Neoconservatives Predict The Apocalypse Starts Tomorrow
Neoconservatives Predict The Apocalypse Starts Tomorrow
For months, neoconservatives have been pushing for regime change in Iran. In their latest effort to beat the war drums and undermine diplomacy, they are attaching great significance to August 22 – the date Iran said it would respond to an incentives package from the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany.
August 22 is a day “some Shiite sects believe…could correspond to the end of the world.†That’s enough for neoconservatives to conclude Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have “chosen to launch the apocalypse†tomorrow.
Here’s a look at the rhetoric being pushed by neocons to scare the American people into supporting military action:
- “What is the significance of Aug. 22? […] This might well be deemed an appropriate date for the apocalyptic ending of Israel and if necessary of the world. It is far from certain that Mr. Ahmadinejad plans any such cataclysmic events precisely for Aug. 22. But it would be wise to bear the possibility in mind.” [Bernard Lewis op-ed, Wall Street Journal, 8/8/06]
- “We all hope and pray that August 22 is not the day Ahmadinejad has chosen to launch the apocalypse, but there is little doubt in the White House and at the CIA that the Iranian leader is feverishly trying to build, buy, or steal nuclear weapons, and that he will quite likely use them once he has them.” [Joel Rosenberg, National Review, 8/10/06]
- “Will [Ahmadinejad] attempt to make good on these threats this year on the anniversary of the Miraj [August 22], illuminating the night sky over Jerusalem? Will Western powers heed Farid Ghadry’s words and move to stop Iran before it is too late?” [Front Page Magazine, 7/27/06]
- “It’s an important symbolic day for jihadists. And I’m curious to see what happens on Tuesday. [Ahmadinejad] may just say no or he may do something a little more dramatic, launch a missile or something, to show that – Iranian defiance of what looks like an impotent West.” [Bill Kristol, Fox News Sunday, 8/20/06]
- “‘The only thing we can know is that the date was not chosen by accident,’ said Robert Spencer, Director of Jihadwatch.org and an adjunct fellow at the Free Congress Foundation, a conservative think tank. ‘It does seem very likely, very probable, that he has something major in mind, whether only a major announcement or a major attack, we will soon see.’” [The Blotter, ABC News, 8/21/06]
It’s worth noting that a bipartisan group military experts believe there are no good military options against Iran.
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Its the Y2K all over again!!! Everybody PANIC!!!!!
…at least until after elections.
August 21st, 2006 at 4:27 pmWait, it can’t be the Apocalypse,…
I just bought a plasma TV and a new mattress.
I need time to enjoy them before I’m sent to Hell for not being a Born Again. (I thought I was born just fine the first time!)
August 21st, 2006 at 4:28 pms.b. “Tomorrow”.
August 21st, 2006 at 4:29 pmI think it’s already tomorrow in Iran.
August 21st, 2006 at 4:33 pmWell, astrologically, the next week or so is supposed to be a doozy (Saturn-Neptune opposition), so it’s as good a time as any to blow up the world, I suppose.
August 21st, 2006 at 4:33 pmI am gonna get so drunk tonight. Between the Sox being swept and the end of the world, coming in 8 hours, today really sux.
August 21st, 2006 at 4:33 pmWow, does this mean the born againers won’t be around after tomorrow? Hallelujah!
August 21st, 2006 at 4:35 pmI think I have some bottled water around here somewhere…
August 21st, 2006 at 4:36 pmI guess I should wait and see what happens before I get my annul vehicle inspection… don’t really want to spend that extra 20 dollars if the world is going to end.
August 21st, 2006 at 4:38 pmThis is some funny shit.
August 21st, 2006 at 4:38 pmHey Manny’s Mission,
I’m on Cape Cod. I feel your pain! I just opened a beer, myself!
August 21st, 2006 at 4:38 pmThe mayans have it all figured out … the muslims and christians can make up all their fantasy prophecies that they want but the end of the world is not until Dec. 21 2012.
August 21st, 2006 at 4:39 pmThe people at olive tree ministries are probably giddy over the possiblity.
Phylo out.
August 21st, 2006 at 4:40 pmtrueblue – at least you are on the Cape. I am stuck in NY being tormented. Just horrible. I welcome the end of the world.
August 21st, 2006 at 4:45 pmAll we need is a Dirty Harry Potter to open a can of whoop-ass and solve all of this.
Unbelievable. Simply. Unbelievable.
August 21st, 2006 at 4:46 pmthe end of the world is not until Dec. 21 2012.
Comment by Gerald Gibson — August 21, 2006 @ 4:39 pm
Is this the date that Jeb Bush decides to blow up the world rather than hand the presidency over to Barack Obama?
August 21st, 2006 at 4:47 pmAnd I was going to start the arduous process of renewing my license tonight. Yay for procrastination!
Seriously, watch the news for false flag ops tomorrow. I wouldn’t put it past them.
August 21st, 2006 at 4:47 pmMy wife believes fervently in the Rapture, while I just as fervently scorn it as a childish wish-fulfilment fantasy that can only do harm to the faith of good people.
That being said, if she gets Raptured tomorrow and I don’t, I’m gonna be pissed… ^_^
August 21st, 2006 at 4:49 pmI can’t wait for Paula Zahn to discuss all of the impending signs of the Apocalypse again tonight on her show. On second thought, maybe I’ll skip it.
August 21st, 2006 at 4:49 pmI’ll bring the s’mores and the tiki torches.
August 21st, 2006 at 4:49 pmslightly off topic…
Bush today said that we will have troops in Iraq as long as he is in office.
Does that imply that Bush is conceeding that the war cannot be won in the next 2 and a half years?
August 21st, 2006 at 4:50 pmTaurus:
Things are flowing well for you, and you will make great progress in whatever project it is that you decide to tackle. Once you get the ball rolling, dear Taurus, you will find that a greater force will help push it the rest of the way. You need only to provide the initial impetus. No project is too large for you to tackle on a day like this. Find the strength within yourself to make it happen.
OK, my project for today is to stop the end of the world from happening!
August 21st, 2006 at 4:50 pmMy horoscope said I could!
So, everyone, I got the ball rolling. You guys push it the rest of the way, got it?
Great!
Hey, I’m with you Gibson on the Mayan calendar thing. Makes sense. That’s about when the Middle East will go “nuclar” and commits suicide and tries to take us all with them.
Besides, I get the feeling that if I go out and give away all my stuff today, it would be just my hard luck to wake up the morning on the 23rd without a pot to cook in.
August 21st, 2006 at 4:50 pmThis topic reminds me of a great Patton Oswald line:
August 21st, 2006 at 4:50 pm
All you neocons gather together, get some cyanide laced kool-aide and start chugging. C’mon guys don’t be “left behind”, don’t leave things to chance. Jeesus needs you in heaven RIGHT NOW to organize the post apocalypse regime. Don’t forget Rove you’ll really need him. Thanks, go ahead and save me a good seat.
August 21st, 2006 at 4:51 pmThe biggest threat is if Bushie does a strategic nuclear strike when Iran tells the Security Council to F off. And the tragic part he’s stupid enough to do it. After a strategic nuclear strike we (the US) will have NO choice but to go to war with Iran, exactly what these criminal killers want.
August 21st, 2006 at 4:51 pmMichael Todd,
I asked the same exact thing this morning in another thread here. Yeah – I think it basically means the “situation on the ground” is not going to change any time soon.
August 21st, 2006 at 4:52 pmbones is probably right. Bush IS stupid enough.
August 21st, 2006 at 4:55 pmMore FEAR! Oh boy, but it still won’t boost the shrubs approval ratings.
August 21st, 2006 at 4:59 pmMore FEAR! Oh boy, but it still won’t boost the shrubs approval ratings.
August 21st, 2006 at 4:59 pmMaybe they’ll finally get the Iranian Oil Bourse off the ground. Oil for EUROS, not $.
August 21st, 2006 at 5:01 pmIf the U.S. attacks Iran with nuclear bombs tomorrow, now you know why Bush did not fire Rumsfeldt because they had this plan all along and any new secretary of defense would not go along with the administration’s plan.
August 21st, 2006 at 5:02 pmLaura must be falling down on the First Lady’s duties. I just heard on CNN where President Bush today at the first press conference he has had since June stated he was “frustrated.”
Oh. Never mind, he talking about his war.
August 21st, 2006 at 5:03 pmThe End of the World sounds kind of good to me: I’d love to see Snow try and spin that. “Let me just be clear, we were always interested in ending the world.”
August 21st, 2006 at 5:07 pmwhen the apcalypse conspiracy fails to happen tomorrow, this guy is going to look like an even bigger idiot.
of course it dosn’t matter to neoconservatives, they’ll just go back and make up more fake facts to support their angry ideology.
these guys are so angry at the world they think the only solution is to blow things up, and they don’t care if it hurts america or not.
August 21st, 2006 at 5:08 pmhi, everybody!
what should i wear tomorrow?? i guess my cute little black dress. :)
kisses,
ann
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August 21st, 2006 at 5:16 pmThe only appropriate response to this fear mongering: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…
August 21st, 2006 at 5:17 pmSome experts even speculate that Iran may already have several atomic bombs and the means to deliver them.
This is like Fox News Channel where they attribute their own personal biases to other people. Whenever they say, “Some people say…”, it’s usually that person speaking who has said what he’s about to say.
So, “some experts” (no names, though) “speculate” than Iran has nuclear weapons. Who are these so called “experts” who claim that Iran can harm us with them? Is there any verifiable intelligence that would lend creedence to this ridiculous assertion? I doubt it.
If iran really does have the ability to launch nuclear weapons at the United States tomorrow, then lots of people in the Bush administration (including the President) have failed us miserably. And whoever among us survives should make sure Bush gets fired.
Remember friends: The only thing you have to fear, is your government telling you to be afraid.
August 21st, 2006 at 5:19 pmYou don’t suppose this would be another right-wing attempt at fearmongering, do ya?
I wonder what excuses they’ll give when it doesn’t happen. Should be fun to watch.
August 21st, 2006 at 5:20 pmWhat does one wear to a Rapture? Do I have to put on a tie?
August 21st, 2006 at 5:21 pmWhat does one wear to a Rapture
Strangely enough, bermuda shorts, tuxedo t-shirt, and a fez
August 21st, 2006 at 5:23 pmGay Bear, remember people react irrationally to perceived threats a lot of times. If you have someone, oh let’s say GW, and he really believes in the end of days, and gets a “sign”, like let’s say Iran doing more ballistic tests or coming up with more enriched uranium or let’s say kicking out international inspectors like they just did. Then that person like GW let’s say, makes a questionable judgement based on his evangelical apocolypsism and attacks Iran. The resultant cascade of Arab against US, Arab against Israel actions would result in a world war.
August 21st, 2006 at 5:24 pmGreat! I’m in!
August 21st, 2006 at 5:25 pmGreat! I’m in!
You’re already wearing them, aren’t you
August 21st, 2006 at 5:27 pmDon’t PANIC, Just P-NAC!
-GSD
August 21st, 2006 at 5:29 pmHold onto your nuts, it is the Rupture!
-GSD
August 21st, 2006 at 5:30 pmI cleaned my bathroom today for nothing? Damn!
August 21st, 2006 at 5:32 pm#43 — Iran basically says don’t f**k with us the way you f**ked with Iraq. It’s posturing. Korea is doing the same. I don’t believe for one second that Iran or Korea are going to go nuclear on our collective asses. The result of nuclear bombs is more nuclear bombs and then there’s no world left. I don’t believe anyone doesn’t understand that. I also don’t believe that these countries want to do away with the United States when our country is one of their best customers. I believe this is nothing more than trying to get people to be afraid. And I think we should not be afraid anymore. Now is the time to get rid of these fear mongers who currently hold public office in this country and replace them. So when I see BE AFRAID BE VERY AFRAID, as the Bush administration has tried to hammer into our psyches 24/7, my response is to go take a nap because this is nothing more than Bush and his goons crying wolf.
August 21st, 2006 at 5:32 pmWhen Americans get tired of being afraid they will vote the Republicans out of office.
August 21st, 2006 at 5:35 pmQuick, give all your money away.
August 21st, 2006 at 5:36 pmMy Cayman account # is 5551212, open for deposits only!
Thanks, and see you in the next incarnation!
The seeds for The Apocalypse were planted on this date:
August 21st, 2006 at 5:37 pmSaturday, Jan. 20th, 2001 when George W. Bush was sworn in as the 43rd president of the United States.
#49, I agree with the eval of the situation that the American public, Iranians, ImMadintheHead, etc really don’t have anything to be afraid of from each other except George Bush. That’s the loose cannon I’m afraid could provoke something. Who would have ever thought a President would lie us into a war and then against the majority of the popular sentiment say “As long as I’m President we’re going to stay in Iraq”. He’s the reason for Americans to be afraid, because he has a screw loose.
August 21st, 2006 at 5:37 pm39
i think you need to check transcripts of of abc cbs and nbc newsreports… they all do it.
I lost count of how many times i read it in the Reuters, NYT, AP!
Iran has been Iran since Jimah Cutah… but hey you got to blame somebody right.. besides Bush is negotiating with the wack jobs in chrage… isn’t that what you guys love? negotiations with those who have a death wish? Those who hang 16 year old girls on cranes in public squares for premarital sex? those who stone to death their women if they were raped? those who kill indescriminately over a Miss Universe pageant? those who blow up jewish centers in argentina? or even those damn war mongering Canadians.
August 21st, 2006 at 5:37 pmOh No – Im off tonight to spend £30 grand on my credit card
August 21st, 2006 at 5:38 pmTehran, Iran
Current time: tuesday,August 22, 2006 at 1:14:29 AM
UH… Wheres the big light show…. SHOCK AND AWE SHOCK AND AWE
August 21st, 2006 at 5:38 pm#42, don’t forget your flippers!
August 21st, 2006 at 5:40 pmFlippers with a tuxedo shirt?
Now that’s just tacky
August 21st, 2006 at 5:41 pmThey complement the fez nicely.
August 21st, 2006 at 5:42 pm#53 — Then Americans will have to stand in solidarity (or as close to it as we can get) and remove this administration from office. Bush indeed has a screw loose, and, if you’ve seen him speak lately, he’s back on the sauce. The dry drunk has been replaced by one very wet alcoholic who has fallen far from the wagon. I have faith in this country and its people. I don’t think we’re going to have Bush to kick around much longer, and certainly not for 2 1/2 more years. The rethuglican party’s iron grip on America is being broken piece by piece. They’re a tenacious bunch, but the house of cards is crumbling.
August 21st, 2006 at 5:43 pmhttp://my.earthlink.net/article/int?guid=20060821/44e92fc0_3ca6_1552620060821208635246
Iran refuses to let Inspectors in…
Uh-Oh!!
August 21st, 2006 at 5:44 pm50
August 21st, 2006 at 5:46 pmyeah why can’t we go back to the golden Dot Com era with Slick Willy and act like nothing ever happend when it happend (grand jury/ recession) or talk big game and do nothing (iraq/ bin laden). That was part of the “smarter” strategy Howard Dean is talking about.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Political Figure / Political Leader
Born: 28 October 1956
Here’s his horoscope for today, the lil Scorpio…
August 21, 2006
August 21st, 2006 at 5:48 pmThis is the perfect time to break out of your shell, Mahmoud. Sometimes you tend to be the shy guy, keeping a low profile, and not venturing out into the social world. Today you could feel a little restless. You’re probably ready to party! Get together with some good friends and loosen up. Or just ask that attractive friend out for a special date. You’ll enjoy connecting with others in fun, social ways.
All and all i hope it doesn’t happen cause Madden ‘07 comes out tomorrow ;)
August 21st, 2006 at 5:48 pmRUSerious, isn’t that a Members Only jacket he wears? He’s ready to party anytime!
August 21st, 2006 at 5:52 pmI’m using that as my pickup line tonite:
“Hey, Chica….Rapture’s tomorrow….wanna go out witha bang?”
August 21st, 2006 at 5:53 pmI feel an “incident” coming on. Another Gulf of Tonkin. Iran didn’t blink when the Israelis attacked hezbollah. They must be made to fight.
August 21st, 2006 at 5:55 pm[...] It seems some people believe this blogger is gonna try to end the world tomorrow. Shine on, you myriad of crazy diamonds. end, internet, iran world [...]
August 21st, 2006 at 5:56 pmWell, here’s his scope for tomorrow, ya suppose he’ll read it?
