Jesus By Any Other Name Is?

Guanyin and the Thousand Arms

"One Buddhist legend presents Guan Yin as vowing to never rest until she had freed all sentient beings from samsara, reincarnation. Despite strenuous effort, she realized that still many unhappy beings were yet to be saved. After struggling to comprehend the needs of so many, her head split into eleven pieces. Amitabha Buddha, seeing her plight, gave her eleven heads with which to hear the cries of the suffering. Upon hearing these cries and comprehending them, Avalokitesvara attempted to reach out to all those who needed aid, but found that her two arms shattered into pieces. Once more, Amitabha came to her aid and appointed her a thousand arms with which to aid the many. Many Himalayan versions of the tale include eight arms with which Avalokitesvara skillfully upholds the Dharma, each possessing its own particular implement, while more Chinese-specific versions give varying accounts of this number."

Quan Yin came into existence about the same time that the Nestorian Christians entered into Tibet and China. she is such a departure from the Buddhist way of obtaining enlightenment that some believe she is the vision of God's Grace, Jesus in a syncretic form. If she is, is she as much the way to God as Jesus is in the West?

Feed Me! Feed Me! Into the Daringtonia Bog and Back

What looks like a green cobra lives in a bog and eats animals alive?

No, not Yoda.

It is of course Darlingtonia.

A few weeks ago I stopped at the smallest of state parks I've ever been to.

There, I walked down a board walk to a smelly sweltering little bog hidden among the forest of the coast in Southern Oregon. At the end of the board walk was several hundred square feet of green cobra looking plants giving off a translucent glow in the sun's light.

It was Darlingtonia, the very rare in the wild, carnivorous pitcher plant.

http://www.oregonstateparks.org/park_115.php

Once they eat, they wither and die retuning their and their victims nutrients into the bog.

Here you can see the inside of a pod.

Very few people actually come to this wayside, but if you are in the neighborhood, it is well worth the time.

Pathalogical Palin Stories

I have known a few pathological liars in my life. When they told you a story you could count on something in it be a lie. You know like, Spanish is the national language of Jamaica or I have traveled to over 300 countries (there are less than 200 in the world).

So when I heard the story of Palins recent birth of her baby Trig I went, really?

For the record:

http://www.ktuu.com/global/story.asp?s=8194634

Welcome to Alaska, Trig Paxson Van Palin
by Lori TiptonFriday, April 18, 2008
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Gov. Sarah Palin gave birth to her fifth child at about 6:30 a.m. Friday morning.
Trig Paxson Van Palin was born at Mat-Su Regional Hospital about one month before he was scheduled to arrive.
Trig Palin weighs six pounds, two ounces.
A press release from the governor's office says Palin and her new son are both "doing well and resting comfortably."
The Palins released the following statement:
"Trig is beautiful and already adored by us. We knew through early testing he would face special challenges, and we feel privileged that God would entrust us with this gift and allow us unspeakable joy as he entered our lives. We have faith that every baby is created for good purpose and has potential to make this world a better place. We are truly blessed."
Just yesterday, Palin was in Texas at a forum on energy with Texas Gov. Rick Perry and executives from four other states.
Palin was asked at the forum whether or not she would accept an offer by Republican presidential candidate John McCain to share the national ticket as vice presidential nominee.
She said she would accept, according to reports from a Texas newspaper.
The governor's water broke during the energy conference but she stayed and gave a 30-minute speech before boarding an Alaska Airlines plane home to deliver the baby.
Gov. Palin's parents, Sally and Chuck Heath, visited with their new grandson Friday afternoon.
The grandfather says Trig is named after his great uncle, a Bristol Bay fisherman, while the name Paxson comes from the well-known snowmachining area.
Both baby and mom are doing well, said Chuck Heath, and will be going home Saturday.
"She's tired, yeah. She traveled, well, she was at that convention, traveled all night, gave birth this morning, what have you, and hasn't slept today. She's tired," he said.
An unnamed source that is close to the family has said that the early testing revealed Trig Palin has Down Syndrome.Contact Lori Tipton at ltipton@ktuu.com

Tidal Pools and Seals at Strawberryhill, Oregon

There were many extraordinary places along the Oregon coast.
Every one of them offered something special and different from the other.
To do each justice would take a lifetime of exploration.


