Thoughts from the Middle of Nowhere

I was just visiting with my Uncle from the Billings are who was unaware of my opinion of your Governor. He told me what a bang up job Gov. Schweitzer was doing. I turned to him and said, "Tell me one thing Schweitzer has done positive for the state of Montana."

He thought for a second and said, "I don't know, but the paper and TV sure talk him up all the time."

I kept pressing him to name one thing the Governor has done for the State. He could not name one thing that the Governor has done for the state so I asked why he thought he was doing such a good job if he couldn't name a single thing he has done for the state.

"That's the impression the newspaper and TV stations give all the time of him so I just thought he was doing a great job."

I told him he needs to study more what the Governor is doing and not just blindly believe all the divine adulation the media is fawning upon him. Typical con-man, has everybody believing his hot air blindly without ever thinking about it.

Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation. Walter Lippmann

It sure looks like they are all home after the storm. I will have to get out and look around though and I don't know when I will get a chance to do that, the weekend more than likely.



I wish I would have had a wide enough angle to get all the cows scattered across the flat but I didn't. They sure think they need a bale of hay with the fresh snow on the ground. By the weekend I will probably start to cake them and then I will have to see. The weather service keeps mentioning snow and if it gets to deep I will have to think about haying everything. I have the hay, I'm just not looking forward to feeding it.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way. Baltasar Gracian

First the Governor has a mind dump on what to do with the excess monies the State seems to have and now a Republican is having just as big of brain fart as the Governor.

House Republican leader Roy Brown said the state has a projected surplus in excess of $300 million that could be split up for school funding, property tax relief and to negate a coming water usage fee earmarked for the state's water rights adjudication system.

Brown said "bridge funding" for schools would allow them to put more money into the current school funding formula. That would give the interim committee more time to come up with a complex fix for a system the state Supreme Court has ruled unconstitutional.

This is one time money, how are you going to use it for property tax relief or to negate the water usage fee you were so proud of when you passed it during the regular session. At least he admits it's not a fix for school funding like the Governor indicated, just a band-aid for the problem which makes sense. While property taxes are high how are one time monies going to help reduce them? I do know why he wants to negate the water usage fees, the notice just came out about the increase3es they passed and all the farmers and ranchers are howling about all the money it's going to cost them so this idiot wants to be the savior for them and fix the problem. Why did he pass the bill in the first place if he was going to negate it down the road?

I personally don't see much difference between this proposal and the Governors, both want to use one time monies to fix forever long term problems. Typical short sighted Government solutions to complex problems. Just wait though, all those sycophants that love the Governor will say what a brilliant man he is for his plan while the Republicans are stupid for proposing the same thing. I hate politics.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. Edmund Burke