Jeez! Another one???

I missed the announcement of another apocalyptic date? DAMN, I'm slacking!!!
I wonder how many more we'll get this decade?
Anyway, here's the official press release from the Rethuglican Fear Machine that is the Main Stream Media (MSM):

Opinion Journal-from the Wal Street Journal Op-Ed page
August 22
Does Iran have something in store?

BY BERNARD LEWIS
Tuesday, August 8, 2006 4:30 p.m. EDT

During the Cold War, both sides possessed weapons of mass destruction, but neither side used them, deterred by what was known as MAD, mutual assured destruction. Similar constraints have no doubt prevented their use in the confrontation between India and Pakistan. In our own day a new such confrontation seems to be looming between a nuclear-armed Iran and its favorite enemies, named by the late Ayatollah Khomeini as the Great Satan and the Little Satan, i.e., the United States and Israel. Against the U.S. the bombs might be delivered by terrorists, a method having the advantage of bearing no return address. Against Israel, the target is small enough to attempt obliteration by direct bombardment.

Remember, the terruh-ists are Mad, Mad, MA-HAD!!! (insert maniacal laughter here)
OK, enough of the scary lede. Let's get to the prognostication:

In Islam, as in Judaism and Christianity, there are certain beliefs concerning the cosmic struggle at the end of time--Gog and Magog, anti-Christ, Armageddon, and for Shiite Muslims, the long awaited return of the Hidden Imam, ending in the final victory of the forces of good over evil, however these may be defined. Mr. Ahmadinejad and his followers clearly believe that this time is now, and that the terminal struggle has already begun and is indeed well advanced. It may even have a date, indicated by several references by the Iranian president to giving his final answer to the U.S. about nuclear development by Aug. 22. This was at first reported as "by the end of August," but Mr. Ahmadinejad's statement was more precise.

What is the significance of Aug. 22? This year, Aug. 22 corresponds, in the Islamic calendar, to the 27th day of the month of Rajab of the year 1427. This, by tradition, is the night when many Muslims commemorate the night flight of the prophet Muhammad on the winged horse Buraq, first to "the farthest mosque," usually identified with Jerusalem, and then to heaven and back (cf Koran XVII.1). 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.

Ah, the ascension of the moslem prophet/pedophile! It all makes sense now! Gawd co-ordinated all the religions to self destruct on the 1427th anniversary given in some A-rab fairy tale! Is the winged horse Buraq also one of the steeds of the riders of the apocalyspe? Pestilence needs a pegasus the most!

Here's what makes the article funny. Check this out:

How then can one confront such an enemy, with such a view of life and death? Some immediate precautions are obviously possible and necessary. In the long term, it would seem that the best, perhaps the only hope is to appeal to those Muslims, Iranians, Arabs and others who do not share these apocalyptic perceptions and aspirations, and feel as much threatened, indeed even more threatened, than we are. There must be many such, probably even a majority in the lands of Islam. Now is the time for them to save their countries, their societies and their religion from the madness of MAD.

While this writer is castigating Islam and the Ayatollah for Apocalyptic visions, he subtly alludes to the Christian and Jewish "end of days" folklore.
And it's not like the Rethuglican meme machine has not committed the same offense:

The my 'God is better than your God' madness

By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
Online Journal Contributing Writer

I knew that my God was bigger than his [a Muslim’s]. I knew that my God was a real God, and his was an idol.—Lt. Gen. William Boykin (who headed the unsuccessful hunt for Osama bin Laden)
June 3, 2005—That evangelical Christians claim they alone know “God,” “His Will,” and “The Truth” is not new. Nor is the attempt by evangelicals and their missionaries to “convert” those of other religious beliefs to Christianity, which is itself a form of bigotry and intolerance. The Christian way or no way.

