Author: Black Sheep

Back in 1967 a couple of guys on horseback with a movie camera went Bigfoot hunting and shot a minute, more or less, of a female Bigfoot or something that looked like one. Now those still alive who had any direct connection to the movie are saying “I wore the fake suit”, “I was the cameraman”, etc. in a new movie saying it was all faked.

These people have made money off that movie with public appearances, endorsements and so forth for 60 years and the only reason I can see for them to now claim it was all a fraud is that the TV interviews and etc. have dried up and this will restart them. I don’t buy it that they were charlatans before but are now honest men, just for the pure sake of it, as it would embarrass the holy hell out of me to say “Yes, I’m a liar, I lied for years for the sake of profit”. Unless, of course, a very lucrative Netflix movie has been made, which it has, that rents right now for $14.99 and is titled “Capturing Bigfoot” to make you think they have proof of a capture, with the lure “old footage found in a safe”. Only after shelling out the $15 and watching it do you discover that even the come-on is a fraud, there’s no “capture” at all.

The only thing they’ve proven by “coming forward” with what’s supposed to be the true story now, is that they’re liars. Because either they lied then, or they’re lying now. So maybe it wasn’t a hoax, maybe this, now, is the hoax. This story doesn’t say right out that Bigfoot doesn’t exist, but that may be its purpose. There’s been a very heavy and continuous presence in the media for a very long time debunking the existence of Bigfoot for no reason I can see, when proving their existence would be front page news and there’s been so many proofs that they do exist. The first media to prove their existence would make a fortune, why aren’t they going after it?

Newspapers in the frontier lands reported events where remote miner’s camps were torn up, sometimes miners were killed, witness descriptions of the assailants said they were huge hairy men. This was back in the early 1800’s with some printed reports that the Indians had always known about them and called them Sasquatch and other names.  For instance:

Long-Island Star, 1818: “He is described as bending forward when running, hairy—and the heel of the foot narrow, spreading at the toes.” Sackets-Flarbar, Sept. 8. Report says that in the vicinity of Ellisburgh was seen by a gentleman of unquestioned veracity, an animal resembling the Yo-ho, or Wild Man of the forest”.

“In 1851, the Vermont Watchman and State Journal reported that two men were hunting in Greene County, Arkansas, when they saw something “bearing the unmistakable likeness of humanity” chasing a herd of cattle. “He was of gigantic stature, the body being covered with hair, and the head with long locks that fairly enveloped his neck and shoulders.” The creature stopped and stared at them for a few moments and then ran into a patch of woods “with great speed, leaping from twelve to fourteen feet at a time.” The newspaper went on to explain that sightings of the Wild Man had been reported in St. Francis, Greene, and Poinsett counties since 1834.”

Early settlers have told of direct encounters with these creatures and people in wilderness areas are still encountering them. Giant footprints have been found in remote and desolate places in the US for centuries, all over the country. This is not some modern hoax, this is settlers getting their cabins and themselves attacked, same with miners in remote mountains and modern campers in their tents.

Some say that they must be a fraud because with all the smart phones, no one’s got pictures yet. I doubt that, the same as I doubt that all the photos of UFOs have been made public. More likely, only a few percent have. Most people don’t want to be ridiculed by our government. Plus it’s fair to say that there’s a lot more UFO sightings than Bigfoot sightings.

One more thought on why they seem to be seen less now than they used to even though our population has moved so deeply into what has been their habitat is the same reason you see less of other large animals. Remember that these are related to us, and they’re smart. They know how to hide and they have natural camouflage. They get the hell away from us, and as their habitat shrinks, so do their numbers. It would be no surprise if the Bigfoot were near extinction or already gone.

One last point. I once saw a big mountain lion in 1948 way up on a ridge from the window of our car as my father drove up the Angeles Crest Highway. I have lived in and explored mountain wildernesses for much of my life. I never saw another one. The last acreage I had, about 10 miles from here, I found a lion paw print in the soil, it was a good 5 inches wide. They see you before you see them and if they don’t want to be seen, they won’t be.

 

 

 

Aren’t words wonderful? I was just sitting there minding my own business watching a pretty boring TV movie when the word “bilious” inserted itself into my consciousness for no clear reason, since the movie wasn’t relative to that word, but I just had to tell you that. Also for no clear reason.

