🚀 go-pugleaf

Paul J. Berg wrote:
> Captain Compassion wrote:
> > On 2 Aug 2006 06:34:04 -0700, "Paul J. Berg" <pjberg@webtv.net> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >Captain Compassion wrote:
> > >> On 1 Aug 2006 19:05:55 -0700, "Paul J. Berg" <pjberg@webtv.net> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >Captain Compassion wrote:
> > >> >> On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 09:32:18 -0700, pjberg@webtv.net (Paul J. Berg)
> > >> >> wrote:
> > >> >>
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> >In a few weeks, Alaskans will decide whether to require passengers on
> > >> >> >cruise ships to cough up $46 apiece
> > >> >> ><http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14076915/>.
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> >My initial reaction to this proposal was to snicker at its brazenness.
> > >> >> >But after a few seconds, it occurred to me that perhaps Oregonians could
> > >> >> >learn something from our neighbors to the north.
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> >Should Oregonians ask tourists to contribute to our general fund, too?
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> >Now if only we could figure out how to impose a special tax on new
> > >> >> >residents from California.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Will Oregon have toll booths on the borders?
> > >> >>
> > >> >
> > >> >In my youth, California officials would stop incoming vehicles and make
> > >> >the occupants discard any produce they had in their possession.
> > >> >
> > >> Didn't stop the fruit flies.
> > >>
> > >> >Maybe Oregon officials can now stop incoming vehicles and make the
> > >> >occupants discard any Californians which may be in their vehicle.
> > >>
> > >> You only have to declare you are an illegal and you are in.
> > >>
> > >
> > >Incorrect, if any of the occupants of a vehicle are undocumented they
> > >will be consider Californians by the Oregon Border Patrol and will be
> > >discarded.
> >
> > Perhaps California would reciprocate.
> >
>
> When you live in God's Country there is no reason to visit "The Land of
> Fruits, Flakes & Nuts" to the south.

I wouldn't call Sweet Home, "God's Country" Actually, that whole area
is like a gray hell in the winter (like the Central Valley in CA during
Jan./Feb.). As big cities go, Portland is pretty nice, but it also
qualifies as the land of nuts, fruits and flakes, like a northern
bastion of Bay Area wannabes, or a southern colony of Seattle slackers.