This just a few pictures of such a place, the Strawberry Hill Tidal Pools.





It is a steep climb down the cliff to the pools, and the surface around the pools is very rough but if you take a walking stick to prop yurself up and wear non-slip shoes or boots you should be OK.

One of the rewards you will receive when you do, is the harbor seals lounging on the outer rocks.


With a good telephoto you can be right there with them. It is however illegal to actually go where they are.



But on occasion they will come to visit you.




This pool is one of the few places I saw full grown active star fish.



There are five adult star fish in this photograph. Clink on it and see if you can find them all in the enlarged version.



Now these two guys look a little bloated. They should be, they each seem to have a meal in their "stomachs" digesting it. Take a look at this site to understand how a star fish eats its prey. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish


There were several varieties of the Sea Anemone in the pools as well. This guy was out of the water. Note the barnacles and razor clams on the rocks as well.



These next two guys were under the surface and swaying in the waves.



And yes, I did fall in , and I did get splashed on by the waves, and yes I did get wet.
Yes, I was exhausted, and my knees hurt like hell by the time I climbed back up and I would do it again in a second.



Away from the tidal pools, near the high tide splash zone, we found a rock pool about 18 inches wide that was teaming with life. if you enlarge this and look carefully you can see hundreds of animals.




After several dozen tries to get a close up of theses critters I finally got this one shot of some unidentified dude who in real life is about a 1/16th of an inch long or smaller. Anyone know who he is?

And The Winner Is:

BB Idaho wrote:

He awakened from his daydream, a reverie of racetrack heroics, serpentine curves, thecharacteristic Offenhauser roar, screaming tires on curving asphalt; the fine spray of oilmisting his goggles as he glided into the pit; then quickly releasing his seatbelt, he answered the electronically modulated tinny sounding voice, “Yes, biggie-size that please.”

Thus BB Idaho is the official winner of my unoffical Lobo version of the Bulwer-LyttonFiction Contest for 2008.

BB submitted the best and only opening line.

And so to BB we give the LOBO HOWL as first prize.
(pretend that this is a audio element here)
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Congratulations to BB Idaho!

OKLAHOMA'S OFFICIAL ROCK N' ROLL SONG!!!

"House Concurrent Resolution 1047 passed the Oklahoma State Senate (April 22nd)...., which means we now get to vote on the official Oklahoma Rock ‘n’ Roll Song."
“This resolution truly promotes and celebrates the history and influence of music in Oklahoma,” said State Sen. John Ford, the senate sponsor of the bill who represents Craig, Nowata and Washington Counties. “What’s really exciting is that ...........""

Yep, there a house resoultion and a contest and now it is down to the final ten nominees:


All-American Rejects - Move Along
The Call - Oklahoma
The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize
JJ Cale - After Midnight
John Moreland & the Black Gold Band - Endless Oklahoma Sky
Leon Russell - Home Sweet Oklahoma
Mae Axton - Heartbreak Hotel
Three Dog Night - Never Been to Spain
The Ventures - Walk, Don't Run
Wanda Jackson - Let's Have a Party


As far as I can tell on the last four are actual Rock and Roll, but what do I know.
So listen to the songs and vote at the web site.
If you want to vote on this do so soon at:
http://www.oklahomarocksong.org/form/vote.php

Now as for me, I voted for Wanda Jackson, The Queen of Rock-a-Billy, but I'll be happy with Three Dog Night, or The Ventures, or Mae Axton.

The Flaming Lips are great, but they are not Rock n' Roll.

So, who's your pick?

