I can’t find the article at the link. It drops me at the top of the home page.

I posted a correction — maybe didn’t hit submit (anger causes mistakes…)
Hope this fixes it.

Thanks for the alert, bluecrow.

Thank you for posting this.

Link to a petition

http://capwiz.com/madeleinepic…..38;type=AN

This is beyond revolting. Adding to yours just to show that there is a law against this happening.
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“Dear Animal Lover,

Today there are over 30,000 wild horses and burros that are at risk of being euthanized by the US government. These wild horses are protected by The Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971 (Public Law 92-195) which states: “It is the policy of Congress that wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death.” “

http://capwiz.com/madeleinepickens/home/

Thanks for the link, Mary. I just sent the letter to the Horse Murderers. I didn’t cuss or damn their souls – but I wanted to. If they go ahead and do this black deed, I hope they have accusing, soft brown-eyed nightmares every time they even try to take a nap.

My mother died July 3, 1944 when I was 10 years old, and the wisest, gentlest horse-creature did his best to provide the love I had lost. So, you see why I’m so disturbed. I really appreciate the care and kindness that you and Jim White give to horses. You’ll be greatly blessed for that, Mary.

Thanks, Blue. My heart is really breaking over this. ‘Appreciate your support. ~~~

recommended. signed the petition.

i’m so fucking pissed. is there not one day that this administration can rest from doing harm? and yes, i’m very well aware that the disaster bush is no longer in office.

Thank you, greenwarrior, for recommending and signing the petition. You express my feelings about this perfectly.

Makes sense to me, plunger. Is it a requirement that anyone running for public office or is in any way connected with government must pass a ‘proficient liars’ test? Lying and hiding their secret scullduggery seems to be their main skills.

Oh my, thought I was on plunger’s diary about Rick Davis lying about the FBI having vetted Palin. Anger does cause mistakes…

Here’s my addition to the form letter on Ms. Pickens site:

Mr. Salazar, the fact that you are even considering this unforgiveable,
inhumane act speaks volumes about you as a human being. Have you no soul?

These lands are the PUBLIC’s lands, not your’s to dictate who and what
creature of nature has the right to live free upon them. There are humane
ways to reduce the wild horse and burro population, such as birth control
by dart injection which has been successfully used on our Eastern Shore.

God-given life is more precious than money and power, Mr. Salazar..

post this everywhere…call huffingtonpost…Keith Olberman,get some celebrities involved Madonna is a horsewoman etc

Thanks scout.

Petition signed. I had to sign the petition. I’ve read too many of Mary’s posts over the years.

Thanks, I never knew about the birth control.

Recommended.

I need the help of a more accomplished internet-wise person. Here is a fine article on this at nowpublic.com

I just signed on there but can’t manage to even get my comment published. [Oh to be a young whipper-snapper again!]. Please, one of you smarter-than-I people, write a follow-up diary using this article and the names and addresses of authorities about this mass murder. There’s lots of contacts.

Thanks all, for your comments. [Hey, Boo and sadlyyes - We’ve got to win this one. These maniacs are raping our oldest mountains in the world (in W VA), poisoning our streams and underground water system, now exterminating our wild horses. What in Hell kind of world do they want to live in and leave to their children and grandchildren??]

Thanks, Boo. The day seems brighter and more hopeful when I see your support and contributions here. Thanks for signing the petition, the recommend and for all that you do.
scout

I assume Salazar is not able to push this all by himself. Higher-ups must agree. Still, he’s always been on my “don’t trust” list – too smarmy and slick by half.

This is horrific. Thanks all for alert and pushing the alarm button. They just CAN’T! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Off to find a petition or several………

Thank you Acquarius 74, Mary and all. I just signed the petition. We’re sorta between e-mail addresses, what with our picking up and moving lock, stock and barrel to new digs this week. I don’t care. Signed the petition anyway. Will repeat at new address, using hubby’s name if they don’t like mine.

Why must innocent animals always bear the brunt of man’s greed and lust to control everything on earth. Sometimes (?!) I am ashamed of our species.

What in Hell kind of world do they want to live in and leave to their children and grandchildren??]

I’ve been agonizing about that for years.

Quite clearly, THEY. DON’T. CARE. But WHY, and HOW? What brand of dunderhead would be so careless, arrogant and blame-plagued STUPID that they fail to understand the world is interconnected. They’re killing off their own genes as well as everyone else’s. It makes no sense.

I bet they call themselves “pro-life”, and yet their actions prove they care not one whit about any living being.

Makes me sick at heart………..

sorry to swamp this thread with my rant. anger is fueling my day today, and i’m washing all our windows. wish us luck.

P.E.A.C.E. to all living things, DAMMIT!

Rant on forever, Adie!!! Thank you for taking time out from your busy moving work to lend your support to ensuring that our wild horse herds continue to have a right to live free on this earth and in this country.

It has been proven to me that horses are specially loved by their Creator, and woe be unto those that harm and seek to destroy them. That’s a real, personally experienced miracle story and most people can’t handle it.

Update: H.R. 1018 was introduced into the House on 02/12/2009 to protect our wild horses and burros. Status is “pending”; HSUS Position: Support; Bill Sponsor(s): Rep Nick Rahall (D-WV) and Raul Grijalva (D-AZ); Legislative Status: In Session.

Round-up for the planned slaughter is in August, so time is short. How can we move this House Bill to the floor for a vote?

