Daily Archives: June 12, 2012

The Biggest Bunch of Assholes in the Whole World

That would be Bigfooters.

What the Hell is the matter with them anyway? Why are they so hostile? Why are they so psycho, nuts and kooky? I don’t get it. Why can’t they act like normal human beings.

90% of them are all-out flaky, crank nutcases. The skeptics are just as bad.

Maybe when we start to do a better job of proving these things exist, we can get a better class of people in Bigfootery. For now, it seems to have attracted only cranks, kooks, crazies, nutcases and more than anything else, assholes.

20 Comments

Filed under Animals, Apes, Assholes, Bigfoot, Lunatics, Mammals, Wild

Black Man’s House Burns Down, White Neighbor Cheers on the Arson

Here.

The White man more or less said what do you expect?

A family of African immigrants moved into a White neighborhood in Buffalo, New York. Soon afterwards, the home burned down in an apparent racial arson attack.

The White man, a 30 year resident of the area, made the following comments:

I think that if people just stayed on their own side of town in their own neighborhood that things like that wouldn’t happen. Every race and color has their own section of Buffalo, so if they just stay in their own neighborhood, things like this wouldn’t happen.

People in these neighborhoods don’t want those type of people moving down here and destroying the property value. So when things like that happen, it shouldn’t such a shock. What do I mean by “those types of people?”
Minorities. African Americans.

Why do I feel this way? Because I own a home and I see what happens when they move into the neighborhood. Property value goes down, kids on the corner, crime goes up. The east side used to be a beautiful place; look what they did to that.

He has since reportedly received death threats for those comments.

19 Comments

Filed under Crime, Northeast, Race Relations, Regional, Sociology, USA

Check Out Torrese

Torrese is the Neapolitan dialect spoken on the Italian coast 10 miles southeast of Naples. This is a port city with a very unique dialect. The hardcore Torrese does not even appear to be completely intelligible in Torre del Greco 5 miles to the north or in Castellamare di Stabia 5 miles to the south.

The video above, apparently from Naples TV, is making the rounds with Italians on Youtube, mostly because no one seems to be able to understand what these women are saying. For sure, this is one wild, over the top dialect all right.

There are also a lot of comments about people who can’t even speak proper Italian, about low-class, slummy, scummy, uneducated people, and about the slums of Naples. It’s true that the Naples region has a lot of run-down housing, especially in suburbs. There is also a tremendous amount of corruption, and the Camorra, or the local Mafia, is simply everywhere. They have even heavily infiltrated the police. For a while there, trash was piling up all over Naples because no one wanted to collect the garbage.There is not a lot of random violent crime, but there is a lot of property crime. Be careful even parking your car on the streets.

The women in the video are apparently complaining about cockroaches in their building. They appear to be saying that they are as big as rats, which is dubious.

The “Southern Question” has long been a problem of Italian politics. It’s a question that is heavily tinged with the racism that Northern Italians feel towards Southern Italians. A frequent comment, along the lines of “Africa begins at the Pyrenees,” is, “Africa begins in Naples.” Northern Italians often say that Naples is part of Africa. Southerners are said to be criminal, rude, belligerent, hot-tempered, violent, corrupt, stupid, uneducated and poor. In addition, they can’t even speak proper Italian.

Drawing a line at where the South begins is difficult, but an argument can even be made that Abruzze is southern in culture. Where Rome fits is anyone’s guess. Perhaps a more proper division is North, Center and South Italy.

The Southern Question shows no sign of resolution in my lifetime.

18 Comments

Filed under Corruption, Crime, Culture, Dialectology, Europe, Indo-European, Indo-Hittite, Italian, Italic, Italo-Celtic, Italo-Celtic-Tocharian, Italy, Language Families, Linguistics, Organized Crime, Racism, Regional, Romance, Sociolinguistics

Red Front Magazine

Here.

New online magazine about the Maoist movement in Nepal. The movement won about 49% of the seats in the latest elections. Since then there has been intense debate within the movement about its aims and methods.

The leader, Prachandra, has been accused of being a sellout. He has quite a few folks in his “revisionist” camp. They are accused of selling out Maoism by adopting electoral politics instead of seizing power and by advocating capitalism. It’s true that the movement has advocated an electoral road to power, but the hardliners deride this approach as “parliamentary cretinism” (Lenin). They say the Maoists should just seize power and declare a Maoist state. The movement has also advocated a varity of forms of capitalist economics for the time being, and they say they want foreign investment.

Perhaps more outrageously, they signed an agreement with India that puts Nepal at extreme disadvantage. India has forced Nepal to sign these unequal agreements for decades. Nepal’s rulers since 1950 have been in effect Indian puppets. Most of these agreements center around water. What’s going on here is that India is stealing Nepal’s water. With regard to Nepal, since independence, India has been an imperialist state and Nepal has been one of its puppets, satellites or neo-colonies.

The other parties in power include Congress, a pitiful version of India’s Congress, and the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist). The latter party is truly pitiful, being a puppet of India and the US and supporting neoliberalism. They have also supported all of the unequal treaties with India. They’re basically a joke as far as a Communist Party is concerned.

Another agreement was to disarm the Maoist army, which had previously been confined to cantons after giving up the civil war a few years back. The Maoists decided that they would have to take Katmandu, where they did not have a lot of support. Further, it would lead to a lot of bloody street fighting.

So they signed an armistice instead. A recent agreement calls for disarming the Maoist army but not the army of the state. Some of the Maoists will be integrated into the state army, but many others will not. This agreement is being decried as a gigantic sellout.

