Spinning Human Sacrifice

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Just tryin’ to get in synch with the stars!

Once upon a time traders from Teotihuacan, near Mexico City, ventured far into the south, into what is now Guatemala. In one of their settlements they set up an altar. And on it they sacrificed human children.

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Well, we can’t have that in the nightly nooze! It messes up the narrative! So the noozies sought and found another professor who, although she had nothing to do with the archaeological discovery, comforted the troops with this:

“It’s not that they were violent, it was their way of connecting with the celestial bodies.”

Whew, that’s better! Eventually all those bloodthirsty native cultures would’ve given up human sacrifice in favor of singing Kumbaya and would’ve lived happily ever after. But alas! European white people showed up and wrecked the almost-there paradise.

We do not know why native American civilizations were so deeply involved with human sacrifice. Modern leftids like to make excuses for them.

We are not obliged to believe them.

Students of History, Beware

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Catherine the Great used to read history to calm her spirit. If it was good enough for Kate the Great, it’s good enough for me.

So I’ve been revisiting the case of Richard III, the king whom Shakespeare crafted into a bloodthirsty monster. Leaving the Bard out in the cold, I’ve just finished reading Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time. “One of best mystery novels ever written,” seems to be the critical consensus.

To me the most intriguing and instructive aspect of the book is its examination of how fake history, falsehood, folklore, propaganda, etc. get transmuted into “real history” and published widely, taught universally, and blinds posterity to the truth.

Other than that it’s pretty cool.

So who knew that that whole business of Richard murdering the little princes in the tower… was a lot of hooey?

Well, according to Josephine Tey, serious, fair-minded students of history have always known that Richard was innocent of that crime–innocent, in fact, of just about everything they ever charged him with. Establishment history was built on lies, sensationalism, Shakespeare’s play, Tudor truth-bending, and our attraction to a lurid story: some inner perversity makes some of us want evil stories to be true.

I think we are dangerously close to living in a time like Richard’s, and not far at all from inheriting bulging sacks full of lies and calling it “history.”  Oh, we are so close to that!

And as we also know from history… sometimes the Bad Guys win.

‘Scholar (LOL) Thinks Vikings May Have Been Muslims’ (2017)

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Remember when you used to have to be smart, to be a college professor? Obviously that’s not the case anymore. Here’s a real pinhead trying to foist herself on the world as a scholar.

Scholar (LOL) Thinks Vikings May Have Been Muslims

Yowsah, yowsah, Muslim Vikings! And here I was, thinking they were Quakers. (Actually, I have a degree that sez I know Vikings… and I know they weren’t Muslims. Or 7th Day Adventists.)

Far Left Crazy is passionately in love with Islam. I wonder how long they’d last under any kind of Muslim regime. (“There’s only one way down from this ten-story building, dude. Jump!”)

I wonder how much you have to pay for this garbage.

‘Muslim Vikings: Baloney! Says Scholar’ (2017)

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(Go on! Tell him to his face!)

The scientific world was rocked for, oh, eight or nine minutes in 2017 when a “scholar” claimed that a lot of vikings were Muslims. It was a ridiculously flimsy argument that lost no time getting blown out of the water.

Muslim Vikings: Baloney! Says Scholar

The new pseudo scientific method: First announce what you mean to discover, then announce that you’ve discovered it. Forget those intervening steps.

That’s the theme of my Newswithviews piece today, coming right up.

Britain’s Fire Sale: ‘Everything Must Go!’

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Once upon a time, “7,000 years before white people came,” Britain was inhabited exclusively by black people, like Africans, who built Stonehenge and did everything else, etc. So says a new children’s book, Brilliant Black British History (https://www.bet.com/article/ilh5nc/stonehenge-britain-history-black-britons-childrens-book#:~:text=The%20description%20of%20Brilliant%20Black,%2C%20Wales%2C%20and%20Ireland.%E2%80%9D).

England, Scotland, Wales–all black.

Somehow not a single Roman historian ever noticed that. “The very first Britons were black.” By Julius Caesar’s time, though, they were white. How did that happen?

