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" The people who rescue animals around this country are some of the only true saints that we have, and I say that as someone who is fed up to the gills with those sad-eyed Sarah McLachlan commercials in which McLachlan looks more pathetic than the cats and dogs with which she is surrounded. My friends Michael Blowen and Diane White down in Kentucky run what is essentially an assisted-living facility for retired racehorses, which you all should applaud and support. (Watching the horses play Bingo and yell at Judge Judy on TV is really quite something.) Now, it appears that, once the Great Recession hit the Great Plains, people who owned expensive horses simply abandoned them, and the people at the Double R Horse Rescue set themselves the mission of caring for these orphaned animals. Now, though, thanks to the Great Climate Change Hoax perpetrated by greedy scientists in their desire for that pot of gold at the end of every grant application, the work of the horse rescuers has been made harder because the plains keep burning up and people are cutting their horses loose faster than these people can rescue them.... Jami Salter is caring for 15 horses at the Double R Horse Rescue in Riverdale, about 150 miles west of Omaha, and she said that&amp;#039;s all she can handle. But she&amp;#039;s still getting three or four calls a week from people asking her to take their horses, and at one point, people were abandoning one or two animals a week. &amp;quot;People would just drop horses off without asking me,&amp;quot; Salter said. &amp;quot;Every morning, I went out to water them, and I&amp;#039;d have more horses than the day before.&amp;quot; Moreover, even if they could take them in, people like Salter can&amp;#039;t afford to feed them all, the price of hay having gone into the stratosphere due to the Great Climate Change Hoax. Salter said she paid roughly $110 last year for a bale that weighed 1,200 to 1,500 pounds. This year, the price is about $260, and it takes seven or eight bales each week to feed the horses in her care. Gov. Dave Heineman tried to help by allowing farmers to cut hay growing along roads earlier than usual, but Salter said that didn&amp;#039;t do much for her. Her property has seen less than an inch of rain since May, and grass isn&amp;#039;t even growing in roadside ditches. In Ireland, during the Great Hunger, dead people were found by the side of the roads, their mouths stained green from having eaten the grass that was growing there. Today, during the drought brought on by devious scientists and their hoax, horses can&amp;#039;t even do that much. Of course, elements of the Great Climate Change Hoax may be coming to Tampa to celebrate with all those good conservative Republicans who ran it to ground with their Citizen Journalism (!) a couple of years ago. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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