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6 • ALTUS TIMES THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 2010
Today's Weather
Local 5-Day Forecast
Fri
4/30
78/53
Partly
cloudy.
Highs in the
upper 70s
and lows in
the low 50s.
Sunrise:
6:47 AM
Sunset:
8:20 PM
Sat
5/1
77/49
Clouds giving
way to
sun . Highs
in the upper
70s and
lows in the
upper 40s.
Sunrise:
6:46 AM
Sunset:
8:21 PM
Sun
5/2
78/53
Partly
cloudy,
chance of a
thunderstorm.
Sunrise:
6:45 AM
Sunset:
8:22 PM
Oklahoma At A Glance
Altus
78/53
Enid
78/53
Mon
5/3
80/56
Times of
sun and
clouds.
Highs in the
low 80s and
lows in the
mid 50s.
Sunrise:
6:44 AM
Sunset:
8:22 PM
Oklahoma City
79/56
Lawton
75/52
Tue
5/4
80/57
Mix of sun
and clouds.
Highs in the
low 80s and
lows in the
upper 50s.
Sunrise:
6:43 AM
Sunset:
8:23 PM
Tulsa
83/54
Area Cities
City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond.
Antlers 78 61 t-storm Oklahoma City 79 56 t-storm
Ardmore 82 58 t-storm Okmulgee 84 57 t-storm
Bartlesville 80 52 t-storm Pauls Valley 81 58 t-storm
Broken Bow 75 65 t-storm Perry 80 53 t-storm
Claremore 78 54 t-storm Sallisaw 78 60 t-storm
Cordell 75 51 windy Sapulpa 81 54 t-storm
Duncan 78 55 t-storm Shawnee 81 57 t-storm
El Reno 77 54 t-storm Snyder 77 53 pt sunny
Elk City 74 50 windy Stillwater 81 53 t-storm
Enid 78 53 t-storm Tahlequah 77 57 t-storm
Guymon 65 38 pt sunny Tulsa 83 54 t-storm
Lawton 75 52 pt sunny Watonga 76 52 pt sunny
McAlester 76 59 t-storm Weatherford 73 50 windy
Miami 76 55 t-storm Wewoka 80 56 t-storm
Muskogee 80 56 t-storm Woodward 71 48 mst sunny
National Cities
City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond.
Atlanta 82 62 pt sunny Minneapolis 69 49 rain
Boston 73 51 pt sunny New York 77 61 mst sunny
Chicago 74 58 t-storm Phoenix 68 51 mst sunny
Dallas 84 65 t-storm San Francisco 64 47 sunny
Denver 48 34 t-storm Seattle 56 45 pt sunny
Houston 82 73 t-storm St. Louis 79 63 t-storm
Los Angeles 68 51 sunny Washington, DC 86 65 sunny
Miami 81 74 t-storm
Moon Phases
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Doesn’t feel bad
about affair
Dear Dr. Brothers: I’ve
been unfaithful to my husband
for almost seven years. That’s
half as long as we’ve been
married. I used to feel guilty
about the whole situation, but
then I would think about how
he treats me, and the feeling
would pass. But recently, he’s
stopped drinking again — this
time staying sober for going
on three months. He seems
really set on changing his
ways. I want to believe him,
but I don’t want to break off
my other relationship unless
I’m sure. Please help. — T.B.
Dear T.B.: It seems that the
way you have chosen to cope
with your husband’s alcoholism
and unpredictable
treatment of you is to stay
within his sphere of influence
while at the same time removing
yourself so that you can
enjoy a more normal life —
and by that I don’t mean that
cheating is normal, but presumably
the person you are
with is someone who at least
treats you the way you like. It
is worth asking yourself,
though, if the man you are
with is really doing you any
favors by asking you to continue
to avoid the issues in
your marriage by being with
him — sort of. You may be
reaching a dangerous period.
So far, your husband has been
in his own world, somewhat
oblivious to your activities
and feelings. If he stays sober,
that’s bound to change.
At some point, you may be
forced to act. Do you want to
be with your husband and support
him in health as well as in
illness, and break off your
affair? It sounds as though
your commitment to your husband
is contingent upon his
changing. You don’t want to
break up with your lover in
case you still might need him
to fall back on. He may decide
to leave you before you get
caught by your now moreaware
spouse. It’s time to face
the music and decide what it is
you want to do, before events
completely overtake you. If
telling your husband about the
affair would not serve any
purpose you can think of, then
don’t. But start facing the
music.
* * *
Dear Dr. Brothers: My
boyfriend has been driving me
crazy recently. He has a tendency
to just blurt out weird
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things at the most inappropriate
times. It’s like he’s unacquainted
with the most basic,
fundamental rule of never discussing
either religion or politics
at a dinner party. He has
zero talent for small talk. He’s
always asking people about
some profound stuff, like the
meaning of life. What’s the
deal with this? — C.Z.
Dear C.Z.: Though it may
not always be appropriate to
talk about stuff like this, and it
drives you crazy, your
boyfriend just might be onto
something that will increase
his own happiness. And that’s
not such a bad thing. A new
study published in the journal
Psychological Science examined
20,000 recordings of volunteers
engaged in their daily
lives, and found that those
who spent less time alone and
more time in meaningful conversations
were happier than
those whose conversations
focused only on small talk.