Ask the bill sponsors themselves who would be best to contact in order to protest this move and speed up the bill. Salazar has 1187 acres of land in Conejos and Costilla Counties. Can you say the motive is gaining more land for his cattle to graze on? Back in 1996, an environmental study was done in regards to Platoro Cattle and Horse Allotment (Conejos Ranger District). It mentions such things as cattle breaking down fences and worries of stream damage. It does not mention wild horses. The intent of the study was to open up more wilderness grazing for cattle. A permit lasts for ten years, so I bet that right now, a new permit is being sought. He wants to kill the majestic wild horse for land for his cows. To which I say..f..k you, Salazar. Conflict of interest to be sure. (PDF)

http://pfds.opensecrets.org/N00026431_2008.pdf
http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/riogra….._Chpt1.pdf

Here’s a list of contacts in DC to rouse up in whatever way you can be effective. The link to the nowpublic.com article having the list is at my #14. All that follows below is taken from that article.

PRESIDENT:

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Comment line: 202-456-1111
http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/

CONGRESS:
1. Stop the BLM from managing our wild horses to extinction.
2. Halt all round-ups of wild horses until range conditions and herd numbers can be verified.
3. Return wild horses in holding to the 100+ herd areas (19+ million acres) that have been zeroed out.
4. Expand the Pryor Mountain. Wild Horse Range for Cloud’s Herd & protect herd at viable population level of at least 150 adult horses until range is expanded.

Congressman Nick Rahall (D-WV)
2307 Rayburn HOB
Washington,DC 20515
(202) 225-3452
email

Congressman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ)
1440 Longworth HOB
Washington, DC 20515
ph (202) 225-2435
fax (202) 225-1541
Email to: Laurel.Angell@mail.house.gov

Your US Senators and Congress people

Montana Senator Max Baucus (D)—specific to Cloud’s herd
511 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington DC, 20510, phone: 202-224-2651
e-mail from: http://baucus.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm

Montana Senator Jon Tester (D)—specific to Cloud’s herd
204 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington DC, 20510,
phone: 202-224-2644, e-mail from: http://tester.senate.gov/Contact/

Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee:
304 Dirksen Senate Building, Washington, DC 20510
phone: (202) 224-4971, Fax: (202) 224-6163, e-mail all 23 members at http://energy.senate.gov/publi…..ntact.Home
Reinstate wild horse protections removed in 2004 by the Burns Rider and include language in the bill that would prevent BLM from destroying healthy wild horses.

DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR- BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
1. Work to expand the legal boundaries of the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range to include the historic and current use areas in the Custer National Forest. This will allow for a truly viable herd of 200-300 mustangs.
2. Keep the population at a viable number of at least 150 adults until range expansion is achieved. This will allow for the preservation of the rare Spanish genetics of the herd. Bringing in horses from other herds is ill advised, unnecessary and costly.
3. Do not remove older horses
4. Work to protect the mountain lions that have kept the herd at zero population growth in years past. Natural management should be the goal.

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar
DOI, 1849 C Street NW, Washington DC 20240
Phone: 202-208-7351, exsec@ios.doi.gov

BLM Acting Director Ron Wenker & Acting Deputy Director Mike Nedd
1849 C Street NW, Washington DC, 20040, phone: 202-208-3801 Ron_Wenker@blm.gov, Mike_Nedd@blm.gov

Don Glenn BLM Division Chief of Wild Horse and Burro Program
BLM Washington Office, 1849 C Street NW, Rm. 5665 Washington DC 20240
Phone: 1-800-710-7597 or 202-208-3801, Fax: 202-208-5242, wildhorse@blm.gov

Jim Sparks, Field Manager BLM -Billings Field Office
5001 Southgate Drive, Billings, MT 59101
phone (406) 896-5223, fax (406) 896-5281
Jim_Sparks@blm.gov

United States Department of Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1400 Independence Ave., S.W.
Washington, DC 20250
Email: AgSec@usda.gov

FOREST SERVICE
Ask the following people to please work with the BLM to expand the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range to include the historic and current use areas in the Custer National Forest. This will allow for a truly viable herd of 200-300 mustangs.

• Abigail Kimbell, Chief USDA Forest Service
1400 Independence Ave., SW
Washington, D.C.
20250-0003
phone: (202) 205-1661, e-mail: akimbell@fs.fed.us
• Mary Erickson, Acting Forest Supervisor- Custer National Forest
PO Box 130, Bozeman, MT 59771,
p. 406-587-6701, mcerickson@fs.fed.us
• Chris Worth, Acting Deputy Supervisor
1310 Main Street, Billings, MT 59105
phone: 406-657-6200, cworth@fs.fed.us

Please write letters to the editor, ask that your favorite radio and TV hosts cover this story and last but not least, please tell your friends and family about wild horses and ask them to join the Cloud Foundation in helping to protect and preserve wild horses on our public lands.

List compiled by The Cloud Foundation, March, 2009 ~ http://www.thecloudfoundation.org

another FAKE ASS COWBOY

http://artoftalk.tv/wp-content…..-33-12.jpg

writing to Robert Redford now

that Lady who did that documentary
MUST GET FACE TIME ON MSM……….RIGHT NOW

List compiled by The Cloud Foundation, March, 2009 ~ http://www.thecloudfoundation.org

This is again disturbing and inexcusable as public policy, and I blame the President. Why? Because he knew (or certainly should have known) Salazar was a snake before he took him in. But there are so many stories like this in our larger culture, like brood mares who are leased out for collection of their urine for estrogen for humans. Like what goes on in pig farms or large chicken or turkey for food operations. Like shooting wolves from helicopters. I’m afraid the powers that be will just see this as another set of business decisions that need to be filed under “sausage making” while the public is placated by pretend changes in response to public pressure. Still, we gotta try!

phone number to SUNDANCE RESORT
will call tomorrow and try to get Robert Redfords contact number and email

COMES A HORSEMAN

Raul Grivalja was one of the progressives being pushed for Interior.

He never would have done this. Why isn’t Obama being slammed by all progressives for defecating on our people and picking these hacks like Salazar?

I know he is, online here, but in the real world…? dumb question!!

like I said in another post, for people who are paying attention, this is an unspeakably sad period.

BO DEREK

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger named actress and animal rights activist Bo Derek on Tuesday to a state commission overseeing horse racing.

Derek, 51, was appointed to fill one of two vacant posts on the California Horse Racing Board, a position requires confirmation by the state Senate and pays $100 per diem.

Derek is a horse lover who has lobbied Congress for the past five years to ban the slaughter of the animals. She also owns the pet care products company Bless the Beasts, which sells such items as dog shampoos, conditioner and fur polish.

She also wrote the book “Riding Lessons: Everything That Matters in Life I Learned from Horses.” Her Web site said the autobiography links her life lessons with her understanding of horses.

LETS EMAIL HER EN MASS

Bo Derek

Bo Derek – Member
1010 Hurley Way, Suite 300
Sacramento, CA 95825
Phone (916) 263-6000, Fax (916) 263-6042
e-mail: bderekchrb@verizon.net

A USDA vet was part of the secret meetings. Contact the USDA and let them know that many people now know of their plan and do not approve of it.
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Serving CONEJOS County, Colorado

http://offices.sc.egov.usda.go…..8;cnty=021

Thanks for all of this information! I’ve passed most of it on to Ann Byrnes, a wonderful and resourceful woman whom I met several years ago in Amherst, Mass. Hope to see some of it soon on her website. (www.walkingwithwinnie.com, and would that I knew how to make links!)

After other means of moving to California with her American Mustang, Winnie, proved impossible, Ann determined to walk. So they are.

This gets my vote as the most imaginative response yet to our current depression.

Winnie carries Ann’s survival gear. Thanks to an angel with a horse trailer, and no thanks to the National Parks Service, they just got through the Delaware Water Gap.

Ann is using the trip also to introduce more people to Mustangs and to their indispensible role in settling this country.

Great-hearted horse people — and horses, for that matter — keep coming forward along the way to help Winnie and Ann. So this seemed like a natural community to which to get out the word about Ken Salazar’s costly, soulless plan to kill to Winnie’s wild horse cousins.

As we now know, President Obama is irked mightily at the netroots’ refusal to fall into line with his costly dream of using our disastrous Massachusetts mandatory, for-profit health insurance plan as the national model.

But it hasn’t escaped us that for-profit companies profit by letting Americans die instead of paying for their care. It’s a uniquely American form of human sacrifice, Senator Baucus.

So we persist in fighting for the single-payer plan (or, reluctant fallback position, the robust, nationwide, immediately available, public option) that will save American lives.

While we’re at it we might as well fight for the lives of horses and irk Obama’s Interior Secretary Salazar, as well.

Here’s a link to a Humane Society website that explains how they collect the urine from the mares.

argh
forgot to pOst number to SUNDANCE

Main Number: 1.801.225.4107

A wonderful story. Good reliever of some of the stress those of us who love horses are feeling.
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A lesson from the slowest ever to learn how to do a link. It is so simple I felt like screaming when I finally learned how…’g’. Right click your mouse on top of the url you want to transfer (the url turns grey). A box comes up..left click on copy. (careful not to hit cut by accident..been there..done that). Go to where you want to place your link and right click..a box comes up..left click on paste. That’s it! Happy linking.

http://www.walkingwithwinnie.com/home.php

Robert Redford is a trustee here.
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“NRDC is the nation’s most effective environmental action group, combining the grassroots power of 1.2 million members and online activists with the courtroom clout and expertise of more than 350 lawyers, scientists and other professionals. “

http://www.nrdc.org/about/

Been studying your links. Makes my head ache. That form filled out by Salazar in 2008 shows his acreage as “farm land” — is he not a cattle rancher? Also, his income is huge [between $1 and $5 million??] but end result is a -$12,500 ??? If I’m reading this right, such a poor manager should not be “managing” our whole Dept of Interior. Seems he is in hock to the farm loan companies and a credit card company.

In reading the blurb by the Forest Service on the Environmental Assessment, seems to me the way to prevent plant damage and loss, and erosion caused thereby, is to reduce the number of cattle per acre due to the fact that they tend to destroy the whole plant by their inability to crop the blades and leaves (no upper teeth) instead of killing off the horses who clip the leaves using upper teeth and leaving sufficient plant material to regrow.

Mary knows the law and is expert at interpreting it for us. Hope she gives us her take on that form filled out by Salazar. I think a lot rides on the specific location of his acreage and his use of it, whether he owns it or leases public land, and whether his intent is to expand any cattle operation if more public grazing land is opened up by elimination of the wild horses.

Thanks for these links, Blue. Damn stupid greedy clods in control of every aspect of our government.

many thanks as always

PLEASE WRITE TO JANE
and have her FRONTPAGE THIS

WOW!! Bless you each and every one for your great response. Lifts my heart and gives me goosebumps.

I suspected something when I saw the income column. He has big loans and leasing expenses. I can’t figure out where his income to pay for this comes from. Maybe report him to the IRS…’g’. ‘Sorry about the headache…smile..go for a walk if you have nice weather. You need to take a short break from the stress of this. Relax if you can.

You are most welcome.

Thanks for all your research, links, and info, sadlyyes. Do I just send Jane an e-mail to ask her to front-page this? I want to promote the issue, not my authorship.

Here is Salazar’s e-mail.
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http://www.house.gov/salazar/contact.shtml

Blue, got to look at that form again: Is that John Tony Salazar the same man as Ken Salazar the Secty Interior?

brothers..

” He was born in Alamosa, Colorado, but calls Manassa, Colorado his home. He is married to Mary Lou Salazar and has three children: Esteban, Miguel and Jesus. His younger brother, Ken Salazar, is a former United States Senator from Colorado and the current Secretary of the Interior.

