GWB's cheese has slid off his cracker!

[BooMerengue]

This is off topic here completely, but poets are gentle souls, right? Read this and write your representatives... this is disgusting, and has me in a rage!

Wild horses

This could be a challenge topic, I think...

Your Reps!!

 

[echoes_s]

we have wild horses on Cape Sable Island, this is their island and home, our heritage and we are proud of this. What I have read here saddens my heart.

 

[flyguy69]

This is off topic here completely, but poets are gentle souls, right? Read this and write your representatives... this is disgusting, and has me in a rage!

Wild horses

This could be a challenge topic, I think...

Are you looking for recipes?


Just kidding, Boo!


OUCH! Hey! I said I was kidding!

 

[echoes_s]

This is off topic here completely, but poets are gentle souls, right? Read this and write your representatives... this is disgusting, and has me in a rage!

Wild horses

This could be a challenge topic, I think...

hmmm, challenge topic, me thinks good idea Boo...
but then I still havent come up with anything for the other challenge

 

[WickedEve]

Although the number of wild horses is far less than it was a century ago — many thousands having been killed for pet food and sport — the population, left unchecked, could grow rapidly. Except for occasional mountain-lion attacks, horses in the wild have no predators. Herd populations grow about 20 percent a year.

We always hear about the growth of populations left unchecked. (look at people ) But what's so distasteful is the thought of shooting horses for pet food and sport. Whether you agree with this method of population control or not (and a way to keep ranchers happy) it still makes for good poetic inspiration. How can you not be inspired by a symbol of wild freedom being shot down in mid-gallop and ending up in fluffy's bowl?

 

[BooMerengue]

hmmm, challenge topic, me thinks good idea Boo...
but then I still havent come up with anything for the other challenge

Oh, Echoes... it's good to see you! Let's save this topic for after the Simpler Days is finished, ok?

But first - go here!

Your Reps!

 

[WickedEve]

Are you looking for recipes?


Just kidding, Boo!


OUCH! Hey! I said I was kidding!

How would you like to be made into tender vittles?

 

[BooMerengue]

Although the number of wild horses is far less than it was a century ago — many thousands having been killed for pet food and sport — the population, left unchecked, could grow rapidly. Except for occasional mountain-lion attacks, horses in the wild have no predators. Herd populations grow about 20 percent a year.

We always hear about the growth of populations left unchecked. (look at people ) But what's so distasteful is the thought of shooting horses for pet food and sport. Whether you agree with this method of population control or not (and a way to keep ranchers happy) it still makes for good poetic inspiration. How can you not be inspired by a symbol of wild freedom being shot down in mid-gallop and ending up in fluffy's bowl?

Ohhh, atta girl, Evie! You're so right. The land set aside for these horses has been leased to cattle farmers. The horses are eating the cows food, so guess who has to go? Americans ALL should be enraged at this! Check the link in the 1st post, and write. An email or 2 is easy and it can start a flood gate.

 

[BooMerengue]

Are you looking for recipes?


Just kidding, Boo!


OUCH! Hey! I said I was kidding!

*grabbing Fly by the neck... throwing him to the floor after bitch slapping him silly... kicking... screaming...raisin hell...

Are you fuckin nuts????

laughing at his misery

 

[echoes_s]

Oh, Echoes... it's good to see you! Let's save this topic for after the Simpler Days is finished, ok?

But first - go here!

Your Reps!

uhmm Boo...I am from Canada and am not sure any comments or suggestions would be appreciated atm.

 

[impressive]

This is off topic here completely, but poets are gentle souls, right? Read this and write your representatives... this is disgusting, and has me in a rage!

Wild horses

This could be a challenge topic, I think...

Your Reps!!

Gawd, activists are sexy!

(Rep written. TY, Boo.)

 

[BooMerengue]

uhmm Boo...I am from Canada and am not sure any comments or suggestions would be appreciated atm.

I knew that... remember? We're probably related!! LOL

Thanks anyway, hon. But don't you have the same type of thing there? Land set aside for the animals?

 

[flyguy69]

*grabbing Fly by the neck... throwing him to the floor after bitch slapping him silly... kicking... screaming...raisin hell...

