Brain Jazz today at Pajamas Media where the name of the tune was:
Doomsday Watch:
The End of the World
Omnes: (Chanting) Now is the end - Perish The World!
A pause
Peter :It was GMT, wasn't it?
Jon : Yes.
Peter : Well, it's not quite the conflagration I'd been banking on. Never mind, lads, same time tomorrow... we must get a winner one day. -- Beyond the Fringe, 1961
It's the end of the world as we know it and we feel fine... as of now. So we thought that we might as well track it throughout the day, at least while the going is good and until the Apocalypse arrives.
Annan offers to negotiate with the Twelfth Imam. (Scrappleface)
Iran looks to start "serious talk on the 23rd" and "play a constructive role in all issues"--which still means that it's ignoring the demands of the UN. Ambassador Bolton responds. (Atlas Shrugs)
"He sees you when you're sleeping; he knows when you're awake." Santa? No, Twelfth Imam. (The People's Cube) (HT: Kesher Talk)
Warning: Funny but NSFW.
10,000 Reasons Civilization is Doomed!
Paris Hilton makes the sign of the Beast. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Reason 10,002: Issandr El Amrani @ The Arabist notes that Paris Hilton is releasing her album Paris today and "is trying to encourage women to join her on her 'no sex for a year' pledge."
The article that started the frenzy, by Bernard Lewis.
Patrick Poole looks at "Ahmadinejad's apocalyptic faith:" the Hojjatieh sect of Shi'ism.
HT: Who Knew?
Bob @ Confederate Yankee: "If is is indeed their plan, I pray that they now reconsider. The three major religions that arose in the Middle East and propagated around this world all believe in a Creator, One that created All. If these major world religions are correct, then God alone is all powerful, and only God alone can chose the time and place of the beginning and the end, the Alpha and the Omega."
Jerusalem Gypsy has the perfect excuse for... well, let's just say it's NSFW.
"The Rapture. It's Coming. Be Ready."
Quay Fortuna @ Armageddon Cocktail Hour is liveblogging.
August 22s, back in time: the slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia let by Nat Turner (1831)
Apocalypse 4 by Laurence Acland
The date is significant not only to Islam followers, but also to Crusading Christians: "On August 22, 725 AD, the Bishop of Nantes became the martyred St. Emilian while leading the French against the invading muslims."
Another August 22 in history: the battle of Brooklyn (1776)
Michael Totten (guestblogging @ Daily Dish) already told us yesterday that we shouldn't be worried.
"The blast does not travel at the speed of light, but the light from the blast does." -- William Burroughs
Allahpundit: "Please stop with the August 22nd crap."
All quiet in the Houston front: Frisky the cat is keeping en eye out for the 12th imam at Laurence Simon's (TBIFOC)
Apocalypse Now? The Jerusalem Post quotes Israeli experts who cast a skeptic look.
Posted by Vanderleun at August 22, 2005 5:27 PM | TrackBackShout out from another Beyond the Fringe fan.
Posted by: Judith at August 22, 2006 7:58 PMI hope the world doesn't end until we see how a cure for obsessive/compulsive disorder impacts journalism.
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