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Ranch Talk :: RE: Happenings of the day, May 13, 2008
Author: Sundancer
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 11:09 pm (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 3

I didn't shed my stocking cap all day as well Sad

Surely one of these days it will happen. I think I have worn a sweatshirt everyday as well. It has been a very wet and cold winter/spring. Crying or Very sad

Sports/Hunting :: OK...hockey fans....
Author: Mrs.Greg
Subject: OK...hockey fans....
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 10:41 pm (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 0

Is nobody going to admit the Penquins are one of THE hottest hockey teams ever seen in the playoffs Very Happy

I LOVE Mario!!!!!!!!!!! Heart

Sports/Hunting :: RE: Tony Dean apologizes?
Author: Liberty Belle
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 10:21 pm (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 139

Happy go lucky wrote:

LB why not answer the points I brought up and put it on public record?

If you haven’t been able to figure out where I stand on these issues you’re even dumber than I thought. I’ve made no secret of my position or my name, unlike you, publichunter, Southdakotahunter, and P Joe, who hide behind a curtain of anonymity while you take potshots at those of us who disagree with you.

I like having things on public record!! Now, since I’ve made no secret of who I am and what I stand for, how about you do the same? You can start by giving us your name and occupation - just for the public record. Say what?

Come on, I double dog dare ya! Twisted Evil

Ranch Talk :: RE: Happenings of the day, May 13, 2008
Author: Soapweed
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 10:21 pm (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 3

per wrote:

We would call that stocking hat a toque. No shame in dressing warm. Boy you work in pretty country. Hills, grass, water and cows, just like l imagine Heaven would be like. (but warmer in Heaven) Wink

Thanks for the compliments, per.

Of course, if a person wanted it really warm, they could mess up and go to the Other Place. Wink

Just kidding, I wouldn't wish that off on anyone.

Sports/Hunting :: RE: Tony Dean apologizes?
Author: Liberty Belle
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 10:10 pm (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 139

P Joe wrote:

Liberty Belle wrote:

This statement of yours pretty well sums up our position: “You'll never give in until you get GF&P shutdown, reorganized, or something similar.” I’m glad you’ve been able to understand where we’re coming from.

This sounds like a school room full of scolded children who will stop at nothing to pull a prank on the teacher to get even.

Huh? That was your quote, not mine.

P Joe wrote:

Liberty Belle wrote:

Contrary to your last sentence, we are neither resentful nor angry. We ARE determined to stand our ground to protect our property and we’re doing a darn good job of that, if I say so myself!

No you don't, according to you, GF&P could still do what ever they damn well please and their isn't much you could legal do about it. So really what have you changed??
NOTHING. The only thing you have going for you is GF&P wants to get a-long. If and when that changes, you will be back in the same ole boat from 7 years ago!!

No I don’t what? Try to be coherent, will you?

The most important thing we’ve done is stopping GF&P from trespassing on our private land. Another important thing we have gotten changed is that GF&P can’t do anything to landowners that won’t get immediate media attention, thanks to several legislators, property rights groups, and agriculture organizations. The media spotlight is focused on them and that bright light can be just a tad disconcerting.

GF&P is trying to at least make it look like they are trying to get along with us because they have to. It’s not out of the goodness of their heart. If and when that changes, GF&P will cease to exist as a state agency. And you can take that one to the bank.

Ranch Talk :: RE: Expensive mineral
Author: Frank in West Dakota
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 9:58 pm (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 13

Some people on here are shopping around and looking for cheaper mineral, and that's ok, but if your on a program, (doesn't matter what brand) and that program is working for ya, keep on it. You could end up with a wreck if ya start changin'.
Just thinkin' out loud.

Political Bull :: RE: On becoming an illegal alien
Author: Cal
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 9:52 pm (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 30

nonothing wrote:

Cal wrote:

nonothing has a point. We should do all we can to ship them north across that imaginary Canadian border where they can have wonderful free healthcare.

I understand your point Cal.it is just it will never stop no matter what the consequences are.......As long as the next door country is like heaven compared to thier own,they will find ways to get in....My point is,one has to understand the reason to fix the problem....

You can put a bandaid over a cut but untill you do something about the infection,the wound will never heal....

For practical reasons, I do think that things in Mexico are improving, and there's no reason that they shouldn't be good, overall. It's a country with plenty of resources, that basically needs a government overhaul. I don't think that we're able to change that in the near future. We will be in Mexico next Nov. and am looking forward to seeing a bit of everyday life. I was looking over some statistics a while back and discovered that Mexico's illiteracy rate was about equal to the number of illegals that we have in our country and was wondering about a correlation.

