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Five bucks to watch Sat. AM slack at XIT Rodeo in Dalhart, TX. -- Hap, 09:15:28 08/05/07 Sun

8:00 am PRCA Slack, $5.00 per person

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- When I looked up who the stock contractor was.... NO SURPRISE THERE. (NT) -- Varmit, 13:43:37 08/05/07 Sun
  - Varmet, I don't have a problem with that. Unless you are in a Metro area where a lot of over paid, over fed city dudes are paying to watch rodeo doesn't bring in a lot of revenue. Our little rodeo was pretty thin on Sat. night and all the better cowboys came on Sunday. Next year we are going to put half our added money up for high mark of the Sat. nite performance only. We spent 9 grand producing a rodeo that less than 800 people saw and still made a little money. The gate admission was 5 bucks. (NT) -- ZD, 14:40:25 08/05/07 Sun
    - There are some stock contractors out there who want to charge the contestants for their kids when they have their family with them. I was more on a case of that. (NT) -- Varmit, 19:07:17 08/05/07 Sun
      - I sure like to cater to the cowboys when we can. The bull fighters and one of their PG wife stayed in my bunk house during our little rodeo. They appreciated it. I even stocked the fridge and the bull fighter cooked his PG wife breakfast in bed. Nice kids. They fished in my ponds. (NT) -- ZD, 19:17:56 08/06/07 Mon
        
        We've had many kids stay here and really enjoyed them except for one rodeo clown that came home with the boys straight from the last bull ride. They took turns taking showere and that dang guy wiped his make up off on the towels that women hang in the bathroom for decoration. My wife never said anything but one of our boys let him know that wasn't too cool. They were all in a hurry to get to town, think I heard something about judgeing a wet tee shirt contest. (NT) -- Hap, 09:41:30 08/08/07 Wed
Good Story.....Better ending -- Varmit, 18:26:23 08/03/07 Fri
http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/02/news/wyoming/23-roper.txt

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- That's for sure a good story. That Billings Gazzette and the Casper paper put out some of the best rodeo articles. The local paper here makes a big deal out of the HS Finals coming back next year but the only thing the ever mention is the economic impact it has. The HS Finals that just finished last week was never mentioned, not even one time We need Julie to send stuff to these guys. (NT) -- Hap, 19:41:30 08/03/07 Fri
  - I think Julie likes being stuck in the time warp. She can get more work done....lol. But your right about Billings and Casper paper, they both have some good articles. (NT) -- Varmit, 07:04:00 08/04/07 Sat
    - I just seen where he won that money in the regular steer roping, I was under the impression it was the senior steer roping. Making him the oldest person to ever win money at Cheyenne. (NT) -- Varmit, 07:16:59 08/05/07 Sun
- While I love to be a Kendra Santos of HS rodeo...the actual execution of the plan gives me nightmares...I know how much trouble I have tracking down stuff just for our COUNTY --let alone the Western states! :) Varmit, smack yourself upside the head for me, you've earned it :) :) (NT) -- Julie, 11:13:21 08/06/07 Mon
  - Hap, I know how much trouble we had getting info out of Farmington before when the finals were there --we had county kids there, asked for specific photos, got nothing or junk --and they are our SISTER paper --owned by the same gurus --it's pretty sad. (NT) -- Julie, 11:18:27 08/06/07 Mon
  - I have to much neck problems.... can I smack myself somewhere else? (NT) -- Varmit, 18:00:13 08/06/07 Mon
Does anybody know Vin Fisher? -- Varmit, 15:35:08 08/06/07 Mon
Or know somebody who does know him?

If so tell him to go to:

youtube.com and put Vin Fisher in the search quarry.

The Big Mean Fish has a video of him at Cheyenne.

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- He also has a new one just put out... just put..... 2007 Cheyenne Rodeo .... into the search quarry...... they using a small hot shot on them. (NT) -- Varmit, 17:41:01 08/06/07 Mon
Here's the schedule for the college finals and it will be shown several more times this week and a couple of times today. I think they hook you up instantly when you call, not sure. All this week up until the 10th should be the first hour of three. -- Hap, 08:09:02 08/05/07 Sun
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Heads up on the college finals Friday night August 3rd. -- Hap, 20:29:47 08/01/07 Wed

http://www.collegerodeo.com/news.asp#CSTV

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- Another channel I do not get. Guess the Elliot kid is still in bad shape but suppose to make a full recovery. Was runner up in the bull riding at the college finals. (NT) -- Varmit, 16:58:13 08/02/07 Thu
  - I just got done watching the first of three hours of the college finals and rodeo doesn't get much better than that . With the news being loaded up with out of control celebs ans a-hole politicians it's sure good to bring some class to the screen for a change. Varmit, can you get that channel down there for 2 bucks a month? I think they add channels like that and it's dang sure worth it if you don't watch anything else on it all year. I'm pretty happy right now after that. (NT) -- Hap, 19:30:14 08/03/07 Fri
    - Yeah, I can get that channel. But if I done missed the first 3 hours, be best to wait until next year I guess....lol. (NT) -- Varmit, 13:42:13 08/04/07 Sat
Off to the Fair! -- Crystal, 17:22:12 08/03/07 Fri
Won't be in much next week. Headed to the big Umatilla County Fair with Homer The Steer. Don't have too much fun here without me! :-)

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- Who's in charge in here while your gone? Good luck at the fair (NT) -- Varmit, 18:28:08 08/03/07 Fri
  - When I go through the beef barn at our fair I've learned to zip my lip if anybody asks if I've got the winners picked. It's as dangerous as if they lined up all their kids and asked which families have the best looking kids. One guy I knew for years asked me about my picks of steers a few years ago and when I pointed some out he said " I guess they need to get you to judge this damn thing next year" and stormed off. I forgot he had a new wife with some younger kids and he was back in the thick of things at the fair. Now I only say "I don't know, there's sure some dandies here this year." (NT) -- Hap, 20:01:42 08/03/07 Fri
    - Yeah, the second most dangerous job for you would to be to judge the local beauty contest or the local queen contest. They should have them on the Discovery channel as the most dangerous jobs in America. (NT) -- Varmit, 07:01:19 08/04/07 Sat
Here's a good article from the Casper paper on Cheyenne. -- Hap, 15:30:14 08/01/07 Wed

http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2007/07/30/sports/spo
rtstop_story/1027e1cfa30e59e887257328000a630b.txt

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- Something -- Hap, 15:35:43 08/01/07 Wed
- I'll go ahead ahead and post it inside >>>>>> -- Hap, 15:37:16 08/01/07 Wed
  - I clicked on your "something" before this inside like was posted and this came up. And Julie says your slow out there..... ya proved her wrong...lol..... good story. (NT) -- Varmit, 15:47:06 08/01/07 Wed
    - haha, I started to say something's wrong with the link but changed my mind. Don't know how it showed up. (NT) -- Hap, 17:38:27 08/01/07 Wed
- LOVED the description of Taos -- (NT) -- Julie, 06:38:37 08/02/07 Thu
Hap, if you haven't heard...Taos won the SB at Cheyenne -- Julie, 20:46:23 07/31/07 Tue
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- Julie... did you say you own...... www.slowmedianews.com...... ? j/k (NT) -- Varmit, 06:35:33 08/01/07 Wed
  - Big Mean Fish followers escorted from Dodge City by police...... http://www.dodgeglobe.com/stories/080107/loc_20070801008.shtml (NT) -- Varmit, 10:33:57 08/01/07 Wed
  - What's so slow about that? ---besides did you forget how remote we are out here. Time stood still and we didn't know it until a week later :) Taos's mom told me he has won $30,000 in the last couple weeks. (NT) -- Julie, 13:43:31 08/01/07 Wed
Mike Beers injured at Bobby Mote's ranch -- Varmit, 13:17:41 08/01/07 Wed
http://prorodeo.com/news.aspx?xu=686

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I remember when I was a kid they did this all the time on the dirt roads -- Varmit, 16:33:52 07/30/07 Mon
Makes me wonder if a person has a jackpot roping or bronc riding or bull riding that they may someday consider that to be illegal.

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/30/ap3966932.html

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- There are tracks like that all over the country, I imagine. I know there are/have been some around here. When I was trying to sell my TB broodmare, I would get calls all the time from people that didn't speak much English - wanting to know if she could race! She was off the track, but 17 years old, and done nothing but raise babies for at least 10 years. And running on a real track with Animal Welfare rules, etc., is hard enough on them. An unregulated track is surely a nightmare! (NT) -- Crystal, 07:34:40 07/31/07 Tue
  - I was at lots of matched horse races at an early age because my brother-in-law rode lots of those horses and it was my job to cool them down afterwards because he would already be on another horse. One thing I remember real well is that even though some of those race horses were a hand full for a 12 year old kid, right after running, I was happy to stay clear of the activity close to the track. You should have seen some of the brawls over those races and they usually involved those guys who didn't speak english all that well. I only went to a couple after I was grown but only bet with my buddies because they wouldn't knife me. (NT) -- Hap, 16:00:22 07/31/07 Tue
    - Things always went peaceful down here. But back then I don't even remember any spanish in our area. Think it was in the late 70 or 80's before they started showing up. It was usually between ranchers when they raced or guys breaking horses or blacksmiths. Everybody knew everybody, so it stay civil. (NT) -- Varmit, 17:28:19 07/31/07 Tue
Barrier question. -- Hap, 16:06:21 07/31/07 Tue
If a horse rares up and has his front legs over the barrier but never touches it, and the string still has it tied together laying on the ground after the run, is that a + 10?

