Category: Montana Life
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Good or Bad
Does <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=2&display=rednews/2004/10/31/build/sports/50-montana-outdoors.inc" target="_blank">Mark Henckel</a> ever have it right.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Are wolves a good thing? Are wolves a bad thing? <br />n<br />nThat really doesn't matter anymore either. Wolves are here to stay. <br />n<br />nAnd the bottom line is that good thing or bad thing, wolves are a costly thing and the price to…
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Meetings
Luckily I don't have <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/10/27/build/state/30-ranchers-wolf.inc" target="_blank">this problem</a> here <u>yet</u> but I really wonder what kind of good this meeting is doing? A chance to get together and bitch? A little earlier this year Stillwater county had another <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/index.php?p=291" target="_blank">meeting</a> about the drought that was basically just a bitch session too. I am not…
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Prejudice
This kind of <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/10/21/build/state/60-tepee-cleaned.inc" target="_blank">vandalism/prejudice</a> is not necessary. It just shows the world how ignorant some people are. I have in my life been prejudiced against certain people, which I picked up from family, but I have tried real hard to overcome it and feel I have. I have also lived in places where…
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Diamonds
Big Sky Country, land of wide open spaces, cowboys, abundant wildlife and now <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=177501" target="_blank">diamonds</a>. I never knew the geology was right for there to be diamonds in Montana. Now that I think about it though it shouldn't suprise me. The question is whether there is going to be an actual dimond mine or…
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Misinterpretation
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/10/11/build/state/75-grizzlies.inc" target="_blank">Montana grizzlies arrive at California zoo </a><br />n<br />nI read the headline and figured the animals at the University of Montana were where they belonged. Alas, no such luck.<br />n<br />n<b>It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Arthur Conan Doyle</b>
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Psychic
I was in Billings today to meet some of my family for my oldest's birthday when I finally got fed up and just have to ask this question. Is there some kind of psychic ability drivers from Yellowstone county have that the rest of us lack? For the past year or so whenever I am…
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Disasters
Spend, spend, spend that money dreaming up what <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/09/01/build/state/58-mt-disaster-damage.inc">potential natural disasters</a> could happen in the state of Montana. The Feds say you won't get as much disaster relief if you don't do this. I guess taxpayers are just made of money to throw around to study things. Good news though, at least we in…
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Hope
Damn, do I hope <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/08/31/build/state/25-mt-winter.inc">thier wrong</a>. It's enough to depress a person.<br />n<br />n<b>Even a wise person can be wrong one time in a thousand. Chinese proverb</b>
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Forgotten
I see a national news story this morning on how snow has closed some mountain roads in <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20040828/ap_on_re_us/colorado_snow">Colorado</a>. Two days ago I mentioned in the <a href="http://www.bigskyblog.com/">bigskyblog</a> that <a href="http://bigskyblog.com/index.php?p=28">snow had closed</a> the Beartooth highway but this was reported only in the local news items and failed to make the national news. I've mentioned…
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Mon tana
The forgotten half. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=2&display=rednews/2004/08/19/build/outdoors/35-montana-article.inc">This</a> is so true it isn't even funny. I don't know how many times when I was in the Navy I told people I was from Montana and got the "how mountainous and beautiful the state is." I would agree and then say I was from eastern Montana and get the…