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After centuries and centuries of fierce debate over the existence of God, God finally made His presense known. Ex nihilo, He popped into existence at the UN. After introducing Himself and performing a few miracles to establish His bona fides, God adamently rebuked Hamas for firing rockets into Israel. Then just as Gabriela Shalev jumped to her feet to cheer, God stunned her and many more by rebuking Israel for invading Gaza in turn. Then, mysteriously as He arrived, God vanished into a puff of smoke.

What in the world are we to make of this? Since one of the miracles He performed...just by showing up...was granting the UN the gravitas many have long denied it, atheists like Kim il Jong will no doubt think long and hard about pursuing Godless confrontations with the civilized world.

But God did say actually make clear which of the world's religious denominations He represented at the UN. Indeed, as soon as He was gone, fights broke out everywhere on the floor.

Shouts of, "he is OUR God, you moron" could be heard in dozens and dozens of different languages. Fist fights soon broke out and by the next morning many were dead. Only then, sadly, did David Blaine, cleverly disguised as David Copperfield, reveal it was just part of his upcoming television special. "I had planned to make every hatemonger in the world dissappear," he said. Then he broke down and whimpered for hours and hours. Only when it was pointed out to him that some of the worst hatemonkers on the planet were UN ambassadors, was he finally consoled.

gw

- iambiguous

April 12, 2009 at 2:40am

A more serious outrage that awaits your comment is today's news that the Vatican has rejected Caroline Kennedy, the US Ambassador-designate, because of her support for abortion rights and stem cell research.  This is plainly tantamount to, say, the Russian Federation insisting that the US Ambassador be someone on record as supporting Putin's foreign and domestic policies.  The United States should flatly refuse to permit such policy-oriented vetting of any ambassador and, absent reconsideration on the Vatican's part, should do the usual thing in such cases and send the Vatican's US nuncio packing.

- David_Becker

April 12, 2009 at 2:40pm

dgbecker - yeah, that'll show him. Papal tiger.

- teplukhin2you

April 12, 2009 at 4:40pm

With the Notre Dame controversy still bubbling and now this, it's as if the Catholic Church has got some obsession with Obama and his administration that seems to bypass almost every other national or international issue of importance to which he might be expected to contribute productively.  Indeed, a Vatican rejection of a Kennedy in particular is, in diplomatic and cultural terms, as if they were kissing goodbye to the entire progressive Catholic wing of American politics.

It's strange.  I wonder, if North Korea had an anti-abortion policy (I don't know if they do) then would Kim Jong-Il be more welcome at South Bend than the president?

- ironyroad

April 12, 2009 at 8:11pm

...Kim Jong-Il...

His brother is: Men Ta Lee -Il.

- basman

April 12, 2009 at 9:12pm

Itzig, that was pretty funny!

- jacksondyer

April 13, 2009 at 12:00am

I wonder, though,  if George is lucid enough to know how boring he is?

The guy get a gold medal in aimless nuttering!

- jacksondyer

April 13, 2009 at 12:00am