When I first moved into my property in Grant County, I noticed something odd. There was no grass and no weeds at all on all this gravel yard; a completely barren lot front and back, with a residence in between. That is unnatural. I instinctively know that Mother Nature does not do that.

Now, from the second year on and my living here? There is grass all over my yard, front and back. And lots of weeds here and there. I don't mind that because that is Nature's Way. This tells us that the former owner, actually tenants, had sprayed herbicide on this ground – RoundUp -- like so many lazy, uninformed, and people of low IQs all across the nation.

These same people then die at 48 or 55, prematurely, and scratch their heads: "Where did the CANCER come from?" They just can't think of any reason for their cancers.

FOOLS!

These are the same people who voted for Biden, higher gas prices, inflation, devaluation of the dollar, more money for Ukraine and Israel, and an open border to bring in more on the terrorist list, gangs, and those from Venezuela who murdered Laken Riley.

Policies matter, people. Not "mean tweets."

It should not even be legal to sell a herbicide like RoundUp in the United States any more. If your neighbor uses it and it washes in the rain over on to YOUR property, it is toxic chemical warfare that might kill your kids or pets (eventually).

Jim Cain
LOCAL author of these books, available on Amazon:

Pacific War P.O.W.: A Few Remaining Skeletons (A Bibliography of Personal Accounts of American WWII Prisoners of the Japanese with Book Reviews)

All My Secrets of Organic and Container Gardening (So Far), or, Bucket Mania Meets Solar Cooking!

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