Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Watermelons
Digging through a truckload of watermelons, what would you expect to find? I bet you would never think to find a "bale" of <a title="Marijuana Bale Found in Food Bank Shipment " href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/marijuana_bale" target="_blank">marijuana</a>. Talk about suprises. Wonder if the food bank would consider that a charitable donation.<br />n<br />n<b>Charity creates a multitude of sins.…
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Franks
<a title="Get 'em while they're hot: Ballpark franks go organic" href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/usatoday/getemwhiletheyrehotballparkfranksgoorganic" target="_blank">Organic hot dogs</a>. Hot dogs are one of those things you really don't want to know how are made. I mean any piece of the critter that can't be used for a decent product is thrown into a big grinder and used. Saying it's…
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Grouse
Not that anything is final yet but Interior Department biologists recommending against listing the Sage Grouse as endangered is a small sigh of relief. I always worry when people are trying to get a animal listed that might affect my ranch. <br />n<br />nI will neither confirm nor deny the presence of any proposed or…
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Security
<blockquote>"For the life of me, I cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply because it is so easy to do," Thompson said as announced his departure.</blockquote><br />n<br />nMaybe <a title="Thompson leaves with terrorism warning" href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/12/04/build/nation/30-thompson_v.inc" target="_blank">Tommy Thonpson</a> feels he is warning the American public of a problem. It looks to me…
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Waiting
We are still waiting for the last of our hay to come in. What's really irratating is the guy told me that he would be here Thursday with a load and he never showed up. We put everything we are doing on hold, my Darling Wife makes our monthly shopping trip to town by herself…
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I am trying to understand
I am trying to understand why people are in such a hurry all the time. I know that time is short and that you must make the most of it but there are times that you think that people could just wait a couple of minutes and try to understand. <br />n<br />nWhat am I…
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Evasion
I'm missing something as usual. We have a person that steals money from the company they work for but no charges are ever filed for theft or anything else but finally the <a title="Embezzler pleads guilty of tax evasion, awaiting sentence" href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/12/02/build/local/50-embez-evasion.inc" target="_blank">Feds prosecute her</a> on Al Capone style charges. Why were no local charges…
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Why?
Why does <a title="Chicago mayor's son enlists in Army" href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/12/01/build/nation/55-daley.inc" target="_blank">Patrick Daley joining the Army</a> make national news when all other people joining the Army doesn't? I could see it making the news if we lived in Chicago but since I don't, what's the big deal? <br />n<br />n<b>A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.…
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Blue Screen of Death
Computer upgrade causes <a title="Major I.T. Crash Hits UK Government Department" href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nf/20041129/tc_nf/28688" target="_blank">40,000 computers</a> to crash. My hired man would say that this just shows how evil computers are. I disagree, they are not evil, they just do what there told and crashes sometimes occur especially when using Microsoft products. The whole thought of 40.000…
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Suprise
I sometimes wonder if my cattle can read my mind. The cows were still out in the hills scrounging for feed and later in the week I was going to let them come down towards home. You will note the "were" in the statement. They decided to break the fence down and come home without…