So the years over...I hardly noticed

Well 2006 is coming to a close and can anyone honestly say they even noticed? First off the weather is so damn warm right now you would think it was late March and not December. But hey that global warming stuff is only liberal junk...

Iraq got worse as everyone said it would but of course Bush and company do not care. What's another soldier into the grinder for the neocons anyway. But there was some hope as the Dem's to back the House and Senate. What they will do is anyones guess...if they do anything it's more then the previous members of congress so at this point anything is a vast improvement.

Of course this was the year I finally said the hell with all this War on Terror crap. You know if Bin Laden and his ilk were really this bad they would have done something by now. But they haven't so fuck them. All I know is the Freedom Tower is being built and it's a spit in the face to every last man, woman, and child who lost someone or survived 9/11. Pataki is out office and not to soon. That damn building will be a testament to his croanie's and I hope every delay imaginable happens so it takes even longer for that building to go up. Once it is up you won't see me waving a flag and buying into that bullshit that America is healed.

Bin Laden is still alive and we're supposed to believe that we're healing? But hey at least we got Saddam right.

All I know is when that execution happens I hope they all have some balls and show the damn thing on television. A still photo of a guy with a black hood over his head just won't cut it. Of course my money is still on him pulling Himmler (or which ever Nazi it was) and he is found dead before the morning of his execution. Milosovich was able to rub it into the World Court by stalling and appealing anything and he ended up having a heart attack just as a way to spite them on the way out. Not to say justice isn't served, but when a trial is a joke like the one for Saddam and Milosovich was you know it's a great ego boost to their supporters if they go out on their own terms be it suicide or not taking your heart pills.

This yeah really was meh to be honest. I hope next year is better but I doubt it will be. Well in any event the fact I made it this far is always a plus. But since I have nothing else to add, oogle at this picture of Victoria



Vince McMahon and all of his yes men and women are morons if they don't think she could easily have one of the biggest selling Playboy's ever. I'll take a woman like Victoria who could take the typical Playboy barbie and break her in half.

So yeah on that note have a good 2007.

I did my part for the illusion that is Democracy

So I just got back from going to vote. My brother made a big deal out of it so we went to the school around the corner to vote. Unlike other states where you have to show forms of ID and such all you have to do here is basically have your voter registration card and the poll worker makes sure the signatures match on the roll.

I think the machine I used might have been tampered with. On the line for Comptroller the Republican lever was stuck. I go to switch the one for Democrat (and crook) Alan Hevisi and it was working fine. Not wanting to vote for him I ended up voting for John C. McCain on the Libertarian line.

I told the election worker after I was done and I saw her talking to the guy who I assume was the technician. If he wasn't it's no big loss, it's just the comptrollers seat. Hevisi is gonna get impeached anyway for embezzlements, misuse of funds, and being a crook anyway so like I said it doesn't matter.

I voted for Spitzer for Governor, someone I can't remember for Senate (I told you I wasn't voting for Satan...err Hillary), My congressmen Vito Fossella, and a couple of judges. I also voted for Marty Golden for Borough president but that one didn't matter since he was running unopposed.

Oh it should be a fun night for the rest of the country where they have elections that matter.

I just hope Kinky wins in Texas. If he does there's hope in America because the system actually works.

Oh yeah if you haven't read my latest column, go do so. I don't write for my own amusement you know.

Ever wonder what that dot is and some other stuff

So it's Halloween here in New York and you would hardly notice it looking around here. None of the people around here celebrate anything. It's probably for the best though...we don't have any candy anyway.

One thing I've been meaning to post about is The Dot. The Dot is that little multi colored thing above the Defend Freedom pic. The Dot is basically a mood ring on a global scale.

http://noosphere.princeton.edu/

That's the home page of The Dot that explains what it's supposed to accomplish. If it's bright red for a long period of time it probably is a good idea to seek shelter. On 9/11 it went off the charts a few hours before the attack. It can't tell you what or where or when something will happen, but it will pick up on something and give you a good idea if somethings about to hit the fan.

In other news I can't wait for this damn election season to be over. I don't live in that God forsaken swamp that is New Jersey but Jesus how can anyone who lives in that state vote for either guy running for the Senate. With Menendez your getting a crook and with Kean your getting a guy who blindly supports Bush. At least here in New York it's a no contest for Satan...err Hillary Clinton. She's gonna win in a land slide.

I'm listening to Imus and Kinky Friedman is on. If the people of Texas have any sense they'll elect The Kinkster as the next Governor. If you need a good reason it's because he's promised Willie Nelson a job as Energy Czar. I think if this country is ever going to get it's shit together we have to vote the bums out of office. Vote the people who don't do anything out. Of course most people are to stupid for their own good so they'll bitch and bitch and bitch and come Election day they'll be like Eh I can't be bothered. Of course with all those paperless voting machines out there the election is kinda rigged anyway so it probably doesn't matter.

See I'm glad NYC uses voting machines that were made in the 40's. They're the size of refridgerators and they weigh a ton. It's a simple system of switches and it's fairly idiot proof. It still makes me laugh all these computerized voting machines came about because a bunch of old people in Florida couldn't punch a pin hole. Or maybe they did vote for Pat Buchannan...who the hell knows.

Why the hell am I awake anyway. Meh I need a drink...it's 5'O Clock somewhere.

New name for my show on EndRadio.com

I have finally come up with a new name for my show on http://www.endradio.com

It's now After Hours with Joe

It has a nice ring to it.

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Some random thoughts for 10/9/06

The big news tonight is North Korea tested a Nuclear Weapon. Depending on who you listen to the weapon was pretty much like the one we dropped on Nagasaki. North Korea doesn't have the technology to put one on a missile but you would think that North Korea was the old Soviet Union and they just put a nuke in Cuba. When it comes to North Korea and more specifically Kim Jon Ill he has what you can call an inferiority complex. He's the little runt of the old commie guard. China is the big dog so they get all the attention. He's the fearless leader who is leading his country true to the ideology of Marx and Lennon yet China gets all the attetnion.

So he played his trump card and got himself some attention. I'm sure Mark Foley is sending him a gift basket as we speak.

So North Korea has a working nuclear weapon.

Who gives a shit. I mean seriously so they have a weapon or two (maybe 10 or 20...who knows). We have 1000 times that. But on the same token China has about 10 times as many as them and the last thing they want is Kim thinking he's all important and threatening everyone. Lets say Kim gets pissed and says he will attack Seoul or Japan. Before Bush could even give the go order China would be all over North Korea and North Korea would become part of China.

Kim Jon Ill is only around because China allows him to live. Granted I'm pretty sure one of our covert op's could easily take him out but the fact remains that China basically keeps North Korea alive. The country by all acounts is worse off then some African nations. So I am not worried about North Korea. I'm worried about Bush getting us into another war and the draft being restarted. Kim Jon Ill having a power trip...not so much.

Now much like the case I laid out for Iraq in 2002 in school, the big issue is not that North Korea has the bomb but who they sell the bomb to. Iran has alot of it's missile technology from North Korea. If Kim wants to sell a bomb to finance another monster movie then it would be a problem. There's all ready rumblings of UN Sanctions but Russia and China would never go for that. There's reports Japan has war ships steaming towards North Korea right now. A blockcade is certain.

Earlier on Drudge's radio show someone mentioned how North Korea actually has the second most amount of submarines in Asia so if things heat up we could actually see some old fashion submarine warfare in that part of the world. But like I said I don't think it will come to that.

Of course I could be wrong and this all could be Karl Rove's October Surrprise to save the GOP's sorry asses in the November election. Who knows...who cares.

But if you happen to know someone in the Military who is stationed in Korea or in the surrounding area it couldn't hurt to say a prayer or two right now for them.

5 Years later

In about 2 hours or so as I type this it will be officially five years since the world as we knew it ended. In 2001 I was in school at B.M.C.C. which was about 4 blocks from the Twin Towers. The Towers were always standing over the school and they were really a beautiful sight to see so close. As a New Yorker you took for granted their place in the skyline. From The Brooklyn Bridge there they were. Standing tall in the background. A more perfect skyline could not be painted or even invisioned. On 9/11 our city was forever changed by those bastards who attacked us. In the years since 9/11 we have fought a war on terror that you can hardly call a war. At this point it's more of a squirmish then a war.