Now, why in the world would President Bush allow this guy to tour the country to speak to predominently rural, conservative, evangelical churches spewing thi line over and over again? Could it be to tap into the apocalyptic message that these evangelicals use to manipulate their flock? To scare these people to come back every week and make these ministries rich and powerful beyond all belief?
That's because it's all part of a bigger plan, and no sky daddy wrote it. Karl Rove did.
Check this:

More recently, a born-again Lieutenant General by the name of William Boykin has been making the rounds of evangelical Christian churches for the purpose, it seems, of demonizing Islam, declaring that the war on terror is "a battle against Satan" and suggesting that, to paraphrase the old dog food commercial, "my God is better than your God." He even let slip that he believes God put Bush in the White House (given the current mess in Iraq, he might want to specify which God he's talking about). It's all very well and good that the President flits around the world insisting we are not crusading against Muslims per se, but when the people under him spout off to the contrary, well, it seems no disciplinary action is taken. Ever cognizant of that all-important hardcore Christian vote, even scrappy ol' Rumsfeld puts on the velvet gloves to deal with Boykin's babblings. Now just imagine if some top brasser under Clinton had hopped about the country suggesting that the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy regarding gay soldiers was unconstitutional and a desecration of all the liberties the armed forces are sworn to defend. The Pentagon goodfellas would have been quick to see that their Democratic boss expelled the transgressor immediately, whereas, in Boykin's case, we've seen no such outcry at all. This can only suggest, to us and the rest of the world, that Boykin's vision of today's world is not, at least in the eyes of our military and perhaps the Administration, so far-fetched after all.

In America at present, it's the warriors and the worshippers who are calling the shots (worshippers of the "real" God, that is).

ANd what vision would that be? Why the one that crazed snake oil salesmen like John Hagee are out to sell in every sermon: THE END IS NEAR.

'End Times' Religious Groups Want Apocalypse Soon
'End times' religious groups want apocalypse sooner than later, and they're relying on high tech -- and red heifers -- to hasten its arrival.
By Louis Sahagun, Times Staff Writer
June 22, 2006


For thousands of years, prophets have predicted the end of the world. Today, various religious groups, using the latest technology, are trying to hasten it.

Their endgame is to speed the promised arrival of a messiah.
-snip-
A growing number of fundamentalist Christians in mostly Southern states are adopting Jewish religious practices to align themselves with prophecies saying that Gentiles will stand as one with Jews when the end is near.

Evangelist John C. Hagee of the 19,000-member Cornerstone Church in San Antonio has helped 12,000 Russian Jews move to Israel, and donated several million dollars to Israeli hospitals and orphanages.

"We are the generation that will probably see the rapture of the church," Hagee said, referring to a moment in advance of Jesus' return when the world's true believers will be airlifted into heaven.

"In Christian theology, the first thing that happens when Christ returns to Earth is the judgment of nations," said Hagee, who wears a Jewish prayer shawl when he ministers. "It will have one criterion: How did you treat the Jewish people? Anyone who understands that will want to be on the right side of that question. Those who are anti-Semitic will go to eternal damnation."

Man, you can smell the fear mongering!
Of course, he's not the worst, nor is he the only one. You've got Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and my peronal favorite, Jack Van Impe. Van Impe has been predicting the end of the world every week for what, 30 years on TV?
So, what's my point? That on another day that was predicted to be the day the world ends (AGAIN), we're all living and breathing, Jerusalem is still standing, Iran has not launched a nuclear attack on Israel, or vice versa.
And they've been doing this end of days shit since they made these bullshit fairy tales about sky daddies up.
It's part of the program. They NEED the doom-and-gloom yarns to keep people scared, and coming back.
Yet the world never ends.

Prophecy: Christians will continue to be gullible

Oh, when I read this one today, I about fell out of my chair laughing! I mean, how stoopid can these xians be?
Oh wait, I forgot. They believe in gawd. I'm highlighting favorite parts...

