Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings

  • Wolves

    The Wyoming legislature is going to take up a <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/01/20/build/wyoming/30-wolfplan.inc">new bill to answer the problems</a> the FWS has with their present wolf management plan. I am very glad to see this development. While I do agree that outside of a certain area wolves should be considered as predator I was afraid that the bureaucrats…

  • Montana Does It Again

    It always seems funny to me. Some group out there ranks the states, for some thing or another, and Montana always seems to fall either in the top of the ranking or the bottom. Well I found an interesting one this morning. <a href="http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040118-114320-9103r.htm">States ranked as most corrupt.</a> Montana ranks 6th on the list for…

  • Pets

    I didn't even know Churchill had a pet until I <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36676">read this.</a> That it's still alive at 104 is amazing to me. I didn't know parrots could live that long.<br />n<br />n<b>Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.<br />nMark Twain </b>

  • Cattle Insurance

    I had read about this insurance being stopped in a print publication but I knew nothing about it. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/01/20/build/state/30-cattleinsurance.inc">This article</a> at least gives some details about it. Cattle price insurance. A government run insurance program to protect a person from drop in price of cattle. This is a concept that I have never heard…

  • You’re a Montana Rancher if:

    <a href="http://www.thefencepost.com/article.php?sid=979&mode=thread&order=0">You know you&acirc;

  • New Way to Make IRS More Efficient

    Maybe the IRS could become more efficient if they used <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3410547.stm">this method the Finns discovered</a> for managing workers in thier office. If he doesn't move and doesn't breathe he must be earning his paycheck.<br />n<br />n<b>Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.<br />nMark Twain </b>

  • Taxpayer Pledge

    Well the race for the Republican nominee for Governor is heating up with a <a href="http://www.montanaforum.com/rednews/2004/01/18/build/democracy/davison-ads.php?nnn%20=%201">new radio ad campaign.</a> It sounds like the meat of the campaign is going to be about Pat Davison signing a pledge to block any attempt to raise taxes if elected governor whereas his main candidate, Bob Brown, refuses to.…

  • Death Toll

    I just don't understand this. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/01/18/build/world/30-iraq-toll.inc">U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 500.</a> Why is the 500th casualty more signifigant than the 499th, or the 200th, or the 162nd for that matter. Every life lost in this conflict is signifigant and should be mourned, not just some magical benchmark death. There must be something signifigant…

  • Food Safety

    The <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion/tolestom/">editorial cartoon in the Washington Post today</a> deserves a look see. Really makes you wonder about what to eat.<br />n<br />n<b>Don't play for safety&acirc;

  • Political Contributions

    I see Republican governor candidate Pat Davison is <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/01/17/build/local/35-kids-davison.inc">returning campaign contributions that were made to his campaign by children.</a> There is a question whether the children actually made the contribution or the parents made them in their names. <br />n<br />n<i>Scot Crockett, Davison's campaign manager, said the campaign was in full compliance with state…

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