Teevee’s POTUS and FLOTUS, Martin Sheen and Stockard Channing from that great’s 1990s drama The West Wing are urging you and me to call our Representatives in Washington and make sure they know you stand for quality, affordable health care for all.

Billionaires for Wealthcare serenaded the teabagging masses marching in front of the Capitol, and then these proud grassroots billionaire health insurance executives dropped in to sing for the Congressmen and their lobbyists who were eating lunch.

William Donohue’s Secular Satotage: How Liberals Are Destrying Religion and Culture in America includes some heavy hitting conservatives delivering jacket blurbs: Donald Wildmon, Laura Ingraham, Michael Medved and Stephen Colbert.

What? Wait–Stephen Colbert? Is this an attempt by Donohue, head of the Catholic League trying to hip? Does he just not understand Colbert is satire? Granted Colbert is Catholic but c’mon!

Here’s what the Emmy-nominated, Peabody award winning Colbert had to say about Secular Sabotage:

Wake up America! The secular minority has cut the brake cables on America’s In-God-We-Trust-Mobile ™! Not even all 43 of our Christian presidents can save us now!

Minister and male massage aficionado Ted Haggard is throwing a little get together at his house in Colorado Springs this Sunday. Seems the former meth head  wants to start a new prayer group in his rumpus room, much like he did way back in the 1980s. That 20 person group which was led to their knees to Jesus by Ted grew into a mega New Life Church, with 14,000 members meeting on a $50 million campus. Then came the exposure by his boy toy, and Ted was out of his gig as head of new Life Church, one of the largest evangelic churches in the country.

Disgraced prostitute-frequenting minister Haggard told the Denver Post about his new plans:

It’s an exploratory meeting. We need a core team to relate to as a spiritual family. We expect just a handful of people, but anybody’s welcome. We’ll see where it goes.

Haggard’s address in published in the Denver Post story, which is um..well, brave of the family.

Since his fall from grace–i.e., his exposure by prostitute Mike Jones who supplied Haggard with sex and drugs–Haggard has been selling insurance and was the subject of an HBO documentary The Trials of Ted Haggard. He also revealed that he’s not gay, just

a heterosexual with issues

Indeed. Grant Haas–the New Life Church volunteer who came forward in February with new sex and meth claims about Ted Haggard and how his relationship with Haggard drove him to alcoholism and a suicide attempt–revealed that Ted and his wife Gayle had very erotic relationship,  visiting sex shops together and buying bedtime toys. Along with revealing these details to Haas about his married life, Haggard also told Haas that Gayle:

was a freak

Biggest revelation: While on vacation, the couple had a dildo molded in the shape of Ted’s tumescent member and would use it on each other, nicknaming it “Ted Two.” On each other?! I hope they love-gloved Ted Two, since going from back to front can be kinda germy…

I think it’s charming that Christian fundamentalists are so open minded. Why, just the other day it came out that uber-fundie former Miss California Carrie Prejean made, a so to speak, self-serving, solo sex tape. Maybe the Haggards should consider hosting Pure Romance parties, which CNN reports,

have been able to make the Bible belt women feel very comfortable about their own sexuality…The toys, they say, have brought them closer together and closer to God.

I wonder if they use this one?

Seemingly afraid of controversy, that rogue, rouged maverick Sarah Palin is denying supporters who huddle by the light of Ronald Reagan videos in the vast progressive wasteland the opportunity to see her in person, preventing the glory of her sublime conservative presence from protecting them against corruption by liberal demonic powers. Their eyes will not be able gaze upon her shining visage, for no, Saint Sarah isn’t coming to

Seattle, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and other major cities and book-buying communities that are standard for authors on the road, but where the voters tend to be Democrats

per the Anchorage Daily News which also reports that her only stop in Chicago will be Oprah, who is decidedly liberal, as is Barbara Walters–Palin has booked an interview with the veteran news personality to air in five parts over three ABC News broadcasts – “Good Morning America,” “Nightline” and “20/20″ – starting the morning of November 17, Going Rogue’s publication date.

Says HarperCollins spokeswoman Tina Andreadis of Palin

She wants to be unconventional. She is unconventional.

Also unconventional: Going Rogue is being sold for $9, well below list price at Amazon, WalMart and Barnes & Noble.

Former Google employee James Bara has filed suit against the search giant, citing sexual and religious discrimination in violation of the US Civil Rights Act. Bara alleges that situation began when his supervisor Pam Sohn learned a new employee was transgendered.  Sohn joked frequently about the new hire, Asheligh Rentz, commenting about her sexual preferences to fellow Google employees. Bara told Sohn that the comments were inappropriate, but Sohn did not stop making them until Rentz began working in the office.

