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Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings

  • CAWS

    The Federal Government has rolled out its new <a href="http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=B5Y5JAGRVPQFICRBAEOCFFA?type=domesticNews&storyID=4232807">Cyberattack Warning System (CAWS).</a> Here is again something I just don't understand. Why does the Government need to stick its nose in this? Because it is the great Nannystate I guess. <a href="http://www.trendmicro.com/subscriptions/default.asp">Here</a> and <a href="http://nct.symantecstore.com/virusalert/">here</a> I found E-mail alerts that already provide this information. Since…

  • Politics

    Sometimes I wonder if I will ever understand how politics work. Today we are seeing all kinds of stories stating that <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/01/28/build/nation/55-madcow.inc">the Democrats want national ID system for cattle.</a> Now the Agriculture Dept. has been working on this from before the <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> scare and has accelerated their progress on developing it…

  • Weapons

    I'm not to sure about this. I think they ought to look a little harder for <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/01/27/build/local/35-cannons.inc">these canons.</a> Some fringe, whacko Montanans might have them and are going to use them as Weapons of Mass Distraction (oops, Destruction). They say that this is not a matter of Homeland Security but I kind of doubt…

  • Blog Madness

    Some enterprising bloggers with more time on there hands than sense are running a contest called <a href="http://www.blogmadness.com/">Blog Madness.</a> I, for reasons I am not sure of, decided to enter. Well the contest is now underway. I am seated #18 in the <a href="http://www.blogmadness.com/tourney/matches.php?rnd=3">Love Region.</a> I guess this means I am lovable. Now I am…

  • Odds & Ends

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  • Mouthing

    Some new rules past down by the Agriculture Department are going to require <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/01/25/build/state/40-mouthing.inc">cattle to be mouthed for age.</a> This is the first I have heard of this. I have to agree that it is not the best way in the world to do things, but it will have to do for now. I…

  • Beef Exports

    Wow! <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/01/24/build/business/70-poland-beef.inc">Poland resumes imports of U.S. beef.</a> How exciting!!! $200,000 worth of exports for the cattle industry in 2002. This will make a big difference for our export markets.<br />n<br />n<b>To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. Chinese Proverb</b>

  • Duct Tape

    I see the town of Avon, Ohio is going to be having a <a href="http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2357687">duct tape festival.</a> Do you think they are going to invite <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/01/24/build/nation/70-warhead.inc">these people</a> and the object they taped together to their festival? I personally kind of doubt it.<br />n<br />n<b>Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side,…

  • Brucellosis Update

    It looks like <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/000127.html#more">Kalamity Karen and I</a> aren't the only ones that don't understand the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/01/24/build/wyoming/30-brucellosis.inc">two herd thing in Wyoming.</a> Could this be a glitter of common sense or is it just that the state doesn't want to pay for all the testing that will be required? I'll be optimistic and think that…

  • Where’s Rover

    Could this explain what happened to the Mars Rover.<br />n<img src="http://nowherethoughts.net/pics/MarsLanding.jpg"><br />n<br />n<b>The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.<br />nOscar Wilde </b>

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