Category: government
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Different Viewpoint
I'm afraid I am going to have to take a little different viewpoint than most ranchers on <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/04/11/news/state/56-legiwolves.txt">this subject</a>. Why should we spend money on getting the wolf delisted when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has all ready <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/01/30/news/state/25-wolf.txt">announced that it has planned on doing it</a>? Admittedly it is still in the…
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Minority
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/11/26/news/state/62-post.txt" >Montana post offices tops in nation again</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>For the 13th time, more than any other state or postal geographic district in the country, Montana post offices again tied for highest score in the nation for local overnight on-time first-class mail delivery service last quarter.<br />n<br />nMontana's 97 percent score was two points…
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It Doesn’t Make Sense
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/10/news/state/30-bison.txt">Governor's bison ideas irk ranchers"</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>If Montana continues its current approach to bison that leave Yellowstone National Park, eventually Brucellosis will be transmitted to cattle, according to <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a>.<br />n<br />n"I don't want to be the governor of Montana when we lose our Brucellosis-free status," Schweitzer said.</blockquote><br />n<br />nSo, Schweitzer doesn't…
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I’ve Been Violated
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060522/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/veterans_disk">Personal Data of 26.5M Veterans Stolen</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Personal data, including Social Security numbers of 26.5 million U.S. veterans, was stolen from a Veterans Affairs employee this month after he took the information home without authorization, the department said Monday.</blockquote><br />n<br />nWhat the hell did this asshole need with this information at home!!I though this…
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An Idea That is Not Well Thought Out.
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/04/14/news/wyoming/25-bison.txt">Schweitzer explains bison ideas to ranchers</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote><a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> is proposing an expanded bison hunt and payments to ranchers who remove their cattle from the Yellowstone National Park area, saying he won't "roll over for the federal government" and let Montana be put at risk of losing its prized brucellosis-free status.</blockquote><br />n<br…
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Spoiled Child
Wyoming is the state who has told the Feds to keep out of it's business when it comes to wolves, they will manage them on their own and they don't care how any other state or the Feds want them to do it. They have even taken the Feds to court over this.<br />n<br />nNow…
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Japan Unsure
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/06/AR2006030600142.html">Japan says unclear if U.S. beef actions would work</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Japan's vice farm minister said on Monday it is unclear if actions proposed by Washington would help prevent shipments of banned U.S. beef to Japan.</blockquote><br />n<br />nMore stonewalling from Japan on the beef issue. Not surprising but it would be nice to get this…
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Contaminating the Water
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/02/09/news/wyoming/70-cbm-water.txt">Illegal CBM water discharge alleged</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>An oil and gas company in the Powder River Basin is being investigated by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality after apparently attempting to hide illegal water discharge from its coalbed methane fields.<br />n<br />nA rancher recently discovered what appeared to be a hidden water pipeline that directed…
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Another Thought on the USDA
One of the whole reasons behind the push for the National Animal Identification System (<acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym>) by the <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> is animal diseases such as bird flu. Yesterday <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/1508-<acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for…
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Illogical
The wolf is considered an endangered species in the United States.<br />n<br />nendangered species: a species threatened with extinction<br />n<br />nYet in Alaska there are so many of them they <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1547174&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312">kill them to boost moose and caribou populations</a> since the wolves kill so many of them. <br />n<br />nIf there are so many wolves…