When was the last time you heard anyone say bilious? It’s a lost word, no one says it anymore, like Jimmy Durante always searching for the lost chord and no one knows who Jimmy Durante was, either, except me, maybe. He played piano and had a big nose and said “Hot cha cha” a lot. Anyway…

Bilious is an adjective meaning relating to bile, sick to your stomach, having a bad temper or describing a sickly color. Bile is a green fluid that accumulates in the bile duct, connects to the liver, then to the gall bladder. I know right where it is from field dressing deer that I mercilessly slaughtered because I was hungry when I lived alone in the remote wilderness for years. Of course that experience didn’t affect me mentally in any way. You can tell. Anyway, you don’t want to break the gall bladder when you’re removing the liver, because, boy, if that thing blows a leak it will ruin every bit of the meat it touches. That’s where one of the meanings of bilious comes from. Or all of them, probably.

Hmm. Paint that fence section Bilious Green? Hmm. This is Bilious Green, what do you think? For the fence? Hmm? John will love it, yes? For an explanation to this post read the previous one.

I posted on this a month ago, was going to let it go but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. It kept festering away inside me, you know how those things are, no doubt. I can be vengeful. Vengeance is sweet without fattening.

Yesterday morning, early, I tore down most of the 6 foot cedar fence I’d built 12 years ago because of the violent drunk who lived in the house below me. The new owner bought the place with a new fence built on his side of the line but since my parcel is higher and there’s a retaining wall between us that’s over 4 feet high, my fence is very visible. Or it was, anyway. So he came onto my property and painted my fence white on the side that faced him, to match his fence, without asking me. Naturally, this act of blatant disrespect really pissed me off and I took it out on the fence. On purpose, because it provided him with considerably more privacy by being there. Now I can stand on my deck and see everything that he’s doing when he’s outside but he can’t see me because of privacy screens I put up when the insane drunk lived there. This has to bother him. God I hope so, and a lot.

Then I called the power company and asked them to check on the safety of the power pole at the upper rear corner of our adjoining properties, because there’s 30 feet of retaining wall that’s been removed and the soil is falling away from the base of the pole due to the 5 foot drop from the base of it to the now exposed ground.

A worker for the power company called me back, said he was coming out to check it. I never saw anyone show up but today there’s been a regular beehive of activity next door, my neighbor and two other men speaking in loud voices and pacing nervously, which is probably not a coincidence. That retaining wall is entirely his responsibility, it’s removal has endangered that pole and my property, and the power company will force him to replace it. For one hell of a lot of money.

Meanwhile, there’s still an 8 foot section of cedar fence at the street end. His driveway is on one side, one of my two driveways is directly on the other side. Anyway, I’m trying to decide what color to paint it. The raging drunk built that fence portion, and mounted it with steel straps directly to the top of the retaining wall, so it’s mutually on both our parcels and I’m thinking of anything from a bright yellow to maybe lime green. Any suggestions?

This is totally hilarious. 

And this is not. Investigation identifies network behind France’s fiery unrest as groups plan action across 12 nations

Most of the governmental power in England belongs to the Muslims now, so they don’t need to set fire to the country. Not so with France.  France is burning in a lot of cities now as the Muslims spread their mayhem across the country, and Italy is now catching fire. “The angry protests that have convulsed Spain and France in recent weeks have spilled over to Italy and Portugal…”, so says the British Guardian, the state-owned media.  “Angry protests”? Setting government buildings on fire all over Europe is “angry protests”? All this all over Europe because of schools in France, wages in Spain, low quality shelter, not enough of this or that?

What they won’t say is that this is an organized, well funded international assault on the individual governments of the nations under attack  by Muslims to conquer Europe. This is war.

The installation of Mamdami as mayor of New York City is comparable to the “election” of the Muslim mayor of London and now everyone is expecting to see NYC go bankrupt and collapse as Mamdami’s socialist rules, changes and purges destroy what is already a severely damaged city.

What I’m wondering is why Muslims? Logically and most probably it’s because they’re so easily fired up. It doesn’t take much to get them to run out and start burning everything plus they’ll do what their imams tell them to do, out of the fear instilled in them since birth. If you want to take over the world without an army, but you have millions of fanatical Muslims willing to do whatever they’re told, you have a good chance of success. Where the “why” comes in, for me, is, once they win, how do you take their power away from them?

I strongly suspect that this is the big reason behind the fight with Iran. That regime can’t be allowed to stand and start consolidating all the factions of Europe behind them, and that’s exactly what would happen. The Iranian fanatics have to be disposed of, and since the assault on Europe looks to be on, then the end of Iran’s leadership must be coming pretty quickly to get them out of the way. Along with the Saudis.

