Here we go again with more antics from those wacky horse killers at HiCaliber with a brief cameo from their Louisiana counterpart. As usual, there is a lot of ground to cover and make sense out of. When I originally started to pull this post together, I had an extra special treat with some newish stuff to share, but then dueling live feeds happened and I am trying to keep things in bite sized chunks for everybody to digest. Even so, today’s post is going to be more of a hungry man dinner with a whole bunch of chunks, whether you bite them or end up blowing them. I guess we’ll kick things off with a brief update on the latest shit show and do a brief auction recap before we get into some updates and then the live feed extravaganzas..
I’m beginning to suspect that more than loading horses went on during Romney Faye Baker’s little Louisiana excursion. I’m thinking something along the lines of some Satan, Doughboy, Romney Faye sandwich action went down such is her open admiration for all things Satan and Doughboy. I feel unclean when she posts about them lately. As you can see in the video, the latest round of victims horses got hauled `slaughter style’ and Romney is positively moist in her praise for Doughboy stuffing all of them into the same kind of load any slaughter bound horse endures complete with absolutely mangling at least one of them if you watch until the end of the video. Doughboy helpfully points out the poor little thing and even goes as far to tell us that it happened during the haul. Nobody ever accused Doughboy of being the sharpest knife in the drawer. Don’t worry about the mini though, because apparently they somehow pawned that one off on Baker Ranch back in California and are going to haul that poor thing across country like that because Floyd’s suffering and death didn’t register with them the first time around. It gets even worse as there are some rumblings that Cheech Dana might be the one cramming as many as possible into her tin can and doing the run. Nobody ever accused this group of learning from past mistakes.
Romney Faye Baker was in rare form at auction this week. With Charles Manson Michelle still down for the count, Romney Faye has grown increasingly drunk with power and stooped to new levels of hatefulness. As you can see from the screen shot above, Margaret was in extremely rough shape at auction. As any good scam artist knows, sympathy makes people dig deep in their pockets so Romney Faye Baker was all over this poor little soul like flies on shit. Nothing inspires people to dig deep like the cute/sick combo. After looking at her teeth and aging her as ancient, (turns out she is around six), Romney Faye decided that dragging her to her feet and making her walk across the hot pavement to the trailers was appropriate along with the obligatory pauses for Romney Faye Baker to get her selfies along the way. Even though her actual purchase price was only $135 and she couldn’t even stay on her feet, her health was held for ransom as village idiots were reminded that unless they dug even deeper than the usual $650 over purchase and ponied up another $500 `cushion’, they couldn’t take her to San Luis Rey Equine to get looked at. Of course the money was raised and probably even more since they never give actual totals, but it begs the question what would have become of the poor little thing had they not raised the additional $500? Would that have meant they just drag her home and play doctor on her? I shudder to think but at least she did get to the vets and treated for sand impaction, so she’s apparently feeling better as of this writing. What awaits her on the HiCaliber feed lot is anybody’s guess.
So, aside from the poor little donkey, Romney Faye managed to get enough money for a few more horses. I’m not entirely sure why she needed the paint or the little Arabian yearling, but pretty horses tend to inspire people to dig a bit deeper than the plain brown wrappers so there is that. To be completely honest, I couldn’t sit through all the auction feeds just because you can only hear one person talk so much shit before you want to jab nails in your ear drums. Romney Faye originally wondered, on camera no less, whether or not the warts on the colt’s nose was cancer. For some reason, after all the time she spends at auction, she figures a horse that is stressed in that atmosphere is a rarity and means they automatically need saving. I guess when the majority of your donors belong to the Black Stallion brigade of horsemanship, it inspires them to more than the sick horse hanging its head in the corner. Aside from the three HiCaliber purchases there was some mention of brokering a private buyer deal between Misner and a villager but those details, along with auction receipts are never really produced. We were also treated to a Romney Faye Baker rant in defense of their new cozy relationship with Satan Tara, full of such blatant lies, I don’t even know where to begin. Perhaps the biggest whopper that was laugh out loud funny was when she told us that Satan and Doughboy got rid of their contract because they were placing so many horses in private homes they couldn’t meet their contract quota and were getting fined for not meeting it. Anyhow….