August 21st, 2006 at 5:56 pmAugust 22, 2006
Today you could engage in some verbal debates, Mahmoud. Your mind will be racing with creative ideas and strong opinions. All of this mental energy has to be expressed somehow. Share your thoughts with a receptive colleague, but don’t push your opinions on more stubborn types. Try to adopt a less aggressive tone if you want to avoid a fistfight at the water cooler! If you remain tactful, you can keep out of harm’s way.
Tomorrow, tomorrow,
I’ll love ya, tomorrow,
its only a day away!!!!!!!!!!!
Annie has spoken!
August 21st, 2006 at 5:57 pm#63 — Great idea. I’ll take that any day over what we are forced to endure now. Bring back slick willy, the fat broad who gave him a bj, the “scandal,” dotcoms, cigars that weren’t used for smoking, all of it. No wars. No innocent people dying. No fear mongering. No religious whackos trying to run the show. What a great time that was for this country. So very much better than the dire straights we find ourselves in today because of Bush and the rethuglicans. Not Clinton, my friend; Bush, 100% Bush.
August 21st, 2006 at 6:02 pmKnow why I can’t quit smoking?
The first time I picked a quit date – my mother died.
The second time I picked a quit date – 9/11 happened…….
August 21st, 2006 at 6:04 pm#73, so how do you do that trick where it comes out your ears?
August 21st, 2006 at 6:10 pmWhy are the MSM putting these Apocalypse nutjobs on the air?
This end-times stuff is pure garbage, as stupid as saying the Earth is only 6000 years old and cavemen rode dinosaurs.
The MSM has really gone to hell in only 6 years.
August 21st, 2006 at 6:11 pmFaux Breaking ?News?–Rapture delayed two weeks. Jebus tied up with a gig thing right now.
August 21st, 2006 at 6:12 pmWow, madashell. That really sucks. I’m sorry about your mom.
August 21st, 2006 at 6:12 pm74. Ha, ha!
August 21st, 2006 at 6:12 pmjoneser is an inbred redneck chimpyloving moron.
the recession started in 2001. it happened on chimpy’s watch.
i would rather have clinton back any day.
bush is an incompetent moron and his thugs are traitors and criminals.
joneser is a traitor too, since he supports the traitors.
August 21st, 2006 at 6:14 pmwell, I’m off to have a beer or two, or three, or…..
August 21st, 2006 at 6:14 pm#80, lift one for me. I already consumed my 40 year allocation…
August 21st, 2006 at 6:16 pmI wrote in post #2 that I just made some purchases.
It’s true. The TV I’ve had for 6 weeks, but the mattress arrived just today.
So you’re saying I’m only going to have ONE good night’s sleep before the end of the world?
Damn!
August 21st, 2006 at 6:17 pmBitchin. My 43rd birthday is next Saturday.
August 21st, 2006 at 6:21 pmSo you’re saying I’m only going to have ONE good night’s sleep before the end of the world?
Damn!
Comment by trueblue — August 21, 2006 @ 6:17 pm
Only if you elect to spend that one last night sleeping in it. ;)
August 21st, 2006 at 6:25 pmSpeaking of which, does this mean we can expect a big jump in the Earth’s human population in about nine months?
August 21st, 2006 at 6:26 pmYeah Gay Bear! I hear you loud and clear! We the people must defeat him/her/them in November and take back our country. It is imperative to realize the importance of taking back our airwaves as well. The media has failed us GREATLY by broadcasting FLUFF which is distracting us from the REAL NEWS by suppressing the facts. We have been “occupied” in a really sick kind of way… considering we are supposed to live in a free country. All for bringing back Slick Willy and Gore!
August 21st, 2006 at 6:29 pmTomorrow morning, leave piles of clothing outside your local enangelical church. Do this after the service has started, but before the congregants leave. When they leave the church after their morning service tomorrow, tell them the rapture just happened and they were left behind.
August 21st, 2006 at 6:29 pm#87 Hee Haw,
I like the way you think. That is an excellent idea!
August 21st, 2006 at 6:32 pm“God is in his Temple . . .”
- Reverend Henry Kane
Kane was an insane Christian Minister who predicted the end of the world. Sometime in the 1800s, he would lead his followers to southern California to set up a Utopian society. Somewhere along the journey, Kane predicted the end of the world was near. When they reached the land where the future Cuesta Verde development would be constructed, they sealed themselves in a subterranean cavern in which they prepared for Judgement Day. Even after Kane’s predicted doomsday passed, he kept himself and his followers in the cavern, in which they eventually died. His followers’ sprits were unable to rest because of their untimely death. Kane himself also became unable to rest as a spirit, and became a powerful, Satan-like spirit known as The Beast.
August 21st, 2006 at 6:32 pm79
thanks for “Thinking Progressive”… tommy
but it is difficult to be an inbred redneck when you are 20 something black male from a single family household (ie. progressive poster boy of victimhood and diversity)
at anyrate maybe you might want to read what media matters (Soros agenda site) didn’t tell you…
……The unemployment rate bottomed at 3.8 percent in April 2000, and started deteriorating steadily from there (during the Clinton administration).
The fed funds rate — the overnight interest rate administered by Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve — peaked at 6.5 percent in 2000, and had to be lowered in an emergency move on January 3, 2001, “in light of further weakening of sales and production” (during the Clinton administration).
As the chart below shows, GDP growth fell off a cliff in the third quarter of 2000 (during the Clinton administration). Despite the shock of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, growth started to revive in the fourth quarter of 2001 (during the Bush administration). …
http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsatabs.htm
August 21st, 2006 at 6:33 pmhttp://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/general/2001/20010103/
http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/dn/nipaweb/TableView.asp?SelectedTable=1&FirstYear=2003&LastYear=2004&Freq=Qtr
…. Since NBER set the March 2001 recession start date in November 2001, there have been important negative revisions to key data. Most important, back then GDP growth for the third quarter of 2000 was reported at 1.3 percent — but now it’s been revised all the way down to a negative 0.5 percent. NBER had no way of knowing that then.
link:%20http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A38826-2004Jan22?language=printer
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3691
(yawn)
August 21st, 2006 at 6:36 pmSo Joneser, you are a 20 year old black man that is on board with the Bush/Coulter Republican agenda?
-GSD
August 21st, 2006 at 6:37 pmJoneser, you speak dismissively of MediaMatters because it is a “Soros” operation. Do you speak dismissively of Fox News because it is run by billionaire Rupert Murdoch, friend of Hillary Clinton and the man who helps China keep information from their population?
Soros escaped the Nazis and went on to become a billionaire through strategic investing. Do you hate people who were persecuted by the Nazis for some reason?
-GSD
August 21st, 2006 at 6:47 pmGSD,
If joneser is a 20 year old black man that supports Bush, then he is truly a lost cause.
August 21st, 2006 at 6:56 pmLooks like the US’s example of “if you don’t let inspectors in, we will take you out” isn’t working on Iran.
August 21st, 2006 at 6:58 pmJoneser: “Iran has been Iran since Jimah Cutah”
Nope. Persia changed its name to Iran in the ’30s to currey favor with the Nazis (Iran means Aryan).
If you mean political, you’re wrong again. The pattern was cast in ‘53, when our CIA overthrough a feely elected democratic government there and installed the Shah.
“talk big game and do nothing (iraq/ bin laden)”
Let’s see. Clinton at least tried to kill bin Laden with cruise missles. When has Bush tried to kill bin Laden?
August 21st, 2006 at 7:00 pmWhat about the radicl minister who predicted the start of nucler war on Sept 12?
August 21st, 2006 at 7:00 pmSpudge, wow, what a case.
-GSD
Hopefully he will turn out better than Republican Christian conservative poster-man, Claude Allen. He blamed his petty theft in Washington hurricane Katrina. Christ, at least the folks in New Orleans had a pretext to loot. Claude Allen was making $160,000.00 a year and still claims victim status from Katrina.
August 21st, 2006 at 7:01 pmAnd please stop trying to make a case for Bush’s economy by citing GDP. If your economic situation has been helped by unprecidented big corporate profits, fine, but at least know that this has little effect on most americans. The more important numbers for the vast majority are real wages (which are stagnant.)