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- Hap, its a plus 10..... under the rules which explain "beating the barrier". (NT) -- Varmit, 17:24:10 07/31/07 Tue
Helloooo Out There?? -- Varmit, 19:45:15 07/24/07 Tue
Just wondering if anybody is still reading this message board or just not posting anymore.

Anyway, check in and let me know if your still on planet Earth. I know there are more reported UFO abductions in the West then down here in the Swamp.

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- I am here.... sort of. LOL (NT) -- Albertagirl, 08:51:16 07/25/07 Wed
- Our power was out at work from 4am to about 7pm yesterday. I worked - filing. I could spend at least a whole other day JUST filing. :-( (NT) -- Crystal, 09:05:54 07/25/07 Wed
- I check in fairly often. I thought Varmet was out chasin' the cow that got loose somewhere down there. It was on the local DFW news. Like really, a cow got loose? In Ft. Worth when the stockyards was operating the cops wouldn't even respond to a loose cow. The cowboys just went and got them. Roped them on those brick streets and didn't dally until they could get where their horse could hold the critters. (NT) -- ZD, 13:37:46 07/25/07 Wed
  - Things have changed down here over the last 50 years. My dad use to help drive cattle down route 192 in Kissimmee which was a dirt road. Now you see nothing but hotels and it leads into Disney World. We have bunches of people from UP NORTH down here now from the big cities. You can only imagine what they think when they see a cow on the road. Then you got cops born up there and if the ranch and grove deputies don't get there first watch out, anything can happen with a city born cop and with a gun. (NT) -- Varmit, 16:27:39 07/25/07 Wed
    - We haven't heard from Hap in a long time. Also Bruce or Rose. (NT) -- Varmit, 08:54:16 07/26/07 Thu
    - Easy to fix. Just sell out and move. Hang up the sign that says GTT (Gone to Texas). Problem solved. (NT) -- ZD, 12:30:18 07/26/07 Thu
      - Maybe Wyoming, if I gonna leave the heat, gonna go somewhere where there are mountains. But thanks for the offer. (NT) -- Varmit, 13:54:13 07/26/07 Thu
        
        I know what you mean. I too love the mountains. I love to watch the sun set out of the front door of my cowboy bunk house. In my mind I can see mountains. It helps though if I have had a couple of glasses of wine. The dang mountains are 650 mi. away. 950 mi. if you want mountains with trees on them. This boring old prairie sure grows good grass though. (NT) -- ZD, 08:44:06 07/27/07 Fri
        
        Well after a years drought, only in Florida can you go from severe drought to pastures under water in a matter of a couple of weeks. 15 inches of rain in July so far. 5 in the last 3 days. Drought was looking better once we got that big rain the first of June. Grass down here just needs a kick start the first of summer then will grow with just the morning dew. (NT) -- Varmit, 19:17:57 07/27/07 Fri
- I'm here...once in awhile...been a really crazy summer --I'm most often found headed out the door!! (NT) -- Jule, 06:23:06 07/30/07 Mon
  - My grandson was here for a few weeks and spent lots of time playing car crash games on the computer and seems like I kinda got out of the habit of getting on myself I guess. (NT) -- Hap, 16:10:01 07/31/07 Tue
The guy who calls Cotton his friend is up on the soapbox -- Varmit, 17:52:25 07/21/07 Sat
http://thecalifornian.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070721/OPINION/707210335/1014

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The Big Mean Fish -- Varmit, 06:59:23 07/19/07 Thu
I hope they have learned there lesson of not having the High School Finals in any state near Illinois in the future.

http://www.sj-r.com/News/stories/12415.asp

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- Yep. Illinois just lost a ton of money in the future. All horse/livestock events will think twice before going there. (NT) -- Crystal, 09:44:48 07/19/07 Thu
  - They need to hire a good video photographer to follow every move he makes while on the premises, from the time he gets out of the vehicle until he leaves. (NT) -- Varmit, 13:34:53 07/19/07 Thu
    - He drives a car with leather seats... . lots of information about him in this article....... http://www.sj-r.com/News/stories/12147.asp (NT) -- Varmit, 18:12:49 07/19/07 Thu
Calgary Stampede - Cody Ohl was there last year. I never heard the reasoning as to why he wasn't here this year. The uneccessary roughness rule DQ'd a lot of ropers over the 10 days. I talked to several contestants and they all loved the format, and the money. I hear there are even bigger changes in the works for next year. -- Albertagirl, 13:34:12 07/16/07 Mon
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- Unnceccsary Roughness???....... or are you speaking of the "Jerk Down Rule" ? I really do not see the reason for the rule, when what I seen on the video, it looked like some of those calves did not weigh over 150 pounds. The ARA's are always complaining they use "baby calves", yet to put in the jerk down rule and use such small calves is kinda conteracting the rule altogether. Not sure who or why they would even use the rule unless they are just trying to please the ARA's. If they are doing that, then Alberta is going to be right behind British Columbia. (NT) -- Varmit, 17:15:10 07/16/07 Mon
- Yep, "uneccessary roughness" is an actual rule seperate from the jerk down rule. it was implemented by the cowboys up here after teh Clvoerdale debacle. Joe Beaver, Clint Robinson and I believe Al Bouchard all got waved out because of it in the semi-finals on Sunday. (NT) -- Albertagirl, 22:00:32 07/16/07 Mon
  - Sorry for the spelling.... its been a long two weeks! ;) (NT) -- Albertagirl, 22:01:37 07/16/07 Mon
    - WHAT????? When you get time, can you explain why they were flagged out? I just not sure what they are doing to get themselves flagged out. (NT) -- Varmit, 04:18:05 07/17/07 Tue
      - I remember one had the rope figure 8 around the neck and tail and flipped the calf.. not backwards, but kind of flipped him sideways. Its anything the judge deems to be overly rough. Its highly objective, and I see a lot of problems with this rule... but unfortunately its getting to be necessary. (NT) -- Albertagirl, 08:32:25 07/17/07 Tue
- It was Jeff Chapman, not Al Bouchard that got waved out. (NT) -- Albertagirl, 08:44:09 07/17/07 Tue
  - It's to bad Canada is going to the way of the ARA's. The more they give them the more they gonna take. I suppose slapping a bull to make him stand up straight will be against the rules next. I think its going to hurt them next year as far as the talented American ropers. I bet if you could of read lips when they flagged out Joe, you would of heard him saying something about it. (NT) -- Varmit, 08:59:51 07/17/07 Tue
- I didn't need to read lips, I'm at the timey gate so I hear everything. He was actually pretty calm about it all. (NT) -- Albertagirl, 12:30:35 07/17/07 Tue
  - Did anybody get mad over the new rule? You don't have to name names, just curious if somebody who might of had a shot at $100,000 got disqualified, which I guess you could say might of ended up being a $100,000 fine. (NT) -- Varmit, 13:56:04 07/17/07 Tue
- Not that I saw. Joe & Clint were waved out in the semi's, so that really cost them. I didn't hear anything negative from either one of them though. If you see any clips of the timed events, I'm the white hat right usually on the right side behind the Calgary Stampede gate that they run past. (NT) -- Albertagirl, 14:26:28 07/17/07 Tue
  - When I look at the videos on the website, everybody with a straw hat looks like they are wearing a white hat on my computer. Confused I am. (NT) -- Varmit, 09:48:10 07/18/07 Wed
    - Check out Day 2 (http://cs.calgarystampede.com/video_popout/video/video_categories.html?category_id=5&video_id=8128995317235331022). When Blair ties his calf I am right over his shoulder behind the gate on the left side of the screen. When Trevor throws his steer I am right behind the gate. You can see me look to the left and back. LOL (NT) -- Albertagirl, 13:56:42 07/18/07 Wed
      - The top bar of the gate is in the way....lol. (NT) -- Varmit, 15:36:03 07/18/07 Wed
        
        Speaking of Cody Ohl, I see he won the first go round at Cheyenne today. He won both Vernal and Colorado Springs while Calgary was going on. (NT) -- Varmit, 16:50:23 07/18/07 Wed
3 horses die at Calgary -- Varmit, 20:44:49 07/15/07 Sun
In the chuckwagon races. Animal rights activist up in arms over it. They battling an uphill battle with that event in Canada.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070715/stampede_crash_070715/20070715?hub=TopStories

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- The driver was more critically hurt than the article eluded to. By the looks of the tape he was freight trained by an Outrider's horse as he was coming down from being ejected from his wagon. His hip bone was pushed through his pelvis, and his one elbow was severely disclocated. Two Outriders saved another wreck when one (Chance Vigen) jumped from the back of his horse into the wagon and the other (Reo King) jumped onto the lead horses in an effort to get them under control. Its interesting that the ARA's are calling for an end to the rodeo as well. The chucks and rodeo have absolutely nothing to do with each other. (NT) -- Albertagirl, 13:30:39 07/16/07 Mon
  - I watch the chuckwagon video from Saturday night, but I take it they edited that off from showing on the website. (NT) -- Varmit, 17:31:27 07/16/07 Mon
Here's a couple of clowns that showed up at the Hubbard Rodeo. http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a158/ZDRanch/Dcp_0007.jpg -- ZD, 08:45:30 07/15/07 Sun
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Stock Dog Story -- Varmit, 09:53:09 07/12/07 Thu
No complete results ZD, but a story about the championship:

http://www.stampedeagriculture.com/tmp/PR400.pdf

Did you find that photo for your muscle shirt yet?

