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Tag Archives: Harold Camping
Harold Camping Says Oops, My Bad; Full Text of Letter to Followers
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Serial failure in the end-of-the-world prediction biz Harold Camping has issued an acknowledgment of sorts that his forecast last year that the the Apocalypse would occur on May 21 was kind of erroneous. "We humbly acknowledge we were wrong about … Continue reading
Morning Splash: Mehserle Release; Prop 8 Hearing; Harold Camping Suffers Stroke
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Mehserle Released From Jail (Oakland Tribune) Former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle was released from jail early Monday morning after serving just over 11 months of a two-year-prison term given to the 29-year-old after he was found guilty of involuntary … Continue reading
Harold Camping -- Negativland Style
Failed Rapture prognosticator Harold Camping's been making appearances on KPFA's Over the Edge show for years. Well, not the real Camping, but a fake one provided by the audio-collage satirists Negativland, several of whom reside in the Bay Area. On … Continue reading
Audio, Video: Harold Camping's Press Conference Yesterday
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Here's an MP3 recording someone captured of Harold Camping's press conference yesterday, which was broadcast on Family Radio's "Open Forum" program at 5:30 p.m. And here's nearly nine minutes of it on raw video from KTVU. As you no doubt … Continue reading
Video: Mime Troupe's Ed Holmes Releases Balloon Animals Outside Camping's Family Radio
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Remember when the San Francisco Mime Troupe's Ed Holmes (best-known for playing a spot-on Dick Cheney in a couple of the troupe's summer productions) told us that he was going to mosey on over to Harold Camping's studio with some … Continue reading
At Harold Camping's Family Radio, It's Business as Usual On-Air
Well I'll be damned. Or maybe not: Six p.m. has come and gone in one of the last times zones to meet the appointed doomsday hour with nary a massive earthquake or cloud-bound cluster of ascending faithful. One of the … Continue reading
Rapture Day: Mime Troupe's Ed Holmes to Mock Camping Followers; Milpitas Church to Offer Counsel
All of this talk about the end of the world coming on May 21, 2011 is so silly. When everybody knows that's going to happen on December 21, 2012. Right? The 2012 date, some say, was predicted by the Mayans. … Continue reading
