Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Decency
Some people have no sense of decency. <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/mom_s_call_suspension" target="_new">Suspend a student</a> for talking to his mom in Iraq. Now I realize our public schools are in the business of making robots out of our kids so that they are taught to follow orders precisely from figures of authority but really, would a little common…
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National Animal Identification System (NAIS)
The <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> has finally <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/05/06/build/nation/30-livestock-id.inc" target="_new">come out</a> with the plan for getting the <acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym> going in the country. I have looked over both the <a href="http://animalid.aphis.usda.gov/nais/about/pdf/NAIS_Draft_Strategic_Plan_42505.pdf" target="_new">Strategic Plan</a> and the <a href="http://animalid.aphis.usda.gov/nais/about/pdf/NAIS_Draft_Program_Standards_42505.pdf" target="_new">Program Standards</a> (both are…
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College
<blockquote>The 25 students in jeans and T-shirts could have been in any career that requires hustle. The classes, covering topics such as effective marketing, stress reduction and legal issues, could have been part of any professional development seminar.</blockquote><br />n<br />nI've heard of college to learn of a lot of different things but this one was…
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Bad News
We just found out today that my son's speech therapist is moving so at the end of the school year. This leaves us in a pickle since we don't know if the other therapist will be able to take him on and even if she can, she isn't as knowledgeable about autism as the one…
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Accountability II
So now the question is can the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/05/05/build/state/60-gov-rights.inc" target="_new">Governor legally</a> remove the accountability mandates in the budget bill. I don't have the law in front of me and usually I don't understand such gibberish so I can't comment on that but accountability for how you spend the taxpayer's money seems real easy to understand.…
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Idiots!!!
<blockquote>It appears that the new $1-per-pack incease in the tax on cigarettes, approved by voters in November, is reducing the number of cigarettes sold in state. That means the state is receiving less tobacco tax revenue than it anticipated.</blockquote><br />n<br />n(disclaimer)The spelling mistake in the above is in the original from the Gazette. Please don't…
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Rascal Fair 5
<a href="http://davebudge.com/?p=353" target="_new">Rascal Fair 5</a> is up over at <a href="http://davebudge.com/"target="_new">Dave Budge's</a> place. Go visit it for a drive-by roundup of Montana blogging for the past week. Dave done a good job, someday I will have to host, maybe when I'm not so busy.<br />n<br />n<b>If you do a good job, the numbers say so.…
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Accountability
I see the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2005/05/03/build/state/41-gov-bduget.inc" target="_new">Governor again</a> doesn't want the state to be accountable to the taxpayers. <br />n<br />n[sarcastic]Explain to the taxpayers how their money is being spent? We can't have that now, can we.[/sarcastic]<br />n<br />n"This is about separation of powers" is what they are saying. What power, the power of the Governor…
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Monopoly
I would like to point out that while <a href="http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2005/05/02/news/wyoming/9d0482243d5b70bd87256ff30074c0e9.txt" target="_new">this</a> is interesting I don't know why it is necessary. If the Federal Government would just enforce the <a href="http://www.usda.gov/agency/gipsa/lawsandregs/law/psact.htm" target="_new">Packers and Stockyards Act</a> new legislation would not be needed to prevent the big meat packers from manipulating the market to their advantage. As long…
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Pictures
Some quick pictures from yesterday that I didn't get posted.<br />n<br />nThe new bulls from Sitz, 5 of which we took out to the yearlings.<br />n<br />n<img src="http://nowherethoughts.net/pics/bulls05022005.jpg"><br /> <a class="block_level" href="http://www.sarpysam.com/archives/916-Pictures.html#extended">Continue reading "Pictures"</a>