Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Palm Oil
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/business/worldbusiness/19palmoil.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2">A New, Global Oil Quandary: Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Rising prices for cooking oil are forcing residents of Asia’s largest slum, in Mumbai, India, to ration every drop. Bakeries in the United States are fretting over higher shortening costs. And here in Malaysia, brand-new factories built to convert vegetable oil into diesel…
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Fine
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/hay01142008?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/hay01142008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Somebody put up some damn fine looking hay last summer. Oh yea, that's right, it was me. The cows are really loving it. Taken 1/14/2008.</center>
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Rancher
I saw a term the other day that really made me scratch my head. Sustainable Cattle Rancher. Now I'll admit to only being a dumb cowboy but this doesn't make much sense. Maybe I need to look up the term sustainable.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>sustainable- of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a…
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Good and Bad
I had to laugh the other day. The Hired Hand was making some wise comment about how much we were feeding all the critters. I told him that it was so nice to have enough hay to feed everything all they want and not have to worry about running out. Hell, even feeding all they…
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Scary
<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8U74PLG0&show_article=1" title="">Obama Pledges Support for Animal Rights</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote> HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) – Democrat Barack Obama says he won't just be a president for the American people, but the animals too. <br />n "What about animal rights?" a woman shouted out during the candidate's town hall meeting outside Las Vegas Wednesday after he discussed…
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Silhouette
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/sun01142008?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/sun01142008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The sun coming up right behind a calf standing on the ridge line. I know she is hard to see, but she is there. Taken 1/14/2008. </center>
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Big Brother
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/us/11control.html?_r=3&sq=thermostat&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&scp=1&adxnnlx=1200186015-opf/V41vutOKS0CJ0rTBdA" title="Big Brother At It's Finest">California Seeks Thermostat Control</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The conceit in the 1960s show “The Outer Limits” was that outside forces had taken control of your television set.<br />n<br />nNext year in California, state regulators are likely to have the emergency power to control individual thermostats, sending temperatures up or down through…
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Snow Cover
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/snow01122008?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/snow01122008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center>.<br />n<br />n<center>The sun breaking through the clouds. We still have a little layer of snow on the ground. Not like the areas around us that have no snow at all. Up by Billings they even had a <a href="http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/01/12/news/local/18-wildfire.txt">range fire</a> it…
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Endangered?
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/01/15/news/state/55-endangered.txt" title="Bullshit">Lawmakers: Wolves still endangered</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>In a recent letter to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, the congressmen wrote that states "hostile to wolf conservation" could reduce today's 1,500 wolves to "as few as 300" if the predators lose protected status.</blockquote><br />n<br />nI would really like to see where Rep. Nick Rahall, Rep. George Miller,…
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Revenge?
<a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ht2aoOJ7yONj4nlt8MRElKhH3-AQD8U4O9R00" title="">Cops: Man Sodomized Stepson in Revenge</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A father sodomized his 18-year-old stepson to avenge the teenager's alleged rape of the man's 8-year-old daughter, police said.</blockquote><br />n<br />nI won't go so far to say I condone this, but if I was on the jury for the father, I don't think I could convict…