Just in case anyone was curious. Just a quick link I caught with your friend and mine, the good Pat Robertson, talking about his upcoming predictions for 2007. According to him, we’re all gonna die.

Evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson said Tuesday that God has told him that a terrorist attack on the United States would cause a “mass killing” late in 2007.

“I’m not necessarily saying it’s going to be nuclear,” he said during his news-and-talk television show “The 700 Club” on the Christian Broadcasting Network.

Uh-oh. That’s no good. Well how’s his track record? Thankfully, CNN provides that for us. He predicted Bush would easily win in 2004*, that he would pass all sorts of laws and nominate conservative judges**, and that he predicted lots more storms and possibly a tsunami in 2006***, none of which came true. Your response, Patty O’Robertson?

“I have a relatively good track record,” he said. “Sometimes I miss.”

Sure ya do. I may need to get rid of my “stupid” category. It’s filling up too quickly.

* Bush’s victory margin (2.4%) was the smallest for an incumbent in US history.

** Bush’s attempt at reforming Social Security failed, and “predicting” that a conservative president with a Republican majority Congress would put a conservative judge on the bench is like watching a guy drink 15 beers and predicting he’ll get drunk.

*** No tsunami, and actually an unusually calm hurricane season, far calmer than 2004 or 2005. For some reason Pat said that because rainstorms happened that means he was kinda right, because clearly rainstorms never hit the coastline.