Well, Texas covers a whole lot of land, so I imagine it must have many
different types of terrain and climates, including forests, plains, and
deserts, among others.

Anyway, I'll bet most of those "Texas" ghost towns in the movies were
actually filmed in California. :)

Joyce

That's true, Mary! Especially people who have not traveled much. I had
an online friend tell me she imagined Oklahoma was just Indians and
ponies. :-) Our east/west is as diverse as yours, too. Tall pine trees
and mountains (OK, you Colorado posters would call them hills) in the
east, red sand  and rolling prairie in the west.

Sherry

No No No, that's WEST Texas that has the deserts and sage brush.  I know we
lived in El Pasta for three years.

Pam S. who actually enjoyed El Paso

Q: Do you not know who is Jill Metzger?
A: Then visit http://www.militarycorruption.com/metzger3.htm

Uzbeki's terrorist ogres snatched Major Jill Metzger from USAF
airbase in Kyrgyzstan, it's Kazakhstan's best friend country,
it's nice, and blamed all it on Kazakh Borat.

http://frankwarner.typepad.com/free_frank_warner/2006/10/everyone_wants_.html

Jill Metzger went out for shopping. Unfortunately for her, she met
Bigfoot and he abducted her. Or so she claimed.

USAF OSI agents organized a search&rescue operation to find her, but,
alas, with no success. She was found by herself a few days later.

When reporters tried to ask her questions about her ordeal, her
response was:
"I came to my senses in a cave. I could hear a stream nearby and
there were rays of light coming down on me from a hole in the ceiling.
Borat - that's how I called the creature afterwards - was sitting
opposite me. He was baring his teeth, as if he was infuriated. I
realized later that it was just his smile. The hairy animal came up to
me and started sniffing my clothes. Then he roared and tore my clothes
to pieces. My heart was about to explode with horror, but he continued
sniffing me until his nose stopped near my groin. He roared again and
threw himself over me."

When Jill woke up the next morning, she realized that she had become
the prisoner and the wife of the hairy creature.

PS:
It's BS Uzbek propaganda!!! Making Kazakhs look plain stupid!!! Oh,
pain! pain!!!

It's outrageous that Uzbeki terrorists are blaming abduction on your
father, Bilak, stick up for yor dad!!!

Please, read what Uzbek non-human ogres did to Jill Metzger in Bishkek,
Kyrgyz capital!!!
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1337002006
A FEMALE US Air Force officer who went missing last week near the
capital of Kyrgyzstan has turned up alive, claiming she had been
kidnapped.

USAF major Jill Metzger story. It's nice!

Jill Metzger went out for shopping. Unfortunately for her, she met
Bigfoot and he abducted her. Or so she claimed.

USAF OSI agents organized a search&rescue operation to find her, but,
alas, with no success. She was found by herself a few days later.

When reporters tried to ask her questions about her ordeal, her
response was:
"I came to my senses in a cave. I could hear a stream nearby and there
were rays of light coming down on me from a hole in the ceiling. Borat
- that's how I called the creature afterwards - was sitting opposite
me. He was baring his teeth, as if he was infuriated. I realized later
that it was just his smile. The hairy animal came up to me and started
sniffing my clothes. Then he roared and tore my clothes to pieces. My
heart was about to explode with horror, but he continued sniffing me
until his nose stopped near my groin. He roared again and threw himself
over me."

When Jill woke up the next morning, she realized that she had become
the prisoner and the wife of the hairy creature. When Borat was going
out, he would cover the entrance to the cave with a big stone, leaving
no way for Jill to escape. Borat would always bring something to eat -
berries, nuts, mushrooms, eggs or raw meat. The terrible sex with the
animal became a daily torture for Jill. However, the 'beauty and the
beast' started developing a relationship. Borat showed interest in the
girl's CD player. Jill had only one CD with her - Michael Jackson's
best hits.

One day, before leaving, Borat covered the entrance to the cave with
the stone as usual, but did not notice a small gap that the stone left.
It took a great effort for Jill to sneak outside, but when she finally
succeeded to get out of the cave, she started running without making a
stop. When she saw people in the Kant town, she finally realized that
she was free.

"Her parents took Jill to our hospital, - Dr. Dolittle said. - The girl
was mental; all I could hear from her was that she had been married to
a Bigfoot for a year. She never managed to get used to home conditions.
She was afraid of going out even during the day, she was terribly
afraid of the dark. In addition, Jill could not eat normal food," the
doctor said. One day Jill started recovering very fast both mentally
and physically. She started eating, talking and even laughing. When
doctors told her that she was getting better, Jill laughed and said
that she had never been sick. She added that "he" knew where she was
and that "he" would come to rescue her. Doctors considered such
behavior the new stage of Jill's illness and decided to isolate her in
a special room. However, the USAF major disappeared from her ward at
night in the middle of November. Someone very strong pulled steel bars
out of the brick wall and signed the wall with autograph "Here was
Borat."

Borat for president!!!

www.borat2008.com

I was thinking, actually, that a lot of those barn-raising,
square-dancing Midwestern farmers have Swedish ancestors. ;)

Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh

Make Levees, Not War

Hey that's actually pretty interesting (and, yes, I did think it was
all tongue in cheek but still funny!) It does make me wonder if Italian
Wedding Soup that we have here is anything like the real thing :D

Can't imagine why anyone would want to joke about the country that
gave the world VCR, a President getting oral sex in the white house
while selling confidential military information to the Chinese,
digital wrist watches, war in Iraq, hybrid seeds for third world
countries (so that you have to pay Monsanto Seed every year to get
more seeds), cable television with 150 channels of immorality, a
peanut farmer for a President, more land invasions of third world
countries than Bush's grandfather Adolf could have imagined, and
bottles of carbonated sugar to sell around the world.....

What's funny about that?

Finally, I'd say that blurb was written with tongue planted firmly in
cheek. People do joke about the US, you know. Just a way we have of
dealing with the reality of it. ;o)