Super Blue-Blood Moon on the Eve of the SOTU

Thought it was a noteworthy coincidence that President Trump presented his first official "State of the Union" address on the eve of a spectacular triple-featured Lunar event, an event that has not occurred in the last 150 years.  You see, last night happened to be triple-featured Moon: 1) A rare Blue Moon (2nd Full Moon in a given month); 2) Super Moon (Moon at point closet to Earth in its slightly elliptical orbit, which makes the Moon appear to be significantly closer and brighter); 3) Total Lunar Eclipse.  The last feature is what gives the moon its red colored appearance, as the shadow of the Earth cast onto the moon makes the moon appear reddish in color; hence the term "Blood Moon."

Image from Phys.org

I'll share my thoughts on the President's speech a bit later, save to say that I found it highly ironic that the Left, along with a complicit mainstream media, were carrying on about a supposed evidential "divisiveness in the President's speech" --which ironically is a claim that post polling by CNN poll did not even support.  I just found the post-speech discussion by Democratic officials and left-leaning media outlets to be highly inaccurate, given the fact that almost everything in the actions of the Democrat Officials present for the State of the Union exuded divisiveness.  I mean, if you can't stand in support of two African-American families who lost their precious sixteen year-old daughters to immigrant gang violence, if you cannot stand for the lowest African-American unemployment (6.8%) in our nation's history or jobs coming back to America by the hundreds of thousands, along with rising wages, then what exactly can you stand for???  The Democrats did not even stand in support of a shout-out to one of their own, Congressman Steve Scalise, who is still in the process of recovering from a gunshot wound suffered this past summer.  The optics just looked incredibly bad for the Democratic party and it leaves me wondering, what exactly do Democrats stand for these days?

I'll leave you with NASA's Super Blood Moon Photo Contest Winner.  And if you happened to miss the incredible "Super Blood Moon" or if it was not visible in your area: Here is a link to a replay of last night's live-stream event hosted by Gian Masi.  A special expression of gratitude to Gian Masi and collaborating team of astronomers for making the effort to bring this amazing stellar experience to stargazers across the globe by way of live-streaming video.  Truly breathtaking real-time images! Thank you for sharing!


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