Thanksgiving

My friends the Dorseys invited a bunch of folks over for Thanksgiving festivities last night. Somehow, a turkey got cooked in a microwave oven, there were mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, falafels (?), and I brought 10 cans of rare ROOT BEER. Sure enough, the Brits in the house that night thought it tasted like some sort of toothpaste. We also treated ourselves to several boxes worth of KFC, the next best thing in a country seriously lacking in turkey (though that microwaved turkey was actually really good!!!).

Today, through a twist in circumstances, I went to get some curry with some Australian and American friends, and 3 exchange students from America, Sweden and Germany respectively. The American girl smiled and exclaimed halfway through the meal, "Oh my god! This is my Thanksgiving!" A strange cast of characters and an odd setting for one's Thanksgiving, but good times nonetheless.

Following the meal, a necessary Thanksgiving tradition was upheld as I napped away the day.

What's in store for Christmas?

Dream Fighter!!!

I have no explanation or excuses, but here is my latest discovery in the pop music world:

Vote Bob 2016

With every nutjob across the United States trying to stop Obama from becoming president, the claim that he was born outside of the United States was only one of many ridiculous attempts to do so. But, did you know that John McCain was actually born on a naval base in Panama? I heard, however, that a senate resolution was passed to just let him be and not trifle over the definition of a "natural born citizen" as one must be to be eligible for the presidency.

I remember having heard from my high school history teacher, Mr. Hicks, that a certain George Romney had run for president back in 1968, despite having been born in Mexico. Both of his parents were American citizens however, so he was born a citizen as well. Also, Lowell Weicker, a former Connecticut Senator, Representative, and Governor, was born to an American father and Indian-born British woman in Paris, France. He entered into the presidential race in 1980 but dropped out of the running before the primaries even happened.

Under the Act of 1795 it was noted that "the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond sea, or outside the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens of the United States: Provided, That the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons, whose fathers have not been resident in the United States."

I guess the only difference between me and Mr. Weicker up there is that I was born to an American mother and foreigner father in a foreign country, so I might be ineligible to run under those crazy old 1795 laws. The odd thing is that there have been other Supreme Court cases wherein children born to American fathers and foreign mothers have had their citizenship revoked because their fathers' paternity had not been proven (Miller v. Albright [1998] and Nguyen v. INS [2001]). In my case, my mother is the American, so my American lineage isn't in doubt at all.

Under one precedent I'm iced out of the presidency, but under the others I'm more of a natural born citizen than Weicker, NO DOUBT! (An unnecessary usage of hip slang if there ever was one!) Looks like I've got my constitutional arguments ready when the time comes for my presidential run to begin.