Nutcase nadin May Share Her Wisdom

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I don't think I've ever brought over one of DUmmy kpete's stupid copy-and-paste jobs before. This one, copied from a supermarket tabloid alongside alien abduction articles, is just as stupid as all her other posts. But she uses the magic word, "Maya", which is sure to bring nutcase nadin running:

Thu Dec 22, 2011, 03:20 PM
kpete (31,469 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

Massive 1,100+ year old Maya site discovered in Georgia's mountains

Blah, blah, blah, supermarket tabloid blah.....
http://www.examiner.com/architecture-design-in-national/massive-1-100-year-old-maya-site-discovered-georgia-s-mountains15

http://www.democraticunderground.com/100259128   
 

TheWraith (21,252 posts) 

1. I'll believe this when I see a credible source for it.

Examiner.com is a site where anyone can post anything, fact free. And Google suggests that the "discoverer" listed here is a kook.

 

Response to TheWraith (Reply #11)
Thu Dec 22, 2011, 04:40 PM
dawg (3,368 posts) 

17. I agree with you Wraith.

It isn't impossible, but it isn't very likely either.
...

Also, I think the focus on the Maya gives too much credit to the Central American cultures.

Response to kpete (Original post)
Thu Dec 22, 2011, 03:26 PM
Lunabelle (350 posts) 

2. Wow

Who knew? 

Who knew? Who knew? At the DUmp, that is about the stupidest question one could ever ask. 


Here's who knew:

Response to dawg (Reply #4)
Thu Dec 22, 2011, 04:42 PM
nadinbrzezinski (100,026 posts) 

18. Well the connection between the Cahokia site and the Maya

(And chiefly Teotihuacan) is in the ball game and some of the religious believes. I suspect you are right.

Fun fact. the Cahokia site is the third largest pyramid complex in North America, right behind Teotihuacan and IIRC Tikal.
For "dangerous content" and photos go here...http://nadinbrzezinski.posterous.com/

Having cracked the 100K barrier, nutcase nadin has the google smoking.
 

Response to Remember Me (Reply #23)
Thu Dec 22, 2011, 05:25 PM
nadinbrzezinski (100,026 posts) 

24. Cool. I learned of them doing research for a US History class

that I might still teach one of these decades... money is tight...

I grew up an hour from Teotihuacan... and I got to go every so often.
For "dangerous content" and photos go here...http://nadinbrzezinski.posterous.com/

Can you imagine it? Nutcase nadin teaching American history? Or anything else?
 
Money is tight because it's all been spent on camera batteries.

Stay frostly, my friends.
 

Response to kpete (Original post)
hu Dec 22, 2011, 04:57 PM
mysuzuki2 (1,584 posts) 
19. This is bunk. There is no Mayan city in Georgia.

Freeper.

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Can you imagine it? Nutcase nadin teaching American history? Or anything else?
 
Money is tight because it's all been spent on camera batteries.

Stay frostly, my friends.

Why not? The public school system is already in the crapper. And, we have Proud2BDumb teaching somewhere in Kansas. What could go wrong...?

Except for the total anihilation of school kid's fantasies about "hot teachers." Those go right down the drain with the public school system itself if The Yenta ddoes indeed decide to become a teacher.

*barf*

[tanstaafl]

Response to dawg (Reply #4)
Thu Dec 22, 2011, 04:42 PM
nadinbrzezinski (100,026 posts) 

18. Well the connection between the Cahokia site and the Maya

(And chiefly Teotihuacan) is in the ball game and some of the religious believes. I suspect you are right.

Fun fact. the Cahokia site is the third largest pyramid complex in North America, right behind Teotihuacan and IIRC Tikal.
For "dangerous content" and photos go here...http://nadinbrzezinski.posterous.com/

Excuse my spelling, but nutcase is either psychotic or psychic because there is no evidence of a central Ameican Indian "ballcourt" anywhere near Cahokia. And further, any connection between the Mississippian mound buiders culture and the Maya is pure speculation with out any similarities between the two other than the fact that one culture stacked rocks as neatly as the other piled dirt.

