12/4    12 US minors trapped, 12 German skaters died, dozens of
        Indonesians died in landslide. Apocalypse? Rapture?
        \_ 12 days of Christmas
        \_ I know you're just being snarky, but this is just the same old
           "if it bleeds, it leads" shitty journalism the media has
           produced since forever.  Anything good happening appears as a
           light and fluffy human interest story in the home & garden
           section's 3rd page.
           \_ Actually the big story on the front page of the Merc was
              about how 12 miners were found alive!  Whoops.  But see
              the feel good story was TOP OF THE NEWS.
        \_ minors?
        \_ Rapture? It wasn't the rapture when hundreds of thousands died
           in the tsunami.  It wasn't the rapture when tens of millions
           died in WW2.  Maybe you could call the greenhouse baking of
           the earth in 50-100 years time "rapture" but that's man made ...
           Why don't you just call it what it is: a desperate hope of fairy
           tales being proven "true" any way possible.
           tales being proven "true" with the loosest test of "truth"
           possible.
           \_ Rapture is when yermom finds a banana.
           \_ The religious nutjobs weren't in charge yet back then.
              Oh wait, I guess they were during the tsunami.  -John