Can't resist posted this one that showed up today:

"I want to be liberated just like the Iraquis.

I am waiting for a race of technically superior aliens to land in this
country. They will look sort of like us, but will be much paler, more
hairless, they will have better health, nutrition and cleaner personal habits than most Americans. They will have different customs than ours and there will be many miscommunications due to their advanced polyglot language. They will announce that they have come to liberate us from our corrupt governmental regime and the oppression imposed upon our society by religious fundamentalists.

I know many of my fellow Americans will rebel against the aliens. They will argue that we have a strong government, democratically elected. They will argue that we are a Christian nation and that we should be willing to martyr ourselves if necessary for our moral Christian values.

The aliens will gently point out that our current regime was not popularly elected. They will point to the fact that ninety percent of the wealth of our country is controlled by less than ten percent of the population, greedy men who rape our natural resources for their own benefit while our poor go hungry and homeless on the streets. They will be able to show us how other planets have slowly destroyed themselves through ecological imbalance and global warming. They will have countless examples of our 'elected' leader's lies and disinformation. They will point to our country's weapons of mass destruction which our leaders eagerly use to protect their financial interests around the
world. They will also condemn our judicial and penal systems as antiquated and barbaric citing numerous examples of racial and economic discrimination and our inhumane implementation of the death penalty.

The aliens also have a hard time understanding our mistreatment of women. They don't understand why our 'Christian' values prohibit women from becoming clergy, why women aren't paid equal wages and why so many Christians believe women should not be allowed to choose whether or not they wish to carry a pregnancy to full term - why we don't even want to give our women governance over their own bodies! They don't understand why adequate health care is reserved for only those who can afford to pay outrageous sums of money. They don't understand why 'moral superiority' causes us to withhold adequate pain medication from the seriously ill or why our laws prohibit a painless and dignified passing for our mortally ill. The aliens will offer us cures for many of our most serious diseases. Will we reject these cures because they were discovered through stem cell research? Or will they be rejected by the
FDA because they are not the intellectual property of their own
pharmeceutical lobbyists?

The aliens will offer us incontrovertible proof of our evolution of the
species, they've been watching us for a long time and they have videos. They will sadly shake their heads when we continue to insist no student can view these tapes without also being forced to read the book of Genisis.

When this alien race arrives, I have no doubt our current regime will refuse to step down. They will hide in their tunnels and bunkers and fight the aliens with every weapon at their disposal. Our religious leaders will rail against these 'satanic' invaders and call for us to martyr ourselves in a crusade to protect our Christian values.

But some of us will wave white flags and clumsily try to mouth the alien equivalent of "Welcome, welcome, thank you, thank you." After all, if we can justify liberating Iraq we should be willing to accept the same liberation ourselves."

Have a nice day!
Charley Noble