The Okcitykid - A Peaceful Vet

I’m looking for a copy of my system command restart disk 2* and Partitioning Disk floppy disk v7.01. It is the coolest partitioning software I have ever come across on a single floppy. I’ve fixed many computers with it. I know I thought about making a copy of it, “but I don’t think I did” and mine died. This just might be another great piece of software that had gotten lost in the commercialization of software because I can’t find it anywhere.

But I did find this on a floppy disk. One of my first blog entries on my first blog started in 2004 in protest of Bush’s reelection. Some people liked the story, so I thought I reprint it.

The Chief

So
The chief smokes grass
and snorts cocaine
Look at the fool
He thinks he’s cool
Of her to whom I care
He has this to say
“I work em in the day
I fuck em at night
It’s hard to do
But I do it right”
To only laugh an evil grin
Acting proud of the way he’s liven
A wife and two kids left behind

He proudly states he was a Christian for fourteen years
Gave it up
It’s more fun to be a heathen

Life is a joke to you
But the joke is you
And the jokes on you

I’ll just sit and smile
Watch you fall from your chair
Because I know you can’t sit there
When you look up
You’ll see me standing there

By:  Roger Harkness

This poem is a true story about a Chief I worked for.  I had gotten the worst eval I had ever gotten in my Navy career all because I refused to smoke dope with him.  You might find that hard to believe with my long hair and drifty nature, but it’s true.  

If you ever had to work with someone who does cocaine, you will understand this poem. Cocaine causes you to have a God complex .  

What comes around goes around, everybody gets theirs either here or the here after.  Just when he retired a female first class brought rape charges up against him.  The Lieutenant doing the investigation knew that rape wouldn’t mean nothing and he would go free, so he went another direction hearing rumor that the chief did cocaine.  This was just when Reagen declared war on drugs.  I was asked to testify and for that my evals were turned around and others testified as well.  The Chief was forced to take a blood test, cocaine showed up and the Chief  lost all his retirement benefits.  He got what he deserved and I’m sure there will be more coming at him.

Some might say, he served his country for 20 years, but I’ll tell you what, for the last ten years the Navy served him as everyone who worked under him became his personal property and he didn’t treat his things very well.  In the military life is a little different.  You have very few rights, you are property.

Dear Blog

Five is favorite number, don’t know why, it just is, so this might just be a very special post, you might want to pay attention here.

First of all I want to thank Nekouyoku, the youngest in our household. That’s not her real name, that’s just the name she like. to go by. She typed most of my poems and uploaded them online. I haven’t proofed them, dressed them up and added links yet, but you can check it out. About 275 of my poems at http://peacefulvet.info/poetry/otherpoems/ Of course I paid her, but it was very impressive. It took her about 3 days and she worked during all her free time, it was very impressive. I have more for her to do, but I figure she needed a break. Nekouyoku has a web site, a work in progress: http://nekouyoku.net

Today on I Power someone started a thread about Atheism. I wanted to repost it on my blog and it seems to be gone or I can’t find it. Was I too mean, maybe, oh well. When I was in the Navy I knew an Atheist, and he was a very good man, everybody liked him, accept nobody liked that he didn’t believe in God and they would occasionally give him a hard time about that. Morally however, he was probably better than most of us. Once he got drunk, seeing this was not his normal behavior, his body didn’t handle it very well and he got sick as a dog and everybody razzed him about it. When we were in the North Atlantic, our super structure cracked and running out of fuel with storms all round us fighting 21 to 24 foot seas, some of were certain that this was the end of our days. We had a chaplain on board and at taps he would say a prayer over the 1MC (our intercom system). Everyone would get on their knees and bow down, seriously, YES, even our good friend the Atheist. Of course when it was all over we razzed him about it. “I thought you didn’t believe in God, what were you doing on your knees?” His reply was short and simple, “just in case.” That was a good answer, one that we could respect and so we left him alone on that one. I wished all Ashiest thought that way, but they don’t.

My experience with Atheists online has been in open forums when you want to discuss your beliefs about your creator they will butt in and question your beliefs as if it were their moral responsibility to save the world from religious beliefs. Forgetting that communist Russia and China commit and have committed horrible crimes in the name of Atheism. Their argument is always the same, “prove that there is a god.” We will ask, prove that there isn’t. It is a futile argument. Why do they keep asking us to prove that there is a God, are they hoping we will convince them so that they can believe too. You can neither prove or disprove and existence of a creator we call God. They believe they are smarter than us once again forgetting that Einstein believed in God. They irritate me as arrogance always irritates me. I have this to say to them: “A wise man says I wonder while fool says I know.” The day that you believe you know it all is the day you stop learning. The only one who is truly smart is the one who asks questions.

Today I butchered two roosters, I hate doing that, but they make good food, do not produce eggs and they will only fight with each other, as that is what roosters do, and in Oklahoma, its against the law to let your roosters fight and that’s a whole nother story.

I can remember my dad butchering chickens when I was a kid. He so much enjoyed it, it seemed so easy for him. One it decided to take a half dozen of them. My cousins would catch them and bring them to my dad and he would grab them by the neck and spin them around over his head. The head would come loose from the body and the chicken would be running around without its head. I could never do that. I use a pair of clippers and and a knife and I carefully try to make it as little painful as I can, of course there is no way to really do that, and I only kill the roosters. We let the hen grow old and die naturally for giving us eggs. So that’s that.

