Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Short News
<a href="http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=36520&rubrik1=Regional&rubrik2=United%20States&rubrik3=Michigan&sort=1&sparte=4">This little news item</a> comes to me from the <u>Short</u> News. My wife would never have to defend me from such charges but if she did I sure wish she would come up with a better defense than this one, true or not. The full story is <a href="http://www.qctimes.com/internal.php?t=Search&doc=/2004/01/29/stories/local/1023541.txt">here.</a><br />n<br />n<br />n<b>Humor is the…
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Bus Drivers
Some people show an appaling lack of responsibility in their actions. Take <a href="http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/living/education/7812748.htm">this example</a> of a bus driver hitting a child and then driving away. He checks on her, then gets back on the bus and leaves her bleeding in the street. What was he thinking? If you read the article the real shocking…
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Competitive Eating
You know I have seen this before and even now it makes me shake my head. Do you know who Sonya Thomas is? Well, I didn't either until I read <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A48-2004Jan30?language=printer">this article.</a> She is the biggest phenom on the competitive eating circuit and she weighs in at only 99 lbs. I'm sorry, I just…
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Success (Kind Of)
Last summer our computer was acting funny. Random crashes, hardware not being recognized, and generally running poorly. I was running Windows ME and finally decided that it was the Operating System that was giving me trouble. We decided to get a new computer with Windows XP and quit with the old one. I saved the…
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Money for BSE
I see the President's budget is coming out with money for <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> efforts. $60 million dollars total. That's a lot of money in my book. A little over half that money will go towards establishing a National ID system for cattle. I will tell you right now, not one dime of that…
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Impartial Judge
Boy, we really know where <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/seminole/orl-asecjudge29012904jan29,0,3815008.story?coll=orl-home-headlines">this judge</a> stands.<br />n<br />n<i>Stephenson looked at a photograph of the battered victim and said, "Why would he want to rape her? She doesn't look like a day at the beach,"</i><br />n<br />nIt does not matter what the woman looked like. Rape is a crime of violence and needs…
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Blog Madness
Well a new round of <a href="http://www.blogmadness.com/">blog madness</a> has started. I appreciate all the votes everybody cast for me last time. I won that round and have moved on. You can vote <a href="http://www.blogmadness.com/tourney/vote.php?m=101">here</a> on the new round. Please read both entries and then vote for the best one. I know which one I like…
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Titles
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2004/01/29/build/state/35-martzsuicide.inc"><b>Martz administration working on suicide prevention plan</b></a><br />n<br />nNow I know the Martz administration is not well liked around here but i didn't know it was so bad that they were going to do themself harm. That's the way this headline first struck me. Yea I know the article is about a little more…
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Itchy Feet
I've had <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=phpdata/news.inc">these feelings</a> before. It hasn't been too bad this winter though. There has been enough of a break in the cold snaps around here not to drag me down too bad. The winter that most stands out in my mind is the winter of 96-97. I will never forget sitting on Christmas…
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Suprise, Suprise
They are surprised at <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=533&ncid=533&e=4&u=/ap/20040128/ap_on_re_us/student_behavior">these findings?</a> Whether it's urban, suburban, or rural, if people look at their high school years realistically and not through rose colored glasses, knew this. Even if you never took part in any of the activities, it was always well known who had drugs, where to get the booze, and…