An opinion piece in The Ely Times dated 05/04/18 yields three more components of the wild horse narrative.

A fourth element, mentioned last week, is they were turned loose or escaped from ranches and therefore have no special significance.

Note that the ranchers—bless their hearts—have reduced grazing on public lands to accommodate our poor horses and burros.  Just like the welfare recipients who voluntarily give up some of their government benefits after being told how those programs are driving the country into debt.

The WHB Act of 1971 did not include a provision for unrestricted sale of unadoptable animals.

That feature was added in 2004.

Do you really think the government would close departments, sell buildings and lay people off if wild horse and burro populations were reduced to their AMLs and there were no more animals in long-term holding?  Do you think the proposed measures would actually lead to a reduction in government spending?  Good grief.  Not as long as liberals are in charge.

The narrative is not about saving money.  It’s about getting the horses and burros off public lands and the ideas they represent out of the public’s mind.

Don’t forget the moms who aren’t, thanks to the PZP zealots.  These self-proclaimed advocates are on the same page as the wild horse haters, differing only in methodology.

From Superbowl XXXVIII.

Forms of government.

Yearning for open space?  Check out this guy’s bio.  What does he do for a living?  What are his qualifications for office?  Is he on board with the fundamental transformation?

The Democrat candidate recently visited the Pine Nut Mountain herd area to learn about birth control for horses.

Hmmm, can the technique be used to re-shape the electorate?  It’s already happening.  The birth rate in the U.S. is negative because we are aborting/sterilizing/contracepting ourselves out of existence.  Although rarely discussed, this is an important part of the Voter Replacement Project sponsored by his party.

Our wild ones are losing ground, literally, because of Multiple Use.  What are some of the factors making livestock grazing on public lands (especially HMAs) more attractive?

• Costs – corn is getting too expensive due to ethanol production
• Pop culture – a belief that range-fed beef is better for you
• Revenue – grazing fees help nourish the leviathan
• Land – not enough of it in private hands

Who pushes alternate energy?  Who wants more money from the private sector?  Who thinks government should control everything?  Liberals.

Anybody asking for ‘an equitable solution to our wild horses’ doesn’t understand the issues and shouldn’t be setting policy, political leanings aside.

Bad life for the horse.

Good times will be had by all…except the horses.

This is better.  H/T Sandy Palen at Wild in the Pryors.

What is a narrative?  A story that explains why things are the way they are, or why the current situation is unacceptable and must be changed.  The farther from the truth, the more outrageous, the better.  Only fools believe the narrative.

Example: Black folks are victims of white oppression, they’re not responsible for their station in life and only the Democrat Party can save them.  Standards must be lowered and concessions must be made.  The Founding Fathers were aristocratic slave owners who crafted the Constitution to favor white people.  The system must be changed.

That last statement, of course, was the goal all along, but it had to be justified (which is why you invent a narrative).  Another example: Global warming.  Goal: Massive government involvement in your life.

The narrative for WHB contains several elements, here’s one of them: They were simply turned loose or escaped from nearby ranches, no special significance.

Today is May 1st, a ‘coming out’ day for Marxists everywhere.

The common name is Porcine Zona Pellucida, a protein derived from pig ovaries which interferes with conception.

According to the EPA Pesticide Fact Sheet, it’s a tool for management of nuisance feral and wild horses and burros.  The technical registrant is the Humane Society of the United States.

The substance is injected intramuscularly by hand-held syringe, syringe mounted on a jabstick or by syringe dart fired from a CO2 cartridge-powered projection system.

The goal is to have fewer of these little guys running around on the range.  You have to wonder how anyone who agrees with this can be called a wild horse advocate.

Life in New York City, circa 1911, complete with poop in the streets.

Nobody was happier for the invention of the automobile than the horse.

H/T American Digest.

Which came first…legalized abortion or contraception?  Contraception, in 1960.

Abortion, legalized in 1973, may have been the goal, but it had to be justified.  Get the people accustomed to contraception.  Observe that it sometimes fails.  Then point to the need for abortion.

One hundred years ago, most people would have gasped at the idea of contraception.

Today, the idea is so widely accepted that it’s even applied to wild horses.

A few years from now, you’ll hear complaints that it’s too expensive, too difficult to administer and doesn’t provide a lasting solution (to the wild horse ‘problem’).  An argument will be made that ‘excess’ animals must be sterilized or euthanized.