August 21st, 2006 at 7:02 pmTrueblue,
Since it is Monday and HK is gone and we are three hours (ahead or behind as the case may be) keep me posted on the apocalypse and if you get there before me cool down a spot please.
August 21st, 2006 at 7:03 pmIran’s die was cast when the CIA helped topple Mohammed Mossadegh and brought in the Shah. Surprisingly the US was happy to help the Shah develop a nuclear program and there weren’t questions about “why” Iran needed nuclear power with “all of that oil”.
-GSD
August 21st, 2006 at 7:03 pmApocalypse has been a pleasing story for religious fanatics and those who prey on them for centuries. I read somewhere that people gave up all their possessions and land, stipped nude and walked into the forest in the year 1000, certain that there was to be the end of the world. I’ve got one thing to say to anyone who really believes there’s going to be an apocalypse: give me your money and possessions. You evidently won’t need them.
August 21st, 2006 at 7:11 pmMossadegh, of course was ousted because he wanted to nationalize Iran’s oil fields.
August 21st, 2006 at 7:17 pmtest
August 21st, 2006 at 7:19 pmEverybody knows that ole Joe Kennedy ran booze, but very few people know about Prescott Bush helping the Nazis with banking services. Well, I guess that’s the “liberal media” for you.
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August 21st, 2006 at 7:34 pmClyde,
I’ll save you and Grandma a spot!
Wayne,
Prospects on Cape Cod are pretty slim! I won’t even go into how long it’s been! :)
August 21st, 2006 at 7:36 pmDoncha worry, TrueBlue, in case of a real Apocolypse, my humanitarian skills would kick in.
August 21st, 2006 at 8:20 pmI had to leave the teacher’s workroom last week when several of my co-workers started talking about this nonsense with complete seriousness. I had to leave so I wouldn’t start laughing at them. This is some seriously absurb stuff these otherwise rational adults believe. ‘Believe’ being the operative word…
Well, when we’re all still here on Wednesday, I’m sure they’ll just have a new date in mind for their end of times. They should pick something 5.5 billion years in teh future when the sun turns into a super giant star and scalds the face of the planet, just before it supernovas and completely obliterates it.
August 21st, 2006 at 8:27 pmThe apocalypse is nigh, and GOD ALMIGHTY will reap a terrible judgment upon religious minorities, Jews, Homosexuals, Muslims, and Democrats. They are all diseased.
George Bush is the great leader spoken of in the scriptures, and the great allies Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Kim Jon Il, Jacques Chirac, Michael Moore and Amajimejad are the dark forces of 666. All SIX of them.
Rev. Davies
August 21st, 2006 at 8:35 pmUtah
The world can not end before I get back to San Francisco with some Flowers in my hair(the better to hide my bald spot) on a warm San Franciscan Night.
August 21st, 2006 at 8:36 pm#110 Unbelievable
I would bet that at least one of those adult teachers said something along the lines of
August 21st, 2006 at 8:38 pm“It can’t be the end of the world yet, I paid my (rent, tv cable, cell phone, hairdresser) bill to the end of the month and my mother-in-law-is-coming next month and I haven’t a thing to wear.” They should all take a refresher course in astronomy and learn again that the earth revolves about the axis through the poles of the earth not around the axis along their spinal cord. (Since we are talking about edurecators I cleaned it up a bit but I am sure you can trace the axis to which i have reference.
Rev. Davies
Utah
Comment by Rev. Neill Davies — August 21, 2006 @ 8:35 pm
Shouldn’t you be in church right now and not bothering us? Really. Go pray. It won’t do you any good, but it will deliver us a world of respite from your sanctimonious soapbox sermons.
August 21st, 2006 at 8:41 pmSince we are talking about edurecators I cleaned it up a bit but I am sure you can trace the axis to which i have reference.
Comment by Clyde the Ripper — August 21, 2006 @ 8:38 pm
I left after they started saying with bugged eyes and gaping mouths “Have you read the part in Revelations where the events in the Middle East parallel what’s going to happen? How it’s EXACTLY what’s in the Bible” It was a Monday morning, and I’m certain that they hadn’t actually read anything, but heard their preacher say it was in there the day before. I just couldn’t bear to hear anything else, and have since made it clear that I am not religious so they save that dialog for when I’m not there…
The weirdest thing to me is that in their subject areas, these are highly educated, intelligent, and generally reasonable people. But the minute it comes to religion, they turn into irrational and deathly afraid people who give all the credit for the good in the world to invisible idols, and all the bad to people…
No wonder we’re all behaving so badly, Clyde… we don’t think we are capable of anything else…
August 21st, 2006 at 8:48 pmWhen the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
August 21st, 2006 at 8:54 pma Spike Lee film on HBO :
…Acts I and II premiere Monday, August 21 at 9pm (ET/PT), followed by Acts III and IV on Tuesday, August 22 at 9pm. All four acts will be seen Tuesday, Aug. 29 (8:00 p.m.-midnight), the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/whentheleveesbroke/index.html
…. Since NBER set the March 2001 recession start date in November 2001, there have been important negative revisions to key data. Most important, back then GDP growth for the third quarter of 2000 was reported at 1.3 percent — but now it’s been revised all the way down to a negative 0.5 percent. NBER had no way of knowing that then.
link:%20http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A38826-2004Jan22?language=printer
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3691
(yawn)
Comment by joneser — August 21, 2006 @ 6:36 pm
jonser, just re-read the crap you posted. Get a life dude. If your whole life is wraped up in those stats–your sick. Really, take a break and then look back.
August 21st, 2006 at 8:55 pmUnbelievable,
The problem is most people are incapable of thinking, period. They (us, we) do not question we react; we do not challenge we complain; we do not object or argue we ignore or passively agree; we do not lead nor do we follow we just stand in the way; an original thought is met with so many hurdles that it is exhausted before it is given a chance. One of the major problems is with the English teachers in the lower grades. It seem to be too much trouble to teach the concept of pronouns as shortcuts to language that need a predecessor so they just teach three pronouns: I, Me, Mine. How can any one individual behave in the context of society when the individual has heard nothing his entire life but the WIIFM song. What’s in it for me?
August 21st, 2006 at 9:01 pmWhat is so incredible to me is that the rapture people don’t even take into account that the Bible itself clearly states that we will have absolutely no idea when the world will end. And where in the Bible does it say Christians should start acting like spoiled idiots before the end? I want my religion back from these people! They don’t know what to do with it!
August 21st, 2006 at 9:02 pmkaty,
I’m recording it right now. I can’t wait to see it tomorrow. (I’ll be asleep before it ends, as I am a night wimp.)
For Truth,
Wayne,
Prospects on Cape Cod are pretty slim! I won’t even go into how long it’s been! :)
Comment by trueblue — August 21, 2006 @ 7:36 pm
Doncha worry, TrueBlue, in case of a real Apocolypse, my humanitarian skills would kick in.
Comment by For Truth
Thank you for your services!!
You are a funny guy!
It’s a lot cooler up here, ‘ya know! (NO! I’m not talking about ME, just the weather! ;))
August 21st, 2006 at 9:02 pmjoneser, there has been proven to be negative GDP results when positive micro managed federal discounts have been shored up with deravitive federal stock buy backs if inflation adjusted macro economic permentations are semi-derived by global market flucuations. Now that is the truth. This is as simple as derivitives 405. You seem to not have a grasp on economics.
August 21st, 2006 at 9:04 pm[...] Perhaps of greater concerns is that, according to some sources, some Shiites think tomorrow is the beginning of the end of the world. Source. Now that’s hardly an excuse to keep warmongering because (a) if it really is the end, what a waste of time that would be. And (b) if it’s not the end of the world, rather just some wannabe trigger happy Mulim president who wants to make like it’s the end, then it’s not like we can really pull the preemption card; we pretty much spent that one down to nothing. [...]
August 21st, 2006 at 9:06 pmBut it’s already tomorrow there.
Nothing is happenning (to the best of our knowledge….)
Darn! And here I am with my ‘Rapture Helmet’ and all… ;)
August 21st, 2006 at 9:12 pmUnbelievable,
Just before I was exiled the last time I made a comment about religion that started with “In the beginning man created God.” And continued with the point that organized religion does nothing more than give man an excuse to control that over which he has no control. God is omnipotent, I couldn’t stop that hurricane, therefore it must be God’s will, and I am not to blame. Allah made me do it, God made me do it, Buddha made me do it, Mohammad made me do it, Satan made me do it. Never “I just plain screwed up!” And the sad part of it all is that that is the leading light of our Country now: All authority, no responsibility; all hat, no cattle.
