Have A Karen Floyd Christmas, Everybody …

By Todd on December 22nd, 2009 at 12:55 pm

This family has good hair.

By justsayin' on December 22nd, 2009 at 2:09 pm

Report: Oklahoma Has Biggest Deficit Among States
December 22, 2009

Oklahoma has the unwanted distinction of having the largest revenue shortfall of any state, according to a new report. That reality is illustrated by the state’s revenue collections, which are down by more than 25 percent from a year ago.

The state last week ordered yet another round of cuts, this time instructing agencies to cut 10 percent from their budgets.

A November state budget report by the National Conference of State Legislatures says Oklahoma’s 18.5 percent shortfall for the current fiscal year edges out Arizona’s 18 percent, with Illinois in third at 16.5 percent.

The report says states have lopped $145.9 billion from their fiscal year 2010 budgets compared with 2009. For most states, the fiscal year begins on July 1.

In addition, 36 states have reported additional shortfalls for 2010 totaling $28.2 billion.

Through the first five months of the current fiscal year, Oklahoma’s general revenue fund receipts are 28.5 percent below the same period a year ago and 24.3 percent below projections – a shortfall of $577.5 million.

If the shortfall sustains that rate, general fund revenues will fall more than $1.1 billion short of projections.

State officials say December’s general fund allocations would be 10 percent less than budget amounts – a figure double the 5 percent cuts already in place.

Cuts of such magnitude can leave a lasting effect. Senate President Pro Tem Glenn Coffee, R-Oklahoma City, said shortfall will “reduce the size of state government for the next few years.”

But Coffee said it is too early to tell what will be cut. State agencies appeared to be taken by surprise by the 10 percent reduction. Departments have been putting workers on furlough and cutting services to cope with the 5 percent reduction.

Lauri Monetti, a Department of Human Services spokeswoman, said the additional cuts threaten programs that have been protected to this point because of the federal matching money they attract.

She said cuts in one-time expenditures will likely be made first. She said the “effect will be more significant” if the negative trend in revenue doesn’t reverse soon.

The prison system, which is more reliant on state general fund revenue than most departments, is still analyzing the situation.

Corrections Department spokesman Jerry Massie said the agency has already had a round of early retirements and is running furloughs. The department work force is at three-quarters of its authorized strength.

“We’ll be looking at canceling drug and alcohol treatment contracts, reduction in force, more furlough days, and we may have to look at closing some of the smaller facilities,” Massie said.

Information from: Tulsa World, http://www.tulsaworld.com

By courier72 on December 22nd, 2009 at 3:59 pm

Ok, that picture screams Stepford family.

By anonymous on December 22nd, 2009 at 5:33 pm

They don’t appear to be sane; they appear to be waxen.

By SnakeMD on December 22nd, 2009 at 10:01 pm

Amazing! Click on “dead animals” This gets my vote for most unusual Xmas card. So, now we find out that the Sanford’s boys slaughter and sell alligator skins and this family appears to have violated Federal Migratory bag limits and have killed enough ducks to feed a Peking railroad crew. Are all of our SC politicians double-first- cousin-inbreeds? Maybe Mark Sanford went out of the country looking for diversity in the gene pool. I knew this was a strange place when I saw guys wearing Johnson and Murphy dress shoes with no socks with dress slacks. It’s like, hey dude your ankles match your neck… Only in SC!

By Yo, Todd! on December 23rd, 2009 at 12:27 am

Good hair? Are you kidding, Todd? The guy on the right has a child molester part. Slicked, greasy, black hair is not fashionable, either. Brylcreem went out 40 years ago. The boys…bless their hearts. Do they get a discount when they bring their own bowls to the barber? A bowl cut is not fashionable. Their hair looks ridiculous.

By Soft Sigh From Hell on December 23rd, 2009 at 12:50 pm

I see nothing to criticize as individuals. It is simply a typical view of the upper middle class (on the SC scale at least). Told what to wear and how to look by advertising and current class and age fashion, much in parallel with being told what to think by Fox, Murdoch, and the Heritage Foundation. I am not at all opposed to criticizing individuals, even in the Christmas season, I’d just have to see some individualism to do so.

The father, though, may possibly be a half-step off the herd-worn path, what with his 1910s or 20s haircut. But being married to Karen makes it unlikely that he resembles old Mencken in any additional way.

By Soft Sigh From Hell on December 23rd, 2009 at 4:01 pm

I think minor children should be off limits too.

(Unless felons or otherwise individually notorious.)