Religion-related fraud rampant, costs billions, report finds
By Rachel Zoll
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Monday, Aug. 14 2006

Randall W. Harding sang in the choir at Crossroads Christian Church in Corona,
Calif., and donated part of his conspicuous wealth to its ministries.

In his business dealings, he underscored his faith by naming his investment
firm JTL - "Just the Lord." Pastors and churchgoers alike entrusted their money
to him.

By the time Harding was unmasked as a fraud, he and his partners had stolen
more than $50 million from their clients, and Crossroads became yet another
cautionary tale in what investigators say is a worsening problem for the
nation's churches.

Billions of dollars has been stolen in religion-related fraud in recent years,
says the North American Securities Administrators Association, a group of state
officials who work to protect investors.

Between 1984 and 1989, about $450 million was stolen in religion-related scams,
the association says. In its latest count - from 1998 to 2001 - the toll had
risen to $2 billion. And since then, rip-offs have only become more common.

Cases in recent years show just how vulnerable religious communities are.

Lambert Vander Tuig of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest Calif., ran a real
estate scam that bilked investors out of $50 million, the Securities and
Exchange Commission says.

His salesmen presented themselves as faithful Christians and distributed copies
of "The Purpose Driven Life," by Saddleback pastor Rick Warren, the SEC says.
Warren and his church had no knowledge of Vander Tuig's activities, says the
SEC.

At Daystar Assembly of God Church in Prattville, Ala., a congregant persuaded
church leaders and others to invest about $3 million in real estate a few years
ago, promising that some profits would go toward building a megachurch. The
Daystar Assembly was swindled and lost its building.
And in a dramatically broader scam, leaders of Greater Ministries International
of Tampa, Fla., defrauded thousands of people of half a billion dollars by promising to double money on investments that ministry officials said were blessed by God. Several of the con men were sentenced in 2001 to more than a decade each in prison.

"Many of these frauds are, on their face, very credible and
legitimate-appearing," said Randall Lee, director of the Pacific regional
office of the SEC. "You really have to dig below the surface to understand
what's going on."

Typically, a con artist will target the pastor first, by making a generous
donation and appealing to the minister's desire to expand the church or its
programs, says Joseph Borg of the Alabama Securities Commission, who played a key role in breaking up the Greater Ministries scam.

If the pastor invests, church-goers view it as a tacit endorsement. The con man often promises double-digit returns, chipping away at resistance among church members by suggesting that they can donate part of their earnings to the congregation, Borg says.

Borg says, "Most folks think 'I'm going to invest in some overseas deal or real
estate deal, and part of that money is going to the church, and I get part. I
don't feel like I'm guilty of greed.'" (riiighht!)

If a skeptical church member openly questions a deal, that person is often
castigated for speaking against a fellow Christian. (No, really???)

You stupid fucks. Better hope that Rapture thing happens before you give all your cash away! BWA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Christian Psychosis

Special thanks to Bill in Portland on Daily Kos for the heads up.
I mean, you gotta LOOOVE this headline from the LA Times (sub. req.):

'End times' -Religious groups want apocalypse sooner than later, and they're relying on high tech -- and red heifers -- to hasten its arrival.By Louis Sahagun, Times Staff Writer
June 22, 2006

Think that's insanity personified? Wait, it gets better!!!

For thousands of years, prophets have predicted the end of the world. Today, various religious groups, using the latest technology, are trying to hasten it.

Their endgame is to speed the promised arrival of a messiah.
For some Christians this means laying the groundwork for Armageddon.

-snip-

Linking these efforts is a belief that modern technologies and global communications have made it possible to induce completion of God's plan within this generation.

So, the mainstream press finally got off its' lazy ass and sent out a team to document the core beliefs that make the Republicans so dominant with religious, rural voters. These are the sermons that people like John Hagee and Rod Parsely use to scare people back to church. Flag burning, abortion and gay marriage are only red herrings for the BIG issue hiding in the subconscious of the Pious; "Sky Daddy is coming and he's bringin' the belt! If you don't OBEY US you are gunna get in twubble!!!"

