"Nostradamus: McCain win".... ummmm yeah

[radfringe]

http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/10/30/nostradamus-writings-predict-mccain-victory/?icid=100214839x1211959736x1200791836

CAP NEWS - "Conventional wisdom picks Obama. Nostradamus, four and a half centuries ago, picked John McCain," said Dr. Hubert Evans, professor of Renaissance Studies at Yale University and author of the best-selling "Nostradamus: Prophesize This!"

"Quatrain 78, Century X in particular seems to indicate that Obama had better not be measuring the White House windows for curtains quite yet, at least by my interpretation," said Dr. Evans.

The quatrain to which Dr. Evans refers - Quatrain 78 - is located in the grouping of stanzas known as Century X. Originally published in 1555 in Nostradamus' still-popular Les Prophecies, Quatrain 78 reads in full:

At the war's end:
The Feeble Kept One will strike down the Night
And his Imbecile Queen will rise from the snow
Bedecked in finery and the pelt of a wolf.

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this has the freeps all smiling http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2123441/posts

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Well, I went to the source to check out the referenced quatrain:

http://www.nostradamusquatrains.com/Century10/Quatrain78.htm
actual quatrain #78 - century X

Sudden joy to sudden sadness
It will occur at Rome for the graces embraced
Grief, cries, tears, weeping, blood, excellent mirth
Contrary bands surprised & trussed up


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if anyone has a freep account, you may want to tell them they've been hoaxed as bad a palin

[louis-t]

1. Imbecile queen.

:rofl:

[southpaw]

3. That's what I was thinking!

Feeble Kept One...

Imbecile Queen...

The freeps think this (bogus) quatrain is referring to McCain and Palin?

So they know the truth about their joke of a ticket!

[Crankie Avalon]

2. Hilarious...

"The Feeble Kept One will strike down the Night
And his Imbecile Queen will rise from the snow
Bedecked in finery and the pelt of a wolf."

They should have known it wasn't Nostradamus; way too specific.

[JVS]

4. The Freepers like being behind the Feeble Kept One and Imbecile Queen?

[Sanity Claws]

5. Haha

The quatrain called McCain the feeble kept one and Palin his Imbecile Queen. Why oh why can't these idiots realize they are being played for the idiots that they are?

[AndyA]

6. Imbecile Queen...that has Cindy McCain written all over it!

No one in their right mind would stay with McSame as long as she has if they had a lick of intelligence.

With her money, who the hell needs him? :shrug:

Travel. Buy a yacht. Have fun. Why hang around with the unwashed masses at rallies? How low class! How very un-elitist!

[Maine-ah]

25. Imbecile Queen is Palin

McCain is the kept-one, in reference to Cindy's fortune.

[volatileblob]

7. All Nostrodamus predictions are bunk. Especially since there many people even

way back then who claimed to be Nostradamus.


And I thought the war wasn't over yet anyway.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. I just looked up Hubert Evans on the Yale website.

No Hubert Evans associated with Renaissance Studies, or Yale, for that matter.

[Turbineguy]

9. Compliment with

faint praise.

Still, pranking idiots, not much sport in that.

[sharp_stick]

10. No, it's all over

I guess I should just stay home and drink tomorrow. Nostradamus couldn't have been more clear if he had simply written that McCain will win the Presidencey of the United States in 2008. When has Nostradamus ever been wrong before, I'm telling you this whole thing has been futile.

You know it's got to be desperate for the freepers to be clinging to a Nostradamus prophecy.

[mrcheerful]

11. Didn't he also predict that the brother of the slain 2

Would be elected and soon after a guy in a blue turbine would unleash nuclear war on the world? Also many thought the guy that wore the blue turbine was Saddam? Because it also stated the guy with the blue turbine was the leader of Persia, I saw the movie when it first came out, it left me with the feeling bull shit, but many fundies I knew at the time were scared shitless.

