Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Rules
I didn't comment on the <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym>'s OTM rule yesterday allowing older Canadian Cattle to be imported into the US. It's one of those situations that I have mixed feelings about.<br />n<br />nThe people opposed to the OTM rule say that they…
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Life Rope?
<blockquote>"We threw them a life rope," he said. "They said 'We don't want any life ropes.' That's what their position is."</blockquote><br />n<br />nBullshit!!!!! The Governor didn't throw a life rope for God's sake. He threw an unworkable proposal that was designed to take our focus away from the real issue. How to control brucellosis in…
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Rowdy
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/cats/rowdy11122007?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/cats/rowdy11122007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>My Darling Wife's newest addition to the menagerie around here. Not quite 8 weeks old and hand fed for his whole life. Mama got killed by a coyote. Rowdy is his name. Believe me, it's apt. Taken 11/12/2007.</center>
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Labeling
Should things be labeled truthfully?<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s2i26986">U.S.D.A. Determines Product Called Buffalo Wings is False Advertising</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The United States Department of Agriculture has decreed that all companies who sell Buffalo Wings must stop using that name as it is false advertising.</blockquote><br />n<br />nYou mean buffalo don't have wings?<br />n<br />nEven better is this one.<br…
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View
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/view10242007?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/view10242007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The view out the front of my house. Truth be told I don't know who took this picture. I just found it on the camera. I think it was my youngest daughter. She likes taking pictures. Taken 10/24/2007.</center>
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Blame
Well, it looks like the Farm Bill got stalled out.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/11/17/news/state/37-filibuster.txt">GOP filibuster stymies Farm Bill</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A wide-ranging rewrite of the Farm Bill fell victim Friday to a Republican filibuster in the Senate, threatening enactment of new and expanded subsidies promised to farmers by lawmakers seeking re-election next year.<br />n<br />nThough politically popular,…
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Farm Bill Critics
I have mentioned the Farm Bill a couple of times and even mentioned that it is designed to help the rural areas of the US. Whether it actually does this or not I don't know, but that is the purpose. In all fairness I should post a critics point of view.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119500379205092116.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">The No…
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Under The Lash
I always hear about how unfair women get treated in our society. Punished for just being a women by not being promoted like they think they should or guys looking at them or some other stuff. You want to see being treated unfairly, check this out.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/15/africa/ME-GEN-Saudi-Justice.php">Report: court hands jail term, doubles lashes…
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Wary
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/horses/nylon11102007?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/horses/nylon11102007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Nylon sure doesn't look like he is almost 30 years old sometimes. He hates it when somebody is walking around "his" pasture and prances around like a young pony keeping a wary eye on the situation. Taken 11/10/2007.</center>
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A Little to Far
<a href="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22761386-2,00.html">Santa Claus outraged by 'ho ho ho' ban</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>HE is an unlikely revolutionary but this Christmas, Santa is a rebel with a claus.<br />n<br />nHe is having the last laugh on political correctness – and it's a great big fat belly laugh.<br />n<br />nSantas across Sydney are rebelling against attempts to ban their…