Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Steaks
This whole Kobe beef thing and the price they get for the beef is unbelivable. Now there is a herd of <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/02/15/build/business/50-kobe-steaks.inc">Wagu cattle in Texas</a> and the owner is selling this specialty beef. I have never tasted this beef but I just can't belive their is anything that secial about it to bring $55…
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Hoax
The cruelty of some people astounds me. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41166-2004Feb13.html">Report of Iraq Death Is a Hoax</a> (free registration required to read). To summarize, someone called a man, pretended to be from the Army, and informed him his wife was killed in Iraq. The caller had enough personal information that the man felt it was the real…
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Guilty
I don't understand something. Nothing new for me. Maybe you college educated people could help me. Our justice system is based on the concept that you are innocent until you are proven guilty. Why is it that when it comes to the IRS you are assumed gulity until they have extracted their pound of flesh…
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Prairie Dogs
The prairie dog issue has confused me greatly. Here is a nusiance critter that is all over the place, in large numbers, and it is a "candidate species for Federal protection under the Endangerd Species Act." Why? Can anyone answer that for me? Like I said there are little colonies all over the place and…
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Chickens II
I never thought my comments about <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/000184.html">chickens</a> would raise such a response. Every thing from my Darling Wife's and Peggy's passionate defense of the merits of chickens to the discussion between Joe and Cliff on the feel of chicken shit on the hands and between the toes. Joe and Cliff, I can proudly say…
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The Lights
I am normally not a night person. Being a rancher most of your work is done during the daytime so I have never been much into staying up late. With the heifers at home it is a different story though. I take until midnight watching the heifers and the hired man is on after that.…
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Dueling
I find <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/02/11/build/wyoming/10-snowmobiling.inc">this</a> whole thing very amusing. Can't you just see it. Two Federal judges, in a duel, standing 40 paces apart and then, in a flash, they whip their out briefs to see whose got the biggest one.<br />n<!–more–><br />nCome on, legal briefs, what did you think I meant.<br />n<br />n<b>Judges rule on…
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Chickens
Those idiots that make up PETA are at it again. They are going to try and claim that <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/02/11/build/business/52-peta.inc">poultry can get <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym></a>. I am personally unsure about this whole feeding of animal byproducts to other animals. Seems really odd to me. My Darling Wife has chickens around here for the eggs…
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Bison Vaccination
The brucellosis debate in Yellowstone Park continues. Now we are going to try <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/02/10/build/state/33-bisonnrucellosis.inc">vaccination of young animals</a> to see if we can get brucellosis under control. The whole idea is to see if the vaccination is going to be effective or not. I may not be a scientist but I can tell you it…
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Catch-22
I see <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/02/09/build/state/45-utilityfees.inc">an article</a> this morning about the rising cost of natural gas and its affect on people. Now I heat with propane, it has gone up too, so I do understand the problems. The higher the price gets, the more people can't pay the price and get behind on their bill. This is…