Obama's Birth certificate

 This blog is about the recent release of President Obama's long form birth certificate. I honestly wasn’t too excited to see this brought up again in the media. Especially by someone that I think, despite all the hype over him, could be a good presidential candidate, Donald Trump. The fact of the matter is that this shouldn’t even be an issue. Who cares about bashing the whole birth certificate thing again when there are so many more issues at stake? Why on earth anyone would choose to criticize Obama about his birth certificate when there are so many other issues that would be easier to down him about. Why not bring up the fact that his health care bill was a complete joke and he tried to force it down the American people's throats when we were screaming no we don’t want it. He is completely out of touch with reality and his God complex has made him an easy target for political opponents. He is a terrible president and what's worse is that he thinks he is doing a good job. Trump doesn’t need to attack his birth certificate he could chose so many topics that would better suit a presidential rival. How about Gas prices? How about the economy? How about his handling of anything that has slid across his desk since he's been in office?  

That being said we also got to look at this from another perspective. I heard an interview with Obama and he said that this shouldn’t be an issue and that it is a distraction to the real problems at hand. Ok, then why the hell did you let it go on for almost three years? Why didn’t he release this birth certificate when the subject first arose? There has been so much distraction from the real issues in the past few years caused by this stupid birth certificate. We have heard countless arguments over the years from numerous people that are wasting our airtime on TV to talk about it. Obama himself has talked about it over and over in many different interviews. All a big waste of time that he could have clear up within weeks of the issue arising. This to me means that either one he is hiding something and has taken this long so that he might cover up the facts in the issue. Or two he wanted to draw it out for as long as possible so that he might take the biggest advantage of the situation at the perfect time. I for one am going with the second choice because I'm sure that the cunning president was just waiting to be able to throw it in the right persons face. If that is the case then Obama has been the biggest time waster of them all and all the slams that he throws at his opponents about this should actually be addressed back to him. He is the one that let this tirade go on and on for three years and he is the one to blame for all the wasted space that the "birther" argument has taken up.

And just in case I get a liberal comment back to this blog…"no I am not racist, I judge people based on their actions and just because I don’t agree with someone does not mean that it has anything to do with skin color."

Tornado Damage

This blog goes out to all those hurt in the recent tornado outbreak in the south. I have seen a lot on the news about the damage that has been caused and the death toll that has racked up because of the damage. It makes me think about the several tornadoes that I have personally seen living in Kansas. We used to go out every time that it stormed and "chased" tornadoes I have seen quite a few and watched some pretty amazing sites with my own bare eyes. Now don’t get me wrong I have never been as close as they show in the movie Twister but I have been closer than most would want to be. The point of all this is that I always thought that they were an amazing site. I often dreamed of getting closer to one and watching as it tore through the fields around my house. But that is all they were for me and my friends, just some amazing source of entertainment. That was just how it was growing up in south east kansas. We knew that every year that there would be tornadoes and we would probably go a few days without power because of one.

I think that is why the devastation was so great in the areas that these hit this year. I like most people from around here know when a tornado is possible. Most people that have lived here all their lives know if the clouds are just right or the rain falls in just the right way then a tornado is either coming or about to. I don’t believe that the people in these areas know that feeling. I would imagine that they just thought that there was a bad storm coming but they would be fine. I'm not saying that they were dumb or something like that just didn’t have the knowledge that living around these things for 28 years gives you.

That also goes for saying that when a tornado comes down in Kansas it can be the biggest tornado ever recorded, it could cut a path two miles wide and a hundred miles long, the difference is in Kansas that tornado might hit two houses through all that destruction so the death tolls are not ever as high as they were down in Alabama. This is the other main reason that the loss is so staggering for a tornado to kill three hundred people in Kansas it would have to take out most of the sate unless it hit Wichita, Topeka, or Kansas City.

My heart goes out to all those affected by the storms this past week and I pray that everything will get put back in its place and that those lost will be in a better place now.

