Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Fight
I am glad <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/parent_teacher_fight" target="_blank">this teacher</a> isn't around here.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>After Amica (parent) wrestled the bag away, police say Rucker (teacher) picked up a chair and hit her in the back, knocking Amica to the floor. Rucker then began punching Amica in the face and body. <br />n<br />nDuring the fight, the girl was…
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Ghosts
I had to laugh at Bragg's article this morning in the Gazette that asks <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/10/25/build/local/50-bragg.inc">where the ghosts</a> are. I didn't grow up in Billings, but my experience was the same in small town Montana. There was no "haunted house" or ghost stories. Maybe it has something to do with being Montanan or something, I…
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The Swamp
I have a new song. It is sung to the Beatles tune "Yellow Submarine."<br />n<br />n<blockquote>We all live in the Okie Fenokie Swamp,<br />nOkie Fenokie Swamp,<br />nOkie Fenokie Swamp,<br />nWe all live in the Okie Fenokie Swamp,<br />nWhere life is so muddy.</blockquote><br />n<br />nBy the way, what cartoon character lived in the Okie Fenokie Swamp?<br…
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Baseball
I do not follow baseball or know anything about it but I followed <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/10/24/build/local/35-city-lights.inc" target="_blank">Ed's advice</a> this morning and found a story about baseball. <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20041021/od_nm/sport_baseball_hotdog_dc" target="_blank">This story</a> about the hot dog was interesting. I didn't know the Montreal Expos were relocating to Washington D.C. That leads to the question in my mind doesn't…
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Beef Markets
<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/J/JAPAN_US_MAD_COW?SITE=MTGRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" target="_blank">Japan Easing American Beef Exports Ban</a><br />n<br />nSome potentially very good news for the cattle industry. Don't get me wrong, there are still some sticking points.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>During the talks, U.S. and Japanese officials reviewed a Japanese proposal to exempt younger cows from testing. They also discussed methods to confirm the age of…
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Vaccines
<a href="http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996546" target="_blank">Vaccines that don't need to be refrigerated</a>. What a wonderful concept. I ran across <a href="http://lizditz.typepad.com/i_speak_of_dreams/2004/10/vaccines_in_the.html#more" target="_blank">this story</a> at Liz's place, <a href="http://lizditz.typepad.com/i_speak_of_dreams/" target="_blank">I Speak of Dreams</a>, and it really piqued my interest. The advantages of it to vaccinate people across the world are amazing. Personally I file it under agriculture. The advantages…
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Shysters
Has anyone else seen the shyster lawyers on TV trying to drum up buisness with the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?display=rednews/2004/10/01/build/nation/35-vioxx.inc" target="_blank">Vioxx problem</a>? Now there was a problem and restitution might be in order to some people but do these lawyers need to be advertising for this buisness on national TV. I will not belive that they are…
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Rain
It's one of those things I shake my head about. It's raining <b>again</b> this morning. All spring and summer we can't get a resonable amount of rain to save our souls and now since the middle of September we can't get it to quit. Lukily it stayed dry enough through shipping to get the calves…
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Prejudice
This kind of <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/10/21/build/state/60-tepee-cleaned.inc" target="_blank">vandalism/prejudice</a> is not necessary. It just shows the world how ignorant some people are. I have in my life been prejudiced against certain people, which I picked up from family, but I have tried real hard to overcome it and feel I have. I have also lived in places where…
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Advertising
<blockquote>Koch said she was watching KULR-8, the local NBC affiliate, on a weeknight in late September with two of her boys, age 4 and 8, when a Victoria's Secret ad featuring a woman in black underwear and bra came on. </blockquote><br />n<br />nI always assumed there was nothing to watch on NBC. This sounds pretty…