Blog Heap of Links for the day 24 June 2014

• 10-year-old girl raped in OKC elementary school
• Student accused of threats at Mustang school
• Police investigate sexual assault claim at Sand Springs school
• Four-year-old wanders from OKC school, found in city street
• Kellyville teacher arrested for sex with student
• Yukon settles lawsuit over bullying ... by teachers
• Okla. high school coach arrested on molestation complaint
• Self-interest of grown-ups again trumps concern for the children
• Sex abuse of students by school personnel addressed in new Title IX guidance
• Two former Okla. school bus drivers charged in alleged sexual contact with young girls
• Former Oklahoma high school coach guilty of rape
• Tulsa Public Schools bus nearly hit by train
• Tulsa sixth-grade teacher arrested for lewd molestation
• Two Oklahoma inquiries focus on possible sexual relationships between teachers and students
• Coweta Public Schools bus driver arrested for lewd molestation

Under Stockman’s bill, “The Dog Ate My Tax Receipts Act,” taxpayers who do not provide documents requested by the IRS can claim one of the following reasons:

1. The dog ate my tax receipts
2. Convenient, unexplained, miscellaneous computer malfunction
3. Traded documents for five terrorists
4. Burned for warmth while lost in the Yukon
5. Left on table in Hillary’s Book Room
6. Received water damage in the trunk of Ted Kennedy’s car
7. Forgot in gun case sold to Mexican drug lords
8. Forced to recycle by municipal Green Czar
9. Was short on toilet paper while camping
10. At this point, what difference does it make?

“The mainstream media is complicit in the cover-up and in the denial and in the overlooking of information for the American people. Most people don’t even know we are in as bad a condition as we are in. Because you’re not gonna hear it on the 6 o’clock news or the 7 o’clock news that only 58 percent of registered voters voted in the last presidential election. The mainstream media said, ‘A record!’ What about the 42 percent that stayed home? I’ve even heard people say, ‘Well, I don’t vote because I don’t know what’s going on. And I say ‘Good!’ Stupid people are ruining America, and I’m glad some of them stay home!”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/20/herman-cain-urges-uninformed-voters-to...

“It’s amazing that just a few feet from here where I’m standing are the signatures of the 56 Founders who put their names on a Declaration that changed the course of history,” [First Lady Michelle Obama] said during her speech, referring to the Declaration of Independence. “And like the 50 of you, none of them were born American – they became American.”

…Did she actually mean that those who signed the Declaration of Independence and participated in the drafting of the Constitution were not born in America? Benjamin Franklin was born in Pennsylvania and Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and James Madison were born in Virginia. John Adams was born in Massachusetts. Surely she knows this. But maybe not. …

71 years before Memorial Day was recognized as a national holiday, citizens of Bartlesville, Indian Territory were honoring those who had served their country. According to records, White Rose Cemetery hosted memorial day services in the year 1900, just three years after Bartlesville had been incorporated and seven years before Oklahoma became a state.

For the 12th year running, Bartlesville's White Rose Cemetery hosted a Memorial Day Service. … Bill Teal from the American Legion spoke about the flag and the meaning behind the folds of the flag before a 21 gun salute honored those who gave all in service of their country. …

Almost 95 when she finally gave up square dancing, Irene Trask needed a new outlet for her energy.

But had somebody else not suggested it, shot putting and javelin-hurling most likely would not have been at the top of her list. Ranked for several years running as the oldest participant in the annual Tulsa Parks-sponsored Oklahoma Senior Olympic Games, the Bartlesville resident would go on to rack up some 40 gold medals by the time she was done. Irene Beulah Trask died Wednesday [2014 Apr 9] in Bartlesville. She was 106.

“At that point, I took a step and attempted to cross,” Faust outlined. “Once I stepped into the street, [the officer] put my hands behind my back.” Faust and a second member of his congregation, Ramon Marroquin, were then charged with “interfering with public duties." … “Thankfully, the Texas Appeals Court recognized that the beauty of the First Amendment rests in its tolerance of all viewpoints, no matter how politically incorrect, unpalatable or inappropriate they might appear to others,”

Services are planned this weekend for a Kansas soldier who was among those killed when a military plane crashed in Alaska more than 60 years ago. …Earlier this week, the Department of Defense released the identities of 17 people onboard the C-124 Globemaster, which crashed in 1952. The department was able to identify the victims after the glacier shifted two years ago, releasing the remains. Army Pvt. Leonard Kittle of Caney [Kansas] was among the 52 killed. Kittle will be buried Saturday next to his mother's grave at the Sunnyside Cemetery in Caney, where Kittle was born and raised. His casket was flown with an Army honor guard to Tulsa on Thursday and then driven north to Caney on U. S. 75 through Bartlesville. (Jun 20)