The happiest participants had
twice as many substantive
conversations and one-third as
much small talk as the unhappiest
participants, according to
the study.
Now, that’s all well and
good, and I’m sure you’ll
agree that it’s better to have a
happy boyfriend than a
morose one, but if his behavior
is not bringing the same
level of bliss to you and your
relationship, that’s not good. I
know you don’t want to
change who he is; and chances
are, the people he enters into
deep conversations with are
not offended — he may seem
like a breath of fresh air to
them. If they do have a bad
reaction, you could discuss it
with him later and ask him to
tone it down a bit. But if you
find that you are the only one
who is really embarrassed by
his probing conversations, it
may be time to let him be who
he is. You’ll both most likely
be better off.
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Arizona was the only territory west of
Texas to secede from the Union and join
the Confederacy during the Civil War. A
century later, it fought recognition of the
Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday.
This week, an anti-immigrant bill was
signed into law by Republican Gov. Jan
Brewer. Arizona Senate Bill 1070
empowers state and local law enforcement
to stop, question and arrest whoever
they suspect may not be in the state legally.
The law is an open invitation to
sweeping racial profiling and arbitrary
detention.
The law ostensibly offers "cooperative
enforcement of federal immigration laws
throughout all of Arizona." It provides
that a "law enforcement officer, without a
warrant, may arrest a person if the officer
has probable cause to believe that the person
has committed any public offense
that makes the person removable from the
United States."
Thus, if a police officer suspects a
Latino person of being an undocumented
immigrant, he or she can lock that person
up. Day laborers are targeted. It is illegal
to accept (or make) a job offer in some
roadside settings, and even makes "communication
by a gesture or a nod" in
accepting a work offer an arrestable
offense. S.B. 1070 goes further, facilitating
anonymous reporting of businesses
that anyone suspects has undocumented
employees.
President Barack Obama denounced
the bill, saying: "Our failure to act
responsibly at the federal level will only
open the door to irresponsibility by others,
and that includes, for example, the
recent efforts in Arizona, which threaten
to undermine basic notions of fairness
that we cherish as Americans, as well as
the trust between police and their com-
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OPINION
OPINION
Boycotting Arizona’s racism
Want to do it all?
Eat this
munities that is so crucial to keeping us
safe. In fact, I've instructed members of
my administration to closely monitor the
situation and examine the civil-rights and
other implications of this legislation."
There is a serious backlash against the
bill in Arizona and around the country.
Rep. Raul Grijalva, Democrat of Tucson,
Ariz., and co-chair of the Congressional
Progressive Caucus, is front and center in
opposing the controversial law. He told
me: "It's a license to racially profile. It
creates a second-class status for primarily
Latinos and people of color in the state of
Arizona. ... Arizona's been the petri dish
for these kinds of harsh, racist initiatives."
Legal groups are mounting challenges
to the law. Sunita Patel is a staff attorney
with the Center for Constitutional Rights.
According to Patel, "It” allows the local
law-enforcement agencies to check not
only the FBI databases, which they've traditionally
always done, it also allows
them to sync up with immigration databases,
which are notoriously unreliable
because of errors with the data entry
because they just have incorrect information
on citizenship status ... so you have
this very broad net being cast."
Grijalva is calling on the federal government
to refuse to cooperate with
Arizona. "Immigration is a federal law,
and if we're asking the president for him
not to cooperate in the implementation of
this law through Homeland Security,
Michael Roizen, M.D.
and Mehmet Oz, M.D.
Mediterranean treat — coffee —
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Goodman
through Border Patrol, through detention
and a noncooperative stance by the
United States government and the federal
agencies, (it) would render much of this
legislation moot and ineffective," he said.
He also is calling for people to boycott
his own state: "I support some very targeted
economic sanctions on the state of
Arizona. We will be asking national organizations,
civic, religious, political organizations
not to have conferences and
conventions in the state of Arizona. That
there has to be an economic consequence
to this action and to this legislation. And
good organizations across this country,
decent organizations that agree with us
that this bill is patently racist, that it is
unconstitutional and it's harsh, it's unjust,
that they should refrain from bringing
their business to the state."
Already, the American Immigration
Lawyers Association has decided to move
its fall 2010 annual conference from
Arizona to another state. San Francisco
Board of Supervisors member David
Campos, saying that Arizona "with a
stroke of a pen set the clock back on a
generation of civil-rights gains," is confident
that his resolution calling for the city
to boycott Arizona will pass. Similar city
boycotts are being considered in
Oakland, Calif., and El Paso, Texas.
Sportswriter David Zirin is supporting a
boycott of the Diamondbacks, Arizona's
major league baseball team.
Close to 30 percent of the Arizona
population identifies itself as Hispanic. It
was a boycott that eventually forced the
state to recognize Martin Luther King Jr.
Day. It is a shame that similar tactics are
needed again.
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Denis Moynihan contributed research
to this column.
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