I know Zooey, I’m pushing the limit but it’s all DUHbya’s fault! The Dallas Cowboys are beating up on the New Orleans Saints because Bushco didn’t rebuild as promised.
August 21st, 2006 at 9:12 pmClyde –
You couldn’t have said that any better. That was brilliant. People should quote you. Mind if I start?
I couldn’t agree more. I am appalled by the general level of basic English from the college bound students in my classes (90% of them). It’s so bad, I told them that I would be counting off for spelling mistakes, and explained why.
My cousin said that all teachers should be required to do something else for 5 years before being allowed into the classroom so that they can teach relevence. One of the biggest problems we have is a lack of connection between theory taught and the reality we live inside. It’s the biggest reason for high school drop-outs. And, I’ve begun to believe, for ‘beliefs’ instead of facts and logic…
August 21st, 2006 at 9:13 pmClyde,
I couldn’t help but think of Flip Wilson with your last comment.
It was a great post, and I hope I don’t water it down with the humor, but I DID think of ‘ol Flip!
August 21st, 2006 at 9:17 pmBTW: It’s 9:23pm here, the 22nd in Iran. Nothing yet. Will keep you posted, and seats saved. ;)
Wow, Clyde, that’s startling. I scroll to the bottom to post some snark, and there’s my name — up in lights. :)
August 21st, 2006 at 9:19 pmAnd the sad part of it all is that that is the leading light of our Country now: All authority, no responsibility; all hat, no cattle.
Comment by Clyde the Ripper — August 21, 2006 @ 9:12 pm
And yet we non-believers are routinely heckled, even here, for our beliefs, or rather, lack thereof… I’ve been surprised that it’s okay to go around using religius talk in public, but not okay to the same people that they be equally tolerant of my right to point out the hypocrisy and inherent dangers in blind faith. Even those who are relatively tolerant of black, gay and women’s rights do not think Atheists have the right to consider Jesus-belief anything other than a good thing. And yet, the Jesus-beliving has gotten us into a serious mess in this country.
I don’t care, I’d rather be the ostracized minority who points out the impending pitfalls than the lemming who leaps with blind faith. It may not be the popular view, but as the ‘good’ folks seem to forget, once upon a time, neither was Christianity…
August 21st, 2006 at 9:20 pmJust my luck, it’s the f*cking Apocalypse and I don’t have a thing to wear.
trueblue, I can’t believe you’re worried about sleeping on a night like this. I’ve been hanging out my window luring in the college boys for hours. :)
August 21st, 2006 at 9:22 pmI will use Spudge Boy´s phrase:
Go Team Terror!
August 21st, 2006 at 9:25 pm:)
#125 Unbelievable
It is all yours and you don’t even need the quotes.
That was my problem for years as an executive in Civil Service and the private sector. Many times during an interview, when the prospect told me he/she had (10. 20. 30) years experience, I would respond with “No, you have one years’s experience repeated (10, 20, 30) times. We don’t need experience to the detriment of original thought. We need pertinent up-to-date knowledge that is applicable today, not last week. But at the same time we need the consistency of language to tie it all together. I don’t mean we should not recognize new words and add them to the vocabulary. I mean we should not bastardize the language so only the bastards recognize it. “So, I go, like, Hey Man, You know. I didnt do nothin’, OK? And Uh, you know what I mean?
August 21st, 2006 at 9:27 pmI’ve been hanging out my window luring in the college boys for hours. :)
Comment by Zooey — August 21, 2006 @ 9:22 pm
Ha! Reminded me of my college days… what did I just say? :)
August 21st, 2006 at 9:27 pm[...] Think Progress » Neoconservatives Predict The Apocalypse Starts Tomorrow [...]
August 21st, 2006 at 9:28 pmIt’s 1:37 in Tehran right now. Do you think the Apocolypse gets up and going before noon?
August 21st, 2006 at 9:31 pmOH- HO!!
Now I get the whole Zooey – Juan thing!!!!!
Sheesh! And I just wanted a good night’s sleep! :)
August 21st, 2006 at 9:31 pmTrue,
Ol’ Flip was foremost in my mind when I started that sentence.
Zooey,
You are my standard, I wouldn’t forget you.
Unbelievable,
I think we had a very enlightening discussion tonight.
Unfortunately, we may all still be roasting tonight. But true promised to cool down a few spots.
August 21st, 2006 at 9:34 pmHa! Reminded me of my college days… what did I just say? :)
Comment by Juan C
Now I get the whole Zooey – Juan thing!!!!!
Sheesh! And I just wanted a good night’s sleep! :)
Comment by trueblue
Juan — You weren’t supposed to tell…!
August 21st, 2006 at 9:37 pmtrueblue — We can sleep when we’re dead! Which, according to the whack-jobs, will be tomorrow, so let’s get busy! Times like these call for quantity over quality. :)
“So, I go, like, Hey Man, You know. I didnt do nothin’, OK? And Uh, you know what I mean?
Comment by Clyde the Ripper — August 21, 2006 @ 9:27 pm
“Yeah, dude, like totally…” :)
I’m trying an experiment and I’ll let you know how it goes. I’m teaching my students to have opinions based on facts by making their tests essay questions that require them to form an opinion and back it up with facts… They also must write in complete sentances in proper English. I hear them groan, but I tell them that it’s good for them because it’s better to learn here in a classroom than out in the real world. That I had college friends who couldn’t make it past second quarter because they weren’t allowed to do anything prior to showing up at college, and then they just couldn’t manage themselves. We’ll see how it goes…
Well, I’d love to keep chatting, but it’s getting late here… Thanks for the pearls of wisdom. I plan to pass them along! :)
August 21st, 2006 at 9:38 pmZooey,
You are my standard, I wouldn’t forget you.
Comment by Clyde the Ripper
Oh my god…that’s so sweet, Clyde.
Quality is good, too…
August 21st, 2006 at 9:39 pmSee you all in Hell… Or as we call it – tomorrow… !!
August 21st, 2006 at 9:39 pmYes, Clyde,
Being the one over on the East Coast, I’ll find out first! Then I’ll be like the Deli Counter…. now serving the Central Time Zone… etc!
August 21st, 2006 at 9:39 pmI’ll get you all in to the good spots!
Hell is right here in Idaho this evening. Hot, smoky and humid. Ugh…
August 21st, 2006 at 9:40 pmHello, Zoo and true. How´s our last day in this planet going so far? :)
Times like these call for quantity over quality. :)
August 21st, 2006 at 9:40 pmComment by Zooey — August 21, 2006 @ 9:37 pm
mmmm…Im not that picky. I will take the first I come across.
Times like these call for quantity over quality. :)
Comment by Zooey — August 21, 2006 @ 9:37 pm
mmmm…Im not that picky. I will take the first I come across.
Comment by Juan C
Nope. Have to disagree. Quality beats quantity every time!
August 21st, 2006 at 9:44 pmJuan – the first one?? Naw, you never know who you’d miss out on! :)
Juan,
true just likes sloppy seconds…
August 21st, 2006 at 9:50 pmJuan – the first one?? Naw, you never know who you’d miss out on! :)
August 21st, 2006 at 9:51 pmComment by trueblue — August 21, 2006 @ 9:44 pm
Rapture´s on the way, baby. (Oh, I liked that. Sounded like Terminator 4) Just want to be warm if the sign comes in the form of a mushroom cloud. (Thanks, Condi for that line)
EEEEWWWWWWW!
Zooey!! Gross!
I said “Quality”! That means they wouldn’t be just spreading it around willy-nilly!!!
August 21st, 2006 at 9:52 pmIt means I’d get the best!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4pE_LIeADQ&mode=related&search=
Speaking of Terminator, this parody is great.
August 21st, 2006 at 9:53 pmtrue just likes sloppy seconds…
Comment by Zooey — August 21, 2006 @ 9:50 pm
Thats ok… (do I have to say anything else?) :)
August 21st, 2006 at 9:58 pmJuan,
Mi amigo, please don’t be selfish. Even though I am old I can still be sensitive. I apologize for not including you in our conversations but please do not abscound with all the Senoritas. Welcome, Senor. All is in jest. I will sneak in a little off-color similie that just came too mind. Show me a cowboy with pink boots and I will show you a gay caballero. All fun and pun intended.
