Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Time To Feed
Yesterday I got the replacement heifers in so that the young person who got the <a href="http://www.meritheifer.com/prog.html">Merit Heifer that we donated</a> could pick her up. While getting the heifers in I noticed quite a few were coughing and one was acting a little sick. The sick one was not coughing but had a snotty nose,…
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Skyline
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Yearlings/skyline11172006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Yearlings/skyline11172006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>A few yearlings on the skyline. The perspective of the picture amazed me when I was done. I wasn't that far away from them but the picture looks like I am miles away. Taken 11/17/2006.</center>
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Champion Cloned
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061116/ap_on_re_us/cloned_horse" >Champion barrel racing horse cloned</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Barrel racer Charmayne James knew scientists had figured out how to clone mice, sheep and cats. But if any creature deserved to be cloned, she thought it was her gelding Scamper, the retired 10-time world champion.<br />n<br />nThe result, Clayton, has exceeded James' expectations. The foal even…
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Colors
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/colors11152006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/colors11152006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>A frosty, colorful morning. Taken 11/16/2006.</center>
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Organic Or Not
Hat tip to <a href="http://www.sfolife.net/?p=2121">Randy</a> for this one.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://retail.seekingalpha.com/article/20688" >Wal-Mart's Organic Food Initiative: A Case of Hippie Capitalism Gone Awry?</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Wal-Mart (WMT) has run afoul for potentially misrepresenting non-organic food as organic. Much skepticism about Wal-Mart’s true commitment to organic and whole foods greeted Wal-Mart’s original announcement that they are embracing the…
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Protesting
Some South Koreans appear to be protesting US Beef.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=83816" >South Korean Minor Party Launches Anti-U.S. Beef Campaign</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A left-leaning South Korean opposition party launched a campaign Tuesday to buy up and destroy U.S. beef, expected to go on sale soon now that a three-year import ban has been lifted.<br />n<br />nThe…
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Words
I came across a story yesterday that caught my eye. It mentioned that the "Word of the Year" for the The New Oxford American Dictionary is Carbon Neutral. Not very exciting if you ask me and didn't excite me very much. I went to the <a href="http://blog.oup.com/oupblog/2006/11/what_do_al_gore.html">story about it</a> and again was not excited but…
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Birds
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/wildlife/birds10152006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/wildlife/birds10152006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Birds on a wire. I don't know the make and model of birds but I liked the picture. Taken 10/15/2006.</center>
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Drought Aid
<a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=E1F13B84-EB33-E04B-0E9341A02EF80B79" >Drought aid still dependent on President Bush</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Drought aid may get through Congress by the first of the year, but only if President Bush goes along. That’s what South Dakota Democratic Senator Tim Johnson told the Women Involved in Farm Economics (WIFE) Annual Convention in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Saturday.<br />n<br />nAccording…
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Be A Man
Sen. Burns needs to suck it up and act like a man, not a whining little baby.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/11/15/news/state/30-burns.txt" >Burns says media dishonest to him</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>He stopped only briefly to chastise Montana reporters, saying he was "taken advantage of."<br />n"Look you guys, I hate to tell you this, but I don't have anything…