Salazar served in the U.S. Army from 1973 to 1976, and is a farmer and rancher, raising cattle, potatoes, wheat, barley, and hay. He has a college degree from Adams State College. Salazar was the owner of an internet company, Spudseed.com, which marketed potatoes, as well as serving as a director of Monte Vista Production Credit Union and Agro Engineering, Inc. “

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Salazar

” Manassa is a town in Conejos County.

The community was named after the biblical figure Manasseh, elder son of Joseph and founder of a chief tribe of Israel.”

http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin…..Index=9585

Interesting comment from Sept. 2007.
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” Salazar is more likely to follow his constituents rather than lead them. “

http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1146

Lord-a-Mercy, Blue! Been fighting with copying, links, broken links while you post rapid fire info and links – how do you do it??

So, the Salazar brothers do like gov goodies – almost free grazing, fine gov salaries, power to move legislation so they gain even more goodies; all by grace of the state of Colorado, proud home of Darth Cheney. Pretty soon Colorado gonna have as bad a rep as Texas.

Yep, Blue, I’d say conflict of interest and nepotism in the Secty Interior’s authorization to wipe out the 33,000 wild horses that dare graze on the Salazar’s turf.

I read fast! Slightly OT. Ken is a USS Liberty/Zionist apologist. Quite the letter the USS Liberty Veteran Association sent to him in Nov 2007. If the truth of the Liberty was widely known, the hold that Israel has on the US would be largely broken. John McCain, for one, could no longer ride on his family history of his father. His father was a traitor. LBJ was a traitor and so are all the politicians who refuse to have a proper enquiry after all these years. Why do you think Israel gets 3B a year? It is blackmail.
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http://ussliberty.wordpress.co…..s-liberty/

That one worked :-) thank you

The White House contact page was up when I tried it so I sent him a message about the horses:

“Information obtained by a Freedom of Information Act request by the Conquistador Group in Arizona has found that as Secretary Salazar stands before the Statue of Liberty in his white cowboy hat and speaks of the great American experience, he is also presiding over the formal plans to kill 33,000 wild horses and provide stress counseling for the BLM workers who carry out his orders. A quite different American experience.”

You appointed this cowboy slug, Mr. President? If so you’re as big a fucking monster as he is.

Throw oil into the plot. This is from June 2007. Nobody read the act that was just passed..so restrictions might already be gone. Where are the herds of horses as compared to known, or suspected oil deposits?
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“Colorado and Utah have as much oil as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, Nigeria, Kuwait, Libya, Angola, Algeria, Indonesia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates combined.

That’s not science fiction. Trapped in limestone up to 200 feet thick in the two Rocky Mountain states is enough so-called shale oil to rival OPEC and supply the U.S. for a century.

Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp., the two biggest U.S. energy companies, and Royal Dutch Shell Plc are spending $100 million a year testing new methods to separate the oil from the stone for as little as $30 a barrel. A growing number of industry executives and analysts say new technology and persistently high prices make the idea feasible. “

http://www.deseretnews.com/art…..27,00.html

“Salazar also was successful at inserting language into the Energy Independence Act of 2007 prohibiting the Bureau of Land Management from drilling for oil and gas atop the Roan Plateau in Garfield County.

On June 26, 2009, John Salazar was the only democratic representative from the state of Colorado to vote against the American Clean Energy and Security Act. “

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Salazar

Thanks, BlueCrow! Looks like the vigilantes are forming up. In light of the info above provided by Bluebutterfly on the Salazar brothers, would impeachment of both of them stand a chance? I know, congress hunts the nearest hole when there’s even a hint of that word…

Thanks for striking your blow; hope it lands in a very vulnerable spot.

Blue, does this tie in with that auction of oil leases on public land that the young man named de Christopher fouled up and brought to a halt by his bidding with no money? hmmm, that was in Utah, huh? It was all wrapped up in a red ribbon until he showed up (likely go to prison for it, too).

Haven’t a clue of what you speak..will have to look..’g’. How about bringing the native societies into this battle? I can’t see the native community smiling upon the slaughter of these horses because horse were highly valued by them. Interesting article from 2004.
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” Several new rock art discoveries dated around 1700-1750 depict mounted warriors, likely Comanche, on horses clad in leather armor, the first such petroglyphs found in Colorado.

University of Colorado-Boulder anthropology doctoral student Mark Mitchell, who identified the art, said Plains Native Americans probably acquired horses from the Spanish in northern New Mexico beginning about 1650 through raiding or trading. The idea of leather-armored horses and riders to deflect spears and arrows probably came from observing armored Spanish horse soldiers in the Southwest or Mexico.

“There is some recorded history but virtually no archaeology of the Comanche, which makes these rock art depictions very valuable,” said Mitchell. “They should point us to additional places to look for Comanche sites containing artifacts associated with horses.”

Mitchell published a paper on the subject in the March 2004 issue of Antiquity. “

http://www.cyberwest.com/cw23/…..yphs.shtml

Hey..I like this guy. He was indicted on April 1/09.
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” I got in there and saw the opportunity to make the difference and then realized that, seeing that opportunity, I couldn’t ethically justify not taking it. I knew that as bad as this could possibly turn out, if I ended up going to prison, then I could live with that. But if I saw an opportunity to protect the land of southern Utah and I saw an opportunity to keep some oil in the ground and give us a better chance for a livable future and I passed up that opportunity, then I wouldn’t be able to live with that. And so, I just had to make that choice on my own.

Even if he is unable to purchase the land, it can’t go up for auction again until February. At that point, we will have a new administration – one that is hesitant about opening up protected areas to drilling.

