tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52630674950937576092011-10-04T09:33:37.412-06:00There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information! -- <i>Sneakers (1992)</i>Brian Barnetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16463991127626029004noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263067495093757609.post-2736349789887355322008-05-16T08:50:00.006-06:002008-05-17T22:58:04.586-06:00

I participated in this year's State Republican Convention as a State Delegate. I was among around 3000 such delegates from across the State. It was the first time I have done this. It was very educational and interesting to be a part of it and learn some things about how the political system works. There were a couple of things that stood out to me. Here is one of them.As delegates, our main job

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Elder Yoshihiko Kikuchi was the visiting General Authority at our Stake Conference on Feb 16-17. What a wonderful man! What a wonderful representative of the Lord Jesus Christ! I was so impressed with his teachings. I was able to listen to him in four separate meetings and it was, well, wonderful! :)In two of the meetings, the Priesthood Leadership meeting and the General Session, he spoke of

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I've been making whole wheat bread for a few months now. It's good stuff. For the first little while we used a manual wheat grinder. The kids really loved grinding that wheat by hand (not), but I decided to go ahead and get an electric one. Mom Smith actually gave us one that she didn't use anymore.Then Jen and I decided to buy a Bosch Bread Mixer. Her aunt Ann Allred suggested it and also gave

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I've made it a tradition of mine to buy a single carnation for each of my daughters each Valentine's Day, as well as a bundle of them for Jen. Jen's favorite flower is the carnation. The past couple of years, some other guys have started honing in on my sacred tradition and supplemented the flowers that I have given! Can you believe it! :) Well, we've got a table full of flowers now and

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We had a great fund raiser this evening for the Young Men of the ward. It was a spaghetti dinner, followed by a cake auction. All the young men and young men leaders dressed up in white shirts and ties and cooked and served a great Italian style dinner. It was very well done. One YM leader created an Italian photo-op area - a street in Venice with a great backdrop that he painted, a gondola that

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I voted for Ron Paul yesterday. I love his desire to get the country and the government back to its Constitutional foundations. I love that he is so different that the other candidates and the way he answers questions during debates, i.e., referring to the constitution.In the final Republican debate in California prior to Super Tuesday, a question was posed to all the candidates regarding what

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