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The California 'Mordida'

ww10 Wrote: Mar 07, 2013 8:00 AM
What good weather? It's cold as hell and socked in most of the time on the coast. I went to army BCT at Ft Ord and years later to language school in Monteray, they rent houses in the area based on ahow many hours of sun a day-2 or3! The weather in San Diego is cold and even the surfers wear wet suits to surf in June. Texas ands Florida are great -swim and sail nude, if it's hot put on the air con, if it's cool put on the heat. It's MArch and I can lay around by the pool soaking up vit. D.
Quintus_T_Cicero Wrote: Mar 07, 2013 8:04 AM
ww10:

Apparently Governor Moonbeam doesn't get out to the desert areas, and the valley areas of CA too much either. If i remember correctly the hottest temp on record in the U.S. was recorded in CA.
Lars795 Wrote: Mar 07, 2013 8:57 AM
2.5 LONG years at George AFB. Working in the sun and heat, not good, add running aircraft, easily 150+f. The natural scenery is fantastic, but you can get rid of 90% of the people there (and I mean get, rid, of!).

California now works on the principle of the mordida, or "bite." Its government assumes that it can take something extra from residents for the privilege of living in their special state.

Gov. Jerry Brown made that assumption explicit in his latest back-and-forth with Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who keeps luring Californians to lower-tax, higher-employment Texas. Recently, Brown said of Texas, "Who would want to spend summers there in 110-degree heat inside some kind of fossil fuel air conditioner?"

Translated, Brown's retort meant that despite California's sluggish economy, high taxes and poor services, it's still worth staying there to enjoy its beautiful...

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