Archive for March 12th, 2007

Flash is in the Hall!

Monday, March 12th, 2007

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are being inducted in to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tonight.
To all those who think that putting a hip hop act into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame “violates the sanctity” of the Hall obviously haven’t been there. If they had been they would have seen the New Kids on the Block exhibit.
As the innovators and inventors of hip-hop Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five deserve to be in there.

Mayans Cleanse Bush Site

Monday, March 12th, 2007

I found this amusing. Although the article is biased towards President Bush, it’s still a good read.

Mayans to “Cleanse” Bush Site (full story)

GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (CNN) — Mayan Indian leaders have vowed to “spiritually cleanse” an ancient site in Guatemala after U.S. President George W. Bush visits during his seven-day, five-nation tour of Latin America.

Bush’s visit to the ruins at Iximche, a one-time capital of a Mayan group, is part of an effort to show the administration is interested in all its neighbors in the hemisphere.

But many Mayans are angry that Bush is visiting Iximche, founded as the capital of the Kaqchiqueles kingdom before the Spanish conquest in 1524.

Mayan priests say they will purify the sacred archaeological site to rid it of any “bad spirits” after Bush is there.

“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, director of a Mayan non-governmental organization with close ties to Mayan religious and political leaders, told The Associated Press.

The president is working to shore up U.S. allies amid the widespread perception that his administration has neglected Latin America since the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.

“It’s very important for the people of South America and Central America to know that the United States cares deeply about the human condition, and that much of our aid is aimed at helping people realize their God-given potential,” Bush said Sunday in Bogota, Colombia.