Dick Cheney's Wyoming: number of escalators = number of US Senators

[jmowreader]

7. Maybe you don't, but many Californians do

Last year at the fair, a gentleman named Jim Van Sky told me that people in the states that voted for Obama don't know anything about the needs of the farmer. I reminded him that Washington voted for Obama and then helped him pull his foot out of his mouth. For Mr. Van Sky is in the very specialized business of cherry drying. Cherries can't be rained on while they're ripening or they'll be ruined, so the cherry farmers hire helicopter pilots to hover low over the trees after rainstorms and blow-dry the cherries with rotor wash.(And now you know why cherries are so expensive.) This guy spends four months a year drying cherries and makes a full year's pay...in the middle of blue Washington.