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Stone Age Mass Graves Reveal Green Sahara
iminplaya sends along a New Scientist article that begins: "One of the driest deserts in the world, the Saharan Tenere Desert, hosted at least two flourishing lakeside populations during the Stone Age, a discovery of the largest graveyard from the era reveals. The archaeological site in Niger [is] called Gobero... It had been used as a burial site by two very different populations during the millennia when the Sahara was lush... 'The first people who used the Gobero cemetery were Kiffian, hunter-gatherers who grew up to two meters tall,' says Elena Garcea of the University of Cassino in Italy and one of the scientists on the team. The large stature of the Kiffian suggests that food was plentiful during their time in Gobero, 10,000 to 8,000 years ago... All traces of the Kiffian vanish abruptly around 8,000 years ago, when the Sahara became very dry for a thousand years. When the rains returned, a different population, the Tenerians, who were of a shorter and more gracile build, based themselves at this site... 'The most amazing find so far is a grave with a female and two children hugging each other. They were carefully arranged in this position. This strongly indicated they had spiritual beliefs and cared for their dead,' says Garcea." The research article is at PLoS One.
A nigger bit off my penis.
"countries don't invade sovereign nations" -- John McCain, 2008
( song to the tune of Bobby Brown by Frank Zappa)
Hey, there, people Iâ(TM)m John McCain
They say Iâ(TM)ve never been insane
My car is fast, my teeth is shiney
I tell all the my voters they can kiss my heinie
Here I am at a famous school
Im dressin sharp n im
Actin cool
I got a country here wants help with their paper
Let âem do all the work n maybe later Ill rape her
Oh God I am the american dream
I do not think Im too extreme
An Im a handsome sonofabitch
Get a political job n be real rich
(get a good
Get a good
Get a good
Get a good job)
Fake constitutional democracy
Came creepin across the nation
I tell you people it was more than an orgy
When I fucked this politician by the name of Georgie
He made a little speech then,
Aw, he tried to make me say when
He had my past in a vice, but he left my grades
I guess there still in the records, but my memory fades
Oh God I am the american dream
But now I smell like vaseline
An Im a miserable sonofabitch
Am I a senator or criminal..i dont know which
(I wonder wonder
Wonder wonder)
So I went out n bought me a leisure suit
I jingle my change, but Im still kinda cute
Got a job doin Republican shows
Basically, all my friends thatâ(TM)s how it goes
Eventually me n a friend
Sorta drifted along into s&m
I can take about an hour on with Bush in the shower
But Iâ(TM)ve discovered it pushes my rating lower.
Oh God I am the american dream
With a spindle up my butt till it makes me scream
An Ill do anything to ahead forge
I lay awake nights sayin, thank you, George!
Oh god, oh god, Im so fantastic!
Thanks to Georgie , Im a politcal spastic
And my name is John McCain
Watch me now, Im not insane,
And my name is John McCain
Watch me now, Im not insane.
I guess I will wait for Linus' opinion on this one.
I do I agree with him however.
Too bad. I'm sure we'll hear that the Sahara would still be green except George Bush doesn't care about black people. The desert undoubtedly spread because of global warming (er, I mean "climate change" because you can't sell warming when it's cold -- and scientific consensus is all about marketing for some reason) caused by those evil SUVs of the time.
I hope The One can bring the green back. And future generations will say "... this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal...".
And some people don't kill because they fear eternal damnation.
'm sure there are other reasons. What's yours?
They don't stay still during a ritual sacrifice, for the GNU god. We must open their sources for the GNU god, its for common good.
©God