You are moving.

You might not feel it – but you are moving. You are drifting.

Drifting is a terrible way to go anywhere, being intentional is much better and more fulfilling.

There are two ends of a spectrum people use when setting out into the vast ocean of life:
- drift – “God will take me there!!!”
- rowing – row the sailboat as fast and as hard as you can

Neither of those are good.

The best option is to sail the sailboat, where there is a role to play, but also the understanding that you do not create or control the wind.

With that …

there are two fundamental directions one can go:

Towards & Away

They look very similar, the boat is primarily moving forward, but the two directions cause dramatically different decisions.

You can sail towards an island, country, port, or just out to sea.

- vs -

You sailing away from your past, a harbor you want to leave, enemies …

And

You could be doing both at the same time, but what drives your decisions overall is always towards or away .

Sometimes we find ourselves in a situation where we must flee from the instance, event, people, circumstances, etc.

That is just life.

However,

There is a major difference between moving away from the fire and moving away from every piece of wood because it could be a flame

or never stopping your car by avoiding all red lights, stop signs, and traffic. You can get somewhere, but you waste a lot by running away all the time from something that needs not be avoided that aggressively.

The more productive way to live your life [or run a business] is to move towards something.

Solving a major problem
Learning a new skill
Helping a group to be able to feed themselves
Making the society better for success
Acquiring an item
Earning an award

All visions people have for themselves, desires that lead to action.

In the business world it is the difference between basing major decisions on a P&L (Profit & Loss Statement from the past month/quarter/week) or basing your major decisions on the budget.

A budget is your stated goals – what you are moving towards. A P&L, what happened in the past, is important
especially when developing a budget, or plan, but the first question needs to be “where are we going & why?” not “what has happened?”

Ask yourself ….

Do I mostly make decisions based on where I want to go or where I want to get away from?

Where do you want to go now?

I went to the site and they have this player:

pixture, I could not get the stupid thing to not autoplay, so I ripped it out of this post. Find the original at the Newsboys site.

In looking at it and listening to the songs, I wonder – is this the future of releasing a new CD?

A few features I picked up on:

• you can watch a music video
• you can purchase thorough the widget
• you can listen to the entire album (at least the standard version – there is a deluxe)
• other info though the widget
• easily share on other places, including social media networks

Between sharing anywhere & playing the entire album, this is pretty cool.

Not to mention, from the perspective of the band – they can always turn the widget off.

The other down side for people who might put this on their site is you are giving up some control of your site to some third party. If Newsboys (or really Unik in this case) gets hacked, your site could then show stuff you really don’t want.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

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I must go back to why I started using Facebook instead of Vox.com.

Two primary reasons I liked Vox.com:

1. privacy settings – most of my posts were set for “only me & my wife”. My extended family was on Vox.com & we shared with only those we wanted.

2. simplicity – Vox.com was easy enough that all my family could handle it, especially the privacy and security options.

Eventually I set up a Facebook account, but did not use it much. Then, one day, the option to do friend groups/lists on Facebook & post stuff only for specific people or lists appeared.

I was thrilled.

I started pushing my friends and family to set up Facebook Accounts; it was simple & secure enough and focused on sharing with small groups of friends. Friend Lists were a little difficult to teach people to use, but over time many people got it.

Issues Today

I have two fundamental issues with Facebook:

1. I no longer trust them with my friends & family
2. I do not like the direction they want to go

There are many potential business models for a company like Facebook. Wanting to push everyone to share more and more is understandable.

In fact, sharing has great value, both to the company and the individuals.

Yet, that was not the deal I signed up for.

It would be similar to my favorite Pizza Place suddenly turning into an Italian Pasta Place. The food might be similar …. it might have a similar atmosphere, but the product that I went there for fundamentally changed.

BUT, there is that new “easy” security System!!!!

Yes, they set up this simple page.

My short view of the *new* privacy settings page is – it was a needed step, but does not really hit the two issues I have & is more complicated than they said it would be. You do not “one click” to turn off the apps or the instant personalization & you should. You also should go through lots of customization options.