Since his arrest, DeChristopher is overwhelmed with the supportive response from the environmental community. Former Bureau of Land Management director Patrick Shea has offered to lead up the legal team defending him, offering to take the case pro bono. He has received letters of support and there has even been discussion of trying to purchase the $1.8 million in acreage that he won in the auction. “

http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/1…..-drilling/

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/ut/p…..ctment.pdf

Bet you’re right, Blue. At the desertnews link at your # 53 is a map of the big oil pools. One is in CO near the town of Rifle, CO. I googled that. Big fight against the oil companies. See here:

Snip>

Last Friday, all parties involved, including the Bureau of Land Management and the oil and gas companies holding the new leases on the Roan, agreed to a ban on surface disturbance on the Roan Plateau until June 2009. This ensures that the concerns expressed in our litigation will be heard and carefully considered before any development will be contemplated.

Snip>

Well, June, 2009 barely ended and Secty Interior Salazar announces gonna slaughter some 33,000 wild horses. Guess the “Save Roan Plateau folks” lost out and Big Oil is movin’ in.

Betcha John Tony Salazar’s land has been leased to some oil company. Haven’t found a map yet that shows the location of his land in relation to Rifle, CO. Still lookin’.

2-04-09
“Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Wednesday that he is rejecting the bids on 77 controversial Utah drilling leases close to national parks and sensitive public lands to give the department more time to review them.

The leases were among the so-called midnight maneuvers enacted in the last days of the Bush administration, many of which were criticized by environmentalists for weakening environmental protections.

The 77 leases comprise 130,000 acres close to Arches and Canyonlands national parks, Dinosaur National Monument and Nine Mile Canyon, and fetched $6 million in bids which Salazar said would be returned. They were among 116 parcels offered for bid in the region.

Salazar wouldn’t comment on how it might affect the case of Tim De Christopher, the University of Utah student facing federal charges after he won bids on 13 of the 77 parcels but didn’t intend to pay for them. “

http://www.newwest.net/topic/a…..s/C35/L35/

Somehow it appears that my Palin / FBI diary on Oxdown went from a top-ten to deleted entirely. Any ideas?

Here’s the link that somehow got disappeared.

http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/6123

BMAZ?

TRY TO POST THIS PICTURE WITH YOUR STORY,ONE OF THE GEEKS HERE CAN HELP YOU

http://artoftalk.tv/wp-content…..-33-12.jpg

This might be why.
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” On Saturday, Palin’s lawyers came out fighting against allegations that her resignation was prompted by a brewing scandal. On Friday, bloggers including Shannyn Moore and Brad Friedman suggested that Palin is under federal investigation over her activities in the development of the Wasilla Sports Complex, a multi-million dollar facility in Palin’s home town built while she was mayor of the town.

“To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as ‘fact’ that Governor Palin resigned because she is ‘under federal investigation’ for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation,” Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein said in a statement. “

http://rawstory.com/08/news/20…..questions/

Costilla…160 acres with water rights.

http://www.co.pueblo.co.us/cgi…..r=30006541

Conjos…

http://64.234.218.210/cgi-bin/…..search.cgi

Blue, here is the 04/03/09 show on http://www.democracynow.org/ on which Amy interviews Tim DeChristopher, the Utah Student Who Prevented Bush’s Sell-Off of Public Land, Charged for Disrupting Auction.

You’ll love him.

Sadlyyes, I’ve struggled with flikkr to try to transfer pics – zero success. Don’t the mods sometime do that for a “disadvantaged pup” like me??
Hint,hint, mod person. Disgusting as this pic is, it’s a perfect illustration.

Thanks, sadlyyes, for finding it. BTW, I sent an e-mail to Jane and brazenly asked her to front-page this diary. I mentioned that it was your suggestion.

Dang..I was too slow at trying to correct. If these links fail again, I will come back and tell you the site names. You should be able to use the legal description of the properties ‘against’ an oil map.
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Conejos property
http://qpublic.net/co/conejos/index-search.html

Costilla
http://www.co.pueblo.co.us/cgi…..r=30006541

The stuff of nightmares!

“The rules of being Ken Salazar’s cowboy hat
“Ken Salazar looks like Dick Cheney with the hat and bolo tie.” “

http://coloradoindependent.com…..cowboy-hat

acquarius, I would be happy to add an illustration to your call-for-action post for you, but that particular one says AP, so it’s copyright protected.

But I found these Creative Commons pics at flickr, if you find one you like I’ll add it for you.

He has a website. We need more people like him exercising the power of one. I bet he wouldn’t agree with killing horses.
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http://www.bidder70.org/

Sorry I’m so late in responding properly to your comment, greenharper. That’s a wonderful story about beautifully stubborn Ann and her Winnie. Going to go to your link for her now; see how I can help. Can’t be much, but imagine every little bit helps.

BIG HUGS AND KISSES
jANE IS AN ANIMAL LOVER…FINGERSCROSSED….eLLIOT USUALLY PUTS MY PICS IN
failure is not an option
I WOULD BE HEART SICK

Thanks so much, Elliott. Didn’t find one that presents his true self like sadlyyes’s – too bad it’s AP. The podium with the seal gives him dignity he does not deserve….could you find a pic of a burro’s rear end? (just kiddin’).

HOWZA BOUT THIS ONE

N1105DEMS_JL_03c.jpg

Don’t insult the burros by connecting them with him..they are much cuter..’g’.
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“BLM Wild Burro’s and their Offspring “

http://www.denstarfarm.us/Dens…..rros2.html

Grandstanding…OLD TURD!!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/j…..005748241/

BABIES!

plunger, it’s not gone. Found it while moving around here at Oxdown. I copied the link where I found it.

