From the daily archives: Monday, July 7, 2008

More welfare for livestock operators

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Read this. You can find it at Thomas

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:s3211:

Ralph Maughan

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S. 3211

To amend the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans’ Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007, to clarify eligibility for livestock indemnity payments.

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Butch Otter wants non-motorized watercraft to register, pay fees

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Butch Otter wants non-motorized watercraft to register, pay fees. LA Times.

Fair is fair? Well, the fees all go to facilities used mostly by motorized craft.

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The great Yellowstone fires were 20 years ago

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Yellowstone fires 20 years later: Back after the burn. By Brett French. Billings Gazette

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey