Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Justice Revisted
You might remember <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/index.php?p=678" target="_new">me talking about</a> the judge who wouldn't let a women have a divorce from her abusive husband. It didn't make a lot of sense at the time but I went on the story. Now I have come across a <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=397821" target="_new">little more information</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>But Bastine, who retired on…
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Children
An interesting <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57876-2005Jan7.html" target="_new">take on the problem</a> of Social Security running out of money. It isn't that there are more older people and fewer people paying in or ever increasing benefits. No the problem is real simple, not enough kids being born. The solution to Social Security going bankrupt? Subsidize parents to have more…
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Raise
<blockquote> "Those are the people who have the most trouble buying $2 gas."</blockquote><br />n<br />nHell, I'm having trouble paying for $2 gas, where's <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/01/08/build/state/62-pay-raises.inc" target="_new">my raise</a>? I guess Governor BS is just keeping his <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/12/29/build/state/25-budget.inc" terget="_new">"New Day in Montana"</a> theme going.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Good-paying jobs, quality public education and stronger families are my priorities…
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Compliance
So it turns out that a cow born with Canada's latest <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> victim was sent to <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000082&sid=a9DS8ujaytSY&refer=canada" target="_new">slaughter in the US</a> a few years ago. Is this a surprise? Not to me. Did it have <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym>? Hard to tell but I doubt it. Hey, I have to think…
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City life
Cowboy Joe was telling his fellow cowboys back on the ranch about his <br />n first visit to a big-city church. "When I got there, they had me park my <br />n old truck in the corral," Joe began. <br />n "You mean the parking lot," interrupted Charlie, a more worldly fellow. <br />n "I…
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Gridlock
Sounds like Republicans aren't <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/01/05/build/state/34-gop-votes.inc" target="_new">worried about the State of Montana</a>, just their agenda. Just because an idea comes from a Democrat doesn't make it all bad and the Legislators need to do what's right for the state, not just get in partisan disputes.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Rep. Mark Noennig, R-Billings, said that while he understands…
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Ughhh!
Throat so sore I can't speak, some people say this is a good thing, so cold am about to freeze to death, ache all over. Places to go, cattle to feed, things to do. It's going to be a miserable day.
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Reactions
Just a sampling of reactions from the decision to import Canadian cattle after the new case of <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> was discovered there.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Bill Bullard, chief executive officer of R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America, said <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> is "dangerously premature"…
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Rules
I see they are changing the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2005/01/03/build/state/53-wolves.inc" target="_new">rules for wolves</a> in Montana and Idaho. I really don't see that the change is going to do much for ranchers but it is a start as long as some asshole doesn't go blazing away and shooting everything in site and wreck the whole thing. Remember, a…
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Cold
20 below yesterday morning and 10 below this morning. Winter temperatures for you but it sure makes life tough. The hired man had so many clothes on he could barley move. I'm not real sure what more he's going to do if it gets real cold like it can. Everything seems to want to break…