I wish I could say something exciting was going on around here but that is not the case. Same old stuff. We are about a third done calving the heifers all ready. Quite a difference from last year where we didn't have very many calves the first cycle. This year they are coming fast and furious.
The new hired hand is still on schedule to be here. The old one hasn't left yet so I am not hammered too bad. My present guy is really moving stuff out though so the home should be ready when the new guy gets here.
I did have one live and one dead calf on the cows all ready. I know the one with the live calf got in early with the boyz so she was an early calver. The dead one though was definitely premature. I don't know why I get it but every year i get a few premature, dead calves just before the cows start calving. The vet seems to not be too worried about it but it just bothers me a little. Why do they do it? What is the cause? I don't think I will ever know.
All I know is the grind is getting me down right now. The lack of sleep from checking heifers is really getting to me and I am always tired. I can't get enough sleep and it doesn't feel like I ever will. It will get better eventually, I know, but it doesn't feel like it at this point. My brain feels like mush. The question becomes, does my brain feel like mush because of the lack of sleep, or does it feel like mush because of all the bullshit the politicians, Clinton and Obama and McCain and others, feed us this campaign season? I personally think a little bit of both.
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist. Stewart Alsop
Sunday, February 17. 2008
Happenings
Tuesday, April 24. 2007
Prices
Craig asks a very good question about gas prices. Why that the Democrats are now in control are we not hearing any noise about the high gas prices like we did before the elections? I see that there is no answer to his question, some comment about gas prices but no answer to why the Democrats aren't fixing the problem like they promised.
What I find even more interesting is the fact that the high gas price hasn't changed Americans behavior.
Overall we are using more gas. Are Americans immune to under $3 gas now or is the economy just that strong that nobody cares? I know I care but I think most people are immune. I do everything I can to cut gas usage and I have done it. I don't know who is using my share of gas but they can have it.
It is interesting that there is no more noise about gas prices then there is now. Without the politicians egging on the masses about the situation, it doesn't make news.
It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism. Oliver Stone
What I find even more interesting is the fact that the high gas price hasn't changed Americans behavior.
As gas prices once again inch toward $3 a gallon, U.S. motorists are reacting with everything from indifference to outrage. But on the whole, they don't appear to be driving any less.
In fact, despite a 10-week run-up in pump prices, Americans continue using more gasoline this year than they did in 2006, according to a Department of Energy report last week.
Overall we are using more gas. Are Americans immune to under $3 gas now or is the economy just that strong that nobody cares? I know I care but I think most people are immune. I do everything I can to cut gas usage and I have done it. I don't know who is using my share of gas but they can have it.
It is interesting that there is no more noise about gas prices then there is now. Without the politicians egging on the masses about the situation, it doesn't make news.
It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism. Oliver Stone
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Tuesday, December 12. 2006
A Better Idea
Democrats Freeze Earmarks for Now
This is a great idea. A way of making it even better though would be to drop the "for now" and change "freeze" to eliminate in the title. Then it would be "Democrats eliminate earmarks." That would be something to get excited about. The fiscal mess our country is in needs every little bit of help to dig out of and eliminating the earmarks would be a good way of doing it.
I guess freezing them is better than nothing. Weaning the states off the Federal Pork for a while is a nice start to the fiscal problems our country has. I wonder what their next idea will be?
In dreams begins responsibility. William Butler Yeats
Democratic leaders declared a temporary moratorium on special-interest provisions known as earmarks as they attempt to cope with a budget crisis left by the outgoing Republican-led 109th Congress.
Congress adjourned early Saturday, having completed work on two of the 11 spending bills for the 2007 fiscal year that began Oct. 1. As a short-term fix, lawmakers extended current funding levels until Feb. 15. But the incoming Democratic chairmen of the House and Senate Appropriations committees announced yesterday that they would extend current levels until the 2008 fiscal year begins next Oct. 1.
This is a great idea. A way of making it even better though would be to drop the "for now" and change "freeze" to eliminate in the title. Then it would be "Democrats eliminate earmarks." That would be something to get excited about. The fiscal mess our country is in needs every little bit of help to dig out of and eliminating the earmarks would be a good way of doing it.
I guess freezing them is better than nothing. Weaning the states off the Federal Pork for a while is a nice start to the fiscal problems our country has. I wonder what their next idea will be?
In dreams begins responsibility. William Butler Yeats
Wednesday, December 6. 2006
Drought Aid Dead, For Now
Drought aid derailed again
No surprise here, I expected as much. The question becomes if the Democratic Congress will be able to muster the will power to pass Drought Aid and if it does, not a sure thing if you ask me, will The President veto it. The President has vowed to veto any disaster aid for farmers so it will be interesting to see if he follows through.
The whole disaster thing drags on. I'm sure glad I am not holding my breathe over it and in dire need of it. A person could die waiting for politicians to make up their minds.
You have to wait until the thing crystallizes in your own mind, and very often some of the ideas you have to abandon because they are of such an improvisational nature that we have really no notation that is adequate enough to be able to explicitly put it down on paper. Leo Ornstein
Congressional efforts to provide billions of dollars in agricultural disaster aid were thwarted again Tuesday, leaving the issue to languish until Democrats take over both chambers in January.
North Dakota Sens. Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan, both Democrats, attempted to attach $4.8 billion in aid for struggling farmers to an agriculture spending bill.
But Republicans objected to the provision as the White House issued a veto threat, saying it was too expensive. Supporters were not able to get the 60 votes to overcome the objection.
No surprise here, I expected as much. The question becomes if the Democratic Congress will be able to muster the will power to pass Drought Aid and if it does, not a sure thing if you ask me, will The President veto it. The President has vowed to veto any disaster aid for farmers so it will be interesting to see if he follows through.
The whole disaster thing drags on. I'm sure glad I am not holding my breathe over it and in dire need of it. A person could die waiting for politicians to make up their minds.
You have to wait until the thing crystallizes in your own mind, and very often some of the ideas you have to abandon because they are of such an improvisational nature that we have really no notation that is adequate enough to be able to explicitly put it down on paper. Leo Ornstein
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