The second most powerful Islamists are the Sunni Wahabbists of Saudi Arabia. They’re also by far the most virulent in their fanaticism, it’s just that the Iranian Ayatollahs have become the focus of the New Islamic Caliphate, the world run by Islam, because Iran was historically PERSIA, the center of the Islamic world. Saudi Arabia has the Qabaa, or Kabaa, that houses the meteorite that all Islam worships, at Mecca, where all Muslims desire to pilgrimage to at least once in their lives. Mecca is the true religious epicenter of Islam. This makes the Saudis a threat to power after the Iranians, which is why the Houthis are attacking them at Iran’s behest.

It’s also why the US is standing around like a spectator and watching the Houthis as they trash the Saudi airports and refineries. We no longer have a defense treaty with the Saudis, what they have now is one with Pakistan and Turkey, who don’t seem to be rushing all NATO style to their aid like their treaty says they would. I guess the actual instigators of all this mayhem aren’t looking to have Wahabbists running a global caliphate, either. Certainly Turkey’s dictator Erdogan isn’t, he wants to rule a caliphate of his own and if Pakistan ties up their forces with Iran, they weaken themselves against India. So I think the Saudis are going to eat it. We’ll see, anyway.

The whole reason Islam is such a force in the world today is because they were encouraged to be. Iran was allowed to spread it’s evil at the same time that the Saudis were, both of them have poured their fortunes into corrupting and collapsing the West. Where they went wrong was in thinking that even though their opposing religious factions are mortal enemies, that they could unite and conquer because they’re Muslims, first and foremost. It’s obviously not working out that way and this seems “almost” planned.

I’m not so sure about the plans working out as well as hoped, though, because once Iran and the Saudis are subdued, all the most powerful Islamic groups in all those countries will be jostling for the Pole Position, they’ll all want that Caliphate power, it may end up looking like all the little militias in Gaza trying for supremacy, only on a grand scale.

Anyway, I think at this point in time, this is what the world has to look forward to. More as it unfolds.

I’ve been trying to contact the optometrist I went to last Saturday. Nearest one to me is in Ridgecrest, 50 miles away through the mountains. He does an eye clinic at  the Ridgecrest Walmart every Saturday, and lives in Palmdale, about 65 miles away from Ridgecrest. There’s another optometrist in Ridgecrest but you have to wait a month or more to see him and pay twice as much to do so. Anyway, called all Effing day and finally someone answered the phone, late this afternoon. I’ll get back to this.

But first, I had to get gas for the car, and paid $7 a gallon for regular, which may be a nominal price for you in Europe but is obscenely high here and is blamed on the crap going on with Iran, even though the USA is the world’s biggest producer of oil. The Monkey Cage.

Next door to Gas Rapers Inc. is the Von’s Grocery where I went in and paid $60 for a small amount of groceries and the pin pad first demanded that I choose which amount I will give to their charity. Chose None, then it demanded that I agree to let them sell my email address to people who will send me lots of ads, I chose Disagree, then it let me pay for the food.  The Lion’s Den.

Back home, final call trying to reach the optometrist and at last I did, right before closing, because I wanted a referral from him to the eye doctor in The Big City, and he told me that it was on a slip of paper his young female at the desk gave me, which she never did. So I asked him to email it to me and he told me they can only Fax, they can’t email. When I tried to get him to send it to the eye clinic of my choice he started arguing that I had to have an appointment with them first, when they want a referral before making an appointment. I finally got him to say that he would Fax it to them. Maybe he will, maybe he won’t. The Donkey Show.

A day in my life is almost as good as a trip to the San Diego Zoo. You know, it’s really kind of amazing. Here we have all this automation and computer intelligence and everything, and it’s harder to make contact with services and get anything done than it ever was before all this technological advancement. Seriously, life was way simpler and prices for everything were lower when compared to average income. If I needed to see a dentist I called him up and generally got in the next day if not sooner, if a doctor, you went right in. If I needed a plumber he’d be there in a few hours at most. Lines at the grocery checkout were never more than 3 people and we didn’t have to buy the bags or bring our own.

Now everything is so fucking complicated and difficult it boggles my mind. This is not progress.

The things we can do when we’re the richest person in the world. Like build a car that looks like that weird all-angles Cyber-truck pickup truck, make it a sleek roadster, and have it drive up a ramp that curves upside down, it sticks to the ramp upside down, drives off the end, does a midair flip and lands on its wheels with jet assist. Did I mention it goes from zero to 60 mph in less than one second? Leap over a row of cars and trucks?