I don’t think we should tell the Nepalese Maoists how to go about running their revolution, but there is a lot of debate going on between the hardliners and the revisionists.

1 Comment

Filed under Asia, Capitalism, Colonialism, Economics, Imperialism, India, Left, Maoism, Marxism, Neoliberalism, Nepal, Political Science, Politics, Regional, Revolution, South Asia

Wolverine Photographed in California

A second wolverine has been photographed in the Sierra Nevadas of California.

The first one was captured on a baited trailcam station in 2008 as part of a study on martens. The location was north of Lake Tahoe on the Tahoe National Forest near Hobart Mills Road. They since set up a number of hair traps and they caught hair samples of this same wolverine a number of times. It’s a male, and genetic testing showed that he came from Idaho. It’s not known how he got from Idaho to the Sierras. He’s been apparently looking for a mate in the area, but he hasn’t been able to find one.

This one was photographed in May at Lake Spaulding, ~25 miles away from Hobart Mills Road to the west. It’s not known whether this wolverine that was photographed is the same one as was snapped at Hobart Mills Road. A hiker went into the backcountry for a three hike all alone and saw the wolverine booking it across Lake Spaulding’s frozen surface. He snapped a photo of it as it was running past. Biologists on the forest are very excited about this sighting.

I have a huge article about California wolverines here.

1 Comment

Filed under Americas, Animals, California, Carnivores, Mammals, Mustelids, North America, Regional, USA, West, Wild, Wolverines

“The Ventriloquist,” starring Kevin Spacey

It’s a short film by Benjamin Leavitt. I’m not sure why they made it. Do they hope to make money off it somehow? How are they making money off this short movie?

Various interpretations of this strange film are offered in the comments on Youtube.

Leave a Comment

Filed under Cinema

Bigfoot News June 12, 2012

Bart Cutino interviewed on Squatch-D radio. Bart Cutino was interviewed by Steve Kulls on Squatch-D radio the other day. It’s well worth a listen if you have an hour to spare of your time.

Bart deals with a couple of stories that we broke. We broke the story that Bart has Justin Smeja’s boots from the Sierra Kills. The boots have blood from the juvenile Bigfoot that he shot that day on them. He wore the boots a number of times after that. Bart confirms that he has Justin’s boots. He also says hat Justin was offered $1000′s for those boots, but he turned down those offers to give them to Bart for free.

Bart says the boots are being stored properly and he wants to send them off to lab other than Ketchum’s to get them tested. However, this is going to cost some money, and Bart does not have it at the moment. There is also a question of contamination as the boots were worn 10-15 times after the Kills.

Bart also confirmed a story that we broke when we published the first photo of the Bigfoot steak, or actually a hide from the Bigfoot steak. There are questions about whether this photo is actually a photo of the Bigfoot steak object, and Bart confirmed that this is indeed a photo of a hide from the Bigfoot steak. Bart knows this because he has seen the various cuts from the steak itself.

A photo of a slice of hide from the Bigfoot steak. Bart Cutino, who has seen the steak on more than one occasion and is close to Justin Smeja, has just confirmed that this is indeed a photo of a piece of the Bigfoot steak. The steak has been sent out to 7 different labs blindly and each time it came back the same, as presumptive for Bigfoot. In addition, the steak has had it’s entire genome sequenced.

A caller from the audience asked if I had permission to run the photo of the steak, and Bart defended my decision in running the photo of the steak. Kulls amazingly also defended my decision.

I don’t want to talk too much about this on here since it’s so weird, but Kulls bizarrely continues to insist that I am someone who I am not. He says I am not Robert Lindsay, which is who I am. Instead he claims I am some other person altogether who I have never met and I am not even sure exists. I don’t understand why he is doing this, and it is very annoying.

My driver’s license says Robert Lindsay. My SS# card says Robert Lindsay. All of my credit cards say Robert Lindsay. I rent my apartment under Robert Lindsay. I pay court fines using the name Robert Lindsay. When I go to the doctor, they call Robert Lindsay.

Now have I used other names in the past? Maybe I did? Have I changed my name, legally or otherwise? Well maybe I did.

I have a high opinion of Bart Cutino and consider him to be a friend of mine even though I don’t know him very well. He brings much needed class, intelligence and ethics to this field. He also seems like a really nice guy, which is pretty rare in this field.

Question about Bill Munns and the Erickson Project tape. People are throwing cold water on the Erickson Project because they had Munns look at one of their videos and he felt that it was a fake. Therefore, they think that all of the footage is faked.

However, the truth is that Erickson wanted to purchase several videos from the folks at the habituation site in Crittenden, Kentucky. These were videos of Bigfoots shot by the homeowners. Erickson was suspicious of one of the videos, so he sent it to Munns to have him look him it over. Munns said it was a video of someone wearing a Chewbacca mask. Erickson decided that the video was hoaxed and declined to purchase.

However, the homeowners had other videos who Erickson thought were authentic, and he had those checked out by a number of experts, who all thought they were genuine.

So the Crittenden homeowners submitted about 5 videos, one of which was hoaxed and the other five of which are apparently genuine.

Dr. Melba Ketchum has sequenced three complete genomes from her Bigfoot samples. She sequenced her first genome in November 2011, and after that, she sequenced two more. We don’t know which samples she used to sequence all three genomes, but one of the samples was the Bigfoot steak from the Sierra Kills. So the Bigfoot steak has had its entire genome sequenced.

7 Comments

Filed under Americas, Animals, Apes, Bigfoot, California, Genetics, Mammals, North America, Regional, Science, South, USA, West, Wild