By Robert Proudfoot

Let’s run down just a few of the events last week that reminded us that we all could die in a cloud of dust and fire at any moment. The train bombings in Bombay/Mumbai that killed over 150 people scared NYPD to deploy, as a precaution, hundreds more officers into the subway system. A suicidal man on 62nd Street blows up his $9 million house and scares everyone in New York into thinking, momentarily, that it was a terror attack. Self-proclaimed biblical scholars unsuccessfully attempted to predict—with 98 percent accuracy according to website truebiblecode.com—a nuclear bomb from the East River targeting the UN on the Fourth of July. “But we do still have the month right in our understanding...” stated the website. So don’t worry, for those of you who enjoy biblically predicted nuclear holocaust, their new prediction is July 25-27. Oh, and to top off this week’s hair-rising signs of the apocalypse, Mayor Bloomberg is falling behind on his NYPD recruitment goal of 800 new officers this year, reported the NY Post. Whether recruitment is hurt by better pay from surrounding counties and high testing standards, the number of people entering the force has dropped. Since 2001, the police force shrunk by 4,000 officers to about 37,000. Crime is supposedly down, but one has to hope Bloomberg will meet his 800 NYPD recruitment goal—one week of craziness is more than enough to prove we need it.