Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Rain Everywhere
Rain, rain and more rain. It sure is hard to get any haying done when all it wants to do is rain. For the past 5 days we have gotten .5 inches to 1 inch every day on our fields and pastures.<br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/wethay06282005.JPG'><img width='220' height='165' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/wethay06282005.serendipityThumb.JPG' alt='' /></a></center><br />nThe hay lays…
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Federal Protection
I have mentioned before my belief that the big meat packers are in control of the United States Department of Agriculture (<acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym>) and run it for their benefit. It looks like the <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/230263_cowed.asp#pollArticle">Seattle Post-Intelligencer would agree</a> with that assessment.<br />n<br…
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Constitution Unconstitutional
<a href="http://rabidsanity.blogspot.com/2005/06/supreme-ct-declares-us-constitution.html">Supreme Ct. Declares US Constitution Unconstitutional</a><br />n<br />nI found this frightening announcement over at Steve's palace <a href="http://rabidsanity.blogspot.com/">Rabid Sanity</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>n a surprise announcement, Justice Souter announced a decision of the Supreme Court for a case that they had not been asked to decide. Justice Souter, announces that after a review of International Law,…
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Sunrise in Montana
Sunrise a few days ago, she was a beaut. <a class="block_level" href="http://www.sarpysam.com/archives/1054-Sunrise-in-Montana.html#extended">Continue reading "Sunrise in Montana"</a>
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Consumer Demand
How will the latest <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> finding affect consumer demand? <a href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N26470216.htm">Here</a> is an opinion I won't argue with.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Meat-loving Americans will stick with beef despite a second U.S. case of mad cow disease, analysts and trade groups said on Sunday, even if cattle markets have the jitters.</blockquote><br />n<br />nI have to…
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Bloggers Legal Guide
<a href="http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/">EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers</a><br />n<br />nSome interesting information for bloggers and would be bloggers.<br />n<br />n<b>It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the…
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Wake Up
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/06/26/build/opinion/35-guest-opinion-pro.inc">Lynn Cornwell really needs to wake up and smell the cow shit</a>. Does <s>she</s> he really think that these poor Central American countries can afford to import our high quality beef we produce in the US. Maybe, but I kind of ******* doubt it.<br />n<br />nIt's the old strategy of divide and conquer. The…
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Justice
I would never condone vigilantism but who could really <a href="http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/06/26/wrape26.xml">blame this woman</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>A Spanish mother has taken revenge on the man who raped her 13-year-old daughter at knifepoint by dousing him in petrol and setting him alight. He died of his injuries in hospital on Friday.<br />n<br />n…<br />n<br />n"The place was packed…
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Luck
What's the old saying, if it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all. My hay got rained on Thursday night, rained Friday night big on my hay, and it's raining again on my hay. At this rate it will never dry. On our way up to move the yearlings we rode by…
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Lots of Grass
I was up driving around checking the yearlings out in preparation for moving them today. I couldn't believe the grass up there. <a class="block_level" href="http://www.sarpysam.com/archives/1049-Lots-of-Grass.html#extended">Continue reading "Lots of Grass"</a>