a bird will crash into the glass
you will look and laugh
and you might not see the crack
you might trip up
and you might fall back
maybe you will look back
see you’ve fallen off the track
wipe the gravel off your face
get up and jump in place

By: Roger Harkness
Oct 9, 2011

I didn’t smile because I thought we were just taking pictures of the chickens, but that’s the way I look naturally, people have always believed that I’m upset about something, but no, that’s just me when I’m not smiling.

The fence ain’t to cool, but I just bought some material to improve on that.  I live in Oklahoma City and I don’t know if we’re allowed to have chickens, didn’t ask.  if people can have dogs and cats, then I can have chickens, and neither one of these are roosters, so they won’t crow.

My sister has a chicken who just has to roost, and the result is that she has lots of chicks, so to help with the overcrowding, I volunteered to take a few and as an experiment to see if the neighbors will complain and if or not I will be forced to get rid of them.

I think everyone should try to have chickens and gardens if they can.  Perchance our grocery stores will not always be fully stocked at affordable prices all year around as they have been in the past.  Large portions of the worlds population is going hungry because their food is in our grocery store, a fact you may not have thought of or realized, but I’m telling you now.  So we need to try to be a little considerate and attempt to be self sufficient, honestly, I’m not doing to good at it, but it’s a start, it will take time.

The chicken coop looks really cool, I didn’t make it.  My sister paid a lot of money for it when she decided to get chickens and was disappointed it was so small.  She now has a big chicken coop and used this for the chicks.  A big storm came about a month ago with 96 mile an hour winds and picked up this little coop and slammed it up against a tree.  So i bought the pieces from my sister and put it back together again.

My soil is the worst soil I have seen in my life. I don’t know if past residents sprayed a bunch of chemicals or what.  I have planted watermelon, both times they have died.  I planted pumpkin and that looked promising, but they just died.  The Peas grew, we got a handful before they died, threw it in a salad and they tasted awful.  The potatoes which I planted three times appear to be ready to dig up, tomorrow I’ll see if I got one or two.  I planted strawberries last year, they died. Tomatoes are growing, I believe that is because I panted them in the same soil I bought them in, and I cheated, I bought fertilizer for them.  I have seen a few green tomatoes, but they seem to disappear, I don’t know if something is eating them.  My wife planted carrots, lettuce tomatoes radishes, some of it started to grow, but it all died.  So if it wasn’t for grocery stores, we’d be starving.

I have started a compost pile, that and the chickens.  It was a very hot and dry summer.  Next year it will be cooler, turn in some of that mulch, it will get better.

Concerning war, there is no honor in standing idly by while your family
is being run threw by sword, however, you are not a hero if you go to a
foreign land to risk your life by taking others lives for another man’s cause,
that is the definition of a mercenary.

Minister Peacefulpoet I do understand that war is glorified in video games and tv and for the real truth you have to search, while the media parades seens of freedom fighters for the American cause. Young people, who are not able to find a good job or unable to pay for their education might take a chance and get lucky and never be in a situation where they must kill or be killed. But there comes a time when you wake up and realize you’ve been lied to and at that time, you have a choice to make. It isn’t an easy choice to make, because either direction is trouble for you. I judge no one who might make the wrong choice. But I make my statement above because it’s time we stop pretending. The game once was a strong defense prevents wars. I was a part of that game for 14 years and proud of it. I thought we learned our lesson after Vietnam. I’m sure there are many like myself who believed that. But apparently, the powers that be where only regrouping and getting ready, having learned that if you can sway public opinion, you can do anything. If you make the right investments and create a war, you would have a windfall. If you can sway public opinion to your side, you could be king of the hill, and that’s what they’ve done. So now, here is the new game plan, start wars and make big profits. Think about this, when do you remember America starting a war? We joined wars, and that was profitable, so imagine the profits if you start a war. This is really the truth. We need to admit this and tell it for what it is. Our soldiers are not fighting for freedom or America, but profit. You let anyone tell you different, and you’re letting them lie to you, and more than that, you are an enabler to that lie. That lie gets people KILLED or messes up their whole life. This lie has got to stop now.

