There is a conspiracy we need to combat.

It is being sown in the deep state of Idaho. They want all of Oregon east of the Cascades. For our taxes, of course, since by our taxes we support the soft citizens of Portland and the Willamette Valley and the exuberant lifestyle of Southern Oregon. They may be ungrateful, but they are ours.

There is also the suspicion Idahoans want our road apples and organic pasture frisbees to fertilize their spud gardens.

To combat all this, we need to petition our Legislature and governor to use our taxes to build a wall the length of Oregon’s border with Idaho. Hands off Eastern Oregon! Make the wall as tall as the highest sagebrush and top it with ripe thistles. Use rusty barbed wire and infected jackrabbits if all else fails.

Come on, Eastern Oregonians, we have our marching orders.

Don Reese

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