The Okcitykid – A Peaceful Vet

This weekend I was depressed.  I had bad dreams that people did not like me, so I took a gun and blew my head off.  I prayed real hard to have better dreams and I did, last night I dreamt that everybody liked me.  Weird huh?

Update on the future.  I figure 2012 will be interesting and people are tired of me talking about it.  I think those of us in Oklahoma are going to be ok, but that’s only a guess, I have nothing but hearsay to base it upon.  My X wife said she had a strong feeling and I also have a feeling.  Also based on a dream I had long ago that the earth shook really bad and we had no TV, radio or telephone.  The discrepancy is, there was no mention of the Internet in this dream and I’m not real sure if that is relevant, but I’m guessing we won’t have any Internet either.  This is my guess from my brief studies on the subject.  Planet X will be headed onto a path right at us or close to it.  As planet X follows this path it will go right thru the Asteroid belt, and when it does this, as it has done in the past, it will send asteroids in our direction, at least one will hit us.  This has happened before to our earth.  But as in the dream, we lived, but didn’t know what happened.   This could explain why it was before I was born I saw a mushroom cloud.  I always believed it was an atomic explosion but now I believe it might have been an asteroid slamming into the earth.  All of this makes me think of the Georgia Guide Stones.

I have moved in with my old girl friend who has always loved me, as I have learned a great and simple lesson.  Though we must try to love all, don’t leave behind those who love you the most, they deserve your most.  Don’t try to make friends with those who want nothing to with you, just like Jesus when faced by a town of people who wanted him to leave, who thought swine were more important than people, he just walked away, that’s what you got to do. 

I’ve bought my girl friend an engagement ring, we plan on getting married in May.  She has lost her job.  I hope she finds a job soon so that we can begin to make plans.  I will be a grandfather in February and I’m not sure how I feel about that.  I’m supposed to be happy, but the grandchild will live over a thousand miles away so what’s the point, just means I’m getting older, but I’ll pretend to be happy because that’s what I’m supposed to do.  We are supposed to visit in May when the child is baptised and please don’t comment about the value of children being baptised, I will not post it, it doesn’t matter.  I believe God appreciates it anytime we think of him, and yes I believe God is a him based on a dream I had, so leave that one alone also.  We don’t know, we really don’t, people should just be allowed to believe what they want, you don’t know, so how can you tell anybody that they are wrong, because you might find yourself turning around some day and saying, “they were right all along.”

If my girlfriend gets a job I will buy me a new computer, it will have a solid state hard drive, something I’ve been waiting for a very long time.  I thought hard drives that spin in circles at thousands of rpms just to give us our data was a joke and was always wondering when we would move out of the dark ages, finally, can’t wait to get my hands on it.  A job with the Coca Cola Company looks promising, I will pray.

This blog used to link with my facebook, recently that has not worked, I need to figure out why, but if this post doesn’t, well then I’ll have to do it my self.  My facebook name is Minister Roger Peacefulpoet.  Sounds corny I know, but that was the only way facebook would let me do it, as I have recently became an ordained minister.  I had to make my first name minister, it would not except reverend.

Emily, one of my friends on facebook just brought up a good point.  Whether or not the green house effect really has an effect on the climate is only one part of the problem, a lack of oxygen is causing people to become sick.  Recently it has been discovered by accident that a lack of oxygen causes paranoia in people.   I was at a party some time back and someone had mentioned how everyone is so paranoid these days, I said, “it was the lack of oxygen.”  Everyone laughed, they thought I told a joke.  The other problem is TV,  if you come to know me you’ll hear me blame a lot things on the TV, but it is to blame for a lot of things.  On TV, the glass is almost always half empty.  We seem to be attracted to that, but in the end, the hero always wins.  In the real world we are never faced with all this death and destruction, and while we imagine ourselves as being the hero, in real life, we can never be that person, because that person is acting and the story is never real, even when they call it reality tv.  So we look around us and expect those we like to be that imaginary hero.  When we look at others we will always compare them with those we encounter on tv, the good and the bad, and these are only people acting out characters that don’t even exist.  So when the earth shakes and the tv will no longer work, it will be a good thing, we will be forced to see each other and ourselves as we really are and stop pretending to be something else or expecting others to be different.  The hypnotic trance of consumerism will pass and we will have to find new ways to be happy.  Rather than buying new things and throwing old things away, we will learn the value of things, ultimately the value of each other.

The Sea

Our ships on an open course
Swimming in the sea
I look over the side and wonder how it could be
Clear dark blue, but the bottom can’t be seen
then I look to my side
To sight the flying fish of the sea
They look like little airplanes skipping like a stone
Though they fly through the air, the sea is their home
The dolphins play chicken in front of our keel
Jumping in front of our course
You can see the joy they feel
Because of what we see
We know the Lord is happy
The water turns from the color of clear dark blue
To a dull seaweed green
We know the weather’s gonna get mean
We wait respectfully
Fifteen foot mountains of water
Roll thunderously across the sea
Tops of water mountains are broken up by a fierce wind force
There’s a little bit of fear within us as we brave the mighty sea.
Wondering if we have yet to see worse
As the ship dives into each mountain of water
It protests by rumbling its beams and shaking its nose
We pray
Having fear in that thing that has created what we see
For a sailor knows the fierceness of the Lord
By the fierceness of the sea

By:  Roger Harkness

Playing For Change | “War/No More Trouble” – Song Around The World from Concord Music Group on Vimeo.

