Standing up at ePluribus Media brought this interesting story to everyone’s attention yesterday:
In news that could eclipse the announcement of either party’s Vice Presidential running mate, McClatchy reports:
Now come at least three men — coincidentally all in the Bigfoot business — promising evidence at a Friday news conference in Palo Alto, Calif., that the elusive creature has been found at long last.
“A body that may very well be the body of the creature commonly known as ‘Bigfoot’ has been found in the woods in northern Georgia,” says a news release. It describes the carcass as that of an animal 7 feet 7 inches tall, weighing more than 500 pounds that “looks like it is part human and part apelike.”
Stay tuned as we follow up on this historical event tomorrow. And if there really is a Bigfoot, he (or she) will undoubtedly be more exciting than any of the names I have seen leaked as potential running mates for the 2008 election.
Well? With Barack Obama on vacation there really isn’t much worth watching in the race to the White House. Unless you enjoy watching the John McCain campaign crawl out from under the rocks only to misfire daily?
Note to News Busters: Face the facts you right wing nut busters… With the pitiful performance of the McCain campaign you are lucky that Bigfoot isn’t winning the media cycle against your recycled reject of a second best to bush candidate from 2000. Even an Obama on vacation story is cleaning your cuckoo clocks and making you look silly in the process.
[update] For the many of you more interested in the Bigfoot story than anything John McCain has said in this campaign… And we know there are a lot of you! CNN has photos of the alleged Bigfoot body.
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Here’s a statement from Bushnell regarding this:
“We have seen the news reports and Internet photos of the alleged Bigfoot capture. The contest rules posted on our website clearly state that the Bigfoot must be captured on a Trail Camera and verified by our panel of judges. No photos have been submitted to Bushnell at this time. We look forward to their statement and the results of the press conference on Friday.”
Bushnell Press Relations Department
Thanks again to Oregonbigfoot.com’s’ Scott Davis for unearthing this. 🙂
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."I swear… the Bigfoot in the CNN photo looks more lively than McCain.
I love CNN. Good to see them give a little fuel to the great “Is Obama the anti-christ debate?”
The media. The politicians. The hubris. The stupidity. I love this place, man. It is a wonderful circus to watch.
That anyone can pose a question with a straight face, on national cable, or even in general public, to the effect of, “whether, in fact, Obama is the anti-christ?” is stupefying to me. We have just reams and reams of people unable to understand that there is no sky god to save us, nor any of the other imaginary beings they like to muse about. No unicorn is going to stamp out inflation. No dragon is going to pluck bin Laden from his place. No tea cup to worship in orbital space.
We got us and our problems and our inability to deal with them. And Obama’s speech that McCain’s supporters are using successfully to generate a media campaign to suggest his nomination as “the anti-christ” says it. We are the ones who have to answer all the questions we are asking of our existence. The dead zones in the sea. The boiling atmosphere. The coming end of the oil-age and its artificial increase in the carrying capacity of population. Too bad so fucking few people could recognize the irony, that a million people are seemingly ready to avoid a candidate calling for self-reliant solutions because they believe a relatively dull collection of folk writings that might suggest that he is the protagonist in a really self-centered fucking drama.
Religion — all of it — seems more dangerous than anything. There is just no reasonable way to ask a sufficient number of brainwashed idiots to pull their collective heads out of their own asses for just a second or two so we might collectively address the, um, problems that are actually fucking killing us — instead of standing in the uncomfortable head-in-ass position while they examine their own beliefs in fiction — a process that is only figuratively keeping us from even trying to solve these problems.
I can’t fucking take it.
Man, Boston Joe… It is always great to read one of your rants!
My own thoughts on that from last week:
Exactly whom is the ad directed at?
Lunatic Fringe… I know you’re out there:
Lunatic fringe
I know you’re out there
You’re in hiding
And you hold your meetings
We can hear you coming
We know what you’re after
We’re wise to you this time
We won’t let you kill the laughter.
Lunatic fringe
In the twilight’s last gleaming
This is open season
But you won’t get too far
We know you’ve got to blame someone
For your own confusion
But we’re on guard this time
Against your final solution
We can hear you coming
(We can hear you coming)
No you’re not going to win this time
We can hear the footsteps
(We can hear the footsteps)
Way out along the walkway
Lunatic fringe
We know you’re out there
But in these new dark ages
There will still be light
An eye for an eye;
Well before you go under…
Can you feel the resistance?
Can you feel the thunder?
That’s really quite a piece of work you created there. I like it.
But then again, I’m insane by most normative standards. So I wouldn’t let my fan-worship go to your head. Sadly, it is probably not a harbinger of mass cross-over appeal, but rather the kiss of death to some obscure piece of genius.
Sigh.
Go ahead and yank it to use as your own somewhere… That way you can be assured of having lowered your standards somewhere closer to mine! lol
The anti-christ?! Shit, judging from the pictures out of Hawaii today he can’t even walk on water. He just kinda skips across the top of it! :o)
Great… Now they’ll be saying he is trying to prove he is the rock because he skips across the water. Just another sign that he is The One!
…and btw, nice form :o)