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Topic: Open letter to "He who shall never be named"
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted November 28, 2020 08:47 PM
Last evening (Friday), I received a message from my friend, Randy Buker, in Minnesota regarding a conversation he’d just concluded with “he who shall not be named” (HWSNBN) who, apparently, was under the impression that he was speaking with a friend, or at best, failed to anticipate that his comments would not be held in confidence. I’ll preface what I’m about to say that I really could not care less what HWSNBN thinks either of me, or of anything else, for that matter. It’s never been a secret, so WTH. No one, living or dead, is more irrelevant in my opinion, but since he chose to invoke my name in their conversation, I just feel I need to reply.
HWSNBN,
As you recall, you told Randy, “Writers run out of crap to write about so they have to get what they can from someone else’s experience and then write about it just making small changes in the wording or story. Lance Holman (his spelling, not mine) for example he writes about other hunters experiences and then makes up a story and claims it as his own.”
My initial reaction is, “What in the hell are you talking about?”, but I am reminded that you probably don’t even know.
Over the course of my 100+ articles published, with well over 50,000 people reading each piece, with each piece rarely, if ever, being edited or changed from the form I submitted, and the fact that I received the top pay of any contributor at the time with T&PC, I approached a number of worthy individuals for their contributions and, in no instance, did I ever fail to given them proper credit. There were times I played the role of a reporter, rather than telling my own story. Obviously, you missed that.
A few examples include Rich Higgins in the first piece to really outline vocalizations in calling for public consumption, and which pretty much launched the widespread use of howling by recreational callers across the country. That was Rich, and that was me.
What have you done?
Another is our host, Leonard Bosinski, when I featured him in an article on misting that not only led to people using the method and triggered a national dialogue that continues today about this strategy, but resulted in an entirely new product line of aerosolized scents in the commercial marketplace. That was Leonard, and that was me.
What have you done?
How about the late Ronnie Robison and my piece we collaborated on about estrus chirps. Doubters came out of the woodwork on that, calling both Ronnie and me foolish (amongst other things) for such a notion. Yet, as I write, Lucky Duck e-callers, with whom I was asked to help and did so in securing coyote vocalizations, now offers well over a dozen of the most lethal digital howls that include estrus chirps, and for which competitors have offered LD Calls inventor Rick Pailllet, any amount of money to acquire those sounds. That was Ronnie, and that was me.
And, again, what have you done.
How about the first piece I did to introduce Quinton “Q” Wagoner to readers like you, which resulted in not only Q being declared one of the top five coyote killers in the nation, but also, a well-deserved profile piece in Outdoor Life. Multiple pieces have been published, written by me, about Q’s methods, his recovery dogs, and in every instance, Q was the focal point. That was Q, and that was me.
One last time, what have you done?
Apparently, you’re under the misguided notion that I stepped away from writing because I “ran out of things to write about”, or maybe I just got tired of portraying other peoples’ stories as my own. Ironically, you seem to be the only person in the entire predator calling universe that thinks anything and everything I ever wrote was about me, when nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, Q and I talked about my lack of interest in pursuing anything that would garner me any real amount of celebrity or acknowledgement, once saying to me, “You know? You suck at self-promotion.”
Unlike you, my absence from the calling community as a writer was anything but establishing my irrelevance. I kept myself busy.
Just to set the record straight, I stopped writing because of serious issues we were dealing with as a family. Leading my son through the challenges of a traumatic brain injury and how that resulted in his addiction to drugs compelled me to spend three years researching the way our state (and others, as well as other countries) deals with the addiction crisis in their courts, from which I produced a thesis and proposal to reform how Kansas deals with the meth crisis in our courts. That proposal, although presently stalled due to Covid-19, has been praised and applauded by judges, prosecutors, law enforcement, jail administrators, elected officials, and nationally recognized experts in the field of addiction treatment and corrections medicine. My plans are to see my proposal adopted as law. As a result of my ideas and the work I did one on one with my son, he is now three years clean and sober. That was him; that was me.
What have you done?
When a lifelong friend was unfairly terminated from a 35 year career in law enforcement because he openly criticized corruption and misconduct in our county’s sheriff’s department, I immediately offered myself and my skills as a writer in his efforts to run for and be elected as Sheriff. He won with more votes than any other sheriff in the history of our county and will now walk in the footsteps of such notable local figures as Tom Smith and William “Wild Bill” Hickok. That was him, and that was me. Even today - five months after launching my own personal effort to get him elected - I have people (total strangers) reaching out to me to thank me for everything I did in helping him.
