Once upon a time in the Kingdom of Heaven, God went missing
for six days. Eventually, Michael the archangel found him,
resting on
the
seventh day.

He inquired of God, "Where have you been?"
God sighed a deep sigh of satisfaction 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 great place of
balance."
"Balance?" inquired Michael, 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; the Middle
East
over there will be a hot spot. Over there I've placed a
continent
of white people and over there is a continent of black
people,"
God continued, pointing to different countries. "This one
will be extremely hot and arid while this one will be very
>>cold and
covered in ice."
The Archangel, impressed by Gods work, then pointed to a large
land mass
in the top corner and asked, "What's that one?"
"Ah," said God. "That's Canada, the most glorious place on
Earth. There are beautiful mountains, lakes, rivers, streams
and an
exquisite coastline. The people from Canada are going to be
modest,
intelligent and humorous and they're going to be found
traveling the
world.
They'll be extremely sociable, hardworking and high achieving,
and they
will be known throughout the world as diplomats and carriers
of peace."
Michael gasped in wonder and admiration but then proclaimed;
"What about balance, God? You said there would be BALANCE!"

God replied wisely. "Wait until you see the loud-mouth
>>bastards I'm
putting next to them...."