It is official

You might have figured it out in comments below but it is official: because the Feds are allowing a three- decade exemption for wind farms to kill as many eagles as they “need” to, and because they exert no pressure on tribal use (right and understandable for religious practice, but ignoring the profitable if clandestine …

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Trouble coming: APHIS

A  few weeks ago the Sportsman’s andAnimal Owners Alliance warned us that, despite the efforts and concerns expressed, literally for years, by small breeders, APHIS was coming. They listed these points of concern: “Can hunting dog kennel owners sell pets? Can breeders ship sight-unseen where relationships have been well established ? Can litters be whelped …

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Quotes

Courtesy of emeritus zoologist and Ice Age maven Valerius Geist: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” “The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse.” “Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.” (All …

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What do people in the anti- gun media…

… think of us? Not much, apparently… A few quotes: “Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” asserted that gun rights advocates aren’t “normal people,” they have no “other interests,” and they are uninterested in their wives or kids…” “The Post’s Gene Weingarten in 2011 spat on the Second Amendment as “the refuge of bumpkins and …

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Invincible Ignorance?

I hate to rant but (I can see everybody believes THAT)… Well, first Reid provoked me with this, knowing that it was like poking a stick at a hot rattlesnake. At first I just sputtered. “I can’t even debunk this– it is like Mary McCarthy’s famous remark on Lilian Hellman: “Every word she says is …

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Politicians & Animal Rights vs the right to breed YOUR dogs

By intention I don’t do much politics here- I am neither partisan or, mostly, interested enough. But does ANYONE pay attention to the fact that one socially conservative Republican presidential candidate, Rick Santorum, is in bed with HSUS, Wayne Pacelle, and the whole Animal Rights movement, and has been for many years? Worse, he seems …

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Magdalena Lion Hunt

My friend and “cousin”, local rancher, reader, and hunter Sissy (Mary Helen Gianera Pound) Olney, ran into us in the Capitol Bar in Socorro yesterday and told us to look up this YouTube of her husband Tom and nephew Royce hunting mountain lions in the Magdalenas on horseback with hounds, the traditional way. The video, …

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