“In My Humble Opinion) by R.T. Fitch – author of “Straight from the Horse’s Heart”
The Lies Never Cease
Secretary of the Department of the Interior (DOI) Ken Salazar’s crooked and corrupt Bureau of Land Management (BLM) continues to run out of control while it lies, deceives and kills off our publicly owned wild horses as Salazar’s deceitful nature is clearly exposed in the Gulf Oil crisis.
Salazar and his henchman Bob Abbey defy science and facts as they sweep across the western plains capturing every wild horse they can find while they lie to the public that there are hundreds remaining when observers only note dozens. Behind locked gates they sterilize, geld and kill wild horses to ensure that they will die out as distinguishable herds and breeds. Almost 150 horses have died at the hands of the BLM since the conclusion of their last roundup, alone. Flipping off the tax paying public has become a common practice of the corrupt BLM.
Now Salazar turns his dead eyes and blank stare to the Gulf of Mexico as he, once again, ignores the advice of experts and then carries it a step further and lies about their findings to the entire world. But this time a Federal Judge catches him with his pants down.
Isn’t it time that the criminal action of an Obama appointee be brought to a close? Can we not inject sanity into the management of our country’s precious natural treasures? Or is everything wild and natural destined to die before the onslaught of the Obama political juggernaut. Where is the change we were promised, where is that “animal friendly” administration?
All I see is death, destruction and ruin. I want our “natural” country back!
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Categories: Horse News, The Force of the Horse, Wild Horses/Mustangs
Straight from the Horse's Heart 
I have been reading about ALL of this, how can he still be around????? the Gulf fiasco continues to spin out of control and he just keeps on keepin on! I believed he would be long gone by now, Obama needs to wake up and do something about both situations NOW, because Americans are growing increasingly disatisfied with ALL of this, the sheer destruction/waste is overwhelming.
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We are facing something beyond our open spaces and oceans and all the life they contain. America became a “superpower” beginning 100 years ago because of the easy oil it possessed. It sustained capitalism which spread its tentacles all over the world. Capitalism can not function without energy. We sever our mountain tops for it, pollute our oceans for it, send our army for it, and remove our Wild Mustangs for it. I sense the engine is sputtering and nothing is going to stand in the way of governments stupidity to acquire it at all cost. I hope I don’t seem too far off point after all we’re all about horses but unless they are here for us when the time comes we will have to do the heavy lifting. We may have electricity if we learn to make it without fire, but personal transportation will eventually become too expensive. We will be mandated to a lifestyle in some respects like it was 100 years ago before easy oil.
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I was just thinking this same thing last night, Frank. BP is building an island in the Artic so they can say they are drilling on land and do not have to follow guidelines for “off shore” drilling, we remove entire mountain tops for coal, we allow gas companies to inject toxic chemicals into the earth when they “frac” for gas often polluting the underground water sources, and we kill everything in the Gulf yet can’t bear a lousy 6 month moratorium on deep water drilling that only affects 33 rigs out of 6500 in the Gulf because some oil rig worker might be out of work for that short time, and we remove every wild thing in our West just so we don’t have to make any sacrifices in our energy consumption.
I am so disappointed the President has chosen to not use this crisis in the Gulf to wake us all up. If ever there was a time for leadership for a country that is being despoiled by multibillion dollar gas and oil companies, this is it. I knew he was not Mr. Wildlife per se, but I sure was hoping he had more guts to stand up to the powers that be for climate change and alternative energy. I hope he finds his inner spine soon. And not just for our sake, but for the sake of the planet.
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Obama was born in america, soon after his family moved to was it Singapore? where Obama spent several years in a country that is not humane to animals.
We know he wasn’t close at all to any pets and made his own kids wait years untill they got their first dog recently. He may not have any empathy to animals and that is a flaw in his character. Sure wish he would study mirror neurons and click his on in that big BRAIN of his. He’s not a stupid man, however he takes the ‘word’ of DOI wildlife people as truth when every other general public animal expert are pointing out the lies.
Wish Obama can take a leap of faith and start understanding the real truth!! And speak to the real advocates before it’s to late. Almost to late now Obama!don’t go down in history as the puppet and joke leader of the DOI
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The President sets policy, congress makes laws..It is congress that needs to answer for this..Where are our Western Senators and Representitives hiding on the issue of wild horses..they are no where to be seen on this subject and should be frount and center..Where are they on mining issues and energy issues..Yes I want Salazar gone and Bob Abbey as well..they represent those interests OVER the publics interests..Our federal Courts are still full of bush appointees carring out the corporate interests, the supreme court has become the water boy for industry..we need ALOT of ‘change”..and we need it NOW!
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I want to say..senator Boxer is the ONLY western senator to take a stand..and she wasn’t wishy washy about it either..I donated to her reelection campaign even tho she is not my senator..There is only one reason to stand up for the wild horses..because..its the right thing to do..there is no money in it ,no big campaign contributions, no kickbacks or pork projects involved..and what are we looking for in our politicians..superficial CRAP..lets start supporting politicans who have principles…I told my own state senator ron Wyden, I would not be contributing or supporting any politician who could not take a stand for the wild horses.
