The Young Turks

"Chupacabra" is nothing more than a term for describing every calf, deer, sheep or goat that died out of sight for undetermined reasons and got gnawed on by hungry coyotes, feral dogs or cats, possums, raccoons, bobcats or mountain lions.  The pictures I've seen are probably weird crosses between coyotes and stray dogs (they call them coy-dogs around here).  I doubt seriously that there are full grown coyote sized dogs in the American Southwest that have never been identified before.  The chances of that are very, very small.

The chances of a large bi-pedal primate being undiscovered in North America are so small they are practically not worth talking about.  No one has ever produced a shred of convincing evidence and until they show up with sample in hand they should be completely ignored.  The people perpetrating the current bigfoot hoax should never again be quoted in a newspaper or newscast that takes itself seriously.  Of course that never stopped them before.

an example of the extreme innumeracy that causes journalists to devote 50% of their time/effort to discussing "both sides" of an opposing issue is also the implicit assumption between your moronic argument about "but it is possible for there to be a bigfoot".

leaving aside the definitional problems with what exactly a constitutes a "bigfoot", it is definitely rational to _not_ give the same level of credence or importance to an event that has a 99.99999% probability of occurrence vs. an event that has a 0.00001% probability of occurrence, merely because both events, mathematically speaking, "are possible" (since their probability is not strictly zero).

but maybe a moron like you has no conception of probability, and you give all "possible" events equal consideration in your life.

buffoon. 

Bwaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahaha !  This is something only a west-coast city dude could believe.  Dude, I WORKED in the Georgia "mountains" or "wilderness".&nbs p; Is there anyplace in that area where you are not a 1/4 mile from an ATV road or trail where Bubba's go to hunt deer in the fall?  No way!!!  There's more remote places in Virginia or Kentucky or Tennessee or Maine.

I've done a lot of backwoods hiking.  Is there anyplace in the continental US where a Bigfoot (or ANY unidentified species short of a bug) could live?  No fuckin' way!!  Not in Washington, not in Nevada, not in California, NO WHERE!

You'd have a hard time convincing me there is somewhere that remote in Alaska.  Maybe the Northern Territories in Canada.  Maybe in the Himilayas.  Maybe in Siberia.

Bigfoot is either a tale handed down by generations of Indians or natives of POSSIBLY a hominid (a surviving Neanderthal group?) in a far isolated place hundreds or thousands of years ago.  I could believe a Neanderthal "Yeti" in Siberia 500 years ago perhaps.  Maybe!  Anything else is a bear or a boar or something hairy (beer drinkin' bubba in a deer stand) that simply contributed to a legend.

Honestly, I don't believe that there is anywhere remote enough to hide an existing population of humanoid mammals anywhere on the planet.  You can't talk about an individual.  Individuals must come from a pair in the recent past, which must have come from at least a small population.

Finally - Dude, it's not nice to call someone an idiot to their face.  Not nice for you OR Cenk. 

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Maybe I should rename them Desertpear's Wild Turkdom

It really was just a rubber gorilla suit!!!!!!  Jaysus!  I actually thought it was going to be a bit more sophisticated than that.

Do people really need publicity this bad? 

First, I have to agree that calling Cenk an idiot on his website's front page is pretty rude.  He's definitely not an idiot.  Imagine trying to keep all the information he has in his head from leaking out?  You try it!! 

Man, the only neanderthals I saw during that whole fiasco were the two mentally challenged cops or whatever they were.  I don't know how anyone fell for that.  Oh wait, I do know, and I could write a whole blog on the subject.  Americans are more and more ignorant of the native creatures around them due to living in the cities and through computer screens.  Everyone should be able to have a basic idea of the native species that live in the ecosystem surrounding him, and should be able to call bullshit when people have to make up a mythical creature to explain a damn coyote or dog with mange, or the fact that some of their chickens or goats were killed by predators because of inadequate fencing. 

And, everyone should know that bigfoot lives on the west coast because you nasty naked apes chased them out of the east long ago.  

My theory on bigfoot is that the overlap between ranges of hominids during the earliest portions of our history resulted in stories which eventually aged to myths and rumors.   Maybe we still carry that instinctive fear of running into a Gigantopithecus.  Understandable if they were this big