Is the Swine Flu Boyd K. Packer's Fault?

[_Dwight Frye]

In the infamous talk he gave last year in a Forest Bend Ward sacrament meeting, Boyd K. Packer is reported as saying, "It's about time the Lord taught us a lesson. A great catastrophe is coming. Now I probably shouldn't say that because then it will happen. But it is going to happen. That's what it will take to turn our hearts to the Lord. And we will learn from it."

I wonder, is the swine flu part of the Lord's lesson Boyd promised us? My TBM family certainly thinks so --evidence, they tell me, that, counter to my doubts, the Lord is indeed still revealing his secrets to the prophets and apostles. The Church is true, after all, it seems.











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[_Sethbag]

Well, have we learned anything yet? All I've gotten out of this pandemic so far is a couple of lame jokes.

[_Mercury]

Maybe it will be an earthquake, volcano, gas shortage...crap man, you could apply it to anything.

Media created sensationalism is no excuse to start taking these nutjobs seriously.

[_Kishkumen]

Maybe it will be an earthquake, volcano, gas shortage...s*** man, you could apply it to anything.

Media created sensationalism is no excuse to start taking these nutjobs seriously.

I'll go with Glen Beck. That man is a disgrace to true conservatives.

[_Mercury]

Maybe it will be an earthquake, volcano, gas shortage...s*** man, you could apply it to anything.

Media created sensationalism is no excuse to start taking these nutjobs seriously.

I'll go with Glen Beck. That man is a disgrace to true conservatives.

As I have no time to draw out the Venn diagram, let me just say I find all conservatives these days disgraceful.

Oh, I better watch what I'm saying...I might end up in a FEMA concentration camp. Proof you say? I don't need proof of FEMA concentration camps to discuss them :)

[_Sethbag]

What's really stood out lately is the contrast of just how some conservatives have acted to how the liberals reacted. When George W was elected, we had Alec Baldwin say he was moving to Canada, and of course eventually, after all that happened since, we had some intensely anti-Bush moaning from the Left.

Now, a half-black Democrat takes office and all of a sudden we're hearing stupid witless fools yammering about Texas seceding from the Union, FEMA concentration camps, stupid Thomas Paine imitations, and all the rest. I swear to God, for all of the attacks over the last 8 years that the Right made against the Left for their patriotism, or alleged lack thereof, I'm seeing a veritable orgy of hate against the US from the Right these days. The conspiracy theories are flying, and all of a sudden the gubment is our big enemy again in some peoples' eyes. I actually had an argument in an online game with a guy who swore up and down that FEMA had already set up the concentration camps, and ordered 500k plastic coffins, and all that crap. It's too funny.

Guys, suck it up. We made it through 8 years of Bill Clinton (years during which I was convinced he was some avatar of the Anti-Christ), then we got to watch the Left as they wrung their hands through 8 years of George W. I dare say we'll manage to get through however many years of Barack Obama. The news of our country's demise I think has been greatly exaggerated.