Are you fuckin nuts????

laughing at his misery

Hmmm... nuts, raisins, horsemeat, I think we have the makings of haggis. And if that isn't misery, i don't know what is!

 

[BooMerengue]

Hmmm... nuts, raisins, horsemeat, I think we have the makings of haggis. And if that isn't misery, i don't know what is!

You are being gross and it's unbecoming... horsemeat... ugh!

 

[flyguy69]

You are being gross and it's unbecoming... horsemeat... ugh!

Really, Boo; simmer it with kitten and it is delicious.

 

[sandspike]

simmer, that is the key

Really, Boo; simmer it with kitten and it is delicious.

I've eaten enough crow in my life to know you simmer it to keep it tender.
Sorry Boo, I can't get too excited about this. In this over over populated
world we all pay some kind of price. Come up with a better solution and
I'll follow you.

 

[BooMerengue]

I've eaten enough crow in my life to know you simmer it to keep it tender.
Sorry Boo, I can't get too excited about this. In this over over populated
world we all pay some kind of price. Come up with a better solution and
I'll follow you.

I don't want you to follow me, babe. If you care, you care, and if you don't you don't. Thats what its all about.

I just really think things are too out of balance, and I chime in whenever I can. Why should land that I own go to feed cows I don't own and won't make a profit off of. (sorry- I eat beef once a week) That land was set aside deliberately for the horses, not the Cattle Conglomerates. And as far as feeding people overseas? Not at my descendants expense. Sorry. Fuck 'em. I like horses better than I do most people anyway.

 

[annaswirls]

yes, this is troubling, but no more troubling than the other issues surrounding the current administration and those in the past as well.

This is off topic here completely, but poets are gentle souls, right? Read this and write your representatives... this is disgusting, and has me in a rage!

Wild horses

This could be a challenge topic, I think...

Your Reps!!

 

[Reltne]

I've Eaten It, But I Prefer Bison!

Where will Lauren weigh in on this subject? Don't a lot of Europeans consider horse a delicacy? - Maybe we could ship 'em all off to France. They will eat anything. The Islanders from Guadeloupe still sneak over to the other Caribbean islands and steal horses and donkeys.


Here are some recipes from Kazakhstan:

Kazy (Horse Sausage) (Kazakh)
From Kazakhstan National Cooking Web Page
(www.kz/eng/cooking/cooking.html)
For making:
5 kg of kazy
350 g of salt
10 g of black ground pepper
a garlic
For serving the table:
100 g of kazy
0,25 of an onion
2 table-spoons of green canned peas
From the carcass of the slaughtered horse the ribs with flesh are
cut off and the blood is let trickle down for 5-7 hours. The guts are
washed well and kept in salt water for 1-2 hours. The slightly dried up
kazy are cut in strips along the ribs: the brand kazy are cut in narrow
strips and the narrow ones - in broad strips. The interrib tissue should
be cut with a shapp knife removing cartilages and without crumbling the
fat. Then the meat is salted and peppered, finely cut garlic is added and
the meat is wrapped up in a napkin for 2-3 hours.
Then kazy are put in guts the ends of which are tied up. After
this kazy can be dried, boiled and smoked. It is better to dry kazy by
warm weather hanging them out for a week in a sunny aired place.
It is best to smoke kazy in dew smoke at the temperature of
50-60_ c during 12-18 hours and dry them up during 4-6 hours at 12_c.
Kazy should be boiled for 2 hours in a broad vessel on slow fire.
That kazy should not burst during boiling they should be pierced at
several places.
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Shuzhuk (Horse Sausage) (Kazakh)
From Kazakhstan National Cooking Web Page
(www.kz/eng/cooking/cooking.html)
For making:
5 kg of horse-flesh
5 kg of suet
350 g of salt
10 g of black ground pepper
50 g of garlic
greens to taste
The prepared meat is rubbed with salt and kept fur 1-2 days in a
cool place at the temperature of 3-4_c. Guts are washed and kept for some
time in salt water. Meat and fat are cut in small pieces and mixed.
Garlic, pepper and salt are added and all this is mixed again. Then the
guts are stuffed, its both ends are tied up with a string and they are
hung out for 3-4 hours in a cool place.
Shuzhuk is smoked during 12-18 hours over dense smoke at the
temperature of 50-60_c, then dried up at 12_c for 2-3 days. Dried or
smoked shuzhuk is boiled on slow fire during 2-2,5 hours. Before serving
the table shuzhuk is cut in thin slices to 1 cm thick, layed out on a
plate, decorated with rings of onion and greens.
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Zhaya (Kazakh)
From Kazakhstan National Cooking Web Page
(www.kz/eng/cooking/cooking.html)
For making:
5 kg of zhaya
125 of salt
Zaya is made of the horse's hip. The upper muscular layer with
fat to 10 cm thick is cut off. The pieces of meat are salted using
salting mature, layed out in a pan for salting. Then it is dried up,
dried, smoked and boiled like zhal. Before serving the table it is cut in
thin slices and decorated with greens.
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Zhal (Kazakh)
From Kazakhstan National Cooking Web Page
(www.kz/eng/cooking/cooking.html)
For making:
5 kg zhal
125 g of salt
Zhal is an oblong accumulation of fat in the undercrest part of
the horse's neck. It is cut off with a thin flesh layer, rubbed with dry
salting mixture and put in a pan for salting. Then it is dried up during
10 hours.
Zhal can be smoked and dried. Before boiling zhal ls soaked in
cold water; then it is boiled on slow fire for 2 hours.
Zhal is served both hot and cold cut in slices, decorated with
rings of onion.
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Karta (Horse Rectum) (Kazakh)
From Kazakhstan National Cooking Web Page
(www.kz/eng/cooking/cooking.html)
For making one karta:
100 g of karta
salt
green pepper or dill to taste
The thick part of the rectum is washed without removing fat, then
carefully turned inside out so that the fat should be inside, washed once
more and tied up on both sides.
Karta can also be dried and smoked. To dry it karta is strewed
with fine salt and kept in a cool place for 1-2 days, then dried up.
Karta is smoked during 24 hours, then dried during 2-3 days. After
washing it well karta is boiled for 2 hours on slow fire. Before serving
the table it is cut in rings and decorated with green pepper or dill.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sur-Yet (Dried Meat) (Kazakh)
From Kazakhstan National Cooking Web Page
(www.kz/eng/cooking/cooking.html)
For making:
5 kg of horse-flesh
200 g of salt
Horse-flesh is cut off from bones, tendons, cartilages and fat
are removed and the meat is cut in rectangular pieces 0,5-1 kg each,
salted and kept in a cool place for 5-7 days. Then it is dried up during
10-12 hours. Sur- yet is smoked like zhal and zhaya and consumed only
boiled. Before boiling it is waked in cold water. Sur-yet is boiled to
readiness on slow fire during 2 hours. Before serving the table it is cut
in thin slices, decorated with rings of onion and greens.
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Meat in the Kazakh Manner (Kazakh)
From Kazakhstan National Cooking Web Page
(www.kz/eng/cooking/cooking.html)
For broth:
750 g of mutton
1270 g of horse-flesh
1200 g of beef
1-2 onions
green onions
salt and spice to taste.
For dough:
375 g of flour
0,3 of a piala of meat broth or water
2 eggs
a tea-spoon of salt.
For gravy:
a piala of broth
1-2 onions.
This dish is made of mutton, horse- flesh and beef.
The prepared and washed pieces of meat are put in a cauldron or
pan with cold water and brought to boiling; then the fire is lessened,
scum removed and boiling on slow fire is continued to meat's readiness.
30-40 minutes before the end of boiling laurel leaf, an onion, peppercorn
and salt to taste are added to the broth.
While the meat is boiling dough is kneaded; it is left for 30-40
minutes, then rolled in a layer i-1,5 mm thick and cut in squares 8 cm
each. Half an hour before the end of boiling of the meat one can drop in
the broth whole peeled potatoes, boil them to readiness and together with
meat put them in a closed vessel. In a separate small pan onion cut in
rings, salt, pepper and spicy greens are put, covered with fat skimmed
from the hot broth, then the lid is tightly put on and all this is
stewed.
Square of rolled dough are dropped in boiling broth, boiled to
readiness, layed out on a flat plate and covered with gravy. On top of
them pieces of meat are put (the present-day housewives prefer to cut it
in slices) and on top of it onion rings stewed in fat are put. Along the
edges the dish is decorated with boiled potatoes.
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Kuyrdak made of Meat (Kazakh)
From Kazakhstan National Cooking Web Page
(www.kz/eng/cooking/cooking.html)
800 g of mutton or beef, or horse- flesh, or camel's flesh, or
saiga's flesh, or wild goat's flesh
3 onions
150 g of fat for frying
250 g of broth
greens
salt
spice and sour cream to taste
For gamish:
2 kg of potatoes
150 g of green peas
250 g of tomatoes
250 g of carrots.
For marinade:
a piala of 3% vinegar
50 g of oil.
Meat is cut in pieces 30-40 g each and fried in hot fat with
onion and pepper, salted to taste; then laurel leaf and broth are added
and the meat is stewed to readiness.
If kuyrdak is made of saiga's or wild goat's flesh the meat must
be beforehand soaked in 3% vinegar with addition of a small quantity of
oil for 4-6 hours.
As garnishes to kuyrdak boiled, fried or stewed with the meat
potatoes, boiled carrots, green peas and tomatoes can be served. The dish
is strewed with greens to taste.