Next up was a brief update on some horses by Bang Bang Becky. She kicked things off by lying to us and telling us she wasn’t sure when Charles Manson Michelle would be home from the hospital when Charles was already home. The horse updates began with Tara the pinto mare that Becky adopted from Louisiana. She claimed her as her own fresh off the trailer because she was BFFs with the mare that Michelle had a private donor buy for her. Well, turns out Tara is starting to founder so Bang Bang Becky has decided she cannot adopt her at this time aka she’s going to let the donors pick up the vet bills on this one but she’ll scoop her for $1 as soon as she’s better. Maybe. Turns out neither Tara nor her BFF Dawson actually like people, so don’t be shocked to see HiCaliber have to buy Charles Manson Michelle’s impulse purchase so she can pocket that donation without accountability. We also got to finally see how poor Sully was doing up in the barn. The answer is not good. He’s been there a couple of weeks now and hasn’t managed to gain any weight, and just kinda hangs his head in the barn. If you recall, he was the one that the 30% vet, Michelle, was hanging endless jugs on as she drugged him to the point of staggering. The other main update was poor that Bambi, also from Louisiana, got his eye removed. That comes as zero surprise as he was freshly mangled at the Thompson Lot. He also had a large abscess on his neck where they microchipped him. So glad they let the poor horse stand around this long in discomfort. Moving right along…
As I mentioned earlier, we were treated to dueling live feeds today. It seems like the deadly duo of Charles Manson Michelle and Romney Faye Baker are starting to feel the consequence of their actions and finding their seats on the karma bus not to their liking. As a result, we were treated to back to back live feeds that displayed the gamut of emotions and emotional manipulations from both. Before we get too far into it, we should pause to acknowledge the medical miracle it was that Michelle Manson was even with us at all. It was less than two days ago she was crying in her hospital bed about having to learn to walk again and possibly go to 30 day inpatient rehab. For her to have climbed the stairs to her bedroom and move around and recline the way she was, was nothing short of a modern day medical triumph. She even informed us she had already been over to the barn to visit the horses. I know a few have been marked for death so maybe they let her shoot something in the face to cheer her up or something. Michelle Manson’s main issue seemed to be people being mean to her and she claimed that she would never ever do that to anybody. I’m guessing the calling people’s work, the late night visits to leave `gifts’ in their mailboxes and other real and in person bullying she has engaged in doesn’t count when you’re playing the victim card so heavily. I think the thrust of the thing was that she’s crying that so many people have jumped ship and thinking that it was all about this latest big stunt. I don’t think that’s the case at all. I think this latest stunt was the straw that broke the camel’s back. I think that this has been coming for a long time and when your innermost circle has had enough to the point they take an active role in righting the wrongs being done, then maybe, just maybe it’s time to take a look in the mirror. Aside from that, Manson heaped some more praise and admiration on Satan Tara and her business model, further laying the groundwork to just go full on broker in the near future to keep the money rolling in. Manson further went on to tell us that she is more inclined to take the word of a kill buyer over the words of advocates because kill buyers have nothing to gain by lying to her. Apparently money doesn’t count? She also told us that the Moxie with the hole in the middle of her face from the fly mask that was featured on the last post here, was actually a sign of how good they’re doing. You know, because they discovered it when she’s kicked out in a field to be left alone shows they’re on top of things apparently. I would think that not having a ginormous pustulous hole in the center of her face might be a better sign of good husbandry. I guess I’m going to have do something vile to my own horses to show them how much I care in the near future. It’s really difficult to work up sympathy when Manson is talking about being at the top and heavy is the head wearing the crown. She also told everybody that they were going to be less big box and more home town For once she wasn’t discussing her nether regions and I was really happy about that. At any rate, the picture Manson attempted to paint of herself is very different from the Manson that people have to deal with on a day-to-day basis and yes, there will be more things shared to support that in the coming days.
Without so much as a two-minute pee break for the viewers after Charles Manson Michelle signed off, Romney Faye Baker climbed up on the cross to log on and cry for the camera. For whatever reason, the woman cannot do a live hit sitting up straight, so once again there is Romney Faye Baker reclining on the sofa and fondling her necklace and touching her nose a lot. I bring this up because, Romney Faye is the world’s worst liar. Every text-book sign from the downcast eyes, inability to look direct, the constant fidgeting and touching of the face, especially the nose just screams LIES and that is true of both Manson and Romney Faye. Romney Faye also schooled us on how a lie isn’t a lie because things change. Yes, some things do change, but what doesn’t change is a reservation horse doesn’t change into a well-bred performance horse and convicted felons, habitual ones that have actually killed a person a long time ago, don’t all of a sudden become upstanding citizens. Pathological liars rarely become trustworthy. What else doesn’t change is the fact that people are assholes no matter what amount of bad luck and tragedy they are currently dealing with. Some things are static. She used the horse Marian as an example of the good that they do. You may remember that Marian was an extremely crippled horse that HiCaliber refused to help because they were busy in Louisiana so this mare, who couldn’t even stand up, suffered an extra week to two before HiCaliber thought she was worth helping and then wanted everybody to praise them for their compassion. Maybe had she been a pretty color they’d have got to her sooner. Another super fun feature of Romney Faye’s live feed was her troglodyte boyfriend telling a long time supporter to `F U’ because he’s too slow on the uptake to understand a joke. That, along with the new policy of instant bans if people ask negative questions should go a long way towards building their village. Maybe I would be a trifle less jaded if Romney Faye wasn’t constantly referring to her script throughout the nearly TWO HOUR ramble. I swear there were even direction on when to cry. She really has to tighten up those nipple clamps or whatever she’s using to induce tears and see if she can’t actually get some waterworks going with the crying though. I think it might help.