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I don’t care where Obama was born. I don’t think he formed a close connection with nature and wildlife as far as I can tell. I do think he is bright and a good man, however. I don’t think that’s enough to overcome our corrupt democracy though. Only the people rising up will effect change at this point. Too much power has been given to the corporations and the wealthy for far too long.
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Frank, I agree, and it is not far off at all – its all interconnected. Excellent post.
I would only add that “current” capitalist structure can not function without “current” energy “sources”. Someone posted this the other day on another blog site = the sun is shouting at us – “I’m here for you, I am your friend, I am free”. Of course we’ll see about that friend part on Dec 21, 2012. Only the numb capitalists we have today can’t figure out a way to tap into the sun for profits? I’ll take far out there for you – they don’t want to – they have us under thier thumb, living in fear of limited energy – right where they want us.
And, the gulf CAN bear this moretorium – put all the out of work BP riggers and the subcontractors, add a few more, to work on the clean up, put them iup in the tourist rooms, and let them eat from the restaurants, buy other goods – save the beach and save the local economy – let BP foot the bill. I can’t beleive I am expected to feel sorry for people that BP can be employing.
read this for another example:
“The captains of high finance are demanding that we reduce public debt, which we ran up to bail them out and deal with the mass unemployment they caused. That takes a lot of nerve. First they crash the system and run away with a fat pocket of cash. Then they demand that we clean up our financial act or they won’t loan out any money. Next time an oil-blackened snowy egret gets you furious at BP, remember to save some righteous indignation for the financial polluters who are picking our pockets…Both calamities were predictable and preventable…In both the deep sea and on Wall Street, regulation was slack or non-existent…Where’s Wall Street’s victims fund?” Les Leopold, Author, “The Looting of America”, Posted: June 25, 2010 08:54 AM , Huffington Post
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Now a charter boat captain has taken his own life – on his boat, in the waters that he loved and made his living. I don’t think he’ll be the last. Friends say he had become increasingly depressed over the multiple tragedies that have impacted the Gulf region. I think the oil spill and BP/government lies and lack of agressive action from the outset drove him over the edge. He told people he believed if the Gulf ever recovered, which he strongly doubted, it would not be in his lifetime. Psychologists speculate he and many others are suffering from PTSD.
We’re also suffering the stress of government lies and brutal actions impacting our wild ones. Personally, I keep going by reminding myself that, while people have a voice that can be heard, the wild ones have none. Only people can protect and defend them.
I don’t think I could continue without the inspiration and support of folks I’ve met on the blogs. I thank God every day we have eachother.
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This truly is a battle of good versus evil. The facade is being stripped away.
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Truer words were never spoken, Louie.
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Now BP is back pushing onshore drilling from an artifically-built island in Alaska. Two miles down, and at least another 10 directionally to the pocket. BP is says it’s one of the biggest finds in the area. They’re calling it a “new technology”, but I don’t know how the government will regulate an onshore and offshore combination. A good or a bad thing? The powers that be will roll the dice, and, no matter what happens, the environment and wildlife will suffer the consequences.
I don’t care how many “huge” reserves are discovered. The more oil (and natural gas) they say they’ve found, the more “little people” will be lulled into complacency. We need to demand the government put renewable alternative energy R&D on a wartime-footing “fast track” before everthing we treasure is lost.
And, no matter what anyone says, there are mitigations that could be implemented to allow energy development and protect the ecosystem, including the wild ones. It doesn’t even take “new technology” – just common sense, a bit more money, and the will to do it.
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Clean energy is on fasttrack..the largest wind farm in the world was just fasttracked in oregon…ask youself this…how do you fasttrack? You speed up the process, how do you do that?..you cut red tape…whats that? Environmental protections…checks and balances..what is the easiest thing to eliminate? ..the wild horses..their HAs and HMAs..without those and the wild horses themselves it makes it soooo much easier and faster..Bush wanted the horses gone for oil and cattle interests, Salazar wants them gone for “fasttracking clean energy”
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The red flag of corruption to me was the animals to be impacted in case of a Gulf oil spill listed on the drilling permit. Someone had cut and pasted Alaska animals 😦
we are doomed! Anyone want to chip-in to buy some small country and take our wild horses with us.?
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I do. I was thinking of the same thing, a place for compassionate people to exist and Wild Mustangs breed and run. Come to think of there was such a place it was called America land of the free and the home of the brave. Wonder how many of us are out there who still feel free when corporations rule every aspect of our lives at the cost of our world.
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Can it be someplace…warm??
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But not hellishly hot like Phoenixx please? Somewhere perfect!
Let’s not forget though, about America, current day – born from industry – and today is just a repeat of pre-depression “deregulation”. I’ve been catching some history on the political blogs – all very interesting and all way too familiar to today. Really, just history repeating itself.
Pre industry was born from stealing land from Indians – not so much to be proud of there.
