Walking on Water and Hearing Voices

Danger! Danger!

Christine O'Donnell--she be the woman from Delaware,
trying to become a U.S. Senator; the woman who says
that thinking about masturbation is the same as committing
adultery (Or is it the same as polygamy? I forget which!)--
said in 2006 that she has classified, secret, awfully important
information that China was plotting to take over the U.S.

Her opponent at the time had said that he thought our
China policy had to be handled very carefully because
we could make either a friend or an enemy of China.

Not possible, Ms. O'Donnell said. They are plotting
to take us over. Secret information! She just could not
dare to say where it came from, but she did hint that
it might have come from some missionaries in China.

I suppose that if a billion or more Chinese came marching
across the Pacific in a column ten thousand soldiers wide
and a hundred thousand deep, she might have said
who told her, but the Chinese cannot walk on water
the way Jesus and Christine can, so she still is mum.

That is what happens when you live a life in which
giving yourself a hand is evil, and you cannot tell a lie!
You just have to hope that your missionaries are safe.

We have to admire her commitment to keeping
most of her secret information sources to herself.
Somebody has to listen to all those voices for us.
It would drive most of us looney, wouldn't it?

We owe her!

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