August 21st, 2006 at 9:59 pmNow, Clyde,
What would Grandma say about “sharing the wealth” of Senoritas?
August 21st, 2006 at 10:02 pmTalk about a “Hell’s Kitchen”! ;)
I apologize for not including you in our conversations but please do not abscound with all the Senoritas.
Comment by Clyde the Ripper — August 21, 2006 @ 9:59 pm
You dont have nothing to apologize for. Do you know a little spanish?
August 21st, 2006 at 10:06 pmChe, tranquilizate que está todo bien. No pasa nada.
I know its all in a good spirit. And as I have told true and zoo, there is nothing they can say that could possibly offend me. And that includes you. Im trying to be a better person and that means that I have to lighten up and take things to learn from them, not to judge them. Anyway, I still have some hourse to attain Nirvana. :)
Apparently, these “End-Timer” wackos aren’t familiar with “time zones”. It was already “August 22nd” over there by the time many of these fruitcakes woke up this morning.
And Ahmedinijad’s big announcement: Iran will continue their nuclear program despite international pressure. Big surprise.
The End Timers must be SO disappointed this morning.
August 21st, 2006 at 10:14 pm[...] From ThinkProgress: August 22 is a day “some Shiite sects believe…could correspond to the end of the world.” That’s enough for neoconservatives to conclude Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have “chosen to launch the apocalypse” tomorrow. Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]
August 21st, 2006 at 10:14 pmThe Mayan calendar does NOT say that December 21, 2012, will be the end of the world at all–simply the end of one of the world cycles, after which we head into another turn of affairs.
Not that anybody in particular is going to live forever.
August 21st, 2006 at 10:14 pmHoly crap this has turned into a AOL chat room. Even the trolls are staying away. I am with all of my prog friends but, this is as bad as Jon bennet Ramsey. Have no fear, there will be no rapture. Ciao.
August 21st, 2006 at 10:17 pmJen Morris,
Interesting.
I wondered where they got that first bit of info, but now your input makes me even more curious.
Is there a site I can visit to find out more?
Thanks.
August 21st, 2006 at 10:18 pmJoefriday,
August 21st, 2006 at 10:22 pmThe subject is truly silly, and you expect some kind of ‘discussion’ of it’s ramifications? Puh-leeze!
Humor is one of the best ways to deal with these kinds of subjects. At least one of the healthiest.
My advise: Loosen up a little… tonight may be your last chance….
:)))
Seems to me that if any apocalypses are unleashed, it will be the necrocon “deatheaters” doing the unleashing…
August 21st, 2006 at 10:23 pmI am with all of my prog friends but, this is as bad as Jon bennet Ramsey.
Comment by Joefriday — August 21, 2006 @ 10:17 pm
And I bet the only thing your buddies and you is talk about political, economical issues, right? If one says: “Hey, I met a girl” then everybody else give him the middle finger, right? Yeah, right.
August 21st, 2006 at 10:25 pm#152
Juan,
Mi Espanol es muy poco.
Your English, however, My Friend, puts us all to shame, if not in quantity but in quality. Truer words were never spoken on this Blog:
“I have to lighten up and take things to learn from them, not to judge them.”
Juan, if we all had that attitude the World’s problems would be gone, gone, gone!
I salute you, My Brother!
August 21st, 2006 at 10:26 pmBesides I dont understand these extremists. Every single one of them thinks there is an afterlife, which is a very beautiful place…but nobody wants to die. Big contradiction.
August 21st, 2006 at 10:28 pmJuan, if we all had that attitude the World’s problems would be gone, gone, gone!
I salute you, My Brother!
Comment by Clyde the Ripper — August 21, 2006 @ 10:26 pm
Damn, man. I going sniffy. Thanks for those words. Im trying…just that.
August 21st, 2006 at 10:30 pmAnd I bet the only thing your buddies and you is talk about political, economical issues, right? If one says: “Hey, I met a girl†then everybody else give him the middle finger, right? Yeah, right.
Comment by Juan C — August 21, 2006 @ 10:25 pm
So true, mainly women. Good news to all, turns out the Mayan calendar runs into the 50 th century. Whew! However, if a buddy says he met a rethug then we give the middle finger.
August 21st, 2006 at 10:34 pmThey’re all giddy about the apocolypse!
August 21st, 2006 at 10:35 pmAwwww, Group Hug before the end of days!
Now if only our leaders could adopt this approach, we would all be living in peace and prosperity, not threatening each other with war and destruction.
They need to come to TP and see how it’s done.
(only half-kidding)
August 21st, 2006 at 10:36 pmHowever, if a buddy says he met a rethug then we give the middle finger.
Comment by Joefriday — August 21, 2006 @ 10:34 pm
Ha! All of my friends are from the right…they are pretty cool, but I still give them the middle finger now and then.
August 21st, 2006 at 10:36 pmHere come de judge. Order in the court.
August 21st, 2006 at 10:37 pm
Here come de judge. Order in the court.
August 21st, 2006 at 10:37 pm
Here come de judge. Order in the court.
August 21st, 2006 at 10:37 pm
Ho Chi Minh,
August 21st, 2006 at 10:39 pm… “The Devil Made Me Do It!”
And “Brother Bear 2″ starts in a week or so. Grand-daughter really wants to see it, I would hate to disappoint her. Can I get a rain check? Where will it be playing after the Apocalypse?
August 21st, 2006 at 10:39 pmI just found out. How come nobody told me?
August 21st, 2006 at 10:40 pmComment by Ho Chi Minh — August 21, 2006 @ 10:37 pm
I read in a past thread you tried to put Che Guevara as your poster name. One question, how is it that a Vietnam Vet, considerates posting as Che Guevara? I admire you, really.
August 21st, 2006 at 10:40 pmWalt,
That is the sweetest post I’ve read all night.
You sound like a great Grandpa!
August 21st, 2006 at 10:42 pm#168=>#170 – Ho Chi Minh,
August 21st, 2006 at 10:44 pmYou should see a speech therapist about that stutter.
6:30 Tehran Time….
Nope. No “Ka-Boom” yet……
August 21st, 2006 at 10:46 pm;)
Sorry Walt,
August 21st, 2006 at 10:46 pmIt was kinda funny though, Ho Chi Minh,
Kinda like how Flip did it…
August 21st, 2006 at 10:48 pmWhere the Heck is Zooey???
She said she had to do something, but she should be done by now…!!
August 21st, 2006 at 10:49 pmJuan C; quite simple. during the war, I turned away from our fascist militarism. Unfortunately, it’s back bigger and deeper and uglier than ever.
August 21st, 2006 at 10:51 pm
Good Night, Ho Chi Minh!
August 21st, 2006 at 10:53 pmHave a Happy Apocalypse!
She said she had to do something, but she should be done by now…!!
Comment by trueblue — August 21, 2006 @ 10:49 pm
I guess you cant get enough of “luring the college boys”.
August 21st, 2006 at 10:53 pm#175 – trueblue,
August 21st, 2006 at 10:54 pmThanks.
Walt,
I remember my Dad watching “Jungle Book” and “Alladin” and a bunch of others with Mini-blue.
It’s a great thing. And a great memory.
Enjoy “Brother Bear 2″.
August 21st, 2006 at 10:57 pmHey, Smart Mouths
I have ten minutes before a shift change so I would pose a question for you to ponder for awhile. The Neocons, as you all proclaim claim to be of the Religious Right (value or direction is not specified). That being so then we must assume that they (the Neocons–never the pronoun with an obscure precedent) must have a Supreme Old Being (SOB)(Commonly known as God, and to shorten the list for Trueblue, Flip Wilson). That SOB, supposedly, being there (God only knows where there is) in “The beginning” created all things including man (in his likeness). Without Man, He (She, It, etc.) doesn’t need to bother with: Heaven, Hell, Hate, Love, Hypocrisy, Truth, Lies, (763 nouns later), Republicans. My question is: If the SOB was in a creative mood, why would he create Man when he had to create all the other things to accommodate the dumb likeness?
August 21st, 2006 at 10:58 pmI guess you cant get enough of “luring the college boysâ€.
