Oh, THAT'S not good...
I wandered into my parents' house this evening on the way home from the market to drop off a small care package, and I noticed that my mother is reading Hal Lindsey.
That does not bode well.
Obama has been in office for 29 days--TWENTY-NINE--and my mother is taking a refresher in the Apocalypse, just so she's all settled on the exact progression of Signs and Portends, as laid out by Mr. Lindsey.
The fact that Mr. Lindsey has been unwaveringly wrong since 1970, and has made a boatload of money out of the wallets of people whose terror of change was thick as good fig jam seems to mean nothing to anyone who takes seriously the "prophecies" he spews. He predicted that the Antichrist would rise from the Soviet Union--which no longer exists. He predicted that the downfall of civilization would come at the hands of the Hippies (and as an Old Hippie in good standing, I can tell you that our power to destroy civilization at this point is exactly zero--we still scare our parents, but our kids think we're losers!). He predicted the disemboweling of the United States as a major geopolitical player and the formation of the European Union as the beginning of the strongest force in the world, and enslaved by the Antichrist...
Huh?
So my mother is reading fairy tales, and I'm waiting for her to start the clucking over Obama...
It's starting to make me itch.
I almost said something about seeing Bristol Palin's baby on TV, and didn't the little tyke have the strangest EYES?
But I didn't.
There's a new Facebook Group called "Countdown Until Barack Obama Leaves Office", and it has....
321 members.
And it's organizers are two high school seniors from BFE.
It's going to be a long few years.
That does not bode well.
Obama has been in office for 29 days--TWENTY-NINE--and my mother is taking a refresher in the Apocalypse, just so she's all settled on the exact progression of Signs and Portends, as laid out by Mr. Lindsey.
The fact that Mr. Lindsey has been unwaveringly wrong since 1970, and has made a boatload of money out of the wallets of people whose terror of change was thick as good fig jam seems to mean nothing to anyone who takes seriously the "prophecies" he spews. He predicted that the Antichrist would rise from the Soviet Union--which no longer exists. He predicted that the downfall of civilization would come at the hands of the Hippies (and as an Old Hippie in good standing, I can tell you that our power to destroy civilization at this point is exactly zero--we still scare our parents, but our kids think we're losers!). He predicted the disemboweling of the United States as a major geopolitical player and the formation of the European Union as the beginning of the strongest force in the world, and enslaved by the Antichrist...
Huh?
So my mother is reading fairy tales, and I'm waiting for her to start the clucking over Obama...
It's starting to make me itch.
I almost said something about seeing Bristol Palin's baby on TV, and didn't the little tyke have the strangest EYES?
But I didn't.
There's a new Facebook Group called "Countdown Until Barack Obama Leaves Office", and it has....
321 members.
And it's organizers are two high school seniors from BFE.
It's going to be a long few years.