Pat Robertson has been talking to the invisible cloud-daddy again. Even worse, he thinks the cloud-daddy is talking back. He's now predicting another terrorist attack for late 2007 and hinting that it may be nuclear. Since his god told him about it, it must be true, right? But hold on a second. The story lists some of his other predictions and their accuracy. Let's just say Pat's not always money. In his own words:

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

That's right folks. Sometimes he misses. And even his hits are pretty weak. Like his prediction that storms would hit America's coastline in 2006. Get out your map and look at how much coastline the US has (don't forget Alaska and Hawaii). Is it even conceivable that an entire year could pass without storms hitting our coasts somewhere? Feh.

Robertson's latest prognostication is a Homeland Security Alert direct from the man upstairs himself. That's gotta be off the scale on the threat level color chart. I'm thinking INFRARED - PISS YOUR PANTS AND HIDE UNDER YOUR BED level. But there's no specificity at all. Sometime "after September" there is going to be a terrorist attack and many people will die. That's a pretty vague warning to be coming from a supreme being. Maybe god has a capricious sense of humor akin to that of a child kicking anthills. Or maybe this "prediction" is a wild guess pulled right out of Robertson's ass. It's ridiculous, and what's worse is that when it fails to happen, he won't be tarred and feathered and chased out of town. He'll make some lame excuse, give god and dubya credit for sparing us all, and go right on stoking the fires of fear and hate to an audience numbering in the millions. Amurka the irrational.