With this intense heat, I just wanted to remind everyone who has animals, to do regular water checks during the heat of the day. In these high, sweltering temperatures, the animals' need to drink and stay hydrated grows and water evaporates very rapidly. Hydration = survival!
Me and my sister, Arael, singing "Someone Like You"
Yesterday's "Liberty Party At The Ranch Party" was a blast and definitely made for a long day! So here's MY
version of what happened this past 2 days. . .
My Saturday was
spent by staying with some SUPER crazy COOL friends, and staying up till
midnight cleaning walls, windows, floors...cooking, painting fingernails and toenails, and stretching my vocal chords "to the max" for the next days "concert".
Got an early 6 a.m. start to my day, and went and helped Suriyah Fish
milk 35 of her MANY dairy goats, feed bottle kids, fill water buckets
and then we were off to set up the party in the front yard by around 9 a.m!
Within the 9 a.m. hour, tents were set up, paper was decorated with and sound checks were done.
The DJ Station!
Front gate
The Stage
I gave TWIST ties to someone who asked for ZIP ties to hang a banner :)
Going on inside the house was some crazy dance practice with Laura Clarbour!
Then, way later in the day around 4 pm, after our soccer team had left
to go play a game, me and Suriyah thought we would go out to the barn
and milk the goats, to escape the madness of the droves of excited,
liberty-minded folks arriving, that way we could take a breather for a
little bit. But NO :) Nope, the announcer had to broadcast over the
loudspeaker that we were milking and invited everyone to come watch us!
Haha, that was somewhat chaotic as a crowd of around 30 people gathered
inside the barn to watch THE OPERATION! We even gave out free milking
lessons!
With the goats milked, fed and put away, and the
soccer crew back, bringing some "party animals" back with them, it was
time to start the show!
And from about 7 to 9 p.m., it was an
all out blast getting to sing for everyone and listen to great speeches
by amazing people!
Pretty good crowd!
'Liberty Lady' the pony. There were pony rides for the kids too!
Me singing "The Media Lies"
My day pretty much ended with sand-covered
legs and feet from the volleyball court and a nice cold root beer float
by the campfire with friends! Oh, and some wild dancing of course ;)
(I rose at 6 a.m. and buzzed around
non-stop, all day until I crashed at around 1:45 a.m.)
Hi all,
The past few days have been a whirlwind! Going to a Republican State Convention is probably not what a "normal" teenager would choose to do on a weekend :) I'll give you a basic rundown of what went down...
On the drive to OKC...some people needed some rest before the eventful weekend ;)
Friday
(May 11th), my dad, a few friends and I carpooled to Oklahoma City for
the Oklahoma Republican National Convention. When we got to OK City,
we went to a committee meeting hosted at the Embassy Suites, to fix some things, but the RNC did not follow their rules! (will hopefully post a video I took of the meeting soon)
Me, Suriyah and Ezriyah at the Friday night Committee Meeting
After
the Committee meeting at the Embassy Suites, we left there and went to a Casino for the Liberty Pep rally. We watched and sung along as Jordan
Page played for us all. We also got to hear Tom Woods and Jason Rink
speak. I, along with several others, gave a 60 second stump speech. To
sum up the day, it was an exhausting and exciting day, especially getting to meet other liberty-minded people like me!
Jordan Page playing at the Friday night Liberty Pep Rally
Suriyah, Me and Ezriyah at the Friday night Liberty Pep Rally.
Me giving my stump speech. (my flip-flops broke...that's why I'm barefooted :))
This is Justin Rink speaking...
Saturday
(May 12th), we got to the Embassy Suites at a bright and early 6:45 a.m. My friend Suriyah and I volunteered about 3 hours of our time to help
register delegates into the convention, starting at about 7:30 a.m. That job was very fast paced and fun! After that was done, the convention started a little bit after that. Suriyah set
up a Ustream account (live video stream) and we used someone's camera to live stream the convention online. The camera was set up for the entire convention (which lasted about 8-9
hours inside). Suriyah was typing and chatting away with almost
1900 viewers and I was giving vocal updates part of the time.
Me and Suriyah working the Live Ustream camera in the convention
Mary Fallin, the Governor of Oklahoma got up on stage and spoke. Everything she was speaking sounded great. She said she was going to pass the Open-carry law, which is awesome! Then, she ruined her whole speech by endorsing Mitt Romney for president!! There was massive booing and jeering at her, and then the Ron Paul chant started. I couldn't help but participate in the booing and chanting :)
From the beginning, the Oklahoma Republican Party did NOT follow the rules, once again! Many motions from the floor were ignored, too many to mention here. At around 4:30 p.m., the RNC ordered the hotel staff to shut the walls in, which means half of the crowd was shut from the other part of the room. Then the lights went off briefly. Then they unlawfully adjourned the meeting, even though there was much unfinished business.
Parking lot patriots having a convention, following the rules to the letter
We reconvened outside in the parking lot (all Ron Paul supporters since everyone else went home) to
finish the convention, legally and according to the rules. My friend and I live streamed the entire 4 hour process outside, while Ustream viewers plotted how they would get pizzas sent to the hungry crowd. MANY pizzas arrived, all by the hand of caring patriots from around the world.
