Long Time...No Write

Call me a slacker, whatever you like. I am. It has been a challenge as of late to digest everything that's going on in the world and Kansas City sports, and to try to write a coherent blog about what's going on. Here's three random topics: one awesome, one scary, and one that encompasses both.

1) First off, I found out I'm going to be a dad. I can't elaborate on this point enough so I'll keep it short. It's scary and awesome both at the same time. I get to witness the growth of something of my creation from birth to adulthood, yet I have to fear every wrong move. I get to teach something that it can change the world, yet all I see is a world that is continuously giving up individual control and liberty and telling everyone that one person can't have that sort of impact. I get to learn from my upbringing and try to make it that much better for my little one. It's exciting, and hopefully the tides turn and all of the things that I teach my child that they can do with their hard work and inner strength can happen, and they won't be turned away despite their great gifts.

2) Now, to the bad. This is a scary time we are living in. The government and the media tell us that there is a recession destroying our nation in order to garner more control over our lives. If I told you all one year ago that we could have $40/barrel oil, more affordable housing, food costs would be more reasonable, and that you could get a new Hybrid SUV for under $30,000 and a Plasma TV for under $800 and all we have to give up to see that happen is 2 additional points of unemployment in the short term, you would have taken it in a heart beat. We WERE living in a world with overpriced houses, overpriced energy, overpriced food, and everything else. That is the reason why we are in the recession we are in. See, people were financing their futures away for overpriced goods now. It's a bubble in oil and housing that has now burst, and it is a great thing for the American consumer. We now have economic freedom from inflation now that the debt/oil bubble has burst, and the government is trying to scare us into keeping it propped up. They want home prices higher to collect more property taxes, they want oil higher because it keeps the US government's debtors in our good graces, and more importantly they are protecting their corporate lobbyists in oil, energy, health care, and the like. Back to topic #1, it is a scary world that my child, no matter how hard they work, will have to pay off all of this corrupt debt. Mark my words, these bubbles have only partially burst, and they will finish. The government can spend us into bankruptcy if they want to, but they will finish. We have been living in unsustainable economic conditions, and the government trying to maintain that. Are you all aware that the household disposable income (the after tax income that you get to spend) rose nationally in October, November, and December in 2008? Has the media or the new administration told you this? No. Prices have fallen and have provided a safe haven for the consumer from all of the over inflated goods in the past 10 years. The market is providing us protection and the government is acting against the population for the sake of a few businesses and corporately owned government officials. It is wrong, and the population needs to come up with a plan to stop the progress of all of these problems.

3) Wow, what a downer. Go Chiefs! The Chiefs have spent the last 3 months hitting grand slam after grand slam out of the park. I said that I was indifferent on the termination of Herm Edwards, and I still am. Scott Pioli has made this Chiefs operation a respectable organization again in just one month. This organization has a direction, a purpose with every move, and the best model in sports for both. Mark my words, Herm Edwards will never be an NFL head coach again, and I think it is unfortunate. He basically recruited a great freshman class and didn't get to see them become juniors and seniors that make a run at the BCS title. It's Les Miles winning a national championship with Nick Saban's team. No one, until Saban went to Alabama, got to see how great his recruiting is because Miles won with his players. Herm finally got what he wanted, and he didn't get to be around to see the finished product.

Either way, Todd Haley is an excellent signing. He is every bit of the "football guy" that Cowher, Shanahan, or Gruden are but he's hungry. He has learned from the best, and he is going to be an instant improvement in game management over Edwards. With "football guy" Pioli deciding on personnel and direction with the guidance of a "football guy" in Haley they will bring in "football guys" to play football. We have two offensive guru's on this coaching staff with Haley and Chan Gailey, and they will work together when Haley (hopefully) keeps him around. Now we just need a defensive guru to work with all of this highly drafted talent. Things are going to improve, and I think very quickly. The Chiefs have a dedicated owner, a revamped stadium, a young roster ripe with promise and potential, the third overall draft pick, and about $40 million in cap space to burn. This team is going to be very solid this season, and the fans should thank Clark Hunt when it happens by filling that stadium and cheering for this team like never before.

The Super Bowl is coming.

There's a lot to digest. I'm going to do everything in my power to get the Super Bowl of nations again and the Super Bowl of babies. Clark Hunt has done his part to bring an actual Super Bowl to point #3.