Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Checking Fence
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/checkfence04222006?full=1'><img width='480' height='640' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/checkfence04222006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Had the Hired man helping me check fences today before he left. I let him fix the fence while I checked it. If you look real hard you can see the fence run down through the country. Taken 4/22/2006.</center><br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/fencecut04222006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0'…
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Call It What It Is
<a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12428975/">Unauthorized adoption placement?</a> Selling a human being is <u>slavery</u> pure and simple. Throw the son of a bitch in jail for the rest of his life. I can't belive people like this breed. Trying to sell your own kid should merit the death penalty by slow, painful strangulation. If you don't want the child…
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Misconceptions
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/04/23/news/wyoming/60-guns.txt">Cattleman loses federal gun case</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A man from Nebraska's Panhandle can't have guns as tools of his cattle trade or to reflect his cowboy heritage or for any other reason, a federal jury has ruled.<br />n<br />nOn Friday the jury found that Rudolph "Butch" Stanko of Gordon broke a federal law that bars…
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Dry Place
<center><b>FROM THE PHOTO ARCHIVES </b><br />nNew not previously published</center><br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/calves03312006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/calves03312006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Calves enjoying a dry place to lay after a snow storm. Taken 3/31/2006.</center>
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Elitism
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/04/22/news/state/60-burns.txt">Burns fundraiser to be held in Napa Valley</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Donors to Montana Sen. Conrad Burns will toast the Republican on a Napa Valley, Calif., wine tour this summer.<br />n<br />nThe July 15 fundraiser, scheduled a month after the Republican primary, is charging political action committees $3,000 and individuals $2,000 to attend.</blockquote><br />n<br />nWe wouldn't…
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Criminally Stupid
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060420/od_nm/breasts_dc">Phony doctor gives free breast exams</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A 76-year-old man claiming to be a doctor went door-to-door in a Florida neighborhood offering free breast exams, and was charged with sexually assaulting two women who accepted the offer, police said on Thursday.<br />n<br />nOne woman became suspicious after the man asked her to remove all…
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Cows and Snow
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/hfrs04192006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/hfrs04192006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The two-year old heifers in the snow we recieved from the recent storm. I don't think they appreciated the snow but they are getting along all right now. It's all melted now and the grass is growing more. Taken 4/19/2006.</center>
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Drought
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/04/21/news/state/65-drought.txt">Report: Drought waning in state</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Montana appears to be emerging from its seven-year drought, with average to above-average mountain snowpack and widespread spring rain leading experts to issue the best water supply outlook since 1997.</blockquote><br />n<br />nI would have to agree with this one. We had decent moisture last year and it is…
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Japan And Beef
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/21/AR2006042100314.html">Japan consumers voice US beef worries at meeting</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Japanese consumers voiced concerns about a U.S. inspection system for mad cow disease at a meeting in Tokyo on Friday sponsored by the government to discuss a resumption of U.S. beef imports.<br />n<br />nIt was one of 10 meetings on the issue across the nation…
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Feedgrounds
I see that <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/04/20/news/wyoming/80-elk.txt">the Governor of Wyoming</a> doesn't care that elk have Brucellosis in Wyoming and are spreading it throughout the area, Montana and Idaho. The Ranchers in Wyoming really need to consider how Gov. Dave Freudenthal is <u>not</u> supporting their industry come election time.<br />n<br />nWhat I don't understand is he wants to…