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...down-home demeanor of his Democratic challenger, Jon Tester, does not help Burns. Tester is an obese organic farmer with three missing fingers and a flat-top haircut, whose campaign commercials implore, “Isn’t it time the Senate looked a little bit more like Montana?” When asked, he does not seem to comprehend the niceties of the Patriot Act, rather declaring to great effect, “With things like the Patriot Act, we’d damn well better keep our guns.” This is how a Democrat wins...
...nation's major pig-producing states are North Carolina, Iowa and Nebraska. Arizona has only one industrial pork operation, Pigs for Farmer John, a subsidiary of Hormel Foods Corp., which ships a quarter-million animals to slaughter each year and houses, on any given day, about 13,500 pregnant sows. The gestation crates, according to a spokesman for Pigs for Farmer John, keep the sows safe from other pigs and allow individual feeding and care. Prop 204 opponents, led by Jim Klinker of the Arizona Farm Bureau Federation, have erected billboards around the state dissing the initiative as "hogwash." Outside...
...inoculate himself against attacks from Burns and national Republicans about the national Democratic Party's liberalism, Tester highlights his biography as a third-generation Montana family farmer with a flat-top haircut who lost three of his fingers in a meat grinder accident. He's also closely linking himself with Brian Schweitzer, the state's popular Democratic governor. Burns, meanwhile, is emphasizing his longtime efforts to bring back federal money to the state...
...look away from anything. Blessed with a farmer's unsentimental eye, Munro offers up a clear, highly practical explanation of how you kill a trapped...
...dead, to life. Brigadier-General Harold "Pompey" Elliott, a solicitor, describes men "going down before the machine guns like corn before the reaper ... I am sure there was some plan at the back of the attack but it is difficult to know what it was." Sergeant Archie Barwick, a farmer, writes of the German bombardment at Pozi?res: "Men were driven stark staring mad ... Any amount of them could be seen crying & sobbing like children." Corporal Arthur Thomas, a tailor, writes home on his 40th birthday, "I should be out of it by now, but men are wanted, so will stick...