Would you invite this man to your BBQ?

As Arizona firefighters continue to tackle wildfires which have already burnt over 732,000 acres of land, a blame game is brewing which is only adding fuel to the flames. US senator John McCain has blamed illegal immigrants for starting some of the fires.

“There is substantial evidence that some of these fires have been caused by people who have crossed our border illegally“

What evidence? Well, Senator McCain is not saying. Speaking to CNN, the outspoken senator said that illegal immigrants started fires to send each other messages!!! WTF. Don’t they have mobile phones? Smoke signals? He also said that illegal immigrants started fires to keep warm and distract police officers. Again, evidence to back up these ludicrous claims? No. And as for keeping warm, the current temperature in Arizona? 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Keeping warm in a desert?

Is this a smoke signal or for keeping warm? Or just a wild, raging fire.

Without any public evidence to back up his claims of blame, there has been retaliation.  “People are looking for someone to blame. It’s easier to fan the flames of intolerance, especially in Arizona,” said Randy Parraz, a civil rights advocate and no stranger to Mr. McCain having successfully ran against him in 2010.

This isnt the first time Senator McCain has blamed illegal immigrants for life’s ills. In 2010 he blamed illegal immigrants for home invasions and murder. (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/john-mccain-immigration-reversal-complete-danged-fence/story?id=10616090)

Angelo Falcon, the president of the National Institute for Latino Policy, criticized McCain for what he called “increasingly blatant” political opportunism and in a letter to CNN, he said that Mr McCain, without releasing his evidence, may as well “blame aliens from outer space for the fires“. Hear hear.

The Latest sighting of Big foot causes even less of a stir than the previous

You would think that people would have stopped trying to convince the world that Bigfoot exists by now. Out of focus, grainy and badly filmed footage used to be mildly believable; now it is just grainy, out of focus footage which needs better editing. But no. The Bigfoot hoax is still alive and very much amongst us, as the latest footage to emerge from the natural Bigfoot habitat, America, shows. If you look really, really, really closely, don’t squint and concentrate all of your perceptive powers on the picture and the grainy, iPhone footage, you will clearly see that it is a superimposed man dressed in a gorilla outfit walking along a floor which isn’t even there.

The above footage was shot by a Washington woman whilst out (and we use this term very loosely) hiking with friends in the Downriver Park along the Spokane River. It is a novel take on the Bigfoot hoax video in so far as the hikers appear to not notice the superimposed man Bigfoot as he appears to walk across a floor and later put into the video swing through trees in the background.

There is so much wrong with the latest Bigfoot sighting the ineptitude is almost tangible. Hikers you say? Just how far from the beaten track does Bigfoot live these days? At least in the most famous footage of Bigfoot (where he iconically walks along the edge of a river) there is a hint of wilderness; the possibility of a believable habitat exists. Just maybe there really is an ancient man-like creature living wild in the Appalachian mountains, miles from civilisation. Here, the car-park is barely out of view. Maybe Bigfoot has become brave and doesn’t fear Man anymore. He has been trying to give himself up for nearly 50 years and is getting anxious to get some zoo time and so in a brazen attempt to be found he ventures into Washington car parks.

Hikers? They are not following a path. The boy has a gait and is holding his arms like a bored teenager who evidently doesn’t want to be there and was forced into it by pushy directors. He hasn’t entered into the spirit of things by even remotely trying to look like a hiker. He has jeans and a t-shirt on.

Famous Bigfoots throughout history

The Sasquatch, when he makes his grand appearance, appears to slide into the frame on a floor which isn’t there. Unless Bigfoot can actually levitate these days, something decidedly odd is Afoot. Whats he walking on? Is he swinging in a Tarzan-esque fashion? Is he harnessing the power of the forest to aide his silent movement through the forest canopy? Or is he a superimposed man?

Would it be really that difficult to at least make a semi-believeable hoax video of Bigfoot? We would like to highlight, not the idea, but the sheer ineptitude of what is a truely bad attempt at a Bigfoot hoax video.

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. If you learnt anything in school during your science lessons, surely this simple yet accurate and effective state of affairs was it. Newtons Law of Motion and his 3rd law of Physics. He was a genius. You should listen to what he had to say.  If one object pushes against another, the object receiving said push is not going to take this transfer of energy lying down and it is dam well going to push back. Put simply, its why you don’t fall through a wall when you lean on it. Its not so visible on Earth where we have things like gravity and friction continually fucking up science experiments but if you took this stage show to the moon and fired a cannon then the cannon would go backwards as far as the ball would go forwards. Sadly the moon landers were too busy playing golf and driving moon buggies around the Sea of  Tranquility to do some real, Newton-esque experiments. So you will have to take our word for it.

The Mannar Islands might well have looked something like this; we don't know because they have sunk.

But how does this have anything to do with tropical islands sinking under the turquoise waves of the South Pacific? It doesn’t really, it was just a round about way of saying that if you dig a big fucking hole then something is going to have to fill that hole. This is what has happened in the beautiful, tranquil waters  between India and Sri-Lanka in a very small region of islets that you have probably never heard of. The islands in the Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park are sinking into the Ocean. Islands are sinking into the Ocean! This is not something that happens on a daily basis, so what in the name of all that is scientific, is happening and who is to blame?

Fishermen. That’s who. Maybe. Until 2002 there was an almost complete lack of regulations governing the mining of the precious coral reefs which abound in the Gulf of Mannar, as a result the fishermen did what they did best and mined those coral beds dry. The Gulf of Mannar supports the lives and livelihoods of over 300,000 fishermen and the coral is their highest earner. Being extremely rich in calcium carbonate the coral is an immensely efficient binding material for concretes and is heavily used in the construction business. Some islands sank so you could build some houses. Newtons Law. Kill something, build something.

Some say it is home to the Lost City of Atlantis

The area is home to 21 island and 2 of them have sank beneath the waves. Poomarichan and Villanguchalli are names you will now only find in the history books. As well as the loss of 2 islands (as if that wasn’t enough), there is obviously a whole host of fish and animals that could follow suit, not to mention the coral itself which most people in the area cite as the sole reason the whole region wasn’t completely destroyed during the Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004. If the fisherman wont take the blame, then we will take the blame for the sinking Pacific islands of Poomarichan and Villanguchalli.