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Happiness is a budget surplus.
1 posted on 04/03/2011 10:16:35 AM PDT by Silentgypsy
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Too fracking cold.


2 posted on 04/03/2011 10:17:59 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Nothing between you and the North Pole but a barbed wire fence (and it’s been blown down)...


6 posted on 04/03/2011 10:21:28 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 801 of our national holiday from reality. - It's 3 AM, where is the 'president'?)
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This Texan and her family once lived for three and a half years in Williston ND. They were very happy years, in spite of the extreme cold. The people were so warm and friendly, that they made up for cold temps on the thermometer.


7 posted on 04/03/2011 10:21:31 AM PDT by basil (It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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HEY! CALIFORNIA!

There’s gold in North Dakota!


8 posted on 04/03/2011 10:21:48 AM PDT by bigheadfred (Beat me, Bite me...Make Me Write Bad Checks)
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Aren’t they drilling like crazy out there?

I’ve heard that you can’t rent a room hardly anywhere, due to all the oil workers living in them.

Is this actually the case?


11 posted on 04/03/2011 10:23:23 AM PDT by digger48
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I live on Maui and it is already climbing to 80 degrees for today. Match that to the temp in N.Dakota today and I say, the difference in taxes is not that important to me. Aloha
12 posted on 04/03/2011 10:24:15 AM PDT by fish hawk (R. Emmett Tyrrell: Liberalism is dead. What we see now is "soft Nazis-ism".)
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While many states are confronting severe budget shortfalls and dragging economies, North Dakota has a different sort of problem. It's stuck deciding how best to deal with a budget surplus. Yes, a surplus. North Dakota's balance sheet is so strong it recently reduced individual income taxes and property taxes by a combined $400 million, and is debating further cuts.

Yeah, but, do you know where that place is?

17 posted on 04/03/2011 10:31:04 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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Q: Why is it so windy in Eastern Montana?

A: Because North Dakota sucks.

Old rivalry.

Drill NoDaks! Drill!

18 posted on 04/03/2011 10:31:32 AM PDT by Leo Farnsworth (I'm not really Leo Farnsworth.)
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I read this last night and checked out craigslist for both ND and Bismarck, almost no jobs. It’s a joke.


19 posted on 04/03/2011 10:31:37 AM PDT by japaneseghost
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Most of civilized Canada is warmer than ND. Move to ND...you’ll be cold 11 months out of the year.


21 posted on 04/03/2011 10:34:39 AM PDT by Soothesayer9
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reduced individual income taxes

Texas still doesn't have a State income tax.

22 posted on 04/03/2011 10:42:26 AM PDT by Eaker (The problem with the internet, you're never sure of the accuracy of the quotes. Abraham Lincoln '65)
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Think I could do without having to read temperatures according to the kelvin scale.


23 posted on 04/03/2011 10:44:30 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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Given the choice of hot vs. cold, I will choose hot.


24 posted on 04/03/2011 10:47:28 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (Going to Charlotte for the barbecue is like going to Minneapolis for the gumbo - John Reed)
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Why North Dakota May Be the Best State in the Country to Live In

Did they forget to mention the mild winters?

26 posted on 04/03/2011 10:55:58 AM PDT by umgud
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Why North Dakota May Be the Best State in the Country to Live In

The beautiful mountains and the warm climate.

28 posted on 04/03/2011 11:02:18 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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Spent part of a summer in Jamestown. Drove my first tractor-trailer (underage, mind you) for Haybuster Mfg. Joe Anderson, RIP.

it was a nice place. But that was before gangs and the Internet and every nook and cranny of this once-great land going to hell in a flaming handbasket.

29 posted on 04/03/2011 11:11:16 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (You is what you am.)
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Fargo has a significant stained-glass industry, doesn’t it?

I hear it’s so cold they can cut glass with their nipples.


33 posted on 04/03/2011 11:43:18 AM PDT by tumblindice (How dare you take pride in your state.)
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Why? Why is the government having more taxpayer money than it plans to spend a good thing?

Surplusses lead to either expanding spending projects, or “giving the money back” which gives everyone the same dollar amount, regardless of how much tax they paid, which is quite literally the re-distribution of wealth.


37 posted on 04/03/2011 12:12:23 PM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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North Dakota is so flat that if you look straight ahead you can see the back of your head.

The state tree is the telephone pole.

The state bird is the mosquito.

What snows in September doesn't melt until the following April.

39 posted on 04/03/2011 12:30:59 PM PDT by BufordP ("Drink me if you can't take a joke." -- Kool-aid)
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If you are considering a move to North Dakota, better be prepared for a brutal winter and never ending winds. Driving I-29 from the South Dakota border to Fargo you will also find what has to be the flattest place on earth...I swear you could make a topo map of that area with no more than two lines.


40 posted on 04/03/2011 12:33:17 PM PDT by The Great RJ (The Bill of Rights: Another bill members of Congress haven't read.)
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