What have you done?
As soon as that primary election was final and I found some free time, I joined an effort in Kansas to lobby for the first ever night-hunting season by using my background as a writer, a wildlife manager, and a noted figure in predator calling to write multiple emails to our state’s wildlife commissioners, presenting them with the information they needed to help us achieve our goal. We won! January 1, 2021, we will be hunting with lights in Kansas for the first time ever!
I’m extremely proud of my contribution to that effort. That was me.
What have you done?
Presently, I’ve undertaken a new project where I’m heading a local effort in our county to both challenge and nullify what I (we) consider to be unlawful and unconstitutional resolutions passed by our county officials requiring us to wear face masks in response to the Covid-19 crisis or pay fines, in violation of the First and FOurteenth Amendments of the US Constitution. Last weekend, we held a meeting in which I moderated a large group of key players, including a virology/epidemiology expert, local medical professionals, business leaders, and inspired citizens who demand that their voices be heard. Next Sunday, we will meet again, at my request, to hear updates from community leaders in medicine, business, education and churches as we outline the information we’ve received from civil rights lawyers and prepare to sue our county for violating our rights. That is all of them, and that is me.
What have you done?
Let me tell you what you’ve done. You’ve continued trying to tear me down time and again to people who, you should know, regard you to be an imbecile and an idiot, and who laugh at your continued bitterness and childish envy. I truly feel sorry for you, having no other choice but to live with yourself day after day. You’ve accomplished nothing but portrayed yourself as a sorry, bitter little man who lacks any semblance of self-awareness and made yourself iconic in the sense that when others need to point out someone else’s idiocy, they invoke your name. That’s the only time your name is mentioned.
Again, I really don’t care what you think of me. I’m back to writing, but I’m focusing on bigger projects with three different books in process - two halfway written and one being outlined right now. I’ve got enemies, and there are people who, for whatever reason, don’t like me. I’m okay with that. Sadly, I don’t live rent free in their heads quite as much as is the case with you, but it is what it is.
As the saying goes, “You can teach the ignorant and you can educate the dumb, but you can’t fix stupid.” Keep talking crap about me. I really don’t care. You’ve never landed a punch yet and you’ll just keep swinging away with futility because everyone else is better at seeing who and what you are than you are. Just understand - and this is probably a lesson you might want to take to heart - when you spew your opinion about me or anyone else, the people you’re talking to quickly begin wondering what kinda shit you’re talking on them behind their backs. Everyone on this site should be wondering that, as well. I doubt anyone here cares.
Bitter, bitter, bitter, and sad.
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Leonard
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posted November 29, 2020 09:45 AM
This post explains the three lengthly emails I read this morning from he who shall not be named.
So this mean girl snipping comes from Randy Buker? The very last conversation I had with him, several years ago; it was cordial and friendly and since then, if he has negative things to say about me, that's puzzling? Whatever. But, everybody loves to hate Anderson. I can't say that he has ever had a cross word with me and I only banned him to keep peace on the Board, with his acquiesce.
Lance, you know that I don't edit or censor anything and you can expound at will, but if your source is Randy, and he has claimed things said from that guy about you and certain things he said about me, then I wonder who's stirring the shit. By the way, he still has an account here.
The fact is, I was calling predators long before most of these guys knew anything about it and now that they are expert, they can judge others. Is that right?
I'm driving back home this morning, within the hour. Keep it civil.
LB
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Leonard
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posted November 29, 2020 09:55 PM
I got home from Marin about 30 minutes ago. Traffic sucked, 9 friggin' hours and I've done it 30 times in under 7 1/2 hours, and mostly on holidays.
I thought somebody might chime in here, but what I got are emails instead. whatever?
El Bee
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Paul Melching
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posted November 30, 2020 04:28 AM
Well written Lance but not much will change a dickhead is a dickhead ! You are and will always be a fine writer and he will always be a dickhead!
I am friends with Randy on FB find him to be a fine man don't know about any of the other stuff !
Pretty sure I got him started smoking meats now he is a God !
[ November 30, 2020, 04:31 AM: Message edited by: Paul Melching ]
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Leonard
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posted November 30, 2020 09:23 AM
Smoking meats. I wonder if science has ever been able to explain exactly how it works? It kinda defies logic, but by thunder, it sure as hell "works"!
