Blog reader needs help...

Yes, it's my daughter Katie. Seems that a few weeks ago she needed her birth certificate to acquire a passport. Her mom complied with this request, popped it right into the U.S. mail. The same government agency that is capable of delivering a gallon of Danny King's catfish bait almost overnight did not delivery the birth certificate. It is lost, intercepted, stolen.

Katie is a non person in the eyes of the state of Texas. I am sure this falls under some kind of homeland security/immigration precaution. The situation is complicated by the fact that she is my step daughter and I had her last name changed to mine when me and Cathy married. There is an amendment to the birth certificate. All this looks like a fake idenity already to the government would be my guess.

Any way here is how you can help. Yesterday we faxed the birth certificate amending to a lady named Gladys in the Bureau of Vital Stastics and it should correct these things. I detected a quiver masking hatred in Katie's voice when she told me of Gladys over the phone yesterday. In case it does not correct things all readers need to submit a comment to this blog saying what a nice person Katie is. I have Glady's fax number now and I will fax these references to her so she will know that Katie is not a terrorist and is a good American known to many.

You can even consider it your own little war on terror, what you did, because that is what lost in a burearcratic system amounts to.

So help Katie out, get in the habit, we may need to vouch for her again when another Katie turns up with the lost birth certificate. There is an upside to this, when Katie retires the person that became Katie with the lost certificate and obtained a replacement Social Security card same as Katie's will pay in taxes in her name. Like double money, both paying, Katie will be the only one of her generation to collect on social security.