Category: Cattle
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Brucellosis Update
It looks like <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/000127.html#more">Kalamity Karen and I</a> aren't the only ones that don't understand the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/01/24/build/wyoming/30-brucellosis.inc">two herd thing in Wyoming.</a> Could this be a glitter of common sense or is it just that the state doesn't want to pay for all the testing that will be required? I'll be optimistic and think that…
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Where’s Rover
Could this explain what happened to the Mars Rover.<br />n<img src="http://nowherethoughts.net/pics/MarsLanding.jpg"><br />n<br />n<b>The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.<br />nOscar Wilde </b>
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Understanding Women
I am probably going to get tarred and feathered over this one (especially from My Darling Wife) but I just couldn't resist. <a href="http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/04-01-21-01.all.html">estrogen makes women goofy.</a> Now I admit, they didn't actually say goofy, that is just my interpretation of the announcment. I think this is why us men have always had such a…
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Lost Revenue
<i>SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio. This Cleveland suburb is suddenly much poorer. </i><br />n<br />nThis is the town where the winnner of Mega Millions, a lottery, lives. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Midwest/01/20/lottery.tax.ap/index.html">City misses out on lotto windfall</a> What I don't get is how the city can be suddenly poorer? They never had the money in the first place.<br />n<br />n<i>"It's…
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Efficiency
I bet the residents of Billings thought that City hall was more effecient than normal <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/01/20/build/local/45-telephoneoutage.inc">yesterday</a>. Until 2:30 rolled around and they were able to use the phones again to interfere with people's life. Better luck next time.<br />n<br />n<b>today's government uses computers which are capable of cranking out millions of documents per day…
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Pets
I didn't even know Churchill had a pet until I <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36676">read this.</a> That it's still alive at 104 is amazing to me. I didn't know parrots could live that long.<br />n<br />n<b>Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.<br />nMark Twain </b>
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I’m Not Sure
Well as you know I belive in beef but <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20040115/ap_on_fe_st/brain_sandwiches">this is going a little far.</a> Give me a good steak anyday.<br />n<br />n<b>I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused. Elvis Costello </b>
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Military Honors
<a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040112/od_uk_nm/oukoe_people_clinton_1">I see our Ex Presidente is up for a prestigious military honor.</a> Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. A post which can be traced back to 1226, he would be technically responsible for repelling an invasion of the southeast coast of Britain. I say let the British have him. He needs a new crop…
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Finger Pointing
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/01/12/build/business/30-canada-beef.inc">This article</a> really made me laugh. While I agree with the assessment that U.S. finger pointing at Canada is a little juvenile, the Canadian cattle producers ought to be a little more careful about the claims they make.<br />n<!–more–><br />n<i>Before <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> was found in the Alberta Black Angus in May, cattle…
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Weapons of Math Instruction
At New York's Kennedy airport today, an individual later discovered to be a public school teacher was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a setsquare, a slide rule, and a calculator.<br />n<br />nAt a morning press conference, Attorney general John Ashcroft said he believes the man is…