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My wife and I saw a Kyrgyz musical folklore group called “KÅ«t” perform live at the Orem Library on Friday. I was really impressed at their musicianship and even bought a CD.

From the CD insert: “The family plays all traditional instruments [of Kyrgykstan] including various string instruments, flutes and drums –the komus, kyl kyiak, temir and jygach ooz komuz, choor, dobulbas, sybyzgy and the chogoino choor.”

Needless to say there were some pretty exotic sounds. If you like world music, contact Vista 360 and tell them you’d like to check these guys out.

Thanks to Vista 360 for putting this on, and thanks to my former entrepreneurship professor Dr. Kent Millington for providing the photo.

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President Gordon B. Hinckley, fifteenth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints passed away today.

President Hinckley was a noble and honorable man who spent his life in service of God and all mankind. I love and revere him for his example, his faith, his humility, his kindness, and his decency.

I consider President Hinckley a prophet of God and join his family and millions around the world in mourning his loss and celebrating his lifetime of service. There are too few real heroes in this world, but Gordon Bitner Hinckley was one of them. God bless President Hinckley!

My friend Mike Smullin (who BTW is an excellent developer of custom Wordpress plugins) sent me this:

Hi Jordy,

Not sure how much you like WordPress or Matt Mullenweg, but I figured I’d let you know about this upcoming event in Utah:

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/416950/?ps=5

Enjoy! :)

This sounds like it’s going to be a fun event.  I hope to see you there.

If you think not being able to flip your house in a shrinking housing market is bad, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

Our government’s epidemic overspending and the Federal Reserve’s willingness to devalue your money by simpling printing more will eventually leave the American middle class impoverished as compounding interest drives taxpayers to their knees. The longer we glut, the more we’ll have to pay, and the more socialized we’ll have to become when the bills come due.

This is one of the most important issues of our day because the very freedom we enjoy depends on our ability to make good on our exponentially increasing debts.

“The fostering of full economic freedom lies at the base of our liberties. Only in perpetuating economic freedom can our social, political and religious liberties be preserved.”

Author: David O. McKay, Source: Church News, 3/12/52 via Quoty

Want more? Watch this video, courtesy (again) of the Chris Knudsen blog.

My brothers are such big Mitt Romney fans that they drove to Iowa to help get out the vote. I like Romney and even made a substantial donation to his campaign, but these days I’m a Ron Paul man, through and through.

I’ve actually been meaning to post about why I support Ron Paul for a long time, but who has time for that long of a blog post? Luckily, Chris Knudsen posted a series of videos that sum up the main reason I support the Ron Paul campaign. In them Glenn Beck interviews Ron Paul and US Comptroller General David Walker about how the United States government is basically bankrupt after mortgaging our future to pay for unnecessary programs. Basically, the money is gone, but the US government keeps spending like it’s going out of style –and nobody is acknowledging that the crap has to hit the fan sometime.

Anyway, please watch the videos. You will be amazed (disgusted) at the extent to which our government has sold us out.

Here are some other excellent posts Chris has on the subject:

• Fiscal Cancer
• David Walker is my Hero
• More from David Walker
• US Government Fails its Financial Audit for 11th Strait Year
• Subprime Nation

And finally, a brilliant quote from David Walker:

“We are mortgaging the future of our children and grandchildren at record rates, and that is not only an issue of fiscal irresponsibility – it’s an issue of immorality.”

It seems to me that Ron Paul gets this more than any other candidate, and that’s the main reason he has my vote.