But we have made many advances, acknowledged many wrong doings and will overcome this too, and I must believe that we will save our wild horses from the ravages of “industry” and our own energy consumption some way.
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I suppose New Zealand would be WAY too expensive. Maybe they’d part with just a little piece. Fell in love with the diverse landscape when I learned they shot pretty much all of “Lord of the Rings” there. Might consider a move anyway once my parents pass, especially if our country keeps going down this road to oblivion!
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I just DON’T understand why Obama thinks Salazar deserves all this support.
It was Salazar at the helm that expedites the extermination of our wild ones: wolves, bison, coyotes, equines, certain precious grasses, fishes, amphibians and waterways for special intrest use and abuse vermin. It was Salazar that let MMS allow what has happened and NEVER corrected the activities or agency culture that was audited prior to the BP Deep Horizon blowiout that took at least 11 human lives and the death toll continues to climb for businesses, wildlife and impacted humans like the poor soul that gave up and took his own life. Personally, I wouldn’t give that kind of credit to anything DOI OR BP…they are not worthy of anything but contempt.
Why Mr. President do you give support to a man that has not only let you down; he has let the country and our precious environment down…hell! Down nothing! HE IS killing it!!!!!
OBAMA GIVES MORE SUPPORT TO A DOCUMENTED EXTRACTION-LIVESTOCK TROLL THAT REPEATEDLY HAS FAILED AT HIS RESPONSIBILITIES AND CANS A MAN WITH A RECORD OF 30+ YEARS OF SELFLESS, NOBLE SERVICE PUTTING HIS LIFE ON THE LINE BECAUSE OF SOME FLIP (albeit serious) COMMENTS…..FIRES MCCHRYSTAL, BUT KEEPS SALAZAR??????? WTH!!!! Dollar for dollar, whom do you think has done the most damage? President’s ego gets miffed and cans a great American (who seems to have been stupid); Salazar ruins the entire Gulf, F’s up the moratorium legal papers and his fat ass is still in charge????? Excuse me?
Let’s see who has done more damage: McChrystal-flip remarks doing an impossible job that offends the presidency (I get it. The Prez has the right and I understand.) Salazar-resource candy store operator and owner of the worst all time environ disaster in US history (probably in time, the world’s worst) looking like a deer in headlights at these hearings, screwing up the moratorium litigation (big surprise there) and talks like he has a mouth full of horseflesh in his mouth testifying in front of committees. Seriously, you have to watch this nitwit testify…..be afraid, be very, very afraid.
And IDA, BIR, et al….you better file those freaking injunctions right NOW!!!!!!!
OK, no more rants for at least the next, oh…90 minutes.
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Whoa! What a fabulous interview. Thanks RT for the link. I hope Obama gets it this time that we want Salazoo out–NOW! The sooner the better for all involved.
How do we start some kind of Obama recall? He hasn’t exactly kept his word and I think we are worse off now than we were with Bushie Jr.
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Bush started rounding the horses up in 2005 with the intent to kill and send to slaughter..many went..congress put a stop to it by not funding it…and thats history in a nutshell..ask the republican party or the teaparty what there intentions are for the wild horses..I really hope you DON”T like what you hear…we have a better chance with this party than anything on the horizon.
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We are not worse off than with Bush! Look at the GULF, that is Dick Cheney’s energy plan. Look at the MMS, Dick Cheney oil cronies have been running it. Look at Wall Street deregulated by republicans. Obama would need to be Superman or God to turn the mess Bush and Cheney made around in under 2 years. Give the guy a break. I am surprised he hasn’t pulled a Palin and quit on all us who expect instant turn around of a shit pile left to him by Bush/Cheney & Co.
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I concur, absolutely, DITTO, exactly, spot on the NOSE, yea & verily.
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Even though I AM disappointed in Obama, he is NO WAY worse than Bush/Chaney! They left him saddled with the worst mess I’ve seen in MY time. The economy, the wars, all the environmental unfriendly legislation… It goes on and on. Not to mention that it’s been disaster after disaster since he took office – economic fallout, Iran and all the Middle East problems, the earthquake in Haiti, now this hideous mess. I do realize that he’s only one man and can multitask only so much.
However, it does seem that the White House could ACKNOWLEDGE that they have at least heard us. And kick that idiot Salazoo out before he does any more damage.
BTW, I think that dust up with General McChrystal had more to it than what meets the eye. Yes, McChrystal did cross the line – and he allowed his pals to do the same. There are just things a man in his position doesn’t do. Besides that, I’ve get that the men under him were more than fed up with his “rules of engagement’ that were putting them in danger. They probably ARE happy.
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I think that Obama has made plenty of mistakes that have resulted in an almost 3rd Cheney Bush term, but I see he is starting to catch on. He has recently appointed some real heavy hitters whose only purpose is to clean house and get rid of corruption – you would not appoint these people for any other reason, this is what they have always been and done.
I say, he is only 18 months in; he gave Salazar orders that have not been fulfilled, have in fact gone astray. I truly think we are going to see a different administration now. If I’m wrong, then I’ll hold his feet to the fire.
