Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Primaries
About every Legislative session here in Montana we hear the call for an <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/02/19/build/state/43-earlyprimary.inc" target="_new">earlier Presidential Primary</a> to garner attention from Presidential candidates instead of being a fly-over state. I'm just curious , why would we want to do this? They don't listen to us anyway.<br />n<br />nTake for example our current Commander in…
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Insanity
Do you want to know what my definition of insane is? Letting the <a href="http://www.beef.org/" target="_new"><acronym title="National Cattlemen Beef Association"><acronym title="National Cattlemans Beef Association, shills for the big meat packers">NCBA</acronym></acronym></a> maintain control of the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/02/20/build/business/52-beef-database.inc" target="_new">database</a> for the proposed Herd Identification System in the US. Letting the <acronym title="National Cattlemans Beef Association, shills for…
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Abuse
The other day I talked about the drought in <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/764-Staying-the-Same.html" target="_new">Australia</a> and it's consequences to the cattle industry there. I run across another story about the drought Down Under that is just sickening.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3192547a12,00.html" target="_new">Australian outback cattle abandoned, 500 die of thirst</a><br />n<br />n3000 head of cattle were abandoned in heat of…
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Sharing
<a href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/calf02182005.jpg'><img width='110' height='92' border='0' hspace='5' align='right' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/calf02182005.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' /></a>My darling Wife took some pictures yesterday and I thought I would share. As you can see to the right i have the obligitory calf picture at this time of year. She really likes all the little babies and takes quite a few pictures of them.…
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Cat Blogging
There's this thing around called Friday Cat Blogging so I thought I would join in with some pictures of the cats on the place.<br />n<br />n<div class="serendipity_imageComment_left" style="width: 99px"><div class="serendipity_imageComment_img"><a href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/cpnew.jpg' target='_new'><img width='99' height='110' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/cpnew.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></div><div class="serendipity_imageComment_txt">One of My Darling Wife's housecats.</div></div><div class="serendipity_imageComment_right" style="width: 95px"><div class="serendipity_imageComment_img"><a href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/newcamera.jpg' target='_new'><img width='95' height='110' border='0'…
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Migration
<img width='83' height='110' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/ostrich.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' />I really had to laugh at this one. It reminded me of the proverbial ostrich that by hiding its head, can't see the danger coming. According to a panel studying the situation, wolves will never find a <a href="http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3554534,00.html" target="_new">home in Colorado</a>. Now I don't know what…
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Fate
Call it fate, destiny, kismet, or divine intervention, <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/smoking_driver" target="_new">this guy</a> got his just deserts. He goes to throw a lit cigarette out the window of his SUV, a Ford Expedition no less the monster of SUV's, when it comes back in the vehicle, lands in the backseat, and burns the vehicle to a…
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Protection (not)
Just <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/02/17/build/nation/82-ag-dept.inc" target="_new">another example</a> of your Government "protecting" you from possible danger, they don't. It takes the industry itself fo police the government in this matter through a federal lawsuit. Really a sad stament on the efficacy of your Government.<br />n<br />n<b>The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the…
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Optimistic
When a Japanese official <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/02/17/build/wyoming/75-beef-imports.inc" target="_new">states</a> that he expects Japan will end it's ban on US beef and that, more importantly, Japanese consumers are looking forward to it I have to be optimistic. I don't particularly believe him but I have to be optimistic.<br />n<br />nI have read quite a few stories in the…
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Conflict
Now I am no lawyer, thank the Lord, but it sure seems like the Montana Legislature is <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2005/02/16/build/state/24-discriminationbill.inc" target="_new">passing a law</a> that is not Constitutional.<br />n<br />nThe bill, SB 199, would ban the discrimination of people based on their sexual orientation when it comes to employment, public accommodations, housing, financial transactions, education, job referrals,…