Author: Educated Cowpuncher

American by birth and the Grace of God, a Patriot by choice. I have worked in Agriculture all my life, punching cattle for 27 plus years. Currently I own and operate a goat rental business, travelling Kansas using goats to manage weeds, brush and invasive trees. I have a BS in Animal Science from Kansas State University. In my spare time I write Cowboy Poetry and I am working on my educational book about raising meat goats. I raise ABCA registered Border Collies and AQHA horses (from time to time I raise a colt).

BLM, Grazing Permits, & Goat Rental

First off, let me explain a few things. The Federal Government should not own ANY land outside of the 10 square miles of Washington DC and the land on which military posts are located and that the State in which a military post should have a say in whether they want that post or not. Secondly, BLM land held in the Pacific Northwest and OTHER areas as well as National Parks should be managed by the States in which that land is located, not by bureaucrats in Washington DC! It is my opinion that States who have allowed the BLM and National Parks Service to take over land in their State should demand it back as who better to make decisions about the land than those living next to it?

Grazing permits have been restricted, taken away and people are angry. I don’t blame them but the biggest question is, why did they allow the government to take over the land in the first place? Another issue is the cattle industry being under attack by environmentalists about cattle polluting the air with farts. (Let me go off on a rabbit trail on this one.) : The bison that once roamed the Great Plaines far outnumber the number of cattle in the USA today I am sure they didn’t pollute the air as they claim cattle are. But those are the excuses the government is making in regards to not issuing grazing permits.

The cattle industry is under fire for the negative lies environmental terrorists have spread. The BLM stopped logging and they have stopped issuing grazing permits. Wildfires are everywhere and the BLM decides to PAY someone to bring in goats to manage a small area and pays them $1000/acre (which as a goat rental professional, I know is the going rate for the SERVICE provided) and the people who lost permits think that people bringing in the goats should have to PAY for a permit.

Goats are browsers, they mainly focus on brush, woody plants and young trees. The goats also clean up the ground litter (leaves, and other tasty things to goats). People are upset that someone is getting paid to do this work because they claim the cattle will do the same thing. Well, NO, not really. Goats are lightweight animals and have less of an impact on the soil (250 pound goat vs a 1200 pound cow). Goats can navigate rough terrain, cattle can to certain degree. Goats eat the ‘junk’ plants cattle won’t. They prefer to leave grass along, for the most part, cattle focus on the grass.

People who lost grazing permits think that goat rental professionals should have to pay the BLM money to graze the land. Okay, but we are providing a SERVICE. This is a free country, we are capitalists here, why should a goat rental professional PAY to do WORK that the GOVERNMENT has ASKED them to do? Why can’t the cattle ranchers use their cattle to manage the grass on BLM land? Why have they allowed the government to abuse them? It isn’t the goat rental professionals fault, they are just trying to make a living.

IF you took machinery and a work force into the same areas, you would pay more in taxpayer dollars for fuel, machinery, maintenance on machinery, have the ground disturbed by the machinery and some areas machinery can’t navigate due to being sensitive to erosion. If you use chemical, you have chemical run off that can pollute lakes and streams. Using goats is much cheaper, environmentally friendlier and less maintenance for the government because the contractors deal with all the fencing and manage the animals.

All I am saying is, I am sorry that people think goat rental professionals should pay for grazing permits and they are not grazing, they are target managing the land for a purpose and it is a JOB for us goat rental businesses. Using goats is the most economical and environmentally friendly way to manage the land. If anything, as much as I hate to admit it, we should at least give the BLM some credit for hiring the goats to do the work. It is a step in the right direction. As for the cattle producers ( we don’t want to forget the sheep producers as well) who have lost their grazing permits, I am sorry. You need to get your state legislators on board to take back the land from the Fed and let the States manage the land.

It is what it is and if the cattle ranchers and sheep producers who are upset about someone in Agriculture making money, then perhaps they should figure out a way to get the BLM to pay them for grazing the grass on BLM land.

More Than “Just A Dog”

Jinx was four weeks old when I named her. Of the whole litter, she was the one no one wanted, but I did. I was there the moment she was born at 8:30 PM and I held her, marveling at this future streak of lightning and what her life would be like. I was there the moment she left this life too, heartbroken and sobbing uncontrollably.

The litter Jinx was born in was all sitting on command by the end of 5 weeks. Five little black and white fuzz balls wiggling for a treat. Of all the pups, Jinx had a tail that was curled up tight that was straight up and down. Her littler mates Hank and Jill each had curly tails that curled to the right or left. When we walked down the dirt road, Jinx was always in the middle, the pup with the tail that curled right was on the right and the other with the left curling tail was on the left. It didn’t matter when we walked, they were always that way.

Jinx was a jumper. The first time she jumped into my hands was from the couch. By the time she was 11 months old, she was able to launch from 12 feet away, into my arms. I never will forget the time she overshot and flew over my left shoulder. Not sure who was more shocked, her or me. That jumping came in handy when she needed to jump into a pen to help or get across a creek to stop the goats.

She loved to run and run she could! Many times she wanted out of the pickup just before we got home so she could ‘race’ me home on our dead end road. That quarter of a mile was clocked at 35 mph and she loped beside me like she was just getting warmed up. When she ran, she looked as if she was moving in slow motion but in reality, her long stride allowed her to cover the ground with ease. The other dogs were spinning their wheels to keep up and could never catch her. She outran the horses, cattle and goats with easy, as if she was playing games with them.

I don’t know how many times this dog scared me half to death. Four times she was mouth-to-mouth with badgers and lived to smile about it. Her only wound was a small cut in her tongue that she had the rest of her life. She made my heart skip beats when she jumped out of the pickup to chase deer. After the third time, I learned to keep her window half up. The time the horse kicked her when she was 8 months old, I ran to her, believing she was dead, only to just get to her and she raised her head up and looked around like, “Wow! What happened?”

Those who knew Jinx, knew better than to approach me with my back turned. She would run at them with this wicked bark, warning them that they would have to get past her to get to me and most knew from her sound, they didn’t want to attempt a try.

We had a period of separation. Three weeks she was with my friend Penny, while Jinx recuperated from a cellulitis while I was on the road. She had only been home again with me 24 hours, when I found out my parents were in a car wreck and Penny had to take all 4 dogs for six weeks. Jinx never recovered from that trauma and for the rest of her life, I had to take her with me to most of the events I attended, including cowboy poet gatherings or meetings. I too had separation anxiety from Jinx. She was never able to get bred because I called the breeder 4 times in 40 minutes to check on her and by the Second day, the breeder told me to bring Joy and come get Jinx.

When her sister, Joy’s puppies arrived, Jinx was curious but distant until the pups were up and wandering the yard. Fly took up with her aunt and when we gathered the goats each night, Fly was following Jinx and when the pup got too close to the goats, Jinx would turn to the pup and let her know she needed to back off. To this day, Fly hesitates to take the right flank of the herd because that is and was Jinx’s position. Fly learned much from Jinx and for that, I will always see Jinx in Fly as this young dog takes over as the lead dog.

It was the night I named Jinx that I received the scar on the tip of my nose. As a four-week-old, I held her on my chest while I was in my recliner. She hadn’t been named and I was going through all the J names I could think of and then I remembered the robot on from the movie “Space Camp” was called Jinx. When I said the name, her ears perked up. So I fell asleep with her on my chest and at midnight, the little devil grabbed my nose with those puppy sharp teeth, to play. Blood was everywhere but Jinx wanted to play. Every night since then, at midnight, she would come to me, climb on my chest and gently grab my nose to play our little game of ‘bite face’, where I would gently bite her nose and she would do the same to mine. I will miss this game.

Her ability to know what I was thinking made working livestock easier. I could tell her to go find the goats and she could bring them back by herself, even when they were over a mile from home. You can’t ask for a better dog. She was like lightning and was around the goats. She learned hand signals because she could get far enough away to see but not hear me. Those hand signals came in handing when she lost her hearing.

I could go on about this amazing dog but I am starting to cry again. The following is the a poem I wrote about my Border Collies and now two of the dogs that are mentioned in it are gone but never forgotten.

Border Collies

“Get around them.” I said, and she flew out of sight,

A black and white streak that ran into the night.

The goats had escaped and all scattered,

But with Jinx in control, she’d catch them n o matter.

Her speed like the lightning, her skill beyond measure,

I smiled with pride at my wonderful treasure.

She stopped their escape and gathered them in,

She sat beside me, looked up and grinned.

No greater value, no better friend.

I can’t brag enough about my border collie,

She is worth more than gold and all the world’s coffee!

She’s constantly awaiting my command or a pet,

Is she my life? That you can bet.

Her sister is Joy, another true treasure,

She works much slower but is getting much better.

Jinx uses speed and pressure to herd,

Joy uses her eyes to control the herd.

Together they bring the herd back home

And together they help me, wherever we roam.

The old dog, she sat back and watched it all,

Miss Allie the dog that started it all.

This old gal, a while back did depart,

But the memories and love will forever fill my heart.

The puppy that follows Joy and Jinx,

The next generation and she knows how to wink!

Fly is her name; she has a great future,

Her daddy’s a champion and he’s a good teacher.

What would I do without my border collies?

I hate to think of that by golly.

To most, Jinx was ‘just a dog’ to me, she was an extension of me and part of my life that I can never get back but I can marvel and smiling, believing that God gave me this dog to get a taste of unconditional love that only a human body can understand, because God’s unconditional love for us is so great our human bodies cannot fathom it. I can also hope that one day, that beautiful dog that God created will be waiting for me, when I cross over to the other side.

“Get around them Jinx!”

Cattle DO DROP DEAD!

It is one of those things we in the feed lot industry don’t talk about much but it does happen. This week a video surfaced of Kansas feed lot animals that had died and were being piled up. Not just a few but THOUSANDS of cattle. Conspiracy theories, misinformation, accusations of abuse and lots of Bull Feces is being spread. Let me Educate the uneducated city slickers who want to blame or spread BS.

The cattle that died in that video were all black hide and haired. Black absorbs a lot of heat any way and a fat animal of 1500 pounds or more just stresses easier in heat. Cattle are basically in ideal temps between 50 and 75 degrees. But turn the heat up to 90 or above and add high humidity and no breeze to cool them down and they start to stress. Cooler night temperatures usually help the animals deal with the heat of the day. Also, the temps prior to the heat up were in the 80s and the animals weren’t adjusting to the heat because it went from cool to hot in less than 24 hours). Add to t his a micro burst of heat at 10PM instead of temperatures dropping and it is a perfect storm.

Let’s look at some of the situation in Western Kansas. There was cooler temps, then some rain and then high temps with no wind. It is like living in a sauna! A human can only take so much of a situation like this, but a fat beef can handle it to a point. That point was reached when the night temperatures spiked over 103! There was no relief at night. But then again, that adjustment from cool to hot was not over a period of time it was one day cool next day too hot.

When I worked in the feed yards, I saw something like this happen. I started the day by being told to get the payloader and haul the deads out of pen 13. When I got to the pen, there were 23 dead, some were laying as if they fell asleep and never woke up. I started by putting a dead in the payloader bucked and chaining 2 others to the bucket and hauling them out. This was at 7:30 AM. By 9 AM, I could only haul one animal at a time because they have cooked from inside out and were decomposing rapidly. Yes it was as awful as it sounds and the smell stayed in my nose all day. By quitting time I was halfway through picking up all the deads and I ran from my payloader to my pickup in tears, drove home and promptly dumped a half bottle of bleach on my head in the shower to get rid of the smell.

The next day I continued to haul dead animals to the place I would spend the following day digging a huge pit that was over 12 feet deep, 75 feet long and 22 feet wide, all the while the pile of deads lay decomposing, melting down all their bodily fluids right beside the pit. I went through a lot of bleach that week and mentally I wasn’t dealing well. I drank a lot of beer that week, trying to forget.

City folks don’t know what cowboys and cowgirls go through to produce your beef. It is, as with all animal species in agriculture an emotional ride at times. Disease, toxins in feed, extreme weather and just years that want to kill animals off for little or no reason. The producers, whether in feed yards or ranches, fight every day to keep the animals going and some just die in spite of everything we do. Someone asked if the animals that died had all their vaccinations! Honey, vaccinations wouldn’t stop an animal from dropping dead from the perfect heat storm or a massive blizzard that rages for days on end. Oh, we forgot about all the feed yard animals dying in blizzards don’t we? Because that makes sense but 128 degree heat indexes are something that animals shouldn’t die from. Forgive my sarcasm folks, I am offended by stupid people who don’t know, they just have no clue. Yet they want to blame the ranchers or cowboys for not taking care of the animals! Well I have some very nasty choice words that translate simple to: “Go screw the pooch! You have no clue what you are talking about!”

That situation in the feed yard was years ago but my mind still remembers the smell, the heat, the flies and the cowboys and cowgirls who fought to haul water, tried to cool the animals off and who were force to watch as MOTHER NATURE cruelly killed the fat cattle in pen 13. It isn’t something we talk about or brag about but thousands of animals do die this way.

That person who posted the video should be hung out to dry. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was an animal rights extremist that was planted at that feed yard to find something like this happening. They often set up in dairies to find something to skew and make up or set up when the owners aren’t watching but this is something that no human could ever set up. No, this was Mother Nature at her worst. Sprinkler systems would only add to the humidity. Shades are an option and some feed yards have them but the normal 14mph winds they usually have would rip them to shreds. They did put light colored bedding down to reflect heat but it was not going to save those that died.

What needs to happen now? Pray for those involved with the clean up efforts. It is not pleasant and the heat always makes things worse. If you can, share this post and maybe just maybe those who want to say this is conspiracy or animal neglect MIGHT understand. I hope I can at least educate some of those out there willing to listen. This was not a deliberate kill off of livestock and it was not enough to affect the food chain. The government MIGHT provide some financial assistance to the producers who had the losses but I doubt it. Insurance for livestock is expensive for just t his reason, so I doubt there was any insurance. This was a major loss for the producers but unless the meat packers take advantage of the situation and jack prices up higher, you probably won’t see a shortage of beef. Thank God.

Goodbye to Baxter Black

June 10, 2022, the Agricultural World lost one of the greatest AGvocates, humorists/cowboy poets; Baxter Black, former large animal veterinarian. He was a true friend in every sense, always ready to listen and his laughter made you feel good. It has been said that in the United States, you cannot make a living as a poet. But Baxter was not only a poet, he was a COWBOY POET and a heck of a good one at that! He made a successful life selling his books, CD’s, DVD’s, weekly columns and comments. His words were true gold.

As a young cowgirl poet, I was unsure of myself, my writing and asked Baxter to critique my work. He refused. He then told me that my audience was the ones who would tell me if my work is good and that his opinion wasn’t important. But it was to me. I later realized that he did like my work, because he would occasionally call me to find out what misadventure I had found myself in and if I had written any more poetry. In a way, he was a “special” audience, silently cheering me on and looking back I think he was my greatest fan. He had a way of bringing out my best poetry, just by the few words we spoke between us.

I remember his last Kansas performance. The county fair at St. Francis, Kansas had booked him. That was a wet year out there and a thunderstorm had postponed the show and most of us waited almost 2 hours for him to perform. It was worth the wait! Even though he was tired, he took the time to visit with everyone after the show and then he sat down with me as I asked for advice. It was nearly midnight and he still had to drive to his motel but he took that time to speak with me. I will never forget that evening, the visit and the words of advice. To this day, his book, “Lessons from a Desperado Poet” goes with me where ever I go, just like my Bible. His inscription “Stay Strong” means more to me than just what the words do. From time to time, when we visited on the phone or via email, I told him about the arrows I was shooting into the sky, a lesson I took from that book. He would laugh and I could tell he hadn’t really expected me to take his book so seriously, but it has been a huge influence on my writing.

Baxter was a living legend in my opinion. He made cowboy poetry fashionable to listen to when NPR took him on for his wit and common sense. RFD-TV shows his videos. His articles in ag magazines and papers were the first thing I looked for, before I read the rest. Yeah, he was important to me and to many others like me who are just getting our feet in the cowboy poetry pool.

From time-to-time, I would visit on the phone or exchange emails with his wife Cindy Lou and his office assistant, Vikki. They like Baxter have that same “everyone is a friend” personality. I am truly heartbroken for those family members and former employees who worked with him daily. I can only imagine how fun it was to be in that office. OH, to be a fly on the wall! I am sure their loss is great and I pray that God’s Peace that Passes all understanding will envelope them and hold them as Baxter’s passing although we knew it was coming, is still so hard to accept.

Baxter was a Godly man and it showed. He will be missed on this earth and I envy all those who are up beyond those Pearly Gates because not only did another Saint join the Heavenly Realm, they are laughing and enjoying stories and poems that Baxter wrote! It makes me impatient to get there myself. It seems I have more mentors and good cowboy friends already “UP THERE.”

To my dear friend, mentor and greatest encourager: Baxter, you will be dearly missed. I am not sure how long it will be, but I WILL see you on the other side!

Summertime is Coming

You may have noticed that my posting is becoming less frequent. There are reasons. As things heat up temperature wise, I am getting ready to get on the road with the Barnyard Weed Warriors. I am hoping that my summer is uneventful. I prefer quiet jobs with a few visitors and no escaping goats! I will try to get a few comments written but it will be a challenge to write with just a smart phone. I ain’t that smart and a phone is a challenge for me.

Things to remember and to do during the summer.

1. Continue to fight the 30×30 land grab, educate everyone you can. Same goes for the National Heritage Areas.

2. Keep after our Kansas legislators to protect us from the Federal government.

3. Go to Commission & School board meetings, and hold them to the fire.

4. Go to church and PRAY for out country!

5. Enjoy the family & friends.

6. Enjoy Kansas and our wonderous country full of beauty that God created.

7. Honor the veterans both alive and gone.

8. Keep your family close!

Have a great summer…..see you down the road.

Roe V Wade A Travesty of Society

Yesterday the pro-abortionists went mental when a leak from the Supreme Court showed that the Court was about to reverse the Roe v Wade decision of the 1970’s. While I believe every woman should have a choice, they need to understand that once a choice has been made and if a child has been conceived, then that child’s life is just as important as hers and murdering that unborn child is not and should not be a choice!

Call me old fashion, call me anything you like, but you need to understand that this isn’t just a clump of cells. In agriculture, specifically the beef or dairy industries, we use artificial insemination and embryo transfers to improve the species in which we are working with. An embryo is harvested from donor mother and transferred into a recipient mother. This embryo has a value and in many cases are sold to other ranchers and farmers to improve their herds. Some of the most valuable genetics can be worth thousands and the person purchasing that ‘clump of cells’ knows that the dairy or beef animal they are purchasing as an embryo, if all goes well, will one day be a calf that will grow to be and adult cow or bull. A clump of cells in a woman’s uterus also has a value and it won’t be long before it is looking like a human.

We have people harvesting embryos to save for later implantation, these are future children. They have value. By aborting a future child, it is nothing short of murder. If you are in a car wreck and a pregnant woman’s unborn child is killed (unintended abortion) the person causing the wreck is often charged with murdering this baby. What is the difference between murdering a child by abortion or car wreck? A woman’s choice.

