Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Civility?
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/06/10/build/state/27-clean-campaign.inc">Schweitzer, Brown call for clean campaign pledge</a><br />n<br />nYea, and pigs can fly too. The chances that there would be a clean campaign in Montana is immpossible. Why make such stupid pledges when you know you're going to break them.<br />n<br />n<b>The campaign kickoff was so dismal that it needed a plastic surgeon instead…
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Hired Hand
<a href="http://www.davidmsc.com/">David</a> asked the other day on my <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/000401.html">Boyz</a> post if that was the Hired Hand or me. It most definitely was the Hired Hand, I am quite a bit larger than he is. After I snapped the picture he asked me why I was taking so many pictures. I tried to explain blogging…
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Pollution
Montana is Thje Big Sky Country, or is it? <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2195331,00.html">this article</a> about pollution in the west does not mention Montana specifically but it sure reminded me of a picture I took at branding this last weekend. To give a little background on the picture it is taken on the fencline between me and the…
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Kids And Drugs
A few days ago I wrote a <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/000403.html">little</a> about how I thought kids in the US are overly medicated. It seems Like I am not the only one who feels this way.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2004/06/04/notes060404.DTL">Drug Up Your Teen Today! </a><br />n<!–more–><br />nSome of the more interesting excerpts:<br />n<br />n<i>Just look at them, the well-drugged…
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Grouse
I hate to say this. CBM industry isn't then only one that is afraid of <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/06/07/build/wyoming/35-cbm-industry.inc">this</a>. Any time the Feds do something that can affect my private property I am concerned. But, it hasn't happened yet so there still is a chance. <br />n<br />n<b>Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter…
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Curse
I was over at a neighbors branding yesterday, going back today for another, and last day, of branding, and afterwords while I was driving home and looking at the drought situation really made me think. Every time people in the area get together the conversation is about the drought and the saying I hear most…
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Trip
My oldest daughter is leaving tommorrow for a trip. This was arranged by a teacher at school, but is not a school trip. It cost a pretty decent chunk of money but I felt it was well worth it for the oppurtunity she would have to see and experience the sights she might not get…
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Rememberance
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2004/06/05/build/nation/10-reagandead.inc">Ronald Reagan, 40th president, of the United States, dies at age 93</a><br />n<br />nI won't say I was shocked by this announcement when I heard on my way home from branding, he was very sick, but it did cause me to remember the politician he was. There were a lot of people that didn't…
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Food Additives
I could have told these researchers <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/additives_children_dc">this</a> a while ago. We discovered it in context with my son. If he eats too much boxed, packaged food he just flat loses it. He gets extremely hyperactive and his mental processes literally disappear. With him being autistic his mental processes are running, I won't say less…
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Change
I've said something for years about modern agriculture. If you aren't getting bigger, you're dying. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/06/04/build/nation/35-farms.inc">This story</a> just proves it. Today, in modern agriculture, the big guy has all the advantages of efficiency and its a lot easier for them to make money than the small guys. With the present drought, and difficulties associated…