From the AP, “Priests to purify site after Bush visit”:
Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate “bad spirits” after President Bush visits next week, an official with close ties to the group said Thursday.
“That a person like (Bush), with the persecution of our migrant brothers in the United States, with the wars he has provoked, is going to walk in our sacred lands, is an offense for the Mayan people and their culture,” Juan Tiney, the director of a Mayan nongovernmental organization with close ties to Mayan religious and political leaders, said Thursday.
Neither the World Trade Center nor the 6-21 million or so illegal immigrants living largely unharassed in the United States could be reached for comment.
Now there’s a guy who needs to go back to his old school.
Thanks, now that damn song is stuck in my head.
I think his old school was torn down in the peasant revolt that eventually brought down Mayan civilization.
So much for those persecuted migrant brothers.
Fine. When you go down there you end up spending a week puking from just drinking the water, and chief Huehuetenango thinks Bush has cooties?
Un-fucking-believable.
Hmmmm.
Ok so let me get this straight. ….
A bunch of Mayan priests are bitching about Bush, America and Iraq even though their historical ancestors found great enjoyment out of cracking open human beings like walnuts and slicing out still-beating human hearts for ritual human sacrifice?
Excuse me?
How many fucking “bad spirits” were there after the 10,000th human being was tossed down the stairs after having been gutted like a trout?
And Bush, **BUSH**, has supposedly defiled this wonderful monument to the unnecessary death of a myriad of uncountable human beings?
I don’t suppose any of these “Mayan priests” ever took 5 fucking seconds to think about this nonsense.
Someone is simply not paying attention. Not to mention that…
I only know of the one. Anyone? Oh, and there are still Mayans? WTF?
Come on guys, the way that movies portray ancient
civilazation these days, you would think they were all angels….
Did any of these Mayan priests happen to mention their teaching fellowships at Princeton or Berkeley? It would explain a lot.
With perfect teeth.
And abs that didn’t come from eating cornmeal, I can tell you that much.
God. How I hate the way gay porn has objectified men and made them so self-conscious over body image.
Must go lift.
First, Chavez says at the UN that Bush stinks of sulfur and now some Mayan dipshit needs to clean a holy site because Bush was there?!?!
What is this a Monty Python movie?
Cutting out human hearts at the top of a temple?
And Puppies!
I was having a conversation with an enlightened leftist pro-union, pro-American construction worker the other day who pointed out the Mexicans over here working don’t look much like the Mexican Ruling Class- the Ruling Class being of a more Spanish bloodline and the average immigrant being Aztec/Miskito/etc. His point was “they are sending their coloreds over here for us to deal with”, but it left me thinking that that is where all that money leaving the country is going, to an underclass that has been largely abused and exploited in their own country, but is now finding themselves empowered by the fruits of open-market capitalism.
Does anyone know if this is actually happening, and if so what kind of effect might it be having? Because it seems likely to me that Mexican power base open border policy could wind up biting them in the ass.
The above post was supposed to reference Guatemala and other Central American sources of labor, so as not to seem completely fucking off-topic.
I have had a bad day, sorry.
California…tumbles into the sea.”
Beware the bolo tie. Is all I have to say.
And the ripped physique of that redneck.
Oops, more objectification of the male form.
Hey, Jeff, when are you doing another Hot Air? You get bannzored over there, or what?
I haven’t had time. You can thank the ongoing problem with a certain jobless ex prof for that.
Is the dillo going to dance today?
Is it time for PIE?
*nods*
Things will work out, I’m sure.
Hey! Time to pull the Dasypus out of his hidey-hole before he comes up with the usual cockamamie Friday excuse for not dancing…..
*winks*
TW: southern69 heh, heh….
ed, you morally superior patriarchal penis person of pallor! How dare you portray the first attempts at open-heart surgery as anything other than noble?
Fuck the Mayans. The Aztecs ruled!
“Fuck the Mayans. The Aztecs ruled!”
Yeah they ruled, funny thing you know both the Mayans and Aztecs were so scientifically advanced, they just couldn’t figure out how to become extinct. Damn Euros…
No idea, my ownself. What I’ve heard is the ones up here send a lot of their money back down to Mexico.
