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April 19, 2011 11:37 PM UTC
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Without using any phrases that rhyme with “Tuck Ray Maul Frown,” please allow me to iterate my opinions of people who want wholesome rural down-on-the-farm cred while managing their own herds so outstandingly poorly that they must repeatedly send horses to slaughter (which nowadays involves sending them to Mexico; every Republican’s favorite place) and also somehow accomplish the feat of losing sheep to a predator that prefers a vegetarian diet supplemented with grubs and insects.
Quite simply: You are not a rancher if you can’t manage your stock with even a modicum of skill. You are a lazy, factory farming good for nothing who inherited some land, got himself a fancy city job and a suit, and let his former ranch go to Heck in a handbasket. After that point, it’s not a ranch–it’s some city boy’s mismanaged agriculture deduction.
You know what ranchers do when they have so many horses that they can’t sell them above meat prices? Breed fewer of them. It’s really pretty easy. You pick the ones that are male, and you have the vet cut their testicles off. It can be done standing or on clean grass by any farm vet. Presto changeo, no more extra horses by next season.
In fact, at that point, you might even find yourself sophisticated enough to purchase a few weanlings at your local sale instead of breeding any, seeing as anyone with eyes can figure out that there are more foals than homes for them these days, and if you need to replenish your stock, getting a few colts and fillies for $50 each is cheaper even than the grain you’d feed a pregnant mare to make your own.
Imagine that: A smart financial decision based on the realities of a contracting industry. Isn’t that what Republicans are supposed to be known for?
More to the point, where does the (ahem) fine representative from House District 59 get off using his rural, agricultural background to bolster his dubious “credentials” in the area of wildlife management (credentials which are, presumably, in coon skin and hanging from his hat rack) when he can’t even manage livestock well enough not to have to perform his herd reductions with the equi-business equivalent of a machete?
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Go ahead let it out.
Maybe you’d like to sign up for the campaign of whoever runs against J Paul next year? There’s a good chance I’ll know the Dem running. We could set up a PAC, something with a catchy acronym, like BULLSH*T, to go after him. Heh.
Too far has the Bear menace roamed our fair countryside unchecked, raiding picnics and awakening slumbering campers with their bad breath (which has been befouled by said picnics).
J. Paul Brown should be next in line for the Presidential Medal of Freedom, or at least he would if we didn’t have a pro-bear socialist in the Oval Office.
is clearly screwing with the victim’s mind. Fucking bear-commies.
Now belongs to this guy… Such a shame.
I don’t even know why Pols tries to argue against the bill. Stephen Colbert has warned us all of the evil dangers of bears.
Colbert would support this bill. Case closed.
Nice!
Former national public lands director for Trout Unlimited. A real steward of the land,with an understanding of the mixed uses of Colorado’s wild places.
Instead we get a semi birther militiaman who sounds increasingly ridiculous with every moment.
do you think you can get away with comparing J. Paul to some slacked-jaw yokel without suffering the wrath of nearly every offended slacked-jaw yokel in this state?
It’s not like these yokels aren’t without some pretty heavy political power these days, you know . . . . ever hear of the “tea party”?
Sorry, I had to use that…In all seriousness, there is no doubt that Rep. Brown’s elevator stops at the sub-basement, but there actually is an important point to be considered within this legislation.
At what point is it scientifically valid for wildlife to be managed via the ballot box? Why is god’s name should we ignore years of research in order to pacify the emotional needs of people? The DOW should have all authority to set the dates for black bear hunting seasons and should have a full suite of management options available to them that follow the established ethics of fair chase hunting. Should the CDOW allow baiting of bears and chase dogs? not in my or other ethical hunters’ opinions. Does a spring bear hunt have a detrimental effect upon overall bear populations? I personally don’t know, but that is what I would like to see the Wildlife Commission’s decision based upon.
While this obviously isn’t the intent of Mr. Brown, I personally am completely opposed to all forms of wildlife management via the ballot box (and not just because most of the initiatives are led by anti-hunting zealots). I simply believe that science should be the basis of our decisions and we should entrust our wildlife professionals in the public sector to analyze and implement management according to what that science tells them.
And if wildlife shouldn’t be managed via ballot box, do you also oppose managing it via amendments to the budget bill (e.g. forced delisting of the Gray Wolf) and other legislative measures? In a perfect world I’d agree on the science front–I’m related to a lot of damn good biologists, for one thing–but in the real world, I feel like the ballot box option is a necessity to counter the politically motivated wildlife management decisions made by elected legislators. And of course if we took both away and just gave the scientists full power, no politicians involved, the politicians would probably react by defunding the DoW or something along those lines… it’s not a simple issue.
(Not an anti-hunting zealot, by the way. I can’t even kill mosquitoes myself, but I love hunters and so does my raw-fed dog, on whose behalf I beg for elk scraps or freezer burned old venison from my hunter friends every year. 🙂 )