Comment by Juan C
I’ve heard she’s like that!!! ;)
I know I’ll regret this when she comes back on line, but for right now- -
August 21st, 2006 at 11:00 pmThis Is Fun!!!
I know I’ll regret this when she comes back on line, but for right now- -
This Is Fun!!!
Comment by trueblue — August 21, 2006 @ 11:00 pm
Why? She is great. She wont be mad. Besides, dont you like watching the college boys?
August 21st, 2006 at 11:06 pm;)
The apocalypse came and all I was doing was reading troll pap.
Boo hoo.
-GSD
August 21st, 2006 at 11:07 pmShe’ll get me, Juan!
Just you wait and see!
I’m suppossed to be the “Straight Man”, if you will.
ME, making jokes?
Not suppossed to happen!
I’m not afraid of the Apocalypse – I’m afraid of Zooey!!!
August 21st, 2006 at 11:11 pmThink of all the other things you could have been doing, GSD:
Reading up on “Hot and Spicy “dishes you could make in Hell.
“How to stay Cool in the Hottest of Weather”
Well, we all know of the other physical activities… but I’ll let Zooey fill you in on those…!
And here we sit, just waiting!…
August 21st, 2006 at 11:16 pmHow Rude…!
ME, making jokes?
Not suppossed to happen!
There is something wrong then. That happens a lot. :)
I’m not afraid of the Apocalypse – I’m afraid of Zooey!!!
August 21st, 2006 at 11:19 pmI know what you mean…
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=246
OK,
Sun’s been up for ~ 1 1/2 hrs.
Almost 7:00.
Nope. Nothin.
August 21st, 2006 at 11:25 pmJust like Cornelius in “Rudolph, the Red – Nosed Reindeer”…
Please tell me, Rapture is coming. I just used my credit card as my last day on Earth.
August 21st, 2006 at 11:28 pmHope you got something good, Juan!
August 21st, 2006 at 11:30 pm[...] I thought this would be an interesting article to add mention. It is an article posted on one of my favorite blogs entitled, “Think Progress”. The article discusses neoconservatives predicting tomorrow as the beginning of Armageddon when it reads, “August 22 is a day “some Shiite sects believe…could correspond to the end of the world.†That’s enough for neoconservatives to conclude Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have “chosen to launch the apocalypse†tomorrow.” (Payson, Think Progress) [...]
August 21st, 2006 at 11:34 pmHope you got something good, Juan!
Comment by trueblue — August 21, 2006 @ 11:30 pm
Mostly, gas masks, bottled water, a can of beans, toilet paper and military gear. I think I am a genius. :P
August 21st, 2006 at 11:36 pmJuan,
Forgot the Rapture Helmet!!!
You’re with the rest of us, I’m afraid!
August 21st, 2006 at 11:38 pmHows miniblue doing, true?
August 21st, 2006 at 11:38 pmJuan,
Thanks for asking. You’re sweet.
She’s currently snoring on MY new mattress!
She couldn’t wait to hop in tonight! (It is nice!)
I’m going to be going to sleep soon, myself. It’s almost midnight here, and I was forcing myself to stay awake for the Rapture!
Looks like we’ll all have to pay off our debts tomorrow… sheesh!
August 21st, 2006 at 11:44 pmGood-night, all!
Looks like we SHALL blog on tomorrow!
August 21st, 2006 at 11:53 pm#185 – trueblue,
August 21st, 2006 at 11:58 pmIt’s not me – it’s her. We tote along one of those boat cushions which she calls her ‘car seat for the movies’. Grammie to her right and Poppa to her left and popcorn and cola managed from both sides and her eyes rivited to the screen. Been that way since Nemo. We made the mistake of taking her to see Bambi – quote – “You broke my heart! – they killed Bambi’s mother!”. That was when she was three, she’s five now.
Sorry I bugged out, true & Juan, I had to work on something with a friend — another friend.
I will see you later, because those neo-cons are nuckin’ futs.
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:44 amMaybe the Rapture will come and pick up all of “them”. We can immediately reinstall Bill Clinton and the old cabinet. He can finish out Bush’s term, and we can continue on with the campaign for 08. This time it will only be Dems. The rest of the world will embrace us immediately, and our National Nightmare will be over!
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:45 amWell this is like staying up for new year’s…..Who decided on tomorrows date as the end.?.. Night all….I just don’t buy into any of this……Just in case could you all save me a window seat…LOL……Blessings
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:51 am93
GSD
Google doesn’t want to help us against terrorism yet sensors it’s search engine for china what’s your point..
August 22nd, 2006 at 1:02 amand i think you need to read up on soros if you think cheney is shady
#92 GSD
no not 20 but 28 something long enough to have lost the “glow” of clinton and my wonderful college education
August 22nd, 2006 at 1:04 amOh come now – this isn’t a god damn neocon thing. An Islamic scholar wrote about this in the WSJ a few weeks ago, the MSM isn’t covering it, and even Brian Ross posted about it in his blog, without referencing the WSJ article. I certainly don’t see the pundits going on circuit talking about this.
Its not “W” fearmongering – its a legitimate concern about a fundamentalist regime with nuclear technology, which would take up something on a significant date if they wanted to.
August 22nd, 2006 at 2:06 amThe poor boobs just think they’re scaring us — they’re all rich boys who never had to stare a 30 year mortgage in the eye. HA! Now THAT is scary!
Real people have things in perspective. Bush and his ilk are so rich all they have time to do is work up masturbatory fantasies about killing everyone.
August 22nd, 2006 at 2:34 amAh, 630 eastern, nothing yet
August 22nd, 2006 at 6:18 am[...] http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/21/iran-apocalypse/ [...]
August 22nd, 2006 at 6:29 amWell, at least I now have a good excuse for not doing my laundry.
August 22nd, 2006 at 6:50 amNearly 0800 eastern & all is well(as much as could be expected). Looks like I shall returnto post again.
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:34 am
[...] via Think Progress [...]
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:34 am[...] Think Progress rounded up the latest prediction of falling skies from the conservative community. Several writers openly wonder whether today will bring about the end of the world, and nobody said it better than the NRO’s Joel Rosenberg: We all hope and pray that August 22 is not the day Ahmadinejad has chosen to launch the apocalypse… [...]
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:22 amOnly 15 hours or 881 days to go and we can stop worrying.
August 22nd, 2006 at 9:02 amApocalypse now .. no, seriously, apocalypse NOW…
(sigh). I guess we’d better bomb Iran over there quick, so we don’t have to bomb them over here… or something like that….
August 22nd, 2006 at 9:06 amThey are not talking to you! They are talking to an important block of superstitious US citizens and aiming appropriately low. They are just jerking people around — sadly it is working. No one savey enough to gain power beliefs that stupid crap. You think Cheney goes to church? Rummy? Thinks Jesus is coming back? Come on!
Cheney/Rummy/neocons and their minions know they have a pre-selected group of proven-to-be-gullable folks to lead by the nose.
August 22nd, 2006 at 9:07 amI’m pretty pleased the end of the world is on a workday. I could imagine it really spoiling my weekend.
August 22nd, 2006 at 9:09 am[...] Escrito por Jorge Cordeiro em 22 Aug 2006 03:20 am | Classificado como: politica, religião, civilização, internacional Para os senhores da guerra, sim. [...]
August 22nd, 2006 at 10:14 am[...] Right-wing nuts far and wide – and I mean that term objectively as anyone looking forward to Biblical Rapture is bat-shit insane – were salivating for today. If you recall, they had their panties in a bunch over 6/6/06. Well today is 8/22/06; Not exactly as striking as the Number of the Beast, I admit. But on the Shiite calendars today is a holy day of reckoning. Iran was given until the end of this month to answer the threats from the UN Security Counsel to halt nuclear activates or face sanctions. In answer to this threat, Iran stated they would have their answer today instead, which got all the right-wing nuts all aflutter. [...]
August 22nd, 2006 at 11:25 amWhy is plunger being deleted ?
August 22nd, 2006 at 11:44 amAlmost noon on the east coast and we’re still here.
August 22nd, 2006 at 11:49 amanyone seen any rapture yet? anyone? anyone?
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:02 pmC’mon, there’s gotta be someone in Europe or the Middle East that has seen it!
anyone?
I’m not dead yet!
