No really, the war ended a long time ago....

Ok so recently ABC broke a story about how military recruiters lied to potential recruits in order to convince them to sign up. They sent a bunch of in with hidden cameras to see if illegal recruiting tactics were still being used. Turns out, they were. Whooooaaaaaaaaa shocking!!!!! Some of the lies were along the lines of:

"No we are bringing people back"

"The War ended a long time ago"

"No it doesnt matter you are a drug addicted high school drop-out, here let me help you cheat on your applications".

Well, this would be funny if it wasn't for the fact that most of America is so dismally informed about politics and anything that goes on outside of this country that I can easily say this tactic has resulted in thousands of stupid middle- American kids going to war. I mean hell, if it works in the tri state area I can't imagine the success rate in places like Oklahoma and other intelligence-challenged states .

I don't know, I would like to think the fact that the military is blatantly lying to get people to go die in Iraq would be a big deal, but as usual, no one seems to care.

Someone remind me why we didn't let the South secede?

This is an actual postcard the good people (and by good I mean unfortunate) of Tennessee received in their mail. Tennesee is currently the site of one of the most important Senate races this election Corker vs Ford.

Surely I can't be the only one who finds it hysterical that they have used Anthony Michael Hall to somehow convey the idea that liberals are trying violate Gods natural order and screw up humanity by creating abortion pills or using stem cell reserch to help people with diseases like Parkinson's. Someone should enlighten them to the fact that having your mother be your sister and your wife at the same time while your favorite cow is your mistress also tends to violate this "natural order" they are so concerned about.

Also, with Democrats like Ford (who are for the war and against gays and pro-choice ideology) running for office in Tennessee, who needs Republicans?

Things Katie Loves

Dogs
Sushi
Kittens
The ocean
Fire Island
Drinking
When holier-then-thou homophobic fundamentalist whackjobs who advise Bush get exposed as meth snorting fudgepackers.

Now, at heart I truly am kind of a nerd. This is why the news of Ted Haggard being outed by a gay PROSTITUTE as someone who regularly pays for sex and buys crystal meth made my entire month. Not to mention this is SEVEN days before, arguably, one of the most important midterm elections in 100 years.

Ted Haggard is (ahem-WAS) the head of of everyones favorite insanity brigade-the National Association of Evangelicals. Basically a 30 million member conglomerate of god-fearing homo-hating creationism-loving wackadoos. He also was the lead pastor at the 14,000 member New Life Church in Colorado Springs (the city which currently serves as the Headquarters of Derangement. It has more evangelical churches and groups then any other city in the nation). Pastor Ted is also against gay marriage and supports a ban on it. Ahhh Schadenfreude much?

You can see one of the worlds pre-eminient evolutionary biologists-Richard Dawkins- question Father Ted here.

Now, two things are immediately clear upon watching this clip. This first is that there are WAY too many people who have nothing better to do with their lives then go to giant Churches and pray brainlessly at the feet of some megalomaniac who spreads hate and irrational thought. The second is that Pastor Ted is gayer than Ricky Martin in pearls and a fur coat. How NOBODY saw this coming who knew this guy is beyond me. How his wife Gayle managed to delude herself for 27 years and have 5 children with the man is perhaps a testament to how blindly these people do whatever they are told.

There is a third thing that is immediately clear as well, and that would be that unless you want to be subjected to such ridiulcousness on a regular basis and/or have your children taught creationism in school well, don't move to Colorado Springs.

Ok there is a fourth thing to be learned and that is: Those who hate and despise homosexuality the most usually are closeted ones themselves. It's sad, and part of me feels horrible for Ted, who is clearly gay (he just admitted it) but has so many issues with it because of the way both religion and society treat gays that he had to do a 180 and condemn them.

Of course, don't expect those bible thumping yahoos to see the irony-they will just end up hating gays even more.