You sure it ain't Hitler you want? Attention! We have hit critical mass hysteria mode!

These people have been and always will be insane. They think they can get a "get out of jail free" card by playing up to the worst human nautre has to offer:

Generations of Christians have hoped for the Second Coming of Jesus, said UCLA historian Eugen Weber, author of the 1999 book "Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults and Millennial Beliefs Through the Ages."

"And it's always been an ultimately bloody hope, a slaughterhouse hope," he added with a sigh. "What we have now in this global age is a vaster and bloodier-than-ever Wagnerian version. But, then, we are a very imaginative race."

"The slaughterhouse hope?" Sounds right to me!

Now if you didn't know, the Republican has been exploiting this within the infrastructure of the Republican party. Reagan and both Bushies have made remarks that they thought we were living in the end times. Pope John Paul did as well. They've painted every other group who oppose them as "SATAN" and out to get them. For once, just once, I'd love for a reporter to ask Bush, Frist, Rove, Jerry Fallwell, or anyone else of the Hitler youth if they are planning the demise of this planet to fulfill some religious fairy tale.
Well, The Times has, kind of:

Pastors of America's evangelical megachurches, the Los Angeles Times reports...have launched a "Billion Souls Initiative" to reach every heathen on Earth. "Our whole purpose is to hasten the End Times," says Bill McCartney, co-founder of the evangelical group Promise Keepers. He's doing his part by trying to convert mass numbers of Jews to Christianity as quickly as possible. Those who fail to heed Christ's message, McCartney warns, are "toast."

-snip-

Even in our own, enlightened nation, 40 percent of the population believes the End Times are nigh, according to several polls, and they have substantial political influence. If a bloody cataclysm in Israel is all part of a vengeful God’s grand plan, why bother trying to negotiate a peace? Why not welcome a global religious war between Christianity and Islam? Strange questions for a species that’s come so far over the past two millennia, and yet has not.

William Falk
Editor-in-chief

It's bad enought that Iran and Israel are attempting to turn the world into a floating charcoal, but now the US has to fall for these murderous delusions as well?
Fucktards, this is called self-fulfilling prophecy. Gawd is not going to come floating in with Reagan and the Pope on his shoulders as lightning strikes down the damned.
No, a government with a nuclear weapon will launch it. And everyone else will follow suit. Nuclear winter will fall on earth, and then we all just DIE.
End of Times, end of story.

My First "Prophecy"...

OK, it's not really a prophecy. It's a plan. Atheists don't "beleive" in prophecies, silly!!!
Anyway, onto the meat of the issue...
Over on "God is for Suckers", the very astute Stardust posted this:

Famed British astrophysicist and best-selling author has turned to Yahoo Answers, a new feature in which anyone can pose a question for fellow Internet users to try to answer. By Friday afternoon, nearly 17,000 Yahoo Inc. users had responded. (Officials at the University of Cambridge, where Hawking is a mathematics professor, confirmed that Hawking wrote the message but said he would have no further comment.)

Hawking’s question was: “In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?”

Now, for some reason I can't post a response on GifS (NSA?). Nevertheless, I do have a response. Here it is:
ATHEISTS are humanity's last hope. Humanity will not survive 100 years if the Xian fundamentalists and the Islamofacists are allowed to continue the proliferation of their mutual hatred now fueling the war on "Terruh".
Both sides want the Apocalypse to happen. Rapture for Christians. 57 virgins for Moslems.
It's all just a mass suicide plot.
To counter this Messianic insanity, we atheists have to act. We have to create an atheist homeland, a gawd-free zone where REAL Freedom can grow.
It's time to organize, and we must use the principles Darwin documented in the Galapagos Islands to save humanity from itself. For those who aren't familiar with this, Charles Darwin noticed that Galapagos was inhabited with different species that, while similar to those found on the South American mainland, had evolved in different ways to adapt to the conditions on the island. It was kind of a "kick start" to the next stage of evolution.
So would be a new atheist colony.
Now, I'm not out to recreate the Stalinist state, or Mao's psychotic social experiments. All I am proposing is that the atheists, agnostics and skeptics of the world unite in one place to save humanity from itself.
I don't know where that place will be. It could be in Europe, Idaho (yuck), it could be outer space. All I know is that the Meianists have 2012 as their new last ditch apocalyptic year (gee, thanks Mayans!!!), and if we don't get organized before then, humanity is DOOMED.