I remember when President Bush was on the smoldering pile and he said WE WILL FIND THE PEOPLE BEHIND THIS. Well five years later Usama Bin Laden is still "on the run". Al-Zawahri is releasing videos on a regular basis. Mullah Omar is hiding somewhere in the mountains of Afghanistan or Pakistan as The Taliban reform and grow stronger and reclaim much of the land that we took from them when we drove them out of power.

It's five years later and what do we have to show for it? Vice President Cheney says we've done a hell of a job. No attacks in five years so that's gotta count for something. Well it doesn't count for jack. The so called ring leaders sit in jail while Ground Zero becomes an election year pawn. They just released the new design for the other buildings down there and sure they look all nice and sleek but the fact remains The Freedom Tower which is supposed to be the way we American's say FUCK YOU to terror will be nothing but a testament to everything the terrorists accuse of us of doing. Greed and political favors are what will be built where the Towers stood.

As it is they say most people simply don't care anymore about 9/11. Hell some people are convinced Saddam Hussien was involved. I often wonder what its gonna be like 30, 40, 50 years from now when I'm in my 70's and God willing I have some Grand children. What will be the tale then? Will it be like Pearl Harbor and some old Fireman laying a wreath at the site?

Five years later and it all still feels the same. Five years from now who knows how it will feel. Five years from now 9/11 could simply be an after thought to a day that is worse then anyone can begin to imagine. Five years gone by and it's five years I wish I could have back. Alot of us wish we could have these five years back. If 9/11 taught me anything it's that nothing is guarenteed and everyday truly is a blessing because there is no guarentee that tomorrow will come.

To all those that died you can only hope they found peace after all that horror and to all those that lost someone they know and love you can only hope that one day they will meet that person again. Without faith there's not much to hope for.

I want to thank anyone who made it this far. Yeah it was a rambling essay of sorts but can anyone honestly say on 9/11 you could put together a string of thoughts that made sense? Nothing about that day from the planes to the collapse to everything that has happened since makes sense.

So yeah thanks for reading and here's to hoping 9/11 is the only day we have to remember when we're all old men and women.

For my "friends" at the Andrewbulous board

I was going to actually bite the bullet and register over at your little message board but you guys disabled registration so I'll just do it here since you love reading this blog.

Bix wants to know what's the yellow under my eyes.

Well Bix I wouldn't know what it is because I don't have any. You people are making fun of me with pictures I took a couple years ago. You like to joke that I have some sort of liver problem. I can tell you now that despite being a lard ass I am in perfect physical health.

No liver problems, no kidney problems, no heart problems, no cholesterol, no nothing.

Someone suggested I drink Mountain Dew. Granted I like drinking soda but I tend to stick to caffine free Coke or Pepsi. I can't remember the last time I drank Mountain Dew. It might have been a year ago but I'm not to sure about that.

So yeah sorry to dissapoint you guys.

It's been a year all ready

It was a year ago yesterday that my Uncle Johnny died downstairs from a massive heart attack (he probably also had cancer but didn't tell anyone). I remember my brother frantically coming to get me telling me to go downstairs because they think Uncle Johnny had a heart attack.

He was in his bed and not breathing or anything so we called 911 and God bless the NYC EMT's because they always get here with in 5 mins. Naturally they thought it was for my other uncle since they had been here to many times to count for him but we were like it's other one so they drag him out onto the floor of my Aunt's room and go to work on him. I had always said I didn't want to be in the house when the day came but it was the final hurdle of sorts to cross. They worked on him for an hour but it was to no avail and he was declared dead around 3:50 I think.

When ever you call for an ambulance, the police come by depending on the situation and it was a bit weird hearing someone upstairs saying is anyone home. I said we're down here and down walks a cop and his partner as the EMT's are still inside. After a couple mins they filled out some paperwork that's necessary for when anyone dies (basically the toe tag info) and basically I identified the body so all the info they wrote down was from me. I guess they listed me as the next of kin. It was weird but it's paperwork and the city is very preticular about that.

