Don't be fooled again... and again... and again

There is an article going around the interwebs that says that large numbers of military absentee ballots were delivered one day late and not counted.  The "article" goes on to state that preliminary counts of these ballots would have put Romney over the top.  One problem, it's not really an article, it's a blog post.  It is satire.  Very good satire, this guy could write for The Onion, but satire non the less.

The blog doesn't even pass the smell test.  The US Military postal system is very efficient.  In fact that efficiency played a key role in the movie "The Battle of the Bulge" when German Col. Martin Hessler explained to his superiors, while holding a cake mailed from an American mother to her service member son, that the Americans had enough fuel and the logistical support to mail cakes across the Atlantic and get them to their intended recipients while they were still fresh.  He knew the war was over for Germany then, even if his superiors didn't.

My point is, don't be fooled by things like this.  They are written to be funny but the authors LOVE IT when people take them seriously, as SNL alum Victoria Jackson did.  When you are desperate you tend to believe anything that supports your position  You ignore the "smell test" and rush right in.  Use the common sense that God gave you and if you still aren't sure about a story you saw posted on Facebook, there's your first clue, then do a quick search on Google and see what real news sources are saying.

More importantly, don't be desperate.  To paraphrase my good friend, Jonathan McGuire, 'Don't be desperate, be informed.'  When you post stories that aren't verified and spread gossip you make a fool out of yourself and your fellow travelers.  Don't make a fool out of yourself and please don't make one out of me.  I say and do enough foolish things as it is.