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-Benjamin Franklin
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Not Everyone Shoots Targets
My thoughts drift back 45 years – I had a brand new Thompson Center Contender and an old grade school classmate. Koocanusa was new, and Bob Herron was getting a maximum of fun on a still evening, shooting my new pistol and listening to the birdshot’s miniature splashes as they fell into the water. I Read more
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Political Sides
I’ve never been too sure about political sides like right and left, conservative and liberal, or Republican and Democrat. As I’ve started my research on buying politicians, I’m finding a bizarre clarity – there are two sides, and the sides are inside and outside. It makes no difference if I’m right or left – if Read more
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Trego: Hardiness Zone 5a
The USDA has updated plant hardiness zones, and despite last winter’s impressive cold, we’ve jumped up a zone (to 5a from 4b in 2012; the average low went up by 6 degrees) Hardiness zones are a (partial) climate description that’s been in existence for a bit over a century, though the government didn’t get involved Read more
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The More Things Change
“The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.” ~ Erich Fromm Read more
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In Montana, Businesses Must Accept Cash
While our dollars say ‘legal tender’ on them, that doesn’t mean a store has to accept them. According to the Federal Reserve, all the term means is that a lender has to accept them as a form of debt repayment. This last executive session, the Montana Legislature passed a bill requiring that US cash be Read more
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Carrying a Gun in a Florida Post Office
You can wear a pistol into the post office now – you’ll just have to travel to Florida to do it. Here is the link to the court results in US v Ayala, down in Tampa. Judge Kathryn Kimbel Mizzelle issued her ruling in mid-January, based only on second amendment grounds, interpreted under the Bruen Read more
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