Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Energy Crisis
I'm tired. I don't know if it is everything catching up with me or what the deal is but I'm tired. I could talk about the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/04/news/state/25-senate.txt">Primary election coming up</a>, in which I all ready voted, but I'm too tired to. I could talk about the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/04/news/business/35-pitch.txt">disingenuous way</a> in which petition gatherers are…
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The Boyz Are Out
Well, it's that time of year that the Boyz of Summer get to go out and meet the ladies.<br />n<br />n<center><div class="serendipity_imageComment_center" style="width: 640px"><div class="serendipity_imageComment_img"><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Bulls/bulls06022006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Bulls/bulls06022006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></div><div class="serendipity_imageComment_txt">Trailing the bulls out to be with the ladies. They were getting awfully hot and tired by this point but once they…
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Priorities
So, there is nothing in our country, or the world, more important for the President to deal with than the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/02/AR2006060201519.html">Gay marriage issue</a>? Spiraling deficits, corruption, energy policy, Iraq, Iran, Inflation or many other things all take a back burner to this all important issue?<br />n<br />nSOMEBODY AROUND HERE NEEDS TO GET THEIR PRIORITIES…
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Filtered Light
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/filter05112006?full=1'><img width='480' height='640' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/filter05112006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Sunlight filtering through the trees. This shot really caught my eye for some reason. Not sure why but I like it. Taken 5/11/2006.</center>
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Voting
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/02/news/local/30-vote.txt">Absentee ballots pour into election office"</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>An old election quip encourages the electorate "to vote early and often." Nowadays the first half of the maxim is legal and popular as a record number of voters cast their ballots before election day.<br />n<br />n"It is a growing trend," said Duane Winslow, Yellowstone County election…
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New Feedlot Pictures
<div class="serendipity_imageComment_left" style="width: 250px"><div class="serendipity_imageComment_img"><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/feedlot/100_1621?full=1'><img width='250' height='188' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/feedlot/100_1621.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></div><div class="serendipity_imageComment_txt">Looking damn good if you ask me, but I might be a little prejudiced. May 2006.</div></div>The Guy that bought the calves last fall was up in the area this past week. He stopped by and visited with me and left behind…
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Not Good News
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/01/news/local/30-nazi-group.txt">Nazi group adds point person in Billings</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Efforts by a white supremacist group to ramp up activism in Montana, including in Billings, have become successful enough to grab the attention of the Montana Human Rights Network.<br />n<br />nThe National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi organization, has established contact points in three Montana cities —…
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Disgusting
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/01/news/state/55-rape-charges.txt">Ex-minister faces assault, rape counts</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A former minister accused in a civil lawsuit of molesting three young girls now faces criminal charges in the same case.<br />n<br />nTerrance R. Passmore, 48, is charged with two felony counts of sexual assault and two felony counts of rape. He made an initial appearance in Justice…
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Cruelty
<a href="http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,19313240%255E662,00.html"> Baby put in clothes dryer</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote> A 13-MONTH-OLD baby is in hospital being treated for horrific burns she suffered from being put in a clothes dryer.<br />n<br />n The girl was left with her mother's boyfriend at a Perth home while the woman went to a gym for about an hour last…
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Quick Thinking
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/05/31/news/state/70-purse.txt">Girl helps catch purse thief</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A 16-year-old girl whose purse was stolen from a local pool conned the thief into giving it back and set her up to be caught by police at the same time.</blockquote><br />n<br />nThis is an example of thinking quick on your feet. Negotiate with the people that stole…