Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Trouble
It figures, talk about how good calving is going and what happens, trouble. I mentioned this morning that we rode and doctored some cows and everything was going great. This morning we get over their to feed and what do we find? A cow right by the feed ground with all four feet in the…
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All In The Family
I wonder if the term nepotism means anything nowadays? <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16318-2005Mar31.html" target="_new">It must not</a>.<br />n<br />n<b>All experience teaches that, whenever there is a great national establishment, employing large numbers of officials, the public must be reconciled to support many incompetent men; for such is the favoritism and nepotism always prevailing in the purlieus of these…
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Taxes
As if our property taxes weren't high enough all ready the legislature wants to <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/04/01/build/state/35-school-bill.inc" target="_new">raise them further</a>. Taxes are my second biggest expense for this place. This is exactly why I get so scared when the legislature is in session. They won't be happy until they tax us to death.<br />n<br />n<b>Our new…
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Happenings
I can't believe how good calving is going on the cows. I thought they were going to calve slow but there are calves all over the place and they must be about 75% done. I have never seen anything like it, they don't seem very heavy one day then all of a sudden in a…
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It Don’t Figure
Heard around the area.<br />n<br />n"The piece I need costs $5.00 in Hardin but I can get it for $2.50 at Wal-Mart in Billings so I have to run to Billings today to save some money."<br />n<br />nFact: Billings is 50 miles from Hardin, so it is a 100 mile round trip in a vehicle…
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Solution to the Social Security Problem
There has been a lot of talk over the past few months about the Social Security system. The <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/03/31/build/nation/65-bush-ss.inc" target="_new">President</a> is destroying/saving the system depending on who you talk to and people are trying to figure the whole situation out. The one thing that both sides of the debate agree on is that the…
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Coddling
Real good way to get a feel for how people think. Ban people from <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10969-2005Mar29.html" target="_new">your speeches</a> that don't agree with you. Must really need to pump up his self worth to do such things.<br />n<br />nI wonder if the President has ever heard of free speech?<br />n<br />n<b>Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks…
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Demand
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050329/od_nm/madcow_japan_petition_dc" target="_new">I see</a> not everyone in Japan is afraid of US beef.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Japanese fans of beef-and-rice bowl dishes have collected some 1.19 million signatures in a petition demanding that Japan lift a 15-month-old ban on U.S. beef, Kyodo news agency reported</blockquote><br />n<br />nWe keep getting a step closer to maybe opening up this…
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Bravo Zulu
I don't give <acronym title="<a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a>">The Second Coming</acronym> much credit but I give him a BZ for this.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/03/29/build/state/55-malpractice.inc" target="_new">Governor signs malpractice bills</a><br />n<br />nIt's a start.<br />n<br />n<b>I believe it was a good job,<br />nDespite this possible horror: that they might prefer the<br />nPreservation of their law in all its…
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Journey
<b>A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Chinese proverb. </b><br />n<br />nWe have a long ways to go but the journey has begun.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/03/29/build/state/25-income.inc" target="_new">State's income growth 9th best</a>