A Godfearing Texan

It seems that another event has surfaced in Texas surrounding Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in combat who has twisted her sons heroic deed into another tool for the liberal anti-war movement.

Fox News has the details:

Larry Mattlage created quite a stir earlier in the day when he fired his shotgun over his property. The Crawford rancher told reporters he was practicing for dove season.
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“You want something like this in your backyard? Huh, or your front yard? This is our yard right here. We just happen to, in Texas, have a bigger yard than they do in Maryland,” Mattlage told reporters.
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McLennan County Sheriff Larry Lynch said Mattlage didn’t violate any law by firing his shotgun on Sunday.

“He’s on his own property. He’s getting ready for dove season he says,” Lynch said adding that had Mattlage shot across the road rather than on his own land, he would have broken state and county laws.

But Mattlage said he is frustrated by the traffic — and subsequent side effects of it — in his neighborhood.

“We got a battle of the port-a-potties. They first started going to the bathroom in a five-gallon bucket, then they moved a port-a-pottie and then they got two port-a-potties, and now we got three and if this keeps up they will be all the way down the road,” he said. “The only people winning here is the person who cleans the port-a-potties.”

Mattlage said he sympathizes with Sheehan, but the crowd that has developed is akin to guests that won’t leave.

Mattlage said he loves Bush because the Bible tells people to love their neighbors. But he said he is not a politician and is not interested in the president’s business.

“All I know, when he gets done with his presidency, he is our neighbor and all of you all and all of this protest is out of here,” he said.

Mr.Mattlage’s quotes are blunt and to the point. Anyone else wish there were more men like this in the world? He is just a man trying to go about his business while surrounded by a liberal media firestorm caused by a woman who has a long history of anti-war sentiment, except for directly after she met with the President the first time…

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