Those with low self esteem find it difficult to respect others. Because of their lack of esteem, they will humiliate others in an attempt to put them self into a better position. If you believe in yourself, you believe in others, if you love yourself, you will love others, if you hate yourself, you will hate others. To change the world you must first change yourself and others will change along with you.

A lot of us, me included, especially me included, live in the past and fear the future. While we live in the past and fear the future, we are powerless to what is happening right now. Jesus tells us that we can move a mountain. The future is our mountain. What we do right now can move that mountain, but if we are caught in this pain of the past and fear of the future, we can never move that mountain. Change the future, live in the now.

I’m a Liberal Conservative. I believe in liberty and conservation.

I don’t know what liberal means, and I don’t know what conservative means.  But if I ask somebody, they will give me an answer, and everybody I ask will give me a some what different answer.  So you got all these different categories of liberalism and conservatism to explain these differences.  You might be in this group or you might be in that group.  What ever group you are in is of course the most enlightened group, and everyone else is either in the dark or just coming around, It is this and including race, sex, religion, politics that keep us divided.  Together we stand, divided we fall.

We may or may not agree on an enemy, but you have to agree that something isn’t right in this world, and something will continue to be wrong as long as we continue to be divided.  As for me, I believe in Liberation and Conservation.  I’m a member of nothing, believe anything is possible and question everything and I’m only sure about one thing: we need to treat each other the way we would want to be treated, because together, we are what we were made to be. And that’s why we are here, to be what we were made to be. War and hunger would end in our world and we might just be able to fix a lot of things we broke.

This is google’s most popular news section. Apparently google is going evil. It used to appear in your news section, but now it no longer appears nor are you able to add it, instead what you get is what they tell you are the top stories instead of the stories that really are the top stories, the stories everyone is reading. This is the item that I liked google for, it would give you an idea of what was is most important to others and I really don’t care what Google, any other big company/corporation/industry or government thinks I should be reading, that’s so much 1984. So put this in your favorites while it’s still around.

I’ve voiced my complaint along with several others, no reply, apparently they are not listening. 

http://news.google.com/?ned=us&topic=po

Roger Harkness
june 11, 2011

First supported by the British and then of course the U.S. jumped onboard. Why are we always an extension of Britain? I heard this rumor that in 1812 we had a war with Britain and we won our freedom but it seems to me that we are now the long arm of Britain and have been for some time. I believe in one state, because if you have two states, they will just keep fighting. If Israel wants to be recognized as a nation, then they need to pay the Palestinians retribution and give Muslims equal rights. No longer a Jewish state, but made up of Jews and Muslims who are all equal citizens of that country, because that would truly be a democracy. If they can’t do that, then we need to say, their is no Israel, there is only Palestine, and that is the only fair and right way to do this.

Lyrics to Stone In My Hand :

Ride with the devil, hide with the lord
I got no pistol, ain’t got no sword
I got no army, ain’t got no land,
Ain’t got nothing but the stone that’s in my hand
Stone in my hand, stone in my hand
Ain’t got nothing but the stone that’s in my hand

You say you want a revolution, well get on board
We’ll start a new crusade; we’ll start a holy war
Don’t need no orders, don’t need no plan
I don’t need nothing but the stone that’s in my hand

Stone in my hand, stone in my hand
I don’t need nothing but the stone that’s in my hand
Stone in my hand, stone in my hand
I don’t need nothing but the stone that’s in my hand

You build your fighter jets, you drop your bombs
You kill our fathers, you kill our moms
You kill our brother and our sisters, and our uncles and our aunts
Still I’m fighting with the stone that’s in my hand

Stone in my hand, stone in my hand
Still I’m fighting with the stone that’s in my hand
Stone in my hand, stone in my hand
All the love that’s in my heart and the stone that’s in my hand

Blood runs in the gutters, smoke fills the sky
Every son that suffers, every mother cries
So if you’ve had enough and you’re ready for your stand
I’ll be waiting with the stone that’s in my hand

Stone in my hand, stone in my hand
I’ll be waiting with the stone that’s in my hand
Stone in my hand, stone in my hand
All the love that’s in my heart and the stone that’s in my hand