I remember the cop staying around for a couple of hours because someone had to be with the body till it was claimed by the funeral home. We went around the block to Daniel George but they were out of business at that point (google Daniel George Body Snatchers for more info) so we went to the Miraglia Funeral Home a few blocks away next to the train station. I always passed it but never went in it. As far as I know it's still family owned so it's a nice Italian funeral parlor. We made some preliminary arrangements and then walked back home and it's weird when you come back home and there's a body just laying there.

I remember thinking in the back of my mind the body starts some natural processes after death so the longer he's there it wouldn't be good. I remember my Uncle George saying when one of my cousins died in the 80's it took them almost 8 hours to get the body out of the house. It was about 4 or so for Uncle Johnny. They eventually came and brought the gurney and put him in the bag and wheeled him out.

We had a wait almost a week for the wake and funeral since there was the weekend and I think a jewish holiday and the cemetaries were closed. He's buried out in New Jersey at the same place my Uncle Tommy is. We thought we could get the grave next to him which would of been funny if they had to spend eternity next to each other since they didn't preticularly like each other. But he ended up in a grave across the road so to speak. I remember after the service was over and everyone was leaving the coffin was by itself under the tent they have and as we drove by I just thought it was sad and almost a statement on our family. They don't give a shit till it's to late and once your gone they don't bother with you.

I hope there is something beyond this world and He's found peace because his last months weren't to pleasant.

Ah well thanks with putting up with me doing some remembering. I needed to kick start the writing portion of my brain and a quick blog works wonders.

Random thoughts for 8/25/06

First off all my friends on the Andrewbulous Message board can still kiss my ass. But in addition to the usual suspects, Travis wants to know the following.

"I feel very left out

HEY TUBBY AM I NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOUR CRAPPY 20 YEAR OLD PICTURE OF ARN ANDERSON OR WHAT? "

The answer shit for brains is no you are not good enough to deserve the Arn Anderson pic. You get nothing. You are nothing. Take that with you through the rest of the day. As for the rest of you cocksuckers on the board, I'd like to thank you all for the hits and attention you've given this little blog. As they say attention is attention and you all gave me some attention so give yourself a round of applause.

On to those random thoughts now...

First off August 22nd came and went for the most part we're still alive so the threat of Iran nuking everyone didn't happen. I was actually kinda dissapointed. There are days where I welcome a nuclear holocaust. But I suppose it's always a good thing when nothing happens. It's funny how it's coming up on 5 years since 9/11 and that Bin Laden fellow is still out there. On CNN earlier the Pakistani Ambassador said that Bin Laden might be in the mountains near the border with China. You know if that goof is still alive (which I and a good portion of the public doubt he is) I hope the Chinese find him because The Chinese can do alot more to him then we ever could.

Normally I'm against those damn Commies because they are downright horrible when it comes to human rights but you know if they capture a bed ridden Osama Bin Laden and unplug his dialisis Machine and let him die a slow death is it such a bad thing? Then again there was a time where I was all for bringing him back alive so we could drag him through the streets of New York and dip him into a pool of Pigs blood before we disembowled him. Of course now I could care less if they catch him or not. Oh sure he's a bad person, but think about it for a second. If we wanted him dead he would have been dead a week after 9/11. We have technology that can see with in an inch of a target from 250 Miles up and yet we're supposed to believe this fucker got away on Horseback in the middle of the night when we had every piece of military technology aimed at him.

Yeah what ever.

In other news, Pluto is no longer a planet. What is it with these damn egg head astronomers having to change things. Just because it small and takes 248 to orbit the sun doesn't mean it's not a planet. This dwarf planet thing won't make anysense in the long run and odds are they will flip and call it a planet again. Now if we could just build a space engine big and fast enough to get someone to Pluto and beyond in a normal lifetime we would be set because you know it would be nice to be able to get out of the solar system if the sun ever decides to go Nova.

So yeah that's about it. Listen to the radio show and click on the ads. The blog might turn a profit yet.

My lates rasslin column for those interested in that stuff

http://thewrestlingvoice.com/columns/phant...158334001.shtml

This is basically part 2 to my The X Division needs Nash column a couple months ago. I write about how the angle went better then anyone thought and how TNA is blowing the best thing they have going on tv right now.

