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From a friend's facebook posting, I have a highly entertaining batshit theory written by Krayton Kerns, an actual current member of the Montana House of Representatives. It features not only the usual right-wing gripes about big government and liberals destroying Christianity in the schools, but also such creative elements as bison and Walt Disney!
"This winter, under the cloak of darkness and against Montana Code, 60 bison were relocated from the quarantine facilities of Yellowstone National Park (YNP) to the Fort Peck Reservation along the Missouri Breaks. This is the second of a four step process to crush the republic and bring our populace into perfect dependence on big government—just as Karl Marx dreamed. If you missed steps one and two, you will likely refuse to acknowledge steps three and four, but I will explain them anyway.
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The full blog post (I didn't quote a few intro and closing paragraphs) is here, and this story was also reported in the Huffington Post.
First, the biologist in me would like to state that Kerns clearly has some highly optimistic ideas about bison reproductive capacity. They only have one calf a year, and 20-40% of wild bison die in their first year (source). I don't feel like crunching the numbers, but I'm dubious about whether you're going from 60 bison to enough to ravage a landscape in a decade. Maybe he means the thousands of bison currently in Yellowstone will rampage out too, but that herd is already managed, partially with lethal methods, to keep them from straying off the park too much (due to concerns of disease transmission if they mingle with cattle) .
Second, wow, this is some hilariously off the wall conspiracy stuff. Walt Disney set (or was a symptom of others setting) our nation on a path to Earth-worship and eventual subjugation of the free people of Montana by big government and bison. Just like Karl Marx dreamed!
I want to laugh. Then I remember that this is an actual elected official in the country in which I live. Then I want to hide in a corner and pray for Gaia to send some bison to protect me.
Meanwhile, in other evidence of how those wacky environmentalists are clearly in control of everything, in places across the US in June 2,284 daily temperature records were broken and another 998 were tied. The link has some pretty impressive maps, but the story never once mentions climate change. (And this in NPR, which is popular among lefties.) Of course no single weather event, even a huge national heatwave, can prove that climate change is happening, just as no single cold and snowy winter can disprove it. Still, this is part of a global pattern of heat and severe weather. Climate change is happening now, and it's just going to get worse.
"This winter, under the cloak of darkness and against Montana Code, 60 bison were relocated from the quarantine facilities of Yellowstone National Park (YNP) to the Fort Peck Reservation along the Missouri Breaks. This is the second of a four step process to crush the republic and bring our populace into perfect dependence on big government—just as Karl Marx dreamed. If you missed steps one and two, you will likely refuse to acknowledge steps three and four, but I will explain them anyway.
( More under the cut )
The full blog post (I didn't quote a few intro and closing paragraphs) is here, and this story was also reported in the Huffington Post.
First, the biologist in me would like to state that Kerns clearly has some highly optimistic ideas about bison reproductive capacity. They only have one calf a year, and 20-40% of wild bison die in their first year (source). I don't feel like crunching the numbers, but I'm dubious about whether you're going from 60 bison to enough to ravage a landscape in a decade. Maybe he means the thousands of bison currently in Yellowstone will rampage out too, but that herd is already managed, partially with lethal methods, to keep them from straying off the park too much (due to concerns of disease transmission if they mingle with cattle) .
Second, wow, this is some hilariously off the wall conspiracy stuff. Walt Disney set (or was a symptom of others setting) our nation on a path to Earth-worship and eventual subjugation of the free people of Montana by big government and bison. Just like Karl Marx dreamed!
I want to laugh. Then I remember that this is an actual elected official in the country in which I live. Then I want to hide in a corner and pray for Gaia to send some bison to protect me.
Meanwhile, in other evidence of how those wacky environmentalists are clearly in control of everything, in places across the US in June 2,284 daily temperature records were broken and another 998 were tied. The link has some pretty impressive maps, but the story never once mentions climate change. (And this in NPR, which is popular among lefties.) Of course no single weather event, even a huge national heatwave, can prove that climate change is happening, just as no single cold and snowy winter can disprove it. Still, this is part of a global pattern of heat and severe weather. Climate change is happening now, and it's just going to get worse.
