Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Mountain Tsunami
Head for them thar hills, a Tsunami's coming. The only problem is the <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~1994926,00.html">tsunami warning came in Gypsum CO</a>, elevation 6,334 feet. How much higher in the hills due you need to be if this isn't high enough? All turned out well though, just a mistake.<br />n<br />n<b>Every great mistake has a halfway moment,…
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The Quick Buck
There's a saying about turning trash into treasure, well <a href="http://www.team4news.com/Global/story.asp?S=1689066&nav=0w0vLIYO">this man</a> sure managed that little feat. Buy a painting at a garage sale for $5 and sell it for one million dollars. I wonder if the women who sold it is kicking herself over the loss she incurred? The artist who painted the picture…
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Plagiarism
I read stories like <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0302/p12s01-legn.html">this</a> quite often complaining about the Internet and plagiarism. Truthfully, as bad as it may sound, I can understand why students do it. That all powerful grade and college degree are pretty powerful anymore. This just means parents need to work harder to instill that right and wrong in their…
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Military Service
Now this is interesting. A <a href="http://www.freep.com/news/latestnews/pm18723_20040303.htm">Michigan teacher activated for military duty</a> has to pay for his substitute and forfeit some of his military pay to the school district. I thought we were supposed to support our National Guard troops not penalize them for their duty. The last comment in the article is really cryptic.<br…
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Golden Fleece
A <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040303/od_uk_nm/oukoe_odd_australia_wool<br />n">bale of wool</a> valued at more than a million dollars. This is astounding to me. I'm sure the few remaining sheep producers in our country would like to see that kind of price for wool. Nobody get any bright ideas, I WILL NOT RAISE SHEEP. I had an old neighbor lady a…
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Asteroids
<a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/politics/8097618.htm">House Votes to Reward Asteroid Chasers</a>. $3000 reward to amateurs for discovering and tracking near-Earth asteroids. My question is what good does this do us? Give us a couple of days warning to kiss our ass's goodbye instead of it being a surprise. I don't see much else it will do for us.<br />n<br…
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Sympathy
Been there, done that, and as much as I don't like wishing bad luck on someone else, I'm sure glad it ain't where I'm at. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/03/03/build/state/30-badwinter.inc">Up to their eyeballs: Ranchers struggle through a brutal winter</a>. The winter of 1996-1997 was like talked about in this article around here. The funny thing was that you…
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Sexual Assault
I have been reading about the <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=531&ncid=531&e=1&u=/ap/20040227/ap_on_sp_co_ne/fbc_university_assault_2">despicable behavior</a> of the students and some faculty at the University of Colorado for some time now. Now though, there are congressman calling for a <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20040302/ap_on_re_us/university_assault">congressional investigation</a> into the matter. With many investigations and people working the case in Colorado why does congress need to get involved…
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Calving
Well I see the cows have started to calve. I seen a brand new baby on the feed ground this morning. It was about time for them to start calving, they were starting to show really heavy. I let the cows calve on their own with little or no supervision by me. If it is…
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Wolves Again
Well it appears there are <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//testdex.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/03/02/build/state/50-wolves.inc">rumblings</a> that the states of Idaho and Montana might get some limited control over their wolves while Wyoming stalls the whole delisting procedure with its stance. I am just concerned, like Steve Pilcher in the article, that it is going to be a token effort to make people feel…