Here's the total list of "nominees":
A lot of talent seems to be "from" Oklahoma.
Nominations for Oklahoma's Rock Song!
2am
"Save Me"
Acoustic Ross
"Swept Down the Plain"
A.D.D.
"Common Conflict"
Admiral Twin
"The Unlucky Ones"
Alice In Chains
"Man in the Box"
"Rooster"
"Queen of the Rodeo"
"Would?"
Alvin Crow
"Nyquil Blues"
All American Rejects
"Beautiful"
"Can't Take It"
"Change Your Mind"
"The Cigarette Song"
"Dance Inside"
"Dirty Little Secret"
"Don't Leave Me"
"Eyelash Wishes"
"Fembot"
"The Future Has Arrived"
"Girl of My Dream"
"Happy Endings"
"Her Name Rhymes with Mindy"
"Hope It Gives You Hell"
"I Wanna Touch You"
"I'm on the Football Team"
"It Ends Tonight"
"The Last Song"
"Move Along"
"Nite Drive"
"One More Sad Song"
"Paper Heart"
"Photograph"
"Pillsbury Dough Girl"
"She Mannequin"
"She's My Girlfriend Now"
"Stab My Back"
"Straightjacket Feeling"
"Swing Swing"
"Time Stands Still"
"Too Far Gone"
"Top of the World"
"Waiting"
"Who Ain't a Gangsta"
"Why Worry"
"Your Song"
"Your Star"
Aranda
"Gravity"
"Still in the Dark"
Arlo Guthrie
"Alice's Restaurant"
The Artist
"Oklahoma Rock"
Ashtyn Wallace
"Home Sweet Oklahoma"
B.C. Clark
"The Christmas Jingle"
Beau Jennings
"Holy Tulsa Thunder"
"Tulsa Sound"
Beefeater Project
"Somewhere Unimportant"
Beth Isbell
"Train Song"
Big Al Downing
"Down on the Farm"
Bill Davis
"Mustang Sally"
Black Dutch
"In So Far"
Black Sheep Drive
"Register 16"
Blake 0
"My Backyard"
Blue Rose Cafe
"I'll Be Seeing You Sometime"
BJ Thomas
"Home Where I Belong"
"Hooked on a Feeling"
"I Believe in Music"
"Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head"
"Rock and Roll Lullaby"
"Two Car Garage"
"When the Hero Dies"
Bob Childers
"Restless Spirits"
"Woody's Road"
Bob Collum
"Prozac Yodel #9"
Bobby Dale Band
"All This Thinkin'"
Bob Wiles
"Used to Be"
Brad Benge
"Days to Come"
Brandon Jenkins
"Call of the Road"
"Down in Flames"
"Red Dirt Town"
"Saturday Night"
"The Whole World's Gone Crazy"
Brandon Pruitt
"Oklahoma Way"
Bread/David Gates
"Baby, I'm-a Want You"
"Daughter"
"Diary"
"Everything I Own"
"Guitar Man"
"If"
"It Don't Matter to Me"
"Lost Without Your Love"
"Make It With You"
"Mother Freedom"
"Sweet Surrender"
"Truckin'"
Brewer and Shipley
"One Toke Over the Line"
Brooks & Dunn
"Boot Scootin' Boogie"
"Brand New Man"
Brown 25
"Suicidal Cowboys"
Bruce Springsteen
"This Land is Your Land"
Buddy Holly and the Crickets
"Maybe Baby"
Burtschi Brothers/Bob Childer
"Outlaw Band"
The Call
"I Still Believe"
"Let the Day Begin"
"Oklahoma"
Callupsie
"Sugar and Liquor"
Capital Lights
"Worth as Much as a Counterfeit Dollar"
Cardinal Trait
"Ardmore"
Caroline's Spine
"Monsoon"
"Sullivan"
"Work Song"
Carrie Underwood
"Before He Cheats"
"I Ain't in Checotah Anymore"
"Last Name"
"Some Hearts"
Cecil Gray and the Red Dawn Blues Band
"Frybread"
Chainsaw Kittens
"Angel on the Range"
"Loneliest China Place"
"Speedway Oklahoma"
Cheryl Gates
"Baby Miss Raggedy Ann"
"My Oklahoma Hills"
Cheyenne
"Cimarron River"
Chronicles of Mayhem
"Ghost"
Class of '98
"Hundreds and Thousands of Stars"
Color Me Badd
"All 4 Love"