After this Bara noticed after this that Sohn was becoming hostile towards him. Sohn made numerous joking references to his faith–Bara is Wiccan–and continued despite Bara’s requests that she stop. According to Bara, Sohn began to give preferential treatment to women in the office, allowing them to work from home, while Bara and other men were required to do all their work in the office.

When Bara complained to Human Resources, Bara claims that Sohn’s actions towards him became increasingly hostile. Despite excellent performance reviews and bonuses, Bara was no longer permitted to conduct off-site training, and he was required to fill out extra paperwork each time he entered the data center. The hostile working environment and comments about his faith continued, including Sohn singing

Ding dong the witch is dead! Which old witch? The wicked witch!

when Bara completed a project, to his

obvious discomfort and disgust.

Despite numerous attempts to resolve the problems, including involving the upper reaches of corporate HR, no progress was made, and Bara was fired.

Google’s response:

After a thorough investigation, we have no reason to believe James Bara was discriminated against or treated unfairly, and we’ll defend ourselves vigorously against these charges. Google values a diverse and respectful workforce and does not tolerate discrimination.

I wonder if Bara did spell work to try to improve his work situation, like a peace in the workspace spell, spells to improve communication, etc. I mean what’s the point of having a faith that emphasizes positive change through magic, if you don’t use the magic part? Granted, Wicca has this whole thng about not influencing the Will of others, but heck, at this point, I’d be doing some legal spell work to resolve the matter in my favor!

TMZ reports that after the Miss Calfornia pageant lawyers showed Carrie Prejean’s lawyer’s a copy of a sex tape the former Miss California made, Prejean’s lawyer’s hastily settled. TMZ says thaty’ve seen the tape which is too racy for publication (oh shoot, just a snippet, please!). Her fornication must be a little more skillfull than her singing!

Carrie has made a Christian name for herself preaching the gospel to strippers and is part of a church minsitry which does outreach to porn stars. Maybe the homemade porn flick was just “research.”

Dan Halloran, the GOP heathen candidate for Queens city council won his seat, thanks in part no doubt to pagan prayers to his once forbidden gods! This makes Halloran American’s first elected (open) pagan and an anolmaly in the Republican party which has plenty of conservative Christians pushing their religious agenda under the cover of a political platform.

During his acceptance speech, Halloran acknowledged the controversy his faith brought to the campaign--the local priest  weote an anti-pagan mailing included in the church’s newsletter over the weekend, which was re-distributed by the Kim campaign–but didn’t include the traditional God Bless America at the conclusion. Nor did he ask Tyr or Odin for a blessing…

[h/t Village Voice]

Via Facebook, Sarah Palin sent her congrats to the last night’s GOP winner, avoiding the issues on the various states’ ballots and quoting words of conservative comfort to New York’s 23rd district:

To the tireless grassroots patriots who worked so hard in that race and to future citizen-candidates like Doug, please remember Reagan’s words of encouragement after his defeat in 1976:

“The cause goes on. Don’t get cynical because look at yourselves and what you were willing to do, and recognize that there are millions and millions of Americans out there that want what you want, that want it to be that way, that want it to be a shining city on a hill.”

The cause goes on.

Palin also announces her wish list of media appearances to shill her ghostwritten comedic PR hype memoir Going Rogue: An American Life:

We’re in the process of arranging interviews with local and national media. An interview with Oprah Winfrey is already scheduled, and I’m also hoping to have the opportunity to talk with Bill O’Reilly, Barbara Walters, Sean Hannity, Greta Van Susteren, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, Dennis Miller, Tammy Bruce, and others, including local Alaska personalities Bob & Mark and Eddie Burke. (Variety is the spice of life!)

The blouse clowns are safe! Former Miss California Carrie Prejan has dropped her lawsuit against the Miss California pageant and their officials, and the Miss California Pageant dropped their lawsuit to recover the cost of Prejean’s breast implants.

Keith Lewis, executive director of the Miss California USA and Miss California Teen USA organizations, released this statement:

Carrie Prejean, Keith Lewis, and K2 productions have dropped their claim against each other and wish each other the best in their future endeavors. We are moving forward from the past and looking towards the crowning of two winners and the new look of the upcoming Miss California USA pageant, telecast live on November 22^nd

TMZ reports that

the pageant will fork over around $100,000 for Carrie’s lawyers and publicists connected with the public battle royale. That money goes directly to her flacks and not into her bank account. We’re told Carrie personally gets zilch.

Plus the pageant won’t fight Carie’s “tell-all” snooze fest book which comes out Monday.