What About a Bettie Page Bomb?

I know it’s Sunday, so those of your who are readying for church or just getting back, my deepest apologies for being so overtly, ahem, bawdy in the morning. Of course, I’m kidding, but I think of if my mother were alive clicking on to my blog first thing this Sunday morning to see Bettie Page adorn it and just what her reaction would be. Come to think of it, since Ms. Page herself turned her whip in for the Bible, it’s likely she wouldn’t like it either. I know, ridiculous, right?

However, it’s likely that the story I’m about to cover would make mom (anyone’s mom, for that matter) blanch even more. That is, if my mother had known that homosexuals even existed back when she was alive. There is no evidence she did. Anyway, the story below defies my wildest imaginings. If we’d been this creative after the fall of Baghdad, we’d likely not be in the mess we’re in today. But we weren’t, so here we are.

However, just when you think the Bush administration has gone as far as it can go in
the believe it or not category, out comes a story that defies understanding.
It’s not even the $7.5 million, which isn’t that much money in the scheme of
things. The point is that when you stack up gay service men and women against
heterosexuals in the U.S. armed forces, there can be little doubt that there
are more of the latter than the former. So what geniuses decided that the goal should to make everyone gay so they’d be consumed with sex? What intellectual giants thought this was a good idea, because
in their tiny little minds gays are more sexually ravenous than heterosexuals?
A “Gay Bomb,” honestly, this is just incredible.

A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting. Pentagon officials on Friday confirmed to CBS 5 that military leaders had considered, and then subsquently (sic) rejected, building the so-called “Gay Bomb.” Edward Hammond, of Berkeley’s Sunshine Project, had used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain a copy of the proposal from the Air Force’s Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio. As part of a military effort to develop non-lethal weapons, the proposal suggested, “One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior.” The documents show the Air Force lab asked for $7.5 million to develop such a chemical weapon. … .. Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A ‘Gay Bomb’

Of course this is as insulting as it is stupid, but it’s also very short sided.
Last time I looked, young men in their early twenties and, yes, way beyond,
are fairly fixated on sex, too. So why not a blonde bombshell bomb to turn it
on our enemies? We could invent a salt peter bomb. Oh, but that wouldn’t work
as well, because there are so many men in the armed forces of all countries,
but also a majority of men in the jihadist movement. Right? Good grief. But to really go after
our enemies maybe we could put hallucinogenics into a bomb so that the Al Qaeda
types would start envisioning their brothers in jihad as, say, one of the virgins
they would see in heaven after martyrdom. We know some of the hijackers that attacked us on
9/11 spent their last nights at a strip joint, so why not give that a try?

This would be funny if it weren’t so sickly absurd. No, I’ll take that back. It’s hilarious. And people think “don’t ask, don’t tell,” is on its way out.