so this morning, i call my mother--it's time to talk about how best to rearrange her assets in order to protect her from the coming economic tsunami. expecting resistance, i'm surprised when she says
you won't get any argument from me, honey. do what you think is best--i know it's about to get bad.i'm glad you see it, ma. most of my friends think i'm crazy.i don't think you're crazy. the bible said only a few would understand what's really happening.the bible? what the hell does the bible have to do with anything?well, just look at him, our lord and master--all charismatic, sweet-talking and silver-tongued, a secret muslim, draws people to him like flies, hates israel, thinks he's the messiah, all the while leading us down the road to ruin. it's just like they laid it out in revelation.oh, for god's sake, ma, you're not seriously telling me you believe that he's--don't get smart with me, michael. we're in the end times--read your bible.read my bible? i don't think i even own a bible--and besides, when's the last goddam time you picked up one?doesn't matter; i know what it says. and i'm not alone, either--i mentioned it to gay nell the other day, her eyes got big and she said, "oh my god, ann, i think so too."oh, well, gay nell--i guess that settles it.
smirk all you want, smartass, but when he comes up behind you with that big smile and sticks a pitchfork in your ass, don't come crying to me--gay nell and i'll be up there with jesus and you'll be on your own.
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at dinner tonight, i ask my co-worker john if his hard-core baptist family up in seattle share the same perception as my folks back home in texas [because even though i'm semi-sure my mother's only kinda-sorta halfway-kidding, i'm not so sure about gay nell].
he replies without hesitation, "oh, totally--they all think he is."
after dinner, i go back to my desk, pull up a google screen, start to type, and before i can even--well, check out the auto-fill for yourself for a glimpse of what the world is thinking these days:
look at it this way--at least the birthers are losing market share.
look at it this way--at least the birthers are losing market share.
4 comments:
So the Chinese AND the end-timers all have got it right and we are about to hit some big wall?
Needless to say, the number of Chinese end-timers is a small vector of those two groups of people.
Gold can't seem to sustain a price > $1000 per ounce. We'll see how it goes.
But seriously, all the economic indicators are either stable or pointing toward recovery. If Obama is the antichrist, he will be presiding over a jobless recovery and middling midterm election results in 2010 (unless all hell breaks loose and then you will be seeing House Speaker Ron Paul).
noblesavage: i figure one of two things is gonna happen with gold in the next week or two: it's either gonna rise above $1,000 and stay there, or, if that doesn't happen, profit-takers are gonna run it back down to the $850 range, thus giving the world one more chance to load up before it finally takes off like a rocket. could go either way.
Gay Nell! LOL! Your mother reminds me so much of mine. So very much...
Regardless of whether these are end times or not, it sure feels like a shitty confusing and fascinating time to be around. That stock market is something to behold the next few weeks though...
EEK!
wat: yeah, the market's gonna be really interesting these next few weeks--thanks for being my only commenter who gets that.
[and yeah, gay nell--god, she's a great cook].
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