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Something That Just Happens From Time To Time

Forty-nine decapitated and mutilated bodies were found Sunday dumped on a highway between Monterrey and the U.S. border.  Looks like the official start of tourist season!

The bodies of 43 men and six women were found in San Juan on the non-toll highway to the border city of Reynosa around 4 a.m.  That'll teach them to avoid taking toll roads.  The notorious Zetas drug cartel claimed responsibility for the massacre, and decided to have some fun with the police, so they took all the heads, hands and feet from the bodies.  Don't feel bad, because they weren't all upstanding citizens - a few of the latest victims had tattoos of the Santa Muerte cult popular among drug traffickers.

For those keeping score at home, this was the umpteenth time it's happened:

• A drug gang allied with the Sinaloa cartel left 35 bodies at a freeway overpass in the city of Veracruz in September, and police found 32 other bodies, apparently killed by the same gang, a few days after that.

• Twenty-six bodies were found in November in Guadalajara, another territory being disputed by the Zetas and the Sinaloa group.

• In April, police found the mutilated bodies of 14 men in a minivan abandoned in downtown Nuevo Laredo, along with a message from an undisclosed drug gang.

• Also in April, the tortured and bound bodies of seven men were dumped in the Pacific port city of Lazaro Cardenas along with messages signed by allies of the Sinaloa drug gang.

• So far this month, 23 bodies were found dumped or hanging in the city of Nuevo Laredo and 18 were found along a highway south of Guadalajara, Mexico's second-largest city.

Officials last year found 193 bodies in mass graves in the town of San Fernando, and with any luck, this year could top that!  Oh, Mexico...don't ever change.

Maybe They Ought To Go To One Standard

According to the Mayan calendar, the world will end on December 21 of this year.  And also not.

Apparently, a newly uncovered Mayan calendar is said to be the oldest known one in existence, and was found at a site in Guatemala by Boston University archaeologist William Saturno.  You see, the Mayan calendar is broken down into "baktuns" which equal 400 years, and their popular lore says our world was created over 12 baktuns ago - but will end once the 13th completes (12/21/12).  That's all fine and good, except the newly discovered Mayan calendar has cycles of time recording 17 baktuns, rather than the typical 13 that we usually hear about.

So even though scientists and Mayans all disagree with the the 13 baktun cycle, this new, older calendar seems to overrule that dilemma - for at least another century and a half.  So don't nobody worry - just get a second opinion with a second calendar!

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