“End of the World (Probably for Real This Time),” a video by Jason Windsor. Read about it here.
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Former Congresscreature and born-again Tea Party loon Michele Bachmann foresees that the Rapture is nigh. Ms. Bachmann told radio host Jan Markell that the End Times are being ushered in by that Antichrist, Barack Obama.
“We need to realize how close this clock is to getting towards the midnight hour. It’s just like the Bible forewarned: in the last days it will be like the beginning of birth pangs. In my opinion, we are far beyond the beginning of birth pangs. We’re moving far down into the process. For women who are listening to this show today, you know what I’m talking about. What it’s like to deliver a baby at the very beginning stages and then at the very end before the baby is born. All I can tell you as a mom who has given birth to five babies, the birth pangs are very close together, they are very intense now and we are literally watching month by month the speed move up to a level we’ve never seen before with these events. Barack Obama is intent, it is his number one goal, to ensure that Iran has a nuclear weapon. Why? Why would you put the nuclear weapon in the hands of mad men?”
— “Michele Bachmann: Barack Obama is ushering in a baby called the Rapture,” Joanna Rothkopf, Salon
Evangelical broadcaster Harold Camping convinced followers that the world would end on September 6, 1994. As you may remember, it didn’t.
Mr. Camping looked back at his Bible-derived math and recalculated; the Apocalypse would occur on May 21, 2011. Mercy me, wrong again. Back to the drawing board. Okay, that’s it: October 21, 2011.
Oops, third strike. It wasn’t a total loss, though. Mr. Camping was awarded the 2011 Ig Nobel Prize in Mathematics for his efforts.
Doomsday finally arrived for Harold Camping, but the rest of the world didn’t go with him. He died last Sunday.
Music for the Mayan Apocalypse by ancient Mayan songstress Skeeter Davis.
If universal extinction takes longer than two and a half minutes, there’s more music after the jump.
Notice: Due to unforseen circumstances, the End of the World has been rescheduled for October 21, 2011. We regret the inconvenience.
“Harold Camping ‘flabbergasted’; rapture a no-show,” Will Kane, San Francisco Chronicle
“US preacher ‘got dates wrong’ for end of the world – it’s really 21 October,” AP via The Independent
“An Autumn Date for the Apocalypse,” Jesse McKinley, New York Times
Ticket holders for earlier doomsdays predicted by Howard Camping (May 21, 1988, September 7, 1994, May 21, 2011): tough.
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In case you missed it: Experts have determined that, despite the forecasts of evangelical prophet Harold Camping, the world has not ended. You can be sure that fundamentalist ranting has not, either.
Note: The End of the World News is the title of a novel by Anthony Burgess (1917 – 1993). He was inspired by the closing formula solemnly intoned by BBC radio newsreaders: “This is the end of the World News.”
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Today at 6:00 PM Eastern Time, the world is expected to end. Skeeter Davis (above) explains it all to you.
FAQs here.
Note: According to some, the world has already ended.
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