A joke from God?

Here's a frisky little joke someone shared with Lim by email. He meowed loudly for me to post it for you, so here goes:

God was missing for six days. Eventually, Michael, the archangel, found him, resting on the seventh day. He inquired, "Where have you been?"

God smiled deeply and proudly pointed downwards through the clouds, "Look, Michael. Look what I've made."

Archangel Michael looked puzzled, and said, "What is it?"

"It's a planet," replied God, "and I've put life on it.. I'm going to call it Earth and it's going to be a place to test Balance."

"Balance?" inquired Michael, "I'm still confused."

God explained, pointing to different parts of Earth.

"For example, northern Europe will be a place of great opportunity and wealth, while southern Europe is going to be poor. Over here I've placed a continent of white people, and over there is a continent of black people. Balance in all things."

God continued pointing to different countries. "This one will be extremely hot, while this one will be very cold and covered in ice."

The Archangel, impressed by God's work, then pointed to a land area and said, "What's that one?"

"That's Texas, the most glorious place on earth. There are beautiful mountains, rivers and streams, lakes, forests, hills, and plains. The people from Texas are going to be handsome, modest, intelligent, and humorous, and they are going to travel the world. They will be extremely sociable, hardworking, high achieving, carriers of peace, and producers of software."

Michael gasped in wonder and admiration, but then asked, "But what about balance, God? You said there would be balance."

God smiled, "Yes - Washington D.C. Wait till you see the idiots I put there."

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Amen and double amen to that - have you seen Washington's garbled handiwork this week on 'Health Insurance Reform'? It's quite a political joke in and of itself, but the biggest joke of all, my friend, is squarely on us. jc

Obama in a Box?

Since it's my poem, I have decided to *re-post it here on Lim's Limericks with fussy Lim's express permission. He doesn't think Mr. A. Cat will mind, but since I'm only this blog's typist, it seemed best to ask him to okay it first.

The following poem is inspired by today's kerfluffle over President Obama's idea to send more US troops to Afghanistan as a strategy decision, and by Stanley McChrystal's assessment which was 'leaked' in a memo which some say is a 'strategy' meant to pressure the president into seeing things the Pentagon's way - aka, Send More Troops.

Afghanistan

Barack Obama in a box
Afghanistan is like a pox
upon his presidency new
he'd escalate but how and who?

McChrystal memo quite a dud
to land with such a dullish thud
on White House roof and in the hall
Obamaites are right to squall

Since change and hope he touted wide
we'd choose to have the peaceful side
but will the US ever see
an end to war economy?

Though pressure's on to send more troops
our US system has the droops
there are no jobs for every man
returning from Afghanistan.


Jude Cowell 9.21.09 8:49 pm edt

*Poem previously posted at 8:49 pm on Two Hours You'll Never Get Back.