Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Good or Bad
Does <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=2&display=rednews/2004/10/31/build/sports/50-montana-outdoors.inc" target="_blank">Mark Henckel</a> ever have it right.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Are wolves a good thing? Are wolves a bad thing? <br />n<br />nThat really doesn't matter anymore either. Wolves are here to stay. <br />n<br />nAnd the bottom line is that good thing or bad thing, wolves are a costly thing and the price to…
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Difference
One person kicks another person because he doesn't agree with their political views. It turns out the kickee is a college student and the <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/politics_student_kicked" target="_blank">kicker is a college teacher</a> visiting the college. The teacher issued an apology.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>"I acted entirely inappropriately by kicking you, giving vent to a thoughtless knee-jerk political reaction…
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Governor
While most people have been focusing their attention on the Presidential election this year, I have been paying attention to our Montana Governor race with more interest. It's not that the Presidential race isin't interesting, its just that everyone seems to be watching it so close that the more local elections are going by the…
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Ranchers
Karen has quite a good disscusion over at <a href="http://bigskyblog.com">Big Sky Blog</a> this morning on <a href="http://bigskyblog.com/index.php?p=120">farmers</a>. It is really a kind of ironic/funny discussion to me since yesterday I helped a neighbor ship and we got on a real similar disscusion. <br />n<br />nIt's amazing these rich people that come along and buy ranches…
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Recuse
I saw last nights Blood Moon and it was spectacular. I was going to say something about it but I recuse myself and let you read <a href="http://blogs.salon.com/0002614/2004/10/28.html#a519">this</a> which expresses it better than I can.<br />n<br />n<b>Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to…
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Opening
After the announcement that Japan would start accepting our great beef product, now <a href="http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=a7_MDmu4caYA&refer=asia" tarfet="_blank">Taiwan</a> has also announced that they will start accepting our wonderful product again. This just really strikes me, a cow-calf producer, as great. Of course some people complain. The <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~33~2493683,00.html" target="_blank"> meatpackers</a> are whining as usual about the increased…
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Meetings
Luckily I don't have <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/10/27/build/state/30-ranchers-wolf.inc" target="_blank">this problem</a> here <u>yet</u> but I really wonder what kind of good this meeting is doing? A chance to get together and bitch? A little earlier this year Stillwater county had another <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/index.php?p=291" target="_blank">meeting</a> about the drought that was basically just a bitch session too. I am not…
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Blood Moon
If it's not cloudy tommorow night <a href="http://www.scienceblog.com/community/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4429" target="_blank">this looks like it will be a treat</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>On Wednesday night, Oct. 27th, North Americans can see a total eclipse of the moon. According to folklore, October's full moon is called the ''Hunter's Moon'' or sometimes the ''Blood Moon.'' It gets its name from hunters who…
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Surgery
I find this sick/sad. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62540-2004Oct25.html" target="_blank">Teenage girls getting plastic surgery</a> including breast implants. What really bothers me about it is these weak kneed parents who "give" them such surgery for a graduation present.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Breast implants and liposuction are now bestowed by parents as graduation or birthday gifts. Some doctors say they have performed…
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The Duck
A duck goes into a bar and asks the bartender, "Got any grapes?" The bartender says, "No. This is a bar and we don't sell grapes." The duck leaves.<br />n<br />nThe next day, the duck goes back to the bar and asks, "Got any grapes?" The bartender says, "I told you yeaterday. This is a…