Dan And Anna Beckendorf

I live in Texas. I do a lot of landscape gardening in which I need to use rocks, pebbles, gravel. The fire ants are just as bad as gophers around here! They are attracted to this type of situation (rocks) and they make endless unsightly mounds around where I put rock/gravel. I can't use pesticides because my landscape gardening is centered around attracting wildlife such as toads, frogs, birds etc. Is there any natural way to discourage them? What is it they find attractive about rocks?

I usually vote democrat but because I dislike Obama so much I would actually vote Republican for the first time in my life! However, I live in Texas. So, it's like I have allowed myself to be lazy and not even register to vote! Why should I when TEXAS will vote for the republican no matter what? I don't need to worry about voting in this case,right?

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It's nothing personal. We just don't like non-Texans getting into our business. We have a Libertarian streak 2 miles wide and 3 feet deep down here. You mind your business we'll mind ours. Again, nothing personal.

I've got The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Can anybody else think of any more good ones? I'm a park ranger looking to entertain some children at our Halloween Fright Night Event.

Depending on which poll you look at, between 20-25% of Texans want to secede. Most of the other 75-80% are open-minded about it. The reason so many of us want to secede is that without the northeast and far west, we could do what we want. It finally occured to me that without us, LIBERALS could do what they want as well. Therefore, it seems to me that they should support Texas secession as much as I do. Please google "Texas Nationalist Movement" and donate to our cause.

into the "Sickles and Stripes"? What about the Statue of Liberty? Will her torch be replaced with a communist sickle in the next four years? Will we still be able to call it the Statue of Liberty after four more years of socialist ideas being made into law? Just curious about what people think America will look like in four years if he get re-elected.

This is an honest question. I live in Texas, and I've talked to some of our democrats. They're actually quite conservative, but they still vote democrat because they base their decision on a single issue, like abortion. In other words, they usually differ from the republicans on one singe issue that they feel so strongly about they vote democrat. If that's the case with our democrats, then logic would assume that a any republicans in a liberal state like California may be doing the same thing. Again, this is an honest question. I want to hear from California republicans, or maybe California deomocrats with a republican friend or two.

I've been thinking about a way to bring our country back together so we can stop fighting and finally agree on something. The problem here is that even if Obama nuked our own cities, the libs are so brainwashed that they would still vote for him. It struck me today that the answer may lie in this. Since the libs will vote for him no matter what he does, he doesn't need to pander to them to bring our country back together. He just needs to pander to the conservatives.

So what if he opened a hunting season on liberals? Make it open season, with a 5-liberal yearly limit. The federal government would make TONS of money off the hunting licenses, Republicans would vote for him because it would be the patriotic thing to do, and the liberals would vote for him because it doesn't matter what he does anyway.

Any thoughts?

My life story (in a nutshell). I grew up on my grandfather's 600-acre ranch in east Texas, with my mother (a school cafeteria worker), my father ( a truck driver), and my two sisters ( and my grandparents, of course). I started driving a tractor on the ranch when I was nine years old to help my family survive. Mom and Dad couldn't afford college for me, so I joined the Navy upon graduation from high school. Every year, the Navy picks the top one percent of its hardest workers and sends them to college on full scholarship to be commissioned as an officer upon completion of a degree. I was chosen in 2002. After graduation with a B. S. in Biology, I served a few more years to pay back the Navy for my college. I now have a great job in the field of biology. I went from a poor farm boy to where I am now, EARNING it every step of the way. Why do I owe anything to those with my same background but don't have what it takes to better their predicament the way I did, with my own sweat and blood?

Isn't America all about consent of the governed? America seceded from England when they got fed up with King George III telling them what to do. Washington D. C.'s levathian bureacracy would have made King George tear up with pride. What loss is it to anybody else if Texas gets fed up with D. C.?