Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Beef Checkoff
I see a Federal Appeals court has upheld the <a href="http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=39901">unconstitutionality of the Milk Checkoff program</a>. Maybe this will be the final nail in the coffin for the Beef Checkoff program. For years groups have been fighting the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?display=rednews/2003/10/03/build/business/40-checkoff.inc">Beef Checkoff</a> and recently even got a ruling that it was unconstitutional, except that the same…
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Politics
I rarely get involved in political discussions since I became very disillusioned with the whole political process many years ago but I do have a question for you more political types. I read this morning in the paper that <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/02/25/build/nation/30-bushgay.inc">Bush urges constitutional amendment to outlaw gay marriages</a>. Is our President doing this because he…
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Cow Police
Well it looks like before too much longer the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/02/24/build/nation/65-madcow.inc">Dead Cow Police (DCP)</a> might come knocking on my door. I knew this would be coming. Testing of dead critters. When you run your cattle in big pastures sometimes you don't find a dead cow until she is nothing but bones and then how are…
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Terrorist Orginazation
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/02/24/build/nation/35-paigenea.inc">NEA Labeled as Terrorist Orginazation</a>. Whether you agree with the goals of the NEA or not, calling them a terrorist orginazation is going a bit too far. This only leads to debasing the word terrorist.<br />n<!–more–><br />nTerrorist- One that engages in acts or an act of terrorism.<br />nTerrorism-The unlawful useor threatned use of force…
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Morning Blues
Have you ever had one of those mornings where no matter waht you do your brain is on vacation? Can't think straight or make coherent sentences. I had one of those mornings today. Hired man even noticed and commented on it. He told me my brain appered to be in nuetral and wanted to know…
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Suprise
Had a new one tonight. The first set of twins I have ever seen on my heifers. In fact it is only the second set of live twins I have ever had. The other one was on a cow quite a few years ago. I have neighbors that have quite a few twins and even…
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Planted Evidence
I'll be the first to admit I wasn't a model student at school. Good thing I didn't have <a href="http://www.detnews.com/2004/schools/0402/22/c06-70811.htm">this guy</a> as an administrator at my school. I might have really ended up in trouble. It makes me wonder how many students he set up in the past that were good students that he just…
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Poor Buisness Practice
There was an interesting item in Jan Falstad's column <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/02/22/build/business/35-falstad.inc">Have You Heard</a> in todays Gazette. The section on Nu 2 U states, <i>"All of the stuff – the higher quality things – come from Bozeman," she said. "So, we're not taking consignments from Billings."</i> Now it doesn't seem like good buisness practice to tell…
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Feeding
Not very often do I find myself in agreement with "environmentalists." This would have to be an example of one time I do. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/02/22/build/wyoming/35-elkfeedgrounds.inc">Groups call for closing elk feedgrounds</a>. I would even have to agree with the stated reason for this position, health of the herd. Where I would probably part company is that…
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Education
Life just ain't fair. A <a href="http://cgi.citizen-times.com/cgi-bin/story/news/50160">college student takes up a professor's challenge</a> which would give him an A in the class and now he is not going to get it. What suprises me is the professor thought nobody would take him up on the challenge. I am sure there are students that would go…