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Vote or pay! UPDATE!

Edit: I updated this article with links for the current election cycle. If you want to learn about who is who and what is what in this political arena that directly impacts you and the world around you, then read and register below!

If you think your one vote will not make a difference, think again. Think about how many people tell themselves that their vote won’t make a difference. Now, take all those people and send them to the polls. That group of people just changed the outcome of that election. The more you continue to think this way, the more the people around you will start to think this way. You are a potential fire started among your friend and family. With this upcoming election on Nov. 2nd (edit: Tuesday, November 6, 2012), it is critical that you make your vote count. There are a lot of hot and heavy issues that DIRECTLY effect all of you, including our next Governor (Edit: PRESIDENT!). Maybe some people don’t understand, or maybe they just don’t care. It is time to change your way of thinking! I have included a couple links. One is to register to vote, and the other has all the information of what is on this upcoming ballot. PLEASE! do your part in changing the place we live for the better.

http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_vr.htm Here you can electronically register to vote. The website explains that it is TOO LATE to register for the Nov. 2nd elections, but believe me, I have been working with the OC Registrar of Voters for a long time, and if you register now and go to the polls on election day you will be able to vote provisionally which means you will again have to fill out the voter registration card. Then you will be able to vote like anybody else, now and in future elections.

http://calvoter.org/voter/elections/index.html This website will give you all the information for what is on the ballot. Read the issues that are important to you and make your own decision. (Edit: This website hasn’t been updated for the next election cycle, yet.) Here is some general info for now, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_elections,_2012 

“Figuring things out for yourself is practically the only freedom anyone really has nowadays. Use that freedom.” – Jean Rasczak “Starship Troopers”

Skid Row Bokeh (SF PICS)

I had an amazingly relaxing time and a much need getaway to SF this weekend. Long overdue, I headed up to San Francisco Friday noon only to arrive at 7:30 to a frantically excited Thanh Dang. I started taking photos from my frist pit stop… let us let the pics tell the rest of the story. I will post some highlights here and a link to the entire album as well.

The entire album can be viewed here: http://picasaweb.google.com/jasonm.blog/SF09#