On the Lunar Eclipse, Christopher Columbus and Al Gore
**Written by Doug Powers
Early this morning, there was a lunar eclipse. Did you see it? My eyes were eclipsed by my eyelids so I missed it.
The event reminded me of another lunar eclipse that occurred in February of 2008 — a cycle known as “the eclipse that saved Columbus.”
The story begins more than 500 years ago, when Columbus and his men found themselves stranded on the coast of Jamaica and running out of food. The natives wanted them gone, weren’t interested in helping out in any way and were growing increasingly hostile. In short, Columbus and his men were receiving as warm a welcome as a Marine Corps recruiting station in Berkeley.
Columbus had with him an astronomical almanac, and he realized that a total eclipse of the moon would occur on Feb. 29, 1504 — the next day. As the story goes, Columbus then told the native leaders that if they didn’t help his men by giving them food and supplies, he would make the moon disappear from the sky the following night.
The next night, after the moon disappeared, the natives pleaded with Columbus to make the moon reappear — which he did (as far as the natives were concerned), after receiving guarantees that he and his men would be provided as much food as they needed. Columbus and his crew were subsequently rescued.
Columbus, using fear and the natives lack of education and understanding of science to his advantage, convinced people that a naturally occurring phenomenon was “man made” in order to get what he wanted.
So, early this morning, if you happened to see Al Gore standing before a gathered throng while gesturing to a darkened sky and loudly proclaiming, “Buy carbon credits from me, and I’ll bring the moon back,” you now know, as the great Paul Harvey used to say, the rest of the story.
**Written by Doug Powers
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All over the world people are getting hit with record cold, record snow fall and a shortage of Video Barbies and all for one reason; those damn algore Carbon Credits! It must be stopped! Brings your pitchforks, torches, sharpened stakes and silver bullets–algore must be stopped before we freeze to death without our Video Barbies.
For God, Country and Video Barbie!
(grand daughter wants one-can’t find it
)
I got a moon for ya right here, buddy.
Now I see why I had trouble going to sleep last night, the moon was going away. It will be easier to get to sleep tonight, it is back!
L
I watched part of the eclipse last night but I didn’t realize it was Algore’s shadow that was blocking out the sunlight. Maybe he should think about dropping a few pounds…
But the eclipse was pretty cool.
Now you know why the libtards despise Columbus so much. He made the natives look ignorant. Libtards believe that native people lived in one with nature which is so much BS. The Indians used to burn forests so a raging wildfire wouldn’t damage their habitats. Just like any humans, they exploited nature to their advantage.
Remember a while back when an Indian tribe in the northwest sued to be able to hunt a whale? I do. It drove the libtards crazy! They support the living in one with nature BS but that ended where the liberal political correctness took over. No hunting whales! Even if it is part of living at one with nature. The Indians won the suit and killed a whale. They brought it back to shore, dead, and paraded around it like Great Hunter — Nanook of the North. I laughed my @$$ off because PETA went out of their minds: didn’t these “native americans” understand that their heritage really didn’t include killing whales? How can you live at one with nature and kill a whale? (I’m guessing with boats and harpoons. Thar she blows!)
Hunting whales? Enough about Rosie O’Donnell and Michael Moore. algore is more sea cow or walrus than whale-always lying ’round and blowing air.
I’m not seeing my posts?
Speaking of dicey situations, this country dodged one huge bullet when SCOTUS stopped him from stealing the 2000 election.
Al Gore is even a bigger liar than Obama. Not only is he trying to convince us that the moon is going to fall from the sky and kill us, he’s trying to convince us that it’s a 2nd moon that no one has ever seen. It’s hiding out there somewhere…
I still can’t post my first paragraph. I can’t figure out anything in it that a robo-censor wouldn’t like?
AZ Caveman If you have ever been around manatees, they blow hot air, but I am not talking about exhaling! They eat a LOT of greens and the subsequent gaseous emissions from a single cow would power a natural gas powered truck for a year!
Tourists in the Keys love to see them, but quickly learn to stand upwind!
A total eclipse is the sort of thing that might require Algore to shave a bit more…aaahhhWOOOOOOOOOO!
AzNean: I heard the company took all the ‘video barbies’ back due to complaints that the doll could be used for ‘child pornography’ reasons.
Very interesting and clever connection, Doug!
The eclipse was cool. My whole family watched it together.
Without consulting my grand daughter? The bums…….
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algore gets a 24 hour reprieve from the staking.
Barbie in the crosshairs
Napoleon: Lucky!
My God DO NOT let algore or the Greenie Weenies hear about that!
Since the EPA has been given power to regulate greenhouse gasses, I’m looking forward to federal regulations on how deep and how many exhales we’re to be allowed.
Is it just me or does it look like Al Gore is going to make the moon eclipse by swallowing it whole?
We see the moon, we see the Earth’s natural satellite…Algore sees the Earth’s natural satellite, he sees a mega moonpie.: )
Re pic: ManBearPig auditions for the lead in “I was a teenage Werewolf” the Broadway musical!
I understand Barbie and Ken were doing unspeakable things on camera and posting them on the Interwebs!
The thought of Al Gore and the moon in the same sentence…makes me…want to…
*urf*
Sorry for the mess.
I posted on the poor Frosty thread, but it is also appropo for Gore:
Gore-bull Warming Song
(sung to the tune of Let it Snow!)
Oh, the weather outside is warming,
And the fear is so alarming,
We haven’t a place to go –
Where’s the snow, where’s the snow, where’s the snow?
Oh, what’s that white stuff falling?
It seems we need some hauling…
To help get rid of the snow,
Where’d Al go? Where’d Al go? Where’d Al go?
When we finally crank up the heat
So we don’t freeze our Christmas ba!!s off
As we try to make sense of this,
We’ll sit around the fire and scoff!
Oh, the global warming crowd is hiding
But I bet we’ll hear some chiding
The proof of warming, you know,
Is the snow, Is the snow, Is the snow!
By Babiesgrandma
Al Gore should be made U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, five minutes before we end participation in it, and make the U.N. move to Belgium or Switzerland.
Rogue Cheddar said:
That was below the belt.
Where’s the total eclipse of Al Gore?
Michael Moore’s on the way, but he noticed the light was on at Krispy Kreme, and thinking himself a wise man, he’s following the light…
LOL! I hope the lunar eclipse helped Al release his premordial seventh chakra. I sure it was a howling success!
Poor algore, even Tipper left him
Brava
Eclipse.
For his size ego? There ain’t no planet big enough.
Reminds me of a joke I once heard:
God said, “Let there be light,” and then pushed Al Gore out of the way…well, in this case, moonlight. Still funny, though.
During the eclipse, I tweeted these:
I mentioned this yesterday to my nieces and newphew last night and they say Gore is mentioned once a while as a bedrock source of truth (likely helped along by the United Fed of Teachers’ sour grapes that Gore was “cheated” of the presidency), but my issue is — where’s and who’s the “counterweight” to Gore and Greens in schools? Gore gets an incredibly free ride to a captive audience of millions in our own homes under our radar! How do home schools handle this?
James Greenidge
Queens NY
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