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September 22, 2004
That Ivan is one bad mutha
So how often does a hurricane trash the Gulf Coast, flood the middle Atlantic and then take a victory lap around the East Coast so that it winds up, a week later, aimed at Houston?
I wonder how the Rapture Index will react to this?
Posted by Half-Cocked at September 22, 2004 10:07 PM
Comments
hey did you see how tort reform is going to help nebraska's agriculture? sorry steve, but i'm going to put this here cuz i don't have a polyblog.
http://www.supportfort.com/ag_plan_hires.pdf
looks like a lot of codewords to me. some of the codewords will sound nice and shiny to farmers. some won't understand some of the terms.
on the farm policies must address needs:
...farmers should utilize the USDA. does he understand the amount of time farmers must spend in the office just to get by sometimes, to get double-checks on the idle acres or what's a new wetland this year?
building our futre with energy conservation:
i've got no problems with this one, i just wish he'd say "selling poop".
smart trade:
duh. no big changes here. looks like filler.
on the value-added opportunities:
"we're a natural fit"
yeah, corn-fed beef is a niche market. i worked for a company that sold it all over the world, and the company WENT UNDER! people want cheap, mass-produced meat. farmers aren't going to start feeding their hogs beer and massaging the bacon for a special "KOBE PORK".
the other thing about the meat industry is the proximity from farmer to table. the people who would buy enough of this stuff to make it work are in noo yawk city.
more opportunities:
yeah, farmers need to diversify by planting grapes. especially during a drought. sounds like something the city people would like. add another crop that can't use a combine? huh?
business investment account:
an IRA would be useless if fortenberry supports denny hastert's tax ideas.
the competitive market headings:
yeah there used to be co-ops in rural nebraska. they got bought out by farmland, and then bought out by someone else. this corporate structure isn't going to let collective bargaining come to the table.
the new ideas heading:
yeah, tort reform. so when your tractor malfunctions and kills you, your family looses the farm. same thing happens to your neighbors who bought the same model.
again, the health savings accounts don't mean anything under the hastert plan. they also don't mean anything if there is a drought or prices decline before anything can be saved. the only way they would work would be if monsanto sold them at a 50% mark up, roundup ready.
who made up "telemedicine"? grrr.
i want to know who the farm/ranch team is. i think it's probably someone's daughter from cargill, someone's son from monsanto, and a small-town heir to some ethanol plants. how many ranches are actually in eastern nebraska anyway? real ranches?
Posted by: julee at September 23, 2004 01:14 PM
And here I was gonna write about a hurricane...never mind.
Posted by: Beanie at September 23, 2004 02:27 PM
Haha, Beanie. julee doesn't have enough to do at work.
Posted by: Steve at September 23, 2004 02:44 PM
dude, i did that on my LUNCH HOUR! (check the timestamp!)
Posted by: julee at September 23, 2004 03:18 PM