So much fun in this thread and so little time to respond. Bingowings, all I can say about Kolob is that it's not very clear what that refers to or if it's literal or metaphysical or simply symbolic. It's a term hardly used in Mormon lingo, so don't get too hung up on it. After typing this, I decided to look up what FAIR had to say about it.

Since we do believe in a God with a physical body instead of an ethereal everywhere/nowhere Being, it might make sense if there is a planet that he lives on (nearest to a star called Kolob, not the name of the planet itself). However, people use this to make things rather sci-fi sounding. My question is that since science learned that the clouds are uninhabitable, where does the rest of the Christian world believe Heaven is? Is it another world? If so, why does Kolob draw so much ridicule (not from you, but from many)?

As for the extent of his rule being limited to this galaxy, I suspect that is more sci-fi interpretation by those who wish to alienate us. I can only think of one person who hypothesized that (namely, Joseph Fielding Smith in Answers to Gospel Questions I believe, which is by no means an official publication of Church doctrine). It has been stated by apostles on more than one occasion that God rules over the universe--the whole, big, as infinite as we can fathom universe (Fielding Smith was an apostle and later a prophet, but not at the time of writing that, nor did he ever say that as far as I'm aware).