Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Candy
I must be missing something <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/BackPage/reuters20040927_180.html" target=_blank">here</a>. You take a king size candy bar and split it into "two shareable portions" and this is supposed to help fight obesity. What would stop a person from eating both of the pieces therefore still making it a king size candy bar? You can have all the…
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Reporting
I have a few rss feeds for news that I get and yesterday here was a series of condensed headlines I got via one of those rss feeds.<br />n<br />n09/26/04 16:19:00 Jeanne Hammers Florida<br />n09/26/04 14:11:00 Jeanne Drenches Florida<br />n09/26/04 12:16:00 Jeanne Pummels Florida<br />n09/26/04 10:58:31 Jeanne Lashes Florida<br />n09/26/04 10:00:00 Jeanne Slams Florida<br />n09/26/04…
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Kids
Sometimes I wish I could figure out how to handle these kids. I have a young 4 year old horse the hired man was working with who continues to act like a little kid and get himself in trouble. The hired man had brought him home to ride when somehow he got to pawing something…
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Beautiful
It is unbelievably beautiful September here. Since the beginning of the month we must have had 4 inches of rain, more rain than we have had all year to this point, and the grass is green and growing. It is now greener than it was all year now and as I said before you can…
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Waste
Now <a href="http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=71342" target="_blank">here's a guy</a> that definitly is a waste of human flesh. Anybody that does such despicable things should have their right to breed removed permenetly. <br />n<br />n<b>All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil. Ovid</b>
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Subsidies
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/09/25/build/state/30-trade-pact.inc" target="_blank">This article</a> sure will open your eyes about agricultural subsidies in the state of Montana.<br />n<br />n<i>Fifty percent of the net income in 2003 in Montana was from government subsidies</i><br />n<br />nI am not here to argue the merit to government subsidies for farmers. I personally quit wheat farming a number of years…
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Speed
A speeding ticket for going 140 mph over the posted speed limit of 65 mph. 205mph? <a href="http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/4992111.html" target="_blank">This guy</a> must be an idiot. He was driving a motorcycle and at that speed one mistake and he would have been a grease spot on the highway. Some people have no sense of what is dangerous.…
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Sensitive
Maybe I'm wrong here but it just seems like people are to sensitive anymore. Wackos Against Schools and Education. By the name alone you should know that it is not real but <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40563" target="_blank">home schoolers took exception to it</a>. Now the school district has <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40582" target=_blank">apologized</a> for doing this. <br />n<br />nAm I…
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You Bet
Sen. Conrad Burns is at it again. He is out there working so hard for Montana agriculture.<br />n<br />n<i>Last week in the Senate Appropriations Committee, an effort to require mandatory labeling of fruits, vegetables, meat, meat products, and other food products by Jan. 1, 2005, failed by a vote of 14 to 14. Burns was…
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Thanks
I thank everyone for the birthday wishes. Between sick cattle, broken generator, poachers, 5 hour trip to Billings and back and everything else today it was a rough day. Your thoughts make the day a little better. The thing that really made my day better was My Darling Wife. Thanks Hon and I love you…