Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings

  • Murdering The Future

    <a href="http://in.today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-12-14T230956Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-280322-1.xml" >India has killed 10 mln girls in 20 years</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Ten million girls have been killed by their parents in India in the past 20 years, either before they were born or immediately after, a government minister said on Thursday, describing it as a "national crisis".<br />n<br />nA UNICEF report released this week…

  • Searching

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/tree12142006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/tree12142006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>There be a Christmas tree up there, it's just up to me and my daughter to find one. We did, but we walked a lot of country to do it. I don't ever remember there not being some snow on the ground when we…

  • What You Talkin About?

    <blockquote>Soaring corn prices are squeezing meat and milk producers, but consumers will not necessarily see higher prices at the grocery checkout, Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said in an interview Thursday.<br />n<br />nCostly corn has made it more expensive to feed cows, chickens and pigs. Demand for ethanol, a fuel made from corn, has pushed the…

  • Sad News

    <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061213/ap_on_sc/china_dolphin_extinction" >Rare white dolphin declared as extinct</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A rare, nearly blind white dolphin that survived for millions of years is effectively extinct, an international expedition declared Wednesday after ending a fruitless six-week search of its Yangtze River habitat.<br />n<br />nThe baiji would be the first large aquatic mammal driven to extinction since hunting…

  • Eating Organic

    <center><img width='550' height='352' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/organic_caveman.gif' alt='' /></center><br />n<br />nI found this over at <a href="http://www.consumerfreedom.com/cartoons.cfm">The Center for Consumer Freedom</a> and couldn't resist.<br />n<br />

  • Glow

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/sunrise/glow12042006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/sunrise/glow12042006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The glow of a Montana sunrise in December. Taken 12/4/2006.</center>

  • Children At Play

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/12/14/news/state/35-sales.txt" >Sales provides edge to GOP on House panel</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Majority Republicans in the state House of Representatives have given themselves extra weight on a key committee, mirroring an identical decision by majority Democrats in the state Senate.<br />n<br />nHouse Republicans, led by Speaker Scott Sales of Bozeman, assigned themselves a three-vote margin on…

  • Track It

    I have been waiting for more information before commenting on the latest case of E-coli hitting our food markets. I see a little more information but no answers yet.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061213/ap_on_bi_ge/e_coli_outbreak_taco_bell" >Officials: Lettuce source of E. coli</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Lettuce was the most likely source of an outbreak of E. coli linked to Taco Bell,…

  • Taking A Stand

    <a href="http://www.r-calfusa.com/News%20Releases/121106-animal.htm" >Animal Health Committee Asks <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> to Maintain Brucellosis Surveillance Program</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Upon referral of a resolution from its Animal Health Committee – chaired by Missouri veterinarian Max Thornsberry – the R-CALF USA Board of Directors has adopted interim policy…

  • Corporate Taxes

    Thanks to <a href="http://montanamainstreetblog.typepad.com/montana_main_street_blog/">Montana Main Street Blog</a> For <a href="http://montanamainstreetblog.typepad.com/montana_main_street_blog/2006/12/us_corporate_ta.html">this one</a>. We see that US <a href="http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/1471.html">corporate tax rates</a> are second highest in the world. In 2000 the US was rated 6th. The US Corporate tax rate hasn't changed as much as other countries has went down.<br />n<br />nThis was all interesting but what I…

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