Here is one, sure hope Crystal don't ban me from the board for posting this. But this photo might get you in trouble ZD. YIKES!!!!!

http://www.tmz.com/2007/07/03/paris-in-close-shave-in-hawaii/

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Just In Case -- Varmit, 13:15:39 07/07/07 Sat
There is anybody reading this board.

Here is the link to the Calgary Results:

http://cs.calgarystampede.com/rodeo/results.html?year=2007

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- Thanks for the link. My pal Jimmy Walker (2005 World Champion) is there now competing in the Stock Dog trials. Couldn't find much on it but perhaps I can find the results when they are posted Mon. or Tuesday. Good Luck Jimmy. (NT) -- ZD, 07:19:31 07/08/07 Sun
  - ZD, you might find it on this page after its over. Either put in the keyword or scroll down the page and you will see links to rodeo results, diary show results, team penning results.... http://www.stampedeagriculture.com/I_AM/media.shtml (NT) -- Varmit, 07:30:33 07/09/07 Mon
    - I forgot to mention to you that Sandy isn't buckin' his bulls at Billy Bob's any more. CK Reid has taken it over along with the Fri. & Sat. rodeos at the Cowtown arena across the alley. I don't think there was any big blow up or anything, the owners just wanted to deal with one guy for both deals. I feel bad for Sandy because I am sure he has his feelings hurt. (NT) -- ZD, 14:16:39 07/09/07 Mon
      - So what is Sandy doing now? (NT) -- Varmit, 15:41:42 07/09/07 Mon
        
        He works at the local auction barn and raises his bulls. I suspect that he is learning to live some again since he has been working non stop from Friday until Sunday for so long. He sold a bull the other day for $40,000.00 dollars so I would think that he doesn't have any imidiate problem. He has a relatively new wife that is a perfect match for him. He really got a keeper this time. She has made my shirts and vests for years and is making so much money selling make up that she won't sew for me any more. She also painted my house for me. She is a worker. (NT) -- ZD, 18:36:06 07/09/07 Mon
        
        Sounds good ZD.... wonder why Cody Ohl never goes up to Calgary. At least in the last few years he has not been there. (NT) -- Varmit, 14:50:56 07/10/07 Tue
        
        It could be that that is one of the places Cody is not welcome. Fightin' with him would be like fightin' with an anvil. (NT) -- ZD, 14:06:18 07/11/07 Wed
        
        Maybe Albertagirl will get back on here and fill us in on Cody. I know he is suppose to be invited being the world champion. Maybe he looked at the map and seen how far it is from Texas. (NT) -- Varmit, 19:03:54 07/11/07 Wed
        Maybe Albertagirl will get back on here and fill us in on Cody. I know he is suppose to be invited being the world champion. Maybe he looked at the map and seen how far it is from Texas. I know they use to have some strict rules about what horses calf ropers were bringing and had to let them know ahead of time about what horses they were roping on. Thought that was kinda ridiculous myself. (NT) -- Varmit, 19:06:40 07/11/07 Wed
I've been REAL busy-- -- Julie, 21:03:41 07/10/07 Tue
Trip to Colorado, new baby grandson in Santa Fe and my book off the press tomorrow...and of course the 4th of July marathon.

I have two links to share:

First, must we a slow holiday week in Ft. Worth. Look who judged the Smokey Bear Stampede rodeo here in Capitan:
http://photos.imageevent.com/jcarter/stampede/websize/DSC07796.JPG

And then...two days of MUD WRESTLING ranch rodeo. Doesn't rain much here but when it does:
enjoy the slide show!

http://ImageEvent.com/jcarter/mud

Check my website for updates there :0

www.julie-carter.com

Hope you all are WELL!!

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- Looks like a bunch of our Florida rodeos in the past with water in the arena. You will have to fill in the blank for me on the judge? For the question down below, no college rodeo in Pueblo or Lajunta or Alamosa or Riverton, etc etc. Slim pickins for the guys nowadays. Glad to see you back on the board. (NT) -- Varmit, 06:38:48 07/11/07 Wed
  - I was going to guess Monty, but haven't seen him in years, so not sure if I am correct on that. (NT) -- Varmit, 14:39:03 07/11/07 Wed
Hey Julie -- Varmit, 15:26:11 06/25/07 Mon
They sure cut back on the number of college rodeos in the Rocky Mountain Region compared to our day.

http://www.collegerodeo.com/Rodeos/Regional_Standings.asp?Region=CR

I remember going to Alamosa, Greeley, LaJunta, Pueblo, Riverton and one close to Brighton. We use to have 4 in the fall and once Laramie started in mid March, one every weekend until mid May. And sometimes 2 on a certain weekend.

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- Maybe they cut back cuz cowboys aren't in college anymore :) Didn't Pueblo have a fall and spring rodeo? (NT) -- Julie, 20:59:56 07/10/07 Tue
All Stars Update -- Crystal, 10:30:56 07/05/07 Thu
Here is the scenario:

Sunday, July 1st � All Star Tourney in The Dalles. Hermiston vs The Dalles

4th Inning, score tied 6 -6, 2 outs, bases loaded.

Rylen is up to bat. One strike, one ball, swings at the 3rd pitch. TING � heads out over the fence at left center. His first home run and it is a GRAND SLAM! The coach is trying to keep the other boys in the dug out, and coming around third base, Rylen starts to go to the dug out too. LOL! Then he heads back down the baseline and then does NOT touch home plate! He was floating on air and came down just long enough to touch the plate.

Click Here to see the video of the hit. The volume came across very loud, so you will want to turn down your speakers a bit.

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- It was also his first home run ever. They won that game, but lost two others and were eliminated from the tourney. :-( (NT) -- Crystal, 10:34:09 07/05/07 Thu
  - I can only guess who was doing all the hollering...hmmm..... Glad to hear he got a grand slam. (NT) -- Varmit, 10:15:51 07/07/07 Sat
What's in an e*Name? -- ZD, 15:50:03 07/03/07 Tue
All of these are legitimate companies that didn't spend quite enough time considering how their online names might appear .. and be misread.
These are not made up. Check them out yourself!
1. Who Represents is where you can find the name of the agent that represents any celebrity. Their Web site is www.whorepresents.com
2 . Experts Exchange is a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views at www.expertsexchange.com
3. Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island at www.penisland.net
4. Need a therapist? Try Therapist Finder at www.therapistfinder.com
5. There's the Italian Power Generator company, www.powergenitalia.com
6. And don't forget the Mole Station Native Nursery in New South Wales ,
www.molestationnursery.com
7. If you're looking for IP computer software, there's always
www.ipanywhere.com
8. The First Cumming Methodist Church Web site is www.cummingfirst.com
9. And the designers at Speed of Art await you at their wacky Web site,
www.speedofart.com

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- Bet if you hunt around a person can find a bunch more like that..... ZD, how is the muscle shirt coming along? Guess your gettin enough rain in Texas this year. (NT) -- Varmit, 19:07:39 07/03/07 Tue
  - I have walked arround on chicken legs all my life. Now I am walking on knotty chicken legs. I still have some belly fat and some kidney fat but it is getting a bit less every week. I am going to take a couple of months and train without the trainer for the Summer and then start back up during the Fall. I will continue to work out on my own. I am up to doing all the machines and adding weight each week and now I can do 3 sets of 12 sit ups on the incline table. The belly is flatening and I have the stamina to work and play. We have had 30" of our norman 35" annual rainfall. It is wet. Grass & hay no problem. http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a158/ZDRanch/DCP_0006.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a158/ZDRanch/DCP_0004-2.jpg (NT) -- ZD, 07:33:13 07/04/07 Wed
    - Great to hear your doing good on the weights and weight loss. You should be making some money off that hay. I see people complaining everywhere about the price of hay this year. Seems like a bunch of them got greedy and planted their hayfields into corn fields. Now corn has dropped a $1.00 a bushel. 30 inches of 35 normal, with 6 months left to go in the year, should make for some good fall and early grass this year for you. We finally getting some showers, enough to make the grass grow without being wet. (NT) -- Varmit, 17:22:49 07/04/07 Wed
      - Good luck on gettin' some follow up rains. I am so under stocked right now that I will just let my pastures develop some root strength. Old grass will go into the winter with a lot stronger root system and can reach deeper for water the following year. It rained more today. No more water can soak in. It is very wet and every thing that falls runs off now. Trees and weeds are doing good too. I don't care much for either. (NT) -- ZD, 14:39:43 07/05/07 Thu
Not Very Smart -- Varmit, 06:45:25 07/04/07 Wed
At last years National High School Finals they allow the Big Mean Fish to be a volunteer humane investigator for the state Department of Agriculture.

http://www.sj-r.com/sections/news/stories/117920.asp

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- Wow... now injured calves are being kicked and strangled to death in the back pens at rodeos.... http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070705/OPINION/707050324/1005/OPINION (NT) -- Varmit, 09:49:52 07/05/07 Thu
I guess politicians passed these laws at some time. -- Varmit, 06:37:08 07/04/07 Wed
From an article:

The Ridiculous
An assortment of seemingly crazy state driving laws exists and can be found easily across the internet. Most of these examples are sourced from newspapers and come from the site www.dumblaws.com, whose editors did not respond to a call for comment. Here goes:

In California, no vehicle without a driver may exceed 60 miles per hour.