I’ve been having all kinds of weird problems – screen locks up, everything freezes, have to log off even to leave the site. Think it’s some kink with some of the ads. Maybe they want to capture your eyes and make you look at their ad; if so it has the opposite effect on me.

A REALLY sweet Ass

http://bp2.blogger.com/_puwu6D…..1_0191.JPG

Gorgeous aren’t they. Nice place..here they are gentling mustangs and burros.
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IMWHABA & BLM Clinic, West Jordan UTAH May 2008

Ah, sadlyyes, you already showed me a diamond; I never could accept second best. What we need is a charicature…all hat, no brains.

i respect your decision

but he looks like an ass there too

Precious, Blue. Burros keep coyotes away, that’s why you will see them mixed in with a herd of cows/calves or sheep.

Had a couple of quarter horses back in 1991. Took them down to a pasture in Dripping Springs, TX where there was a big, old burro. He and my gelding would wrestle just like two kids. Amazing to watch.

You’re right, Blue; I insulted the burros’ rear ends. Won’t happen again.(hee,hee).

im noQuitter

try this one on for size

http://www.flickr.com/photos/k…..959994274/

I’m too tired to hunt, Blue. Can you fix the link to the BLM Clinic?

Bingo!!!. You found a bigger, higher quality diamond. He looks even stupider in this one. Elliott, you still there, hon? I’d sure admire to see this buffoon’s pic that sadlyyes links at her 84 illustrating this example of high-class literature.

I thank you in advance, Elliott.

oh bummer. That is a good one, but it is marked “all rights reserved,” we need one with a Creative Copyright License.

If you scroll to the bottom on the right, it’s there under “Additional Information.”

You have to use the advanced search option, and scroll down and click the checkbox for “Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content.”

Such a shame that picture isn’t available, he looks like a big dope.

Thanks for keeping us out of litigation, Elliott, home ain’t no embassy-palace, but figure it’s a lot better than the hoosegow.

I have faith in sadlyyes; she’ll find another winner.

I’m sorry. I’m tired, too..bad job. I didn’t even notice that the link didn’t work. It must have been fun to watch your horse and the burro play together. Animals are such wonderful creatures..unlike many of the humans they share this planet with. I said earlier for you to relax if you can..nap time, maybe? Escape the stress for an hour and recoup your energy. Thinking of painful memories from childhood is exhausting all by itself without adding your worry about the horses.
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http://www.denstarfarm.us/Dens…..1.html#Gus

Followed your instructions, Elliott. Here’s one on last page, taken 08/26/2008 by Mike Disharoon _DNCC20080826_357

hmmm, most of these pics are from Obama’s campaign in Colorado; so pay-off is rid the public land of wild horses, put the land up for auction and/or oil leases, and the Salazar brothers get rich and powerful, huh. All that campaigning for OB should have been a clue.

These people and these techniques are beautiful. I’ve seen it work – horses learn fast when treated gently and using some common sense.

That nap sounds like a good idea. Think I’ll try it.

Victory!

Gotta go see.

heres another

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs…..lazar.aspx

Perfect! Elliott. Thank you. Looks like he’s saying, “Duh…huh??”
Great job.

:)

He sure is a dopey lookin’ fellow.

Thank you! At last!

This is apparently the first time anyone’s responded, other than with a ferocious flame, to a blog posting of mine. It’s worth commemorating.

Ann (and Winnie) will be grateful for your support! Even to imagine the guts it takes to walk across the U.S. is beyond me.

Check out the magically reappearing posting with the new and improved disclaimer:

http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/6123

So easy once one knows how isn’t it? And so hard to figure out when one doesn’t. When you want to transfer some text from an article, hold down the left side of the mouse and put it at the beginning of a sentence and then slide over what you want. The text turns grey as you slide the mouse over it. When what you want is grey, let go of the left and then click on the right of the mouse. Then left click on copy in the box. Go to where you want it and then right click..then left click paste in the box. The same as how copying a url is done.

greenharper, that story touches my soul. Wish I was 10 years younger, I’d get in my pick-up and meet her, and carry the gear so she could ride.

I have a horse loving grandaughter, age 14. She attended horse camp in summers, then when she got old enough to work there, the fees went down. I just sent her the link to Annie’s Journey and will let her send some money on if she wishes. Knowing about Annie and her courage to find her own way will be good for my grandaughter to know at this stage in her life – she may face some tough decisions ahead herself.

I’m going to rest a bit, then try to do a diary here at Oxdown about Annie and Winnie. Tell a beautiful story about a beautiful relationship and pile shame on Shameful Salazar.

Thanks again, greenwarrior.

Thanks, sadlyyes. I scrolled all the way to the bottom and that last sentence in fine print: “all rights reserved…blah…reproductions or transmission strictly prohibited”. So, Elliott did a fine job in posting the “Loopy-Stupe” saying, “Duh ?…huh?”.

We’ve only begun with Shameful. I’m passing the baton to you and I’ll do the supporting role. Hit him hard, sadlyyes. Bluebutterfly’s links will provide plenty of material. Ask the hard questions.

Thanks so much ~~~

Ah, thank you. I’ve copied this, too, and added it to your link instructions. Soon there will be no stopping me.

And acquarius74 at 101, thanks! Ann Byrns has lived in India and, I believe, a number of other countries. Her father was a Foreign Service Officer. Maybe this helps to make one more intrepid.

Ann’s friend “Mr. Albino” has already sent thanks for the information on the wild horses. He had heard about their peril, but had had no specifics. Fortunately, this community is seldom short of specifics. The circle widens….

