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This is a belated post… and all I can say is DAMN! Starting a business, in fact, is a hell of a lot of work. BUT, I am sooooo happy and excited about how things are going at this VERY early stage and about the market and the opportunities that are out there. This country totally is a wonderful place to be for a relatively young guy who is in a position where he can take risk and see what happens.

So, first of all, if you are short on blogs to read lately… once again, may I suggest the Trimtab Blog. I really like two of my recent posts to be quite honest:

• Addressing the question of our value
• A tech company’s problem

So now that I got another plug in to spread the word on my new blog (my important blog to be honest), onto the business at hand… POLITICS (just bear with me, politics season is in full swing and there really isn’t that much else in the news), haha.

I proudly went to the Republican caucus a week ago today as the Ron Paul precinct captain for my precinct. There are approximately 550 registered republicans in my precinct, 33 of which showed up to caucus (a fantastic turnout I was told… it was my first one in this precinct but I was told that 4-6 people is typical). Of those, approximately 4 or 5 had any idea what was going on at the caucus. The long and short of it is that everyone came to “vote” for their republican candidate of choice. But there is no vote meaning most thought the straw poll they took walking in the door counted for something.

Delegates to the county assembly (and, in turn, the state convention and ultimately national convention) are the only thing matter in the ACTUAL nomination process. So when the nomination of delegates was asked for, I promptly volunteered and was voted in unanimously! A victory in MY precinct for the Ron Paul R[evol]ution. As I sat there and debated over the moral issue I was facing as a delegate for my precinct (the moral issue of whether I would vote for Ron Paul at the county assembly or for Romney based on principle as that was who the majority of the district I would represent supported), we came to the end of the meeting and everyone began to realize they had cast no presidential candidate “vote”.

A long line of questions and discussion led to the group generally “figuring out” that I had been voted in as one of our two “spokesmen” for selecting a presidential candidate, which led to a discussion on who I supported, which led to me giving my 2 minute speech on my position, and ultimately a re-vote (which I agreed to as I felt it was unfair everyone voted not knowing what was going on) where both of the original unanimous “winners” got voted out for Romney supporters.

Short story... I am very happy to say that after my Ron Paul speech (even though I lost) I got four votes, despite being the only Ron Paul supporter in my precinct. BUT, I am disappointed to say I did not deliver a delegate for Ron Paul in my district. Hopefully, those two Romney delegates will switch to my team now that he is out!

Bottom line… almost 2500 people in my precinct, 1800 registered voters, 550 republicans (and another 600 independents), 33 caucus attendees, and ONE Ron Paul supporter who damn near delivered at least half of his precinct’s “representation” for Ron Paul.

Bottom, bottom line… I am happy. I put forth only a very small amount effort while at the same time quitting my job, starting a business, and everything else that was going on and almost delivered a positive results on behalf of some 550-1100 people. There are 55,000,000 registered republicans in America and therefore all it would have taken to get the nomination would have been, in theory, some (50% of 55,000,000/550=100,000) 50,000 people strategically located throughout the country no matter how the popular vote went! If you give a shit, you clearly can make a difference, since so few ACTUALLY do (at least do enough to SHOW UP).