Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Taxes
I guess Montana's don't need jobs or the goods provided by the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/02/16/build/state/68-living-wage.inc" target="_new">"big box stores."</a> Tax them out of existence is the answer it appears. This will help us by keeping us poor, tired and hungry. We can all just go back to living in caves and eating only what we can catch…
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Motor Oil
<blockquote>Wisconsin meat processor Emmpak Foods Inc. voluntarily recalled 123,000 pounds of ground beef sent to retailers in 10 states because it may be contaminated with hydraulic oil, the U.S. Food Safety and Inspection Service said on Tuesday.<br />n<br />nFSIS said the problem was discovered after it received a consumer complaint. Emmpak is based in Milwaukee.…
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Kicking
They ought to kick <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/02/15/build/state/75-wife-killing.inc" target="_new">this guy</a> somewhere for damn sure. No excuse for this.<br />n<br />n<b>The best way to avoid punishment is to fear it. Chinese proverb</b>
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Calving
<a href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/calfnow.jpg' target="_new"><img width='110' height='72' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/calfnow.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' /></a>Last week the hired man asked when the heifers were really going to start calving. I told him Monday they were really going to takes off. Surprise, surprise, I was right. We've had calf after calf born on their own with minimal problems. Just the…
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Staying the Same
It seems like no matter where you go in the world some of the problems remain the same. I discovered these two stories from Australia.<br />n<br />nFirst there is a <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/stories/s1303109.htm" target="_new">story about a drought</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>A lack of rain has forced one of Australia's biggest pastoral leaseholders to dramatically slash its cattle numbers.<br…
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Message
Just for everyones benefit I just posted the following as a comment to my <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/index.php?url=archives/759-Chocolate.html" targtet="_new">Chocalate</a> post. I wanted to share it whith everyone that is not following the comments on the post.<br />n<br />nWhile I found the whole article about chocolate interesting I thought after the whole Flame, from certain people, yesterday about…
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Chocolate
I had quite a few people take me to the woodshed yesterday for my remarks about <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/757-Fake-Holidays.html" target="_new">Valentines day</a>. The prevailing view was that I was a cad and should have bought my Darling Wife some flowers or chocolate candy. <br />n<br />n<blockquote>Before you pop that Valentine chocolate in your mouth, consider whether it…
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Relief
As you know I was extremely about <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/714-Homeschool-Alert.html" target="_new">SB 291</a> and its consequences to Home Schooling. Well the committe finally heard the bill and the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/02/15/build/state/20-home-school-bill.inc" target="_new">news</a> is in.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Home-school parents and children sang a thankful prayer in the Capitol rotunda on Monday after lawmakers killed a measure that would have imposed…
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Fake Holidays
There are certain days of the year that really disturb me because they are made up holidays with little or no use in real life but somehow were supposed to act like they are important. Yes, you guessed it, Valentines day is one of these made up holidays that I despise.<br />n<br />nI swear the…
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Supplies
The recent tsunami brought in a large amount of aid for the countries impacted. But is all the <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/tsunami_useless_aid" target="_new">"aid" useful</a>?<br />n<br />n<blockquote>At the main warehouse in Galle, mountains of cardboard boxes and suitcases ready to burst take up a quarter of the cavernous building. Some are labeled "Aid for Tsunami Victims," but their…