In three minutes and 12 seconds, this video is an absolute disgrace to the human race. It is crammed full of every conceivable lie any wolf loving, cult worshiping, idiot could ever repeat. 100% propaganda in which nothing the guys pukes up out of his mouth can be proven scientifically. This is so bad, it is almost criminal. NBC should be ashamed for giving this moron airtime……but it is NBC.

This video is so bad, it deserves the rare and not so coveted, Black Bear Blog Golden Horse Excrement Award.

It’s been awhile since my last Horse Excrement Award was handed out. I thought about this one for awhile but it didn’t take too long to figure out it really deserves this award. I just haven’t figured out yet whether politicians honestly think you and I are stupid or if they are dumber than a pound of sand.

In this award, I chose the pile of horse politician with goo-goo eyes to remind you just who it is that says they are looking out for you.

I have resisted making a smart-Alec comment about Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 Plan. I’m not endorsing anyone in this dog race of mongrels but I just can’t help but laugh every time I listen to, especially the other republican candidates, dump all over Cain’s plan. They say it won’t work. I don’t know if it will work either. The plan calls for a 9% Income Tax, a 9% Corporate Tax and a 9% Federal Sales Tax. But listen to their retarded reason why they say it won’t work.

This has been repeated often about Cain’s plan. They say: It won’t work because there is nothing in this plan that will prohibit Congress from raising the percentage of taxes. As Michelle Bachmann attempted to dazzle us with knowledge this morning on Fox and Friends, she said the plan could be 14-14-14 or 30-30-30 once Congress got a hold of this plan.

Are you kidding me? So tell me Ms. Bachmann and all your other brainiac republican friends, what guarantees are there in Congress now that prevents you greedy, out of touch, property thieving, idiots from raising our taxes now? Golly gee whiz, Chellie! The way things are now sure are working out just swell aren’t they?

Tom Remington

It is that time once again to issue the not-so-coveted Black Bear Blog Golden Horse Excrement Award. This award is rare and goes only to the most deserving. In this case a group of scientists and scientist “wannabes” have signed on to a letter sent to the United States Senate asking them not to pass any legislation that “would undercut the use of best available science as the basis for adding or removing any particular species from the protection of the Endangered Species Act.” The reasons given are precious.

A Letter from 1,293 Scientists with Expertise in Biological Systems to the United States Senate Concerning Science and the Endangered Species Act

March 30, 2011

Dear Senators:

As scientists with expertise in biological systems, we are writing to urge you to vote against any legislation that would undercut the use of best available science as the basis for adding or removing any particular species from the protection of the Endangered Species Act. Allowing Congress to remove or add protections for particular species would set a dangerous precedent, as the fate of every species on the endangered species list (or any candidate for that list) would then be subject to political interference.

Because of its strong scientific foundation, the Endangered Species Act is the most critical and successful law for ensuring the protection of threatened and endangered wildlife in our country. Objective scientific information and methods should be used in listing or delisting species, subspecies, and distinct population segments as endangered or threatened. While non-scientific factors may appropriately be considered at points later in the process, their use in listing decisions is inconsistent with the biologically defensible principles of the Endangered Species Act.

We are aware that there are legislative attempts to remove individual species from the Endangered Species Act. For example, congressional proposals to delist the gray wolf forgo scientific determination of whether the species, or populations of the species, have recovered and whether sufficient regulatory mechanisms are in place to ensure the species’ survival. In the northern Rocky Mountains the return of wolves has restored key predator-prey dynamics in and around Yellowstone National Park that have resulted in changes throughout the entire ecosystem. To remove protections for wolves before the best available science tells us recovery is ensured would place one of our country’s greatest conservation success stories at risk.

Biological diversity provides food, fiber, medicines, clean water, and myriad other ecosystem products and services on which we depend every day. To undermine the careful and thoughtful scientific process that determines whether a species is endangered or recovered would jeopardize not only the species in question and the continued success of the Endangered Species Act, but the very foundation of the ecosystems that sustain us all.

We strongly urge you to oppose any legislation that circumvents the use of best available science in Endangered Species Act decision making.

Respectfully,
[Signers listed alphabetically by state]

Follow this link if you are interested in viewing, by state, the “scientists” who have signed on.

Tom Remington

Is this really how we should be spending our tax dollars? The bastards steal it away from us with no conscience and then idiots and fools like this imbecile want to use it to investigate who is opposing the building of a mosque near Ground Zero!