Government Trying to save money

This article was over the government spending cuts and what they think that they want to do about our huge deficit. The article claims that the house has set up a plan that will save the government 6.2 trillion dollars in a matter of ten years. The problem with this cut is that it is going to take money from places that really need it. The money is going to come from various places but most notably was the cuts to Medicare for the elderly. The Democrats argue that the money will hurt seniors and the republicans say that it won't affect them.

The fact is that these people don’t even see how pitiful the American people think that they are. The truth is we are sick and tired of them trying to cut spending from this program or that program all the while their salaries keep going up. The average congressman makes $174,000 per year. This all when the average tax payer makes $50,221 per year that is a difference of $123,779. I am not trying to say that they shouldn’t get paid for what they do but this is crazy.  On top of all that they also get free health care for them and their families. So why they are trying to figure out how they are going to make us pay for our insurance they are calling the family doctor ever time that they get the sniffles and we are paying for it.

I don’t think that Americans are just going to sleep through this any longer. It is time we wake up and give these idiots in Washington their wakeup call. It doesn’t even matter anymore what side you are on democrat, republican, tea party, whatever they call themselves these days they are all only out for themselves. The republicans didn’t wake up during the election of 2008 and the democrats sure as hell didn’t wake up during the midterm elections. We as Americans need to stand up and tell them that we don’t want their crappy self serving government anymore. Yes we want change but not in the form of another smooth talking do nothing president. I vote that we get rid of everyone that has been in office politics for more than a year and get a whole new bunch of people in there that actually wants to make things better in this country.

No matter what side you are on you have got to agree that we need this government to stop and ask the American people what they want. It is supposed to be a government for the people by the people not a self serving piece of wasted space like most of the politicians we currently have in office now.

Week to forget

Last week was one for the record books for my wife and I. We started off the week everything fine. We left for school and started our days as usual. Half way through the day our oldest son's school called and left a message for me concerning his behavior at school. I called back his teacher and found out that he had been not paying attention all day and refusing to do his school work. After talking to his teacher for awhile he had a pretty rough evening at home. We grounded him and sent him to bed early. The next day went ok until around 1. His school called again and asked for us to come to the school. Our son was sitting in the office and was in big trouble. We talked to his principal and she told us that he had been wrestling in the lunch room with another kid and somehow managed to stab the other kid in the arm with a fork. The principal said that it wasn’t done out of anger and that the other kid was fine but our son was going to be in in school suspension for the next two days. This of course got him in way more trouble at home. The next day was the one that really took the cake. My wife and I both got home from school and we were watching a little TV. All of the sudden we heard a woman yelling outside and banging on a door. We both looked outside and didn’t see where it was coming from. A little while later we noticed about eight cop cars pull up in front of our house. My wife and I both went outside to see what was going on. After watching the cops walk around my neighbor's house several times I decided to go up to a couple of the officers and see what was going on. I talked with two of the officers and found out that my neighbor across the street had family members calling the police saying that they thought that he was going to hurt himself. I talked with them a little while longer and they said that they were going to leave but if I noticed my neighbor's car home later to call them and let them know so they could come talk to him. After all the cops left I ran up to the store and as I was pulling in back at home I noticed that his car was home. My wife had walked over to see what was going on and my neighbor's wife and my wife were on the porch trying to get into the house. When I got there she asked me to get into the door however I could so I broke in the Plexiglas on the door so that I could reach in and unlock it. When we got inside I found my neighbor unconscious with a suicide note on his chest. My wife immediately called 911 and I started trying to get him to wake up and respond to me. I did get him to at least acknowledge me and soon after the ambulance showed up and took him to the hospital. We found several pill bottles and to our best estimate he had taken between 300 to 350 benzodiazepines. He is ok now and thankfully we found him when we did but that was one heck of a week and I hope that we don’t have to go through another like that.