Follow-up -- various

Is Kim Jong Ill? A couple of posts down, we discussed the rumors that Bill Clinton met not with Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il but with an impersonator. The Christian Science Monitor takes the "double" theory seriously. Apparently, the North Korean dictator is seriously ill. If he's using a double, he may be doing so in order to stall for time, due to the lack of a clear successor.

What, no Mary? There is a surprising lack of after-action reporting on the Virgin Mary's predicted Halloween visit to Knock, Ireland, as discussed in an earlier post. Alleged clairvoyant Joe Coleman said that she would appear to one and all at 3 p.m. yesterday afternoon. As you might imagine, this prediction prompted the formation of a huge crowd -- 10,000 strong, by one estimate.

So what went down? Well, I'm not sure. Via Google News, one can find much snarky commentary, but the closest thing to actual "five-dubyas" journalism is this piece in the Irish Times -- which indicates that the Virgin, rather disappointingly, made an entirely subjective appearance seen only by Joe Coleman. And how did the crowd react? Were they disappointed? Ya got me!

Mary will make one more appearance before Christmas, or so says this site. I got a deep chuckle from this bit...

Good timing too by Our Lady after the dreadful Yes vote in the Lisbon Treaty. She also knows that the One World Plotters are about to impose their One World Dictatorship on us all with the significent signing of the Copenhagan Treaty in December which will move this Sinister Plot closer to our backdoor step. God help us!!!

Bet you didn't know that Mary was a tea-bagger, did you? I wonder if Richard Viguerie has her email address...

Halloween: Last night, I made my usual annual tour of various putative "real life" haunted locations throughout southern California. This year, I went all the way out to Colton, home of the spooked-up Agua Mansa Cemetery, an "old west" boot hill where La Llorona has been seen, or rather heard. She's not the only spectre in the area: According to local lore, people traveling down the adjacent Agua Mansa Road have often seen an alleged old ghost man walking his ghost dog.

As it turned out, I could not enter the cemetery. It had been commandeered by a merry band of occultists who placed guards at the gates to keep away uninvited riff-raff, of which there was a steady stream. Apparently, the city of Colton was cool with whatever ceremony these seekers of wisdom hoped to hold in that historic boneyard. Among the Halloween fun-seekers turned away at the gate were some hot girls in skimpy costumes. Jeez. Modern occultists are a lot stupider than they were in Aleister Crowley's day.

Not wishing to crash the party, I decided to take my Havanese hell-hound Bella for a walk down Agua Mansa Road. I was dressed as Uncle Fester, which is not too far removed from my usual look. Cars passed by -- and someone shouted: "Look! There's the dog!"

Perhaps Joe Coleman is reading this. Perhaps he just figured out how to prevent another Marian no-show in Ireland.