Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Marriages
A <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040324/od_uk_nm/oukoe_rights_gays">county in Oregon has banned issuing all marriage licenses</a> until the same sex marriage issue has been decided. I've kind of said all along since this whole brouhaha about same sex marriages has erupted that the answer to the whole thing is for the government to get out of the marriage business entirely.…
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Seeding
Well I'm happy to tell you I got <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/000284.html">The Beast</a> running and finished farming the chunk of ground and went on to seed it. I <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/pics/seeding.jpg" onclick="window.open('http://www.nowherethoughts.net/pics/seeding.jpg','popup','width=566,height=302,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false">planted</a> 120 acres of haybet barley so I can have enough hay for my cattle next winter. It always seems strange to me that I…
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The Obvious
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/03/24/build/business/45-beef-consumption.inc">Less beef consumed as prices go higher</a>. Duh, hasn't the person that wrote this ever heard of the simple economic principle of supply and demand. I ain't even college educated and I understand that one. I have to admit though, that even with the <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> scare it has been a good…
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Identity
I saw <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/03/24/build/local/75-student-injured.inc">this story</a> in the Gazette this morning and caught this interesting statement in it.<br />n<br />n<i>Because of confidentiality laws, Anderson could not identify the student or his gender.</i><br />n<br />nNow maybe in my ignorance I missed something here, but doesn't the word <u>his</u> indicate the gender here that supposedly couldn't be identified?<br…
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Subsidies
Horror of horrors. The German Government is cutting out some subsidy payments that some of its citizens feel are a necessity. Which subsidy is it you might ask. <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040323/od_uk_nm/oukoe_germany_lederhosen">Germany axes Lederhosen subsidies</a>. How horrible. My German heritage is just appalled by this. It just ruins my day.<br />n<br />n<b>Necessity is the plea for every…
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Crows
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/03/23/build/local/20-downtown-crows.inc">Billings works to rid streets of crows</a>. I first read this and thought that the wording was a little poor since Billings is in close proximity to the Crow Indian Reservation. So I thought they were chasing Indians out of town. I right away knew what they meant. Then I read the article and…
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The Beast
I've noticed that it is finally started getting dry enough to think about farming. Now I don't particularly enjoy farming but I can do it. If you couldn't tell from my post titled <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/000279.html">oil</a>, I spent the weekend performing maintenance on tractors so I could start farming. Got the maintenance done no problem, except…
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Deficit
You're tax money and childrens tuition at work. <a href="http://www.helenair.com/articles/2004/03/21/montana_top/a01032104_03.txt">The athletic department at University of Montana has a $1 million deficit</a>. Among the problems is a $381,000 accounting error. Now I thought that college was where people went to learn how not to make mistakes like this or is this just the quality of education…
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Not Thinking
I sometimes wonder what people are thinking and <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/Living/bunnies_killed_040319.html">this is a perfect example</a> of this phenomena. Putting down an animal when there is not any hope for it is one thing. Doing it in front of a bunch of kids, that aren't yours, in a cruel way is something else entirely.<br />n<!–more–><br />nI recently…
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Comments
<a href="http://www.montanaforum.com/rednews/2004/03/18/build/wildlife/dog-hearings.php?nnn=2">FWP seeks comments on moving prairie dogs</a>. I know where they can move them to. But they sure enough wouldn't like my suggestion very well.<br />n<br />n<b>It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say. Jawaharlal Nehru</b>