Yeah, I don’t even want to know what it would cost, no sense asking pointless questions, Elon said he’d sell them by invitation only, anyway. My guess is well in excess of $1 million. He plans to sell the roadsters without all the jets for a “$50,000 deposit”, which is what people plunked down before for the roadsters that were never built. With that level of deposit, god only knows what the full price is.

Cost of his cars isn’t the point here, really. The point is watching that thing go through it’s tricks and it hits you that this guy can get anything done that he imagines. What’s next? I mean, really, what’s next?

When I say I had the cat fixed, what that means is I had it spayed or neutered, depending on what sex it is, and yes, “neutered” is a cop-out word for castrated.  It just doesn’t sound nearly as violent and drastic and when you say Fixed, that sounds best of all, like you had the poor beast repaired, it was broken and you had it made all good again, you’re so nice.

So let’s try this. “Hi, guys. What’s up? Me? Oh, nothing special, I had my son fixed last week. Yeah, he’s a girl now, I’m gonna have to stop saying “he” and “him” and get used to “she” and “her”. Probably going to miss taking him, dammit Her to the Little League games but the wife is loving it, they’ve been out shopping for girl things, dresses and training bras. Gotta admit I’m not loving having to buy an all new wardrobe for the kid and girls are such hogs for clothes. The surgery already wiped out my IRA account.”

This cheery little article was inspired by a news blip this morning, in Washington state, of course, about a dozen high school girls who walked away from a cross-country foot race of about 20 total participants when a boy was allowed to enter the race as a girl. He hadn’t even been Fixed, he’s still all boy but he was a loser on the boy’s team so he simply said “I’m a girl now” and the morons in charge said OKAY, and that was that.

Those 12 girls did not say okay, they refused to compete with a boy, and their refusal sparked a big parental screaming session against the school and the actual legality of doing this shit, and the sudden huge boost in backing for a bill now in the Wash. state senate that will ban males from female sports events.

It’s the level of insanity that’s so obvious here, that disturbs me. This is so basic. Men are not women and can’t ever be women. We can create all sorts of new words to describe the fantasy, but it’s still a fantasy.

It’s like little kids that are given so many plastic toy animals and people that individually the toys lose all value, and the kids burn them on little fires, and twist little human figures arms off, shove them down anthills, bury them and forget where.

Children have become toys, to modify, physically and mentally. The crimes against children have greatly increased over the past few years. “Transing” them is a terrible crime but I’m talking about murder, stabbing or starving them to death, leaving them unattended in a locked apartment and going on a cruise for a week or simply forgetting to feed them. Children are either toys or liabilities now and I’m not sure if this is because of this insane trans fad or if the transing was just the first sign of it.

When insanity infects a government, the government can infect the entire nation with it. Adolf Hitler proved that. So, what about when it’s the whole world?

Gobekli Tepe is dated back 11,500 years so far and there’s a whole city nearby waiting to be dug up yet. This would have been built within a  hundred years after the end of the last Ice Age and the rapid initial rise of the ocean, that flooded the then-coastal cities which are now assumed by most experts in this field to have existed. That they had symbology at Gobekli Tepe that represented events is now established. Whether they had a written language beyond that is yet to be determined but they did have precision engineering and logistics. It’s kind of hard to do that without the math that goes with it and a good means of accurate record keeping. In fact, you can’t build cities and advanced societies without them.

Islam is 14oo years old, Christianity is 2000 years old, Judaism, about 4000 years old, Hindu, perhaps over 5000 years old. All the Roman and Greek gods died with the expansion of Christianity. There are no known religions surviving from the time of Gobekli Tepe unless it would be an early form of Hindu, but we have no proof of that at all. My point is that there’s no doubt religions existed during the Ice Age and that they didn’t last. Nothing does. Religions come and go and so do Ice Ages. The ice will grow again, the ocean level will drop again, cities will be built on the newly exposed land. So as much as I detest Islam, I don’t need to worry, it won’t last either.

I’ve always been against war and a lover of nature. But not all nature. Mosquitos and ticks could vanish and I don’t think any harm would come to the world if they did, and if it did, we can live with it. War. Humanity needs a way to keep our numbers down to a level that doesn’t threaten us with starvation in times of drought, so we periodically make war with each other and glorify the dead for their sacrifice, but now times have changed.

