Here.

This brings The Rapture closer:

Beast Government:
Romania and Bulgaria join the EU.

Well, there you have it.

And in other news...

Whenever I want to baseline the country's Bad Craziness, I check out the Rapture Index, your "prophetic speedometer of end-time activity":

Rapture index closes up 1 on false Christs, ecumenism. Volcanoes down

[+1] False Christs: A gentleman in Florida has made news by claiming to be Christ.

[+1] Ecumenism: The outrage over the Pope's comments about Islam is helping the ecumenical movement.

[-1] Volcanoes: The lack of activity has downgraded this category.

If anyone doesn't know what we're up against with the 30-percenters, they believe this stuff.

Not only do the 30-percenters believe this stuff, their craziness drives Bush's foreign policy, at the least because "The Base" is the only reliable voting bloc He has left, at the most because He's as batshit crazy as they are.

As Glenn points out: