>AERC has quite a few sponsors who aren't 100 percent, all inclusive,
related to the sport of endurance. Do all endurance riders use only
Sundowner or Gulf Coast trailers to bring their horses to endurance
rides? Not from what I've seen; myself included. Do all endurance
riders use only Alpha-Plex Internet Solutions when they're performing tasks on
the computer? Do all of you subscribe to "Arabian Horse World" magazine?
Is all of the art work inside an endurance rider's home paintings done by
Susan Norris Romera?
I'm sorry that you seem to entirely miss the point here,
Howard. Endorsing the use of the above products is in no way contrary to
the dedication of AERC to the health of the horse.
>Heck, a sponsor is a sponsor, and to blow
off the BLM because you have some sort of personal problem with the agency is
not valid
You'd make a good dance partner for Randy here,
Howard. No one on this thread (let alone me) has "blown off" the BLM for
any problems, personal, public, imagined, or otherwise. In fact, virtually
every poster who has addressed dealing with the BLM has stated that
it IS in our best interests to deal with them regarding trail
issues--perhaps even a necessity to the future of our sport. What
several of us have said, in essence, is that it is counter to AERC's interests
to sponsor mustang adoption. Neither you nor Randy has come up with a
counter to that. Neither Sundowner Trailers nor Susan Romero paintings are
apt to suggest to any member of the public that they should use a horse for
the sport that is not suited to the sport.
You got mad at me on the AERC list for calling the
contradiction in your positions on these issues hypocricy. Why is it ok
for you to get mad when someone steps on YOUR toes a bit, but it is not ok for
someone to call a spade a spade when you continually write off anyone
who dares to disagree with YOU as having a personal problem, or some other
insinuation? The double standard doesn't wash, Howard. If you don't
want labels from the rest of us, quit putting labels on people yourself,
please. The best way to not have inflamatory language hurled your
direction is not to fling it around in the first place.
