Yellow Dog

"They're so majestic," says Laurie Howard of the National Wild Horse Association. "They're free. You go out and see them running in the wild. It takes your breath away."

Well, Laurie Howard, nothing takes a mustang's breath away quite like a bullet in the back of the head. Being a "Dog" and all, I've probably been inadvertently slipped some horse meat at some point; however, it seems like we could draw the line at eating Wild American Mustang, which most people would agree is about as un-American as eating fried bald eagle on the 4th of July.

Not everyone agrees though. Republican Senator Conrad Burns of Nevada snuck a last-minute Rider #142 into the appropriations bill which George Bush (not a real cowboy, but plays one on TV) signed into law on December 8. Gail "Kill it and Drill it" Norton and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) are free to rid the west of about 9,000 of the scrappy horses this year.

Yee-haw! The ranchers are happy (more grass for cows). The French, Japanese and Belgians are happy (some who apparently eat horse meat... probably not the entire horse, just that one little tiny tender part the size of a 6 oz. fillet), and the GOP-run Bureau of Land Management is happy to have fewer horses to... er, manage on our national lands, having determined that slaughtering and auctioning off our national heritage is the most efficient way to tend it.

Thanks again, Bush voters... it's dinner time. Come and get it!



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