As I've said before, news is weak the last two weeks of the year. Most people are just putting in the hours at the office or are lucky enough to be sitting at home with family or on a beach with a mistress.
However, we've got a few tidbits to look at this year - Blago's slow descent, Caroline Kennedy's desperate grasp for power and this guy's belief that America will self-destruct sometime in 2010.
Um, really? I know things are kinda bad right now but do ya really think the country will implode around June or July 2010?
This guy does, and he's even gone so far as to designate portions of the country that will divide into separate little nations. Alaska, you betcha, goes back to the Russians.
Doomsayers and seers have been around since biblical days, and they always seem to get a bit more traction when things really do look dim. Igor Panarin, however, takes a worthy swipe at some straws by noting a White House PR flak saying "no comment" to a question about his theory and a political scientist he says correctly predicted the fall of Russia 15 years before it happened.
If that makes Panarin a genius, so be it. I think it makes him a guy who honestly has a beef with America and wants a little press.
Now, if he wants to put some money on his belief then I'm up for it. Of course, our wager has to be in American dollars. This way, if I lose it doesn't really matter...
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