Gov. Mary Fallin ask fellow State citizens to help pray away the job crisis

The religious right has a lot to pray about these days: the overdue rapture; babies they'll never get to know; the rise and impending fall of documented coveter of other peoples' wives, Donald Trump.

But right now, they're praying for the oil fields, which are in such an imperiled state that Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin — an avid Trump supporter — named Thursday Oilfield Prayer Day, inviting her constituents to appeal the Lord to show mercy on its oil and gas industry.

When Oilfield Prayer Day was initially reported in October, it applied only to Christians, but on Monday, Fallin widened her call to prayer to include members of all faiths, the Associated Press reported.

This because Oklahoma's oil industry is flagging. Slumping oil prices have hit Oklahoma particularly hard. But according to Reuters, during the boom, cash wasn't flowing into the state's reserves so much as into the pockets of a few. Now that the boom is over, oil barons still enjoy enormous tax breaks — to the tune of $470 million in 2015. Government services instead took the hit, with some public schools now operating only four days a week, so low is their funding.

"There are many people suffering right now who have lost their jobs in the energy sector ... there are a lot of families who have been hurt, and I think prayer is always a good thing, for anyone," Fallin said, according to the Associated Press. So, rather than praying for those families — or reconsidering those low, low oil tax rates — Fallin is rallying good Christian folks to pray for the oil fields themselves.

"We have a saying: The oil field trickles down to everyone," Oilfield Christian Fellowship member, Jeff Hubbard, told the Washington Post.

But, as Reuters' report indicates, that's not really true in Oklahoma. Despite his industry's nose dive, oil tycoon Harold Hamm remains the richest person in Oklahoma with a net worth of $15 billion, according to Forbes.

In any case, people are tweeting their unfiltered thoughts and prayers in honor of Oilfield Prayer Day.

http://www.businessinsider.com/oklahoma-oilfield-prayer-day-governor-mary-fallin-2016-10?r=US&IR=T&IR=T

And?

sending my thoughts and prayers to oklahoma

Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
And?

The candidates are a reflection of the people. Also your shitty little EU country is not all that great, remember that.

Why is Sweden inviting rapists into the country and teaching them how to seduce women?

A Swedish prosecutor has ruled that the ISIS flag does not constitute hate speech and is therefore legal under Swedish law.

Prosecutor Gisela Sjövall announced last week that she would not prosecute a 23-year-old man who had posted the black ISIS flag on his Facebook page in June.

https://www.thelocal.se/20161016/islamic-state-flag-is-legal-in-sweden-prosecutor-rules

Google wont post websites from les than a year ago.

*nervous feel of orwellian antiwhiteness*

Assnerd ran off when he realized he just put his foot in his mouth.

Good job shifting the focus of this thread from the Religious Right/sad state of America to the crappiness of Sweden.

First and foremost, no one is inviting rapists into Sweden.

Secondly the Court ruled that it wasn't an ISIS symbol but symbol that has been used in Islam for hundreds of years that has been tarnished by ISIS; and I don't really care.

Rape and ISIS apologist

I really could care less if some idiot wants to post a picture of the ISIS symbol or swastika on their ****ing facebook.

Rape on the other hand is a criminal offense.

Originally posted by Astner
I really could care less if some idiot wants to post a picture of the ISIS symbol or swastika on their ****ing facebook.

Rape on the other hand is a criminal offense.

Originally posted by Robtard
Good job shifting the focus of this thread from the Religious Right/sad state of America to the crappiness of Sweden.

You are pretty much a bigot and I have zero respect for you. How dare you criticize the religious right while doing everything you can to promote "Islam is a religion of peace."

Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
You are pretty much a bigot and I have zero respect for you. How dare you criticize the religious right while doing everything you can to promote "Islam is a religion of peace."

Truly confused here.

-I was congratulating you two for getting at America-hating-Astner

-Not sure where I attacked the religious right here and/or promoted anything Islam

Do you think it's another one of these cases where you read what I write and just assume I'm doing something against you?

Whatever

Okay then.

**** off "religious right."

Originally posted by Its2016
what are the official stats against rape allegations in sweden? How many thousands?

In 2014, there were 6,700 rapes reported to the Swedish police — or 69 cases per 100,000 population — according to the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå), which is an 11 percent increase from the previous year. The number of convictions have remained relatively unchanged since 2005, with approximately 190 convictions on average each year.
There have been several international comparisons made, placing Sweden at the top end of the number of reported rapes. However, police procedures and legal definitions vary widely across countries, which makes it difficult to compare rape statistics. For example, Sweden reformed its sex crime legislation and made the legal definition of rape much wider in 2005, which largely explains a significant increase in the number of reported rapes in the ten-year period of 2004-2013. The Swedish police also record each instance of sexual violence in every case separately, leading to an inflated number of cases compared to other countries. Additionally, the Swedish police have improved the handling of rape cases, in an effort to increase the number of crimes reported.
Raised awareness and a shifting attitude of crimes against women in Sweden, which has been ranked as the number one country ingender equality may also explain the relatively high rates of reported rape.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Sweden