Up in the sky

Today being June 29, a lot of people are looking at tomorrow not only as the birthday of a really great American (a 6' 5" graduate of Towson High School named Michael Phelps) but as the end of the fiscal year.

This is a scheduling oddity, this fiscal year business, set up to make it easier for accountants to juggle the books on corporations before taking the months of July and August off.  It is also known as the "physical year" in Baltimore, where June 30 is actually known as "June 31st."

But please, enjoy the 30th of June because it is supposed to be the last 30th of any month ever, says a group with a 100% record of being totally wrong in these matters.

They call themselves "End Times Prophecies" and they have announced - with some certainty, mind you! - that the world will come to an end on July 29, owing to a chain of events resulting from something called a "Polar Flip."

And you're like me, thinking a Polar Flip is a new treat at Dairy Queen, but no. There's even a video, should you have 17 minutes with nothing at all to do, and it's on YouTube, so you know it's verified to be accurate.

They report on the totally non-bogus Armageddon News, and the report says, "The polar flip will make the stars race across the sky, and the vacuum from the reeling of the Earth will pull the atmosphere along the ground, trying to catch up, creating what is known as a roll cloud."

For those of you so unfortunate as never to have fallen in love, that's exactly what it feels like, so try to make it happen before the end of July. And consarn it, if Pete Davidson can get with Ariana Grande, there is hope for everyone! 

All of these goin's-on in the sky above seem to stem from a big deal of a blood moon that is due to make the end of July really something to remember, so to speak. There will be a lunar eclipse, the longest one of the 21st Century, lasting almost two hours and starting a blood moon (in which the moon has a red tinge.)

Look up! Now look up "phony predictions!"

This is similar to the story put out by wacky ministers John Hagee and Mark Biltz, who said back in 2014 that four consecutive lunar eclipses which began in April of that year with six full moons in between comprises a "tetrad" - - and that meant the end of earth as described in the Bible in Acts 2:20 and Revelation 6:12.

The tetrad ended in September '14, and the Orioles made the playoffs that October, so I know the world did not end.

However the tetrad ended in September 2014 and we're all still here.

These same fools at End Times Prophecies, earlier this year, called for a BA collision between asteroids and Earth in May, and that Barack Obama would reveal himself to be the Antichrist in June. 

And if you've ever had asteroids, you know how irritating they can be.