In Florida, if an elephant, goat or alligator is left tied to a parking meter, the parking fee has to be paid just as it would for a vehicle.

In Montana, it is illegal to have a sheep in the cab of your truck without a chaperone.

In Oregon, a door on a car may not be left open longer than necessary.

In Tennessee, it is illegal shoot any game other than whales from a moving automobile.

Good luck finding a whale in Tennessee!

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Anybody wanna take a guess? -- Varmit, 07:22:28 06/30/07 Sat
Who might do this? I happened to go to the Pecos rodeo web site yesterday and the FBI home page came up. Then I see in the PRCA story where gremlings did that.... hmmmmm... wonder if its a big fish.

http://prorodeo.com/news.aspx?xu=592

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- A big Mean Fish? (NT) -- Crystal, 08:31:30 06/30/07 Sat
  - Ya,,,,, guess its just you and me on this board..... this is a strange story, its hard to imagine how they could not escape this. 3 die from wildfire while working in a hayfield.......http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/227471/3/ (NT) -- Varmit, 06:32:18 07/01/07 Sun
    - Here is one for ya...... http://news.aol.com/the-cooler-blog/2007/06/26/peta-calls-michael-moore-a-fatso/ (NT) -- Varmit, 14:24:42 07/02/07 Mon
My, aren't we a talkative bunch! -- Crystal, 07:19:02 06/28/07 Thu
Everyone must be pretty busy this summer. I know I am! :-) Between work and baseball, I have no other life. Rylen made All Stars, so the season has stretched for another 3 weeks. Of course, in their Great Wisdom, the All Stars tourny is the week of the 4th. Rylen also has two 4-H steers and he had a show last weekend. I've been running about 3 directions at the same time. But, it's fun, isn't it!?!

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- Good on the Allstars. Could be worse and you could live from Texas to Minnesota and have to go to a bunch of mud rodeos this weekend. Think we finally gonna get some more rain starting today. Been almost a month since we had that 5 inches. (NT) -- Varmit, 09:53:56 06/28/07 Thu
  - I have come to the conclusion that these animal rights activist are nothing more then a cult. They can't even write a letter to the editor against rodeo without using just about everything they have been told by ARA websites to say in a letter. Proving, they may not have a mind of their own...... http://folsomtelegraph.com/articles/2007/06/27/opinion/letters/02letters2.txt (NT) -- Varmit, 16:00:26 06/28/07 Thu
    - You're just now realizing this???? (NT) -- Crystal, 16:03:00 06/28/07 Thu
      - I had to give them the benefit of the doubt and give them a few years to see if something new came up without copying the ara sites. (NT) -- Varmit, 17:10:25 06/28/07 Thu
Bet the ARA's won't be happy about this -- Varmit, 15:55:16 06/22/07 Fri
Eight days after 31 Wyoming Republicans filed their names to fill the state's vacant Senate seat, an orthopedic surgeon and former rodeo physician has emerged as the newest U.S. Senator. Gov. Dave Freudenthal announced earlier today that Dr. John Barrasso will assume the Senate seat of the late Senator Craig Thomas, who died of leukemia on June 4.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1636439,00.html

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- Everything that pisses off ARA's and the rest of the left wingers is good news for the rest of the population. Ever noticed that? (NT) -- Hap, 10:17:52 06/23/07 Sat
  - You sure get some strange happenings in New Mexico..... http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/63222.html (NT) -- Varmit, 16:46:53 06/24/07 Sun
From a first time reporter at a rodeo -- Varmit, 17:08:58 06/17/07 Sun
He said he is no animal rights activists, but thought if anything was cruel it was the goat tying.

Made me laugh.... whats a Southern Californee guy know about goats bellering.

http://www.jacksonholestartrib.com/articles/2007/06/17/sports/college/18c7cbf3eab946af872572fc007823bc.txt

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- Looks like the bellering goats and tight pants had him occupied and he didn't notice the bull that caught his leg in the chute and had to be put dowm. (NT) -- Hap, 11:16:44 06/18/07 Mon
JUDGE REJECTS PLEA DEAL... -- Crystal, 10:12:52 06/15/07 Fri
PLEA DEAL REJECTED

Seattle PI

SF Chronicle

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- Maybe I haven't found it yet..... but I have seen nothing about the Duke prosecuter going to jail.... just losing his license... He along with the accuser should both being going to jail for obstructing justice, filing false reports, etc. etc. (NT) -- Varmit, 14:16:25 06/15/07 Fri
  - The SF one is the first one I've seen that didn't mention the PRCA. Never thought I'd see anything about SF that I liked. Varmit, you're right about the Duke deal. (NT) -- Hap, 21:09:52 06/15/07 Fri
    - Good to see you back Hap..... you been flying the Aussie's out of Farmington International Airport showing them the country? (NT) -- Varmit, 06:23:04 06/16/07 Sat
      - Maybe there will be a light of hope in the Duke case.. from an article..... The players' attorneys have pledged to seek criminal contempt charges next week in Durham. (NT) -- Varmit, 17:38:32 06/16/07 Sat
Finals finals finals -- Julie, 19:34:13 06/11/07 Mon
Jordan Muncy cleaned up at the NM high school finals --winning the AA and the average in goats, barrels, and breakaway and qualifying for nationals in all three PLUS poles ---

In the meantime, Taos Muncy got his first one rode at Casper in the NIRA finals...another kid from here rode his bull for 77 points and placed 3rd in the round --Casey Sisk

http://www.cnfr.com

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- I see the Mayworth kid from Florida going to college at Troy is sitting 3rd in the roping. He had the National High School Rodeo lead going into the short round a few years back and missed his last one. Did the same thing at Shawnee that same year. Will have to see if he has matured over the last few years. (NT) -- Varmit, 19:45:20 06/12/07 Tue
- Taos is winning the SB average --will get his short go horse Saturday.. see inside for top five. -- Julie, 22:10:21 06/13/07 Wed
- he pro rodeo Cowboy Grille interviewed Taos awhile back -- he is now second in the standings -- see interview at http://www.prorodeo.com/column.aspx?xu=545 (NT) -- Julie, 04:30:40 06/14/07 Thu
  - Our Florida guy fell to 2nd in the average after 3 rounds. Maybe be better for him not to be in the lead going into the Finals. (NT) -- Varmit, 10:03:41 06/14/07 Thu
    - Now that I have DSL.... I like the video clips of the top rides and runs of the night. Those girls in the goat tying being 6.4 every night is the best watching. Julie, back in our day, we never seen runs like that at the college rodeos. (NT) -- Varmit, 15:51:52 06/14/07 Thu
      - You are right Varmit --and it wasn't so long ago a 9 second goat run was really good :) (NT) -- Julie, 07:15:04 06/15/07 Fri
        
        5.9 last night.... I remember when the college girls use to say the ropers had fast hands.... now the tide has turned.... guys can say the goat tyers have fast hands. But guys like women with fast hands. (NT) -- Varmit, 09:26:28 06/15/07 Fri
Bush's career may not be over next year. -- Varmit, 16:02:57 06/10/07 Sun
"Sooner rather than later you've got to say 'Enough's enough - Kosovo is independent,'" Bush said, telling Albanians what they wanted to hear. He said independence was a certainty.

Nearing the end of an eight-day trip, Bush got a hero's reception in this desperately poor country, still struggling to recover from being cut off from the rest of the world for four decades under the harsh rule of dictator Enver Hoxha. Hoxha died in 1985, and Albania emerged from isolation in 1990 but still is one of Europe's most impoverished lands.

Cannons boomed salutes from mountains overlooking the capital. Huge banners proclaimed "Proud to be Partners," and billboards read "President Bush in Albania Making History."

At home, Bush's job approval rating stands at its all-time low. But here, Prime Minister Sali Berisha said Bush was Albania's "greatest and most distinguished guest we have ever had in all times."

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BALCO leaker blames drugs, alcohol, media hounds for downfall -- Crystal, 07:22:57 06/07/07 Thu
BALCO leaker blames drugs, alcohol, media hounds for downfall
By PAUL ELIAS Associated Press Writer

Article Launched: 06/06/2007 05:52:20 PM PDT

SAN FRANCISCO�The disgraced criminal defense attorney facing prison for leaking grand jury testimony in the BALCO steroids investigation blamed alcohol, drugs and depression for his downfall, according to court documents filed by prosecutors Wednesday.

Troy Ellerman also said journalists' constant "hounding" led him to show transcripts of testimony by baseball stars Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi and other athletes to a San Francisco Chronicle reporter.
In the filing, prosecutors asked a federal judge to sentence Ellerman to two years in prison for leaking confidential grand jury testimony to the reporter and then lying about it under oath.

A judge is scheduled to sentence Ellerman on June 14. His lawyer argued in court papers for a 15-month prison sentence, while probation officers recommended 18 months.

Ellerman admitted earlier this year that in 2004 he allowed reporter Mark Fainaru-Wada to view transcripts of the grand jury testimony of Bonds, Giambi, Detroit Tiger Gary Sheffield and sprinter Tim Montgomery.

Ellerman had transcripts of the athletes' testimony because he had briefly represented Victor Conte, founder of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, the Burlingame supplements lab at the center of the performance enhancing drug scandal.

BALCO vice president James Valente later became Ellerman's client.

The Chronicle published stories in 2004 that reported Giambi and Montgomery admitted to the grand jury that they took steroids, while Bonds and Sheffield testified they didn't knowingly take the drugs. The leaked testimony was also featured prominently in the book "Game of Shadows," co-authored by Fainaru-Wada, which recounts Bonds' alleged use of steroids.

