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The end of the world: the Rapture and other predictions

It's past 8 p.m. CST and the "Rapture" predicted by Harold Camping and much publicized by the media in recent days has not happened. Wait, it could have happened at 6 p.m. PST! Did California go down with a 9.0 earthquake? NOPE. No earthquakes in California, no noteworthy earthquakes anywhere. However, there is a volcano erupting in Iceland, the Mississippi River is cresting at 61+ feet and Sarah Palin has the "fire in my belly" for a presidential run. In other words, the world as we know it is over. It ended a while ago. Yes, that world in which…

Daytime moon

Yesterday morning, I was driving home from running errands when I noticed the daytime moon... a sight I'd never seen before. As I stared at it and eventually took photos, I was wondering if the moon was trying to tell us something by stubbornly hanging out at unusual times. I then realized that the moon is always there. We just can't normally see it during the day because of the sun. Yet, with the current world chaos and suspicions of more to come, I got this feeling that maybe it is we who are changing ... and seeing more, so…

Where is Rick Sanchez? A fan’s guide to following Rick

I miss Rick. That other people have bothered to google the keywords "Where is Rick Sanchez?" lets me know I'm not alone. The longtime TV anchor fired from CNN after calling John Stewart a "bigot" in October 2010 might have been colorful, in many ways unconventional and at times easy to make fun of... but he was great to watch. I belong to a big community of friends of Rick Sanchez who miss him and want him back. Rick's down to earth, pal-to-pal approach to news delivery was one of a kind. He is the first news anchor I watched…

Of weeds and Michael Jackson

After five months of having family over, my husband and I are finally alone with our newborn daughter. You'd think I'd be exclusively preoccupied with her care, but instead, I find myself worrying about other rather mundane things, namely: Michael Jackson: Why? Why? Why did he have to die so young without getting a chance to come back and offer more of his music, maybe heal his tormented soul a bit? I find myself so saddened by Michael's death it feels as though I lost a loved one... and I was never really that big a fan. Not that you…

EVICTED are those who have to leave home, to go live in a different culture

Terrorizing is not the way. Marin County Responds to Immigration Raids : Indybay In the wake of two days (Tuesday and Wednesday) of 5:00am raids by I.C.E. (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) teams in San Rafael and Novato, numerous Marin County groups felt called to respond. The Marin Interfaith Council, in cooperation with numerous local civic and community groups, announced that vigils will be held each morning from 5:00am to 8:30am in solidarity with immigrant neighbors in the Canal District of San Rafael. The first vigil of witness and solidarity took place on Friday, March 9th, at Medway and Canal Streets…

Why did you heal me when I was wounded?

If today you leave me heartbroken just the same.

Gore’s Oscar to Bush

Hehe... Supreme Court Gives Gore's Oscar to Bush - Yahoo! News Creators Syndicate - Just days after former Vice President Al Gore received an Academy Award for his global-warming documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," the United States Supreme Court handed Mr. Gore a stunning reversal, stripping him of his Oscar and awarding it to President George W. Bush instead. powered by performancing firefox