We’ve multiplied so rapidly that we had to develop Earth’s fresh water supply and ability to feed ourselves, even as we continue to develop bigger and badder war capabilities. The great increase in our technology has been made possible by the huge profits generated from the combination of a capitalist world and a massive population, allowing a few individuals to amass vast fortunes and spend them in the advancement of science and technology, along with anything else they could ever want, of course. But this is why AI has taken off along with all other technologies. It would never have happened without overpopulation, which was made possible by advancing technology. They created each other.

It may be possible that a war could bring planetary domination within the reach of one nation under the right conditions, which the beginning of a new ice age could possibly produce. What wars we have now are to quash the upstarts like the Iranian zealots, or in the case of Russia and Ukraine, simply to develop and test technologies and possibly for those up on the Globalist Mt. Olympus to play Greek God. After all, why should the US care about Russia’s oil refineries otherwise?  The high price of diesel is the result of the closure of the two Straits in the fight with Iran but Trump is passing the buck by blaming it on Zelensky. Hypocrisy abounds when elections draw near.

This time we aren’t building temples to gods out of hewn stone. This time we’re going to be building cities on La Grange points, on the Moon, on Mars and Ceres and we’re in a hurry. The next ice age is due. There’s changes going on with the glaciers and ocean currents. Another ice age won’t end humanity any more than the last one did, but the disruptions in human commerce will be great and so will the politics. Possibly it’s foreseen that a nuclear war might finally erupt if another ice age began. It’s so odd that Elon suddenly dropped his plans to build a colony on Mars for the more immediate one of a colony on the Moon. Isn’t it? It sure seems odd to me.

 

 

Putin and Trump just made a deal for Russia to supply the US with lots of diesel fuel. I assume that it’s an exchange of dollars for it and not some sort of strategic material, although the dollars can be converted to bombs pretty easily for a country like Russia, that is bombing Ukraine, the same country we’ve been helping to fight Russia. Are you confused yet?

This is a good time to point out that Ukraine is actively attacking Russia’s refineries and to ask, why aren’t our own refineries producing all the diesel fuel we need since we’re the world’s largest oil producer now? Fair question, huh? They always have before. We don’t import gasoline, with all the cars on the roads on America, we refine all we need. Oil refineries don’t just produce one thing, they do it all. All the grades of motor oils, greases, fuels, tar and asphalt for the roads and roofing shingles, the chemicals, everything.

So why are we buying diesel from Russia because we don’t have enough for our trucking industry? I mean, Russia? What the hell is going on?

What’s going on is that the war in Ukraine was instigated by the US as a way of making huge profits while getting rid of old munitions, thereby creating the need to produce new, more modern munitions to replace the old ones at a huge profit. This is a highly successful operation, as Ukraine has become the go-to proving ground for new and innovative weaponry.

The Ukrainians have been successful at attacking Russian refineries and also at destroying all their battle tanks, which use diesel, and now the Russians don’t need nearly as much diesel as they did, so even with some refineries damaged they’re producing more than they need. So why not sell it to the US? After all, Russia needs more money to fight the war in Ukraine with. Oh, you thought Ukraine was a US ally? Noooo, there’s no allies in the world, there’s only agreements and arrangements and you can bet we’re getting a helluva good price on that diesel.

The de-facto government in Iran now is the IRGC and if they fall apart, the people will rip them to shreds and they know it, which is why they’re still trying to put an A-Bomb together instead of coming to the peace table. Surrender means death for them, only a nuke to threaten with can save them now.

The Saudis and OPEC won’t invade Iran, they want us and Israel to do all the fighting and dying and spending money, which is why we won’t help them fight the Houthis anymore. We kept asking, they kept declining, so screw ’em, we have the Venezuelan oil fields again and now we have access to all the minerals in Greenland. The IRGC will have to be toppled, and I have a little prediction for you in this regard:

Turkey is going to invade Iran after Israel bombs hell out of it, and any other middle east nation that thinks it can carve off a piece will give it a shot as well.  The only thing I can see preventing this melee is if the leaders of the IRGC flee to some other Shiite Muslim nation that will give them sanctuary, before the motley horde pours in, in which case the US and Israel would tell everyone else to stay out, and enforce that dictum.

Can you imagine 3 or 4 different Islamic armies trying to divide up Iran without a fight? I’m not so sure that a major Middle East war is in the general plan, so this is going to be interesting to be an onlooking bystander of.