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This is my first video blog post ever.  I wanted to see how it turned out and thought you might find what I share is of some relevance to you in your life.  Enjoy!

Caucuses and when you know you're screwed

I don't know about caucuses and how they work.  That was yesterday after work.  I went with my brother to my local caucus.  It was shocking.   I'm still learning how they work.

A precinct is an area that people live in.  Mine is precinct 51.  Precincts typically cover about a 1000 people or less.  Everyone is invited to come to the caucus that live within the precinct.  There were 6 people at my precinct caucus.

The meeting was disorganized and weird.  No real formality.  People at the caucus vote/volunteer themselves or their peers to go and represent them at the conventions that decide who will be on the ballot/voted in to serve.  The main people are the Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer, Secretary, State Delegate, and two County Delegates.

The meeting organizer, a previous chair nominee for the 49th precinct, nominated himself again as his precincts Chair as that is allowed.  Nobody from that precinct nominated anybody else.  I looked at the list of names of people up for election and said that I didn't know many of the candidates except for the Presidential hopefulls.  I said I didn't know the county/state reps, but that I could.  I was told by the other chair that there are meetings and brochures sent and phone calls made to you to tell you about their positions.  That made me feel better and I nominated myself for the Chair.  Nobody objected.  In fact somebody from my church seconded my nomination saying she knew me and knew I'd do a good job, when in fact she doesn't hardly know me at all.  Nobody else volunteered or even submitted another person's name for the Chair position.  So...now I'm the chair for my precinct.  I still really don't know what is going on and what I'm doing.  Fine.

Next up was the nominations for vice chair, treasury, secretary, and state/county delegates.  From both precincts it was a struggle to fill the positions.  Nobody volunteered.  In fact people had to nominate others.  That was/is just foreign and weird to me.  People debated why they DIDN'T want to be in leadership.  DIDN'T. 

I volunteered myself for the state delegate and again got no challengers.  So I'm precinct 51's Chair and State Delegate.  I'm gonna do my best to filter out the corrupt politicians like Orrin Hatch who betrayed his countrymen by voting for NDAA.  I'm going to do my best to get Ron Paul elected as president as he is the only one has NEVER voted for a tax increase, unbalanced budget, the NDAA, bailouts, is against needless wars that we can't even afford anyways, and a myriad of other things,  and he supports the constitution.  My voice isn't just mine anymore.  It is a thousand people's voices.  Voices that don't even care to be heard.  That is where our country is.  People (my coworkers that I asked this morning) would rather be doing HOMEWORK, go to the jazz game, tried calling the office of the govt to find out which party they were registered with but gave up after getting a voicemail.  They'd rather do that then find people that can make their lives better through protection of the constitution, balanced budgets, no war, and protection of personal rights for individuals and families.

It is scary that the people who care, the ones who showed up yesterday, were so scared to say or do anything.  These are the people we're letting decide our fate.  These people, let alone the rest of the country who could give a crap less, are going to vote for people based on the candidates looks, popularity, BODY LANGUAGE, and hate ads.  It is no wonder our country is headed down the crapper and fast.  I don't care what any of these naysayers think of my comments.  Truth is we're in trouble and people aren't aware that they can/should smell the roses.  One would think, like I did four years ago, oh one vote.  Who gives a s&%$.  I know I didn't.  Well guess what.  My vote is now a 1000 votes.  How about them apples?

Then I think about the republican race.  All four left are saying they're staying in it till the end and in the meantime they'll be siphoning votes off of the frontrunner Romney.  Well it just might come down to the last state, Utah, to decide who is on the ballet come November.  And guess who is going to vote for Ron Paul?  Yours truly.

Giving Back

I like giving back.  Research shows that the pleasure centers of the brain that go off during sex also go off when you give service.  Well I'm studying right now to take the GMAT.  I am not good at it and haven't been the most motivated to be honest.  I mean I am going to class and working on the homework when it is assigned, but I haven't really been getting down to business like I know I can, i.e. finding and working on the problem areas I have.

Well last night I went to class and the teacher assigned as homework a 10-15 minute session on freerice.com.  It is a website that has computer adapted questions.  So if you get one right it gives you a harder one to work on and if you get it wrong it gives you an easier one to work on.  Well.  Little do I know that for each question you get right they donate 10 grains of rice to the hungry around the world.  There are over 1 million people playing on this site.  They've donated over 1 billion grains of rice so far.  Yes that right.  1 BILLION.  Its cool cause they have a bowl off to the side that has grains of rice in it for the ones you get right.  So far I'm up to 280 grains donated = 28 correct answers. 

I just had to share this cause I enjoy the giving that is going on.  I also go and drive food around from our local foodbank once a month and like helping people with that.  Some people are aware of kiva.org and I feel that this website is similiar in the amazing positive impact it can have others instead of all those stupid farmville and facebook games out there that don't do anything for people in need.  Anywho go check it out and donate some rice!

P.S. The LDS church needs to do something similiar with their indexing effort.  I could get on board with that if they had a fun way, other than eternal salvation of course :), for tracking the progress being made.