You may have noticed that we are breaking temperatures in both directions. A couple days ago we almost had to turn on the Air Conditioner as it reached ninety, it has now dipped down into the 50s and I’m wearing a heavy shirt to stay warm.

We’re going to see more and more of this I’m afraid. What’s going on is we are experiencing global warming while at the same time we are entering into the mini ice age.

I just recently read an article explaining no sun spots and NASA scientist are confused. That’s bull shit. Government scientists know very well what is going on. Our government knew that Saddam was not a threat but lied to us to beat the war drums anyways, just like they know about UFOs and want to keep it to them selves.

I wished I knew why they are lying to us. I wished I knew what was really going on and why, but we’re all guessing because that’s all we can do. Your is as good as mine. I won’t argue theories.

I’ve read two scientific articles quoting scientists from I believe Switzerland and the U.S. explaining the upcoming mini ice age and now I do a search for anything on this and can’t find nothing and it is very disturbing.

So anyways, that’s what is going on. I wish I had more information for you and if you have information to add on this, please do, I’d much appreciate it.

Excerpt from an email I just received from Mary Fallin:

Permanently opening up new areas of energy development offshore in the outer continental shelf, arctic coastal plains, as well as onshore production of oil shale in the western United States will increase domestic production of traditional natural resources. In addition, any long-term energy policy must also cut the bureaucratic red tape that impedes the construction of new refineries.

Any production of traditional natural resources must be coupled with alternative energy solutions.  We must increase our research and development of renewable fuels and alternative energy sources, such as wind, solar, nuclear, and biofuels to make them economically viable. Diversifying supplies, as well as increasing conservation efforts are key components to a comprehensive energy plan.  This can be accomplished by renewing tax incentives to develop fuel efficient vehicles, and extending tax credits to customers who purchase fuel efficient vehicles.

My reply:

Dear Mary

In the second paragraph I have quoted, I am happy that you mentioned wind and solar FIRST and VERY HAPPY that you didn’t try to sell me clean coal.

However, look at all the cars on our roads and try to imagine how much oil it would take to fill all their gas tanks; hard to imagine isn’t it; even harder to imagine that we have enough natural resources within our boarders to accomplish this.

Did you know that as CO2 rises, Oxygen in our atmosphere decreases.  Did you also know that besides global warming, the human mind grows paranoid when oxygen decreases, add that with the right to bear arms and I’m scared.

Seeing that most of our oxygen comes from our forests and oceans, it would seem wise to me that we not threaten these MOST life sustaining resources even if there was no immediate profit in just leaving them alone.  Besides, by time we tapped into these resources and refined them for our gas tanks our world would already be burning up, the same could be said for the production of nuclear power.

The answer to our delima is simple:  Outlaw gasoline combustion vehicles from our streets, highways and interstate system and replace them with electric and hydrogen powered automobiles.  Impossible you might think.  You know what seems impossible to me that we could spend over 700 billion on our military. Imagine if you can if we invested such resources into the salvation of our earth rather than ensuring the survival of our industrial military complex; gosh, what a novel idea.

I dream of a day when our politicians really care more about our welfare for today and the future and less about ensuring that their political campaigns for re-election will always be funded.

Very Respectfully,

Roger Harkness

A lot of people may not realize that this song is about a future nuclear holocaust.

I study nuclear science

I love my classes

I got a crazy teacher, he wears dark glasses

Things are going great, and they’re only getting better

I’m doing all right, getting good grades

The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades,

I gotta wear shades

I’ve got a job waiting for my graduation

Fifty thou a year — buys a lot of beer

Things are going great, and they’re only getting better

I’m doing all right, getting good grades

The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades

I gotta wear shades

Well I’m heavenly blessed and worldly wise

I’m a peeping-tom techie with x-ray eyes

Things are going great, and they’re only getting better

I’m doing all right, getting good grades

The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades

I gotta wear shades

(instrumental break)

I study nuclear science

I love my classes

I got a crazy teacher, he wears dark glasses

Things are going great, and they’re only getting better

I’m doing all right, getting good grades

The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades

I gotta wear shades

I gotta wear shades

I gotta wear shades

What will happen when there are no more mountains, no more trees, no more sea, we won’t know, because we won’t be no more.