My Plan

I cannot bring myself to totally leave Facebook at this moment.

If not for any other reason, when the great Facebook replacement(s) come along, I want to be able to help bring my friends and family over. It is also my only contact point to many people today & I believe in reaching people where they want to be reached.

Thus, my plan is:

1. focusing on JonathanNation.com — de-emphasising facebook

2. stopping actively using F*B – deleting from book marks I auto open each day – and removing the icon from my home screen on my phone & developing a system to auto shove posts of mine into facebook

3. show people ways to achieve their goals without using Facebook

Basically I am going back to the concept of a personal hub. My personal brand/website that I control – JonathanNation.com

It just happens that I drifted into primarily sharing stuff with the world on Facebook for a while.

I am also going to continue to coach people in developing their own personal brand.

That’s a great point, as all 7 of them are.

Not only for photographers, but also pretty much anyone. Here is one more point:

5. They don’t wait for permission. Unless you work for “the man,” you can’t afford to stand around and wait for someone to tell you to go out and shoot. Pick up your camera, go out and make images, show those images. It’s up to YOU to make something happen. Don’t wait around for someone to tell you what to do. Do SOMETHING and do it now.

Just doing what you do best, are passionate about, and there is an economic engine that works for you – is important. Everyone needs practice.

Now look at what I said that is different from the post.
I said “everyone”.

It does not matter if you work for “the man” or not, you need to practice, improve, and increase your ability to produce.

If you are working for “the man,” one thing that can help you is to think of yourself as working for yourself and contracting out your work to “the man.” Ways to increase your skills, might be through training provided by “the man”,  podcasts, volunteering with a Scout program, or even a part-time gig.

The key is what he said – don’t wait for permission.

All the seven habits for photographers are great & I will be working to apply them to my life.

How do we get to a different outcome? Given that you don’t vote? (Russ)

Work to build through the promulgation of ideas and by example: freedom and liberty. If that culture is built, it will be reflected in the political process. If people want to be led by the nose, they will be.

Don Boudreaux on Public Choice, Econtalk.org (1:05:10+)

I have been writing, and recording stuff from time to time, but very few people have had access to it.

To release my thoughts, writings, recordings, and other creations to a wider audience is something that I feel lead to do, but am also terrified at the idea.

There are a few people who follow this, I know – I look at the stats. If you would, send me encouragement to share more, especially if you are one of the people who have consumed some media from me & want more.

Some of the clients of SystemNation.com will probably want to use a system like the one we are testing, so we want to make sure we understand how it works and how to set it all up.

One day a hare saw a tortoise walking slowly along and began to laugh and mock him. The hare challenged the tortoise to a race and the tortoise accepted. They agreed on a route and started off the race. The hare shot ahead and ran briskly for some time. Then seeing that he was far ahead of the tortoise, he thought he’d sit under a tree for some time and relax before continuing the race.

He sat under the tree and soon fell asleep. The tortoise, plodding on, overtook him and finished the race. The hare woke up and realized that he had lost the race.

Wikipedia Article – The Tortoise and the Hare

Will just a generic USB to Lan adapter work (it’s cheaper, though still not gigabit)?

Any suggestions and/or recommendations?

Years ago I went to the Mercy Lounge one Saturday, not for a concert or drinks at the bar (though those were available), but for a time of meeting, learning, and socializing with people involved in or interested in Podcasting. It was an ok event, with one stage, and some break out areas. The best thing I took away from that day was meeting Cliff Ravenscraft in person for the first time and being able to get to know him.

The next year, around the same time, came PodcampNashville2, this time at the Vanderbilt Owen School. That year I live bloged some notes. Lots of rooms, lots more people, lots more fun, and I did not make the mistake I had the first year – I stayed for the after party.

That fall I decided to go to BarCampNashville – many of the same people *work* both events, but I picked up on something additional that applies to both events: most everyone at both events is interested in learning, helping people, building ventures (could be their own business, or their own department), and something involving either better communications or technology.

