We have good news today in Idaho. I do not know where to start.

First, we’re short two hundred elk heads. I think they are also missing the body, legs and tail. Some think that the wolves have eaten them all.

The state wants to kill wolves to keep them from being eaten by moose. They already kill them so they stop killing sheep and cows. I think the moose are just running from the wolves.

The reason the wolves population declined in this country was because they kill livestock, so they were caught, poisoned and shot on sight.

There is a great killing frenzy when wolves train their pups to kill.

There is a myth that wolves only kill to eat. No! They also kill to train their pups or just to have a good time with a flock of sheep. Sheep are easy prey for wolves that can take down a male elk.

My father had many wolf stories. He lived in northern Utah and Idaho before World War I. In the winter they would ride the horse-drawn sleigh to school in Sage Creek, Utah. Dad packed a .30-06 rifle to keep his sisters and his little brother from getting dirty when the wolves got too close to the sled.

Dad was a hunter. During the depression he wrote an article entitled, Will a coyote kill itself? That bought me milk when he sold the item to the Rocky Mountain News.

I still have a copy of that article. Dad shot a coyote for a bounty, but he got away by falling or jumping into a crater at Ten Mile Pass, near Soda Springs, Idaho.

I don’t buy too many pictures because then where would I hang mine? But I bought a painting by an artist from Payson, Arizona that I knew because it “looked like” that same coyote.

My wife and I drove to Ten Mile Pass, where I veered off the road when the gravel embankment gave way. I had seen a sign mentioning the Oregon Trail, so I pulled over and pulled off the road. In fact, I had to drive to the condo and exit on the Oregon Trail. There’s an article about that somewhere on my list.

I didn’t find the crater where the coyote “committed suicide”, but I did know that my dad and grandfather had no opportunity to raise cattle on their farm. The rancher who rescued me had 500 heads (along with bodies, legs, and tails) of furry Black Angus that he had to truck to American Falls every winter to keep them from freezing to death.

I don’t know where he moved his family.

I hope you have moved them.

The local newspaper said the buffalo herd in Yellowstone is dwindling in size. That’s good. There are too many of them and they wander outside the park and spread diseases to livestock. The main reason why there are fewer buffaloes is that they are caught and sent to slaughter. That’s called “game management.”

We have game management here in Idaho. Is called hunt.

I think hunting should be allowed in Yellowstone Park. Only Native Americans could hunt. They could use or sell the meat to avoid starvation during the winter.

The Indians hunted buffalo with bows and arrows while riding bareback on wild stallions.

That would be a great tourist attraction that could draw millions more to Yellowstone.

The hunt would be during October when I am not there.

I read that Bomb Building 101: Atomic Weapons is being taught at Georgetown University by Charles D. Ferguson. That way, the terrorist won’t have to import a bomb from Russia. They can build it in DC

In Florida, the Boy Scouts find themselves in a quandary. His 165-acre campground along the Manatee River is worth tons of money and may sell. They may need the money to pay lawyers to fight lawsuits over the Boy Scouts.

My question is this: Where are the explorers going to camp?

We ate fish fry at church last night to raise money for our scout troop. We have it every year.

My wife and I were chosen last year to be the money and ticket collectors. I didn’t know it was for life but there we were last night.

We also set up a table that offers flagpoles to help raise additional funds. All proceeds from TopFlight flag pole sales on my site during March 2006 will be donated to the Boy Scouts. The site is http://www.aaaflagpoles.com.

I thought this was funny. Catholics are not much to tithe. Their parishes are 10 times bigger than Protestant parishes and people feel that they don’t have to incumbent because they don’t own the parishes, but the clergy.

This is what Msgr. Carl Bell, pastor of St. Cyril of Jerusalem, said he once heard a bishop describe the state of giving in the Catholic Church:

If you have $50, you go out to dinner.

If you have $20, you go to the movies.

If you have $10, you get fast food.

But, if you have $1, you go to church.

I thought that we Mormons could be mentioned in the article because even little children pay tithing, but we didn’t.

Our rag said that they are going to return the AC-130 gunships to Iraq. General Frank Gorenc said: “He has tons of weapons and all kinds of things that can be applied to the problems we have.”

Now that will calm everyone down when the trash cans start exploding on the streets of Baghdad.

“All kind of things”.

What kind of general speech is that?

Here’s an understatement from our State Department: Days of bloodshed between religious sects in Iraq show that the United States still has work to do to achieve a new, broadly representative Iraqi government.

Touch the exact subject!

This is what the job should be: bringing our troops home this year.

Did you read about that guy in Spokane who hijacked a bus to take it to a bar? When he got to the bar he fired up the place.

Fortunately, he was a lousy shot.

He was about the same age as Dick Cheney.

Well, Cheney is four years younger and has a better aim.

I don’t know how the president and his beautiful wife Laura were tricked into going to that cricket match in Pakistan.

I guess Pakistanis don’t like Bush very much.

They must hate it.

My British friends used to tell me the rules of cricket whenever I visited England. At one period of time, I went to England every term for a research meeting. I always asked to hear those cricket rules just one more time.

I think the game can be compared to curling.

It’s a stupid game. (Well, most good games are.)

The bowler does not bowl like we do.

Well you read the cricket rules in [http://www.allworldknowledge.com/cricket/index.html] and let me know if you can figure it out.

Players never know which way to go in all fields; the dog side, the rooster side, towards the end of the skinner or the end of the popper.

Well, Google a Six!

I’m sorry George!

I’m sorry, beautiful Laura!