conspiracy theory(s)

ok, so i am somewhere in kansas, heading toward home as early in the morning as possible......dropped my eldest off at a lovely community park in newton that featured a walking path along a brick-lined river, a huge play area, and tennis courts......not just run-of-the-mill tennis courts....tonight must have been mennonite women's league.....i grew up in an amish/mennonite community, but the sight of so many women in long cotton dresses playing any sport gave me pause.....but i digress from the park.....the community allows cross country bikers to camp overnight and use the round brick restroom facility complete with lighted men and women signs.....while we were searching for the park we traveled on several brick side-streets....wow.....there were brick streets remaining in my original home town.....we passed by the first mennonite church......also with a lighted brick sign out front...and this made me wonder if there was a second or a third mennonite church.....i mention the mennonites not only because the community was founded years ago by mennonite immigrants from germany.....but because the man sitting beside us in the kfc( it was this or a truck-stop diner that likely lacked a nonsmoking section....) at supper just down the road opened up his conversation with us with a sally about immigrants taking over america......or maybe the immigrant thing was after he announced to anybody who would listen that the democrats were looking to replace obama....i turned from my overly dry chicken to proclaim that i was quite proud about all the obama had done to bring the country back from the brink that dubya had taken us to .....he seemed taken aback by my reply and countered that he hears it differently on focus on family or from his cousin who knows about these things.....we really did try to disengage from the confrontation,,,,,but we could not help ourselves when he started in about how we will all be paid in merrils now that the govt runs wallstreet....or was it going to be c-am-euros that would be issued when the usa joined with mexico and canada......but that wouldn't happen until the secret american union voted on it.....my eldest was quick to recognize this as a string of conspiracy theories...and said as much.....and then tis guy had the audacity to say that obama was having an affair, to which i laughed loudly and reminded this graying guy with the tractor supply hat that this was a foolish notion, but if he wanted real scandal he should look no further than republican stanford of s.c. who so publically slept with a woman not his wife, and traveled to these trysts on the taxpayer's dime...al the while spouting about just how deep was his christian faith........seems wingnut radio shows failed to cover that scandal.....because he seemed clueless to the story that captured headlines for so many weeks...next he ranted about taxes and how family farms were going under.....but then he strayed into a line of (dis)reasoning that showed just how clueless he was.....he stated that young girls wouldn't get pregnant if schools stopped giving poor children free meals at school...wtf?....i skipped the pregnancy part and dove right into the free lunch program...which was created as an outlet for commodities such as milk, cheese, wheat, corn, soy, etc.....these are produced (under price-support circumstances)) by family farms, and discontinuing these programs would......cause family farms to go under.....he just stared at me .....the good news about the encounter is that i both failed to finish a regrettable meal, and succeeded in avoiding seconds....we did manage to avoid the birther busines.....if only because i got up, tossed out my plate, and headed out to the car....hoping that i could remember enough of the banter to record it later on.......i have never met such a specimen close-up......and i suppose i should not be surprised that he fails to see the contradictions in so many of his positions....then again.....maybe is just a lonely cuss who drives in to town for all-you-can-eat fried chicken and pretend mashed potatoes, and a bit of conversation with the randon public.....bless his sunflower-pickin heart.....