Birth Certificate Confirms President Barack Obama is a US Citzen

Since the presidential primaries in 2008, people have been questing whether Barack Obama is a US citizen. Several commentators and the American people, have said that if he was an citizen then why should he have a problem showing his birth certificate. As an American citizen myself, I would not want the entire world to see my birth certificate either. On April 28, 2011, President Barack Obama, had a press conference and released his birth certificate. His birth certificate assured the American people that he is an US citizen and was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Glenn Beck responded to Obama releasing his birth certificate on his radio show by saying, “ This is the best issue for the president. They love this”. It seems to me he is completely mocking the president. President Obama stated in his press conference that, “ I felt that we needed to invest in education and infrastructure and making sure that we had a strong safety net for our seniors even as we were closing the deficit, during that entire week the dominant news story wasn't about these huge, monumental choices that we're going to have to make as a nation. It was about my birth certificate. And that was true on most of the news outlets that were represented here”. He also discussed how it had became a distraction and he felt the need to release his birth certificate. As a someone who follows the news, this is disgusting to me. We are having budget problems, economy problems and soldiers are dying in Iraq but we are worrying if the president is a citizen or not. Don't you think the White House does heavy duty background checks to see what this person is getting into and their past history? The White House is not going to allow an president with a criminal history to become president.  With so much, going on in the world we need to start worrying about real issues going on in the world, and not birth certificates.

Allowing HIV-infected People To Donate Their Organs

The United States has a major need for kidney, liver and other transplants. In 1984, the National Organ transplant act included the ban of HIV infected organs. Dr. Dorry L. Segev, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine believes that we should lift that band. Several John Hopkins doctors argue that should not disqualify the organs because the patient is already infected. Segev says, “If this legal ban was lifted, we could potentially provide organ transplants to every single HIV-infected candidate on the waiting list”. University of Medicine recently had a study that showed that five hundred donors were disqualified.

This act was made during the AIDS epidemic. Instead of AIDS being a death sentence, today it is a treatable disease. I think it is better to take a chance and potentially save several lives. According to Los Angeles Times, about twenty people die every single day waiting for a transplant. There is not enough research done on people who have had transplants from HIV people. Four people in South Africa had transplants from HIV people and are healthy. Several things in our society are changing, it is time we take the ban off and save more lives.

Hard Working Can Be Bad For Your Health

Ever hear the saying, “Hard work won't kill you”? According to an MSNBC article, people who work regular eleven hour days are increasing their risk in developing heart disease. There was a long term study that found people who worked eleven hour days more likely to have an increase of heart disease by 67% compared to a six to seven hour work day. Stephen Holgate, chair of population and systems medicine board at Britain's Medical Research Council, said “ This study might make us think twice about the old age 'hard work won't kill you”. This statement is extremely interesting to me because I remember since I was young, I was always told hard work is not going to harm you. I tend to be a studious and sometimes over prepare, but I always make sure I have time for relaxing so that I don't get stressed. This study was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine Journal. This article is quite eye opening to me because heart attacks and strokes are the number one cause of death in the United States. About 17.1 million lives are lost every year because of cardiovascular diseases. Everyone should remember, if you are going to push yourself to work hard, first make sure to take care off yourself, eat healthy foods and go to the doctor regularly.