Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Rascal Fair
The latest issue of Rascal Fair is up over at <a href="http://www.sfolife.net/?p=1099" target="_new">A Secular Franciscan Life</a>. Go check it out for the Mystery of Montana blogs for last week.<br />n<br />n<b>Give me a mystery-just a plain and simple one-a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little, barefoot mystery: give me a mystery-just one!…
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Grasshoppers
<div class="serendipity_imageComment_left" style="width: 110px"><div class="serendipity_imageComment_img"><a href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/Grasshopper.gif' target='_new'><img width='110' height='102' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/Grasshopper.serendipityThumb.gif' alt='' /></a></div><div class="serendipity_imageComment_txt">Grasshopper</div></div><div class="serendipity_imageComment_right" style="width: 110px"><div class="serendipity_imageComment_img"><a href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/cricket.jpg' target='_new'><img width='110' height='82' border='0' hspace='5' align='right' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/cricket.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></div><div class="serendipity_imageComment_txt">Mormon Cricket</div></div>Luckily we don't have <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=703498&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312" target="_new">this</a> problem yet. I have seen some baby mormon crickets but no large amount of grasshoppers. Riding yesterday…
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Combating Autism Act of 2005
I received an E-mail this morning from some time commenter JoeG informing me about S.843 Combating Autism Act of 2005.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>This email came from my daughter, XXXXXX and we are concerned about autism because my Grandson, 8 year old XXXXXXX has it. The number for Sen. Burns is 1-800-344-1513 and the number for Sen.…
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Competition
I caught <a href="http://www.newwest.net/index.php/main/article/1012/" target="_new">this article</a> over at New West and had to speak my piece.<br />n<br />nIt seems that Sen. Rick Santorum has <a href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/news/epaper/2005/04/21/m1a_wx_0421.html" target="_new">introduced a bill</a> that would not allow the National Weather Service (NWS) from offering their forecasts to the public. Now I rely every day on the weather and I…
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A View on The Legislature
I didn't see a City Lights column in the Gazette this morning but I did enjoy the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/04/24/build/state/52-horse-sense.inc" target="_new">Horse Sense</a> column by Charles S. Johnson. I have really enjoyed reading these through the Legislative session because it usually gave a little different viewpoint on what was happening at the Capital.<br />n<br />nToday's column is…
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Mystery
One of the enduring mysteries about living in Montana is why the national media doesn't recognize we exist. Parts of southern Montana just received a fairly large storm which included much snow but I didn't see a thing about it in the national media until <b>the exact same system</b> started dumping snow on the <a…
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Business Blogging
I started blogging about a year and a half ago and have watched the world of blogs grow and continue. They say about 40,000 more blogs are started every day and the whole thing is exploding. With that kind of growth there is no way to keep track of the whole thing and see what…
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Push The Issue
Why is it that government agencies demand things from ranchers that are about impossible under other Federal laws? We finally got it figured out while barely maintaining legality but the Banker is not particularly happy with the situation. We finally had to tell him do it our way or our business goes elsewhere. He came…
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What Is That!?
The rain/snow finally quit late last night. We must have got 3 inches of moisture out of it. It was wonderful. My oldest missed yesterday and today from school because it was so muddy we couldn't get her to the bus. It is amazing how fast it is settling around here though. We will be…
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Different Standards Make No Sense
Over at <a href="http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/" target="_new">Hit and Run</a> I found <a href="http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/2005/04/cocks_vs_women.shtml" target="_new">this report</a> out of South Carolina that just stunned me.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Yesterday, the South Carolina House Judiciary Committee voted to elevate cockfighting from a misdemeanor to a felony. The committee then killed an unrelated, poorly-timed bill that would have done the same for domestic…