Fuck You Obama

In 2004, Barack Obama made national waves during his successful fun for the United States Senate. Many saw hope for progressive politics to come into the light, where they had been pushed out by neocons and corporate owned network outlets. There was hope that the Democrats had finally woke up and saw where their real strnegth a a party lies.
Again, the people were bamboozled.
Yo Barack, licking the rectal orifices of Joe Lieberman, credit card companies and clergy does not a leader make.
The truth called. Your rock star status is being revoked.
First, the credit card fiasco. Democrats obviously did not have the votes to defeat this punitive bill that clearly favor large corporate interests to average paycheck to paycheck families being swallowed up by debt. A fillibuster was was underway. Yet, Barack voted to kill the fillibuster. Now he voted against the legislation, but a I said before, everyone knew the bill would pass if it were a straight up or down vote, and that's what happened.
then there's what REALLY pissed me off:
The Illinois lawmaker recounted before an audience of church and lay leaders at National City Christian Church how it was not until after he graduated from college and became a community organizer in Chicago that he confronted his "spiritual dilemma."

"The Christians who I would work with, they recognized themselves in me; they saw that I knew their book and shared their values and sang their songs. But they sensed a part of me that remained detached and removed, that I was an observer in their midst," Obama said.
"In time, I came to realize that something was missing. ..."

Please, don't make me puke. You sir, are a dumb ass. Why? Because what you failed to recognise is that what you were experiencing is old fashioned ostracism. You got mind fucked and you didn'y even get a kiss for it. Just a US Senate seat.
Thus is the nature of the political power of religion. For Barack prattles on:

Obama, the Senate's only black member, said he drew closer to the church, in part because he believed in the power of the African-American religious tradition to spur social change, and also because he realized that having faith does not mean that one does not have doubts.

OK, there's TWO problems with this statement. The first is this "tradition" idea. The fact is that the tradition he cites hasn't really been successful, except at producing assasinations. The African American community is STILL mired in abject poverty with no relief in sight.
Now, how are the churches doing on that one? Personally, I think these churches are dependent on poverty to fill the pews. You know, Mother Teresa was dependent on human ministry to keep her so-called hospital going. How many people wer prayed to death instead of, oh I don't know, get access to medication or doctors in some cases?
Poor people, regardless of skin color, are not as well educated thus more usceptible to religiou dogmatic bullshit.
The second problem: the word "doubt". WHat he's saying is that if you think this is all bullshit, you should assimilate anyway. Buy this cock and bull story or people will ostracise you.
And that my friends is the personification of the Tyranny of the Majority.
My advice to you Barack is don't walk, but RUN from Joe Lieberman.
Either that, or you can fuck off...

From "God is 4 SUCKERS.com"...

This had to go up immediately. I have not explored the "Long Bets" site as if yet. I want to thank God is for Suckers for posting this. Go check it out. He has a great sense of humor...

Long Bets is about taking personal responsibility for ideas and opinions. Posting, voting, and predicting under your true name is part of standing up for what you think.