On Wednesday, Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig asked Giambi to talk to former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell, who is leading baseball's internal steroids investigation.

Ellerman, 44, initially blamed federal investigators for leaking the testimony, going so far as to call them "unadulterated punks" outside court and file a motion to dismiss the case against his client because of government misconduct. A federal judge asked the Department of Justice to investigate whether government agents were the source of the leaks.

"Mr. Ellerman's illegal conduct significantly impacted the investigation and prosecution of the BALCO case, and has continued to negatively impact the government's ongoing efforts to investigate and prosecute matters associated with BALCO," prosecutors wrote to the probation department in a letter filed with the court Wednesday.

Prosecutors pointed to Ellerman's motion to dismiss as evidence that there was more to blame than drugs and booze for Ellerman's deceit.

"The government does not fully accept defendant's assertion that his actions were in no way calculated," federal prosecutors said in court papers asking the judge to send Ellerman to prison for 24 months.

Larry McCormack, a private investigator who worked out of Ellerman's Sacramento office when the Chronicle reporter visited to view the grand jury testimony, approached the FBI last year after a falling out with Ellerman.

McCormack wore a wire when Ellerman made statements implicating himself as the source of the leak.

Scott Tedmon, Ellerman's attorney, didn't return a telephone call Wednesday. In court papers filed late Tuesday asking for a 15-month prison sentence, Tedmon wrote that Ellerman is remorseful and has given up his license to practice law in California.

"Given the punishment Mr. Ellerman has already endured, having lost two full professional careers and suffering widespread public ridicule in the media for his actions among other losses in his life, no further amount of deterrence for Mr. Ellerman is necessary," Tedmon wrote.

Ellerman was also fired as commissioner of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association when he pleaded guilty to four felony charges of obstruction of justice and disobeying court orders in February.

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- In a 15 month period he should be able to clean himself up from all that stuff. At least now we know why he acted the way he did. (NT) -- Varmit, 09:45:21 06/07/07 Thu
  - I smell a cop-out. All the celebrities use alcohol/drugs as an excuse for their bad behavior. I've heard from some sources that have had close contact with him that it is highly unlikely alcohol/drugs. More likely, it was arrogance and disregard for consequences. (NT) -- Crystal, 10:33:28 06/07/07 Thu
    - And he likes to think of himself as a celebrity, I've heard. (NT) -- Crystal, 10:34:47 06/07/07 Thu
Hey Albertagirl? -- Varmit, 15:15:51 06/06/07 Wed
Did you go to Grand Praire last weekend?

I see Brent Lewis won second in the calf roping. I take it, its the same Brent unless there is 2 of them out there with the same name.

Haven't seen his name in the results in a number of years.

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- I wonder if the ARA's will be out to ban Golf now? .... http://news.aol.com/entertainment/articles/_a/fore-rob-lowes-golf-ball-hits-flying/20070607072709990001 (NT) -- Varmit, 07:10:11 06/07/07 Thu
- Nope, GP is a good 10 hours straight north of here. I like to get my rodeo fix a lot closer to home. I believe its the same Brent Lewis..... he seems to like our Canadian rodeos. Speaking of which, the contestant list for the Calgary Stampede is up and I see Dan Mortensen is on it. It'll be interesting to see how he's doing after his injury layoff. (NT) -- albertagirl, 09:33:10 06/07/07 Thu
  - Dan is defieing the doctors orders I see. I heard him say they told him to take a year off. Hopefully he won't set himself back by jumping in early. (NT) -- Varmit, 09:43:38 06/07/07 Thu
    - Here is anothe good one..... geesh...... A prosecutor has dropped charges against a woman who was arrested for staring at and making faces at a police dog. (NT) -- Varmit, 09:49:39 06/07/07 Thu
Aussies -- Hap, 20:41:06 06/02/07 Sat
They called from out on the rez and are a motel within 4 hours from here so should be here by noon or so.
The husband and dad of the 3 that were here 3 years ago called and said "This is Peta."
I think I'm going to ask him if it would be OK to just call himself "Pete" while he's here so I won't be thinking Ingrid done sicced some bad dude on me.

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- Here is something to really stir you up Hap..... Peta asking for tax cut for verggies..... http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2007/06/01/peta_proposes_vegetarian_tax_cut/1210/ (NT) -- Varmit, 07:46:14 06/03/07 Sun
  - Here's a story about any of us could of done this a few years ago and got rich..... http://money.aol.com/b20/investing/canvas3/_a/the-man-who-owns-the-internet/20070523114109990001 (NT) -- Varmit, 11:55:19 06/03/07 Sun
    - Geez, I could not get alll that in my simple mind at one time. I just can't understand how folks like this keep on working after they have enough to mafke their grandkid's, grandkid's sure to be rich. What would be the point? (NT) -- ZD, 15:21:53 06/03/07 Sun
      - Money is like all things, it can become an addiction. I guess if your that rich, your still try to pass Bill Gates and get to the top of the list. We sure could put on some good rodeos with that kind of money. (NT) -- Varmit, 15:58:30 06/03/07 Sun
Big Mean Fish At It Again.... -- Crystal, 14:12:16 05/31/07 Thu
Look here for the latest updates in SHARK's campaign to end rodeo abuse in Illinois
April 23, 2007: Join us in celebrating another great step in our battle against rodeo animal abuse. Below is a copy of the press release that went out to the media today. The repercussions of this story will be felt throughout the rodeo world
High School Rodeo Loses National Sponsor
Rules Violations, Animal Abuse Results in Early Termination of Contract
Choice Hotels, one of the largest and most successful lodging franchisers in the world, has terminated its sponsorship, scheduled to run until 2009, of the National High School Rodeo Association (NHSRA). The early termination follows a review of video documentation supplied by SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK). Choice Hotels includes well-known brands such as Clarion, Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites, Quality Inn, Sleep Inn, Econolodge, Rodeway, Cambria Suites, Mainstay Suites, and Suburban Extended Stay Hotel.
The following is a statement from SHARK president, Steve Hindi:
"We supplied Choice with video documentation of what happened at the 2006 National High School Finals Rodeo in Springfield, Illinois. The company did not rush to judgement, but instead conducted a very thorough investigation. SHARK congratulates Choice Hotels for its sense of corporate ethics, and for doing the right thing. Violations of Illinois State Law, violations of even the rodeo association's own rules, and animal abuse have cost the National High School Rodeo Association its most prestigious sponsor.
We hope that other sponsors, especially local sponsors such as the Springfield Convention and Visitors Bureau and the State Journal-Register newspaper, will follow the lead of Choice Hotels, and will carefully weigh the impact that sponsoring animal cruelty will have on their image both now and in the future."
The Sangamon County State's Attorney's Office is investigating pressing animal cruelty charges against the rodeo.
Please let Choice Hotels know that you support the company's responsible and compassionate decision by emailing Anne Madison, Vice President of Corporate Communications at Choice Hotels at: Anne_Madison@choicehotels.com
SHARK - PO Box 28 - Geneva IL 60134
630-557-0176 (voice) - 630-557-0178 (fax)
www.sharkonline.org

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- I sent this e-mail to her..... inside >>>>>> -- Varmit, 19:01:04 05/31/07 Thu
  - ooooo, Excellent! (NT) -- Crystal, 06:52:17 06/01/07 Fri
  - That is a good letter Varmet. Thank you. Our rodeo got rained out. The only thing you could do in our arena would have to involve crawfish or ducks. We'll try again July 14-15 and are adding another $1,000.00 to the added money to tell the cowboys we appreciate them. (NT) -- ZD, 15:02:56 06/01/07 Fri
- Great point! I wonder if Choice Hotels bothered to investigate yhe allegations, or just rolled over when SHARK walked through the door? (NT) -- Albertagirl, 09:37:55 06/01/07 Fri
  - ZD.... we finally got rain. 5 inches here at the house last night. But I was in north Florida, where things are really bad from the drought. But that Tropical Storm followed me up there and brought them some rain. By the time I got back home this evening that 5 inches of rain from last night was all dried up. (NT) -- Varmit, 18:02:57 06/02/07 Sat
    - A 5 inch rain out here is when the rain drops are 5 inches apart. Nice job on the letter. (NT) -- Hap, 20:46:51 06/02/07 Sat
    - Good for you!!! I have a hay crop ready to cut and rain forecast until Tuesday. On top of that I can't get hold of my hay bailer guy. Got a new one on standby but he's kinda' a nut and hope I don't have to use him. If I have to wait until the latter part of the week the protein content will go way down. I like to put up high quality hay and with the price of fertilizer and bailing, low quality hay just isn't a bargin. (NT) -- ZD, 05:58:41 06/03/07 Sun
Please go to www.surreyleader.com and vote NO on the Cloverdale controversy at the top right hand side of the page. Also, I have started a group on Facebook called Rodeo Realism. I am hoping to get together some cohesive and educational thoughts on what really goes on at rodeos. If we don't do something about the ARA's, there will be no more rodeo in Canada before too long. Thanks -- Albertagirl, 17:50:32 05/30/07 Wed
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- All I see is if I got a plan to escape the flooding river.... bad enough with hurricanes now a river? (NT) -- Varmit, 19:02:13 05/31/07 Thu
- The poll ended yesterday. When last seen, the no side (us) were leading by approx. 400 votes out of a total of roughly 1000. I did notice that the only letters posted were anti-rodeo though.... not exactly non-partisan jouranlism. Please go to my facebook group 'Rodeo Realism' for updates and ideas on how to win back our western heritage. (NT) -- Albertagirl, 09:35:57 06/01/07 Fri
No starvin' cattle on the ZD Ranch. Look at the grass! http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a158/ZDRanch/DCP_0006.jpg -- ZD, 13:46:03 05/31/07 Thu
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- ZD... you should be baling all that grass and shipping it to Florida. Right now you cannot buy hay in Florida. (NT) -- Varmit, 19:04:17 05/31/07 Thu
Some time ago Gene posted a link to another NM photogropher. This site had some pix of some scantily clad cowgirls on it and I can't find the site now. Does anyone know of how I maight find that site? -- ZD, 09:53:17 05/27/07 Sun
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- What happened ZD, you run out of Viagra? (NT) -- Varmit, 11:31:24 05/28/07 Mon
  - Never even seen the stuff. I have joined a gym and hired a personal trainer. Gettin' definition in my arms and legs and I want to have a muscle T made and put that Pix on it. By the way, I've found it. When you get to be 67 my wish for you is that you are looking for a racy pix to put on a muscle T and not an Rx for Viagra. On another subject, Sandy is no longer doin' Billy Bob's. Don't know any details other than that. I did hear he sold a $30,000.00 bull the other day. (NT) -- ZD, 16:48:34 05/28/07 Mon
    - Thats nothing, I have 2 personal trainers. One is Mr. Post Hole Digger and the other is Mr. Chainsaw (NT) -- Varmit, 06:19:46 05/29/07 Tue
      - know thIose two guys, Varmit. Of all the trainers I've used, Mr. Chainsaw is one I'm hiding from right now. (NT) -- Hap, 08:13:27 05/29/07 Tue
        
        In all seriousness, that stroke put me in a position I couldn't do anything I need to do safely. I got to the point that I only rode when I had to. I was walking bent and looking at the ground and shuffelin' like the old men at the nursin' home. Since beginning to work out and making some progress, I have almost gained back all of my strength and quite a bit of my athletic ability. I am riding more now simply because I want to and not because I have to. The personal trainer has done more for me than the Dcotors and Pharmacists. Like James Brown would say if he wasn't dead, I FEEL GOOD! (NT) -- ZD, 12:14:54 05/29/07 Tue
        
        ZD, I didn't know you had a stroke. When did that happen? I will quit pickin on ya now. (NT) -- Varmit, 14:38:20 05/29/07 Tue
        
        It was sometime over a year ago. I went to the Doctor last Summer and he gave me the 'drunk test' like the highway patrol and I flunked it. They sent me to Waco to a Neurologist and he said I had a small stroke way up in my brain but I didn't use it much any way. My muscles were wasting and I couldn't do anything. Got a bunch of meds and they said go back to work. I was too weak. I am now getting stronger and feeling better. Riding a couple of hours a day. Not running many cows and am glad. Stock market is too good to have money in cows right now. (NT) -- ZD, 12:12:15 05/30/07 Wed
Inversion Table -- Hap, 12:45:22 05/29/07 Tue
A friend got me to try one of these and it's been one of my best investments.

I'll put it up here so you can click on it.

I was kinda wondering about the glue in that knee but so far it's holding. I went completely upside down a couple of times but it sored me up so I'm sticking to 60 or 65 degrees now.

This is not the one I bought but it's got the best info I've seen. 100% happy and the back injection guy and surgeon must be wondering where I went.

http://www.energycenter.com/grav_f/freq_ask_quest.html#2

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- I get in my truck about 8:00am and go to the ranch. I am upright all except for about an hour during and after lunch. I leave the ranch about 2:30 and on the way home I have compressed so much that I have to adjust my rear view mirror in the cab. From this information do you think this contraption would be any help to me? Do you drive enough to notice this compressing if it is happening to you too? (NT) -- ZD, 14:43:22 05/29/07 Tue
  - My L5 and 6 are degenerated with arthrosis, but it seems like the bulge in my neck and all the other junk with the disks and bone spurs cause me as much low back problems as anything. They had a machine in therapy that kept your shoulders and body from moving and it slowly pulled up your neck for about 20 seconds then released it for about 15 seconds then did it all over again. Worked on a hydraulic contraption. But did me more good for my whole body then anything. Seen and heard people who have went to this new machine that stretches your whole body. Claims it creates enough temperary gap in between all your disks that it relieves the pain. I might have to give it a try. (NT) -- Varmit, 18:42:29 05/29/07 Tue
    - ZD, I didn't know about your stroke either, I think you would need to ask your Dr. before tilting like that and running the blood to your head. Like that website says, most of us haven't hung upside down since we were kids on the monkey bars and it takes a little getting used to. If your Dr. gives you the OK, I'd say there's no doubt it would help. I've been going to chiropracrors for around 35 years but really looking like I don't need one anymore. Of course, you would want to start out slow, maybe only slightly past level, and drop it some every few days. It has an adjustable strap on it that allows you to set it like you want to. It has a hieght adjustment on it for different people and I'll swear I started out at 5'10" and now adj. it to 5'11". I'm not an inch taller actually, just seems the stretch has improved over time. Without addind the inch, my head rubs against the frame at 5'10". (NT) -- Hap, 21:02:06 05/29/07 Tue
      - Varmit, I know of the machine you're talking about and dang near started the program but lucky for me I screwed up and went to the wrong office complex for my first consultation and when I found the right one they were locked up for the night. About that same time I talked to a guy who also was getting the lumbar injections and he had bought one of these things and wanted me to come over and try it. He was so convinceing, I instead headed to town and bought one for 134 bucks. That computerized stretching program is 6000 bucks for 25 treatments and no insurance is approved, at least not out here. I can tilt and stretch and stand back up and seem to be doing the same as they do, but doubt they would admit it. Of course the weight od my pumpkin stretches my neck so I get the full stretch, kinda like hanging a side of beef. (NT) -- Hap, 21:17:36 05/29/07 Tue
ZD you caught any hogs in your traps this size?? -- Varmit, 13:15:05 05/26/07 Sat
http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/boy-shoots-hog-said-to-dwarf-hogzilla/20070525195709990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001

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- No, and I don't believe anyone else did either. I shot a boar weighing over 300# with my 22 magnum and he just went on grazing. The biggest pig I ever caught weighed less than 125#. I caught 87 last year and have only caught 16 this year. I have no clue what they eat in the Summer but they are sure terrible to have eating ryegrass in the Winter. (NT) -- ZD, 14:54:11 05/26/07 Sat
  - I saw that on the news last night. (NT) -- Hap, 08:00:20 05/29/07 Tue
Clcik here, here, here..... -- Varmit, 06:42:10 05/24/07 Thu
When you seen all those little here, here marked in blue you will see all the animal rights activists is where they got there information. Sad part this blog is one of the main news items on AOL this morning.

http://www.aolsportsblog.com/2007/05/23/the-debriefing-if-vicks-a-scumbag-so-are-preakness-organizers/

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- Canadians are just giving in to the ARA's.... banning timed events...... http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070524.BCRODEO24/TPStory/National (NT) -- Varmit, 14:40:19 05/25/07 Fri
  - I ran across this one, then saw where you had found another one. It sure sounds like the ARA's have become members of that committee. Heck, they might as well push to have the RS banned, they won't find that hard to do at this rate. http://calsun.canoe.ca/Sports/Football/2007/05/24/4204085-sun.html (NT) -- Hap, 19:11:19 05/25/07 Fri
    - Sounds like its time for the cowboys on both ends of the arena to get organized and say we are not coming unless all the events are used. If the rodeo brings in that much money, they may get things changed back to like they were. My first thought was the same as Lee, what happens if next year a horse or bull breaks a leg. What events you going to have left. (NT) -- Varmit, 20:28:23 05/25/07 Fri
I'v learned why everything costs so much -- Varmit, 16:31:27 05/20/07 Sun
I was having problems with my telephone, so checked the box attached to the house to make sure it wasn't inside the house. Looked up by the telephone pole and the box up there was broke loose on one side and a bunch of wires were sticking everywhere. So called to have it repaired.

1st guy out, comes and patches it. Said it needs a complete new box and also the telephone pole needed replacing. It is a 55 footer.

2nd guy comes out a week later and says its gonna take a few hours, I will be back tomorrow.

3rd guy comes out a few days later and had to leave cause his ladder not long enough and comes back with a boom truck and fixes the box. Beat on the pole some and seen an owl was living in the pole. Calls in.

4th and 5th guy comes out to check about the pole and owl.

6th guy comes out a few days later and looks at the pole.

7th guy comes out a few days later and says he needs to read the numbers on the pole.

8th guy comes out a few days later and says he needs to mark the pole with orange paint so they know which one it is. I am thinking, geez its the only pole on the property that goes to my house. Not a no brainer.

9th guy comes out and says he needs to figure out how to exactly get the new pole out to where it is needed. This was Friday and this has been going on now for a month.

I haven't seen a new pole yet and am getting curious if an achitect will be need to draw a diagram from the road to the pole before they bring it.

