Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Sunrise
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/sunrise/sunrise01162006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/sunrise/sunrise01162006.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Beautiful Montana sunrise. The colors are just spectacular and you can even see the moon over the rocks. Taken 1/16/2007.</center>
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Useless Thoughts
Some things that quickly caught my eye.<br />n<br />nWhen did the Doomsday Clock, which was used to show the threat of a nuclear cataclysm, begin to be used to show <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BRITAIN_DOOMSDAY_CLOCK?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=INTERNATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">environmental catastrophe</a>? I was not aware of this change, not that I'm in the loop on this one. It seems like an………interesting change.<br />n<br…
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Shelter
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/shelter01112007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/shelter01112007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The latest storm brought more wind than snow to the area. Here, the calves are huddled under the bank out of the wind with only a couple of them showing. Any port in as storm you know. Taken 1/11/2007.</center>
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Headlights
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/01/17/news/state/56-headlights.txt" >Senator wants headlights on</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Sen. Sam Kitzenberg wants all motorists in the state to drive with their headlights on all the time, but he knows many Montanans don't like being told what to do.<br />n<br />nSo his proposed law makes it optional.</blockquote><br />n<br />nI have earlier <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2356-Headlights-SB-194.html">stated my opinion</a> on this…
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What Really Matters
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/01/16/news/state/25-lawmakers.txt" >Lawmakers out-of-staters: Do you care?</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>More than a quarter of Montana's lawmakers didn't grow up under the Big Sky, a Gazette State Bureau analysis shows, and 10 percent moved to Montana after 1990.<br />n<br />nSome 29 percent – or 43 members – of the state's 150 lawmakers moved to Montana after they…
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Sunrise
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/sunrise/sunrise01142007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/sunrise/sunrise01142007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The sun rising on a cold morning on Sarpy Creek. I'm tired of this cold weather. It makes it hard to take care of things. Luckily it is supposed to be warming up now. Taken 1/14/2007.</center>
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Status Quo
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/01/16/news/state/54-bill.txt" >Governor, developers split on bill</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>If Montana is going to develop more of its wind, coal, oil and gas, it will need ways to move energy products beyond its borders, and a new state board or authority can help encourage new power lines and pipelines, supporters of the idea said Monday.<br />n<br…
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Chickens
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/chickens/chickenslp01032007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/chickens/chickenslp01032007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>A picture my youngest daughter took the other day of the chickens. I always like to show off her pictures when she deigns to take some. Taken 1/3/2007.</center>
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Iceberg
I see that my contention that food prices will rise because of ethanol production is not all hot air, it's starting to be seen.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MEXICO_EXPENSIVE_TORTILLAS?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Mexicans cope with rising tortilla price</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Soaring international demand for corn has caused a spike in prices for Mexico's humble tortilla, hitting the poor and forcing President Felipe…
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NAIS Feasibility
A little review to start with. What is the purpose of <acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym> and how is it going to be accomplished and who is the lead agency in it's implementation?<br />n<br />n<acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym> is a program by the <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by…