There is no maximum amount. The bet money, treated as a donation to the Long Bets Foundation, must be paid at the time the Bet is made, and is tax-deductible immediately. The entire amount goes into a long-term investment portfolio called the Farsight Fund — its assets are in “Endowments”, a mutual fund managed by Capital Research and Management Company. Half of the growth of that fund is drawn off to the Long Bets Foundation, which maintains the Long Bets service; the other half accrues so that the eventual payment to the winner’s preferred charity may be significantly larger than the original bet stakes. The original Predictor pays $50 less into the stakes than the Challenger, because of already having paid the original $50 publication fee.

Some predictions that have been made:

ID PREDICTION DURATION PREDICTOR
9 By 2020, bioterror or bioerror will lead to one million casualties in a single event. More… 02002 - 02020

(18 years)
Martin Rees
10 The Bet: By 2050, we will receive intelligent signals from outside our solar system. More… 02002 - 02050
(48 years) Paul Hawken
13 By 2007, the U.S. Government will intervene to prevent at least one of the Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILECs)/Regional Bell Operating Companines (RBOCs) (e.g. Verizon, SBC, Bell South, and EXCEPTING Qwest) from filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. More… 02006 - 02007
(5 years) Andy Chapman
14 In 2012, 75 percept of all revenue for enterprise software companies will be from subscription fees rather than license fees. More… 02006 - 02012

(10 years)
marc s. sokol
70 Moore’s Law, which has defined a doubling of price/performance/value produced by semi-conductors every 12 to 18 months since 1966, will continue to deliver its exponential benefits for at least another five decades, without stopping or slowing. More… 02002 - 02052

(50 years)
Sheldon Renan
76 By the year 2020 solar electricity will be as cheap or cheaper than that produced by fossil fuels. More… 02002 - 02020
(18 years) Robert A. Freling
77 By 2050, at least two pan-regional currencies, modeled on the Euro, will be used in the world. More… 02002 - 02050
(48 years) Christophe Cauvy
78 By 2070, at least six countries will have officially implemented a 4-day working week. More… 02002 - 02070

(68 years)
Christophe Cauvy
80 Evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence within the solar system will be confirmed before evidence from several light-years away. More… 02006 - ?
(? years) Allen Tough
86 By the year 2150, over 50% of schools in the USA or Western Europe will require classes in defending against robot attacks. More… 02002 - 02150
(148 years) Alex K. Rubin
88 Major online internet useage research firms will record that over 3 billion people in 2025 managed their incoming and outgoing digital information using a graphical user interface based on Quadrant Theory - as described in Marshall McLuhan’s “Tetrad” model in Laws of Media, Ken Wilber’s Holon in Sex, Ecology Spirituality, and R Buckminster Fuller’s Tetrahedral structures in Synergetics. More… 02002 - 02025

(23 years)
Judah Thornewill
92 By 2020 a completely propellantless (no material particles expelled for propulsion) or “field propulsion-type” aerospace vehicle will land on the Moon. More… 02002 - 02020
(18 years) jay c. dillon
97 Barring an unexpected decline in human numbers from current levels, biodiversity will not reverse its downward trend, air and water pollution will not reverse their increasing trends,(all according to World Resources Institute data) and the WHO will not report a decrease in the percentage of humans with persistent illnesses. More… 02003 - 02013
(10 years) Steven B. Kurtz
137 The Long Bets Foundation will no longer exist in 2104. More… 02006 - 02104
(101 years) Frank Toms
141 By 2020, 75% of all incremental new generation will come from renewable/sustainable energy in the U.S. More… 02004 - 02020
(16 years) Jigar Shah
143 By the year 2020 the technology will exist that will allow for the “faxing” (teleportation- sending/receiving) of actual inanimate objects, such as text books, clothing, jewelery and the like. More… 02004 - 02020

(16 years)
Rob Schnitzer
148 By 2006 a single-answer technology other than Google will emerge as the favored answering service and will remain in power for at least two years More… 02006 - 02006
(2 years) John S. Flowers
149 US accounting and banking regulations will not require that loan portfolios held in the “banking book” be marked to market before 2024. More… 02004 - 02024
(20 years) Stuart Brannan
163 You are immortal More… 02004 - 02024

