I owned 40 acres in Torrance County, NM which was adjacent to a national forest. Ranchers were charged $1.21 per acre per year to use the NF land for grazing. I could have made $48 per year by charging a little less than the feds. My property taxes were $40 per year.
--- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Sep 1, 2021, 1:50 PM Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com> wrote: > Dave wrote: > > < More significant: I have had my curricular materials censured and have > had my job threatened on a number of occasions because it was deemed > inconsistent with liberal values. Ironically, many of these events occurred > when I was teaching at a Catholic university where I could, with impunity, > challenge religious orthodoxy, but not liberal woke snowflake orthodoxy. I > was once censured by the University of Wisconsin HR department because a > female student filed a sexual harassment complaint because I had a meeting > with her in my office where I had three Salvador Dali prints on my wall and > "she was forced to look at breasts the entire meeting." Her complaint was > upheld because neither the content of the Dali prints nor my intent or > rational for having them in my office mattered — only her subjective > feelings. At Highlands I was forbidden to offer Honors courses or any > opportunities to earn extra credit in a class by tackling extra hard > problems (these were software courses) because doing so was racist and > unfair — simply because more non-Hispanic students obtained the extra > credit or the honors designation. > > > So the university had the expectation that before advanced classes could > be offered, there needed to an unbiasing of the candidate pool for those > classes by adequately training everyone (every demographic) that was > potentially feeding in to them? Ok. If the university wants to do this, > or incentivized to do this, it is really just a matter of private/public > strategy. If you don't want to work for a university that has this "fair" > strategy, then don't. As for subjecting young students to strange > imagery, I can see why one would not want to do that. Just as it would > strange for a female professor to dress like a hooker. Organizations can > have dress codes. Don't be a fool, universities are just another kind of > business. You mess with the business, you will have a problem. It would > be better if your department heads were "upstanders" and just said, "Hey > Dave, how is this art helping your students?" > > < Not personal, but a relative: multi-generational ranch with Federal > grazing right. Hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years were spent > enhancing the Federal land, containment ponds for water that reduced > erosion and flash flooding without diminishing runoff contribution to > watershed; planting of native grasses, elimination of deadwood, etc. etc. > End result was the ability to safely and sustainably graze X number of > cattle. About five years ago, BLM issued a new policy dictating the maximum > carrying capacity of Federal lands. The math was based on lowest common > denominator. The policy was, at the behest of preservation groups, written > with the specific intent to minimize and eventually eliminate the use of > public lands for grazing. (Also mining and motorized recreational vehicle > use.) Bottom line, allotment was taken away because it violated the numbers > — not because there was any evidence of actual harm. > > > I'm a taxpayer. Why should I want off road vehicles or cows on federal > land? I don't care about either of those things. This is a weird > entitlement that these folks have in mind. As far as I was concerned the > Bundy principals in Oregon deserved to be met by A-10s. > > Marcs > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >
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