Apocalypse in the Middle East.

Violent conflict in the Middle East toward and among many.

Corrupt and/or incompetent U.S. administration.

Aggressive genes dominating big-time.

Black smoke. Barricades. Piles of rubble. Many dead and wounded.

Possible escalation of already-high hostilities.

Is this it?

Because I believe it to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
They believe it and are trying to engineer it.

right to say there is a self-fulfilling energy to many of the apocalypse folks. The media can't wait to get their hands on things like this, if for no other reason than to quote some of the more unstable fundamentalists.

There've been end-of-timers for every age, and so far they're all wrong.

I think quite apart from the religious angle, the political tensions are unstable in the Middle East, and find myself wishing that a President Gore or President Kerry could be in charge instead of the vacuous chimp in there now.

The fundies are thrilled, I tell you, THRILLED, that there's so much unrest in the
middle east. There was a bunch here in Texas (I forget what they called themselves)
who used to predict the second coming on a regular basis. When the date came, they'd
strip naked, pile into a station wagon, go to the appointed place and wait. When
it didn't happen, their leader would make up a new date and it would happen all over
again. This is when I was pretty young, but I think they did it at least 20 times.

The vacuous chimp believes he was put in office by the almighty (I didn't know Scalia
was God). If that's the case, and he's said it to numerous people, he most likely
thinks it's his Godly duty to bring forth the Apocalypse.

In 1000 CE, that was supposed to be the second coming. People didn't plant their
crops and basically let everything go to hell. When it didn't happen, there was
vast starvation and sickness.

These people are just loony.

an automobile to a designated site to await the end of the world.

I wonder if it wasn't just an excuse to have an orgy in a station wagon.

Which wouldn't be a bad way to spend a weekend.

The leader just kept getting the math wrong, you see.
But, they probably made the most of it.

I bet they truly were serious about it, and in a kind of human way I'm sorry they were disappointed, but that just meant all the more hours on earth for the rest of us.

Larry McMurtry ought to do a book on these people. Hell, I'd buy a copy.

:nuke:

And Shania Twain.

We'd score big on that deal.

There's a lot of disdain for what's going on. I don't think anyone (except for the idiot neocons calling for more invasions) is going to feed into this.

As that guy from the Beatles put it, let's give peace a chance.

An inter-dimensional, intergalactic city bus stops in my neighborhood and I don't get on. What was I thinking? "I'm too good to ride the bus". Fuck it all.

We can always respond with a vigorous regimen of psychotropic compounds and lime daiquiris.