Ranch Talk :: RE: Happenings of the day, May 13, 2008
Author: per
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 9:49 pm (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 3

We would call that stocking hat a toque. No shame in dressing warm. Boy you work in pretty country. Hills, grass, water and cows, just like l imagine Heaven would be like. (but warmer in Heaven) Wink

Ranch Talk :: RE: Looky What's In Our Pasture
Author: DOC HARRIS
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 9:48 pm (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 26

Big Muddy rancher wrote:

Doc is there any truth to the rumor that in your younger day you did Breeding Soundness Evaluation examines on grizzly bears? Very Happy

BM rancher-

I am "bearly" able to understand how that rumor got started! I "bear" no ill will, nor do I "bear" a grudge against the person or persons who perpetrated that narrative, but I have to "bear up" to the 'grizzled' fact that, in truth, Shocked

, in my somewhat "grisly" and care-free youth - 'barely" tall enough to do the rectal examination of the Seminal Vesicles of Ursus arctos horribilis, and, performing such duties as were required in actively participating in Breeding Soundness Evaluation Examinations, I, being "barely" lucid and conscious, and with "grizzled" determination, did, in fact, survey, appraise, measure, gauge, quantify, estimate, assess, rate, evaluate, weigh Shocked

, qualify and quantify the -until then - unknown details of the effectiveness of UTSA's (Ursus Testicular Scrotal Analyses)(!) The rather delicate and sensitive technics which had to be incorporated in the performance of those bimanual probings and scrutinizations in order to verify and guarantee absolute precisional perfection were necessary for the engendering of the Eugenics movement, or the improving species through the control of hereditary factors in mating - vis-a'vis EPD's! Rolling Eyes

In other words - I was somewhat instrumental in the original concept of the perfection of Beef Genetics via developing Expected Progeny Differences through perseverance and tenacity by "bearing up" to the difficulties of mathematically calculating the anatomical differences and collations between Ursus arctos horribilis, Ursus americanus, and Ursus "Teddy" - and to differentiate the incongruities of the three species is almost "UNBEARABLE!"

And I have the scars to prove it! Embarassed

DOC HARRIS

DON'T GET ME STARTED!

Political Bull :: RE: A first in television
Author: Cal
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 9:38 pm (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 18

CattleArmy wrote:

Cal wrote:

kolanuraven wrote:

Cal wrote:

CattleArmy wrote:

Cal wrote:

hmmmm....what would be a logical sequel? Probably having them slowly die of aids while they cry about the government not paying for their drugs.

I hate to disappoint you but not every gay person dies of aids just like not every heterosexual gets a STD.

Oh, I see...a few of them don't....well, I'm sort of disappointed. Rolling Eyes

What if one day one of your children or grand children is gay? Would you wish a dreaded disease on them?

It could happen. In fact, if you live long enough chances are pretty high that someone in your immediate family either will come out or be born that IS GAY!!!

And yet, somehow, I can see you wishing AIDS upon them also.

I gave a purposely stupid answer to a brainless reply....thought you'd catch on....should have known better.

I don't wish AIDs on anyone. If they choose to use IV drugs or get cornholed then they pretty much are wishing it on themselves. Has this show portrayed homosexuals that are celibate(don't see that word enough to remember how it's spelled), or at least monogamous until they pretend to get married? I doubt it.

So men that as you so crudly put it that cornhole with a woman are they wishing AIDs on themselves to? I thought sex was about procreation if I go with you holier then thous so what about sex with opposite sex that isn't about making babies?

Try to think rationally for a few minutes. If you engage in risky behavior, which covers a fairly broad spectrum, then don't be surprised at the consequences. I'm surprised that your parents never taught you that. Hopefully you'll come to your senses and help your kids figure it out.

Quote:

I thought sex was about procreation if I go with you holier then thous so what about sex with opposite sex that isn't about making babies?

Are you on drugs? You really think that couples that lead a spiritual life aren't getting it on? That's as goofy as you thinking that I'm "holier than thou".

Political Bull :: RE: Lobbyist Owned- Lock, Stock, and Barrel
Author: CattleArmy
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 9:29 pm (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 30

[quote="hopalong"]

CattleArmy wrote:

hopalong wrote:

CattleArmy wrote:

Oldtimer wrote:

Lets see- we figured out you have been snoopy, queeksdraw, hopalong cowboy, maandpa,---today your paranoia must have your inner self thinking you are Old Grumpy.... Wink

Ignore it and it might go away. Or possibly get yet another new name but come back respectable.

In your own words BLAH BLAH BLAH. Very Happy

Now I am done with this post for it is not woerth my time any longer!!

What you do use someone else's words because you can't think of your own.

