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POLITICS and PERSONAL DESTRUCTION

2011 AD — On May 21st, Judgment Day will begin and the rapture (the taking up into heaven of God’s elect people) will occur at the end of the 23-year great tribulation. On October 21st, the world will be destroyed by fire (7000 years from the flood; 13,023 years from creation).

We’ve always known that America’s reign as the world’s greatest nation would eventually end. But most of us imagined that our downfall, when it came, would be something grand and tragic.
What we’re getting instead is less a tragedy than a deadly farce.
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How bad is it? It’s so bad that I miss Newt Gingrich.
~ Paul Krugman; New York Times, Feb 7, 2010