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This was on the editorial page on Sunday, October 28, 2001 of the Denton Record Chronicle (by Dwight Crawford Sr., Sanger, Tx) ================================================= I get a big laugh at the dialogue of Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, politicians, and the news media. They say terrorist will hit us again in the oncoming weeks and months. What a joke! You have a better chance of getting killed on Interstate 35 E than by a terrorist.

Osama has probably seen 100 degree plus summers in Afghanistan, but he doesn't have fire ants to go with it. If he did he wouldn't be sleeping on the ground in his cave. He talks of pain and suffering he is going to inflict on us. He doesn't know what pain is, until he gets kicked by a green broke, two- year-old colt in freezing rain. Germ war fare? Texas ticks will give you Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Lyme disease, blister beetles kill your horse, green bugs destroy a wheat crop, and termites eat your house. Anthrax has killed Texas cattle for over 125 years. What's new? Our prairie dogs carry the plague, armadillos carry leprosy, and our bats and skunks carry rabies. We have rattlesnakes, copperheads, and water moccasins. Ho hum.

They talk of gas and biological warfare. They have never pulled in behind a

cattle truck while its raining, or ridden in the front seat of a pickup between two cowboys, after they just eaten a big bowl of Texas Red. Texas ain't for sissies! We have posted signs all over the state that says "Don't mess with Texas!" Osama, consider yourself warned!

(Wonder why the Texas Tourism Board keeps all this quiet??)

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2001

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Not to mention Sweetie's mother lives in Texas. . .!

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2001

We have rattlesnakes, copperheads, and water moccasins. Ho hum.

Hey! He left out the tarantulas and scorpions!

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2001


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