[IntravenousDemilo]

12. Umm...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbine

[mrcheerful]

16. Excuse me I added an e and put an I where an A belonged, 4 hours of sleep sucks

[IntravenousDemilo]

28. Well, you'll want to rest up for the victory party tonight! n/m

[canetoad]

13. Go check out the original story

http://www.crystalair.com/content.php?id=16200810018
"Whenever current events cough up a notable historic chapter, like on 9-11, the Nostradamus nuts are right there, twisting text to make the prediction meet the event," said renowned skeptic and paranormal debunker Chip Manheim. "Just in terms of comparison, take a look at the next quatrain from Century X, Quatrain 79. This, incidentally, was the last quatrain that Nostradamus ever wrote:

"In five moons, the Feeble Kept-One is no more
And his Imbecile Queen sees the Great Bear
From her backyard, alrighty, and flings giant poison arrows
And the Great Bear responds in kind, and, well, The End.

"What the fuck does that even mean?" an exasperated Manheim asked. "See, you can pull whatever interpretation you want out of your ass and you're good to go. I guarantee there will be a whole new spin on Tuesday if Obama wins, and Nostradamus will look like a genius. Mark my words."

The McCain campaign meanwhile has seized on the endorsement and has been proudly trumpeting it at rallies.
"My friends, Nostradamus believed in us because he knew, knew that Sen. Obama would raise his taxes!" McCain told a rabid Dayton crowd before leading them in a rousing chant of "Nostradamus don't like no Obamas!"

[radfringe]

14. Century X, Quatrain 79? don't think so

http://www.nostradamusquatrains.com/Century10/Quatrain79.htm

The old roads will all be improved,
One will proceed on them to the modern Memphis,
The great Mercury of Hercules fleur-de-lis
Causing to tremble lands, sea & country.

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[Pab Sungenis]

20. Obviously, this is a reference to the Interstate Highway System.

And the man driving the Mercury down I-40 to Memphis was obviously Elvis, who made lands, sea, and country tremble with his swivelling hips.

[Medusa]

24. But everyone knows that Elvis was a Cadillac Man!

:shrug:

[Pab Sungenis]

27. After he became famous

and could afford them.

[Fla Dem]

23. Ok, I'll take a stab at his one............

This assumes McCain wins

In five moons, the Feeble Kept-One is no more. = In five months McCain dies.

And his Imbecile Queen sees the Great Bear. = Palin now President sees Russia from her house. Now the White House.

From her backyard, alrighty, and flings giant poison arrows.= From the White House she gives the order to fire Nukes at Russia.

And the Great Bear responds in kind, and, well, The End. = Russia retaliates and we have nuclear annihilation.

Pass that along to the Freeps...see if they like that interpretation.

[radfringe]

15. this quatrain seems to apply more

http://www.nostradamusquatrains.com/Century10/Quatrain90.htm

A hundred times will the inhuman tyrant die.
In his place put one learned & mild,
The entire Senate will be under his hand,
He will be vexed by a rash scoundrel.

With Inhuman Tyrant being bush/cheney
Learned & mild = Obama
Rash scoundrel – some republican to be named

[rcrush]

17. First thats not the right quote

How do you get that McCain wins from that? I think you could say it refers to Sarah Palin becoming the 2012 nominee.

[Dogmudgeon]

18. DIY Nostradamus quatrains

They are so easy to write!

In the eighth year of the Great Infamy
The world's gold itself is turned to dust;
A kindly Moorish scholar, new to the assembly
Emerges to restore the Eagle's glory

Quatrain 48, Century 14

Voilà! (But I wish I could write 16th century literary French!)

--p!

[Phoonzang]

19. I'm surprised they aren't saying it's going to be an Obama win because he's Mabus

the third antichrist.

[FM Arouet666]

21. Nostradumbass

But I do love the quatrain, Feeble Kept One and Imbecile Queen. Keep Sarah away from the helicopter and guns, can't be true if she ain't shooting any wolves for that pelt. ;)

[Buns_of_Fire]

22. Was this based on a personal interview? n/t

[LiberalPersona]

26. Nostradamus' writings can apply to whatever you want if you twist it hard enough

At the war's end:

Last day of the election

The Feeble Kept One will strike down the Night

McCain will concede defeat

And his Imbecile Queen will rise from the snow
Bedecked in finery and the pelt of a wolf.

Palin will pursue a recount despite a landslide (avalanche buried them in snow) victory for Obama.