Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Patriotism
I have a quick question, what is given as one of the main reasons the Great Depression was so bad? Trade barriers between countries. <br />n<br />n<blockquote>"Any student of history will tell you that one of the most significant mistakes of the 1930s is when the U.S. embraced protectionism," Lane said. "It had a cascading…
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Schweitzer Rasies Taxes
Our intrepid Governor, Schweitzer, has decided to fight this nasty recession, he wants to <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/01/29/news/state/18-taxproposed.txt">raise Taxes</a>. I thought the thing to do in a recession was lower taxes and stimulate the economy, not raise them and strangle a segment of the economy. If I remember right, Schweitzer is always complaining about the high price…
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Stimulis
Everybody knows about the Stimulus bill being debated in Congress. Either it's almost a trillion dollars of "investment" in our economy or it's a massive "pork" project to assuage the special interests that got President Obama elected. It all depends on your viewpoint. Me, I have a few questions.<br />n<br />nI understand that the whole…
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Tipping Over
Two different stories caught my eye about drought and cattle dying.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://beefmagazine.com/natural-disaster/0119-texas-drought-worsens/">Texas drought worsens, cattle dying</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Drought conditions in Texas are so bad cattle are keeling over in parched pastures and dying.<br />n<br />nDrought conditions worsened significantly in the past week, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor map released Thursday. Seventy-one percent…
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Quote
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, totally worn out and proclaiming, 'WOW, WHAT A RIDE!!!'" Bill McKenna<br />n<br />nThis quote was used in my Uncle's obituary and I just had tom post it here. It's…
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Another Round For The Wolves
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/01/15/news/state/21-delist.txt">Wolf to go off list in Montana, not Wyoming</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Gray wolves in the western Great Lakes and Northern Rockies will be removed from the federal endangered-species list by late February under a plan announced Wednesday by the Bush administration.<br />n<br />nLeft out of the plan were wolves in Wyoming, where state officials sought…
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Innocent Mistake
I guess I don't get it. Not unusual, is it? If I failed to pay $34,000 in taxes, I would more than likely be thrown in jail, but Timothy Geithner does the same thing and President Elect Obama says it's an <a href="http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/thursday/nation/ny-usgeit155999186jan15,0,1565750.story">"innocent mistake"</a> so that the man can serve in high Government office. Innocent…
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Reality
I really think Matt needs to move into reality on <a href="http://www.leftinthewest.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2571">this one</a> about the cost of college textbooks. His solution?<br />n<br />n<blockquote>What if a state simply mandated that universities and schools pick up the tab for textbooks that are required for courses? The schools could be allowed to alter tuition to pay for the…
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No S__T
I do believe I have been saying this all along.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/01/12/news/wyoming/24-vets.txt">Vets wary of disease 'hot-zone' </a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A federal government plan to carve out the Yellowstone area as an animal disease "hot-zone" faces opposition from some state veterinarians, who worry the move would lower cattle industry safeguards.<br />n<br />nCreation of the zone would…
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What A Change
Sunday morning it was 25 below, that's Fahrenheit, zero here. The Damn Dodge Diesel gelled up and I had to get the Ford out to rescue it. Yes, I was using cut fuel and had added diesel conditioner so it wouldn't gel and it still did. Oh was I mad.<br />n<br />nThen what a change…