Beware of the cow and pig farts 

This is coming after the Supreme Court ruling that counts hog and cattle flatulence - yes, cow farts - as a greenhouse gas emissions.

The EPA placed an inconspicuous item in the federal registry this last June regarding greenhouse gas emissions.

The EPA is saying that the cow and hog tax is untrue, but the EPA report briefly mentions "raising livestock" in its report on ways to regulate greenhouse gases under the provisions of the Clean Air Act.

The Farm Bureau estimates that the livestock tax would penalize farms and ranches that own more than 25 dairy cows, 50 beef cattle, or 200 hogs by making them pay a yearly fee of $175 for each dairy cow, $87.50 for every beef cattle, and $20 per pig.

In Siskiyou County, we have approximately 60,000 head of cattle.

At $87.50 per head that's a whopping $5.25 million in fees because our cattle are supposedly filling the air with so many cow farts that we are destroying the environment.

Does this sound so illogical that it could never happen?

Consider this for a moment.

On the short list of those being proposed for Barack Obama's Secretary of Interior is none other that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Yes, this is the same Kennedy who has millions behind him and a cabal of attorneys attacking our waterways here in Siskiyou.

He is also the one who equates hog farmers as "a greater threat to the United States and democracy than bin Laden's terrorist network."

Kennedy has warned "We're starting with hogs. After we get done with the hogs, then we're gonna go after the other ones."

This situation would be hysterical if it weren't so sick.