Just some points, I keep reading things that just have no basis in fact – Obama did NOT run on a much different energy platform than McCain, I keep reading that – go back and watch the debates again. Both platforms were similar, only Obama was more aggressive about “changing” over to alternate fuels, which IS occurring, just not fast enough. But he was never “drill, baby, drill” that some are now trying to paint him.
Obama has not “created” “unfriendly to wild life” policies. His first enactment was the Omnibus Environmental… something. It was written under Bush with more Democratic influence under Bush’s latter term. It was in fact the biggest environmental reform ever. But, consider, what had been chipped away in the previous 8 years, mostly up to 2 years before the end of Bush’s term. Didn’t go far enough? That is fair, and we can put pressure them to strip it further back to where it intended to be. (Sound familiar – like the 1971 Act, being chiseled away?)
I’ll stop short (for me) with even Republicans are starting to see that they were skunked by Cheney Bush, journalists and reporters are abandoning ship – tired of the “order” of what the news should be. If I had some folks backs I would say get back to Goldwater days where the consumer was recognized as a kinda important part of commerce – like say, if consumers are out of work = no commerce! This take, take, take, by shareholders, execs and CEOs is becoming too much like “let them eat cake”, and we all know how that turned out.
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Salazar needs to go – Obama has to see this someway! Our wild horses need to be saved!
Keep FOX and Talking Head Hannity out of my face – he’s a talk radio “for profits” entertainer that somehow slipped into cable tv for Gods sake – just stir ‘em up and rake in the dollars. FOX has blurred the lines for too long between entertainers and journalists. Turn them ALL off on all sides on all channels for one month, just listen to real journalists, then do your own research, then listen again.
For example – Feldman – you mean the same Feldman that is in bed with oil? Basing a story on him? The story proves what exaclty?
Doctoring science – Not Obama – NO evidence – talk about Conspriacy Theory at its worse – bring on the proof or even a little real evidence of this – otherwise liars liars pants on fire! His administration, not him directly though he is responsible, did try to discount the scientists warning of the scope of the spill at first, but that is a long way from “doctoring” anything – they were allowed to say what they said, unlike the previous bunch where we have hard evidence of doctoring at EPA for example, and now MMS. Mistake, yes, to keep relying on the Cheney Bush doctored science.
Actually, I’m not even seeing where Salazar actually doctored anything in this article or in the video – am I missing something? His support of the republicans energy agenda is bad enough, lets not print anything that we have no evidence of.
McChrystal crossed a line that is not crossable and expect to keep your job. Obama has not, no one that I read is discounting any of McChrystals accomplishments or the man – but some mistakes at that level cannot be overlooked. The troops are reported to be happy. I’ve worked for bosses that bad mouthed their bosses – very uncomfortable.
Want to see what conservatives will do with helicopters, wild horses and machine guns? Be careful what you wish for. Both parties have their faults, we have seen more than enough of one for 40 years now, extremism in the previous 8 to todays administration.
Let’s keep writing, calling, hounding Obama and our congress. Our outcry over the potential shooting of the “supposedly excess” horses is proof positive that we do have power.
Impeach Obama? – after 18 months, after 8 years of Cheney Bush, and they are not accountable? Sure, Obama needs to step it up but I for one am keeping this real.
This is what Talking Heads create! DISTRACTION, DIVERSION AND DIVISION – based on lies – watch this shell and not this other shell. It’s almost like they cannot stand any truth (which is actually good enough anyway)
Here’s my counter point from real journalists:
GOLD AND BLACK GOLD DISASTERS
See how one disaster came about – Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, Wikipedia, the free on-line encyclopedia.
“The captains of high finance are demanding that we reduce public debt, which we ran up to bail them out and deal with the mass unemployment they caused. That takes a lot of nerve. First they crash the system and run away with a fat pocket of cash. Then they demand that we clean up our financial act or they won’t loan out any money. Next time an oil-blackened snowy egret gets you furious at BP, remember to save some righteous indignation for the financial polluters who are picking our pockets…Both calamities were predictable and preventable…In both the deep sea and on Wall Street, regulation was slack or non-existent…Where’s Wall Street’s victims fund?” Les Leopold, Author, “The Looting of America”, Posted: June 25, 2010 08:54 AM , Huffington Post
“In reality, credit pollutants pose the same kind of threat to our economy as chemical toxins do to our environment. Like their chemical counterparts, they tend to concentrate in the weakest and most vulnerable parts of the financial system, and that’s where the toxic effects show up first: the subprime mortgage market collapse is essentially the Love Canal of our ongoing risk-pollution disaster.” Eric Janszen, Harper’s Magazine, February 2008
“…President Bush had lifted an executive moratorium on offshore drilling outside the Gulf that had been implemented by his father following the Exxon Valdez…The inside story of how Obama failed to crack down on the corruption of the Bush years –and let the world’s mores dangerous oil company get away with murder”…Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, June 8, 2010, June 24, 2010.