My God! My God! My God! Ignorance is out of control and must breed hourly in Washington.

Remember when someone with experience told you not to stick your tongue on a frozen sled runner? No, probably not. Look, we enjoy, for the most part, freedom of religion in this country. You can go to church wherever you want to and worship some fool who promises aliens will come and get you. You can build the buildings where people perform their rituals anywhere within the laws of the local governments. Only an antagonistic, terrorist supporting person would think building a mosque in the middle of a cemetery is a good idea.

End of discussion! I’m sick of this friggin discussion, the idiots involved in it and now I’m angry as hell that this brain dead Speaker is suggesting wasting my tax dollars to find out who opposes the building of a mosque.

If she would send me $20.00 in a self-addressed return envelope, I’d be glad to tell her who opposes this.

And while I’m carrying on, I’m without much more thought, going to award the coveted “Black Bear Blog Horse Excrement Award” to Speaker Pelosi along with all the other idiots in Congress….namely all of them.

I wonder! If Speaker Pelosi is all fired up about protecting freedom of religion, I wonder why she wants to investigate and censor, freedom of speech?

Tom Remington

As most regular readers of the Black Bear Blog are aware, it is a rare occurrence when I see fit to award someone or something the never coveted “Horse Excrement Award”.

An article that ran in the Magic Valley Times-News on July 31, contains perhaps the greatest compilation of lies, laughs, misinformation, distortions, half-truths, spin and general perversion of facts as pertains to wolves in Idaho.

Of all the assertions made in this, my favorite is this: “”No predator has ever eliminated its food,” Creel said. “Change is always the most dramatic at the beginning, then population numbers settle.””

That alone might prompt me to consider the feared Horse Excrement Award but the article in its entirety takes home the prize.

A wolf escaped from a Kincraig Wildlife Park cage in the U.K. and the animal collections manager had this to say:

“There is so much mythology about how dangerous wolves are. Your average hamster is more dangerous.”

So, here’s your prize! Wear it in good health!

This story deserves the recognition of a Black Bear Blog Golden Horse Excrement Award. (I don’t just give these to anybody.)

Wolves are such a wonderful animal. As a matter of fact, they are so wonderful they actually have been given “supernatural powers” just as Ed Bangs, head wolf recovery man for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, declared the other day. Of course Bangs was referring to us nut jobs who think wolves need strict management and control. He thinks we are motivated by fear.

Daniel Licht, a wildlife biologist thinks wolves are so supernatural they can magically transform our National Parks and other wild places into gardens of Eden. His theory is that if a park has too many deer or elk, just bring in a few wolves, tell them to “stay” and then give them a grocery list of how many deer they must kill in order to “balance” that particular ecosystem. And we mustn’t forget that these magical wolves, as intelligent as they are, will only select out the weak and sickly deer. I’m sure if given proper instructions, the wolves can select and kill the best breeding deer in that park as well.

Such wonderful animals these wolves. For the life of me I can’t understand why settlers from years gone by would have wanted to kill off all the wolves. Puzzling really. I guess this is just an example of how man, as cavemanish as he was, didn’t understand the wolf and hadn’t a clue as to its magical powers to transform landscapes in natural items of beauty.

Got too many elk? Import a few wolves and within a short period of time, your state and city parks can be magically transformed into vast stretches of land needing no management or care-taking. The wolves will do it.

If we ignorant humans had only learned this wonderful feature that comes as standard equipment on all wolves a long time ago, think of the millions of dollars we could have saved by employing wolves. As a matter of fact, I think Licht’s ideas are so good, reasonable and certainly backed by science (much like global warming) that dumping a few wolves in other places across the country should take high priority. I was thinking four wolves in Central Park, three on the Boston Common, a couple at the Washington Mall and certainly at least a half dozen in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. That should turn those places into a magical kingdom. Ah, the power of the wolf.

I hope most of you have figured out by now that I’m kidding. However, Daniel Licht is not. He actually is advocating that we import wolves into areas where deer and elk have overgrazed. He actually thinks if you used birth control and a few waves of the magic wand, wolves will stay put and kill off the unwanted deer and elk that are eating too much vegetation. What could possibly go wrong?

Licht’s idea is a reflection of the absolute nonsense being thrown around as science today. If this is the trash being taught in our schools, they need to be shut down. He says that the good things the wolves will do far outweigh the bad things. In all honesty, I know of no good things a wolf can do but there is a laundry list of all the negatives that such a radical and preposterous idea would create.

