What 2007 holds for the country.

I gave you my predictions for 2007 a few days ago. Now, these are among the findings of an Associated Press-AOL News poll that asked Americans to gaze into their crystal balls and contemplate what 2007 holds for America.

Another terrorist attack, a warmer planet, death and destruction from a natural disaster.

Six in 10 people think the U.S. will be the victim of another terrorist attack next year, more than five years after the Sept. 11 assault on New York and Washington. An identical percentage think it is likely that bad guys will unleash a biological or nuclear weapon elsewhere in the world.

Seventy percent of Americans predict another major natural disaster within the United States and an equal percentage expect worsening global warming. Fewer than one-third of people, or 29 percent, think it is likely that the U.S. will withdraw its troops from Iraq.

But on a brighter note, only a minority of people think the U.S. will go to war with Iran or North Korea over the countries' nuclear ambitions and a third of people see hope for a cure to cancer.

NOW BOYS AND GIRLS, HERE COMES THE SCARY PART:

One in four, or 25 percent, anticipates the Second Coming!

What make this so scary is not the fact that the Second Coming will occur - NO, the scary part is that 25% of Americans BELIEVE IT!

On a couple of side notes here:

1. These people don't have to worry about how many shopping days left till next Christmas and;
2. I still vividly recall when I was twelve years old in 1960 our next door neighbour (who was a heavy-duty Catholic) told me that the world would end that year!
She was just like any other “End of the World” adherent, still trying, after 2000 years, to experience the rapture! All she managed to do was scare the crap out of a kid - me!

Your "pass the kool-aid" scribe;
Allan W Janssen