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Old 05-17-2012, 09:40 AM
 
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Iowa, what's the incentive?
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Old 05-17-2012, 10:39 AM
 
Location: Mokelumne Hill, CA & El Pescadero, BCS MX.
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Iowa, what's the incentive?

The hogs need human companionship.

Report shows record number of hogs raised in Iowa | Iowa Food and Family Project
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Old 05-17-2012, 11:02 AM
 
Location: San Diego
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Flat, no forest, high winds. Below zero in the winter and over 100 in the summer. Aw heellll nawww.
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Old 05-17-2012, 11:07 AM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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The hogs need human companionship.
How are the hogs in Iowa? Are they easier to get along with?
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Old 05-17-2012, 11:10 AM
 
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The competition is heating up when it comes to capitalizing on the California exodus:

"In an interview with The Times, the state's Republican governor, Terry Branstad, boasted how he balanced the state's budget without raising taxes and is getting calls from California businesses looking to move.

'They want to get out of California as quick as they can,' Branstad said. 'We welcome them to Iowa. I’ve got California companies on my call list right now.'”


I think I'd prefer Texas, myself. Iowa is too close to Minnesota.
Ha, joke's on him, there aren't any jobs to take!
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Old 05-17-2012, 11:19 AM
 
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Iowa literally stinks. It smells like pig crap. They also lack the scenery and beauty of their neighbors to the north and east,Minnesota and Wisconsin. They don't even have 1 city that has 200,000 people.
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Old 05-17-2012, 11:32 AM
 
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They don't even have 1 city that has 200,000 people.
Not sure why that's a bad thing... But De Moines has 203,433, so...
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Old 05-17-2012, 11:52 AM
 
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Not sure why that's a bad thing... But De Moines has 203,433, so...
And over half a million in the metro area. Its not a bad place.
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Old 05-17-2012, 12:02 PM
 
Location: SW MO
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The hogs need human companionship.
HEY! Hogs need love too. Besides, without them we wouldn't have these well known, puithy sayings:

A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
Sam Rayburn

An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from.
Timothy Dexter

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.
J. B. Morton

When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off.
Lewis B. Hershey


And my favorite when dealing with sceptics:

Even a blind hog finds an acorn now and then.
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Old 05-17-2012, 12:17 PM
 
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Iowa!! I. . .ummm. . .I love Iowa! Ummm. . .can't wait to go and see. . .ummm. . .I like the ummmm. . Hmmmmm. . . .

Anyways. . .go Iowa!?!
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