Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Aggrement
Never particularly thought I would agree with Britons about anything but <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20041011/ap_on_fe_st/britain_fears">now I do</a>. Spiders scare the tar out of me. It still makes my kids giggle when I call them to git rid of a spider for me. I personally see nothing funny about it.<br />n<br />n<b>There is nothing to fear but fear…
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Country
People want to live "in the country" but don't want to put up with the <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20041014/ap_on_bi_ge/farm_scene" target="_blank">things that go along with country life</a>. Thier answer, make the farmers change the way they do things. Yea, makes a lot of sense. Drive them out of buisness for your convienience. America doesn't need to grow food,…
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Easy
People are always looking for somebody easy to blame for thier problems. I guess this way they don't have to use that lump that sits on thier shoulder for anything other than holding thier hair up but I am really getting tired of <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/10/14/build/local/40-nile.inc" target="_blank">this specious claim</a>. I admit that some of the recent…
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Porkers
Both of Montana's Senators have been named <a href="http://http://www.cagw.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8281">Porkers of the Month</a> by the group Citizens Against Government Waste.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Once again, the Senate is causing problems with its unquenchable appetite for higher spending. This time, however, Sens. Baucus and Burns add a dangerous twist to the Senateâ
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Scared
I don't think <a href="http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/9891859.htm">they are as much worried</a> about the quality of instruction as they are afraid of the competition this affords parents in their choice of educating their children. Whether in public school or home school a student can have poor instruction and school officials need to clean up their own house before…
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Wind Power
What's the problem with developing wind power? <a href="http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2004/10/11/news/wyoming/db1785d888b5016887256f290021000e.txt" target="_blank">This article</a> explains it really well. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/07/08/build/state/40-schweitzer.inc" target="_blank">Some people</a> get the mistaken impression that it is a function of people not buying the power and think that requiring people to buy the power will somehow magically create the power with no infrastructure to support it.…
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Examples
There was two stories today in the Gazette that are related in a very bizzare way and made me giggle.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/10/12/build/local/30-nile.inc">Cowboy cuts costs by using work dogs </a><br />n<br />nNow I will admit a good stock dog makes working cattle a whole lot easier and it would be nice to have one. The…
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Excuse Me?
<a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20041011/ap_on_re_us/brf_mother_shot" target="_blank">Girl Accused of Fatally Shooting Her Mom</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>"She is your average 12-year-old, hormones and everything," said Derrick, 22. "There's nothing that bad to make her do that to my mama. She had been breaking out of the house and not going to school." </blockquote><br />n<br />nExcuse me, if she is breaking out…
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Misinterpretation
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/10/11/build/state/75-grizzlies.inc" target="_blank">Montana grizzlies arrive at California zoo </a><br />n<br />nI read the headline and figured the animals at the University of Montana were where they belonged. Alas, no such luck.<br />n<br />n<b>It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Arthur Conan Doyle</b>
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Happenings
Let's see, what's been happening around the ranch. Since the calves were weaned we have been busy with quite a few odds and ends. To start with some of the hay finally has started to arrive. There must be around 100 tons in, of the 800 I bought, and more coming in almost daily. In…