Believers in doomsday prophet Harold Camping’s predictions are preparing for the end of the world, which is set to take place Saturday, May 21, 2011. Camping originally scheduled the end of the world for Sunday but people had church. Believers say that they will spend Saturday glued to the TV watching for news of people getting sucked up into the sky in the rapture as well as reports of terrible disasters, such as tornadoes. Advertising spots on the Weather Channel are going like hotcakes.
Meanwhile, the Senate rejected a Republican bill that would authorize companies to conduct extensive oil and gas exploration. The bill was rejected on the grounds that drilling for a finite and unrenewable resource doesn’t count as exploration, not the good old-fashioned harmless kind of exploration practiced by Christopher Columbus.
Update 5/21/2011, 12:40 pm MDT. So far so good.
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