Hey..where is your link?..’g’.
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“In 1999, Ann received a six month paid leave from the University to conduct some research in India, a place she’d visited years earlier, at the age of 19. In 2001, haunted by experiences overseas and the recent death of her mother at home, Ann left her University job and went to live in India for two years. There she participated in service work, meditated, took advantage of opportunities to ride mules and horses, and pursued her personal spiritual quest. On one pilgrimage, she walked more than 240 kilometers alone in the Himalayas, carrying her belongings atop her head, Indian style. “

http://www.walkingwithwinnie.com/ann.html

Alas. A blue box appears around the target URL when I right-click on it. The URL does not, however, turn grey on my Mac. Nor does a ‘copy’ box appear. Nor does the ‘paste’ sequence work. Will lay off for the night and try again tomorrow!

Hey, Greenwarrior, just been over at the WalkWithWinnie website. A commenter named Sarah quoted our diary here and gave info. We may collect up some fine new people (perceived by their comments). I tried to post a comment; don’t know if it flew.

Disgusting: Ann and Winnie were not allowed to walk in the National Park on the Appalachian Trail. One commenter already contacted his congressman. I’m going to write an Oxdown about her now and then to follow her journey and experiences.

I’m really so glad you told us about them, greenwarrior.

On this page are other sites that have instructions for copy and paste with a Mac. Now that you know what copy and paste means, it should be easy for you to add the extra instructions for a Mac. There is a forum on the same goggle page for Mac cut & paste issues. Let me know how you do. Sorry to have stressed you. That was my lack of knowledge showing as to different types of computers. You’ll ‘get it’ tomorrow, I’m sure.
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” How To Copy and Paste: Take … To Paste: Click your mouse where you want the text pasted, and then press ‘Ctrl’ + ‘V’ (For Mac users ‘Apple’ + ‘S’. The ability to cut, copy, and paste …

The ability to cut, copy, and paste is found in most programs. Sometimes, the ability to do these tasks via the mouse is disabled, but is still quickly achieved through the use of the shortcuts outlined above. “

http://www.webmasternow.com/copyandpaste.html

http://www.bing.com/search?FOR…..+paste+mac

acquarius…
Add gold, silver, copper, and uranium mining to the plot. A 3 page PDF.
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http://www.colorado.edu/AmStud…..claims.pdf

ohJeebs!!!BAD week to pass Baton to me,im leaving for 2 week training session,on rehab…ill make as many calls and emails as I can,

BUT WE NEED HELP!

Morning, Blue. Will go to your #108 link next. Must fill my printer cartridge, print-out the factors you have discerned and found, then see what picture of the mustangs’ enemy most logically emerges from the pieces.

Where are we reaching too far; where have we missed the obvious? Who are the men and corporations that delivered the vote for Obama; what are the plums of victory which they will exact from him without regard for his promises or other just issues which may stand in the way of their attaining their destructive, greedy goals?

I have to quietly focus my attention, trying to perceive the most probable and most real components and outcome of this invisible trap enclosing our wild horses. We may be able to “win” this time, but their day will come like the passenger pigeons, buffalo…the Indian humans…

Madness of unimaginable magnitude. No, depression has not overcome me, nor panic nor terror; just recognition of the products of the powerful who have historically failed to govern themselves or their regions responsibly.

Mornin’ sadlyyes. Don’t expend your energy in worrying about this; we’ll keep on keeping on. Take a reprieve from all these heavy burdens; just check in now and then so we’ll be assured you’ll be coming back.

Had a good night’s sleep, feel restored and find that for this given day I can still maintain our stand.

Thanks for the link re gold,silver,copper and uranium in addition to the great pools of oil in the region. Looks like the mining companies have had dictatorial control over Colorado since 1872 and before. No way are they gonna loosen their grip. [new diary today: Obama rolls over to big Coal].

Here’s a link to a Jan 29, 2009 article re trying for a new mining bill in the House. The 2008 attempt passed House, failed in Senate (where it was to be driven by Sen Ken Salazar).

Will look for later dated developments. If the citizens of Colorado can’t even protect the life-sustaining water they drink from the mining companies, the poor wild horse protection is in real danger.

made some DC…calls…too early to call out WEST bbl

“Several uranium mining claims have been filed near the proposed Dolores River Canyon Wilderness Area along the high desert cliffs of a river known for its scenic rafting and kayaking from high in the San Juan Mountains to the border of Utah.

The Dolores was initially recommended as a wild river under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act in 1976 and for years has been part of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s 29,000-acre Dolores River Canyon Wilderness Study Area.

“All three of those are deeply in danger of getting removed or watered down,” said Keith Hay, energy advocate for Denver-based Environment Colorado. “There’s a strong push by southern Democrats to include nuclear and clean coal in the renewable energy standard, for example, and we in the advocacy community are pushing back strongly that those are not clean fuels, especially here in Colorado.

“Anyone who has seen the front end of uranium mining for nuclear knows that it is in no way clean.” “

http://www.yourminingnews.com/…..wsID=32171

This one does not work.
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” BLM Statement regarding Madeleine Pickens’ Wild Horse Sanctuary Proposal “

The other ones do. Here is an e-mail form.
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“Please use this form to express your views on BLM’s management of Western wild horses and burros. ” (keep your response polite if you can..’g’.)

http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/pr…..burro.html
http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/pr…..dback.html

Back in about 1957 I made a trip from TX to Phoenix, AZ. Saw huge slag heaps which formed little mountains attached to the mountain being mined. Some were yellowish or sick green which I presumed were copper, others were black. We drove through Grants, NM where the Indian tribe had just found riches in the uranium mines. [high demand for more nuclear bombs, doncha know.] Now the over-all picture of the Indians of the West is one of poverty, disease and alcohol/drug addiction.

How long before not only the wild horses, but the mountain tops in the west will be sacrificed like those in Appalachia, where now one single woman and her mustang mare are not even allowed to walk?

