Why must you Mormons hate on Obama!!!

Day after day, week after week I hear my fellow Mormons complaining tirelessly of Obama. I am honestly getting to the point where I might have to pull out the race card here sometime, and I am a white guy. Barack Obama is a man in good standing with an optimistic outlook on our future. He goes to church, he pays his taxes, AND he is loyal to his wife...all you Latter-Day Saints catch that one???

Our economy is at what many know as an All-time Low (speaking of that, their new album comes out in two hours...) in history. Some are choosing to blame this on Obama. Others choose to blame this on bush. Even better, people with brains are blaming it on the American Banking System. Next time I hear a member of my faith complain about Obama screwing up the economy, I might just shoot myself in the foot. It is not Obama's fault. He has done more good than bad while in office and he probably spends most of every day pondering over solutions to the economic turmoil. Economy = bank fault. NOT, Economy = Obama fault.

Who do you trust in office. A man who has a wife he loves, and two daughters he bought a puppy for, or a man whose wife is decades, if not scores younger than him who he met through an affair he had while married to his first or second wife? If any of you out there that are Mormon would choose the latter, you would be surprised to know that you did not pick Barack Obama. Instead, you picked John McCain. The right-wing is not quite in the right after all. Hmmmm. The Obama family is classy, and they all love one another. Is that not a fundamental principle of our church???

Also, did you know that Barack Obama attends church on a regular basis. The same regular basis that we all go to church on. Every. Single. Sunday. Ever. John McCain on the other hand, he seems more like an Easter and Christmas kind of guy to me. Don't quote me on it, but he never once spoke of God or Jesus Christ in the race for the presidency; at least of the hours I listened to.

Our church does not support nor comdemn any political party in existence throughout the world. The advice of the First Presidency is simply to vote for the person or party whose core principles and points of emphasis are most in line with our beliefs. The way I see it, I'll go with the man who has never cheated on his wife and goes to church every sunday. Sounds like a mighty, might good man to me!

Barack Obama 2012...I'll be voting absentee on my mission!!!

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Song of the Moment: "Deliver Me" by Quietdrive

Falling off the Apple tree...

"They" say that with evolution comes progression. What exactaly progression means seems to be something that is up for argument. Sometimes progression is more clear than expected, while at other times what may appear to be regression is actually progression. This last part is probably a bit perplexing, but here is what I consider to be an example. Take an addict of almost any sort. Before being completely free from the addiction, the addict will most likely experience a few relapses. This regression is actually progression in the greater scheme of things.

Where this all falls into place is very personal to me. I hope that some evolution (I am still a creationist, but I believe that evolution all ties back into the theory of evolution...just my opinion) has taken place from my parents, more particularly my father, to me. While enjoying a lovely barbeque in the park with old friend, family, and neighbors, I sat and listened to my dad converse with these many different sorts of people. We had a state attorney, and a guy who works the graveyard shift as a maintainance man at Tektronix. It was pretty much the most diverser group of working individuals ever.

The easiest way to say it is, my dad probably pissed some people off really badly tonight. He insulted many facets of life as we know it today and was just flat out rude in relation to being tolerant of other people with differences in heritage, belief, and thought. He acted like he knows every last thing on Wikipedia. Well, considering he spends a lot of his work days on Wikipedia, he probably does. But anyways, I saw what it was like to be around a know-it-all. I would go so far to say that it caused me to have an epiphany.

So, my question/request to all of you who are my good friends in life is this; If I ever am being a know-it-all in public, please, please, please, please tell me what I am doing and to shut the heck up. I have realized how annoying it is and looking back I have realized some of the reprocussions of knowing so much and vocalizing it. I have lost many opportunities to be friends with people simply because of the way I talk and act. I am far too "matter of fact" per say. It is a trait that is admirable in the academic realm of life, but far from a blessing in the social side of things.

So, my friends, pals, buds, and homies (yeah, maybe not so much...), please help me be a better person by telling me when to shut up! As I move on into college I do not want my chances at making new friends diminished simply becuase of the fact that I make people feel inferior, dumb, and worthless. I want this fresh start to be a good one that makes the rest of forever enjoyable.

Do what good friends do, and tell me to shut up sometime. Please.

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Song of the Moment: "Violence" by Blink-182

And they say Cabs are dangerous...

Well, last night the new EP came out from The Cab on iTunes. Let me just say that it is probably some of the best music I have spent money on in .

a long time. The remake of "I'll Run" is pretty incredible in my opinion. I really love an artist who can take a power ballad and turn it in to an acoustic masterpiece. What alternative artist have you heard incorporate a piano, harp, cello, and acoustic guitar in the same song. It is quite literally a symphony of amazement.

For those of you who have never had your ears graced by the sound of The Cab, I highly reccomend you jump on iTunes right now and give "Whisper War" and "The Lucky Lady - EP" a good listen. Alex DeLeon, the lead vocalist, has a pretty impressive voice.

My one precaution is, their music is most assuredly power-pop. But, if you like Boys Like Girls, The Hush Sound, Cartel, and All-Time Low, you'll probably like The Cab.

So, you all should give them a listen, and then decided if I still have an odd taste in music...let me know.

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