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Mesquite, the leases are based on neither years nor acres. They are instead based on Animal Unit Months (AUM's). As such, they are not subject to the differences in grazing efficiency, but they are subject to the whims of federal biologists, who hold all the cards in determining how many cattle or sheep can be on a allotment for how long. Most AUM will run about a dollar and a half per month per animal, but the prices are tied to the cattle market. They rise and fall with the price of cattle to make sure that the price is fair, but the rancher will be able to afford to graze public lands. Out here, public lands grazing is an integral part of our Community Wildfire Prevention Plan, because grazing reduces fast fuels and ladder fuels that contribute to the risk to our community. Since all the Forest Service attempts at harvest have been tied up by the appeals process, grazing is the best tool we have to use for fire prevention through land management.

The colors are pretty. Nevertheless, the electorate is split 50/50 in national elections.

edgarblythe wrote:

The colors are pretty. Nevertheless, the electorate is split 50/50 in national elections.

The claim I read in a number of places is that the MSM handed the dems 15% of the vote in this recent election. That basically says that what the dems actually have is the same 30% (losers) which Hitler used to get in elections, plus another 15% (gullible) provided by the MSM.

That's not a 50/50 split in anybody's book. On a level playing field, this election would have been 70/30 and, as more and more people connect to the internet and begin to find alternate sources of information, that 15% provided by the media is going to do nothing but go down.

Sources?

Remember the steady drumbeat in the mainstream media even about the non-issue of President Bush's National Guard service? Just imagine what the media would have done to Bush if he had the baggage that Kerry had! Dan Rather would have been laughing and snorting with "Genghis Khan" references in every newscast; the media would have endlessly played footage of Bush heaving medals over the White House fence; the interview in which he confessed "yes, yes, I committed … atrocities … contrary to the Geneva Conventions," would have been played ad infinitum. In short, the media would have buried Bush if he had Kerry's record.