Making Of The Mud

Gray skies are blue
Lightning is frightening too
When rainbows are no where to be found
This is when the world is flat
Rather than round
I want to turn the light on
But I can’t find the switch

Is there really something on the other side of tomorrow
or have we borrowed it all away
and Jesus are you really coming
do you really exist
and what is God who stands and watches his creation
crash and burn in its own greed
from whence is our seed
actually I dreampt that a false god created us
this might explain the fuss

The storm makes mud
That the Lord will take
and make unto himself

By:  Roger Harkness

03/04/09

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I wrote this poem today.  I felt a little depressed today, not real bad, just tired.  Putting in a lot of overtime and we’re working hard taking contracts from other states.  Usually when I feel bad it is time to write a poem, it makes me feel better.  I usually don’t know what I will write until I start writing and then a poem comes out and I will usually discover something new.

Based on my studies of the Gnostic religion I had a dream that we were created by the false god but the true God will take us as if we were a ball of clay and make us unto himself.

Our current state looks hopeless as a storm appears to be coming and it doesn’t look like we will be able to stop it.  A storm makes mud and God will take us from the mud as if we were a ball of clay and make us unto himself.

If the true God had created us to begin with we might not have been so ignorant, but because of our selfish self destructiveness we take ourselves apart so the true God can recreate us the way we should be, to support life rather than destroy it.  So that’s what this is all about.  Now you may not believe this, but that’s alright, this is my religion and I believe it.

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From The Oklahoma City Peace House

http://www.journalrecord.com/article.cfm?recID=96396
THE JOURNAL RECORD – - Opinion
Jim Roth: Wind power excellent source of energy
March 2, 2009

A national study shows that Oklahoma wind energy production could provide 9 percent of the U.S. needs for electricity. That means not only cheaper, more efficient energy for Oklahomans, it also would create a billion-dollar industry for the state.

In order for that to happen it will take the business community, policymakers and local communities to make wind generation and renewable energy a priority.  Oklahoma has more than twice the wind energy potential per square mile than Texas, according to Tim Hughes, director for the Oklahoma Wind Power Initiative. To give some idea of the state’s potential, a

If you haven’t driven down Interstate 40 in western Oklahoma in a while, you may be surprised when you reach Elk City. It is an amazing sight to see an entire farm of 260-foot wind turbines with blades stretching more than 125 feet across. The behemoths at OG&E’s Centennial Wind Farm in Woodward already produce 170 megawatts, or enough power to supply more than 40,000 homes. They expect to almost double that output to 300MW in 2009.

On a smaller scale, across the nation people are utilizing small wind turbines to power their homes and businesses. Oklahoma-based Bergey Wind Power is one of the leading manufacturers of small turbines in the country. With 500 domestic and international dealers, Bergey is bringing power to all corners of the globe directly from Norman, including war-torn Afghanistan, where utility infrastructure was severely damaged. The small wind turbines provide power to remote areas that might otherwise have to wait years for service. Consumers are using the residential models in conjunction with other technology, such as solar cells and geothermal, to create self-sustaining homes that don’t require any energy from local power plants.

Oklahoma has an abundance of wind energy, but only recently has that resource been developed for production. Before 2003 Oklahoma had no wind power, but by the end of 2006 we were producing over 500MW, representing a capital investment of more than $600 million. The American Wind Energy Association estimated that Oklahoma ranks eighth among the states in installed wind energy capacity. And we are moving up fast.

Oklahoma farmers have been using wind energy for many years to pump water from wells using windmills. In parts of the state, windmills have been used since before statehood to pump water from low-lying areas. And wind has also been used to turn large stones to grind wheat or corn, just like a water wheel is turned by waterpower. Oklahomans have been harnessing the power of the wind since before the days of the Dust Bowl. Now we have the opportunity to take an old idea and modernize it to create thousands of jobs and generate power for the next hundred years.

“Where the wind comes sweeping down the plains” – when writing that famous line in the song Oklahoma!, who knew that Rodgers and Hammerstein were talking about wind energy? Truth be known, at the time they wrote the song neither had even been to Oklahoma. However, their characterization was very accurate and still is today. Oklahoma has now found a way to harness the wind as it sweeps down the plains and turn it into usable, clean energy in the form of electricity.

Wind energy is an excellent source of clean, renewable energy but it is not a sustainable energy and cannot be stored (YET). The downfall is that if the wind doesn’t blow then there is no energy produced. That is why wind energy is best used as an integrated form of energy working with our current plants. In fact, wind’s perfect partner is Oklahoma’s own abundant, clean-burning blessing: natural gas. You cannot add wind power to a utility’s portfolio without enough natural gas generation to back it up.  Those Oklahoma resources have tremendous opportunity for our state and our country.

The next time the wind is sweeping down Oklahoma’s plains, remember that somewhere in Oklahoma, clean power is being generated for our safer, cleaner energy future. It is far easier to endure those windy Oklahoma days knowing that emerging wind power is bringing added value to Oklahoma’s vital energy economy.
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Jim Roth, a former Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner, is an attorney with Phillips Murrah P.C. in Oklahoma City, where his practice focuses on clean, green energy for Oklahoma.  (Edited with the author’s permission by Nathaniel Batchelder.)