My Toyota is giving me the swine flu!

And it's all George Bush's fault, and it's snowed today because of global warming. We also need an expensive new health care bill that we can't afford because if we don't get it, the economy won't rebound. Businesses won't hire anyone unless they are burdened with more taxes and debt. We must spend ourselves, our children, and our grandchildren into oblivion because if we don't, we won't be able to get out of debt. We can't save money unless we spend it first. (That's not working at my house.) To top it all off, we have more oil underneath the ground in our own country than the whole middle east combined, but it's better to leave it there and get if from overseas because if we get it here, we will cause too much prosperity. And maybe kill some spider or lizard that needs to live or the whole planet will become a living hell.

Am I ready to run for congress yet?

KD0KIT

That's my call sign for my amateur radio license. I passed my test a couple of weeks ago and last Friday I got the call sign. WooHoo! Now I can spend money on radio equipment (I already have) and talk to other amateurs over the airwaves! For what reason, I'm not sure, except that the church is setting up an emergency net for when the big one hits. Other than that, it's mostly on-air gabbing and gossip. I have only transmitted a couple of times, but a start is a start. By this time next year I will probably be up the next step to General class, from Technician, which is what I am now. Hello, World! Or maybe Hello, Grand Valley! Gotta start small.

The Promised Land

Have you ever watched one of those "documentary" shows trying to pinpoint where the Garden of Eden was at the dawn of man's history? It's amazing to me that they are nosing all around the middle east looking for the location of the famous garden, and do it mostly because there is a river in the area named the Euphrates. This happens to be the name of one of the rivers near the Garden of Eden that is mentioned in Genesis. Trouble is, these people forget all about a little thing called The Flood, where Noah and his group of people and animals floated around for a while until the waters receded. They don't know, and most of the world doesn't know, that the Garden of Eden was located in good old Missouri, and when Adam and Eve were cast out, they moved out about 60 miles is all, and there human history began. The river named Euphrates was in North America.

No wonder the Lord calls this the "Promised Land." It was choice enough for God to place the Garden of Eden here, and for the human race to begin here. It is choice enough for the gospel to be restored here, too. We should feel grateful and inspired that we are able to live in such a choice (that word again) location, and we can snigger at the boobs who think that the Garden of Eden was in the dusty old middle east. All they have to do is listen to the modern day prophets, and they would know. Why don't they?