Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Category: US Politics

  • Visit

    There are <a href="http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/05/20/news/state/18-obama_s.txt">lots</a> of <a href="http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/05/20/news/state/21-obama_s.txt">stories</a> about Obama's visit to Crow Agency yesterday in the Gazette so I thought I would add my memories of the event here.<br />n<br />nI had been putting off doing some business in town until after I got the calves branded. I still have things to do but i…

  • Where?

    Where is the <a href="http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/05/20/news/state/23-obama_s.txt">$1000 a year</a> supposed to come from? Larger Deficits? I like to hear real solutions, not have shit shoveled at me.

  • Not Happening

    The big news in Montana over the weekend was the visit of <a href="http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/04/06/news/state/23-election_g.txt">Barack Obama</a> and <a href="http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/04/07/news/state/22-election_g.txt">Hillary Clinton</a> to the state. There were numerous newspaper stories, TV stories and blog reports about the events they were in all over the place this weekend. I couldn't get any news without running into them. The people…

  • I’m Confused

    I've been hearing about an economic stimulus package, what a name for a plan to give our money back to us, for a little while now. Now we are seeing an actual plan from <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/ECONOMY_STIMULUS?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">bothe the House and Senate</a>.<br />n<br />nI'm a little confused by this "economic stimulus plan" and how it is going…

  • Scary

    <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8U74PLG0&show_article=1" title="">Obama Pledges Support for Animal Rights</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote> HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) – Democrat Barack Obama says he won't just be a president for the American people, but the animals too. <br />n "What about animal rights?" a woman shouted out during the candidate's town hall meeting outside Las Vegas Wednesday after he discussed…

  • Big Brother

    <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/us/11control.html?_r=3&sq=thermostat&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&scp=1&adxnnlx=1200186015-opf/V41vutOKS0CJ0rTBdA" title="Big Brother At It's Finest">California Seeks Thermostat Control</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The conceit in the 1960s show “The Outer Limits” was that outside forces had taken control of your television set.<br />n<br />nNext year in California, state regulators are likely to have the emergency power to control individual thermostats, sending temperatures up or down through…

  • Endangered?

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/01/15/news/state/55-endangered.txt" title="Bullshit">Lawmakers: Wolves still endangered</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>In a recent letter to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, the congressmen wrote that states "hostile to wolf conservation" could reduce today's 1,500 wolves to "as few as 300" if the predators lose protected status.</blockquote><br />n<br />nI would really like to see where Rep. Nick Rahall, Rep. George Miller,…

  • Ethanol Dilemma

    Everybody out there knows I am not a big fan of ethanol. Ethanol and bio fuels are in my opinion damaging our food security by turning our food into fuel. We have choices in our life and by filling up our SUV with food, we are driving the price of our food up which damages…

  • Blame

    Well, it looks like the Farm Bill got stalled out.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/11/17/news/state/37-filibuster.txt">GOP filibuster stymies Farm Bill</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A wide-ranging rewrite of the Farm Bill fell victim Friday to a Republican filibuster in the Senate, threatening enactment of new and expanded subsidies promised to farmers by lawmakers seeking re-election next year.<br />n<br />nThough politically popular,…

  • Farm Bill Critics

    I have mentioned the Farm Bill a couple of times and even mentioned that it is designed to help the rural areas of the US. Whether it actually does this or not I don't know, but that is the purpose. In all fairness I should post a critics point of view.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119500379205092116.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">The No…