 

[BooMerengue]

Thats what I love about you, Ryb!! You're such a tender old soul! lol

I've eaten bison... I liked it!

 

[Syndra Lynn]

Fuck 'em. I like horses better than I do most people anyway.

Here here! I certainly like many animal species better than most humans, and I certainly like ALL animal species better'n dubya. I rarely eat meat, but if someone were to frikasee him, well, I'd feed it to my dog.

Although, as Anna pointed out, this is not the most horrendous thing he's done. Maybe we should slaughter his horses?

I'll write, promise.

Syn

 

[Angeline]

Personally I think his cracker was never right to start with. I think I'll do a found poem from one of these. And then Boo, you thread will have poetic legitimacy.

 

[Angeline]

Found Poem

"These animals live in poor conditions that often lead to their deaths, and without proper management this will continue to happen," Burns said. "And while their sale is a last resort, it is our hope that bringing this problem to light will motivate the federal agencies and horse advocates alike."


These poor animals.
Federal agencies lead
to their deaths, and this
is the last resort of poor
conditions without proper
management.

This is the sale
of hope for these animals
and horse advocates.

 

[My Erotic Tale]

hmmm, challenge topic, me thinks good idea Boo...
but then I still havent come up with anything for the other challenge

Where do I begin <grin>

My neighbor has 26 horses, 13 I believe where adopted by the save a horse program there is an organization (not govermental) that attacks these problems the best they camn but the main propblem is like my sister has two horses adpopted and on mule adopted along with her two quarter horses. My uncle adopted some mules and donkeys from the adoption organization and dang fooled loved them so much he is bought land to adopt more mules.

Now from what I understand most horses get transferred to montana and south dakota with larger herds on goverment property, but no one with a large parcel of land has stepped p to help and I know where bush's ranch is and he has enough land to take a few if thats any ammo, but the catlemen and American Horse Association is aware of this and are doing what they can, the slaughter or shooting them is cheeper and more profitable than relocation and of course the MEAT.

The ..well 4 prisons are right around the corner and the land and usage of horses is still extreme in Teaxas, they (TDC=Texas Department of Corrections) has a massive amoutn of horses and land, perhaps texas would like a few more? I see to many alternatives ..obviously some one is lining their pockets at the Horses expense, nail that A** person. All it takes is one person with a large amount of land to take them from where it is obvious they are not wanted, which will only lead to their harm eventiually,

thanks Boo, this is a problem worthy an email ...again...and again...but many organizations are trying to help

 

[BooMerengue]

Personally I think his cracker was never right to start with. I think I'll do a found poem from one of these. And then Boo, you thread will have poetic legitimacy.

Ange? Remind me again what a 'found' poem is?

I want to do an Illustrated Poem on this. I have a pic of this 8 yr old girl on a camping trip in So Dakota, who's Daddy stopped the car and let her go look at the wild horses that "the Indians used in their glory days" said daddy. If I could put just half the excitement and dreams that were in that girls head into words it would make a fine poem!

But the pic is stuck on a harddrive who's A drive is disconnected, and I don't know how to fix it...

*sob

*weep