Virginia’s favorite evangelical nutburger, Marion “Pat” Robertson is making his annual prediction of doom for America again:
VIRGINIA BEACH ? Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson cited communications with God in predicting today that horrific terrorism aimed at the United States will result in ?mass killing? during the second half of 2007. ?The Lord didn?t say nuclear, but I do believe it?ll be something like that — that?ll be a mass killing, possibly millions of people, major cities injured,? Robertson said.
?There will be some very serious terrorist attacks,? he added. ?The evil people will come after this country, and there?s a possibility ? not a possibility, a definite certainty — that chaos is going to rule.? Robertson did not say where the terrorism would occur.
Given Imam Robertson’s past record for accuracy, I don’t think we should be too concerned:
Robertson said last May that, ?If I heard the Lord right about 2006, the coasts of America will be lashed? by ?devastating? storms and ?vicious hurricanes.? He also predicted that ?there well may be something as bad as a tsunami in the Pacific Northwest.?
Heavy rains over New England caused serious flooding last spring. But no hurricanes hit the U.S. coast in 2006 and only two tropical storms made landfall on the U.S. mainland.
No tsunami struck the Pacific Northwest, although various parts of Washington state saw record-setting rains, floods or drought during 2006, said Josiah Mault, the assistant Washington state climatologist.
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In 2005, Robertson predicted that ?Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory and that his second term is going to be one of triumph.? Robertson said the president?s Social Security reform proposals would be approved and ?he?ll have conservative judges on the courts.?
Lawmakers confirmed Bush?s 2005 nominations of John G. Roberts Jr. and Samuel Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court, making it more conservative, in the view of many observers.
But the president?s Social Security initiative was stalled by widespread opposition, and voters? deep unhappiness with Bush?s Iraq policy was a reason Republicans lost control of Congress in the latest election.
The Virginian-Pilot has several comments to the story but this one sums up my attitude quite well:
To the rest of the world: Please excuse Pat Robertson. He’s off his meds again and before we found him, he had stumbled out in front of a TV camera.?
Heh. Well, maybe we should just consider it entertainment, like the astrologer Larry King has on every January to “predict” the future.
H/T: Vivian Paige
January 2nd, 2007 at 10:16 pm
I’ll take Robertson’s prediction over the scientists (this year will be the hottest on record because of global warming and El Nino they say) myself. After their disaster of a pick concerning the hurricane season this past year, it is obvious that they have absolutely no idea what they are talking about.
January 2nd, 2007 at 10:34 pm
I’d trust a scientist long before I’d trust a guy who really thinks he prayed away a hurricane.