Is Kevin Nash out for himself or is he actually doing what others wont and giving back to the business?

Read the ballad of Kevin Nash to get my take on it.

Feedback or hatemail is appreciated.

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K Thor Jensen can kiss my ass

Hey K Thor I know you love reading my blogs so this one's for you pal. And just for the record you little schmuck. I'm not going to go to a film school. I'm going to go to an actual college. There's a big difference you dumb shit. Spunk, Migrane, Woodude, Josh, Joe_Mamal the same goes to you all. You all can kiss my big fat white ass.

You people claim I have the pathetic life yet your the ones who love to spend time harping on me. People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Perhaps you should examine your own life before making fun of mine. There are only two people I have to answer for my actions and that's God and myself and the last time I checked none of you little dickless wonder's were either.

LIP GLOSS IS A WEAPON PEOPLE

OH NOES TEH TERRORISTS WERE GONNA USE GATORADE AND TOOTHPASTE AS A WEAPON. WE DON'T HAVE A PRAYER.

Are you kidding me...I Jesus is this what we have come to? Scared to death over lip gloss and a bottle of fruit punch. All this new warning did was cause people to stand in line longer then they had to because God forbid someone got on board with their IPOD because then we might really be in for it.

Ok yes I guess it is serious. I mean in theory if this plot happened we could have easily seen a couple thousand people blown out of the sky at once. Its not a pleasant thought but the security measures they put in place afterwards are no picnic either. It's been proven time and time again that people can sneak just about anything onto a plane if they are creative enough. I remember when I was on the Red Eye coming back from Vegas that someone brought their dog onto the plane with them.

This whole no carry on bagage in England thing is not going to work. What about the regular baggage. You can still hide a bomb in there. They did that with that Pan Am flight over Scotland. A little explosive molded into a common walkman of the time.

So this current threat of appearently mixing liquids seems far fetched to me. I mean unless it's the same bomb used in Die Hard 3 I kinda doubt you can mix chemicals and ignite them with a camera flash or cell phone or even an IPOD.

I think when it comes down to it this is another case of having to justify all these preemptive measures. I mean its not like it's Baghdad in New York or London with some dumb Jihadi blowing up a market every 15 minutes or random bombs going off. For the most part with the exception of Bali, Madrid, and London...nothing has happened since 9/11. Most people don't really care about 9/11 anymore so these terror plots kinda come out when they need a reminding of sorts.

I know I'm being cynical but damn it you know it's the truth. I don't care about the war. I know no one who really does. We're more concerned with the price of living going up then some problem in the middle east. It's funny how if we got into this war for Oil yet the price of Oil is higher then ever before.

I guess a peace time economy is better for the gas guzzlers.

My Show on tonight

Yeah The Late Nite Cup of Joe will be airing on EndRadio.com tonight at 12 to 1 AM EST and right after that will be yesterday's show that didn't air due to technical difficulties.

Tonight's topics include the heat, why the media thinks Mel Gibson is important, AOL coming to their damn senses a few years to late and other random stuff.

Music for tonights show includes

Unchanined by Van Halen
Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd (Live)
One of these Days by Pink Floyd (Live)
The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg by Iron Maiden

Thoughts, comments, whatever can be sent to PhantomLordNYC@yahoo.com

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Late Nite Cup of Joe for 8/1/06

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LUF5KDLN

It was supposed to be streamed on EndRadio.com but stuff happens as they say.

On this show I talk about the joke that is the MTV Video Music Awards and I let my brother talk about Heath Ledger as The Joker in the new Batman movie.

Music for today's show includes

Bombtrack-Rage Against The Machine
Aces High-Iron Maiden (Live version)
Fire-Ozzy Osbourne
Jesus of Suburbia by Green Day

Shows about 58 mins long and it's WMA form.

Download it and let me know what you think.

The debut of A Morning Cup of Joe on EndRadio.com

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EndRadio.com is back up and running we got a pretty kickass schedule of free streaming music running right now.

To top things off I got a morning show. From 5:30 to 6:30 it's a Morning Cup of Joe where I talk about the current news in the world in my own way and play some loud ass music to wake you the hell up.

