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So a friend sent this to me.  I had to chuckle,  thought I’d share, though I feel the majority of Representatives, Senators,  and Congressman are working for Montana.  Enjoy  

A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in Montana when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.  

The driver, a young man in a Brioni® suit, Gucci® shoes, RayBan® sunglasses and YSL® tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, “If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?”

Bud looks at the man, who obviously is a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, “Sure, why not?” (more…)

Last Tuesday September 27, I attended a public meeting at the Dawson Community College. The Department of the State is conducting meetings over a six state area to gather public comment about the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The project as proposed , will be 1700 miles long and run from Canada to the Gulf Coast. It is estimated to cost $7 billion dollars. Included in the construction will be an “On-Ramp” in Baker, Montana which will allow up to (more…)

September Interim Meeting Update- By Representative Matt Rosedale

 After the regular session of the 62^nd Legislature concluded, I was selected to serve on the Education and Local Government Interim Committee. As I had stated at the time, after each meeting I would be giving a report on the business that had been conducted.

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Mitt Romney today, in one of his major speeches yet, unveiled his ideas that will spur jobs and the economic growth of America.  In his speeh, Mitt Romney framed his economic plan Tuesday as a job creator for middle-class America while charging that President Obama, days before he is to outline his own plan, “doesn’t have a clue what to do.”

Speaking at a trucking company in North Las Vegas, Nev., Romney said Obama is “not a bad guy,” but pitching stale ideas that have failed to turn around the struggling economy.

“President Obama’s strategy is a pay-phone strategy and we’re in a smartphone world,” Romney said. “What he’s doing is taking quarters and stuffing them into the pay phone … [and he] can’t figure out why it’s not working. It’s not connected anymore, Mr. President!”

Romney’s prescription for the country’s ailing economy includes (more…)

House Minority Leader  Lawrence F. Cafero, Jr. (pictured standing far right) speaks while colleagues Rep. Barbara Lambert and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy play solitaire Monday night as the House convened to vote on a new budget. (AP)  The guy sitting in the row in front of these two is on

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Here’s an Op-Ed piece sent to the New York Times By WARREN E. BUFFETT.  Enjoy!!   Unique perspective from the Super-Rich

Published: August 14, 2011

While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks. Some of us are investment managers who earn billions from our daily labors but are allowed to classify our income as “carried interest,” thereby getting a bargain 15 percent tax rate. Others own stock index futures for 10 minutes and have 60 percent of their gain taxed at 15 percent, as if they’d been long-term investors.

These and other blessings are showered upon us by legislators in Washington who feel compelled to protect us, much as if we were spotted owls or some other endangered species. It’s nice to have friends in high places.

Last year my federal tax bill – the income tax I paid, as well as payroll taxes paid by me and on my behalf – was (more…)

New Federal Courthouse

As seen from the sidewalk alongside Stella’s. Boy, what a location for the shakers and the movers. Things are moving along downtown as the new Federal Courthouse takes shape. I think the architecture has an appeal that the old one never did, and still doesn’t. I hope they knock it down.