Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Bottom of The Pile
Montana still comes it at the bottom of the heap when it comes to the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/08/31/build/state/50-wages.inc">average wage per job</a> according to the Department of Labor and Industry. Not a surprise, things don't change overnight but something really sticks out to me. <br />n<br />nWhy are we worrying so much about about worker training. Don't…
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Let The Games Begin
I thought we were going to have a tussle with the High School but maybe we will get it solved short of bloodshed. In all of the papers my daughter brought home from school for us to fill out was a form for free/reduced school lunch. My Darling Wife packs my daughter every day because…
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Cleaning Up
I finished cleaning the far pasture called the Williams place out today so I can start moving cows closer to home to ship the claves. I had made a pass through about a week ago getting some of them but then got busy with other projects and hadn't finished the job.<br />n<br />n<a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/cows08312005.jpg'><img width='640'…
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Katrina
What can I say about Hurricane Katrina. Devastating is the best I can do. There are numerous stories in the Gazette <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/08/31/build/nation/30-katrina_v.inc">here</a>, <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/08/31/build/nation/50-new-orleans_v.inc">here</a>, <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/08/31/build/nation/52-replace-neworleans.inc">here</a>, <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/08/31/build/nation/55-building.inc">here<a>, and <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/08/31/build/nation/65-surge_v.inc">here. Also in the paper is a <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?display=/newgallery/20050829katrina/index1.php">photo gallery</a> of some pictures coming out of the area showing the devestation.<br />n<br />nThis tragedy…
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Agreement
<blockquote>Sabine Bieber broke into sobs late Tuesday after hearing the verdicts against her in one of the most closely watched murder cases in recent Yellowstone County history.<br />n <br />nWhile the verdicts were read at 8:47 p.m., the Laurel day care operator accused of using a common cold and allergy medicine to sedate children sat…
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Federal Law
So, does Federal law trump State law? Sometimes it can.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>U.S. Constitution: Tenth Amendment <br />n<br />nThe powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.</blockquote><br />n<br />nThe question becomes if it does in <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/08/30/build/business/56-horse-rule.inc">this…
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The World at Night
<center><div class="serendipity_imageComment_center" style="width: 516px"><div class="serendipity_imageComment_img"><a href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/nightfull.jpg'><img width='516' height='387' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/usnight.jpg' alt='' /></a></div><div class="serendipity_imageComment_txt">Click on picture to get full world image.</div></div></center><br />n<br />nI really like these pictures. I saw them a while ago but this is the first time I have found them on the Internet. It really show mankinds spread across the globe. There…
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Get Together
A small group of Montana bloggers got together on Saturday night and I managed to attend. <a href="http://duck.hekhet.net">Kim's</a> passing through town on the way back to school was the stated reason for the get together but it really doesn't matter why, a good time was had by all.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.sfolife.net/">Randy</a> and <a href="http://www.mtpolitics.net/">Craig</a> put…
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Beware of Moderating Comments
<blockquote>I'm certainly not a lawyer, but as a widely published writer, I'm well aware that legal precedent holds that if you moderate, edit, or prune comments on your online forum — or blog — in any way at all then you stop being able to defend yourself as a common carrier and become a publisher…
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Katrina Warning
URGENT – WEATHER MESSAGE<br />nNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA<br />n413 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005<br />n<br />nEXTREMELY DANGEROUS HURRICANE KATRINA CONTINUES TO APPROACH THE<br />n MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTA<br />n<br />nDEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED<br />n<br />nMOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS…PERHAPS LONGER. AT<br />nLEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE…