Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Generation Gap
Who is Tony Hawk? My oldest daughter is standing here castigating me because I don't know who Tony Hawk is. <br />n<br />n"Crawl out from under your rock" she says, "even mom knows who Tony Hawk is."<br />n<br />nShe still hasn't explained who he is. Oh well, I'm officially old now. <br />n<br />n<b>Old age,…
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Warning for Ed
I wonder if anybody has pointed out to Ed over at <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/blog/citylights/index.php" target="_new">City Lights</a> this news story.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/03/22/build/business/45-blogging.inc" target="_new">Blogging can cost you your job</a><br />n<br />nWouldn't want him getting in trouble with his boss. He had better keep a low profile.<br />n<br />n<b>This is a wise maxim, "to take warning from others…
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Spring has Sprung
I guess spring is really here. I have been seeing some geese and ducks around but the day before yesterday I heard the cranes flying around. I didn't see them, but I heard their distinctive whoop. Well guess what? Yesterday My Darling Wife got some pictures. The weather wasn't the best in the world but…
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Having Fun
The hired man was compliaining about the mud yesterday. My Darling Wife is also complaining about it. I think it's FUN!!! It has been so long since we have had enough moisture to make mud that seeing it is fun. With all the unsettled weather that is being forecasted we will probably get more too.…
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Ethanol Issues
The Billings Gazette today run quite a few articles about the ethanol industry that were quite interesting and deserve further comment. As any one who regularly reads this knows I oppose the law that would make ethanol in our fuel mandatory. <acronym title="<a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a>">The Second Coming</acronym> and his disciples think that it is…
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What Law?
So, instead of living within the law you look for ways <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/03/18/build/state/24-spendingcap.inc" target="_new">around the law</a>. That's the Montana legislature for you.<br />n<br />n<b>Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law. Oliver Goldsmith</b>
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Storm report
With the drought hanging around any little storm deserves a report. All the storm report is good news, right here at the house we got around 2-3 inches of snow and it tapered off as you go south to the highway. This made my Darling Wife happy since she will have less mud to deal…
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Doctors More Dangerous Than Guns!!
A reader sends the following alert: <br />n<br />nDoctors More Dangerous Than Guns!!… <br />n<br />n<br />nDoctors:<br />n(A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000.<br />n(B) Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year is 120,000.<br />n(C) Accidental deaths per physician are 0.171. <br />n(Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept. of Health Human Services. )<br…
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Details
I'm not real sure I want to know the details of this story.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050317/ap_on_fe_st/stolen_sheep" target="_new">Football Player Caught With Stolen Sheep</a><br />n<br />nSounds a little odd to me.<br />n<br />n<b>Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven. Henry David Thoreau</b>
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Amazing
Isn't it just amazing. <acronym title="<a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a>">The Second Coming</acronym> and the Montana Senate, action in House is still pending, both want to require us as consumers to buy power from <a href="http://data.opi.state.mt.us/bills/2005/billhtml/SB0415.htm" target="_new">renewable sources</a>. Amazingly enough, without any such law in place by the Government to control us further NorthWestern Energy is seeking…