-=> Quoting Sondra Ball to Jim Casto <=-
 SB> Probably.  Of course we could create an inpenetrable fog on the
 SB> Pacific coast line too.
 
 A totally isolated North and South America? It might be interesting to
 speculate how those two continents would have developed. (A comparison
 might be some of the remote isolated jungle tribes that weren't known about
 until fairly recent time.)
 
 SB> Yep!  I mean there are legal wars going on between states all the
 SB> time. If they were *nations*, they would be more than legal wars.
 
 Yep. Oregon and Washington have "legal" wars all the time. The real
 "biggies" are: sales tax (none in Oregon so people try to avoid paying
 tax on "big ticket" items by buying them in Oregon), cigarettes (_used_
 to be less state cigarette tax in Oregon so people would "smuggle" them
 across the border), automobile licensing (Washington's is _way_ higher so
 Washingtonians license their cars in Oregon and then every once in awhile
 Washington will make a "sweep" and nail all the scofflaws with a HEFTY
 fine. This being Fourth of July time, the "biggie" is fireworks. The
 exploding and aerial kinds are illegal in Oregon. The news broadcasts
 have reported _thousands_ of people illegally smuggling contraband
 fireworks over the border.
 It's almost funny speculating a "border crossing" between the two. Just
 think of the "black market" in "running" firecrackers across the Columbia
 River in the dead of night!! 
 Jim
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