Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Reminder
Get your entries in for Rascal Fair. I am hosting this edition and entries are due in by Monday evening. Send your entries to <a href="mailto:rascalfair@mtpolitics.net">rascalfair@mtpolitics.net</a>. The sooner the better for me since haying is starting I am pretty busy but will do the best I can.<br />n<br />n<b>He sows hurry and reaps indigestion. Robert…
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Attack
Boy, I will have to be careful or this will be me.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/snoring_attack">Woman Accused of Attacking Snoring Husband</a><br />n<br />nShe says I snore pretty bad. I don't know, it doesn't bother me so it can't be that bad, can it? At this point would it be fair to talk about her snoring. <img…
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I Never Knew
Yesterday when I was out checking water I saw a sight that I will never forget. We came over a hill and saw an antelope running along after her fawn. I didn't think much of it till I really started studying the fawn. What I took at a glance for a fawn turned out to…
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Whispered Comment
My oldest daughter (15) heard a statistic on TV that stated something to the affect of, "Children that eat one meal a day with their parents at the dinner table are less likely to do drugs or alcohol."<br />n<br />nThis brought a whispered comment from her I believe she didn't even mean to verbalize, "It…
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Speculation
I found <a href="http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=1050153&tw=wn_wire_story">this</a> speculation/story interesting on the latest case of <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>A rare and puzzling form of mad cow disease that some believe arises spontaneously may have afflicted the U.S. animal that tested positive for the ailment last week, a senior Agriculture Department scientist told Reuters.<br />n<br />nThe <acronym title="United…
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Who’s Paying
I've been very supportive of the new power plant being built in Hardin. Any kind of job machine in this area is great and should be encouraged. The only thing that has worried me about the whole thing is the possibility that they would want to truck the coal to the plant from the Sarpy…
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Haying Time
Well, we finally started haying.<br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/swathstart06172005.jpg'><img width='220' height='117' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/swathstart06172005.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />nI can't believe how green it is. Normally we would wait until the hay is a little more mature but the fields we are starting on have quite a bit of cheat grass in them and I want to get…
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Reminder
As <a href="http://www.mtpolitics.net/archives/1933">Craig</a> reminds us, get your entries in for Rascal Fair. I am hosting this edition and entries are due in by Monday evening. Send your entries to <a href="mailto:rascalfair@mtpolitics.net">rascalfair@mtpolitics.net</a>. The sooner the better for me since haying is starting I am pretty busy but will do the best I can.<br />n<br />n<b>A host…
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Moral Character
<blockquote>Two Democrats seeking to defeat Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., in next year's elections have been illegally soliciting campaign contributions through prerecorded telephone messages.<br />n<br />nJon Tester of Big Sandy and State Auditor John Morrison have used message systems to call people at home and ask them to contribute to their campaigns. Both Democrats are vying…
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Wrong Thinking
I have a question for Rick Sampsen about a comment he made in the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/06/17/build/state/25-farm.inc">newest story</a> in the Gazette's series Unsettling Times.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>"Billings has sucked Eastern Montana dry," Sampsen said, referring to the young people gone to the city for a different life.</blockquote><br />n<br />nWhat in tarnation is so wrong with our young…