Follow That Man Who Taught A Rainbow

Acting like a clown
I found as I looked around
I had fallen down
Just wanting to be
Someone you’d like to see
When I just should have been
me
A gray sky
the lies
and the mask
And when you can’t put it in words
It’s time to put it to an end
So I took thirty four pills
And lived
don’t know why I’m around
As I carry this grave around
But I’ve left town
I cannot go back down
All I lack is reason
Out of season
Yet I am alive

Though you think I should be ashamed
That I am to blame
I will have no shame
As I follow that man who taught a rainbow
Because there is gold at the end I know
Because I lived

As we gather around that pot of gold
I hope to see you then
see each other as we are
not as we thought
we were back when

Roger Harkness
7/14/10

My government supports terror groups, Renta soldiers and our military and CIA is all over the world doing things you don’t want to know about.

U.S. corporations are over seas polluting the air of other countries, stealing water from other nations and underpaying workers there so that workers will work longer hours in order to make a living.  They’re cutting forests, taking oil and other minerals at rock bottom prices.

True, I pay taxes, but the fact is, those taxes are taken out of my paycheck before I even get it.  I’m 51 years old and that has been going on all my life.  They don’t ask, they tell you, you want a job, you need a social security number.  You provide a social security and they deduct taxes out of your pay.   I have never been asked if that was ok or how this money should be spent.  You know why, because this is the land of the Brave and the free I am told.  They are brave as they freely take.  It’s not my fault.  Sure I get to vote, and so do you.  We get to vote for their plan A, or their plan B and in other states you get an option to vote for their plan C.

And is it my fault that Coca Cola sucked one of India’s largest wells dry that 100s of thousands of people depended on?  I didn’t even know about it until after it happened.  After I heard about it, I switched to Pepsi, I will never drink another Coca Cola.  Well guess what, Coca Cola owns Pepsi, now doesn’t that figure.

I am not to blame and you are not to blame.  You might be doing this and that and I’m not doing that, but instead I’m doing that and this.  We’re still doing something and yet nothing seems to be working.  But I’m still not to blame and neither are you.  Some people don’t seem to be doing nothing.  Well, nothing we seem to be doing is working.  I’m sure they would all jump right onboard if it looked like we were accomplishing something.

We are accomplishing nothing by blaming ourselves or others and as we accomplish nothing they win.  We need to do a little research and find out who “THEY” are, what is their agenda and why?  And they are not the republicans, liberals, christians or jews.  No they are not the muslims, nor the mexicans or the blacks.  If your research can only go as far as your narrow minded bigotry, then let me ask this?  Lets blame it on the bigots?  Bigotry however like hypocrisy is a human frailty that we all suffer from and then we would all be back to blaming each other.

You have to be willing to do open minded research without prejudice and both share and welcome ideas with others and as we discover who they are, what their agenda is and why, we might, together, find a way to beat them.

I checked the news today and this group has sent letter to 30 governors giving them 3 days to step down.  Who the hell are they, never heard of them.  I’ve heard of the Tea Party and received an invitation.  I’ve heard of the coffee party and again received an invitation.

How can an organization appear so quickly out of now where with so much authority as to ask governors to step down. 

So I’m thinking, let the games begin.  So I google search for “Guardians of the Free Republics” and I find a small web site with some audio clips and a registration form.  Strange thing about this registration form,  it wants your home phone, your cell phone and even the county you live in.  It conveniantly has a drop menue to choose your county when you select your state.  Boy they sure are squared a way for such a new organization.

I suggest nobody fill that registration form out.  This is not a legit organization created by the people.  This bull shit was put together by homeland security gathering information on would be terrorists.    You’ll be put on a watch list,  phone and Internet bugged, followed, harrased and maybe even arrested on some trumpted up charge.

Take my advice, DO NOT FILL OUT THAT FORM and if you have, move, change your cell phone number and maybe even your name.  Just a warning.

Peace and Love

Roger

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.

If you start a bridge on fire and then try to put the fire out, you might get burnt, but I wished you would have, I wished you could have and I thank you for the effort.

I know I have done some wrong, and if I ever hurt anyone, it was by accident, I never meant to hurt anyone.

I have been wronged too by some of you.

I may never be forgiven but I have forgiven everyone and hate no one and am happier for it, and you can be too if you chose too.

I regret that there are some who had a special place in my heart and are no longer reachable. But my porch light is always on and everyone is welcome.

Sincerely
Roger Harkness

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

From my wife Lysara:

from marvin908′s Flickr account

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.)

Oklahoma soldier’s choice offers a lesson

MILITARYMan served time after deserting his unit, says mental health issues were to blame

BY BRYAN DEAN

Published: January 25, 2009

http://newsok.com/oklahoma-soldiers-choice-offers-a-lesson/article/3340551

Daniel Sandate made some bad choices.

The former Army private made headlines when he was deported from Canada, where he spent nearly three years hiding after deserting his unit.

After returning to the United States last year, he was sentenced to eight months in the stockade.

Sandate, 26, was released Tuesday from Fort Sill and plans to stay with friends in the Oklahoma City area for the time being. Having paid the price for his choices, he hopes to get back on his feet and that others will learn from his story.

Physical and mental problems
Sandate said he never meant to be anything other than a good soldier. His problems started in June 2004, when he developed severe back pain just before deploying to Iraq.

When he got back, Sandate said, his superiors ignored his medical problems and made him walk long distances when he needed to take his prescription pain medication.

“It came to the point where I didn’t want to get my medicine because it hurt more to walk that far than it would for me to just do without,” Sandate said.

He said discipline threats from the Army started as his physical condition deteriorated and his job performance suffered.

Sandate didn’t notice it, but friends told him his personality changed dramatically after he returned from Iraq. He had a history of depression and showed signs of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Sandate’s attorney, James Branum, practices out of Oklahoma City and works with groups that provide legal help to soldiers. He suspects Sandate’s mental problems pushed him over the edge.

The idea to leave for Canada wasn’t supposed to be a permanent move. Sandate said he just needed a break from the Army, and he’d met a girl online who happened to live there.

“Next thing I know, I was on a plane, and I was in Toronto,” Sandate said.

“I didn’t have anything thought out at the time. One of my downfalls is I don’t really plan things ahead.”

Help never came
He planned on coming back to his unit until he got a call a week later from his sergeant telling him he had committed a crime punishable by death. As the gravity of his mistake set in, he said, he decided not to go back and face the wrath of his superiors.

Sandate came to the attention of Canadian authorities when he attempted suicide. Sandate said he actually looked forward to returning to the Army, hoping he’d get help for his mental illness.

That help never came. He said he was denied mental health treatment by both the Army and the county jail where he was held awaiting trial. He pleaded guilty to desertion and was sentenced to eight months, far less than the potential two to five years deserters can face.

Karen Connelly, a spokesman for Fort Carson, said the military can’t comment on a specific soldier’s physical or mental health because of privacy laws, but she said all soldiers have access to adequate medical care.

“Every soldier is treated as an individual and has the opportunity to be treated by health care specialists, and they get a treatment plan just like anyone else if they saw a civilian doctor,” Connelly said.

Branum said the judge took into account Sandate’s mental health problems and the lack of treatment by Army doctors.

“I wish that he’d gotten help early on and fought back,” Branum said.

“He did what he was supposed to do in Iraq. When he came back, he had serious mental and physical health issues, and he was turned away.”

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