(20 years)
Brendan McAuliffe
164 That by 2020 it will be possible and desirable for urban houses to have a room in the house designed for, and dedicated to, producing a household’s entire water supply. This will be achievable through condensation (a terarium effect) and using solar panel roof tiles to generate the energy to produce, purify and filter the water. More… 02004 - 02020
(16 years) Michael F. Olliffe
165 By 2040 the existence of Qi will be accepted by the mainstream scientists, and Qi research will revolutionize our mechanical scientific TOE into a true TOE. More… 02004 - 02040
(36 years) Datong Assoc
168 By 2050 most geologists will agree that most of earth’s oil and gas reserves were not produced by decaying plants. More… 02004 - 02050

(46 years)
Danny Hillis
172 A machine capable of passing the Turing Test will be made in 2075 using only hardware that was available in 2005. More… 02004 - 02075
(71 years) Kevin Kelly
173 The concept of time as a linear dimension will be replaced by one of time as a polarity between content and context. More… 02006 - 02025
(21 years) John B. Merryman
181 I predict that my projections for methane atmospheric concentrations, industrial carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and atmospheric concentrations, and resultant lower tropospheric temperatures will be more accurate than those found in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) Third Assessment Report (TAR).

The following are my (MB) projections and the IPCC TAR projections for methane atmospheric concentrations (in ppb, worth 1 point), industrial CO2 emissions (in Gigatons as carbon, worth 1 point), CO2 atmospheric concentrations (in ppm, worth 1 point) and lower tropospheric temperature increases (in degrees Celsius relative to 1990, worth 3 points). The projections are for the years 2030, 2070, and 2100.

2030, MB: 1790, 8.8, 425, 0.36
2030, IPCC: 2060, 13.2, 438, 0.80

2070, MB: 1825, 7.0, 527, 0.82
2070, IPCC: 2300, 16.4, 610, 2.17

2100, MB: 1840, 4.0, 558, 1.20
2100, IPCC: 2450, 16.4, 720, 3.06

Lower tropospheric temperatures are as measured by satellite, in a 3-year average around the year in question (e.g. 2030 would be 2029, 2030, 20310. This bet is only open to members of the IPCC. More…
02005 - 02101
(96 years)
Mark A. Bahner
194 The world per-capita GDP in the year 2000 was approximately $7,200. The world per-capita GDP (in year 2000 dollars) will exceed $13,000 in the year 2020, $31,000 in 2040, $130,000 in 2060, $1,000,000 in 2080, and $10,000,000 in 2100. More… 02005 - 02100
(95 years) Mark A. Bahner
195 A March 2004 article stated: “More than 3.5 billion years after nature transformed non-living matter into living things, populating Earth with a cornucopia of animals and plants, scientists say they are finally ready to try their hand at creating life. . . It is a dream long pursued by scientists who now believe that it may be possible to create the first artificial unit of life in the next 5 to 10 years.” See: http://www.deeperwants.com/cul1/homeworlds/journal/archives/002191.html

My prediction is that artificial life; i.e., life from non-life, will not be created in a laboratory. More…
02005 - 02020
(15 years)
Rodney T. Small
196 I predict that global warming denialists such as MIT professor Richard Lindzen will be shown to be wrong over the next 20 years as global warming continues. Specifically, I believe the scientific consensus that temperatures are likely to increase by .3 degrees Celsius over the next 20 is more accurate than the Lindzen/denialist position that temperatures are as likely to decrease as increase. Choosing a prediction that is halfway between the consensus and the denialist viewpoints, I predict that temperatures will increase by at least .15 degrees Celsius from 2005 to 2025. This bet is open to anyone who wants to accept it. More… 02006 - 02025
(20 years) Brian A. Schmidt
197 The U.S Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics (www.bts.gov) will report a lower number of total highway vehicle miles traveled in 2010 than in 2005. More… 02005 - 02010
(5 years) Daniel K. Simon
200 Within 5 years all power plants will be converted to full-spectrum laser-fired—all oil/gas/coal/nuclear power plants will be obsolete and retired. More… 02005 - 02010
(5 years) Carla Hein
204 In 2009, WinFX will be the dominant API for application development on all major PC platforms. More… 02005 - 02007
(2 years) Carl K. Lumma
205 Google will face antitrust proceedings from the DOJ or a challenge to a merger or acquisition by the FTC. More… 02005 - 02009

