Politics is creeping into my blood...

So, I've been bitten by the politics bug...and I don't know how I feel about it. Part of me feels like I am cynical of everything and every idea now, but part me likes actually being involved and having opinions on these things...but I also know I could get carried away.

It somewhat started 3 weeks ago helping a fellow ward member get elect to student government at USU, then just this week their was a vote at USU to increase the athletic fee another $65 a semester. When I first heard about the fee and the arguments for it, it seemed like a no brainer, but I thought I'd look into a little more and I did and I came to disagree (along with a lot of other people) with the fee increase...specifically the amount of the increase.

Anyway, to make a long story short, I think somebody (perhaps the athletics department) became worried it wouldn't pass because a lot of unfair measures took place. They had basketball players pressuring you in the HPER to vote and vote right then (who is going to vote "no" with them looking over your shoulder). The statement on the online ballot was even biased. It basically listed reasons why to vote yes.

And lastly I'm disappointed the student fee committee didn't just handle the situation. They could negotiate a lot better...actually with a vote there is no negotiating.

Anyway, I didn't even mean to post all this stuff about the student fee increase, I was just coming here to post an article about facebook. (And I better stop, or my comments will end up being arguments of why the fee increase is good and such.) Aurora Dizon wrote this article and I think he/she (not really sure) writes for PC World, as it is on their site. The article is about the "Hypocrisy of Facebook." If people really feel this way, then I laugh. They would basically be saying "we need a constitutional right that we are entitled to have a facebook page, and that all websites be operated on the basis of political correctness." (P.S. A lot of things that fall under "political correctness" I disagree with.) People, we are not entitled to have a facebook page. If facebook wants to keep pornography off its members pages then they can. I think facebooks success has been because it is such a cleaner site than myspace. This is the reason I switched.
Anyway, I will say that I do agree it would be smart for facebook to notify people when their TOS change.

Facebook is a funny place. I laugh when people use facebooks groups to petition facebook to change "back to the old facebook." Does anyone else find this hilarious?

assorted scribbles: Birds and the bees

Ha ha ha ha! LOL! I again refer to an earlier post I made about

Comedy movies VS. Blogs

I had some free time tonight and so I started reading blogs of friends...and I love it. Seriously, in a match between comedy movies and blogs, I would pick blogs to win. Personalities are so visible in blogs and I love that for some reason. If I read a response paper for an English class from all these same bloggers, I would not be able to tell them apart. But in a blog, they are free to write how they want and it so much more creative and healthy.

This is why:
assorted scribbles: Birds and the bees

Engagement at Dixie Rock

Well, I got engaged! And therefore I started a new blog with my bride-to-be. Check it (and our engagement story) out here or at http://emjoe.blogspot.com/

Egg production

Man, if I keep this up, I'm going to have to change the name of this blog to "The Chicken Blog" because that is all I write about now a days. Sorry. But anywho, for those interested I have spreadsheet tracking my egg production. I'll also be adding the expense that I put into feeding my chickens (that's really the only expense) to show if it is making economical sense to have chickens vs. buying eggs. The end.



or you can go to:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pYAosa-1jrQHxfELvg_OONQ

Book of Mormon Marathon

The Book of Mormon in 24 hours. Our stake put on an event where we read the Book of Mormon together in 24 hours over a 3 day period. Anyone was welcome to come. So for 6 hours Thursday and Friday, and then 12 hours on Saturday I read. We had a sign-up sheet for a 10 minute reading time. So we had someone reading at the front of the Cultural Hall, while the rest of us read along. I brought my bean bags to be more comfortable. The Stake provided snacks and then on Saturday they provided three meals.

Anyway, this is a VERY interesting way to read the BoM. You will see things that you would not otherwise. In fact, so much of the story line made so much more sense because of reading it all together. Just a remarkable event. I think I plan to do it every other year for the rest of my life....and I am dead serious. There are some things I had just learned the past couple weeks about the BoM and so then as I read I watched for those things. And I'm sure I would learn other things and then the next time I read I would learn different things....obviously. Anyway, there is a great spirit that attends the reading of that book. I know it's true. (And I am not just saying this because it is the cliche' thing to say, or out of habit, or anything...I am saying it on purpose and because I believe it. Sorry, it is just that too many times people say things out of habit or because they think they 'should.' (See January 13th, 2009 post)).

The chickens are in the pot...

No I am not cooking my chickens...that is code word for they are in their nesting box and making EGGS! That's right. I have gotten 5 eggs in the last week and half. Sweet! I didn't think I'd be getting any eggs for a month or two, but for some reason they've decided they like me and want to give me eggs.

It is so fun to have chickens. I'm pretty sure I'm sold on the idea and will have them the rest of my life. They love me too. It's great.

Chicken pride

No, I am not taking pride in the fact that I AM a chicken....I am taking pride in the NEW chickens I own! Yup! I like eggs...that is an understatement. I buy the 5 dozen box when I go to the store. So last year I started thinking about getting a couple chickens to lay me some eggs...but there were so many things I didn't know (is it legal to have chickens in your yard in city limits? How messy are they? Are they hard to take care of? Is it cost effective? ETC.)



But I finally got all my questions answer and at 5:23 today I became the new proud owner of three wonderful hens.

I haven't named them yet....but maybe I shouldn't....I may eventually eat them some day. Nah, I'll name them. So it'll be a little while before they will actually lay any eggs, but I am excited. It's the first animal/pet that has ever been MINE. So yeah, I am way excited. I think I'm throwing a party in their name soon. We'll eat eggs and do the chicken-dance.