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/surviving-a-super-storm-at-sea/

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 threw 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 acr oss 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

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Once again I have fallen behind, missing a day on my blog.  But I had a fun day.  Bear who owes us some money and does chores to pay us back.  She was supposed to do beading, making jewelry to sell at an upcoming craft fair.  Her mother was angry because she hadn’t done her beading as promised.  To encourage her to do her beading and to make it more pleasant for her, I sat and watched dragon movies on sci fi with her all day.  Well, I took a nap in the chair as I work nights and did a repair project for my wife and emptied the dishwasher, made coffee, fed the chickens and collected eggs, but other than that, I mostly watched dragon movies with bear, and it was fun.

My wife passed on a poem to me from her younger daughter to put in my blog, very interesting, and I will, I just need to get more information on it.

I’ve upgraded my computer.  I once had 512mb memory and I thought that was a lot, but have discovered that this is low grade, so I’ve upgraded to 1.5 gig, and it is a lot faster, makes a difference, but the Internet isn’t any faster, that is disappointing.  I’ve also added a DVD/CD reader writer.  Now this cost me 24 dollars.  Just to give you a bit of history.  I think it was gateway computers who was just one man who came up with the idea of adding a CD player to computers.  Such an amazing thing, and expensive, only Universities and big businesses could afford to own it, we’re talking somewhere around the figure of 10 grand.  And we’re talking a CD reader.  Now I have a CD reader/writer, DVD reader/writer, for about 24 dollars, amazing.  

I like Linux and it is getting better all the time.  With my high speed cable access and now my burner, I have downloaded and burnt Kubuntu, which is a derivative of Ubuntu with the KDE desktop.  I like the KDE desktop the best, it is more like windows like most of us are used to and I find it more functional than the other desktop options like Gnome for instance.  

Here is an example of why Linux is better than Windows.  After upgrading my computer, if I boot up to Linux, Linux says, “Cool!”  Windows however says, “what the hell is this, I can’t understand this.”  So you have to install more software and drivers and still Windows doesn’t understand without a reboot.  You know what is even more sad, we pay for that, but Linux is free.  A true testimony to free in freedom.

It is now Sunday morning.  I was going to write something else, but I can’t remember now what it was, oh well, like my mother would always say, it must have been a lie, I don’t know, I can’t remember.  After I post this, I’ll go take a nap and get up and get to work outside and around the house.  Because it is Sunday, because we work on Sunday, because we rested on Saturday.  It’s a religious thing.  Because God, the way I understand it, rested on the seventh day, which is a Saturday, and I’m guessing, he got back to work on the first day, Sunday, but I’m not sure, the bible isn’t that specific.  But honestly, we just do it that way because on Saturday we are tired and on Sunday we have work to get done and on occassion, neighbors will remind us that is Sunday, a day of rest and I don’t know where they come up with that.  Like everything else, everybody just follows everybody else, but not me.  I have a mind and I use it and I go my own way.

Peace
Roger

TULSA — Despite what he said in tonight’s debate, Jim Inhofe has spent 22 years in Washington gutting health care services for Oklahoma seniors and the state’s most vulnerable citizens while voting in favor of privatization schemes that let big insurance companies decide who will have health care.

In tonight’s debate, the only solution Jim Inhofe offered to bring down health care costs and cover the 45 million Americans who are uninsured was to reign in medical malpractice lawsuits.

Sen. Andrew Rice said in tonight’s debate that his proudest accomplishment in the legislature was State Senate passage of Steffanie’s Law.  Steffanie’s Law would require insurance companies to cover routine medical costs for patients enrolled in clinical trials.  The bill is named after Steffanie Collings, a young woman from Noble who lost her battle to brain cancer this March.  After Steffanie enrolled in a clinical trial — which offered her only chance to survive — her family accumulated $400,000 in debt when the Collings’ insurance company refused to continue covering basic medical care unrelated to the clinical trial.

Sen. Andrew Rice also successfully crafted legislation in Oklahoma to expand eligibility for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, allowing 38,000 more Oklahoma children to be covered, while Jim Inhofe was voting against federal funding for the children’s health insurance program (SCHIP) three times. [H.R. 976, 8/2/07 & 9/27/07]

Inhofe also voted three times in July to cut Medicare payments to doctors by 10 percent, which would have made it impossible for many doctors across Oklahoma to accept Medicare patients for lack of reimbursement.  And Inhofe voted to raise the Medicare eligibility age by two years, which would leave tens of thousands of Oklahoma seniors without the healthcare they depend on.  [H.R. 6331, 7/9/08 & 7/15/08]

Karina Henderson
Rice for US Senate
www.andrewforoklahoma.com

Dear Roger

In September of 1921, 13,000 union workers marched to Logan County, West Virginia. More than 2,000 armed deputies met them at Blair Mountain.

The battle that followed represented the biggest armed revolt in America since the Civil War, and it prompted the passage of labor laws currently in effect in the USA.

To this day, Blair Mountain, West Virginia is steeped in the cultural and political history of Appalachia. Historic markers tell the story of the confrontation, and on the battlefield the artifacts from both sides of the armed standoff still lie where they fell.

Yet all of that history is under threat — as are the beautiful hardwood forests and the mountain itself — because Big Coal has plans to blow up Blair Mountain as part of a massive mountaintop removal coal mining operation.

That’s why Blair Mountain is the latest addition to the list of America’s Most Endangered Mountains.

Learn more about Blair Mountain by watching this short video:

http://www.iLoveMountains.org/Endangered