"I Adore Mi Amore"
"I Wanna Sex You Up "
Colourmusic
"Gospel Song"
"Yes!"
Congress of a Crow
"World's Gone Dry"
Conway Twitty
"Lonely Blueboy"
"Slow Hand"
Cradle of Filth
"Tonight in Flames"
Cross Canadian Ragweed
"17"
"Boys From Oklahoma"
"In Oklahoma"
"Wanna Rock and Roll"
David Cook
"The Time of My Life"
David Frizzel & Shelly West
"You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma"
Dave Thompson
"Coming Home"
Debris
"One Way Spit"
Defenestration
"Speedway Oklahoma"
Dennis and the Foul Pluckers
"Chicken Poop"
Distal
"Denver is Burning"
Divisible By None
"The Killer"
Don Mclean
"American Pie"
Don Williams
"Tulsa Time"
The Dustin Pittsley Band
"Staring Into the Sun"
Dwight Twilley Band
"I'm On Fire"
"Tulsa"
Eagle Eye Cherry
"Save Tonight"
Eddie Cochran
"Nervous Breakdown"
"Summertime Blues"
Edison Glass
"Let Go"
Edgar Cruz
"Bohemian Rhapsody"
The Effects
"The Ride"
El Paso Hot Button
"Coons"
Elvin Bishop Band
"Fooled Around and Fell in Love"
"Rock My Soul"
"Tulsa Shuffle"
"Travelin' Shoes"
Elvis Presley
"Heartbreak Hotel"
Eric Clapton
"After Midnight"
"Cocaine"
"Take Me Back To Tulsa"
"Tulsa Time"
Fatty Arbuckle and the Bottlenecks
"Howser"
First Lady Assassins
"COE"
"Dan's Song"
"History of Failure"
"Less Punk Than You"
Five Americans
"I See the Light"
The Flaming Lips
"Armageddon"
"Chewin' the Apple of Your Eye"
"Do You Realize?"
"Ego Trippin' at the Gates of Hell"
"Fight Test"
"Free Radicals"
"Frogs"
"God Walks Among Us Now"
"Jesus Shooting Heroin"
"Meth of a Rockettes Kick"
"Oklahoma We Love You"
"One Million Billionth of a Millisecond on a Sunday Morning"
"Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles"
"Race for the Prize"
"She Don't Use Jelly"
"Summertime"
"Turn it On"
"Waiting for Superman"
"The W.A.N.D."
"Yeah Yeah Yeah Song"
"Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt.1"
"Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt.2"
Forty Minutes of Hell
"F*** It All"
G Sharp
"Can't Tell Me What to Do"
"I Need You Lord"
"Jammin' on Da One"
"MTG"
"Rock N Roll"
"The Greatest Alive"
"What is Love"
The GAP Band
"Oops! Upside Your Head"
"Party Train"
"You Dropped a Bomb On Me"
Garth Brooks
"Friends in Low Places"
"Standing Outside the Fire"
"The Red Strokes"
"Thunder Rolls"
"Two Pina Coladas"
"We Shall Be Free"
"When You Come Back To Me Again"
Gene Autry
"Back in the Saddle"
Gene Pitney
"24 Hours From Tulsa"
Ghost of Monkshood
"I Take It"
Ghosts
"Signs"
Glister
"Got You"
"Lonewolf"
"Mothertrucker"
Good to Go
"Where the Sun Sets Low"
Graham Colton
"Best Days"
Greg Allen
"Nighthorse"
Guns & Roses
"Sweet Child of Mine"
Hanson
"A Song to Sing"
"Been There Before"
"Blue Sky"
"Fire on the Mountain"
"Georgia"
"Great Divide"
"If Only"
"Lost Without Each Other"
"MMMBop"
"Penny and Me"
"Rock and Roll Razorblade"
"Something Going Around"
"This Time Around"
"Tearing It Down"
Hamilton Camp
"I'd Rather Be More Than Just Two Lines..."
Harold Porter
"Oklahoma Nights"
Harlow Wilcox and the Okies
"Groovy Grubworm"
Hazzard
"Stillwater Runs Deep"
The Hero Factor
"Come Down"
Hinder
"Bliss"
"Get Stoned"