Where it is quickly converted into shiny, low-riding, 40-year-old Chevy Impalas with metallic paint jobs and little dogs in the back with the head that goes up and down.
Which they then export to East L.A.
Or so I’ve heard.
TODD, you gotta understand I was speaking in the relative. Anyhow, like you said, they both succumbed to time so fuck the both of them. Anyhow, my knowledge of the whole subject has only been augmented by the 6th or 7th Corona (kind of appropriate) of the night.
1) there are still Mayans? WTF?
The Mayans were the one Mesoamerican civilization not conquered by the Spanish (the Inca and Aztec were conquered) because their civilization had already collapsed by the time the Spanish arrived. The Mayans thus survived comparitively well. There are still remnants of the Inca tribe in Peru, but the Aztec were pretty much completely wiped out. (They were a really small tribe to begin with)
2) the Mexican Ruling Class- the Ruling Class being of a more Spanish bloodline and the average immigrant being Aztec/Miskito/etc.
Most modern Mexican are descended from both Spanish and Indian ancestors. (mainly tribes subjugated first by the Aztec, and then the Spanish) However for centuries Mexico has been ruled by an extremely race concious elite. The small cadre of ruling families have tried to maintain an almost pure European lineage. There are also Mexicans who have pretty much pure Indian lineage. These tend to be among the poorest. Most of the Mexican illegal immigrants are of mixed lineage.
3) Because it seems likely to me that Mexican power base open border policy could wind up biting them in the ass.
Actually, the Mexican open border policy is designed to maintain the Mexican elites’ control. They export millions of unemployed to the US every year, and import somewhere between $80 and $100 <b>BILLION/b> dollars every year in remittances from the illegal aliens in the US. This is the second largest source of income to Mexico, and is rapidly overtaking their petroleum industry.
By the way, Mexico has a significant illegal immigration problem of their own, as the Mayans enter Mexico from El Salvador and Honduras. They treat their illegal immigrants much more brutally than we do, and their farmers exploit them much more cruelly.
And it is in the hands of the underclass, at least initially. It seems that with a little help it wouldn’t be hard to make these people understand the political clout that carries in their own country, eventually they could be making that kind of money without having to leave home.
Do we still have any of those smallpox cultures lying around? Maybe the Hernando Cortez stain?
Only joking moonbats. I’m not advocating a second round of genocide. Maybe a couple of publicity starved priest though…….
Ha ha ha ha ha. I adore you, Jeff.
Isn’t this the same crowd that protested Survivor: Guatemala for…
Cause I’m thinking Juan Tiney didn’t get the memo.
B – I’m just guessing that remittances are wired to a financial institution in Mexico and are disbursed in pesos. The dollars go into a foreign reserve account for the elite to play with or whatever.
I was going to make a really funny joke about how this supported the idea that you shouldn’t make too big a knot in your quipu if you’re going to use it as anal beads, but then I remembered that it was the Inca who used quipu, so never mind.
On a side note, Jeff, did you say you’re still having trouble with Crazy Debbie? Jeez.
Lift? Hell, I just blew my tax refund on Enzyte.
TW: makes55. Oh please oh please oh please.
I met the Pres’s Father once when I lived in Texas, this was just after I was old enough to vote. I didn’t really know anything about politics then. I even voted for him (didn’t know he used to run the CIA!).
Evil radiated from the man. Seriously, I felt dirty for a week after he shook my hand. when he was shaking it too, I felt repulsed. I thought it was just somehting I ate. But now I know. Those people are freaking evil dude!
I’ve met the elder Bush myself. You’re full of alphie.
Hmmm.
@ Darleen
Actually I might have irreversible and unlimited moral authority. This is because I’m of mixed blood, half-Korean and half-Not a Clue, so it’s possible that one of my biological parents was black. Or hispanic. Or something brown skinned since I tan like a real bastard during the summer.
So I have ultimate moral authority, particularly over white people, since I have, if not the actual, then the potential for being partly brown-skinned.
And as Jeff Goldstein would say, having the potential to be brown-skinned is better than nothing.
lol. spamword: sun42