(4 years)
Rudy Rouhana
207 By 2150 faster than light propulsion theory will become realized, but not implemented, either through black holes, worm holes or space time warping. More… 02005 - 02150
(145 years) Gary G. Cassel
208 The International Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report will conclude it is likely, or more than likely, that human-caused global warming has increased hurricane intensity in the 1995-2005 time period. More… 02005 - 20015
(18010 years) Brian A. Schmidt
211 If the next president of the USA will be a democrat and/or a female, the US’s anual GPD growth, major Wall Street share indices (Dow Jones, NASDAQ comp.) by the end of the term in 2012 will be higher, unemployment rate lower than now. The death toll of US soldiers in foreign countries and the numbers of terror attacks in western countries will be lower. More… 02005 - 02012

(7 years)
Daniel M. Wigger
217 Within the next 5 years, Google employees will become dissatisfied, and kick-start a new wave of new technology and prosperity in Silicon Valley. More… 02005 - 02010

(5 years)
Juli Mallett
218 I predict that we will be in a full fledged ice age by 2100. I predict that before that we will see volcanic activity that produces more CO2, irridium, and CH4 than mankind could imagine. We will have massive increases in snowfall and sea level first, followed by falling sea levels as the glaciers increase. More… 02005 - 02020
(15 years) james w. walter
219 I predict that this year will have the greatest snowfall on record, worldwide More… 02005 - 02008
(3 years) james w. walter
223 By 2015, standardized tests for high school students in every state of the United States will directly evaluate students’ understanding of the differences between scientific laws, scientific theories and the kinds of things often called theories outside the scientific community. More… 02005 - 02015

(10 years)
Kathleen A. Hansen
225 Many types of cancer will be treated effectively with biofeedback coupled with imaging techniques, such as fMRI. More… 02005 - 02013
(8 years) Hugh B. Grant
226 By the end of 2024 there will be a Single Global Currency managed by a Global Central Bank within a Global Monetary Union.(3-G’s) This currency will be legal tender in countries which comprise at least 51% of the world’s GDP. More… 02006 - 02024
(18 years) morrison m. bonpasse
239 By 2040, at least 40% of Americans making to age 65 will live to age 100. More… 02006 - 02040

(34 years)
Elna R. Tymes
241 The End of State Sovereignty: By 2030, some form of international federation or global governmental structure will emerge that can exercise ultimate authority over world affairs. More… 02006 - 02029
(23 years) Mike Treder




Long live whacky new philanthropy, eh?

Funny as hit. See ya...

Opening Statement

Yeah, I'm a godless heathen. Deal with it.
I'm not really a "prophet", either. I'm not guided by "voices" or any kind pychotic stuffed animal, pie-in-the-sky patriach, or even a ventriloquist. However, I am pretty good at looking at situations and circumstances and extrapolating an answer. We're talking ambitions, motives, means and opportunity, etc. Those kinds of factors.
And I do it in a crudely morbid style. (Yeah, I rip new assholes)
For an idea, check out the other blogs I'm on:
League St. Louis
Selling Armageddon
stlpunditwatch
Now, I'm going to set up an email, links and crap for this site. Just not today. I'll just do my first prediction.
And here it is:
I predict I will be shit-faced by 8:30PM tonight.
And there you go! Be back later....