I’m guessing the double pity party was designed to bring the defectors back in line or at least shame them into silence. There were a lot of manipulative statements made like if you hate Hicaliber, you can’t be for horses. That’s really amateur hour as far as manipulation goes kinda like when the horny young boy tries to convince his girlfriend to touch the bump in his pants to prove that she loves him. Gross in both instances and ridiculous too. They tried to convince people watching that it doesn’t matter where the horse originates and maybe that is true as far as that one horse is concerned, but working hand in hand with the pro-slaughter faction and providing misinformation to gain funding is not helping horses at all in the long run. How is it helping if five more die in the place of the one you pulled? One of the truly scary statements that was made was that they take in `lots’ of owner relinquishments that they never tell the public about and absorb those into the herd. The reason was said to be to protect the identity of the owners, but that doesn’t really work when there are several that have been featured in the past. Using the Pasos I mentioned a few posts ago as an example, that means horses are coming in and leaving via bullet that nobody ever knows about. Those Pasos do not seem to be on the property and they are not on the website as adopted. They have vanished or at least a few of them have. How is that `responsible rescue’? They never made any effort to place them at all. They can both cry all they want, but the actual reason for the drama today aside from Michelle Manson losing her alimony and maybe having to get a real job, was their house of cards is getting ready to fall and both of them are running scared. There seems to be a shift back towards their roots in the feedlots and a laying of groundwork to do more kill pen brokering and drop the pretense of actually being a real rescue.
I want everybody to read the screen shot above. Yes, it’s from last September but it so clearly shows the complete lack of compassion and astonishing arrogance that is really HiCaliber. They have played the special treatment by animal services card many times before to discourage people from speaking out against them. They continue to do so, even going so far as to exploit somebody on their board’s profession in order to discourage people from reporting them. In the email, the Dave she was referring to she that she knows is Misner aka Voldy. They have always been proud of their relationship with him. The other part of this email is Romney referring to a horse that was about to get the bullet as `Lucky #57′ meaning the 57th one they had shot that year. Sadly, this horse’s existence has since been erased and unhashtagged as are so many that may come back to haunt them. I get that death by bullet is fast if done right, but that’s a big IF. I’ve shared a few instances where it didn’t go right at all and it was horrific. Those were just samples.
Lastly, I need to address this to HiCaliber because despite their denials, they are avid readers of this blog. I can only speak for myself and this blog because I have no association with other blogs whatsoever. I do not care enough about Michelle or Romney to hate either one of them personally. Do I hate what they do? More than I can ever say. Do I make fun of their antics? Yes I do and I will continue to do as it puts a lot of context around their actions. They are NOT saving horses. They are buying them and stockpiling them in feedlot conditions. The very conditions that other rescues and anti-slaughter advocates are fighting to save horses from every single day and have been doing so for years. They have more horses than they can properly care for and horses are getting shot in the face that didn’t need to be. Horses living on that property are not living happy lives. Other horses are vanishing off the face of the earth even when people have begged them to let them give them a home. Why? When so many people start voicing concerns and get written off as haters, there is going to be a blowback eventually. When you treat your volunteers and friends like complete shit, it’s going to come back to haunt you. Everybody has seen live feeds of Michelle shit talking volunteers, calling one of her supposed best friends ugly and worse. That is just not a nice person and all the crying in the world just doesn’t feel genuine. I’m sure she is sorry. She’s sorry the jig is up. Personally, I do not care where either Michelle or Romney go or what they do when this all crashes down as long as the horses land softly. I would love nothing better than to put this blog back in mothballs, but I can’t do that because I need to see this through. You see, I am for the horses. I always have been and I always will be.
I am at a loss for words… Does anyone have a tally of how many horses have met the .22 since the LA debacle began? I would love to see a number (and names)!
I too was once a supporter, now I am just sad and angry!