Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Category: government

  • 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,…

  • The Saga Continues

    The Hardin jail saga just keeps going on. Is that any surprise with a $20 million dollar facility? Now the city if Hardin and Two Rivers Authority, the economic development authority, <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/12/12/news/state/18-hardinsues_x.txt">have sued the State</a> to overturn the Attorney General's opinion. Not once have we heard about any Legislative remedy that might fix this…

  • Knife

    The knife has finally fallen on the Hardin "detention facility." The <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/12/04/news/state/17-hardinjail_x.txt">Attorney General has decided</a> the law states that only the Department of Corrections has authority to take out of state prisoners. <br />n<br />n<blockquote>A multijurisdictional detention center may contract for the confinement of out-of-state and federal inmates only for the purposes authorized in…

  • Energy Development

    I see there is a <a href="http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071202/NEWS01/712020304">new proposal</a> out there to use some of the Otter Creek coal that the state of Montana is sitting on. Sounds interesting to say the least. <br />n<br />nWhy is it necessary to transport the coal almost 500 miles from Ashland to Butte to do this? Why can't they…

  • Rules

    I didn't comment on the <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym>'s OTM rule yesterday allowing older Canadian Cattle to be imported into the US. It's one of those situations that I have mixed feelings about.<br />n<br />nThe people opposed to the OTM rule say that they…

  • Livestock Title

    <a href="http://www.theprairiestar.com/articles/2007/10/29/headlines/midwest_producer/news/regional_news/regional43.txt">I see</a> that there is now a Livestock Title in the Senate version of the Farm bill which has moved out of Committee. Some of the things in it are:<br />n<br />n<blockquote> — Banning packer ownership of livestock more than 14 days before slaughter;<br />n<br />n — Creation of an Office of Special Counsel…

  • Do What You Are told

    We now see how Democrats in Montana truly think. They will force you to do "the right thing" whether you want to or not. The headline of the article sounds very benign but you read the article and some of the things in it scares the shit out of me. When did the Government get…

  • Empty

    If you build it, they will come. This seems to be the philosophy the , Hardin's economic development arm, used when it built a jail for $20 million dollars. They didn't have any contracts for prisoners, they just built the damn thing anyway knowing somehow that everything would work out okay. Now they are in…

  • Near Record Numbers

    I see that the Bison in Yellowstone National Park (YNP) are <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/10/16/news/state/18-rebound.txt">near record numbers</a> at almost 4700 head. Here we have all these Bison running around the park and nowhere do we hear talk about too many bison and over grazing the park. Nowhere do we hear that the Park needs to bring in…

  • Curiosity

    I would be really curious to know how much of my tax money the Governor has convinced the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/10/03/news/state/45-airforce.txt">Air Force to spend on this Coal to Fuel project</a> at Malmstrom. Why is it necessary for the Air Force to get into making fuel? I know planes take a lot of fuel but is it…