The Valley of the Golden Mummies is a huge burial site at Bahariya Oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt, dating to the Graeco-Roman period.
Discovered in 1996 by Zahi Hawass and his Egyptian team, approximately two hundred fifty mummies approximately two thousand years old were recovered over the period of several seasons.
Photo: Kenneth Garrett
Late last month, Rep. Andy Barr [R-KY] “invited” Congresswoman
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to visit the coal miners in his Appalachian
district, by way of rebuttal to her brilliant response to the charge that the Green New Deal was a rich, city-person’s luxury, taking no account of working, poor and rural people.
AOC took him up on the invitation, saying “It’s a complete injustice the
cancer levels that a lot of these communities are confronting. We have
to plan a future for all of our communities, no matter what. Failure to
plan is planning to fail and I feel like we’ve been failing Appalachian
communities for a very long time and it’s time to turn that ship
around.”
Now, Barr has rescinded the invitation, blaming it on her defense of Rep
Ilhan Omar, who has been smeared by Republicans and establishment
Democrats with the racist slur that she supports Islamic terror. Barr
said he was dismayed by her “lack of civility.”
In response, AOC tweeted:
“GOP’s getting scared that up close, their constituents will realize
I’m fighting harder for their healthcare than their own Reps .”
The one detail that seems to be left out of all these headlines, which is perhaps the most important in understanding Barr’s decision, is that there are no coal miners in his district. He made up complaints from people that don’t exist, then panicked when AOC agreed to meet them.
This is what the Onion is talking about when they say that satire can no longer keep up with reality
We have reached a point where an episode of the Onion News Network is indistinguishable from actual news media
Four granodiorite statues of goddess Sekhmet,
originally
from the Temple of Mut at Thebes. Reign of Amenhotep III. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1400 BC. Now in the British Museum.
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