If a woman finds herself pregnant with an unwanted child, all she needs to do is wait 9 months, have the child and then give it up for adoption. If she took the time to spread her legs and give herself to a man, she has the time to finish that process and give birth. She can get paid for that child and she can go on her way. She can feel good that in spite of a bad situation, she gave life to a child that will be loved by adopting parents. In other words ladies, that Panty worm will bite, so make sure you are prepared for the consequences.

We have those who use the excuse of incest & rape as a good reason for abortion, whether it be a young girl or adult and while those are tragic situations that need to be addressed, a victim of those types of assaults can go get help immediately and medical facilities can take care of the victims to prevent implantation of a fertilized egg. I think we have the understanding that help is available and a woman or girl shouldn’t be scared to get help to prevent that possibility from ever happening.

The medical excuses for abortions are mute these days. I have visited with doctors who are in the know and they say that very few medical situations would force an abortion upon a pregnant woman. In most cases a woman would have a choice to decide and in many cases, the woman choses to keep the pregnancy and a child is born, just look at Tim Tebow as a good example. Then there is the grossly formed unborn that has little or no chance for survival situation. Generally these babies will either be naturally aborted or they die shortly after birth. Neither is a good situation and both are heartbreaking. Still, they deserve the chance and the odds are generally against them if they survive the birth. They still have a value.

The problem with abortion is that society has gotten so used to throwing away problems or situations and devaluing the human race that we have forgotten compassion and value of a child, whether born or not. California has passed legislation to allow the MURDER of a child after it is born, giving a parent up to 28 days to decide if they want to murder something they created!

Don’t get me wrong, I think a woman should have the choice to decide if she should spread her legs or keep them shut. It is plain and simple, there was a time when a woman didn’t freely give her body to a man until after she married him. I think we as a society should look at the value of such an idea. After all, most people who have never had sex before they are married usually don’t go bed hoping afterwards. That is called chastity and I think we could do more to promote that in society. It is after all the best way to prevent STD’s and it also promotes two parent homes and lowers the divorce rate.

Call me old fashion if you like. The federal government was wrong to pass Roe v Wade in the first place and I am glad to see the correction now. After all, look at all the black babies that were aborted since Roe v Wade passed. Look at how society has devalued a child since then. Let the pro-abortionists have their meltdowns, I see this as a victory for all those black children and other children that are yet to be born who now have the chance to live!

What is the Truth Behind All These Food Plant Fires?

This does not look random. This isn’t cyberattacks as the FBI is suggesting, to redirect our attention (although there were a couple instances of cyberattacks). They are not all cyberattacks. There IS something happening with our food chain supply and it stinks. Is it collusion between big corporate food companies and the government? Are these fires ‘occurring’ to collect insurance and then to drive up food prices?

It wasn’t that many weeks ago that Joe Biden said there WOULD BE food shortages and it WOULD HURT. This is code for all of us who know how to raise our own food to increase the size of our gardens, buy as many Mason jars with the rubberized lids and fill those freezers.

We also need to look at the recent ‘outbreak’ of avian influenza. After reading an article about the chemtrails and weather modifications, I firmly believe (and you can call this conspiracy theory if you like) that avian influenza and the Wuhan virus aka COVID were spread as a bioweapon via chemtrails from airplanes. The saying Trust in no man but Trust only in God Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth comes to mind. Those in power are using that power to control us, try to take away our Freedoms to speak and live as we choose. The new World Order is pushing through and it is on steroids since President Trump threw a wrench in their plans.

I have compiled links to some of the food plant fires, plane crashes and other disasters. I have also added a list of fires or issues from this year alone. It is a growing list and I will update links as I get them. It is also concerning that these fires, explosions and plane crashes are happening more often than before. The long and short of it, GROW YOUR OWN FOOD, RAISE YOUR OWN CHICKENS, VEGETABLES AND MEAT (IF YOU CAN)! We need to resurrect the Victory Gardens of WWII to help feed ourselves.

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/eastern-oregon/explosion-food-services-building-eastern-oregon/283-0dd1f32e-69b0-42d3-926f-a19a43c7f5cc

Biden says to expect real food shortages due to Ukraine war.

