Last night as Holly and I were settling down to watch the latest episode of Chuck, my phone rang. I didn’t recognize the number so I figured that it was another survey to ask me who I’ll be voting for at the Republican State Convention in a few weeks. I answered the phone expecting to have a delay while the call was routed to some operator in a call center. Instead, my greeting was answered immediately with an actual person. The caller asked if he was speaking with Jeremiah, which he obviously was, so I answered in the affirmative. He then introduced himself as Rob Bishop. This is where my mind went weird.
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Apr 2010
Apr 2010
Category: Current Events, Politics
Tags: campaign, citizenship, congress, Congressman, Constitution, country, delegate, Earmarks, Europe, government, health care reform, history, Jeremiah, Jimmy Carter, military, Obama, politician, president, President Obama, question, Republican, Rob Bishop, spending, state convention, stimulus, stimulus bill, United States, voting, Washington, waste One Comment
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Mar 2010
Mar 2010
Yesterday I received a phone call from somebody with Senator Bennett’s campaign inviting me to have breakfast with the Senator this morning at IHOP in Centerville. Because I’m taking my job as state delegate so seriously, I jumped at the opportunity to meet with him and ask some questions.
I arrived a few minutes early to try and ensure a spot close to Senator Bennett. It worked. I sat next to him for the duration. Granted, he was actually standing, but I was so close that I could touch him. (Despite a request that I received, I didn’t actually touch his cheek to see if his skin would crumble as a powerful vampire’s would. His hand did fail to turn to dust as I shook it though.)
Category: Current Events, Jeremiah, Politics
Tags: Afghanistan, campaign, Centerville, delegate, health care reform, IHOP, immigration, politician, question, Senator Bennett, state convention, Washington One Comment
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Mar 2010
Mar 2010
I’ve noticed since the House passed the health care “reform” bill on Sunday evening, Twitter and Facebook are ripe with people voicing their opposition. That’s good in the sense that people care enough to actually follow what is going on. It’s bad though because, as was proven on Sunday, many of our elected leaders don’t really care what their constituents have to say regarding the issues. The arrogance that is coming from Washington amazes me especially considering the fact that these are the same people who criticized the previous administration’s arrogance. Regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum, I think that it’s safe to assume that most people are unhappy with the way that things are being run in our nation’s capital at the moment. I also think that these feelings have been festering for years (I’m not just blaming Obama) and are now starting to come to a head.
Category: Current Events, Jeremiah, Politics
Tags: ballot, caucus, election, facebook, health care reform, neighborhood, Obama, primary election, reform, Republican, Senator Bob Bennett, state convention, Utah, voice, vote, voter, voting, Washington Leave a Comment
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Mar 2010
Mar 2010
After watching the beginning of the end of the country that I love so much as health care “reform” passed over the weekend, this video pretty much sums up how I feel. The nice thing is that I know that I’m not the only one that feels this way.
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Dec 2009
Dec 2009
…and other global warming alarmists a all frauds and hypocrites. That is all for tonight.
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Jul 2009
Jul 2009
I grew up with guns. The love of shooting is something that has been instilled in me for as long as I can remember. Some of my favorite times growing up were going to the farm in Idaho and shooing guns with my dad and grandpa. We would set up cans or other assorted targets in front of giant stacks of hay and spend the afternoon shooting.
I remember the first time that I went skeet shooting. I didn’t hit anything but it was still fun. My shoulder hurt for days. I think it was the first time I’d ever shot a shotgun.
I remember when I came to the realization, years after the fact, that the reason that I never killed any pheasants during the hunt is because I was only armed with a BB gun. When I mentioned this to my dad, he told me that it was because none of the other hunters wanted to get shot. Since I was probably six at the time, I agree that it was sound logic on their part.
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Jun 2009
Jun 2009
Last night President Obama laid out his healthcare reform plans for the world to see. I’ve been trying to stay away from political topics but I can’t resist this one. I promise I’ll keep it brief.
At my work we ship a lot of stuff. So much stuff that we have a UPS guy make two stops at our office every day. Note that I said UPS guy and not mailman. Our mailman is a nice guy but we’re lucky to see him once a week because of Postal Service cutbacks. This can be extremely irritating when we have to mail something. The Postal Service isn’t reliable enough for us to depend on so we chose to go with a non-government entity for our shipping needs.
Category: Current Events
Tags: America, capitalism, congress, Constitution, country, FedEx, government, healthcare, mailman, Obama, president, President Obama, reform, United States, UPS 2 Comments
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Apr 2009
Apr 2009
Over the past few days, I’ve been feeling more and more fearful about the direction that our country is headed. The thing that really set me off is the recent report released by the Department of Homeland Security which basically labels anybody who disagrees with what the politicians are doing right now or hope to do in the not too distant future as a right-wing extremist that should be placed on a terrorist watch list. This may sound odd but I thought that it was OK to disagree with politicians in America. Apparently it’s not.
As I was listening to Glenn Beck yesterday on my way home from work, he started talking about this report and his words struck me to the very core. He was saying everything that I was feeling! Below are a few excerpts from the transcript of his monologue. (You can read the whole thing here.) I could not have even come close to saying it better myself.
Category: Current Events
Tags: abortion, America, ammunition, barack obama, congress, Constitution, country, flux capacitor, Glenn Beck, government, gun, immigration, Laws, Obama, president, states rights, taxes, Texas, United States, Washington 3 Comments
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Apr 2009
Apr 2009
There is a line in both Peter Pan and Battlestar Galactica that says “All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.” In other words, history repeats itself.
I just finished reading The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes and couldn’t help but get very fearful for the direction that our country is taking. From the very first page, it was impossible for me to not see the parallels between the 1930′s and now.
I have always enjoyed history because there is so much to learn. The funny thing about history though is that if you don’t know about it, chances are that you’re going to repeat it. Heck, even if you do know about it, you’re probably going to repeat it. But if you have knowledge, you can at least try and change the outcome. Look at the people that are running our country; they are making the exact same mistakes that politicians made in the 1920′s and 30′s. I’m guessing that they don’t know very much about history.
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Mar 2009
Mar 2009
A few months back, you may remember me posting a poll asking what you were doing with your investments. At the time, I was planning on trying to ride out the current financial storm thinking that I’m young enough to recover my losses in the coming years. I’m not quite as optimistic now as I was then. Actually, I wasn’t very optimistic then but I was trying to convince myself that I was. Right now I think that we’ve actually already entered another depression. I also think that the pundits are either too dishonest or too stupid to share this fact with the rest of the world for fear of what problems it may cause. In my opinion though, they’re just postponing the inevitable which will ultimately make things worse.
Category: Current Events
Tags: 401k, economic crisis, great depression, Jon Stewart, losses, mom, money management, money market account, poll, stock broker, stocks 7 Comments