Pssssst when you are done with a post you quit and I saw you posted yet again in your stalker like way to GP.[/quote

PSTTTT how can it be stalking when he posts his worthless comments?
Oppps kinda like you have been doing lately, are you related to or are you goofpasture!!
If I am stalking what is it you are doing towards me? looks similar Rolling Eyes

Responding to posts regarding oneself is not is not stalking!!!!!

Care to respond??

1. I just think it's ignorant and lacks class to pose as another identity. It's disrespectful not only to the other posters but also to yourself to have stooped to that level.

2. You could only hope that I would waste my time in stalking someone anyone. Let me tell ya there is a whole line ahead of you i'd stalk cause I already know where they live and being a tad on the lazy side of stalking I'd have already one hurtle overcome even before i began.

3. I do wish you would at least take the time if you feel you must waste time and post to at least use your own words. A little hint if you aren't gonna use your own words at least be smart enough to have your alter egos.
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Ranch Talk :: Happenings of the day, May 13, 2008
Author: Soapweed
Subject: Happenings of the day, May 13, 2008
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 9:28 pm (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 3

Heading out on a crisp May morning

Preparing for departure

Saddletramp tops the hill

Get along, little dogies

You know the next pasture will be your new home.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the lake, there are cattle to be gathered.

Looks like a penquin sitting on a nest. It wouldn't be surprising, considering the Global Cooling that has taken place this spring.

Getting the cattle out of the hills

Kosmo Kid and Peach Blossom

Two-year-old heifers and their calves, that haven't been branded as yet

They'll be walkin' on new grass, singin' a new song. Tomorrow there's no tellin' where they'll be.

Shutting the gate

Ready to journey onward

Goose Lake nestled between the hills

Sorting cattle on this cold May afternoon

He said the stocking cap felt pretty good.

Separating steer calves and their mothers from the heifer calf pairs

Saddletramp on Chalk-eye and Peach on Goose

Political Bull :: RE: Lobbyist Owned- Lock, Stock, and Barrel
Author: hopalong
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 9:23 pm (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 30

[quote="CattleArmy"]

hopalong wrote:

CattleArmy wrote:

Oldtimer wrote:

Lets see- we figured out you have been snoopy, queeksdraw, hopalong cowboy, maandpa,---today your paranoia must have your inner self thinking you are Old Grumpy.... Wink

Ignore it and it might go away. Or possibly get yet another new name but come back respectable.

In your own words BLAH BLAH BLAH. Very Happy

Now I am done with this post for it is not woerth my time any longer!!

Responding to posts regarding oneself is not is not stalking!!!!!

Care to respond??

Ranch Talk :: what goes around comes around
Author: jodywy
Subject: what goes around comes around
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 9:13 pm (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 0

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080513/lf_nm/usa_horses_dc
Horses abandoned in West as feed prices rise By Laura Zuckerman
Mon May 12, 8:15 PM ET

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - In the classic Hollywood western, a cowboy portrayed by John Wayne gallops across the sagebrush steppe and rocky ridges of the American West with only his horse for a companion.

What the films don't show is the cowboy buying and hauling hay for his horse, or what happens to the horse when it is too aged, infirm or irascible to ride.

Those more mundane details are at the heart of a debate about growing cases of mistreatment of horses in the United States, at a time when hay and grain prices are skyrocketing and when options for disposing of unwanted horses are dwindling.

Just a year ago, the sale of an average horse suitable for recreation -- one with neither prized bloodlines nor a performance record to heighten its status -- would have fetched several thousand dollars.

Today, prices in some cases have dropped to just hundreds of dollars, largely because of higher costs for their maintenance and transport.

The situation for marginal horses -- horses whose poor physical condition or disposition makes them targets for slaughter -- is even worse, after a court ruling sought by animal-rights groups effectively shut down the U.S. horse slaughter industry last year.

The result is that a growing number of unwanted horses are being starved or turned loose to fend for themselves in the U.S. West, according to animal welfare advocates.

"What concerns me is a fate worse than slaughter," said Temple Grandin, professor of animal science at Colorado State University and an authority on the handling of livestock such as horses. "We've got people turning horses loose in fields, dropping horses off in the night -- my worst nightmares are coming true."

Such images have strong resonance in the West, the land of the rider on the range immortalized in art by Frederic Remington and in popular culture by actors such as the late President Ronald Reagan.

Far from Kentucky, where thoroughbreds race the Churchill Downs, owning a horse in the West is a middle-class occupation. The average horse owner rides for recreation and keeps their horse on their own land or land rented for the purpose, rather than at a commercially run barn.

