Thank God that MSNBC is using fact based reporting to keep the populace from panicking.

Apocalypse, now?

Katrina, other disasters fuel doomsday predictions

Is this responsible journalism? Oh they try to fix it later in the article.

So close is the correlation between recent events and the biblical prophecy of the Second Coming, by the reckoning of RaptureReady.com, its "Rapture Index" has been hovering around 160 — the highest levels since just after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. According to the Web site, "the higher the number, the faster we're moving towards the ... rapture." When the number is above 145, it advises: "Fasten your seatbelts!"

Irwin Baxter, founder of End Times Ministries, is among those more focused on how Katrina and the other disasters, combined with key political indicators — including the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip — point to an imminent apocalypse. "With all these converging at the same time, it looks to me we are very close to or just entered the (End Times)," says Baxter.

Well I know I feel better. Okay the world is ending I got it. But do we really have to let it ruin our day? Let us be lighthearted and gay. Oh wait, being gay might have something to do with all of these dire predictions.

Well fuck it, if I see the world coming to an end around me I am having sex with whoever is closest at hand. If it happens to be a guy, well then so be it.