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Remember Me (972 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

23. I grew up almost within walking distance of there

Last edited Thu Dec 22, 2011, 05:25 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

and more or less ignored it all that time.

OTOH, a little farther north, on the cliff to the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi river valley (which is where the Cahokia mounds were built), there was a very large painting of a .... trying to remember. Ah, here it is, a Piasa Bird:

 (Insert absolutely pristeen, unweathered, image of some strange animal)

From this interesting article: http://courtbard.tripod.com/id112.html


Edited to add: Here's the link for the Cahokia Mounds official site, which was greatly developed since I left "home" so many years ago -- http://cahokiamounds.org/

Of course, Nads eats it up.
Stupid Nads.

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For ****s face, she'd eat a turd if she thought there was a drop of liquor inside of it.

[Alpha Mare]

Cahokia Mounds is in East St Louis, where I grew up. I volunteered to dig in the dirt for 3 summers. There's no connection to the Mayans. US mounds are much older than mounds or pyramids in Mexico.

I remember the early faded painting of the Piasa, high on the bluff,best seen from the river.  The new fugly billboard version was removed because locals hated it; they don't like the current 'drive-thru' painting either.

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Cahokia Mounds is in East St Louis, where I grew up. I volunteered to dig in the dirt for 3 summers. There's no connection to the Mayans. US mounds are much older than mounds or pyramids in Mexico.

I remember the early faded painting of the Piasa, high on the bluff,best seen from the river.  The new fugly billboard version was removed because locals hated it; they don't like the current 'drive-thru' painting either.

Yeah.  Huge differences, the Mississippians weren't even particularly interested in the rectangular footprint in their construction, but it's a hallmark of the civilizations in Yucatan.  On top of everything else, neither one were seafarers and the land route involved vast stretches of lethal desert which would have required an overpoweringly-good reason to motivate a transit either way, and then there were the extremely warlike nations and tribes from central Mexico to the lower southwestern US even before the ascendancy of the Aztecs (Which was long after the cultural peak of either the Maya or Mississippians).

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Yeah.  Huge differences, the Mississippians weren't even particularly interested in the rectangular footprint in their construction, but it's a hallmark of the civilizations in Yucatan.  On top of everything else, neither one were seafarers and the land route involved vast stretches of lethal desert which would have required an overpoweringly-good reason to motivate a transit either way, and then there were the extremely warlike nations and tribes from central Mexico to the lower southwestern US even before the ascendancy of the Aztecs (Which was long after the cultural peak of either the Maya or Mississippians).

It's kind of amazing that a finely-tuned and highly-trained historian like nutcase nadin would get eras so mixed up.

Were the Egyptian pyramid builders inspired by Michelangelo? Au cntrainere!

And the DUmmies make fun of "fundies", implying a belief that Jesus rode on a dinosaur.

I'm afraid that nutcase nadin has been sniffing too much, hanging out with that same little group of ten San Diego crackpots.

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It's kind of amazing that a finely-tuned and highly-trained historian like nutcase nadin would get eras so mixed up.

Were the Egyptian pyramid builders inspired by Michelangelo? Au cntrainere!

And the DUmmies make fun of "fundies", implying a belief that Jesus rode on a dinosaur.

I'm afraid that nutcase nadin has been sniffing too much, hanging out with that same little group of ten San Diego crackpots.

I guess chronology is not all that important in getting a Masters in history, down south of the border.

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A nadinism from Chuckie Schumer! On TV today, he said the repukes had caved on the SS tax "after a lot of sternum and drang"!

Nadin would be proud!

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It's the Necronomirubicon!!!!

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It's the Necronomirubicon!!!!

Actually I could believe she got her history degree from Miskatonic U. (Rlyeh branch campus, not the main one in Arkham MA where they teach in English).