Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings

  • Army Enticement

    Okay this works out real good for the Army. First you put a <a href="http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=5562">stop-loss order </a>so that the soldiers know they won&acirc;

  • When it Rains it Pours Continued

    Well as <a href="http://wulfgar.typepad.com/">Wulfgar</a> said &acirc;

  • Debt

    I heard about the consumer debt report yesterday and could not believe it. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/01/06/build/business/35-debt.inc">I see it in the Gazette</a> this morning and still am shaking my head at it.<br />n<br />n<i>Consumer debt hit a record $1.98 trillion in October 2003, according to the most recent figures from the Federal Reserve. That debt – which…

  • Titles Set The Tone

    It is real interesting to read the title of news stories. They can be reporting exactly the same thing but you get a different feeling from each.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MAD_COW?SITE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Calves Face Slaughter Over Mad Cow Case</a><br />n<a href="http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=GBJL5EYLUAGLECRBAELCFFA?type=topNews&storyID=4075861">U.S. to Destroy 450 Calves in Mad Cow Probe </a><br />n<br />nThe difference in the way a person…

  • When it Rains it Pours

    You know it seems like lately that it is one thing after another. We had the blizzard which caused us some problems moving around and once we got moving around two generators I was pumping water for the cattle with were so iced up that they would not work. They are still in the shop…

  • Freedoms Ignored

    I just don&acirc;

  • Mars

    This is just to neat to pass up. Pictures from Mars. I know that they are only black and white but it is still cool anyway.<br />n<br />n<img src="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/pics/Mars.jpg"><br />n<br />n<b>Mars is essentially in the same orbit… Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where…

  • Grab a Drink

    Montana is getting great publicity again. According to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A52609-2004Jan3?language=printer">Blaine Harden of the Washington Post</a> we live, fight, socialize, let in under age children, and shoot each other all in the comforts of our local bar. Reading the article he sure seems to stress the negatives more than anything else. Living here all my life…

  • Pilots with Pistols

    I read <a href="http://johnrlott.tripod.com/op-eds/ArmedMarshalsWSJE.html">this article </a>and had to laugh to myself. This particular article is aimed at the European airlines but something my cousins told me is why I laughed. I have three cousins that are commercial airline pilots and they told me that while many of the pilots they knew are very good pilots…

  • Free of BSE?

    Well it looks like legally the <a href="http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=KH5JKXLPEPOUWCRBAEZSFFA?type=domesticNews&storyID=4068376">U.S. can declare that it is "provisionally free" of <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym></a>. This might be a little soon until we are sure that the cow is from Canada. I think more investigation needs to take place before the administration tries this.<br />n<br />n<i>Standards set by the World…

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