
  The 'big brother' technology even spies on our own internet devices.
  Last night I began a draft of a sarcastic statement of fact, referring to Apple's threats to ban Parler unless Parler agrees to ban Trump in a way that Apple approves of. It said;
"The loving masters of our society have banned Parler.com because Parler won't suppress conservative values in our loving & tolerant society"

Yesterday, Rep Jay Steagall stood on the steps of the Oklahoma State Capitol and proclaimed ​his own constitutional foundation for opposing the federal election results. He graciously allowed us to reprint the speech as a guest editorial.

  Last night President @RealDonaldTrump, the most followed and prolific Twitter, was unceremoniously banned from the platform because he disagreed with the political views of the founder & CEO of Twitter.
  Mark Zuckerberg followed suit and banned Trump from Facebook 'indefinitely'.
   Gab.com immediately reached out to the president with commitments to strengthen the capacity of the upstart social media platform, to handle more expected web traffic.
  By 11am today,  Gab was completely overwhelmed and browsers could not load the pages.
  Unlike Twitter, and it's free speech alternative, Parler;  Gab also has group forums and organizational pages. 
  All these free speech alternatives have a ways to go, before they develop the full set of features, automations, and interactivity that the established platforms have.
   SoonerPolitics has a sponsored group page on Gab, for political discussion and Oklahoma issues.

A gunman wearing a suit & tie, in the Speaker's Lobby, fired one lethal shot to the neck of a 14 year Air Force veteran.
The woman died within seconds, on the marble floor landing of a staircase of the nation's capitol.
  It was not a uniformed law enforcement officer, but rather a likely member of the Sergeant-At-Arms, which answers directly to Nancy Pelosi, the current Speaker of the House.
  Another member of the Sergeant-at-Arms staff attended to the victim, while wearing an identical mask, suit, and cufflinks.
  We're still awaiting even one member of congress who will condemn the murder at the hands of the capitol official.

This is a preliminary observation and we're publishing it because no congressional action has been announced, and corporate media is blaming President Trump for the murder.

​Is It True? Are Oklahoma's OKGOP Leaders (David McLain, Pam Pollard, & Steve Curry) enjoying an RNC junket at the Ritz Carlton on Amelia Island, off the Florida Coast of Jacksonville; while Trump's election gets stolen and both Georgia Senate Seats go to the Democrats?
  Fortunately Pam Pollard was on the ground in Georgia, on Tuesday. She posted a photo of the door knocking team that joined her.
David McLain posted that he is supporting Trump  at the luxury destination, this week.
We're still seeking a response from Steve Curry?
Is this the example that the party leadership sets for us?
Never mind that the Georgia Senate Seats went to the Democrats, and made Chuck Schumer the king of the US Senate.
Never mind that Donald Trump fought to save the integrity of our elections, and was betrayed by most of the Republicans in DC.
After All, the fat cats controlling the national Republican Party had their flights and hotel rooms booked!

  Violence and death occurred at The US Capitol as protestors stormed the seat of govt to protest the election corruption of several states.
Here is a clip of the woman being shot from someone down the hall of "The Speaker's Lobby".
  WARNING!! It's traumatic. & graphic.
https://theresistance.video/watch?id=5ff63502f23a18318ceb28a7,  mirror

 Infowars has a video report including a clip of the woman being transported out as paramedics sought to restore her heart.
https://theresistance.video/watch?id=5ff62384f23a18318cea0b6f

Several Attendees of the Trump rally on the Capitol Mall have now breached the capitol checkpoints and have taken full access to the capitol building.
​Both chambers of congress have gone into adjournment of their debate over the  Arizona electors.

  The meeting quickly turned into a verbal defamation of the new sheriff, a black law enforcement professional. But the anarchists and socialists had many friendly voices in the crowd of attendees.

  The ill-advised decision by the chair, to allow open comments at the beginning of the event, caused a terrible defamation of the sheriff & other attendees to occur. Then, what appears to be a conspired plot to set up a rumble, took place.

  Oklahoma's 1st district congressman, Kevin Hern of Tulsa; just posted his own observations while watching the new congress being sworn in, this weekend.
  Hern is serving his 2nd term and will be continuing to provide constituent services to the people of his district, in N.E. Oklahoma.
  Here's are Kevin Hern's personal remarks..

Oklahoma's Covid statistics give reasons for gratitude, as the data for 2020 gets compiled.  While the impact of social spread in Oklahoma is 35th worst in the nation (7.684 cases per 100,000 population), the chances of dying from Covid-19 (the virus originating in Wuhan, China) are very very low.
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  On Saturday, we detailed how Oklahoma went from a 6% death rate for Covid patients in April, to less than 1% for the entire average of 2020. In fact, for the 2nd half of 2020 Oklahoma Covid patients experienced only a 0.75% fatality rate, and more than 80% of the fatalities were patients over 65 years of age. This means that Oklahomans under 65 had about a 1-in-a-1000 fatality rate.  This is far less than the patient fatality rate for the annual flu virus for most of the past 30 years.