Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Tax Advice
Well March is here and it's time to be thinking about your taxes. I know, the last thing you want to think about. Well the IRS has come out with a <a href="http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=120803,00.html">list of tax scams</a> to try to avoid if you don't want to get in trouble (if you want to take your chance…
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Secession
Now, as usual, maybe I am wrong on this issue but didn't Abrahm Lincoln and the Civil War decide against the issue of secession once and for all? <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//testdex.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/03/01/build/nation/85-killington-secede.inc">The Vermont town of Killington</a> obviously doesn't know this fact. Maybe they need to spend some of the disputed money on their own educational establishment so…
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Marriage
With all the controversy about same sex marriages in the US I thought <a href="http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=360045">this</a> was appropriate. At least it isn't same sex. I just wonder if they had a marriage license.<br />n<br />n<b>Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. Abraham Lincoln</b>
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Hoping Buisness is Slow
I really hate to wish any buisness has a bad year but in <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//testdex.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/02/29/build/state/40-firebiz.inc">this</a> case I will make an exception. I have a cousin who does this kind of work too and as much as I wish him luck, if he has a slow year it wouldn't hurt my feelings. I could say as…
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Military Preparedness
I couldn't believe <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37349">this</a> story.<br />n<br />n<i>Sen. Hillary Clinton chided President Bush for not thanking her husband for handing the current administration such a strong military.</i><br />n<br />nMaybe my memory is a little faulty on this issue but didn't President Clinton preside over the gutting of our military during his administration? I remember stories…
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Financial Savvy
Now isn't <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/financialtimes/business/FT1075982783472.html?ex=1393131600&en=84995e065fb67b58&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND">this</a> interesting. Our elected Senators stock portfolio's (say that three times fast) outperform the market by about 12%. They wouldn't be trading on insider information would they? {sarcastic}I'm sure their not, there fine upstanding citizens just doing there job for the good of the country.{/sarcastic}<br />n<br />n<b>Talk is cheap – except when…
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Brain Dead
I sometimes wonder about peoples intelligence. <a href="http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/2873809/detail.html">Prank Call Leads To Strip Searches</a>. What amazes me is that the managers actually did it. How stupid can you be? The employees should never have submitted to it either but I assume they were worried about keeping their jobs. <br />n<br />n<b>I am patient with stupidity but…
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Luck
Here we go again, when it rains it pours. Thursday night it rained most of the night and really made things a soaking mess. It is February you know, rain is not normal at this time of year. Then on Friday it got really warm and finally started melting the bulk of our snow. We…
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Real Life
There are things in the world that are the way they are whether we like it or not and then there is the way it is supposed to work but most of the time they don't. Our criminal justice system is one of these things. It seems to me it has went from warehousing criminals…
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Courage
You want a real story about courage and heroism. I found one <a href="http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=55781">here</a> this morning. I don't know I would be brave enough to do what these two women did but I definitly applaud them for their courage. Looking at it though it is very much like the women of our species. Protect the…