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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Let's see here:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"<FONT face="Times New Roman" =
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California grows more than half the nation's fruit, nuts and =
vegetables.<BR>>
> We're keeping them. We need something to eat when the power =
goes
out.<BR>We<BR>> > grow 99 percent or more of the nation's almonds, =
artichokes, dates,<BR>figs,<BR>> > kiwifruit, olives, persimmons,
pistachios, prunes, raisins and walnuts.<BR>> > Hope you won't =
miss
them.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" =
size=3> Yep, I
spent most of my life there, and it is INDEED the land of "Fruits and =
Nuts". Had
to get out before I was absorbed through osmosis.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" =
size=3>"We
Californians are gonna keep all our high-tech software in state.<BR>> =
>
Silicon<BR>> > Valley is ours, after all. Without enough
electricity, which you're<BR>> > apparently keeping for =
yourselves, we
just plain don't have enough<BR>> software<BR>> > to =
spare.<BR>>
><BR>> > We're keeping all our airplanes. California =
builds a
good percentage of<BR>> > the<BR>> > commercial airliners =
available
to fly you people to where you want to<BR>go.<BR>> > When yours =
wear out,
you'd better hope Boeing's Washington plant can<BR>keep<BR>> > you =
supplied. There isn't enough electricity here to allow us to
export<BR>> > any<BR>> > more planes than we need =
ourselves.
And while we're at it, we're<BR>keeping<BR>> > all our high-tech =
aerospace
stuff, too, like the sophisticated weapons<BR>> > systems that let =
you
sleep at night, not worried you might wake up under<BR>> > =
the<BR>>
> rule of some foreign kook. Oh, yeah, and if you want to make
a<BR>> > long-distance call, remember where the satellite =
components and
tracking<BR>> > systems come from. Maybe you could get back =
in the
habit of writing<BR>> > letters."</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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size=3><FONT
face=Arial size=2>Gee, how you going to make all that stuff? A bunch =
of people
pedaling bicycle-generators?</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"<FONT face="Times New Roman" =
size=3>You all
complain that we don't build enough power plants". That, and =
the
fact that you keep electing "wingnuts" to office.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Sorry, I had better =
go take a
Valium now. Don't really need one, by hey, I'm from
California..........</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kevin E. Ramsey<BR><A
href="mailto:ramsey@extremezone.com">ramsey@extremezone.com</A>
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