i've subscribed to range magazine for a while. of course it's right leaning, so it will get bashed for that by default. was on air with a debate with warren buffet's wife, the editor from range magazine for a few minutes. i suggested that ms. buffet take all the horses she could, and the rest would be removed. she about blew her lid. to me, range magazine is about property rights and their erosion.
water rights in nevada has been a long term topic in that magazine as well and harry reid and all his cronies are making it difficult for ranchers in general to stay in business, they have to sell and the water rights are purchased and consolidated to reno etc, similar to how LA and SF were able to gain rights before anyone knew what was happening.
the left really doesn't care about horses. their goal is more long term. the horses are just a wedge to get/keep people off the land. with each new president, they feel they need to add to teddy roosevelt's "legacy" and take more land out of private hand and designate a whole infrastructure of land that is queued up for increasingly more and more protected status.
the latest example is pinnacles national park. it basically is a dump, no one really goes there, it requires a bunch of park employees, it gets federal dollars and federal protection, the condors are there, it just goes on and on. the land adjacent to rancher lands is a fire hazard, they have the sierra club etc in their camp to pressure low ball sales to ranchers in trouble, then sell it or offset it to the federal government to their benefit. it really is a huge scam and one of the major reasons i am against the ever increasing federal desire for more and more land. at what point does it stop? the logical conclusion is federal ownership of all the land, which, if you don't pay your property tax, the government will force you to pay at the end of a gun. we don't really own the land anymore, which is the goal of the left anyway. no one really notices due to distractions like missing planes, social issues, flat screen tv's, the latest iPhone, the latest celebrity scandal, the latest food scare like hormones or E. coli which don't even remotely factor into real issues. the whole scam is set up to cater to emotion. yes there are some legitimate environmental issues, which chambero does a great job on informing us about, but in large part, the children of the greatest generation, the hippies, have become what they protested about. the next generation is not even remotely interested in learning how that happened, as they have been solidly programmed for instant gratification, both in terms of their diet and material things. to me, it's only a matter of time before america has it's "spring".