It was at Barcamp 2009 that I decided that I would just go ahead and start planning each year to be at each event (podcamp and barcamp Nashville) if not any other reason to support such a great community of people striving to grow themselves or a venture to help others.

I’ll tell you more, and probably review some of my past notes (beyond any posts I can find), but today I advise and encourage you to make plans to be at PodcampNashville3. I’ll also be looking to be at a gathering of people the Friday Night before, either somewhere in Nashville, Cool Springs, or Murfreesboro area.

When you decide to attend PodcampNashville3 on March 6th, let me know & I’ll add you to a list of people to remind when more information comes out.

Paint a Picture

Use words, crayons, photoshop, clay, mud, or whatever media is best for you, just get that first vision captured in a tangible, or electronic form.

The topic? Your vision for that project. What you want or strive to have it be, and do.

This might be in regards to an organization you are working with (job, non-profit, start up, team, etc) or even your personal life. My plan is to do this with every major project that I am the champion of, including, but not limited to my personal website, a not-for-profit Real Estate Investor organization that I am committed to help, and a portion of the Boy Scouts of America.

Just writing this post is a part of this process for me. It’s a part of my systems. First to provide me some accountability, but also to share with people I am working with, or supporting. This is something I really want my clients and business partners to do. Not for me to “approve” or “disapprove” but first for them to remember and gain better understanding of themselves, and then to help me understand how I can better help them.

Once complete in one form, I might strive to make it in additional media. Since talking is sometimes the easiest I might start there, and then move to text, or a visual medium. Having those two versions is also important because it helps the iterative improvement process.

One thing I tend to do when building a system or business is to talk to lots of people about the idea. Even if the other people have nothing of value for me; the act of explaining, or telling the story, or painting the picture in and of itself helps me to improve the plans in real time. Thus, if you write out on a piece of paper your future story, taking and putting it into a computer will improve it, because you are working with it again.

Over the course of this year, I intend to review, revise, and rework the pictures I have painted in the past. This in turn will help me to be more focused on my goals, more motivated to get more done, and in the end more productive.

What is the picture you are working to create?

Here is a time laps of them building the ice:

I think I am going to Tivo the game, then watch it later that evening, if you wanna join me let me know.

Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.

~Hebrews 11:1

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

~ Warren Buffet

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.

~ Conrad Hilton, founder, Hilton Hotels

Other times speakers, authors, career and business coaches mention the “big why”: why are you doing what you are doing? Why are you pursuing your current path? And generally they stipulate that it is not, and cannot be, just because of money. Nobody (well, more or less) really wants little green pieces of paper, they want something else.

In the book Go Put Your Strengths to Work, there is an exercise where for a week whenever you get strong positive emotions from a situation or gained strength form an event, you write down on a card what was going on, and for strong negative or draining events – you do the same. At the end of a week you separate the cards and basically go through looking for patterns: what specific “who, what, when, where, and/or why” caused you to gain or loose strength? This exercise should help you:

1. gain better understanding of yourself and what makes you tick, and
2. provide guidance as to what you should do more of and less of.

This exercise is more difficult with an organization. It is not just one person, but the goals should be the same: gain a deeper understanding of what makes the organization tick & what the organization should be doing.

What if the first question when a new idea was brought up to a governing board was not “how much” or “how can we pay for it” but “does this help us achieve our purpose in life?” If that answer is “yes”, then the next questions should be “does it grow the organization in one of our primary resource areas (time, money, or brand)?” followed by, “do we have the strength & resources to make it happen?” Granted, there would be times when the answer to the last question is so obvious that the first two questions would not need a lot of time or energy spent when thinking about the projects. Wouldn’t it be refreshing to begin by asking and focusing on supporting the mission of the organization first and foremost?

I think the challenge I would give to you, future leaders and others, is to go back to whatever your fundamental business building material is. It could be an industry specific focus or not. Go through it again and each time the media asks a question or proposes a direction you should ask, “how should <enter org name here> answer this question?” or “how does this apply to <enter org name here>?”

