Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Support
I have said it once and I will say it again. The <a href="http://www.beef.org/"><acronym title="National Cattlemans Beef Association, shills for the big meat packers">NCBA</acronym></a> does not support the everyday cattleman like they claim to. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/04/20/build/nation/70-cattle-testing.inc">They are in the pocket of the big meatpackers</a> and so push whatever policy issue the big three meatpackers want.…
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Women’s Rights
There are a lot of "feminists" that would say women are an abused class in the US. If they really want to see women that have no rights they should go to poor countries in the world. For all the "progress" we are dubiously making in Afghanistan, <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/04/16/MNGQN668FP1.DTL">progress for women is almost non-existent</a>. How…
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Soccer
Being a former submariner any story about submarines catches my eye. <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/odd_submarines_dc">Playing soccer at the North Pole</a> by the crews of two submarines is something pretty neat. I bet the British crew has a little better chance since they are more familiar with the game of soccer than most Americans. Let me tell you…
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Beef Prices
It's one of those odd things. <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040418/bs_nm/bizbeef_prices_dc">Cattle prices are fairly good</a> and you don't have the grass to raise any due to the weather. Like the article states, that the prices are as high as they are with the <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> scare we had is simply amazing. This fits right in with…
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For Sale
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20561-2004Apr17.html">For Sale</a>: Advertising space on a widely popular blog with a daily readership that is measured in the single digits. Reaches a target audience of highly intelligent people of widely divergent political views. Sure to reach someone in your target demographic. Ads will be prominently displayed at the base of the Main Index page…
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Bravery
Whether you agree with the cause they were fighting for or not, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A18871-2004Apr16?language=printer">these were extremely brave men</a> (registration required). To risk there lives in such an unproven contraption took a great amount of courage and today they will be given a proper burial in Charleston. As a former submariner I salute these brave men…
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Early Start
My Darling Wife was not very happy this morning. She knew this was coming, but it sure enough doesn't make it any easier since she is not particularly a morning person. My oldest daughter had to be to school this morning by 5:30 to catch the bus to <a href="http://wulfgar.typepad.com/">Rob</a> and <a href="http://duck.hekhet.net/">Kim's</a> stomping grounds…
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School Funding
I read <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/04/16/build/state/25-school-funds-ruling.inc">this story</a> this morning and was flabbergasted. Whether the state is funding education enough is not the thing that made me wonder. My question is, where is the state supposed to get the money? You can't get blood from a turnip and taxes are all ready squeezing us so hard there is…
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Mothers & Daughters
My Darling Wife and oldest daughter are almost always arguing with each other,at least that is the way it seems to me. I try to stay out of it since it usually doesn't involve me and I figure they need to deal with it themselves. Now I see that the bickering is common and <a…
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Duty
I can completely and totally empathize with the soldiers in Iraq that are <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/04/15/build/nation/20-duty-extended.inc">getting there duty extended</a>. You look forward to ending your tour and all of a sudden it gets extended and it opens a big void in you. I say all this with understanding since I had similar experiences when I was…