Horses eat hay made from either grass or alfalfa, or a mix of both, and a modest amount of grain. Prices fluctuate, but in east central Idaho, hay prices have risen to $145 from $120 per ton a year ago, a jump of 21 percent. In northern Idaho it costs $220 per ton and as much as $300 per ton in parts of California. Feeding a horse can cost $2,000 a year or more.

TURNED LOOSE

The West is also the region where the historic practice of releasing domesticated horses into the wild -- first by Spanish explorers and last by ranchers -- gave rise to the herds of Mustangs, or feral horses, that still inhabit the vast public lands of Western states.

But the romantic concept of freeing a tamed horse to roam the West's wide open spaces bears no resemblance to the reality, said Kirk Miller, livestock investigator in Idaho and Montana for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

"They have no survival instinct in the wild, no clue as to what's dangerous to eat, no knowledge of how to grub for food under the snow," he said.

Miller and Colorado State's Grandin are among animal experts who say the campaign led by the Humane Society of the United States to end domestic horse slaughter was well-intentioned but misguided.

Now the tens of thousands of American horses marked for slaughter are shipped to Canada and Mexico, where long, stressful journeys end in what some horse advocates say can be unduly painful deaths.

Most horses are slaughtered for human consumption, with Europe and Asia providing markets for their meat.

Some horse associations are siding with the Humane Society in its fight to end export of horses for slaughter altogether. But others are seeking to re-establish processing in the United States to broaden the outlet for unwanted horses and to ensure the animals are killed by a mechanical method approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Keith Dane, director of equine protection for the Humane Society, said for Americans to have their horses killed for their meat would be akin to sending their pet dogs to slaughter for human consumption.

But unlike its canine counterpart, a horse weighs an average of 1,000 pounds and disposal of its carcass after Humane Society-recommended euthanasia has become burdensome. Where permitted by law and where able, owners can bury carcasses on their own land or pay several hundred dollars in assorted fees to deposit the remains at a local landfill.

Those complications may be behind what state livestock officials and federal land managers in the West say is a spike in the number of horses shot dead and dumped on public lands.

Scot Dutcher, animal protection chief with the Colorado Department of Agriculture, said the abandoned horse cases officials are addressing now is a ripple compared to the wave that may come.

"If it becomes illegal to export horses for slaughter, we'll be dealing with an equine tsunami," he said.

Meanwhile, officials at some sale barns in Montana are asking owners of especially old or underweight horses to pay the auction house if the animals do not bring a sufficient price.

And horse rescues, nonprofit groups that rehabilitate and place unwanted and often abused horses, are reporting a rise in the number of calls they are fielding and the number of horses they turn away for lack of resources.

"I could have 500 horses here tomorrow," said Brent Glover, head of Orphan Acres, an Idaho rescue operation that can maintain a maximum of 130 horses.

(Reporting by Laura Zuckerman; Editing by Eddie Evans)
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Political Bull :: RE: More Fallout From GW's Reign!!
Author: Oldtimer
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 9:09 pm (GMT -6)
Topic Replies: 7

Hey Loomixpeddler--more anxiety for you- better take 2 "W" pills Wink

Quote:

Democrats capture GOP seat in special Mississippi election
Loss in solidly Republican area may spell trouble for party in fall

By Robert Schroeder, MarketWatch
Last update: 10:48 p.m. EDT May 13, 2008

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Travis Childers, a Democrat, won a special election for a House seat in Mississippi on Tuesday night, defeating Republican opponent Greg Davis and lengthening a string of Democratic victories in solidly Republican congressional areas.
The win by Childers adds to potential trouble for the Republican party in the fall. Last week, Rep. Don Cazayoux, D-La., won a House seat in a heavily Republican district in the Baton Rouge area. In March, a Democrat won the seat of former House Speaker Dennis Hastert in Illinois.
Davis was narrowly defeated by Childers in an election last month, but neither candidate won over 50% of the vote, making a runoff necessary on Tuesday.
Highlighting the importance of the election to Republicans, Vice President Dick Cheney campaigned in the state on Monday for Davis. Davis, 42, is the mayor of Southaven in Mississippi's fastest-growing county, DeSoto.
Childers, 50, said he disagreed with the national Democratic party on some issues, characterizing himself as a Mississippi Democrat who is conservative on social issues.
Childers will serve the remainder of the term in a House seat vacated by Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss.
Democrats now control 236 seats and the Republicans 199 seats in the 435-member House of Representatives. Democrats also have a majority in the Senate, albeit a razor-thin one, and a handful of Republican seats are also vulnerable in that chamber in the November election.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/republican-seat-risk-mississippi-election/story.aspx?guid=%7B4547B6C8-F62A-4F99-B88F-FD5D8B141AFF%7D&dist=msr_2

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