“Eight hours without an iPod – that’s the most inconvenient thing,” Hannah Pillinger, a 24-year-old at Manchester, said.
I’m not sure if Hannah is stoic or just slaveringly idiotic, but the Guardian has managed to find passengers who are whining about the delays that have been caused by the recent British terrorist schemes.
As my father, the lifelong airman, said, if the plane blows up, we all get home early. And: always get the cheap seats, no plane ever backed into a mountain.
This looks to be about as accurate as those “arrival/departure” listings at airports, but it’s better than nothing. Until I get my own set of finely-calibrated Swiss stigmata, I’ll just have to bookmark The Rapture Index, your handy-dandy guide to the approaching End of Days.
Today’s forecast is for continued instability, with an expected average Rapture Score of 158 with lows of 151 and highs of 159, which reminds me of the Hard Drug Report (was it Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie?); for the weekend flurries of cocaine are forecast, with highs where you think you’re superman and lows where you’re depressed and impotent.
Let’s go to the snapshot, shall we:
You could say the Rapture index is a Dow Jones Industrial Average of end time activity, but I think it would be better if you viewed it as prophetic speedometer. The higher the number, the faster we’re moving towards the occurrence of pre-tribulation rapture.
Rapture Index of 85 and Below: Slow prophetic activityRapture Index of 85 to 110: Moderate prophetic activityRapture Index of 110 to 145: Heavy prophetic activityRapture Index above 145: Fasten your seat beltsI begin to like this guy. He may be a religious nutter, but he's the kind of religious nutter I'd like to have by my side at the end.
2003 High 177 2004 High 157 2005 High 161 2006 High 159
2003 Low 133 2004 Low 135 2005 Low 143 2006 Low 151Record High 182 Record Low 57
24 Sept 01 12 Dec 93COMMENTS ON ACTIVE CATEGORIES02 Occult The lack of activity has downgraded this category.03 Satanism: Satanism is reported to be flourishing in Russia04 Unemployment: The US job market shows signs of improvement.05 Inflation: Higher inflation has rattled the stock market.06 Interest Rates: Federal Reserve raises the core interest rate to 4.75%07 The Economy The economies of The U.S. and Japan show healthy growth.08 Oil Supply/Price The price of oil climbs to around $70 per barrel.09 Debt and Trade: The U.S. federal and trade deficits hit new highs.11 Leadership During the past few weeks, several end-time categories have become locked in a holding patern.
I may just have to start watching again. They haven’t had any steel in their broadcasts since the Clinton administration. God knows how I missed this, because it’s a week old, but it’s a beautiful example of the mainstream media actually demanding an explanation and not settling for flackery. This is not a talking head, ladies and gentlemen, this is a reporter!
From Tima, via Cold Desert. In Lebanese war blogger news, Ahmad reports that there have been attempts to hack into his blog account; it’s quite obvious that, since the enemies of truth can’t win with logic or facts, they’ve resorted to crime.
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