Category: Montana Life
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Journey
<b>A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Chinese proverb. </b><br />n<br />nWe have a long ways to go but the journey has begun.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/03/29/build/state/25-income.inc" target="_new">State's income growth 9th best</a>
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Real Growth in the State
<blockquote> Montana's economy continues on a hot streak, with the state adding almost 14,000 jobs in the past year and hitting the lowest unemployment rate for January in 35 years.</blockquote><br />n<br />nAmazing, all this <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/03/11/build/state/30-job-growth.inc" target="_new">job growth</a> and creation and <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> can't take credit for it since it happened during the…
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Tyranny
The <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/02/11/build/state/65-smoking-ban.inc" target="_new">tyranny of the majority</a> marches on.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>In 2002, a statewide poll conducted by Harstad Strategic Research for anti-smoking groups found widespread support for smoking bans. <br />n<br />nAmong 602 registered voters, 66 percent favored and 29 percent opposed such bans, according to the poll.</blockquote><br />n<br />nSo, if a majority of people…
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Gestapo
<blockquote>Some non-Indian landowners and sportsmen say that during the last year or so, Crow Tribal Fish and Game officers have become so aggressive that enforcement has reached harassment levels.</blockquote><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/02/02/build/state/20-hunting-dispute.inc" target="_new">Harassment levels</a>? Threatening to shoot you in your tracks for trying to assist them when their lost is little beyond harassment This happened…
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Agreement
It seems to be <font color=red>a red letter day</font> here. I actually <a href="http://www.helenair.com/articles/2005/02/01/montana/a01020105_06.txt" target="_new">agree with Governor BS</a> for a change. Mine our coal recourses, generate power and ship the power out of the state. I have been advocating this for years. The only question I have is why are we discriminating by only wanting…
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Common Sense
Common sense prevails at <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/01/27/build/state/75-rape-sentence.inc" target="_new">Monatana's highest court</a>, who would have ever thought such a thing could happen.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>A law requiring serial rapists to spend the rest of their lives in prison is not unconstitutional because it is based on a legitimate government goal of discouraging such repeated offenses and protecting society, the…
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Benifits
I must be losing all sense of right and wrong. <br />n<br />n<blockquote>The widow of a deputy sheriff who fell from a motel balcony after a night of drinking at a law enforcement conference is entitled to receive worker compensation death benefits</blockquote><br />n<br />nSo, a <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/12/23/build/state/60-work-comp-fall.inc" target="_new">law enforcment officer</a>, while partying after the confrences…
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Responsibility
Now I understand that Indian legislators have thier own <a title="Indian legislators set goals for '05 session " href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/11/17/build/state/55-leg-goals.inc" target="_blank">agenda</a> for thier constituents. That's the whole idea of drawing district lines to ensure a minority group canadate can win an election. Those of us who have the misfourtune of being included in these districts are…
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Libertarians
Do you remember the <a href="http://www.freestateproject.org/" target="_blank">Free State Project</a> where a bunch of Libertarians were going to move to a state and change the whole political system to their point of view? You might remember Montana was in the running but finally lost out to <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34874" target="_blank">New Hampshire</a> in the voting. Well I run…
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Blogs
Has anybody else noticed the new Gazette Page listing <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/elements/blogs.php" target="_blank">all Gazette blogs and showing all Montana Bloggers</a>? As I tell my son, pretty spiffy.<br />n<br />n<b>Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an…