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The Music on todays's Morning Cup of Joe is

God's gonna cut you down by Johnny Cash
Schools Out by GWAR
Cult by Slayer
Highway Star(Live 2006) by Deep Purple
Hole in the Sky(Live) by Black Sabbath

Myspace.com is down...

Oh lawdey lawdey lawd what ever will I do. My Space is down and I can't see the 10,000 bulletins people send me everyday for stupid shit. The cam whores can't contact me. The conspiracy nuts can't send me their videos. I can't even get links to club party's I'll never go to. Ok so Myspace is down. Big fricken deal.

MySpace is owned by News Corp and you would think with a site that has 80 Million members they would invest some of that Fox money into generators for the servers. Myspace has been running slow as hell anyway lately so maybe this would be a perfect excuse for Tom to get off his ass and put in some new servers so it doesn't take me 15 minutes to log in and constant refreshing just to see someone's message.

The one thing I never got about Myspace is where is all the personal information they harp about on the news. They say dumb girls put up all this info and I've never seen it. Of course I'm not complaining when they put up revealing pictures but Myspace is not as bad as people make it out to be. I would say half the people who use it end up using it like I do and that's to shill their stuff. The more friends you have the more people you can send your content to. Oh sure I've found a few people I knew in high school but other then that it's not that great of a site. So maybe with this "blackout" they'll update everything so it isn't so slow.

I swear it's all about timing

According to the Box office types, My Super Ex-Girlfriend (With Luke Wilson and Uma Thurman) will be a bomb because it will only pull in maybe $7 Million total this weekend.

Personally it pisses me off when you got an original idea like this and the movie doesn't do to well. Unlike other movies that have bloated budgets this one seems like it was fairly cheap to make (well by blockbuster standards).

Luke Wilson is a damn good actor and Uma Thurman is many a man's dream woman so how could it fail?

I'll tell you how it fails. First it was put out at the wrong time of year. A movie like this is good for the late fall not the height of the summer. I can count alot of movies that were great but did poorly because they opened against a huge blockbuster.

I'm thinking about going back to school to get a degree in film and I can tell you honestly if I had a choice between a huge action film and a quirky comedy date movie, I'd take the date movie. With action flicks there's no guarentee it will do well. With comedy date movies you get word of mouth and you should be able to generate a decent profit. If I had a special someone I know I would probably take her to go see this over what ever the hell else is playing. I mean if your going to spend $40 bucks on tickets and food alone then you might as well make the movie worth your while.

Besides it has Uma Thurman in spandex...how the hell can it fail?

TWO MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT

Yes I know it's a bit cliche to use that line but what the hell. I'm a Maiden fan so I'm allowed. But seriously it looks like the proverbail shit is about to hit the fan. Israel has just blockaded Lebanon, Syria and Iran are pretty much behind all the stuff going on over there and add to that we still have our little friend Kim playing with his missiles because he has an ego complex.

So it makes you wonder. When everything does hit the fan...what happens next? I honestly don't know. I mean if you believe one group of people this is all the work of Islamic radicals hell bent on the end of the world. If you believe another this is all the work of the Illumanti. Of course you could be part of the other 95% who basically could care less on what is going on around you. With the rising prices oil and the cost of living who has time to worry about a silly little thing like World War 3 when you can't even pay the bills on time. Those silly little cost of living problems are what the big wigs like to call a distraction.

You won't notice the world falling apart around you if your in debt over your head. I hope cooler heads prevail but honestly they probably won't. The Israeli's have been itching to get Syria an ass whipping for years and since most experts agree Syria goaded Hezzbollah into attacking yesterday they'll finally get their chance to level Damascus. After all that part is in the bible.

Isaiah 17


1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.

4 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.

5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.

6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.

7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.

9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:

11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

I found that on http://www.godlikeproductions.com

If you think I'm paranoid you should see some of the folks on that board. But the funny thing about Biblical prophecy is it's usually right. It's funny how when everything is said and done and those of us left alive after the nuclear holocausts write down the history of what happened we can look back and say what kicked World War 3 into high gear were three Israeli soilders getting kidnapped.

Then again it's like Albert Einstien said. World War 3 will be fought with bombs and World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.