Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Paying the Price
Sometimes you pay a price for doing the right thing. I have said all along that my decision to oppose opening the Canadian border to live cattle was based on my belief I was protecting the consumer, not protectionism. I know a lot of producers felt that by keeping Canadian cattle out we would resume…
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Pictures
<div class="serendipity_imageComment_left" style="width: 110px"><div class="serendipity_imageComment_img"><a href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/calves03152005.jpg' target='_new'><img width='110' height='64' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/calves03152005.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></div><div class="serendipity_imageComment_txt">A dry place to lay</div></div><div class="serendipity_imageComment_right" style="width: 110px"><div class="serendipity_imageComment_img"><a href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/feed03152005.jpg' target='_new'><img width='110' height='44' border='0' hspace='5' align='right' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/feed03152005.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></div><div class="serendipity_imageComment_txt">Looking down at the cows. Feeding them close to the brush for shelter for the new calves.</div></div>I took some pictures yesterday…
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Information
I am not really sure this is information I needed or wanted but maybe somebody else does.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050315/D88RH7IO1.html" target="_new"> 'Wedgie' Added to Webster's Dictionary</a><br />n<br />nBeen a long time since I thought of a wedgie. Luckily I was never blessed with one of these events.<br />n<br />n<b>Information is the oxygen of the modern…
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Rewarding Expereince?
<img width='180' height='135' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/ashleysmith.jpg' alt='' />I am sure you all know about Ashley Smith, the hero who calmed down the Atlanta fugitive, Brian Nichols, and then turned him in to the authorities. It is really quite a story how she stayed with him and calmed him down and got him to turn…
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Shaking Head
I really wonder about people sometimes. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/03/15/build/local/50-hairspray-kids.inc" target="_new">Hair spray in a childs milk</a>? I know it's just an accusation at this time but the whole thought just makes me sick.<br />n<br />n<b>Oh, he's a sick man, frustrated. Sick in his mind, sick in his soul, if he has one. He hates everybody that has…
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Help
I demand <acronym title="<a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a>">The Second Coming</acronym> do something about <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/03/14/build/nation/71-cost-of-java.inc" target="_new">this</a>. What's a rancher supposed to do if coffee prices rise this much? Coffee is like mothers milk to a rancher and something needs done. The <acronym title="<a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a>">The Second Coming</acronym> is helping old people and farmers, buisnessmen and…
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Names
Mark Henckel over at the Gazette has a <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=2&display=rednews/2005/03/13/build/sports/50-henckel.inc" target="_new">humorous(?) take</a> on the current drought across the area. It kind of reminds me of Rodney Dangerfield's routine about getting no respect.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>But don't look for much empathy or even recognition from folks elsewhere in the country. They don't know our drought exists.<br />n<br…
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Drinking Culture
<img width='190' height='276' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/whiskey.jpg' alt='' /><a href="http://www.mtpolitics.net/" target="_new">Craig</a> on occasion talks about the "drinking culture" here in Montana. I never completely agreed with his assessment of the situation or completely understood it until now. Thanks to <acronym title="<a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a>">The Second Coming</acronym>, or so his disciples think of him, I now…
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Popularity
With all the talk of blogs in the news and their influence on political events, how <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ep/20050312/en_bpiep/gallupprobesblogsfindsmostamericanshaveneverheardofthem" target="_new">popular</a> are they?<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Theres no question that blog popularity is spreading by leaps and bounds. But as of late February, when this poll was conducted, only 3% of Americans said they read blogs every day. Fewer…
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Words Have Meaning
<blockquote>We will ask you to show two types of acceptable identification, one bearing your photograph. The identification presented must be current, must contain sufficient information to confirm that the applicant is who he or she claims to be, and must show your street address.</blockquote><br />n<br />nThis is an excerpt from the letter my Darling Wife…