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Tulsa Music and Arts Festival This Weekend to Support HIV / AIDS Charity

The Tulsa Center for AIDS Resources, Education and Support (Tulsa C.A.R.E.S.) will host the agency’s first art and music festival to benefit its programs for low-income people living with HIV/AIDS in northeastern Oklahoma. Tulsa C.A.R.E.S. Fest will be Sat., Aug. 9, from 5 to 10 p.m. at Tulsa River Park’s Reynolds Amphitheater and floating stage at 2100 S. Jackson.

Featured musicians include Joe Mack, klondike5, Three Penny Upright and Rebecca Ungerman. The on-site art gallery will feature local artists specializing in jewelry, pen and ink, pottery, glass, sculptures and more. Information booths will be hosted by H.O.P.E. Testing Clinic, Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Oklahomans for Equality, Youth Services of Tulsa and Tulsa C.A.R.E.S. Admission is $15 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under and parking is free. All proceeds will benefit Tulsa C.A.R.E.S.

Tulsa C.A.R.E.S. Tulsa CARES Announcement

T Town Tommy Note: Tulsa CARES is currently helping hundreds of low income victims of the HIV / AIDS disease. Unlike the stigma of 20 years ago the disease is in no way limited to Gay men. Recent trends have seen a rise in the cases of new infection in the African American and Hispanic communities. Tulsa is faced today with a disease that is truly non discriminatory. Please visit their web site for more info.

Monday Morning Humor - Top Ten Signs it's Getting Way Too Hot in Tulsa

After a long stretch of days with heat indexes over 100 degrees everyone is getting a little edgy in Tulsa. So this is for you guys and gals out today in our Oklahoma heat trying to make a living.

Top Ten Signs it's Getting Way Too Hot in Tulsa

The drunks hanging out downtown at 4th and S. Cheyenne are passing around a Popsicle.

Hillary Clinton comes to town in a pantsuit minus the pants. Ewww

The popular hang out becomes the QT store coolers.

Braums Ice Cream starts offering funeral services.

One of the drunks from the popsicle gang downtown gets smacked for saying, "Hot Enough for Ya?"

You find yourself in Jim Inhofe's office enjoying the chill.

Amish are spotted in the downtown Home Depot buying air conditioners.

You're visiting silly blogs for an excuse to sit in the air conditioning.

The Arkansas River bed is starting to look like NASA Mars photos

Tulsa Mayor Kathy Taylor's office is being moved to the basement of the new Dirty Ice Cube building.

U.S. Government Under-Reporting New HIV Cases

The US Center for Disease Control has reported that the U.S. government has been under-reporting the rates of new HIV infections for over a decade.

MEXICO CITY -- The United States has been underestimating the rate of new HIV infections by 40% for nearly a decade, said officials of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC now says an estimated 56,300 people a year are becoming infected with the deadly sex-and blood borne virus, up from the old rate of 40,000 people ...
- Wall Street Journal

John McCain Compares Barack Obama to Hilton and Spears in New Ad

John McCain must be getting cranky in the summer heat! In a just released commercial McCain compares Barack Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. Suggesting somehow that the Democratic nominee for President of The Untied States of America is a ...TMZ slut and then the McCain camp tries to use off shore drilling policy and electric power taxes to legitimize this idiotic premise.

Check out the newest attack ad below and post your thoughts both pro and con

UPDATE: Paris Hilton's family disclosed today campaign contributions to John McCain, too bad the checks have already cleared...

New Trailer for Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince Released

Finally the newest trailer for the next movie in the Harry Potter series Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince has been released. Click below to watch and then visit the official web site for more information about the new film installment featuring Daniel Radcliffe.

Oklahoma Redneck Sighting

Everyone has heard the "You Might Be a Redneck If.....". Well this guy at the drive thru today took it a few steps beyond decking out his gas guzzling Dodge Ram with huge clanking chrome bull testicles and a big ole loaded gun cylinder with big chrome bullets as a cover for his trailer hitch. I think someone has a serious inferiority complex with the big ram, big balls and big bullets and I think he may be a Redneck!

photo by the Boyfriend on Apple iPhone - click to enlarge

Oklahoma Election Results - Brent Rinehart Defeated

OETA News in Oklahoma is reporting with 80 of 92 voting areas totalled that Brent Rinehart - R has lost his Republican primary run for re-election as Oklahoma County Commissioner. The media has attempted to contact Brent Rinehart but was informed the Oklahoma County Commissioner has opted to go see the new Batman movie instead of holding an election watch party. Thank you Oklahoma County voters!

Incumbent (and freaking dark ages archaic) US Senator James Inhofe - R has won his party's nomination yet again as our Oklahoma State Senator in Washington D.C..

Jim Inhofe has been a career politician since the mid 1960's. Democratic challenger, the young and dynamic Andrew Rice - D won the State of Oklahoma Democratic Party primary race for U.S. Senator and is now going head to head with the fossilized career politician Sen. James Inhofe for the right to finally have someone to represent all of us in Washington.

Andrew Rice Web Site

One of the Funniest Videos I've Ever Seen

Warning don't drink fluids while watching this unless you want to choke; one of the funniest videos I've seen in a very long time! Enjoy! For those in Oklahoma remember today is your day to vote!