Grandfather Cuts Loose the Ponies

That’s the name of an unfinished sculpture set on a ridge above the Columbia River to commemorate the statehood of Washington and the horses that once roamed there (not the horses that died off 10,000 years ago, the horses that were rounded up and slaughtered in the middle of the last century to make way for wineries, farms and Democrat pinwheels).

The video is as haunting as the memory of these free-roaming spirits.

For Your Sunday Contemplation

Two from Barnhardt, related.

Immune cells pass from a pre-born child to the mother across the placenta.  They carry the complete DNA of the child and persist in the mother’s body for the rest of her life.

Thus it is possible for a woman to be healed in part by the baby she murdered.

Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.

Immaculate heart of Mary, pray for us.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Punished with a Baby

Speaks volumes.  How many of the PZP zealots agree with this guy?  How many voted for him?

A woman, commenting on the FB page of a wild horse ‘advocacy’ group in Nevada, said this about PZP darting of mares in May, 2018: “Hey, look at it this way, they get more sex without the consequences!”  You’d be hard-pressed to find a better example of the sexual perversion and moral depravity that have overtaken the country.

Burn More

The BLM has asked for public comment on a proposed ten-year special recreation permit for Burning Man, held each year at the end of August in the Black Rock Desert north of Reno, NV, according to a news release dated 06/20/18.

Sponsors of the event have asked for an increase in the number of people attending the event from 70,000 to 100,000, enlargement of Black Rock City to 1250 acres and installation of more large-scale art pieces, among other things.

If you go to Google Maps and zoom in to the area near Gerlach, NV, just to the east of the horseshoe bend in Hwy 34, you’ll find the C-shaped grid where the festival occurs.

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The dry lake bed is surrounded by mountainous areas inhabited by horses and burros of the Lava Beds HMA, Granite Range HMA and Calico Mountains HMA.

Although you may find a few horse-themed sculptures and vehicles in and around BRC, you probably won’t see any horses coming out of the hills to check out ‘Decadence in the Desert.’

Replaced by Wind, Wine and Wheat

The folks in Washington state sure do like to name things after wild horses, even though most of them were eradicated 50 years ago.  Maybe the thought pricks their conscience.

A notable example is the Horse Heaven Hills.  The hills survived but the horses did not.

A few months ago, you could learn about it in this post, but the video and article have been scrubbed.  The following excerpt appeared at the end of the article.

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The label on a bottle of cabernet produced in the area mentions the horses that once roamed the hills and drank from the river.  Not the horses that died off ten thousand years ago.  The horses that were rounded up and slaughtered in middle of the last century.

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Another example is the Wild Horse Wind and Solar Facility, operated by Puget Sound Energy, near Ellensburg.  It has 127 turbines on 10,800 acres, according to this Wikipedia entry.

Consumers in the area are probably paying twenty to thirty cents per kilowatt-hour for electricity because of boondoggles like this, when at today’s natural gas prices, they should be paying half of that.  Traditional energy-conversion technologies are clean, dependable and affordable, but liberals reject them.

As for the wind farm, the only place you’ll see wild horses is the sign at the entrance.

BLM Seeks Additional Off-Range Pastures for WHB

Refer to this news release dated 06/20/18.  Pastures must be able to accommodate at least 100 animals and must be located in Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Oklahoma or Wyoming.  They must provide a free-roaming environment and allow for public visitation and viewing.

The action is justified by the number of wild horses and burros on western rangelands vis-à-vis ‘other legally mandated land uses’ [such as, ahem, cough-cough, livestock grazing].

Bidders will be expected to care for the animals for periods of up to ten years.  Proposals are due 07/10/18.

Happy Father’s Day

Today we reject the new-age ideals of effeminacy, promiscuity and single-parent families, along with the horrific practice of placing children with same-sex couples.

A father stands up for what’s right, protects what’s his, and has the scars to prove it.

The stallion below, who runs one of the bands on the Virginia Range, doesn’t keep his harem of mares because he’s a nice guy, he keeps them because he’s a badass.  Photo taken 06/15/18.

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Horses Attract Bullies

Personnel with the Salt River Wild Horse Management Group held a press conference recently to review their plans for the Salt River horses.  A birth control program was included, of course, with the goal of reducing population growth.

If anything positive can be said about it, at least it’s not aimed at zero population growth or negative population growth.

The contraceptive-of-choice will likely be PZP, administered by CO2-powered rifles.  Or maybe they’re using compressed air nowadays because of global warming.

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The wild horse haters are almost certainly pleased with the development, as this so-called advocacy group works diligently to advance their agenda of fewer horses on western rangelands.

In the 12/12/17 Nevada Board of Agriculture meeting, where a decision was made to transfer ownership of the Virginia Range horses to a private advocacy group, comments were made about the side-effects of PZP (beginning at 2:32:00 in the video).

  • Barren mares stealing foals which die because the mares have no milk
  • Abscesses at the injection area
  • Pregnant mares aborting their foals after darting
  • Fertility cycles changed

Why don’t we ever hear about these things?

The speaker was shouted down by individuals who are so lost in their sins (the contraceptive mindset) that they can’t even conceive of other pro-life methods for managing the horses.

Best Way to Help the Poor

An opinion piece in The Daily Sentinel, published 06/10/18, addresses the problem of wild horses in long-term holding, which costs the American taxpayer $50 million annually.

Sell them for ‘humane processing,’ as we do with millions of other companion animals such as cattle, hogs and chickens.

Fantastic idea.  Gathers would be renamed ‘harvests,’ and poor people around the world would be able to buy meat at reasonable prices.

And speaking of slaughter, don’t forget the $500 million spent each year by the federal government to aid in the murder of pre-born kids.  This, of course, saves billions in entitlement spending.

In 1939, Archie D. Ryan of the US Grazing Service (forerunner of the BLM) said “The wild horse consumes forage needed by domestic livestock.  They bring in no return and serve no useful purpose.”

Nothing has changed.  Today, that statement provides the axiomatic basis of the wild horse narrative.  The same way ‘The speed of light is constant’ gets the ball rolling in Special Relativity.

Polls indicate that roughly 80% of Americans want these animals protected and preserved.

But the number of HMAs has been on a decline for years, along with the size thereof.

  • Give back the land that has been taken from wild horses and burros
  • Expand HMAs to include HAs
  • Remove livestock from these rangelands
  • Admit the carrying capacity of the land is greater than publicly acknowledged
  • Adjust AMLs accordingly
  • Make more land available for private ownership
  • Waive property taxes on barns, fences and corrals built for WHB adoption
  • Omit sales taxes on feed and supplies
  • Prohibit the use of PZP on HMAs

My friends, the only problem these animals have is you.  Same for the poor folks.

They don’t need to be served, they need to be able to labor and produce, and provide for themselves.  But that’s not going to happen because it’s bad for business.  As the author states, government bureaucrats want more power, more money, more staff.  Closing departments, selling buildings and laying people off—because problems have been solved—are the last things on their minds.

Not Capable of Sin

Read these comments from Mustang Maddy, posted 07/13/17 on her FB page.

We see in wild horses what we wish we could see in ourselves—to be blameless before God, to die in a state of grace and be received into the Beatific Vision for all eternity.

On the other hand, you have unrepentant mortal sinners, who will not survive their particular judgment, to join the ranks of the damned forever.

(There’s much more to it than that and nobody explains it better than Ann Barnhardt.)

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