Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Interesting
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/17/AR2006081700650.html" title="Free Registration Required">Judge Rules Against Wiretaps</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A federal judge in Detroit ruled yesterday that the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program is unconstitutional, delivering the first decision that the Bush administration's effort to monitor communications without court oversight runs afoul of the Bill of Rights and federal law.<br />n<br />nU.S. District Judge…
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What?
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/08/18/news/state/35-rains.txt" title="Fantasy Story">Rains fail to bring end to drought conditions</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Recent rains aren't enough to snuff out the fire danger in the region.<br />n<br />nIt's definitely no time to be complacent, said Hoyt Richards, southern land office area manager with the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation.<br />n</blockquote><br />n<br />nExcuse me!!! What did…
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Chickens
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/chickens/chickens08142006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/chickens/chickens08142006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Nothing special here, just a picture of some of My Darling Wife's chickens. Taken 8/14/2006. </center>
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Deer
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/wildlife/climb08142006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/wildlife/climb08142006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Mule deer doe and two fawns climbing a steep hill to get away from me. Mule deer are a rare sight around here. Taken 8/14/2006.</center>
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Planet, Moon, Whatever
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/15/AR2006081500330.html" title="Free Registration Required">Pluto's New Place in Space Could Be as a 'Pluton'</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Hoping to end the agonizing over whether Pluto is really a planet, an international committee of astronomers has come up with a new definition that would save the tiny body's place in the sun's family.<br />n<br />nUnder the long-awaited proposal,…
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Here We Go Again
Well, no surprise, the Hired Hand quit yesterday morning. I assumed after his doctor appointment on Monday he would. From my discussions with him I figured he was going to opt for surgery over medicine to fix his heart condition. They are going to crack his chest open and either fix or replace his heart…
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Hawk
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/wildlife/landing08142006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/wildlife/landing08142006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>A hawk coming in for a landing at it's nest. There has been some nesting here for quite a few years. A quick search of <a href="http://fwp.mt.gov/fieldguide/displaySpecies.aspx?family=Accipitridae">Montana raptors</a> leaves me bewildered to its identity but I think it is a Red-tailed Hawk. You can't…
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Fire Patrol
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/08/15/news/local/37-storm.txt" title="Billings Gazette">Storm ignites fires around city</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A thunderstorm that blew through Billings on Monday night toppled trees and power lines and sparked a series of lightning-caused wildfires.<br />n<br />nOne fire, near Sacrifice Cliff, blackened 40 acres where a cluster of transmitter towers sits at a site off Coburn Road, said Mark Heppler…
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Looking Back
<center><b>FROM THE PHOTO ARCHIVES </b><br />nNew not previously published<br />n<br />nSeeing what the calves looked like when they were first born.</center><br />n<br />n<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/cutie04052006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/cutie04052006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>This calf really caught my eye as cute while he was a baby. Now days the calves are big enough I don't…
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Wolf Notes
I see there are some ranchers complaining that the state isn't fast enough <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/08/13/news/state/70-ranchers.txt" title="Billings Gazette Story">killing problem wolves</a>. for their tastes.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>State wildlife officials take too long to authorize the killing of problem wolves, ranchers and others said Friday at a meeting of the agency oversight committee of the Environmental Quality Council.<br…