Today is Endangered Species Day

[Ben Lamb]

I know how much you guys like to hug bunnies, so I thought you'd enjoy some info from the US Fish and Wildlife Service regarding May 20th, Endangered Species Day.

My favorite endangered species is common sense.

 

[noharleyyet]

Wow, just in time!

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_18097189?source=rss

 

[Ben Lamb]

My accountant is going to be pizzed if the rapture doesn't happen.

So will the bank.

 

[tarheel]

Wow, just in time!

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_18097189?source=rss

I'll be attending my 50th H.S. reunion Saturday and it's being catered. We didn't plan for any extras, so if he shows up, he'll have to come up with his own meal.

 

[tjones]

SFW's fund raiser on the same day? Someone is trying to tell us something!

http://www.mt-sfw.org/

 

[Dinkshooter]

My accountant is going to be pizzed if the rapture doesn't happen.

So will the bank.

Don't worry, it is a sure thing this time.

"In 1992 Mr. Camping said the rapture would probably be in 1994, but he now says newer evidence makes the prophesy for this year certain".

 

[Ben Lamb]

I'm gettin' me a big screen and a F450!

 

[tjones]

I always wanted a big horn ram, maybe this afternoon I can take a run up the East Fork.

 

[Ben Lamb]

I wonder what the rapture will do to improve draw odds?

 

[Dinkshooter]

You guys are screwed.

Draw odds? Looks like I am hunting breaks rams this fall. As long as I get it done before October that is.

 

[noharleyyet]

I'll be attending my 50th H.S. reunion Saturday and it's being catered. We didn't plan for any extras, so if he shows up, he'll have to come up with his own meal.

...shouldn't be that tuff scrounging a couple extra jars of baby food.

 

[tarheel]

...shouldn't be that tuff scrounging a couple extra jars of baby food.

Are you kidding? I still have most of my own teeth. We're having Eastern NC pork barbecue for the meat dish. Now I know you guys in Tejas think that beef is the only thing which qualifies as BBQ, but we were smoking pigs here when Tejas was the land of the Comanche, Kiowa and Apache. If one of you Texicans will kill us a 300 lb wild pig and give me a call, I'll load my pickup with hickory wood and come down there and show you how it's done. You provide the beer; I'll bring the sauce and enough stone ground corn meal to make a bushel of hushpuppies.

Add: I was just outside feeding the mosquitoes when I realized how badly we had hijacked Ben's thread, so I'll segway right out of here with food for thought concerning days dedicated to frivolous reasons; How long do you think it will be before someone starts lobbying for a Barrack Hussein Obama Day, or a Barrack Hussein Obama Boulevard?

 

[Dinkshooter]

Ben

Get your F350 payment coupons yet? Guess I shouldn't have told he boss to screw off Friday afternoon

Doomsday prophet, followers ‘flabbergasted’ world didn’t end
By Liz Goodwin
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EmailPrint..By Liz Goodwin liz Goodwin – Mon May 23, 11:25 am ET
It's hard to feel bad for someone whose doomsday predictions caused so much anxiety, but 89-year-old Harold Camping's recent admission that he's "flabbergasted" the world didn't end last weekend sounds somewhat pitiful.

"It has been a really tough weekend," Camping said Sunday, after emerging from his Alameda, California home for the first time to talk to a reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle. "I'm looking for answers ... But now I have nothing else to say," he said, adding that he would make a full statement today.

Camping's PR aide, Tom Evans, told the L.A. Times that the group is "disappointed" that 200 million true believers weren't lifted up to heaven on Saturday while everyone else suffered and eventually died as a series of earthquakes and famine destroyed the Earth. "You can imagine we're pretty disappointed, but the word of God is still true," Evans said. "We obviously went too far, and that's something we need to learn from." The group posted 2,000 billboards around the country warning of the rapture, while Camping--an uncertified fundamentalist minister--spread the word on his radio show.

Camping's Family Radio, which airs on 66 U.S. stations, has apparently rebranded itself quickly. Business Insider notes that the station's website has scrubbed all mentions of the Judgment Day. The site previously featured a countdown clock to the May 21 rapture on its homepage.


But the false prediction might not be so easily effaced from the lives of Camping's followers. The L.A. Times writes that Keith Bauer, a 38-year-old tractor trailer driver, took a road trip with his family to see the Grand Canyon before the world ended.

"With maxed-out credit cards and a growing mountain of bills, he said, the rapture would have been a relief," the paper writes.

But Bauer is not angry at Camping for his false prediction. "Worst-case scenario for me, I got to see the country," he told the paper. "If I should be angry at anybody, it should be me."

Robert Fitzpatrick, who spent $140,000 of his life savings to advertise the rapture in New York, said he was dumbfounded when life went on as usual Saturday.

"I do not understand why ...," he told Reuters while awaiting the event in Times Square. "I do not understand why nothing has happened."

An NPR reporter talked to two Camping followers on Sunday. "One man, his voice quavering, said he was still holding out hope that they were one day off. Another believer asserted that their prayers worked: God delayed judgment so that more people could be saved, but the end is 'imminent,'" she reported.

Evans, Camping's PR aide, told NPR he hopes Family Radio will reimburse followers who spent their savings in anticipation of the rapture, but that he can't guarantee it.

Protesters gathered outside Camping's radio headquarters to mock the false prophecy over the weekend. Some of them set aloft a toy cow with balloons to lampoon the idea that a select elite would ascend to heaven. Meanwhile, other religious groups tried to recruit disappointed Camping followers.

 

[noharleyyet]

Stephen Hawking's comment: "Sofa king we todd did...."