Probably Donald Trump’s fault.

What is this? I confess I don’t know. Life is way too short for me to read this book. Why subject myself to it? Looks to me like Britain is feverishly pursuing self-destruction. Maybe they’ll make it against the law to speak against this theory,

Will the Mother Country make it to the year 2100? Britain is dying the death of a thousand cuts.Can it possibly last another 80 years?

I wouldn’t bet on it.

13th Century Historian: Canceled!

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Snorri Sturlusson at work

A new edition of 13th-century scholar Snorri Sturlusson’s history of the kings of Norway has been…

Canceled!

Pander Publishing has killed the project because, said a company shill, Snorri didn’t have enough “Blacks” in his story. As an Icelander who died in 1241, Snorri was not able to write about any  African-American kings of Norway.

Said Pander president Popeye Schlubb. “It’s our job, as progressives, to give Minorities a leg up wherever we can. If Norway can’t generate its own Barack Obama, it’s up to us to generate one for them!

“Writing history is not enough. We are here to make history!”

And Minorities can’t make it on their own.

 

We Has A Histry Lessen!!!

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‘Knowing Things That Aren’t True’ (2013)

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Acme False Facts, Guaranteed 100 % Untrue, are fun. But the false facts that shape public opinion and public policy, they’re not so much fun.

Knowing Things That Aren’t True

We believe a lot of things that aren’t true. Believe? No–we know these things! Because someone told us. We heard it somewhere. Yeah, it was on NPR. Man-Made Climate Change. Systemic Racism. Things that other people made up.

Every time a truth is told, a Democrat breaks out in hives.

‘The Daughter of Time’

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The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey has been called one of the greatest mystery novels ever written, and it lives up to that billing. It also gives us plenty to think about.

“History” has it that Richard III was a humpbacked monster who murdered his innocent nephews, among other crimes. Josephine Tey has a hospitalized police detective and a research assistant delve into the matter as if it were a modern police investigation: and what they find is that almost the entire history of Richard, almost everything that people “know” about him… is flat-out false. And can be proven to be false!

That’s a major theme of this book. How do things that are demonstrably untrue get entered into the record as “true”, and why do they remain in the record even after they’ve been shown to be untrue–shown again and again, in some cases?

Richard was overthrown and killed in battle by Henry Tudor, Henry VII, father of that bloodthirsty king, Henry VIII. Henry Tudor had all the motivation in the world to destroy Richard’s reputation and plenty of rascals to help him do it. Even Shakespeare! So we know how Richard’s name got blackened, and we know whodunnit. What we don’t know is why it stayed blackened: Josephine Tey was only one of many historical inquirers who exploded the myth.

Lies can have a long shelf life.

Can you imagine what will be done to President Trump’s reputation, should Democrats win this coming election (God forbid)? Can you imagine the lurid tall tales about him that’ll wind up in the “history” textbooks?

The truth about Richard III has been available for many years now.  But the lies are all still there.

Byron Presents: Acme False Facts, Super Bowl Edition

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Now he’s got me doing False Facts again, even though I have a comment contest to run: we’re up to 55,403, by the way–just 597 to go.

Byron the Quokka here, and g’day, everybody! If you’re going to a Super Bowl party tomorrow, make sure you bring your latest edition of Acme False Facts so you can wow ’em all with your esoteric knowledge. Stand up straight, shoulders back, look ’em in the eye, and let ‘er rip! Here are a few examples:

Football was originally played with a large stone instead of a ball, but that only lasted till they ran out of kickers.

Willie “Buster” Diddlemeyer was the first to play Solitaire Football. It never caught on.

Until 1972 it was against the rules to run sideways with the football.

From 1963 to 1977, the Cleveland Parasites didn’t win a single game. They went through 98 head coaches before switching over to Monopoly.

Baltimore Sloshers quarterback Jim “Corny” Jokeson once played an entire game blindfolded… and then played no more.

The whole set’s still available, with emergency instantaneous shipping available to the credulous for a mere $499.99. Don’t get caught without it!