Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Nasa Image
From <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_434.html">Nasa image of the day</a>.<br />n<br />n<center><img width='516' height='387' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/cropcircles.jpg' alt='' /></center><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Resembling a work of modern art, variegated green crop circles cover what was once shortgrass prairie in southwestern Kansas. The most common crops in this region—Finney County—are corn, wheat, and sorghum. Each of these crops was at a…
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Working Critters
Got the last of my critters worked over the weekend. Did the bulls on Friday and worked the replacement heifer calves Saturday.<br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/calves10232005'><img width='250' height='216' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/calves10232005.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />nThe vet has to come out and Bangs vaccinate this bunch so we got a later than normal start working them. He…
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Lucky Update
Yea, it's official, we names the dog Lucky. It's amazing how many people you tell the story of the Lucky to and you get to the point of naming him Lucky and the response is, "why did you name him Lucky?" Are people this clueless? I always kindly respond that the dog was "lucky" to…
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Alpha
Wow, for the first time in recorded history they are moving into <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2005/10/22/build/nation/40-alpha.inc">the greek alphabet for storm names</a>. Very interesting.<br />n<br />n<b>To me, that's a very special milestone. Mark McGwire</b>
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Love Letter
I will seek and find you . . .<br />nI shall take you to bed and have my way with you<br />nI will make you ache, shake & sweat until you moan & groan.<br />nI will make you beg for mercy, beg for me to stop.<br />nI will exhaust you to the point that you…
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Don’t Try These
Amazingly Simple Home Remedies<br />n<br />n1. If you are choking on an ice cube, don't panic. Simply pour a cup of<br />nboiling water down your throat and presto. The blockage will be almost<br />ninstantly removed.<br />n<br />n2. Clumsy? Avoid cutting yourself while slicing vegetables by<br />ngetting someone else to hold them while you chop away.<br…
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You Gotta Love Rep. Ron Paul
<a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul280.html">Who Opposes Simpler, Lower Taxes?</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The reform panel should have two simple goals: make taxes lower, and make taxes simpler. Anything else quite frankly is insulting to the American public. But during several hours of discussion last week, the various panelists talked about everything but those two objectives. Instead they embraced the practice…
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I Almost Forgot
I see the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/10/21/build/state/45-ed-group.inc">Montana Education Association-Montana Federation of Teachers are meeting</a> this weekend which only means one thing, time to clean the chicken coop.<br />n<br />nTeachers meeting=Shovel shit<br />n<br />nAdds up to me.<br />n<br />n<b>Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth…
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Market Finally Opening
<a href="http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200510/200510200022.html">Korea Gives All Clear for U.S. Beef </a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The government has decided to lift a two-year-old ban on U.S. beef imports, a Foreign and Trade Ministry source said Thursday. Imports were suspended when <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> or mad cow disease broke out in the U.S. <br />n<br />n“It has been concluded that…
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Taxpayers Bail Out Failed Government Lending
<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8DA0EP8B.htm?campaign_id=apn_home_down&chan=db">$1 out of $5 in 9/11 loans in default</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Roughly $1 of every $5 in loans the Small Business Administration directly made to companies hurt by the Sept. 11 attacks has fallen into default, leaving the government with an uphill effort to recover millions of dollars in taxpayer money.</blockquote><br />n<br />nPrivate lenders require…