Odds are many of the questions & plans will apply. If none of the thoughts in the media apply to each organization you are working with then you should probably find a better basis to build your career/personal life around.

If money were not an object, what would <enter org name here> do? Now, we should put all resources required for success behind that, if we possibly can, and do it. Then we should figure out what the “if we could do one more, then what would it be?” and do that.

It applies to you as an individual just as much as it does to every organization you have some level of influence on.

Here is the clip: there is an ad at the beginning:

Two messages that hit me:

1. only a percent of “pros” really do the best job
2. letting people do what they do best allows better results

I am a big fan of specialization of labor; I want you do do what you have a natural strength to do, a passion to do, and causes the resources you need or want to flow to you. That means that sometimes I do work myself, other times I hire professionals, great people who will produce either better quality, faster, or larger quantity results then I would doing it myself.

There are times to do stuff for yourself. You have a role to play is helping the pros you do work with achieve their greatness, but there is also a reason to work with them.

As for that first point, it can be hard and time consuming to find a real professional – or the best of the best, or at least someone/an org that is great. That does not limit or reduce the need we have to strive for it, but puts into light that sometimes we have to spend a lot of time, energy or other resources up front to find the greatness, then develop a relationship and attempt to make sure that both parties get what they want, or one day one of the parties will go away & do something else. That’s why I attempt to help my clients and my vendors succeed, I want them to keep producing what I use/like/enjoy from them.

The 2009 Pumpkin Carve will be held this Saturday, October 17 from 2:00-4:00 pm in our commons area. Please make arrangements to attend this wonderful event.

I would also encourage you to read the new info on our website.

Thank you.

HOA Board
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Unauthorised use or disclosure is prohibited. If you receive This e-mail in error, please advise immediately and delete the original message.
This message may have been altered without your or our knowledge and the sender does not accept any liability for any errors or omissions in the message.

Ce courriel est confidentiel et protégé. L’expéditeur ne renonce pas aux droits et obligations qui s’y rapportent.
Toute diffusion, utilisation ou copie de ce message ou des renseignements qu’il contient par une personne autre que le (les) destinataire(s) désigné(s) est interdite.
Si vous recevez ce courriel par erreur, veuillez m’en aviser immédiatement, par retour de courriel ou par un autre moyen.

Now, here is all the dumb stuff in this email off the top of my head:

• this is for an email in 4 days, that is good, but is the first I have heard of it … why not email or post earlier?
• there is no link to the email <— huge, what are you thinking? Check the site and not include a link to the site?
• there is no person to contact for additional info
• it’s a one off email, this is not that bad with how few emails they send out, but could be huge, and minimum is a missed opportunity
• the email address is not from the domain name
• the email address cannot be replyed to
• There is *NO* way within the email to contact anyone at the org … this might even be illigal
• there is no way to stop the emails form this org — again, might be illigal

now some of these issues don’t look huge, and if this was a one time event it would not be, but every email from this org is the same … blah blah blah, check the website with no link to the website.

I hope that the program achieves the goals that they are striving for in reduction of violence.

It use to be that the “media” was a category, and if you hovered over it you would see:

• Text
• Photography

In that regard nothing much has changed, but behind the scenes it has. The best example is to look at the Photography; currently looks like this in the main section:

I could not do that with the old way. Might also switch the “media” page from a blog style to an area index, best example of that is the Series’ area index.

Why?
More control. The ability to present videos one way, and text a separate way is important.

I am also working towards developing a system/program/service so that we can quickly and easily build and manage personal hubs for other people.

Future:
Well, there are more advanced version of some of the page templates we are using here that have been developed, so converting to that, not sure if before or after that the whole theme will be updated to a more modern version. I know I want to use the Featured Content Gallery as opposed to the current tabbed, simply because it is more interesting visually & helps hide if I have not updated in a while.

- Make it easier to sign up & login

There are several things I am looking at – and if you are not technical, please don’t just leave, I need thoughts & opinions.