First off, you can’t control wolves. Just the thought that somehow you could convince a couple of wolves to stay in one area for the sole purpose of killing a few deer and elk is insane. Second, birth control is not effective and has never been proven to work. Toss that theory out the window.

Third, wolves carry disease. We already have found out that two-thirds of all the wolves tested in Idaho and Montana are carrying worms that can cause hydatid disease. They can carry rabies, neospora caninum, brucellosis, the list is a mile long.

Fourth, wolves have no place living near where humans live and frequent. Perverted thinking allows for a chance for humans to “view” wolves at work. Oooooooh, it’s sooooooooooooooo natural you know!

You know, I could go on and on but it is a waste of my time. This is the most ridiculous proposal I have ever heard in my life and any scientists (real ones) who would actually entertain this notion belong in a nut house.

Importing a small number of animals “as a stewardship tool … is counter to 100 years of wildlife management in America,” he says. “It’s going to take a different paradigm” – as well as a fair amount of money to build fences, attach tracking collars and provide contraceptives to keep the wolves from spreading to places where they’re not wanted.

Give me a break!

Tom Remington

By golly! I was thinking just today that it had been awhile since my last “Horse Excrement Award” and lo and behold, the story jumped right into my lap this evening.

You can read more about it over at Newsbusters but here’s the deal. At the University of Wyoming the college wanted to name a brand new center after former Vice President Dick Cheney. After all, Wyoming is his home state. But no, a woman, Suzanne Pelican, protested and began a petition to stop the naming of the building after him.

After one year of collecting names, there are now 150 names. But that’s not where the Horse Excrement Award goes. Oh, no! The award goes directly to the Associated Press because they actually ran a story about this. So filled with Cheney Derangement Syndrome, they couldn’t see how absolutely a non story it was and how utterly ridiculous.

Proudly, Tom Remington

It is with great honor that I present the latest “Black Bear Blog Horse Excrement Award” to two well deserving institutions for their ability to prove that lying, greed, ignorance and laziness thrives in Washington and the corporate world.

This honor is now bestowed upon the television broadcast industry and the United States Congress for their efforts in ripping off millions of Americans in the Digital Television Broadcast Conversion transition. Read all about it here.

Tom Remington

Glory be to horse manure! I believe I have found the newest recipient of the Black Bear Blog’s Horse Excrement Award. This is awarded periodically to someone who makes an outstanding contribution to the world of inane rhetoric, hypocrisy or just plain D-U-M-B speak!

I found an article at KPAX.com about what people are saying concerning the recent announcement by Ken Salazar and the Obama administration to go ahead with removing the wolf from the Endangered Species Act list. According to KPAX, this is what Louisa Willcox with the Natural Resources Defense Council said about why wolves shouldn’t be delisted in Idaho and Montana and not Wyoming. (Don’t be confused here. She doesn’t want any wolves to come out from under her blessed protection.)

“It doesn’t make sense to have protections remain in Wyoming while delisting in Montana and Idaho because wolves don’t read maps and packs that roam across state lines are treated different under laws,”

So wolves don’t read road maps. That’s interesting. I don’t want to sound like I’m boasting but I never really thought wolves could read a road map. Gerbils maybe, but not wolves.

I guess it makes sense that wolves really can’t tell when they cross a state line (although I’ve cross some in the woods before that seemed more like a railroad track than a state line.) but the problem with this is that Wilcox goes on to say that wolves should be kept in different geographical areas. I assume this is achievable only on Fantasy Island. (Zee plane, boss! Zee plane!)

Willcox does not want wolves in every community, but she does support a recovered population in the wild country.

“A good example is the continental divide between Idaho and Montana where wolves could have higher numbers and balance that out with fewer numbers by Darby,” Wilcox said.

It’s amazing really. Evidently wolves can’t read maps to know what state they are in but they sure can read a topographical one so they’ll know enough to stay in the wilderness areas and other designated zones.

Maybe that’s it. Maybe the so-called wolf haters, of which I’m not, aren’t giving these creatures enough credit. I suppose it’s like your dog Rover, when you point to him and speak firmly and say, “Stay!” That’s all it takes.

Did our wildlife experts not tell the wolves to “stay” when they let them go? Shame on them.

Tom Remington