Category: lies
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ASAP
Well, we <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/11/14/news/state/23-tester.txt">found out</a> what "as soon as possible" means to the Democrats in the Senate now haven't we. I <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2134-Excitement.html">told everybody</a> not to get to excited about a seat on the Appropriations Committee for Jon Tester. Politicians are to slippery to take at their word. This whole thing is really just funnier…
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Mealy Mouthed Platitudes
<a href="http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/business/news/20060520p2g00m0bu008000c.html">Japan making ready to resume U.S. beef imports in July</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The Japanese government on Friday began to make preparations for the resumption of U.S. beef imports in July, paying particular attention to how it will deepen communications with consumers still worried about mad cow disease.<br />n<br />nAt a three-day working-level meeting between Japan…
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Man of This Land My A**
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/05/07/news/state/30-rural.txt">'Man of this land' wants to fight for rural America</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>As Conrad Burns hurtles along U.S. 87 in a Chevy Silverado truck at 80 mph, he makes a grand gesture toward the miles of unbroken prairie south of here.<br />n<br />n"I'm a man of this land," says the three-term U.S. senator from Montana.…
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So Full Of S**t He Stinks
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/04/29/news/local/40-japan.txt">Consul: Japan beef deal near</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Japanese and U.S. officials are in the final stages of negotiating an end to a ban on American beef imports to Japan, the Japanese consul general in Seattle said Friday.<br />n<br />n"I can't say when, but it's only a matter of time," Kazuo Tanaka said during a visit…
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Water, Eastern Montana’s Life Blood
There is an interesting story in the Gazette about the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/03/21/news/state/20-cbm.txt">problems of re-injecting Coal bed Methane water</a>. If you are interested in the whole CBM development it is very interesting, otherwise I'm sure its as dry as dirt. One really interesting thing jumps out at me from the article though.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>The Tongue River…
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Blowing Smoke
So what is my favorite organization to hate, the United States Department of Agriculture (<acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym>), up to now. First they say they are <a href="http://www.farmandranchguide.com/articles/2006/01/30/ag_news/updates/update01.txt">abandoning the private database concept of National Animal Identification System (<acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym>)</a> when talking…
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Reporting, I Guess
I see over at New West they are "reporting", I use that term loosely here, that Idaho has <a href="http://www.newwest.net/index.php/main/article/5160/">lost its brucellosis free status</a>. This peaked my interest as stories that involve cattle do so I looked into it. The "reporter", Bill Schneider, uses as source material for this report a website called <a href="http://www.forwolves.org/ralph/bisonrpt.html">Ralph…
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Water Rights Fee
I got my bill in the mail for <a href="http://www.montanaforum.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=4378">water rights</a>. I find the statement that a persons bill could be up to $400 dollars a laugh.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Individuals can expect to pay $20 per water right every two years for the next decade. People with multiple water rights will pay up to $400.</blockquote><br />n<br…