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And I forgot – we are back to “environmentalists are to blame.” Really – that is so boring! Can’t come up with anything better than that lie. Soon BP will be doing the wall street dance, Burton will support them I’m sure, and the Talking Heads will be telling us that we are to blame for the spill because, after all, we use oil don’t we, and demanding that we pay BP!
So yes, a little truth – we do use the oil – but what a spin!
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just ran across this research article while on a research project..I t seems the taxpayer is subsidising..radioactive contaiminated cows in Nevada..not only are they killing our pocketbook..they ARE actually killing us..i had heard fallon is one of those unexplained cancer hot spots..BLM nucleor cattle allotments..now I am going to have to do more research on this am intrigued..Do you know where that steak you ate came from????
http://www.springerlink.com/content/pmg67k1453542jg6/
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Sandra, aren’t they exporting most of this beef? Just like our toxic horses. Is this the new way to wage war? Poison the rest of the world?
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George Carlin sums it up perfectly:
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Why don’t we all chip in and send all of them to Mars or Saturn. They don’t care about living things anyway. We sure wouldn’t miss them.
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This is what all of our brave soldiers (men and women) fought for in World War ll?
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Great comments and kindred spirits! Turning off the “psycho-babble” has been my answer the past few days – no Fox, CNN or BS. I’m also going to send Barbara Boxer a contribution even though I live in Illinois because her words about the destruction of our wild horses are spoken with true passion. The time has come when America’s leaders can tell outright lies and get away with it. None are to be believed. Another Illinois upshoot to the U.S. Senate is the GOP’s Aaron Schock, who wasn’t even able to obey the law as a notary, He got caught notarizing a document for his father long “after the facts,” but didn’t even get fined. Off topic but do we have any artists out there? I’m getting a visual of Ken Salazar as a rodeo clown. I know he lacks the courage and humor.
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call me an eco-terrorist – i can’t buy any argument that is made on Fixed news with Michelle Malkin providing the facts. there are 3500 oil rigs in the gulf coast, this administration move would only effect about 35 deep water wells (like the current one gushing into the ocean) which are still in the exploratory stage. I’m all for stopping that until the oil industry is more regulated and the means to deal with a deep water spill exist.
Salazar sucks, we don’t need Hannity to tell us that. But using FIxed news as a source for any argument is shaky at best.
jeff
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This whole blog should be sent to the Obama via the websomehow
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Try @westwingreport
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When I email the White House, I’m constantly frustrated by the word limit (500?). I do tend to go on! I’ve sent much longer emails on this site, and haven’t reached a limit yet.
http://obama.net/contact/
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Just signed this petion to stop BP from prohibiting folks going out and gathering endangered sea turtles before they’re burned alive!
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/bp_endangered_turtles/?r=5664&id=9762-2751420-yJtHHfx
“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost.
When health is lost, something is lost.
When character is lost, all is lost.”
… Rev. Billy Graham
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AMEN to that!
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It says at the top that they will send “offers”, I don’t see any statement that info will not be used for other purposes, and why do they need so much info?
I’m surpised that my computer let me through today to them, it blocked them the other day when I posted the URGENT message about this – or this is a different site perhaps?
I’ll waite for IDA. Anyone have a contact at IDA to get a similar thing going there?
I like that quote. A friend told me a few years ago, and I love this,”Character is what you do when no one is looking and when you don’t wait to be told to do what is right”. Something like that.
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This Blog is going, so I’ll throw in another thought to make us all mad at Salazar. Some people believe in “ADIOTIC OIL” oil that is constantly produced from the earths molten core. If true then the BP well may have proved that theory and hit it, therefore the worlds oceans may ultimately become saturated with oil. Oil that at some point can catch fire and cause Armageddon. Or that theory is wrong and we really are running out of oil, and because there will be no Wild Mustangs to help mankind, Armageddon again. Could he really be Sa—–?
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Just listened to a scientist who is concerned about the methane gas that is being released. He said that fresh saltwater needs to be pumped to the base at the leak and dilute. He said that it would not be that hard to do and they could and should start doing it almost immediately. Made more sense to me than anything else that I have heard.
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I wonder how this methane gas output compares to cattle methane gas output on a daily count How many cattle does it take to be a Deepwater disaster? 100, 1,000, 10,000…?
Government people, as I have been one of them, don’t all look like BLM employees. However, of the 4 agencies I worked for, one was very close – very sad – I left first job offer that came along. I think they are dulled by working for such a corrupt agency, how can you endure that daily abuse otherwise?
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Have you ever looked at all of these “government people”?
The word AUDIOANIMATRONIC comes to mind. Or are they androids?
They could not possibly be human beings. They all look like empy shells with no souls.
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BLM to Hold Public Hearing on use of Motorized Vehicles, Aircraft to Manage Wild Horses, Burros
Elko, Nev.—The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will conduct a public hearing to discuss the use of motorized vehicles and aircraft in the monitoring and management of wild horses or burros on public lands in Nevada. The hearing will be held on Thursday, July 1, at 6 p.m. at the Bureau of Land Management Elko District Office, 3900 East Idaho Street, Elko, Nev. in the main conference room.