Basically, there are a few standards and options out there that could be used, like facebook, google, twitter, openid, etc

There are two questions:

1. which system or systems should be looked at (like facebook, google, twitter, any openid, etc)?
2. what plugin or plugins should be considered?

As for the first I am looking at what people are using and what I expect people will use in the future. Currently facebook, twitter is an option, but the more important one I see in the future is google, because of google wave. What do you think?

As for plugins, so far I have found a couple wordpress plugins, but I know so little in this area that I really don’t know what I don’t know. Help!

In addition to, or partially because of, the biz I am in, this type of plugin will be useful for lots of additional situations, like with the plans we are developing for Artist Insider, System Nation, SpecialFamily.Net, and more.

The one system I am really seriously looking at right now is Wishlist Member. The videos show how robust it is, but also I have emailed back and forth with them and they both reply quickly and have shown to have the capability to support the system.

At this point I am still looking for more options before I pull the trigger; any ideas? (send them here)

Once a plugin is in place, I have plans to redevelop this site, and many others to offer a members only type of area. The themes we use as a base have improved dramatically and it is time for JonathanNation.com to get an upgrade, but only after the new plan is in place to provide more information in a better way.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

~ Charles A. Beard

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

~ John F. Kennedy

Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you are tired – you quit when the gorilla is tired.

~ Robert Strauss

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

~ Robert Townsend

I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying.

~ Michael Jordan

I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don’t dream I’ll make it, I won’t even get close.

~ Henry J. Kaiser

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

~ Derek Bok, former president, Harvard University

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

~ William Shedd

The new site went live earlier today, and I just wrote up a little about what we did.

You can go and use all the crazy services like flickr, facebook, linkedin, twitter, talkshoe, etc … but what happens when you want to leave?

Could be the site shuts down, or something better comes along.  One example of this is my personal blogging. I use to use a vox.com account fro two reasons:

1. privacy features
2. ease of use

Yet I always had in the back of my mind that I would probably end up with my own site one day … I still use the vox.com account from time to time – because it saves me time & not all posts should or must be public.

URL Control

Today I found a potential solution for one issue I have had for years In podcasting, or just suggesting stuff with websites, one issue is when you make a link and link to the same thing over and over … what happens if you don’t whant that link known (or to go to the same place) forever?

Like ArtistInsider – first used a file hosing service titled libsyn , then talkshow, and we are not sure what we will do in the future.

When we moved from libsyn to talkshoe, it was a pain to not only move over 100 or so files, but also to go through and update the posts/links for the files. What if we could do it all in pne place?

Pretty Links

This is a wordpress plugin that allows you to basically do the same thing that tinyurl.com or tr.im (my fav right now) but on your own site & you can change the link a link goes to later (unlike the other systems)

so as a test I threw in two links to see how they would work:

http://www.jonathannation.com/AIQA-GRTwitter.mp3 – goes to an Artist Insider episode

http://www.jonathannation.com/twitter – goes to my twitter page

This does not solve everything, but it is a start and it with some other techniques might make it where everything works out the way I want it to.

Now to go find a good short domain name / URL to register – so I control it.

Other side of Ron Ramsey speaking. He did promote the fact he is running for Govonor.

part of Tea Party2009 series

part of Tea Party2009 series

Taken in the middle of the crowd to show how packed in people were at the Murfreesboro, Tennessee Tea Party

part of Tea Party2009 series

part of Tea Party2009 series

Around the small monument on one corner of the Murfreesboro, Tennessee square.

part of Tea Party2009 series

From around the monument on one side.

part of Tea Party2009 series

From across the street at about the peak of the crowd that I saw. The people were packed in from the court house to the street, with a few people sitting on benches and such across the street.

part of Tea Party2009 series

from across the street, part way up capital hill where you saw people sitting in shots form the other side of legislative plaza

part of Tea Party2009 series

From the side of the main state, looking down legislative plaza.

part of Tea Party2009 series

part of Tea Party2009 series

part of Tea Party2009 series