Les, the Stupid Evil Bastard, had a brief check-in yesterday to see how the “True Bible Decoder” folks were doing with their apocalypse predictions. Big surprise! They’ve come up with yet another sure-fire date for The End Of The World As We Know It: Wednesday, June 10, 2009. That’s the day, they say, that the last non-Raptured person on Earth will die.

At least they are big enough to admit that they have been wrong the last 70 times that they’ve predicted the end of the world, but even a stopped clock is right twice a day, so this time they’re reallyreallyreally sure.

This time around they’ve got some company, too. This op-ed piece in the Manchester Guardian’s “Comment Is Free” column by editor Michael Tomasky points out that Republican mouthpiece Robert Novak claims that fundamentalist Republicans who can’t stand John McCain have “resigned themselves” to Barack Obama winning the election in November because it’s a sign that the Apocalypse is, in fact, about to arrive. Obama represents “a plague visited upon a sinful people” and is “what this country deserves”. And guess who is saying that to right-wing fundie audiences… Mike Huckabee! (Frankly, I wonder if he’s really a double-agent for Hillary)