Sorry, pray. I fixed it now.

You're thinking of the Colorado river. The Great Basin (where the overwhelming majority of the state population lives) doesn't empty into the ocean. Any water saved flows into the Great Salt Lake and then evaporates. Problem is we need some water there to hold down the toxic dust so we can more easily breathe the toxic car exhaust that gets trapped in the valley.

Our governor did go on TV and implore the people of the state to pay pray for rain. That is the most proactive measure taken by our state leadership so far.

EDIT: Ducking autocorrect!!!!!! <Shakes fist>

Supposedly, one of the tribes of Israel hopped on hollowed out logs with magic rocks in them and floated across the Atlantic to the Americas where they set up shop building a new Israel. Then Jesus visited while doing the whole "I'm dead. Psych!" thing, a war broke out, and all the "good" Native Americans were killed. Their history of the whole thing was written on some solid gold plates and buried in upstate New York and found by con artist and aspiring prophet Joseph Smith, who read the hieroglyphic "reformed Egyptian" text on the plates by putting them in a hat with a pair of magic "divine" rocks that translated them for him by God's will. The text that came from this was the Book of Mormon.

So the different wording was part of the con from the aforementioned "reformed Egyptian" text.

Yes. The first settlers of the area revered industriousness. They put used the phrase "Busy as a beehive." And even named the "nation" they were creating (and later the state they were proposing when they realized they weren't going to be allowed to compete with the USA) after the world for bees in the Book of Mormon.

Deseret

Two universities with labs that can create weapon grade fissile material, a chemical weapons disposal facility nearby, airfield that services all the f-18 jets, experimental weapons and hardware testing facility.

I haven't yet read the article, BTW. These are just the reasons I know of that we'd be a first strike target during nuclear war.

Well, there's that meth epidemic among Mormon moms in Utah valley trying to be the perfect Stepford Wives. But I'm sure that is a self solving problem.

I started saying that in my head just before reading your comment.

I haven't listened to commercial radio in almost a decade now. Is that still playing?