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- And surely someone will come make sure you don't do anything to disturb a protected species of owls :) (NT) -- Julie, 19:05:07 05/20/07 Sun
  - 10th man showed up today looking for underground cables. Said water man might show up. Told him we are on artesian water well, not that dang city water.... geesh. (NT) -- Varmit, 13:51:04 05/22/07 Tue
Spring is wonderful. Look at the forage on at least a small part of the ZD Ranch. http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a158/ZDRanch/Dcp_0001-1.jpg -- ZD, 09:25:22 05/22/07 Tue
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- Typical Texan.... hogs all the gas and now all the grass.... Varmit down here in the dust bowl. (NT) -- Varmit, 12:15:28 05/22/07 Tue
  - This field is 25 ac. and is a funny field. It is nearly flat and water is slow to run off of it. It is in bermuda and I over seeded it with Vetch in Oct. All the water from it runs off slow and is caught by a pond. When I loosen up the soil like the vetch will the pond will go dry unless we have some really big rains. Ranching is fun when what you do can make a difference. (NT) -- ZD, 13:41:01 05/22/07 Tue
ZD -- -- Julie, 10:36:00 05/20/07 Sun
Is it me or are their a bunch of links (most of them) on your website that aren't working?

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- I have no clue. I used to have a redirect on mine where www.hillsboro.net/zdranch would get you now. The company sold to Internet America and now you have to get to my home page with www.hillsboro.net/business/zdranch The companys service people don't return emails and I may change ISP providers. What are you finding that doesn't work? With the increase in postage I am not selling many halters any way so I have sort of lost interest. I am not writing much now. I have to have half a bottle of wine or be really inspired to write. Kinda' (NT) -- ZD, 10:46:33 05/21/07 Mon
- Ah, that little change in the URL made all the difference...they work from there :) (NT) -- Julie, 14:13:36 05/21/07 Mon
Florida Cowboys -- Julie, 11:58:12 05/19/07 Sat
BEAUTIFUL photos with this story from a Naples, Florida paper

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2007/may/17/tilting_windmills/

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- Looks like the hurricanes got that windmill leaning a little bit. There use to be some really big operations down in that part of the state. Some guys thought it was smart to turn them all into citrus groves. Then the market on that crashed. Haven't been down there in awhile, so not sure if they still got groves or not today. (NT) -- Varmit, 13:24:04 05/19/07 Sat
I'm happy they can donate 7.6 million to area youth but it would be nice to donate 6 million to them and up the added money 1.6 million for the guys paying 3 something a gallon to get there to make it possible. -- Hap, 17:51:43 05/17/07 Thu
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2007/05/14/daily28.html?from_rss=1

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- Houston is the 'BIGUN' and tries to put more money in the steer sale than anybody. Both Houston and San Antonio can nearly always beat Ft. Worth. Dallas doesn't even try. The just look down their snooty noses and do as they please. I just hope these 'made for TV' type rodeo programs teach the cowboys that it's better to ride/rope for big bucks when somebody else is puttin' it up than to keep runnin' at their own money like the sport has always done. (NT) -- ZD, 06:08:18 05/18/07 Fri
  - If you have talent, you better have an agent to get you sponsors or come from a filty rich family. I don't know how the timed events guys can afford to haul rigs down the road anymore without help from money somewhere. Speaking of timed event guys, what happened to Ryan Jarret? He has just dissappeared this year. Not even in the circuit rodeos. (NT) -- Varmit, 13:11:23 05/18/07 Fri
    - Sid Styner is a good example of that. He won a world championship, got himself a pretty bride, knocked her up and then quit to raise his family. I have no clue where the money came from but Sid sure put himself in to winning his world championship. (NT) -- ZD, 15:14:28 05/18/07 Fri
Happy Mother's Day to all you mom's. -- Varmit, 10:06:24 05/13/07 Sun
Here is a story about a protective mother:

A young man was about to leave for college. So his mother wrote to the dean of the college. She told the dean, that since her son was going to be attending his college, that she wanted to make sure he got a room mate that did not fight, use foul language, drink alcohol or chased women. She said she thought writing this to him, the dean, would be the best person to make sure these requirements got met. After all she said, this is the first time her son has been away from home, since he spent his first 3 years in the Marine Corps.

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- Thanks & LOL (NT) -- Crystal, 07:03:17 05/14/07 Mon
  - Where is Hap and ZD? They workin together on the scientic equation of how the dinosaur turned into the chicken? (NT) -- Varmit, 17:17:43 05/14/07 Mon
    - I'm back. I was scheduled to get my other Knee replaced Monday the 7th but my brother who was 5 years younger than me died Sunday the 6th so I headed to Texas. I'm not going to reschedule the knee till August or so now. We have two Aussie couples coming here for the first week of June. One is the mother that came with her grown kids three years ago and she wants to do the same things they did then. I told my wife there's an entire USA out there and she's happy with day trips from our house so I guess we're OK living here. They stay after us to come over there but I ain't much a traveling man. (NT) -- Hap, 20:31:32 05/15/07 Tue
      - Sorry to hear about your brother Hap. (NT) -- Varmit, 06:46:00 05/16/07 Wed
    - Hap, sorry to hear about your brother. Sorry too that you won't be gettin' a new knee as soon as you may have wished. This old age crap ain't for sissies. I have hired a personal trainer and been going to the gym 2 days a week. Been at it 2 months now and it's really gettin' me back in shape. I never was and never will be any threat to Chas Atlas but my work is now beginning to show. My muscles are showing some definition and I have more stamina to get my work done. I am riding more now and that is good for me. I have no clue how they got a dinasour to be a chicken but I am glad they came at it that way. Chickes don't have any taste of their own and it takes a good cook to make 'em edible. Beef tastes good even if it's cooked by a cave man. When you get your new knee get back on a horse. That will make you feel better. (NT) -- ZD, 17:03:35 05/16/07 Wed
      - Hap, my condolences too-- that has to be so hard. Take care of you --- and continue to enjoy the simple tihngs. You do seem to have a handle on that and I admire you for that! (NT) -- Julie, 04:47:04 05/17/07 Thu
- Sorry to hear that Hap. I've gone to many more funerals than I really want to this year. Thoughts and prayers to you and your family. (NT) -- Crystal, 06:38:47 05/17/07 Thu
  - Thanks everybody. He made the 5th sibling I've lost in the last 14 years, but the other 4 were older and I pretty much grew up with them taking care of me. This one was tougher because he was younger and I always kept my eye on him growing up.He's had cancer for over 10 years but had been dealing with it OK but he had been having trouble recently with an arm that had gone nunb on him and the last time I heard from him he said he would get the results of tests on the 17th which is today. Don't know what it was but it don't matter now. (NT) -- Hap, 17:14:57 05/17/07 Thu
NM High School Rodeo rolls to a close -- Julie, 04:57:50 05/17/07 Thu
The Mescalero High School Rodeo was last weekend --ending the regular season here in NM --finals will be June 6-10 in Carlsbad -- its been a good year for Jordan Muncy --she's worked hard and the pay off has been seven all-around titles and a number one spot in the standings in barrels, breakaway, goat tying and fourth in the pole bending.

With the points from the finals counting toward the final tally, things could change in any one of the events--but her all around title for the year is secure by several thousand points :) ---

See a picture of her on my web blog(link is above under Julie Carter)--if you look closely at the picture, her rein is about half over the horses head on the way to be all on one side...that was the second barrel, it was completely over by the third and the run home---but she still ended up second for the day and no wrecks :)

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- Opps. bad math ---Jordan won her 8th All-Around in Mescalero (NT) -- Julie, 05:40:00 05/17/07 Thu
  - My 2 year old grand daughter sure took a liking to Jordan. She always asks us " Where Jordan at?" Taos is getting with it too. I saw where he split Guymon with Rod Hay and had an 87 point ride there. (NT) -- Hap, 17:05:10 05/17/07 Thu
From what I can see -- Varmit, 17:15:34 05/11/07 Fri
They talk about the horses used in the wild horse race as being so wild. But they look pretty gentle compared to those I have seen off the rodeo ranches.

Also they claimed in the article part of the story about the horses legs were thrashing about. As you watch the video a person has the horse headed and keeping him from getting to his feet, so of course he is going to kick and thrash.

Then to quote city kids as experts that the horse was dead. I have heard that one before from a horse that was just sleeping.

Dang this is a long link:

http://www.koin.com/global/video/popup/pop_player.asp?ClipID1=1430882&h1=Did%20Horses%20Die%20After%20Rodeo%20Collision%3F&vt1=v&at1=News&d1=205900&LaunchPageAdTag=News&activePane=info&playerVersion=9&hostPageUrl=http%3A//www.koin.com/Global/story.asp%3FS%3D6502335&rnd=43860019

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- I was there. It was billed as the National Finals Wild Horse Race. Which I found odd since they had supposedly changed their name to Team Bronc Riding. Anyway, I'll say one side is right, the other wrong. And I called it when I saw it. And I can't understand why they continue to WHR in Salem of all places. (NT) -- Crystal, 07:19:32 05/14/07 Mon
City folks are confusing. -- Hap, 12:01:45 05/05/07 Sat
This is a quote from an article on saving the horses from slaughter.

"Thoroughbreds should be retired, adopted out, or

euthanized. We must end the slaughter of horses."

What the heck? I might be just a bumpkin, but I always thought "euthanize" was a fancy way to say "kill," and to slaughter is to kill,(or euthanize) where I come from.