The purpose of the hearing is to receive information and public comments on the use of helicopters and fixed wing aircraft to inventory wild horse or burro populations and the use of helicopters to gather and remove excess animals. The hearing will also consider the use of motorized vehicles to transport gathered wild horses or burros as well as to conduct field monitoring activities.
Before helicopters or motorized vehicles can be used, a public hearing is required in order to comply with Section 404 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act. The BLM proposes to use a helicopter, fixed wing aircraft and other motorized vehicles to estimate population numbers and obtain seasonal distribution information for wild horse and burro herds throughout Nevada. Also proposed is using a helicopter to assist in gathering excess wild horses and burros on gathers and complexes throughout the state during the coming year. The actual number of areas where gathers will be conducted or inventoried will depend on a number of factors including funding.
For further information concerning the hearing, contact Bryan Fuell at (775) 753-0200 or Heather Emmons at (775) 861-6594. If you cannot attend the hearing, written comments must be mailed to the BLM Elko District Office, Attention: Bryan Fuell, 3900 East Idaho Street, Elko, Nevada 89801 and be received by July 5, 2010 to be considered.
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I am not too much into politics, however, since our President is NOT even lifting a finger to halt the BLM & do a thorough investigation, on behalf of OUR wild mustangs(&burros!), &, he’s the one who appointed Salazar, &, seems to have had a delayed reaction to the BP Gulf oil disaster, I think we should impeach the whole damn lot of them, the entire Obama administration!! Surely, there HAS to be better people out there, somewhere!When a government no longer listens to & acts upon what the PEOPLE WANT, it’s time to reconsider our “leaders”, & take the appropriate action to change things, for the better. I also think the ONLY reason Obama let his daughters have a dog, was to make himself “look good” to the American people(& to the rest of the world!). There are some exceptions under his leadership, but, he is NOT the “change” America wanted, or expected. At this rate, nothing will be done to help & save our wild horses, unless WE do it, & do it NOW!!
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What grounds? And what will Biden do better?
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/1/6/822524/-What-Has-Pres-Obama-Accomplished-in-Just-One-YearA-LOT…HERES-THE-LIST-
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/111965
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/05/05/ongoing-administration-wide-response-deepwater-bp-oil-spill
http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/taxes/2010-05-10-taxes_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip
Are the answers to these questions the awful things he’s done?:
1. Have Your Taxes Been Raised? (In 2009 Americans Payed The Lowest Taxes Since 1950)
Amid complaints about high taxes and calls for a smaller government, Americans paid their lowest level of taxes last year since Harry Truman’s presidency, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data found.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/taxes/2010-05-10-taxes_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip
2. Have You Been Forced To Be “Re-Educated” ?
3. Do Yo Still Maintain Your Same Employment And Wages ?
4. Do You Still Have Your Right To Vote?
5. Do You Still Have Your Right To Bear Arms?
6. Do You Still Have Your Right Of Free Speech?
7. Do You Have The Right To Leave Your Home At Anytime?
8. Have You Been Forced To Show Papers To Prove Who You Are? (The Republican GOV of Arizona Requires This)
9. Have You Been Conscripted In The US Military?
10. Have You Been Arrested For Your Political Views?
11. Have You Been Entered Into A FEMA Camp?
12. Have You Been Forced To Be Sterilized?
13. Has Your Freedom To Protest Been Taken Away ?
He has had more on his plate in 18 months than most presidents have had during entire double terms.
Found this too, but not sure who CBO is, researching. I think this was a small part of the Clinton health care that did get passed:
President Bush passed a Pharmaceutical Law that unfunded The Health Care Law that is a Funded Savings which would have reduced the defect by 1.2 Trillion Dollars, confirmed by the CBO.
Just keep calling, e-mailing, telling people – we wil get through, we must!
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In 2005 under the Bush admin, bills were passed including Safe drinking water act, Clean water act, and several other EPA sponsored bills. Supposedly it was to protect our water supplies from contamination by energy producing corporations. A loophole intentionally written into each of these bills exempts oil companies from having to abide by EPA regulations.
Feldman, an investor in BP oil was required under US Code & Title 28 to recuse himself as he had a vested interest in and is profiting from, BP oil. The moratorium was on DRILLING not on PRODUCTION. Only 33 drilling rigs would have been affected leaving more than 3300 PRODUCTION rigs operating. Feldman’s ruling is void as he failed to perform as required under Title 28.
The floor of the ocean in the Gulf is fracturing and fissures are releasing natural gas and methane. Thats what is actually burning on the surface. This releases benzine a highly toxic carcinogen….now floating in the air currents. Should one of these fissures open and then collapse the effects would be catastrophic.
to continue exploratory drilling hundreds and thousands of feet below the surface of the ocean floor at a time when the horizon site is showing extreme stress and a bulge from the resulting build up of gas under the wellhead is insane.
