Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Very Odd
If the Japanese say <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/10/27/build/business/40-japan-beef.inc">US beef is not riskier</a>, why did they not open up their borders to US trade? This just shows it's a matter of politics and not food safety.<br />n<br />n<b>In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it. Donald Rumsfeld</b>
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Bad Idea
What good is <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/10/27/build/state/20-gastax.inc">repealing the gas tax</a> going to do? Put the state into debt? I know gas prices aren't as low as they were earlier but today when I was in Billings at 9:00 am the gas price was around $2.52. By 2:00 pm when I left town the price I paid was…
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Lying in State
Let's hope and pray that the House votes with the Senate and allows the plan for <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1257416&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312">Rosa Park to lay in state in the capitol</a> to proceed.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955 led to a 381-day boycott of the city's bus…
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Strategic Plan
Was <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/10/27/build/nation/20-mierswithdraws_v.inc">Harriet Miers withdrawal</a> a blow to the President or was it in his Strategic Plan all along to get the candidate he really wanted? I think its all a big plan set up when he nominated her.<br />n<br />n<b>Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised. Denis Waitley</b>
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Equality
I came across an interesting quote <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/blog/citylights/index.php?p=1291#comment-29269">here</a> this morning that I had to say something about. The quote:<br />n<br />n<blockquote>White men are the only group of people who don’t know what it’s like to live every day feeling like they have a target on their forehead. They’re at the top of the food chain,…
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Speaking His Mind
I see <b>your</b>, I will let you other Montana's have him, [sarcasm]esteemed junior Senator Conrad Burns[\sarcasm] managed to put his <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/10/27/build/state/63-burns-comments.inc">foot in his mouth yet again</a>. Not a hard task for the "man." If nothing else he should get points for speaking his mind, politically correct or not. Doesn't change my opinion of the…
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COOL
Who really cares if <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/10/27/build/nation/85-origin-labeling.inc">consumers know where there meat comes from</a>. Many in the beef industry do but are being shut out by the big meat packers. <br />n<br />nIt doesn't need to be so hard and expensive, just force all cattle coming into the country to be identified at great expense. Domestic cattle…
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Sunset
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/homeward10252005'><img width='250' height='188' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/homeward10252005.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/sunrise/lastlight10252005'><img width='250' height='188' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/sunrise/lastlight10252005.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<b>Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things. Edward Steichen </b>
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Hired Man
Well the search for a hired man continues. We've received 10-20 applications and the number that jumped up as any good were very slim. There was one guy who was really anxious to come work here, so anxious that I was a little put off and would never offer him the job. Usually somebody who…
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Not a Surprise
Isn't this the way things go?<br />n<br />nOctober 24, 2005<br />nLast modified October 24, 2005 – 12:03 am<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/10/24/build/health/45-food-safety.inc">Japan food safety panel expected to recommend lifting ban on U.S. beef</a><br />n<br />nOctober 24, 2005<br />nLast modified October 24, 2005 – 9:59 am<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/10/24/build/world/37-japan-madcow.inc">Japan delays decision on ending U.S. beef ban</a><br />n<br />nIn ten…