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- Why gee Hap, do you think someone needs to send that person a dictionary? That is hilarious! Why I bet that person even has nice fancy education to go with their lack of understanding of words! (NT) -- rose, 13:24:35 05/05/07 Sat
  - I guess if we had called them euthanizers all these years instead of killers, we wouldn't have stirred up this mess. (NT) -- Hap, 16:28:19 05/05/07 Sat
    - I didn't know what a really good guy I was until now. I euthanized 12 wild hogs this week and I am sure nobody ate any of them. There is one buzzard that somehow got in the pig trap and got himself caught though. The graceful creature (gunuine turkey vurlure) stinks so bad and stands ready to puke on you when you try to let him out that I am going to let the slow hand of 'father time' uthanizeme him. I am even going to respect the 'sacred ground' where all this took place at least until it dries up or the horrible smell goes away. Damn, I'm really a nice guy and didn't know it. (NT) -- ZD, 11:15:12 05/06/07 Sun
Rodeo on TV -- Hap, 08:21:27 05/02/07 Wed
Houston is on tonight at nine here. It's the Outdoor Channel.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-01-2007/0004578351&EDATE

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- Followed your link and got the part that said you had to call the 800 number and tell them you wanted the Outdoor chanel for $1.99 a month. Being the individual I am I just emailed them and they put me right on. (NT) -- ZD, 07:06:13 05/03/07 Thu
  - Heck with rodeo. What channel will be streaming a live feed of Paris Hilton in the pokey? (NT) -- Varmit, 17:35:05 05/04/07 Fri
    - I'll bet some of those 200 pound lezbos are anxious for her to show up as a regular inmate. HaHa, don't look for that to happen. (NT) -- Hap, 12:05:19 05/05/07 Sat
FDA -- Hap, 18:53:22 04/28/07 Sat
Has anybody heard about the FDA might shut down our rights to buy vitimins, herbs, etc. without a prescription, effective as early as June of this year?
Anybody know if it's true?

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- Oh Yeah! It is docket 2006D-0480. You have until April 30th to contact your reps. Don't you just love the government?!? I put the urls for articles on it & the fda's docket inside. -- rose, 20:15:43 04/28/07 Sat
  - I figgered you would know about this if it was true, which, unfortunately it appears to be. I heard it was from pressure coming from the pharmacy industry and medical doctors wanting a cut of the profits and this is how they went about it. They said a $4 bottle of vit C will be marked up to more than $50 and will need a prescription. (NT) -- Hap, 11:27:47 04/29/07 Sun
  - Are will really "Free" in this country or do people just think they are? I had an old WW11 guy tell me, that most people think they are free because they have never lived in another country. Do you think maybe we can get Canada to sell us a nice chunk of land along the border of the Rocky Mountains that we can create our own country?? Just a thought. (NT) -- Varmit, 07:11:48 04/30/07 Mon
    - Here's another thing they trying to do to us down here...... Passed: Personal Injury Protection coverage -- mandated coverage for every auto insurance holder -- would be extended four more years under SB 1880 passed by the Senate. The House has begun moving a very different plan (HB 7215) that would get rid of PIP and instead would require $15,000 for coverage in emergency rooms and hospital-owned clinics immediately following an accident. Lawmakers have one week to negotiate a compromise (NT) -- Varmit, 11:42:36 04/30/07 Mon
Not Good -- Varmit, 07:14:31 04/27/07 Fri
The U-S House has voted to prevent the government from selling off for slaughter any wild horses and burros that roam public lands in the West.

The vote yesterday (Thursday) was 277-to-137. The bill would restore a 1971 law blocking the federal Bureau of Land Management from selling horses or burros for commercial processing.

The protection was removed in 2004, when former Republican Senator Conrad Burns of Montana inserted a measure in a spending bill allowing the sales.

The bill is the first of two horse slaughter measures Congress is expected to consider this year. The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee approved a bill Wednesday that would outlaw horse slaughter nationally.

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- I wonder if the 277 isthat goofy about all dicisions. It would be nice to be able to get rid of all but 137 of them. (NT) -- Hap, 16:25:13 04/27/07 Fri
  - I read where somebody brought up a good idea. If unwanted cats and dogs can be dropped off at the human societies, will horses fit in the same catagory if they get this bill passed to ban the slaughter houses. Maybe people could drain them dry with that thought. (NT) -- Varmit, 16:35:59 04/27/07 Fri
    - This is the biggest problem........ Nancy Perry, lead lobbyist for the Humane Society of the United States, says one issue outrages her group�s 10 million members more than any other: the slaughter of horses for human food"...... and I bet you can find a nieghbor with horses that belongs to this organization. (NT) -- Varmit, 06:58:35 04/28/07 Sat
Lets see... he said he was Cotton's friend a few years ago if I remember correctly...lol. -- Varmit, 10:08:56 04/23/07 Mon
He did pretty good in the article until the very end, and then his true intentions came out:

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/nation/17122108.htm

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- It says the page has expired. You must be talking about sharkie? (NT) -- Hap, 19:15:07 04/24/07 Tue
  - No the other guy. Crystal knows. Last name Mills like the dancer that just got dumped by Dancing and Ingrid. Dang, I can't think of his first name now. But he was on a message board a few years ago we were on saying how he was Cotton Rossers best friend. But in the article they were trying to get Vets to be at the Mexican rodeos. In the end, he said he wanted to get rid of steer tailing, calf roping and steer roping. Also a good link of stories about Heather and how hypocrite she is about animal rights...... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/category?blogid=7&cat=325 (NT) -- Varmit, 07:05:27 04/25/07 Wed
- Hey Varmit! Is this the article I have inside� -- rose, 09:11:56 04/25/07 Wed
  - You got it rose.... thanks for finding it for Hap.... since he was late to the party. (NT) -- Varmit, 13:45:14 04/25/07 Wed
    - I always wondered what a "rodeo prostitute" looked liked. Now we know...... http://www.styledash.com/2007/04/25/stylefoul-britney-dressed-as-a-cowgirl-hooker/ (NT) -- Varmit, 13:50:35 04/25/07 Wed
They finally caught the true Alec. -- Varmit, 12:13:42 04/20/07 Fri
http://www.tmz.com/2007/04/20/alecs-threatening-message/

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- I heard that! That poor girl. You know her mother is just as bad. She should have released it to the judge in the case, but not to the media. The girl is nothing but a pawn to both her parents. (NT) -- Crystal, 06:59:30 04/23/07 Mon
  - He's supposed to have a book coming out about parenting, no joke. For a long time, he's been amoung many that make going to a movie a waste of time for guiys like me. I thought he was one of them that swore they were leaving the country. (NT) -- Hap, 19:21:05 04/24/07 Tue
    - Well I think he did say he was in New York. (NT) -- Varmit, 08:42:05 04/25/07 Wed
      - NY�s no longer part of the US? Is that kind of like when I was told, CA is no longer part of the US? LOL (NT) -- rose, 09:15:23 04/25/07 Wed
Could Rev. Al and Jesse end up being responsible for ending this in NM? -- Varmit, 14:05:49 04/24/07 Tue
http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/future-of-imus-charity-ranch-questioned/n20070414144509990015

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- I think he'll hold the cancer ranch together. Those two guys mostly like headlines and where in the heck are the churches they are reverands at? Ever heard where they preach? (NT) -- Hap, 19:10:48 04/24/07 Tue
  - He even denies his roots....... http://www.landoverbaptist.org/thestaff/celeb/sharpton.html (NT) -- Varmit, 08:47:10 04/25/07 Wed
Does anyone know??? -- Darryl Kong jnr, 00:43:38 04/13/07 Fri
hey does anyone have any photos or footage of my dad riding in the early 70s???

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- Thanks for stopping by, DKJ! I know my dad rode with yours in the old days. I'll ask my mom if she knows of any photos they may have of him. (NT) -- Crystal, 07:37:05 04/13/07 Fri
  - Speaking of photos. I lost a really great one. So anybody knows who was doing the photo shooting at the Goodwell college rodeo in the fall of 1975 or any in that region back then throw a name at me. (NT) -- Varmit, 11:08:36 04/13/07 Fri
  - thanx heaps. -- Darryl, 13:21:52 04/13/07 Fri
    - Click here.... -- Crystal, 16:16:41 04/13/07 Fri
      - hey -- Darryl, 23:48:55 04/20/07 Fri
Times are changin'! -- ZD, 12:08:29 04/12/07 Thu
Apparently we didn't notice when the PBR changed rodeo/rough stock events from the traditional 'cowboy', 'country western' audience to the main streem.

Rodeo ain't what it used to be and never will be again.

Just look at this link.

Everything starts in California. Some not so good but it still all starts there.

Not even Imas can change that.

http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/mcherald/17059923.htm

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- That don't surprise me ( whoever that person is ) cause they can't even pronouce the word "rodeo" correctly out there. You say it like its spelt..... row-dee-oh. (NT) -- Varmit, 14:50:35 04/12/07 Thu
  - Remember the good old days when there was a rodeo with a concert thrown in? It's dang sure getting more and more to becoming a concert with a rodeo thrown in. If I was going to pay to attend a rodeo, 9.9 times out of ten they couldn't pay me to suffer through the concert, but the cost of it would be added on to the ticket price. That's why I enjoy the little county fair rodeos that the PRCA leaders are overlooking more and more. (NT) -- Hap, 16:02:32 04/12/07 Thu
    - The world has changed for sure. Was in Imperial, Nebraska in 1975. During intermission they had Dolly Parton, Porter Wagner, Tommy Cash and Mel Tillis. After the rodeo they had a dance at that little fair with a stage set up. About an hour after the dance started, next thing you knew, all 4 of them were up on stage singing for the dance. Bet that don't happen m