Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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The Last Best Place
Today many in the blog community in Montana are staging a protest over <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?display=rednews/2005/07/18/build/business/40-phrase-trademark.inc">Dave Lipson's</a> attempt to trademark the Montana phrase, The Last Best Place. The protest takes the form of changing our blogs name to The Last Best Place for the day.<br />n<br />nI am sure the protest will mean nothing to Dave…
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The Weather Service
The past 3 days the Weather Service has called for high temperatures to be 94 to 99 and not once has it broke 85 here. Yesterday it barely made it to 80. Today again it is supposed to be 99. Do I believe them or do I assume it will be 10 degrees cooler like…
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A Little To Far
Since I have been so busy, I haven't had the time nor energy to comment on <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/07/31/build/business/40-gransbery.inc">this</a> issue so I will let Jim Gransbery's words speak for me. He states my opinion more eloquently than I could.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Like so many politicos nowadays, Schweitzer is pretending to do something that he is not. The…
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True Strength
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/afghan_women_put_lives_on_line_to_run_for_office">Afghan Women Put Lives on Line To Run for Office</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Charkhi, 36, is a journalist based in the capital, Kabul, who is campaigning for a seat in Afghanistan's new parliament. But in this mud-walled village in Logar, the home province she hopes to represent, Charkhi's candidacy is such a challenge to tradition that…
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Hunting
A father and son went hunting together for the first time.<br />nThe father said, Stay here and be very QUIET. Ill be across<br />nthe field.<br />n<br />nAn hour later, the father heard a blood curdling scream and<br />nran back to his son.<br />n<br />n"What's wrong?", the father asked. " I told you to be quiet!"<br…
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Tractor Update
I finally heard what caused the tractor fire and the status of fixing it. The exhaust from the engine is routed down under the cab before it is exhausted from the tractor. Behind the engine, under the cab, the exhaust came apart and the hot engine gases melted the insulation on the electrical wires until…
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Calves Sold
I sold the calves. I was offered a better price earlier but it's time to sell and the market isn't going to get any better.<br />n<br />n$1.22 per pound for the steers weighing 575 lbs., 8 cent slide both ways, 2% pencil shrink across the ranch scales , bawling off the cows with no pre-conditioning.…
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Guess That Movie
My boy was watching a movie yesterday when I heard my all time favorite line I've ever heard in a movie. It goes something like this.<br />n<br />nAs you hear a chainsaw starting up the main character says, "Oh, …it's okay, …my dog just found the chainsaw."<br />n<br />nThe line kills me every time I…
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Lots Of Water
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/07/28/build/world/60-india-floods_v.inc">Thirty seven inches of rain</a> in one storm. Damn, that would wash this country away. I can't imagine. My prayers go out to them.<br />n<br />n<b>The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness. Friedrich Nietzsche</b><br />n<br />
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Whose the Criminal?
It's real obvious the man is a criminal <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050726/ap_on_re_us/husband_pedophilia">here</a> even if he is the little girl's husband but shouldn't the parents of the girl be considered as criminals for aiding the man's sexual abuse of their daughter?<br />n<br />n<blockquote>A 22-year-old man faces criminal charges in Nebraska for having sex with an underage 13-year-old girl,…