"Homecoming Queen"
"Lips of an Angel"
Horseshoe Road
"Four in the Morning"
Hosty Duo
"Fraidy Hole"
"Oklahoma Breakdown"
Hoyt Axton
"Never Been to Spain"
"What Does It Matter"
"Wild Bull Rider"
Huey Lewis
"Heart of Rock & Roll"
JJ Cale
"After Midnight"
"Call Me the Breeze"
"Cocaine"
"Crazy Mama"
"If You're Ever in Oklahoma"
"Okie"
"Rock & Roll Records"
"Tulsa Time"
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey
"Tether Ball Triumph"
Jason Boland
"If I Ever Get Back to Oklahoma"
Jeff Martinson
"Highway 51"
Jerry Cantrell
"Boggy Depot"
"Cut You In"
Jerry Fisher and Timepeace
"Slow It Down b/w City Lights"
Jesse Aycock
"Burned Out"
"Life's Ladder"
Jesse Ed Davis
"Tulsa County"
"Red Dirt Boogie, Brother"
"Reno Street Incident"
Jimmy Lafave
"Red Dirt Song"
Jimmy Webb
"His World"
"Oklahoma Nights"
"Wichta Lineman"
Jimmy Webb/Vince Gill
"Oklahoma Rising"
Jody Miller
"Home of the Brave"
"Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow"
John Anderson
"Seminole Wind"
John Moreland and the Black Gold Band
"Endless Oklahoma Sky"
Johnny Cash
"Ring of Fire"
Johnny Cooper
"Red Dirt"
John Foster
"Handshake Town"
John Hendrix
"Oklahoma My Home"
Josh Thompson
"How About You?"
Journey
"Don't Stop Believin'"
"Faithfully"
"Open Arms"
Jubal Lee Young
"Deep South Blues"
Kay Starr
"The Rock and Roll Waltz"
Keith Anderson
"Podunk"
Kevin Welch
"Early Summer Rain"
The Killer
"Divisible by None"
Kinfolk
"The Black Tie Event"
Kings of Leon
"Kings of the Rodeo"
"Knocked Up"
"Molly's Chamber"
"Pistol of Fire"
"Slow Night, So Long"
"Talihina Sky"
The Kinks
"Oklahoma U.S.A."
Klipspringer
"I am the Son"
"I Keep Losing My Lighter"
"I Like Beer"
Kunek
"All Together"
"Das Ollec"
Larry Hollis
"Oil Field Rock N Roll"
Len Lecher
"If You Catch My Drift"
Leon Russell
"A Song For You"
"Back to the Island"
"Delta Lady"
"Going Back to Tulsa One More Time"
"Home Sweet Oklahoma"
"Hummingbird"
"Jumpin' Jack Flash/Youngblood"
"Mad Dogs and Englishmen"
"Oklahoma Boogie"
"Oklahoma Girl"
"Out in the Woods"
"Stranger in a Strange Land"
"This Masquerade"
"Tight Rope"
Limbeck
"Everyone's in the Parking Lot"
Lovin' Spoonful
"Summer in the City"
Lynrd Skynrd
"Ain't No Good Life"
"Call Me the Breeze"
"Simple Man"
Lynrd Skynrd/Steven Gaines
"Call Me the Breeze"
"I Know a Little"
Mama Sweet
"First Last Stand"
"Whiskey Breath"
Mark Keller
"Oklahoma Rising"
Mason Williams
"Classical Gas"
Medicine Park All Boy Derelict Band
"I Loved Them Everyone"
"I Was Amazed"
"Take Time"
"Sweepin' Up the Sidewalk Blues"
MercyMe
"I Can Only Imagine"
Merle Haggard
"Okie From Muskogee"
Michael Hedges
"Ritual Dance"
Mike Hosty
"Fraidy Hole"
"Linda Cavanaugh"
"Oklahoma Breakdown"
"Robots"
The Monkees
"Hey Hey We're the Monkees"
"Heart and Soul"
Monroe Mustang
"I Was Eighteen, It Was Hate"
Moon Martin
"Bad Case of Loving You"
Mountain Smoke
"Going Home to Oklahoma"
My Solstice
"Elevator"
"Minor Complex"
"Rock Bottom"
Neal Schon/Abraxas Pool
"Going Home"
Neil Young
"Last Trip to Tulsa"
The Neighborhood
"Hot Water"
The Nixons
"Happy Song"
"Sister"
No Justice
"Bend But Don't Break"
"The Toast"
N.O.T.A.
"Den of Thieves"
"Nightstick Justice"
Oh! Johnny Girls
"When I'm Gone"
Orphium
"Panic"
Otis Watkins
"The Night is Young"
PDA
"Dolla Bill"
Paul Abner
"On Sapulpa"
Paul Gregg/Restless Heart
"When She Cries"
Paul Michael Broderson
"Under God, Indivisibly Yours"
Phil and Brett
"Sharon Jean"
Phil Seymour
"Precious to Me"
Pillar
"Everything"
"Fireproof"
"For the Love of the Game"
"Frontline"
Point of Grace
"Circle of Friends"
Pure Prairie League
"Let Me Love You Tonight"
Rachel Stacy
"Oklahoma"
Randy Crouch
"Sun and the Wind"
Rascal Flatts
"Life is a Highway"
Reba McIntire
"Fancy"
"I'm A Survivor"
Red Dirt Rangers
"Red Dirt Roads"
"Woody's Road"
Reba McIntire & Vince Gill
"Oklahoma Swing"
Richard Elementary Rockets
"I Have Pride"
Rick Nelson
"Wild Nights in Tulsa"
Rickey Ray
"Tahlequah Eyes"
Ricochet
"Daddy's Money"
RockHausOkies
"I Drink Coffee From My Boots"
The Rockin' Aces
"Thunder b/w evil"
Roger Miller
"King of the Road"
"You Can't Rollerskate Through a Buffalo Herd"
Rollin' Phattys
"Cherry Street Blues"
RosCo and the Heads
"Okie Dokie Okie"
Rufus Wainwright
"Tulsa"
Samantha Crain and the Midnight Shivers
"Beloved, We Have Expired"
Sam and the Stylees
"1921"
"We Are One"
Schatzi
"Death of the Alphabet"
Scott Aycock
"A Thousand Headlights"
Shamrock
"Changes"
Sherree Chamberlain
"Bird Song"
Shiny Toy Guns
"You are the One"
Smokin' Okies
"Orange Blossom Special"
South 40
"Home"
Starkweather Boys
"Archer Street Blues"
Starlight Mints
"Black Cat"
Steeler's Wheel
"Stuck in the Middle with You"
Steppenwolf/Hoyt Axton
"The Pusher"
Stereothump
"Mucky Muck"
Steve Gaines
"I Know a Little"
Steve Hardin
"Okie Dread"
Steve Ripley
"Oklahoma Blues"
Stone Water
"Hero"
Stoney Larue
"Idabel Blues"
"Oklahoma Breakdown"
Sugar Free Allstars
"Cornbread"
Sworn Against
"918"
"Stand and Strike"
Teegarden and Van Winkle
"God, Love and Rock & Roll"
"Oklahoma Sewn Home Grown"
Terry Stout
"T-Town"
Tesla
"Modern Day Cowboy"
Theron Warlick
"Tulsa's Bad Shoes"
Thin Lizzy
"Cowboy Song"
Three Dog Night
"Joy to the World"
"Never Been to Spain"
"Out in the Country"
TJ McFarland and the Revolvers
"Oklahoma Winds in the Fall"
Toby Keith
"Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue"
"How Do You Like Me Now"
"I Love This Bar"
Tom Lienke
"Hotel Black"
Tom Paxton
"Home Sweet Oklahoma"
"Ramblin' Boy"
Tonic Sol-Fa
"Oklahoma Wind"
The Tractors
"The Tulsa Shuffle"
Trademark Twitch
"So Far Gone Again"
Travis Kidd
"Oklahoma Sunset"
Twisted Pistols
"Oklahoma"
The Ventures
"Pipeline"
"Walk Don't Run"
Van Zant
"Oklahoma"
Vince Gill
"Oklahoma Borderline"
"One More Last Chance"
Wakeland
"Half of You"
Wanda Jackson
"Funnel of Love"
"Let's Have a Party"
The Weathervanes
"The Sun Don't Shine Except in Oklahoma"
We the Kings
"Check Yes Juliet"
West Haven Band
"Redneck's Retreat"
Willis Allan Ramsey
"Boy from Oklahoma"
Winter Circle
"Streetlight Flicker"
Woody Guthrie
"Oklahoma Hills"
"Pretty Boy Floyd"
"This Land is Your Land"
"Tom Joad Blues"
"Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key"
Zach Swon
"Roll on Oklahoma"