What is even more insane is having someone of such low caliber as Salazar heading up anything this important.
Marti/PPJ
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Damned loopholes, and 11th hour riders slipped into legislation!
How soon are they able to reinstate the moretorium, do you know?
If you live in an affected state tell your Governors to put pressure on BP to hire those unemployed riggers to do clean up!
Is Feldman, per chance, part of the Bush federal judge fiasco & scandal? How soon we have forgotten about that. Why can’t Obama get rid of those appointees and replace them, at least some? He will keep running into this same wall through out his term otherwise.
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The republicans have been holding up appointments and nominees, many jobs are not being filled….then President Obamas own rule about not hiring lobbiests is limiting those will experience..it was the craziest thing I hasd ever seen..we are in the middle of the biggest financial crisis in my lifetime and only a handful of people in treasurey to deal with it.
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And the crazy idiots want to horizontal drill under reservoirs in PA to get at natural gas. When will they figure out that our #1 resource is water?
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Found this (long) interview about how drilling/fracing has and could potentially impact domestic water supplies. One more thing we need to watch out for, as if we didn’t have enough already!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127932770
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John Roberts/CNN reported about this sometime in the past 2 weeks, but I couldn’t find the clip.
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Also, a documentary coming out soon called GasLand. The trailer shows fire, real fire, coming out of peoples faucets.
It should be on Netflix in a few days/weeks.
But what is the solution? “We” are the demand for this energy.
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Roxy, by “government people”, I meant the ones whose faces are seen plastered on prime time news–the ones at the top of the heap. They have sold out. I think the real policy makers are never seen. I don’t put any blame on the rank and file worker who is just doing his job.
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The rank and file should be held accountable when appropriate.
My experience in both public and private sector is that trouble is usually systemic, as is the case with DOI/BLM/MMS.
DOI is a mess, through and through, hold every one of them accountable! But hold the right ones accountable – its not all government people, it IS, in our case, the government people at BLM. And you are correct it is written all over them in their faces and body language.
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The rank and file are the workers who stand there and see wild horses flipping over in the shutes and keep on working.
The rank and file are the ones who move the hay machine and see moldie hay and do or say nothing.
The rank and file see a motherless foal getting thinner and thinner and do nothing. They see manure all over and mares birthing foals on manure and say or do nothing.
I’m sure the big good old boys get rid of any ‘rank and file’ who say something. So only the lazy, most desensitized ‘rank and file’ remain.
enough of a ‘excuse’ for the rank and file. Anyone who can stand there and see what the BLM does to wild horses is just as guilty as the ‘run foals to death criminal blm contracter.
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These are President Obama’s words — use them when you write/call the White House—apply them to the Wild Horse and Burro Act 1971—
“If the laws on our books are insufficient to prevent such a spill, the laws must change. If oversight was inadequate to enforce these laws,oversight has to be reformed. If our laws were broken,leading to this death and destruction,my solemn pledge is that we will bring those responsible to justice on behalf of the victims of this catastrophe and the people of the Gulf region.”
Just substitute “kill” for spill — and list a few thousand horses as victims.
If he can get justice for the victims of the Gulf, then he can get justice for the horses.
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Brilliant!
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If one was to have the last source of energy left in the world then one would be rich beyond ones wildest dreams. Since we are rapidly running out of energy the agency that holds 30,000 engines that can work simply fueled by grass would amass tremendous wealth and power. The BLM is in control of all the energy production in the US maybe they are hedging their bet with our Wild Mustangs.
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I guess I was making too broad of a generality concerning “rank and file”. I just know that a lot of people are caught up in this tangled mess. We all pay the taxes that are being used for this. None of us support this misuse of our tax money, yet we still are paying our taxes. People need their jobs. They have families dependent on them. They can’t always just do what they would like to do–not if they want to stay employed. I don’t waste too much time with blame at the base level. I don’t think it’s productive. I aim for the top, where the orders come from.
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I can only share of course my own experieinces and what I percieved from them. I worked in Real Estate during a time in my State had some really bad corrution going on. It was pressure from how people percieved the whole industry that drove changes to be made.
Had an opportunity to study New York police change duirng Gulianni (spell?). That would not have occured without two things – pressure from public opinion and those on the inside being forced to own up and change, because they could not longer, as you say, just go along, pressure from the inside.
I have since Real Estate days worked on a few reorganizations due to, I won’t say corrupt systems, but lets just say they needed to change. I say, hold everyone of them accountable, it may assist positive change, there are people in the rank and file just looking for an opportunity to be part of that change. Don’t hold back for fear of hurting their feelings – they already know what is going on.
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And, Louie, I guess I started this by saying its not all government people, but it certainaly is everyone in DOI – even the federal Attorney General has said so. Let them have it from all barrels!
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I do call the White House comment line evey day, or at least I try to call every day. Craig and Elyse both said that our calls are being heard. Let them know that if they had listened to the warnings and pleas of the wild horse and burro advocates, the Gulf disaster might have been averted–not hard to make a connection. People are paying better attention now.