At that point, our wild ones will be finished, and you can thank the PZP zealots, most of whom are women.

Benefits of centralized government.

She may be interested in wild horse preservation, but how closely is she aligned to her party’s goal of more government control, more taxes, more regulations, more illegal immigration, more sexual perversion, more abortion, more contraception, more sterilization?

There are many ways we can help our wild ones but voting for liberals is not one of them.

On 04-07-18, a trailer carrying illegal aliens separated from a pickup truck and crashed on I-8 near Campo, CA, according to this report in The San Diego Union-Tribune.

Raw video posted at OnSceneTV.  The story leaves some unanswered questions though.

Did the driver have to use carrots to get them in the trailer?

Did anybody at the border check their Coggins?

Were they secured with trailer ties?

Wild horses and burros can be found on public lands not because of their role in the ecosystem, not because they’re an endangered species, but for their historical value.

That some lands were set aside in 1971 principally for WHB seems to have been overlooked by the central planners.  (The map at the bottom of this page shows just how far their tentacles reach.  Could this explain why there is growing demand for livestock grazing on HMAs?  The supply of land—for sale to ranching interests or anybody else—is too small?)

What characteristics come to mind when you think of the American West?

• Homesteading
• Farming
• Travel by horse
• Villainy
• Frontier justice
• Unspoiled beauty
• Open space
• Wilderness

What values did the settlers bring with them?

• Liberty
• Private property
• Self-reliance (including self-defense)
• Modesty
• Privacy
• Free speech
• Religion
• Marriage
• Family
• Belief in God

What if you have individuals in government who hate these ideas, who believe they’ve been poisoning the minds of the people for hundreds of years?

Consider the experience of the Chinese from the mid 1960s to mid 1970s, during the Cultural Revolution.  For communism to take root, the nation would have to break all ties with the past:

• Traditional social practices such as weddings and funerals were suppressed
• Books were burned and art objects were smashed
• Temples and churches were closed and put to secular use
• Customary ways of dress were eliminated
• Visual evidences of old things were destroyed

Old ideas, old culture, old customs, old habits.

You can’t have the people thinking about their heritage and birthright when you have a fundamental transformation to accomplish.

Millennial job interview.

No, it’s not the number of lives denied last year on the Virginia Range due to PZP, that figure is higher.

It’s the stocking rate in acres per horse for the Virginia Range.  The scaled reciprocal, horses per thousand acres, is 9.4.

As noted on 03/26/18, these figures differ appreciably from those used by the BLM.

For example, read this post dated 03/02/18 at Straight from the Horse’s Heart.  Stocking rates for some of the HMAs in Nevada are discussed, along with those for livestock.

The stocking rate for the Triple B Complex is 0.4 horses per thousand acres (just 4.4% of that for the VR), yet there was a large gather at the HMA earlier this year.

Protect the Harvest says the stocking rate for the Virginia Range should be 640 acres per horse, or about 1.5 horses per thousand acres.

Why would they even care?  The Virginia Range is mostly private land and the potential for grazing is limited.

If word gets out that the carrying capacity of the range might be greater than stated in the official story line, AMLs could quadruple overnight, and the plan for replacing horses with cattle on public lands would be dealt a major setback.

H/T PNWHA for the link on wild horse overpopulation.

Best way to stop a bad guy on a bike?  Good guy on a horse.  Refer to this story by the NBC affiliate in Medford OR.

The incident happened in June 2016.  The story leaves a few unanswered questions, such as the immigration status of the perp (take a guess) and if the technique could be leveraged for greater security of the border.

According to the Mission Statement of Protect The Harvest, you have a right to hunt, fish, farm, eat meat, and own pets.

Sorry guys, you do not.  Please read The Bill of No Rights.

What do you call a system where the products of one man’s industry are taken away and given to someone else?

Slavery.  Communism.  Liberalism.

You do not have a right to anything that must be produced, such as food, clothing, shelter, land, water, transportation, goods and services.  You do not have a claim on the fruits of another man’s labor.

You say you’re thankful for the American way of life but you do not understand it.

Moreover, you do little if anything to defend it and preserve it.

What is your plan to get liberals out of office, repeal Obamacare and secure the damn border?

Do you think it’s the WH advocates who want to confiscate your guns?  How’s that hunting trip going to work when you can’t buy ammo?

You—and the crybabies you represent—mislead the American people and attack their cherished symbols of freedom, ruggedness and self-reliance.

Shame on you PTH.  Shame on you.