Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Election
I see that in our neighboring state of North Dakota, unless the GOP gets its act together, they won't be able to vote for Bush. It appears that <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/politics/9556943.htm">Bush hasn't qualified</a> for the ballot yet and the deadline is tomorrow. The democrats aren't doing any better though. Kerry isn't qualified either. The only candidate…
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Intelligence
Do you ever wonder about the <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040901/od_uk_nm/oukoe_odd_bill">intelligence</a> of some people? I know I do.<br />n<br />n<b>Having intelligence is not as important as knowing when to use it, just as having a hoe is not as important as knowing when to plant. Chinese proverb</b>
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Disasters
Spend, spend, spend that money dreaming up what <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/09/01/build/state/58-mt-disaster-damage.inc">potential natural disasters</a> could happen in the state of Montana. The Feds say you won't get as much disaster relief if you don't do this. I guess taxpayers are just made of money to throw around to study things. Good news though, at least we in…
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Clue
Brian Schweitzer yet again needs to get a clue, a little thought before he speaks might help too. To help <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/08/31/build/state/65-schweitzer.inc">Montana college graduates</a> stay in the state after college he proposes to make thier student loan payments tax deductible for five years. EXCUSE ME, don't they have to have a job to pay taxes.…
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Hope
Damn, do I hope <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/08/31/build/state/25-mt-winter.inc">thier wrong</a>. It's enough to depress a person.<br />n<br />n<b>Even a wise person can be wrong one time in a thousand. Chinese proverb</b>
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Moon
I noticed the beautiful full moon this morning and I grabbed my camera to take a picture of it to share. I was not overly happy with the way it turned out so I wasn't planning on posting it until Kalamity <a href="http://bigskyblog.com/index.php?p=40">challegened</a> Monatana bloggers to share thier pictures so I decided to share it.…
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Update
I was visiting with my well-seasoned mom last night and when she asked me about my back I realized I haven't mentioned my progress lately. The steroidal injection fixed me up real good, working away and happy about it. All the pain is gone but I am still have a little numbness in my foot…
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Horror
I used to not understand why the concern about stories like <a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,10550673%255E30417,00.html">this</a>. I mean its just the flu. That was all before I read a very scary book this summer. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0670894737/qid=1093395351/sr=ka-1/ref=pd_ka_1/103-2816069-5615013">The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague In History</a><br />n<br />nThis is the scariest book I have ever read in…
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Private Property
I really would like to know what gave the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks the right to invade private property and <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2004/08/28/build/state/28-brafence.inc">remove items</a> without the landowners permission. In my opinion the landowners should have shot them as trespassers and left them for the buzzards instead of settling with them. I am getting…
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Forgotten
I see a national news story this morning on how snow has closed some mountain roads in <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20040828/ap_on_re_us/colorado_snow">Colorado</a>. Two days ago I mentioned in the <a href="http://www.bigskyblog.com/">bigskyblog</a> that <a href="http://bigskyblog.com/index.php?p=28">snow had closed</a> the Beartooth highway but this was reported only in the local news items and failed to make the national news. I've mentioned…