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:07 pmjoneser – just ’cause big bill made you cynical doesn’t mean you should go over to the dark side with darth cheney & co. sure, they’ve got condi, colin, and alan keyes, but that doesn’t mean they’re not root-evil bastards. don’t let adulthood crackerize you, it tried that with me, and i resisted successfully.
on topic: nothing but pandering from these al-media types – someone here was spot-on in commenting that it’s a message tailored for the exceedingly gullible, paranoid and cowardly, whose ranks have grown enormous through decades of underfunding our schools and televangelism.
TP – thanks for deleting whatever “plunger” had to say, i’m sure it would’ve spiked my blood pressure to dangerous levels, though i have to admit, i’m pretty curious – trolls say yhe darnedest things!
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:24 pmArmageddon? ARMAGEDDONOUTTAHERE!
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:52 pmoh baby… those RaptureReady.com kids are gonna have some FUN with MOMMY…
http://thiscanadian.typepad.com/this_canadian/2006/07/rapture_index_m.html
I heard somebody say these gals discussed whether or not to “have their boob jobs for Jesus” …
http://thiscanadian.typepad.com/this_canadian/2006/08/has_christianit.html
but hey, as long as they’re dumb enough to wear Rapture BathingSuits & buy “Purpose-Driven LifeTaker” computer games or USArmy first-person shooters. YEAH! for UbiSoft & marketing!
http://thiscanadian.typepad.com/this_canadian/2006/01/marketing_to_ch.html
I bet the TRAINING & SELECTION of kids to military career is much much cheaper if you know which computer games they perform most easily…
http://thiscanadian.typepad.com/this_canadian/2006/06/sweet_jesus_the.html
DO YOU believe the USArmy is on a FEMINIST MISSION?
August 22nd, 2006 at 2:19 pmhttp://thiscanadian.typepad.com/this_canadian/2006/07/do_you_believe_.html
Just consider all the electrons being wasted by the plethora of senseless commentary contained herein. Everyone Knows that the end of the world will not occur until late December 2012. The Aztecs said so, so everyone relax. We still have 6 & 1/2 years to screw around killing one another & being afraid before the ultimate global implosion.
Everyone just relax & be cool!!!
August 22nd, 2006 at 2:35 pmI have it on high authority that the world won’t end until the Cubs win the World Series, so we’re good-to-go for at least another hundred years, which should be about the time that Mark Prior comes off the disabled list. To all religious zealots, fanatics, and others with hatred in your hearts, no common sense, and no sense of humor – better plan on extra innings. Go (nowhere) Cubs!
August 22nd, 2006 at 4:47 pmWhat is with the December 21 2012 stuff? How accurate have the mayans been in the past?
August 22nd, 2006 at 5:36 pm1824 hours eastern, and we’re still here.
August 22nd, 2006 at 6:15 pmThis is the same mentality that the uber-religious flagellants had during the plague – the last time everyone thought the end of the world was coming. All they had to do was bathe properly and do a little pest control, for crying out loud. It’s the same mentality that made it so easy for the German people to line up behind Adolf Hitler and somehow justify the slaughter of millions of Jews. It’s just amazing to me how easy it is to whip up such dangerous hysteria among ignorant, weak and uneducated minds.
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:09 pm1824 hours eastern, and we’re still here.
Comment by Ho Chi Minh
Maybe the neo-cons are using the metric calendar. :)
August 22nd, 2006 at 9:08 pm[...] Think Progress has a good read regarding how today (August 22nd) has had significance for Neoconservatives and other Fundamentalist Extremists: For months, neoconservatives have been pushing for regime change in Iran. In their latest effort to beat the war drums and undermine diplomacy, they are attaching great significance to August 22 – the date Iran said it would respond to an incentives package from the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany. August 22 is a day “some Shiite sects believe…could correspond to the end of the world.†That’s enough for neoconservatives to conclude Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have “chosen to launch the apocalypse†tomorrow. [...]
August 22nd, 2006 at 10:01 pmDamn & a half!!! Looks like I’ll be looking forward to additional mortgage payments for the forseeable future!!!
August 23rd, 2006 at 9:36 amI have it on high authority that the world won’t end until the Cubs win the World Series,
Comment by Santo-to-Beckert-to-Banks
Actually, it was the Cubs and the Redsox winning a world series. We are, indeed, halfway through the “end times”
August 23rd, 2006 at 9:40 amGee, it’s the 23rd and nothing happened! I was hoping to be rid of W, now I must wait for as many as 880 days.
August 23rd, 2006 at 9:54 amApocalypse? Hilarious. The three religion-lovers (Judaism, Chistianity, & Islam) have been waiting for a while as far as the end of the world goes. We are all going to die & no religious apocalypse will come. Not in our lifetime, & for that matter, not in anyone’s lifetime. Jews are still waiting for a messiah that has to complete a lot of tasks in order for him to be the true messiah. Judging by Judeo scriptures, this messiah has to be very specific in completing such tasks. I say good luck to the Jews in finding this special superhero. This Jewish messiah hasn’t come since…well, since forever!! Now, Christians are also waiting, after 2000 years, for Jesus to come back & save the “converted” ones. Paul said it would happened during his lifetime. It never did. Many religious leaders have given different dates, & so far, no Jesus. Of course when Christians are confronted w/ the question of “when Jesus would re-appear?”, the argument is that we should “thank God” he hasn’t come again b/c we, the non-believers, would be condemned to eternal damnation. That works on children, but adults tend to use their logic a little more than infants. Muslims also await for the re-birth of Jesus in Damascus where he will gather an army & destroy all infidels. Of course everyone that is not a Muslim is an infidel. What is wrong w/ all these pictures? That’s rethoric by the way. Superstitions & mysticism are OK w/ me. I just want Zeus & his “mortal” affairs to have as much vailidity as these “prophecies.” These 3 religions have a love-hate relationship w/ one another. In order for one, just one, of these apocalyptic prophecies to take place, the other end of the world tales (from the remaining 2 religions), must be invalid. My suggestion is believe what you want to believe, but if your neighbor refuses to believe in your superstitions, then let them worship a dildo if they wish to do so. God, nnot man-written books, will judge us all in the end. I don’t think God will wipe us all out through any “apocalypse”. I think we’re doing a good ourselves by building weapons that could wipe off the entire globe. And to add more fuel to the fire, we elect, through the failure that is the electoral college, leaders that resemble school yard bullies. Their version of diplomacy is “my balls are bigger than your balls.” So I say to all believers, thank your President for he is truly the equivalent of one of the riders of the apocalypse, & our end will come, but not thanks to our Creator. We’ll kill ourselves soon enough.
August 23rd, 2006 at 12:40 pmThe fact that when the nuclear device goes off and creates a temperature of one million degrees (global warming!) we will explode in a mist of superheated steam. Howver, there are positive beneits. No more bullshit from Fox. Whew! What a relief! Gonzo
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:50 pmAugust 24th and still no sign of Jesus yet here in Chicago. Boston? New York? LA? Anybody seen anything? I only have one personal day left this year and I figure it’ll be hell to get to work on rapture day with all those chosen ones rising up off the expressway and leaving all those abandoned cars all over the place, so I’ve been holding off on taking it. Well, if the world hasn’t ended by December 24th, I’m taking Christmas Eve and to hell with it.
August 24th, 2006 at 12:27 pmHad Bill Clinton dealt with Iran when he had the chance we wouldn’t be in this mess right now.
Willie
August 24th, 2006 at 12:44 pm[...] The world failed to end on August 22, 2006, (stupid Iran can’t even end the world properly!) but we can wait. america, end, faith, iran, terror world [...]
August 24th, 2006 at 6:35 pmevery time anyone tries to predict the world ending there always wrong
February 17th, 2007 at 3:07 pmThe neocons are insane. So, too, are the right-wing religious nuts. They have much in common with the radical Islamists. But bad times are coming, anyway. Thanks mostly to the neocons and their religeous chums, the machinery has been engaged and America’s destruction is assured. The next person to be elected president has already been cursed before they can be elected. G W Bush has wrecked the future and the American people let him get away with it. So, they will have to suffer the consequences. One result will be a depression that will make the previous Great Depression seem like a mild recession by comparison. Another result is that we are headed toward a world war. Over four billion casualties will result and America will suffer a fatal wound before the end of 2014.
February 19th, 2007 at 4:35 amHave a good day.