[meteorite-list] Not met. Related - Friend On Meteorite List

From: Raremeteorites <raremeteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 21:43:41 -0800
Message-ID: <3621CA5C375C431D8C4DDD6DF029BAFE_at_HPDESKTOP>

A famous use of tax payers money:

The 3 million dollar shrimp project was cut due to the 1 billion dollar
minnow project::

Here is a link to the now famous Mantis Shrimp:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=shrimp+treadmill&ei=UTF-8&fr=yff40c

I bet the Mantis Shrimp could mop the floor with the imported Minnow. I can
see it now, pay-per-view, "Sammy the Shrimp Versus Meany the Minnow"




----- Original Message -----
From: "GREG LINDH via Meteorite-list" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
To: "Michael Mulgrew" <mikestang at gmail.com>; "meteorite-list"
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Not met. Related - Friend On Meteorite List


> Yeah, well CA doesn't put out as much produce as it used to. Whenever I go
> back to CA from AZ, in order to visit family, I drive up and down
> Interstate 5. For practically the whole I-5 part of my trip I see empty,
> dusty fields where there used to be beautiful orchards and lands full of
> all kinds of fruits and vegetables. Now, just dusty, empty fields......oh
> yeah, and hundreds of signs that say, "Congress Created Dustbowl". Yup,
> devastated, dry land, all because Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer and crew
> wanted to save a minnow in the California Aqueduct. If I'm not mistaken,
> that minnow is not even native to the region. It was imported. That's CA
> for you.
>
>
>
>> Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 16:17:39 -0800
>> To: raremeteorites at centurylink.net
>> CC: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Not met. Related - Friend On Meteorite List
>> From: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>>
>> Average gasoline prices in Arizona ($2.57/gal) are about 13% lower
>> than California ($2.97). How does that 13% difference turn into an
>> almost 100% (claimed) increase in your fill-up?
>>
>> California has more than 3 times the lane-miles of Arizona and it's
>> drivers account for 11% of ALL of the miles driven in the entire
>> country (more than 5 times Arizona drivers, and we have a lower
>> fatality rate because no one from Arizona can drive worth a damn), so
>> yes, our roads do get used and abused and could use some love.
>> Believe it or not, road maintenance is what the fuel tax is used for,
>> we just have a lot more roads that need maintaining.
>>
>> And "most" produce comes from California. And by most we're talking a
>> huge majority. Some comes from Mexico, some from other places, too,
>> but California is our nation's produce isle.
>>
>> Michael is so. Cal.
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Raremeteorites via Meteorite-list
>> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
>>> I do stay out of California unless managing one of my over-taxed
>>> investment
>>> properties.. It cost nearly twice as much to fill up my gas tank there
>>> as
>>> it does in Arizona. They were the first state to have a major city go
>>> bankrupt demonstrating their ability to manage taxpayer funds. I do not
>>> know what they do with the nations highest fuel tax. It sure isn't put
>>> into
>>> the roads. I will not drive at night in parts of California since they
>>> can't even afford to paint the lanes or put up reflectors. I once went
>>> airborne at night while pulling my enclosed car hauler trailer since
>>> California was too cheap to mark a raised railroad crossing.
>>>
>>> I have seen better roads in third-world countries. As far as produce
>>> goes,
>>> most of it now comes from Mexico.
>>>
>>> Again, no thanks,
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
>>>
>>> Drive at your own risk
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Mulgrew"
>>> <mikestang at gmail.com>
>>> To: "Raremeteorites" <raremeteorites at centurylink.net>
>>> Cc: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>>> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 10:01 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Not met. Related - Friend On Meteorite
>>> List
>>>
>>>
>>>> No other state even comes close to California when it comes to produce
>>>> production, so it follows that no other states would have to enact
>>>> protections as tough as California. Don't like it, then stay out of
>>>> my state (and stop eating fruits, nuts, and vegetables altogether,
>>>> chances are they were grown here).
>>>>
>>>> Michael in so. Cal.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Raremeteorites via Meteorite-list
>>>> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> That's California for you. Too much governmental control and wasted
>>>>> tax
>>>>> payer money. They tax (fleece) everything and the roads are crap! I
>>>>> can
>>>>> tell when I am entering California from Arizona or Nevada just by the
>>>>> condition of the roads and the agricultural check points. First you go
>>>>> from
>>>>> a smooth freeway into a patched together, multi-colored, quilted road
>>>>> surface with no shoulders and than go through the indignity of an
>>>>> inspection
>>>>> station just have any American grown produce thrown in the trash.
>>>>>
>>>>> No thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> Adam
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Wooddell via Meteorite-list"
>>>>> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>>>>> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>>>>> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 6:30 AM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Not met. Related - Friend On Meteorite
>>>>> List
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Keeping this meteorite related, the California bug stations even look
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> firewood coming in from other states. So for example you are planning
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> meteorite
>>>>>> hunting trip into or through California and figure you would like to
>>>>>> haul
>>>>>> some firewood with you, you might want to know that they may or will
>>>>>> seize
>>>>>> it at the border inspection stations.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jim Wooddell
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 12/8/2014 6:51 AM, Michael Farmer via Meteorite-list wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That is a crime, you really want someone to receive and ship goods
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> you
>>>>>>> in violation of California law? They could be prosecuted for that.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Dec 8, 2014, at 6:55 PM, Michael Blood via Meteorite-list
>>>>>>>> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> NOTE: THIS IS NOT METEORITE INFORMATION
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>>> Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
>>>>>>>> As some of you know, I grow exotic plants, have a
>>>>>>>> Greenhouse, etc.
>>>>>>>> Unfortunately, CA is THE worst state when it comes
>>>>>>>> To importing plants.
>>>>>>>> <SNIPOLA>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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