New Oklahoma Licenses Plate Design, OK?

I am out of the loop, disconnected from my world, don't know what's going on, so why should I be surprised that Oklahoma will get a new auto licenses plate and that the design has already be chosen? After all Oklahoma is by construct and constitution an after-the-fact-state. You know, tell the people what you did and then ask them to support it rather than ask them up front what they want you to do.

So here are the "new designs" that were under consideration:

Number 1 is an altered view of the statue at the Tulsa Gilcrease Museum entitle "Sacred Rain Arrow"

Number two is a less altered version of the same thing.

Number three is a piss poor, and graphically misplaced rendition of the "Guardian" statue on top of the Capitol dome.

Number four is a generic cowboy jumping through a lariat loop wearing a non-Oklahoma type cowboy hat and with his spurs and chaps on no less. (wait should he not be packin as well?)

Number 5 is a hunchbacked version of Will Rogers.

Number 6 is the statue at the OKC Western Heritage Center know as "The Frontiersman" ( A thinly disguised Erol Flynn version of Buffalo Bill).

And the winner from among the cowboy and indian choices is:

A tag of Blue White Grey and Maroon with mis-matched font and caps and lower case letters in the State Name, not to mention that the 'Sacred Rain Arrow" statue is twisted 40 dregrees off verticle to make look like, er, well an Apache cupid.

This is how the actual statue looks. Is it not a bit more powerful in it actual context?

I personally think that the "Guardian", which is actually a "State" symbol would have made the better tag. That is if it were moved to the side of the plate and a better image of it used. Or at least they shouldn't screw with the original artist intent of the Arrow statue.

Actually I think the Osage War Shield and Peace Symbols from our flag gave us a distinct and meaningful symbolism on our tags, but some said it looked too much like the "tribal" tags, duh.

But, well, back to the wishy washy days of the pastel Oklahoma is OK. I can't help but think that this is just a continuance of the Nike-esque logos from the centennial.

So HoW Do YoU AlL LikE OuR NeW TaG? (Notice how the OKLAHOMA name looks like OKIAHOMVA)