I didn’t see anybody floating up to heaven yesterday. I did see some airplanes, though, and there was a rainbow in the sky at about 7:00 PM EDT (which would be 6:00 EST, which I’m pretty sure is God’s time zone) even though it hadn’t rained, so I was kind of thinking that was the bridge to heaven. Nobody appeared to be crossing that bridge, though, so maybe it’s just that nobody in my neck of the woods is worthy, though that would seem odd in a town of about 6,300 people and four churches (though I guess you can’t really count the Catholics), as you’d think somebody would make the cut. But, then again, even though we’re a predominately white God-fearing group, we’re also known for being tolerant, “live-and-let-live” types, so I guess that kept everybody out.
I haven’t seen much of anything on the news. No reports of vast swaths of empty neighborhoods, no major earthquakes – hell, even my pool skimmer has been toad, lizard, and locust-free. I at least expected to see some of these Kristians interviewed (if they’re still around), and asked whether their calculations are off, or, more likely, God just didn’t want them. I mean, why would the Almighty want to surround himself with closed-minded sanctimonious pricks? If I was made in His image, then clearly He wouldn’t.
So, I guess it’s a good-news bad-news thing. Good news is no death and destruction (well, no more than usual), bad news is I gotta go back to work tomorrow. Oh, and we’re still stuck with all those self-righteous, sanctimonious hypocrites (who are no doubt poring over their bibles and crunching the numbers to come up with the latest end-of-the-world date).
You’d think God could’ve at least taken Fred Phelps off our hands.
I feel sorry (sorta) for the people who changed their lives in the belief that they would be on a trip to heaven, yesterday. The guy who spent $140,000, his life savings, warning the rest of us is a retired civil servant. I guess this morning he has a renewed respect for a union that negotiated a pension and FDR who started social security. Perhaps he’ll even vote against the nasty Repubs who want to destroy medicare. More likely he’ll find some ridiculous narrative that absolves him, and Camping, from their shared stupidity.
The NYT ran a story a few days ago about a couple so convinced the rapture was coming that the wife quit her job, hubby took a leave of absence and they stopped saving for their kids’ college education. They believed that their kids would not be raptured because the kids thought their parents were nuts and were so embarrassed by them that they refused to bring their friends home. Will they start working and saving again?
And, what does Camping do today?
Harold Meyerson writes:
Okay. Just for the hell of it, let’s go after the debt and the deficit the Republican way. No new taxes. All through cutbacks.
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Republicans are right to aim big if they mean to reduce the deficit through cuts alone. By most measures, seniors are the major spongers on taxpayers, chiefly through their insistence on not working productively once they hit 65, 78, 92 or whatever. But for the sake of argument, suppose we don’t want to put that burden on our mothers, fathers, grandparents and ourselves. Where else can we identify a comparably large group of drainers of the public till?
Happily, the Tax Foundation — a conservative Washington-based think tank — has, however unintentionally, provided the answer. In 2007, the foundation published a survey of 2005 federal spending in each state and compared that with each state’s contribution in federal taxes. In other words, the foundation identified the states that sponge off the federal government and those that subsidize it. The welfare-queen states and the responsible, producing states, as it were.
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Even allowing for cyclical variations and political transformations, it’s patently clear that the states that drain the government also constitute the Republicans’ electoral base, while those that produce the wealth constitute the Democrats’. Far from strengthening our moral character, the red states plunge us into the slough of dependency.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/welfare-queen-states/2011/05/17/AFzTK45G_story.html
OKat- I just noticed that your kid graduated. I agree- seems like just yesterday.
Congraulations to him and to you and Mike :yippee:
Hope he didn’t get a degree in English :paranoid:
Maybe he graduated in Journalism just before they killed the J School 😮
I echo that, OKat, about the graduate. :banana: :yippee: :blues: :pup:
On the other hand, Boulder as the foodie capitol just doesn’t pass the aroma test. After the Giants win yesterday and we determined that we were still here on Earth, I went out with my friend for a phenomenal dinner I’ll bet would not be found in Boulder. I had to make sure we were indeed still here on Earth.
Giants sweeping the A’s and only one earthquake? Priceless!
SWEEP! :dancers:
Yep guys, a graduation. Philosophy. That child has had two graduations since this blog began…. :bee:
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Huge swath of Joplin MO was wiped out tonight. Friends driving through just missed it (stopping for ice cream saved them). I was watching the weather for them and, boy oh boy, the Rapture hit there today, I fear.
As many as 30 people are reported killed after a tornado tore through the city of Joplin in the US state of Missouri, officials say.
The town suffered a “direct hit” from the tornado and parts of the city have been devastated, local media says.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13497489