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Follow @Uncle_Ernie Roll Over John Franklin; And Tell Wiley Post The News By Ernest Stewart "Glug, glug, glug, glug!" ~~~ Captain John Franklin The cruise ship Crystal Serenity was anchored just off Nome, too big to use the community's docks on its inaugural visit. Instead, its more than 900 passengers piled into small transport boats and motored to shore, where they snapped photos of wild musk oxen, lifted glasses in the town's colorful bars and nibbled blueberry pie, while admiring Alaska Native dancers at Nome's summer celebration. Some remote villages along the way are seeing dollar signs, while environmentalists are seeing doom. They say the voyage represents global warming and man's destruction of the Earth. Michael Byers, a professor in the political science department at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver said: "The terrible irony with the Crystal Serenity's voyage is that it's taking place only because of climate change and the melting Arctic. The Northwest Passage, which connects the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, has long been choked off by ice. But melting brought on by climate change is allowing passengers to cruise up the Bering Strait and then head east toward Greenland over the Arctic Ocean before docking next week in New York City.The cruise ship left Seward -- on the Kenai Peninsula -- Aug. 16 with about 900 guests and 600 crew members on board. During its month long journey to New York, it'll visit towns and villages in western and northern Alaska, Canada, Greenland and the Eastern Seaboard. For the last few years smaller cruise ships, those holding about 200 people, routinely make a port call in Nome, and continue through the passage; but this ship is different. Nome's Mayor Richard Beneville said while licking his lips and fondling his wallet, "This is the game changer. This is the one that's on everyone's lips." The cost for the voyage is between $20,000 and $120,000 per person; so the passengers have money to burn. The local BBB will make a killing no doubt while the giant ship destroys the environment. The cruise company is planning another Alaska-to-New York City voyage next August. As ship's passenger Bob Lentz said: "We're going off on a wildlife adventure right now, and that, to me, is what it's all about in our twilight years - kind of experiencing things before crazy humans destroy it." Crazy humans like Bob Lentz! ***** Arquette(Pulp-Fiction)1.jpg) 07-28-1969 ~ 09-11-2016 Thanks for the film!  12-01-1955 ~ 09-14-2016 Thanks for the film!  12-23-1936 ~ 09-15-2016 Thanks for the film! ***** We get by with a little help from our friends! So please help us if you can...? Donations ***** So how do you like Bush Lite so far? And more importantly, what are you planning on doing about it? Until the next time, Peace! (c) 2016 Ernest Stewart a.k.a. Uncle Ernie is an unabashed radical, author, stand-up comic, DJ, actor, political pundit and for 14 years was the managing editor and publisher of Issues & Alibis magazine. Visit me on Facebook. Follow me on Twitter. Email:uncle-ernie@issuesandalibis.org
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