Idiots

Sometimes the irony just drives me right out of my skull; like this story:

Priests to purify site after Bush visit

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- 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.

I want to grab these idiots by the throat and do to them what their ancestors did to their own people.

Human sacrifice was perpetrated on prisoners, slaves, and particularly children, with orphans and illegitimate children specially purchased for the occasion.

The Mayan religion was brutal, and filled with bloody rituals such as this:

The priest would watch in the night sky for the star of fire to reach the zenith. Once it did, the priest would remove the heart of this man, and replace it with a piece of wood, that was laid on a piece of turquoise. This is where the priest would start the new fire that would once again light the city.

The Mayans even had a month - Tlacaxipehualiztli - which means the flaying of men to honor their god Xipe-Totec. This god was worshipped by sacrifice and dancing by priests wearing the flayed skin of victims.

And they're going to purify the site because President Bush is fouling the land. Idiots. And there are six million of these Mayan ass clowns.