Democracy at the Micro-Level

I've been out celebrating 4 years of wedded bliss with my wife out in the open air of Colorado, took in some football and baseball along with the majestic mountain view, for which I must apologize to my loyal fan base since I have not kept very good tabs on the news this last week. It sounds like any real progress on resolving anything waited until yesterday when I got back anyway, so once I can get my fragile little mind wrapped around this Syria thing, be assured that I will have an opinion about it. Some pics from my vacation will be coming shortly too, I'm sure.

In the meantime, it is Election Day! That's right, another day to exercise our constitutional rights and give our two cents of input to how our great democracy/republic should be ran. On the menu for today inmy corner of Iowa we will be weighing in on three, count them three items. Let's review shall we?

Item of the first: Kirkwood Community College school district 7 representative, and the nominees are, in no particular order, James Mollenhauer... that's it? Just the one guy? Wow, people must be pretty happy with the way things are going over there, looks like this guys been occupying that seat for about 10 years. Ok, well, easy enough, on to the next item.

Item of the second: Local school district representative, three options; Gadelha, Hutcheson, and Patterson. Finally, some options. Okay, which one to choose. What's that now? You say I can choose three? But there are only three choices! For those of you reading that can't see me right now, I'm doing the little air quotes thing when I say "Choices". I suppose I could try and write in a name, only like 30 people that actually vote on this thing. could make it interesting. perhaps something profane, see if the local TV station scrolls it on the bottom of the screen. "Ben Dover receives 1% of the votes"

Item of the third: An actual choice! To keep a .06/$1000 property tax that's already in effect for another 10 years after it's set to expire in two years. Hrmmmm... This one is going to take some thought. Let me do the math, hrmmm... yeah, this comes out to less then a dollar a month to help my local community college. Sounds pretty controversial. I wonder if I'll even remember that I voted on this come the summer of 2015... probably not. My property taxes did just drop $16 bucks this year thanks to a slight increase in the homestead tax credit passed by the state. That more then makes up for this I suppose, sure why not.

Well, democracy is in action once again. One day you are electing the leader of the free world with a vote that will probably be offset by someone who lost a bet to vote one way. The next day, you don't even bother reading the full name of the person you voted for. I declare the system alive and thriving, GOD BLESS YOU, AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!