And then…….

Feb 5th: Wisconsin River Meats processing facility destroyed by fire in Mauston, Wisconsin.

Feb 15th: Bonanza Meat Company goes up in flames in El Paso, Texas

Feb 22nd: Shearer’s Foods Food processing plant explodes in Hermiston, Oregon.

Feb 22nd: Fire destroys Deli Star Meat Plant in Fayetteville, Illinois.

March 17th: Nestle Food Plant extensively damaged in fire and new production destroyed Jonesboro, Arkansas.

March 19th: Walmart Food Distribution center catches fire in Plainfield, Indiana.

March 24th: Major Fire at McCrum Potato Plant in Belfast, Maine.

March 29th: Maricopa Food Pantry burns down 50,000 pounds of Food destroyed in Maricopa, Arizona.

March 31st: Rio Fresh Onion factory damaged by fire in San Juan, Texas.

April 13th: Fire destroys East Conway Beef & Pork Meat Market in Conway, New Hampshire.

April 14th: Taylor Farms Food Processing plant burns down Salinas, California.

April 19th: Azure Standard nation’s premier independent distributor of organic and healthy food, was destroyed by fire in Dufur, Oregon

April 21st : plane crashes into and destroys General Mills Factory near Atlanta, Georgia.

https://www.macon.com/news/state/georgia/article260659817.html

Food Shortages: Deliberately Caused

Lately you hear Pedo Joe Biden talking about food shortages to come. Well yeah, they are manufacturing food shortages. They are manufacturing inflation too, all on purpose to blame Trump and capitalism. BUT did you know that t here have been a LOT of fires and other issues plaguing the food industries as of late? Fires, airplanes flying into plants and the like. Here is the list. I do not think any of it is coincidence!

THEFT OF MY WORK 2.0

I finally got a response to my emails about another site sharing my posts on their group site (this is at least the second in not third attempt to get a reply. My THEFT OF MY WORK blog entry must have gotten their attention). Here is the email:

Hello Mary,

Thank you for reaching out.

Are you referring to the re-posting of your articles on NewHumanNewEarthCommunities WordPress?

We follow your blog on WordPress, along with many others.

If you have looked at NHNEC WordPress, you will note we share many posts from a long list of other blogs when we find the content relevant / useful to the truth movement.

If however, you do not wish the additional circulation of your blog we will unfollow your blog.

Further note: we take no credit for your work, it is simply shared to our followers and links back to your blog.

To my knowledge none of your blog work has been re-posted on NewHumanNewEarthCommunities.com.

However, should you find one of your blog posts on NHNEC.COM, kindly forward the URL link and we will have it deleted.

If you do not wish to have your blog / work shared on WordPress with others, you may wish to consider becoming a private membership blog and / or disabling the share function on WordPress.

Best,

Alex

NewHumanNewEarthCommunities.com

I have not been back to their site to see if they have removed my blog entries or not. They NEVER ASKED PERMISSION to use my posts. I NEVER asked to join their group! They DO benefit by using my blog entries as my followers are tracked on their site! They do not add to my circulation!

I have NO problem with individuals sharing my blog entries if they feel they are worthy of sharing. I DO have a problem with being included in a group such as NHNE that I did not want to join or be associated with, regardless of whether I post things that they consider pertinent to their group!

Anyone wishing to use my blog entries in a format such as this New Human New Earth Communities MUST FIRST ASK permission! Otherwise I look at it as copywrite infringement.

THEFT OF MY WORK!

There is a wordpress site known as New Human New Earth Communities that is reposting my blogs WITHOUT MY PERMISSION. I have tried to contact them to remove my blogs from their community as their community has work I do not want to be associated with. It is my hopes that they will remove all my blog posts from their site. If they do not, I will seek legal advice as to how to proceed.

Sharing of my blog to personal emails and sharing on social media is fine but they are financially benefitting from using my posts and I don’t monetize my work and do not think they should take advantage of me in this way!