Serious or not?

Workout notes 4000 yards; 500 warm up (slow 9:15-9:20), then 5 x 100 on the 2 (first one on 2:05) of (25 front kick, 75 free, no fins), 5 x 100 on 2 (25 sfs, 75 free), 5 x 100 on 2 (25 3g, 75 free; mostly 1:45), 10 x 100 (25 fly, 75 free) on the 2 (a couple of 1:40, mostly 1:42-44), 5 x 100 (fins, free, back, 50 side), then the usual cool down (100 paddle, free, paddle, free, paddle).

Not as crowded today; my main sets felt fine.

Serious or not In Newsweek’s Belief Watch: Is Obama the Anti-Christ?

BELIEF WATCH
Lisa Miller
Is Obama the Antichrist?

The winning lottery number in Illinois was 666, which, as everyone knows, is the sign of the Beast.

Yes, that is the real headline. Really.

On Nov. 5, Todd Strandberg was at his desk, fielding E-mails from around the world. As the editor and founder of RaptureReady.com, his job is to track current events and link them to biblical prophecy in hopes of maintaining his status as “the eBay of prophecy,” the best source online for predictions and calculations concerning the end of the world. Already Barack Obama had drawn the attention of apocalypse watchers after an anonymous e-mail circulated among conservative Christians in October implying that he was the Antichrist. Former “Saturday Night Live” ingénue Victoria Jackson fueled the fire when, according to news reports, she wrote on her Web site that Obama “bears traits that resemble the anti-Christ.” Now Strandberg was receiving up-to-the-minute news from his constituents in Illinois. One of the winning lottery numbers in the president-elect’s home state was 666— which, as everyone knows, is the sign of the Beast (also known as the Antichrist). “It is very eerie, and I take it for a sign as to who he really is,” wrote one of Strandberg’s correspondents.

And so the article goes. It even goes on to quote an “expert”

No wonder, then, that Obama triggers such fear in the hearts of America’s millennialist Christians. Mat Staver, dean of Liberty University’s law school, says he does not believe Obama is the Antichrist, but he can see how others might. Obama’s own use of religious rhetoric belies his liberal positions on abortion and traditional marriage, Staver says, positions that “religious conservatives believe will threaten their freedom.” The people who believe Obama is the Antichrist are perhaps jumping to conclusions, but they’re not nuts: “They are expressing a concern and a fear that is widely shared,” Staver says.

As far as the article itself goes: it sounds like “well, this is what some folks are “thinking” ” (the word “thinking” being used very charitably) and it is written with a bit of a skeptical tone.

But my goodness: what adult in their right mind believes this stuff?

Update Fundie hilarity doesn’t stop there.

What caused the California wild-fires? Well, surely they were made worse by

Extreme fire conditions were expected to continue into Sunday morning, with humidity at just 10 percent to 15 percent and winds gusting to 45 mph through canyons. Winds, however, could reverse direction and dip to 5-mph breezes Sunday afternoon.

“We still have another 15 hours of red flag conditions,” Robert Balfour, a senior meteorologist with the National Weather Service in San Diego, warned fire officials at a briefing Saturday night.

Many heat records were set as the region withered under the Santa Anas. Downtown Los Angeles was 20 degrees above normal at a record 93 degrees.

But no. God did it. Why? Punishment for Proposition 8. Wait, didn’t proposition 8 pass? Yes it did, but some people protested its passing and these protests caused the wildfires:

Controversial “ex-gay” right-wing preacher James Hartline offers a clearheaded explanation of the cause of the wildfires raging in California – it’s the fault of the gays:

God keeps trying to get their attention. They, for their part, are shouting so loud for the acceptance of homosexuality, that they cannot hear the thunderous warnings of God: “Repent! For the judgment comes soon!”

Each time homosexual activists attempt to force their agenda on California, there have been raging, massive, incinerating fires sweeping across the California landscape.

Today, people are running for their lives as 800 California homes have burned down and the firestorm is spreading like a nuclear holocaust. Yet, the radical homosexual anarchists rampage upon the streets of this state demanding the destruction of marriage and family, and the establishment of their socialistic dark vision for society.

You see, the problem is this: God has plans for California in the near days ahead. Thus, these attempts to force an ungodly tyranny on this state are being met blow with blow by God. God is saying, “California shall be a refuge for America when the catastrophes come. California belongs to Me, not the advocates of sexual anarchy.”

The more that homosexual activists press their battle in California, the more there will be great calamaties in this state.

It is really hard to separate the satire from what people like this really believe. I don’t see how any adult in their right mind believes such nonsense.

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Hilarity From the Republicans:

1. Mittens would have won the election.

2. Palin made McCain “more competitive” in Virginia (a state won by the GOP since, well, 1964?)