We used to fatten hogs at my buddies place out in Agua Dulce in the Antelope Valley. Those folks network, there are people that will slaughter your critters and pluck the turkey and dress it up and make it look magnificent. There are also an operation that will custom smoke anything your little heart desires. So, sort of, "what the hell, why not? we were smoking some pork chops along with the bacon and the hams. The decision on hams is do you cut it into 2 or 3 pieces. Either will give you a decent meal, but as I started to say, the big surprise was how delicious are smoked pork chops.
This is, (was) cold smoked to cure, and involved a week hanging in the smokehouse. You don't just warm up a cold smoked ham, it has to be throughly cooked, but since there are no hormones or anything else in the feed, the texture of the meat is something you haven't seen before if all you have tasted is commercially processed ham. I can't adequately describe it except to perhaps compare it to veal?
But, I do know how hams, bacon, weiners and smoked sausages are prepared to be sold. All of them are slightly different, but are inside the smokehouse for between about 16-18 hours and the temperature could be plus or minus 156* or so, up and down and off while the smoke is introduced at some point, basically around the middle, but if curing those long loafs of baloney, the smoking part might be longer?
Another aspect is with bacon and ham, they must inject brine before it is hanging on the smokehouse racks. There is usually some mention on the label, "water added" and it must be some kind of law, but it's not to cheat you into paying more for the weight. They have to inject the brine with pressurized needles, because without it, the meat would be all dried out.
Another thing is, make no mistake, the recipe and the process is well thought out historically and there is a record of all of it, what was done and when it was done. They keep those charts for a long time. Just a wild ass guess, but if there is $50,000 worth of product in a smokehouse, (and we had 16) then if it is fucked up, that's some expensive cattle food. Bacon and whole hams not so much, but pressed hams and all sausages have to be just right or the casings will split open, not good.
There was a reporter named Drew Pearson that came out with a huge expose' about wieners or hot dogs, or frankfurters. He claimed that they were made with garbage ingredients like hog jowls and snouts and the public revolted and there is a notion to this day that hot dogs are crap.
The government doesn't tell you what you can use and in the case of stuff like "Head Cheese" that's exactly what they use, but not sausages and hotdogs. That stuff is made exactly the same every time with very good quality ingredients. I know for a fact that Wilson hotdogs were made with choice chuck and were limited to 50 pounds of rework, (broken hotdogs) added to the batch. There was nothing in it that you yourself wouldn't approve of. So, his big scandal was and is a fake but there are people today that wouldn't touch a hotdog or a polish sausage with a ten foot pole.
The thing that disgusts me is that for supposed health reasons, they have been adding either chicken or turkey, for one thing, because it's cheaper than pork or beef and they push the cholesterol angle.
Well, I can tell you that a true wiener traditionally is made with pork and veal and beef. The exception is the frankfurter all beef hot dog made specifically for jewish considerations, ie: no pork. But the public these days is convinced that all beef is top quality. Not so, on the flavor scale, but on the other hand, most manufacturers are making a bastardized hotdog by using poultry. I think very few independent markets, like Gelson's are making a big fat weiner with natural casing that might be something a hell of a lot of people have never tasted. So much for progress.
End of rant!
LB
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Paul Melching
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posted December 01, 2020 06:44 AM
Nothing like a good hot dog My old business partner and I used to go once year to Teds In Tempe Ted was from Buffalo NY and ran a charcoal gill for all of his dogs every thing from white hot veal dogs to sausage we would get all beef foot long chili dogs with mustard onions and cheese , grated cheese not that cheese snot they push these days. My kingdom for some dentition !
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Leonard
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posted December 01, 2020 08:21 AM
There are certain obscure spices that make all the difference. We used to have a woman with a stand come on post, (Karlsruhe) and she had the most delicious hotdogs with a long bun that was just as delicious, and with German mustard. We would have these for BREAKFAST! Well not really Breakfast, our chow was normal 6am, but this was like mid morning break, which the Army doesn't serve, unless you go to the PX. These looked like wieners, not the Bratworst they grill on the street. Those were very different than we see over here. they were white with a very fine meat and a thick skin on a round hard bun with sausage sticking out an inch on either side. They also were delicious, and toasted outside just right. I have never found exactly the same thing in the States?
Of course, if you want variety, they have their version of bed and breakfast and it will have a big assortment of sausages and cheeses and yogurts. But, for sure, there are a lot of different sausages in Europe, and regionally, different. I never found the fare to be as satisfying as normal US type of stuff, waffles and eggs and bacon. The funny thing is, you can try and request a certain type that you like, and they know just what you are talking about....then they bring it and it never looks or taste the same!
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