“You’re living in the quaint past, old woman; this is the day of the New World Order. Get out of our way.”

just got off the phone with this person who claims this story is bogus…UNTRUE

Celia Boddington
Assistant Director, Communications
1849 C Street NW, Rm. 5645
Phone: 202-208-6913
Fax: 202-208-6769
E-mail: celia_boddington@blm.gov

Not in the past. In the past knowledge was hidden. Now, courtesy of the internet, we know what they do and can protest and fight to stop what they do. Besides, who is stronger than a grandmother? I know of at least two of them who aren’t planning on getting out of the way any time soon..’g’. Remember that the US you thought you knew as good never existed. NWO started with the FED; only the money masters knew about it. So, it existed before you did and you are still here fighting for what is right. I found the BLM response to Picken’s sanctuary proposal.
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http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/in…..rding.html

SEE 117

You mean the report was not true? They aren’t planning on killing them? If this is all a lie, I’d sure like to know who wrote the fake report and why. What a situation..because she says it is a lie..does that make it a lie or did they call off the plan because it was exposed? Inquiring minds want to know right now.

CALL THIS LADY
She works for Salazar

Celia Boddington
Assistant Director, Communications
1849 C Street NW, Rm. 5645
Phone: 202-208-6913
Fax: 202-208-6769
E-mail: celia_boddington@blm.gov

Humane Society Feb /09.
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“This legislation comes on the heels of the Bureau of Land Management’s controversial announcement last year that it was considering killing large numbers of wild horses taken from the rangeland. The Humane Society of the United States, with other wild horse and animal welfare groups, have worked with the agency to identify appropriate alternatives to wholesale slaughter of these animals. “

http://www.hsus.org/press_and_…..21209.html

call her
Ceilia

Someone should, but not me. My area code would show me not to be American. If she works for Salazar she is not a representative of BLM. This could be damage control going on. The bill was to stop the slaughter of these animals. If there wasn’t a plan to do it..wouldn’t BLM have said so at the time it was presented? Seems to me that the presenters of the bill might be the ones who can tell us the truth. I have to go read the BLM site to see if I can find any mention of plans to kill many of these horses.

dang..I didn’t hit refresh so missed your comment.

thanks for this post. signed and rec’ed.

Thanks for making that call, sadlyyes. Muddies the waters somewhat; creates doubts and confusion. Maybe the critical question is when did this story “become a lie”??

In reading the testimony of the BLM’s spokesperson before the House SC on the WH/Burro matter, I noticed the text repeatedly uses the word “removed” instead of Killed The also repeatedly impress upon the reader’s mind that horse/burro herds must be controlled in relation to other uses authorized for the public land — among which would be the leasing of huge acreage amounts for privately owned cattle grazing, which BTW is never mentioned in the BLM testimony on HR 1018.

BLM spokesman’s testimony mentions several times that the horse/burro herds have virtually no predators to keep herd levels down. Well, duh, our “managers” permitted the near extinction of wolves, mountain lions, etc., that kept the balance.

Like many other aspects of the world we now live in, we moved in and made a grand mess of things and now must wrestle with finding a way of dealing with the results of stupidity. (paramount example being the stupid, unjust and illegal wars which we are accelerating rather than winding down. What a collosal mountain of problems that is having and will continue to have perhaps forever.)

I hate being in a position of condemning plans or actions without presenting alternatives. I’m not seeing much in the way of alternative solutions. Reintroduce the natural predators? Ranchers revolt. Slaughter? Public outcry against savagery. Reduce or prohibit leasing for privately owned cattle grazing? Ranchers income plummets and price of beef soars in a period of near-depression.

Even if all leveraging for private agendas could be eliminated (not likely), it would remain a complex problem to solve.

So, back to your call and the reply that it’s all a lie. I’ll go back to the dkos source, see what their source was, and try to back-track from there. Surely, this much smoke didn’t start from no fire at all.

Per last sentence at #127, I went back to the dkos article here to learn the basis of their allegations of planned slaughter of the wild horses and burros. That dkos site references FOIA documents obtained by The Conquistador Group of AZ. That site gives this link to the FOIA documents on which the allegations are based.

“The public is urged to review the documents…
In a second set of documents containing more than 800 pages of contract information, obtained under FOIA, it was also verified that the BLM has continued to use a contractor for gathers [round-ups] who was charged and pled guilty to violations of the Wild Horse and Burro Act.”

Note: at this website, in the column on the right, is a list of clickable topics including the BLM FOIA documents. You will need Adobe Reader to view the BLM FOIA documents and Word to view the court documents.

Me: I have not yet read the documents; wanted to give all this info as soon as I could. IMHO, there is documented basis for the claims set out in the dkos article from which I drew in writing this Oxdown diary.
We’ll see. I will correct any misleading statements that I may have inadvertently made.

bluebutterfly has asked that you be informed that she thinks that she is being blocked from contacting you on this post.

Thank you for passing on the message.

Right after my last post here yesterday, I was blocked from posting. I am so sorry that you were left on your own when you were feeling so much stress over the horses. Many hours later, the block was finally lifted at plunger’s diary, but not here. I left a message at his diary for him..anyone..to come here and leave you the message that macaquerman did. He was mostly right ie I didn’t think..I knew. In the future, assume I have been disappeared, again, if suddenly you don’t get a response from me.

This is very puzzling, Blue. I went back over our talk – maybe it’s the second sentence at #124. I’m truly sorry that happened to you.

I haven’t checked in for a while, my 2 tape Video came today, the original Judgment At Nuremberg. Just finished part 1. It is so strikingly like the Bush regime; makes me feel so ashamed. And I haven’t even gotten to the grand summation by Spencer Tracy.

I’ll have to see if someone can put it on YouTube, the whole thing.

Yesterday’s gone, Blue, let’s let it go.