America - now 20% less filling!

So the other night I end up having to watch the Miss Teen USA pageant. I usually watch those shows just long enough to see the contestant from Oregon get the boot. Unfortunately, I now also have to wait to see what happens to the contestant from Tennessee, and damn if that girl didn't make the final 15.

So anyhow, it gets down to the final five and the contestants must draw a name of a judge from a fishbowl, and then answer the question that judge asks. Miss South Carolina is first.

Much as they did Miss South Carolina, words fail me here. You just have to watch (and listen) before reading any farther.

Something about the south and edumacation I guess. Whether it's Kansas adopting (at least for a while) intelligent design (see my previous post here, about half way down - go to August 10), or South Carolina's efforts at watering down education and replacing it with religious indocrination, I can only assume that the 20% of Americans who can't find the US on a map are that way because there are no maps of the US in the Bible.

You gotta feel sorry for this girl. She's been raised in a culture where her looks and physical abilities (apparently she's a star soccer player as well as a national model) have made it unecessary to also, you know, think.

Anyhow, the sponsors of the pageant (in particular Donald Trump) must have been cringing, seeing their efforts to portray these girls as bright, intelligent and the future leaders of tomorrow go South (literally and figuratively) - assuming they could find "south" on a map.