$65 Bad Review

So, my silly wife signed up for requisite Sky fitness membership.  It cost her $39, plus $65 per month.  Because it was less than quarter mile from our house, we walked, to Sky, and then back home.  After a while, we just kept walking and really didn't need the membership anymore.

So, she decides to cancel her membership after a month.  First, Sky calls demanding payment after her cancellation.  Then, we got a letter threatening to tack on fees for chargebacks and threatening to ruin our credit rating.  

We finally WALKED to Sky to demand explanation.  They still insisted on the $65 payment.  I kindly and assertively asked the payment be waived in exchange for not writing this bad review.  They still insisted on payment.  F.A.I.L.

Here ya go, Sky.  $65 bad review.  If ONLY one person decides NOT join Sky or another fitness center scam, $65 is worth it, right?

Why join Sky or another other fitness center scam, when you can walk/bike to the grocery store, to your favorite restaurant, or wherever you go drink?  Work your workout into your daily simple pleasure of leaving that overpriced, over-engineered monstrosity of glass, metal, and rubber, on your driveway.

Yes, admittedly, those TV screens on the stair stepper are nice.  But, how about the simple quiet of walking through your tree-lined neighborhood?  If you can afford Sky, you probably have enough disposable income to afford the mortgage on a Mid-Town or South Tulsa house.

Instead of fighting traffic driving that monstrosity of glass, metal, and rubber on four wheels, why not enjoy walking that two mile round trip to Sprouts?  Hey, how about the simple sublime pleasure of biking to Braum's for frozen yogart?  Coffee and bagettes at Panera after a quick jog, without driving, anyone?

Think about how totally STUPID to drive just to go to the spinning class at Sky.

The REAL problem in the Great Tulsa Sidewalk Controversy

Nobody wants to admit the REAL problem in the conflict between Tulsa hipster walktavists and Maple Ridge is George Kaiser FF Gathering Place.  It is simply an over-the-top, New York City white elephant being shoved up a Tulsa crack.

Michael J. Sanditen, one of Tulsa's esteemed real estate developers, noted, "$3 million per acre of runaway development."

Tulsa is obviously not New York City.  They get around town, by walking, biking, or transit.  There's only ONE real convenient, comfortable way for Tulsans to get around, the car.  Tulsa simply has NO infrastructure to support the Gathering Place.

The Gathering Place is a ridiculous, enormous traffic generator, sure to convert Maple Ridge into a perpetual motor vehicle parking lot.  Such a waste of $350 million, which could have been simply gifted to Tulsa Transit.

How the police can beat the protests, without really trying

Meanwhile over at PoliceOne, "Everyone is just demonizing the police. But police follow orders and laws. Nobody talks about the responsibility of the politicians to explain to the community why quality-of-life enforcement is necessary."

Maybe if the police would lose the weaponry, join the coup to stick it to stupid politicians and laws? 

Who Polices the Police?

The Justice Department investigated five police departments.  Results are unsurprising to anyone who has kept up with Tulsa's own history.

When to Shoot the Police

Indiana has had a state statute since 2012 describing scenarios when to shoot the police:

(i) A person is justified in using reasonable force against a public servant if the person reasonably believes the force is necessary to:

(1) protect the person or a third person from what the person reasonably believes to be the imminent use of unlawful force;

(2) prevent or terminate the public servant’s unlawful entry of or attack on the person’s dwelling, curtilage, or occupied motor vehicle; or

(3) prevent or terminate the public servant’s unlawful trespass on or criminal interference with property lawfully in the person’s possession, lawfully in possession of a member of the person’s immediate family, or belonging to a person whose property the person has authority to protect.

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/state-passes-law-legalize-self-defense-police/#KlUco2JUm6otpGp7.99

When NOT to shoot the police:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radley-balko/myths-and-misconceptions-_b_1596846.html

Citizen Tay Calls for Tulsa Christmas Parade Cancellation

To the Tulsa Christmas Parade organizers:

We can't breathe.  And, we are asking you to cancel this year's parade, in a show of respect and solidarity with the truly neediest of America's criminal injustice system.  We are also asking Tulsa Police to stand down, in a show of cooperation and community unity.

Have some guts to show the world you care for the most vulnerable among us this Christmas. How can we celebrate Christian values, knowing there are two Christmases, one white, another black?

The Eric Garner police chokehold homicide clearly shows the true plight of two Americas.  We ask you to show some modicum of humanity for this gross injustice toward your fellow American.

This is not just a black problem, or a brown problem, or a Native American problem.  It's an American tragedy.

Please consider our NON-violent request.  Until ALL Americans enjoy the same rights, the same justice, no one will enjoy the same Christmas.  In the grand words of JFK, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

Thank you.

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