W.Va. Stalagmite Points to Surprising Carbon Footprint

aol News ^ | 19/4/10 | Dave Thier

[Eleutheria5]

So that's why Columbus and the Pilgrims were so mean to them. They were trying to save the environment from those carbon-footprint-making, global-warming, campfire-lighting, playful-little-critters-hunting...Native Americans. Al Gore would have even taken a shot, or passed out a smallpox-infested blanket or two. The horror. The horror.

[WayneS]

So global warming ISN’T George Bush’s fault?

[Lurker]

I thought stalagmites pointed at the ceiling.

[Red Badger]

Slash and burn agronomy.................

[The Sons of Liberty]

One other thought: The "Native Americans" introduced Sir Walter Raleigh to tobacco. Raleigh took it back to England and soon everyone was hooked on a three pack a day habit.

How many people have the Native Americans killed, and continue to kill, with tobacco through heart-attacks, emphysema, lung cancer, high blood pressure, etc.?

[Dallas59]

At least they didn’t pay taxes...

[bunkerhill7]

Does this mean that EPA can get reparations for damages for us from Native Americans for what their ancestors did to our green earth, causing this accrued global warming and trying to make us green slaves??

[LibLieSlayer]

ONE MUST BE CERTIFIABLY INSANE TO BUY INTO GLOBULL WARMING.

LLS

[OldBullrider]

The natives probably had a pictograph on the bottom of every pouch they traded. It showed a stick figure stuffing leaves into a pipe, next the stick figure showed him lighting the pipe, next stick figure should him coughing up a lung, and the last stick figure showed him at a burial ceremony. You just didn’t turn the tobacco pouch over and gazed at the bottom for the Medicine Man’s warning on the hazards of smoking the peace pipe.

Then the Lawyers showed up and everything went to hades.

[WOBBLY BOB]

[Carpe Cerevisi]

I thought stalagmites pointed at the ceiling.

Here's Bobby Byrd when the stalagmite was just a wee lad.

[qam1]

Oh c’mon now, we all know the Native Americans lived in harmony with the Woolly Mammoths, SaberTooth Tigers, Giant Beavers, Giant Sloths, Giant Elk, Dire Wolves, Horses, etc, etc, etc until the EEEEEvil White man came along and drove them all extinct.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Noumenon]

I once had some dumbshite New Ager go on about how noble and pure the American indians were before the white man came and how we should all live like that. After listening to his drivel for a few minutes, I interrupted and said, “Excuse me. Two words. Modern dentistry.”

His response was that theirteeth were perfect. Wrongo, I said. Archeological evidence says just the opposite, and that in fact many accounts of madness and bizzarre behavior could be attributed to the pain and misery of bad teeth.

Confronted with facts, he huffed away.

[colorado tanker]

ping

[colorado tanker]

Hmmm. Somehow, a part of the anatomy other than foot comes to mind . . . .