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You are right. Each person has to make a choice as to how far he/she is willing to go when taking orders from whoever is in charge. Each person does have that power to make that decision. Were everyone strong enough and courageous enough to take a stand, no one could abuse power.
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When enough people “stand up” in the face of an eveil; change happens; and even then, change happens slowly. Hate on government, that’s your right as an American, but please remember that Bush/Cheney started this all out effort re: oil rules at all costs, get rid of the wild animals, especially horses.That he hasn’t done anything so far angers me, but the one moratorium he DID declare got overturned by a judge who has vested interests in oil drilling!
If you don’t think you can help because you’re not out in NV, Utah, etc, can’t have a horse, are too poor, whatever; there are things you CAN do.
Call, email, talk to your neighbors, sign a petition, buy a t-shirt, put a sign up at work or in your car, there is always something that every one of us can do. Make a commitment and DO it. If you think it’s too small or won’t make a difference, do it anyway.
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I supported Obama hoping he would turn back the tide of Bush’s anti-animal, anti-environment policies. But with the appointment of conservatives like Salazar, he has (even if inadvertently) done almost nothing to improve these conditions.
I guess they are trying to appease their Fox News detractors by appointing moderates. But all they succeed in doing is further shifting the balance of our government to pro-corporation, pro-lobbyist and pro-big money to the detriment of the “little guys” – both two-legged and four-legged.
I feel like I have no voice at all in my country. I expected it under Bush, but I hoped for better with Obama. So disappointing.
President Obama, we are NOT all rabid tree-huggers who would shut down industry just to save a couple of owls. We’re everyday people who merely want a little justice and compassion for animals. We wish for logical solutions to these problems, where animal populations could be managed through means other than slaughter. Is that too much to ask? Why have you forsaken us?
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Cintana, very well said.
Don’t give up hope yet though – Obama has two hits in his first 18 months – more “disaster” management than most Presidents see in entire 8 years terms and the most divisive Congress in history.
All while securing legislation what most 8 year Presidents never accomplish. And he is not done yet.
We will get what is needed for our wild horses too. Pass ROAM, begin immediately on another one, demand transparency and accountability, pressure for the moratorium.
Most importantly never allow the complacent attitudes towards government that we were lulled into over the last 50 years –
It’s not just FOR the People – it is OF the People and BY the People – that means WORK, WATCH, PARTICIPATE.
Oh, and turn off the talking heads!
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Cintana, I’m disappointed in Obama as well, but as Roxy said, he hasn’t had that much time in office and he’s had some of the most difficult circumstances in our nation’s history simultaneously land on his head. And Congress (especially the Senate) is so busy with it’s partisan war that virtually nothing of any value is being accomplished.
Obama’s “bully pulpit” is ineffective because he didn’t spend enough time in Congress before running for the Presidency. He arrived in D.C. with a great moral compass, but without the power base to bring his ideas to fruition. Many Americans resent his popularity in the rest of the world. I’m beginning to doubt he’ll get a second term.
In my opinion, the last truly “effective” relationship between a President and Congress was during LBJ’s administration. When all the stuff about his friendship with J. Edgar Hoover came out, people began to understand how LBJ managed to get so much done, especially on the homefront. Hoover had dossiers on just about everyone with power – inside and outside the Beltway. He supplied the dirt and LBJ had the ultimate “bully pulpit” – blackmail.
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/hoover_memorandum.htm
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Linda, I will continue to support Obama – what is the option? Trashing him will only result in more Bush Republicans and more difficulty in breaching Bushes BLM – and make no mistake what ww have still is Bushes BLM. Though I agree, too much Obama has looked like a continuation of Bush (so I beg the Republicans to tell me why they object to him so much?). He is chiseling through the Bush mess – he is in for 2 more years – let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water just yet and solidify the Bush escalation of wild horse roundups – let’s recall that Bush did this. I feel my support of Obama will get his platforms to go through and he will then have the time needed to see about our wild horses. I will before 2012 evaluate what needs to be done then – not before. Party is not genetic with me, I have been Repub and Dem, and “nothing”. I have voted against party line, I have not voted in opposition to both parties. Right now I cannot fathom voting anything but Democrat just because I am so frightened of returning – I have personally suffered much from the Cheney/Bush mess – no way to blame any of that on Obama.
LBJ conducted himself much like Bush – he used a lot of executive privilege and by passed congress on many things for the “great society” – but at least he did it for the People – not just for corporatism. Not sure I really want that again after Bush – but I would support that for Obama because I have faith that is platform is “just”. But, I am glad he is attempting to work the system and reach across the aisle – he ran on that – I respect him for staying with this campaign promise- but I don’t recall him saying he would do that forever. I have faith that he is a fast learner and we will see some “bully pulpit” yet.
Blackmail can be a good thing! So, we are good investigators – maybe we can find some dirt that Obama can use, but we’ll only trade that to him for saving our wild horses? I can dream can’t I?
Looking forward to reading your link – thanks.
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