Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Final Day
<center><a href="http://weblogawards.org/2005/12/best_of_the_top_6751_8750_blog.php"><img alt="The 2005 Weblog Awards" src="http://nowherethoughts.net/wa_finalist150.jpg" /></a></center><br />n<br />nWell, the last day of voting has arrived. I thank everyone for thier support but there is no way we can overcome the leader in this category. He must have quite a few more readers than me and has pulled over 200 votes ahead of the…
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Blizzard, Kind Of
It was like a blizzard around here yesterday. Not quite, so I guess I will call it a near blizzard. There were time while feeding that I couldn't see where I was or where I was going. It was miserable as the pictures I hope show.<br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Yearlings/blow12142005?full=1'><img width='250' height='188' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Yearlings/blow12142005.thumb.jpg' alt=''…
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Useless Debate
I was hoping for a little more debate on the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/12/15/build/state/20-fund.inc">school funding issue</a>. Looks to me like its more just a throw money at the issue and forget it. If that's all they were going to do why didn't they do it during the regular session instead of waiting till now? I'll never understand…
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Wrong Priorities
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/13/AR2005121301764_pf.html">A Religious Protest Largely From the Left. Conservative Christians Say Fighting Cuts in Poverty Programs Is Not a Priority</a><br />n<br />nI think somebodies priorities are dead wrong here. Wake up and feed the children people. Get your heads screwed on straight. Trading the poor for Judges who support your position. [sarcasm]How Christian[/sarcasm].<br />n<br />n<b>The…
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Looking Good
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/horses/ibeausun12042005?full=1'><img width='250' height='188' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/horses/ibeausun12042005.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />nI had to bring Beau home and feed him special because he just couldn't maintain his body condition out on the range with the other horses. That was about a month ago now. He's really starting to look good. I probable will take him home…
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I Wonder
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/12/14/build/business/30-cattle.inc">Errors mar cattle pricing system, agency reports</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>GAO investigators found that of the 844 audits the <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> conducted of meatpackers during a three-year period, 64 percent had inaccuracies or missing information. And while the <acronym title="United States Department of…
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Thoughts for Conrad Burns
Sen. Conrad Burns must have not learned an important lesson of childhood. If you don't want to get caught with the cookies, don't put your hand in the cookie jar.<br />n<br />n<b>The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. Horace</b>
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Get Real
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/12/12/build/state/25-mt-japan-beef.inc">Cattle industry pleased with Japan's decision on U.S. beef</a><br />n<br />nI agree, it's nice. Now comes the bigger task of winning back consumer confidence in Japan for US beef. This is going to need to happen since only about 20% of Japanese consumers trust US beef. Give it time and we will be okay…
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Morning
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/rock12102005?full=1'><img width='250' height='167' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/rock12102005.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />nBoth pictures taken by My Darling Wife. (click on thumbnails for larger view)<br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/sunrise/sunrise12102005?full=1'><img width='250' height='167' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/sunrise/sunrise12102005.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<b>My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint.…
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Reminder Yet Again
<center><a href="http://weblogawards.org/2005/12/best_of_the_top_6751_8750_blog.php"><img alt="The 2005 Weblog Awards" src="http://nowherethoughts.net/wa_finalist150.jpg" /></a></center><br />n<br />nYou can go vote for me at <a href="http://weblogawards.org/2005/12/best_of_the_top_6751_8750_blog.php">The Weblog Awards: Best of the Top 6751 – 8750 Blogs Archive</a>. You can vote every day until the 15th of December. I will also leave the above graphic on my sidebar with a link to the poll…