Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Web Sites
Are alcohol companies using some of the same tactics that tobacco companies used to recruit underage kids to their products? According to <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0315/p12s02-lifp.html">this article</a> they might be. I haven't ever visited one of these websites maintained by alcohol companies, nor do I want to, so I am just going by what the article states.…
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Taxes
Benjamin Franklin once said, "But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." You will note that he never said anything about the death of a tax. It always has seem to me like once a government puts a tax in place they are loath to remove it. Now…
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Story Time
Yesterday while feeding I noted a cow had foot rot. So I decided we needed to go back and get her in to doctor her. The hired man and I got our horses and rode out to the <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/pics/cows.jpg" onclick="window.open('http://www.nowherethoughts.net/pics/cows.jpg','popup','width=881,height=381,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false">cows</a> to find the cow that needed doctored. The cows have really been…
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Racism
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/03/13/build/local/15-hatecrime.inc">This Gazette article</a> really jumped out at me this morning. Like all graffiti, this makes absolutely no sense to me and I can't figure out why someone would do it. When someone does something like this do they really think it is helping somehow? <br />n<br />nWhat really got me was later in the…
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Montana and Death
I was thinking just the other day that I hadn't seen an article in the Washington Post recently from Blaine Harden about Montana's problems. There for a while it seemed like every other week there was a story from Montana by him. Well the long dry spell has ended and he is back talking about…
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Drunk Driving
Never know <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040312/od_nm/poland_nun_dc">who might be driving drunk, or what they will be driving</a>. For some reason this story tickeled my funny bone.<br />n<br />n<b>It pays to get drunk with the best people. Joe E. Lewis</b>
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Old Computers
I saw <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040309/tc_nm/column_pluggedin_dc">this story</a> and all I could think about is Michael Erickson's <a href="http://216.187.184.100/">Computer 4 Kids</a> program. Good place to give old computers a good home.<br />n<br />n<i>At its most basic, we figured there wasn't any reason for unused computer equipment to be thrown away when there was any number of kids that…
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Planets
It was about a week ago that the moon was shining full and clear and was quite the sight to behold. But as beautiful as the moon is when it is like this last night again,with no moon shining, the stars were just crystal clear and beautiful. The Milky Way was shining in its full…
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Energy Development
Now <a href="http://www.montanaforum.com/rednews/2004/03/10/build/energy/windfarm.php?nnn=5">here</a> is the kind of energy development that certain parts of Montana needs to be focusing on. I know where I am at the wind does not blow enough to work but along the front range it would be an amazing source of economic development. Of course with any type of development there…
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Tourism
Well I can sleep better at night now. I have just been worrying myself sick over who was going to <a href="http://www.space.com/news/tourism_congress_040305.html">regulate space tourism</a>. I sure am glad Congress is addressing this very pertinent issue for me instead of wasting time on more important matters. I wouldn't know what to do without this information.<br />n<br…