From the “This Stuff Just Writes Itself” category
From Boston.com:
Priests to purify site after Bush visit
By Juan Carlos Llorca, Associated Press Writer | March 9, 2007
GUATEMALA CITY –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.
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According to the article, the aim of Bush’s tour is “challenging a widespread perception that the United States has neglected the region and at combatting the rising influence of Venezuelan leftist President Hugo Chavez, who has called Bush ‘history’s greatest killer’ and ‘the devil.’”
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George Bush … even the Mayans think he’s got bad mojo. O what a topsy-turvy world we live in. Their ancestors–who practiced human sacrifice and who induced what would today be called serious child abuse caused by long-term near-mutilation of the skull–cannot rest in peace because Bush’s “bad spirits” will disrupt their sacred burial site.
Granted, the human sacrifice notwithstanding, these pre-Colombian Maya were highly advanced in mathematics and astronomy while they were tearing out people’s hearts. George Bush probably is familiar with the third practice, at least metaphorically, if not the first two academically. Gentlemen’s D and all that.
I truly wonder where we would be in the world if Al Gore had not been robbed of his win. If he had refused to concede. Would he have been re-elected in ‘04? If not him, another Dem? Kerry? A Republican other than GW? Someone else? Of course if Gore had run again he probably would have won, unless he did something really stupid. Then again, Bush did something really stupid and he got re-elected. Maybe he got re-elected because he did something stupid and people were desperately hoping they were wrong, and that he’d fix it? Maybe nobody really thought it was stupid in Nov. 2004? Or didn’t want to believe it was stupid? It’s really amazing what fear and provoked manufactured hysteria will do to people.
Meanwhile with more than 2,500 Americans killed in combat and more than 3,000 total dead, plus tens of thousands (or more, depending on your source) of Iraqis killed, plus 23,000 Americans wounded and thus intimately acquainted with conditions at our fine military medical rehab facility in Maryland, and with the U.S. no closer to getting out of this sandstorm than we were on May 1, 2003, this surely is a “mission accomplished.”
Where was I? Oh yes, the Maya peoples are being disturbed from eternal slumber by George Bush’s bad karma.
They can’t write this stuff any funnier on TV!
Now I’m feeling like I want to torture myself so I’m off to watch Faux News for a bit. Just for a while, until they make me throw up a little in my mouth. Hey it’s good material, and it will give me something to write about once George Bush stops offending dead people.